Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1924, Page 13

STAR, WASHI Stafford Pemberton, local dancing instructor, who will stage a big out- door dance festival tonight—weather permitting—for the disabled boys at ‘Walter Reed Hospital. Photo by John Howard Paine. MANY A SHIVER AND SHAKE AT THE BATHING BEACH. Yesterday marked the opening of “the summer season” at the tidal basin bathing beach, and a few hardy swimmers braved the chill, damp wind« and more or less frigid waters. This group vowed that “the water was fine.” ' Washington Star Photo PRESIDENT COOLIDGE AND REGIME! the young officers made a dent, Col. W. M. ( ‘TAL OFFICERS OF THE CADETS. Photograph taken all upon the Chief Executive. Left to right: Lieut. Col. Ford W. Sammis, ructor of regiment, and Lieut. Col. C. M. Hisle. t the White House yesterday afternoon, when ieut. Col. C. M. Ireland, Col. Baird. the Presi- Nationsl Photo. G . HE FORMER LEADER OF wearing his new National Gu Babe is a new member of the 104th PART OF FAMOUS ELM TREE. Commissioner Rudolph and a sectio: of the famous Washington elm which will be placed in the National Mu- seum. George Washington stood under the tree at Cambridge, Mas-. ACCEPTS MONUMENT FOR FRATERNITY. Postmaster General New delivering address at dedication of monument to Daniel William Cooper, founder of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, at Pittsburgh, Pa. The cabinet member received the monument for the fraterni SR Mrs. May Moran of Pittsburgh, who is credited with origi the poppy _drive A SALUTE FROM New York Yankees ment yester: HOLD DAILY CONFERENCES IN WASHINGTON. teeman from Viry 5 of Tennessee, chairman of the Democratic national NAVAL EXPENDITURE BILL UP TO SENATE Measure Authorizing $150,000,000, Passed by House, Received by Upper Body. REQUEST OF NAVAL HEADS #Would Bring United States Up to 5-5-3 Ratio. Expenditure of nearly $150,000,000 o bring the American Navy up to the 5-5-3 ratio fixed by the Washing- #on arms conference is called for in & bill received by the Senate today from the House, which passed it last might by a vote of 165 to 138 The measure, which was requested ®y the Navy Department, authorizes construction of eight scout cruisers and six river gunboats, and the con- wersion of the battleships New York, fexas, Florida, Utah, Arkansas and svyoming into ofl burners, with the gnstallation of additional devices for Jrotection against submarines and air wraft. Introduced by Butler. The measure was introduced by 4 gchairman Butler of the naval com- mittee at the request of the Navy Department. An unsuccessful effort was made by Teepresentative Britten of Illinols, ganking Republican on the naval com- mittee, to provide $6,500.000 for the levation of guns on thirteen battle- Ehips. The proposal was opposed by W hairman Butler, who declared it Svould violate the arms conference Yreaty. It was rejected, 74 to 54, and no {tempt was made to authorize con- ’tnrumon of airplane carriers. An amendment by Representative NMontague, Democrat, Virginia, to au- thorize the President to suspend the Yuilding program should another na- ~al limitations held swas accepted. A motion by Representative McClin- ti¢, Democrat, Oklahoma, to eliminate the section authorizing the cruiser and gunboat program was lost, 174 10 144. The House also refused to pt a proposal by Representative McKeown, Democrat, Oklahoma, to strike out an authorization of six runboats which would be used in ‘hinese rivers. defending _his gun elevation afendment Mr. Britten asserted that the treaty did not restrict such changes in armament and that un- der its Dprovisions the ‘‘tops could De take from the turrets” ic desired. He criticized Mr. Butler for not an- nouncing his opposition to the amend- ment before it reached the House floor. conference be e Would Change Import Limit. Legitimate manufacturers of prod- \ets from crude opium would be per- Jitted to import the raw leaf in suffi- jent quantities to meet their re- airements, instead of a fixed limit yow placed on such Importations, un- er an agreement reached today by sthe 3@ ry committee of the Fed- $era’ Narcotic Control Board. nator Joseph T. Robinson and Representative committee, making plans for the convention. Copsright by Miller Service SOUTHWEST CITIZENS REGRET, PLANS TO END TRADE SCHOOL “Successful Experiment Shot to Pieces,” They Say, and Want Courses Continued in New Junior High. Convinced that Superintendent of Schools Frank W. Ballou will not change his plans to abandon the Smallwood-Bowen School as the voca- tional training center of the south- the Southwest Citizens' Asso- clation, through its executive -com- mittee, has started a concered cam- paign to have all of the industrial features of the unique school incor- porated in the curriculum of the Jef- ferson School when it is opened in September as a junior high school. Meeting in special session last night in the home of George M. Yeat- man; 426 Tth street southwest, presi- dent of the association, the executive committee unanimously adopted a resolution urging the school authori- ties to make the vocational work in the new Jefferson Junior High School a major subject. The committee also indorsed Willlam F. Smith, principal of the Smallwood-Bowen and one of the originators of vocational training in the District public schools as prin- cipal 6 the new southwest junior high school. Value of Courses. Mr. Yeatman told the executive committee that Dr. Ballou is deter- mined to abandon the Smallwood- Bowen as a vocational training cen- ter, but is planning to include some of ‘the salient features of its indus- trial work as a minor-subject in the new Jefferson Junior High School After a thorough discussion of the value of the work at the Smallwood- Bowen in fitting the boys and girls of the Southwest for good paying positions in the industrial world, the committee agreed that the time al- loted to.the vocational studies should not be decreased when the classes are transferred to the Jefferson building. About a year ago, When the asso- clation first learned of the proposal of Dr, Ballou to abandon the Small- wood-Bowen School as a vocational teaining institution, it adopted reso- lutions urging the board of educa- tion to retain the work in all its phases in the present building. The bomrd, however, it was said last night, has not yet replied to the reso- 1utions. Regret School Closing. A successful experiment “shot to pleces” is the view taken by officials interested in the Smallwood-Bowen School in the plans of Supt. Ballou to abandon it as a vocational school. While Dr. Ballou proposed to incor- porate some of the outstanding fea- tures of the vocational school's course in the curricilum of the new Jefferson Junior High School, those Who have followed closely the de- velopfent of the Smallwood-Bowen confidently believe that the voca- fional course will be only a supple- west, ment to the academic work, and that the beneficent results will not be ob- tained by the pupils. N The - Smallwood-Bowen Is unique among, the public schools of the Dis- trict in that two-fifths of the pupil's = devoted strictly to industrial and the remaining three-fifths demic subjects. The plans of Dr, Ballou for embodying some of the vocational subjects in the course at the Jefferson contemplates a program of six hours a week for this work, which is but one-half of the time now given to industrial subjects at the Smallwood-Bowen. = Wonld Fix Program. Another disadvantage of the voca- tional course at the Junior High School cited by those who believe in the Smallwood-Bowen as institution which “helps a child to find himself industrially,” is that the program would be fixed, thereby hampering him in choosing a trade for which he is best fitted. So varied are the courses’ at the Smallwood-Bowen that if it is de- termined that a certain pupil taking a carpentry course is mechanically in- clined he is transferred to a class studying automobile mechanics or other branches of the mechanical trades and fits himself to enter the industrial world as a_mechanic. It was just ten years ago that the unique vocational ~school experiment was started in the District. A school featuring _industrial subjects was opened in Georgetown. It was not the success that its sponsors had hoped it would be. A large majority of the pupils were subnormal mentally. Un- dismayed, the sponsors of the vocational school, headed by Stephen E. Kramer. then assistant superintendent of schools and now principal of Central High School, converted the Smallwood build- ing into the vocational type of school. The curriculum was changed to meet the new conditions, but the student body remained intact, except that the grades below the sixth were transferred to other schools. Academic work was re- duced to-a minimum. Arrangements were made to give the pupils as many types of industrial work as possible. As the vocational work increased in popularity the activities were expanded ; the Bowen School was grouped with the Smallwood and the fourth and fifth grades were given the opportunity to take preliminary industrial subjects which would give the pupils a founda- tion for the work to come in the higher grades. Community Is Ideal. A more ideal community for the lo- cation of such a vocational school as the Smallwood-Bowen probably could not have been found in Washington. It had been traditional for the chil- dren of *its neighborhood to leave school before completing the ele- mentary courses. Academic work had lost its appeal. A new impetus was needed to keep up intérest in school work. And the vocational training supplied it. The benefit to the com- munity as the result of the establish- ment of the industrial work has amazed the residents as well - as school officials. Children have com- pleted their elementary schooling and gone out into tHe industrial world with a fundamental and practical knowledge of the various trades and an thousands of disabled soldiers how to manufa 1 flowers sold to The only member of royalty who will be a delegate to the Republi- can national convention. She is Princess Kawanankoa, a delegate from Honolulu. Wide World Photo. HOSPITAL MAY END CONTRACT WITH CITY Garfield Officials Intimate They Cannot Continue Contagious Diseage Ward. PROPOSITION CAUSES LOSS $10,000 a Year Now Appropriated for Purpose. Garfield Hospital may not be able to renew its contracts with the Dis- trict health department for the treat- ment of ocontagio disease cases during the next fiscal year, it was learned today. At present the health department gets an appropriation of $10,000 a vear, which is paid to Garfield Hospi- tal for handling certain contagious disease cases sent there for isolation have climbed the ladder of success in their respective trades. Peculiarly, the vocational subjects taught at the Smallwood-Bowen also have increased the interest of the pupils in academic work. A problem arising during the engrossing work in the shops often necessitates research work, and the books that once were impatiently shoved aside are . called into use. Thus the industrial train- ing is serving in a dual capacity—it is aiding the children to carve out their life’s vocation while at the same time giving them the fundamental principles of an academic education. Record of Graduates. A large percentage of the pupils of the Smallwood-Bowen go out into the industrial world immediately after graduation to follow the voca- tion which the school has adequately fitted them to fill. A few seek higher education in_the high schools and colleges, where they invariably take technical courses. All of those who have entered the higher institutions of learning have stood well in their Zudies, proving that the academic ubjects dropped in the vovcational school did not affect their scholastic standing. The school every year turns out competent cabinetmakers, painters, printers, cobblers, bookbinders, light metal workers; -dressmakers and_eo: tume designers. The girls go forth with a thorough knowledge of the approved methods” of modern house- keeping, better fitted to be wives and mothers as the result of the home- making course which they have fol- lowed assiduousiy. As_the Smallwood-Bowen grew in popularity and its beneficient influ- ence was being felt in the community the sponsors of the vocational school idea, visualized a complete system of such schools in the District, serving every community. A central vocational school, giving more advanced industrial work, was proposed for the graduates of the community schools who elected to continue their work. But, as the stanch supporters of the vocational school view the plan to abandon the Smallwood-Bowen as an _industrial center, a Successful experiment ' 1s “shot to pleces.” Copyright by Kadel & Herbert and took command of the Colonial Army. ight by Underwood & Tnderwood VICTOR HERBERT'S FUNERAL PROCESSION IN NEW YORK YESTERDAY Hundreds of prominent Americans attended the funeral serv. ices of the composer. Special delegations from the American Society of Composers, the Lambs, Friars and Lotus clubs followed the casket to the cemetery. It is understood that officials of the hospital have advised the District authorities that there are several rea- sons why they will not be able to continue to take care of the *work. One of these reasons is that facili- ties in the contagious disease build- ing have become inadequate, and another is that the allowance which the health department pays is not sufficient to cover the cost of main- taining the service. with the resuit that it has led to a loss during the past few years. ,New Bullding Planned. District officials have had under consideration a proposal to erect a special building in connection with the Gallinger Hospital for contagious disease cases, but plans for such a building have not even been drawn, and it would be several vears, under the most favorable circumstances, before such a municipal structure could be made available. In the meantime the “health de- partment has had to rely on_the iso- lation wards at Garfleld Hospital, and the department, it is said, does not know of any other hospjtal that is equipped to take care of con- taglous disease work pending erec- tion of a suitable municipal hospital. Several weeks ago officials of Gar- geld conferred with the Commission- ers in an effort to get an appropria- tion for the remodeling of the ex- isting_building, but the estimates have not reached Congress. Commissioner _ Oyster, who has charge of health matters, expressed the hope toddy that it might vet be possible to work out an agreement between the health department and Garfield Hospital for the handling of contagious disease cases after July 1. He said the health office would find itself in a serious situation if Garfield is not able to renew the cqntract for the reason that there is no other hospital prepared to take over the work. v —_—— HOOVER NOT CANDIDATE. Discussion of Him for Vice Presi- dency Declared Idle. Published reports that he was to be a candidate for the vice presidency were denied yesterday by Secretary of Commerce Hoover. ““There is nothing to the discussion of the vice presidency in connection with myself—I am in nowise a can- didate,” he sald. 'BOYS TO MEET PRESIDENT New York's boy city administra- tion, numbering twenty-four youths under eighteen years old, will arrive here Sunday evening at 6 o'clock on their pilgrimagé to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. Monday at 12:30 o'clock they wiil be received by President Coolidge, and the fol- lowing day will depart for Richmond. The boys were recently elected at a popular election to posts in the ad- ministration of the city. Maurice Worth is the major. After a visit to Monticello, the boys will safl from Norfolk for New York, arriving home Sunday, June 8. In addition to “Mayor” Worth, those in the dele- gation are: Mark Sabel, Sol Kunkis, David Goldman, Willlam Gretsch, Al- bert Cooper, Charles W. Alexander, John Paulson, Robert J. Regan, Thomas P. McQueeney, Mitchell Roth- berg, Wesley R. Thompkins, Irving Eckstein, Arthur Strump, John Has- sett, Michael J. Flynn, Stamford ‘Worth, Otto B. Shulhof, jr.; Walter Colleran, Joseph Vaccarelll and Sam- uel Zausner, METHODISTS REFUSE LENIENCY IN DIVORCE Conference Votes, Against Liberalizing Regula- tions for Remarriage. ACCOMPLISHMENTS LAUDED Bishop Hughes Urges Work as Ses- sion Ends. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mass.,, May 29.—A proposal for a drastic change in the di- vorce law of the Methodist Episcopal Church was defeated by 10 votes to- day at the closing session of the gen- eral conference. The vote was 300 for adaption to 310 against. The present law forbids ministers to marry a divorced person when the husband or wife is living, unless that person be the innocent party in a divorce for adultery. The change would have legalized all marriages except those of guilty parties in divorces for adultery. Proposed Bar to Unfit. The proposed change also forbade ministers to marry “any person known to be physically, mentally or morally unfit.” “The present law can’t be enforced,” Rev. G. Bromley Oxnam of Los An- geles declared, “and thousands of per- sons divorced for reasons other than adultery now are living in adultery and are subject to trial. « “A woman who secures a divorce from a brutal husband and wants a new home for her children must be refused God's blessing. We ought to get at the basic causes of divorce in- stead of waiting until the home is wrecked. If we have a bad law we ought to repeal it.” “If you adopt this report you'll wipe out the law on divorce upon which we have been acting for many years,” Dr. David G. Downey of New York, warned the delegates. “An at- tempt is being made to meet the con- ditions in certain parts of the country to which_many people go to get di- vorces. Do not take this backward and reactionary step.” Rev. Wallace H. Finch of Stamford, Conn., asserted that “pastors are un- der an impossible position under the present law.” “Lord, we go, and as we go, we preach,” were the closing words of Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, formerly of Boston, and now transferred to Chicago, who reviewed the accom- plishments of the conference, just be- fore adjournment. “Time will test our work and will be the great Iinterpreter,” Bishop Hughes said. Results Are Praised. “A general conference that voted favorably on unification, permitted the ordination of women to the min- istry, reaffirmed Wesley's rule on amusements; sanctioned personal, de- nominationai and international atti- tudes that will help to shatter the ins stitution of war, modified the dod- trinal test for admitting members in the direction of simplicity and sii cerity and malgtained all fts mis 310 to 300, 14 NURSES GET DIPLOMAS Emergency Hospital Class Hears Dr. W. H. White. The value of the nurse to humanity was stressed by Dr. Willlam H. White, superintendent of St. Eliza- beth's Hospital, at the commenee- ment exercises of the at Rauscher's Diplomas were presented to the fourteen young women who complet- ed the three-year course by Dr. Wood bury Blair. president of the board of directors of Emergency, when they were called to the platform by Dr. A. R. Shands, director of the train- ing school. The invocation was pro- nounced by Rev. R. L. Wolven, as- sistant rector of the Church of the Epiphany. The graduate nurses are: Mrs. dred Berry, Ruth Men: Townsend, Ruth Thorne, lich, Agnes Bevan, Martha Nina Elgin, Marjorie G beth Harris and Doroth sionary outposts for pushing the bat- tle of the kingdom to the ends of the earth—such a general conference can scarcely be called ‘ordinary.’ It is at least eventful; and some of us be- lieve that it will become epochal.” Of the unification of the north and south. churches, ratified by this con- ference and now awaiting action by the Southern General Conference, Bishop Hughes declared: Safety for Coplored Race. “Now it will be written that our colored people are safe in the hands of their Caucasian brethren. —Our Vote on unification is a vote of our trust in our southern brothers and in their God and ours.” Bishop Hughes pledged the service of the bishops in aiding the church to Carry out its program. He urged the delegates to prosecute their program of benevolences and “to have done with tinkering and talking about tinkering.” The conference's wel- come of delegates from the students’ convention at Louisville meant a union of age and youth, he said, and “their fine idealjsm has made us con- fident for the futwre of our work. By nightfall probably most of the 850 delegates will be on their way home. 1t the southern conference acts favorably in July on the unification plan approved by the local confer- ence the two conferences will meet in joint session for the final arrange- ments. A protest against holding the Car- pentier-Gibbons _boxing contest at Michigan City, Jnd., next Saturday, was telegraphed to Gov. Emmet F Branch at Indianapolis by the con- ference late yesterday. A uniform " divorce law in the fed- eral Constitution was asked of Con- gress, and the pending Sterling-Reed bill providing for a department of education in the cabinet was indorsed. A committee composed of Bishop Willlam F. McDowell of Washington and others will present the education bill plea to the House and Senate. The right of labor to organize and to share in the control of industry was recognized in a report on Indus- trial relations adopted on presenta- tion by the committee on the state of the church. The report demanded a living wage and proper safeguards for the workers health and security. Emergency | Hospital School for nurses last night, | ht Ly Underwood & Underwood ALASKAN FISHERIES BILL PASSES SENATE Bitter Fight Ends Over Measure “to Save Salmon Industry From Destruction.” HOOVER VOICES PLEASURE Advisory Board to Be Named to Work Out Details. The Alaskan fisheries bill, urged by President Coolidge and Secretary Hoover as necessary to save the sal- mon industry from destruction, was passed yesterday by the Senate, end- ing a bitter fight which has been in progress for many months. The bill had been amended by the Senate and now goes back to the House. It previously had been approved by the House. 1t provides authority for the Commerce Department to establish closed areas in Alaskan fishing ters and to enforce other measures designed to conserve the fish food supply. Passage wa- as a of the measure marked by a sharp debate, during which Secretary Hoover's Alaskan ¢ was assailed. y _Hoover announced that “in order that the mew act may b administered in the most instructive , and intelligent manner,” he proposed “to co-operate with the Governor of in the appointment of an ad- v y board representing all ele- ments of the community in Alaska for the purpose of developing detailed meth- ods of controlling the fisheries under the act.” Preservation of Fisheries. “The passing of the ‘Alaskan fish- eri conservation bill by the Sen- ate,” he added, “practically assures the most important step yet accom- plished in the preservation of our sea fisheries. 1 am naturally very much pleased, as 1 have urged this legisla- tion in every of Congress for the la “] can stand any amount of per- sonal abuse with ail the amiability of the winner. s “The temporary reserves put in two years ago ,to hold the fort for the purpose of preventing further destruction of the “fisheries, owing to the failure of Congress to take action at that time, will now come to an end. They have served their pur- pose and there are more fish in Alaska today than there would have been otherwise.” was Spoiled Veal Costly to Railroad. i3 Dr. D. D. King and his_wife, Dor: B. King of Greensboro, N. C.. hav been awarded a total of $6,500 dam a8 ages against the United States Rail‘® road Administration by a jury in Circuit Division 1 _of "the District Supreme Court. — While on their honeymoon Mrs. King ate veal fur- nished in a dining car and was taken ill. The jury gave her $5,600 damage: and allowed the husband $1,000 for loss of his wife's services and the expenses incident to her illness,