Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1924, Page 52

This column is conducted by the Digtrict of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations, branch of the National Congress of Parent- Associations, headquar- ters, the Appeals building, ath street northwest. Mrs. Benjamin P. Zebley is the dele- gate to the District of Columbia Con- gress of Parent-Teacher Associations from the Hubbard Home and School Association. Last December, at thel rainbow fete shel was of the chairmen incharge) of the very suc-| cesstul “Toyland.” one ot the exer-| the regu- and In_order not conflict with graduating cises in schools, the lar meeting all-da the of Parent-Tex Associations be held June 10, in MRS, B. P. ZEBLEY. Montrose Patk Georgetown. The executive board will meet in the morning and the regular meeting will take place after lunch. The vearly reports of the ficers and chairmen will be read this time. The the will ixty-second annual meeting of National Education Association be held in Washington June 28 to July i. The National Congre: of Parent-Teacher Associations has been requested to hold @ section meeting in connection with it July 1 at 2 o'clock, to discuss the relation- Ship between the two organizations, Miss _Olive Jones, the president of the National Education Association, has appointed the sident of the District of Colu ongress of Parent-Teacher Associations, Mrs, G. S. Rafter, on one of the important committees of the convention The District of School Association will meet board room at the Franklin next Wednesday evening at § Wwith Capt. Julius Peyser Columbia Publi in_the School clock, presiding Leonard a_former ] of the District of Columbi Congress rent-Teacher As- sociations hax returned to her home n Philadelphia after a week' in Washinzton. During her here group of th who closely associated with in teacher work zave Mrs. Doten luncheon in the mens Univers Club. The following attended: Mr: S. Rafter, Mrs. J. aunders, Mrs 2. H. Danicl. Mrs. Z. L. Dalby, Mrs M. J. Spottswood. Mrs. Judge Tols: Fraser and the gue S. Doten. final passage of Bill is a source of gr to the members of { Columbix Cong Association worked [ for the p the faction trict Parent organ than two this il has years Ars “The Child i in the Metropolitan next Wednesday, June The Morgan ciation clas Rave Parent-Teacher give: N exhibitid room work May 20. Ea some feature of its reg gram. Mrs. Harver Wiley 1o the School a pictur: the eighth grade mothers of the ¢ of 1924. The boys of the cighth grade acted as ushers. At the close of the fternoon program refreshments were served by the eighth grade girls. 188 The Adams Parent-Teacher Asso- elation will meet tomorrow at § o'clock. In addition to the reading of annual reports nd _installation of new officers. there will be u demon- stration of tisual education. June 5 a fete will be held at the school to raise fun ssociation, Fighting Vienna Jewess of Wide Career Is Leader of German Communist Party Br the Associated Press BERLIN, May Frau Ruth Fischer. undisputed new boss of the Communist party. is a Vienna jewess, wWhose meteor cer is an ou ing feature of man politics. au F woman of over- bubbling temperament where the fight is hottest. of a Vienna profe she the versity during the there became imbued with tionary theories. She was in close touch with the plans of Bela K, when that Communist leader carried out his coup d'etat in Hungary, and she attempted a parallel step against the Austrian nation assembled December 11, 1918, Arrested with her former husband. Friedland, she was ISLAND OFF NEW ZEALAND MARKED BY POISON GASES Deposits of Gypsum and Sulphur Are Gathered in Face of Danger. her is alwa Daughter att war and revolu- 8. L. Bastin iu St. Nicholas Maguzine. One of the strangest islands in the world is situated about forty miles off the North Island of New Zealand. Thi= is & precipitous rock nearly 1.000 feet in height and about three miles in circumference. White Island, as it is called, has Immense deposits of gypsum and sulphur, otherwise no one would ever want to go near it. In fact, 4 trip to the island is some- thing like -a visit to the infernal re- gions. Right in the center of White Island there is a strange lake sixty acres in extent and fifteen feet deep. This is really a gigantic chemical retort. Dark green in color, the water is heavily charged with sulphuric acid and hydrochloric acid and it is prac- tically always at boiling point. From the great body of water thick clouds of poisonous fumes are con- stantly arising. On one side of the island there are numerous craters and blowholes, many of which give an opening into the molten interior of the earth. From the lake and the craters an incredible cloud of sul- phuric and hydrochloric fumes is sent U great cap of white vapor, and it i for that reason the rock was given its pame. During the blowing of a strong wind the acid smell can be de- tected at a distance of seventy miles. 1t is only during certain months of the year, from November to March, that White Island can be safely visit- ed. At that time the wind is blowing steadily in one direction and the harmful fumes are carried away. Then busy workers come to the is- land and load ships with the gypsum and sulphur. The task is not wholly without danger, for now and ther. the sea will find its way through cricks into the semi-molten regions below the sur- face and violent explisions arve al- ways a likelihood. Montana’s Forests Increasing. From Compressed Air Magazine. One state, at least. is making a &ood showing in forest conservation. Acording to recent figures of the De- partment of Agriculture, the timber Tesources of Montana are increasing at the rate of 200,000,000 feet a year. The annual growth in that state is estimated at 800,000,000 feet, as com- pared with the reported cutting of 600,000,000 feet for all purposes, The present stand of timber is put af 59,000,000 feos s found | nded | P. This hangs over the island like a| The Force Parent-Teacher Associa- tion held a fair 24. Mr. Trippe gave a talk on 'hina,” and “The Merchant of Venice” was given by pupils of the school. Mrs. Rawlings was the chairman in charge of this fete. The Bradley Mothers' Club will meet tomorrow afternoon and Mrs, G. S. Rafter will be the speaker. The Kinsman Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation will hold the lust meeting for the season next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. The speakers will be Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter and Repre- sentative Greenwood. There will be a musical program. The class which wins the attendance banner at this meeting will be given a picnic, which will be chaperoned by the new presi- dent of the club, Mrs. Holloway. The officers who were elected recently were: President, Mrs. James Hol- loway: vice president, Miss Lulu Thorn; secretary, Mrs. Dorothy H. Bishop, and treasurer, J. W. Basim. The Edmonds Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation gave @ school lunch at noon Wednesda The Bryan Parent-Teacher Associa- tion will meet next Wednesday at 0 p.m. The program will be fur- nished by the pupils of the school. The Maury Home and School Asso- ~iation at its last meeting elected of- ficers as follows: President, Mrs. Ceofle P. Clark: first vice president, Fred Daiker econd vice president, Mrs. 1. Y. Otterback; secretary, .\l‘rs» Thomas W. Dayis: treasurer, Miss Lillian Tolson. The card party which this association gave recently for the benefit of the mothers' building fund netted $77. The last meeting for this school vear of the Langley Parent-Teacher Association was held May 20. Dr. Ballou, superintendent’ of schools, gave a talk on “The Junior High School.”” The program. provided by the Langley students, consisted of a piano and violin selection by the Sokolove twins, pupils of 7B; a vocal solo by Lillian Buckner., accompanied by Mae Davis, both pupils in 9A. and several selections by the school o chestra, led by Mrs. Ward, Refresh- ments were served. The association thanked Mrs. Gummins, Mrs, Pitman, Mrs. Young, Mrs. Smallwood and Mr: Gummel for helping to make the ce tumes for the Langley School spring play, and also the candy committee for the work it did. Dr. Fales turned in $45.80 to the treasurer, made by selling candy at the play. ' Mr. Cunm mins, a parent in charge of the Boy Scouts, reported that the troop, com- posed of thirty-four members, had re ceived its charter from New York and is now Troop 28. The present officers were re-elected, with the exception of Dr. Ball, treas urer, who declined renomination be- cause of ill health. The association s fortunate in securing Mrs. Lillyan Dunlap as treasurer. The follow ing were elected: President, Henr: ligan; first vice president. Mrs. J. R. Jorolenum; second vice president, 1. W. Draper; secretary, Mrs. K. E. Trotter; treasurer, Mrs. Lillvan B Dunlap. Section SA2 won the pennant, for having the greatest number of par- ents present, for the third time this veur. Having won the pennant the | greatest number of times, SA2 will | have its picture taken, framed and Tung in the hall. The Wormley F tion met May 15 with George A. Parker. nt arrest in the school, with. rrant, of an innocent pupil of the school, by a policeman s di. cussed. The assoc ion was informed that the board of education had ap- pointed an investigating committee with Mr. Graham as chairman. The principal was commended for her de- fense of the pupil and a vote of thanks was tended her by the asso- clation. Addresses were made by Mrs. Carrie S Watson, Miss Margaret Braxton and Alston Burleigh. Musical selec- tions were rendered by Miss Margue- rite V. Smith and the school orchestra accompanied by Mr. Burleigh. Re- freshments were serv | Soon liberated as a concession to the masses who adored her. Joins German Radieals. | ‘au Fischer then left for Ger- where she joined the radical wing of the Communists nd con- sistently opposed the party's course | as too mi During the passive re- sistance in the Ruhr she demanded {dhat the Communists seize the mines and_industrial plants and thereby strike & blow at both French end |German cupltalists. Her agitation | { bore fruit at the January congress of the party. where the old guard was swept into the discard. It is interesting to note that the three outstanding leaders in German Communism have been women. Rosa Luxemburg was considered the brains | of the party until she was murdered in 1919, Frau Luxemburg was then succeeded by Clara Zetkin, who has now abdicated in favor of Frau Fischer. QUAINT TOWN OF GRASSE | FAMOUS FOR PERFUMES Huge Quantities of Flowers Used Annually in Factories for Scents. Gladys Davidson in the London Mail The pretty and quaintly old fash- ioned town of Grasse has been world famous for its scent factories for sev- eral hundreds of years; and the enor- mous quantities of perfumed flowers that come annually into the factories there are almost incredible. | . The principal flowers used | fume making are orange blossom, | asmine, mimosa, violet, nar- ! nquils, hyacinths, mignonette, | tube “roses, carnations, wallflowers | Al these flowers are_grown in the immediate district, and most of the adjoining countryiide Is devoted to | the flower-growing industry. The first | harvest to be dealt with is that of the violet, which has just now started and will probably last for a couple of months or longer, and the other will follow on in their due seasons. The busiest time, of course, comes in May, when the roses, mignonette, orange blossom and carnations are at their Dest. The scent and soap factories of Grasse are all fitted with the latest and best equipment for extracting the perfumed essence from the millions of flowers brought into them. Different flowers go through different processes; and the varlous firms have certain | special secret processes for their own special brand of perfume. A very seneral method is to place | the carefully picked petals into fat or olk in which they remain for a cer: tain number of hours, when they are removed and replaced by a supply of fresh petals, relays of petals being in per- THE STARRY SKIES IN JUNE wilgoeswy Fig. 1. direction faced tom ux xouth mow In. Three the sk sky in the northwest It is very sun and in a less favorable than in the last two above it are the twin stars ¢ Pollux. Venus moves a then begins its motion. The sun degree kes Vi After that s hic ends this riod beginning September during which Venus has been ning star. the crescent phase, and this bly the most inte ing which to see the planet wit scope Neptune, whose position i marked in figure 1, caunot without a telescope. Saturn, interesting of the planets, It is in_Virge, not . star at A, figure 1. & It_passes it time Venus is brighter than Spica, but is_surpa stars Veg. nd Arcturus at D, in brightness by the Capella at C, unique systém of rings sur: the planet make it the most ing celestial object telescope Fig. 2. Jupiter, brigh far from the bright s Jupiter is brighter star. 1t, a telescopic ob. Bootes, the ordinarily the than a very in Its brigh seen It is at o in Capricol Uranus in Neither een in the ¥ evening. can be seen in the east befor for a few days before a June The sun is farthest equator June 2 ard time. Summer begins th dle of the map - overhead, lies The na small June that is, stellation back to mentioned mer. Just wha questioned. Some sy driving oxen; others man, a hunter or a shephe: brightest star of the constel in he | Phon€ Lincoln 1481 f the bright planets adorn v in the early evenings of June Venus, brightest of all, is low in the (see figure 1) brilliant, but closer to the months. little east- ward among the stars until June 9, westward or retro- app teresting. At the present time it has observed erdsma t planet. is in Ophiuchus, not ar Antares at E with a north p.m., eastern stand- say he is a plow- By Prof. Barton of the University of Pennsylvania. R & at the bottom: that Ix, if facing eaxt, hold ea: position Just tor and July 1 morning pe- 10. . \an e is proba time in hoa tele- n ‘Leo be seen the most is at its far from aturn is D. Many cluded Th rounding interest- | with a of the Arctus, second | others ny fixe teresting | staff test four v very [t ition rnus and can be Mercury e sunrise nd after PP in’ the of the en. figure 1, the con- me goes and Ca so near! place. stars i a man | ish and d. The ation is vig. the brilliant reddish star of the st form a sort of exte my apparent connection between th. rangement of the whose na The stars apparently within the figure Arcturus is one of the br brightest, far south to be seen here. some astronomers some another entitled are of different color. Svoamiona anshend, e k x 'p %o that the at the hot- ‘The point overhead ix the center of the map. Bootes, the herdsm Arcturus at is star is readily identified rs of Bootes are in- am_of rs which sion of the handle big dipper leading around to Some of those stars, with form a group resembling a in a str kite, as shown in figure 1 In figure as a shepher and shown Bootes sman, with his drawn by Arge- in most of these, figures, there is no ar- ars and the figure constellation beas fall at random 2 we have or hi sickle As is tru tological me the htest stars Sirius is the two _stars too Vega at B whole heaven followed" by pella at C and Arcturus are of v of the same brightness that regard one and to the next The comparison of the threc more difficult because they Vega is whit- Capella vellowish. Arcturus Phone Lincoln 7638 Sanitary Carpet and Rug Cleaning Co. Plant, 419 New Jersey Ave. N.W. Robt. L. Pyle, Prop. Soft Coal Ruined Many Rugs —Our shampoo process positively removes this damage, brightening colors to original luster—for only 6¢ per square foot. Before Phone Lincoln 7638 used until the fat or o) is thoroughly | impregnated with th® perfume. “An- dther method is to scatter thickly the petals over glass plates covered with grease, piling the plates high up one over the other. In both these methods the fat or oil iz afterward plunged in alcohol which extracts all the perfume from it, 50 that when the grease is finally removed from the alcohol not the least trace of scent remains in it. Some valuable perfumes are made by distilation, the oils are being dis- tilled from the flower petals. The famous “attar of roses” is prepared in_ this manner: likewise eau-de- cologne. The latter is made from a mixture of flower petals and oils de- rived from the blossom and leaves of orange trees and upon the rind of oranges, which, together with various spices, are distilled with alcohol. ——e Conscience. 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With neighbor, the fourth magnitude chang sition among the Stars as rapi Rapid as ix th 4,500 does Arcturu tion. ~relatively about which is abeut a ance between st of it. degree, the d the star w in the Bible. in Jom xxxvii Version. The Re Arcturus Furnitare Carpets stars-—that is. & star of low temperature and low deénsity which is at the begining of it was he When to determine diameters of stars by the use of the being sap- posed to be a star of large dinmeter, diameter could be measured more easily than others, was one of the first on the list The resulting diameter the sun’s miles, is roughly times as large in diameter and 14,000,- this the exception of our nearest Alpha Centauri, not visible in this latitude, no star as bright ss s po. Iy as mo- vears would be required for a motion of a fourth Arcturus and Arcturus Is one of the few stars mentioned by name changes the translation. Some one has said that if Job could have an- other look at the heavens now Le probably would detect no change in the position of any star, even in that of Arcturus. Thus the term fixed stars is sufficiently accurate. Arc- turus was first discovered to be mov- ing in 1718 by Halley. He announced that Areturus, Sirius and Proc had changed their positions since cient ti These were the stars discovered to be moving and not absolutely fixed: Really Arcturus ix moving through space with a velocity of seventy-one miles per second. Thi sun’s veloeity In'space Is twelve miles per second. While the velocity of Arcturus Is large, there arc many stars with greatér velocities than this, Pt “DIGGER” INDIAN PASSES. Tribes Give Up Name Fastened to Them by Whites. TONE. Calif. May 28.—The Digger Indian has gone He has been killed Dby the Indians themselves. The Dig- ger Indian was burned at the stake while he was jeered and mocked hy 600 of his fellows at the annual “cry” of the Mewuks, near here, recently The burning was in effigy, while a picked band in full regalia did a war dance about the vietim. The burning, wh 240 of typifying, a | Frow the Philadelphia Bulletin cording to the Indian allegory,; the | culmination of a long hunt for.an enemy, actually marked the abandon ment of the name Digger Indian by all Indian tribgs in California. The Mewulks were the last to gain their| tribal designation. They were once | called Diggers. Indians say the name Digger made its appearance in Utah. It was aaid to have been first used by whites | on thir way to California hecause of | the Indian custom of digging for roots. Then, as the whites continued their westward migration, the set- tlers continued to use the appellation. The Digger in Indian allegory came from Utih to Nevada, then to the | of Pit River, then to Modoc | Shasta- County, Humboldt | County i down into the south. || Spurned by every tribe, he | outcast and sought shelter in the te itory of the Mewuks. Here he re-| ined hidden, refusing ' to leave, | until his recent’ capture and death at | the stake. The annual “cry of the Mewuks is held in honor of the dead. Indians | from all parts of the state attend It i @ time of ceremony, feasting and | merrymaking Her Popularity. “Why is she g0 popular with men?" | “She knows how to join in their | dislikes.” INQUIRE ABOUT OUE DEFERRED PAYMENT PLAN . . 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