Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1924, Page 21

LABORATTITUDE OF DAVISDEFENDED Virginia Commissioner Cites Records to Show Candi- date a Friend. ! By the Associated Press, i RICHMOND, Va. W Davis, Dern nominee tru of labor, Commi John Hopkins Hall, jr., of Virginia, declared tonight in a formal state- ment announcing his support hed article, purporting to ema- | from wmembers of organized la- | Te to what ind the Vir- | Federation of Labor and take on the indorsement of La lette and Wheeler by the Americ Federation of Labor.” said the com- missioner, who is a former president As to the stand of Federation of Labor, be composed of men and women of intellect and character, th will doubtless study the question, s the public re- cords of the andidates and act as their best judgment dictates. There is no other bindin political force in the action of the executive council of the American Federgtion of Labor. | Friendship For Massen, tradit al po v of th party h iways been endship and aid for the ma: Republican party, as such, =0 much so, that August 16.—John atic presidential and tried friend ioner of Labor the Virginia | “Th dem- one s < 4l | | [ his shoulder, itinue legislating for d. The record of 30 | abor legislative acts en- | during the Democratic adminis- | preceding Fresident Wilson's | unprecedented record of 101 | favorable legislative law <ed and | signed during his administration cer- | tainly merit the utmost consideration | of ev laboring man and woman, both orzanized and unorgunized. | Davis, first as a voluntecr defender of striking winers in \West Virginia, then s a Representative. he drew up | the famous Clayton anti-trust law. declaring “that the labor of a human | being is not a commodity or article of commeree”™; anl later, as solicitor | neral. prepared 1 presented the Supreme Court such a sirong for the cight-hour law that It re sulted in a favorable decision in time to prevent the threatened strike. fousght to uphold the first child law. In addition, we fiad him an November, 1923, ¥ defending the Window Union in a o before These and other public stamp John W. Davis a tried friend of labor. ent disciple of the acted tration ass the | sl i 4 BIG FOREST FIRES | RAGE IN CALIFORNIA! Flames Also Sweeping Through | Oregon and Nevada Woods | Out of Control. i AN FRANCISCO, August 16 —Four | major forest fires were burning un- | checked in California tod: with | more than 1,000 fire-fichters on the lines attempting to bring the blazes| under control | Tn O 2,000 acres of timber in | the W tion near Bend . and more than fire-fighte working toda; tempting to check the advance of the blaze into the yellow pine timber atands of that region. In Washington early rains have been falling for the past few drenched most of the timber | burning_in that State. but re-| from Nevada showed that a| the slopes of Granite Peak, | line, was still out which | fire, ports on | ed | custom | Unguished gentleman 'WORKING CHILDREN THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 17, 1924—PART 1. iterary Tastes Unaccountable, Reporter Decides After Survey Finds Old Man Studying ¢ liceman Perusing ““Miracle of Milk’ ing Treatise Attracts Bobbed Beauty. 'Tsa funny world and no place bears testimony to the fact better than the Library of Congress. Men and women have their likes and dislikes and, however successfui they may be in concealing them by outward affectation, the average na- ture is not strong enough to prevent humans from giving in to those littl: weaknesses they all have in the mat- ter of books. A visit yesterday - to the public reading room in the big Library on Capitol Hill demonstrated the truth of this to a Star reporter. 1 Posing a reader who did not know exactly what he wanted to read. he watched his fellow men and noted the books they picked out and cam: to the conclusion that you never can tell. Gets First Surprine. | The first person on whom he con- centrated was a quiet tleman of grayish hair intellect. The reporter judged that he might be a scientist from one of the Government departments, since he didn't look like a millionaire He was intensely interested in & thin volume which might easily con- tain logarithmic tables or chemical formulae or something like that, for lie occasionally jotted down notes in a small blank book ing his desk and slyly glancing the reporter m to_glimps ¢ title pag, Tt read, “Riding Astri Tt did not take 1a g for Girls." | heriock Holmes to deduce that this man was either a riding demy proprietor, an old- | ashioned papa, who desired to read | upon the propriety of the shoc custom his 18-year-old daughter cently had instituted, a - p who wished to inquire into the healtn phase of the question, or a vet erinarian. It was clear enough no Almost Doubts Eyex. The reporter recided to try a i man next. He saw one several desks | away and ambled in his direction. He wore horn-rimmed glasses, had a four - tain pen sticking out of his coat | pocket and wore one of those wide collegiate belts. Here, no doubt, was law student. The book he w apped up in smacked of Black- one. He apparently was preparing for an examination. He was too i terested in the book to notice the in- sitive newspaper man as he squint- two p es at the top of a page. Never before had these eyes deceived him, but there surely w smething wrong with them no. They read off to him the words: “Thy Neighbor's Wife.” Before he had time to recover from | his surpflse he was attracted to a middle-aged, dignified, well dressed man who had just sauntered in with his wide-brimmed felt hat still on his head. The reporter knew he must be member of Cong: Only a| Senator or Representative would have the audacity to walk into the Con- gressional Library without removing his hat. The ordinary citizen could never have reached the reading room without being reminded of the sacred | he was violating. The dis- went to the Index files, wrote out a slip and| plunked into a chair to await his book. He had selected his book from | the files, and the reporter in- stinctively Buessed that he was order- | ing some bLook on legislation, labor,| land grants or living co: | he reporter took a seat next to of the reader and pretended to When a young man pre: slided up with & lrke leather, t T w a UNADED BY LA Maryland Citizens Plan Ap- | to sleep. {ing | grati | man, | policeman off duty. | obliging counter clerk he blurted out, ‘Riding Astride,”” and Po- *—Nurs- seemed the employe had brought the wrong volume, however, for it was called “Love Is the Sum of 1t AlL" Apparently Knew Something. The affluent reader took it, consult- ed a note which he took from his pocket, turned confidently to a certain page and plunged into the very mid- dle of it. Half an hour later, as the reporter was leaving, the supposed legislator was still thoroughly en- grossed in the book, all unconsclous that there had been a mistake. Men had begun to make the ob- er lose confidence in his per- ceptive ability, so he turned (o the oppesite sex. A large, mannishly sed woman who breathed of pol- . economic clubs and the larger things in life was devouring greedily the contents of a large book. The book. from its appearance, might be » and Works of Josephus,” v of the great war or the ey, But it was none s “The Love Affairs of Mary, Queen of Scots.” A pretty bobbed-haired girl in her twenties was spled nearby and, as she was not hard to look at, the reporter turned his attention to her. Here was a type that unconsciously be- trayed itself to the world. This girl was living in a sphere of romance, of adventure, of emotion. It was plain that she was reading a book that did not bore her, as would one which she might be compelled to read as a stu- dent, for she was excitedly fingering her permanent wav it was rapidly losing its permanency. This girl was of a certainty reading a ro- mance of the great outdoors. Woman Also Decelves. Brother, dom't trust any of them. They're a deceiving lot. She was not reading romance She was wasting all that emotion over the drab chapters of the “Nurses' Handbook.” Determined to go through with his observations, the reporter peered over the motheriy shoulder of a matronly woman of about 40 Summers. That roulder undoubtedly had been a pillow which many a baby had been crooned She was searching through a rk for some particuiar line A d nursery rhyme, perhaps. or a chapter on cholic. At least. that's what the reporter though she ought to be searching for, but as a matter of fact she was bent on locating a certain page making up a treatise on ° tional Psychology Moving along to a youth nearby who might be learning from Horatio Alger the prerequisites for a_quick trip from the coal mine to the “White House. he found him poring over “A Study of Genius,” which wasn't so far wrong at that Policeman Studies Milk. An older youth to the rear was read- Sxsentia's of Journalism.’ porter restrained an impulse to call for volume along the same line, and noted 1 old-maidish woman two eats away who was studying up on “Chinese Immi- * A book entitled “Lynch Law” on an adjoining desk was not in the hands of a cclored reformer, but was d E lderly white woman. hic < being read by a clergy and “The Miracle of Milk" by The reporter's peculiar actions mean- while were beginning to arouse the curiosity of eeveral of the reading room employes. and as an attendant moved toward him he decided to go to the ce tral counter and ask for a book. What book to ask for was the next qugstion, and forced to say something to the he Miracle of Milk.” ‘Tsa funny world” mumbled the k as he went in search of the vo:ume. Civil War Office Structure Razed For New Building Another landmark of Washington has disappeared at Seventh and F streets to make way for a more mod- ern structure. The old Federal Building, one of the proudest of oflice | employes. lin the jor AIDS LUNCHROOMS Health Department Rating Is Improving Standards. of Establishments. The score card system of rating lunchrooms, recently inaugurated by the Health Department, is proving helpful in maintaining a high stand- ard among dining establishments, in the opinion of health ofiicials. For a number of years, the health office has kept a score on the dairies, Eiving them a percentage rating, and Health Officer Fowler decided to ex- tend the system to the restaurants and cafes. The department has always had certain standards of cleanliness for eating places, but the purpose of the score card plan is to create a spirit of competition to spur the proprietors on to further efforts in the wholesome handling and dispensing of food. Points Taken Into Consideration. In fixing the percentage of a lunch- room on the score card, the health in- spectors consider the condition of the floors, walls and ceilings; lighting and ventilation; method of storing food and facilities for _sterilization; condition of utensils and garbage re- ceptacles; condition of yard and cel- lar, and the physical condition of Many eating places are sdding to thelr rating by submitting certificates showing the employes who handle food to be sound physically. The food inspection service has Rrown to be one of the most impol tant branches of the Health Departe ment. Headed by Chief Inspector R. R. Ashworth, there are 24 men in this service, who spend all of their time watching over the food and drink supply of the city. = There are eight veterinarians, who patrol the farms in Maryland and Virginia, where Washington's> milk supply originates, keeping check on the condition of the herds and the farm facilities. Watches Incoming Milk. When the milk reaches the city, another inspector is waiting at the frefght platform to take samples for analysis in the health office labora- tory. Other inspectors observe how the milk is prepared for delivery in the local dairies. As a final step in supervision, samples occasionally are taken from wagons on the streets. Inspector Ashworth has three men constantly making a round of the! grocery stores to see how food is handled there. One man is detailed at the wholesale row to pass on all incoming products. Another Inspec- tor concentrates on all fish shipments | entering the city. There are two miscellaneous inspectors who super- vise bakeries, soft drink places and nilar establishment: JAY REACHES PARIS ON WAY TO AMERICA Minister Returning to Report Failure to Modify Rumanian Mining Laws. By Cable to The Star and New York World. 1 PARI .—American Min- | er Jay passed throuxh Paris today en route from Bucharest to Washing- ton to inform hiy Government of the | lack of success of the effort to induce | Rumania to modify its mining laws | interest of American Inves- He protested agalnst these s, which the American Govern- ment considered confiscatory, but was | unable to bring about any change in them The Standard Oil Company, which was in Rumania before the World | War, has invested $70,000,000 in Rumania, which investment, it 1s claimed, will be injured by tle Ru- manian law compelling &0 per cent the new investmen's to be heid in Rumania. Minister Jay main McLaren to Make New Flight Trial If Americans Fail By the Associated Press. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Au- gust 16.—Maj. A. Stuart MacLaren, leader of a party of British sol- diers defeated in an attempt to fly around the world, said here today. that he would try again if Ameri®# can planes that have reached Ice- land from Seattle in a similar en- terprise fail to complete the flight. Senator Colt Loses Ground. BRISTOL, R. L, August 16.—The condition of United States Senator Le Baron B. Colt, critically ill at his home here, was described as “not so favorable” in a bulletin issued by the attending physician at 10 o'clock tonight. The bulletin states that the Senator is resting comfort- ably, however. Taxicabs had their origin in China about 600 years age, when natives carried passengers in a vehicle and dropped a pebble in a receptacle to measure off every mile that was traveled. AUGUST DISCOUNT SALE AT THE Discounts L—W who attempted to ques- FRIEND 13 VIOLENT Florida Youth Attacks Doc- tors in Cell—Motive of Shooting Obscure. By the Associated Press. GAINESVILLE, Fla., August 16.— The motive and details of the shoot- ing of Miss Viola Nash, pretty younsg | Hawthorne school teacher, near here last night were still a mystery to- night. Robert J. Whiddon, a Univer- sity of Flordda vocational student, her companion at the time of the shooting, held in the Alachua County jail, is apparently insane or feigning insanity, according to local officials ‘Whiddon, officers ®aid, has refuse to talk to any one today, or to wear clothing or eat food brought to him in jall. The only statement he made a tion him, was: “I did not do it.” | Shortly after the shooting late yes- terday afternoon, which occurred on the Lake City highway about a half mile north of Gainesville, Whiddon, | according to officers, told them that Miss Nash was shot down by a man who drove by as he and Miss Nash were stahding near his car. The man, Whiddon said, leaned from his car, 'fired a shot from his revolver and speeded on toward Lake City. Whiddon brought Miss Nash to Calnesville While Whiddon denies the shoot- ing, the girl's mother, officers say, | erted that her daughter murmured, | “Whiddon shot me,’ during one of her conscious moments. Girl's Physicians attending Miss Nash hold out little hope for her recovery. Examination indicated, they say, that Miss Nash had been shot from be- hind, the bullet entering the back and coming out in the center of the chest. Doctors who entered Whiddon's cell late today said that they were | attacked and that It was necessary | to hoid Whiddon down by force to make an examination. ‘Whiddon and Miss Nash, according to the girl's parents, had been close friends for more than a year. Whid- nces Slim. don’s family lives in Sycamore, G A Saving of 309 On This Beautiful New Ten-Piece Walnut Dining Room Suite in the August Discount Sale In the popular Tudor period—workmanship and finish all that one could desire. Consist of a 60-inch buffet, wood panel china cabinet, full cupboard server, ob- long extension table and six chairs upholstered in genuine leather. the quality and the price—the ten pieces complete— $7.95 Polychrome frames in vari- ous designs. _ Plate mirrors are 14x29 inches in size. ! New French Walnut Bedroom Suite Four pieces including a dresser, full vanity, chifforobe large 48-inch and bow-foot Compare * 9 KILL HIS FLEAS 1 .You can rid your dog (or cat) of tor- menting, disease.carrying fleas with Sergeant’sSkip Flea Soapor Powder- 25c at drug, sports & seed stores, pet shops or by mail. Sefe and effctive_medi- Polk Miller's famous Dog Book on Diseases of Dogs alsocare, feeding and breeding with Symp- tom Chart. Writeforit. Froe Advice Dep't. snswera any_ question sboutyourdog's health frev. State symptoms, 8ge & breedin writing. PolkMiller Drug Co. Richmond, Va WHEN YOU NF: You need our instant dupli- cating service. Duplicate key, 25¢. Bring your locks to the shop. TURNER & CLARK, Basement, 1233 New York Ave. WRIGHT CO. Gateleg Table $18.50 Dull mahogany finish, &olid- constructed with and turned legs heavy 1ze | buildings in Civil War times, is gone, while construction is already under way for the new plant of the Hecht| | Company. | The Garrick Theater, as well, scene of many first-water legitimate shows, also has passed into history tained a diplomatic reserve. “There is a delicate situation Rumania because °American interests are dissatisfied with the new mining laws,” he said, “but there is no break between the Ameri- | n and Rumanian governments over the question, and T hope any- thing of the sort will be avoided. I am on my way home for a vacation, and also to lay the situation before the Department or State. bed. This charming suite has been reduced for the August Discount Sale to........... 229 in The fire dd oil burning at Bernardino cribed as “serious” ats in the The fire was an ves- Sani- peal to Next Legislature e et for Amendment. At Coulterville, . in the Sta = I ini National E near Yosemite S | with ‘the adjoining structure, and| 450 men were fighting a. fire only the skeleton steel work remains has burned over 56,000 acres there. of timber and brush lands. The Federal Building was erected I the when the center of business develop- Special Dispateh to The Star. Solid Mahogany BALTIMORE, Md, August 16— Maryland children illegally worked La n National Forest, northwest of Chico, 2,500 acres of Young timber have been burned over. and the fire continued to burn today. In the Shasta National Forest, south- ast of Weed, 200 men are fighting a fire which has not been brought un- der control HIDE ROYAL CLUB FAILURE WITH GAY LANTERN PARTY | Prince and Princess Andrew Un- able to Pay Electric Bill in London Venture. Correspondence of Star and the New York Worl. LONDON, August §, receiving order bankruptey w made last | against Prince Andrew of Rus- ager of the Regents Park Club, an enterprise he and s pretty princess started a year ago. prince. who is a nephew of the r and grandnephew of Queen Alexandra, came to England two Years ago to carn a living. The club has a considerable list of members among the most exclusive society circles, including the Prince of v who is godfather to the princ baby son. For weeks past the princess has been trying to save the club oul kuew the other nizht, when the light was cut off and the princ bade her friends to a “feast of lanterns.” that the gay dis- play of subdued light camouflaged the fact that they could not pay the elec- tric light bill Members who went there to dinner little knew that the last shillings of the prince and princess had gone and that she had even sold the few pieces of jewelry she had escaped with to pay for the food they were eating. The princess herself helped to get the Dlace ready for her members. The club is now to be carried on under new management, the prince and princess being retained as social managers. The princess’ brother Dmitri. who tried cigarette making in London, has now gone to America to take a job in a bank, and the Prince and Princess Nikita, the other members of the family, who also tried to struggle for a living in London, went to Paris to work in a mill. ~A Okapi Declared Shyest Animal. Of all wild animals- the okapl, which is about the size of a large stag, but hornless, is said to be the shyest. It lives in Central Africa in the country peopled by pigmies. The okapi's head tapers to a point and its lips are soft and flexible. In its up- per jaw it has no teeth. It is vari- colored, being vellowish white abouc the head and chestnut brown and red- dish black in other parts of the body. RN il iy Princess Mary of England is an en- ihuslastic girl guide. las a legac; are unprotected by the State indus- trial accident law. If a boy or girl is hurt, the em- ployer has only to prove the child was working illegally to have the claim for d: ge thrown out by the Industrial Accident Commission. Persons interested in child protec- tion are already preparing to ask the next Legislature to amend the law. They probably will ask that double or triple damages be assested on the employer where he has hired a child illegally and the child is hurt. Several other States have such laws. Children whom the law does not protect are those under 14, who are not permitted to work, with or with- out a permit, and any child between 14 and 16 working without permit or at work not covered by the permit. Book Bound in Human Skin. M. Flammarion, the eminent French writer, once remarked on the beauti- ful shoulders of one of his woman acquaintances. When she died she left the skin of her shoulders to him He used it for the bind- iel et Terr: g ing of his ‘Women wearing low-necked dresses or sleeves that do not cover the elbows are to be barred from the churches within the bishopric of Clermont-Ferrant, in France. Loggers’ Rate of Fatalities Highest i Of All Workers in United States bepartment of Labor Survey of Hazardous Occu- pations Shows Railroad Brakemen and Steel Workers Also in Danger. The brawny, heavy-booted men who labor in the deep snows of Winter and the slush and freshets of Spring to brings logs from the deep wood$ down to the mills are engaged in the most hazardous occupation in the United States. Their fatality rate is higher than that in any of the other so-called hazardous occupations in this country, the Department of Labor announced yesterday. Basing Its conclusions on a study of hazardous occupations inade in 1920 and 1921, the department con- cludes that out of every 1,000 loggers 20.1 lose their lives annually, crushed by falling trees, drowned in the rush- ing, swollen streams of the woods or caught in log jams, The next most hazardous occupa- tion of record is that of railway brakemen, with a fatality frequency of 9.9 per 1,000 men employed, while structural steel workers, the gents r | been at ment _had not yet reached Seventh and F streets. It the home of the German-American Bank from its foundation until it failed in the canky seventies, shortly after the Franco-Prussian War, and later it was converted into an office building. For a time real estate firms had offices there, and more recently the building has housed other profes- sional establishments. - Cake Weighs 300 Pounds. An Oneonta (N. Y.) department store gave a birthday party and baked a birthday cake for its custom- ers. Every one who called at the store could obtain a morsel. The cake weighed 300 pounds, was 28x36 inches square and 28 inches high. It was cut into 3,000 pieces. It took 60 pounds of sugar, 15 pounds of butter and 48 dozen eggs, with other in- gredients in proportion, to bake it. - Lightning Bolt Very Wide. lightning bolt that must have least 140 rods wide struck near Elkader, Towa, recently, hitting a tree on one side of the river and a house on the other at exactly the same time, but doing -no further damage. Heavy storms have been frequent in that vicinity this year. A who nonchalantly walk across a three-inch steel beam hundreds of feet in the air and toss red-hot rivets across space, have a fatality rate of 8.7 per 1,000. Contrary to accepted opinion, the coal-mining industry has a compara- tively low fatality rate, although there are thousands more men in coal mining than in logging or structural steel work. The coal miner dies fn. the proportion of 3.6 per 1,000 men employed, while metal miners have an average fatality of 3.1. Quarry men enjoy comparative - immunity from fatalities, with a rate of 2.2, while blast furnace workers have a rate of 1.5 per 1,000. Open hearth steel workers are practically free from fatalities, with a rate of but 6-10ths of 1 per cent. These rates of fatality in seven of the major industries of the nation, the department sald, show a material deecline over a period of years. VIRGINIA RANKS HIGH ‘IN IMPROVED ROADS Official Shows Progress” Since Es- tablishment of Department in 1908." By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., Augu ° 16.—Vir- ginia ranks high with sister States in the number of completed miles of improved roads, H. G. Shirley, chair- man of the state highway commis- sion, said in a statement issued to- night. The statement was issued by the chairman through Carter W. Worme- ley, dircctor of the State bureau of publicity, who had requested a brief but comprehensive summary of the activities of the highway department during the period of its existence. “The State highway department was created in 1906,” said the chair- man, “having supervisory powers only. In 1918 a system of approxi- mately 4,000 miles was established by an act of the general assembly, and a highway commission was cre- ated in 1919, This commission op- erated until 1922, when a new law reorganizing the department was put into effect. This law required the commission to take over not only the construction but the maintenance of all roads in the system and carried the right to Increase the mileage 2% Per cent annually. “Under the above and subsequent acts of the lawmakers the system now possesses a total mileage of ap- proximately 4,400 miles and is laid out to take care of the traffic between the leading cities, as well as to con- nect, either directly or by spur, all the county seats in the State. “Approximately 1,800 miles of road have been constructed. Of this total, 1,300 miles were built by the State at a cost of $22,000,000, 40 miles by the Federal Government and about 460 miles by the counties previous to the system being taken over by the.commonwealth.” . Woman Jailed for Silence. , In Mason City, Iowa, a woman has recently served a term in jail rather than tell on a friend who, she says, was unjustly accused of shoplifting. 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