Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1924, Page 2

MUFFLERONG.0.P. RECORD, SAYS DAVIS Mysterious Silence Even En- velopes Saber-Rattling Cabi- net Officer, He Adds. | By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON. Del, September —Just as the historian will describe the vear 1920 as that of “the year of great promises.” so e will come to denominate 1921 as “the year of the great silence,” John W. Davis de- Clared in an address to several thou- sand persons here tonizht “It is a pervading and terious silence,” Mr. Davis said. “It| is broken here and there by the vocal neminee of the Republican party, warning the American people in anxious tones that around every corner and under every bedstead there lurks a Bolshevik ready to de- stroy ther “Now and then some person aimost forgotten writes to a candidate and complains of the terms in which he described Refers to Wilbar. then occasionally some cab- icer. standing on the western will rattle his saber lik new tov recentl en him. The extinguishment is placed upon him and nee reigns supreme onee more. It all reminds me of nothin £0 much as the words of Tennyson “The dead steered by the dumb | e onward with the tlood Why thiz silence?’ asked Mr Davis, then he procesded lo answer his own question with a review of the record of the Republican party’s | administration of the Federal Go: ernment both in the ficld of domes- tic and foreign affairs Word for La Follette. Referring to Senator Follette, the independent presidential candi- | date by name for the first time in the | campaign, Mr. Davis said a “bogey | man” was being set up by spokesmen for the Republican party. A bogey man clad in a great cloak with the word “bolshevik” burnt across his breast. “Rut when the added, “lo and behold, than_our familiar f Le_Follette = hold no brief for Senator La Fol- Matte,” Mr. Davis said adding that he had opposed with all his vigor the Follette proposal for a veto power lezislatures over the Supreme t on legislative matters As to the contention that La Fol- lette is seeking to “lead the coun- try to Moscow,” Mr. Davis said he was rather of the opinion that he was seeking to lead it to London, where, under the British form of govern- ment, the parliament is supreme. Recalls Roosevelt Plan. “I do not like the British theory as well as ours,” he continued, “and T do not like it either in the modified form proposed by Senator La Follette, or In the far more d rous form of which Theodore Roosevelt made himself the protagonist when he demanded the re- call of judicial decisions. “I should be slow, for that reason, to denounce either Senator La Fol- lette or Theodore Roosevelt as a bol- shevik and I decline for myself to stand afrighted before the bogey man. You know, we must have a bogey man in American politics occasionally.” The Democratic presidential nomi- nee declared that one of the big is- Bues of this campaign was that of party responsibility and he added that the Republican party would and moust be held to accountability for its acts. “And that brings me to a painful subject,” the nominee added. “I could recite that chapter simply by calling names. I could say ‘teapot.’ 1 see that you understand what I am talking about. “I could say ‘Perryville’ I see the World War veterans and_their friends know what I mean. Then I might talk about Gaston Means.” That brought a laugh. “But this is a serious subject,” Mr. Davis went on. “The betrayal of the public trust by these men was not a random accident or the un- fortunate selection of men. Their actions were symptoms of disease, the idea that government exists for what men can get out of it and not for what they can put into it Dawes to Tour East. Before beginning his second west- rd swing early next month Davis will carry his fight for the presidency into two additionul eastern states— Rhode Island and New Jersey—where he holds he has a better than even chance for victory in November. Under present plans he will speak at either Newark or Jersey City next Friday night, and at Providence Sat- urday night. In his Thursday night speech at Madison Square Garden, Mr. Davis! says he will talk largely along lines| not yet touched upon. This rally mark the opening of the sec- se as well as the beginning second month of his intensive campaigning Returning westward through upper New York State, Mr. Davis expects to deliver four addresses before mov- ing into Ohio to speak at Cleveland and Toledo. vas my shore, m cloak drops,” he it's none other nator ‘Bob’ PERFUME FILLS Alfi AT $35,000 BLAZE (Continued from First Page.) lifeless form of their mother, who had been crushcd beneath a packing box. J. S. Malloch, chemist of the Caro Flavoring Company, rescued drenched pets and took them to his home in a box. The blaze was discovered by Jo- seph Naiman of 607 Pennsylvania aves nue, across the street, who turned in the first alarm. Fire headquarters sounded & second alarm after the ar- rival of the first companles, as the conflagration was raging unchecked through three storics. Firemen had difficulty in fighting the blaze because of the dense smoke. They found it necessary to break open several steel- barred windows on the first floor. Water was poured into the burning building from the front and rear, as the structure extends through to C street. Trafic Is Blocked A great collection of firefighting apparatus assembled on the Avehue, blockins automobile and street car traffic. Cars of the Capital Traction Co. were delayed for nearly three- quarters of an hour. Large crowds of spectators were kept back by spe- c1al details of police. In the basement of the building were stored many drums of denatured alcohol, used in the manufacture of the extracts and cosmetics. These were not injured. The first floor was used as a wholesale storeroom for the hundreds of varieties of bottled goods, most of which were ruined. On the second and third floors were machinery and manufacturing equip- ment valued by the chemist at more than $25,000, in addition to large quantities of tonic and extracts. The scented liquids poured down upon the firemen in the floors below, soaking their clothes with the perfumery. According to Fire Chief Thomas Watson, who examined the building thoroughly, the blaze ‘originated on the first floor and leaped up through the elevator shaft, spreading out over the two upper floors, 220 A | took no DRAFT OF SECURITY AND ARMS PROTOCOL ADOPTED AT GENEVA (Continued from First Page.) protoeol, declaring that the peace of the world was at stake. With the negotiations over the Japanese reservations to the protocol still unsettled, considerable excite- ment was caused in the League of Nations Palace tonight by the pos ing of an official communication from the Japanese delegation This com- munication reproduced a statement by the Japanese foreign office that Japan would adopt a policy of non- interference in the internal affairs of China. It then proceeded to cite an editorial opinion from the Osaka Asabi of September 23, which coun- seled Japan to go slow in fixing its attitude toward the proposed protocol of arbitration and security. Sees Unted States Left Out. The newspaper made the point that the machinery of the protocol would probably never apply to the United States, Germany or Russia, because their ratitication of the protocol was exceedingly doubtful. Great Britain's 1so seemed doubtful to the Asahi, which thought that Japan could wait until the disarmament con- ference, where the non-signatory states would probably be represented. The posting of this Japanese opin- iorf in an official communication im- mediately gave rise to the belief that the Japanese delegations had circu- lated the Asahi’s opinion purposely in order to explain its difficulties with home opirion in connection with the question of its adherence to the pro- tocol. On learning of this interpretation of the communication members of the Japanese delegation hastened to the League of Nations Valace and tore down the document, explainir. this jon was erroncous The delegates had merely transmitted the ‘s view along with others to the information s tion of the secretariat of the league. Officials of the information section said they were authorized to post the communication New Statement Posted. Coming on top of today’s difficultles growing out of the Japanese reserva- tions to the protocol. the communica- tion caused a sensation. Later an- other communication was posted, as- serting that the Japanese delegation responsibilities whatsoever for the opinion expressed by Acahi, that the postirg of this com- munication as an official document was requested, and that no signifi- cance whatever should be attached to its contents as expressing the views of the Japanese government. According to information available from promirent European delega- tions, the Japanese delegation has al- ready accepted in principle the in- corporation of a general compromise clause in the protocol which will meet Japanese desires. The clause is MARS TROPIC NOON LIKE WINTERIN D. C. Mt. Wilson Report Reveals That Planet Possesses Rare Atmosphere. The Carnegle Institution of Wash- ington announced vesterday the results obtained at the Mount Wilson Observ- atory in California, of the measure- ment of the temperature and heat radiation of the planet Mars at its recent close approach to the earth. The observations were made by Dr. Pettit and Dr. Nicholson, using a sensitive instrument known as a vacuum thermo-couple attached to the 100-inch reflecting telescope, and the area of the surface of the ther- mo-couple was sufficiently small to make possible measurements on de- tails of the planet such as the south polar cap. Varied Apparatus Used. Various transmission screens were used so that the light reflected from the planet and the thermal radiation from its heated surface could be separated and analyzed. The com- munication from the Mount Wilson Observatory yesterday said: “The temperature computed from the observations necessarily depends upon our knowledge of the absorbing power of the earth's atmosphere on radiation from bodies at such low temperatures; for only about one- fourth of all the heat which Mars sends out reaches the telescope at Mount Wilson, while in the case of the sun three-fourths of its heat reaches us under similar conditions. “The measurements indicate that the temperature of the tropical re- gions of Mars at Martian noon is about 10 degTees above freezing, and that the mean temperature over the south polar cap is about 95 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. The average temperature of the tropical regions between Martian sunrise and 9 o'clock is 10 degrees above zero. “If the image of the planet is al- lowed to move across the sensitive surface of the thermo-couple, it is found that the resulting curve is symmetrical, thus showing that the maximum of heat comes at noon and not in the afternoon as on the carth. The form of this curve is very sim- ilar to that found in the case of the moon, and indicates a rare atmos- phere for the planet. Mars and Vemus Compared. “This conclusion is further borne out by the large percentage of radia- tion emitted by the heated surface of Mars and the character of its spectral distribution, which is similar to that of the moon and the planet Mercury. It is of interest to compare these re- sults for Mars with those obtained by similar methods for the planet Venus. “In the case of Venus, the compara- If You Tire Easily —if you should cough, loss of weight, hoarseness, you may be developing consump- tion and you should lose no time to ——C See a Doctor or Have Yourself Examined at the Free Health Department Clinic 409 15th St. N.W.,, Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday at 24 o'clock. Friday evenings from 7:30-9 o'clock To Prevent Consumption house dust and impure or close air, day or night. 1. Ave the | that all possible disputes shall re- celve the attention of the council as a mediatory body, without, however, specifically mentioning conflicts which are based on matters interpreted by the World Court as lying entirely within the domestic jurisdiction of countries. The membership commission of the rasembly today unanimously recom- mended the clection of Santo Do- mingo as the fAifty-fifth member of the League of Nations. French Are Pleaned. The French greatly rejoice over the | roport of the league permanent con- sultative commission on armaments regarding Germany, which was made known this evening. They consider it most broad, in that the field of inquiry is extended: no former enemy countries will be repre- ted on the league's investigating hady, and, according to the French, Germany cannot enter the league until the present interallied commis- sion has finished its work and de- clared that Germany is disarmed, after which the league will take up |the work. The French hope that inter | allied control work will be concluded by the end of December. BERLIN'S POLICY DEFINED. sary by Stresemann. By Cable to The Star and New York World. BERLIN, September 27.—Foreign | Minister Stresemann, addressing | members of his own Peoples’ Party on the foreign and internal situation to- night, in cffect confirmed recent in- formation that Germany's application for admission to the League of Na-| tions is the first step in @ new aggres- {sive foreign polic He took as his text the Friedrichshafen for the United | ates, sayin, rmany builds the |biggest and most succesful airship the | world has yet seen and is then compell- cd to tear down the works that gave I birth to this triumph of science. That is the spirit of Versailles. Must Revixe Treaty. Germany, went on, must enter the League to revise the Versailles treaty. Millions of Germat * he explained “torn away from the Fatherland, live in foreign states, in newly construct- ed states, influenced by the League of Nations. “The battle for the rights of these German minorities, the battle for ju ce in the Saar, the big questions of | military control and disarmament, these are all of the utmost importance to us.” By these minorities he meant the German-speaking peoples in Czecho- slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, “and Al- sace. In joining the league Germany hopes to regain by an instrument of | peace what she lost in war. (Copyright. 1924.) JEWS OBSERVING ANCIENT SEASON Hebrew New Year Festivities Begin With Today’s Sunset. R-3, built at At sunset today begins the holy season of the Jewish faith to be ob- served by all Jewry. In thousands of homes and a large number of syna- gogues the same rites of worship that have persisted for several thou- sand years will be observed. It is the Jewish new year—the year 5,685 cording to tradition. The Jewish religious era began with the creation. Solemn prayers are chanted in ob- servance of the day, and the trumpet, the first musical instrument used when the Israelites journeyed in the wilderness, is sounded. The trumpet sounds of the ram's horn, according to Rabbi J. T. Loeb of Ohev Sholem Synagogue, are to annunciate the re-establishment of God's own kingdom over all created beings and His all-ruling justice in the affairs of the world. The ram's horn also is a reminder of divine revelation on Sinal, when “midst thunder and lightning and the strong sound of the shofar” the people of 1srael were ordained to act as God's chosen messengers on earth and to remain His own silent testimony in all the ends of the earth, even to the day when “the great shofar will be blown” for the spiritual regenera- tion of the entire world and the united brotherhood of man. The eve of Rosh Hashanah will be observed at sunset today by both the reformed and orthodox Jewry, and tomorrow the orthodox will re- peat the services. Foliowing are 10 days of penitence culminating in the fast of Yom Kippur, and on that solemn day amends to God and man for believed wrong-doing Is made. Four days after Yom Kippur comes Succoth eve and the next day the feasts of Succoth—that of the Tab- ernacles. The holy season closes 23 days from today with Sh'Mini Atze- reth, the “full festival.” — tive absence of visible markings and its remarkably high reflecting power indicate that we do not see the sur- face of the planet, but probably a nearly continuous area of clouds. Measurements of the heat radiated by the planet show that the illumin- ated and the dark areas have nearly the same temperature of about 10 de- grees below zero Fahrenheit. “This is somewhat colder than the average temperature of the tropical regions of Mars, and agrees with the view that the surface of Venus is coveed by clouds, perhaps similar to the high-level cirrus in the earth's atmosphere.” also have a persistent light some chest pains or 2. Get all the light and sunshine possible into your home. 3. Avoid raw milk, raw cream ized cream, 4. Eat plain, nourishing food. 5. 6. mind acts on your body. and butter made of unpasteur- Get enough sleep by retiring early enough. Try to avoid worry. Be cheerful. Think kindly. Your Annual Health Insurance A Thorough Examination on Your Birthday Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Telephone Main 992 1022 1ith Street N.W. Fhe have paid for the above bulletin (legal motice)s DAWES CONGEDES LAFOLLETTE BRAVE Respects His Courage While Denouncing Program—Hits Political “Pee-Wits.” By the Associated Presa. DAWES SPECTAL. EN ROUTE TO CHICAGO, MADISON, Wis, Septém- ber 27.—The La Follette independent candidacy was assailed in the home State of its presidential nominee to- day by Charles G. Dawes as a move to throw overboard from the ship of state ‘““the compass—the Constitu- tion-—and commence to steer by the wind.” Such a move, the Republican vice presidential nominee declared in a series of eight speeches in Wisconsin and three in Minnesota, would result only in chaos.™ Crowds ranging from several hun- dred in the smaller towns to several thousand in the cities, braved a cold driving Autumn rain to hear and te applaud Mr. Dawes' condemnation of the La Follette movement and its platform declaration for congres sional review of Supreme Court deci- sions. Rain Drenches Crowd. The rain greeted Mr. Dawes and his audience at the first stop of the day for his special train at Lake City, Minn, and continued with increasing intensity during the day. The wait- ing crowds were drenched, and Mr. Dawes, refusing protection, often- -ft the rear platform after a speech with water-soaked and water streaming from Two weeks ago Mr. Dawes attacked the La Folictte candidacy in Milwau- kee, one of its Wisconsin strongholds, but today he carried his assault on . Follette principles to Madison, the home of Senator La Follette. The vice presidential nominee com- bined with his discussion of the con- stitutional question, which he de- clared was the dominant issue of this campalgn and which he asserted had made the present national campaign the most important since the Civil War, with an attack on “political pee-wits” and “those going around the country promising different things to different sections and to different interests, and all that inconsistent stuft and clap-trap.” Hits Some in Own Party. He made it plain that he did not consider all the “political pee-wits” in the opposition parties. In his ad- dress at Sparta he said that a lot of pre-wits have been “preaching to me down there at the national commitiee to ko out and speak this kind of a speech to this kind of people, or this kind to another kind, and all that sort of thing, and straddle around with all of them.” Several times in making this attack he paused to say that Senator La Fol- lette “doesn’t lack courage—I respec courage—he puts up a fight. Several times during the day he went back into ancient history for iilustrations to drive home his point that governments whose action had been determined by passing phases of popular opinion without steadying power, such as he said was provided by the American Constitution and the courts, had failed. GREAT SPURT DUE IN THREE BIG RACES (Continuad from First Page.) Follette, may hesitate at voting an out-and-out Socialist ticket. * x % ox One eftect of the decision is ex- pected to increase the advocacy of the plan fostered by Senator La Kol- lette to change the present rule of court decisions by a bare majority of one. He has pointed to this casc as a glaring example of the asserted unwisdom of this rule. His prin- cipal supporter in California, Ru- doiph Spreckels, in a telegram to the Senator said that “in deciding against the 50,000 voters, who, in one day, signed petitions to place La Follette electors on the November ballot, the Supreme Court rendered one of those four-to-three decisions which 1 cal- culated to strengthen the already strong opinion that a bare majorty of the court too often denies to the people an opportunity to enjoy the benefits supposed to exist in a de- mocracy.” * % *x X The rendition of the California de- cision brought from Hiram Johnson the first public expression of the cam- paign. There had been much curious- ity as to Senator Johnson's attitude toward the presidential campalgn. He denounced the opinion as “unjus- tified by the law, contrary to public policy and of the most harmful con- sequences,” adding “it is a decisien such as this that undermines public confidence in the courts.” That ut- terance is construed by politicians as forecasting possible support by the Johnson follpwers of the La Follette candidacy for President. * * ¥ % Senator La Follette is expected to make a tremendous drive in Cal- ifornia, and to utilize the Supreme Court decision to every possible ad- vantage against the Democratic and Republican candidates for President John W. Davis and President Coolidge are vigorous opponents of sugges- tions to change the rule of majority decisions. * X ¥ K The Republicans will apply their utmost efforts during the next few weeks in strengthening their lines in Minnesota and the two Dakotas, which at present are regarded as weakest of all. They have also some hard work before them in Iowa. A private communication from a Pro- gressive source in Iowa, however, prophecies that President Coolidge is due to carry that State by a heavy plurality notwithstanding the claims of the opposition. * Kk k% Senator La Follette is worrying the opposition by his decision to close his campaign in the industrial sections of the East, Having in mind the character of campaign he Is expected to make in the closing days of the fight, when there will be no oppor- tunity to combat it, the Republican and Democratic managers are some- what concerned. Realizing the in- flammable material upon which his re- marks will fall they forebode serious effects. BLOODY WAR IN GEORGIA. Legation at Paris Reports Fighting ‘With Russians. PARIS, September 27.—The Georg- jan legation here today issued a com- munique declaring that bloody en- counters are now in progress in the province of Svanetia, republic of Georgia, between detachments of Georgian revolutionaries and Russian soviet troops. Russians,” the communique have been unable to capture the Georgian positions, have arrested women and children and the closest relatives of the rebels, and have placed them in their front line of at. tack as a protection while they are bombarding the fortified positions of the insurgents.” 2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 28, 1924—PART 1. P e R R R R R R R R R R ———————————————— 16 TO 40 PUPILS IN 100 IN D. C. SCHOOLS ARE BELOW NORMAL BUTLER'S BACKERS SUMMONED HERE Stone Calls Group Protesting General’s Dismissal by Kendrick. By the Associated Pross. PHILADELPHIA, September 27.— Representatives of the Law Enforce- ment League of Philadelphia will go to Washington next week, in response to the request of Attorney General Stone, and tell him all they know about alleged political corruption among Federal officeholders in Penn- sylvania, it was made known today. T) - Attorney General acted by di- rect of President Coolidge, who reec ced a telegram from Willlam R. Nicholson, jr., secretary of the league, stating that the league possessed such information. The telegram was sent to the President in an effort to have him intervene in the controversy be- tween Mayor Kendrick and Gen. But- T, director of public safety of Phila- delphia. Charges Based on Letter. It was said that the telegram was based on a letter, 3 months old, writ- ten to the league by Mrs, Mabel W. Willebrandt, Assistant United Stat. Attorney (eneral, regarding prohibi- tion enforcement. Mrs. Willebrandt, who was in P’hiladelphia today on her way to Doylestown, P’a., said there was nothing in her letter making any charge inst any one and nothing therein on which to base a telegram such as was sent to Washington. Joseph M. Stecle resigned the presi- dency of the league today because he did not approve of the sending of the telegram. n. Butler, who has been {11 at his home with a severe cold, and who, it is reported, may be asked to resign by Mayor Kendrick, is expected at his office Monday, when the “communica- tion” which the mayor prepared last Monday will be handed to him. n. Butler had nothing to say to- day when he was informed that an effort would be made to have him made president of the league in the event he is dismissed by Mayor Ken- drick. MONTANA COUNTED FOR COOLIDGE, WITH LA FOLLETTE CLOSE (Continued from First Page.) against Walsh. But not all Masons are Republicans. Furthermore, there is a feeling that such tactics will end in a reaction among the Masons themselves against Linderman for as- suming to mix them as an organiza- tion in politics. Senator Walsh, re, has been tw ‘nate by the people of Montana and served with distinetion. He was just as much of a Catholic when he was first elected as he is now. The religious issue which has been raised against him and is admitted by Re- publican campaign managers, thoug they are not making an open attack on this line, may cut both ways. Not a few of Catholic voters in the State are Repulblicans, followers of the late Senator Tom Carter, who was both a Republican and a Catholic. Senator Walsh has the indorsement of all the labor organizations of the State including the railroad brother- hoods. The La Follette supporters al- S0 expect many of those who cast ballots for lLa Follette to vote for Walsh in preference to Linderman. Klan lHard to Estimate. Just how strong the Ku Klux Klan is in this State is dificult to estimate. One estimate from a Republican source places the number of Klans- men at about $.000. With the forces allicd with Senator Walsh taken into consideration, he looks to be a winner. It is believed that he will receive the united support of the regular Democrats. Linderman's nomination for the Senate was unex- pected, it is true, showing an under- current of strength. But it must be taken into consideration that Rankin, whom he defeated for the nomination, had many enemies in the State. Overshadowing in local interest both the presidential and senatorial races, however, is the contest between Gov. Dixon, Republican, and Judge J Erickson, Democrat nominee, for governor. Involved in the contest is a “company” fight. The ‘“company” or “companies” to the people of Mon- tana mean the gigantic waterpower companies and the Anaconda Mining Company. The companies, in _this instance are backing Erickson. They are fighting Dixon tooth and nail, be- cause he has proposed, among other things, an additional tax on the mines. In the contest four years ago between Gov. Dixon on the Repub- lican_ticket and Senator Wheeler on the Democratic ticket for governor. the companies, although they had been fought by Dixon in the past—an old Bull Mooser and one-time Sen- ator—preferred to support Dixon to Wheeler, and Dixon was elected. it 1s pointed out elected to the ‘Will Get La Follette Ald. Dixon likely will get some of the La Follette support and the support of others who might be against him but who prefer him to the company candidate, but the power of the com- panies has been very great in this State, and still is. They own many newspapers and control others, and the company papers are conducting s bitter fight against Dixon, charging him with various kinds of maladmin- istration. They do not hesitate to charge both Dixon and the Repub- licar managers- with falsehood. It may be mentioned in connection with the companies and thetr political power that they seem to be keeping their hands off in the senatorial race, although they bitterly opposed Sen- ator Walsh before he became Sena- tor. Also they are not active, ap- parently, in the presidential race. What they care most for, although they probably would prefer to see the election of President Coolidge, is control in the State of Montana. Davis, it is admitted in Democratic circles, has not made much impres- sion on the West with his candidacy for President. His campaign had made little, if any, headway here, and even in other States it is only where he has actually come into contact with the people that he has won votes. The La Follette strength is still a riddle, however, which has all parties, even the La Folletteites, guessing. 1t will be remembered that about this stage in the campaign of 1896, when free silver was the issue, Willlam Jennings Bryan, it was feared by many Republicans, would sweep the country, but didn’t. Of course, the La Follette movement is different in many ways from that of Bryan 28 years ago, but Bryan was denouncing the moneyed interests just as La Fol- lette, and he was appealing to the miners on the free silver question and to the farmers. Montana, in 1912 and in 1916, cast its electoral vote for Woodrow Wil- son, the first time because of the split_in the Republican ranks due to the Roosevelt revolt. In 1916 the State gave Wilson some 35,000 more votes than Hughes, the war and peace issue predominating as in other Western States. But in 1920 Mon- tana swung back into the Republi- can column, with a 50,000 plurality for Harding. Because of the.free silver issue, it went for Bryan in 1896, L { killed and Mrs. Frank Barnhard of (Continued from PFirst Page.) below the grades in which they are found. With children in every school thus far tested so misplaced that on the average 25 per cent are in grades too low, and 16 per cent in grades too high. The need for a continuance of intelligence and standardized achievement tests until all schools are reclassified s an urgent need.” Miss La Salle’s report is doubly in- teresting in view of the action last week of the Board of Education in reafirming its approval of the psy- chology tests. As the department of educational measurement and re- search is expanded under the present plan, every pupil in the schools will be given an intelligence test and re- classified. The Board of Education has approved the expansion of the mental testing as far as finances will permit. 10,000 Given Tests. The tests were first introduced on | a large scale in a selected group of schools last year and were admin- iatered to more than 10,000 children. Preliminary work in scientific educa- tional measurement had been carried | on in the schools for several years | previous, under the direction of Rob- ert I. Haycock and J. C. Bruce. No steps were taken to group the chil- dren homogenecously as the result of these tests, however, until’ Miss La Salle undertook the work as a per- manent part of the school program. The three classes in which the chil- | dren are grouped as a result of the mental tests are rapid, normal and slow. The slow children are placed in opportunity classes, smaller in size | than the usual 5, so that more | individual attention can be given by the teacher and an adaption of cur- riculum made. Two such classes were | organized at the Dennison School last ar, one at the Eaton and another at the Wheatley. Says Claswes Prove Boon. The formation of these classes has proved a boon to all concerned, ac- cording to Miss La Salle. “These chil- dren who have suffered the discour- agement and humiliation that came from stand failure,” she said, are galning confidence in themselves and are taking prominent parts in school- room exercise. Kor the first time in their school career they are knowing the joy of success. The District schools are pretty well taking care of the average or mor- mal child, Miss La Salle continued in her report, but little is being done for the rarely gifted talented chil- dren and for the dull. Surely,” re- marks Miss La Salle, “a democratic ducation should provide for all its children according to their capaci- ties and needs instead of attempting to make all conform to the type and | pace of the middle average group.” The prevalent policy of classify- ing as atypical those children who are only dull and placing them with distinctly feeble-minded children, Miss La Salle said, would better be | replaced by a policy of keeping the | atypical school's enrollment limited | to i3 present lower range and mak- ing provision for those who now fall in the upper quartile within build- ings in their own districts Objections Rained. “Parents of dull children and chil- dren themselves object to the place ment in atypical schools, not only because a Stigma has comec to be attached to them,” the report con- tinues, “but because of distance to them and the placement of such classes in old buildings in undesir- able locations. “Three hundred of these dull chil- dren are found in the Uooke. Ross, Morgan’ and Dennison Schools, enough" to fill an entire building, whereas conditions in such schools | as Smallwood-Bowen show even greater numbers of these children HUSBAND'SCARKITS WIFE, KILLS ESCORT Auto Driven Up on Sidewalk, Where Pair Were Walk- ing, Say Witnesses. By the Associated Press. NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario., tember 27.—Smylie Muirhead, 37, was Sep- London, Ontario, a school teacher at | Queenston, was seriously injured this | afternoon when they were run down by an automobile said to have been driven by Mrs. Barnhard's husband. They have been separated for a year. Mrs. Muirhead, who was with her husband and Mrs. Barnhard, escaped injury. Muirhead's skull was fractured and he was internally injured. He died in an ambulance on the way to a| hospital. Mra Barnhard is in the hospital with a broken leg and in- ternal injuries. Say Act Was Deliberate. Barnhard drove away and police were searching for him tonight. His car was found abandoned. Witnesses of the -fatality say that Barnhard deliberately drove over a curb to the sidewalk where Mr. and Mrs. Muirhead and Mrs. Barnhard were walking and ran them down. Barnhard is said to have called at the Muirhead home this morning and endeavored to get his wife to return to live with him. He became en- raged when she refused, it is said, and remained in the neighborhood. The Muirheads and Mrs. Barnhard started for police headquarters this afternoon to complain about him. It was while they were on their way there that they were run down. ‘Workhouse De Luxe Popular. In Ireland the Omagh workhoue is a really popular place and the reason is that years ago a regulation was made allowing each prisoner three glasses of whisky a day. Recently woman members of the board of guardians thought this was too luxu- rious, and while the male members of the board will not change the old or- der entirely it/ is likely tea will be ~ubstituted for some of the whisky. Wwho need curriculum modifications and a slowing up of the work. A school in each locality recruiting from the three of four neighboring schools with its curriculum slowed to cover six of the traditional grades in eight years, with more household arts and manual training, more rhythm work and nature study, with possibility of steady advaneement without failure instead of every year or two a re- peated grade, would be a much more wholesome plan, bringing satisfaction to pupils, teachers and eventually parents From this school tion to the slower sections of junior high school with special industrial and vocational courses would keep hundreds of children in school sev- eral years longer than they are re- malning at present.” Resalts of Tests Shown. Of the 2,224 children reclassified in the Dennison, Ross, Morgan, Cooke and Wilson Normal schaols as a result of the intelligence tests, Miss La Salle’s report showed that 419 were promoted one semester, 67 were ad- vanced two semesters and 9 promoted three semesters. F schools were demoted and 41 put into opportunity classes, Diligent investigation of children who went to high school on extra or | double promotions, Miss La Salle ex- plained, has failed to reveal anything but success; records in some instances show all E's and G's and a few others show these grades predominant. Those still in the elementary schools, she declared, are still the leaders in the 5. Of those receiving extra promotion only 19 failed to make | ®ood, and § of them were pupils whom | the data from the tests did not war- rant the promotion. inety-six per made good: 4 per cent, 495 receiving extra failed.” summarized Miss La “The total saving of time of these 476 pupils was 061 semesters. The saving in cost of teachers salaries was thousands of dollars, for it would take 14 teachers with 40 pu- pils to a group to teach these pu- pils what they already knew or could quickly get without these teachers.” Points Out Dffileulties. The reclassification of pupils as a result of the tests into a more homogeneous grouping, Miss La Salle pointed out, was difficalt, due to three factors peculiar to Wash- ington: 1. The salary schedule is different in the various zrades, so it was not possible to change a school's or- ganization. 2. The prevalence cent, therefore, or 19 of the promotions of the small | building with but a single room for each grade, so that the only way to get a more homogeneous EToup- ing on the basis of similarity in mental age was by extra promotion instead of the frequently adopted plan of a parallel grade of rapid learners. 3. The lack of funds to make ade- quate provision for the usual pro- gressive and enriched curriculum and supplementary materials To combat criticisms of the tests, Miss La Salle recommended that a monthly bulletin be issued to teachers and parents, giving them the facts and information concerning the prog- ress of the work in educational r search and measurement. Protests during the past year, she sald. came rom persons ignorant of the nature of the tests and from parents whose children have not yet been subjected to the tests. With Miss La Salle’s report Dr. Ballou also made public the report of the committee in charge of educa- tional research in the colored schools. This committee was composed of J. C. Bruce, R. N. Mattingly, Marion P. Shadd, M. L. Washington, Eugene A. Clark, C. O. Lewis and R. B. Lane. The committee recommended that the work in the colored schools be broadened in scope. CIVILIANS KILLED BY CHANG PLANES Many Injured by Bombs Near Border—Foreigners De- serting Towns. By the Associated Press. TIENTSIN, September 27.—A few injured today when aviators in the army of Gen. Chang Tso-lin bombed the border town of Shanhaikwan, where the eastern ex- tremity of the Great Wall is located, near the Chihlian-Manchurian line, according to messages received here. The railway works at Shanhaikwan, a point held by the Peking forces of Gen. Wu Pei-Fu, was the target of the aviators. Numerous windows were shattered by the bombs. According to passengers of the steamer Kwangping, which arrived yesterday with a number of for- eigners from Shanhaikwan, Ching- wantao and other nearby towns, only a few foreigners remain in these communities hecause air raids are becoming a daily occurrence. The messages today said many native and foreign houses have-been wrecked by the bombs from aircraft. The railway situation between Peking and points along the railway to Shanhaikwan is daily becoming more serious, it was reported today. This is due to the activity of almost every petty officer in the Shihlian forces who insist on commandeering and retaining special trains. A coal famine in North China is probable owing to the impossibility of moving coal trains from the Kailan mines. — Child Labor Decrease Steady. In continental United States the total number of children 10 to 15 years of age reported as engaged in gainful occupations in 1920 was 1,060,858, representing 8.5 per cent of all children in that age period, as compared with 1,990,225, or 18.4 per cent, in 1910; 1,750,178, or 182 per cent, in 1900; 1,503,771, or 18.1 per cent, in 1890, and 1,118,356, or 16.8 per cent, in 1880, Manchurian Wreaths For The Dead?—Yes, But How About a Few FLOWERS FOR Believing that The THE LIVING? Star’s readers are in- terested in the the salient features of the lives of our country’s illustrious living, we take pleasure tomorrow, in' announcing that, beginning FLOWERS FOR THE LIVING. An informative series written by our most famous living authors, will make its daily ap- pearance on the editorial page of The Ebvening Star gradua- | ght in these five | Salle. | TIRED OF LUKURY, PAIR TGO TOWORK iScion of Wealthy Family and Wife Take Up Practical Philanthropy. eh to The Star. GTON, . September 2 Tiring of constant social activity, | George Otis Draper, jr., scion of ths | millionaire Milford and Hopedale, Mass, Draper family, and his young wife have decided to work. Young Draper has adopted a plan for prac. tical philanthropic work among un fortunate young men and women of Kentucky. His wife, who was Miss | Maude McClintock, society girl of | this city, today announced she wil | become a teacher the Lexington | public school kindergarten depart- | | ment. | George Draper recently {awarded a court judgment in against his mother, Mrs. Li can Draper of Lexington and Barbara, Calif., by which it is stated | young Draper receives about $400.000 | He had been at work here practically ever since he married Miss McClin- tock, over three years ago, but whe money was paid over to him he too a few weeks' vacation. To Aid Poor Youth. Now he has returned here and an- nounced that he expects to work | Young Draper has become vice presi- | dent of a business college here told the correspondent that it w is | intention to sce that every poverty- hampered boy and girl in the State who desired a business education should have one free of charge; that | With his money he expected to make {such an offer, and that any youth of either sex really desiring to obtain commercial training would be edu- cated free of all charge by young Draper. Draper said he was not giving money away d that if any of the young people he aided desired to pay him back when they sccured a foot- hold in commercial lines, he would accept such a settlement, but that there would not be conditions nor terms to be met by his offer to those who desired to get such traini Mrs. Draper, the ng wife, for two or three years had been a teacher in the Lexington public school kin- dergartens. Then, after the suit was won, she turned to the work she likes—writing children’s stories. [ with the opening of the Aptun | school term, she said the urge 1o | teach the “kiddies” again proved t« strong and she decided to ask her « place back. Tired of Just “I_cannot sit around, doing not ing” she said. “I love to hear little things recite their lessons, a | see their bright little faces whex | are trying to learn. 1 get tired | just drifting along, and I very glad to have my kin- arten work to do. Of course, n afternoons will be free for any social activit but my mornings will be well taken up with the work of teach- ing in the kindergarten. The Drapers, of co entree to fashionable circles of the East, and it was thought for a time they would make their home at Bos- | ton” or New York, but George Draper announced that he expects to live here, Mrs. Drapers residence all her life, and to take an active part in business affairs. No other man such a proposal was a suit Dun- Santa aying. e, have the has ever advanced as has young Mr. Draper toward combating illiteracy |and at the same time putting such work on a practical ba: The only requirement of applicants under Mr. Draper’s plan is that they must ac- tually need such help and be without money to pay for it. “REPUD Tl e IATION” TRAP, { MEANS DECLARES (Continued from First Page.) he was in almost constant communi- cation with Senator Wheeler, and he added that later he kept Senator Ashurst advised. Blair Coan, representative of the Republican national committee, met | nim, Means said, and after a pre- |liminary conversation advised him {that in the last few days he (Coan) | had been in conference with Attorney | General Stone, and that the intention | of the Government was not only to | “raflroad” nim to the penit ry on | persons were killed and many were | the liquor case recently ended in New | York, but on a number of others Promixe for Repudiation, He said Coan also told him that if |he would repudiate the testimony | iven before the committee, it would | be arranged for any cases pending to be nolle prossed, and any n {extension of the time would be | granted in connection with his ap- peal. He said Coan also told him to | get in touch with Raymond and S man Burns in New York. Means said | he reported these matters to Senator | Wheeler as soon as possible. | Former Attorney General Daugh- |erty was in New York September 10, |Means said, and conferred that day {with Col. ‘Felder. Means said he !signed the repudiation September 11 |and saw Felder mail it, special de- {livery, to E. B. McLean. Means said | Felder sent the repudiation stat. t to McLean, so officials in Washington could see it. “I didn't care what he did with the statement,” Means said. “I wanted documentary evidence.” Means again urged that the Brookhart-Whecler committee be called together for the purpose of getting “under oath” testi- mony from Daugherty as to what he knows about how the repudiation statement was secured. cessary FOUR DIE AT CROSSING. Switch Engine Hits Stalled Auto- mobile. CONNEAUT, Ohio, September Four persons were killed instantly and a fifth was seriously injured when their automobile stalled on a grade crossing here tonight and was struck by a switch engine. The dead: Mrs. Stella Kinney, 60; George Me- Cumber, 11; Albert Castrilla, 12, and the latter's brother, Joseph Castrilla, 14. The machine was driven by Mrs, Clayton Newell, who suffered severc cuts and bruises. The entire party lived at Conneaut. MAY INDICATE WRECK. Sticks of Wood in Lake Huron Believed From Missing Ship. | CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 27.— Painted sticks of wood, possibly part of the railing or wheel house of the whaleback freighter Clifton, missing since Sunday, were sighted late yes- terday, 24 miles northeast of Point Au-Barques, Lake Huron, officers of the Progress Steamship Co. Cleveland, owners said today. The sticks were seen by Capt. Frank Perew of the steamer Peter White, an- other of the Progress fleet, but his message said the sea was so rough that he was unable to recover the wood for closer examination. - A rapid and experienced talker making a speech on a subject which he fully understands will speak at a rate of about 8,000 words an hour.