Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1924, Page 14

THREE N ROWBOAT SAVEDFROM DEATH Washingtonians Threatened by lce, Helpless, Rescued H by Steamer. Felpless in a small rowboat, with ice threatening every Instant to h it to plec three young W ashingtonians from their perilous situation Sunday night by the Norfolk and Washington mer Southland in one of the 108t dramatic incidents in Potomac River history. A shotgun, a lantern, presence of mind of the river victims and the ke officer on the steamer factors in the rescue W. W. Rapley, 24, son of E. E. Rap- ley of the National Publishing Co. 1282 H street, and his friends, Lowell Harding and Edward Hall, voung engineers, were en route to Rapley’ nunting lodge, on the lower Potoma hen, opposite Mount zashed the side of the the 24-foot motor la tling its way down the floe- anes of the river. WIild Goowe at Sinking Stage. The Wild Goose filled rapidly and started to sink. Just as she was dip- ping her bow into the Potomac her occupants, displaying keen presence of mind, rescued a lantern and a shotgun, Into the little rowboat tender, the trio plled, just before the Wild Goose sank. Shortly thereafter the Southland was nosing along down the Potomac toward Norfolk—one of the Very few larly Win- were rescued were major filled 3 against the lce ter. One of the marovged vc ed firing off the shotg waved the lantern. The shots attracted the att Officer He: rom the lantern marked the spot. Under supery Nowell, th t the rs start- Another ‘Fields of Declaring that “geography is a step- child of the American public schools,” Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Soclety, ad- dressing the Association of American Geographers, in session here today, urged that the geographers support the movement now in progress in various American cities to have ge- ography taught in high schools. Dr. Grosyenor called the failure to teach geography in high schools one of the anomalies of American public school education. “Geography is a basio subfect,” he continued. “It" enters into history, sclence, literature, and even the lan- guages. It is a cultural subject of ablding interest, and lifelong intel- lectual fascination. It is a vocational adjunct to many kinds of business and the professions.” A knowledge of geography is es- sential to understanding the news, and better teaching of geography would stimulate intelligent reading of newspapers, he added. He pointed to a condition which arose {n Wash- ington schools, where 40,000 obsolete geographies still contain maps of Zurope as it was before ‘the World War. "Phe Natlonal Geographic So- clety co-operated with The Evening sent off a rescuing party and within half an hour the whole party was | en route to Norfolk, telling of their ;v xperience to wide-eyed passengers on board the Southland. The Wild Goose went down shortly | before 7 o'clock, but in the period | between the sinking and the rescue exposure did not seriously affect of the three. 1l came back home yesterday, none the worse for the adventure, except for the depression occasioned by the loss of the launch. _THE EVENING . STAR, WASHINGTON,. D. HIGH SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY COURS DECLARED VITAL TO EDUCATION Dr. Grosvenor Says Subject Is at Present Treated Like Stepchild—Cites Value to Other Learning. Star of Washington, D. C,, in printing a descriptive story and an outline map of the New Europe in an edition of that paper, and 50,000 proofs later were struck off by The Star to be News- papers in other cities followed this pasted in school geographfes. example, 750,000 Use Service. “A direct service to schools National Geographic Society now ren- ders 1s the {ssuance of weekly sets school 750,000 “These bulletins, which constitute a gift to Amerioan education, supplement ge- ography texts with up-to-date, inter- esting, informative, illustrated bulle- They add to the zest of the study; they énliven it b making contact between the d: news and geographic facts: they take the subject out of the laboratory and of bulletins to some 20,000 teachers for use among about pupils,” Dr, Grosvenor said. tins on geography. make it a part of life. “The National Geographic with its million, * has popularizing the The HO\ISC the Society, membership of nearly one broader faollities for e of maps thap b! b | : | 3 | 608 to 614 P any other single agency in the world. “In the last several years the mo- clety has distributed a total of nearly 11,000,000 large maps, printed in six colors, and sent to members along with thelr National Geographic Maga- zine. “Our student rostsr—that i, our membership-—reaches to every com- munity of the United States of 50 or more ‘white persons, and to 152 na- tions, colonfes and mandatories; to cvery country, in fact, which has a postal system. Some of bur members have to be reached by reindeer sleds, mule-back and camel caravens, in coolies’ packets and by queer waters craft.” In recounting Natfonal Geographie § the findings of the ciety's expedi- “In selecting subjects for explora- tion we endeavor to find flelds that will appeal to the interest of the average Amertan. It js he who pro- vides the funds for our work, and we, as his trustees, insist that the proj- ect we invest his money fn should hold and encourake his geographic inter- est.” Patrons Reach Milllons. “The Natlonal Geographic Society,” Mr. Grosvenor said, “is a university of geography in a large sense. It 1s conducting an elective course—a great class in geography. &Its course is patronized by millions of puplls of all ages. “We have just seen those generous men, Eastman and Duke, toward the end of successful lives, having the great but brief joy of endowing uni- versities with their wealth. ographic trustees, or sta ing busi btltpsbom ELFVENTH ST. tions during 1924, Dr, Grosvenor sald:{ C.. TUESDAY, with ability in teaching and re-] search, are enjoying the unique ‘ex- periences of creating as well as en- dowing a new type of university.” Evidences of temple bullding in America when ‘Dayid was erecting his famous house of worehip, in 1,000 B.C.. and a story of housing troubles among apartment house dwellers in New Mexico in the days of Julius Caesar were laid befora members of the association by N. H. Darton and Nell M. Judd. Mr. Darton has been assisting Dr, Byron Cummings, lead- er. of an_expedition sent by the Nu- tional Geographic Boclety to the ruins of Culcuileo, Mexico, and Mr. Judd has been leader of a series of expeditions of the society that have been engaged in uncovering old com- munal dwellings of Pueblo Bonito, in the Chaco Cariyon of New Mexico, Demcribes Temple. In his address Mr. Darton described the temple at Cuiculleo, which is probably the oldest man-made struc- turo yet discovereg in North Amer- lca. It consists of a eircular mound of earth about 400 feet In diameter and nearly 100 feet high, thickly sheathed with blocks of stone. A feature (hat makes the structure unique among the very old ruins of tha world is that it is partly cov- ered by a flow of lava, beneath which have been sealed up for centurles the stone work as well as imple- ments and remains of man. The lava outflow, by damming several streams and forcing them to out new beds, furnished a method for measuring the time since the erup- tion. The time sequence of Cuicullc oconsists of several stages, Mr. Da m l|i| a pointed out. “In the first stag Largest Ladies’ Ex- cumve Apparel Shop in Was mgton. | of Courtesy DBCEMBER 30, 1924 sald, “the temple was constructed and probably used for a considerabls period. That it was then neglected for a very long time is evident from the talus slopes at fits base, the cumulation of which may have con- tinued through several centuries The third stage, very short in tir was introduced by a shower of vol- canio ash, closely followed by a tor- rent of molten lava from a nearby crater. The last chapter is a very long one, as during it a stream dammed by the sheet of lava has cut a new channel several miles long at a rate made very siow by the low vity and the small” volume of The geologic evidence and the evidence of the human remains indicates that the Temple - of Cui- cuilco is far more ancient than the Maya and Toltec cjvilizations.” Ancient Jewels Found. Mr. Judd told of the recovery at Pueblo Bonita during the present year of a turquoise necklace and four ear pendants of surpassing beauty—the first complete® necklace, it is belleved, ever to have been found in a Pueblo ruin. He described the Pueblo as a single colossal dwelling house composed of ap- proximately 800 rooms surrounding two great courts or plazas. In its heyday the Pueblo sheltered no less than 1,200 Individuals. They were farmers, but supplemented their diet with game. These early sons of Amerfca seem to have adepted the eagle for a symbol and kept the great birds captive in the Puebio. Praising the work which the old Bonitians left behind, Mr. Judd sald “In architectural rkiil and in the man- ufacture of ecarthenware Vessels the ancient Bonitlans surpassed all other pre-Columbian peoples of the South- west. Uting sandstone from the in- closing cliffs of the canyon and adobe mud from its broad, level floor, these primitive masons erected lofty walls of such surpassing excellence as to arouse the admiration of archeolo- gists generally. Portions of fourth- story walls &tlll stand af Pueblo Bonito after the lapse of 1,000 years. “In their pottery, a fuir gauge of cultural achievement, the Bonitlans reached the very apex of the ceramic art as practiced by pre-historic sed- entary peoples of the Southwestern United States.” The Bonitians were wealthy and seem to have attracted to their valley itinerant merchants from as far away as the Pacific Coast and central Mex- ico. The peddlers from the tropics sold parrots and macaws as pets to the apartment dwellers, while those from the West brought bundles of abalone and other bright-colored shells. After resisting the attacks of no- madic warriors for a long time, the Pueblo seems finally to have fallen to them. Store Near Your Home HAVE YOU TRIED U. S. VESSEL STRANDED. Shipping Board Craft Held in Gulf of Saloniki. LONDON, December 30.—Ldoydk” dispatch from Saloniki, dated yester- day, says the United States Shipping Board stewmship Sinsinawa, bound from Alexandria for New® York with grain, flour and a general cargo, wasi stranded outside Cape Kara, in the Gulf of Saloniki. The salvage steam er Hermes was standing by. VACANT—FOR COLORED! - 1938 3rd Street N.W. 8 rooms, bath, furnace beat, celiar; 13 good condition. L. M. KING 318 John Marshall PI, N.W. Phons ¥. 970. 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