Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1925, Page 17

FIRST WOMAN GOVERNOR SIGNS OFFICIAL PAPER! Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross was sworn in as Governor of Wyoming. San Antonio, Tex-, her brother; George, her son; Gov. Ross, Mrs. inlaw; William, her sonm, and Justice Charles N. Potter, .” This photograph was taken immediately after Left to right: Judge Samuel G. Tayloe of George Tayloe of Memphis, Tenn., a sister- who administered the oath of office. THE EVENING By United News Pictures. LADDIE BOY STATUE FOR SMITHSONIAN. This statme of Laddie Boy, the White House pet of the late President and Mrs. Harding, has been completed by Bashka Paeff of Boston, pennies contributed by news- boys paying for the work. The statue will be placed in the Smithsonian, according 1o pr nt pla Copyright by Kadel & Herber HOOSIER AUTHOR SAILS FOR S hard work,” says Booth Tarkington. work. T am going to lay off for a year.” Tarkington and his wife s Paavo Nurmi, Finn runner, who broke two world records at Madison Square Garden Tuesday night. The photograph shows the finish of the 5.000-meter race, when Nurmi’s chief opponent was Willie Ritola, another Finn. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. D. the sun January 24. TRIED OUT OBSERVATION INSTRUMENTS. Capt. William O. But- ler, pilot of the blimp TC4, and Prof. David P. Todd, who flew from Bolling Field to Langley Field yesterday in order to test instruments which will be used in observing and photographing the total eclipse of W shington Star P PREDICTS ICELE vania ayenue statement that highways and b, by July 1. ncle Ben,” the Pennsyl- treet cleaning force, when interviewed yesterday, made a his health remained good and the District’s street clean- ing appropriation held out, he would have all the ice off the Capitals Washington Star Photo. INNY NAPLES. “Writing novels is “In fact, any sort of work is hard ed yesterday for Italy, where they expect to remain for the next year. Copyright by & A. Photo Giovanni Martinelli, Metropolitan Opera star, who took up the roles of the late Enrico Caruso, now serious- ly ill with typhoid fever in New York. He was stricken while sing- ing the last role sung by Caruso, La Juive, in “Eleazar.” Tight by Underwood & Underwood BEACH PAJAMAS ARE LATEST FAD ON SANDS OF MIAML Southern beaches this Winter shall be quite modest. Fashion decrees that the attire of the The beautiful new colored silks and satins in the hands of the fashion makers, have been designed into becoming beach costumes. ovyright by P. & A. Ph URGES ACTION SOON ON INSURANCE GODE Blanton Points Out Neces- sity for Law’s Passage at Present Session. Representative Blanton of Texas, during the session of the House Dis- trict committee yesterday, p ed out the necessity of favorable action at the present session on the insurance code for the District of Columblia. Up to the present time Mr. Blanton d consideration of this bill objections have mnow 1ly eliminated and the Representative from Texas urged prompt consideration by the District of Columbia committee Culimination of 20 Years’ Work. The insurance code is the culimina-~ tlon of 20 years’ labor and is a com- pllation by experts in the various branches, supervised for the protec- tion of the people's interests by for- mer Insurance Commissioners Hotch- kiss of New York, Donaldson of Penn- sylvania, Hobbs of Massachusetts and Dr. S S. Huebner of the University of Pennsylvania, the last named ha ing ed the marine law enacted by the last Congress The passage of this legislation, it is decl will glve to the District of Columbia the most up-to-date law in the United States, and is standard legislation, avoiding the mistakes mad other States. It will have the effect of increasing the District revenues by reaching premiums that now escape taxation, it is declared, and will prevent the organization and entrance of wildcat comy tizens from es and prevent c being preved upon. It will tend to stop the dishonest and incompetent rom wrongly advising and tizens here and will permit mpanies to expand and do other States which they ndicapped in doing by the ness of present laws. Li- ents will be protected of their profession, ving their business pi- nsed local a the p; instead of rated by outside interests not licensed and who pay no taxes, and will give the superintendent of insurance of the District power to regulate the practice of the business so as to pro tect those who insure, instead of be- ing without proper authority, as he is at the present time. FORMAL OPENINGVHELD. English-Speaking Union Has Re- ceptien in New Quarters. The Washington branch of the Eng- Ush-Speaking Union formally opened jts rooms at 1107 Sixteenth street yesterday afternoon with a tea and reception for members and their friends. The guests of honor were: J. A. M. Elder, Australian commissioner to the United States; C. Grant Robertson, C. V. 0. of the University of Birming- ham, England, and Henry G. Chilton, representing Sir Esme Howard, Eng- lish Ambassador. The hostesses were members of the common interests lcommittee, of which Mrs., James Car. roll Frazer is chairman. Miss Sarah {ce and Miss Lydia Biddle poutady CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The Stearns Mible class will meet tomorrow, 1 p.m., in Mount Vernon M. E. Church, Dr. K. B. Moomaw in charge. The Woman’s Interdenominational Missionary Federation of the District and vicinity will meet for interces- sory prayer service tomorrow, 2 p.m., at Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South. Reports will be received from petitions urging the closing of thea- ters on the Christian Sabbath, now in circulation in over 100 churches in Washington and vicinity. Brookland Citizens’ Association will meet tomorrow, 8 p.m., in Brook- land School. Members of the Jewish Community Center will hold annual meeting and election Sunday, 8 p.m., at the Eighth Street Temple. Rabbi Lazaron of Baltimore, speaker. No funds solic- ited. American Assoction of versity Women will meet tomorrow, § p.m., at its clubhouse, 1634 I street. The University Club will give a dinner_dance January 13 Dinner, 8 pm. Dancing, 9:30. Petworth Players will present three short plays for benefit of the Wo- man’s Auxiliary of Rock Creek par- ish January 13, 8 p.m. A public meeting of the Boys’ Anti- Cigarette League will be held Sunday, $ pm, in the Capitol Memorial Church, Prof. Charles S. Longacre will report on the International Anti- Tobacco Congress, recently held in Austria, which he attended as the representative of America. Election of league officers. Music. The Business Women’s Council will meet tomorrow evening at the Church of the Covenant. Motion pictures fol- lowing Bible class. Dr. Ward teacher. The Washington Council of Social Agencies will meet Monday, 4 p.m., at Raleigh Hotel. Toplic: “Solicitations on the Streets by Charitable Organi- zations,” with special reference to a situation that developed during the Christmas holidays when certain or- tions were refused permits to The Writers’ League will meet to- morrow, 8 p.m., at Thomson School. Election of officers. Colambia W. C. T. U., will meet to- morrow, 2 p.m., with Mrs. Henry C. Cook, 1925 Calvert street. Mrs. Albert Hitcheoek will speak of the national jubllee convention in Chicago; Mrs. Tracy will talk on “Birds"; Miss Pol- lock will sing, and Mrs. Odenheimer, president of the Political Study Club, will speak. The George Ball Baldwin Post of the Woman's American Legion, will give a party in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the unit at the clubhouse of the George Washington Post of the American Legion, 1829 I street, January 13 at 8 o'clock. Gen. Summerall and Dr. Penhallow, com- mandant at Mount Alto, will speak and the annual report of the unit will be submitted. tative Burton K. French, will address the League of Republi- can Women, Monday 4:30 pm. at headquarters, the Hotel Gordon. Sub- ject, “The Constitution of ‘the United States and Some Amendments. Lieutenants Transferred. First Lieut. Ward E. Begker, Ord- nance Department at the Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Md. and First Lieut. Harry G. Montgomery, Air Service, at Phillips Field, Md., have heen erdered-1o ihisclix £fox duln WELFARE BILL HIT AT JOINT HEARING Opposed by Chapin Brown and Former Judge—Upheld by Expert. Attacking the proposed public wel- fare bill on the ground that the Na- tional Training School was not a District but a national institution and that it should not be included in the proposed consolidation, Chapin Brown, a member of the board of trustees of the institution, was the first witness to be heard by the joint District committee of the House and Senate, which began hearings on the bill today. Others who appeared as witnesses were: Willlam Hudson of the Russel Sage Foundation, William H. R. De Lacey, a former judge in the Juvenile Court of the District, and John Joy Edson, president of the Board of Charities. Mr. Brown, stating that he was speaking against the plan to consoli- date the board of the Girls’ Training School into the proposed welfare board, gave a complete history of the school from its inception on June 9, 1888, to the present time. He sald that the school was and is an inte- gral part of the Department of Justice, and that the President appointed the board on recommendation of the At- torney General. The original act, he pointed out, provides that the school should be under Federal and not Dis- trict supervision. Scores City Heads. The Commissioners of the District, Mr. Brown asserted, were always try- ing to reach ‘out and add to thelr power, and he said that the attempt to put this board under a proposed welfare board was an instance of this tendency. In 1904, he said, the mat- ter of control was agitated, and the Attorney General at that time de- cided that it should remain under Federal supervision, rebuking the Commissioner and asking that the school be not interfered with. Mr. Hudson contradicted Mr. Brown, ho had said that a large number of those in the institution had been sent from United States courts throughout the country. Mr. Hudson went into great detail of the work of the commission, which was appointed to investigate and draft the present welfare bill. He stated that public hearings were held to which 1,600 residents of Washing- ton were invited. The committee at its investigation of the situation in Washington found two things, he said; that the, National Training School for Girls was almost entirely local and local in its source of reve- nue, while the Training School for Boys was composed practically 50 per cent from outside of the District. “In all frankness, let me say, how- ever, that girls can best be sent to the training school from other parts of the country, but that it has not.been the practice to utilize the school in this way. If I am correctly informed there is now only one girl there from outside the District of Columbia,” said Mr. Hudson. Says Congress Differentiated. Mr. Hudson pointed out that the boys’ school was not included in the proposed consolidation of welfare boards for the reason that Congress appropriated directly for that school and hat It Wes ReEATACH AR-&-Dan-for - & Paid Doard of $wo memberke TIME LIMIT FOR DISMANTLING CHRISTMAS TREES IS ADVOCATED Movement Under Way to Fix Date for Removal of Decaying Vegetation From Homes Following the Annual Holiday Period. A new movement, born of dire necessity, is beginning to take form Washington citizens. Its ob- among jec Is a time limit for the dis- mantling of Christmas trees. It is realized that unless something of an official nature is done to com- pel the removal of the languishing trees from Washington homes, house- hold efficiency and peacefulness will be shaken to a point of grave danger for family life. Opinions of different persons are so varying as to what is the proper length of time a Christmas tree should be allowed to sprinkle the par- lor carpet with its needles. that homes are being threatened with all sorts of disturbing disputes. Unfortunately, the problem is one that hits directly at the family circle, for no two parents have been known to agree on this question either with each other or with their children. There are those who claim that a Christmas tree loses its sentiment and becomes a plain pine, spruce or cedar with the advent of the New Year. It should be wrecked on or about January 2, they say. Some even advocate de- an earlier ban, signed to clear the llving room of obstructions in time for the New Year day “at home. Other grown-ups are for procrastinat- ing several days or a week or two after New Year day. or until, in fact, the tree becomes but a miserable shadow of its former self, shorn of much of its tinsel by youthful tinsel collectors, robbed of most of ite bright ornaments by the un- erring aim of an air-rifle expert and de- nuded of its shriveled foliage by arti- ficial heat and numerous toy automobile collisions. When it has reached that stage, these persons belleve, a Christmas tree un- doubtedly is fast approaching the point where sentimentality must give way to common sense and the vacuum sweeper. There is, however, a great aggre- gation of young pupils who reluc- tantly watch the Yuletide season slip away into the dim past of happy memories. The tree to them is some- thing supernatural, placed there in a mysterious way by an ephemeral per- sonage, known as Santa Claus. When that personage wishes it removed, he will remove it, they argue. Whether or not the latter view has a sound basis has never been deter- mined, because of the cold, mundane attitude of unsympathetic parents. There 1s no record of any Christmas tree ever having been let stand long enough to test the theory. At any rate, the whole problem Is admittedly one of serious character for large minds to work out. Were there & law fixing a definite date on which the last of Christmas trees must be removed, to say nothing of the holly and mistletoe, the unrest now so apparent undoubtedly would disappear. Hence, the “Down With Aged Christmas Trees!” movement. tional institution, while the girls' school by practice and appropriation had been regarded as a local insti- tution. “Congress has always dealt with these two institutions on a different basis,” he said. “A sharp distinction has always been observed. “I wish to say to Mr. Brown that the Welfare Board bill is not an attempt of the Commissioners of the District to gain additional power. It is absurd to think that the Com- missioners are sitting ready to grab everything in sight. The bill is not the Pesult of the Commissioners’ pro- posal, but a result of more than a year's intensive investigation on the part of a 17-member commission. Mr. De Lacey said that a welfare bill for the District should be enacted, but not this one. He asserted that he was in favor of the creation of a board consisting of two pald super- intendents, only one for the charity work and the other for criminal work. In the course of his remarks he said that he believed that the District should have national representation, bnt not statehood. Mr. Hydson took issue with Mr. Brown ol the status of the school, pointing out that support for the in- stitution was appropriated for in the District budget, which put it even now under the control of the Com- missioners. He sald that the school was composed almost entirely of in- mates sent there from the District. Stating that the bill in his opinion was 90 per cent perfect, Mr. Edson urged that Congress enact it. He sald as far as possible Congress should let the District handle its own affairs and that a welfare board would accomplish more and be a benefit to the community. He op- posed the suggestion of Mr. De Lacey SCIENTIST FROM NORWAY LECTURES HERE TONIGHT Dr. V. Bjerknes Will Speak on Dynamics of Meteorology. Public Is Invited. Dr. V. Bierknes, one of the world's best known students of meteorology and professor of hydrodynamics at the Geophysical Institute of Bergen, Norway, will deliver an address at 8:30 o'clock this evening in the ad- ministration building of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Sixteenth and P streets, on “The Dynamics of Meteorology- Dr. Bjerknes, who is also research associate in physics of the Carnegie Institution, assisted his father many years before the modern airplane was developed in conducting a number of important experiments that are now applicable to the forces that maké an airplane raise itself from the ground. On Tuesday evening he delivered a lecture in which he demonstrated a number of these experiments, and his lecture this evening will be an ex- planation of some of the things he showed his audience on that occasion. The lecture will be free to the public. stating that he thought a voluntary board composed of public-spirited citizens would do far more conscientious work. “The commission appointed to draft this bill,” said, Mr. Edson, “made a very careful Investigation of the local situation, and while this bill may not be perfect in every respect HOLDS REGULATORY LAWS EXCESSIVE Merle Thorpe Tells Lions Business Is Fettered by Legislation. “Too much legislation to business is adopted without a thor- ough understanding by the legisla- tors,” Merle Thorpe, editor of The Nation's Business, declared in an ad- dress before the Lions Club at & luncheon in the Willard Hotel yes- terday. Referring “to the TFederal Trade Commission as “a body Wwith great opportunities to so chart the busi- ness seas as to be a helpful guide for business men,” Mr. Thorpe said, “that body has not been the guide that we had hoped it would be, but rather a persecutor.” This has been the case, he indicated, because of a misunderstanding of conditions. “In the complexities of business that no one can understand, legislators have done much harm where they meant to do good,” he said. regulate Sees Reserve Breskdown. Mr. Thorpe declared that the Fed- eral Reserve system is breaking down. “National banks are leaving it he said, “because of legislation which makes them unable to com- Dete with State banks.” Mr. Thorpe declared that there are now 40 Government' agencies which help to regulate railroads. A rail- road official, he said, had told him that he had to do with only 7 per cent of the direction of the railroad of which he was president, while the government did the other $3 per cent. The speaker emphasized the impor- tance of confidence and honesty in business as exhibited in the United States, where, he said, 90 per cent of business is done on a credit basis. He flayed the usage of the term “business is business,” saying that when used in that manner it often means the using of unscrupulous methods. “The term was first used by Shylock, I believe,” sald Mr. Thorpe. He declared that a lack of confidence in business is the main trouble with Russia today. Several vocal solos were sung by Richard Bold of George White's “Scandals.” Jim Schick was award- ed the booster gift for the week. Roger J. Whiteford, president of the club, presided. ARMY POSITIONS OPEN. Examinations for 2d Lieutenants’ Commissions Announced. A final examination of applicants for appointment as second lieutenants in the Regular Army will be held in the United States, in the Philippines, Hawail, Panama and China, from June 15 to 20. The examination will Dbe open to all classes of eligibles to vacancies accruing to June 30 as shall rémain in the combatant branch- es (Infantry, Cavalry, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, Air Service, Corps of Engineers and Signal Corps), after the appointment of the next gradu- ating class of the United States Mili- tary Academy, but will not include candidates from Philippine Scouts. I urge that you take favorable action | It is estimated that there will be ap- proximataly onit” e -4& yaoancies to be flled, fo5cign MPLOr caps, ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TODAY. ator Roval Copeland will talk to the business women of Washington, 5 o'clock, at the Epiphany parish house gym. Subject, “Guard Your Health.” TONIGHT. Reserve Officers’ Association will meet, 8:15 o'clock, in auditorium of new Interfor Department. Maj. Gen. Malin Craig, chief of Cavalry, will in- troduce Col. Robert McC. Beck, who will speak of “Cavalry in Its Rela- tion to Other Arm: All officers U. S. A. invited. Women's City Club: A comedy, “The Hiring Line,” will be presented by the Dramatic section. Miss Kath- arine Brooks will sing and M dred Kolb Schulze will give piano se- lections Sergeant Jasper Post, No. 13, Amer- fcan Legion, will meet, 8:15 o'cloc at City Club, Installation of officers. Memorial services for Col. Charles Denton Young, U. S. A., will be held in Dunbar High School, 8:30 o'clock, under auspices of James Reese Eu- rope Post, American Legion. Bishop M. W. Clair, M. E. Church, and Chap- lain O. J. W. Scott, U. S. A., principal speakers. Patriotic and fraternal or- ganizations and soldiers and sailors invited. James E. Walker Post, No. 46, American Legion, will hold a re- union and smoker in connection with annual installation of officers, 8:30 o'clock, at Mu-So-Lit Club, 1327 R street. Cathedral Heights Citizens' Asso- ciation will meet, § o'clock, in St. Al- ban’s Guild Hall Thes National Fellowship Club will give a get-acquainted dance in private ballroom of Arcade. Strangers in the city invited. Dr. Jane B. Coates will lecture on “Human Auras and Thought Forms,” 8 o'clock, at the Playhouse, 1814 N street. Stereopticon views of thought forms and various psychic organs of the body will be shown. Additional speakers. . A joint meeting of the Mott Public School Teachers' Association and the Howard Park Citizens' Association will be held at 8 o'clock in Mott School. The Holy Trinity Church branch of the Holy Name Society will meet, 8:15 o'clock, in the parish hall. Following business the Stellar Dramatic Society will entertain with two playlets, “Who Is the Boss?” and “The Littlest Girl.” All members of the parish in- vited. The Chemical Society will meet, 8:15 o'clock, at Cosmos Club. The retiring president, R. S. McBride, will give address: “The Chemical Sub- stance Called ‘Coal’.” “Reincarnation” is the subject of a special lecture, 8:30 o'clock, at United Lodge of Thesophists, 1731 K street. All welcome. A lecture, by Richard Long, on “The Agriculture and Commerce of Bra- 2il,” will be given at the American Assoclation of University Women, 1634 I street, at 8 o'clock, Dr. V. Bjerknes, internationally fa- mous sclentist, will deliver a lecture 8:20 o'clock, at the Carnegie Institu- tion, Sixteenth and P streets, which is free to the public. May Lift Auto Embargo. LISBON, January S$.—The finance minister has promised to consider the question of modifying the decree for- bidding the entry into Portugal of §123,000,000 BONDS FLOATEDBYAT.&T. Additions and Betterments Planned as Demand for Phone Service Grows. Associated Press NEW YORK. January 8.—The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. announced last night that it had sold to a banking group headed by J. P. Morgan & Co. & $125,000,000 issue of 35-year b per cent gold debenture bonds. Proceeds from the sale will be used by the company to make loans to its as- sociated companies or to acquire their securities, thus making funds available to the Bell Telephone System for additions and better- ments. Public offering of the bonds was arranged to start today at a price of 95 and Interest to yield slightly more than 5.30 per cent. Associated with Morgan & Co. in the offering will be Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Kidder, Peabody & Co., the First National Bank of New York, the National City Co., the Guaranty Co., the Bankers' Trust Co., Harris Forbes & Co. and Lee Higgin- son & Co., comprising the banking group which has handled American Telephone financing in the past. Sale of the debentures will swell the funded debts of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. to slightly less than $400,000,000. While the company entered the class of billion dollar corporations several years ago, the new financing will in- crease its combined stock and bond issues to $1,300,000,000, one of the largest totals on record and almost as great as that of the United States Steel Corporation. The increased demand for tele- phone service prompted the company to do new financing at this time, officials said. Indications are that the growth of the telephona business in 1925, for which these funds will make provision, they added, will be as large if not larger than any pre- vious year in the history of the system. S PLAN FOR THRIFT WEEK. “Make-a-Will” Committee Outlines Program. Wills and the making of safe in- vestments will be two subjects stress- ed during Thrift week, it was an- nounced today, after a meeting of the make-a-will committee held in the City Club under, the direction of Chairman George C. Shinn and How- ard Cool of the Better Business Bu- reau. Chairman Shinn reported that the following had consented to act on the committee: Fred D. Faust, Joseph A. Burkhart, Norman Fischer, Paul Cromlin, B. L. Colton, Paul B. Rogers, Lawrence Koenigsberger, George W. Oftutt and Clark Taylor. Those who will speak for the committee at thrifi meetings will include Leon Pretzfeld- er, A. L. Barker and William A. Coombs. Those present at the meet- ing included George C. Shinn, W. C. Hanson, H. A. L. Barker, William A. Coombs, Leon Pretzfelder, T. Stanley Howland, Maurice Otterbach, D, Rad= olft and C, XK. Wleming,