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This column is conducted by the |necessary officers. istrict of Columbia Congress of Par- $he National Congress of Parents and | Willlam Gill Teachers. ©n the Wednesday preceding the Sun- day on which publication is desired. Address Mrs. J. N. Saunders, 3618 |0f the supreme court, Porter street northwe The executive hoard of the District | Pledged themselves to allegiance of Columbia Congress will meet the Constitution of the day at 2 p.m tion room special ¢ vear t the org has 1 and s day the nation “Our Nat writte h gin and Congr ley wor consin ave wrote of Bur — school, Miss Pull. ATl notices for this column must be | Were: President, Clara Richards; vice the hands of the chairman by noon | president, J. T. Burr; chief justice of the supreme court, William Pjlerson; secretary of state, Helen Meigs so; All the in the clothes conserva- | 85 American Columbia road. There |rade elected as mayor of imp e fo the chil- | enzia. The other schoo! Washington | this grade were ussed mar Collier, Clark Keeler, Valenzia and Elizabeth Churchill day, or Child Welfare | seventh grade elected 18y OF Lo A or and the other officers are Florence Rile: is celeb i every the country. Every nal Congress rs holds some on on this date every liam Volkman, national office | Dean Scantlin be obtained at *arents and Teachers, Harkness, Bill Paxton Rowe, The teachers and pupils of the Ten- | Eiker, Philip 1 1 safty first” [ Henry Zachman, Lewls Mecher, assume the | Scherer and Francis Burrows. & the small | fifth grade Warren along W | elected mayor and the other officers Dr. Ballou |are Nellie Lucas, ding the work |Inez Caukin, nile Protec Association | were elected. he Constitution of the United States is to be the only t-Teacher Associations, branch of [law governing these “little republic: the Tenley School assisted by the principal of the The officers elected Margaret Reed, and clerk of congress, Frances Wil- United States Thomas Val- officers elected by | Helen Edwards, utts, Aaron and Tlene the founding of |and 5B grade elected for mayor Meta The other officers in wing the history | this room are Elizabeth Brooke, Wil- of Child Welfare |lle Burroughs, Lee Atkyns, Julla Kley, Eleanor Brooke, Irvin pageant called | Pyles, Winifred Kohler, Marion Mark- : h." which was |ham and Victor De Mott. M . ¢ Oldham of |of the sixth grade is Edwin and pr he ori- |and the other officers in that room are ents of t ational | Richard Fletcher, The mayor 1lon Siemon, Ellen Mary Dugan, Jack Budd, Mary Ada Dwyer dith Mason, THE StTNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., JAN president, Mrs. Painat, of which the Girl Scouts were hostesses. Mrs Giles Scott Rafter was the speaker. The Peabody n Parent-Teacher Association will meet Tuesday eve- ning. There will be a musical pro- gram by the pupils and outside talent as well, also a good speaker. Mrs. Lady will preside. The Johngon-Powell-Bancroft Par- ent-Teacher Association will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with Mrs. Joseph Sanders presiding. The speaker will be Miss Katherine Lenroot, assistant to the chlef of the Children’s Bureau, who will talk on the work of that bureau. The Carberry Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation will meet on Friday night, with Mrs. Walter Hagen presiding. The speakers will be Miss Adelaide Davis, supervising :principal of the sixth division, and Stephen Kramer, assistant superintendent of schools. The Blair-Hayes Parent-Teacher Assoclation meeting has been post- poned until January 15. The speaker will be Miss Adelald Davis. The Langdon Parent-Teacher Asso- clation met January 9. The speclal subject was “Visual Edueation.” and the speakers were Miss Dyer and Miss Peebles, head of the nature study de- partment in the schools. The asso- clation will purchase a machine for storeopticon slides. Mrs. Lerch is the chairman of the clothes committee. The association voted to send $25 to the shoe and rubber fund of the Dis- trict of Columbia Congress. The January meeting of the Colum- bia Junior High School Parent- Teacher Association will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. instead of the usual second Thursday. The program will include an address by Miss Ethel M. Smith, legislative secretary of the National Women's Trade Union recruiting committee of the depart- ment of the District of Columblia, has been conducting an Intensive cam- Palgn to muster into the organization all eligible Spanish War veterans in the District of Columbia. tons In a recent call on the recruiting committees of the various camps to put forth energetic action in this di- conetitution of the order for the in- formation of eligibles: Spanish War Veterans Chauncey W. Herrick, commander- in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans, has called a meeting of the national legislative committee for to- morrow morning in the Woodward |dependent relative: Bullding, to discuss legislative plans | memories of the War with Spain and generally, and particularly as it con- | the campaigns in the Philippine Is- ‘o.;n‘,vdl abled veterans of the Span- s ar. honor the memory and preserve from neglect and oblivion the graves of the dead; to assist former comrades and shipmates, their widows, orphans or to perpetuate the lands and in China; to promote the best Interests of thoss who took part : in the War with Spain and the cam- Fohsihs paigns in the Philippine Islands and Guitagher, chtrman of the | FUELL 15 (ho service of the Untted States; to inculcate the principles of rights and justice to all mankind, of loyalty to our country, reverence for its institu- obedience to its laws and re- spect for its magistrates, and to Al countenance whatever tends to weak- en these sentiments among our peo- rection, he ci ple; to conserve national honor and oa%an extract trom the !l Uohn through unqualifed. aleaisnes to the Natlonal Government, and to “The objects o ion | Protect the constitutional rights and to “unite in_ pom oreantzation | f s of Amerioan cltizens.” through national, State or local or- ganizations, those men who served in the military or naval establishments of tho United States in the War with Spain and in the campaigns inciden- tal to and EBrowing out of that war; to | Foley, universal The following officers will be in- stalled at the meeting of Richard J. 2, to be held Thurs- day night in Pythian Temple: commander; Harden Camp, No. ARY 11, 1925—PART 3. ster, senfor vice commander; William E. O'Neil], junior vice commander; Harry J. Sherwood, officer of the da. C. J. Corwin, officer of the guard; Willlam E. Rink, retiring commander, trustee for three years. A¢ the meeting of Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp, No. 1, held Thursday night in Grand Army Hall, 1412 Pennsyl- vania avenue northwest, the follow- ing officers were installed for the or- ganization year: P. X. Shomette, commander; Frank W. Parrish, se- nlor vice commander; Fred W. Wil- son, junior vice commander; George McAlear, officer of the day; Robert E. Culin, officer of the guard; Arthur M. Berthiaume, trustee. The meetings of the camps and aux- illaries for the week are as follows: Richard J. Harden Camp, No. 2, Thurs- day night, Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth street northwest; Col. James S. Pet- tit Camp, No. 8, Thursday night, 921 Pennsylvania avenue southeast; Gen. Henry W. Lawton Camp, No. 4, Thurs- day night, 921 Pennsylvania avenue southeast; Col. John Jacob Astor Aux- iliary, No. 7, Wednesday night, 921 Pennsylvania avenue southeast. SIS el E e Wallace' Beery enjoyed his first shave in a year when he completed the portrayal of one of the prominent roles in “The Devil's Cargo.” Filmograms. Even an artificial rainstorm can give a company of movie players colds in the head. Anna Q. Nilsson, James Kirkwood and others making “The Top of the World” worked ten con- secutive nights for scenes with rain beating down upon them, and all wound up on the sick list. The filming of the David Belasco- Henry C. De Mille farc “Lord Chum- ley,” under the title Forty Winks,” marks the first of over twenty stage successes now to be released for the screen after having been tied up in the law courts for 12 years. By win- ning a case recently Cecil B. De Mille resumed title to the group of plays produced by his father, his brother, William, and himself in collaboration or in connection with David Belasco. Director Frank Tuttle has hit upon a new method of saving the members of his cast from boredom between scenes. He supplies cross-word puz- zles for all who want them. They all do. When two Russians who had been engaged specially to do the *“kozatzki,” a Russian fork dance, for “Salome of the Tenements,” confessed to Sidney Olcott that they knew nothing about that terpsichorean feat, the dimctor pressed into service his two assis ants, Carl Fleming and Fred Fleck They donned old clothes, make-up and the traditional oversize derbies, and performed the dance. Vera Reynolds claims to be one of the first screen actresses to play a gum-chewing stenographer role. Sha bas now progressed to a feature part n Cecll B. De Mille's “The Golden Bed Prop men at the Paramount Studia recently had to dig up several tur- key wishbones for rehearsals of a wishing stunt between Richard Dix and Edna Murphy in “A Man Must Live” It required a tour of New York restaurants to obtain them. The first great war picture, it Is claimed, was produced by E. H. Cal- vert, late captain in the United States Army, who appears in Pola Negri's latest picture “East of Suez.” was called “Crimson Wing” and was pro- duced in the summer of 1914, Pork and beans, boiled potatoes, prunes and black coffee with con densed milk formed the Christmas dinner of the Paramount “The Thun- dering Herd” company, on location in the high Sierras. The unit was too far from any community to secure hing els: The Hecht Co. will meet Wednesday at pm. in the eighth grade boys, John | Skinner and Leroy Weaver. League, who will discuss the child v ho saved two small chil- | significant of the spirit of the very | por amendment. dren from serious injury excellent corps of teachers e = = building that three highest| The Brightwood Park Parent- Y The Parent-Teacher representatives | grades a full list of traffic officers | Teacher Assoclation will meet to- to the Juve morrow in the school building. Go on Sale Monday at 9:15 ° iph >3 7 G street| The Ludlow Taylor Parent-Teacher = z northwest The cha 2 of the [ Association met Thursday afternoon. Zane Grey's he flTp;mder(nx comi g Jenja Zebley, is| The speaker was Mrs. Giles Scott|Herd” has gone into production as a very 2 y member | Rafter. Paramount picture at Calabasas, presen = Calif. a location personally selected v a 1t will be directed by There will be a card party for the | by the author. & the schools | penefit of the Carberry Parent- | William K. Howard. Its cast includes le republics” was | Teacher Assoclation Monday evening, | Jack Holt, Lols Wlilson, Noah Beery, Monday in the Tenley | January 19, in the Masonlc Temple at |'Raymond Hatton and Charles Ogle. idea is to organize each | gigi 3 The story is written around the mak- tire Usitenl|oue D endimiates smonthenst: ing of the West, and one of the big d other general| The Emery-Eckington Parent- |scenes will be the stampede of a herd n each room is acher Association held a reception 'of five thousand buffalo, which fur- with the iday afternoon in the home of the The Hecht Co. Bargain Annex High Shoes for Women Some 500 pairs. Calf or kid; black or brown. Every one with Goodyear welt soles and sensible military heels. Wouldn’t you have welcomed a pair this past week or so? Here’s your chance to pre- pare for the next emer- gency. Well built, good- looking shoes, at less than it costs to make them. Sizes 2} to 7. Widths AAA toD. 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