Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1925, Page 13

SOUTH S tue dSavannah Kiver bad overflowed FFERING FROM SERIOUS FLOOD: its banks at that point. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, A scene in the business section of Hamburg, S. C Nearly all of the streams of Georgia and South Carolina have been at flood stage for several weeks, and hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of dam- age has been done. COLD WEATHER HAS NO TERRORS. Mrs. Edward P. Clark of West Milan, N. H., and her 1l-month-old son, who traveled by dog sled from their home town to Newport, N. H., ing the trip the thermometer register GOOLIDGE'S SPEECH LAUDED IN HOUSE Stengle Says, However, Fig- ures on Salary Increases Here Are Misleading. Approval of President Coolidge’s de. termination to cut down the number of Federal employes, expressed in his apeech Monday night before the bu ness executives of the Government, recelved support in the House yester- day from Representative Blanton of Texas and Representative Stengle of New York Representative Stengle said: “I want to register my commendation and mest hearty approval of most of the mddress delivered by the President over the air last night. The economy features of that address were admi- rable. The deductions drawn by the President were in many respects vers accurate. but T must take some excep. tion to the law of averages In regard 10 the employment of the classified service In the various departments. “Those of you who heard that speech will recall that reference was made to what the average salary was 10 or| 12 vears ago, to wit: In the neighbor- | hood of $1.100, and that in 1924 th average had run up to between $1,700 | and $1,800. Then emphasis was laid | on the fact that there has becn an average increase throughout the serv- fce of $600 or thereabouts “To the unsuspecting and to those who have given the subject no par- ticular conslderation, it would appear that the average employe of the Gov- ernment had been admirably cared for financially, and that he has no right to expect any better treatment. However, the average of $600 referred to by the President is likened to the Wisconsin sausage rabbit I heard mbout years ago, which was composed of a little bit of rabbit and a whole | 1ot of horse. Now the averages re-| ferred to are arrived at by adding #hose recelving an increase of $2,000 | or $3,000 to those who were given an fncrease of $20 to $60. In striking the average, it would appear that the in- crease has been $600 or thereabouts, but upon investigation, you will find that those in the low end of that average are in a bad position when the President’s address is broadcast over the country, and I am sure when the attention of the President -is| brought to this matter he will be fair enough to let the country know that while there may have been a general average of $600 throughout the Serv- foe, that the major portion of the funds related to that average has gone to the higher ups, and the lower downs have been and are today suf- fering very much.” Representative wigorous appaluse. Representative Blanton, in support- ing the policy of the President, sald: | “Concerning salaries in the District of Columbia the most refreshing thing I have heard since I have been here Is the declaration in the papers this morning from the President of the United States, who says that the surplus employes must leave here and g0 home. 1 hope that it is not idle talk and I hope that he means busi- ness. “Comeerning that, and his informa- $iop—T hope it will reach him; I hope Stengle received 4 | meeting | the " club, | Harrls, ltor Women's Bureau, | building fund to attend the Winter carnival. Dur- ed 20 below zero. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The meeting of the Biological Society scheduled for January 31 is , due to conflict with annual of the Audubon Society, to be held at 8 p.m., January 31, at New National Museum. This meeting Is open to members of the Biological Soclety, and there will be an interest- ing program. The first meeting of the Men's Club of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church will be held in the parish house, Con- necticut avenue and Bancroft pla tomorrow at 8:15 pm. Clifford K Berryman. the cartoonist of The Evening Star, will give a ‘chalk- talk.” There will also be a general discussion concerning the future of Association will meet tomorrow, 8 p.m. at St David's Parish Hall, Conduit road. Tennis Club dance Saturday eve- ning, at Recreation mall, Government Hytels, Paychologists of Washington will give a Midwinter banquet Saturday, 7 p.m., at Health Studlo, 1628 K street. Dr. Howard Temple will be principal speaker. The tenth amniversary of Epsilon Chapter, National Fraternity of the Delta Sigma Phi, will be celebrated tomorrow evening at the Connecticut Avenue Studio. Five of the six char- ter members will be guests of honor. Speakers: Norma E. Duehring, first president of the chapter, and Philip A. Jenkins, present president Annual meeting of the Social Hy- glene Soclety will be held tomorrow, 8:15 p.m., In boardroom of District Bullding. Speakers: Dr. Mary B eld executlve secretary, In- ternational Association of Policewom- en: Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle, direc- Police Depart- ment, and Dr. William F. Snow, gen- eral director, American ocial Hy- giene Association. Mrs. David H. Kincheloe, assixted by little Gene Kincheloe and by Mrs. Duft G. Lewis, violinist, will glve an entertainment at Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church, Friday, 8 p.m. Tt will be under the auspices of the Mizpah Circle of the Sunday school, and proceeds will be applied .to the it will get by his private secretar and into sanctum sanctorum and a tually reach his own ears—I want to | read to him from the House floor what the chairman of the committee on appropriations (Mr. Madden), said about those employves on April 28, 1924, as follo “'I think there are 30,000 people here on the Government pay rool who ought not to be here’ (Applause). “That showed that the House agrees with him because it applauded him. Continuing, Mr. Madden said: “‘We have been trying to get them off, but have not been able to get them off, we have passed appropria- tion bills to pay their way home, but they will not even go home when you offer to pay their way, they want to stay on the Government pay rool. Now 1 hope that the President when he is deciding on wheih cases shall go and ‘which shall stay will send for the chairman of the com- mittee on appropriations, (Mr. Mad- den) and let him point out to the President every one of these 30,000 surplus employes and take steps to send them home. If he does that, there will not be so much congestion in Washington and ther will not be the necessity of a bolshevic rent bill being passed.” a Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. D. Glenn Young. prohibition en- forcement officer, who was one_of the three men killed in Herrin, IIL, January 24. Young was shot by Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas, the Jatter also being killed by a bullet from Young's automatic pistol. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. BOSTON SYMPHONY PLEASES AUDIENCE New Russian Conductor Wins High Tribute for Mas- terful Work. Koussevitsky, the Russian conductor who won high praise for his work at Parisian concerts last Summer and who is now director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the oldest organization of its kind in the United States, won hearty approval of a capacity audience at Poll's Thea- ter yesterday afternoon, when he conducted one of the finest programs heard here this season. It is prob- able that Mr. Koussevitsky did not realize the compliment pald him when the entire audience remained in Its seats until the close of the concert, something not customary in Washington Maximillian Serge Steinberg's arrange- ment of “Concert) for Orchestra in D Major,” by C. P. Emanuel Bach, son of the great Sebastian Bach, was the opening number. This work is filled with delicate melodies skillfully interwoven in musiclanly style. It was given fine shadings of tone un- der Mr. Koussevitsky's direction. “The Roman Carnival” by Berlioz, which followed, shows the ability of the composer to make something beautiful from comparatively uninter- esting material. It was given marked contrast by the two exquisite noc- turnes of Debussy, “Clouds” and “Festivals,” which closed the first half of the program with marvelous beauty in their exceptional interpre- tation. Beethoven's “Symphony in A Major, No. 7, was the feature. Each phrase was given careful, colorful reading and the blending of all the instru- ments was remarkably fine in the symphony. Harticularly intriguing were the themes and interpretations of the allegretto and scherzo move- ments, 2o different in mood yet equal- ly beautiful as interpreted. The finale held the audience almost spell- bound until the last note. Mr. Koussevitsky's debut perform- ance for the Capital was highly sue- cessful, and many expressed the hope that he will return with his reani- | mated orchestra soon again. HONOR BURNS’ MEMORY. Scotland’s and Daughters Commemorate Poet's Death. More than 100 sons and daughters of Scotland gathered at the Franklin Square Hotel Monday night at a dinner commemorating the 166th an- niversary of the death of Robert Burns, famous Scottish poet. The af- fair was the fifty-fourth annual din- ner of the Caledonian Club of Wash. ington. Addresses were made by Willlam Jardine,” past chief of the club, and by Comdr. Reimer of Stuart Wal- cott Post, American Legion. Alex- ander Douglas acted as toastmaster. The entire assemblage sang songs of Scotland and heard references to Burns’ poetical- works. Sons Ty Cobb, manager of the Detroit Tygers, may become a_champion horseshoe pitcher, according to his present form. Photograph snapped in Augusta, Ga, Ty's home, a few days ago. CopyHght by Underwood & Underwood Mayor C. E. Anderton of “Bloody Herrin.” The Illinois town has been in the limelight again through the killing of three men on the night of January 24. State militia mow guard the inhabitants. Copyright by P. & A. Photos D. C, BABY BORN WHEN ECLIPSE WAS TOTAL. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1925. This youngster has been named Eclipse Block, for he was born at 11 minutes after 9, at the Jewish Maternity Hospital, New York ( were entirely cut off by the moon. WHILE WASHINGTONIA Casino pool Miss Olive Filer, swimming champion, EDICT ROBS VETERANS’ BUREAU OF MOST POPULAR “DIVERSION~” Closing Hour Elevator Scramble Succumbs to Dis- ciplinary Methods Enforced by Chiefs—Exciting Jams in Corridor Now “Back Number.” Governmental discipline has robbed the Veterans' of what was once its most exciting diversion—the closing hour elevator scramble. The glamour of the race, rivalry between division sprinters, of inferoffice contests to see which could lower the street-reaching mark set the day before by favorite en- tries, of good-natured pulling and hauling by all concerned, has gone glimmering. Behind this fact lies a story. Government employes, like other employes the world over, are ready to quit work when the whistle blows" at 4:30 p.m. Uncle Sam is perfectly willing that the workers In his departments here in Washington should lose no time in getting to their respective domiciles, providing they don’t turn their clos- ing time exodus into a young stam- pede. Some of Uncle Sam's most efficient employes, it has been sald, are at the Veterans' Bureau. They get to work on time, get down to their tasks without unnecessary delay, accom- plish a right goodly amount of typ- Ing, stenoging and filing In the spe- cified hours, and, of course, as truly efficient persons will, drop everything when their weather eye tells them the minute hand is about to click into the 4:30 mark. Race for the Elevator Begina. Then, donning hastily their bon- nets and fur coats, each and every individual heads steadily and de- terminedly to the nearest elevator— with visions of supper, the movies, the big sale downtown or similar at- tractions beckoning them on. All of which is good and proper, Uncle Sam agrees. However, and albeit, it seems, these visions recently had grown to be so inviting and magnetic and the beck- oning so insistent and furious that many of the employes could not re- frain from quickening their exit into more or less of a run. Elevators will ROAD DISPLAYS MINERALS. Southern Railway Installs Per- manent Exhibit at Ticket Office. Southern Railway Company has put on exhibition in its city ticket office at 1510 H street northwest, an attrac- tive display of minerals from the territory served by the lines of that railway. This exhibit, containing sev- eral hundred specimens, is an index to the mineral resources of the terri- tory south of the Ohlo and Potomac Rivers and east of the Mississippi. Care has been taken to restrict the exhibit to samples of minerals that occur in commercial quantities, rep- resenting an opportunity for indus- trial development. This is to be a permanent exhibit and, while it is of special interest to the chemist and metallurgist, It 1s open to the gen- eral publie. Bureau of keen hold many there first only so many heing always get persons, the those who This fact served to spur somq of the hurried ones until fhe littleMdog-trot in which they started from their rooms had grown into a full-size 100-vard dash, with the elevators as the finishing point The Veterans' Bureau, it turns out, has quite a sprinkling of Nurmis among its male and female employes. Ofttimes the dashes, it is said, ended in a dead heat, with some dozen or more contestants dividing the honors as the elevator door was reached. Naturally, few of the sprinters had started out prepared for such close competition. As the runners con- verged at the tape from various di- rections there was often the sound of falling spectacles, of bumped heads and of muttered reproaches as corns were stepped on, accompanied, per- haps, by an undermining of hats or an entangling of umbrellas. A bruised rib or scratched hand maybe also bore testimony to the exciting nature of the last lap At any rate, all these things used to take place on certain floors as the bell rang up at the Veterans' Bureau, according to those in the know. But now—what a difference! There hasn’t been a good race at the bureau for quite a few da The drabbest sort of an aspect has been glven the formerly colorful retreat as a result of an order promulgated by somebody who didn't catch the spirit of the thing. Instead of the exciting jam, one sees an orderly procession of clerks, two abreast, walting patiently for their turn. Not on every floor, to be true, but on those floors where activity used to be so pronounced. The lines of waiting employes often extends far down the corridor, and the watch- ful, stern eve of the division chief insures careful compliance with the rules. “Glve me back the excitement,” re- marked one dissapointed typist today. “It was the only exercise I ever got besides chewing gum, and I swore off gum on New Year day.” LOSES LIFE IN WRECK. Is Victim Trains Collide. FITZGERALD, Ga., January 28.—G. C. Wallace, Atlanta, express messen- ger, was killed and several passen- gers slightly injured late yesterday, when the passenger train of the At- lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Rail- road, for Atlanta, ran into an east- bound freight train 21 miles east of Fitzgerald. Engineer William J. Morrison, on the passenger train, and C. M. Wil- son, engineer on the frelght train, jumped from the englines, as did also the firemen, all escaping with minor injurles. J. D. Cornwall, mail clerk, probably owes his life to the steel car provided for the service, Messenger as Two S SHOVEL SNOW. This t Coral Gables, Palm Beach, and a usual Winter da y, last Saturday, just as the sun’s rays Copyright by Underwood & Underwood the v picture. & the 40foot dive. ‘Copyright by Underwood & Cnderwood AUTHORS AS HONOR GUESTS AT DINNER Foreign Missions Study Com- mittee Entertains Aides in Educational Work. The central committee the United Study of Foreign Missions honored a group of prominent authors who have contributed to the educa- tional work of the committee, at a dinner last night at the Washington Hotel. The occasion was also a celebration of the twenty-fifth an- niversary of the committee. Right Rev. M.B. Furse, Bishop of St, Albans, in addressing the gathering of more than persons, declared that the great mass of Christianity was “not functioning to its fullest extent.” “God is mot given his chance functioning through the great mem- bership of His church,” sald the bishop. The speaker paid tribute to the committee, which was the first interdenominational committee of its kind among women of the Tnited States, declaring that the study which it had sponsored “promises greater power in the future as a dvnamic force to awaken Christianity to the need of co-operation.” Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, chairman of the committee introduced the au- thors, guests of the evening, whose books, it was sald, had totaled 3,500, 000 copies. She praised the “inspiri tional work"” of the men and women who had co-operated with the commit- tee by the writing of texts, teaching, and otherwise. Responses were made by Anna R. B. Lindsay, Dr. Arthur J. Brown, Mary Labaree Platt, Dr. Robert E Speer, Margaret Burton, Dr., D. J. Fleming, Mary Ninde Gamewell, Dr. Galen Fisher, Jean Kenyon MacKen- zie, Dr, Samuel Zwemer and Prof. Harlan P, Beach, D. D. The various organizations which have grown out of the committee pledged their loyalty to any new en- deavors which It might undertake. Mrs. E. H. Sliverthorn spoke for the Federation of Women's Foreign Mis- sion Boards: Miss Mary Peacock, “Summer Schools”; Miss Alice M. Kyle, “Literature for Oriental Wom- en”; Mrs De Witt Knox, “Golden Jubilee”; Mrs. Donald MacGillivrary, “Happy Childhood.” a Chinese publi- cation; Mrs. K. S. Cronk, “Every- land," a new children's missionary publication. Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, welcoming the guests in the name of Washing- ton, apologized for the probable con- dition of the streets during the next few days, during which the great for- eign missionary conference is to be held, and asserted that Congress and not the city was to be held respon- sible. Among the foreign guests who greeted the committee and authors in the names of their varlous coun- tries were Kenneth Maclennan, who spoke for Great Britain, and Baron van Boetzelear van Dubbeldam, for the continent. Mrs, Wayne B. Wheeler sang sev- eral solos during the evening. The invocation was by Dr. W. L. Darby, and the Bishop of St. Albans pro- nounced the benediction. of | WASHINGTONIAN AT PALM BEACH. Mrs. Lyman B. Kendall and Miss J. Cobina Wright of New York taking a stroll on the sands at Palm Beach. son will be in full blast. From now until the latter part of March the Florida sea- Wide World Photo FOUND AT THE HOME OF A FRIEND. Ethel Leginska, noted pianist whose di search. ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TODAY. Charles Pergler, former Minister from Czechoslovakia to Japan, will address the League of Women Vot- ers, at 1901 F street, 4:45 p.m. Sub- ject, “The Central-European Situa- tion.” TONIGH The Mary Thompson Memorial Assoclation will the Lee House, 3:30 o'clock. Southern meet at TONIGHT. Lady MacLennan Lodge. Daughters of Scofia. will Northeast Masonic Temple, § All Scotians invited clock The Indiana ety will meet, §:1 o'clock, at Rauscher's. Postmaster General New will speak, and there will be musical and other enter- taining features, fncluding a short program by Joe Cook, here with the Earl Carroll “Vanities.” IVoman's 7:30 Burnside Post, Corps, will meet, Grand Army Hall Reliet o'clock, at The Vermont State Association of the District will meet. 8 o'clock, at Continental Hotel. Dr. C. D. William- son of Los Angeles will give an lustrated lecture on “Our National Park The Washington Academy of Sciences and the Geological Society of Washington will hold a combined meeting, 8 o'clock. in_assembly hall of the Cosmos Club. Speakers: Prof. Frederick J. Pack, University of Utah, and Hugh D. Miser, United States Geological Survey Study class, Lodge of Theosophis! 8 o'clock. 1731 at United K street group, District of American Pen Women, 1703 H street, will be addr: by John Claggett Proctor of the Columbia His- torical Society. Historical League The drama section of St. Joseph's Club will present “Why the Chime Rang” and “Joint Owners in Spain in auditorium of parochial school. Second and C streets northeast, § o'clock. Capt. Robert Bartlett will addres the Medical Society of the District Subject,.“Polar Travel and the Green- land Eskimo.” Loyalty Chapter, No. 32, O will have a bridge and 500 party at the home of Mrs. Eva F. Lynch, 1337 Glrard street. Avenue Citizen 8 o'clock. i Church Hall The Rhode Island Association will meet, Sherwood Presbyterian The Young Men's Hebrew Associa- tion will give a dance at the associa- tion's building, Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue, at 9 o'clock Metropolitan M. E. Sunday school will give an “Uncle Remus" entertr in- ment at the church, 8 o'clock. Richard Thomas Wyche will be the story-teller. —_— U. S. CLAIMS ALLOWED. German-American Mixed Commis- sion Makes Awards. The German-American Mixed Claims Commission last night announced the award of claims totaling $1,500,000, in- cluding one for $110,000 to Max Klein of New York, and one of $100.000 to the Boston Blacking Co. of Boston. Of at | | | | | | not | no | while | ppearance just hefore one of her concerts resulted in a wide She was located at the home of a friend in Brooklyn. » Pictures. GREECE TO DISARN ONHER OWN TERMS Statement Declares' Action Must Be Preceded by Treaty Offering Real Guarantees. By the Associated P GENEVA, January disarm, but only when sign a general treaty offering real guarantees. That is the gist of a communication received by the League of Natlons yesterday from the Athens government, which, like the other governments, had been invited to set forth its attitude on the reso- lution of the league assembly that no governments should exceed in the fu- ture their current year expenditure on_armaments. Greece, the communication said was in full sympathy with the league's work with the object of in- augurating a lasting peace and would do all in its power to attain this aim, but trusted that the leag: council realized there were certain imperative needs which Greece could not possibly forego until the general plan for a reduction of armaments had begun to assume practical form. . —Greece will the nations Coat of Military Establishment. After stating that the military ex- penditure for the present fiscal year showed a reduction of over 947.000,- 000 drachmas (normally about $180,- 000,000), the Greek note continues: “Neveitheless, in view of the wear and tear on war material, either de- stroyed or deteriorated by long war- fare, particularly in the Asia Minc campaign, Greece is compelled, out of regard for her national security and in order to,insure the territorial in- tegrity of the country, to renew her effective armaments and equipment.” Commenting on naval armaments, the note says that “expenditure has been increased beyond the sum appropriated in the budget for the current financial year." and adds that fully approving the league's efforts to limit naval armaments and attain world peace, Greece cannot afford to neglect any dangers which may threaten her security Reafirms Her Position. After reafirming that the situation would be changed when a treaty of general guarantees was signed, the note declares: ¥If orders should be placed for new material, this cannot be regarded as an Increase of naval armaments, but as a partial renewal of existing material.” Greece, says the note in conclusion, would refraln from ordering new ships if her neighbors promised to act in a similar manner and would make a treaty binding themselves to such restrictive action. League officlals regard the Hellenic note as additional proof that no gen- eral reduction of armaments for Eu- ropean states is possible without the creation of guarantees of security, and remark that any international conference at Washington or else- where must take this into account. As financial head of the California State Board of Control Mrs. Nellie B. the total the awards in the Lusitania ' Plerce has cut the State budget te roup amounted to only $1,60! the extent-of $12,000,000, A