Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1925, Page 20

DOUBTS MEXICO -~ COULD BAN RUM Envoy to U. S. Says Natives| Grow Own Drink-Pro- ducing Plant. * By the Associated Press | FORMER SOCIETY BELLE BECOMES BANK OFFICIAL Mrs. William Laimbeer to Have Charge of National City Banks' Woman Clients. By the Associated Preas, NEW YORK, February 13.—From a society woman who had never dona a stroke of work as a wage ecarner rs ago, Mrs. William ed to a position ¢ Bank of New have charge of all business dune by the bank with women She went into business aft THE EVENING TARIFF COMMISSION BAN AGAIN SOUGHT| Senate Democrats Renew Attack on Board During Appropriation Bill Discussion: Abolishment of the Tariff Commis- slon was urged in the Senate again vesterday by Democratic members during and after consideration of an amendment to the {ndependent of- fices appropriation bill restoring pro- visions of the present law preventing STAR, WASHINGTON, DECLARES MACHINERY HAS CHANGED CULTURE Former Trade School Head Says ‘White Collar Is Being Discarded in Rush for Overalls. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 13.—O0ld ideas of culture have vanished and rapidly are being replaced with a new idea based on the practical needs of the present mechanical age, Luls Gustaf- son, president of the convention for vocational education, told delegates to the convention here today. Gustaf- son was superintendent of a trade D. C, FRIDAY, his general education, because it equips him to deal with the problem of life, no matter in what field his work may lay. KEEPSfi HEAD bURING FIRE. Mrs. J. B. Duke Calls Guests From |- Room—Firemen Put Out Blaze. NEW YORK, February 13.—Mrs. James Buchanan Duke, wife of the tobacco and power cap! tertaining a party of w in her home yesterday when she dis- covered dense smoke fllling the library FEBRUARY 13, 1925. on the fi or, in which she and her friends Were seated. Without alarming Mr. Duke, who was on the floor above, she investi- gated and found that the smoke was coming from the flue above the open fireplace in the library. She laugh- ingly invited her guests to accom- pany her to the large drawing room Puen Brve, Hymeyime, adjoining, and then summoned the| Emulating the thrills experfenced butler, who called fire headquarters. | by passengers on an ocean liner. a The fire was extinguished without|new device will soon be introduced damage. in amusement parks. M 2 ez NEW APARTMENTS At Reasonable Rentals 23rd and N Streets N.W. Ready March Ist 25th and K Streets N.W. a member of the commission from serving in cases in which he or a member of his family is interested. The amendment, -which had been stricken from the bill in the House on a point of ordes, was approved by the Senate quickly and without di- rect debate, but the attack on the commission which arose from it con- tinued throughout the afternoon. Senator Jones, Democrat, New Mex- ico, declared the commission, although it had a eful purpose to serve,” was now “frittering away money and ime,” and Senator King, Democrat, Utah, asserted that it had ceased to be a fact-finding body “competent to render impartfal and independent de- cisfons,” and therefore should be abolished. Senator Simmons, North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the flnance committee, and Senator Walsh, Demo- crat, Massachusetts, likewise assailed present tariff .policies and urged careful selection of members of the commission. school in St. Louls. “We live in a great industrial and mechanical age” he said, ‘“Labor with the hands mo longer is looked down upon. There has been a stam- pede from the white collar to the overalls. Even the school teacher has become a carpenter and the preacher has left the pulpit for the plasterer's trowel at $1.75 an hour. The auto- mobile has made gréasy hands the fashion. The war had its usefulness in this and the aeroplane has helped.” Discussing the possibilities of manual training education from a curtural, pre-vocational and vo- tional standpoint, Gustafson express ed the belief that every boy should be taught at least the rudimentary use of tools as a nec ary part of Woodward & Lothrop Down Stairs Store on Pages 24 and 25. New Styles—New Colors ! Spring Topcoats Single and Double Breasted 515 New Coats in the new double-breasted style; flare-back and wrap-around mod- els. Just the right weight to keep you comfortable, whether now or later in Spring. Medium-weight and light- weight materials. Polo Flannel, Polaire and Old Copola Cloth. 1l Strest broke utemobile accident and sibility of caring for her cn was tirust upon her. in a position little above clerkship and steadily ad- . ! {vanced to the rank of executive in the :‘r‘:Q:( o fv‘.h‘;;.\gyy\rl ‘F,?",‘,““:Ll‘.? hel | first billion-dollar commercial bank in o .- giatis » America N . 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