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THE EVENING ges Improvements HAMMER 10 URGE PARK PLAN ACTION Approaches to City Should Be Beautified at Once, He Declares. Several import projects that form integral parts of a comprehen- sive development of the National Capital are urged for ac in whe next session of Congress Repre- sentative William C. Hammer, Demo- rat, of North Carolina, a member of the House District Committee, in careful survey Planning for Washington,” n the Congressional Re The Mount Ham ®lon should be made to the National Capita long-proposed memor Mount Vernon grows more the movement for the chain should be palisades of preserved as with a broad to Great Falls Representative can extraordina study of the tal and challenges Congress that they only truste f this city of Wa ton for the present and that they t do their sonscientious part the trust along to future generations sperly improved. He em S every year pr ward an ideal of the Ameri at Washingt shall passed amon appears Anacostia entran says; the levard to desirable connecting the eity rously; the should be stem ard e 1 dr ! shed the Potom part of th well police | REPRESENTATIV ¢ HAM WILLIAM ER. H s he he ( eagu out, are imp their comm; and they futur cla inte now drive to its r Would palisad essive in proportion to ding military positions, re well worth acquirement local parks in addition to their historical and mili- ¢ afford. The move- ss to secure the be pushed vigor- tary ent m ir ssing : f ously Park Palisades. the Potomac atural gift that must be preserved g 1 for tk as well as made avail- enfoyment present visitor ording to Hammer. He says Lility of widening the ad from Georgetown to and securing the control Potomac banks was dwelt in the report of 1901. This ject depended more or less on the ecessity, even then apparent, of in- reasi the Washington water supply. That necessity has now be- “ome 50 acute that Congress has been | forcea act. In the work of in- creasing the water supply the park able Dby features should not be lost sight of. as 1892, and| An area on both sides of the river Washington Board of|at Great Falls necessary to protect he pcints out that|the Government works should be se- per cent of the land nece ured and become a portion of the been purchased systeni. The road leading s of are he wor In ac Hamm. The Conduit { Great Falls the on advar says As t tlon of t of Boston Anacostia s a pe Hamiltor be city through and from st w Wash- it the | the of erting traflic to park en to ington pleasure Balti- = more.” ! In discussing necting Potomac Parks, recognized Cong favored Trac hout the con- Creek the 1859, maining o Ohio C: in such condition will be re and to secure tion “When the the plan for the parkway peditiously. will be ¢ ability increased r ent asure traf 1 Memor city thro Seventeenth New Hampshire should be the improvem nection between Potomac Pa trance to and exit will be made now much ngerous and i1l d into a well iced ple Jam | sacred t used—narrow, kept—should be ordered and well sure drive.” Congre nd all country should feel it duty to help develop the Capital, year after y [broad, comprehensive, idealistic plan AT€as | is the little sermon preached by Rep resentative Hammer in concluding pres-ihis survey. He sa the| “In comparing the project > the | improvement the park system of of {1 strict of Columbia as presented report of the Senate Park Com- n with the actual accomplish- ent during two decades, on struck with the largeness of the ctual accomplishment. Professed that report outlined development to cover an indefinite perlod of years; d even the most optimistic of its could not have anticipated Al strides toward accom- nt that 20 years would bring . It is a tribute to the inherent worth of the plan that while so little 125 been done contrary to it, so much a comj that quired the to necessa the people : their land the s on nsol I for the Potomac ument Base. inac near that very sense inspires when seer and the lack of ha ship between it and th ture with which it com position disturbs o ness. “No portion nmis as the solu evising he Monument: ere proposed is the the Monument i the most st works but also o tifui human Indeed, it is at so great and so simple that it to be almost a work of nature. Dominating the District of Columbia, it has taken its place with the Capitol and the e House as one of the three fi national structures. He sightly he It is doubtly fortunate also that the reat faature of the plan. its general outlines, fundamental principles to the disposition of public monu- ents and buildings and parks and i parkways, have been adopted and are rolling motives for future This is due largely to the fact the plan of 1901 was based on he L'Enfant plan of 1792, the au- thority of which plan needed only to be asserted to be recognized. It is {no disparagement, but is rather a | to the authors of the plan of 1901 that they recognized the excel- lence of the work done in the begin- ning and set themselves to the task of carrying on what has been so well bezun 3 re of man, Plan Misunderstood. “This is.a restless era. All sorts of | suggestions are being made for im- | provements and changes. Many of these new projects are based on the | desire of individuals to exploit them- selves. Others are due te ignorance of the existing plan and the progress { of the work being done in accordance { with it, or to impatience at delays in accomplishing results. The Commis- sion of Fine Arts are not concerned with the rate of progress; they are | vitally concerned that the progress shall be always toward the goal set {in 1792 and again in 190i. It is a park system | matter atisfaction to them that The private owner-|both Congress and the executive de- Island should be}partments are giving an increasing *hased. Such own- | support to the plans, as the under- and a menace. The |standing of what they mean and the District Com- | whither they tend become spparent place on Analostan|in the unfolding of the designs. -r 212 feet in height | Every vear sees progress toward an e gas holder is the al of the American people, that sly structure devised | Washington shall be unsurpassed ore blatant than a|among the great capitals of the water tank or an ill- | world nd smoking chimney ts realization will with it the cleanin proaches to Arlin dvoc Virgini Arlington also tes cleaning up un- part of Bridge pros- vicinage orial ¥ dredgin to t created veloped as i c : area of land n farms has rea should be de- adjacent ¢ of of Dist ship A determined lesson is one for the future. No living person can foresee or even imagine the future of the United States in wealth and power. The utmost one can do is to build as wise- {1y and as adequately as his limited | vision will permit. No plan is final in so far as comprehensiveness Is concerned. No plan will be large enough for the future, “The spirit that should animate | every person who has to do with the development of Washington should be | one of modesty as to his achieve- | ments, and optimisms as to the future. | He should understand that in his day | and generation he is building accord- ing to his lights, and should seek to | understand what has been done in the { past, as_the sure foundation for his work of today, and also to his atter should have first consideration | jystification for so ordering affairs in the building program about to be|that what he does now shall be formulated and undertaken.” | worthy to have its place in the pro- | gressive development of his Nation's | Capital city.” carry along up of all ap- ton and Fort Myer to the park system ed areas adjacent to the the Potomac.” silding program, which | Congress, included Governm, activi- jovernment-owned buildings, esentative Hammer includes of the most imperativ ures of Washington City planning eclares There is no clement of moment to the effectiveness of the pment of Washington than that of proper Government buildings to complete the White House group. This zinia shor he public i iled in the I e housing vital Mount Vernon Boulevard. In discussing the contemplated Mount Vernon Boulevard, Repre- sentative Hammer argues that ‘“the desirability of a boulevard to Mount Vernon has become greater with the growth of sentiment among the American people, while the necessity for an adequate road has been cm- phasized by the development of E voir, the former seat of Lord Fairfax, into Camp Humphreys, which was not | iaken advantage of to force the dedica- tion of lands sufficient to create such a . boulevard. This project should be taken up and pushed to completion.” He expresses confidence that the park system development will at last be carried on to save for the future | the most desirable tracts “The need of parkways across the city on the north so as to connect the two great parks of Washington was carefully studied and mapped in the report of the Senate Park Com- mission. Owing to the fact that thi portion of the report was neglected by the citizens in the regions to be | traversed, the rapid growth of build- ing has made impossible several of the parkways proposed “Some others, however, .possible, and on these attention is now being focused. Among these | is the chain of forts which were used as defenses of the city of Washington during the Civil War. The views from these poilts, as the report points $3.50 Philadelphia $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wilmington AND RETURN SUNDAY MARCH 29 SPECIAL TRAIN (Union Station) 10:03 AM.: Chester, Philadelphia, Broad Street West Phil phia, Chester, PAL: Wilmington, 8:19 DL Tickets on sale two days Ppeceding ‘Excursion Excursion Sunday, Returning. Sta tion, are still Similar April 26 Pennsylvania Railroad The Standard Railroad of the World ereto should be boulevarded and a | must | as been achieved in accordance with | 1 | | the | whatever declaration | tablished BUSY ON ORATORY Anxious to Win Place in Con- test—-Elihu Root Praises Study of Constitution. Studerts at Eastern High School already are working on the final de- tails of their orations for the national oratorical contest. The young ora- tors are engaged upon the serlous | business of organizing the results of their research work and are rewriting their oratlons. Miss Kate Buckman, history teacher in charge of the work, reports that the contestants are mak- ing good progress. A meeting 1s held each Friday morning for consultation and in- struction on the subjects of the con- test, and on the technique of oratory. Some mention of the contest and a report of its progress is made at every general assembly The first winnowing will take place April 6 to 10. By that time the con- test will be narrowed down to 12 or 14 students, and § will be picked from this group. From thls group of 6, 1 will be selected to represent East- ern High School in the finals of the District of Columbla. Committees at Work. The faculty charge of | Miss Kate | Miss . D. Taylor A commlttee of students has been appointed to co-operate with this committee and has as its members the following: Kingsland Prender, Margaret Hoover and Olin Everett. Elihu Root, member of the Ameri- can Bar Association’s committee co- operating with the National Oratori- cal Contest, writes Randolph Lelgh, na- tional director, as follows “I am glad to see that you are get- ting along so splendidly with the second National Oratorical Contest on the Con stitution.” Mr. Root outlines the importance of the Constitution and of a wide- spread understanding of it in the following committee which the contest consists of D. Bucknam, chairman; Egbert and Miss Olivia is in Conntitution Settles Things. The Constitution settles things, it settles certaln rules, and, so long as they are settled, good people can at- tend their own business, earn thelr own living, go to their own church, bring up their own children and go on with their lives, accomplishing the object for which all government is intended; but if you wipe out the rules so that nothing is settled and everybody disputing about every question as to how everything shail be done, then there is no peace or security for anybody in living his life “Another thing to be said about a written constitution is that it lays down the fundamental rules of right conduct for the enforcement of the great general principle declared by Declaration of Independence, or is may have set forth the principles in which the people believe. A consti- tution lays down the rules of con- duct for the enforcement of those principles, and those rules are es- impersonally, abstractly. They are established, as in the case of the Constitution of the United States, by a convention sitting apart, concerning themselves in no concrete or temporary question. So in our States constitutions are prepared by conventions which do nothing else, and are submitted to the people. Declares General Rules. “OrZinary laws answer to the im- pulse of the moment. Ordinary laws deal with the concrete difficulties that arise from year to year. But a constitution made calmly, imperson- ally, for all the future, without ref- erence to specific needs or specific impulses, declares the general rules of right conduct, and that is in ac- cordance with the teaching of all re- ligion and all human experience. “We have, all of us, learned from childhood up that we cannot trust | the impulses of the human heart un- The passions sway the worst der temptation us; temptation draws us; elements of our natures are brought to the fore by strong desire, by ha- tred, by the heat of conflict, and if we leave ourselves in the affairs of our Government to do what we want to do at the moment we forget the teachings of that religion which says to us that life must be guided, not by impulse, but by principle—eternal principle. The Constitution of the United States for more than a cen- tury has held up before the eves of the people of the United States and the whole world thé imperishable rules of justice in the exercise of government, in the exercise of that mighty power by which the whole people constrain the action of each individual.” ALBERT E. WERNER DEAD. Superintendent of Senate Office Building Succumbs. bert E. Werner. 57 years old, super- intonent of the Senate Office Bullding for the last 16 vears, died at his resi- dence, 1840 Biltmore street, Monday lingering illness. n"l:\l;n:ra\ guerv\cfis were conducted at the residence this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Willlam A. Eisenberger, assistant pastor of the Church of the Covenant, Presbyterian, officiated. Interment was in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mr. Werner was born in Caseyville, 111, September 12, 1867, and was later located in Idaho, where he was engaged in the real estate business and at one time member of the State Legislature. He came to this city from Idaho 25 years ago. " He is survived by his widow, Mrs, Elizabeth T. Werner, and a daughter, Miss Betty Werner. Going around half-crippled by lame muscles is needless — when it’s so easy to get limbered up with this world-famous lini- ment. Pat on gently a little Sloan’s. It needs no rubbing. The liniment itself does the whole job. In it are stimulating ingredients that in any country | | the revolutionists. STAR, WASHINGTON/ CONDUCTING ORATORICAL CONTEST AT EASTERN STUDENTS Upper—Faculty committee, left to right: Miss F. D.Exbert, Misx Kate D. Bucknam and Miss Olivi Lower—Student committee, left to right: Kingsland Prender, Miss Margaret Hoover and Olin Everett. ERROR IN DRUGS LIFE OF SAM DREBBIN, WAR HERO Gen. Pershing Says Victim With Him in Mexico and France Was Splendid Thrive on By Consolidated Prifs “Killed by mistake!” How Sam Drebbin, soldier of for- tune, World War hero, friend of Gen Pershing and adventurer extraordi- nary, would have laughed at such an | epitaph. Yet such are the news re- ports from Los Angeles, and they make the Army officers. newSpaper men and others who knew Sam Dreb- bin sad They'll never get me in he used to say, laughingly simply got a charmed life. luck: that's all.” Yet Sam Drebbin was almost always, and his recklessness and utter lack of fear yielded him | ribbons and decorations galore, in- cluding the distinguished service cross “I've known Sam for said Gen. Pershing today. “He was with me in Mexico as a scout, and was very valuable and entirely re- liable. The next time I saw him was in France, when I pinned the dis- tinguished service cross on him. He had a splendid war record.” Model Soldier of Fortume. Sam Drebbin would have made a wonderful soldier of fortune character for a Richard Harding Davis novel He served several enlistments in the Regular Army as a private. He dis- tinguished himself in action in the Boxer rebellion in China. When that was over, he was in revolutions in Nicaraugua and Honduras. There are many legends about his performances there, stories of how he rushed out under firesand saved wounded com- panions, stories of his bold attacks with a smaller number of men and | other storles of individual courage. | When Mexico afforded a better op- portunity for his military talents, he joined the Madero forces in the orig- inal rebellion against Dz and later was with Orozco, when the lat- ter turned on Madero. Sam was at his best in securing ammunition for He probably had more to do with filbustering expedi- tions out of New Orleans and across the Mexican border at El Paso than | any one else. He regarded it as a gamble ank took all the chances in- volved in gun-running. Lived Like Millionaire. After the revolution business sub- sided somewhat, Sam made a lucky strike in copper and was said to have amassed between $200,000 and $300,- 000. He journeyed to New York and, as expressed in his own words, “lived like a millionalre.” Then he went back to El Paso. He —_— 0 2 H| Count up the E| coal Bill A T I N G Maurice J. Colbert Heating—Plumbing—Tinning 621 F Street ™one el action,” s 1t's Jew under fire a long time,” I R % e o 2T —for the Winter just past, and see if its size doesn’t justify new Heating System fColbert installations re- duce fuel consumption: increase the home-owner's satisfaction. We replace and repair Heating Plants of every type. a bl Try this never-failing treatment Sloan's Liniment “pey L T R R B = 3016-3017 E EA AT T rough the sf ul muscles, and this incru.udp:ulpply of fresh, pure blood washes out fatigue poisons and rebuilds broken-down tissue. Marvellously—your lame- ness is gone. Millions know and use Sloan’s. All druggists have it—35 cents. D. " C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1925. EASTERN HIGH. aylor. ST. PAUL ROAD GOES INTO RECEIVERSHIP | IN FRIENDLY ACTION First TAKES CHARMED (Continued from Puge.) of the $48,000,000 bankers are unfavorable ircumst finan of | under- | refinancing of bonds due in June. The understood to have be n view of the existing Readjustmnet of the road will stood, the formati committees of security Fighter—Seemed to Dangers. lost a good in oil speculations deal of his money und then came the | American entry into the World War.| The road was ori; Sam didn't like to try examinations | ed in Wisce for an officer's commission. He felt he |in 11 States and its couldn’t pass the written examinations, | financial difficulties had been though he probably knew more about d one of the strongest war than many who could pass the ex- stems in the country. In aminations. The City of El a great bull mar its Sam a big banquet in sending h stock sold as high as war. He had enlisted as a priv terday the common sold at soon became a first sergeant. He won ew York stock market honors on the battlefield, and when he | returned to America he was n-n\--n-di MOVE WELL DISCOUNTED. with decorations, including those from | £x and Bonds France and Italy i Moderately in New York. | holders ally incorporat- ex s It operates recent egard- flway | n a smon yes- as n off to ate. He 7% in the| While in Paris he was the guest of | Stocks Gen. Pershing. A story is told of| how he made second lieutenant | salute him. Officers often grew tired | of saluting, but when one of them | B the Assoclated Press ignored Sam's salute, he ran back a| NEW YORK, March few steps and planted himself square-| ship for the Chicago, Milwauk Iy in front of the second lieutenant |St. Paul Railway Company, filed in and forced a salute. For sam knew | Chicago today, apparently had been the regulations. He had been in the | well discounted in the stock and bond regular Army a long time | markets the road’s| And now they say Sam was given | securities were extremely moderate a wrong dose of medicine in a doc-|and well regulated in the initial| tor's office. An inglorious climax to|trading today. the common stock a career of.real heroism easing fractionally to nd the (Copyright, 1925.) preferred shares falling a polnt to 13, | Move 18.—Receiver- Declines in Resignation Is Accepted. The President has accepted resignation of First Lieut Sanders, United States take effect April 10 . | both new low levels. ACCEPTS GENEVA POST. t tlons to study the international project | prices | way was cleared for a resumption of | Cavalry, to Pipe led the volatile specialties with High Sh | The bonds continued under liquida- | GENEV March 18 nest P.|junior obligations, including the 4s o!J to afford relfef to peoples stricken by | “AMeanwhile the breaking of the “bad bullish operations. Representacive | a 10-point jump. A sale that will force {tion, but the 4s of 1925 after am| Bicknell of Chicago has accepted mem- | 1934, convertibla 4 1s, refunding 45 calamities like the Japanese earth-|pncws" on the St. Paul lifted l)ve’ | industrial shares rallied 1 to 5 points | | EDMONSTON’S selling of Famous Foot- initial decline of 312 points recovered | a large portion this loss. Other bership in the preparatory comm convertible 5s and Puget Sound 4s, sion appointed by the League of moved down 1 to 2 points to new low quake. - Mr. Bicknell is vice president | cloud of unce tainty which had been of the American Red Cross. | overhanging the stock market and the the | and leading rail issues sold 1 to 3| Oakley L. | points higher, while S. 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(Incorporated) i d Authoriti 1334 F Str eet At‘:nArl'l l.;cl)ot T“:ouot:le: ' ANDREW BETZ, Manager ( | zens' | the last of {to e —— TZENS COUNGI PLAN IS OPPLSED Thomars Records View After Issue | Is Opposition to the proposed plar a citizens’ council for the District was registered by the Thomas Cir Assoclation Luther Place night the it to wants to turn, befo tem of Speaks in Opposition, Dr associ, too much who would make up that Alton B, of the Columbla Heights Citizens Pt had ation been seen did not to say it A report from the commities cf the last at similar Avenue dating Eiven gama able. Dr written the Want Streets Repaired. A secretary trict C repair ritory 1 of the plorable thelr Dr stationed Massachusetts street teenth nue. A Fuller aid in Parsons THEATERS IN COMBINE. ! | Files Bankruptcy Petition All Wilkes' Holdings in Country LOS ANGELES, tion of a Wilkes control Sam H. the srociation verse report, and able dis adoption of the report was passed council, advocates of the posed and, lead councl sociations of Do Di an, that would take the various subjeets| mission the | This would supplant each dividually Starr Parsons, tion, declaring such heard | be xome good, Know whether he Citizens | gard to th the The report on at this time was not owa Assoclation to this effect motion mmissioners streets vicinity Parsons ma secretary to write to Inspector asking for This motion was also passed request Winters asso eting, which was agreed upon | next meeting is to be held « Only| (he Fali on the pi theatrical out the United States was announced here today of Thomas ducer of this city Theaters of Harris Wilkes Theater, the Wilkes Theater. Denham Theater, Orange Grove Theater l - Bl C.&P. Circle Association ‘ Utilities C Fully Debated. | Which for| What hearing Citi-| the valuat & in| Chesapeake Church | Co The executive con tee ! by submitted ad- | t following consider a motion calling for 1o at its meeti Memorial should the Public an District ing it be conc ad e 1f sion, a it was explained by | wili plan. would be com-| tion Sons chosen by citizens, | lishe rgued, would eventually | pros trict suffrage. Under the! gther the various citizens' as-|rates, would make known their| The select body, and it, in| phon District Commissi, the present association going the District heads ners. | The in- be abou | There g row's hear advisability comp: rec cou on toda to pre nt spoke inst the a council would power to the nine body b of the plan, give persons Carty, first vice president As- |t he | ¥ might | not ut 1 against stated ced $1 he that from thought whic in the what ot ex there but that enough b was for or council, quite FOR en meeting mmittee to cc from the Assoclation in proposed plan of cc two lowal Recent 1801 Ec: ociations stated that amal- |, T favor- [[Ph that he had [jence president of today ing to sh scribing Nurva Eeija bureau de Parsons letter to the was write a made letter to have the the Dis- asking them to in the Thomas Circle Prior to this motion sev members told of the de- |of the Ph onditions of the paving of the rendered The affair press bu “and the }cont ave- s aga religio in e a motion for the Head traffic to Thomas Circ avenue and and Massachusetts officers was made by Mrs. C.| asking members | rging the membership | ation before the next| The in enla ilm a John absolute | Gilinore naming a ied at rly president's call cc resided n, K T to Be Merged. sor March 18.—Forma- | gept combine embracing all the holdings through- | debts by Atto Uprising VALUATION - PROBLEM AGAIN UP ommission Sched- ules Hearing Tomorrew, May Be Final. nd BLAME FANATICISM PHILIPPINE ROW fer with a|Press Bureau Gives Explanation of in Nueva ija Province. Asks Absolute Divorce and separ: v n brother pro- | by A. J Wilkes, Wilkes, theatrical and San Francisco. will be under organization are Theater, New York ; San Francisco; Salt Lake; the Denver, and the Los Angeles I that the A G 750 il ;am | It Means: More Trips to the Theater! Why h ‘.The Extra Pair—Doubles the Wear! 3 Popular Prices— 535 - 40 - *4 2.500 Spring Suits— every suit with two : \ ) pairs of trousers! III“” i ot Tl | il il lnnlmm l NONE BETTER f GINGER ALE! HERRMANN Tenth St. S.E. 5