Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1925, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, APRIL D.. C.. TUESDAY, 14, 1925. the remodeling of Columbia Island in order that the Potomac River chan nel may be changed will be started tomorrow morning. A small steam shovel will be put ashore there this afternoon by the Army engineers and will begin the work of throwing up 20-foot levee around that portion of " TAKOA SCANDAS SEORE ESPIE BAN Biack Knees, Hose Cover Show Is Entertaining. Willing to be shocked. to be. many of Takoma Park enry 1ld pack into the Pri rian Church hall turned out la t to personal judgment » eleven pairs of fair o! the elc the other dress rehearsal of the V re Department’s benefit Frolic.” not a sh rel But din seismolc ck was recorded, to Takoma Park's offic t. Just a ripple turned plause that wave soon not be nees were i ship that nobody st night. bec lowed to take a good loni the knees. draped thoug in sheer black hosiery Curtain Finally Lifted. knee-high curtain, cant word ‘“Censored,” ed the troublesome limbs whe: girls of the Mud Ple choru walked onto the stage, was lifted soon as the audlence let it be know they were prepared for the worst. stat sped _an were th bearing Perhaps the shock was lacking be- 158 the knees ugh black chiffor had expose the rompers and above of the original, which greeted Rev Clark last F he dropped in casuall 1d Pie Days sc e, may last night were peekin stockings. 1 nselves socks e ™ spect ng the the onld have turned d exclaimed, “Ou But the black draping > elders and m made the knees at the same time the shock that unclad, blushing right especially in mday would tend to give. ors w their cous according t moothed girlish kn school room Pyjamas Score Heavily r did a single seat become v: the sa gation time en cat ga: “5 t of it." 2 e an air th this be treason, make the While their owners sang languorous: i0ood Night, Sleep Tight,’ nees paraded down the center e again, to grout hose of Miss Nora scarlet satin, wh Wilke was not ormance. attend tonight had_approved in its entirety. those bravenly ves arot in with Chest Dr ers pastor previously ama scene rerely er s. present a jection, s were some of Takor corous and ladyl wives, as follows: Florence Burdine, Touise Goodacre, Tvay Randall, Mar: garet Lane, Winifred Coye, Amy Wal lauer, N Lane, Naomi Wraves, Myra He: jan Weaver and Mil dred He Something even though proudly a's fairest, most de. daughters anc Besides Knees. 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Bth n.w Fair But Crowd Finds perhaps, hop- Takoma knees ocked the church minister and s night of ap. into a tidal pedal, manual and vocal ap- 1se of the fact that 2 of official use every- which be. the un iday also away ister of the church. | “respectable.” vou and everything, o ed in entrancing | mble plump into the | he aisle o0 led in the although it bare hich he and the elders had | the claimed there was a lot more to the | the | ¢ good show Other mem- of the cast who help to make it William 3 . TO painting and window Call Cleve- none it 's - it n ? d 3 h e n g Betty Alexander. s interlocutor. rron is director, and committee of the fire department | charge included: Walter Whitney, % | president of the department, and Dr. Dudley, fire chief. The show Cleo | | the in W will be repeated tonight and tomor- row night in the church hall and ;.| in nearby towns. i LOGAL PRESBYTERY PICKS DELEGATES Three Ministers and Three -| Elders Selected to Rep- resent District. T 1 | Three ministers and three elders were elected today by the Presbytery of Washington City, meeting at West- D | ern Presbyterian Church, to represent 1| the presbytery at the General Assem- bly at Columbus, Ohio, in Ma The commissioners and their alter- t|nates are: Rev. George M. Cumming: pastor of Garden Memorial Church, Ana tia: Rev. Charles Wood, pastor d|of the Church of the Covenant; and Rev. Oscar A. Gillingham, German town, Md. Ministerial alternates—Rev. Henry W. Tolson, Westminster Church; Re Bernard Braskamp, Gunton-Temple, -|and Rev. H. Dunham, Western 1 Church. .| Lay commissioners: Henry E. Bit- “l tinger, Dr. Paul Richmond and W. W. Tuckey; and these lay alternates: J. .| C. Porter, colored; Theodore F. Sar- -| gent and J. W. Towsend. The presbytery re-elected five mem- {bers of the Capital City church tension committee, as follows: Re: Freeley Rohrer. Dr. John C. Palmer. {Judge Raymond Lorenz, J. H. Wurde- man and A. L. Baldwin. ANTI-STRIKE LAWS | DEAD, LABOR FEELS, | AFTER COURT DECISION | (Continued from First Page.) or resources and operatnig them for the benefit of the public, but there is no means available to make an em- ployer pay his employes certain wages and there is no law compelling any man to work against his will. Entirel apart from the merits of the Kansas case, the decision affeets the controversy going on between the railroads and employes’ unions with respect to settlement of disputes. La- bor contended that the present trans- portation act v not to be construed compulsory arbitration, though the railroads insisted that striking shop- men a few years ago were violating a law and “striking against the Gov- {ernment” when they chose to disre- gard the United States Ralilroad La- 'bor Board's rulings. Railroads Change Views. Since that time the railroads them selves have taken the view that the Labor Board ¢ nnot compel obe- dience either with respect to wages or hours of labor or any other rules. In view of this situation labor has advanced the proposal that machinery be created which is purely voluntary in its operation, so that mediation and conciliation can be attempted by com- petent tribunals. Underlying this pro- posal, however, is a recognition fun- damentally that there can be no com- pulsion by law and that only the forces of public opinion can be brought into play in appealing to the | reason and sense of justice of the con- { tending parties. The decision incidentally weakens the position of “the party of the third part,” as the public has been described in labor disputes, and makes it neces- sary for the consumer or the public generally to adopt other means of per- suading the rival interests to come to an agreement so the public will not suffer injury through strikes. GREEN IS GRATIFIED. |A. F. of L. Head Sees Kansas Court Idea Destroyed. Declaring the United States Su- preme Court’s decision yesterday on the Kansas Industrial Court is a clear vindication of the position taken on the Kansas Court by the American Federation of Labor, Willlam Green, its president, made the following statement today: “This decision completely destroys the Kansas Industrial Court act. “While I have not had an oppor- ity to study this decision care- fully, my impression is that it most clearly establishes the principle that ages, hours of employment and working conditions in private indus- try cannot be fixed by law. Through the decision compulsory arbitration has received a death blow and velun- tary agreements and voluntary bar- | gaining between employer and em- ploye is firmly and, we hope, perma- nently established.” IS JUDICIAL ADVISER. Ernesto Barros Aide to Chilean Plebiscitary Delegate. i Ernesto Barros has been appointed by the Chilean government as juridical adviser to Augustin Edwards, the Chilean delegate on the plebiscitary commission. Barros was minister of foreign af- fairs of Chile in 1921, when negotia- CEN o Coolidge and Economy 11-48 renid(‘:ll Postponed BY WILLI Coolidge had hardly taken his s in the White House before he wa called upon to put his ab. stract ideas of governmental economy to the acid test in personal and spec: tacular fashion. He did not hesitate. greater degree of personal com fort and, to some extent, greater per- sonal safety was involved. They weighed nothing in his balances against the need for public economy. The money-spending plan was vetoed; the new occupant of the White House began the practice of what he preached and took his own medicine along with the thousands of his sub- ordinates for whom he had prescrib- ed it. Warren Harding had breathed his last less than 30 days before. Amid national mourning, Coolidge had as sumed the Presidency. One of his first utterances dealt with the subject nearest his heart—public economy. “I am for economy in government, for more economy and still more nomy.” Such was the word that ame from the new Executive and passed down the line from Cabinet members to scrubwomen. Gen. Lord, the budget director, was among the first callers at the White House. He followed the custom of offering to resign his office so that the new President might be unhampered in the selection of a man to carry forward his economy program. The two men sat close together, a batch of papers spread out before them, when General Lord broached the sub- ject. The President begged him not to think of taking such a course. ‘Work Together for Economy Calvin “You are my first choice for the office,” the President is reported to have said, in effect. “Help me by keeping it. Let us work together for econom Thus began to ripen into warm friendship and greater esteem the ac quaintance of the nation’s chief ex- ponent of economy and the man in trusted with carrying out the policy. They made an_admirable team: Cool idge of New England, high priest of the saving virtue, loving thrift with something akin to the passion of youth; Lord of New England, skilled in walking the labyrinthine ways of government spending, deft with the scalpel, ruthless, when need be, with the pruning knife. At that time the government de- partments were making up their an nual estimates of funds nceded to carry them through the coming fiscal vear. :Coolidge himself sent word to them to cut. He wanted less money spent during the coming year, his message said, than the present one. And down the line the sickle swept into the waliting grain, leveling patches here and there. Cutting down the estimates became the hard-boiled order of the day’s business. At the White House the estimates for the coming year were made up by Bascom Slemp, then Secretary to the President. At least, they were made under Mr. Slemp's supervision. And they were transmitted under his di- rection to the budget bureau, where they came at once before the watch- tul eye of the director. White House Disregards Policy What was the director’s astonish- ment to find that the White House itself had flagrantly disregarded the President’s command to cut expenses. There seemed to be no way of be- lieving it, yet there were the figures. Four hundred and odd thousand dol- lars had been added to the previous year's cost of operation. For what? Mainly for repairs to the White House itself. Mindful of the delicacy of his mis- sion, Gen. Lord set about dissect- OFFICE HELP and POSITIONS are Secured daily through the me- dium of the HELP and SITU- ATION columns of The Star. Remember, for a small cost your ‘want is made known to over 100,000 readers of The Star. In this num- ber there is most certain to be found some one looking for that ‘which you have to offer. The want ad brings the two parties togetber. In today's issue are found 46 ad- vertisementg, for office help, in- cluding CLERKS SALESMEN SOLICITORS MESSENGER REPRESENTATIVE OPPORTUNITY FOR SCHOOLBOYS ASSISTANT SHIPPING CLERE CLERK SHOE STORE REAL ESTATE SALESMEN BOOKKEEPERS CASHIER SALESLADIES STENOGRAPHERS TYPISTS and 16 advertisements for office situations, including BOOKKEEPERS CORRESPONDENTS SPANJSH) STENOGRAPHERS CLERKS EVENING CLERICAL WORK SECRETARY TYPISTS (UNDERSTAND tions for arbitration of the Tacna- Arica dispute were started. He also | one of the compilers of Chile’s case and counter case i tion, SOCIAL SECRETARY Read them. They mas con message of vital interest to v SORED Years to S White House Repairs ave Money. M HELM. wo ing the details of the added expense He found that it had been embodied in the estimate largely on the recom- mendation of government expe s who had examined the condition of the White House and result had be £un to entertain fears as to its safety. The White Hou h been standir a long time—more than a centur Its timbers were stout and strong when first they were laid in But the ravages of time h; to crumble them here and them there. Inspection had discle the fact that some of the supports to the White House roof had out lived their time. The: supports and other timbers were rapidly approach. ing the point where replacements soon | would be necessary {mmediate danger that the roof would | topple in, but the time was approach ing when such danger would become a real one. Secretary Slemp had pondered over | | the question of including a request for | the money for repairs and then, with- out consulting his chief, but of a single desire to afford him maximum comfort and protection, had decided to ask for the money. Thus $400,000 was added to the estimate Of the existence of such a request the Presi- dent himself knew absolutely nothing. President Hears News On one of his regular weekly visits to the President's desk, Gen. Lord took with him the White House esti mate. He placed it down, opened before the President at his desk and called attention to the fact that the figures were much la r than those submitted for the previous year—in fact, twice as large President Coolidge w He sent for Secretary Slemp. “Why?" was the purport of the President’s question. Mr. Slemp stated the case in his logical and incisive manner and withdrew. The President took his pencil and drew a line through the addition. “We can get along without while, s his only comment And so when the estimate for the White House emerged in final form it contained no trace of moneys for | repairing the somewhat shaky roof. or did it run to so great a total had the previous estimate. y Coolidge had decided to take the i risk; he had begun to practice gov-| ernmental economy within the White | House Experts Grow Insistent Eighteen months later, the govern- ment's building experts came around again, tapped the weakening beams | and sounded the aging timbers. And| this time they were more insistent.! There began to be talk about the White House being unsafe, about the chances of its roof falling some day or night under heavy snow or the blow of voung hurricanes such as sweep Washington occasionally This time the estimate for repairs | was included, although the President consented with reluctance, even then. | But in the meantime, Calvin Coolidge reckoned he had saved the taxpavers two yvears' interest on $400,000. And when you come to look at it in the approved New England way two_years' interest on .$400,000, fig- ured at 6 per cent. amounts to $48,- 000. This figurfng softened somewhat the blow to the Coolidge economy pro- gram. It made it a bit easier for the President to agree to the request. By postponing the repairs' Mr. Cool- idge had save some tens of thousands | in interest—saved it for the taxpay- ers, as he saw it. And now, with that ving an accomplished fact, the roof will be repaired. (Copyright, 19 d begun weaken ed s astounded. it for The third article in this series will deal with dry mavy ezpenditures. WILL ABANDON—RAIL LINE. Boston & Maine’s Nashua-Acton Branch Tnprofitable. | Permission to abandon 20 miles of railroad between Nashua, N. H., and North Acton, Mass., was given the Boston and Maine Railroad today by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The corporation’s accounting showed that dnring 1922 the operation of the line cost the Boston and Maine $55,- 946 more than it received in revenue. The commission held that the aban- donment of the property would not affect seriously the communities which it was bullt to serve. The Boston and Maine has a num ber of applications pending before the commission for the abandonment of large portions of its lines, but the ac- tion, today was taken on a petition filed in August, 1924, by the railroad and before the larger abandonment program was laid out for the com- mission’s approval. No decision has been announced on the later applica- tions. e 1y Iw There was no | | cor SEEKING MEMBERS Officers of Army, Navy and Marine Corps Invited to Enroll. Invitations are being sent today to officers in the Army, y and Ma- | rine Corps and to officers who served | during the World War extending them | the privilege of becoming life members in the Army, nd Marine Corps Country Club, which is being estab- lished on the site of the old Columbus Country Club at Arlington Heights, Coincident with this announce- ment came a statement from Secre ary Wilbur of the Na Department pointing to the desirability of having such a club here and expressing hope for its success. A number of high officials of the services also have baen selected on the advisory committee, which will have charge of the work | of getting the club in running order. Secretary Wilbur Approves. 1 I believe that the establishment of @ country club for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps officers, as proposed by the organization committee elected the officers of these branches of in Washington,'Is very d F sald Secretary Wilbur. trust that the efforts of the organi- zation to omplish this result will be successful.’ Other officials who have expressed the need for such a club, which would provide recreation for the officers of the three services stationed in and around Washington, and who are tak ing an active interest in its develop- ment are: Dwight F. Davis, Assistant etary of War; T. Douglas Robin- . Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1aj. Gen. John L. Hines, Admiral ¥ Maj. Gen. John Eberle and Lejeune. Names Advisory Committee. The board of governor capt. F. B. B has announcec bership of the Army—Assi Davis, 1. staff; Maj. Gen. G. C. Rickards, chief of the Militia Bureau; Maj. Gen. M. N. Patrick, chief of the Air Service; Maj. Gen. Matin Craig. chief of Cav airy, and M . 'A. Hull, judge advocate Navy Navy Ivisory committee nt S ary of War Hines, chief of the Eb. and presi ssistant Secretary of Robinson, Admiral E. W, erle, chief of naval operations, itear Admiral H ¥. Jones, dent of the general board Marine Corps—Maj. Gen Lejeune, commandant Reserve Corps—Brig. Gep. L. C Andrew: O. R. (., Assistant Secre. tary of the Treasury 18-Hole Golf Course Planned. it was John A It annc 1s have need been completed one 18-hoie goli one 9-hole cou 16 tennis cou and n outdoor swimming pool. The clubhouse is to be recon ditioned and expanded and will pro- vide all the requirements cial and recreational diver: fi 1 their families { ound: re to be treated by a | pe gardener and the idea is e it one of the beauty spots overlooking the Capi It only about 10 minutes by automobile from the buildings in the Mall which house the three services. It is planned also to follow the scheme laid out for beau- tifying the Tidal asin and Speed way by setting up trees and shrubs vich will provide continuous blos soming. fe SMALLPOX IN BRENTWOOD One Case Reported—Patient Is Recovering. Special Dispatch to The Sta BRENTWOOD, Md., April 14 Rumors that smallpox existed in Brentwood and that the municipality was making little effort to cope with the disease were denied by the mayor and city council last night, at a meeting at which a report was made on one case here—said to be the sole instance of the disease in Prince Georges County—b; Dr. Harry Malley of Mount Rainier. Dr. Malley said he w attending Mrs. Emma L. Dempsey of Dewey street, Brentwood, just across the District line and that his patient now was well on the way to recovery. The authorities were informed every precaution had been taken. Low Termsk S BUNGALOWS GARAGES WASHINGTON CONSTRUCTION CO. 1210 Phone. | Room | _Continental Trust_co. 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It had been originally intended to sink only two holes, but when the en gineers in charge of the work found the great difference in points where | rock was first struck they decided,to | make four or five more borings, some of them nearer the river's edge and some farther back than where the first holes were sunk. This is neces sary, they say, in order to give pro- spective bidders a good idea of the ex- have to build in order to protect the masonry while under _construction This will not increase the cost of the iridge structure to any. extent, it was sald. Until the work is completed on the Potomac Park shore there will be no boring in the river proper, although the Army dredge Atlas has already sunk the necessary piles for the bor- ing work there. The preliminary work incident to MILLS BUILDING Pa. Ave., 17th & G Sts. N.W. 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