Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1925, Page 13

DEDICATE GETTYSBURG monies at historic Ge ME! MORIAL TO NUNS WHO NURSED FIGHTEI ysburg May 11, when a monument was dedicated to the nuns of the Church of St. General view of the cere: Francis Xavier, who cared for the wounded soldiers during the battle of Geitysburg. The monument takes the form of the remodeled church, and is presented by the Knights of Columbus of Pennsylvania. WASHINGTON GIRLS IN BALLET FOR THE WALTER WYNN FUND. Members of the Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Tehernikoff- Gardner School, who will dance in the benefit performance arranged by the Vincent B. Costello Post, No. 15, of the American Legion. The entertainment takes place at the Washington Auditorium Friday evening, the proceeds going to the fund for Walter Wynn, disabled hero of the World War. BRANCH LIBRARY WILL OPEN FRIDAY Exercises to Be Held at Mt. Pleasant Institution. Cost $200,000. The Mount Pleasant branch of the Public Library, at Sixteenth and La- fnont streets, will be formally opened ¥riday evening at 8 o'cock. In the absence of Theodore W. Noyes, president of the board of li- $rary trustees, Justice Wendell P. [stafford, vice president of the board, | The exercises wi gist “of the transfer of the k the building by Lieut. Col. J. Frank- Jin Bell, Engineer Commissioner of the District, to Dr. Fr. Ballou, will preside. wcting chairman of the committee on | pranch libraries, and of brief remarks by representatives of local organiza- tions, as follows: M. V. I retir- ing president of the Mount Pleasant Citizens' Association: W. I. Swanton, president of the Columbia Heights Citizens' Assoclation and a member of the new Citizens’ Advisory Coun- cil; George A. Ricker, president Kal- orama Citizens' Association; E. B. Henderson, president Piney Branch itizens' Association, and Mrs. Joshua ivans, jr. representing the Twen- tieth Century Club. The public li- brarian, Dr. George F. Bowerman, also will speak briefly will the branch librarian, Miss Margery Quig- Rev. Dr. James H. Taylor, pas- of the Central Presbyterian Church, will offer the invocation. Music preceding and interspersed in the program will be furnished by the United States Army Band Orchestra, 1. S. Yassell, director. At the close f the exercises the building will be hrown open for inspection. Building Cost $200,000. The Mount Pleasant Branch Library Building has been erected from funds furnished by the Carnegle Corporation New York. The central building and the Takoma and Southeastern of branches were likewise built with Car- | negie money. The new building cost £200,000, which was double the sum first allotted by the Carnegie Corpora- tion for this building. The architect of this building is Ed- ward L. Tilson of New York, who has recently been awarded a gold medal by the American Institute of Archi- tects for his work as a planner of library buildings. The builders are the Schneider-Spliedt Co. of this city. The branch library will be opened for public use Saturday morning, with about 8,000 volumes on its shelves and 100 magazines on file. The book stock will be rapidly increased. since Con- gress appropriated .$15,000 in a de- ficiency bill and §: regular appropriation for this branch. The branch will also be able to draw on the collection of the central library and other branches, which now number nearly volumes. The Mount Pleasant branch will be open on week days from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., except that on Wednesdays the hours will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., as at the central library. The branch will be closed on Sundays and holi- days. — ¢ Eastern Canada is developing sal- mon canning under supervision of the Quebec government. ,000 in next year's | stocking | 275,000 | Feminine Fashions Hurt Textile Trade, Economist Holds Five Use Less Yardage Than One Formerly Did, He Says. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, May 13.—Present-day fashions in feminine clothing are hav- ing a damaging effect on the textile {industry of the country, Norman H. Johnson of Richmond, Va., declared here yesterday. He is secretary and economist of the Southern Wholesale Drygoods Association, and addressed the opening session of its four-day con- vention. | “The sorrier the stuff is, and the less utility it has and the higher its| price, the greater is the demand,” Johnson said. “Women have lost their cunning as shrewd buyers of tex- tile merchandise.” The standard kinds of goods which ormerly constituted 80 per cent of the trade in textiles are no longer in demand, he said. ‘The popular demand now is for ‘freak” goods, of foreign materials. This condition, the association econo- mist declared, made the past year one of the most unsatisfactory in the an- nals of the textile industry. He pre- dicted improved conditions. He deplored the fact that it takes less dry goods vardage to dress women today. “It used to take 10 yards of cloth to make u dress,” he said. “To- day five women Go not wear the yard- age that one woman wore before the ‘World War.” COLORFUL COSTUMES WILL FEATURE PLAY “Alice in Blunderland” Is Pro- claimed as Clever “Satire on | Washington Life.” | | While grotesque costume and clever quip will predominate in the satire on Washington_life, “Alice in Blunder- land,” at the National Theater to. night, colorful and artistic scenes and many beautiful costumes will lend to the show an attractive professional atmosphere not always obtained in lo- cal productions, according to those be- hind th$ benefit. Victo! Kerney, who is directing “Alice” and her 40 friends in “Blun- derland,” the District of Columbia, which will be followed throughout, and is said to achieve an unusual e | fect with blending of colors. | Music also will be a feature of the show, with a -chorus of Brittany malds, attired in picturesque costumes of that country. Sixteen girls from the Marjorie Webster School of Danc- ! ing will present the Lobster Quadrille. Vice President D#wves will be repre- sented during the satire by Mrs. | Philip Sydney Smith, as the Knave of | Hearts; the women’s bureau of the Police Department will be represented by Mrs. Gerritt S. Miller, as the 1Duchess, and the Police Department | itself will be portrayed by Mrs. Ben- jamin E. Smith, as a Dormouse. Other figures prominent in Washington will be the subject of satirical fun. has designed a decorative scheme | The show is presented by the Twen- tieth Century Club for the benefit of the Juvenile Protective Association and the Travelees' Aid Society. Copyright by Harris & Ewink. STRESS NEWSPAPER AID T0 CHURCHES Thorough System of Adver- tising Commended at World Ad Club Convention. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., May 13.—Adver- tising by churches and by communi- ties was advocated by speakers before sectional meetings of the Associated Adverttsing Clubs of the World to- day. Advertising by the churches is worth trying if men are worth try- ing,” Rev. Kerrison Juniper, Congre- gational pastor at St. Petersburg, Fla., told the church advertising depart- ment. “George A. Pickens, general secre- tary of the Missouri Assoclation, sug- gested to the community advertising department that “the community is primarily a business and that the people are stock holders in it,” while Jefferson Thomas of Jacksonville, Fla., asserted that “taxation is a fea- sible source of revenue for community advertising.” He followed it with a statement that Florida is considering an appropriation of $400,000 from State funds for an all-Florida adver- tising campaign. Plan for Next Cenvention. Philadelphia has been recommended for the 1926 convention of the or- ganization by the board of club presi- dents. The convention will vote Thursday on the nomination. Financial advertisers were told by A. P. Howard, New Orleans banker, that savings bank advertising “should emphasizes less the ‘rainy day’ neces- sity for saving and more the pleasant things one can do with wealth which comes from persistent savin Herbert S. Houston, New York publisher, said, ““The challenge to the couptry here and now, is two-fold, to lay 'a broad democratic. basis for private property and then let every man, woman and child in America know that it is laid.” Kenneth Bernard, manager of the Better Business Bureau, Detroit, said that ‘“‘the greatest weapon on better business bureaus is to prevent fraud in advertising,” and E. H. Kittredge, Boston, .announced. the assoclation had undertaken a survey of newspaper rates and circulation in the United States in order that “we may have a vard stick with which to measure ac- curately or fairly the goods we pur- chase."” Homer J. Buckley of Chicago told the Direct Mail Advertising Associa- tion “that mass selling is ore of the chief causes for waste in direct mail advertising.” He did not mean, he said, that it should be discontinued, but he emphasized that it should be restricted. Willlam N. Bayliss of Cleveland ad- vised the Posters' Advertising Asso- ciation that indlvidual churches can employ the poster as an advertising medium with profit. “This is par- ticularly true,” he said, “where it is a community church.” Larger churches, however, he told the church advertising department a. little later, could profitably use the newspapers. “I think the time is not far off,” he said, “when individual churches will cease to spend their money on small indfvidual announce- ments, but will pool their interests and make common cause in full page advertisements in the daily press.” GOV. RITCHIE ATTENDS DEDICATION CEREMONY. taken at the Church of St. Francis Gettysburg as a hospital. Left to knight of the Knights of Columbus; Harrisburg diocese, and Gov. Ritchie ONE OF HER FEW PHOTOGRAPH of the pre: is a rare picture. She lives quietly Ttalian capital or other points where Photograph Xavier, used during the battle of right: James A. Flaherty, supreme Rev. Philip P. McDevitt, Bishop of of Maryland. By United News Pictures. S. Signora Rachele Mussolini, wife r of Italy, has seldom posed for the photographer, and this at Milan, making few trips to the her husband appears. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. D. C. TO STUDY CHARITY CHESTS ELSEWHERE BEFORE ADOPTING Social Welfare Leaders Authorize Committee of 15 to Examine Other Cities ments Pro Careful investigation of the experi- ence other cities have had with the community chest plan of financing their charitable agencies will be made before Washington decides whether it will adopt the method here. More than 100 men and women who take an active Interest in the civic and soclal welfare activities of the District authorized such an inquiry when they assembled in the boardroom of the District Building yesterday afternoon at the call of Commissioner Rudolph. Following a brief discussiom, during which the chest plan was dealt with in general terms, a resolution was adopted empowering Commissioner Rudolph to name a committee of 15 to delve into all phases of the proposed method of financing. There was no direct opposition to the community chest expressed, but several speakers said they were open- minded on the question and that they wanted to ascertain what ar- guments are advanced by those per- sons who have opposed tlLe chest plan in other cities. Scope of Investigation. The motion providing for the in- vestigation was offered by Clarence Aspinwall and directed the commit- tee to determine whether the plan could be applied here. The commit- tee was given authority to employ clerical assistance, if necessary, and to name a subcommittee on finance should funds be needed to complete the survey. Dr. Charles P. Neill proposed an amendment which would have re- quired the committee to visic other communities where the chest plan s in effect to get first-hand information both from opponents and advocates. Dr. Neill later agreed to a revision of his amendment, suggested by W. W. Millan, which’ did not make it compulsory for the committee to travel, but authorized them to make as thorough an inquiry of conditions {in other cities as possible. After Commissioner Rudolph had made the opening address he invited John Thider of the civic development department of the United States Chamber of Commerce to outline the main features of the community chest plan. Mr. Thlder explained thatsits pur- pose is to raise through- one appeal the funds' needed for the private social agencies of a city, in so far as those agencies need public sup- port. It has nothing to do with gov- ernmental or_ municipal institutions, he emphasized. Used in Building Drives. “The chest does not usually include the capital charges of institutions, but it can be used as an agency to direct drives for building funds or to al- locate the time during the year for conducting building drives.” The primary purpose of the com- munity chest, Mp/ZIhlder sald, is to take care of the/current needs of in- stitutions. “Th are two outstand- ing reasons, hf said, which usually prompt adoptidn of the chest plan: for raising. more money than hafil been raised previous- ly, and, secong, to relieve the tax on the time and fenergy of public spirit- ed men which| results from a duplica- tion , of - appeals for .contributions throughout .the year. Dr. Neill then made a’ plea that the > Experience and Argu- and Con. investigating committee make every effort to find out what opposition ha developed to community chest pla in other cities. He said the commit- tee should not confine its data to re- ports from those in charge of the community chests elsewhere, but should get reports from those who have opposed it. Rev. John O'Grady declared he was finding it difficult to make up his mind on the question. He characterized the community chest movement as still in an_experimental stage, and d the belief it had not been long enough to correctly judge its merits. In conclusion, how- ever, he said he was in favor of the proposed investigation by a com- mittee. Puts Issue Up to Public. C. S. Watts told briefly of the suc- cess Cincinnati has had with the com- munity chest, and explained that in that city a donor may designate his contribution to go to specific char- ities, or may allow it to go in the general fund. The question of whether the time.is ripe to establish the community chest plan in Washington is one for the peo- ple of the city, and not the Commis- sioners, to decide, Commissioner Ru- dolph said in his address at the con- vening of the meeting. “It is for you and others who are interested jn soclal work in, the Dis- trict of Columbia to say whether the time is ripe to adopt the community chest method of financing welfare !work in Washington,” 'said Mr. Ru- dolph. “What we, as Commissioners, are doing is to invite you to meet here to- day for full and frank discussion of the subject in the hope that if publiz opinion has so far crystallized that ‘Washington ‘contributors and social agencies working hand in hand would welcome a community chest, or one united annual appeal, in place of the present individual appeals, a way may be found to investigate the subject fully, both from the point of view of the contributor and from the point of view of the board member who is giv- ing voluntary service and accepting responsibility for financing a particu- lar agency or agencles in which he is interested.” After referring to the present method of having each agency handle its own financing, Commissioner Rudolph said criticisms are ~frequently offered against that method “as being unbusi- nesslike, wasteful and to a certain ex- tent ineffective. Because these criti- cisms have been so frequently ex- pressed many individuals, as well as our trade and civic organizations, dur- ing the past two or three years have ®iven consideration to the question of the community chest as a possible an- swer to the problem.” he continued. Commissioner - Rudolph then paid tribute to the public service that has been rendered by the Charity In- dorsement Committee, created 15 years ago for the purpose of -preparing an annual roster of worthy charities. This work has been rendered inef- fective in many cases, the Commis- sioner said, because persons solicited have not consulted the published list of approved charities. Effect of Method Shown. To show what has been -done in other cities with the community chest plan, M= Rudolph read a‘summary of MAY 13, 1925. NEW YORK’S “BOTTLED IN BOND™ SUPPLY GETS A SAD BLOW. According to prohibition agents, large part of the “genuine imported” liquor supply of the metropol ing establishment was raided at 19 Vesey street. was cut off when this big manufactur- Five floors of the building contained complicated machin- ery for the making of bootleg liquor, and the raid netted a stock worth $100,000 at bootleg rates. “Sweet Marie,” one of the attrac- tions of the Ringling Brothers’ and Barnum & Bailey Circus, coming to Washington -fomorrow, poses as a “sharpshooter” of the camera corps. RADIO INNOVATION IN CHICAGD DENIED WRC Rebroadcast Plane-to- Earth Conversa.tion Here | Last June. | The Army aviators and radio ex- perts 1n Chicago who are taking credit for first rebroadcasting a plane-to- earth conversation vesterday, are just about a year behind in their experi- ments, it was said today by WRC, the Radio Corperation of America's Capi- tal broadcaster. A de Haviland plane equipped with the latest type receiving and transmit- ting radio apparatus, it was pointed out, flav over Washington last June, while its observer talked to the radio audience through WRC. The conver- sation was picked up by WRC's re- ceiving apparatus and rebroadcast on a lower wave band. The achievement was marred somewhat by heavy static. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, May 13.—Army aviators and radio experts, who for the past three days have been conducting ex- perimental _flights, announced last night that for the first time in radio history a -successful plane-to-earth conversation had been picked up and sent out over the air again on a dif- terent wave length by a broadcast- ing station. The plane used a 50-watt transmit- ter broadcasting on 750 meters. This was picked up by station WLS here and rebroadcast on its regular wave of 345 meters with 100 watts of power. Many listeners have -heard the: air- plane conversation. The new method of transmission will be used in connection with the United States Army war show at Grant Park Stadium next week, when Maj. Gen. Hale, commanding the 6th Army Corps, will direct a squadron of airplanes from the stadium, his orders and the flight commanders" replies be- ing picked up and rebroadcast by sta- tion WLS. | —_— | Flour Mill Safe. Robbed. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., May 13.— Safecrackers got $2,125 in cash and negotiable papers from the flour mill of Kline Brothers at Benevola, seven miles south of here, last night. The combination lock had been knocked off and the inner compartments of the safe pried open. Police have taken the trail with but nder clues. a report prepared by Mr. Thider, which showed the following: “In 1924 there were recorded 223 community chests in operation. These appealed for $43,270,002. These se- cured $41,985,104. ' Thirteen chests have been abandoned in the course of the experiment. Among the larger cities which have adopted the chest plan are Cleveldnd, Cincinnati, Buf- falo, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Rich- mond, ‘Atlanta and New Orleans. “We are informed that Boston is se- riously considering the adoption of the plan. Chicago and New York are ex- ceptions. Washington has had ardent advocates of the plan among many of our most_generous contributors. “I am well aware that it is not for the Commissioners of the District to o or to definitely advocate such a plan for Wi It is a mat- ter for the people of the District as wrivate 4}:!’— to pass upon.” i Copyright Ly LITTLE WASHINGTONIAN AS PETER PAN. Underwood & Underwoo: Helen May Rioedorn who takes the leading role in a community center entertainment at Wilson Normal Friday evening. Dentist’s Monkey Chooses F Street In AW.O.L. Jaunt Picked Up Today After 24-Hour Absence—All Is Forgiven. Joe, a_lonesome little _ring-tailed monkey belonging to Dr. M. R. Hay wood of 612 Fourteenth street, tired of his existence in an instrument-filled dentist’s office, took the night “out” last night. As a result Dr. Haywood spent a few anxious hours this morn- ing until the pet was located, car fully chained to a far-removed part of an F street store, into which it had wandered a short time before. Joe has shared Dr. Haywood's office for a year, the dentist having cap- tured him during a tour of the Amazon Valley. Although the dentist had let the simian roam pretty much at will of late, he had never been known to keep late hours. ‘When Joe failed to turn up at his accustomed hour yesterday, however, Dr. Haywood started a search that availed nothing, and upon reaching his office this morning he found the little fellow still absent. Business was promptly forgotten for the next hour or so, until the glad news of his recovery was telephoned to Dr. Haywood. Just what Joe did with his time remains an unanswered mystery, bu: Dr. Haywood is not concerned with his pet's secrets as long as he is content to lead a model life in the future. AT ASK DISTRICT TO BUY SITE FOR PLAYGROUND Sixteenth Street Heights Citizens Want Park Named After First Governor Here. The Sixteenth Street Citizens’ Association adopted a resolution at its meeting last night at the home of Edmund J. Powell, 1209 Geranium street, call- ing on city officials to purchase seven and a half acres of land lying along Georgia_avenue north of Fern street for a playground and park. The association proposed that the park be called “Shepherd Park” in honor of the first governor of the District of Columbia under the old form- of government here, who was the ploneer in the development of streets, parks and sewers. THhe 4880~ clation also asked that the trees in this section be preserved. A resolution was passed approving the efforts of the Potomac Park Asso- clation to get a junior high school in their gection. Another resolution was introduced by Mrs. H. M. Phillips, Heights chafrman of the educational commit- | tee, urging the erection of an eight- | room grade school on Alaska avenue. Officers Out of Hospital. First. Lieut. Willlam H. Collette, U. S. Infantry, who has been under treatment at Walter Reed General Hospital, has been ordered to Manila, Philippine Islands, for duty. First Lieut. Leander Larsen, Quartermaster Corps, at. the same hospital, has been ordered {o the Quartermaster Corps School,” Philadelphia. unanimously , Washington MORE MEDIAL D INSCHODLSUREED | Visiting Nurse Society Sug- | gests Increase in Number of Examiners and Inspectors. Star Pho Recommendations made for crease in the number of school medical | examiners, nurses and dental inspec tors were unanimously indorsed b the board of managers of the Ins tive Visiting Nurse Society of Wash ington at its regular meeting, held vesterday at the residence of Mus. Franklin Ellis, 1227 Nineteenth street These recommendations were included in a joint report of a subcommitiee of the Monday Evening Club and t health committee of the Washingt Council of Social Agencie: The soclety put itself on record convinced that a complete physita examination at regular intervals du ing the life of every child is essential to its normal development, and the board instructed its secret: a letter incorporating the above recom: mendations to the Board of Educatic which for years has indorsed increased appropriations for these items Will Study Health Situation Mrs. Cresson Newbold and Miss Julia R. Mattis were appointed a spe cital committee to study the loc: health situation, under which it | said that approximately only one of the children in the first g benefit by an annual examination. Another important point dis was the care of contagious di: the District. The ideal standard, as laid 'down by the United States Public Health Service, is 50 beds for gious diseases per each 100,000 popu tion. At this rate Washington, it was pointed out, should have 250 such beds; as a matter of fact it possesses exclusive of beds reserved for small pox, only about 90. A motion was adopted to indorse the recommendation of the health o ficer, Dr. William C. Fowler, who is a member of the medical advisory com- mittee of the board, for an increased appropriation for facilities for cari for contagious disease cases within th District of Columbia. 3,960 Patients Cared For. The report of the work of the I V. N. S. for the month showed that 3,960 patients had. been carried by the nurses of the society and that a total of 7499 visits had been made during the month. In the absence of the president, Mrs Whiteman Cross, Mrs. G. Brown Mil- ler, first vice president, presided | Those present were: Mrs. A. C. Miller, Mrs. John W. Davidge, Mrs. Franklin Ellis, Mis: Farrar-Smith, Mrs. Fra E. Weeden, Mrs. Northup Dean, Mrs Cresson Newbold, Miss Julia R. Mat tis, Mrs. William 'C. Grinnell and Miss Sarah Lee. Officers Under Training. capt. Daniel J. Richardson, Judg: Advocate General's Department Re- serve; First Lieut. Aaron Capper Medical Corps Reserve, and First Lieut. Elgin F. Dyer, Quartermaster Corps Reserve, all of this city, have been ordered to active duty under training. Capt. Richardson will be stationed in this city, Lieut. Capper = Carlisle bayracks, Pa., and Lieut. Dyer at New York City. an ruc