Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1925, Page 23

MT. VERNON ROAD - PLANTO BE URGED Should Be Open for 1932 Celebration, Representative . J. Walton Moore Declares. ®Y WILL P. KENNEDY. Linking in with the new Arlington Memorial Bridge just authorized by Congress, the actual construction of which is to start June 1, with the broad processional avenue from the <apitol to Arlington National Ceme- tery across the Memorial Bridge, with the park driveway connecting the chain of forts around the Capital City and with the Lee highway tra- versing the country from Californi is a long-contemplated memoria boulevard from the Memorial Bridge to Mount Vernon. In order that this “Mount Vernon avenue” may be completed before the world comes to the City of Wash- ington to pay its respects to the “Father of His Country,” at his tomb on the Mount Vernon estate on the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington. February 1932, Representative R. Walton Moor of Virginia, representing the district which includes the Mount Vernc «state, will urge for prompt action by Congress as soon as it reassembles in December Urged 40 Years This Mount been co Axo. Vernon avenue” project h sympathetically considered by gress for nearly 10 years and advocated by many of those who far- sightedly worked for the development and beautification of the National Capital, especially with a view to making it easier for all the pcopie of the country to visit the home and tomb of Washington, particularly in these days of general automobile touring. There President members, vlans fc 1932 o George not but is a commission headed Coolidge, consisting of which is now & fitting celebration in the 200th anniversary of Washington's rth, in which only the entire United State many other nations as w will te. The ration of this co sfon. of which William Ty Page, clerk of the Hou exe tive secretary, is expected in having the Mount Vernon avenue legislation Representative Moore also uced the resolution for ap- pointment of the bicentennial com- mission Sympathetic a by | 19 is hearings were held on the Mount Vernon avenue bill before the House committee on roads last April, at which these plans were out- lined by Representative Moore, Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads of the De- partment of Agriculture; former Represe ative Philip P. Campbell, Charles H. Callahan of Alexandria author of “The Life of George Wash- ington, the Mason,” who was a prime mover for the construction of the great Masonic memorial now being built in Alexendria; former Repre sentative C. C. Carlin of Alexandria, Mrs. H. W. Fitch, representing the Colonial Dames of the District of Columbia; Charles Moore, chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts, and M. B. Harlow of Alexandria, origi- nator of the boulevard project. Roadway 30 Feet Wide. This legislation provides that the Becretary of Agriculture be author- ized to construct and maintain this Mount Vernon avenue, ‘connecting | Mount Vernon, which was the home and is the burial place of George Washington, in the State of Virginia, | with the City of Washington, District of Columbia. The idea, as explained to the House committee, Is to have a 30-foot roa way, with an 80-foot right of way ornamented with trees, sod banks and shrubbery, “properly landscaped.” The proposed avenue would be 12 to 14 miles long. The Mount Vernon boulevard is an essential feature of the parks system plan of 1901, on which Congress has been working for more than 25 years, Charles Moore emphasized. He ex- plained that with a population more than a half million this city must look forward to a population of 1,000,000 within a comparatively short time. It has already spread into Vir- ginia and Maryland. He pointed out the large Government holdings along | this proposed highway, including | 7.000 acres at Camp Humphries. He | sald that in time all of these Govern-1 ment holdings will be linked up— | Arlington, Manassas, Occoquan, Camp | Humphries and Mount Vernon—with the park system of Greater Wash- ington, under the National Capital Parks Commisison. He stressed also | that the road to Camp Humphries, which is about half the entire length of the proposed Mount Vernon ave- | nue, is & National highway, and the| route of travel betwen Was and Florida. Semiuscon In telling a congressional commit- tee why Congress should act prompt- 1y in having the Mount Vernon ave- nue bullt, Mr. Moore said: In 1901 the District of Columbi celebrated the one hundredth ann versary of the removal of the seat of government from Philadelphia to Washington. Congress had a cele. | bration at the Capitol. The President had a celebration at the White House, at which the governors of all the States came together. Out of that celebration grew what is known as the plan of 1901 for the develop- ment of the park system of the D trict of Columbia That plan was prepared under the direction of the United States Senate and was pub- lished with a great wealth of illu trations in 1902 In accordance with that plan the railroad tracks were removed from the all and the Union Station was built. The Lincoln Memorial was planned and was built in accordance with the plan. The M moriai Bridge was located in that plan, and you gentlemen are going to build the Memorial Bridge. “The time has come now aration for celebrating the 200th an- niversary of the birth of George Washington, to put in order the ecity of Washington, the Capital of th United States, to carry out to its le- gitimate conclusion that plan of 1901 based on the pian of 1792, and to make Washington a city that George | Washington would like to see if he were back on %arth; to carry to the ultimate conclusion George Wash- ington’s own ideas as to the develop- ment of the National Capital.” Present Road Inadeguate. The chief of the Bureau of Public Roads particularly emphasized that two sections of the present road “are now totally inadequate for the pres- ent traflic” and that “conditions that exist at the entrance to Mount Ver- non are a national disgrace,” and that about 275,000 persons from all over the world visit this shrine each year. The present roadway to Alexandria, e pointed out, was torn to pieces by heavy truck travel during the war when Camp Humphreys was estab- lished, and “it has been a matter of large expense to maintain that sec- tion of the road since.” The last two miles of the road to Mt. Vernon, where the tourists leave the paved nignway at Gum Springs is now main- talned by the Federal Government. He called attention also to the fact that heavy motor busses running to Mount Vernon, make necessary a more substantial roadbed all the way from the Capital. Mr. MacDonald also made it clear in prep- formulating | } Mount of | Horn-Rimmed Specs On King George Are London Sensation By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 16.—King George's latest gesture toward the cementing of the English-speaking peoples is his approval of American horn-rimmad glasses, @ pair of which rested on the royal nose while his majesty read the opening address at the Wembley Ex- hibition last week. King George's ef- fort is certain to rark with the great- est conciliatory achievements of his majesty, for royal sanction of these optical aids removes a subject for many music hall jokes and much more private and severe criticism of Amer- “an peculiarities. Even before Ambassador Harvey urrived wearing his pair of tortoise shells, American glasses were a con- stant source of humor and sarcasm n London newspapers and were the favorite smile producers of cartoon- ists and variety artists. King George's action fairly upset the even run of London life. Many newspapers got out huge placards reading “the King in horn-rimmed wlasses” and other similar lines, while [l the papers carried pictures of his e in full optical regalia, and used several columns in recording and commenting upon the event. The new glasses are certain to be- come popular in England, because op- ticians are as eager clothiers to well their coffers whenever royalty aves to set a new style. Heretofore, n-rimuy mlasses have distin- hed American tourists in Eng- ind. Now Americans will be able to {pass unremarked unless they talk, and are detected by what is Known here as “the American accent.” gul memorial avenue it | make a decided improvement | entrance to Mount Vernon. An indication of the nembers of Congress on found in the remarks ntative Edward B. is proposed to at the feeling of the subject of Repre- Almon of Ala- | bama, who sald: often wished that all the American people could visit Wash- ington because there are so many things here of national interest that 1 believe would give them a better idea of our Government and its or- ganization and make them better Americans, and a visit to the tional Capital without visit to Vernon, of course, is incom- plete. There are more tourists com- ing to Washington now by railroad nd over the roads in cars than ever be- fore in the history of the Nation. I have been here for the last 10 years, and I know there has been far more tour- sts here this vear than at any time during those 10 years, and no doubt they will continue to come. “I have often heard it said by a great many of my constituents that they had only a short time here, and that it took so long a time to go to Mount Vernon by the present mode of transportation that they would have 10 cut that out. For those reasons, I think it is highly important that the Government take some steps to improve the method of transporta- tion between Washington and Mount Vernon.” “I have Proposed by M. B. Harlow. Two score years ago this me- morial boulevard was conceived by M. B. Harlow, who recently appeared before the House committee on roads, and who at that time was treasurer of Alexandria. His idea was that the people of Virginia and the United States should unite in erecting a tribute to the memory of the founder of this Nation. He proposed that. the most useful, lasting ‘and beneficial memorial which could be built to the memory of Washington as President, soldier and statesman would be to link the city which he laid out with his tomb by a great highway combin- ing the idea of the Appian Way at Rome and of London's Westminster streams along the route as memorials to the great foreign soldiers who {fought to ald the American revolu- tionists. The historic and sentimental rea- | sons for memorializing the region through which the road passes were emphasized by Mr. Callahan, who {graphically pointed out the many points of interest for tourists, con- spicuous among them being the tow- ering pyramidal Masonic memorial at ithe entrance to Alexandria, where room has been left for the Mount Ver- non avenue to lead directly to this | structure. He described the scenery along the {road which is to start from the south end of the Memorial bridge across the Potomae, and skirt the hills known as Braddock Heights and Arlington Heights. It would extend along what is known as Braddock Helghts, where Gen. Braddock's army wintered in 1755, and from which point it started on its disasterous advance in the Monongahela campaign. There-Brad- dock was killed and his army re- turned. Washington, who was made a major on Gen. Braddock's staff, re- turned with it. This road will extend a short distance below the site of Braddock's camp at this temporary site. The northern road leading by | it and diverging from it was known {as the Leesburg Turnpike the first in States, con- in toll road structed the United 6. Pasnes Historie Spot. On Shooters Hill, on the site oc- cupled by the temple, or within 100 ards of it lived Ludwell Lee, eldest son of Richard Henry Lee, the Vir- ginia patriot and author of the resolu- tion that brought on the Declaration of Independence. The road leading out on the south side of the temple is the King's high- way. Just beyond the temple it turns across what is known now, and was known then, as Cameron Farm, which was owned and occupied by Charles Broadwater, the colleague of Wash- ington in the House of Burgesses. Alexandria has a great many places of interest and leaving Alexandria one passes into the Cameron Run Valley, in which are numerous his- toric places that are plainly visible from the route, which follows the King's highway. One of them fis Clarens, the home of James Murray Mason, of the Mason-Slidell affair. On the south side of the valley is the birthplace of Gen. Fitshugh Lee; the home of Gen. John Mason, the son of George Mason of Gunston Hall, and by the side of the road, in a se called Cameron, lived and died Gen. Samuel Cooper, adjutant general of the United States Army before the War between the States and adjutant general of the Confederate army dur- ing that war. Crossing over Cameron Valley and pursuing the old King's highway, the tourlst will pass by Mount Eagle, the home of Bryan, the elghth Lord Fair- fax—the last house visited by Wash- ington before he died; and Bryan Fair- fax, the last visitor to Mount Vernon before the general’s death. From this point the visitor will be able to locate and see a part of the home of Gen. Thompson Mason of Revolutionary fame, son of Virginia's great statesman, George Mason, author of her bill of rights and first constitution, Going on, you come to Gum Springs, right by which lived Dr. Humphrey Peak, Washington’s nearest neighbor. The 0ld house has been destroyed, but it can be easily located. Bearing to the left at Gum Springs, the tourist can go straight ahead and arrive at what {s known as the postern gates or the western gates of Mount Vernon. This was the favorite and historic road traveled by Washington that under the authority for the col struction aud maintenance of the in going to his home during his life- time. Abbey, with bridges over the variousiperienced other hospitals and are gla ! | ducing content and ambition. as THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 17, 1925—PART 1. WORKING FOR MOUNT VERNON BOULEVARD CHARLES H.CALLAHAN CAPITAL REMEMBERS VETERANS, SAY SUFFERING MEN AT REED ynical Investigator Finds LitileComplaining Among Patients Displaying More Fortitude Than Bat- tle Demanded—Talk Pinochle and Next War. Like the moon on a Winter night befgre the first snow, the remem- brance of Washington people warms the naked hill roads of life for 500 | World War veterans at Walter Reed | Hospital. It is no longer a comfortable after- ( noon sun of gratitude shining upon | legless, armless men, as it was when | the evening of war time was approach- | ing after the hot noon of battle. It is | something dimmer and colder now. | The roads have grown wearier and manny have forgotten. But it is bright enough and warm enough to soften the cruel outlines of the stark cliffs ahead and the painful gullies of | the present. i It is just this yellow moonlight of | Washington's remembrance that | makes Walter Reed a comparative | paradise among veteran hospitals. | Such is the opinion of the permanent- | ly disibled and pain-wracked men lounging about the Red Cross quar- ters or Umping along the garden bor- | dered paths. Most of them have ex-| of the change, although their trans fers here often forecast dangerous op erations. Capital Has Not Forgotten. For some time past there have been disquieting reports that Washington had forgotten. It is difficult to trace | these to any of the veterans. Almost to a man, investigation shows, they are satisfied that the heart of the Na- tional Capital not grown cold to them. Perhaps there are not 50 many pretty girls on Sunday afternoons. Automobile rides may not be quite as| plentiful as they were a few year ago. The men do not expect it. A casual inquiry among a consider- able number of patients on crutches or with bandaged faces leads to the remarkable conclusion that among the men at Walter Reed there are very few real malcontent. At the average Army post, where perfectly healthy men find time heavy on their hand: they amuse themselves with grum- ing and halting the whole shed order of things from the top sergeant up. At the great Bright wood hospital, time not only hangs heavy upon the men, but in most| cases life is a continual experience of pain and in many instances of bopelessness. Apparently it an | ideal breeding ground for discontent and revolt and hatred. But the ob. server is faced with the curious phe- nomenon of such surroundings pro Discipline Rests Lightly. Walter Reed presumably is a mili- tary hospital under military disc pline. The veterans are there by invi tation of the War Department, unless they happen to be still in the Regular Army. But the discipline rests light- ly upon them. It is applied only as medical treatment is concerned. Other- wise the veterans are free to go and come as they please. A Star reporter visited the hospital the other day to trace down whatever substance might be in the rumors of Washington's forgetfulness. The most cynical man on the staff was chosen for this assignment. Naturally, he didn’t expect to find any particular heroism at Walter Reed. He expect ed to find complaining, whining men, who had got into their poor heads the curious idea that they were heroes and illtreated heroes. Found Real Heroes. The statement that he found real heroes who did not complain, but who ) actually thought they were getting as | much from the people of Washington was coming to them, is almost | unbelievable, but true. Among about a score of men interviewed, he failed | to find a single complainer—and some | of them obviously were in constant physical pain. It is more remarkable | in that the veterans didn’t know the. were talking to a reporter. The thought The Star man was an infantry corporal transferred to Walter Reed from Fort Sheridan, IIl., to be operated upon for stomach trouble. There was unrest, of course. Spring | is enticingly dancing upon lawn and flowerbed. ~ Auto parties with girls wearing bright red hats speed through the grounds from Sixteenth street to Georgia avenue. Outside the gates is the abundant life of May, with the sun getting hotter and the woods getting greener. And 500 sick men in the wooden wards have only the Winter moon of diminishing remem- brance to light their lives in this season of surging creation. But not one of them complained. Worse Than War. After all, it is one thing to charge a machine gun nest and quite another thing to live for 10 years with one leg and a skin grafting operation at excruciatingly frequent intervals. The flust is heroic only because it is pic MRS HV FITCH be turesque. The second is hercic be. cause there is the whole essence of heroism in it. It is the second kind of heroism that is being displayed at Walter Reed—the only kind. surely | that will count for much in the white | light of centuries. To fight Germans was like playing with toy soldiers compared to fighting the weariness of time. It is this same weariness of time that the patients and officals of Wal- to offer. who can given him by the people of this city. “If 4 man is capable of being in- terested in anything th ested nurses and orderlie: especially selected to keep the minds of the men busy. fine lot. “People grounds seem the fellows up and ta rides. tion except for the are repeated ev a show, a dance or night. CHARLES MOORE. HARRIS - EWING Tror H MAcbomm too much tion. Washington, with all Washington has I don’t think there is a man of the It's inte The under to tak because compl in who drive very is p treatn It o up a man’s atten- the post is so near in a treatment e is plenty to »u~d here. The seem 10 have been They are a mighty it t two hours ak through the anxious to pick > them for long ally no restric- en who actually which must be or so. There a band concert < me smile some- to see the old fellows who are You can hardly find s making baskets. a man at one—hard-hoiled astically the post old aving straw as the instructors show them how. who hs sn't made enthusi- ribbons fellow and Pity for Others. | hard-fought | Here, at any hour of the day. a score be found reading or of war that are now, ter Reed are trying successfully to combat. The Red Cross hut is one of sectors of the or more of veterans can loupging, playing cards, talking over the years were swifter than days the battle. swifter even than hours on a hospital bed. Haunted by Ghosts of Conflict. They apparently are contented. laugh rather faintly as they But the piano gives the lie to it all. The men take turns at play- ing it. There is no particular skill shown—not so much, probably, as my neighbor’s girl, who has been taking lesspns for two years, displays every evening. Yet, in some transcendental way or another into the clumsy ren ditions these men give of the dance- hall tunes of the hour comes the minor of infinite pain—pain_unlinked with the ‘poet’s passion. It is the atmosphere of the place. The ghosts of the war haunt the piano. “Yes,” says the Red Cross secretary, “the people of Washington are be- ginning to forget—just a little. But the men don’t complain—at least none of them who understand. Washington | people are very, very kind. We never have asked for anything we haven't got. It has been a long time since the war. It is natural that memories should have grown a bit indistinct. But when we need a hundred auto- mobiles, there are a hundred Wash-, ingtonians ready at a moment’s notice to loan them to us, chauffeurs and all. ““Of course, time hangs heavy on our hands sometimes, but not often. It is only for the men who have been here a long time that life is particularly boresome. I pity the fellows in some other hospitals, however—nhospitals situated *in rather isolated places where there are not so many people to provide amusement and entertainment for them. That is one side of the story—that told by most of the men on the post. The chauffeur of the automobile, however, told it with a slight varia. tion. He is just out of Walter Reed after six months of treatment and he has been told he must go back for four more months. t's a fine place,” he said. “They’re | mighty decent people and anxious to |do "everything they can for you. I | never could kick. But, do you know [you can't sleep. You simply don't et tired enough. I never was so happy in my life as when I got out of the hospital, got a regular job and was so tired the first night that I U 5. AIRWAY OFFICE MOVEDTO DAYTON Lieut. Lester J. Maitland Is Transferred With Con- trol Station. Orders for the removal of the Model Airway Control Office of the Army Alr Service airways system from Bolling I"ield to McCook Field, Day- ton, Ohio, and the transfer of three officers of the ficld here to the Ohio post were issued yesterday by the War Department. The three officers who will be in complete charge of the 2,000 miles of alrways throughout the East, Middle and Southwest will be Lieut. Lester J. Maitland, present control officer here; Lieut. George Burgess, who will be in charge of radio, and Capt. John C. Platt, in charge of weather infor- mation and dissemination. Lieut. Maitland closes a tour of duty here of four years, during which time he has become well known in Washington. He is one of the best pilots in the Army Air Service and holds the unofficial speed record of 281 miles an hour, established at Fair- field, Ohio, in the early part of 1923. At the time he flew at this unprece dented rate of speed he was contest- ing with Lieut. Russell L. Maughan of transcontinental dawn-to-dusk fame for the one-kilometer speed record. Lost His Record. It was on one of his dashes across the line that Lieut. Maitland, aided by a high and terrific dive, flashed across the course while observers turned their heads, thinking he would plunge into the ground. The officials in charge of the race, after recognizing the record through Orville Wright de- clared a technicality was violated and the record was taken away from the pilot. The National Aeronautic Asso- ciation in charge of the contest, how- ever, wrote Lieut. Maitland that al- though they could not give his record official status, they were confident he had “flown faster than any human being.” Lieut. Maitland has been an opera- tions and model airway control officer for more than two vears at the field here. Lieut. Burgess has been in Wash- ington about a year, coming from the Philippines. Capt. Platt also has been here about a year, predicting and dis- seminating metereologieal information for the pilots flying the airways. MUSIC A group of talented Washingtonians entertained an audience in the ball- room of the Mayflower Hotel last night with a program listed as “music, mirth and melody,” for the benefit of the Wakefleld National Memorial Assoctation, formed to es- tablish _Wakefield, birth-place of George Washington, as a permanent memorial. The audience was small, but seemed thoroughly to enjoy many of the numbers Eloise Russell, a charming young pianist from Scotland, showed fluent technicque and individual interpreta- tion in Liszt's “Liebestraume.” Jean Wilson gave a group of read- ings, including Kipling’s “If,” “In Doctor’s Office” and “The Senator's Dilemma.” Later she gave “The Ro- mance of a Rose” in colonial costume, “The Story the Violin Told” and “Friday P.M. at the Country School,” with a comical uto” song as an encore. Miss Wilson has a great knack at this type of entertainment R Flyer Transferred RE-ELECTS OFFICERS $1,000 Gift Opens Endow- ment Fund—Name Paul Moore Secretary Again. Paul Moore of the National Re- search Council was re-elected sec tary of the Horological Institute of America at the annual meeting of 1% association, which has just beep-wom- pleted here. All member: committee we of last year's executive e re-elected. They are: E. H. Hufnagel, president, of Mount Vernon, N. Y.; Edwin F. vice president, of Milford, M. Lund, second vice president, of Chicago, Ill; Paul Moore, secretary, ‘Washington, D. C.; John J. Bowman. treasurer, Lancaster, P ‘erdinand T. Haschka, New York City; Alfred G Stein, New York City; Robert F. Nat- tan, New York City, and W. Calver Moore, Philadelphia, Pa. Advisory Council. The following were elected mem- bers of the advisory council of the institute: Edward H. Hufnagel, ¥ win F. Lilly, John J. Bowman, Rob- ert F. Nattan, De Forrest Hulburt, Willlam C. Donnelly, A. S. Flint, Armand Jessop and J. P. Stevens. Mr. Moore addressed the associa- tion, stressing the need of an en downment for the Horological Insti- tute. Before the meeting closed J. P. Stevens of Atlanta, announced he would give $1,000 toward an en- downment _fund. Dr. H. W. Gillette, chief of the metallurgical division of the Bureau of Standards, delivered an address during the convention on metallurgy as applied to watches. K. Hilding Belj of the aeronautical division of the Bureau of Standards read a paper prepared by himself and Fidel Cordero on clock mechanisms in aeronautical instruments. Paul Sol- lenberger of the Naval Observatory spoke on international time oom- parisons. Complaint against permitting of children to drive automobiles was made by W. C. Galloway, vice presi- dent of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road, in an address on railroad and automoblle accidents. It takes an en gineer more than 17 vears, on an average, to be placed in the responsi- bility for a passenger train, and yet children as young as 12 yvears are often permitted to operate an auto | mobile, he said. Members of the institute made Visits to the Bureau of Standards and the Naval Observatory and were received HINDENBURG IRKS OWN PARTY CHIEFS Peace Program Evokes Hot Comment From Mar- shai’s Backers. By Cable to The Star a BERLIN Hindent in and without 4 Chic the men w of Nationalists to further the Count von V tionalist lead: ventiow issued st cizing Hinc Count von polemic, pre rch of monarehy “If, and ri the monarchist cause, pretat.on of his task w our cause.” Whereupon stokes the fire Hindenbu porters v the republ ents tonight open rp induiges in a forward crvpti- esident further then this inter - advance the I Count von Reventlow with the remark that < has disappointed his sup h his acknowledgment of Nationalists Are Angry. Both statements refl tionalist anger at Hindenburg trusting the task of goverr Luther and Stresemann There is in ments—that h arouse wa among the N However, with justifiable of the entente conduct in land, Chancellor Luther Minister i have no mediate difficulty in pacifying constituents with expressions the wrongs and exposition greater Germany thesis President von Hindenburg Chancellor Luther inaugurated Rhineland millenium today, telegram and one in person taneously they opened offensive for restoration to of Cologne and the rizht bani of Rhine—an offensive which will reach the Reic londay, when I'oreign Minister Stresemann wi! the entente for dila Vv tact the disarmament and pact project on Hindenburg contented himself with a telegram celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of th German control of the Rhineland. Chancellor Luther, addressing tremendous crowd at Cologne, pl 1 not only for evacua- tion of entente troops, but proclaimed demand for greater rn of all_German-speaking peoples tral Europe (Copyright, 14 DUNBAR 1924 CLASS HAS FIRST REUNION English Teachers Elect Officers. Freshmen Win Swimming Meet. Play Tuesday. ect the Na- or er ment to both complaix the Rhi of and, the Sinul concerted seran stag d; in secur- The class of 19 School, held its first annual reunion Monday, and presented chool with a bronze plaque, designed by W D. Nixon, instructor in drawing The following am v pre- sented: Remarks, Edward Beaubiar Dunbar High class and seemed to please the audience immensely. Flora McGill Keefer, a leading con- tralto of Washington, gave two groups of light songs delightfully artistic in- tegpretation. She has remarkably smooth style of singing. distinct in- dividuality of tonal quality and pro- duction and excellent enunciation. Her songs included del Riego's “Hom- “‘Come to the Fair” and “ All for by Easthope Martin: “Ma Ll Batteau,” by Lily Strickland An- derson; Burleigh's arrangement of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” and the aria “Mon Coeur S'ouvre a ta Voix,” from “Samson and Delilah,” with Nevin's “Rosary” and the popular “Deep in Your Eyes” as the encores 2 by House. Medical School Students Presented presiding officer; report, Juliu Dulaney ; presentation plaque, Lillian Wash acceptance of plaque, Walter L. Smith; remarks, G. *. Wilkinson; vio! AT NAVAL HOSPITAL President Coolidge at the White Morton r the formal program, an inf ception was held in the ory, with the senior class the invited guests of honor. Monday, also, the English teachers of the senior and junior high schools held a business meeting at Dunbar, receiving reports and electing officer: for the club for next year. M Brenda Moryck, W chosen chairman Armstrong, ret With Diplomas by tary Wilbur. Secre- Graduation exercises of the Spring Frachmar Wi Mask: lying sleep. thing, world.” No, Walter has t Tr it there Reed. A, grea is seems as dropped off into a sound nd test no the that there has been a little was natural. sleep. doing nothing for months, just around, I tell you, sleep’s a wonderful the see if vou can thing in the complaining at Some of God's magic nsformed the impatient heroes of war time into the altogether heroes ferent and greater heroes of a pain- wracked, time-weary peace. But opinion forgetting, consensus of People Try the Smooth Path. “There charge. camp. Shows reduced as far as possible. it does, however. of men here. read and write. “I detest sob stories. I say when I tell you I m is plenty for the boys to £0 to about the city without a cent of are brought to the ‘The probability of time hang- ing heavy on a man’s hands has been Doubtless We have all sorts Not a few of them can't an what that there is noticeable among these men a real in- clination to make the most of the op- portunities before them. Some of the men do not take advantage of their opportunities readily. But after they are here a while they begin to think a little and understand that, no mat- ter how badly hurt they may be, Wal- ter Reed is offering them a real op- portunity to make something out of their future lives. Men come here ignorant of letters. They leave for their homes, mostly in the Southern mountains, not only able to write their own names but able to teach their families to write their names also. It may seem a simple thing for a man to learn to write his name— do something for the veterans when they think of it—but they don't think of it quite so often. The comfortable sunlight of remem- brance has been transformed into a constant but rather cold Winter moon- light. The Indian Summer of the war has gone. The wounded men are coming into the long, long Winter of life—a not unkind Winter, indeed, but still rather desolate, sometimes. PROHIBITION IS FAVORED Helen Gerrer, young violinist, pla; ed three short numbers with nice bowing and colorful tone. They were Krefsler's “Schoen Rosemarin’’; ““Adagio,” by Rlies, and “‘Scherzo,” by Goens. 2 Miss Janét Richards, who presided during the musical program, closed the entertainment with a general sur- vey of foreign news of the moment, given in her inimitable, wide-awake style. ics: The United States and foreign debts to this country; the celebra- tion shortly to be held in Germany of the 1.000th anniversary of the tak- ing of the Rhine provinces; the new German flag; French and Spanish occupation of colonies in Moroccs the problem of the German Eastern frontier; the Silesian gold mines; Italy under Mussolini. A delightful evening of music was enjoyed at the University Club last night when Ruth Kobbe, soprano; Mme. Lucia Borderi, teacher of sing- ing; Richard MacCartney, baritone, She included among her top-[ term of the United States Medical School were held vesterday morning at the Naval Hospital, with 26 stu. dents receiving their diplomas fr Secretary of the Navy Curtis ‘Wilbur. Addresses were made by Secretary Navy, Admiral E. R. Stitt; with the | commanding officer, Capt. James C.| Pryor, officiating. Lieut. Francis Howe Webster and Lieut. Leo Lloyd Davis received first and second honor degrees, respect- ively, in the medical class. Other grad Charles Percy An- it Mitchell Barret, thony Costello, Dreifus, Lieut Lieut. Bryce Wilson Ben Hollander, Lieut. Horrigan, Lieut. Ra Pomeroy and Lieut Slater. Lieut. Otto Valdemar Rogstad was the honor graduate of the dental class. Other graduates of this class Lieut. Alfred Richard Harris, Lieut Lieut. Lieut. v ¥ < David Edw Emmet Alfred Ernest Frederick Wilbur, the Surgeon General of the | juniors uates of this class were Lieut Park |dets The was swim the lows second, inter-. swimming meet held Wednesday Dunbar ing pool. The freshmen won meet. The scores were as fol- ‘reshmen. first, 37; seniors, 30; sophomores, third, 28 fourth The highes points were made by David, G-3, 20 points. class score i Arrangement by Warrant Officer S. A, in char ment, Washington for the thirty-third e arill, League as dividu ward ve been completed Ed : Schoo! Ca nnual com- pet ican Robert Milton Gillett, | ning at $:30 a | clement d | held Thursda wea the drill will Fir Street being made. of tickets is progressins torily. The play will be given day night at 8 o'clock in the s “Quality The sale satisfac were | auditorium The Rex and Fleur-de-I and Howard M. Lloyd, xylophone Elmer Clubs, Charles O'Connell, Lieut BY GERMAN SOCIALISTS Party Leaders Advise Workers of Dangers of Use of “Hard Liquor.” Correspondence of the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 26.—That the move- ment for prohibition in rapidly gaining Germany s ground among the working classes is indicated by an ap- peal recently issued by a number of | Soclalist party leaders, mos are members of the Reich: of whom nothing more. process for some of these fellows. course there are well educated men here also, many of them. These men can find solace in reading, denied to the others Pinochle and Next Struggle. But it is a long, hard The document declares that “the working class is the worst sufferer from the effects of alcoholism.” It admonishes the workers to “keep al- cohol away from all your meetings, sessions and demonstrations, and es. tablish people’s houses and hotels that sell o liquor. Reduce the possibility of obtaining liquor wherever you can The Star reporter took four of the men, selected by the Red Cross, on a three-hour auto ride through the parks of the city. They still thought at first, apparently, that he was an- other sick soldier just convalescing. Their conversation was illuminat- ing. It concerned—pinochle and the next war. The pinochle craze is raging at Wal- ter Reed just now. It has reached the point where an error in some of the fine points of this complicated card game is almost a fighting offense. Men stay on the outs for days over a wrong bid. Schools of pinochle thought and philosophy have grown up in the wards. To the superficial observer it seems to have superseded crap shooting and blackjack as the Army game at this post of the flag in the hostile, dreary desert of time. Strangely enough, the veterans don’t seem to talk much about the last war—certainly the last one for most of them. Rather they speculate on how men will fight 10, 20, 50 years from now. They wonder about the sensational stories they read in the papers about death rays and bolshevik plots. Nobody raises a question as ‘to whether there will be a next war. “You don't have time to think about your troubles at Walter Reed,” said a Regular Army sergeant recvverfng frem a serioms operation. “There do so, and conduct intensive educa- tional work concerning the harm done by alcohol.” player, gave a program to an audi- ence that filled the room to capacity and was most enthusiastic. Miss Kobbe sang the aria “Little Signor” from Meyerbeer's ‘Les Huguenots,” Elliot’s “Spring’s a_Lov- able Ladye,” a pastoral from Vera- cini's opera, “Rosalinda,” and th negro spiritual, “Standin’ in the Need o’ Prayer.” Mr. MacCartney sang Handel's “Lascia_ Ch'io Pianga, Grieg's “Ich liebe Dich,” MacDowell's “Sea Song,” and Massenet's “Vision Fugitive Both _singers were re- quested to give encores. Laura Roegge accompanied Mr. MacCartney on the piano. Mr. Lloyd’s xylophone num- bers also were popular and Mme. Bor- deri gave an interesting talk on “Sing- ing, the Greatest of All Arts.” Claude N. Bennett was chairman of the en- tertainment committee. SUBJECTS’ EFFRONTERY PROVES KING’S COURTESY George Henry Rice and Lieut. Virgil Harold Traxler. Pharmacists mates, third class, ceiving first and second honor di- plomas in the graduating class of dental technicians were U. G. Brock and H. H. Battmer, respectively. Other graduates of this cl s were J. A. Craze, R. H. Goyette, J. A. Gunter, C. T. Lancaster, J. Porreca, R. A Sterrett, A. B. Thomason and C. F. ‘Winchester. GRAIN PRICES JUMP. CHICAGO, May 16 ((#).—Owing largely to an official forecast of frost tonight, the wheat market scored a material advance today, despite de- clines at the start. The close was firm, 1 to 2% net higher; May 1.70% to 171 and July 1.53% to 1.53%. ‘The corn market was influenced by frost predictions and by indications that the visible supply statement Mon. | day would show a fair decrease both for corn and oats. Corn closed strong, | % to 1% net higher; July 1.16% to re- representing the entire senior class, presented “The Net,” a motion pic- ture, Thursday, for the benefit of th year book Three Ordered Here. Daniel . at Camp Meade; Carbonell, Medical Ce Sam Houston, and Warr Charles B. Goodman, Corps, at St. Loni: to this city for treatment at Reed General Hospital. Lockwood, Maj. Dental Arturo ps, at Fort nt Officer Quartermaster have been ordered Walte: Spain possesses a_greater of minerals in large deposits th other country in_Europe. variety n any Shipuments Hecelved Each Wednesday EARLY ORDERS FILLED FIRST Baby Chicks Aged Pair Fleeced Of Life Savings as They Sail for Home By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 16.—The savings of a lifetime, hoarded for their return to Poland, their homeland, were stolen from an aged couple in third-class quarters on the liner Paris by two thieves just before the liner sailed for Europe today. Ignatious Worozyniec and his wife, both 75 years old, of King's Park, Long Island, sailed without a money belt containing $2,500 in gold which they had saved for the homegoing. A man they knew only as ‘‘Joe” who had posed as a friend and helped them buy tickets and get passports, and 'a. fake customs inspector who in- sisted on seeing how much gold they had, managed to get the belt away from the bewildered old couple. Police were ‘unable to trace the thieves, George V. Shakes Hands With Pair at Wembley—Practice Started by an American. By the Associated Pre LONDON, May 16.—The recent in- cident at the Wembley exhibition of an American shaking hands with the King has proved infectious. The King and Queen, the Crown Prince of Norway and other guests tonight paid another visit to the exhibition and were proceeding around the grounds on the minature railway when two of the King's own sub- jects thrust themselves successfully through the cheering crowds and grasped the sovereign’s hande. 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