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22 » U.S. CITIES UNFiT 10 STAND QUAKES Not Equipped to Meet Shocks Nor to Fight Many Fires, Dr. Jaggar Says. (In this fourth and concluding arti- cir on the volcano and earthquake researches of Prof. Thomas A. Jaggar of the Hawaiian volcano observatory Mr. Binder deals with the possibility of keeping at a minimum losses from carth disturbances.) BY CARROLL BINDER. Special Correspondenceo of The Star and the | S g KILAUBA Processes of human swarming must be studied side by side with earth processes if damages to life and prop- erty from volcanic forces are to be minimized, in the opinion of Prof. T il A gzar, th noted volca nologist, who has chosen this seismic region as his laborator “The volcanic forces of nature do most of their damage to life and prop- erty by fire, as shown in the confla grations of St. Plerre, Kingston, San Francisco, Yokohama and Tokio. Fires arise in highly congested com: munities full of inflammable mater and difficult to control. Prevent the cago Daily News CRATER, Hawaii— s and half the battle against earth § Add to this rea- | disturbances is won sonable provision to protect the com munity against fire and to restore ravages of conflagration and reason ble readiness to meet the direct im pact of natural forces and another quarter is won. The remaining quar ter may be covered with a conflagra tion surplus that is always a ‘pro prietorship liability,’ for we are in sense proprietors of the earth itself and as such subject to certain risks. is Poorly Equipped. Dr. Jaggar believes part poorly prepared stand an earthquake shock h of t construction is not fire The skyscrapers are not built withstand earthquake shocks of great severity, nor would the wate pressure be sufficient to successtully cope with a large number of fires in such structures. Congestion of the streets would re. sult in heavy loss of life and would interfere with firefighting. Especially vigorous is Prof. Jaggar's condemna- tion of the practice of parking auto mobiles for hours and in some cities for entire days in the congested s tions of cities in the earthquake -re- gion. Each one of these machines has a tank of gasoline which will ex plode as did the machines in Tokio during the recent earthquake, and start a thousand fires in as many parts of the city. Such a situation i heyond the control of the best or- ganized fire department “If an earthquake of the severity of that which occurred in Charleston in 1886 were to strike New York or Los Angeles during high wind in dry weather and the water mains were to become broken, the United States might provide the world with a catas trophe fully equal to the Japanese hol- ocaust which affected 3,000,000 peo- ple i caused from $5,000,000,000 to $8.000,000,000 worth of property loss.” Should Make Wide Preparations. Protection against earthquake in- jury as seen by Prof. Jaggar should inciude a fire department prepared to fight a hundred fires at once, auxil- iary water supply, pumps independent of electrical control, devices for shut- ting off gas and electricity, devices for safe housing of explosives or inflam- nables, and roof tanks, automatic prinklers, fire doors, fire escapes and the like for those who work or live in high buildings. Sxperimentation must be continued to determine the best type of earth- quake-proof construction so that the rigidity of buildings may be increased and the “natural period of vibration shortened. Thus structures will not fall into resonance with a slow earth vibration that racks them to pieces. The center of gravity should be kept low by reducing the weight of roofs and upper stories. If on Soft ground the foundation should be a slab of high tensile strength so that the footings cannot be pulled apart even it the ground cracks. For protecting contents against earthquakes, it is quite possible that some types of houses mounted on arze ball bearings with restraining cups and springs may be perfected. A building supported like a sleeping car, or big automobile equipped with shock absorbers, but with a rectangu- lar system of rolling trucks ready for motion in any direction, vet damped or restrained from too much motlon, 14 earthquakes almost per 1. If its water pipes and electric wires were coiled in a free chamber without rigidity, the earth might quake, the honse stand still, and the ead plpes glve without breaking. Big Works Suffer. Railways, public works, communica- tion systems, suffer when there is a great convulsion of the earth, as recent quakes in Montana demon- strated. P’rof. Jaggar hopes that such utilities will co-operate with othe agencies in the study of seismicit nd ways to cope with earth move- ments Instead Ik Prof. Ame American cities the most rica wo resist of hushing Jaggar would neers study the Japane atastrophe make avali rest of the world the lessons thereof and to develop & technique rth- quake protection. An American or nization, known as engineering. onomic foundation, studying earthquake hazards to ascertain just such information, it was announced vecently. Members of the foundation staff went Santa. Barbara right after the earthquake to study the relative capacity of different kinds of construction, includin, water mains, ailway tracks and other structures 0 withstar vibration Prof. Jaggar made an study of the Tokio disaster. how that catastrophe might been minimized, he said Safeguards Needed. There might have been 25 parks as refugees from panic. Wight have been wider streets. There right have been local motorized fire engines at 400 places ready to use the anal waters for fighting fire. The ofl tanks and powder works might have been designed to meet a big carthquake. Heavy tile roofs might have been forbidden years ago. There might have been a delimited business district, required to use fire-re masonry and to build no house fire storles high. There might have Leen an exterior factory district re quired to use fire doors, automatic sprinklers, fire escapes and a certain spacing of houses for operative Tokio suburban district where ditions were sanitary and the spa. svas good escaped the confla which destroyed mx of the ecity. “If all this had been the situation soveral blocks might have been burned, several thousand people might have been killed by earthquake and the property losses would have been severe, but there would have been no blotting out of a whole com- up earthquake have engl- and other exhaustive Asked have large surance companies which are busily writing earthquake insurance, though their knowledge of the haz- ard is still guite vague, might well appropriate generous sums for re- search into the question of earth- quake and eruption, Prof. Jaggar contends. “If we are to have reliable and eco- nomic earthquake insurance, it #ill be desirable to include flood . aid storm ble to the | There | to the great quakes which I waste THE St S e o Tokio and Yokohama two years ago. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D, Mount Fuji, shown above, lies dormant about 60 miles southwest of Tokio, but it is believed to have been the key BERLINTO OFFER .~ FEAST OF DRAMA Theater Season, Soon to Open, Has Blaze of Prom- ise, Rarely Equalled. BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News BERLIN, August 28.—The RBerlin theater season will open within a day |or two with a blaze of promises rarely equalled. Within a few days not les than eleven first performances will be held, representing such authors as | Shakespeare, Pirandello and George K er. The first part of Shaw's Back to Methuselah” will soon be given. { The three theaters of Max Reinhardt fonably lead the others In the of the banquet they offer. Never Can Tell,” Shak Lear,” Pirandello and Virtue,” Wedekind's “Judge of Zala- Loyalties, Bea " Calderon’s Galsworthy's Maugham Maugham’s “Rain” are on the list, along with several novelties by young German writers. The Prussian State Theater, under Director Jessner, will open with Shaw’ “Great Catherine” and _Schiller's Y £ The theater in Koeniggreatzerstrasse opens with | Elizabeth Bergner in “As You Like |1t.”" The popular People’s Stage opens with “Hamlet” and will follow with | “The Merchant of Venice,” Hebbell “Judith,” Grabbe's *“Duke of Goth land” and “The Liberated Don Quix ote,” by Lunatcharsky, the Russian| people’s commissar. The program of the Prussion state operas is no less interesting, although opera goers are traditionally more conservative than drama lovers. Ber- lin for the first time will hear Chalia- pin in Prkofeiff's “Love of Three Oranges” and Busoni's “Faust.” Re- vivals will include Beethoven's “Fi- delio” and Johann Strauss’ “Gipsy Baron,” with Mozart’s “Don Glovan- ni” and a Wagner cycle. The ballet authors include Debussy and Bartock. Futurist Period Over. Speaking of new dramatic tenden- cles, Director of State Theaters Jess- ner considers that in Germany the radical futurist period of presentation is over and that there has followed an attempt at higher . realism, in which emphasis is lald more on words with stress on the musical quality of speech and rhythm in performance. Today. according to Jessner, the | state and municipal theaters have an immense advantage in the struggle for artistic supremacy because the managers are independent and possess perfectly chosen ensembles, which avoids the evils of the star stem. “The theater, says Jessner, “is | always the refiection of cotemporary | political life. Hence today German stage managers are artistically reac tionar. Werner Krauss, considered by many | the greatest living German actor, who spent six months in the United States playing in Reinhardt's “Miracle,” has the highest possible opinlon of Amer fca. He has refused offers to remain in America, however, because he pre- fers the spoken to the dumb drama and his language is German. He be- lieves that although Germany pos- sesses a few unrivaled players, the | general level of acting is higher in the | United States than here. The intel- | lectual level of American chorus girls small-part actors is. infinitely | nigher. he thinks. | Krauss further prefers the Anglo- { American tradition of restrained ex- | pression to the fuller, more florid | Latin and Orlental manner, which | flourishes here, but says that, unfor- | tunately, the quality of plays offered | the American public is unquestionably | poorer. Krauss will continue to be at | tached to the state theaters, playing asionally in the films. Berlin is waiting with intkrest to see ‘hat Manager Hartung, the daring | Cologne producer, will be able to ac- complish in the capital. (Copyright. 1825, by Chicago Daily News Co.) erset | ana wlong with volcanic fires and earthquakes, as the total of all ural cataclysms classed together | represents a continuous process with fewer lapses than earthquakes by | themselves. =~ This total admits of | schedule rating, and, moreover, it is a | world total, so that the organization studying it should be international in interest, like the Lloyds.” Prof. Jaggar believes that such a program should appeal to business men living on rivers subject to flood: | researches | on shores subject to flood waves an :anes, in Pacific and Medite cities subject to earthquake {and volcanic eruptions, and in the more stable centers of research be- cause finance is involved. Support of research by local finances in Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, California, Alaska, New Zealand and other Bri ish and ¥French dominfons would make { possible extensive researches which |could be co-ordinated by an interna- tional board organized to underwrite risk from natural disasters and to in- vestigate ail kinds of land hazards. Thus & new form of insurance might take its place in the commercial world. By ascertaining when and where volcanic disturbances will occur, by preparing to meet such disturbances with & minimum of loss of life and property and by spreading the risk of such losses over the entire community through well devised insurance, man will take a big step toward mastery of these manifestations of Mother Earth which have proven so inimical and so fatal in the past. ! (Copyright. 1020, by Chicage Daily News CoJ { hurr! anean | day GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Georgtown University will open its | Fall term session September 14 with 280 the largest faculty | ever retained in its 136 years' history, emploved to conduct classes for what |is expected will -be a record enroll- ment. The advance matriculation to date totals approximately 2,800 Evening c of the law schoy will start September 14, the college of arts and sciences on September 16, | the day law school of the university on September 23, the school of medi cine and dentistry on September : graduate school, September 28 and the school of forelgn service on Oc. tober Ten new faculty: membe: | sume their duties at the college at the beginning of this year. Other ap | pointments are to be announced soon at the school of forelgn service, chief among these being successor to Dr. Willlam S. Culbertson, now U. S. Minister to Rumania. The second year of the aggressive administration lent Charles W. Lyons, S. J., will be further marked, it was said, by a general broadening of courses in the various departments and the raising of entrance requirements, al- ready begun in the case of the dental chool The university faculty is drawn from the trained members of the Jesuit order, professional and official ranks in Washington. There will be one instructer, or lecturer to ehch 10 or 11 students in the entire uni- versity, which will make for a marked degree of individual attention. The faculty of the foreign service school, particularly, is drawn from prominent officials in the State Department, the Department of Commerce, the Agri cultural Department and varfous semi official bodies such as the Pap-Amer- ican Union Despite the two years of college work required for admission to the law school. the enrollment this year will almost equal the number when the, school ranked as the largest in the United States, before college work was required. The fact that the school begins its first year as a “class A" in- stitution has done much to increase enrollment. Three years ago the law school was required to inaugurate i es to take care of the the classroom accommoda. tions not permitting an increase in th number of students attending the evening courses Facilitles at the school of forelgn service also are taxed | nearly to the limit and the housing problem is becoming an acute one for | the entire university. The situation at the college, where dormitory space has long been overcrowded, is being met by increasing the number of day students. President Lyons has just returned to Washington from a trip to his home near Boston and with the return of the Rev. Louis J. Gallagher, aed dean of the college, in a few days, final arrangements will be made for the entrance examinations beginning September 14. These will run for two professors, s will as The Hilltop already is beginning to show signs of activity in advance of the opening. Lou Little, coach of the foot ball team has been busy all week making arrangements for the early Fall training. Accompanied by As- sistants Mike Palm, Herb Kopf, Fred Sheehan and William Kenyon, picked candidates for the team left Washington early today for Mon- mouth Beach, N. J., where tralning quarters have been established. Y. M. C. A. COLLEGE The Washington School of Account ancy will open its Fall semester on September 14, with complete courses in accountancy and business adminis- tration. The courses may be com- pleted in three years' time, or in less time if Summer work is taken in ad- dition to the regular Winter semes- ters. The three-year course offered, in eddition to preparing the student to take the C. P. A. examinations, meets the requirements of those C. P. A. boards that designate that a candi- date, in order to take the examina- tion for certified public accountant, must be a graduate of a school of recognized standing. Upon comple- tion of the course the degree of bach- elor of commercial sclence is granted. Students desiripg an additional year's work may obtain this by taking the work for the degree of master of com- mercial science. The shorter courses, not leading to degrees, but granting certificates, such as the two-year course in_banking and finance, the special two-year course for business men and the one-vear course in busi- ness law, will also be offered. The five-year accountancy - law course, granting the degree of bache lor of commercial science at the end of the third year and the degree of bachelor of laws at the end of the fifth year, will be continued as here- tofore. The accountancy-law course purposes to prepare students for the bar and C. P. A. examinations. Uni- sersities, such as Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, have been using this sys- tem for several years. In this day of specialization in both professional and business activitles it becomes quite important for men about to enter the active practice of law or accounting to consider thoroughly the advantages of completing courses in both profes- sions as a_means of increasing their general public usefulness on the one hand and their own personal reward on the other. The school of law, opening for the Fall term on September 21, offers a three-year course leading to the de- gree of LL. B., and preparing students thoroughly for the bar examinations. Graduates of the school of law have been very successful in passing bar examinations in the District of Co- lumbia, Eastern, Middle Western and Western States. The schedules and faaulty members | grammer | ginning of the schools of accountancy and law will be announced at a later date. Prep School to Open. The Washington Preparatory School, a night institution for men and wom- en, conducted by the Young Men's Christian_Assoclation, will be opened September 9. The aim of the school is to prepare young men and women for college, selentific schools, the advanced schools of the Young Men's Christian Associ- ation colleges, or to help them better their business positions. The subjects offered are those com- monly given in the eight grade of a school and in the four years of a standard day high school. Com- mercial subjects such as shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping, business English, etc., and very thorough urses in architectural and mechani- cal drafting and blue-print reading, are also conducted by the school. The amount of work covered in each sub- ject during the two terms of 20 weeks each, totaling 120 recitation hours a. is the same as covered in a year andard day sehool. tudents are graduated from the entific, or general prepara- se, when they have com- pleted 15 units of work. A unit of work, as counted by the College En trance Examination Board, is the amount of work covered in this school in two terms of 20 weeks each, three nights a week, totaling 120 recitation hours. By conforming to the rules laid down by local and out-of-town colleges, the school is accredited, students completing work in the school being admitted to colleges without en- trance examinations. The officers of administration and of the school are: James D., director of education; ai’ . Bell, Ph. D. A. Dollarhide, A. M., assistant rector of education; Raymond Eliason | (George Washington University), prin- | cipal, school of drafting: Edward G. Comegys (Johns Hopkins), mathe. matic A. V. Wilson, A. B., history and English; Peter Valaer, M. S.; physics and chemistry; Gerald L. Parker (George Washington Univers: ity), mathmatios; R. H. Powell, B. S Latin; E. C. Canova, Spanish; Walter I. Smalley, A. M.; English and history Theodore B. Nickson, M. C. . book- keeping; C. H. Abb, shorthand and typewriting; K. J. Bushman, A. B, orthand: 8. C. Anderson, French and German; T. G. Addison, M. C. S, seventh and efghth grades. Subjects offered this semester in- clude elementary and advanced alge- bra, blue-print reading, bookkeeping, chemistry, architectural and mechani- cal drafting, seventh grade, “eighth grade, English 1, English 1I, American literature, English literature, French 1 and 11, plane and solid geometry; be- ginning German; American history, | medieval and modern history, Latin T, | Caesar, physics, Spanish I and I, trigonometry, shorthand (beginning and advanced manual classes and be- and. advanced dictation classes), and typewriting. NATIONAL UNIVERSITY The Summer term of the Law School of National University closed Friday night when the last of the final examinations were given, with an enroliment larger than any previ- ous Summer session. The work com- pleted at this time will be credited toward degrees the same as that com- pleted during the Fall, Winter and Spring terms. A speclal extension term has been arranged for the month of September, which will start next Wednesday. Three afternoons a week Prof. God- frey L. Munter will give a lecture course on the preparation of legal documents. Prof. Theodore. Peyser will glve a course on statutory reme- dies, using as the basis for the work the District code. Both of these courses may be credited toward de- grees. Dean Maynard A. Clemens hai mailed to the students their grade: for the courses taken during the Summer in the school of business administration and government. One feature of the school of busi- ness administration and government will be the work offered during the coming academic year in modern lan- guages, French, Spanish and German, to be in charge of Prof. Victor Ray Jones, former assistant professor of modern languages at Lafayette Col- lege and professor of languages at the University of Baltimore. A special course in public speaking for women, with early afternoon hours, will be given by Prof. Dale Carnegie, who will glve another course in the same subject at the university and also one at the American Institute of Banking. A much larger curriculum in Eng- lish has been arranged this year. Prof. N. Bryllion Fagin will give courses in husiness English, short- story and fiction writing, short-story seminar, survey of English literature, survey of American ljterature and modern and contemporary literature. Assistant Prof. E. E. Ericson will give courses in elementary English and composition and rhetoric and Francis J. Carmody will give a course- in journalism. Miss Helen Gould, formerly lecturer at the University of Maryland, will conduct a course -in secretarial train. ing, particularly for the benefit of stenographers who wish to advance themselves.. . —_— Lawn Party Is Success. Special Dispatch to The Star. DECATUR HEIGHTS, Md., August 29.—A lawn party staged by children of Decatur Heights at the Thomas ;alnslgznce Wednesday evening netted Capt. Longstreth Retired. Capt. George A. Longstreth, 1Sth Infantry, has been placed on the re- tired list of the Army on account of lsebiiy fpcident fo ihe service,” O, AUGUST 30, Current News Summary of Important 1925—PAR Events l National, Foreign and Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the Convenience ‘With the Government maintaining a strictly neutral and ‘“‘hands-off” pol- fcy, the threatened strike or *'suspen- sion of work” in the anthracite coal fields, set for tomorrow midnight, promises to go into effect smoothly and on schedule time. The operators and miners, however, have reached the customary agreement regarding the safeguarding of mine property, union men necessary for maintaining the plants and preventing deteriora- tion during idleness to benefit from any increased wages, If they are ob- tained. Well supplied with coal, the Nation awaits the outcome of the strike rather calmly. Government of- ficlals, interested as spectators, belleve the suspension will be short-lived and that an agreement will be reached within a month. Another commercial aircraft project was announced last week from At- lanta, where Cornelius Vanderbllt, jr., has purchased' 11,000 acres of land near. the city for a commercial air base, with air lines radiating to the West, South and Cuba. The company behind the project expects to start planes flying by Christmas. They will carry mall, frelght and express, but no passengers, it was stated. The ex- penditure of several million dollars is contemplated in the enterprise. A conference to bring forth sug- gestions for increasing co-operation between China and the United States in education, business and religion has been called to meet in Baltimore at the Johns Hopkins University Sep tember 17. Those invited to attend include leaders In economics, educa tion, philanthropy, Journalism, re ligion and labor. The Philadelphia Record last week took the lead in a movement to erect a national memorial to Willlam Jen nings Bryan and designated former Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan- | fels as chafrman of a committee to be | composed of prominent men and wom en who will work out the details of the memorial. The Record frowns upon the suggestion that a memorial to Mr. Bryan take the form of & uni versity, in Dayton, Tenn., declaring the memorial should be “an all-em- bracing expression of the sentiment of the country.” Representatives of central powers of Europe, of the allies in the late war and of about 25 other nations, | will assemble in Washington October 1 for a week's discussion of means for securing co-operation among the nations of the world toward estab- | lishment of universal peace. The meeting will last for one week and will constitute the twenty-third con ference of the union. The delegates will come from the legislative bodles of the powers represented. interparliamentary | Seven men of the nine convicted for complicity in the murder of Sir Lee Stack, governor general of the Sudan, November 19, last. were executed last | week at Cairo. The murder led to a crisis in Anglo-Egyptian relations which resulted in the formation of a new Egyptian ministry. | France last week sent Germany an other note on the proposed European | security treaty, In which she sug-| ests that Germany negotiate for the | reaty on the basis of her admit tance to the League of Nations, and ithe carrying out of the Versailles treaty. “The entrance of Germany intd the League of Nations is the only solid basis for mutual guarantee and a European accord. says the | note. Just as Secretary of Acgriculture | Jardine was beginning to think the| problem was solved of having as chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics a man who agreed with his own policies, the United States Civil Service Commission steps in and threatens to complicate matt. . Sec- retary Jardine has announced the se- | lection of Thomas P. Cooper of Ken- | tucky as chief of the bureau to suc ceed Dr. H. C. Taylor, whose resig- | nation was demanded. The Civil Ser ice Commission announced last week however, that the post would have to | be filled through competitive examina. tion, or else through reinstatement, transfer or appointment within the | department. The commission, how- ever, has recognized the temporary | appointment of Mr. Cooper. | Arthur Bally-Blanchard, newspaper man, business man, soldfer and diplo matist, died suddenly last week in Montrdal. He had heen American | Minlster to Haiti since 1914 and was {in this country on leave. | Politics. Two battles i are claiming the whole country these days. One is in New York, where Mayor Hylan is running for re-election with the back- ing of W. R. Hearst and facing the opposition of New York's popular gov- ernor, Smith. The other is taking place in Wisconsin, where Roy P. Wil- cox has entered the lists for Republi- can nomination for United States Sen- ator. His opponent is Robert La Fol- lette, jr., son of the late Senator. The New York mayoralty campaign has reached a stage of unexpected and very bitter mud-slinging. Mr. Wilcox has enteted the fight in Wisconsin on a ticket which fa- vors the entrance of the United States into World Court among other issues. Religion. Conferences of the Methodist Epis copal Churches, North and South, are voting in September on the ques- tion of unification of the two churches. To date the vote in the Northern church stands 6,815 for and 382 against unification. Votes will be tak. en on the subject also during October, November and December. the political arena attention of the Just as every one had become ac customed to the apparent determina- tion of the Episcopal Church to strike from its marriage service the word “obey,” a Western bishop of this church rises up in all hiy wrath and launches a scathing denunciation of the proposed change, coupled with an eloquent attack on modern family life. | The bishop from the West is the | Right Rev. Irving Peake Johyson, de- | scribed as one of the brilliant orators and thinkers of his church. A para. graph from his argument declares that “If women do not love men well enough to accept their leadership, which 1s the significance of ‘to obey,’ they will not love them any more be- cause thelr vanlty is flattered by the omisslon.” The Bishop's criticism of the pro- posed change is expected to have its effect when the question comes up for final determination at the triennial conference of the Episcopal Church, yhich opens at New Orleans Octo: r 7. Economic. Another big step toward readjust- ing the world debt situation which has handicapped economic stability since the World War was taken last week in London, where the French finance minister, Caillaux, reached a provisional agreement with Winston Churchill, British chancellor of the exchequer, for the payment of France's debt to Great Britain. This agreement provides that France will pay Great Britain 62 annual install- ments of £12,500,000 each until the to- tal debt of £623,000,000 is paid. The arrangement is contingent upon a sat- isfactory adjustment between France {a better administration of the reclas. |show that better financial conditions, | | unfavorable weather of Students. and the United States for the pay- ment of the French debt. Both sides were forced to compromise in reach- Ing the agreement. The effect of the Anglo-French set- | tlement is certain to be felt in con nection with the Franco-American | negotiations. The United States has repeatedly maintained, however, that its terms with France and Italy, the two outstanding debtor nations, will | rest entirely upon their “ability to pay,” regardless of what arrange ments have been made between this and other countries. A gasoline war in the Midwest is bringing joy to the hearts of motor- ists, who hope the war of competition between the big companies and the “independents” will continue. ) Price cutting brought the price of gas to as low as 14 and 15 cents a gallon in some Middle Western towns, while a general reduction, less drastic in ex tent, was felt throughout the East. The situation in the Middle West is made more interesting by the fact that several States are selling gasoline in competition with the private com panies. The annual war over expenses of running the Government for another vear is on in earnest. The Navy and | the War Departments, ordered to slash thelr budgets unmercifully, are doing so, it is stated, by eliminating what have come to be regarded as | necessities. The Navy, for instance, in obeying the mandate from the Bud- get Bureau to cut its budget $40,000, 006, fears the cut will necessitate abandonment of & number of Eastern shore stations. The Army hints that it its budget cut any more, seven to ten thousand enlisted men and from 1,000 to 2,000 officers will have to be dropped from the rolls. President Coolidge, surveying the battle of the budget from his Summer home at Swampscott, declares that much of the fear expressed by the departments is propaganda against economy and | fails to exhibit any nervousness over | the situation. The “sucker” who buys bad stock sandy ofl wells, and invests in the sort of scheme t rade Ponzi of | Boston famous, contributed about $1, 000,600,000 3 ard keeping the “gold brick of the land well turnished with cash. This is re corded in a statement last week from the Better Business Bureau of New York, which declares that while some progress is being made toward pro- tecting the Innocent but foolish inves. tor, no one can foresee legislation | which will block entirely the game of | the sharper. i The National Federation of Federal Employes, which meets in annual con vention next week at Boston, will have before it & proposal that Con- gress fix a minimum wage of $1.500 for all Federal employes in order that | salaries in the Federal service will be brought to a point where “they will be more comparable to those paid in private industry.” The federation will also be asked to petition Congress for sification act. Uncle Sam decides to those who are speculating in Florida real estate, { and last week the Department of the | Interfor withdrew from homestead en. try several thousand acres of public and in the State, deeiding to hold it until its value incr with that of territory surrounding it. Heretofore it has been possible for any one to secure public lands in Florida by prov- ing a residence on the land claimed for seven months each year for three successive vears, the construction of a habitable home and the cultivation of part of the land. This enabled land speculators to make enormous profits on Government land. The Polish government, suffering | from too many imports as compared with exports, has adopted drastic methods for obtaining a more favora- | ble balance of trade. Regulations have been framed which have the effect of cutting off imports for the time be- ing Bisger, better crops this year assure continued_prosperity for the Western farmer. Reports compiled from vari- | ous sources last week by the Asso. ciated Press from its Chicago office better prices and better business will® more than offset the damage inflicted by a late Spring, while statistics pointed to a purchasing power for | farm products which s 97 per cent of what it was in 1913. Three vears ago it was only 68 per cent Geography. The MacMillan expedition, forced by to give up its exploration of uncharted territory in the Arctic, last week began its south- ward joyrney back from Etah, Green 1and, the point farthest north reached this Summer. _The expedition is head DUCATIONAL. —OTT OF TOWN. DhRia® Natonaly Rnown for miccesstid preparation for leading coliegss; alwo specia) department for bore under higii- achool &ge. Unexoelied facuity and equipment, All athletion. Chmprs of 19 acces. Swimming goll course. Cataiog. Murray Peabody rush, Ph.D. Port Deposit, Maryland. —on Susquebagna River between Baln- morn and _Pluladel- MARY’S FEMALE SEMINARY. Established 1840. ~Non-denominational. Home school, ideally located on water. in the_country. New building General high school, college preparatory and business courses. 'Modern organization and methods. Moderate charge. Catalog. M. Adele France, M. A., Prin,, St. Marys City, Md. HERNDON SEMINARY, HERNDON. VIRGINIA A home school for children: reopens Sep. tember 23: careful traninic, thorough in- struction, limited number. mioderate ierms; Teferences required. Appl THE MISSES CART ST ¢ to LEMAN. Aseo. Prin Saint Mary’s School A Junior College Rev. Warren W. Way, Al Rector An Episcopal School for Girls. Four years High School and two years College Courses. Accredited. _ Special courses: Music, Art, Expression, Home Economics, Business. 20-Acre Campus asium—Field Sports New, Indoor, Tiled Swimming Pool Advent_session opens Sep- tember 15, 1925. For catalogue address A. W. Tucker, Bus. Mgr. Box “S,” Raleigh, C. {the Corcoran Galle: ||| teachers. ||| tes. Shiny Automobile Wrecked by Bull Fighting Reflection Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Auguat 29.—Lee Carrick has no automoblile now-—no whole one, that is to say, for the beautiful car he owned a few days ago i8 a wreck, not irreparable, but very noticeable. Espying its own reflection in the shiny body of Carrick’s car a neigh bor's bull charged the machine sev. eral times and destroved the likeness. | The animal emerged uninjured. FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY The Benjamin Franklin University, recently incorporated here, will de vote its instruction to thorough prep- aration for business and professional careers. Classes will meet after working hours and the curriculum and teaching procedures will be adapted to the needs of students em ployed during the day. The initial department of the uni versity will be the school of account ancy and business administration This school will offer the well known | Pace courses of study in theory of | accounts, applied economics, organi- zatlon and finance, practical account. ing, zuditing, law and taxation. This ing for Disko, Greenland, and from there will explore ancient Norse ruins near Gothaven, Greenland. Geographies and historfes used in the public schools of Washington since the war, and therefore obsolete, will be replaced next year, thanks to a tardy appropriation from Congress for new textbooks included in a contract signed week by the District Commissioners for the purchase of $65,000 worth of geographies and histories for the pub- {lic schools. Art. Another plan for carving on Stons Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., figures representing leaders of the Confeder acy was approved last week. The board of directors of the Stone Moun tain Association recently recovered from their fight with Gutzon Borg lum viewed models made by Au gustus Lukeman of New York, which show the plan for carving the memc rial int othe granite pile. Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jack son and othe g tigures carved into the f the mounta to the impression from a d th are riding across The figure of Lee will me 3 feet from the crown of the the hoofs of the horse he rides. give nce that . ure hat to The largest exhibit of art Washington will be on t v here October 17 in connection with the observance of the one hundredth anniversary of the vational Academy of Design of Ne York. The exhibits, it is announc: will be retrospective of America painting, architecture and the graphic EDUCATIONAL. ersity School of Business Administration and Government Rezular courses leading to B. B. B. A. degrees in— nd to the A. B. degree in Story Writing, 5 820 13th Street, N S. and Finance, Folitical open All modern languages | taught by native e erentng “Clasoen o vheont Sastmad. | FREE Trial Lesson. S Call, write or phone for catalog. ’BER”T SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES course will cover three years and to those who meet the requirement of preliminary education and comple:c ribed undergraduate wor sree of bachelor of commercia be awarded. The degre of master of commercial science w be conferred by the university o those who complete postgraduate work in this department. will be made up members of the accounting and e in Washington will be announced I trustees of the ur T. Kennedy, Andrew ford E. Hunsinger, and Harry R. B. E. Hunsinger has been selec director of the school of accouni: and business admin will assume this effective date of his resig the Bureau of Internal which has just been announced Hunsinger has for the past five ve been head of the staff division « Federal income tax unit er. are Blass, A vers Jok Re upon_t ation fr Reven EDUCATIONAL. Georgetown Law School 1925-1926 Commen Sep tember Wednesday, September For mor For informat Hugh J. Fegan, M.A,, LL.B,, Ph.D. Assist Georgetown Law School 506 E Street N.W. Teleph 1 apply Dean ne Main 3 part of which was | Jast | 1314 Mass. Ave High Sck The Registrar or Phone Franklin 469 will be | National University | Law School ESTABLISHED 1870 Fifty-Seventh Year Begins Oct. 1, 192 Three-year courses to LL. and J. D. Pc uate courses leading to LL. M. P D.C1 CLASSES BEGIN 6:30 P.M. Secretary’s Office, 818 13th Tel. M. 6617 NATIONAL SCHOOL FINE AND APPLIED ART IX MAHONY, Director. Main Conn. Ave. and M St. “Study Art with a Purpose” Day and Evening Classes Sketch and Life Class Children’s Saturday Class Our 8-month Professional Funda | mental Course fits you to accept a | position in Interior Decoration, Cos ! tume and Textile Design, Color, and | Commercial Drawing. Catalog CLASSES NOW FORMING School Opens October 1 0YD SHORTHAND IN 50 DAYS. . Studs this system, as it embodics Improvements We guarantee that after the atu Course. S\ Tiich” takes approximutels and hold as £o0d: 1f Dot & heit ‘One of the oid methods Based o th studied ing, Secretarial Science, etc. Positions for Giraduates or Tuition Refunded MONDAY-TUESDAY Boyd School for Secretaries For the Public—The City Employment Service ENROLL On “G” Nr. 14th, 1338 G S Established 1921 have been made in shorthand. the latest dent has compieted three months. that n than had e than five hun “The Seeretarial e t. NW. Main 2876 The Secre A Selec for successful secretarial record of graduates plac Providing effective and w Washington School w taries t School ell recognized preparation careers; an unsurpassed ed in desirable positior Day Classes Forming Sept. 8 and 14 Evening Classes Forming Scpt. 2 and 14 Catalog on Request 212 Transportation Bldg. Tain 2480 _For a Quarter of a Century the Pace Courses in Accountancy—Taught in 35 Schools in 35 Cities—Have Trained Thousands of Young Men for the Calkings of— Auditor Comptroller Cost Accountant Treasurer Appraiser Manager Tax Specialist Credi “He that hath 1 calling hath an office of profit and honor. —Poor Richard, Public Accountant B. C. S. and M. C. S. Degrees. Evening Class begins Sept. 15. start immediately on text work. Prepares for Students who register now may Office hours, 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. Bulletin on Request. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY Main, 8259 308 Transportation Bldg. 17th and H Sts.