Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1925, Page 17

EVENING AT THE LUNCHEON RECESS 0 aunt of Mrs. Zachary Lansdowne: Lansdowne, who was ejected from Lancdowne. NTING THE FOUR ACES. as ushers at the card party of the Lea to right: Mi- Anne Cavendish Boy and Celene Dupuy. SUBSTITUTE SALARY SCALE DRAWN UP Teachers’ Council to Submit Proposal to Board of Edu- cation Today. Despite the disapproval of Schools Frank W. Ballon Council at a speclal meeting last sched- The new scale will be submitted to the Board Education at meeting this afternoon by Miss Mary Brown chairman of the council's suhstitute salary committee. Dr. Ballou objected strongly new schedule hecause it is hased on the regular teachers’ annual salary for 312 days instead of 180, the num- her of days which a teacher actually works in a year. He warned the council that such a schedule was “dangerous” as it brought to the forefront the possibility of the Board of Education requiring the teachers to work through the Summer only one month’s vacation ins of ‘three, as they now enjoy. As adopted by the cou schedule requires regular teachers with a basic salary of $1,400 vear to pay substitutes $3 a day: those with a hasic salary of $1.600 to pay sub- stitutes $3.50 a day; those with a basic salary of $1,800 to pay substitutes $4 a day: those with a basic salary of $2.300 to pay substitutes $5 a day those with a basic salary of $2,400 vear to pay substitutes $5.50 a_day and those with a basic salary of £2.900 A vear to pay substitutes $6.50 a day. The council pointed ont that it fa vored an efficient. well trained re- served corps of substitutes, but that the newly created staff of 24 annual paid substitutes had made the services of outside substitutes more irregular ! than ever. Several amendments to the teach ers’ retirement law were adopted. and the committee which framed them was instructed to co-operate with |h-’ if approved by Congress, will increase ! the pensions of retired teachers ap-| proximately 50 per cent. | { WILL CONSIDER AIR ROUTE legislative committee of the school board in seeking enactment of the Committee Named to Study Pan-| the " nizht, adopted a new salary ule for substitute teachers to the wi ead the modifications. The chief amendment, ama Project. Yeland Harrison, Assistant. Secre. | tary of State; J. Walter Drake, As-| sistant Secretary of Commerce, and | w Irving Glover, Assistant Post-| master General, have been named to it on an interdepartmental commit- to consider establishment of an mail service hetween the United | tee States and the Panama Canal With representatives of the War| and Navy Departments, the commit-| tee will iake up shortly questions in. | cident both to Government and pri- vate operation of such an air serv | Angeles, {one IF THE SHENANDOAH INQUIRY. Mrs. 1 the h n-downe, Dr. William B. Mason. aring yesterday, and Franklin | Wachington girls whe zue of American Pen Women. le. Julia Lee Orme. Babbie Ja Copyrizht by Underwood & Un RECEPTION TO AUTHOR. Hamlin Garland and Daughter to Be Arts Club Guests. Hamlin Garland. prominent Ameri- can author, and his dauzhter, M Mary Isabel Garland, are to be gues of the Arts Club of Washington at n informal reception Friday evening at 9 o'clock. The president of e serving Left kson the Arts Club, L. M. Leisenring. and Mrs. Leisenring will be assisted in receivi thefy zuests by a committee of Washington artists, The evening was arranged by the committee on co-operation and hospitality for visiting artists, headed by Miss Aline Solomons, and includ- Mrs. Willoughby Chesley, M Mechlin, Miss Mary A. Cryder, Herman E. Gasch, Mrs. Warren . Miss Helen Wright, Paul Col- Otis Porter, Carlton Van and Frederic il Leila Valkenburg Wile. FINDS MARK TWAIN APPRECIATED ABROAD Dr. Aked Says English Understand Writer Better Than His Own People. Rev. Dr. Charles Aked of Los former pastor of John D. Rockefeller's church and considered of the most brilliant preachers in the country, said in an address last nightat the First Congregational urch that Mark Twain is more nighly appreciated in England today than he s in America, because to Ameri he is only a humorist while Great Britain he is con- sidered a remarkable philosopher as well. in He also said that there is less in- | dividual thinking and free speaking among Americans today than among any other people in the world. but added that Mark Twain was an ex- ception 1o the rule, he was in tensely individual in what he thought and what he wrote. “When will the novel be written?” question that foreigners often ask. continued the speaker. “It has heen written,” Dr. Aked. “It is Mark Twain's ‘Huckleherry Finn.' It represents a clvilization that is past and never will return. but the boy philosophy and reasoning still live and he applied to any day and age. It is a literary masterpiece that will live forever. The speaker took 12 pertinent say- ings from “Pudd'’n Head Wilson” to bring out the deep philosophy under- lving all of Mark Twain's humor. The author had a wonderful insight into human nature and was a master of pathos as well as humor. Perhaps he is appreciated more in England than in America because Englishmen are so much quicker to see a joke, said Dr. Aked. the explanation causing great laughter. He asserted that great American i many Englishmen and some women | understand Mark Twain's humor thoroughly. Dr. Aked knew Mark sonally 30 vears ago. Of £6,103,000 hushels “of raised in this country last v ple of England ate 12,351,000 bushels. Twain apples peo Left to right: Mrs. W ! Wesley liam B. Mason, . Joseph E. Davies, attorney for Mrs. ). Jones, associate counsel for Mr-. National Photo. The weather is getting chilly up around Amberst. Mass, This photo- zraph of John Coolidge, son of the President and Mrs. Coolidge, was taken in the college grounds a few days ago. Photo by Acme. WOULD SELL PART OFTENPLEHEIATS Masons Ask District to Buy Portion of Dean Tract for Park Purposes. A-proposition that the National Cap. ital Park Commission purchase a sec tion of the Dean estate lying along Florida avenue between Connec ut avenue and Nineteenth street and es. tablish it as a part of the park system of the District of Columbia was made to the National Capital Park Commis- sion yesterday afternoon by a commit tee representing the Masons. who now own the estate and who have changed its name to Temple Heights. The prop osition was laid before the commission by David Lynn and Roe L. Fulkerson. The commission informed the pr ponents that it could not consider the matter at this time hecause of lack of funds, but did not indicate whether it would consider the matter at a later date or not. The commission also received a proposition from the Methodist Epis- copal Orphans’ Home, a Lutheran church at Ellicott street and Con- necticut avenue and from Harry [\\'ardman. in which the three pro- posed to contribute . jointly $2,500 | tor | that point or park purposes. The mat ter was taken under advisement The commission also approved the draft of a proposed amendment to the ! National Capital Park Commission act. which would materially enla its ‘scope in city_planning and devel. opment of the National Capital and | vicinity. 1‘; MAN HIT BY AUTO. STAR, | | | ard the purchase of a triangle at | | Wesley Littlejohn Treated for Se- | | rious Injuries. | While crossing at Pennsylvania javenue and Twelfth street southeast | shortly after & o'clock last night, 7 Littlejohn, colored, 25 vears \nld, 1449 Corcoran street, was knocked down by an automobile driven | George H. Dougherty. 1426 Pennsy { vania avenue southea: injured. He was given first ald at Casualty Hospital and transferred to | Gallinger Hospital. Lena Thomas. colored, 17 years old, 4216 Brooks street northeast, was knocked down in front of 3901 Ben- ‘nlng road northeast yesterday after: noon by a motor truck driven by | Sullivan Rowe, 64 P street. She was | severely shocked and her head cut. She was given first aid at Freedmen's Hospital. i Women's Welfare Clinic. The Woman's Welfare Association, opening of an_evening clinic each Tuesday and Friday nights at 7 {o'clock for the special care of nervous es of women and_ girls. Thix is directed by Dr. Kenneth specialist in neurology, and mental hygiene. psychiat 1022 Eleventh street, announces the | . and serfously | m; WASHINGTON, D. ¢ WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1925. FAMOUST TITIAN PAINTING IN of Christ,” recently purchased in Fr Art for $200,000. The picture is on sent 1o the Middle West. HE RODE ON FIRST PASSENGER TRAIN. old. of Marshall. Mich. tra old when he made the trip. and his f. between Albany and Schenectady. WAR ON OXFORD THIS COUNTRY. “The Temptation nce by the Minneapoli: Museum of exhibition in New York before being Comyrizht by Underwood & Underwood John T. Vernor, 96 years the only living passenger on the first passenger the United States, the old De Witt Clinton. Vernor was 6 years ather, as conductor, handled the train Copyright by P. & A. Photos BAG DECLARED BY PARENT-TEACHER BODY “Charleston™ Tendencies to Be Ob of High School Age Also ject of Campaign—Lack of Interest of Elder Generation Blamed. Just members of the generation settled down to a life of peace and freedom from the scurrilons attacks of stage jesters, and their i1k, along c: High School Parent.Teacher Associa tion vesterday with an announcement that it has mapped out a hroad and ambitious program 1o eradicate the Oxford “bag' and ston “‘hop- ping” inclinations of the hovs and girls of the school The association, however, duet in a sedate and dignified man ner its campaign. designed to reach At the very root of the modern evil— the home. “Sheiks and flappers are not product of some strange revolt of youth,” says Mrs. Andrew M. Stew- art. vice president of the association, “but are the logical outcome of a family life, or rather a lack of family life, ‘where the parents think they can't find time to give a share of at- tention to the things that are inter- esting their children in that critical period while they are ceasing to be school children and developing into grown-ups. Both the parents and the children know this is going to hap- pen, but the children believe it is as reformers me the Central will con- the vounger completed when it is only just bezun d the parents. who recail it it were vesterday how Johnny used to use his ‘pacifier’ for a hammer to kitty's discomfort. and how Susie used to try to get her left big toe in her mouth (reminiscenes, hy the way. that cause Johnny and Susie acute comfort) are quite sure it is for a long time vet when it is ready well under way Durin, vears from 13 to 17 the interest most young folks is focused on hout * their high school and about all most parents know about that high school is that it is a hiz build | ing they vaguely remember having noticed as they passed in their auto- mobile. “So the main purpose in the ac tivities of the Central High School Parent-Teacher Association is to get parents interested in the Central High School, as a means of getting them interested in what interests their children.” To that end Mrs. Stewart and other officers have planned a series of meet- ings for the Winter, with the hope that the parents will get in the habit of keeping in_ touch with the place where their children spend most of the day. dis- due al- the of and ——— 'RULES ON RESALE PRICES. Stetson Hat Company Practice Forbidden by Trade Commission. Issuance of an order requiring the John B. Stetson Co., hat manufac- turers of Philadelphia, “to discon- tinue maintaining standard resale prices for its products in co-opera- tion with retail dealers and jobbers was announced today by the Federal Trade Commission. The action was taken after the company had en- tered into an agreed statement of facts with the commission and waived its rights to present testi- mony and enter into oral argument on the charges in & complaint issued against it. 4 A statement issued by J. H. Cum ings, president of the compan said: “The commission’s order does not affect the right of the John B. Stet- son Co. to fix resale prices for its | products or its right to discontinue relations with any concern which fails to conform to the standards of integrity, financial stability and fair dealings set by the Stateson com- pany for its customers. These rights are protected by decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. “The Stetson company many months ago discontinued the prac- tices referred to in the cease and de- sist order, which is primarily di- rected against plans for co-operating with retail dealers and jobhers to maintain standard resale prices.” Rates of British railways are 50 per cent above pre-war times and wages are 150 per cent higher. 1 BOY SLAYER GETS APPEAL. Concession to Youth Convicted of Killing Taxi Driver. NEWARK, N. J., November 18 (P) —William A. Wachenfeld, counsel for Harrison W. Noel, Montclair youth convicted of murdering Raymond Pierce, negro taxicab driver, yesterday obtained from Judge Edwin C. Caffrey in whose court the trial was held, per mission to proceed with an appeal. Such permission was necessary as Es- sex County must stand the expense. | Judge Caffrey on November 23 will sentence Noel to death in the electric chair, the verdict of first degree murder in the case leaving no al- ternative, Wachenfeld said he would flle his appeal immediately after sen- tence was imposed. If the appeal fails, he said, he would petition the Board of Pardons for commutation of sen- tence. Noel, who previously had confessed | the killing of Plerce and the kidnap- ing and murder of 6-year-old Mary | Daly of Montclair, when interviewed today in his cell termed the verdict as ‘“rotten,” but declined turther. $18,000 a Year an Average. After 20 years, the graduates of the law classes of 1905 at Harvard have an average earning capacity of $18.- 000 a year each. there are 17 who earn more than $25.000 a vear. The class had 119 graduates and of this number 41 are earning £10,000 or thereabouts. Only four earn less than §2,300. to talk | There is one in the | class who makes $100,000 a vear and | ! i | | | i | ) | | { { ! ! % { SECRETARIES OF INTERIOR CALL Garfield, Secretary of the Interior during the Roosevelt administration; W UPON PRESENT SECR ETARY alter L, Left to right: James R Fisher, Secretary when William Howard Taft was President: the present Seeretary, Hubert Work, and John Barton Payne. Sceretary during the Wilson administration. Little Carolyn Hill, daughter of Mr. and_Mrs. James M. Hill, photo- graphed with Secretary of the Navy Wilbur yesterday after she had en- rolled him in the American Red Cross. National Photo ML HISSONBODY BACKS .. POLEY Opposes Special Privileges and Extraterritoriality in Resolutions. Br the Associated Press. DELA WARE, Ohio, 2 The board of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church vesterday animously adopted resolitions voring relinquishing clauses in tr ies with China which accord special privilezes to missionaries and support overnmeni policy lookinz ward abolition of extraterritoriality The resolutions were drawn from recommendations of the bhoard’'s cor responding secretaries, Ralph E. Dif fendorfer and John R. Edwards, and are regarded as an important step af fecting the whole miseionary program of the Protestant Church Bishop Francis McConnell of Pitts. burgh. speaking in support of the resolutions, declared the missionary and the soldier working side by side breeds confusion in the mind of the Chinese, recalling the Chinese saying that “the gunboat is the organ of Christianity.” The greatest obstacle to the success of the missionary, he said, is the civilization from which the missiorary came. Memorial services for deceased bish- ops were held. Dr. R. J. Wade of Chicago, secretary of the World Serv- ice Movement, and Dr. O. W. Auman, wvember 18, | Chicago, treasurer, also addressed the meeting. Last might's session was occupied with discussion of the movement in Latin America, with Bishop McConnell and Bishop William F. Oldham of Buenos Aires delivering the principal addresses. The board =ession closes this eve ! ning after a full day's program. which | will include final business and discus- | in! sion of the Christian movement | Europe. SALARIES ARE REDUCED. . Shipping Board Cuts Pay of High Officials. Salaries of four high officers of the Fleet Corporation and the Shipping Board were reduced by the board yesterday from $18,000 to $15,000 a year in accordance with an economy policy determined upon some time ago. The officials affected were W. B. Keene and A, C. Davison, vice presi- dent of the Fleet Corporation; Gen- eral Manager Rossbottom of the United States Lines and C. G, Parker, general counsel of the Fleet Corpora tion and the board. Wife Charges Cruelty. Mrs. Catherine suit for a limited divorce from Garri- son Plaine on charges of cruelty and inadequate support. They were mar- ried at Williamsport, Pa., August 22, 1923, Attorneys Henry M. Fowler anqd, G. K. Perkins appear for the wite. i Christian | B. Plaine has filed | MRS. HOOVER ATTENDS NEW YORK MEETING. Photos mi-annual meeting of Girl Scout off right: Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of the Secretary of Commer at the Copyrisht by s & i aph snapped als in New York. Left to Mrs. Frederick Edey, and Sarah Louise Arnold. president of the Scouts. |FOUR START “$100 CLUB." | | Qualify by Buying 100 e Stone Mountain Memorial Coins. The Stone Mounta al sociation has ann names have been Club, which ‘was organized as a ture of the local campaign for ing funds for the benefit of the giant sculpturing project in Geo Membership in the club through the purchase of Men nced t added t As four he $100 fea s effected 100 of the Federal Government m raising funds for the mema v ect. The club feature is in charge of €. Bascom Slemp. and the names of those who have gained membership through purchases include Daniel Roper. John Rarton Payne, Mrs. Delos Blodgett and Mr. Slemp. ASSAILANT SAFE AFTER MOB ATTACK Sent to Baltimore From Centerville, Md., Jail Under Guard Pro- vided by Governor. By the Associated Press CENTERVILLE, Md., November 18.—Joshua Tiller, negro, saved by the steel doors of the Queen Annes County jail here from lynching at the hands of a mob Monday night. | taken to Baltimore for safe keeping | Sheriff T. Frank Seward, Magistrate Robert Coursey and a squad of Mary land State police, sent to the scene by Gov. Ritchle. conducted the prisoner out of town before the plans for his removal became generally known. | Tiller is accused of attacking a four- vearold girl at Willington, Md., last Friday. | The move to place the negro in safer quarters was made after a con | ference of county authorities, in | which fear was expressed that other residents of Queen Annes County would reinforce the mobh of hetween {200 and 300 men which stormed the jail Monday night. Monday night’s at tackers, the sheriff said, were made up | principally of farmers and voung | men from the viclnity of Millington | Centerville remained qulet ves- | | terday, with the State's attorney in | possession of authority from Gov. | | Ritchie to call out the Salishury com ipany of National Guardsmen if | needed. ALL ABOARD ARE SAVED. Ohio River Steamer Rammed lnd‘ Sunk at Wharf. | { CINCINNATI, Ohio, November 18| (#).—Eight passengers and the crew |of 30 men were removed safely from he Ohio River steamboat Greenwood when she sank at the wharf here early last night after being rammed | by the steamer Chris Greene. The Greenwood, loaded with freight, was about to cast off for Pittsburgh when the Chris Greene crashed into | her stern. The passengers and crew | were transferred to wharf boats and | a part of the cargo was saved. Both vessels are owned Greene Line Navigation Co. wa | ) i | | | by the | takes | Third | views Copyrizht by Underwood & U'n WHEELER EXPLAINS VIEWS T0 BUCKNER Dry League Counsel Will Dis- cuss Enforcement With Attorney. od Prohibition enforcement w cussed by Wayne B of the District Attor New York shortly < 1 letter by Mr. Wheeler ma last night In his communication he called upon the torney to present his yweement before a « mittee. with a view to I ndations enacted intc Buckner has suggested t additional judges sistants to prosecute tion_violators. Writing in reply to tion from Mr. Buckne said: ‘Let me make it clex approve of your efforts to law against the big lig an of proce United States the ater 1 any bring bette counsel with ner diss T w » mica “Wheeler 101 a fave about will | of the national prohibitior additional which _justice administered. Addressing himself dir Buckner's reputed minor prohibition Wheeler asserted that with reference to vour peatedly published in that you could not e of liquor law York, but that you you would not prosecute a class of liquor law violators Your failure to deny these he =aid “naturally these so-called minor offenders that they were immune frc tion and it _tended, cspe State like New York with no code, to embolden liquor criminal FAMOUS DUEL REC_ALLED. Barron-Decatur Fight Described to Historical Society. judicial may be me T the ot m; The second of a series “Dueling_in the Distri by Miss Myra L. Spauldin; ing of the Columbia Histor in the Cosmos Club last night. paper, while dealing generally w the old-time method of settling dis putes on the fleld of henor, dwelt mainly on the encounter of Barron and Decatur at Bladensburg, Md., in 1820, in which the latter was mortally wounded Miss_Spaulding compelled attention throughout the reading of the paper because of the manner in which it was presented. Preceding the paper a piane selection was ziven by Mahel Linton Williams, and Floyd Wii- Uams sang several solos.