Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1925, Page 42

42 Abandoning the custom resurrected | pect President Wilson and followed by ident IHarding of reading mes- sages (o the Congress, President Coolidge sent his to the Capitol last where it was read by the separately in both houses. President pictt vess and prosperity” of the Nation at present in a degree almost never be- jore paralleled in the history of the country, and his message w ming of the things most need maintain the advance of the N: o ile proposed nothing radical little 1 15 not been talked of be- ions were rm. Among fore, but his recommen 2 down in concrete nore important of them were ation; adhesion to authority Departm the Leduction of ta World Court tent und the rerce to deal with an emergency cre tion of a strong divi- Department of Agricul 1 in the development of co- parketing: a selective serv- 1 to give broad author- ity t ecutive for the mobili zation of the country’s resources in of peril: _additional ies of War, Navy - Lid in the development of ratification of the war debt \uthorization of the con- under supe he Interstate Commerce reorganization of the and Com- departm ¥ Muscle to the ; Mathieu, the dean of n diploma and who has repr Lere sin as by his government ster of forelgn affai < recall is expected to have a fav t negotiation: Arica plebiscite to determine puted provinces will go ru transfer of Ambassador reports are revived in South an effort will be made to ne of the negotiations to Nations 1 puncil has 1 Un Russia 1o taki States, part in the work | commission now maki plans an in tional disarm: ent conference, but it is not known whether the United States will accept answer will have to awalt a study of the text of the invit : President. with the Associated »mier Kato declares would gladly join rvie kyo, P Japan \rmament conference, he does Lelieve the time is ripe for such nference, and that several Euro pr Jly feel the same expressed doubt that Russla such conferenceg In | way. He wo join any Japan and the n absurd- ar between that a United States not only ity but physically impractical. The lupanese would not (mmigration, he tlie hope that the United States would | here ome day amend its immig <they apply to Jupan and remove the sre spot which remains between | two nations. | —— |u The Battle Monument Commission, | {3 charged with the proper care of the burinl places of America’s war dead in France, has recommended and the | War Department s approved this ves of the | nce—"Here | epitaph upon the & dead in F \ honored glory an American known but to God.” Wh the prohibition _question omises to bob up repeatedly during e present Congr , Brig. Gen. Lii Andrews, Assistant Secretary ! of the Tr ury in charge of prohibi. ton enforcement, declared last week | in New York that he would resign it | fie has shown no material progres with r in the enforcement of he v. The greatest prob him, said Gen. Andrew: n’of industrial alcohol | | channels, where it is used | to show that is fostering | flitarism through courses in military inz in the schools and colleges . public last week and lmre} ners of many prom- he pamphlet declared | Cthe t aching of milit in high schools or colleg and indicated that such teaching | to foster a military spirit in | country he War Department swered the nphlet, indirectly, by \ing out strongly, in a letter to all corps commanders, which stated that the War Iy in favor £ military training e sible number of students, considering available personnel, funds and equipment test pos Economic On We Presider Ludzet esday of last transmitted the annual ngress, estimating that the total expenditures for the fiscal year, which begins next June 30 and | ends in 1 will be §3,494,222 308, and that receipts for the same yvear will | be $3,824.530,2 nd that this will || of receipts over 307.894. The sur- year, end- | imated at particu ihout a surplu The President development of the Air Government building pro- ibition enforcement and | t aid in road building. He >sting fact that Government expenses have about ched the limit of curtailment, and 'ns against too much curtailment. District of Columbla’s budget next r was reduced 597, a total hes in for the from $3¢ of $406.274, the budget occurred in the appropria- tion for continuing the five-year school building program. Some of the citizens interested in the development ; of the school system ning to protest th Congress to reinstate the tuken aw: Lill comes before it here are plan- cut and petition he budget tells the interesting story of where the dollars comes from and how it is spent by the Govern fent, and it is worth repeating here. \Where it comes from—Income and profits taxes, 49.6; miscellaneous in. ternal revenue, 22.85: customs reve- nues, 14.43; interest, premium and dis- | count, 4.95; fees, fines, penalties and torfeitures, 0.84; repayments on in- trust fund receipts, receipts, vestments, 1.62; 6: other miscellaneous spent.—General functions of Government, 3.35 cents; natlonal lefense, 16.32 cents; military pensions, retirement pay, annuities, World War nd life insurence claims, How i wances 5 cents; public works, 5.60 cents: | promotion, regulation and operation of marine transportation, 1.88 cents; wthe civil functiol 7.40 cen re funds, 491 cents; public debt retire- went, 14.76 cents; interest on public iebt, 22.75 cents, and trust funds, 6.48 ents week the | ,ur things In_his bud- ! amount | when the appropriation || Currel_lt News Events l Summary of Important National, Foreign and Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the Convenience of Students. v the | oper: nt of | issistant | for “more complete world re- | covers.” Fuctors underlying the busi. ness situation in this country, he said, re appurently sound and warrant optimism for the future."” | The United States stands on_the | threshold of a new industrial era which | will outdo the last, Secretary of Com- | merce told delesates to the vivers and | harbors convention in St weeK. 1or this reas ton facilities of the n the trans ution must " | ve increased to hanaie doubie the com- | modites now moved, e ing more trunk-line rulre Veloping and improving th o Like over the burden of t | tion. - by build s or de witerways sporta- | The Post Office Department had an tng deficit of 349,453,090 at the end of the lust fiscal year, the Post- master General announced in his an- nual report to the President last wee and he places the blame squarely on Congress for not having adopted his recommendations for increased postal rates at the same time that Congres: raised the pay of postal employes. The Italian the v i Unit Senate last week ratitied ent agreement reached with the tes over the payment ol the 1 | ltalian loan. ‘Tnis step’ constituted, I the opinion ot Count \oipl, the fi' nance umister woo negouated the settlement, the “real end of the war, so tar as Italy is concernea. Senator Victor henry Berenger has been made he French ambassador o | the United States and ix coming here ic corps | with the dennite object of setthng the French war debt to the United States. He will relieve the present French am- | bassador here, Emile Daeschner. | President Coolidge, addres: | annual meeting of the Americ ing on the outcome of the | Burcau Federation for the holding of | week. declared that co-operative mar- | keting, | supplied with necessary tinancial Germany | 2 In | suggested a the course of his interview he “sald | \irhin the industry itself to solve th g0 to war over | fected here last week by 1id, und he expressed | sentatives of “big busine: ation laws | the interference of the Government in | | they refused to vote worth and put up their own candi-|und her assistants are Miss Genevieve | Allen | Rudolph of the Nu Chapter, and Miss | | 1 secretary Mellon, in his annual re- t to Congres: of prosperit | verutors and miners, there is no hope ng_the n Farm in Chicago last supplemented by more ade- quate and better storage facilities and red- | It, will do much to place the agricul- | tural resources of the countr; firmi and economieally s cxpressed himself against the Govern- | ment’s undertaking to control or di vect this form of marketing, but ex- pressed the belief that the Govern | ment should assist all such effort Despite the peace negotiations now teng attempted by Gov. Pinchot of Pernsylvania, between the warring for early peace in the hard coal Indus- try, according to Samuel . Warriner, chairman of the anthracite operators corference, who spoke here last week before the American Mining Congress Gov. Pinchot's proposals were de- scribed by Mr. Warriner as “chimer- rcai’” and mpracticable.” Secretary of Labor Davis, who addressed the congress alko, declared that the mal- ady from which the soft coal industry suffers is ‘“overproduction”- and he “Tact-finding commifssion” | problems of stabllity in that industry. A permanent organization was ef- 300 repre- who met opinion against to mold public private business and which called upon the American people to stand be- and which is expected to pass Con- gress before next March 15, when first payments .on 1925 incomes be- come due. As reported to the House, 736,000, on the raeasure began and will con- tinue for some time. The usual flood of first-minute bills were weck, the number being several thou- sand, and breaking all past records. The tendency now is for less laws and better enforcement of those ex- isting, but the recording clerks of the House have had a hard time the last week in keeplng up with all the pro- posals for new legislation. Many of them will never get away from the | committee pigeonholes to which they signed. By far the greate sion here { number of bills on any one subject | | were those dealing with the enforce- ment of prohibition or its repeal. | Others touch on pretty nearly ever: | sulject beng discussed privately or | publicly in the United States toda, | it | The Republicans and Democrats in the Senate sat back and laughed to- | zether last week, and the gallerfes | joined them, when Senator Pat Har- | tixon of Missisgippl poked fun at the Vice President of the United S who, as presiding officer of the ate, was unable to reply. Senator arrison, who has become known as the Democratic d flay,” because | of his constant *ks upon the Re- | publican party, compared the recent | campaign of Gen. Dawes in behalf of ! & change In the Senate rules to the crusade of Don Quixote. Senator Har. 1ison’s good-natured, but none the less stinging, remarks made even the Viee President smile as they were delivered. Agreed upon by administration lead- ers ux the quickest and most expedi tious way of bringing about reorgani zation of the CGovernment depart- ments, bills have been introduced in the House and Senate providing for | the appointment of a reorganization | hoard which will survey the needed changes in the departments here and | recommena. transfers and_ combina- | tions to the President of the United ates. who may put them into effect by executive order without congres- sional sanction. Following by a week the report on aviation by a hoard appointed by the President to investigate the aero- nautical situation in this country, the | special House aircraft investigating | committee reported to Congress last | week and recommended, among other ! things, an annual expenditure of | $20,000,000 for five years for the pro- | curement of afrcraft for the Army and Navy, the creation of a department | of- national defense, covering land, sea and air; a separate budget for viation and a bureau of civil aero- nautics in the Department of Com- merce. The report takes the Army and Navy to task for not giving avi- ation proper recognition PLANS FOR DINNER ON FOUNDERS’ DAY Legal Sorority of Happa Beta Pi Also Will Honor Three of Its Members. The legal sorority of Kappa Beta Pi | will celebrate the elevation of three of its members to high offices in the natfonal organization by a dinner to be given at the City Club Tuesday, which is the anniversary of the found- hind the proposition that American | ooviucy 15 tounded upon the pri- vnership of property and main. tained by the private enterprise of its citizens engaged in gainful occupation. ' Congress Congress came back last Monday after its long recess and rolling up its sleeves buckled down to work. The preliminarfes were congluded in both houses in short order. the House o ganizing a little while after it assem bled and electing Nicholas Long- worth of Ohio to the speakership. | The “insurgent” Republicans of the | House wrote their own fate when for Mr. Long date, Representative Henry Cooper of Wisconsin. Thelr failure | to vote the straight Republican ticket | deprived them of committee chair- manships. In the Senate the question of what | to do with the insurgent Republicans | there was left open for a while. Some indications exist that the Republicans| Whalen for decorations. Nu Chapter | will offer them the olive branch and | show thelr willingness to let by- gones be by-gones in assignments to committees. Others are strongly in favor of following the precedent set by the preceding Senate and keeping | them off the important committees to which they would be entitled by the | | senlority rule. | _ The first measure of importance introduced in the House after its or- ganization was the tax reduction bill, Christmas - Suggestions 'Table Vase Lamp —in assorted colors design. $1250 up Small Vase Lamps —with metal bases, assorted colors. —for every use, i Special prices on Jlamps Come in and see our Washington Clamp-On Lamp, $2.00 and other electrical gifts sure to find what you want. Open Until 9 P.M. 928 “Eye” St. N.W. ing of the sorprity. The members in whose honor the dinner will be held |are Miss Beatrice Clephane of the Nu ! Chapter, who was made grand dean of the sorority; Miss Marie Flynn of the Omicron Chapter, who was elected grand registrar, and M Leland Swindler of Epsilon Chapter, who wa made province dean. The elections were held at Los Angeles in tember. E Arrangements are being made for several entertainment features at the dinner, including speeches by promi- nent women. The guest list will in | clude several of the prominent women ! ers of the city. s Marie Saunders of the Epsilon Chapter is the general chair- man of the entertainment committee, law Bertha Richardson of Chapter. Each of the chapters has arranged the Omicron to handle some part of the arrange- | ments for the dinner. Epsilon has a committee composed of Miss Saunders, Miss Julia Banks and Miss Grace will have charge of entertainment through a committee composed of Miss Rudolph, Miss Olive Geiger and Miss Margaret Rauver. Seating arrangements and publicity will be in the charge of a committee from Omicron Chapter, composed of Miss Richardson, Mrs. Edwina Avery and Miss Esther Martinx. Plates used for printing English admiralty charts cost as much as $500 aplece for engraving and $3.75 n assorted colors. floor and bridge display, and you will be Electric Co. Fr. , declares that a state | ts in the United ates toddy, and there is clear pras-l.f = which has been framed by the ways and means committee of the House the bill proposes a reduction of $325, | After its introduction debate introduced in the House last | Sep- | AT A T T A0 T AT T AT AT T AT WA AT A T AT AT AL AT AT AL AT T AT AT AT A T AET AT AP AT L AT T AT AL AT NPT DAV AT T AT AT 0L A0 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 13, 1925—PART 1 Fashion. A Novel Idea! | i | Satins Charmeen Crepe Roma i Georgette g R Graceful frocks, the beauty and quality of which are u | delightful touches. The shades are most becoming. Walking, Talking and Mamma Dolls 44¢-89¢—98¢ Imagine the wide-eyed astonish- ment and delight of your little girl on Christmas morn, when she sees one or more of these beautiful dolls, peeping from her stocking. Mamma Doll, with lovely big blue eyes, dimpled cheeks and blond hair. Smartly attired in a fancy laced trimmed dress with 89¢ bloomers and bonnet to match Baby Doll, looks and cries exactly like a real, live infant, and is dressed in long baby clothes and covered with a pink or blue baby 89 ; C blanket | | Buttercup Dell, the one, only and original trouble maker, with his one curly hair and mischievous smile. Fully clothed with striped panties and patent leather 98 slippers C Crying Doll, a cunning little crea- ture, dressed in a fancy figured lace trimmed dress. Separate panties and bonnet of the same material. 11 inches in e e 44c¢ o4 Remarkable Values! V1Y ! Fuar-Trimmed Coats $19.97 \; For the holidays you'll need a new coat, and you can obtain complete satisfaction and utter smartness in this group of coats at $19.97. Good looking Suedes, Polaires, Bolivias, Pin Points and other cloths in all the newest styles! Sizes for Misses and Worhen. i ) Sale! Entirely $ New Dresses! In Advance Spring Styles! Featuring, enticing circular skirts, and full or tight fitting sleeves, preferred by the woman of Give Her A Dress for Christmas! J xcelled, at a price any where near $R.75. Every frock is an exact replica of expensive Paris models, and may be worn for afternoon, street or evening dress. Irresistible one and two piece styles, handsomely trimmed with hand embroidery, velvet applique. shirring, frills, panels and other v ; ; ; : ; Y : : ; % g ; ‘Eg ; : A : Save on Your Christmas Gifts! Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Slippers 44c¢ to $1.29 Men’s Felt Slippers, of heavy felt, with soft padded soles and heels. 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Includ- ¥ ; ; ¢ ; : : : ’ : ; ; ; ; ¢ ; ¢ g Poiret Twill Flat Cantons Poiret Chene Satin-Faced Cantons AR AT Al At BT e A e Tl e e Tl e e e e T & o3 - Entrances 8th St. and E St.—Stairway 8th St. Entrance Nearest E LANSBURGH & BRO. A New The these felt hats, Shipment! 250 remainder of hats just ar- rived. All wauted ma- terials and styles In- cluding some slightly soiled higher-priced Tl o R B S G o G o SR e e e 48