Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1926, Page 19

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 3, 1926—PART 1. *® 19 SUPPORT PLEDGED || AROUND THE CrTY ||COURT WILL HEAR | Current News Events ||Fii i £ worwor sumsoum 10 MUW_ERS’ BILL: VALUATION CASE| his administration in his ability 5 4 + . i s £ BY NANNIE LANCASTER. Summa.ry Of Importflni 'National,‘ FOI’elgl’l Institution Described as Mother of Delegates of Local Clubs Will ies Body to Defend Ap- to e count cope with the situation, and hi; ss or faflure probably will largely in his political future. Finance Minister Doumer began tha run of the gauntlet last week, when he submitted his program for French financial rehabilitation to_the cabinet and they were approved. N he must undergo the ordeal of sub- mitting his bills, embodying his plans, Scientific Activities in Address by Veteran Curator. Special Dispatch to The Star. KANSAS CITY, Mo., January ' The work of the Smithsonian Institu HE figured up as & lady-killer, and feel- ing, maybe, that the man who spoke the' kindly words must have & kindly heart to back them, made apologetic was a plain white woman in a plain black frock—as like as a match to other plain women going around alone—not and Local Affairs Specially Arranged uti - " for thé Conveniénce of Students. ~ Urge Aid at House Hearing. Hepresentatives of more than a prominent local organizations et vesterday afternoon at the home Gilbert Grosvenor, 1328 18th and made plans to support the anent to obtain mothers’ aid ation for the District at this ses. of Congress. The legislation pro- ed wonld extend financial assist- to v others to enable em to children at home en « re such that with d the n would have to be Mrs. street - chil nstitutions. are o different bills on the 'd while they both in view, they pro t methods of procedure. 1 tes who assembled yester- ternoon voted to recommend to respective societies that they the bill of Representative the House and Senator Cap- enate. The Capper bill epared by the ( ion on Welfare Legisl oved by the District Commissioners. Meeting Forms Committee. and women have formed rittee on weifare legisla- District clubs, including s Distriet an Voters, Associations, Federation of Assoclation Federation of Assoctation, \char Associa- Alliance, Monda ague of Century of All Dt comm wing 1bia Tea ion of Alliance ch, subcommittee of the House Dis- nmittee will hold a hearing on aid legislation Tuesday, the meeting yesterday decided to the following spokesmen to the g Grosvenor, Mrs. George frs. Whitma Another Bill Pending. bill on the sub- Wads Mills of m, an pendin <pons Repr In this ¢ wus made Irene Lot ident of Welfare Committee of and Miss Margaret Wilson, Sident, will come to Washing- omorrow to attend the subcom 4 Tuesday morning. Loeb and Miss Wilson, it is d, are particularly interested sworth-Mills bill, described to the first widows' pension troduced in New York State by and on the charity organiz: soclety committee alleviating pov- w York IMMIGRANT’S COURTFESY MADE HIM MILLIONAIRE New York Barber to Give Anni- versary Dinner Today After 30 Years' Successful Business. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Janu: —An act of that made & millionaire of a nniless man will be celebrated at an niversary di given tomorrow Louis Morgen, proprietor of the er shops in the McAlpin and Mar- nique Hotels < service v little street and B A man of dis- tinguished apy nce entered. Mor- gen alone of the three barbers in the place howed courteously. The stran- ger told him his name was D. H. Mc- Alpin and became a regular customer. A little later McAlpin offered Mor- ven the proprietorship of the barher p in his hotel. which was then Morgen had no money and Alpin put up the money to start homes in Florida t nobiles and a 1 estate holdings. His tomorrow will he given at the for the 100 employes in his LIBRARIANS UNDERPAID, SAYS WASHINGTONIAN Fred Telford of D. C. Urges Library Association to Work for Classification. ciated Press. January 2.—Librarians ier intelligence, ve paid far less rsons er in other pro- requiring a similar degree of it This made t the of mer- ion after- @ Telford of the Bureau rsonnel Administration of He based his conclu- investigation covering recommended appoint a co tee to arrange a ition of library workers, ac to responsibility, and that the "o urge on library boards and interested bodies the adoption compensation schedule to cor- respond with the clas Telford A COL. M'CARTY DIES. Was Confederate Veteran and Notable Chemist. BALTIMORE, January 2 (#).—Col. William Fitzcharles Mason MeCarty, engineer and chemist, dled at his home here tonight as the age of 85. I McCarty was a vetoran of the Civil War, serving on the Confedorate side. He commanded the First Texas Legion, and, according to records pre- served by his widow, Mrs. Alda F. McCarty, the first shot fired in the battle of Gettysburg was aimed at him by a Union nicket During the World War, Carty was director general of the Canada Nitro Products Co. He also wrote extensively on subjécts related to his work Col. McCarty was born in Loudoun County, Va. Mr. Me- Rabbi Berlin to Make Address. Rabbi Meyer Berlin, president of the Mizrachi Zionist Organization of Amer- ca, who just returped from an extended visit in Palestine, will ad- dress a mass R‘emlng next Tuesday 1t the Tifereth lsrael Synagogue, Fourteenth and Euclid streets. He will give his impressions of the prog- vess of the rehabilitation of Palestine. T g The perennial shortage of food in Greece which has been aggravated by the refugee influx will be greatly al- leviated when an American company | completes the $27,000,000 drainage and frrigation project in the smmml Plain. being the sort of matches that are made in heaven. Still, the cheap est bluehead carries its hidden soul of fire. Which compensates. Mentally consid- ered, this espectal plain soul’s light is of the flickering quality to be ex- pected of a blue- head, but some. times—just some- times--there comes to her an unexpected instant of ilumination that leaves her with a dazed feel- ing that she has been ordered to do something, with out knowing what it is, or why. Take, say, Christmas eve. She had come home at dusk to hang scar- let wreaths in her two friendly old rooms and set around the barberries and holly s s that had come from the home woods—on tables and man tels, and before a shrine, and beside the picture of one who will walk the earth no more—and had lighted a big red candle in honor of the Coming of the Child, when—it came to her with shock-like suddenness that there was no cream for her breakfast toast. And that she must go for it—right now. Of course, she wasn't going out in the cold blackness for suct a foolish reason as that! Wouldn't butter do? And didn't she have fresh eggs just from the farm—and the best coffee, ever? All the same, she knew she bhad to go—What was Christimas toast witheut cream? So she went out, per whim''—and found the night o exhilarating with its gay, scurrying crowds, radio music from every corner, and children laugh- ing out expectations of gifts that were coming to them, that the cream was forgotten, and the woman, charged with a sense of the beauty of the night, and all it stood for, turned into a side street and walked and walked and walked—until she came to a long and deserted car track-except for a woman and a little child. The woman seemed to be ransacking | her entire outfit of bag and p and by the tin the cream wor reached her, was crying out in an| anguish that no mere physical hurt could cause. She had lost her car token; her money was spent: she lived in Georgetown and this was Capitol Hill! And she didn't know the way. Any average being, rich, poor, white or colored, stands ready to re- lieve so_small a loss, but it just hap- pened that no one was there to help ~—Christmas eve belongs to home and love and laughter—and this was a quiet, way-off street. So, of course, the plain woman stood by until the car came, and added to her tiny help with a small dollar bill for the baby vou never can tell what may hap- pen before a nervous bit of young mother gets her baby home—and that was all there was to it, except that: When the woman got back to the radiance of her small world—entirely regardless of the forgotten cream— she eaid to herself, having no one to say it to, and women must talk or dte: “I wonder if I was sent out to help that woman? I wonder who sent me?" * X ¥ ¥ EW YEAR eve was in his blood. You could tell: He was of the dublous age when a man's friends chaff him about getting vounger every day. And the thickness of his neck made you know that he had a doctor who warned him not to get excited and bring on old Appy, but his pigeon wing was fine! He cut it with boyish abandon as he skipped the curb from asphalt to bricks in the old year twilight—and as it isn't the usual thing to be ex- pected from an oldish and potty gen- tleman, he felt called upon to chuckle a short-breathed explanation to his companion, whose dignity matched his gray hairs. Likewise, man- like—you remember Father Adam— he blamed the woman, a shriveled leaf of something that may once ve had its blooming in the poet's garden of girls, who was scraping out a tune on her fiddle. It was a squeaky fiddle and the bow called for more rosin, but memory helps a whole lot when the tune happens to be “Turkey in the Straw.” It helped such a big lot that, as the fiddler sawed the strings, the oldtime air seemed to carry with it the unstudied melody of a voice that will call no more: “Swing y partnahs' All sash-shay 'roun’—— “'Old reels like that go to my toes —hold on, I'll have to stake the little old dame to a dime for reminding me of my dancing days. Here's where you don't have to shell out, you old stick you. Don't belleve you had a dencing day in yeur “Oh, I might as well chip in. The poor lttle old soul doesn't look as if she ever had a dancing day, either. And the old stick slipped rom thing into the fiddler woman's open- mouthed bag. But it wasn't & coin. Bill * * ok ok WO young mothers were confab- bing in a car. One held a ‘blanket-swaddled infant. The other placed her heavier baby on the seat beside her and, turning to her com- panion, left the baby to look out for itself. Which the baby did. It da- daed and cooed and kissed its free hand regardlessly and kicked its wool-legging feet. Then it started a flirtation, which proved, of course, that the baby was a girl. There was no shyness about her admiration. She went for the man of her choice with a directness that caught the astonished interest of about every passenger in the car— except her mother, who was too busy talking to notice the romance going on at her back. Things often hap- pen that way. The man sat below the baby, with a vacant seat between. He was a shabby man, with an all-over look of being out of a job. He accepted the voung lady's advances with a smile that seemed shy of asserting itself— Shakespeare forgot to say that bad luck, as well as a guilty conscience, makes cowards of us all—and when she had tugged at the maternal hand until she could sidle across the empty space and snuggle up to him, the man shrank away. The baby snuggled closer and crowed jubllation. A prosperous looking citizen across leaned over to cluck confidentially to Jullet and to congratulate Romeo on his conquest. But the baby took no notice. At that pracise moment there was but one man in the world! Perhaps the Drosperous one recog- nized that there must be something worth while in the hidden depths of a man—never mind his shabbiness— that could win the confidence of a baby, still wise with the inscrutable knowledge it had brought Into the world with it, from—who knows where? For, when the mother, sud- denly conscious that she owned an oftspring, gasped to find it fraterniz- ing with near-tramp humanity and whisked it into her lap, the citizen took the vacated seat and said some kindly trifie in regard to the wrecked romance. Romeo. encouraged, doubtlass, by the victorious fact that he had just | Sl it reference to having walked from Vir- | &l tidewater looking for work— And that was all there was to it, except that as one passenger got out she wondered if, perhaps—just perhaps, mind— The man who wanted work and the man who could give it had been brought together purposely. And if it had been intended that a little child should lead them. Fk F dear Jennie Wren of Dickens- land could have swung her nimble crutches to Washington just before Christmas she would have realized that a doll dressmaker has small showing In a town given over to teddy bears and ‘‘character Kkids. might have cheered her Vic- torfan heart—had she accepted the Invitation extended to all childhood to visit the toy kingdom of a certain wonder store —to find on a glass- topped counter i nfost sumptuous bisque bride, decked out in white satin and tulle. Then aguin her ockney morals may have been so shattered by a dress hem that re- vealed silk knees and a georgette bodice free of back and sleeves, as to have burried her home to Mr. Isaacs' store roof, where she could play “dead” and be happy. Be that :rw it may, there are always others— or: Viewing the bisque beauty with rap turous eyes, extra big eyes because of the gray shadows that come from not getting quite enough for a little child to thrive on, stood a small, thin legged girl n an outgrown sweater, thin from washing, and a tam that used its tassel to help out with a hole. And, like Jennle Wren, she carried crutches—no, just one crutch, leaving « free hand to grasp a smaller child by the shoulder of a threadbare blouse, relnforctd by a scarf of bright und warmly comfort- ing red. And, as many other little children wore like gay mufflers, it must have been a gift from the store. Some merchant kings are like that, when their guests are the small peo- ple who have swarmed to accept a Christmas invitation ‘to call It was a beautiful and merry king- dom; with musical toys and wound-up Jig dancers, and choo-choo cars going and tin dervishes whirling zz of a phonograph. And to fairylike pandemonium were added the flash and dazzle of tree ornaments, helped out by rainbow lights—and best of every gay thing— a something that no store could buy the unstudied melody of childish laughter — giggles, chuckles and ex- clamation points! But the small girl, with her one crutch and baby brother, had only eyes for Miss Bisque; an ecstatic vision that took in every move and pose, as a clerk showed her ad- vantages to two women who were considering her purchase. The woman {n the mink coat seemed uncertain as to whether the doll would sule. *Lucille {s such a particular child— there's no telling what will please her—still, she ought to be satisfied with a gift that cost $30, wouldn't you think?" The other womean, who was all vel- vet and fox furs, shook her head with a grimness that gave testimony to her knowledge of Lucille “Oh, it will do well enough—of course, she will howl because you didn’t include the groom. It's a shame to pamper a child llke that when there are so many poor children who would be glad—" The mink lady Interrupted to make a correction: “There's where you are wrong! There are no poor this Christmas—I read it in the papers—and. besides, my husband gave a big donation— *I reckon you are right—— “I know T am! Besides, I have al- ways considered that the poor make use of Christmas to work on the gen- erosity of the rich—I told my husband that, but_you know how men are: He sent a check, just the same.” “Well, I'm like he is. I belleve there must be some poor children who have to go without gifts and goodies at Christmas—and if I was sure— real sure, you know, that my help was needed I would be glad to assist some worthy, deserving child.” The other woman pald no attention to this uplifting remark. She was |too busy counting yellowbacks—and when the new owner of lady friend walked out of dent. Whether they saw the Jennie Wren child is a something that only one observer could be sure .of—the One ‘we call the Great Recorder, who writes us down in a book, but: On the prin- ciple that actions speak louder than words, the woman who might possi- bly help a poor child, “if she was sure she was ‘worthy’,” carried her velvet and fox furs by as if—if—well, as if she were one of those stone gods of Israel who have eyes that do not see. It was all right, however: a gouty- looking Santa Claus in red flannel and a convincing gack came along and treated the baby brother to a bag of candv—and when it comes to joy— real joy, and falth In Father Christ- mas— Monte Christo simply wasn't in it when he called attention to the fact that: “The world "is mine!" o IRISH GIRLS DEVELOP SELF-RELIANCE SPIRIT Outlook on Life Broader, Change Being Attributed to Upheaval in Political Life. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, January A new splrit of enterprise and self-reliance is being developed by Irish girls who hereto- fore have been noted mostly for their charm and beauty. Years ago middle-class Irish girls devoted most of their time to home affalrs and the question of marriage to some youth of their native place. Today their outlook 1Is broader. changed very largely by the upheaval }in Irish life and politics of the past years. The political movement which led through the Irish rebellion to the es- tablishment of the Free State taught the thinking Irish girls that there was something more to do than stay at home and get married. Many have made remarkable successes in drama and comedy on the stage, thereby creating a new race of actresses, With Dublin University open to woman students came the opportunity purchase” was made, the Miss Bisque and her the inci- have since won scholarships and prizes which qualified them for the learned professions. Many have mi- grated to other countries to increase their knowledge. Holds One Office 48 Years. Special Dispatch to The Star. UNIONVILLE CENTRE, Ohio, Jan- uary 2.—John Peter Kritline, 91, has been re-elected treasurer of this village, rounding out 46 continuous years in that job, and establishing what he belleves to be a new Ohlo record for longevity in elective office. e e T Owing to the decline of American demand for beads, cheap jewelry and glass novelties the Gablonz industry of Czechoslovakia is suffering from de- pression. to those of a studlous nature, who | gis praisal of C. & P. Tele- phone Plant. The Public Utilities Commission will £O before Chief Justice Walter I. Mc- Coy in Equity Court Tuesday to de- fend its valuation of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co.'s proper- ty, which it fixed last April at §18.- 578.956. The case was taken to the court by the telephone company on the ground that the commission's valuation was too low, and as a result a temporary injunction was granted to set aside the commission’s valuation. At the same time the court ordered that the amount which would have been saved by subscribers under the proposed rates fixed by the commission on the basis of its valuation be impounded, pending the settiement of the legal proceedings. The rates were reduced for unlimited service from $5 to $4.75 a month, and for party subscribers an allowance of 40 messages instead of 35 a month. Corporation Counsel Francis H. Stephens will represent the commis slon, and George P. Hoover and Dozler De Vane will be the telephone company’s legal representatives. BUILDINGS PLANNED AS WAR MEMORIAL By the Associated Preas. SAN FRANCISCO, January Donatfons from citizens and friends of San Francisco have provided $2.- 000,000 for a war memorial group. to consist of an American Leglon build- ing and an opera house in the Civic Center. The Clvic Center now includes the City Hall, State Building, Public Li- brary and Exposition Auditorium. The new group, to be dedicated to the memory of Americans slain in France, is designed in the form of temples of classic beauty. Destruc- tion of buildings on the site wiil start shortly after January 1, 'with construction expected to be under wav before March 1 The leglon bullding will include @ museum of fine arts. Architects have endeavored to make the interior of the opera house combine all desirable features. The seating capacity tenta- tively is estimated at 3,500, but this may be increased. An attempt is be. ing made to provide maximum capac ity without sacrificing perfection of acoustics, visibility and comfort. ‘Announcement of the successful campaign for subscriptions at a meet ing of the city’s board of supervisors was attended by a resolution com mending the San Francisco Opera Co. on its successful season. The com- pany will have its own home in the opera house. ‘The Musical Association of San Francisco has been trying for vears to provide a building devoted solely music. Besides housing the s of opera, the memorial structure will be the permanent home of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, which during the Winter season gives weekly concerts. Within the bullding will be rehearsal rooms and probably smaller halls for chamber music con- certs. Subscriptions for the group were started in 1920. SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and’ Sailings From ARRIVED YESTERDAY. oy 23 Mayaro Rouniind © cisesens EREEE-Ew Caracas . ... .San Juan. Dec. Weatern World . Rio de Janeiro. Fort Victoria .. Tmuda, Jan. DUE TUESDAY. P H; Berengaria Resolu Puerto_Colombi: *Valparaiso, Dec. DUE WEDNESDAY. . . Muarseille, Dec: 24 ~London, Dec. 2 OUTGOING STEAMERS, SAILED YESTERDAY. an"m.—L‘}ndofl ool <. - . .‘55;‘*?33'." : ney-—] g S Yo astores—Port Lis San Joee—Kingaton: 'an- American- luenos Aires Minnesotan—Cristobal Minargo—Nasssn o {: St ufl;;lh‘—flenr?:di . aréar—Plerio Bartios Glancho—Puerio Corter SAILING MONDAY. tern Glade—Cape Town: onian—ADtWerp ...... SAILING TUESDAY. Storm King—Pirseus. Berlin—CBremen . % Fui- Stockholm—Got! Conte Ronso—N. Dante All Marie Nielsen—La Deaths fieported. The following deaths have been reported 19, {he Hesln "Department within: the paat 24 hours: Cargline Swann. 61. 2313 Apgier ol. n.0. Katherine Thonssen, 71. 315 C st. n.e. homas J. Ridrely, 64,128 C st. n.¢. e C. Ristig, 64, 3101 24ih si. ne. E. Collins, 62, en route Georgetown Hoepital. ;. Grifin, 64, 1129 43 et. 8.%. Beach. 79, $93% Carleton ave. Antonnette Bugcher. 47, 1711 33rd si. rry G, Kern, EdWard T, Priebe, 3. Childrens Homital. Daniel . Sturray 74, Froedmen's, Hospital. Jumes Barker, 22, Tuberculosls Hospital. Births Reported. The following birthe have been Dartment within 24_hour: ported Bt Charles J. and Clara M. King, boy.’ Earl W. Ellen E. Frere. boy. cqrre Fpand Marguret Hariing, bos. elville B. an e rosvenor, -4 o amd AL &, Tidler by ¥loence E. Jone: ", and Eatn R Tomon, eirl e Anton. boy. B A’:}d J\l‘.ll fi "m‘. girl. and Catherine M. Lelssler, At ta L. Cohen, boy. s % Fhune: boy. . and Rose A. Janney. . and Jean G. Collingwood. girl. 't J. & wirl, Spe. Ein. iniaSchnecbereer, boy. i o her. 3 3 . bo Leroy T. nd Phylilis Buckincham, boy. Heginald 6. and a_Hainsworth, boy. Hylan and Bertha McClaine. girl. Henry L. and Caroline boy. Robert and Eunice Dixén, wiri. - 1. i r Frederick and Edmonia Green. f i s e and ise ;i ¥l "tod Bz s &fi,;,, i Rt -_'f»-‘om—“-t?fh—:—o_g 8883852283338 N>R RES > & Kigic L._ ge ] (2] #R E Nit & 32 £383838 hiliides Touesh Joseph eorze il Claude an and &fll! nald ¥ e Harry H. and Annp ¥. . wirl. Grorze W. and Lohiie D. it girl. soes G. and Ci ash. boy. Lewis and Maud Gi e R The President.and mg‘c':x 1a ob- serving a custom established. th 1790 by George Washington, received the representatives of the governments of the world at the White House on. New Year day. Following the formal reception to the dignitarics, the Presi- dent_recefved the citizens, who filed past him for hour: The year which closed saw a heavier toll than ever before of traffic deaths in the United States, with 40 large citles reporting a higher rate and 20 a lower rate. Some of the figures are nothing short of astounding. Chicago reported 787 deaths, New York 810 deaths in the first 10 months of the year. Washington's death list was smadler, thls year's figures be- ing 83, as against 91 last year. The world at large has, it seems, an overpowering curosity as to whom and when the Prince of Wales will wed. Food for such gossip was furnished last week in a dispatch from London which sald that the Princess Astrid, a niece of the King of Sweden, would be a guest at Buckingham Palace as soon as the period of mourning the death of the Queen Mother ends. The Princess is 20 years old, and is con- sldered one of the prettiest and most attractive of the younger members of European royalty. The job of being a King does not ap- peal to Carel, who, up until the latter part of last week, was Crown Prince of Rumania. After he attended the funeral of the Queen Mother in Lon. don some weeks ago- Prince Carol de- cided to take a vacation fram the ardu- ous tasks of the royalty, &nd was heard from at different times in Ven- ice, Turin and Milan, where European society gathers for rest and entertain- ment. He was reported to be enam- oured of a beautiful Italian woman, and his frantic mother, Queen Marie, sent for him to come home. Meantime, a grave political situation was created in Bucharest by the continued ab. sence of the willful hejr apparent, which was solved only when Prince Carol notified his father, King Ferd- inand, that he no longer was a mem- ber of the reigning household and re nounced the throne. 1lis son, 3 years old, will be formally declared the heir apparent in a special decree by Parli ment some time soon Frank A. Munsey, wealthy publisher, | left $25,000,000 or more to the M politan Museum of Art in New York, it became known last week, when his| will was filed for probate. The. be-| quest, disposing of a fortune estimated varjously from $25,000,000 1o $40,000, 000, came as @ surprise, for his name has never been associated with the ad- vancement of art. He orders that his newspapers and magazines be disposed | B of within a designated period. | = | The sixty-ninth _anniversary of the | birth of Woodrow Wilson was ohserved generally throughout the country last | Monday. Hundreds of wreaths and | flowers were placed on his tomb here | at the Washington Cathedral, while | banquets were held in various cities under auspices of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Foundation. A special 17 cent Wilson memorial stamp - sued in Washington, New : Princeton and Staunton, Va., and a collection of records and personal let- ters was placed on exhibition'at Am- herst, Mass. Yor Burton K. Wheeler, Senator from Montana, and two of his associates were exonerated last week in the District Supreme Court' of charges filed against them by the Department of Justice involving conspiracy .to de- | fraud the Government In obtaining gas and oil permits in Montana. The | court sustained & demurrer to Senator | Wheeler's indictment. The Senator was indicted, tried and acquitted of | the same charges in his home State some time ago, and considerable criti- clsm was levelled against the Gov- ernment when he was indlcted in the District. Brig. Gen. Smedley Butler is back with the marines. After a leave of absence of a year, ‘whith he took to assume the position of director of public safety of Philadelphta, the gen- eral resigned his job with the Marine | Corps. He encountered difficulties, | however, when the mayor of Phila delphia discharged him. Whereupon he withdrew his resigmation from the marines and has gone back to sol- diering. Gen. John J. Pershing, who has been at the head of the ¢ommission selected to conduct a plebiscite to determine the ewnership of the provinces of Tacna and Arlca, in Chile, is coming back home because of failing health. There is no secret about the serfous difficulties met by Gen. Pershing in: carrying out the arbitration between Chile and Peru 50 successfully begum here in Wash- ington. The State Department, how- ever, vigorously denies that Gen. Per- shing’s withdrawal is in the nature of a “diplomatic retreat,” while Pres- ident Coolidge has lét it be known that the United® States will not with- draw as arbftrator in the dispute. Floods in Central Hurope last week, caused by unseasonably warm weather which melted snows and swelled riv- ers already swollen by heavy rains, caused the loss of many lives and heavy property damage. Transylvania; Western Rumania, Eastern Hungary, Poland, France, Holland and England have suffered catastrophic losges. A report was recelyed last week from Afghanistan that Russlan troops had captured the Roup hasdriven many a poultry- man out of business. seri- ous losses d in lcrt\omha when are highest we guaran- mhatymmnavoid thisblight. - Mrs P, Lanford, of Blake, Okla., says: “I've lost numbers of ckens listening to other le's recommendations of dif- N 1t ordering Fratia which am wl 1 will cureas I have used bafi, ‘and 1t the réport is true it is ac- cepted in British official circles as an indication that the Soviet is taking a step toward realization of an alleged secret move toward India. The report is that Russia Has always wanted pos. sesslon of Afghanistan as an opening to Indla. Reports from England say that Soviet anti-British propaganda is being spread through India. Economics. Miners and operators, In conference In New York In &n effort to end their four-month deadlock, are working night and day with bright prospects of a settlement which 1l send the miners back to work, according to one prediction, within 10 days. The most optimistic statement issued by both sldes since the beginning of the strike came during the-latter part of the week in a terse communication which declared: “Both sides expressed the opinion that a contract can and should be negotiated at this conference." Meanwhile preparations are nd way on Capitol Hill for an |1|V°:I’l::l’t tion into the eoal problem, the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce having made plans for hearings with the view to getting all information possible on the situation A score of bills designed to deal with the nuisance of coal oilonia strikes have been There is a great surplus of wl the Middle West, naturally hrfeeinn down the price ' with the resulting hardships for the farmers, and the situation, already described as seri. ous, is focusing attention on Washing. ton. where the administration is look. ®d to for help. The old lssue of gov ernment in business is ore of the fn. teresting features of the - question One faction wants the government to enter the farm business to the aotual extent of forming an export corpora- tion to take care of surplus crops, and to flnance the whole operation. Another group, with the backing of the administration, wil Oppose any step which would ‘take the Govern. ment into the business of buying or selling produce or of fixing prices, Secretary of Agriculture Jardine has rranged a series of conferences with prominent agricultural leaders on the to the French ¥ there he will have accomplished some: minister will be appointed to take over what seems to be an impossible task. N Year week Uncle sam money from taxes amounts rangefi from a to hundreds of thousand collected either illegally b ment or returnable bec per cent reduction on payable that year. Bifts last overpaid. few dollar: of dollar Science. A rather reasonable v last week b: gist of the United Bureau at Topeka, Kan a speech t as b the population becomes and concrete structures wiil never be middle of some cit; This, he forec course of event couraging thought, however, fact that man’s ing triumphed over obstacl no reason to believe business section i the part of its terrors. Many throughont last two weeks rved to turn the spot light of a ention on the scientific ac. successful research duriy vear. Some of the disccx theories recently announc cancer is not an infeetious liseas is inherited, nearly half the leprosy, which have passed case use of chaulmoogra oil; cases of paral ysis resulting from u severed spinal cord ma now be mended from patches of spinal cords of other organisms: sunlight wil kill germs within an hour, effective at the hour of [duvenation™ theory of glands has been prove: n; the * arlimment. If approved thing. If not, out he goes and another Several thousand taxpayers in about every section of the country received from in the form of returned The the Govern- States Weather . who sald in death tolls from torna- does in the Middle West will increase thicker, and that the stabllity of modern steel come known until a4 tornado hits the . will happen in the He holds out an en- runity has always , and there is ‘he will not ul- timately strip the tornado of at least meetings of scientific bodies the United States in the| complishments of 1925, which will be made the basis of further and more : the six months' stage have been cured by tha v be cured, as spinal cords can . and {s most re. nsplanting tion as a mother and nurse of scier -| tific activities that have later been adopted as regular members of the | official Government family was ex plained here today before the Ameri can_Assoctation for the Advancement of Science by Austin H. Clark. a ve! eran curator in the United States Na tional Museum. “From time to time certain lines of activity initlated and developed by the institution have been recognized by the Government and granted congressional support of these, like the Weather and the Fish Commissic removed to th ments; others, seum and the tory, still_administered by stitution The common notion the National Museum and the Sraitl sonlan Institution are an the same thing, Mr. Clark pointed out, is an error. The National Museum. he E , is distinctly a Government bu reau, while the Smithsonian Institu- tion is an endowed private enterprise administered by a board of regents under the guardianship of the Federal Government. Some Bureau ve Nationu strophysical € Mu- Vi the in that soaps and fats may soon be developed from petroleum, making petroleum the most valuable resource a country may have; inheritance and race character- istics show manifestations in the blood —a discovery which may be of nificance in lawsuits and cases of dis. puted parcntage Religion. Another of the frequently recurring storme oser the orthdoxy of a man who has dist‘nzuished himself as a leader in 2 religious group has raged about Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York, chairman of the United States Palestine appeal, which ix seek- ing to raise a $6,000,000 fund for the rebuflding of the Jewish homeland Rabbl Wise declared in a recent speech .| that Christ was “not & myth but a_ 1 " and he ately upheld members of 1| his race. Some of the Orthodox Jews 1| now demand his resignation as chair man of the Palestine fund, while oth ers declare that his remarks were in keeping with the bellef of man; ern Jews. 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These suits are in ‘brown, blue and dark gray mixtures and consist of coat, vest, longie and knicker. Sizes 6 to 16. BOYS' ALL- WOOL -~ yommentacks - $79.85 Were 33.50 to $4. . I'n sizes 8 to I DRE high shades,” flared skirts, gayvly tr in‘the lot for women and n THE FUR COLLAR COATS are made of wool velour, elty coatings, durably lined and well styled. $25 & $30 Furred Coats , . High:class materlals, pin points, bolivias and suedes, luxuriously fur trimmed, fine linings, and styled with {Outing Flannel | Stri 2ec of Pure Bleached, Double-faced Outing Flannel and Neat Striped, Light Ground Outing Flannel, " Double-Bed Sheets, 69¢c seam and wide hemmed ends: subject 0 slight imperfections .Bleached Pillowcases, 1 and’ ready to use. ‘This is an exceptionally low SES of splendid quality flat silk 16 to 46. e Colors are 16 to 4. Fashion's dictates. Sizes 16 to 44. eached es of 3000 vards A new Spri colorings and d dren’s dresses. could not_sell January Thrit o o of infants, chill from _full piece ths. Buy all you g finished with center R % R 9c hemmed engs; | Yard wide exquiite % il on ‘i wide It il immed and charmingly enticing. $1 Costume Corduroy, 59¢ | and wide wale patterus! the new All sizes crepe i all suedines and nov- brown, buff, cranberry, $17-50 $1 Yard-wide Fancy ped Rayon 69 ng fabric, all rayon, in the new esigns for misses’, women's and chil- | 1f bought in the regular way we| this fabric under $1 a yard. " Our| Sale price, 69c, while it lasts. [ . 1§ e stock ade patterns,| shades ® o $1 Fancy Charmeuse, 59¢ fanc; printed dress patterns. that or, women, ‘misees and chilren. abric. January THRIFT Sale of Women’s $3.50 & $4 | DRE Two hundred pi hee] % P> " Splendid merchandise: all Derfect. SS PUMPS 95 of Patent Colt One and Two Strap ¢ s in black satin. 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