Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1926, Page 5

BOY SCOUTS LAUDED BY BRITISH ENVOY Sir Esme Howard Daclares Movement a “Happy Discovery.” ¢ Scout mov night by Sir I 1 Ambassador, to be “one of the happiest discoveries for the benefit and improvement of men and for the | fmprovement of international e tions that has been launched in our ent was de me Howard. | !life and acts of Abraham Lincoln were | to an andience of Scouts atives and friends. who d | Central 1l hool Auditorium for the sixteenth birthday celebration of the District of Columbia Council, | Scouts of America. Sir Bsme said doubted if th as any other n ment “which ean so bring together boys of all nations in « common un derstandin The speaker referred to that the founder of scouting was a Britishe 3aden-Powell. who is to visit Washington April 30 in con nection with the annual meeting_of the Boy Scouts of America in the Na- pital ys Same the World Over. Healthy the sume I s British Amba comr ip. Tt often unconscious or s c the chief scout by : zathered togethe n influence for good them 1o a great educ formation_of oh: the service of mankind—in another word, toward ckh ¢ in the st sense of the word. idea of scouting as 2 factor in inte onal understand . Sir Esme said: “When you Amer- ican Boy Scouts find out that, first, the other English speaking Boy Scouts whom you meet and with whom you can converse easily animated by the same aims, the same | feelings as —when you feel later that Boy of other nmations Teutons, Latins, Scandinavians and 's, also have the same aim and ame feelings, there will tend to up between you in afterlife a sense of comradeship which, without | any way diminishing the pride in| Your own nation and its achievements, | may and will, T believe, help lar | to diminish ancient prejudices which | 4 hoys feel towards boys of another tongue. then finally to wipe neient grudges betw which has been tk suffering and misery Talk by L. A. Snead, president of the Dis trict of Columbia Council of the Boy S8couts, referred to the praise of sev- eral Presidents of the United States for the movement and the fact that these Presidents had been honorary heads of the Boy Scouts of America. The organization, said Mr. Snead, was not military either in theory or "l actice, yet he could see in the future “a million men prepared to fight the battles of war, if necessary, md equipped to fight the battle of 1!9 Eagle badges, the highest honor in scouting, were presented by Brig. Gen. George Richards. United States VMarines. to the following: Robert E Ellsworth, James E. Weedon, Law rence Morscher, William Rittenhouse, i . W. Thuney, Donald Harris, Freder- | ick Marshall, Ralph G. Schure, Morton Silverberg, Roger Marquis and Hal- leck Snell. Life Scout Badges were presented by Dr. Paul Bartsch, deputy commission- er at large: T. Sawtelle, James L. Weedon, Raymond Brown, Robert Weigel, F. M. Thuney, Arthur Gill- man, William P. Everard, Roger Mar- quis and Halleck Snell. Veteran Pins for Scoutmasters. Veteran pins for 15 vears’ service to the Boy Scouts were awarded to Scoutmasters Maj. Willlam Simpson, Troop No. 17, and Wilton Eyer, Troop the fact catin the in the A. Snea A silver loving cup for meritorious service was given to J. Wilson Lever- ton of Troop 4 Thomas H. Chapman, president of the American Business Club, made formal presentation to the Boy Sc here of the Recreation Hall at Roosevelt, turning over to President Snead, bronze plaque to be placed in the hall. When the recreation hall acing, Mr. Chapman said club was ready to come forward n and give the scouts another. K the scout ceremonies of the | evening was recitation by more than 1.000 Scouts assembled, of the oath and law, led by Linn C. associate executive und allegi: the flag, led by Lieut. E dleton, assistant deputy commissioner. | Music was a feature of the program. J. Wilson Leverton of Troop 49 sound ed assembly, and Troop 49 Drum and Bugle Corps. with Sergt. ilenry Love less, leader, presented “To the Colors. The Marine Band played patriotic s Jection including the American and British natio! George H. OD'Connor :companied b; tt Horne, entertained with a series of son: and ““Charl Miller_of National Scout headqu ¢ York, offered a novelty on e harmonica. Barry Mohun, Scout commissionar, who presided, loaned for the occasion a great American flag which had been in Ford's Theater when President Lin- coln was assassinated. On the oppo- sit> side of the proscenium arch hung a large Pritish flag. honoring the H ish Ambassador and the founder of | scouting. The nddresses and entertainment features were broadeast by WCAP. Officers of D. C. Council. Officers of the District of Columbia Council, Boy Scouts of America, pres ent at the celebration last night were L. A. Snead, president; Huston Thompson, honorary president; Ar- thur May, first vice president; Brig. «ien. Lloyd M. Brett, second vice pre: ent: Julins Garfinckel, third vice president; George Hewitt Myers, treas vrer; Barry Mohun, commissioner, and Paul Bartsch, Henry P. R. Drown, Oscar Coolican, Estes, Isaac ( 3 H Lee Jones, .. Neuhauser, Harry I.. Rust, Myron W. Whitney and Luke 1. Wilson, members of the executive hoard. Deputy commit iey. Dr. Paul Bartsch, <hall, Dr. F. F Merrill, Dr. P. Wilson, C. C. Staley, U. 8. M. \1 Marsh, Col. ¥. L. Mattice and Harry B. Caton. Executive s pff—Edward D. Shaw scout executive; Linn C. Drak ciate executive: H. sistant_executive. Field executive: J. T. K. Plant, C. A. Bell, J. P. Ho- vey, H. L. Webster and G. H. Parker. couts serving as aides were: Carl Ackerman, Troop 10; John E. Boyd, Troop 43; Burge Caton, Troop 126; Walter Cosdon, Troop 104; James Freeman, Troop 20: Donald Harris, “Troop §; Ben Morgan, Troop 42: Mar- jow Perry, Troop 2; Alden Snell, Troop 100, and George Tolson, Troop 59. Whiting Hanna, E. ‘illiam B. Mar- Dr. Walter Lester G. J. J. Trains Called in English. In France so many English and American_tourists are now traveling through the country that the rallroad companies have had to adopt the sys. tem of calling train stops in to avoid unnecessary confusion. The English of the French is almost as distinct as railway vocal announce- ments In America. CHICAGD OPERACD. } Anna Correnti, ! spontaneous laughter and even | I SIR ESME IlO\\ RD SCORES IN“MARTHA' Gay Musw Gayly Sung in Ex- tra Performance Given Gratis. A large number of Washington mu- lovers enjoyed the distinction of witnessing an absolutely free perform- | ance of what is generally conceded to be the most expensive of musical lux iries—grand opera—when the Chicago | Oper: blished a prece. ! dent in musical history vesterday aft | ernoon. presenting Flotow's “Martha™ additional compensation to those | who hought tickets for Verdi's “Otel lo” Tuesday night and were given Puc-! cini’s “La Tosca” to listen to instead. The substitution was necessitated by ! the illness of Charles Marshall, the | only tenor in the company qualified | to sing the title role of Otello. { No tickets were sold for vesterday's | performance except in cases where! the original “Otello” tickets had been turned in to the box office. As a re-| sult the audience and opera company allke seemed o take its ~Martha" in | spirit of carefree light -heartedness. | ven Roberto Moranzoni. conductor, liant, flour. ned to gallop & overture and see through the remainder of the | tuneful score. Moreover, the fact that | rtha” is one of the few operatic| works in which no one dies or is spir- | v crushed. but has a fairy-tale appy ending. added to the joyous re. | laxation of the audience, for there | were no tense moments of traged instead, between the choruses of the merry villagers and the ale song, similar in setting and theme to Regi nald De Koven's forest scene in *“Rob- in Hood,” a calm but pleasant time | was enjoved by all. h Mason Pleases. ith Mason sang quite pleasingly, delivering the famous Last Rose of Summer” both in Eng. | lish and later in Italian, the language | in which the oper:. as a whole, was | sung. She was given more than| ample support by Irene Pavloska, | heard here last vear in the leading | role of “Rose Marie,” experience in | which seems to have given her un-!| sual dramatic ease. Miss Pavlo: as an admirable Nancy. Antonio! Cortis, who sang the leading tenor | role in “La Tosca” Tuesday night, | was excellent as the moody Lionel, | who mourns for his Martha in the| third act and even the first part of | the fourth with such eloquent sing- | ing of the “Rose” theme. “Mappari,” was especially fine. Vir | gilio Lazzari was well cast as the! more sturdy, masterful Plunkett, and | sang and acted his role admirably. The | quartet gave the “Good Night” num-! ber delightfully | Vittorio Trevisan proved an accom- | hed comedian in the role of Sir| stan and Gildo Morelato sang the | ieriff’s resonant musical announce. ments quite satisfactorily. T smaller roles included M roff, Philip Aronson the title role| His aria, | urice Kost- Jean de Ke; Constance Bitterl, ¥ abeth Kerr, Herman Dreben, Nascimbene and Mary Giullermo. Two More Operas. Toe settings were ver good the costuming was attractive. women of the chorus in the est scene were picturesque sang 11, but the voices did not seem to rry the choruses above the or- chestra for those sitting toward the front. Farther back in the orchestra and balcony the effect was much bet- ter. An amusing incident that won ap- plause in the midst of & vecal pas: Sage was when the ehellious Mayiha | knocked Lionel's hat neatly in a high | curve to the top of a cupboard shelf, | It was quite evident that lhc lady herself wa hat actuall, anded and could not re- press a chuckle, In fact, all those on the stage were quite as amused gs the audience. This afternoon Mary Garden is singing “Carmen” with Fernand Ans- seau, the French tenor, as Don Jose, and Giorgio Polacco conducting. To. night, beginning promptly at § o'clock, “Rigoletto” will be sung in Italian with dith Mason, C rles Hackett and Richard Bopelli in the leading roles and Henry G. Weber (Ollducl' Kissing Ban Of in Japan. 1\\ssing has been under the ban for ages in Japan, but with the advent of the American moving pictures in that country the habit has become a cus- tom, and kissing in public even is now reaching a point where it is 4 pleas. ant pastime for a great many. Edmonds Building 917 15th St. Located in the heart of the Financial District, this modern office building is particularly de- sirable. Single rooms and suites. Reasonable Rentals SHARNON & LUCHS 713 14th St. Main 2345 | the j with 14th Vesper Concert. First Congregational Church tomorrow afternoon at 445 o'clock, arranged by Ruby Smith Stahl. The Choir Invisible (18 so- loists) under direction of Jo- seph Pache, with Mildred Kolb Schultz, accompanist. Charles T. Ferry, organist. Prelude, “Offertoire in D Mi- nor,” . . Batiste “Gloria Tibi"" avaie .Pache ““Seraphim Song”..Bortynansky Scenes from “Elijah,"” Mendelssohn Offertory, “Adagio” (third so- nata) .. .o {Imant “Be Thou Two myths surrounding the public f | .. DENIES LINCOLN HIT PROHIBITION Speaker Refutes Views At- tributed to Him by Anti- Dry Factions. Thy Burden” (Elijah), Mendelssohn .. Pergolesi “Glory to Goi “Omnipotence” Schubert Postlude, “Agi .. Burt Incidental solos and duets by Mrs. Ida Seaton, soprano; Mrs. McDonnell, soprano; Roy tenor, and Richard baritone. exploded by speakers last night at the forty-fourth anniversary dinner of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion at ew Willard Hotel. Declaring that the entire thought of the phrases attributed to Lincoln on the subject of nrohxbmnn were far | from Lincolnesque, Capt. ., commander of the > v Order of the Spanish-. an War, said the Civil War President never uttered the words he is quoted saying regarding prohibition The saying attributed to Lincoln has been used within the last few days by advocates of moderation of the Vol- stead act, and according to Capt. Small, originated in the mind of Col. John B. Goodwin in 1887 in Atlanta. where a bitter political contest w: hx-ing waged over the prohibition ques- tion. The phrases attributed to I which he never uttered, Capt. Small McCartney, s designed to instigate insurrection v the Southern negroes, the outrag- ing by them of the helpless women of the South, thereby forcing the aban- donment of the battlefield by the Southern soldfers to go to the pmJ tection of their women folks. “Fortunately no shred of basis for this charge against Lincoln can be | found anywhere in his character, his | words or his ag It cannot but wither before these words that he | wrote into the emancipation procla mation: *‘And I hereby enjoin upon apt. the people so declared to be free to said, were as follows: “Prohibition will | alerain from all vielence, unless in “k great i to the cause'of tem- | yecossary self-defense; and 1 recom perunce. @ species of intemper: | niend to them that. in all cases when ance within itself, for it goes bevond | 4llgwed, they labor faithfully for rea the bounds of reason, in that it sonable v IO | Wts to control & man’s appetite sl SR legislation and in making crimes out lcal brondon: Shatley (oL Daves of things that are not crimes. A pro- | Who was listed us one of the speak hibitory law strikes a blow at the very | &%, was unable to attend. owing to pfinciples on which our Government | & NIght session of the Senate. | s Maj. Gen. John Lejeune com- | o < mandant of the Marine Corps Denies U. D. C. Charge. T Teview ed the life of Lincoln from boyhood Capt. Small fenfed that the procla- | “Tt has been truly said that usually mation of emancipation was prompt by a desire of President Lincoln to century must elapse after his d before an unblased and unprejudiced incite the negroes of the South to re- great figure in his volt. “Recently,” he said, “that estim- b ten, n. Lejeune able lady who is president general of This dictum is perhaps espe- the United Daughters of the Confed- [ cially applicable to a man who has | eracy, crediting some author of inis- | been the leader of one of the sections | information, charged that President Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation incoln, in a domestic or internecine struggle such as was our Civil War, for the [URDAY, hatred and bittgrness engendered by such a war frequently endures for many generations. Fortunately we are apared that calamity, for all the bitterness and all the hatred en- gendered by the Civil War and fits aftermath have vanished. Hoped for Real Peace. Gen. Lejeune said that Lincoln at the conclusion of the war “strove to make a real peace—not a peace of the conqueror with the conquered— so that the Union might be a Union of love, and not of hate. He died with- out seeing the realization of this hope.” Willlam Mather Lewls, president of | George Washington University, ple- tured Lipcoln as a man whose failures in business and private life spurred him on with the optimism that was part of his nature to new and higher endeavor for the Nation and mankind. “It is wonderful,” he said “that in such a short time any nation has pro- duced the giants the United States has produced in times of stress.” Lincoin’s religious feelings trans. cended and went deeper than the teachings of theology, Mr. Lewls said, even though he was not a communi cant of any c¢reed of the church. The invocation George F. Dudley, the commandery, and th colors was given by Dr ean. Brig. Gen. Charles W. Hobl com mander of the District of Columbia commandery. presided. Music was fur nished by ‘@ section of the Marine Band. ORDERED BY‘ PRESIDENT. chaplain of e to the Tariff Duty on Men's Straw Hats | Is Increased. 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