Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1926, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 35, 197 CONDON T0 SERVE ASNEA. PRESIDENT Philadelphian Understood to Have Given Competition to Cincinnati Man. Dr. Randall J. Condon, superinten dent of schools of Cincinnati, will president of the department ntendence of the National tion during the en- sulng year, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, who automatically !)m’mmh vice president of the department r the rules of the clation, was not a candidate election. Dr. Condon was declared within an hour after the I were closed yesterday evening & o'clock. While it the custom to keep the hallot fizures secret, it is understood that the only one of the three candidates to give Dr. Condon mpetition was Dr. Ed- superintendent of Philadelphia. Charles B. ndent of schools of is understood to . with Dr. E. B endent of schools elected of_Houston, Supt. of Wilhington, second vice president. was unopposed as Dr. B. B. Lew nt of schools of Flint. wed Dr. Willis A. Sutton, fent of schools Atlanta, sership on the tive com merly one of the o Monthly and is ted with the magazine in an ment of superintend- ence head was born in Friendship, Me., and is 64 ye of age. He holds de- srees from Colby and Harvard Univer- sitles. He was a delegate from the 1'nited States to the international edu- cational conference held at The Hague n 1914, He is a member of the board ncoln Memorial Uni- Harrowgate, Tenn., and of the Loard of education. He #lso has been connected with leading ucational organizations of the coun- wry for many years. 1e new depa EXEMPLARY LIVES OF TEACHERS IN U. S. LAUDED BY HOOVER| (Continued from are equal hefore the law ideal of equal opportun must we give each genera irit of democracy, but we must give them damental contribution | portunity through nt. i called America the melting pot for all races: there have been some disappointments in melt-| but none will deny that schools are the r ring out a new race. 1 . class and reli- From this pe of that| 4 the ad- vance of our natio chievement and our national ideals “Nor is it encugh to have trained minds, or even to have implanted| national ideals. Education must| stimulate bition and must train ch: er. There have been educa tional systems which trained the in tellect while they neglected charac- ter. There have been systems which | auched the | there have been ed systems which trained the er 1o et while they hope, inspiration e are. countries tems so depress am- t mass accepts it ingly, but gladiy, itempt o rise above en by their rely been man in as mot . no member icer of the Federal ever met him. It cational body and uate failed t or ambition whose school sy bition that the g absence not wherefore any their groove is mater. Your resul ifferent. If there Americz desy is _the had descended upon Washington. ambitious to get something better than he now has. Teachers' Part Is Large. In the formation of character you bave plaved a great and an increasing part. Your transformation from the spare-the-rod-spoil-the-child theory of character building to that of instilling of sportsmanship. leadership and per making for )\'u cter faster and better than ever I would not go so far as to nor, T am sure, would you claim, you are altogether responsible for e distinctive virtues of the American aracter. You would vourselves er to other influences, notably religion ind the home. which share with you he responsibility for molding the char- icters of our youns people. But cer- t as teachers, is very the resuit. There may be fafl- nd while the edu- cated crook may achleve success as a crook, he does not secure honor or ap- plause. And I am less interested, as vou are really, in w! you put into Young folks' heads than In what you put into their spirits. The best teach ing is not done out of a bhook, but out of a life; and I am sure that measured by this standard it will be agreed that tomorrow! WOMEN And You Will Be { e Bloom Tells Masons ;le\l!uiss 1 It ha mion Veteran Dead [ FOUR MARINES FINED FOR TRANSPORTING RUM Two Assessed $400 and Two $200 Following Arrest at Bladens- burg, Md., Yesterday. RLES H. UNDERWOOD. Learnfng that the military authori- ties at Quantico did not 1t the four marines arr ed yesterday on a ge of ansporting and illegal possession of liguor: 1id to > been Judge Gus A, , in Pylice Court today, quick- d with them. H. Dougls and Louis Ertz \\"Il‘ fined $400 each and, if defaulites will be compelled to serve 60 d s in jail. The other men, Thomas Dyer and John J. Payson, were given $200 each or 30 days in jall. Records of the quartet were a basis for the dif- ference in their sentenc The four were arrested )P‘il?rd.l.)' morning near Bladensburg by Salkeld of the twelfth precin gallons of liquor and eight bottles of beer were found in their machine. DEFENDS MUSSOLINI. Americans Should Go Easy in Criticisms. Representative Bloom, Democrat, fork, last night told a ..Jmmln;, Masons tha zed Premt for militar g0 slow in their accy The premier recently led, he for adop ymbol of the handle of which is a bundle of bound oy » ‘walls imme- diately the rostrum of the | Speaker's chair in the House and graved on a number of Amer; an leuhing has been marvel- roductive. A century of scientific discovel has vastly increased the complexitis of our national lil It has given us complicated tools by new and more which we have ga enormously in wdards of liv- ductiv It has vastly ed the op- women to for men and position to which thelr | and character’ entitle them. necessitated a high degree of | specialization, more education #nd skill. It greatly reduced the amount of human sweat. It has given thé adult a greater leisure, which should be devoted to sqme fur- ther education. It has pholonzed widened the chance of children. And vour responsibilities have become infinitely greater and more complex, for vou must fit each on- | coming generatoin for this changing | scene. I could dwell at length upon the| economle aspects and setting of our educational system. But I feel even more strongly the need of compensat- ing factors in the nation’s a st Learning and the development of| science apart from material rewar disinterested public service, moraland | spiritual leadership in America, rather than the notion of a country madly devoted to the invention of machines, to the production of goods and the acquisition of materfal wealth. Ma- chines, goods and wealth, when their henefits are economically distributed, raise our standard of living. But it requires the higher concept to elevate our standard of life “And in all these great tests of vour work, the maintenance of our national ideals, the building of char- acter, the constantly improving skill of our people, the giving of that equip- ment which makes for equality of op- portunity, the stimulation of ambition to take advantage of it, no greater tribute can be paid you than to say that vou are succeeding better than was ever done before in human his- tory. No one pretends that the great American experiment has brought the millennium. We have many failures, but that great and fundamental forces like yours are battling for moral and spiritual improvement is the war- ranty of confidence.” portuities that from it all 1610 9th—For Lease With C. H. UNDERWOOD, U.. EMPLOYE, DIES Veteran Who Shook Hand of Lincoln at Gettysburg Pneumonia Victim. Harrison Underwood, 84 vears old, veteran employe of the adjutant general’s office, War De- partment, who stood within 10 feet of President’ Lincoln when he made his Getyburg address, who shook his hand immediately afterward, and who had shaken the hand of every succeeding President, died in George Washington University Hospital ves- terda Death was due to pneu- monia: He was a Union Army vet- eran. Mr. Underwood the adjutant gener years, until retiring retirement act went 1920. Worked at Ford Theater. During his long service in that office, Mr. Underwood worked for sev- eral years in the old Ford Theater Bullding, and was an employe there at the time several floors fell in, kill- ing 22 men. He was out of the build- ing at the time of the crash. Serving in_Company C., 3d Penn- sylvanta Artillery, during the Civil War, Mr. Underwood came to Wash- ington and was emploved in the ad- jutant general's office in 1866, at a time when the full force there con- sisted of men in the Army. He attended the old Columbian Col- lege, now George Washington Uni- being graduated in law from titution in 1870. He was a of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Harmony Lodge, No. 1 F. A. A M, and of the Civil Serv Retirement Association. Three Sons Here. Four sons survive. They are F. Russell Underwood, Wilbur W. Un- derwood and Norman Underwood, all of this city, and Jesse W. Underwood of New York. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence, 1331 Park road, to- morrow afternoon &t 2 o‘clock. Rev. George Fiske Dudley, rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, will offl- | ciate. Burial will be in (vleu\\umfl Cemetery. Charles s employed in s office for 54 soon after the into effect in member ce There is one advantage of being | just a little deaf. You can pretend You didn’t hear the things you didn't} want to hear. Basement m of years Commencing March 1 i Siuke” Alceations t Business Block in City Bes Inquire Hotel Inn. 608 0th St Brackets s6._ig s7g It means that your instrument is safe from being knocked around, and that you can reach for a call without disturb- ing any papers that may be on the desk. Attach it to Desk, Table or \’Vall 32 and 38 1mhe>. STOCKET 1~ FISKE co [ J .1' - - w ASMN Main 3641 Wilbur May Ship With Midshipmen On Atlantic Coast By the Associated Press, Secretary Wilbur plans if possible to make a part of the Summer cruise with the midshipmen from Annapolis this year. The middies will sail June 4 upon three battleships for tech- nical exercises along the Atlantic Coast as far as Portland, Me. and south to Guantanamo. The naval Secretary will not be able to accom- pany them to Cuba. Mr. Wilbur traveled along the Pa- cific Coast with the midshipmen on cruise last vear, but has as yet been unable to make any definite arrange- ments for the repetition of the cruise this year. PARENTS AND TEACHERS MADE WORLD SECTION ‘Will Hold Three or Four Sessions at Next Conference on Education. The National Congress of Parents and Teachers has been made a full section of the World Conference on ducation. It 18 to have three or four at the next conference for ussfon of its work. Twenty- two forelgn countries now use con- gress materfal and corresponding with the national president in regard to the parent-teacher movement. A committee has been formed for the purpose of writing out a program here in America and later with rep- resentatives from other countries. The American committee is as follows: fiss Anna Pratt, Philadelphia vocational guidance; Miss Julia Wade sbott, Philadelphia, pre-school; Miss Mary Murphy, Chicago, IlL: Mrs. Susan Dorsey, California, educational tools and processes; Dr. Carson Kyan, Swarthmore College: Dr. Bird T. Bald win, Iowa Child Research Station; William B. Owen, Chicago Normal College: Dr. Douglas A. Thom, Bu- reau of Mental Hyglene, Boston, with Mrs. A. H. Reeve, national president, as chairman MOVIE TEACHERS END | Thousands Waste Money on CONVENTION HERE| Methods of Getting Thin, Doctor Claims John A. Hollinger, Pittsburgh, Heads Visual Instruction Organization. The Natlonal Academy of Visual Instruction, which has been meeting in the motion picture laboratories of the United States Department of Agri culture, closed its sessions last night after reporting advances in every sec- tion of the country in the use of edu- cational motion picture lantern slides and other visual t tools. A feature of the meeting a dem- onstration by Miss Aiken and Mrs. J. A. Kiernan of the District of Co- lumbia Amerieanization Schoo! of the use of motion pictures in teaching the English Janguage to the recently ar- rived citizens. An entire class was taken to the meeting place and re ceived instruction before the assem- bled educators. following officers were chosen President, John A. Hollinger, director of natura study and the Pittsburgh public schools; vice president, Hugh Norman, director of visual instruction, University of In- diana, Bloomington, Ind.; treasurer, Miss Elizabeth Dyer. in charge of vis. ual instruction, District of Columbia public ®chools; secretary, J. V. An- keney, in charge of visual instruction, West Virginia_University, Morgan- town, W. Va. The executive commit- tee members are C. H. IHoben, direc- tor of visual education, Pennsylvania State department of education, and Fred W. Perkins, in charze of motion pictures, United States Department of Agriculture. Wife Complains of Threat. Frederick W. Berens threatened to Ko to Mexico and get a divorce, Mrs. Flizabeth H. Berens tells the District Supreme Court, in a suit for mainte. nance. The wife says her husband de- clared that unless she sued him February he would leave for Mex- fco. They were married April 14, 1919, and have two children. Germany has motor roller skate: visualization in | # G By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February —Thou- sands of women seeking fashionable slenderness throw away “reduction treatments” worthless and often dangerous, money on hat are Dr. Arthur J. Cramp, director of the bu reau of investigation of the Medical Association, said he: American re. Speaking at the adult weight con ference being held by 2 25 len iclans to fix proper welght s D past few years given tremes petus to this new form of q v ‘fat d, “is exploited under tw ims: First, that those wl n u; o specific | ho use it | vision of Quack | do not need to diet need not exercise. “Those who eat much and exercise little are likely to become ohese and no treatment that ignores the ciuse of the condition can or will be ef- fective. The taking of drugs for the reduction of welght is a dangerous procedure at best and should never be done except under the per: sonal super- second, that they Dr. Les c of Johns the mo. willing to curb tain their ideal he said. that th. must be © appetites to at- ¢ must be shown, deal is wrong and ndards by laudable Stock Exchange. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February that, “however the economi the future may veer and financial disastel will reappear, was expressed H. Simmons, president of York Stock Exchange, in a today before the Advertist cfl of Chicago. He recalled some of the last 20 years, and traced st recurrence. Development of the stanch and flexible Federal banking system” was held conspicuous example. The after-war collapse in the first time in the hi of the pa DECLARES FINANCIAL LESSONS LEARNED Mistakes of Past Will Never Be Made Again, Says Head of . —Belief win change.” ist never by E. 1, the New n addre. ng Cou | pa business |crises which have occurred during the | eps taken |} since in the direction of preventing | “splendidly Reserve out as a 1920 for istory of American finance was met resolutely unitedly and intelligently | I no nesitation in | | | American b of the said The New York Stock i, belongs to “this same institutions, which ar useful to the entire American during periods rain v nks under the Federal Reserve . he | busi- | of | record, I have ying that should American busin be serfously menaced in the future, the stock ex change will be found fighting shoul- der to shoulder with the Feder | ce svstem uand other constructiv institutions of the land to restor preserve and sustain business pro: Derity Mr. Simmons sald that one of the greatest es the stock exchange renders lies in the part it plays directing investment capital into the ir lines of busing where it be profitably. em- | ng it from other where additional capital | required or justifi thereby averting the disproport and maladjustment responsible for lurge part of past business depres- sions. is neither — . TWO ESCAPED CONVICTS NABBED ENTERING CITY Occoquan Guards Hide at District End of Highway Bridge, Mak- ing Capture. guards from Occoquan, who ding in the police house at the District end of the Iighway Bridge, shortly before midnight last night. captured tw ved conviets ge, descended vere walking e shadows. William caped r the Or lay. Blood Alexandriz The guards wonld try te up position Four had been Gy ptured fu Hall and Jacoh Ke while working i hounds them to where the trail lost surmising that the reach Washington. to 1ds of the fourth . saw aled the the: The guard uffed them, er precinet, the men guards More than three-fourths of thelum ber output of Finland is under contro! of a new organization Main 81088100 St. N.w. v MORRIS PLAN BANK Undtr Supervision U. S. Treasury The average height of women of 12-10 inches more than it was | 1408 H ST. N. W. A master stroke in journalism— @le Tnited States Daily NO DAILY publication has ever been able to print the complete news oi our Government. ot e ven members of the Cabinet—not even the President himself—can secure a survey of each day’s happenings in the departments under their direct control! Despite the remarkable growth of the Government of the United States with its numberless activities reaching into every l)uunc« enterprise and every home. nowhere have there been assembled or co-ordinated in any hemg done day by day in Washington. Scattered documents and bulletin~ every community single publication the facts of what actually from Government offices containing information of inestimable value! LLocal newspapers covering i ntensively their particular fields! But nothing that is devoted entirely to the Iremcnd(ms activities of the U. §. (:o:-ernmcnr' This Startling Need Has Brought The United States Daily will appear on March 4th. All the facts about the activities in the executive, legisla tive and judicial branches of the Government will be pre- sented in an excellently printed sixteen-page newspaper. without editorial page. indeed without opinion., comment or interpretation of any kind. Directed by David Lawrence. a large staff of reporters will cover every department and bureau of the Govern ment, obtaining an impartial and comprehensive record. The whole newspaper will be indexed by suhiccn cnabling the reader to turn. without a moment'’s loss of time, to the exact page and column location of items of may draw his own specific interest. surmise For there will be neither supposition, presumption nor forecast — simply an au- thentic report, verifying its information at official sources and giving the authority for every item published. The United States Daily will have only one purpose: ALIL conclusions. And the reader THE FACTS—NO OPINION. Intelligent opinion must rest on accurate information Yet, where can you.read in detail tomorrow all the committees of Congress did today? a handy reference today indexing the details of yester- day’s leglslatwe action in the House and Senate of the Where can you procure today an up- to-the-minute report on actions pending before the United States? ~ These are a scattering few of the Government activities. that can be gathered each ‘day! nor reaus—all working for you! are either existing laws or deciding important cases affecting vour hu\meu and personal wl'mmh]np\ seen in the 1 character from the following major departments— Treasury Department Department of Commerce Department of the Interior War Department Department of Justice Forth a Great National Ne Supreme Court ? There vesterday? Every issuing day t regulatic ast few days detailed info Departmen Departmen Post Office Yet spape: re 30,000 banking institutions vitaily concerned in the daily activities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury Department, but how many can be accurately informed today of what hap pened there Bureaus he Hu\'crnmcn: ons_interpreting has rmation of anyone this t of Srate t of Agriculture Navy Department Department Department of Labor One of these departments has nineteen important bu ['he Bureau of Standards. ior instance, is the greatest experimental laboratory in the rials. what Has anyone world, studying everything from radio to building mate The Bureaus of \mnm] Industry and of Plant In No general newspaper can begin to handle it. and for dustry are in turn divided into forty groups! The Bureaa of Foreign and Domestic Commerce has at least forty sub- divided activities collecting for public use every day infor- mation concerning the prodmnon and consumption of American goods at home and abroad. Agricultural Economics issues vital facts every day for the farmer, the food distributor consumer. The Bureau of vou as n\xul a Think of the tremendous wealth of news and information It covers too great and varied a field,, During the war the Government attempted it with a very small bulletin that had a circulation nf 100.000. in spite of m obvious limitations. Environment A Magnificent New Apartment Building in a Sup"b Location $60 to $160 a month Chief among the manifold attractions of this splendid new eight- ‘story structure are its de- lightful planning and its unexcelled site on the edge of “Embassy Hill” elevators, larger refinements modern “Every Room A Front Room™ Electric fireplaces in the suites and _similar exemplify the luxury that dis- tinguishes. WAKEFIELD HALL Now Open—Occupancy March Ist W H WEST CO 916 Fifteenth Street Main 9900 @he Anited States Daily Is a paper which at last ddequately covers the field. It is a daily report upon the state of the Nation tendered to the citizens of the Nation! Start with the first issue! 3¢ a copy $15 a Year’s. Subscription The United States Daily M Street, Corner 22nd Street N.W. Washington, D. C. Kindly enroll the undersigned one year: Price, $15.00. I enclose Please start me with first issue so Type of Business.... Street Address. . (To Cnnada, 317.50 To Foreign Countries, $20. 00) for The United States Daily for remittance. (Or, bill me later), my file will be complete. Title Firm...... City and State.