Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1926, Page 38

“AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE LANCASTER. HERE s a scientist, Legion, who has written be and given talks, to prove tk lled | their junney up the tree befo’ they-alls ks | fus’ foot gets in trouble. Now'm, huc- t|cum they act like that, unless they dogs lack intelligence. In-|got sense? Co'se thay got sense, aint stinct, ves, to a d ee, but, as | they, lady?" to any ability to feel or think, from| Laaq why bother over & mentul view | ordinary v s when there is metal point—ridiculous! | more att Which shows | “Yessum, that's ‘zactly what T says, that Legion has | too, anner’ oughter know—becawse I never met Bum “ome fum down vander in the country This is perfect | whar we has-all sorts of evvy kind— Iy maturel, seeing chill an’ fevah wums, an’ angl that, in_ his two | tapes, an' medgerin’ wums. Law, vears of terrier | honey, when I was a chile T uster life, Bum has dance juba wen one dem little green lived in the home | medgerin wums medgered me fuh a and heart of the 4 new dress. Yessum. Cattahpills got owner of a house e |as much sense as ‘tater on Capitol Hill—a you can't mor'n that. nice big, straigh |ean’t pick out nothin’ more up-and-down red | m “tater bugs. Them bugs is same | brick, with a bit of {ns folks, the way they kin dodge, | front garden that an skeat, 'n jump 'n_hide, wiv evvy | will be gay with hand on de fahm chasin’ em. An Dlossoms pretty even when you killem, they don't pear soon under the . |to know, they's daid, the way they magie of the lady of the house—and in| temp'y to keep on chewin’ Evvanh the back yard there is a great big tree | greqdqy * ovah them teency-tiney name of Grandfather Mulberry—and { g, - them green ones you see on for Bum. Also, there I | ,,ce jeabs? Them gnats is so small vears-old; blind, and so Weak | voy can't hardly see em’ wiv young wobbles when he walks | eved but if they gwine along, an you umples unde; .| puts your fingah in front of ‘em, they two have been | switches aroun’ all of a sudden, an furnace m, runs 4 n't that show vard or them g Suttinly they Bum has sorl|got sense! on a daid log of Bislin de piney wood n' steddy dem ack ants dat runs outer de rotten Why, honey, you'd be ‘ston- ished to see’ de human ways dem ants | thoush o' course they’s only tol. | “longside tumley bugs. Evvah teh a pale of tumley bugs rollin’ | ball up hill? An' de way dey | knows how to git fum whar de cyart | wheels is a comin? An’ you nevah in ¥o' bawn days see anythin' more ibler thanna frawg' Why frawgs el, an | v, | s t he Sometimes he ¢ All Winter th tered in the whether at play in the in the warm basement of “grown” a protective cire et playmate, His responsibility for the 1] e of the eider dog S0 yarked play. he sup presses gambols into cdae walk, suiti his steps of poor old Snapple. After the big when Snap. let neaded into a drift : ble out, Bum came a rushing the snow into a tiny path and led the | gop o Blind dog back to warmth. Poor | ;o Snap, exhausted from the strusgle, | ""me L L e s tumbied into his box; and Bum, iopensl sadsts, Wao & WeRlth of ddetadl thit I anxious. laid a paw on the old|,p, pejping the other up a step, and - and tugged at the blanket | joing the compliments of the occ e e {in the way of tokens, but this HPH)F youl Bum ‘emm;:h, H tio. to show that all na- with Teddy, a fuffy turalists do D hnd e not roam the fields of | high-toned to rough and tumble | ieniure. One of them lives down in the But after a few minutes t Jte* | yonder in the country. And what of fun, an anxious silence besets him. | she knows - about *“wums, snake- and he runs to the door to scrateh | ujters, wood ants and tumley bugs and whimper until some one opens the | 011 giva pointers even to that eml. to his ancient friend | nent authority who writes books and | nally Bum is a born |books to prove that only man has | Hiciion. bt For let me tell you, brother. Scientist Legion is T e . er, | r: | this minute, writing it | “25 ore are sor ) | | at g | are some things that science L over, that “while a dog may | goe ancient man was g sn't know.’ measure instinet A the dusk. His body was bent for- | may ad in vester aphic news of an old lady semi-starvation bec she couldn’t * favors” of a | ward until his face looked down on perous son. | the bricks, and his cane was less than | And vet science would like to have |a yardstick. us believe that Bum is inferior in| As he hobbled: his slow way, brain and heart to a humanlike “son.” | talked to himself, as lonely people | e | will—and, as a woman slipped by, this HERE'S another of the same sort. | is what he was saying, in a quavering and more of it vl b She was of the beloved brown that | - “Let not your heart be troubled. God gave to the mammy of the Old (MY TFather's house there South. And while walting at a car | MY . stop she had concentrated on a_tre le was not seeing the bricks. His that was beginning to show buds, |eVes were lifted to a mansion in the She must have approved the looks of | Skies. another woman standing by. for she!| * spoke with the confabby friendiiness |"['HE rain staggered down as if it characteristic of her time and class: | was made of something stronger | “I'm steddvin’ this tree, lady, an’[than water. And Boreas reeied | won'rin’ if they's gwine put a new |around in it as if he wouldn't go home | coater glne on ‘fore de cattahpills [until morning—if then. | come”—pointing to the sash of stale| At one place on the Avenue the varnish that girdled its mighty bole.|wind caught a man’s hat and sent it “Evah notice, lady, how smart cat-| wheeling over the asphalt until it | tahpills am? Summertimes you see|came to an ice-glazed puddle, which | em’ all sqummed up unner the glue, |seemed a good place to locate. bhut ain’t nair one of 'em gits caught The owner of the hat wis not a because wy? They knows gwine | young man, and his best friend would we that his in their to those snow, for one time, out for an n 1d couldn’t seram awed loves frolic house pet too to 1 nurse and hun Doubtless, somewhere Dossess Also, v day’s tel who died ot ng along in | pros In | are | Pr THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. had nothing on him in the way of racing. He stopped a couple of times to puf SPANISH WAR VETERANS ff and pant, but he made the puddle on time—Marquis of Queens- berry grimy the downpouring deluge. “Yoi the anathema was accompanied by a husky shaking of the hat before the man and dumped it on his head with a downward jerk to make it stay put. Then dent. And, if the wind is really a Boreas verson ing to a law beyond the comprehen- sion of humans, he must have con- sideres | being, in a way. cussing went a good humored smile. The ER gray slippers were streaked and spotted with a darker color that was rain, and her skirt was as short for The table common as a tadpole in a ditch and of shrilly “Tha's all M'ree. The she h gette mothe: fierce Bell b Well, adda up and says to her, I says, ‘When a girl has iong.’ at hon as 1 thin’ pokin® i snipped out neithe vou two d mother K are e to hav Why than work and J he'ps The; is alw GER EMPLOYS NO PHYSICIAN Amer Chief Executive Evokes By the his 73 helburg scorns 't employ Amer physician watches | physical welfare of the Chief lxecu- | tive, accompan { ney i esid “We do not sident would become 11" secret, The ough 19: would | dency nounc: since his health, physician Berlin. President a for 1o zit stuck up an’ kilt stops | have to call him potty, but Ben Hur When you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets, you are get- ting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians over 25 years. ation Also, she snuffled. like a rules—and seized his felt from a nubbin of ice, drenched from | Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp mus- tered into active membership the following: George A. Wardlow, Com- pany C, 34 New York Infantry; Gerald ¥. McGillicudy, Company G, 9th Massachusetts Volunteer In- fantry; P. S. Dyre. Company M, 43d United States Volunteer Infantry: | Micajah W. Knight, Company F, Ist United States Calvary; John Moli- neaus, Company B, ist District of Columbia Volunteer Infantry; Bert B. Singman, Nayy U. S. S. Independ. ence; J.'T. Langley, Treop G. T United States Calvary; August I Orgeal, Marine Corps. Past Depart- ment Comdr. Harris spoke in refer- ence to the importance of the Maine Memorial services. E. F. Marshall of Merritt Camp, Lewiston, Idaho, also spoke. Department Inspector W. D. Jenkins made his inspections of the camp. Past Department Comdr. McCaffrey spoke on the activities of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Temporary Home. Richard J. Harden Camp at last meeting was addregsed by Eschleman of California %n Natfonal Soldiers’ Home: eteno de Que- sada, Cuban consul, spoke. on the unveiling of the tablet on the Maine monument at Ha that England, ited States and ba were represented by naval vessels and that the Spanish minister laid a wreath on the monument. Quartermaster Hudlow described n visit to the United States Soldiers’ Home at Hampton Roads. ‘The en- tertainnient committee was instruct- ed to provide a buffet Juncheon rch 18 on _the occasion of the offi- it of the departm com- and staff. u blanked little rascal, you'— wiped it with his handkerchief Daniel he went on, and out of the inci- n, who does his blowings accord- d the potty man a remarkable For, with his hat- re are witnesses to prove it. * koK % as an indulgent law will stand two girls with her at a cafe made three of a kind; each as them Jjoyously self-assertive. a nawfle cold Whereje get it?"” girl of snuffles explained th: ad put on ‘‘extry thin” geor- to g0 to a dance and that her * had scolded her something You just oughter heard her, mothers the limit! 1 till T young and you got, 3 At officers which Guard Over 4 e ain't nawfle time with mom chief of < under a boss all da advoc: he don’t want no bossin’ T love mom, all right, but, ¥s to her, it I gotta work man, why can't T have my as & woman? Mom means for my good, but—well, whatta they know, anyhow home all the time.” ne don't!” The interruption was by the tadpole who was “Why, say, me. mend M. Emmett Urell Camp at its | active last meeting was officially visited by the department commander and staff luncheon. An address by Department Comdr. fave 60,000 he reco elle nor M'ree. vhose 't know a thing about ‘ourse, the married ones . but it’s a nawfle thing, kids ve a fresh widow on your hand: my mom runs aroun’ a lot more T do, because she don’t have to her eight hours a day, with me im on the job—an’ the way she herself to my young fellahs % M. Emmett Urell Auxil- 5,_held a valentine par 17. Refreshments were The Gen. iary, No. Februar served. The u who ar The Col. James S. Pettit Auxiliary, No. 6, is opening an active campaign for recruits. Many social projects are being planned The Col. John Jacob Astor Auxil- fary, No. 7. entertained members f the Col. John Jacob Astor Camp February 18. A musical progi rendered. Refreshments were The following meets are scheduled this week: Col. John Jacob Astor B Monday; Gen. Henry | ton Camp, Tuesd Gen, Al Urell Camp, Wednesda Richard J. Hirden Camp, Thursday; Sergl. Georze Berry Camp, Friday Dewey Auxiliary, Mond A Auxiliary, Thursday; 1 Wednesday, Admiral Auxiliary, No. 3 mustered in several candidates recelved four applications. Services commemorating the sinking of the Maine in Havana Harber were held in Arlington Cemetery February 15 under the auspices of the department auxillaries United Spanish War Vet erans Department of the District of Columbia. All auxiliares were repre- summon if he were |gented by their respective presidens remarked one of his|and other members. Address w aries. | given by the department preside President underwent a thor-|and a brief history of the war physical examination in April, | r by Department Senior Just after he announced he|Summerville. A wreath was sent be a candidate for the presi-| President Coolidze and was The examining doctor pro-|hv Department Chaplain Mar ed him in excellent health. and | Phillips, the wreath from the then he had not bothered about | ment of « was placed by He is not accompanied by | C. de Quesada. consul of Cu on his journeys out of | wreath from National Auxili | Cnited b War Veterans, Hindenburg's recipe | placed by Chaplain General . Nora M. ngevity is rezularity and moder- | Al Chaplain General N. 2. in" everything. ined the pension le ddi similar status. said in of com ceive t officer: the W e tafl of funciio re was more to it but enough ays enough. MAN PRESIDENT, 73, ican Custom of Doctor for he nur n the ¢ Only Smiles. Associated Press. N, February In spite of vears, President von Hinden- e suggestion that he physician. The v which a special arafully over the The )t the | 1y irahar Scott George Dewe and @ personal can custom Washin definite meetin, days will st not lat ng fo ving him on his jour. merely evokes smiles at the ential palace here. even know whom the wcreen irst of urday Ril von for Colds Pain Headache that immediate steps should be taken D. R. ANTHONY, JR. 10,000 or 15,000 which were given by the War Department last year. present there are about tood. have been admitted by the department as being dead wood; that i, men who never ought to be trained. In Gen. number of into two grouy ining first group that large serve project that in the early of active duty tr a er, it is of (., FEBRUARY 28, "1926—PART 1. _ Notice has' been served upon the|shown throughout the country, is a War Department by Representative most popular one, and deplcts the ac- tivities at the Calvary School, Fort Riley, Kans. Beginning with the meeting which the club will hold on March 20, Col. Scott stated this week that courses of instruction will be given for each branch, to be held at the same time and on the same prin- ciple as was done last vear. This proved to be a very successful pre- training _camp course of instruction for the 1925 camps. Two applications for the 1926 C. M. T. Camps have been filed at headquarters. They are in order of their receipt as follows: Ash- ford Snowden, jr. Red course, 1412 Twenty-first street, and Harry D. Isidor, 3620 Connecticut avenue, White course. According to a War Department | decision, reserve officers when as- signed to active duty for short spect- fied periods each vear for several rs are not entitled to cumulative e. This point was brought before the department in_ the case of Col. Miles, Infantry Reserv who, under competent orders, was ol dered to active duty for 15 days in August, 1925, at Camp Custer, Mich., and who was during this time granted five days’ leave of absence. Col. Miles’ prior service upon which this question of cumulative leave was Pershing's final report 5| d135" 10" 1355 ‘and 50 days in " the f staff of*the Army he did not | ;“r'frfns‘ P o e restriction of the total| “rne’ question brought up was hat the Reserve Corns be drvided | Whether a reserve officer is entitled e those on an Cantive | to cumulative leave credits to be car- atatus and those o’ metive I ried over from one active duty perlod auxiliaey roil Tt was this | 12 @nother within a four-year period. o, Pershing was in | 10 this case, it was held that Col. il ¢ : || Miles was entitled to no more than L ud\‘f:":““‘: ‘;“'1‘;""]':"1“"' one day's leave of absence with full Enized (he Tact That thore way | Pay and for the remafnder of his number of reserve officers | 1¢4ve he was entitled to only half civil professions would make | P4V ' ¥ training necessary.” | TR inanimous view is held by those | Of the five instructional assemblies re in close touch with the re- | Which will be held by Washington re- ages | serve officers next week, three are war the combatant = reserve | Scheduled for tomorrow evening. would be reeded first and that | They are Ordnance, Chemical Warfare hould have as a minimum. 15 |and Chaplain Corps meetings. At th ining each year | ordnance meeting, a moot court tion to the correspondence and | be conducted by Maj. R. L. Gaugler courses o n inactive duty |O. D., assistant executive officer at There is 2 great deal to be | reserve headquarters, and Capt. favor of restricting this group | James E. Morrisette, J. A. G. D., who batant officers, who are to re-|is on duty in the judge advo his annual training, to 60,000 | eral's office. This meeting w but it is also pointed out in [ poned from Februar Chemical r Department that there must | Warfare Reservy will gather quisite. number of technical | at headquarters tomorrow night to fic to round out a proper | hear a discussion on the tactical use | ning military force. The lat- | of gases. This meeting will be in pntended, should not exceed | charge of Lieu C C. West mber of commissioned reservists | Chemical Warfare Reserve. Wash ant arms | ington chaplain reservists will as- | mble to hear Chaplain Julian E Yates (lieutenant colonel), executive office of the chief of chaplains, administration, customs of the ipline. No meeting is for Tuesday evening and band practice will be held | gineers Band. hur: Maj. Albert S.J. Tucker, antry, assistant executive officer at reserve headquarters, will conduct the instructional assembl the | %th Infantry. He will di ch rotection pertaining nee | rds, flank guards. ete. Reserve ers of the 313th Field Artillery, Leroy W. Herron commanding meet Friday evening, at which of fire will be discussed by R. Anthony, jr., of Kansas, to better regulate the distribution of reserve commis- sions. Mr. Any thony, it is under- stood, 1s inclined to agree to the iew attributed to Gen. Pershing that the Officers” Re- serve Corps should be restricted to 50,000 or. 60,000 member: The member from Kansas also frowns upon the large annual in- crease of commis- sions, such as the ol holding reserve commissi includes abouts 7,000 Nationa officers having a dual status. 0,000 of this number, it is un- first €, C season will be hel, reserve headqus Building. Lient try, or e the O 1 Reserves in igton, presiding. It has been slv decided to hold all future | g on the first and third Sat. | of each month, all of which | art 0 p.m. and conclude | er t 30 pm. Plans are be- | rmulated at hendquarters a =eries of interesting vals of military life, the will be shown t Sat rh is entitled ** el will nis ilm. which has heen conduct Club meeting | next Satur- | ters the Col. John ecutive of- in m Ir Ly the y evenir ) pory which Second Lieut. James D. Powers, 313th Fleld Artillery. Completion has just been made by the selected group of 23 reserve offi- cers representing various sections of the country of a special course of in- struction in military intelligence, which was given in the G-2 division of the War Department general staff. ‘The curriculum of this special course included special intelligence studies and general instruction of the War Department’s activities in the general staff and the adjutant general's de- partment. Brig. Gens. Hugh A. Drum, Fox Conner and Harry A. Smith and Cols. James H. Reeves, assistant chief of staff, G-2, and Morgan held a series of conferences on the missions and the activities of G-1, G-2, G-3, G-4 and war plans divisions of the general staff. Maj. Gen. Robert C. Davis, the adjutant general of the Army, lec- tured on the peace and war activities of the adjutant general’s department and its relations to the general staff. The reserve officers taking this course were Lieut. Cols. James A. Buchanan, Edward J. Meehan and Henry R. Winthrop: Majs. Willlam H. Clifford, Edmond S. Donohoe, C. W. G. L. Fitz-William, Charles T. Gwynne, Frank W. Kemmer, Clinton J. Mas- seck, Oliver Metzerott, Alexander L. Peckham, Dwight S. Perrin, Walter Platt, Charles F. White and Arnold Whitridge; Capts. Lindsay Denison, Harry C. Lear, Telfer MacArthur, John B. Nicklin, Ernest Repes, Herman W. Steinkraus, Louis Wat- jen and Paul R. Wright. The following changes in assign- ments affecting reserve officers resid- ing in Washington were announced this week at Organized Reserve head- quarters: First Lieut. muel L. Bagby, Alr Service Reserve, having moved to ths 9th Corps Area, is re. lieved from assignment to the 336th Observation Squadron, 13th Corps: First Lieut. Clarence Moss, En gineer Reserve, having moved to the 9th Corps Area, is relieved from as signment to the 4734 Engineer Train (water 1ank), 4th Army; Maj. Her W N\ bert Simmons, Quartermaster Reserve, is assigned to the 377th Service Bat- talion (Q. M. C.), 1st Army; Maj. Wil liam Hughes, Chaplain Reserve, assigned to General Hospital N, A zone of communication; Second Lieut. Andrew J. Schwartz, Ordnance Re- serve, is assigned to the 666th Ordnance Company (ammunition) zone of communication; Col. Warren P. Morrill, Medical Reserve, is assign- ed to the 364th Medical Regiment 4th Army; the following Chaplain Re serve officers are assigned to the units indicated: Maj. George M. Diffenderfer to General Hospital No. 74. zone of the interior; Capt. William H. Pettut. to General Hospital No. 7. zone of the interior, and Capt. Arlington A McCallum, te General Hospital No. 86, zone of the interior: First Lieut Paul . Doherty, Infantry Reserve assigned to the 80th Division; Secon: Lieut. Robert S. Chamberlatn, Field Artillery Reserve, assigned to the Field Artillery Group: Capt. Thomas K. Meloy, Engineer Reserve, having moved to the 24 Corps Area, is re lleved from assiznment to the 13th Engineers; First Lfeut. Maurice Parshall, Finance Reserve, havin: moved to the 4th Corps Area, is re liéved from attachment to the S0i! Division for instruction and trainine First Lieut. George J. Hill, jr., I fantry Reserve, assigned to the S0th Division; Capt. Franklin I. Winter Chaplain Reserve, assigned to 30t} Evacuation _Hospital, _1st Army First Lieut. Ernest R. Holz, Chaplain Reserve, assigned to 31st Evacuatio) Hospital, First Army; Lieut. « felvin M. Franklin, Medical Reserve relieved from attachment to the 320th In for Instruction and training: First Lient. Frank L. Hol and, Infantry Reserve, is transferred from assignment to the 319th Infantr: to_the 320th Inf: Reserve headquarters the promotion to First Lieut. Virg O. Barnard, Field Artillery Reserve to the grade of captain in the Figl Artillery Reserve, effective Febiar 6. His assignment to the 313th Fie! Artillery is continued in effect PLEASANT LAXATIVE For Constipated Children announce: | Mother! 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