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CHAMBER T0 MAKE EDUCATION SURVEY Full Report School Facilities to Be Pub- lished in Book. niber of Com mpaign next The Washington Ch merce will launch a week, the result of which, the officers hope, will place Washington before .the country as the educational center of the Nation. The chamber will undertake to en- courage the enlargement of all exist. ing universities here and will welcome all new educational institutions, and under the direction of the committee on colleges and private schools a sur vey of all educational institutions wiil be made, Questionnaires will be sent to all schools and colleges in the District of Columbia by the chamber this week. These questionnaires will ask for de- tailed information in regard to each institution. the size of the school or college, its entrance requirements, it standing with respect to other col- leges, its curriculum, degrees awarded and other details. 150 Institutions Here. There are already approximately 150 educational institutions of all kinds in the National Capital, ranging from universities with more than 30 build- ings to private colleges, girls’ sem- inaries and institutions dealing in cor- respondence courses. All these insti- tutions will be reached in the cham- ber's survey. Added to these schools and colleges will be the various research depart- ments of the Government, the libraries and the various Federal scientitic perimer stations. All these edus tional features of the National Capi tal will be compiled in a book and sent throughout the country. They will be sent to the various Chamber of Commerce and similar organiza- tions, and to those making inquiries in regard to the facilitles of Wash- ington. It is expected that the gathering of the detailed information will take a considerable amount of work and time to accomplish. The officers of the chamber, however, feel that Wash ington has educational facilities that cannot be had in other cities and that it is the logical educational center of the country as well, a center that should attract foreign- students. Committees Announced. The following committees recently appointed by Martin A. Leese, presi- dent of the chamber, have just been announced: The committee on retail Isaac Gans, chairman; Buckley, vice chairman; Herbert Adler, W. P. Ames, J. A. Bail George E. Bedell, Kingman Brew John R. Brigegs, George H. Charles R. Carroll, Henry G. F. tens, Walter A. Cornnell, George S. DeNeale, Joseph D. Dreyfuss, R. H. Fatt, Willlam F. Friel, Joseph P. mble, Gerald D. Grosner, F. P. suthrie, Mitchell Hanson, Sidney L. Hechinger, D. B. Helm, Harry E. Hill, A. L. Howard, Harry C. James, Is dore Kahn, Jacob Kohner, Benjamin Kraft, Adolph Kuntz, W. Earl Leese, M. R. E. Mayfield, E. Simon L. Nye, H. D. Ormsby . Payne, Charles Phillips, Rich, . E. Rogers, C. E. ton Stephan, Harr Louis N. Yockelson, Schley Zirkin. The committee on building indus- D. Crampton. chair- C. Oehmler, vice Robert . Myrtle . Becker, Clagett, Appleton P. Edwin L. Davis, E. W. Douden, I H. Ent- Fannie E. Fisher, Bernard Harlan, Sidney L. | Michael Heister. Joo Phillips Hill, Jame: H. L. Kengla, ¥, Benjamin K Kressin, Robert H. Me) Manean, Henry R. Marks, R. field, Edgar A. Merkle, M L‘n- Minar, H. Nelson, W. Noble, Allen H. Roge Thomas, Gertrude Van Hoezen. Aus- i Valler, Morgan W. Wicker- | Waddy B. Wood, Arthur A.| . John Zanier. committee on transportation ight rates—Jerome Fanciulli, Manson Foote, vice Myrtle G. Becker, . Crampton, wards, David , 0. B. trade— Robert « T The and fr man: Merritt ©. J. V. Davis, Oliver D, E her, Hugh M. T e, Bdwin J. Gr . A0 B, Helm, (. Phillips Hill, Kendal! Jacol, Kohner, Robert Kressin, F. L. M I, i, R. E. Mayfield, R. L. kK, O. 0. Mill A. Nes a’ Pecples, Jame: . Ravenburg, George A. Shutacl inley, Arthur C. Smith. Louis .. Anton Stephan, ’l‘homns, , O. B. Vogel, Arthur A, nd John Zanier Taxation Committee, The committee on District finance, taxation and assessment: Walter C. Balderston, chairman; Robert N. vice chairman; Henry C. J. A. Bailey, A. H. Bakshian, . W. Ballou, eorge H. Brown Frank G. Butts, ¥ ‘harles 'W. Darr, George B. ¥ Edwin C. Graham, Ge . F. Harlan, Robert E. 3 2 Jacob Sraft, Charles H. Low, Jean Paul Muller, H. T. Offterdinger, H. D, Ormsby, James W. S. Peters, H. V. Speelman, W. C. Sullivan, Charles H. Tompkins and O. B. Vogel. The committee on development of Great Falls- . William M. Black, chairman; Wil Hardy, vice chairman; A. P, F. Brandstedt, il Carroll, J. V. D: Knight. Proctor T. Doyle, John A. child, Hugh M. Hanson, W. Kenyon, Geor W. McGuire Ruby Lee Mina Hugh J. Phillips Wickersham. The committee on high water pres. sure—James B. Henderson, chiarn Bernard_A. Baer, vice chairman Harry M. Bedell, A. H. Dondero, Isadore Freund, Mitchell Hanson, Michael Heister, Joe High. Thomas H. McQuire, Mrs. Ruby Lee Minar, Horace J. Phelps, Clegge Thomas. I committee on harbors and waierways—John H. Small, chairman; Ernest E. Herrell, vice chairman; Daniel J. Callahan, Henry D. Cramp- ton, Bdwin W. Davis Proctor L. Dougherty, 1. H. Entwisle, ixehr. Edwin S. Kennedy, Thomas W. MeQuire, Edgar A. Merkle, Fred Mer- tens, W. Clark Noble and Joseph I. Weller. Allen, Mitchell Miller Thomas . Marks, M Alfred G. Neal, and Morgan W. rampton, Hoge, S BOY HURTIN TRUC;CRASH Driver Escapes When Machine Hits Wall and Overturns. A tuck operated by Stanley G. Gray, of 4109 M street, crashed into a con wrete wall on M street west of Thirty elghth street and turned over late yes- terday when the steering gear locked. and George Garrison, 17 years old, of 3809 M street, a passenger, was in- jured about the legs and body. G escaped virtually uninjured. Garrison ‘A was treated at Georgetown Hospital, of Capital’s : Georgia to Unveil Memo- rial Here Saturday to Crawford W. Long. | Notables Will Pay_ Tribute to Physician Believed First Anesthetist. A country doctor of Crawford W. Long, recognized by many as the first first to perform a surgieal operation with the use of an esthetic, will join the illustrious sons of the Nation who have won a place in Statuary Hall of the Capitol when his statue is unveiled there next Saturday on the eighty. anniversary of the st painless operation In the hand of Dr. Frank president of the Confederacy, Memorial Association, at the unveiling - cel presence of a distingu of Georgians and others, will be a gavel fashioned from the old mul- berry tree that overspread the little untry doctor's office at Jefferson, Ga., where the tion was per- formed. Sulphur crudely ap- plied with a saturated towel, brought the patient through the then miracu- lous experience of a knife incision without pain. Statue Is State’s First. The statue of Dr. Long, the first to be placed in the national hall of fame by the State of Georgla, whose other niche there will be filled by statue of . Alesander Stephens, vice dent of the confederacy, will be ented to the State from the memorial association by Richard B Russell, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgin. It will be pre- sented in turn to the Federal ernment by Gov. Clifford M. Walker of Georgia, with Senator Harris of that State accepting on behalf of the Government. The first speaker at the unveiling ceremony will be Dr. Joseph Jacobs of Atlanta, biographer of Dr. Long and who served as his apprentice during his later experiments with anesthetics. Another speaker will be Mrs. Rebecca Lattimer Felton of the only woman seat in the United States Senate, having been appointed by former Gov. Hardwick to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Thomas E. Watson. Present at the ceremony also will be Mrs. C. W Roberts of Washington, great-grand- daughter of Dr. Long. The other speakers will Hugh Young of Baltimore, for the medical profession: Senator George Wharton Pepper. for the Universify of Pennsylvania, from which Dr. Long was graduated in medicine: Dr. L. G. Hardman of Comme 1. for the Georzia Medical As ciation: Dr. Hamilton Long of Loui ville, Ky. to voice the tribute of anesthetists, and Miss Virginia Gibbes of Marietta, Ga.. speaking for the nursing profession. Others Claim Honor. orgia, Dr. . Boland, will be presides in the ed gathering be Dr. Although three others have claimed the honor of first g anasthetic in a surgical operation—Horace Wells of Hartford, Conn., and W. T. G. Morton and Charles T. Jackson of Boston—those supporting the claim of Dr. Long explain that these claims arose hecause the Cieorgian did not immediately write of h first use of ether in a medical jou: nal. In 1868 a monument was dedi- cated on the toston Common to commemorate the discovery of ether, but it bears mo name, and a dis- tinguished speaker has referred to it as “Bostor's monument to the un- known discoverer of anesthesia.” In writing of his experiments with ether and his first operation with it. in which he removed “a small tumor’ from the neck of James M. Venable residing near Jefferson, Dr. Long r called how it was first used as an ex. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 21, 1926—PART 1. STATUE IN CAPITOL TO HONOR DOCTOR, PIONEER IN ETHER USE Above—Statue of Dr. Crawford W. Long, pioneer in the use of anaesthesi which is to be placed in Statuary Hall at the Capitol and unveiled March 30. Below—Photograph of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Con- - of whom_will be Statuary Hall and how old-fashioned often ended in an “ether frolic’ r the boys and girls. After experi menting with it upon himself to de- termine its possible medical use, Dr. Long essayed his first operation with it in March, 18 Operations Successful. He relates how he suggested to his patient, Mr. Venable, whom he kn: to be “accustomed to inhale ether,” the “probability that his tumor might be removed without pain” while under its influence. The patient, he said, seemed unaware that .the operatio had been performed until the extir pated tumor was shown him, and as sured the physician “he did not expe- rience the least degree of pain.” After a lapse of two years he removed second tumor from the same patient and Dr. Long’s wife, in her memoir: relates his difficulty at first in per- suading other patients to submit tc the “dangerous drug" for operations. His wife records that after the ex- periments had occupied his mind for several years, he “took time to writ for publication in 1849 his experi ments in\the use of sulphuric ether in surge: The effort, she Jlish his claim to such di; finally succeeded, and 1 his declining years were glad- ¢ deserved recognition.” The historic gavel which Dr. Boland will use at the ceremony was first used at the unveiling of the Long Memorial Medallion at the Univer- ity of Pennsylvania several year: ago. Later, it was used by Vice Presi- dent Marshall in presiding over the Senate during the League of Nations debate, and by Secretary of State Hughes in presiding over the Wash- “quilt ha that dened ington arms confererice, Returned Season, With Its Spring—with its aroma of moth and violets, its music of mur- muring brooks and gossiping neigh- bors, its beauty of budding bushes and beaten rugs, its romance of whis- pering swains and sniflling colds—is actually among us She arrived shortly after 4 o'clock this morning, strictly a to equinoctial schedule and just in time to glimpse the flying coat-tails of her arch-enemy, Old Man Winter, of the and frosty disposition. se favoring the Wi school of thought been here for three ce March 1, awaiting an opportunity to make a formal debut. diacal tendencies hold that she doesn’t step across the divid- ing line until M h 21, however. From hoth standpoints, now, technically here for her annual vi and every one can make arrange ments accordingly. Makes Her Presence Known. tegardless of the technicalities surrounding the actual date of her arrival, it is observed that the young lady already has begun to wield her influence on young and old. eports have it that Jureaun of Ei ) . rge problem ahead. An insidious wave of ennui is battering at the flood-gates of the Capital, and even the efficiency experts themselves are claim that the nz a SPRINGS AROMA OF MOTH BALLS AND VIOLETS AGAIN ON THE AIR Customary Music of Run- ninz Brooks, Its Romances and Otherwise Varied Program, Registers in Annual Calendar. having difficulty arousing themselves to meet the situation. When the big spill occurs, most any minute of the immediate future, the business of the city will be submerged beneath a deluge of base ball schedules, seed catalogues, style magazines and poems. ‘The upset state of affairs will have a paradoxical effect on industry. The constituents to which the big busi- ss men will drop a line will have «, but they will get hooked like all the rest. Boards of directors will find themselves hopelessly deadlocked on the important question of whether the Nats will cop the flag again this vear. Care-wracked employers will redouble their efforts to solve office problems by thinking it over at the country club. “Spring Colds” as Main Topic. City editors already are dusting off their files of stock stories on Spring colds in the head, Spring fever, etc., and reporters are—ho hum—planning to spend more time than usual get- ting ideas in the movies or on the golf links during office hours. Be that as it may, and on the other hand. it is becoming apparent that to try and extend this article any further, with ideas getting as hazy as they are would he—dear, de What would it be? Use your own Jjudgment. Darn these Spring stories, anyway. . FEDERATION OPPOSES PROPOSED INCREASE IN WATER RATE HERE (Continued_from First Page)_ pre- the Col. " Coolidge, which had been sented out of order earlier in evening, was overlooked, so the offi- cers, by common consent, had the resolution spread upon the minutes after adjournment. Street Car Stops Urged. The federation also deliberated long and heatedly over a recommendation of the traffic committee, Harry N. Stull, chairman, that the federation favor compulsory stopping of street cars at arterial highways, as other vehicles are required to do. William McK. Clayton opposed the recommend- ation on the ground that it would hamper the rights of the street-car riding public. The report of the com mittee eventually was adopted, how- ever. The delegates also approved the rec- ommendation of N. F. Janney, federa- tion representative of the traffic coun- cil, that the federation approve the action of the council in urging the vesting of traffic enforcement in the inspector in charge of the Traffic Bu- reau, who would be required to confe; frequently with the traffic director. CLASSIFYING SOCIALLY ON ‘RED BLOOD’ POSSIBLE “Fitter Families,” Not Ancestry, Basis Proposed by Dr. Florence Sherbon of Kansas U. By the Associated Press. LAWRENCE, Kans.,, March 20.— A new social classification, based not upon blue ancestral blood but upon the red blood of the living, is a possi- bility of not remote future. ‘That was the thought in the mind of Dr. Florence. Sherbon, of the Uni- versity of Kansas faculty, when she launched a new venture six years ago at the Kansas Free Fair at Topeka— a “Fitter Families” contest. “The time may come,” Dr. Sherbon said, “when the family not possessing a eugenic certificate will be looked ;llp(m askance by the ‘certified’ fam- Thus was born an idea that has since been adopted by six other States and the National Eugenics Soclety. In the last six years 523 persons, com- prising 126 families, have been exam- ined as participants in the “Fitter f“a:nmos Contest” in the Kansas Free Pair, ‘The purpose of the eugenics con- tests, Dr. Sherbon pointed out, is first to arouse family pride in being well born and to spread information concerning heredity and oondlm DALE PRAISES LIFE OF COL. COOLIDGE Pays Tribute to Character of President’s Father in Senate Address. While the last rites for Col. John Coolidge were being performed up in the hills of Vermont yesterday the Senate paused to listen to an elo- Auent, yet plain, tribute to the sturdy | character and high principles of the President’s father dellvered by Sena- tor Dale. Having served with Col. Coolidge in the State Senate of Vermont some years ago, Senator Dale portrayed his character with a personal touch that was Impressive. “A remarkable condition is brought to attention by the passing of the venerable John C. Coolidge,” sald Senator Dale. *‘He never ought pub- lic notice where he lived in a farm community several miles from the main highways, and yet events have made him so well known that the announcement that he is gone affects all the people of this country. He was a singular man—fit subject for a character study Public interest will inspire many attempts to inter- pret his qualities. Because the Na- tion is concerned about him, whatever is truly related of him fs of conse- quence, Had Public Career. “Col. Coolidge lved in his na town of Plymouth all his life, and held official positiohs in it repes edly. His military title came by point ment to the staff of Gov. Stickney. For many years he was a notary pub- lic, Plymouth sent him three times to the State House of Representatives and the County of Windsor elected him to the State Senate in 1910. “Col. Coolidge took part in fraternal meetings, which sometimes lasted far into the night. He was then 65 years of age, and Senator Cutts was his senfor. They used to lead the sing- ing. ‘Those two veteran senators would sing the old songs together With a power of voice and emotion to which the mature and normal lives of the singers seemed essential, they would roll out the lines: ““The old oaken bucket, bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. “I met Col. Coolidge many times in the peaceful quiet of Plymouth places. 1 saw him there at midday and at mid- night, two occasions, each of dramatic inters His son had been nominated for Vice President of the United States. Down the dusty road came the band of music, the American flag borne ahead by Col. Coolldge. Again no one was in the flelds and only lamplight shone through the darkness. His son had by strange providence become President of the States. In the little sitting room of the old homestead the oath was ad- ministered by Col. Coolidge. The at- tention of the world was turned to- ward the Plvmouth homestead. Applauded At Meeting. “I saw him at other places than Plymouth and the occaslons brought to him expressions of esteem and af- fection, He went one evening when Henry Cabot Lodge addressed a great political rally in the city hall at Mont- peller. They had to urge him to go to the platform. The vast audience rose to greet him with prolonged ap- plause. White House and he came one da) to my home. A group of Young peo ple Kept him as long as he could stay with them In the rose garden. tive the iron- “Seventy-five vears he lved in his | native town undisturbed of public sity, then overnight hundreds of people cime each day to his seclusion plying him with all manner of ques tions. He received them all with tire- less courtesy, and answered every question without evasion. He was asked one night it so many visito had not tired him. and he replled “Oh, no. There have been only 400 here today.” Exciting events took him unawares, | and yet, he never did or said that which came from other than a noble nature. Called suddenly from sleep, he was agked if he were not glad that his son was President bf the United States, and he answered: “You would hardly expect me be glad that the President is dead SENATE APPRE\ES‘ SHIFT OF FEDERAL BUREAU’S OFFICES (Continued from First Page.) Investigations by the Federal Trade Comimission was stricken out yester- day by the Senate. Under the provision inquiries could have been ordered only with the ap- proval of both Houses of Congress, instead of by direction of the Senate acting alone. The section was stricken out with- out a record vote on motion of Sena- tor Norris, who joined Senator King. Democrat, Utah, in an attack on the present make-up and methods of the ‘Trade Commission. Cites Sugar Inquiry. Senator King charged the commis- sion had been reconstructed by the administration to aid trusts, and cited the sugar investigation as an example of inefficiency. “The great corporations continue to merg he said, “the President takes no interest, the Attorney Gen- eral is asleep and the Trade Com- mission is controlled by the interests it was created to subdu The beet sugar complaints were dismissed, the Utah Senator said, in the face of “damning evidence,” by the votes of Commissioners Hunt, Humphrey and Van Fleet. Senator Norris wanted to know whether these transactions were coin- cident with the selection of Charles Beecher Warren, formerly of the Michigan Sugar Co., as Attorney Gen- eral, but Senator King said he did not know. Charges Unfair Methods. Senator Norris described the com- mission as “the refuge for monopoly, unfair competition and unfair trade methods,” and said that although he respected Commissioners Hunt, Humphrey and Van Fleet personally, they were not in sympathy witn the Trade Commission law, and ought not to be commission members. Senator Neely, Democrat, West Virginia, asked whether a “Democrat or other poverty-stricken American” could obtain relief from the commis- sion, and then answered his own question in the negative. “If Commissioner Humphrey had been at Dives' door when Lazarus came and asked for crumbs,” said Senator Neely, ‘“Humphrey would have had him arrested and put in jail because he was poor.” — “The dog before its master,” a rare weather phenomenon so named by fishermen when inshore a heavy and dangerous swell was rolling, while 3 miles out the sea was calm, did great damage recently to wharves and vessels at Aberdeen, Scotland. United | e was on a brief visit to the | AFTER BRIEF, (Continued from First Page) Victoria J. Moor, his wife (the Presi- dent's mother), March 14, 1846-March 14, 1885, Carrie A. Brown, his wife, Jan, 22, 1857-May 18, 1920, Abigail daughter of John and Victoria Coolidge, April 1, 1875-March 6, 1890. The colonel's lot is on the south of the large reservation of the long Cool- idge line buried in this little grave yard. A tall stone in the center of this so-called Coolidge unit bears the names of the father and mother of Col. Coolidge. Spread out sym- metrically on either side are small marble headstones for the graves of the other Coolidges. Of these one is for the colonel’s brother, who died at 21. One stone bears the name “Julius Caesar Coolidge,” March 14, Relatives Present. Edward Blanchard, a cousin of the President, who lives on a small farm adjoining the Coolidge land, was an- other relative in the little group gath- ered in the living room. ent were Attorney Gene native of this sectios former Gov. Stickney mont: Henry Long, w to the President when he was ernor of Massachusetts; Dr. Albert M. Cram, who attended the colonel so faithfully throughout his illness, and his wife, and Maj. James F. Coupal, the President's physician: Capt Adolphus Andrews, commander of the { Mayflower, the President’s naval aid. | The score of newspaper men stood in an adjoining room. The. Episcopal service read by Rev. Mr. White was the same that a coun- try parson has read hundreds of times, in as many different villages and coun- tryside homes. His intonations pene- trated the silent hou All was breathless, still. Only occasional coughs and throat clearings broke this silence Excerpts From Service. Excerpts from this service are: am the resurrection and the life saith the Lord. “He that believeth in me, though he we yet shall he live: and who iveth and | th in me, cer die.” brought nothing into thi world, and it is certain we can carry | nothing out. The Lord gave and the | Lord hath taken away: blessed be the e of the Lord.” Lord let me know mine end, and the number of my days; that T m: be certified how long T have to As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be. “The promise of immortallty, as we | have born the image of the earthy | | all also bear the image of the| heavenly. Behold, I show you a| mystery. this corruptible must put on incorruption. And this mortal must | put on immortality. Death is swal- | | Towed up in victory. O death. where |is thy sting? O grave, where is thy | vietory?" “Therefore be ye steadfast, unmov- able, for as much as ye know that vour labor is not In vain in the Lord.” | Cemetery Rites Brief. | Following _this came the short | { journey to the cemetery. It took a| long time for all to file out. The | minister stood before the apen grave. Beyond him_the mourning fam the chief family of the land, among | the villagers In the snow “In the midst of life we death, Thou knowest, L secrets of our hearts, suffer Thou, most worthy judge suffer us not, at our last hour, for| any pains of death to fall from Thee.” | The trip to the cemetery, made in leighs, and followed by a group of 0 or more, was lend by the squad of | This was the most | President | i | are in | the | | State militiamen. | solemn_scene of the day and Mrs. Coolidge and their son stood by the side of the open grave | President and Mrs. Coolidge Leave for Washington Immediately After Rites in Plymouth—Will Reach Capital Early Today. | otherwise protected COL. COOLIDGE IS LAID TO REST SIMPLE SERVICE with the minister in front of them. Behind were grouped the relatives. There in banks of snow, high above the road passing the graveyard, the committal services were read, while | the noise of a passing airplane carry- ing photographs to the metropolitan cities, drowned the voice of the minis- tel ¢ 1 will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, whence cometh my help, and onto the end.” Seene of Previous Grief. Cameramen and correspondents stood in snow banks in the road, while high above them on the hill were the chief mourners who had come to this little cemetery bowed in grief twice in the last two years. The first time w when Calvin Coolidge, jr., Wi buried in the family plot, in July, 1924. As a flower and a handful of dirt was dropped into the grave, the President and Mrs. Coolidge slowly walked down the hill stopping for a brief moment beside the grave of their youngest son. Plymouth Notch, where he was horn | and reared, has been the scene of the President’s greatest happiness and sadness. Today the place where he reecived the news that he had suc ceeded President Harding held noth- ing but grief for him and his wife. As soon as he could he left the vil- lage and hurried back to Washing- ton. Shortly after 3 o'clock. after re- turning to the homestead, the Pre dent and Mrs. Coolidge passed over the road which five hours before th had traveled during a snow and rain storm. The party arrived at Wood- stock at 4:30 o'clock and half an hour later the special train pulled out of the station, leaving on the platform a large group of sympathizing friends who cime to show respect to the dis- tinguished son of Vermont. Son Returns to School. . John Coolidge accompanied his parents as far as Northampton, Mass., where he left the train to continue his studies at Amherst College. The President and Mrs. Coolidge, after a breakfast in the publie dining room at the inn, left Woodstock, Vt.. where they had been staying since coming up h at 10 o'clock this morning for Plymouth Notch. The trip. 15 miles long, was started in a snowstorm which turned to rain when the party reached Bridgewater Cor- ners, seven miles distant, where they left their automobile to take a sleigh to complete the journey up the moun- tain to the Notch. At Bridgewater Corners the President and Mrs. Cool- idge donned dark green slickers and themselves from the weather. Before Plymouth Notch was reached it was again snowing and this continued until the time for inter- ment. The nspect was somber as the little party went from the house to the cemetery. but throughout the day there was no suffering from the cold The temperatue was such as to be de- scribed by the Notch folks as mild and the breal suggested the arrival of saptime. Mercury Above Freezing. therometer registered way ing melting the loosened sw in the roadway and making the traveling difficult because of the deep ru The trip back to Wood- ock was treacherous throughout | and was made with the eatest | difficult The specinl section carrving presidential party back to the C: al s scheduled to arrive there n_early hour tomorrow morning. The President and Mrs. Coolidge aboard the train sat looking out upon the fast-moving scenery with its panorama of rolling overed hills and_flelds, and scat- tered little farm houses drew a curtain over the scene. There The bove fre i- at ohn | was little conversation between them. | Rev. G th appeared sad and thoughtful. The Washington motorist would, raise his voice high in indignation if Trafic Director Eldridge should de- | lcide to ask for higher tag fees on| automobiles or more expensive design, | yet a search of District records will| disclose that such was the policy of license authorities in the days when the Capital was a village and coaches were horse-drawn. In those ripe old times the fees for passenger vehicles were pros ed u ward according to the elaboratene: it the carriage, and owners of com- mercial vehicles got by without pay- ing anything. Taxes Had Wide Range. Here is the list of assessments dug out of the records: “For every coach, whether driven with a box or by postilion, $15; for every chariot, postchariot or post- chalse, $12; for every phaeton, with or without top, $9; for every coachee— that is, a carriage having panel work in the upper division, with blinds, glasses or curtains in the sides, front or rear—8$9; for every four-wheeled carriage having framed posts, with tops, hanging upon steel springs, drawn by one or more horses, $6; for every four-wheeler top carriage hang- ing upon wooden or iron springs or jacks, whether drawn by one or more horses, $3; for every curricle, chaise, chair, sulky or other two-wheeler top carriage and every other two-wheeled carriage, though without top, hang- ing or resting on steel or iron springs, $3; any other kind of a con- veyance on two or four wheels, $2 ARRIAGE STYLES GRADED FEES , FOR LICENSES HERE IN OLD DAYS|NEW MOVIE PROJECT ¢ | after death bes |“set up" during the license vear had |to be registered and taxed on a per- Elaborateness and Expense of Passenger Vehicles| Determined Tax of $2 to $15—Same System Now Would Assess Autos $6 to $45. Carriages “usually and chiefly em- ployed in husbandry, or for the transportation of goods, wares, mer- chandise, produce or commodities’ were not chargeable with these du- ties, however. The licenses were payable in Sep- tember of each year, and carriages centage basis. Persons making untrue registra- tions were liable to forfeiture of the fees they had paid and payment of an additional correct fee, plus 25 per cent. Consequently, owners of ve- hicles always were careful to list every little “panel in the upper di- curtain, blind, ete, and to make sure whether their traps were hanging on wooden, iron or steel springs before applying for licenses. ng up of the Winter, and | the | snow- ! until_dusk | BODIES OF 4 BABIES FOUND IN HOUSE Mysterious Case in Mar- tinshurg, W. Va. By the Assoclated Press. MARTINSBURG, W. V 20.—Investigation of the circumstan i surrounding the concealing of the hodies of four infants in the attic of an unoccupied house at Cherry Run, 25 miles from here, was continued to night by District Attorney H. G. Allen | and Sheriff H. W. Hovermale of Mor- gan Coun Announcement was made that a rests might be expected in a day or s: but developments in the case were not divulged by Mr. Allen. The bodies were uncovered yester- day in_the attic of an empty house owned by C. L. Butts of Martinsburg. Peter French, who had been hired to clean up the residence, carried a quan-- tity of rubbish from the attie to the bank of a creek nearby. Later boy found the body of an infant in th pile of castoff clothing and other articles. The authorities were noti fied and 1 of the attic revealed the other bodies. French said he did not notice the first body when he car ried the rubbish to the creek. Three of the bodies, county officials said, were apparently those of infants about three weeks old, while the fourth appeared somewhat vounger. The con- dition of one, it was sald, indicated at the child had not been dead for great length of time. They were found wrapped in old b rticies of clothing. o marks were found to that the infants met death violence. District Attorney Allen said tha house had been occupied for years by Mr. and Mrs. John W. 2 middie-aged couple with grown up children, who moved to Cumberland, Md., last January 1. Roe, Mr. Allen said, was an employe of the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad. No one had lived in the house since the frst of the year as far as the district attor- ney could learn. EVANGELISM HELD VITAL NEED TODAY Bishop Freeman Says Reform Fails Because of World's Low Moral Level. By the Associated Press. NEW _YORK, March S James E. Freeman of the Episcopal | Diocese of Washington, in announcing | today the formation of a commi jon ‘evangelism in the iscopal Church, said the failure of to ef- fect wholesome reforms w: marily to the low moral ¢ the people. The commi «| authorized at the General Convention | of the church in New Orleans last | vear. Pronouncing evangelism “the | supreme need of the hour,” Bishop | Freeman said: “More and more it has been realized in the post-war period that the one | thing that can save the world in its present critical situation is the recog- nition and practice of those principles | of life given to mankind by Jesus | Christ. i he commission, { Bishop John Gardn ing bishop of the : lishop Thomas Darst of Bast ‘arolina, Bishop Irving P. Johnson { of Colorado, Bishop Freeman, Bishop G. Ashton Oldham, coadjutor of Albany; Rev. Flovd W. Tompkins of Philadeiphia, Rev, Arthur m- of Fitchburg, Mass.: Bunting of St. Lout: orge R. Macdonald of Courtney Barber of Chicago, Willard Warner of Eastlake, Tenn. i appointed by | Murray, presid- | ch, include amuel Thorne of New York. | and , AN, IN SCHOOL PROGRAM Miniature Picture Theater Gives Embryo Musicians Practical In- sight Into Real Film Work. ated Press, TER, N. Y., March 2 The voungster who has no liking for | music lessons, but finds keen delight in the movies. would find the agony of the lesson reduced and the pleasure of the movie augmented were he to attend the institution where the two are combined. The lessons are given in a minia- ture motion picture theater, and the embryo musician as he practices can gaze simultaneously upon instrument and pictures. More than that. he can own music for the pictures, ibly select the pictures to mood and his music. In the Eastman School of Music, a department of the University of Rochester, o course is given for mo- tion picture organists. Of course, there System Would Excite Now. Adapting these regulations as closely as possible to present-day motor vehicles, and assuming that the dollar of that day was equal to about three of those of today, here is what the motorists would have to pay License Superintendent Wade Coombs every year for their tags: Limousines, $45; sport touring, $36; phaetons, $18; coaches and coupes, $18; semi-inclosed tourings, $12 tourings, § roadsters and run- abouts, $9; bicycles, trailers, etc., $6. As for coal trucks, sand trucks and all other kinds of trucks and delivery cars now cluttering up the streets, Mr. Coombs would not be concerned at all. Kansas City Bootleggers, Manacled, Are Put to Work With Pick and Crowbar By the Assoclated Press. KANSAS CITY, March 20.—To the rhythmic clank, clank, clank of ankle chains, Kansas City's bootleggers, with pick and crowbar in hand, are working out their sentences these days along with thieves, burglars, pick- pockets and others of the county chain gang. A batch of the liquor law violators have pleaded guilty and re- celved sentences at varying lengths at hard labor. Out in the bright sunshine, with no moonshine exeept that streaming through the jail bars at night, the Volstead violators are digging miry ditches, shoving rocks from their sloshy pockets, working the county roads, while W. T. Cox, deputy sheriff, looks complacently on. “Take your time, boys," advises Cox, noticing_ & disposition to rush the work. “There's lots of it ahead. At that Phil Kennedy, former police- man, smiles and makes the best of it. “I've done county roads before,” he avers, “but never from this end of the ldal.L I've helped build 'em, but never with a pick and shovel.” l There's stocky Jack Dttarle, grown calm and resigned after 30 days of clanking, who say: 'S all right, the bootlegging businéss no pa‘&"')’,‘.‘é Davis Snitz, a pale-faced youth, who g'l;_;nl‘)‘l is |(c}hmt;u':evl. comments that a ‘could stick up a Bank an away with less than this.” S Daily the gang increases, but it doesn’t worry Deputy Cox, for there is roadwork aplenty and rock to quarry when the roads are in trim. —_——— AUTO HITS BOY CYCLIST. Youth in Critical Condition From Possible Skull Fracture. Knocked from his bicycle early last night by an automobile operated by Harold T. Pease, of 900 Nineteenth street, on Columbia road near Seven- teenth street, Arthur Snowden, colored, 16 years old, of 1309 Twenty- second street, sustained possible fracture of the skull. He was taken {o Freedmen's is some work in connection. The would-be organists must study tech- nique, theory, take piano lessons, learn the elemonts of harmony and acquire for themselves an extensive repertoire of selections. But the movies are underlying and essential, and the students spend no little time each week in playing an organ in a miniature movie theater. There is a tiny screen at one end of the auditorium upon which are thrown films of various types taken from the John Stewart Bryan of Richmond, Va., | | reg DOGTORS ATTACK: PERIL N PARKING Say Life or Death May Be in Balance When Use of Car Is Restricted. BY WILLIAM ULLMAN Automobile Editor of The Sta When human life hangs i the ance and the difference in ti tween the call and arrival of @ cian marks the difference hetwe and death, should the inaccesibili restricted parking of ar smobile permitted to rule the situatio ¥ that inab parie nd complianc parking regulations when v tients have in many cases ca e in many lives that might ot been saved. The question and st and made by Dr. k. G inent member of the of the Distr “ flare of th loose ye: ement, Seihert Med Eldridg cause of conditions Buildin come ¢ v da v ult to to Dr corded with be his indif Medie:! hundr treatmen Responi. Accord the con et by puk public more alil difficult spect an obl! sion to answer distre “For the most are eng valuable Seibert said, in this da ditions wk recognized sion be given the co-oper: public and public offic “We don't ask to be perm ceed the spe: the ri spec ping ay public trafhi nitied to keer within easy reach arrest whe in pursuance of ties. “Representing _the of the District of Colt the past appeared sional committe to mak : molestation on the part ¢ “Al 1 have been enouzh no special ¢ et taxicab ons hec a4 1 ch Blic service the po urned bac exNanation 14 be fa fes vic llenge their the medi “Public Big will other monia 1o public value that of Sufferer.” “Physicians I tients in times 4 of flu and pn cause of the cars, and the p fere: So now our case bef action it sees fit District authorties.” Many 1 count ileges {out by the Dist A canvass physicians vesterds of m nnumbe it out the and lns< trictions. | Several of the mec vlainly indifferent authorities may take “It's up to the publie” thev in effect, “we’ll do the hest we One physician ventured the o will be nothi the race into the home of some official who ean make or break ion: |ing re doctor COURTNEY ACTON DIES. wh Courtney Acton, 52 years old, shot himself Fri; home, Hobart street, died at Emergency Hos- ¢ Nevitt issued Acton, accor ing to_police, lepressed I ill_health for a long period. Acton who is survived by T s in partnership with his bro in the jewelry business at Alexands Va. wido: e rtoons, feature pictures About a_dozen seats a¢ the usual news reels, ¢ and the like commodate members of the clase, Across the rear of the hal for the teacher, and at one practice motion picture o all the “trick stops” which prod “orchestral effects” to suit the action of the picture. Not only must the student learn to use the motion picture organ to i fullest extent and to acquire a repe toire, but he must also learn the diff cult but fascinating art of improvizi- tion. Then he must be the necessary accompaniment loists: to develop the theme of the pic ture in music with coherence and e phasis; to know the practical mechan ics not alone of his o theater itself, the psych audience, the writing of s cues and build up within himself : school’s library of 70 reels—scenics, general theatrical atmosphere. 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