Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1926, Page 26

APRIL 18, 1926—PART 1. B U LAWALUNN ™R N ComLcrion ot ciw ARE IN COLLECTION AT CENTRAL! DINE AT [:"Y GUJB ‘lrel;md, Egypt, Guatemala, S:pain and South America | Represented—Shamrock Growing in Laboratory, = THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MARYLANDR.0.1.. * FACES INSPECTION 26 G, .U PLANSDRIVE FOR NEW BUILDING: Current NeWS, Events NATIONAL U. TEAM T0 DEBATE FRIDAY Summary of lmportanf Nrational, Foreign and Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the Convenience of Students. . mence Unit to House Larger Li brary. Laboratories and Lec- ture Rooms to Be Pushed. Uawe the building of unit No. ater plan number mmer f the building Aypril ~ued last drive Luild the latest meeting of the eld February Present plans call for the of No. 3 "wentieth H on Geors expressed in Alumni News, Decision to make a 1o ta is of is week necessary made a woney unit board the wi of the Twenty northwest unit square and first G is Corcoran Hall md Stockton Hall are now located The new build will \lm placed rth of Corcoran Hall, and will face “mfltl\\.!.u first and 1 streets. When ected, it will contain the arts and library wen and cture rooms. m of News wd streets the we in which on science rooms for numerous The completi savs the Alumn Iy awaited the students, faculty and friends the | sity, for this new will lonig felt and pr women and these plans, univer. till Limited. rters of the arts science library are much tov The reading room. which ac- ommodates 125 readers, should be able to seat more than 400, secording to present standane should be one seat for every den Present Npace The | there 10 st Because of the luck of sp: valuable books are stacked ¢ the other in small rooms where they are not available for ready reference work. It is also true that in their pres. ent quarters the library books are con- subject to five hazar e, many stantly In Washington University was 1,973 Last vear the registration amounted to 5.713. This represenfs an increase of 200 per cent in 10 years, and show what a terrific demand is being made on the physical equipment of the Uni versity. The saturation point has now been reached, so that it will be neces sary next year to curtail registraiton n ecertain courses unless m e class- reoms ave available Offers Unusual Opportunity. h 4 ze i i the only unive n tion: Capital offer 1 opportunity 1o em ployed students take full courses ig arts and sciences work in the Ia afternoon, it is feit that a curtailmen of registration would work a hardship 1 great number of deservin, people. The new building, which authorized by the board of will be designed to accommodaie arts and library and remedy the library situation. The new classrooms, which the building wiil ntain, will aiso provide facilities for lécture purposes. Because of these . President Lewls” announcement created enthusiusm among the friends of the university, and already a number of gifts have heen received for this building fund. *It is hoped that work on the build- ing may be begun during the Sum mer. This will be pos&ible if the friends of the university rally to it port and make necessary con- tributions.” Inasmu has b trustees. sciences e | held work can be begun this stees | | | countries on this yailding | President Coolidge, high officials of the en | ¢ h laboratories, reading| ;. “is anxious- | alumni. | peneil to that o | was upon | last 1915 the enrollment in George | ways i | | oppusite the Lincoln Memo | by n | | and | WASHINGTON COLLEGE GRADUATION JUNE 9 Date for Senior Law Commence- ment Fixed bv Dean—Class Active. Commencement exercises Washington College of Lan 1926 will be held June 8. acc announcement vesterday deun’s headquurte Plans senior class hook are well under way Group pictures have been made of the under-class men and most of the seniors have had their individual pic- tu taken. while editoria W ci ion staffs are busy with material and campaigning Prof. Bdwin A. Mooers vleted his course in azency. The ex nination was held Thursday a 1 course in legal problems under direction will hegin tomorrow. Prof. B. Flynn has complet ed his course in real property for the freshmen and this examination also has been held. A course in comnon aw pleading, under the direction of Prof. Helen k. Jamison, will com once The course Elizabeth « for the class of ng to om the has com nes in Harrix, has pleted and examination Tuesday. Miss Harris will class in bailments at once. New st may enter at this t strated in bailments. D. J. Manning. school who recenily left Washington for o position in the field with the Tnternal Revenue, sent the junior class, hosis at the annual banquet Saturday night, April 10, his re gards Beta Chapier zave a benefit Burlinzton Hotel Judge Sellers, an honot ember of the Epsilon Chapter of Kappa Beta Pi. will speak to the members on the work of the Juvenile Court at the April meeting this_afternoon. The members are working hard for the success of the card party to be held the Women's City Club Thursdgy he proceeds of which are to g toward the endowment fund of the college. Miss Helen Hardman geles was at the Willard last week, wnd invited the members of the so rority to be present last Monday when she was admitted to practice hefore the Suprem Court of the United States, on the motion of Sen- ator Shortridge of California. Mis: Hardman also attended the annual junior banquei of the coileze at Rauscher She was the guest of Mrs. Arthur Keith, dean of the so- vority TALKS ON WILD FLOWERS. Mrs. T. W. Adams Addresses Pupils of John Eaton School. The pupils of the John Katon School on " listened to a talk on wild flowers by Mrs. T. W. Adams, a director of the National Wild Flower Preservtion Society. She spoke of the many agencies that destroy the flowers of the woods and fields, and emphasized the fact that many flowers must be left to go to seed in order to appear the next year: that roots must not be pulled up nor branches broken carelessly, and that leaves manufacture food for many kinds of plants with tuberous roots. She asked that the hepatica, dog-tooth violet, arbutus and trillium be gath- 1 com undex been was begin fents the common-law pleading and student at the Phi bridge Delta at Delta the of 1 An bield | the | Children’s F 1| tack: | | | Steck, instead of Brookhart, had re-|q | 1. ito the Senate in many ie for the courses just | B! | i | | | lin the Senate and in, his pl An interesting conference, and one which is unigue among the internu- conferences which have been in Washington, took place last | week when journalists representing newspapers in every republic of the Western Hemisphere met at the Pan- American Union Building and discuss- | tional e Washington | ed the problems which are common to the | them as new permen. The confer- ence was the first congress of Pan- American journalists, and its pur- pose was to enable the newspapermen of North and South America to per- fect a permanent organization among hemselves which will make for better nd more friendly relations among the dde of the world. svernment and well known news- permen addressed the delegates. Luther Burbank, who during the half century of his life became a leader in_creative plant development died in Calffornia last week. Among the best known of results of his “wizardry™ are the Burbank potato, nOW grown in every corner of the globe and which is said to exert a ter influence upon the food supp! than any other plant: several varietie of spineless blackberries: w variety of vhubarb which, under Burbank’s guid ing hand grew from the size of u lead st and made perpetual instead of ap pearing for a few weeks only, and a pea_which matures its crop, attains a uniform size and ripens at the same time making it especially suited to canning. Burbank was said to have made more than 100,000 experiments, about 385 proving of enough succ to wa nt his giving them to the world, Leaders of the old rvegime in Russia, who were overthrown by the present government, met in Paris week in un effort to decide on yme course to drive the Reds out of Ru But they were unable to agree among themselves on any course, failing even in the task of ap- | pointing committee to considew and means of an offensive ainst Russt Split by disagree ments among themselves, the emigres broke up in sad disagreement A new memorial Wl he dedicated here, May 29, when exercises will he held, attended by the Crown Prince and Prince den, in connectio with unveiling of a monument to John Ericsson, who designed the Monitor The monument will not be completed at that time, but exercises will be held nevertheless. The memorial will stund on the banks of the Potomac River al Six children, sent here by le mill strikers of Passaic, N J., were &topped in their attempts to picket the White House st week police, who informed those in whose cure they were that child labor regulations in the District prevented the use of children in such displays The children carried banners portray ing the hardships suffered by the striked ome time ago « delegation | the Passaic milis an interview with President idge, but were denied an audience veferred to the Secretary of Labor. the tex President Coolidge, suffering from an attack of indigestion, had to leave his office last week, and spend a day in bed. on the advice of his physician The President recovered from the attack, however, and was in his usual zood health the day following. The radio broudca Chicago which rece: to itself a wave length and began broadeasting without the sanction of the De rtment of Commerce, won ite case in the court. The Juds held that cértain sections of the wire- less were ambiguous. The De partment of Commerce may appeal the case, because Secretary Hoover was quoted recently as saving thai il the Government lost the suit, radio broadeasting would become chaotic because of the rush of high powered stations for favored wave lengths. ing station ih appropriated The vounger generation, which falls heir 10 many aceusations by the old folks, is not so bad after all. accord ing to a statement last week by the 1, which gave tigures to show there has been a nation-wide reduction in juvenile delinguency dur ing the last decade. Thoughtful corn ~sideration, rather than ‘“headline at is due the problem of juveni the statement said. delinquency, Politics Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Towa was unseated last week by a close vote ce Daniel . Steck of lowa, 4 Democrat. will represent the State for the remainder of the term. Thus has cnded a long fight, which began last Summer when Steck challenged the victory of Brook- hart enate, where the votes were recount- ed and the committ orted that | plurality. The situation was eck is a Demo. at Towa has sent years, while rookhart was one of the Progres. | sive Republicans who have raised | havoc with the regular party. The | vote in the Senate found Senator Wil- | am M. Butler of Massachuse chairman of the Republican Natio Committee, voting for the Democrat ic. while Senator Curtis of Kansas. | te leader, voted for- Brookhart. | ceived interesting in_that crat, the first Democr William B. McKinley, Senator from linois, Was defeated in the primaries | for rencmination to succeed |l"l*l'x’ t week, and Col. Frank L. Smith, pponent, w designated as the Republican standdrd Dbearer in coming congressional elections. The s of Senator McKinley was held significant because he was one of the supporters of American adherence to the World Court. while Col. Smith adopted one of the main plans of his platform, opposition to entry in the World Court. The defeat of Sena- tor McKinley is also held a blow to the Coolidge administration, as he was one of the reeular administration Senators who has stood with "hP President on important issues. The Illinois situation is made doubly in- {eresting because of the nomination of George Brennan, Democratic | b of Chicago. on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Brennan advocates light s ‘and beer. & l‘: commemoration of the 183d an- niversary of the birth of Thomas Jet- ferson a dinner was held here last Wweel at which Gov. Albert €. Ritchie of Maryland, now spoken of s a pos ible Democratic candidate for the presidency, declared that because of prohibition, the war's aftermaths i‘"d a “new conception” of the laws, “we are fighting the old issues of human freedomn all over again—fighting for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of the individual, free- dom from intolerence and for free- dom of the saving power of truth.’ Other prominent Democrats addressed the diners. Mrs., Bertha Baur was defeated in her campaign for nomination for the House of Representatives in Illinois. so her views may be taken with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, she says. that “the ignorance of many woman voters is appalling,” and describing some of the details of election day, she says that many of the women | his the | & { for | week, | for the erection appeared to vote without having regis- tered: some wanted to take the bal lots home with them, while wanted their relatives or friends to enter the booths with them and help mark the ballots Congress. The fight of the and the “drys” before a Senate judiciary sub- committee continues unabated. the “wets” up to this time occupying the brightest part of the spotlight. The “drys” began their turn last week and after that the subcommittee is to report to the full committee on pending legislation to modify the Vol stead act by allowing light wines and heers. Possibly the most significant estimony before the committee hus been that of Lincoln C. Andrews, in charge of the enforcement of prohi bition. Mr. Andrews made the state- that beer of small alcoholic con sold under vernment super sion. might make the enforcement prohibition _against hard liquors Jess difficult. Now he is being attack ed by the “drys” for this b.l\,('lll!’]l!. While the hearings are progressing on Capitol Hill, the President has ap proved w $3.000,000 additional appro priation for prohibition enforcement el Mr. Andrews says that if ~ money is made available by Cor he can do much to dry up the illicit lgu “wets' t gress, sources of The bill to place prohibition enforce. ment under the civil service has been passed by the House and has been favorably reported from the committee to the Senate. The measure has the support of both wets and drys The most complete and one of the few wotrh while collections of articles connected with the life and death of Abraham Lincoln is owned by a private individual who has loaned it to the Government. Last week in the Houss Representative Bacon of New York reiterated a plea which has been made many times before to have the Government buy this collection. Th owner,. Osborn . Oldroyd, has been offered $50,000 for it by an individual but he would not sell because he wanted the Government to take it over The collection now housed in the famous old house on Tenth street opposite the site Ford's Theate: where Lincoln was shot Al to force railroads perimental period favorably The Cummins to merge after an ex of operation was reported last week by the Senate interstate commerce committee, but its b at this session is not regarded as bei at all certain. Propage say that savings of £500,000,000 could be effected thr consolidation, and applied to in passenger and freight the lways merge it is stated, 60,000 miles of railway lines will have to be abandoned or will be rendering unsatisfactory servive elections committee to dismiss the Min contest brought by Senator from ugh edu ites T Senate Jast week senatorial nus Johnson, forme: Minneso! against Senator Sc 1 of the same State. The fight not ended, however. for friends of former Senator Johnson plan to make an effort_on the floor of the Senate to have the case reopened The, voted nesc Mag Economic. Iinance Minister Peret of is coming to Washington next where. I'rench newspaper sayvs. he hopes to sign an agreement for pay ment of the French debt. Negotiations have heen going on and will continue in the meantime, between Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and. Am bassador Berenger toward settling the debt. The Senate France month which has been debat ing the Italian debt settiement for the last two weeks s agreed to vote on the question Wednesday of this week It is believed the agreement will be atified, Unless it of further ne debt payment otiations toward the The birth rate is steadily decreasing throughoui the civilized world and particularly in larze cities, statistics collected by the Icague of Nations health committee indicate. noteworthy increase in the birth rate nywhere in the world is in the South Islands, it is stated. While there has been steady decrease in birth rate, the infant motrality rate throughout the world ix also decreas. ing. others | ftaly is relieved | The only | the | on “Distinguished” List Four Years. SO | coLLBcE PARK, Md., April 17.- | The University of Maryland's Reserve Officers’ Training Camp unit, which ! has been on the list of “distinguished | colleges” for the past four years, will e inspected for its rating on Mon- | day and Tuesday by officers delegated ! by the War Department, and all those | connected with the battalion here are ixiously awaiting the result of the test. {1 is a rather unusual honor to get cn the “distinguished list.” Last year Maryland was rated especially high. so high, in fact, that it had a better rating than many strictly mili- | tary schools. | “Fhe inspecting officers from the | War Departmént observe the conduct and appearance of the st@dents on | the campus in general as well as in { the military class and on the drill | field. | Dr. Symons Honored. ! Dr. T. B. Symons, | extension service, has been appointed | % member of a committee representing the Association of Land Grant Col leges to confer with representatives of the Department of Commerce in de- fining the time and suitable wave | length for agricultural college broad casting stations. The committee is to strive to secure more favorable condi- tions for broadcasting programs ap- pealing to the farmers in addition to consulting representatives of the De- partment of Commerce as to legisla- tion relating to radio. New Seed Experim | P, W. Zimmerman, associate dean of | the ‘college of agricuiture, has success- fully demonstrated the power of seeds to germinate after 500 years and to grow into health plants. They were | water lily seeds, which had been buried in Japan in an old lake bed, | which was covered by a layer of earth 1300 vears old. On this layer were trees about 150 years of age. There is lan impermeable coat to the lily seeds | that must be scratched before water {can enter and germination start. This the reason they lay dormant so director of the Many Sheep Bought. university has purchased {pure bred yearling Hampton ew a like number of J-vear-old ewes, mbs at their side. The ewes will xup. ment those at the university farm - experimental and instruction pur- poses. Accompanying the ewes were | & shipment of 17 pure bred Hampshire rams which will be sold at public aue- tion on farmers’ day. May 29, under the auspices of the Maryviand Sheep Growers' Asociation. Roger Hale, who was graduated in | ihe claxs of 1924 and who will receive | his master’s degree in June, has ac cepted a position in the research di- vision of the United States Bureau of | Agricultural Economics, | Newly Women's Christian Association at the university were installed on Wednes. lay. They are: Mary Stewart York, | president; Genneva Reich, vice presi | dent: Gertrude Ryon, secretary; Fran | ces IFreeny, treasurer; Hazel Watsin, {undergraduate representative; June | Kirk, chairman religious program; | Charlotte Collins, freshmen: Rebecca | Woodward. social: Ruth Williams, | program: Mary Jane McCurdy, publici i ty: Grace Warner, financial; Eleanor | Irceny, membership; Roselle’ Bi 1" service; Anne Hoffman. education. A. O. Stanley, former Senator Kentucky, addressed the weekly dent assembly last Wednesday Maryland debaters will meet the #ordham team the Rtter part of May in New York. The debate will be on ! “Federalizing of Public Education.” Stewart Whaley and Frank Witte { will be two members®f the Maryland | team with either George O'Neill or { Daniel O'Brien as the third man. | E. Z Russell, animal husbandryman world om i stu ; | | College Park Unit Has Been 1| es und | with | schoft, | | | | io T }in charge of swine investigation at the | United States Department of Agricul- jture, addressed the members of the | Live Stock Club at a recent meeting. K. C. SENIOR WINS J. LEO KOLB MEDAL districts have held the up. | Francis J. Gillies’ Essay Was on | in "he legislation from ginning. citiex have had little to say about laws desired by the country folk. An interesting question in this connection is brought up by the fact that the latest census shows that 31.4 per cent of the populition lives in cities of 2500 inhabitants and over. the be. | “What Every Real Estate Man Should Know." | _Announcegment has just been made | that the winner in the annual con Will this increase in city over the |test at the Knights of Columbus Eve- | rural population give larger voice in affairs? the cities The farmers nd the battle was taken to the | have had what they wanted for 150 | the prof The rural population is held ble for prohibition, the same have thrown daylight sav- into the discard, altMough 4 time | the cities want it. and the rural dis- | Subm tricts have been credited with dictat- | Th ing certain provisions of the tax laws and in keeping the appropria- tions of the Army and Navy cut to the bone: The voice of the has been the law for Congressmen h many years. the time com- ing when the city man will outtalk the farmer in the halls of Congress? Education. ol le University 15 received a #ift of $1,000,000" from two anony- mous donors, it was annonced last and the money will be used of an art museum. Through its erection the university will be able to complete a substan- tial portlon of a comprehensive system of art galleries. plans for which have been under consideration for some time, From Hary ithe news of slump among since the fourd that Catholics there heen rd University a “marked religious the tudents” there war. The investigator only among the Jews, and’” Episcopalians has percentage increase comes |among those reporting their religio prefererfces. class, he atheist without found flgures The “not interested s, is made up of agnostics, philosophers and those preference or interest. He no connectionr between the nd any change in the | religious attitude of the instructors. Geography. Three separate expeditions are now definitely on_their way to discover whether any land lies near the North Pole in the form of an unknown continent, and, if possible, to reach the North Pole itself. Last week the expedition by Amundsen and Ellsworth, who made an unsuccessful attempt to reach the Pole last Summer, flew from Norway across the Baltic Sea and over the Gulf of Finland to Leningrad. Irom Leningrad the ex- plorers plan to fly to Spitzbergen, where a real start will be made on their projected 2,000-mile flight across the top of the world to Point Barrow, Alaska. In fhe meantime Comdr. Byrd. U. S. N.. who accompanied McMillan on his northern trip last year under auspices of the Natlonal Geographic i1 headed farmer | { ning School for the J. Leo Kolb Gold | Medal for the best essay submitted on fon of realty. Is Francis J. Gillies, u_ student in the senior law class. “What Estate Man Should | Know.” The second bes nitted by Patrick J. Fitzgibbons. contest was held under the super- | vision of Dr. Harry S. O'Neill, who |has been conducting the conrse in {real estate. | The Girls’ Choral Club met for prac- ice at the home of Miss Ruth I olds, president of the Santa Club, Thursday night. The ass is under the direction of B. Waters, who also has of the classes in violin and a a Real choral ¢ | Mrs. | charge voice. | The lar meeting Tuesday plans _were made for the dance next Saturday night at the school building. The committee in charge of the dance includes Misses Mary Eike, Harriet Mast and Ruth Reynolds. . The literary section of the Santa Maria Club will be entertained at tea from 4 to 6 at the home of Mrs. Frank O'Hara in Brookland next Sun- day. * Members of the section are pre- paring a literary program for the oc- casion. nta Maria Club held its regu- night, when school after a short illness. A new- section of topographical drawing has been opened in the draft- ing department to care for the de- mands of students from Government departments. A debate will be held Friday night [in Prof. James A. Hartnett's English class on ‘“Resolved, That the metric tem should be adopted in the measurement.” Prof. Arthur Deering of the English department at the Catholic University will give a public lecture in the liter- ature series on Tuesday evening at School. His subject will be ‘“The 1 Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Aileen Kilmer.' of an expedition which hopes to fly to the Pole n planes. This expedi- tion is sponsored, in part, by John D. Rockefeller, jr., and Henry Ford. From Fairbanks, Alaska, George H. Wilkins, heading a Detroit, Mich., expedition, hopped off on a flight last week which he hopes will take him to Point Barrow and across the polar regions near the North Pole itself, and all the way to the Spitzbergen Islands, north -of the Nor- wegian mainjand. The subject of his essay was | paper was | Miss Mary A. Warren returned to | United States as the official system of | the Knighls of Columbus Eveningf Society, 1s on his way north in charge | Capt. | | | | 1 fof three engravings of George W {ful during the past season. {been widely ! terest. | trated lecture One Thousand Hear Senator Fess Speak—Debaters to Be Honored. The most enthusiastic dinner in the history of the George Washinston University Law School was held last night at the City Club. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio was the prin cipal speaker. One thousand mem- bers of the George Washington Uni versity Law School Alumni Assoc tion and the Columblan-George Wash ington Association were in attend ance. The university announces the gift sh- ington, presented by Mrs. Charles W. Richardson, which materially add to the growing collection of Washington portraits, etchings and engravings. The university debating teams will be honored on Tuesday night with a dinner to be held at the St. J:mll-.\ Gilbert .. Hall will preside. The teams have been uniformly success The men have won three of six encounter: The men’s team also has debated over the air on occasions. Girls Plan Swimming Meet. April 28 has been selected as the date for the girls' swimming meet to be held at the Y. W. C. A. pool There will be six eventg listed for all classes of swimmers. A large at- tendance is expected affair is generally well patronized. The Episcopal Club announced a dance to be held in Corcoran Hall on the date of May 1. The affair has advertised. Other social of the near future are the Glee Club concert tomorrow night & Hospital, the Iin gineering Society dance at the Frank lin Square Hotel April 30, the Men's Glee Club concert in Rockville on the same night and the Girls Club banquet at the Franklin Square on May 4. Pi Delta Epsilon and Norman Baxter, newspaper mer, in attendance as initiates, held an unusually interesting banquet at the Roma recently. Prof. Henry G. Doyle, Prof. Dewitt (. Croissant and Prof. Daniel C. Chace were present Dance by Masonic Club. Masonic Club dance, Willard on Friday President list of 15 events Girls’ The annual held at the New night, was well attended. and Mrs, Lewis headed a atrons. P he vesignation of Dean Hugh Miller of the College of Engineering. corge Washington University, wi accepted by the board of trustees of the university at their meeting Wed nesday. The board extended to De Miller a vote of appreciation for h work in the univerxity s Dean Miller will join the faculty of Union College of/Schenectady, N. Y as professor of engineering in the t = elected officers of the Young | ¥8Il John R. Lapham. professor uf civ engineering in the university, was ap pointed acting dean of the engineer ing college. Prof. Lapham graduated from Brown University and Penn State. He taught at Penn State be fore coming to George Washington Prof. Lapham has been active in the university, not only in connection with | I the development of the college of en-| gineering, but also in connection with carious student activities Dr. Lewis to Speak. The resumption demic work at the university started last Monday after a 12-da acation. The first Easter recess in many years was thox oughly enjoyed. and students and fac ulty renewed work with unusual in The vear will June with the annual convs Tomorrow at chapel P liam Mather Lewis will of ac close on ation. ident Wil ive an illus on “The Haunts of Washington.” He will speak April 24 at the monthly luncheon the \umni at the Hotel Lafayette. In connection with alumni activities Vernon Brewster, alumni secretary has returned from a trip to Pitts burgh. Cleveland. Akron, Toledo and Detroit. During this trip he was su cessful in obtaining a considerable number of new subscriptions to the building and endowment fund. The campaign is being carried on among alumni groups with success. The re. cent announcement that the board of trustees has authorized the starting of a fund for the third unit has brought forth several large donations from individuals and groups in this city. RANDALL CADETS PLAN: FOR DRILL WITH SHOW Competition Will Be Held May 20. Nine Pupils Win' Place on Scholarship Roll. Cadets of Randall Junior High School have begun final preparation for competitive drill to be staged on Cardoza Field May 20 between Shaw and Randall military squads. ~'Nine pupils have been assigned to places on the Randall scholarship roll for superior work. They are Ruth Murphy, Mary Wall, Margaret Stokes, Viola Lancaster, Alice Hail- storks, Joseph Turner, Mildred _\\ il- liams, Myrtle Jenkins and Ojetta Dawson. A meeting of the Association held in the Building Tuesday night was addressed by Judge Kathryn Sellers of the Juvenile Court. Leon L. Perry, direc. tor of special activities, also spoke on “Problematic Children and How to Handle Them.” Mrs. F. L. Toms was master of ceremonies.” Discussion was led by Miss L. L. Robinson, as- sociation president. and G. Smith Wormley, principal. Musical num bers were furnished by Miss V. Maxwell, Mrs. M. H. Plummer Mrs. Esther B. King. ¢ An assembly program Wednes was conducted by classes of Mrs, V. C. Piper and Mrs. A. W. McBeth. Participating were Marion Collins, Joseph Durbin, Edith Diggs, Theresa ‘Adams, Bdward Lyles, Osborne Mal- lory, Demarcus Thomas and John West. Original poems were recited by Lena Dutton. of Randall and 27 GIRL SCOUTS TAKE LESSON IN COOKING Members of Three Troops, Seeking to Qualify for Merit Badge, Attend School. Twenty-seven members of Troups 21 and 22 of the local Girl Scouts were given instructions and an ex- amination at the Lewis Hotel Training Schools yesterday for the purpose of qualifying for their merit badge in cooking. : The girls were given an oral exami- nation by Miss Margaret Iivans, cookery instructor of the school, and then were required to prepare and cook various foods. Last Tuesday evening M. Jacque Haeringer, formerly chef of the Shore- ham Hotel, gave a_demonstration of th(mmasung and carving of chickens. the annual | with Leonard Hall | rent-Teacher | [ Palm Trees in Conservatory. Plants from Ireland, Egypt, Guate- | Treasured here also is a large sectior mala, Spain and South America com-|of one of the vak trees from the grove | | prise” the representative collection in | which grew on the site of the school i{the conservatory at Central High|It was from the last tree to be cut ! Sehool. {from this grove, and the 116 rings | With the co-operation of the Botani- | show that the tree dated back to 1800 cal Gardens, A. A. Doolittle of the bi-|An unusually large aquarium is now |ology department at Central has been |the home of “Mickey,” a tame snap ; jable” to sccumulite a wide range of |ping turtle about years old, which {plant life since 1916, when the new | was acquired by Central three years | Duilding at Thirteenth and Clifton |ago | streets was opened. The number studying biology has | Palms, date trees and avocado pears, | doubled during the last three vears. | | raised from seeds. thrive here be |making two new teuchers necessary. | {rause the temperature is particularly |so that there are now four in this de-| |suited to tropieal plants. Lemoa, |partmen 3 | grapefruit, and both native and wild| Mrs. E. C. Paul and A. A. Doolittle | | baby orange trees ve grown from |were the teachers who came over from | | seedlings to good-sized plants. |old Central to new. Mirs L. C. Van! Doren and L. G. Hoover were added | Reminiscent of old Erin is the shamrock which grows in the labora- | to the faculty to relieve the conges-| ion of classes and pupil | | tory itself, just off the conservatory. | i | DR. DEVINE TO GIVE |MYSTERIOUS MELODRAMA TO BE GIVEN AT CENTRAL I " AMERICAN U. TALK AT | New Dean of Graduate School to Make Address at Annual Convocation June 1. Play to Be Presented by Mechanical Drawing Department Lacks Name and Author. tehearsals for unusual melo- drama to be presented by the me- chanical drawing department of Cen- tral High School May an Luciug C. Clark, chancellor of American University, last night an-} tion with its annual exhibition, are nounced that Dr. Edward T. Devine. | beginning amid a contagious air of newly appointed dean of the graduate | ystary. A\xi.\'flleris'“e\'m\l as to t e e il e | title and autnor of the play is prom- hool, will deliver the address at the | j,.q the guests at the entertainment twelfth annual convocation at Ameri-| Shots in the dark, a disagreeable can University Tuesday afternoon. | corpse, ghosts. a fascinating heroine S I s will be held | and a particularly vicious villain will WL BLE A L | all be portraved by the members of i in Grove amphitheater on the campus. | the department in this most mysteri- Dr. Devine, who is on an extended | gug melodrama. 7 | lecture~tour of the West at the Pres- | Yet there is neither author nor titie, ent time, canceled an address he had | the coaches assert. These instructors scheduled before the National Confer- | have developed many successful plays ence of Social Work at Cleveland, Dr. | during the past few years, i Clark said, in order to deliver the | best of which was “A Night convocation address here. Inn.” by Lord Dunsany Miss Josephine Clay of Hutchinson., The major parts this year Minn., who now principal of the | taken by Andrew Allison, James high school at Canby, Minn., has been | Burns, Ward Fleharty, Alex Hopkins, added to the faculty of the college of | Morton Silverberg and Sam Singer TO COMPETE IN DRILL Miss Clay will be instructor in chem- istry and physics, heginning with the next school year -Col. Craigie and Maj. R. C. Payne to Judge Contest Contracts have been let for con struction of the new college library Thursday. Dr. . in connec- at an is on the campus, to be known as the Battelle Mem al. and construction work is expected to start within a few da It is hoped the building may | be ready for occupancy before the opening of the next Fall term Representative Frederick M. Dav enport of New York will be the prin cipal speaker Friday night at a ban quet of the Women's Guild of Ameri can University at the Women's Resi dence Hall on the campus. The ad. dress of welcome will be by Mrs, W . MeDowell The committee on ar- rangements of Mrs. George B Wooeds ea Moulton and Mrs. John 'he guild, of which Mrs, Logan Tuc is vresident, consis of a number Washington women interested in pro- moting the welfare of the university. | composed of Capt. J. Harry Bortch, During the present year the guild has | Sergts. Carl Martin and George But contributed generous to the furnish- [ler, Corps. Lawrence Weaver, Harry ings of the Women's Residence Hall | Rosen and Henry Hoffman. : and plans to add furths to these ap- The April issue of the pointments in the near future. Ithe school magazine, was distributed Dean Ma Louise Brown is to be | Tuesday This number is featured hostess this morning a breakfast with special articles by Evelyn Burns, !to the senior class at the Women's ' Lau K. Barrett, George Roth, Jo. itesidence Hall. sephine Tremain and Dr. J. J. Rother- A reception mel, teacher of ph 8. the graduati class The Cub, published by the class in will he giverr by Mrs, Quiney Smith ind her daughter, Miss Dorothy Quiney Smith, & member of the class, a1t their home, 4402 Sixteenth street, Monday afternoen from 5 to 7. BASKET BALL AWARDS GIVEN WESTERN GIRLS Principal E. S. Newton Also Takes Pessession of His New Office Quarters. A competitive drill between the pla toons of Eastern’s cadet bathllion will be held Thursday on the new parade grounds. Col. Wallace M. Craigle and Maj. mond C. Payne will judge the competition and award the medal to the lieutenant commanding the winning platoon The fourth place in the war game competition was awarded to the team from Company C of E: ts He n. cons| Mrs Nichol Mary asterner, nd gurden party for of the college publication is printed in the E High School print shop. The junior prom, the first of its kind held at Eastern, was given in the armory evening and was success, < been decided to make the prom an annual event. Flowers have been raised under the direction of Miss Lewanna Wilkins of the biology department and are now being used to deco the offices ¢ Principal Hart and Miss Watts, assist ant principal. As the plants they are to be placed in the different rooms of the school The band under the direction of Ludwig Manoloy is practicing regular Iy, giving concerts as part of neon lhour activities. A concert was held at Hine Junior High School Wednes day. The program follows March, “E. Pluribus Unum™ Eastern High School Band. Overture. *Lutspiel” (Keler Eastern High School Band Piano solo, **Polichinelli” (Rachman inoff). Margaret Brower. erenade, “Rose Mary™ Eastern High School Band Cornet_solo, sie Polka’ | Herbert Coop Dr. . 8. Newton, principal of West- ern Hizgh School, has moved into his new office. ‘The front of the building mpleted and the new office is | situated at the center entrance in stead of at the side of the building, as previously. The old office is being | used the headquarters of the Breeze and the Westerner, Western's publications. The office was first | opened Wednesday, April 14. Although | jall the furniture Thas not as vet ar| rived, the office is quite commodious | o ol R compared to the former cramped | gy alisrican Patrol” (Mehan), Bastern | quarters in which the staffs worked, | &R School Band. Dty Western's Spring - pley, | o TTombone solo. “O Thou Sublime !\was produced Friday night. Two pre- | f;ff‘;}r:;‘“e"mg Star” (Vagner), Con- sentations of this play were given by i S oo i Western Friday and Saturdas, March |, March, “Stars and Stripes” (Sousa). 126 and 27. The cast for this pwsen-ll"“‘“’"" b il B tation was the same as the previous e oo Exoei, % he part of Tom Ster | ARMSTRONG GIRLS GIVE PARTY FOR CLASSMATES | May 7 Set as Date for “Talert Evans, who substituted for Alden | ! Goodwin. Show" to Find New Leaders for Activities. WJewell) is Bela) Jewell). (Beyer) | Wednesday the following girls were | presented with small gold basket balls | for_their ability in the game: Betty Garber, Betty Zalesky, Marie O'Daniel, Alice Churchill, Jenny Turnbull, Mary E. Bowers and Elizabeth Wilson. The senior girls receiving Ws were Betty Garber. Betty Zalesky, Helen Sheck- ells, Jenny Turnbull, Elizabeth Wil- |son, Amy Van Horn, Marian Ziegler, i Molly Greely, Margaret Lundy, Elea | nor Cropley, Katherine Berrall. Betty i ! Section B1 girls. sponsored by Miss Brenda Ray Moryck, entertained the girls of section Al and their sponsor, Miss Orra D. Weaver, assistant prin- | cipal, at an informal musical duringz ! the club hour on Thursday. Mrs. Lil |lian Burke Clarke, school librarian. | sang. with Miss Marea Bonner at the | piano. Miss Margaret Butler also ren dered a plano number. Miss Moryck gave short talk on “Conduct on Street Cars.” May 7 has been set as the tentative date for the “talent show" projected Waller, Harriette Clark and Mary E. Bowers, The junior girls receiving Ws were | Lillian Lindquist, Dorothy Coolk, Marie {O'Daniel, Alice Churchill, Helen Eng- lish - and ~ Elizabeth Conway. The | sophomores who received W= were | Rosalie Reed, June Mapes and Eliza- beth Seeds, Bs were awarded to the following girls, who were very goed in basket Lall ‘but were not deserving Ws: Juniors, e Davidson, Dorothy Shear, Anna Brock, Nancy Mathews land Florence Kincheloe; sophomores, Sally Abell, Alethea Lawton, Patty Joyce, Caroline Jackson, Estelle Eas- |terson and Louis McKinney; fresh- man, Virginia Sheffield. | Fairchild Crawford, assisted by Miss | €. C. West, Mrs. I. T. Perkins, Miss | M. Eonner and Miss M. V. Crawford. A prize is to be given to the partici pant producing the best act. The audience will act as judge. The current issue ‘of the Crisis car- rles a story of the radio exploits of Cadet Capt. Rufus P. Turner. Tur ner, as is well known to readers of The Star, is an enthuslastic amateur who has taken many prizes at na tional and international expositions for unique radio contrivances. After his_expected graduation in June the leader of Company O plans to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology as a student of electrical engi U. S. Sues to Recover $25,000. The United States Government has |filed suit in the District Supreme Court against Wallace Jenkins, David G. Oppenheimer and the National Surety Co. to recover $25,000 on a bond given to insure the carrying out of a contract made by Jenkins and Oppenheimer to buy 2,500,000 surplus | towels from the Government. United | States, Attorney Gordon and Assistant United States Attorney Rover appear for the Government. EDUCATIONAL. For Practical Results ‘Study at | The Master-School of , Interior Decoration of Washington ‘ Mrs. Florence Meyrson has been | awarded an interlocutory decree of absolute divorce from Joseph Meyr- b we;ilth!; smr!sr;:an‘i also krov:; 1206 18th Street Phone Main 6978 as Joe orrison. The decree, sign by Chief Justice McCoy, allows the | Specializing in Interior Decoration wife alimony and counsel fees. The | Representing Arts & Decoration, New York husband made no defense except to move to dismiss the petition, which was denled. Attorneys Wampler & Lynch appeared for Mrs. Meyrson. For further information, apply write or phone to Rudolphe de Zapp, Director * one of the | will be tern. which is | bloom | | by a committee headed by Miss Helen | Will Defend Volstead Act in Contest With Debaters From Baltimore. Proposals the the which ave penitie before committees of the Senate an House. will subject of debats next kriday night between the publi speaking class of tional Universit and an oratorical class from Baltimore The debate, which will be open to the public, will be held at 818 Thirteent street he « aught by modificatior Volstead he the s& from Baltimore, which is Prof. Dale Carnegie, who also is professor of public speaking ai National University, have taken t affirmative or “wet” side of the argu i ment. The national debaters will a) pear as the “dry” advocates, Following the debate, the debaters will take the visitors as thei | guests to the Naval Observator: { where they will be shown the cour | tesfes of that institution by naval off ers who are statfoned there. Senior Class Banquet One of the most conspicuous e of the school vear at the Nati University law school will be t nquet of the yflower Hotel, Saturday night Roger J. Whiteford, mer ber of the District bar and an alum nus, will act as toast ster. Invit tions have been extended to the char or and members of the faculty wh are lecturi on senjor subject | Francis W. Trapp is chairman of tin | committee in charge and is restricting: in addition to the guests of honor, to the 260 member 10f the graduating class. Dean Ma: I nard A. Clemens of the school of bus i ness administration and governmen has appointed a_committe of senior {from that branch to co-operate wit {the law seniors in making the a ia success George W. Wright and James Dono van have heen elected delegate: fand Douglas A. Seeley ternate from the Be the Pk eta Gamm: aw fraternit 1t the law the nation convention o rization which will be held Lee House April 30 and * Francis W | ber of the Bet: {pointed chairn | ationa senior o as to the orga at the May 1 Trapp, wi chapter 1 of the e o is a men is heen ap teriainmen is arranging for both for the dele committee and a banquet and a dance | gates { " The Phi Beta Gammas s ducting a review law course { henefit of members of the sen; !in fraternity. This is done in prepara tion for the bar examinations in the | District and elsewhere, which men bers of the class expect to take af | their graduation in June | Commencement Announcement. | The annual commencement exer {cises of National University will be | held June 12, at the Continental Me | morial Hall, instead of the auditorium of the Central High School, as for merly announced The Samuel ¥. M {ciety last night held third inter-society Richard A. Alvey v be held April 34. Adherence to the [ World Court, as provided by the |recent Senate resolution, will be the subject of debate. | The four honor debaters of the vear will contest on May 27 for the distinc- | tion of the unive debating prize. {At each inter-society debate, the | judges award particular distinction ta |the best debater, these four then be- coming eligible for the final competi- tion. The secretary of the law school an- neunces that new registrations this term were larger than at any Spring ‘erm in the history of the institution 'TONAL. re now cor for the woclass er Debating So try-outs for the debate with the sciety, which will ; EDU s COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF DRAFTING Complete courses in Mechanical. Archi tectural, Structural Steel, Topographic Day and might classes, year round. call. write or phone for cataleg. 14th & T Sts. 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