Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1926, Page 16

16 §3.042 SUBSCRIBED BYPRESBYTERIANS Sum Marks Start of $135,- 000 Pension Drive—Plan Church Canvass. With committeemen of nearly half the 39 Presbyterian churches of the TWashington Presbytery announcing that they had not vet begun solicita- tlon among members of their congre- gations in the local drive for a fund of $135,h00, needed to put into opera- tlon the new self-sustaining service plan of the church, team captains last night at a hanquet at the Franklin Square Hotel reported a total of 49,042 pledged during the first four day ofthe appeal Though the total reported fell he- Inw the expcetations of officlals of the laymen's committee who had hoped for an early conclusion of the cam- paign, speakers predicted that Wash- ington would go “over the top™ next weak and contribute its full quota of the national bhudget of $15.000,000 upon which the new plan is dependent. Two Quotas Pledged. Representatives of the Church of tha Covenant and of the Hyattaville Church anneunced that their quotas had heen virtually guaranteed. al- though the campaign among thelr congregations had been delayed sev- eral days. Dr. Willlam Mather Lewls. presi- dent of George Washington Univer- #ity, who is the son of a Presbyterian minister, was the principal speaker last night H~ decried the ‘‘starva tlon wages” paid to ministers and misslonaries of the. Presbyterian Church, and, pointing o the present | lack of adequate prowision for retir ing these servants of the chnreh, de. clared: It & no wonder the number of voung men and womeh entering the ministry {= hecoming increasingly “With the church making such poor | provision for its servanis,” he maid, “why shonld parents he expected to urge their sons and daughters to enter the ministry? “*The integrity of the Presbyterian Church is at stake in this campalgn for the establishment of an adeguate retirement system.” Dr. Lewlis de- clared. Praising the service per formed by Christian ministers, he | «a1d: “There are no more herolc, self- sacrificing or uncomplaining persons than our pastors.” Other addresses were made by John TLarner, national committes execu for Washington, and H. O. Wil fleld worker of the Baltimore £rnod of the church. Contributions Annonnced. New York Avenus Presbyterian Church announced the largest total subscription, with pladges amounting tn $3,852. Takoma Park Church was second with $1.052, and Chevy Chase third, with $1.000. Other reports Garden Me. morial Churet $230;, Fairmont Jeights, $40; Sherwood, $750; Metro politan, $700; Western, $154; First, 2127, Fifteenth Street, $400; Sixth, s Arlington, $10; Clarendon. $60, and Rallston, $530. Rallaton was the only church to go over its quota yes Tha following division chairmen were announced last night by George Winalow, office manager of the local drive: C.O. Rohrer, C. 1. Livingston, . D. Lattmer, W. K. Handy and .J. N. Krefder. The next report meeting will be held | Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock at the Franklin Square Hotel. BUSINESS IS SPONSOR FOR FARM AID PARLEY $Harrisburg, “Pa.. Meeting Will Be Held November 22 and 23 for Many States. A meeting will he held at Harris hirg, Pa, Novemher 22 and 28, at which business interests, as repre sented by the Chamber of Commerce af the T'nited States. will eonfer with representatives of the East on the agricultural problem The Natlonal Chamber will sponsor the conference jointly with the Penn svlvania State Chamber of Com. marca and the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce. The conference will ha made up of representativhs of agricultura and other industries from Delaware, Maryland: New lersey, N York, Pennsylvania and West Virginta. Tha chamber hopes that hy pre ganting and analvzing the problems facing Agricnlture, avenues of their | snlution by foint action of all groups mave he discovered. Conferences al ready have heen held in several re | gions, and another will ba called at Indtanapolis November and 16, No Cover Charge Moderate Tariffs L Pablic Welcomed for ' Luncheon and Dinner CLUB ST-MARKS 1011 Connecticut Ave, at K %[‘SINESS be- comes a gen- uine joy when it is discussed between courses at Lunch- eon here. You will appreciate the ec- stasy of the Peter Borras cuisine served in the ex- otic Venetian set- ting and supple- mented by rippling rhythms of the concert quartet. Luncheon *1 And table d'hote dinners at $1.50 and 82 with 1011-Conn. Ave. at K THE 'EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON. "DAD" FOWLER'S WHISTLE WINS HEARTS OF TWO GENERATIONS Starter in Mount Pleasant on W. R. E. Co. Pay Roll for Last 49 Years. Optimistic Outlook Laid to Constant Contact With Young People. Out at the end of the Mount Pleas- ant car line is one of the richest men in Washington. His name is Samuel F. Fowler, and he has been in the employ of the | Washington Raflway and Electric Co. for more than 49 years, for the past 21 years serving in the capacity of starter, doing his daily duty at Seventeenth street and Park road in fair weather and foul. His wealth is not measured by the | coins which men hoard in banks and exchange In the marts of trade, but hy the golden currency of friendships formed during nearly half a century of falthtul service to the public and hy the honds of fellowship to all men. Fverybody. young and old. rich and poor, of the Mount Pleasant com- munity calls him “Dad"” and as “Dad" Fowler, he Is known wherever trac- tion men foregather. He is the guide, philosopher and friend of every child in the neighborhood, and there are many parents in the vicinity who once felt the clasp of his kindly hand as he guided them safely across the street on their way to school, two decades and more ago. Whistle Is Familiar Sound. The shrill of his starter’s whistle as he sends the ears safely away on time is one of the sounds to which the neighborhood has hecome o ac customed that the sflence will he silence indeed when the day comes that the whistla shrille no more. For "Dad” Fowler is well along in | years, though young in nnderstand- | i Contact with scores of Young | people avery day helps to keep him | voung, he said, and it is hard for him to realize that bhut a few weeks inter- vene before his i0th birthday. Standing at the end of the car line, he sees bulldings which were not even | planned when he first arrived to l\»en‘ watch and ward over the terminal and, incidentally, the ehildren of the neigh- | horhood. Mount Pleasant was way out In the country when he came there, he sald, and on the siter of the apartment houses of today grew the trees of vesterday. Within his lifetime he has watched a village grow fo a city. His first position ‘with the company, obtained an Octaber 18, 1877, was as a horse car driver on the old Line.” Georgetown to Capitol. From Georgetown to the Capitol he drove his steed, his coming announced hy jangling hells atop the harness, and hauling in his wake a conveyance as antique to modern eyes as would he the ark itself. But he hauled many | a man whose name fs written high on | the seroll of the Nation's famous ones, for those were the days when George. town was still a_community sufficient unto ftself and Capitol Hill was in its heyday. The one-horse cars went out and the two-horse cars came in and still | voung “Sam” Fowler—he hadn't reached the age of electricity and gray hairs then and nobody called him “Dad"-—piloted his cars through | streets which ran the gamut from | dust to mud and back to mud again. | After the horse cars passed into history, he hecame a motorman, and held that position until his promotion to the rank of car starter, in 1905. “Dad” Fowler has seen personages | and just plain persons come and go; he has lived through the march and | sweep of great events: has witnessed | {styles and modes of living alter al- most heyond recognition; hut his faith In human nature is just as strong as it was when he began a record of puh- lic service that hasn't got a black mark on it. Finds Most People Honmest. “Most people are honest.” he de. clared, “and pretty nearly everyhody is kindly. All my life I've tried to be polite and courteous, and 1 don’t helleve that I have an enemy In the Little Chats About Your Health N Americans Take Too Much Medicine. A phrsician recently stated that Americans take tno much medi cine-—that whenever they have an ache or a pain they have a habit of getting a hottle of medicine or hox of pills. We have long known this to he a fact and have consequently advised against the use of any medicine unless prescribed by tha physician. As are in the business of salling drugs and medicines, it may seem strange 1o some that we should advisa against their usa under any eireumstances, but we only want to sell them when they should do nothing but good. Whenever yvou need medicine yoiui need the p! Teet us Al vour preseriptions. SAMUEL F. FOWLER. world. ‘t hold any enmity 1 certalnly do against any one.” Mr. Fowler paused a minute. “Hello, Billy,” he called to a dignified look- ing man, who was passing in a big car “Hello, man. “Just one of my “Dad.” “Why, 1 day he started to school, children pass me every way to school.” “Dad” Fowler lives and moves and has his heing in that area that is the heart of the District, known as “Mount Pleasan though he sleeps fn a little house on Massachusetts avenue. CoST $12 000 000 A YEAR. Estimated Expn\:e of Regulating Dad,” replied the business boys.” explained remember the first and now his day on their Public Service Corporations. ASHEVILLE, N. ., November 9 (). The total cost of regulating pub. lic service corporations. State and Na- tlonal runs to approximately $17, 000 per vear, as compared with an- receipts of public utilities, £10.435,000,00 per Chairman Kastman of the In- terstate Commerce Commission esti- I mated today In the course of an ad dress hefore the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commis- sioners. “T hope to see the day when State and Federal administrations will more zenerally take credit, not for the mere curtailment of expenditures, but_ for the fact that they are giving an hon est dollar’s service for every 100 cents expended,” Mr. Eastman added. Austria will hold in Vienna an exhi- bitfon at which will he shown the latest methods for developing power from water, heat, chemicals or the air. “‘Metropolitan fan's advice. 14th and L, 17th and Eye Phone Phone Main Ma 10336 Free Delivers tn Any Part of the Clty Not Merely a Drug Store, But an Institution of Quality and Service f OINTMENT FOR ALL FORMS. or PlLEB Kis Pocltlvo in Action It begins immediately to take out the Inflammation and reduce all Swelling. The firat application brings Great Relief. QmY; “chmi Tnstantly and Quickly Relieves Irritation. Severe tests in cases of long standing have proved that PAZO OINTMENT can be depended upon with absolute certainty to Stop any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Recommended by Physicians and Druggists in United States and Foreign Countries. PAZO OINTMENT in tubes with Pile Pipe Attachment, 76c and in tin boxes 60c. The circular enclosed with each tube and box contains facts about Piles which everybody should know. PARIS MEDICINE CO., Beaumont and Pine Streets, St. Louis, Mo. FPonce 1889 ———————— RED CROSS NAMES ROLL GALL STAFF Volunteer Workers Assigned to Posts as Campaign Opening Nears. Hopes of volunteer workers for the tenth annual roll call of the District Chapter of the American Red Cross were high today over the prospect af a successful campaign to enroll the citizens of the District in this agency of merey. Final ‘preparatione for the roil call are being made. and workers have been assigned to the various Red Cross roll call stations in public buildings, theaters, banks and stores. Among these different assignments are the following: Mayflower IHHotel, Mrs. John Allan Dougherty and group of debutante assistants; New Willard Hotel, Canteen Corps, under direction of Mrs. Charles V. Wheeler and Mrs. \. 8. Faucett; Dulin & Martin, Mra. Mayback; Riggs' Bank, Mrs. Alfred Gleaves; American Securjty and Trust Co.. Miss Caroline Thom and Miss Natalie Hammond: Commer- clal National Bank, Mrs. R. C. Mar- shall, jr.. West End Branch of the Washington Loan and Trust Co., Mrs. Joseph F. Cottrell; Merchants' Bank and Trust Co., Mrs. George ¥. Thomp- son and the Chaumont Unit of the American Woman's Legion: Allies’ Inn, American Woman's Legion: Sec- ond National Bank, Mrs. F. A. Evarts of the Church of Our Father Unit: Washington Loan and Trust Co., Mrs. Grace Chamberlain; Union Trust Co., Mrs. Alfonso Rogers; Park Savings Bank. Mrs. Warren Spencer: Julius Garfinckel, Mrs. W. W. Spalding: Pal- ace and Columbla theaters, hostess and recreation committee, under di rectfon of Mrs. W. S. Spencer: Library of Congress. Miss Anna C. Koerper, -n’v: Brentano’s, Mrs, Clara B. Chap- ell. o So rapldly fs the uss of crude ofl taking the place of cnal In Ttaly that the amaunt of the lquid fuel imported today is twice that of the same perind Your five-piece suites reuphohte’red for less now than you can buy one new chair for nowadays. $2.98 per yard—this week only. CLAY ARMSTRONG 1233 10th St. NW. .. %5k vw Frank-a-hn 7483 A five-day workin' week would on'y mean more restin’ and yawnin® durin’ workin’' hours. A feller callin’ himself Dogface Al passed thro' here t'day surveyin' the | right o' way fer an alcohol route t'| cut down th' schedule between the' Lakes an’ th' Gulf. | (Coovright, 1026.) | CIVIL SERVICE JOBS OPEN. Commission Announces List of Va-| cancies to Be Filled. The Civil Service Commission today announced open competitive examina- tions to fill the following vacancies: Principal architectyral and struc- tural steel draftsman. Lighthouse | Service, Department of Commerce. | throughout the United States, at $2.100 a year. 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Reiterating his support for a medi- cal corps for the Veterans' Rureau, Gen. Hines said that in all probabili- ty without another war in the near future this bureau would be in the| hospital business for at least 50 years yet. Medical officers, he said. should be encouraged to make it a life work. A committee of the council on neu- ro-psychiatry will meet with Maj.| Wolfe Smith, general counsel of the bureau, to confer on problems that have arisen on this subject in con nection with the establishment of the new legal advisory council. | The council was told that the pro-| gram of placing men in institutina| near their homes. such as is heing | carried out at St. Elizabeth's Hospi ta). has resulted in a considerable | shift in the patient population. . Fire Al-nms Invalid Veterans. ASHEVILLE., N. 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