Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1926, Page 5

NINE GIRLS PLAN AID FOR LA PLATA Card Party Saturday Night Is Arranged to Swell Fund. Patients Improve. Nine little Washington girls will} ad4 their bit to the relief funds of | Im Plata when they conduct a card| partv Saturday night at 206 Four-} teenth stro the home of | originator of the <10 vears old, and she and plavmates are work ing hard this week collecting prizes for the players, selling tickets for the party, and selling candy inde- pendently to add to their total con- tribution to the funds. The children with Valette Schmidt are Myrteen Morrison, Mildred nvey, Grace Dinnis, Della Neam, Ella Mayfield, Audrey George, Katie Kojak and Vir: ginia Leishear, all of the same neigh- borhood. 1ntte her 1l-yvear-old Typographical Union Aids. Members of the Typographical Union yesterday afternoon appro- the relief funds of d this was the $24 con- The Star brings ston’s_contributions over the veek end to §49 The s fund totaled $3.044.42, and this amount will have been turn- «d over to the Red Cross for its re- habilitation work in Charles and unties. a School children who schington hospitals_continue ‘0 improve. Eamuel Berry 1S perhaps in the most serions condition at this ime and at Chiidren’s Hospital this morning It was said that he was ‘getting along nicely” and that his ondition was no longer critical, de- apite the fact that his arm was am- putated and his skull frzctured. Marla Murphy Tmproves. The youngsters at Providence will recover, that hospital announced this morning. Even little Maria Murphy whose brain was torn with a nail| and a piece of stone is nearing con- valescenca Contributlons received by The Star to date are as follows: Previously acknowled d. Mrs. F. J. Plant.. 2 Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Kauf- man Employes Firs tures, Inc... Engine Company No. 26... Total . POWER SHUT OFF BY BREAK IN DAM Fredericksburg, Where High-Ten- sion Line Was Connected Last Week, Crippled. . $3,020.42 5.0 10.00 B.50 3.50 | . SE,OM.Qé Spactal Diepatch to The Star. FREDERICKSRURG, Va., Novem- ber 22 —With unlimited electrie power at the gates of Fredericksburg being sronght in over the new £750.000 high- from Richmond, which vas formally connected at a large celebration last week, this city s vir- paralvzed indust today, v a_wheel turning, due to a in the canal leading from the - River dam to the tation ble for operating The small quantity down the canal ich the city res- = wuter. The aux- 1s out of commis- out bearing. The -power line is not ml local use. A m Richmond is here 1 - new current, vorkmen are engaged In fever. ts to repair the disabled en- sion lna GERNANY PRIZES GOOSE AS AMERICA DOES TURKEY st-Named Bird for Christinas Dinner, While Gobbler Serves Here for Thanksgiving. Treasures Fi By the Associated Press. any | turkey crop | By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, November 22.—George Bernard Shaw, winner of the Nobel prize for literature, thinks that all schoolmistresses should have a baby. The Twickenham education com- mittee recently dismissed the head mistress of the girls’ secondary school on the ground that her rasponsibili- tles as the mother of & 7 months’ old baby were incompatible with her school duties. The head mistress, Dr. THE FVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1926. Every Schoolmistress Should Have Baby, Says Shaw, Urging Town to Drown Board Isabel Turnadge, is a doctor of philosophy and a bachelor of sciences and has been married three years. 3. B. 8. is quoted by the Westmin- Gazette as commenting: ‘kenham is near the river, and the sooner the Twickenham people put their education committee in the river the better. It would be far more sen- sible to refuse to allow any woman to become & teacher unless she had at least one baby and looked after it properly.” NEW FAMILY CODE ENACTEDNRUSSI Thousands of Women Pro- tected by Legalizing Com- mon Law Marriages. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. (Covyright. 1926.) MOSCOW, November 20.—*“Many hundreds of thoysands of women who have been unprotected in Russia for ears now have a legal standing in the ves of the law,” declared Dmitri Kursky, peoples commissar of justice of Soviet Russia, when the central ex- ecutive committee approved a new family code after two days of heated discussion late Tuesday. Since it was proposed, more than & vear ago, the code has been discussed at thousands of village meetings, arousing more widespread interest than any other plece of bolshevik leg- islation. Its most radical feature no longer requires registration at the govarnment office in order to legalize marriage, thus legalizing not only church weddings, but unregistered or common law marriages. Declared Step Forward. Advocates of the new code contend- ed it was a step forward in the pro- tection of women, who, according to Kursky, number hundreds of thou- sands living in wedlock without legal formalities, and who are frequently abandoned by their consorts and pre- vented from sharing in the husband’s property at death. However, under the new law, unreg- istered wives do not share their hus- band’s political rights, which, with the simplification of the regulation for malities and the aifficulties of proving unregistered marriages, is expected to increase formal marriage instead of decreasing them. “Our nine years of Soviet existence have been marked by much disorder in domestic life,” declared Nikolai Kry- lenko, Russia’'s flery chief prosecutor. “By fixing marital responsibility, hun- dreds of thousands of couples hitherto living together outside of wedlock will register. We must agitate and d velop public opinion on the subject.” Opponents of the measure are more virulent than its advocates who, aside from the farmers, are chicfly women. Polygamy Charged. *“Legalizing unregistered marriage creates a situation where many men will have rhree or four wives,” de- clared Viadimir Scltz, a member of the presidium of the com sariat of jus- tice. “We are fighiing against Mo. hammedan practices, trying to prove that polygamy is not necessary, but introducing it here in our own state. If, during a registered marriage, it Is possible for a man or woman also to have a legal unregistered wife or hus- band, we are legalizing polygamy and polyandry.” ‘That is nonsense,” shouted Kry- lenko. “It 13 necessary to teach our young communist boys and girls, mainly the latter, that our freedom and equality of women requires that they approach this question with great care,” M. Soltz continued. “We should not ridi- cule her because she looks at these things the same as women in the old days, for a judge cannot help her if she has a baby when she is 16, or has two or three husbands when she is 18. Can a woman be independent when she must chase after alimony?" The new code specifies that *regis- tration is only for the purpose of pre- serving the personal economic rights of husbands, sives and children.” It re-enacts most of the uses of the old law, including prohibition of mar- riages between relatives and between insane persons, as well as marriages of girls under 16 and boys under 18. Important New Provisions. For persons already married the most important new provisions are: 1. In order to establish an unreg- tstered marriage it is necessary to is 10 a larze | . ca, and the f countryside | that the pr a high quality welcome prelude to 1oliday season. | “flapper’” age, as gastronomists T remains for th holiday feast v: there ms little » procural he best turkev usually merican markets, prob- 35 and 40 cents a pound quality goo: Shanghai to Have New Park. rench M eipal Counefl In n a public recrea. » used by residents It will be known will have a There’s Little, . If Any, Chance comfort when your der a defec T Let Colbert's roofers get busy on your “over- head” at once, and avoid a “Winter of dis- —of rt service means ATISFACTION. E‘l;urice J. Colbert Heating—Plumbing—Tinning Phone Maln 621 | Street "icqn el cTedie v | conditions: (a) prove three out of the six following Living together, (b) common household, (c) witnes , (d) letters or documents, () mutual sup- port, (f) children. 2.’ Either the husband or wife is | eligible to alimony. 3. Unregistered couples registering lcan pre-date the marriage. 4. Property owned before marriage individual. That acquired ially will be divided by the court ad of being divided equa'ly as eretofore. Unregistered married persons n secure divorce at the registry of-| . but if separated indefinitely the at a less ! i { probably thrive. SAYS FRAZIER MAY RETURNTOG. 0.P. No Reason for Dbnying His Request Is Pennsylvania Senator’s View. All doubt about the willingness of the Republicans to receive ‘Senator Frazier of North Dakota back into the party fold disappeared today. Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania an- nounced that if Senator Frazier “asks to be classed hereafter as a Repub- lican, I see no reason why his request should not be granted.” Senator Reed said in amplification of this statement that no formal request of the Republican caucus by Senator Frazier was to be expected, but that a mere indication that he wished to be classed as a Republican would be sufficfent. It has already been developed, it was ‘learned today, that Senator Frazier would be glad to affillate with the Republican organization if he is to be given the chairmanship of the Indlan affairs committee in the Seventleth Congress, to which he would have been entitled had he not been read out of the party organiza- tlon two years ago, along with the late Senators La Follette and Ladd and Senator-elect Brookhart. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania was the author of the resolution which was adopted two years ago by the Re- publican caucus of the Senate ousting Senator Frazier from the party coun- clls. Senator Frazier has always in- sisted that he was a Republican and a better Republican than many of those who voted to oust him. GIANT SEQUOIA TREES SOUGHT FOR D. C. PARKS Ma). Grant Arranges for Shipment of Five and Seeks Best Place to Plant Them. Efforts are to be made to grow some of tho glant Sequcia. trees, fa- mous fn California for their great height and diameter, in the public parks of Washington. Maj. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the office of public buildings and pub- lic parks, sald that he had made ar- rangements with the superintendent of the Sequoia National Park to send about five specimens of the trees here for planting in the local parks. Tt has not been decided just where they will be located, as Maj. Grant said he wanted to get more informa- tion as to_ where they would most He pointed-out that in noture they are not usually found below 6,000 feet above sea level. coulrt shall decide when the marriage ends. 6. The father must support the mother during pregnancy and for six months afterward. He must support the children indefinitely. 7. Only one fathership is permitted, instead of the present collective fathership, when suing for the support of children. 8. Grandparents, brothers, sisters and grandchildren, as well as parents, are mutually responsible for each others’ support. EDEECTISTLECTED Genuine Service For years we have striven to build a reputation for being careful mor- ticians. We have gained that goal through always giving genuine serv- ice. Model chapel, private ambu- ALL WOODY PLANTS IN MEXICO LISTED Smithsonian Publishes Their Local Names and De- scribes Their Uses. A description of all the known Wwoody plants of Mexico, some 5,700 in ell, with their local names and con- cise accounts of their economic uses, is the monumental work just com- pleted by the Smithsonian Institution Wwith the publication of Part V of “Trees and Shrubs of Mexico,” con- stituting. Volume 23 of the contribu- tions from the National Herbarium. The author of the volume, which contains more than 1,700 pages, is Paul C. Standley, assoclate curator of plants in the National Museum, under the Smithsonian. He began the task in 1918, the first part was published in 1920, and the succeeding parts have appeared at intervals. The publication has already proved so valuable in in- dustrial work, as well as to botanists, that the first two parts are out of print and unobtainable. The immedlate economic fmportance of this Smithsonfan publication results from the great number of products of commercial Mexican plants. quen fiber, essential for the harvest- ing of our wheat crop; palm oil, fine cabinet woods, cacao, from which cocoa and chocolate are prepared; rub- S‘;r' drugs, alcohol and many fruits. r. ing 1s whipped into a froth with a curlous wooden beater.” Manufacture Described. The manufacture and use of medi- cines and of such dyes as logwood, indigo and cochineal, in which Mexico was long supreme, are described in de- tall. The export from Mexico of hnrfl~l wood and of gums, such as copal, tor' varnish and incense, is a thriving in- dustry. In the preparation of this exhaus- tive work, Mr. Stanley spent several years assembling data published in innumerahle scattered and rare papers concerning Mexican plants, or taken from notes made by Mr. Standley and other botanists who have worked in Mexico. There has not existed hereto- fore any modern account or compend- lum of the Mexican plants and their uses, in spite of a constant demand for dependable information. Mr, Standley’'s descriptions are sed upon the extensive series of Mexican plants in the National Her- barium, the most comprehensive col- lection from that country, and largely obtained during the past 30 years by special investigators sent out by the Smithsonian Institution and the De- partment of Agriculture. In the prep- aration of the work the author had the co-operation of officlals of the Mexican government and of numer- ous residents in that country, and many requests have been recelved from Mexico for coples of the voluma. Mr. Standley {8 now working on a similar monograph covering all the flowering plants of Central America. Judge Advocate Shifted. Capt. Thomas T. Trapnell, Judge value furnished by | advoc e ve They thelude hens,|advocate, on duty with the 1st Cav Division, at Fort Bliss, Tex., has been ordered to this city for duty in the judge advocate general's office, War Department. He will relieve Zapt. Edward B. Schlant, judge ad- vocate, now attached to that office, Standley’s book 1indicates the|who has been ordered to replace Capt. regions of Mexico in which these ‘Trapnell at Fort Bliss. plants grow, and the uses made of their products, Gives Names in Vernacular. Furthermore, it performs the unique service of giving for these plants the vernacular names, by which they are known locally and in commerce. Cer tain important commercial articles exported from tropical America, espe- clally woods, are obtained from plants still unknown to sclence. Mr. Btandley describes cacao as the most important of Mexico's gifts to civilization. Its cultivation has spread to all tropical reglons, and cocoa and chocolate are consumed in every part of the world, “The cacao bean played an outstand- ing part in the economy of the Mexi- cans before the Spaniards came,” sayvs Mr. Standley. “The Aztec rulers re- stricted the drinking of chocolate to the upper classes, and tribute was paid in cacao; but the entire populace used the beans in place of coins. In fact, they were still in use as money in parts of Mexico up to 50 years ago. The value set upon them was purely arbitrary, about a cent, and far ex- ceeded their intrinsic vaiue. “The chocolate drunk by the Mex- icams at the present day is very differ- ent from that prepared in the United | States. It is flavored with spices, and even red pepper, and before serv- CORRECTION In our Shaeffer Pen Ad- vertisement which appear- ed in Sunday’s Star the prices on two models were incorrect. The Advertisement Read: Large Jumbo Pens..$7.75 Ladies’ Pen.........$6.50 It Should Have Read: Large Jumbo Pens.’.$8.75 Ladies’ Pen.........$7.50 We are sorry that such a mistake occurred. THE PALAIS ROYAL G Street at Eleventh This Christmas ' They Comewith Non-Breakable Barrels Made of Parker PermaniteInstead of Rubber as in Former Years Lignter weight, yet stronger than ever are the Parker Duofold Pens and Pencilsthat weoffer this Christ- mas at no increase in price, ‘The pen that was dropped 3000 ft.,tossed from a 25-story hotel,and run over by 3 loaded passenger buses and did not break. ‘The pen with the polished Iridi- CLEARING FORT SITE. Workmen Wrecking Frame Build- ings at Stevens. A row of frame bufldings south of the Monument, marking the place where President Lincoln stood at Fort Stevens during the attack on Wash- ington In the Civil War are being de- molished under the direction of the om? of Public Buildings end Public P "rl;:l:' work {s the beginniing of plans to improve this spot and make it more accessible to the view of visitors. — WIIl Lecture on Peking. The ten-event course to be con- ducted by the Georgetown Presby- terifan Church will be {naugurated this evening at 8 o'clock with an ad- dress on “Imperial Peking,” by Charles Denby, in the church audi- torium, Thirtyfirst and P streets. The lecture will be illustrated. bbbt b driododedeiobdebododdododdodod ot L. P. STEUART G. T. STEUART ; N § - o> GForct THE UNIVERSAL CAR. For $1.21 a day and a down pay- ment of $183.88 you can ride in a new Tudor Sedan Coach. Self Starter, Balloon Tires IMMEDIATE DELIVERY STEUART MOTOR CO. Service Sales Trucks and Tractors 141 12th St. N.E. 620 H St. N.E. 346 Pa. 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