Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1926, Page 20

WASHINGTON, D. ©, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1926. - material falling over the face. These remained obligatory in Turkey until thoul(amn.lhu ralsed the cry that they must go. o Tntieed eene “aematary ing when the gov- ernor signed an order forbidding ti MODERNISTS NOW WAGE WAR AGAINST WOMEN'S VEILS ;. orsanizonis i expected ] i . Ty The Anatolian town of Polatli also 2 . 5 : jumped inta the reform race by taveo- {DELINQUENCY DISCUSSED. Rules of Ancient Harem Customs Are Fast|csatia ('.‘r'“‘in{?fl‘n'fl}‘“hl'i«‘fnfl.’;n"fi rogessr iayn Fading as President’s Followers tight bodices, relics of the anclent Fight for Uncovered Faces. | DRIVER HELD IN CRASH. Faces Two Charges After Hitting Policeman on Motor Cycle. Charges of driving an automobile while intoxicated and failure to have a driver's permit were filed against Hall A. Wood, 26 years old, 3603 Thir teenth street, after the automobile he, was driving had collided with and overturned the motor cycle of Police- man Ernest E. Spauiding of the fourth precinct at South Capitol strest and Virginia avenue yi fternoon Spaulding, severs head cut, was ta Hospital and given was detained at the | until bond in the sum of furnished for his apps Court. e started the re- mum. standard of ca) got up m by the American fib"‘m‘y soclation for the support of municipal libraries. “I wish to point out that in addition to the need of building branch Ii- braries there is great need for the en: largement of our central building. ‘When we first entered it, 23 years ago, | we occupled but a fraction of the bulid- ing. It is now running over full of eat. That | books and rveadems; there is tog little We also know of cases where others (adults) spend an. entire evening and 16 cents carfare to make the round trip from their homes, lacking a ‘branch library in their neighborhoods. “But for large portions of the popu- latton of Washington the Public Li- brary practically does nat exist, since the effort, the timm and' the, cost re- LIBRARY BUILDING | PROCRAM OUTLINED 2 =27 o Hr & | i proportion to its sccessibility is shown ' angd there is too little and too badly Dr. Bowerman Presemsiby B Study recently made by Frank arrsuged space for the administration | Plans to House Committee e Children’s Bureau Chief Urges Study of Crime Causes. A Federal study of the causes and prevention of delinquency and crime in children and young persons was recommended today by Grace Abbott, chief of the Children's Bureau of the Labor Department, in her annual re- Creation of a division in the devoted _entirely to juvenile and having the needed harem customs. The adaption of so- called eiv] Is the latest step ) fa the lengthy revolution of the cos- tumes of Turkish women In th f Mohammed wome: | and the state of morals was shoc! to the prophet. Consequently he commapded that women showld hide their forms in sack-like garments, should cover their halr and Make themselves less attractive, “and hence [* he haped more moral. Later T n | psyehologists’ was urged Miss Ab- priests insisted that the entire face |DOtt at an annual cost of about $50. should be covevcd, resulting in the ch an expenditure,” she said adoption of the vashmak, w double | Would be in the interest of national white veil, leaving only the eyes | €COnomY. At present we pay (oo A 3 for thio cave and punisment of | The wily Sultan Hamid, realizing | SHiminals and top little for the pre- s y &, | children,” Miss Abbott added. went the prophet and priests one bet- ter by instituting a_shawl-like con- * ntion covering the head and breasts | Before antitoxin was discovered and later thick black square of lone-third of all diphtheria cases di Morton Jones, a trustee of the Public ] of a linge library system. Though we | Library of Wilmington, Del., and just | need moge brawches, properly. to han- published in pamphlet form. I wish "dlw them, buy books and otherwise to offer for the record a summary of | serve thens, we need to enlarge the this selentific study of the need and |'building, the maw part to be devoted location of branch libraries in Wil- | to offices. This dsuld bo done by the mington. Broadly it shows that the | completion of the regtangle. of | use of that library is in large meuasure and | determined by its distance from the | of the jreader, and that ond/ the mile | KOZAK BEST DEBATER. | limit begins a decided decrease in .I')ur- | R rowers, due primarily to distanc et ; Washington Near Bottour of List, |Fconsylvanian at. Georgetown Wins Merrick Medal. “I wish also to offer for the vecord | Joseplr 3. Kozak of Wilkes-Burre, | Pa., a senior at Georgetown Universit | was selected a board of judges as the best individual debater at the an- nual contest held last night in Gaston { Hall between, teams. representing the Philodemig Soefoty: Mr. Kozl will be awa the Merrickk medal; th: highest scholaatic homor bestowed a. Georgetown, on commencement diy. .The question for debate was, “Re solved, That the’ United States should | grant independence to the Philippine Islands.” The decision was awarded to, the affirmative team, of which: Kozak was a member. His team as- sociate was William. L. Corbett. Mem- bers of the negative team were Francia I Brady and Daniel W. O'Donoghue. All the debaters were seniors, b and his Providence abi. Wood police station $1,200. w e in T By the Associaed Press. CAONSTANTINOPL —1In striking contrast with the sweep- ing prohibition of fezzes last vear, t I thelr traditions and on the whole December 14, | 1088 submissive than Turkish men. President Mustapha Kemal prob- ably rememberd the historle eccasions o) 2 " ides R “lunder the Sullans Azlz an amid B eapha Ko |when Turkish women showed thelr e indatack dh e a0 | mettle. " The wives of unpald but nev- fhe skirmisn. began Jast Iall fn|Srtheless complacent state employes speeches by the President, in which [ &% (Bat time stormed the minisiry of ho exhorted womam fo sbow. thaip and compelled the minister faces. Now the battle has definitely | Rmself to flea for safety, Later ho begun In edicts promulgated Ly some | tremblingly signed orders for payment | ¢ of the provinces obliging women to|°f the'salar anvell their faces. This experi-| The Kemalists hope to insure docile fwerital method will test the reaction | unveiling by arguments that the veil ainong women who, especially among |is unhygenic and decreases the earn- class ore fanatic' ing men. The pri bureau delinquency al investigators, psychiatrists and Supported b: leuding busine elvic organizations, the trustee: ‘Washington Public Library arc ing Congress to approve i 1 $1,250,000 building program for that | extension of the educational system. | 80 that its servi ay be extended to the entire populstion of the Dis trict, where only a fraction of the peo ple are now getting the benefits. The details of this plan were laid | before the Gibson subcommittee of the House District committee ster- day by Dr. George F. Bowerr brarian, and four of the trustees. the same time it was made plin that no further help is to be expected from the trustees of the Carnegie fund. which has already provided for the erection of the main library und three branches now in operation r extending the library sy branches in some of tl met with encouragement from members of Co: - . Tickling Causes Stammering. TORONTO, Ontario, December # UP.—Many aduits stammere; | because mothers t haby's toeg te bring that cherubic smile, acconfiing to Dr. W. E. Blatz, head of a gihoc | for child study in Toronto 1'nivarsity Ghost storles may have the same he warned. - financ | nu: report | expenditures an vision of American cities above population. This table shows that in the list of 35 citics Washington ranks | twelfth in population, but next to the { Bottom in number of branch libraries. The average number for these 36 cities is mot quite 18. One city has, no branches and one other, Akron, has 3 branches. All the rest have more. Among the cities smaller than Wash- ington, Cincinnati has 28 branches, 11 1inneapolis, 21 ate buildings; Kan- {sas Cfty, 15 branches, 2 inm separate | buildings (most of its branches are hool bulldings); Indianapolis, 19 | branch ¢ in_separate butldings; | Portland, Oreg., 17 branches, 12 in sep- |arate . buildings, Louisville, 16 branches, 9 in separate buildings; Denver, with little more than half our 00,000 the Dr. Bowerman's outline of the ex. tension program and the demand for such program was given by him, as follows: . “In brief, the program provides for 11 mere major branch libraries in sepa- to furnish library serv- population, has 11 branches, 8 in sepa- rate buildings: Oakland, with less than half our population, has 13 branches, man. Christop! of her Clarke, vice president || the Philodemic Society, was. chair- || The following acted: as judges: as not now supplied ce homes,’ or in ‘convenient to reas that are so rapidly 9 in separate buildings. “As the matter of proper mainte- ‘mance is a vital facter, attention is Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel of the District_Court. of Appeals, a_member of the Law School faculty; Dr. Wil . being built up that they will very shortly fully justify separate brunch libraries. “The program also provides for 15 |2 or more branch libraries in school- houses, mostly suburban schools in territories that will not justify sepa- called to the fact that Washington's per capita maintepance in 1926 was but 49 cents, as compared with an verage of 63 cents for all these cities and as compared with Cleveland, §1.39; Boston, $1.24; Minneapolis, 99 cents; Seattle. 85 cents; Detroit, 85 cen Portland, 88 cents, and $t. 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