Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1926, Page 48

E § 1 THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. U. DECEMBER 26. 1926—PART 2. T el G A e A et (U AROUND BY NANNIE HERE isn't a gold dollar in the Treasury. We ma alk vty all we want to, but n't been a gold dol- far In the Treasury for thirty years! An official said so. He told it to a nice little neighbor woman who wanted to exchange a greenback for a coin to give the next- door baby that is about to celebrate jts first birthday. Yio was a kind ofticlal, who gflnl’d as if he would_really like to help her, but what could he do seeing that the United States Mint m't colned { a gold dollar for three decades? he did best thing: “You might ap ply to some coin but the collect prico would prob ably be several doliars.” 6 4 woman, being a sensible little soul, parted with her desire for something equally as d Well, would you trade this bill for new crisp one? The official could and did. And the woman went home and attached it o a pretty card tied with baby ribbon. One birthday is lablo to remind vou of others—like this: There is a nice man who can clean an office equal to new. And he was dusting the glass top of a desk, when jts owner, who was typing at a machine alongside, stopped doing the gold-coin baby to by way of contal “Wilson, T hope you have some Bappv birthdays in your own family?” And Wilson beamed assent: “Oh, yes, Miss 1 have three girls. One was born on Christmas day. The next was born on the 4th of July and the third on Thanksgiving day.” And if that isn’t a happy sequence of dates, what hn*\'ezo: to beat it? * LE a street car at a junction was taking on passengers enough to cram both seats and aisle, an army truck, hooded with brown canvas, whizzed by. The sight caught the interest of two school boys, each car- rying a strap of books, who had a slde seat to themselves. Incidentally, there was a plain sort of woman alongside, but she didn’t count— Joe—say—if the covered wagons of the wild Indian days had been like that the ploneers would have had an easy time crossing the plains. You could pile a lot of emigrants and pro- visions in that truck, with machine guns enough to smash every savage that showed a feather—gee.” “And, tell you what, Billy, after the settlers had got to where they wanted to settle, they wouldn't have had to build log cabins, but coulder lived in the truck right along, ready any minute to move to a better place or to keep the Indians away——" «With tear gas, you know. Say, @a you read about how they dug up & lot of skeletons with hntcheligllta in their heads, the other day? Well, sir, if those folks could have ‘been in a truck instead of a hole in the ground the fight would have gone the other way.” “You bet! But tell you what, the worst trouble the old timers had was to drive cattle to eat on the way, or to hitch up if any of the yoked steers gave under. That truck could hold canned stuff enough for all the old Settlers you could put inside—and hat with radic " "‘Thlt'i so, but say, it’sall !hebowa'f the way it was, because we wouldn't have had old Davy Crockett, nor all those old Indian scouts nor the of the Mohicans—" or Fenimore Cooper——nor— 0ld Nick Carter—I'm glad it was the way it was, on account of all the storles. I've got a lot of books, 'and hope I get some more Christmas. * The other boy agreed, and then they Navy. Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, com- msnd’a.nl. United States Marine Corps, has just issued a circular prescribing that uniforms for the ‘commissioned warrant grades of tha® corps shall be dress, undress and service. Both the m Browne belt with shoulder strap g:d the undress sword knot are pre- scribed as articles of their uniform. The insignia of rank will consist of a gold bar, broken in the center with & blue enamel band. The cloak- is not prescribed as an article of the uni- form. Unless an increase is made in the epproved budget estimates for the maintenance of the Marine Corps for the next fiscal year, it will be possible to keep only 16,800 enlisted men in the corps, or 1,200 less than the present enlisted strength on the ‘basis of the present cost of the ration. Should the cost of the ration continue to in- crease, Marine Corps authorities will be compelled to deplete further the en- listed strength of the corps. Another jtem of expense confronting the corps is the funds to pay for about 7,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition which, up to the present time, have been drawn without charge from the reserve stocks of the Army. Up to the present time no special item to meet this additional expense has been approved by the budget. Orders have been issued for exam- ination January 25 for the Supply Corps officers selected to the rank of commander, to the rank of captain down to and including Comdr. R. H. Johnston. Commanders of the Supply Corps be- low Comdr. - gelected for promotion to captain have not as yet made their numbers, @and will not be examined until such time as they have made their num- bers for promotion. Instructions have been lssued by the Navy Department for the decom- missionin of the submarine T-3 at the Philadelphia vard with a view to recommissioning at some future date. The T-3 has just completed engine tests, as considerable trouble was ex- berlenced with the engine installed on this type of =ubsea craft. The announcement made last week by the Secretary of the Navy that Rear Admiral R. H. Leigh, now act- ng as chief of &taff to the commander- in-chief of the Urited States flect, Ad- miral C. ¥. Hughes, would succeed Rear Admiral W. R. Shoemaker as chief of the Bureau of Navigation in Navy Department, is a most popu- choice with the Navy. Admiral Leigh will not be a newcomer to Washington, the admiral having pre- viously served in that bureau as as- stant to the chief of the bu- reau which he will shortly aessume charge of. Establishment has been made of 3 post-graduate course in aerology, the course to conglst of one year at the post-graduate school at the Naval Academy, followed by one year &t a ot-to-be-seleeted university which ficers, has had preliminary instruction Tho first class, consisting of eight of- ers, hos had premilinary instruction the Navy Department, and started \eir oourse at the Naval Academy on fuliy 1, 1926. The neat class will be composed of six officers, and thenJjt is Army and NavyNews and for those selected [ Johnston who have been |t THE CITY LANCASTER. ewitched off to another toplc—some- thing about boys who came to school in thelr own machines and glve rid- ing parties in the afternoons. Neither tof them seemed to take in the tra- gedies of the old pioneering days, or the history-value of that era—still——. Boys have always been boys and probably always will be. Thank the good Lord! % % |$“THE Way of the Sorrowful” is one name for a long, straight mile that leads to an iron gate—painted | black. You might call it the Bladens- | burg road or the boulevard, with { automobiles and busses forever going |and coming, but, in the face of each | pligrim wayfarer, of that sorrowful {mile is something of the sileffce that 1les behind the gate. year in and year out, carry flowers, some who are old and prayerful say their rosaries, but, yesterday, for one time, an aged woman—so aged tha her steps wavered—moved alon; s best she could, with a basket heaped with wreaths and Christmas greens. Another woman, younger, but not over-young at that, who was making the same pilgrimage, overtook the other and took the basket from her. They had never seen each other be- ‘f«\rr\_ but it made no difference—all {are kindly folk who travel that way —wheit on the mission that leads to .the silence behind the black iron gate. | Relleved of her load, the old woman _rubbed her arm and tucked it under a black shawl—not a coat, or a cape, but a shawl such as women wore forty-eleven years ago, going on twelve, “1 always want my Fanny to have her little Christmas tree—she was such a dear lover, of Kris Kingle. She was only five years old—and 1 miss her so—every waking hour of the night and day. Oh, my dear, it is a heartbreaking thing to lose your only daughter—though God's will be done.” Thé other woman felt sure, of course, that the bereaved old soul could not be grieving for a daughter —not a_woman so old as to have a bent body, a thin face gathered over with wrinkles and sparse gray hair— still all of us can make mistakes, for: As the two passed into a place of snow melting .on brownish. grass and on limbs of bone-bare trees, they came to a curved path, where the ancient one took her basket from the other and pointed to a small mound with a marble lamb at one end and a slab at the other. And on the slab was carved: “Our Fannie. A‘ed Five. 1870.° And the younger woman felt, as, perhaps, you do, that faithfulness is a most beautiful thing! Never mind it's being unwise. * k% % 'OMEBODY is going to have roast pig for Christmas. You could tell by the gay little pennant that flew: from a miniature pen in which the small porker was crated. The crate stood outside the Union Station in the charge of a very dark custodian in a very red cap, and naturally many paused in passing to give it a stare. The black and white spotted youngster—not old enough to be a shoat—with a quivery nose and cup, handle tail, accepted his w#fson bars with the philosophy of a race that spends most of it® y2ars doing time in a pen. There were many com- ments bandied over the free show and one rag-tag boy shrilled out to any one who would listen: "thch on to de c'mary in a gilt “That isn’t a bird, It is a pig.”* This entirely correct diagnosis was voiced by a boy of about the same age—a nice little fellow whose neat- ness _sh for some mamma’s tenderest care. He couldn't take a Last | joke, but it was equally obvious that never, never would he take a pocket- book that didn’t belong to him. But the look of pitying scorn on the ragtag's face and his whoop of derision brought a round of guffaws that would have done credit to a Chaplin film. X proposed to have four take this course each year. Army. Hardly had the ink driéd on the comprehensive report submitted by the Secretary of War on the Army promotion situation than a proposal was made last week which would eliminate 2,403 officers who would be discharged with a cash allowance. The following number of officers in the grades indicated would be affected in this reduction: Seven general officers of the line, 2,169 promotion list of- ficers, 222 Medical rtment officers and 16 chaplains. It is also proposed that those officers who have com- pleted more than 10 years’ service may, if they so elect, be placed on the retired list with retired pay at the rate of 2% per cent, multiplied by the number of complete years of their service, instead of being discharged with the cash allowance. Under the new scheme submitted last week, the number of major gen- erals is increased from 21 to 30, while Many of them, |- INTERESTING ARMY GIRL RN MISS ELIZABETH SWEENEY, ter C. Sweeney, who is entertaining at several parties during the holida Daughter of Col. and Mrs. W the number of brigadier generals is reduced from 46 to 80. This increase of 9 major generals of the line is offset by reducing the number of major generals of the staff h = ~n* assigning major_generals of the line to this duty. Under ine new y.u posal, when officers complete 23 years' commissioned service, they will be promoted to the grade of lieutenant colonel, and thereafter the order in which their names appear on the pro- motion list may be changed by a board of 5 major generals of the line. It is also proposed to combine the present limited and unlimited retired list and to establish a retired system which is consistent with the principles governing promotion and pay. Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood, com- mander of the Fourth Corps Area, has been ordered by the War Department to proceed to San Francisco in time to sail on the transport sailing March 31, 1927, for the Philippine Islands, and upon his arrival at Manila he will be assigned to command the Philippine Division. . Capt. Joseph L. Boyd, D. C., is relieved from his duties at the Army Dental School, Army Medical Center, this city, effective upon completion of his present course of instruction on January 381, 1927. He has been assigned to duty at the ’.Em“qn hospital at Fort Sam Houston, ‘ex. ‘War Department authorities are very much agitated over the further reduction of approximately 5,000 en- listed men for the flscal year 1928, which is to be accomplished by further skeletonizing the Infantry, Cavalry, Field Artillery and Coast Artillery branches. The Air Corps act, passed at the last session of Congress, in- creased the enlisted personnel of the Air Corps by some 6,000, this increase to be accomplished in yearly increases for five years, or 1,248 men per year. In the President’s budget message to Congress tor the fiscal year 1928, the total strength of the Army was placed at 115,000 men, which is 3,750 less than the present authorized strength, which total added to the 1,248 men which must come from the combatant branches to furnish the first yearly increment to the Air Corps makes the actual Army reduction 4,998 for the next fiscal year. The President served notice in his budget message that the men to be used in the expansion of Army aviation as a result of the five- year building program must come from within the military establish- ment, without any increase in its authorized strength. A careful analysis of the situation has caused fear to be exprgssed in certain quarters that this drastic cut in the enlisted personnel of the regu- lar forces will not only further skeletonize the combatant arms of the regular establishment, already reduced to the breaking point, but it may be necessary to transfer some of the regular units to the inactive list. o Over’ 50,000,000 people in the United States and Canada, or 45 per cent of the population, have no local public libraries. | A Shop of Individuality 1217 Connecticut Ave. COMMENCING MONDAY Evening Gowns, Evening Wraps, Afternoon and Ya Fur Lined 1s 15 Day Dresses Off All Fur Trimmed and Cloth Coats Off Trimmed Hats off Everything Taken From Regular Stock REPORT OF THOMPSON OPPOSED BY OSMENA Philippine Leader Declares Argu- ments Against Independence Are Unconvincing. By the Associated Press. MANILA, December 25. - Sergio Osmena, Senator of the Philippine Legislature and ardent advocate of independence for the islands, said yesterday that he was opposed to the recommendation of Carmi A. Thomp- son that absolute independence be postnoned. Osmena said that the reasons given by President Coolidge’s envoy on his recommendation were unconvincing. Osmena _declared that Thompson's recommendation to the President that the Philippines given further autonomy was ‘“certainly pleasant,” because it meant recognition by Thompson that his Survey of the Islands had disclosed that progress had been made by the Filipinos. MUSIC MARKS FREEDOM. 52 Prisoners Released as Yule Carols Are Sung. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Decem- ber 25 UP).—The singing of several Christmas carols was a prelude to the release from the city jail of 62 prisoners serving short sentences for misdemeanors. The prisoners were set free in keep- ing with a custom started in 1905 by former Police Judge William New- ton. It was the first time the action was accompanied by music. SRR e New York Health Department rec- ords show a falling, off of about 5,000 cases of diphtheria a year since the children have been immunize# zainst it. | KAPLOWITZ 721 NINTH STREET“fimmwsT UNUSUAL BARGAINS FOR MONDAY AFTERNOON GOWNS 1 $1 A GOWN PROFIT $25 TO $39.50 GOWNS FOR JYES MADAME'S & MADEMOISELLE'S DRESS SHOPS ' ra1 NINTH STREET NORTHWEST | ALL BELOW COST | WINTER COATS 355 TO 385 FORMERLY $55 TO $175 MADAME'S & MADEMOISELLE'S COAT SHOPS KAPLOWITZ | T 721 NINTH STREET NORTHWEST ALL BELOW COST EVENING GOWNS 25 FORMFRLY $13= TO $65 MADAME'S & MADEMCISELLE'S EVENING GOWN SHOPS TORE OPENS AT 8 A. WINTER FASHIONS REDUCED! Red Ven- ise and lux- urious beav- er, in com- bine in a stunning misses’ coat that fea- tures a long double fur tuxedo col- lar and deep cuffs. Was $165—in the YearEnd Sale at $110, Radical Reductions! In time for holiday festiviti Beautiful Evening Shades in All Groups! $5.50& —Bracelet style —Singl $8.50 Fans —Three-stick style —Doub! $18 Fans —Five ostrich plumes —Carved sticks EXTRA!—SEE OUR FULL-PAGE ADV, E N! PAGE 19 The five closing days of the yearwe ALWAYS 4 [ ‘\ 0/ remarkable here in value-giving, Wt with our greater store, previous years are tey outdone Visit the Third Floor Misses’ Shops! 14, 16 and Misses’ Coats 1 ¥ EVER before such valiies—coats=—a\ in good standing—all .beautifully made—all richly furred. Nperior quality and ex- clusive style at the price of any ordinay coat. Imagine it! Feather Fans $6Fans 31.95 33.95 $7-9 Street Floor e plumes s ¢ Misses’ $59.50—$89.50 Sports ant Travel Coats collared coats—straightline models, with full-length fur tuxedos—fascinging CREATED by the leading designers in the New York market—these tuxedo and shawl collars of platinum wolf, natural and mink squirrel, for here are so many different versions of the smartest coat modes, and even panels of natural and mink squirrel, platinum and brown wolf or fox. %he OUR smartest models, of course, all lavishly trimmed with fur, and s rics of the season, and mostly in the straight line slender style, which is 1 25 green and chanel red. finish and close-clipped pile fabrics in the most desirable are fur lined with collars and cuffs of furs—others are richly - . & Junior Misses’ $25—$29.50 Silk Afternoon Frocks little bolero and basque styles in georgette, Charmeen creep r i iy Junior Misses’ $16.50—$19.50 Frocks satin, velveteen or taffeta models—smart two-piece bolero and 1SS€S FOCKS s Years! 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There are the very popular mawl. s blouse versions. Natural and mink squirrel—platinum and brown wolfand 6 Iynx—and rich collar and cuff sets, even with panel and border treatme.s, Black, Parlg blue, rustic brown, thrush and red. % Misses’ $110—$135 Exceptionally Distinctive Coats coats are exceptional even at their original prices—all developed in the better suede-finish and close-clipped pile fabrics, in straightline and modified blouse treatments, with interest centering on sumptuous lynx, fox or beaver, and all have the deep cuffs of fur, of course, and some ever fur bor- ders. Good, colorings. Misses’ $125—$145 Stunning Individual Model Coats IF you can't find your coat in this group you are surely hard to please, interpreted in close-clipped pile or suede-finish materials. Some with $ deep shawl collars of beaver, natural squirrel, black lynx—others with gorgeous tuxedo collars of beaver—smart muffler collars and deep cuffs “fur '!ets on’mnny of these coats almost equal the Year-End Sale price. Misses’ Elaborate $165—$225 One-of-a-Kind Coats such furs! Selected beautifully matched fitch skins—beaver and natural and mink squirrel and platinum fox—-in the most desirable fab- the most effective medium of the exploitation of rich furs. Black, thrush, & T Junior Girls’ $39.50—$45 Sports and Dress Coats EVERY mother should see this group—there are tweeds, suede- 75 straightline and modified blouse treatments of the season. Some s 2 9' trimmed with natural squirrel and Jap fox. A choice of Paris blue, beige, thru_sh. green and rustic brown. JERFECTLY lovely versions of the jumper mode—other clever and crepe de chine or georgette and velvet in combination. Many $ '75 one-of-a-kind styles in this group. JL‘ST the thing for classroom, afternoon and party wear. A group of attractively made, smartly styled Covertine, jereey, s 75 o basque treatments, and a choice of green, beige, blacks and white, navy and high colorings. / Junior Misses’ Shop—Third Floor 14, 16 and “Year End” means a great chance to get the dresses you have been wanting—at surprisingly low prices—even at half price in many instances—and these are Jelleff regular quality dresses, to. R practically every occasion, in delightful current style treatments, and a fabric selection that ranges from.georgette to wool crepe, including s satin, crepe de chine, velvet and flat crepe models. A number of advance vh me’ntu of pleating and embroidery. Misses’ $35—$39.50 Sports Afternoon and Dance Frocks YOU probably have wanted one of these frocks when it was higher priced. You frocks in straightline, tailored and jumper models. Velvet in informal afternoon s .75 treatments—chiffon, taffeta and georgette dance frocks, many in one-of-a-kind 5 ¢ (4 Misses’ $39. 5 Excep tionally ANOTHER fascinating group, including georgettes, crepe Roma, chiffons, vel- vets and even tweeds, in the most successful stylo treatments of the season— s .75 two or th.ne mv;uhs. Both light and dark colorings in this group. Misses’ $45—$59.50 Very Smart All-Occasion Frocks NE and two of a kind in this group—chiffon velvet in stunning two-piece ing styles. Novelty twills cleverly tailored In bolero and coat styles and ever so s ‘75 many silk crepe treatments—both tailored and less severe. A choice of all the desirable colorings of the moment, with plenty of black HIS, of course, is a very unusual group and includes only the better type frocks from our Colonial Shop. There are perfectly stunning tlered frocks in crepe s 75 jolly, crepe Roma, and chiffon frocks. Velvets with fur trimmings—others with . jace jabots and collars and cuffs of handmade lace. A number of stunning hand- Misses’ Frock Shop—Third Floor ———————————————————————————————— v For Immediate Wear Beret of black A Very smcial Price 4oy sad satia, Pedaline Braid and Belting Combinations! Stunning New Faille Treatments! These are all new hats, purchased especially for the Year End sale — arfd marked closely so that the values are even as great in this new mer- chandise as they are in the apparel clearance. The shapes are small—the crowns are high —for that is the rule of the smart hat today. Choose your hat from the season’s newest colorings— Hydrangea Gooseberry Meadow pink Ready Coral Rose Monkey skin French beige at 9:15 Monday in the Millinery Shop— ~ Street Floor