Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1926, Page 50

ANTIKISSING DRIVE FAILURE IN BRITAIN' Health Society Makes Little Headway Against Mistletoe | Sales at Christmas. 4 BY A. G. GARDINER. ®v Radio to The Star. LONDON, December 25.—Christ- pias came to England attended with biting cold and heavy snow in the north, but in spite of the night fros there was no prospect of skating this #ide of the Englith Channel. The flight to Sw erland for Win- ter sports and to the Riviera for sun thine reached unprecedented #ions during the middle of the week, end all English seaside resorts are crowded with visitors. | children dimen- | v | having Parent-Teacher Activities All notices for this column must be in the District P. T. A. office by noon on the Wednesday preceding the Sun- day on which publication is desired. Address, District of Columbia P. T. A. Publicity Bureau, 800 Eighteenth street. The meeting of the Mount Vernon Place Church Parent-Teacher Associa- tion for January 4 has been postponed until Tu . the 11th. attendance of mothers heard Mrs. H. E. Rossell, editor of the Parent-Teacher, speak at the meeting of the Kenilworth Association in the school building, December 15. A letter of appreciation was read from he pupils of the school for the aew sct of books, “The Book of Knowl- edge,” which was just purchased. A luncheon will be given January 5 to finish paying for the books. Five dol- lars was given to the janitor as a mas present. Mrs. Giles Scott er made an address. The school gave a program. Miss room won the prize for largest attendance of A large ugha the mothers. A meeting was held at the Stanton School, Good Hope, D. C., for the pur- In London vi preparations wer 1uade for the celebration of Christma The tendency to keep the festival in | publio piaces has almost aboiished the fireside family gathering amo the wealthy . The vogue for «ancing and jazz is chiefly responsible for this change in the habits of the people. Shaw Bernard € pajety of the ses the role of enemy mas.” He says ho has never spent a Christmas in his life and doesn't ex pect eyer o spend one. He regards The season as a nuisance, which #hould be abolished by act 3f Parlia anent, with due compensation for shop keepers. Shaw protests that he has 20 objection to the Christmas feeling, | but says that feeling should be spread | over the whole vear and not exhibited | Attacks Christmas. Tie, has celebrated Christmas b present at the twenty-first revival of “Peter Pan,” whose astonishing pop- ularity with children of all ages shows no signs of flagging with the vears. Dorothy Dickson again plays the role of Peter, with, of course, an American accent, which seems now essentlal to the part. Sir Thomas Becham, who recently announced his intention of withdraw- ‘ng to America to escape the abomi- nation of iwireless music, has this week returned to the atts He de- clares radio is destructive to the -whole musical taste of the nation Serious music as broadcast, he says, is nothing but a scarcely recognizable travesty, sans tone, sans color, sans distinction, sans everything but a jumbled noise of the gramophonic iype Beecham’s view is that the only music tolerable on the radio is the worst sort, the reason being that such music has the least to lose by ecoarse reproduetion. The question of how he proposes to escape the abomi- nation of broadcasting by migrating to America still Drive Against The new health society ha Christmas as a suitable occasion to inaugurate a crusade against the practice of ‘kissing, which is de- nounced as a source of infinite mis- chief, and which is derided as a mere barbarous relic of Druidical customs Press comment on the crusade is to the effect that it has not had any appreciable effect on the demand for mistletoe, whose mystic association with kissing is also reminiscent of our Druidical origin. ; Political circles are commenting much on the savage attack made by Attorney General Hogg on David Lioyd George. The attorney general says that Mr. Lloyd George when he was prime minister, in the caalltinni government, accumulated “vast sum: of money by the sale of ho: on a | scale unprecedented in political rec-| ords and that he now is employing this fund to buy the Liberal party with the purpose of selling it to the sacialists. Such language, coming | from the chief légdl adviser to the government, is assumed to be calcu- lated, as a challenge to Lloyd George to bring action for libel. The return of Lloyd George, who now is in South France, is awaited with much inter- est owing to this incident and the 'more weighty repudiation in the same spirit by Lord Grey on behalf of re- sponsible Liberals. (Covyrixht. 1926.) —_— J. S. Troutman Dies TOPEKA, Kans., December 25 (). —James A. Troutman, former lieu- tenant governor and founder of the Kansas Temperance Palladium, died today. He was 73 vears old. He came to Kansas in a covered wagon | eacher association. | lowing officers | were elected { Stuart pose of organizing a local parent About 30 fathers The fol- Presi- | and mothers were present. were elected: fent, Charles F. Foster; vice presi- dent, Mrs. A. T. Sizemore; secretary, Miss 1. Simonsen: treasurer, Mrs. M. i. Jenkins. The committee chairmen follows: Membe: rles Foster; health, M fcDonald; publicity, Miss F. inter; entertainment, Mrs. G. E.| kindorf; hospitality, Mrs. C. McGin- | s, Mr. Wilkerson; | agazine, Mrs. M. E. | peakers of the evening were: | Scott Rafter, president of | the District of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher ° Associations; Mrs, d Mr. Many ocal church. Mrs. with the mothers the place of home in child training and the neces. ity of ration of the The next | 1. at met last Friday aftern . Elizabeth Molster, physical training teacher, asked the mothers to co-operate with her in teaching the children correct posture by helping them at home. It was voted to appropriate $15 to the budget of the D. C. Congress of P. T. A. The Schick test will be given at the school January 4. A recep- tion will be given January 28 to"the parents. Miss Dice's class won the attendance prize. The Joseph R. Keene P. T. A. met December .14, at the school. ' The chairman of the milk committee, Mrs. R. T. Wyche, reported progréss in the distribution of milk to the puplils of the school. A. W. Clime spoke of at- tending the recent meeting of the Board of Education regarding the estimates for the fiscal year 1928 and advised the association to prepare for necessary needs for the Keene school. The association voted an appropria- tion of $10 for the welfare organiza- tion. Dr. J. A. Murphy, chief medical inspector of the District public schools, addressed the association. Vocal solos were rendered by Mrs. J. C. Brown-and Miss Lucy Hopkins, ac- companied by Mrs. A. W. Clime and Mrs. George P. Grove. Refreshments were served., New members admitted were Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hitz, Mrs. Frank King and B. Frank Joy. Mrs. M. G. Ray, teacher of the sev- enth grade, won the banner for the largest number of parents and teach- ers present at, this meeting. A meeting of the John Burroughs Parent-Teacher Assoclation was held December 16 in the school hall. A short talk was given by the princi- pal, Miss Raney. The pupils of the seventh grade, taught by Mrs. Wack- erman, presented a Christmas playlet. Mrs. Wackerman's room won the monthly prize for having the most parents present. The next meeting will be held January 20, and will be held in the evening. The association of the Hine Junior High School attended the regular sen- for assembly of the school December | Mrs. | dent, J. | president, M Parent’s Share in Solving School Problems.” Mrs. Houghton, the sec- retary of the association, made a re- port on the Schick test. It was voted to contribute $45 of the school fund to the central organization. The pro- gram of the mesting opened with the singing of “America” by the audience, Constance Russell, a pupil of the school, accompanying. Dority Mills and Laura Duke entertained with folk dances, and Mr. Harmon sang solos. The second grade of the school also contributed to the program by singing Christmas songs. It was an- nounced that there would be another school luncheon January 11. The Seaton Parent-Teacher Associa- tion. meeting held December 9 was ad- dressed by Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president of the D. C. C. of P. T. A., and Mrs. Rossell, editor of the Parént- Teacher. M Severance's class, grade 5, won the prize for attendance. A new associatidn was formed at the Service School for Boys and Girls, at 3043 Fifteenth street, December 22. Miss Constance C. Tuthill, prin- cipal, Introduced Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president of the District of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations, who present of the value of the parent- teacher movement. The by-laws were approved. Mrs. L. J. Hammond, Mrs. L. Kallenbach, Mrs. Richard Mc- Conaughy, Mrs. Hallet Grimm and Alonza Alexander comprised the nominating committee, and the following officers were elected: Presi- Mrs. W am A. Ganoe; vice Constance C. Tuthill; treasurer, Mrs. Ethel Barrows; secre. ary, Mrs. Grace Stuart. The meeting was preceded by a children’s party in celebration of Christmas. The children of the kindergarten and first grade gave a play entitled “The Shoemaker and the Dwarfs"; Louise Wellborn sang a solo nd Mme. Tourellle’s pupils rendered “rench games and songs. After the children’s party ~the parents were served with a hot supper, during which Miss Esther Celander, assistant teacher of music, sang and played. Miss Catherine \Watkins, supervisor of kindergartens in the public schools; Miss Elizabeth Rice, head of the primary department of the Potomac School; Miss Ruth Nevins of the Wil- son Normal School, and Miss Esther Scott, supervisor of nature in the Wilson Normal School, became mem- bers of the new organization. NEW MEDICAL CORPS OFFICERS ASSIGNED Regular Appointments Follow In- struction at Carlisle Field Service School. Officers of the Army Medical Corps, who have been under instruc- tion at the fleld service school, Carlisle, Pa., have been assigned to duty at regular stations as follows: Walter d General Hospital, this city: Mal. arles G. Souder, Capts. Charles R. Lanahan- and Rees S. Lloyd and First Lieut. Clifton E. High, John A. Worrell, jr. Eugene W. Billick, William Kraus, Hobart D. Belknap, Hugh R. Gilmore, jr., and Clarence A. McIntyre. Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco: Capt. Everett LeC. Cook and First Lieuts. Fritjof Arestad, Edwin C. Sorensen, Charles A. Mc- Dowell, Robert 8. Lilla, Verner E. Ruedy, George E. Armstrong and William O. French, jr. Fitzsimons General Hospital, Den- ver, Colo.: Capt. Herbert H. Price and First Lieuts. Cecil W. Dingman, Mack M. Green, Willam E. Sham- hora, Bennie A. Moxness and Herbert E. Tomlinson. Fort Sam Houston, Te: First Lieuts. Arthur B. Welsh, Earle G. G. Standlee, Reuel E. Hewitt and Mar- tin E. Griffin. Other stations as follows: Capts. ‘William A. Boyle, Fort Des Moines, Towa; Royal K. Stacey, Fort Hum- phreys, Va.; Reginald Ducat, Fort Clark, Tex.; Fred I. Hickson, Fort Benning, Ga., and Verner T. Scott, Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y, First Lieuts, Melvin T. Means, Fort Ben- 16, and then held its business meet- ing after the close of school. The program of the assembly was in charge of section 21, under the di- rection of Miss Margaret Gessford. Those _taking were Bernard Hunt, Jessie Le Fevre, Samuel Lubin, Floyd Willet, Hazel Miller, Francis McEntee and Mary Elsie Stuart. Mrs. Marion Larner Carle sang a number of Christmas carols. The assoclation made plans to provide seating accom- modations in the gymnasium for the children who remain at the school for lunch. Section 81, in charge of Miss B. B. Howell, received the banner for attendance. A talk by Morton Snyder featured the third meeting of the association of the Henry D. Cooke School Tues- when he was 11 years old. ROCK CREEK PAR - ESTATES - « ENTRANCE LODGE ey HEN Rock Creek Park Estates surround your Homesite, you the definite assurance whatever have that and la you make will be protected. This naturally beautiful community of “truly a part of the Park,” is permanently safe- guarded by Protective. Restrictions clearly defined in their guidan rich attractiveness of the Estates themselves. And your vistas of Rock Creek Park—which inseparably interlaces forever inviolate. You Enter the Estates at 16th St. and 0 Edson W. Owners fice on Property—Adams 538 Ask for the Beautiful Descriptive Brochure Telephone Main 5974 for an Inspection Appointment day evening. His subject was he ning, Ga.; Stuart G. Smith and Dwight M. Young, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.; Loren D. Moore, Fort Benning, Ga.; Merritt G. Ringer, Fort Sheri- dan, Ill; Charles H. Beasley and Clifford A. Best, Fort Riley, Kans., and Emery E. Alling, Alvin L, Gorby and Clifford A. Gray, Willlam Beau- mont General Hospital, El Paso, told the mothers. MRS. FRANK A. McMILLAN, Before her recent e she was Miss Mary Elizabeth Brown, her ents being Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Brown of Louisville, Ky. BALFOUR DENIED GOLF ON 78TH CHRISTMAS Snow Prevents Statesmen From Playing Tennis or Other Outdoor Games. By the Aesociated Press. EDINBURGH, Scotland, December —The Earl of Balfour, still an ac- tive spertsman at the age of 78, found 80 much snow at Whittinghame, in East Lothian, that he was compelled to spend a tennisless Christmas, while golf was out of the question. Despite his years, the earl is still a very keen walker and tennis player, in fact, being much more active ir sports than many men 30 years hit junior. He recently was elected president of the Senior Golfers’ As soclation, which has issued a chal lenge to American players who have passed the 55-year mark. Lord Balfour never was as expert at golf as he 1s at tennis, and has always admitted that he lacked the concentration necessary to excel on the links. Once he was golfing with Christopher Callaway, the famous professional, and a number of other well known players, on a course near London. Lord Balfour's game was badly off, and his caddy, much an noyed over the bad shots, remarkec to him: “Sir, it takes a head to play this game.” Nobody enjoyed the boy's trus more than the then premier, who has withheld the onslaughts of time with such skill that his mind and body are as sound as ever. The earl only recently told one of his intimate friends that life had never been so interesting to him as at present. Miss Alice Balfour, sister of Great Britain's former premier, was irith her brother for the holidays, together with the Hon. Mrs. ard Lascelles. who is Lord Balfour's favorite niece and a sister-in-law of Princess Mary. —_— = e 300,000 TREES FOR YULE. Maryland Imports Many From .Canada for Celebration. Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, December 25.—Ap- proximately 300,000 Christmas trees, many of them from Canada, are being used by persons in Maryland this year, according to an estimate by I W. Besley, State forester. Despite the annual demand for Nor- way spruce, the Balsam fir and the native spruce pine for Christmas, the supply of such trees is in no danger of becoming exhausted or even de- pleted, Mr. Besley said. The sale of Christmas trees is becoming a_good commerclal proposition and in Mary- land several persons have started Christmas tree farms, he asserted. pltcHp e Caey Nearly 5,000,000 square yards of wool and rayon mixtures having one half or more of rayon, were shipped from Great Britain to other countrier in the past year. Preslan == 1309 G ST,.NW, HALF PRICE Every Fur- Trimmed Including Safe for Improvement construction ndscaping investments over one hundred acres, ce. They preserve the with the Estates—are Kalmia Road Briggs Co. All Sizes All Colors All Styles 114 More Value! One-Thousand-One Fifteenth Street, at K PRICE Early Spring §tyles Are Here : » €58y e FROCKS More Style! Equal to $25.00 Frocks COAT Entire fStm‘.k Party Dresses - Dinner Gowns Dance Frocks while the are complete. The most gorgeous showing both in color and style in the city. Every size. HALF PRICE 16 o THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER_ 26, 1926—PART Kentucky Bride l BOY SCOUTS I The Honor Tribe of Camp Roose- velt, known as the C. M. O., will hold its sixth annual banquet next Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the High- lands, Connecticut avenue and Call- fornia street. The Washington Area Council will meet for the seventeenth time in the annual observance of the birth of Scouting in America the evening of February 12 at Central High School. Vice-President Dawes is the principal speaker. As a result of their pation in the recent Red Croes drive, Scouts of one of the Washington troops have found a old mine.” While the boys were ‘®ngaged in distribut- ing the Red Cross circulars a repre- sentative of a large concern who observed their conscientious and in- dustrious efforts was so Impressed that he hunted up the scoutmaster and asked him to recommend some Scouts for another job of the same nature. To date the proposition has netted them approximately $200. Troop 58 of the Fifteenth Street Christian Church, Hugh Councll, scoutmaster, held a successful parents’ night celebration last Tuesday even- ing, at which stars were awarded the troop as one of the nine “crack” troops of the District Council. Scouts of the Third Division policed the course of the South Atlantic championship cross-country run, held in Rock Creek Park last Satur- lav afternoon. Members of Troop 8 assisted at the children’s program at the Chevy Chase Theater last Saturday morning. First ald, signaling and map-making classes at the Wilson Normal School have beén suspended until the second Monday in January. The Fourth Division Forum will meet at the: Wilson Normal School January 3. Round tables in the first and third divisions are scheduled for January 8. The next courts of honor and re- view will be held at the Thompson School, January 11. Scout Russell Lampson of Troop 33 attained the highest rank in scouting last Saturday night at the Metropoli- tan Baptist Church, when the District of Columbia court of honor granted the merit badge of life saving that made him an.Eagle Scout. Members of ‘the court were: Dr. Paul Bartsch, chairman; W. D. Clark, W. B. Free- 9 , W. H. Merrill, John Dwyer, Robert Balley, Henry Rule, Bruce Horsfall, E. B. Lawle: Linn C. W, ey. Sixty-six Scouts passed a total of 120 merit badges, as follows: Troop 2—Enlow Carter, public health; Troop 8—Wal- lace Bloyer, first aid to animals, car- pentry, masonry; Ray Heacock, elec- tricity, public health, first ald; James Smith, public health, first aid to ani- m: Frank Luchs, personal health, public health, craftsmanship (wood); Douglas McDougal, handicraft, marks- manship; Beaumont Clarkson, - elec- tricity, first aid; James Shinn, fire- manship, personal health; Frank J. Luchs, swimming, life saving; Norton Barnhart, handicraft, marksmanship; ‘Willard Memler, foundry practice, carpentry; Waggner Lawder, pathfind- ing, physical development; Jack Mess- ner, athletics: Troop 63—Roy C. Old- ershaw, athletics, carpentry, campin; Harvey Larrier, first aid; Troop 73 Oscar Sherman, firemanship, personal health: Troop §2-—Wm. Cochran, athletics; Billy Cochran, camping, scholarship; Jack Hahn, pioneering, cooking, camping: Dick Buddike. life saving, painting: Albert Walter, paint- ing; Troop 100—Trimble Sawtelle, music, agriculture, scholarship: Robert MecMilllan, textiles, painting, physical development; Robert Fessenden, chem- istry, = basketry, craftsmanship in leather; Dudley Digges’ craftmanship in wood, ecraftsmanship in leather, first aid: Kelsey Saint, automobilin; plumbing; ~Alfred Toombs, - civics; Burdge Caton, handicraft; Alden Snell, basketry; Troop 119—Richard Davis, firemanship, scolarship. At the court of review held at the blacksmithing, music; Benjamin Stone, pathfinding; Yule Fisher, pathfinding; Bill Claudry swimming: Nelson Barnhart, elec. tricity; Troop 16—Willlam Blackburn, first ald4, life saving. Troop 17—Dean J. Longfellow, fire- manship; first aid, personal health; Logan Ratliff, life saving. firemanship, swimming: Troop 20—Charles Cham- berlain, first aid, life saving; Myron Menzer, personal health, firemanship, public health; John Taylor, first aid; Henry Gardener, electricity; Charles Sims, swimming; Troop —Edwin Shuffle, forestry, plumbing; Robert Sullivan, cycling; Harold Hartstack, plumbing, handiman, personal health; Jack Biscoe, handiman, carpentry, craftsmanship; Troop 38—Edgar M. Eshelman, first ald to animals, bird study, personal health; Allen Hooker, safety first, first aid to animals, per- sonal health; Russell Lampson, craft- manship in wood, life saving: Robert Coffman, pathfinding; Troop 35—Rob- ert Parks, public heaith, personal th, painting; Paul Boesch, person- al’health, painting, public health; Daly Mulvey, physical development: Vernon Bateman, physical development; Troop 40—Charles _ Ferry, marksmanship; Troop 42—Robert Bourke, -hiking, craftsmanship in leather; Harrington Boaze, craftmanship in metal; Troop 43—craftsmanship in wood: Rick Bon- man, craftsmanship in wood; Troop 48 —Harold . 'W. Ricker, craftsmanship, carpentry, handicraft; Troop 51— Edgar Sydenstricker, swimming, fire- manship; James L. Davis, civics, craftsmanship; Raymond Hammer, cratfsmanship, glectricity; Leon Com- merford, firemanship; Troop 57— Gaines Gough, pathfinding, cooking, Metropolitan Baptist Chureh Decem- her 18 nine scouts were advanced to first-class and 26 were made second class. Officials of the court were Paul Bartsch, W. D. Clark, jr., W. B Freeman, W. H. Merrill, John L. Dwyer, Robert R. Balley, Henry Rule, R. Bruce Horsfall, E. B. Lawless, Linn C. Drake and J, W. Talley. Became first class: Troop 17. Arthur Storey; Troop 20, Gardner Henry, My- Intyre; Troop Foster METAL Weather Save coal! Save money! In will bring our representative an 1619 L St. NW. comfortl The coupon below, when filled in, Slaughter; Troop 43, Nathantet Mar- tin, Norris Ruckman; Troop 52.-He - mer Booth; Troop 58, Elvin . Troop 78, David Blaser. Attained the rank of second lass Troop 2, Douglas Saunders, Charlas Walker: Troop 16. Edward Wall, Wa! ter Scott; Troop 20, John Chenoweth Miller Hunt: Troop 29, Randall Gard ner: Troop 35. George Cookman. i. Roy Willett; Troop 42, Willia Flythe; Troop 43, Willard Bizby, Far? chaffner; Troop 48, Raymond Wil Name, Charles Kane, Norman Bowles, Charles Little, H. Franklin Langford Troop 3, James Beattie, Willlan: Betts; Troop 58, Hal Council, Thomas Counell, Carlyle Council; Troop 73 Jerome Johnson; Troop 83, Harry Smith; Troop 88, Ulrick 8. Tyons guest, Alton Keller. HEADS FRATERNITY. CHICAGO, December 2 (#).—Dr. IHarry P. Finck, Boston, was cleoted grand consul of the Phi Delta Fpsilon Medical Fraternity at the twenty-third annual convention hex today: Jacob J. 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