Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1927, Page 33

4 THE SUNDAY BSTAR, WASHINGTON. D? C, JANI;AR\' 9, 192 RULER OF JAPAN ~ (LOSE TO PEOPLE Hirohito, Brought Up in Sim- ple and Austere Manner, Held . Representative of Race. By the Associated P NEW ¥ ) ness, simplic preocccupation in subjects are, to of the outstanding Emperor Hirohito, of Japan This by Lewis of Kubn ed a Nover ‘One expec Stra Youthful hearted of h som £y M and a whol the welfs American characteristics the new soverign re is the impression brought back auss of the financial firm Loeh & Co., who was grant ience by Hirohito last to see a younk man, old th sociated Press, nevertheless astonished uthfulness Hirohito. 6. and looks even younger auste gime of his upbringing, onformity with century-old custom fal family. is responsible r the clearness of his eves and the absence of any evidences of high Hving. of only ide Absent i of the Em- | abse pomp il ance, how- | and his handclasps | In his person are | Japanese Conscious ¥ “In the or peror the; y or conscious pride ever feariess firm and vigorous typified the characteristic virtues, good taste and the absence of display. On the ocea the | audience he wore a simple khaki uni form from which gold lace or orna ment was conspicuously absent “Despite the ceremoniul nature the visit he had just made to thé| Meiji Shrine. on the anniversary of the birth of Emperor Melji, father of the late Emperor, Hirohito wore but one decoration on his tunic—the chrysanthemum. which is the crest of his house. “It is interesting to remember Hirohito more thoroughly sentative of his people than any in Europe. where royal m across state boundaries hav the blood of dynastics. For cen- | turies his ancestors in direct line have { been anese and Japanese only However. the almost rtan sim plicity of their lives, bare of any induigences or luxury, has maintained the strain as strong as It is pure alaces Are Simple. | “In the old Imperial palaces at | Kioto and elsewhere the visitor is im pressed with evidence of the austerity of imperial home life and the absence of any important differences hetween the rooms in these residences of Em perors and in the residences of their humble subjects. True, the woods of which they are built are rare and the joinery superb, but there is no difference in design or appointments, ner are there eny convenience that *he ordirar” msn may not and does "m0l possess ‘Rearec present new that repre- | ruler | n tns mperor, from his people hy descent from the gods. is vet closer to them than perhaps any other ruler could be. His questions and his re sponse to the replies his questions elicited indicated plainly his complete preoccupation in the welfare of his country. He has borne the respons bility of the crown since ill health atmosphere, the though separated | the tradition of » late Emperor some 5 years ago. During that time it .is said tha he has shown,@ remarkable grasn of the problems %t 'hi€ country, both domestic and-forelgn, and maturi: adgment that has excited the ad- | tion of all. in a country where tv has been traditionally the | perauisite of venerable age. | “This should not be taken as in ference that the Emperor has no avocations: on the contrary, he Is an ardent sportsman, and when the pres. sure of duties relaxes he may be found on the golf course or engaged in other varieties of outdoor ac- tvity.” MOTH IN NEW ENGLAND. Fruit Blight Wages Successful Fight Against Spray. i AMHERST. Mass., January 8 (P).— The Oriental fruit moth has invaded New England orchards. Its habit of “spitting out the first few mouthfuls of twigs or fruit” ren- ders poison sprays useless in protec- tive campaigns and no other success- | Westlake, acting scoutmaster. !SAYS ARMY IS NOT THE PLACE | FOR MISFITS OR WAYWARD BOYS :Adjt. Gen. Davis Vigorously Criticizes, as | Popular Delusion, Proposal Often Ad- ' vanced for Disposal of Undesirables. Folks who still harbor the notion| Within the last year Gen. Davis has that the Army in peace times is a sort | personally investigated the operation ouse of correction to which way-| of new, simplified psychological tests rd vouths oo’ e committed, to the | designed to bar out men with lawles financial and men- | tendencies. tal relief of thelr | of the Army desertion and fmprison home communi- | ment rates, for one thing, and is sat ties, pt to fall | isfied that results are beginning to foul of a hustling |show. It's quite natural, therefore, and sometimes ex- | that he sees red whenever an instance plosive Washing- | comes to his notice of a judge letting ton official known |off a minor offender against civil law his intimates as | on promise of the culprit to enlist in | 2 | the Army. The general explodes with His official title is |all the vigor of a hand grenade and the adjutant gen-|sharply worded correspondence en eral of the Army. sues He appears In the | The adjutant general has had years list as Rob- | of first-hand experience with troops Davis, | to settle his views on the kind of sol- # major general diers Uncle Sam wants. He has been Among the|through the Infantry mill with them amazingly diverse |from ‘“shavetail second loule” to bri- duties of his office | gade command, even division for a is that of recruit- | time. ing the Army. Other complicated | machinery works out how soldiers are to be fed, clothed, drilled, educated, | disciplined, transported, organized, hospitalized, entertained, paid, retired | nificant in a slangy way of the kind o o uetes “But it ali begins|of an adjutant general of the Ameri- With finding the young chaps to whom | can Expeditionary Forces he made, these processes are to be applied or of his work now A Washington. s0. vas hitched to him in Wes! Good Soldiers, Good Citizens, | NSt 0. 1t was hitshed o irn aas. That's | The immaculate, razor-edge-creased vear he | white uniform pants of the West Army ‘machine nearly 60,000 Pointers are the special pride of the ently the vast majority of them will{ most swanky dressers of each suc be good soldiers. Still later they will | ceeding class. Cadet Davis was, and | be much improved civilians again, | still is, all of that. And he was. and with honorable discharges to show. | still is, equipped with a pair of rather | But so far as Gen. Davis & ender and very straight legs. They | rreaching recruiting ser | set off a pair of white ducks to ad- able to guarantee it, they were miration. An envious and more bulk- 2ood citizens to begin with. If there {ily built comrade once complained that Was a physical misfit or a moral de- | he also could show cadet class as a linquent in the lot. he sneaked in | white-pants wearer “if I had cork somehow through elaborate riers | legs, ected to keep the morally, mentally | ~After that > ot ally unfit out of the ranks | became “Corkleg” Davis. Perfectly » Sam's modest-sized fighting | simple that “Corky” should follow— and stick for life. GEN. DAVIS, Origin of “Corky’s” Name. The Army at large regards that nickname, “Corky,” as probably sig “Corky" Davis’ collected and fed i of course, Cadet Davl,«} | | the fascinating things about this con- test that troops just will not “stay { put.” . | ""The 1st Division held its annual| swimming meet Friday evening at the | Boys' Y. M. C. A. pool. The 8d Division will hold its swimming meet at the Boys' Y pool | January 15 at 3 o'clock. | Three Scouts could not hiking merit badge last month because they had not kept a diary showing the { record of their daily hikes. | By permission of the Red Cross A. | D. Soverhill, a Red Cross instructor | and examiner, will conduct a first aid | training class for older Scouts and Scout leaders of the District of Colum bia Council. The course will be held in the first aid room of the Chesapeake BOY SCOUTS. the Mount Pleasa Church, Edward Lyles leading in the ad- vancement contest. With 51.37 points per scout, the troop mnot only leads in its own grade B, but has more points than any other troop in the city. Troop 8 of the All Souls’ Prot- stant Episcopal Church, William stands second in grade B, with 46.77 points, and Troop 35, Harold Finch, scout ster, the deposed leader of last Troop 51 of Congregation scoutmaster, is pass the | He is aiming at reduction | YEAR'S RUM DEATH .~ INNEW YORK 757 Health Department Reports Seven of the Number Due to Wood Alcohol. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January §-Seven hundred and fifty deaths from al coholism and seven from wood alcohol | ted to the Health Depart ment of New York City in 1926, Dr. | Louis I. Harris, head of the depart- | ment, said in a letter Th day He | explained that he did not know how many of these deaths were fram holic poisoning and how many from | ronic indulgence in alcohol The letter wa to Dr. J. M. D« 3 head of the technical division of the | prohibition administrator's offiee, who told Dr. Harris that Gen. Lincoln C Andrews, Assistant retary of the Treasury, wanted the information. Dr Doran also asked whether any deaths were caused by methonal “As the figures stand at the pres- ent moment,” Dr. Harris wrote, “there were 750 deaths reported to the Department of Health of the city of | New York in the year 1926 as due to | alcoholism. The information given in | the death certificates is very m | with respect to ain important | points; for example, we do not know | how many of these deaths were due to | aleoholic poisoning and how many | were the result of chronic indulgence | in_alcohol. | “On the were repo in sis of clinical and official month, is in third place, with 41.43 ts. Troop 100, winner of last vear’s contest, Is in fourth place In grade A, Troop 42 of the All Souls’ Unitarian Church, Odell Whipple, scoutmaster, takes the honors from Troop 20 and now leads with 183 points, while the latter troop drops to second place, with 17.43 points. roop' 2, with Archie Davis as scout aster, is on top in grade C, with 15 points. Troop Maj. i Nor ss, scoutmaster, i econd, and Virginia troop, 134, of Christ ch, Alexandria, A. T. Smith, ter, threatens from that side | ith 11.25 points. standing in the various grades are s follows: Grade A—First, Troop 42 18.3 points; second, Troop 20, 17.43 points: third, Troop. 73, 8.93 points; fourth, Troop 57, 8.05 points. Grade 3—First, Troop 51, 51.37 points; sec- ond, Troop 8, 46.77 points; third, Troop 35, ‘4143 points; fourth, Troop 100, 3211 points; fifth, Troop 17, T points; sixth, Troop 43, 17.99 points seventh, Troop 16, 17.04 points; eighth, Troop 76. 16.38 points; ninth, Troop 110, 16.09 points; tenth, Troop 52, 15.43 points. Grade C—First, Troop 2, 26.15 points; second, Troop points; third, Troop 134, 11.25 | | points; fourth, Troop 1, 10.77 points | fifth, Troop 128, 7.5 points; sixth, Troop 1 points; seventh, Troop 6 points, Next month, in addition to Troops 2 and 15 moving into grade B, Troops 51 and 52 will advance into grade A, thus changing the standing in those divisions also. It is one of and Potomac Telephone Co, 719 Thir teenth street. The class will be or{ ganized January 17 at 8 p.m.. and will| meet from 8 to 10 o'clock each Mon- | day thereafter for eight weeks. | Those passing the Red Cross exami- | nation will be awarded Red Cross cer- | tificates which will make them eligible | for appointment as first ald examiners. | All commissioned officers, troop com- | mitteemen and older Scouts who_ have | qualified for the first aid merit badge will be admitted to the class. The class is free. WINS SKUNKY H{OE. *hu scout of the Potoma CHICAGO, January (#).—An argument over ownership of the hide of a skunk which resulted in a broken nose for Edward Grimm, and a sub. sequent suit for damages against his ‘ages and the pelt. The argument started when each claimed the animal was found on his farm. Legionnaires to Save Fee. CHERBOURG, France, January 8 (#).—Members of the American Le. gion coming to France for the 1927 convention will be saved the usual landing charge when they get off their boats here. The Chamber of Com- merce, which controls the docking fa- cilities, has offered this rebate as a courtesy to France’s comrades-in-arms. ful control has been found. RRRAEE AR BUY or RENT OFFICE FURNITURE E B-r-rr!! Why Wait Longer? —=Call on us NOW—to METAL Weather Strip Your Home Take ]2 Months to Pay! Save coal! Save money! Increase your comfort! The coupon below, when filled in, ! will bring our representative and full infor- mation regarding our Y R-TO-PAY plan! H. 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The service is rendered without fee; only reg- ular rates are charged, and there will be no delay for your advertisement is transmitted immediately to the Main Office for publication in the first avail- able issue. The Star prints MORE Classified Ads every day than all the other papers here combined. You can expect RESULTS from your Classified Ads in The Star—if they are to be had The Star will produce them. cousin Ernest, ended here yesterday | when Edward was awarded $350 dam- | Time will not keep sour chiidren young while you are walting to buy the piano. Snap this chance to secure & fine practice piano. Kimball Piano This 1s probably the best bargain in a used upright ~ piano which we are offering to this fine instru- me; Pay Only $2 Per Week “Around the corner” is a Star Branch Office { by CHICKERING PIANOS ?Sun Now Rises Few Minutes Later Each |PLANS TO FINANCE “WHISKY MONOPOLY’ | Day. but Makes Up Daylight in Setting| path in which the move around the or to the | of the sun | earth o) iis path does feW | gy dirvectly over the earth’s equator, minutes later than on that day [Dut Is at an angle of 231 degrees | This apparent laziness of the Sun ey, the celestial equator. These two | | is due to the fact that earthly clocks | pciore combined make the sun seem | | keep their time by what astronomers |y t this time of the year. [lcatltthie imean durit sitiier fiiw b 4 | the true sun therefore the «un s directly on the meridian at' COP RELEASES ROBBER. high noon on any day of the year B except about April 15, June 15, | August and December 24. The | 1ate ng of the sun is compensated | | for during these early January days | the even later setting of the sun, | ) that the daylight period is actu-[A ery of “robber. thief,” caused Pa lly lengthening.” The earliest sunset | trolman George Igels to chase and [measure be enacted at this session o occured some time between Decem: | catch a robber here, and finally re. | Congress in the interests of proper er ber™2 and 14 | 1ease the robber, after which the offi- | forcement, Gen. Andrews sald he The irregularity true sun | cer paid for the stolen goods. | would go before the House ways anc well realized by those who rely| When arrested the robber related |means committee at its invitation next sundials for their time. The dif-|a story of a starving family, and his | Week to urge e in time between that kept|inability to get work. The officer in- | Values of corporation’s securi true sun, recorded on the | vestigated, paying for some bread and | ties would be determined, he ex and the mean sun, by which [bufter the man had taken, and added | Plained, by the price of the subscrip clocks are set, is called the equation a basket other groceries for good | tons to the stock. Later the $35,000. of time. The necessity for this|measure 000 of gold secured notes carrying equation of time is due to two fac 5 per cent Interest would be offered SENTENCED TO HOUR. ovs, the eccentricity of the earth's with the Government having the anuary 8 (@), | e ¥ sl : option of purchase. pout the:sun and the obliquity In the purchase of outstanding sup into a candy |g, 4 greed to the acceptance of stock after the hands of aliong consideration, and Gen. Andrews Jones to one United States ecliptic appears day of of Winter, | | Although | vear was | December shortest beginning 22, the sun now g over the eastern horizon i the the forcement Method Contemplated in Bill Before Congress. not encircle the Aassistant Secretary of the | Andrews in outlining the fina ing of the whisky ronopoly ) set up in a bill now pending in Cor gress disclosed that there would be public offering of $10.000,000 of pre ferred stock: that the corporatior would have a stock authorization $80,000,000, but would be capitalized at ,000,000. Declaring it imp Tre pr sury “slow Policeman Pays for Goods Father of Starving Family Stole. MINNEAPOL January 8 () tive that th of the is on ference by the sundial CLEVELAND, Ohio, experience, it is my belief that some Because he broke of these 750 deaths were possibly due | to methonal or other substance em.|store, which was in ployed to demature or medicate alco Al receiver, to hol. T have found that physicians who | rooned cat, H. M are not experienced in observing the |for a humane society effects of wood alcohol poisoning can- | by Federal Judge Paul not readily diagnose the conditions, [hour in custody of a and may frequently overlook it en-|marsh: tively, but frankly, these are just| Judge Jones wanted to | Davidson carried her three children questions which come to my mind and |curb “intrusion and county | through the flames, then iried to save which I am not pre 1 to_answer |officers into the affairs of the Federal | her home, which was totally destroyed in a ntific, dispassionate spirit.” ' court.” by fire, | plies of medicinal whisky the corpo ation would pay one-half in stock and one-half in cash. Whisky owners have Liemove @ Ma-|expressed gratification over the sur «emgwell, agent | mounting of this big stumbling block was sentenced | iy in Duffus, Scotland, Mrs. Wllliam said he of state Here is the sale you have been waiting for. A sale in which you will find pianos of world-famous makes taken from Washington’s finest homes in exchange on new Baby Grands and Ampicos. Wonderful practice pianos, offering the modest home an opportunity to start the young ones taking music lessons. Player pianos and Baby Grands, some used and some which have never been off of our floors, such as factory samples, demonstrators, etc. Our List of Used Piano Includes Such Famous Makes As CHICKERING, STEINWAY, LESTER, KIMBALL, MARSHALL & WENDELL, FRANCIS BACON, CABLE -NELSON Pay Only $1 and many others. Per Week Baby Grand This lJooks ke pew every respect. only as a floor samols Gen. Andrews Arranging for En- Alone in a house in an isolated spot | ?Iom Sll:)nshine The MIAMI BILTMOR HOTEL more beasciful thon :_velm its superb natural set- ing, artistic equipment a unparalleled modern fac -?ad. for bodily comfort, relaxation n, will be the s wnter of an at- 1 tractive program of and important social events. 3 Impressively opened less than - & year ago, this wonderful hos : bas become the recognized patiern § of all semi-tropical hotels in this country. RATES EUROPEAN PLAN Single Rooms with Bath, 1 Persan: > . $12.00 per da. 4 Double Rooms with Bath 7 $12.00,$14.00,$15.00, $16.00, $18.00 $20.00 to $26.00 per day Sitting Room, Bedroom and Bath; $25.00,535.00, 545,00 & $50.00 per day Sitting Room, Two Bedrooms and Two Bathe: $50.00, $60.00, $65.00, $75.00 and $85.00 per day | P Rates vary according to sise and location of rooms Astractive program of sy courses designed by Donald Ross; and aquatic sports in the Biltmore's Romaa Pool. 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All pianos not exactly like cuts shown, Just to buy think of being able a go0d guaranteed player the low price of $197.00. The instrument s & standard make and cost at least $500 when new. A real opportunity. This tine rebuilt player will be sold at the ridiculously low price of $235.00. It & full §8-note scale and plays all standard player rolle. Plain style case. Sweet tone. J¥/ COMPANY G Street orner. 13th $2 Per Week AMPICO Re-enacting PIANOS