Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1927, Page 38

ENGINEERS TO ACT ON GABINET PLAN Public Works Centralization Will Be Considered at Convention Here. A plan centralize in A single cabinet office all the functions of the Federal Government which affect public works and the public domain will come hefore the Assembly of the American Engineering Councll for approval at the counc annual meeting, which, it is announced, will be held in Washington Wednesday and Thursday The report of a special committee organization of Federal public adopted recently by the administrative board at a meeting held at Cornell University and now goes to the assembly or “engineering parliament,” composed of members of 30 national and local engineering societies, for final action after public discussion. Should the proposal the engineering profession plans to press a nation-wide movement to abolish the present form of the De- partment of the Interior and to estab- lish a department of public works and domain. A detailed program of reorganiza- tion, accomplishing, it is claimed large savings in money and increased efficiency in government through a re grouping of bureaus, commissions, offices and other services, has heen worked out A special meeting of the assembly, Dean- Dexter S president of the council, presiding has been called for Wednesday eve ning to hear the report of a nation wide study of safety and production in industry. The report will he pre sented by A. W. Berresford of De troit, chairman of the committee. Addresses will bhe made hy L.eon I, Alford of New York, a member of the | committee; Joshua Eyre Hannum. re search engineer of the Eyesight Con- servation Council of New York, and Lawrence W. Wallace of fashington. executive secrefary of the American Engineering _ Council. Many repre: sentatives of industry and the Fed: eral Government, inciuding Secretary of Labor Davis and the directors of to be approved, the Bureau of Mines and the Geolog- | ical Survey, are expected to attend. Charles M.eSchwab, president of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers, will be the chief speaker at the annual dinner of the council, be held Thursday evening at the May- flower Hotel. Meetings of the coun cil's executive committee and admin- istrative board will he other events of the sessions. Election of new mem hers of the council, public service in- strument of the Nation's engineers, will be announced BERLIN STAR.'i'S DRIVE TO KILL MOSQUITOES Vacuum ‘Apparatus and Poison Be- ing Used to. Wipe Out-All Traces of Larvae. By the Associated Press, ' BERLIN, January - §.—Determined that there shall be no recurrenc last Summer's: it the Berlin author & campaign in; "y 5 | Guads of health department agents | have been instructed to scour the city equipped with specially constructed vacuum apparatus and with bags of insect powder to he sprayed profusely in all quiarters suspected of harboring the larvae Investigating | to | 'y | lington Hotel la /SUITS & § 0’COATS All notices for this column mfist be in the District P. T. A. office by noon on the Wednesday before the Sunday on which publication is desired. Ad- dress District of Columbia P. T. A. Publicity Burea 800 Eighteenth street. Mrs. Fred DuBois will be the prin cipal speaker Wednesday at 3 p.m at the meeting of the Powell Junior High School Association The P. T. A held a {joint meeting with the Northwest | Citizens' Association at the Tenley- Janney School, Monday evening. Fol lowing an address of welcome by Mrs. E. J.. Way, president of the associa tion i program by the school orchestra and teachers, Dr. George F. Bowerman, libr libr: , gave an address on the branch library lately established at the school, and its possibilities for usefulness. Tenley-Janney The Langdon-Woodridge P. T. A. is conducting a campaign for new members, under the leadership of the membership chairman, Mrs John L. \hl(‘hcll Every patron ngdon Schools will be called upon and invited to join the association. The member Mitchell's committee are Mrs. Charles R. Speaker, M = Foster, Mrs. H. Menke, Mrs. Milton 1 Ris g 2 4 mnNmfi of the A. has heen . in post order to reception in _honor of _Mr. hwartz, principal of the new high school in the northeast J of the city Kimball of Corneil. | Parenta of children attendin the Johnson School have been invited to be present at a meeting of the son Parent-Teacher Association to b | held at the school ¥ evening a 8 o'clock. Amo uests of honor will be Dr. Frank W. Ballon and Rev Homer J. Councilor, who will addre; the meeting. Dr. Joseph Murphy wil explain the Shick test. Minnie Hoch Smith, former vassar Ladies’ | ber of trombone honor guests will be Mrs, F Ballou, Miss Bertie s, principal af the Powell Junior High School, and the exeeutive beards of the Powell and Bancroft Schools. Band, will give a num selection The “juvenile protective | of the Parent-Teacher A have a special meeting | 2 o'clock, at the Epiph Rev. Homer J. . director of religious _education of the Calvary Baptist Church, will be the speaker. | His subject is 'to be | Girlhood.” mbia (‘ongress oclations for the henefit of in Thl\ ‘)I\Hll" 4»{ of rent-Teacher hold a card j the budget fur rium, Jaruary o'clock. ce-Adams Pa- m will be held orce A meeting .v( (he Fo rent-Teacher A tomorrow at 3 « School. Mrs. Geor school chairman, and M sell, editor of the Parent-Teacher Mag- azine of the District of Columbia ngress of Parent-Teacher Associa- uon! will be the speakers. The publicity c rent-Teacher” Associations of Wash- ington will meet for lunch at the Ar- |lington Hotel Tuesday at 12 o'clock. The executive board of the District Columbja Congress of Parent- Teacher Associations met in the Ar t Tuesday. M | T. Bannerman reported on impc legislation which will he brought be- | fore the Di ngress of Parent- | Teacher pciations at the meet- ing January 18. It was the unani mous vote of the board that in the future the regular meetings of the 1l begin promptly at 1 of |meet tomorrow aft an of the public | of the Wood |0 ovements | day at 8 p.m. Pea- John - a mamber of the Na- | committee | mitted during the centur: “Boyhood and | will | Hecht's audito- . pre- | . Ros: | THY SOUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Parent-Teacher Activities o'clock, so that adjournment can be early in the afternoon. Mrs. Joseph Sanders, health chair- man of the District congress, will take a party of Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation members to visit the health ex- Tibit in the National Museum on the morning of January 18. The John Eaton Mothers’ Club will rnoon at 2 o'clock in the Cleveland Park Congregational Church. Thirty-fourth and Lowell streets. The special topic to be dis cussed will be “Social Hygiene,” and the program will be under the direc tion of the socfal hygiene chairan, Mrs R. Kupfer. The Brent-Dent Parent-Teacher As- sociation will meet in the Brent School tomorrow at 8 o'clock. The speaker will ha Miss t. Watkins, director of kindergartens. There will be a read- v Mrs. John R. Hillers. At the December meeting the Brent-Dent Glee Club sang Christmas carols un- der the direction of Mrs. Amy 8. King. A “housewarming” to celebrate the made to the school building will take the place of the January Parent-Teacher Association meeting of the Maury School, Tues- The superintendent of schools and his five assistants will be the speakers. Dr. Edwin N. C. Barnes, director of music in the public schools, will lead the singing of the parent- teacher song, which will be followed by selections by the Boys' and Girls' Glee Club. Miss Davis, supervising incipal, will st Miss Mortimer, principal of the school, in welcoming the guests. DRASTIC CHA‘NGES MADE IN IMMIGRATION QUOTA German, Irish Flee Etnn. Italian and Scandinavian Totals Cut; Brit- ain and North Ireland Boosted. A report on the mational provision of the immigration mitted to the Senate by Coolidge Friday in response to resolution showed there would be a narked reduction after July 1 next n the quotas allowed Germany, the Irish Free State, Italy and the Scan- dinavian countries. The report was prepared by the State, Commerce and Labor Depart- ments to guide the President in issuing, by April 1, a proclamation ing the quotas for each of the Suropean countries on the basis of he national origin of immigrants ad- ending in 20, instead of on the present basis of the foreign-born population from the varions countrfes in the United States in 1890. The Irish Free State’s annual quota_would be reduced from 28576 from 51,277 to m 6,091 to 3.8 and Denmark’s, from 89 to 1,044, The principal wauld be given an would be Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the totals for which were given in the report as 73,039, against 34,007 -at present. There would be a total reduction for all countries of 11,126, with the new total placed at approxim: 154,000, o PR The report was transmitted to the Senate in response to a resolution by Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyl- vania. Intimations had reached members of the Senate and House that there was to be a sharp shifting of the quota total§ under the national origin provision, which becomes effec- e on July 1, and measures for the repeal of this section of the restric. tion law have been introduced. Jamaica expects that the number of tourists visiting there this season will break all records countries which increased quota See Claudo Appearing in Our Windows All Week— Something New and Sensational! % f on Ladies’ Winter Coats Advanced Spring Dresses at $11.98 Big Discount on Men’s Apparel For Women— 19 Silk and Cloth DRESSES, $11.98 Up Furred COATS—$18.98 Up Washington’s Smartest Credit Shop DAILEY’S 427 Tth St. N.W. PENS Cotton Exchange Amends By-Laws NEW Creation day. adopted, fund was effected by amendment to the by-laws by the members of the|commissioner of fisheries, who stated New York Two other reduction in the rate of fees, and im provement trading floor P. C, JANUARY 9, 192 Gold Fish Fishing in Potomac River Is Declared to Be “Great” at Present 1s encountered which is pure g Mr. Radcliffe satd that the “gold- fish,” so called, is nothing more or | less than a_species of the carp family | raised by those who make a business | of outfitting aquariums and that some | those killed. anethird we of the carp retain the physical charac- | 0Ver . to medical labors teristics later developed to a n\uyni‘l‘“"'”"" pronounced degree in the conven- | tional goldfish of parlor fame | Inspection of the fish bowls In Cen of carp taken from ION FOR EMPLOYES. cles, to Benefit Workers. YORK, of an Homeless Dogs Die Fast. ). — PARIS, January. 8 OP). pension January § v employes’ Fishing for goldfish is great in the Potomac River these days. So says Lewis Radcliffe, deputy the city pound last y ebimian HeEA not tHInlc that killed except 184 which wer decelving him if he lands a perfectls good goldfish True, most of the goldfish are only slightly tinged with the golden hue the | common to inmates of aquariums, he rading floor. " explained, but now and then a fish | Inspection of the fish bowls In Cen-tho hounds in England. “tear siarters” and coliect the money. Cotton Exchange yester-| that the amendments providing for a 50 per were cent of the acoustics of tha hounds In England A Clean-Up Sale In Every Sense of the Word—We Soy We Give You One Dollar’s Worth for 66c, But In| Many Instances the Values Are Considerably Greater YOUR CREDIT IS AS GOOD AS NO TELEPHONE OR MAlL ORDERS ACCEPTED DURING THIS SALE A three-piece living room suite—all elegant size pieces built on all steel spring construction and covered in genuine velour .. 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