Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1927, Page 6

B i OWNYOURHOME ESSAYS INGREASE Manuscripts ~ Appear Greater Number as Contest | Nears Close. As the time approaches for elose of the Own Your Own essey contest. the daily number of manuscripts for entrance in the com petition increases and the writers un- | cover new ideas pertaining to home owning. More essay writers ave | stressing the relation of home-owning 10 national thrift. which is, after all. the real purpose of the contest: the observance in Washington of National Thrift week, January 17 to 2% Essayn eligible for the prize awards | of §0. $30 and $20 must be confined 10 300 words and must be in The Star office by, tomerrow midnight. Any resident 'of the District or of the | neighboping States may send in es- saye, which should be addressed fo| the Own Your Own care of The Star ““Suggestions Made. Siuce @ day slill remains. the com- | mittee in charge of the contest has | made a few suggestions picked at random from essays already in and | from Government-published pam- | phiets. Home-owning is conductive to | thrift, it is pointed out, because sav ing for the initial payment on & home creates a - saving habit which is not apt to be dropped even after the home | is cleared. Because home owners pay taxes on their property the- become more interested in the thrift of the administration of public funds—their own mon Citizens” associations are cited as evidence of interest home owners take in civic affairs, since the most active members of those organizations are home owners. | riter points out that “every dollar spent in a home is capi- invested in the manpower of the world.” because. as a Government cir- cular contends. maintenance of a home is (he bulwavk of soclety Essay in Verse. A lb-year-old girl of Rockville, Md., wrote her essay in verse form, in which she decried the worries and iroubles attending the raising of rent ftinds each menth. ‘his “agony,” she says, i3 escaped by the mah who owns his own home. As soon as the contest is closed— at midnight tomorrow night—the e: says will be turned over to the judg They will study each one carefully and in the issue of The Star of Janu- ary 20 the three prize winners will be printed and the .writers' names published. Home S * | ombia. has the only emerald the | Home | a discussion over whether mines in the world. —they are all $35, $40 and $60, $65 and $75, $80 and 3. $45, $50 and $60 and $65 $70 and $75 l Visiting Bishop { g £l RIGHT REV. JOHN RICHARDSON. |RIVERS AND HARBORS REPORT IS FAVORED $71,000,000 Authorization Adopted in House by 276 to 82. By the Aswociated Press. By a vote of 276 to yesterday adopted the port on the $71,000,000 rivers and ha bors authorizations bill. It provides for purchase of the Cape Cod Canal, improvement of the Illinois and upper Missouri Rivers and for work on a number of other projects in all sec- tions of the country. Adoption of the report_precipitated House ac- tion constituted final action by Con- gress. One group held the report still 2 the House nference | must be approved by the Senate be- ore it could be sent to the President. | Representative Tilson, the Republican leader, held this opinion, as did Lehy Fess, the House parliamentarian. Another group contended that inas- much as the House had spproved with- out change all Senate amendments to the measure, further action by that body was unnecessary. Senator Jones, Republican, Washington, chairman of the Senate conferees, said that his view was that Senate action was un- necessary, and that if Speaker Long- worth would sign the, enrolled bill, he had no doubt that "Vice President Dawes would attach his signature without Senate action. Kansas City is to have a new negro high school. Cut Again! - We’ve given the prices of Suits, Overcoats and Top- coats—another deep reduction. tunity right now—while sizes are in good range. No exceptions are made—every Fashion Park, Charter House 'and Mode Suit—every Fashion Park, Charter House, Mode and Richard Austin Overcoat and Topcoat included. With these astoundingly low prices—keep in mind the superiority of the Clothing—really the world’s best. Suits— $45 grades..___. o £30 and $55 grades.. ... X L $70 grades.: $85 grades... Overcoats— and $40 grades. $55 grades grades. grades $80, $85 and $90 grades K2 Qe $35 and $40 $60 and $65 Separate Topcoats— grades $435, $50 and $55 grades grades Trousers This is your oppear- THE EVENING FREDERICTON BISHOP TO CONDUCT MISSION Canadian Prelate Will Have Charge of Services at Church Here. Right , Rev. Dr. John Richardson, Lord Bishop of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. will arrive in Washington tomorrow morning to hold a mission in St. Thomas' Church in connection with the bishop's cru: sade, beginning Sunday and extending | until next Sunday Saturday, from 4 (o & o'clock. Bishop Richardson will be given a re- ception at the rectory of St. Thomas parish by Dr. C. Ernest Smith and his daughter, Mrs. Hugo Francis Tait. in vitations to which have heen sent throughout the parish. Bishop Richardson is considered an | outstanding preacher of the Canadian church. He is in great request at varlous large parishes and cathedrals. During Lent he is to conduct & mis- sion, or series of services, in Trinity Church, New York, where four ago he preached a three-hour se on Good Kriday. when many were nct able to obtain even standing room, the church being packed to the doors. | While in Washington Bishop Rich-| ardeon will be the guest of the rector, Dr. Smith. Ten vears ago Bishop Richardson | conducted a mission in St. Thomas'| parish along the lines that he will follow on the present occasion. That mission was most successful from every point of view, and the bishop is well remembered in this parish. Monday evening Rev. R. J. Ripley, rector of Seat Pleasant, Md., former rector of the parish church of King ton, Jamaica, one of the largest par- ish churches in the West Indles, and canon of Spanishtown Cathedral, will hold a “quiet day” in St. Thomas' parish for the purpose of carrying still further the work of Bishop Rich- ardson. During the war it was imp sible for Canon Ripley to get any aa-| sistant clergymen to help, and to save | a breakdown he was obliged to resign his parish. z January 25 Dr. Smith leaves Wash- ington to be one of the crusaders_in the diocese of southern Florida. He will begin his work at Tampe January 27, afterward going to Miami, to be there until February 8, when he will have accomplished the duty allotted to him by the church. He will then return to Washington to take up his own work in St. Thomas’ parish. Kitty Hawk Tract Offered. ASBURY PARK, N. J., January 14 (). —A tract of land near Kitty Hawk, 8. on which Orville and Wilbur Wright made one of their first flights in 1903, to the national Government as a park. Frank Stick of Interlaken, the owner, announced that he had tele- graphed the offer to Washington. sterday was offered | 2750 5379 579 12750 $37:50 34750 35930 $69.50 e o 270 3720 475 STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The MNlinois State Society will meet | January 19, 8 p.m., at the Washington | Club. Al Illinois people invited {o at- tend. Dancing, cards, musical pro gram, refreshments. The Hubbard-Raymond Home and | House Commerce Committee Re- jects Parker Bill to Clothe Executive With Power. = School Associations will meet-Monday, | 8 pm., at the Hubbard School. Miss Ethel Summy will speak on *Child Psychology.” Important local discus- | sions. The Indiana Society will hold IS g . Auociated Press By a vote of 16 to 6 the House com- | | merce committee yesterdayv refused to r - bill The moderator and council of the |executive branch of ihe Government| to act in coal strik was opening meeting at the Willard Hotel | January 19. Election of officers. | R | report the Park Vermont State Association of the Dis. |authority trict will give a reception in celebra-| The action tion of the sesquicentennial of the in- | Chairman Parker dependence of the State tomorrow. $:30 p.m.. at the North Capitol near I sireet at 9 The tended hearing President, after a The Columbia Historical Society will | of work in the hold itx annual meeting Tuesday, 8:15 | to declare an em pan., in assembly hall of the Cosmos |state ‘omme Club. he Lenthall Houses, Maud Burr Morris. On the screen, “Ancient Historic Mansions in the Na- | of tional Capital,” by Allen C. Clark The Hebrew Home for the Aged will hold its annual installation of officers Monday, 8 p.m., at the home, Elev- Program priority called upon to inv finding. | Republican MT. VERNON INSPECTED. | Fire Chiefs Completing Report on Need of Protection. Watson, chief engineer of the District Fire Department, accompanied by Fire Chief Emerich of Baltimore. returnéd to Mount Ver- non today to complete their inspection of the fire-protection system at the Washington home. These officials, who constitute a committee repre- senting the International Assocfation of F¥ire Chiefs, made a preliminary examination of the fire apparatus at Mount Vernon several months ago. A rveport of the findings of the com- mittee will be transmitted to Thomas R. Murphy, chief of the S8an Francisco fire department and president of the association. The organization is in- terested in providing the Washington home with adequate and up-to-date five-fighting equipment. A proposal has been made that the District main- tain a five company at Mount Vernon. George F. UTOMOBILE A DEAD STORAGE $3.00 Per Month 80 L STREET NORTHEAST Franklin 4856 —where courtesy prevails The FEDERAL-AMERICAN Ne account too large or too small for customers who try to do the right thing. | Now a st FRIDAY, \VETOES PRESIDENT'S COAL STRIKE COURSE and the bill's author lotel Continental, | coal legislation for the session measure, e would 30-day Commission by | would have been authorized (o regu- | father. late coal shipments through issu e shipment Bureau of Mines also v 3 i Commenting on the action enth-strest and Spring road | sentative Wyant of Pennsylvania, | committee JANUARY 14, 192 ns." “Had the this industry advocates of for ness,”” he added Representative Kendall cing that veto on Government legitimate business. notwithstanding.” to give the Interpreted by | the coal fields the committee as tabling all after ve given the suspension fields, authority cy. The Inter then oy TACKSONVILLE, Fla ). John Temple Graves. became editor of the which the late | Journal as | in 1887 orders. The| Formerly editor uld have heen | Beach Times, the igute causes of [a number of vears also w of the the strike and compile a veport on it< [ economist of the Feder hington the | mission at W Repre- [of three novels, he Shaft in the ast member, —900 Pairs— Men’s Trousers Sizes 30 to 44 Waist at " $2?OP& Pair Neat Patterns—Serviceable Goods 910 Seventh Street NW. ° “We Request the Return of Anything That Can Be Beught for Less Elsewhere.” he opposed the bill, as there is “no | warrant for the attempt to burden the industry with the proposed regu legislation | heen successful it would surely have proved an entering wedge for the regulation of all busi-| Republican, Pennsylvania, also issued a statement “the committee put interference in the recommenda tion of the President to the contrary | President Coolidge suggested in his| message to the present Congress that | the legislative brarch be given some authority to deal with emergencies in GRAVES IS EDITOR. founded by hin Temple Graves, | unger G U. S. WARSHIP RUSHED TO CHINESE TOWN, (Continuad from First Page.) unions up the river. At its boat Woodcock. owing {of the Seamen’s Union a boycott. TLater the endeavoring to prevent from departing. military Foreigners to Move. When Chen. approached here, Cantonese foreign January 14 .. today | Kksonville He is a which, | | " was a picture suid | of social and political Washington. ‘FEARING ATTACK Changsha vesterday a number of refugees who ! | were put aboard small launches had |to be transferred to the British gun- to the action in organizing was | the Waoodcock Eugene minister, telegraphed the Changsha authorities directing that the Woodcock be al- lowed to without ence. Reports at Amoy today said au thorities at Foochow were ignoring all consular representations regard ing treatment and protection of for elgn lives and property at interior stations. 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