Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1927, Page 15

STREET CAR RELIC USED BY CHILREN Antiyuated Trolley at Unior ¢ Btation Playground Now Battered Wreck. The ageold psy hology of child heod, that of putting new tors tc every concelrable test, is convincingly {llustrated in the now battered streat ear playhouse that graces one of the playgrounds facing U'nion Station ' Plaga. In its more reepectahle dava this was a regular street car, hut when e styles changed tha Capital Trac jen Co. donated it 3= a plaything and a poesible locker room for the youne- | sters {n that nelghborhond. Now, after many monthe of persstent experi entation, it ls a concrete example of & etreet car that Ia not a street car. 3 Now Badly Battered. | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 6, 1927—PART 1. This used to he a street'car. After a few month's visit to the Plaza Playgrounds It has Students of ohfld psychology, who | wieh to carry thelr studies beyond | the nursery age by hing the | gradual demolition of this anclent | relic can find ample evidence that a child’s desire to break up toys does | not stop when he outgrows the nur- | sery. And certainly nobodv begrudges | any youngster getting a little fun out playing street car ductor or | jven attempting to play ecking.” | A photographer The Star “snapped” some of the hoys at play | vesterday and apparently the more | {attared the old ar becomes, the bet ter the children like ft. Probably, if | the Capital Tractlon Co. donates | & brand.new frolley car, the voung- | sters would neglect it after the nov- | elty wore off, just like the average | chfld goes back to his old and bat- tered toy automobile, Only Hulk of Rello Remains. dergone a sad and shocking chang ;Scientists of Government Are Seeking Earth's Exact Weight and Measurements Refentists of twa Government bu- reaus—the Coast and Geodetle Survey and the Bureau of Standards—wiil complete the task of weighing and measuring the earth within two er three years. Locked deep in a vault | at the Bureau of Btandards, delicate | instruments of precision are under observation by Dr, Paul R. Heyl, who is engaged in the task of measuring the weight of the terrestrial sphere. | Dr. Heyl's task fs expected to be | completed in a month and a half, and i a report will he made to the annual meeting of the American Physical Soclety at {ts annual meeting late In April. His studles are expected to | bring more complete knowledge of the | composition of the earth's interlor. | The welght of the world at present is | 000,000,000,000,- belleved to be ahout 6. he figure six fol- 000,000,000 tons——th lowed by 21 eiphers. Longitudinal measurements of the earth to determine its shape and size are being checked by Maj. Willlam Rowle of the Coast and Geedetic Sur- vey, with astronemical observations, and are expected to be completed in twe or three years. Much data on the ear sime have been added by surveys and measurements since th ast deter- minations were made by the late Dr. 1's shape and | J. F. Hayfort of the Coast and Geodetic Survey more than 15 vears ago. A determination by the gravity method by Dr. Bowle 10 years ago checked in most particulars with the Hayfort survey. Then the street car was first put fnto use at the playgrounds it re- sembled any other car of that anti- queted type. Gradually ite window- anes began to disappear one by one. Vext came the window frames and TRIP OF 6,000 MILES YALE GROUP TO TAKE | protty scon base ball hats began to make its sides appear like one of the shell-riddled Red Cross ambulances on exhibition at the National Museum. en the seats parted company with car. until all that remains today 18 a battered hulk resting flatly upon the ground. - does a child like to start “wrecking” playthings? “I dunno,” one of the happy voungsters admitted, “ft just happens.” SOVIET WOMAN ENVOY MAY LEAVE MEXICO CITY Altitude Said to Be Unfavorable for Health of Mme. Kollantay, Recently Arrived. By the Associated P MEXICO CITY, March drniversal Granico savs that Mme. Alexandra Kollantay, who recently took up her post in Mexico City as| Russlan soviet envov, may leave | Mexico because the alfftude affected | her heaith The paper savs t to the sovirt 3 fer. The s confirm the although it was true that M Koilantay has not | been in gooa health since her arrival | here hecause of the altitude, she has | no plans at present to leave Mexico, | 5.—Fl hat <he may apply | for a trans. | legation, refusing to | ceport, said Exclusive Washing | educational agent. 14 Summer Schools to Be Visited | in Study of Educational Value of Movies. By the Associated Press. { NEW HAVEN, Conn., March §.—A | trip of 6.000 miles to take in 14 of the | outstanding Summer schools of the United States, as part of the program of visual education which has been tnaugurated at Yale, was announced here today by Yale Univeraity. Prof. Daniel *C. Knowlton, instruc- | tor of visual education, will divect the | tour, mghich will include among other Summa® schools those at the univer- sitfes of North Carolina, Nehraska, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Towa, | Chicago, and Peabody Collexe for Teachers and Leland Stanford Univer- |~ sity. Demonstrations and confe ces will be held at each of these centers, using the chronicles of American photoplays, | in connection with the study now ing made at Yale of the wider po bilities of the motion plcture as an Tf it s possible that you haven't tasted Pure Gold Syrup. made “on_the plantation from ¢ 13 Ribhon Sugar . hux A | an ot Old" Dutch Market, ean ment E. F. DROOP & SONS CO. 1300 G Street ton Distributors for Steinway, Vose and | extravagance,” | Alme last year. They are charged with | nearly SOVIET STATE MOVIE OFFICIALS ARRESTED By the Associated P MOSCOW, March 6.—Sixteen high officials of the Soviet State Cinema Syndicate were arrested and held for trial today for “criminal neglect and in the production of having caused the state the loss of $100,000 through unnecessary traveling, Inadequate preparation for the films, extravagant living and other trregularities. One of thelr pictures, cosing $58,- 000, was @ total loss. In anothep¥im intended to feature the shooting by czarist cossacks of several hundred workers in the gold fields of Siberla, the promoters are charged with ne- glecting to take with them from Mos- cow soldlers’ uniforms of the pre-revo- lutfonary period, resulting in the ulti- mate abandonment of the film at the loss of $35,000. The director of the expedition was further charged with offering to take to Stheria two actresses provided they beeame his collected wives. —_ . 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But Frenchwomen point out that one swalloew does not make a Summer, and a few Paris trouserskirts &t e track of French- Paris, do not make a styi 18 for the murder of Don R. Mellett,| the new rulette-skirt offered by the | woemen as a whele, seem to he hang- Canton newspaperman, has lifted at| Paris dressmakers fer Spring wear?|ng back. least in part the gecrecy that has It the latter, on what grounds? On the boulevards ehi: # | yoing women may be seen wearing | | 1s 15 ’.mdge ltoge:h-r with notice of the date h's of office pending ial is uncertain. Lawyer members the legislature have held that the vote to begin impeachment aetion TRIAL OF JUDGE | ot ofice and empowersd Gov. ge | Dearth has indicated that he will seels | |to retain the beneh. He presided sver |a number of eases today. Gov. Jackson has asked several attorneys to submit briefs ot the | legality of the proceedings which, uf« | der the law of 1897, requires thai the chief executive appoint & stiecessey in such an_ impeachment case. opinfons from Atierney Glemera Aw thur L. Gilliom, have eomtendsd the procedure against Judge Dearth is ncenstitutional, Falter Stays Oub of State. Dale, whose ediorial attacks on the judge caused the latter to sup- press Dale's newspaper, remaified ‘ilndiana Officials In Doubt as | to Status of Judge At- tacked by Dale. By the Assncisted Press. | | INDIANAPOLIS, March b—Tm-| peachment proceedings against Judge | | Clarenca W. Dearth of Muncle were | | advanced a step in the Indlana Legls. hung about the killing since last July | too feminine in an era of shingled hair | {rouser-skirts on fine days. But women |lature today when the Senate set his cafely across the Ohlo line, deciding seemed eertain tenight. For an heur and a halt Mager and his counsel locked in a room at with Henry W. Harter, fr., county prosecutor, today, and when the con- ference broke up Harter emerged sm!l ing and announced that the county egrand jury weuld be reconvened Tues. day to continue its investigation of the case. the courthouse Harter declined tn say that Maser | had talked of the killings, but his man ner gave clear evidence that he was in a happier meed than he was at any time since he teok office January 1 and plunged Inte the prosecutian of Ben Rudner, now serving a life sen- tence for the elaying. Counsel Withdraw. Bignificance was attached to the an- nouncements of E. L. Mills and George W. Spooner, members of Mager's counsel, that they had withdrawn from the case today. Neither had much to say, but Spooner declared that If Mazer had declded "to confer with the State's attorneys in an effort to obtain clemency” ha saw no reason for him te econtinue further with the case Harter intimated follo: ference that no more ar A be made until after the grand jury r ports. “1 don't want to say what will be David Kramer, remained | and shin-length skirts? Or too mascu- {line in a woman's era? Ruch dressmaking honses as Lanvin Patou and Polret say front row of fashion many versions a new | which has characteri | the garments for which it fs named | | Some are wide and eome are narrow. | but all are really trousera of skirt length with the division so cleverly concealed by pleats that when the | | wearer is motlonless there s nothing | to indicate that they are trousers.| Even the stald old house of Worth, | dean of Parls dressmaking establish- | ments, is showing trouser-skirts this | Spring. | Only mectet once—has afready placed its erders. tronser-skirt ready to try anything | sald ‘yves” Bome fa | Marer's aged mother, however, has| heen eritically 11l ever since his arrest | | sh after the killing, and It has| | be reported that she urged him | | several times to tell anything I new | | of the case. Her Influence was re-| | garded as largely respansible for his | seeming revelations. | The arrest Thuraday of Floyd Streit- | | enberger, former Canton city detective, | | on a murder charge in connection with | | Mellett's death alsa s bellevad to have | influenced Mazer, Btreitenberger be-| "\qflr trousers or s comen MAY | French feminists manifest little in.|the jurlet's atterneys that they will | & o wear trousers and ba right up In | terest in the new style hevond a few |bring ceurt actlen to test the Senate's | cr They offer in | comments that puhlic opinion, which |guthority te hear the case, done hy the grand jury or who will|cama involved when he told author-| teatify, but thera have been davelop-|itles Mazer was at his hofe on the ments that seem to warrant getting night of the killing. | the jury in session at once,” he sall. | Although Mazer was the first man “The prorecutor’s office hopes the case | indicted and arrested after the shoot- will be cleared up speedily. Just when |ing, two others have preceded him be- this 'Will be, however, 1 cannot say.” Just what led to Mazer's request to see the prosecutor was not divuiged. |fore a jury. In additlon to Rudner, | Patrick McDermott, the first tried, 1s | serving a life rentence. | generally appear to waiting for fate to decide whether th skirts. be F gives them the right to wear trousers, sfies of hoth of | has nai vet given women the right [upon allegations that the Judge vio- to vote Only manufacturers appear to he taking the new style seriously. They have started making underwear to &0 with Lreuser-skirta. This new plece 1a called a culotte combination and Is just ene jump more modern than the Charleston step-in, which, now Is being sald here. Assigned to Training Duty. Capt. Charles H. Davey, Corps of Enginears Reserve, of this city has heen assigned to duty in tralning at the Engineer reduction plant, Wash- ingten Barracks. Ordered to Walter Reed. Ma). Thomas J. 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