Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1927, Page 19

WONEN INUINELP FORIBELECTON Members of National Leaguei Discuss Issues Prominent | in the Campaign. By the Associated Press. | In the Fall the voter's fancy turns | to thoughts of politics, platforms and | parties. Women are no exception, it | seems, to this rule, and organizations interested in the political expression | of women are laying plans for ap proaching campaigns. | Announcement has just been made | by the Woman's National Democratic Club here that during the early Au tumn it will stage a national contest for the best Democratic slogan for 1928. This is the outcome of the wic spread interest arou: local slo gan contest held by the club in M which brought in not only a la number of entries from elub member but comments and suggestions from all_parts of the country The National League for Woman Voters is not afliliated with any | STUDYING T. Baldwin (center) of chairman of its living ¢ and Mrs. Emily Newel one of the for National Democratic C| rs. Casper Whitney (left), of Trving- . Y., d ational Harris ngton, ttee, lair (right), nders of the Woman's b, agree that now is the time for all politically mind- ed women to begin studying probable npaign issues. Its members, however, study | the programs and accomplishments of | each. Suggestions for political study | are being made now to members, and chairmen of its committees are choo ing the topics which they will discu: with their colleagucs before the pri- maries begin. Tariff Regarded as Important. “The tariff is a subject that all thinking women should be studying,” says Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin of ington, D. C., chairman of the liv costs committee of the League of Woman Voters. “When viewed in terms of Paris gowns and luxuries the tariff scems far away and vague, but when seen in terms of neocassities of life, such as sugar, salt, cotton thread, knit goods party. | National Are Made by Scientists of Carnegie Party. TALE OF PIPE TOLD IN YUCATAN RUINS < Further Maya Discoveries | of my mind. By Saturday morning | {ha¢ driven the breast of the cut |acros, to within a meter of ihe cor- ner. At this point we came upon a great number of fragments, compris- ing the jaws of one of the ; eat ser- pe t heads we found last year. These th> a jent masons had broken up and built into the fill. T lovsened all that were in sight, digging below the level we were following, to do so, and then notioned to one of the men (o dig out the crumbled mortar which had filled the spaces between. As he scraped up th. last shovelful, he sa “Here is the arm of a human being. t was. The Chac Mool lay on its side, beneath a huge mass of over- ha9ging m.s -y, so that several days passed before we had it com- bedy. ing is surpassed by few SMOKERS SHARE BLAME. Forest Losses by Fire, $26,900,000 in Year, Report Shows. Forest fires in the United States last year sed $26,900,000 damage and burned over an area of 24,300,000 acres the Forest Service reported yes- terday. The heaviest damage was in Missis- sippi, where 23,170 acres were burned over. Causes of more than 72 per cent of the fires are charged to man, with The exquisiteness of the carv- hings Maya." SUGAR HOLDS LUR FOR HUMMING BIRD Ornithologist Attracts Wing- ed Singer to Garden to Become Pet. Correspondence of the Assoctatea Press. McGREGOR, Iowa—With an arti- ficial flower and a bottle of sugar Miss Althea R. Sherman, ornithologist, has transformed the elusive ruby-throated humming bird into a constant and friendly visitor to her garden. Her study of the bird has attracted the attention of Kuropean and Amerl- can ornithologists. She discovered, by attracting humming birds with artificial nasturtiums and tiger lilies, that the birds often absorbed in a day more than twice their weight in sugar dissolved in water and that they pre- Terred the artificlal nectar to that of flowers. More than a dozen humming birds came in quest of sweets where formerly they called singly or in pairs. Miss Sherman’s country place con tains an untamed acre filled with nestboxes and an old barn which is a yeararound feeding place for birds. To study chimney swifts she built a 20-foot tower with a chimney at the top and a box below it for nesting. It was three years before the first pair of swifts moved into the nest. She studied them by means of mirrors arranged in the tower. She has succeeded, for perhaps the first time in ornithological history, in observing the nest life of four other hole-nesting species—the northern flicker, the screech owl, the sparrow hawk and the western house wren. Sometimes during hatching season she has spent 20 hours a day watching the birds. Resumes Department Duties. Scanty Blamed for Slump In Correspondence of the Assoclated Press. BERLIN.—There is a slump in the business of the European waste material merchants, otherwise the rag trade. is that women hardly wear any clothes at all and that the men have no money to spend on new sults and have to make old ones do. The ton stockings by artificlal silk is another factor. less shoddy enters into the manu- facture of cheap cloth than before. But the chief complaint is that rag vicking gives too much trouble for \l&t'hal little money there may be in More than half of the total of German rag exports formerly went to the United States, but Amer- icans more barely rag exports now go to America, it is said. Wins Prize for House. Correspondence of the Associated Press. SEATTLE.—Selected from hundreds of designs submitted by architects in all part submitted Hutchinson, Kans., was awarded first prize of petition a residence and garage built prin- cipally of wood. GERMAN MARNE CHIEFS TERMED SICK AT TIME Retired Chief Surgeon, Gen. Dr. Rochs, Declares Von Moltke and | Three Aides Were Il Correspondence of the Associated Press. BERLIN—Four of the principal military leaders of the German forces in the battle of the Marne were sick men, according to a commentary almost totally deaf. Gen. von Lauenstein, Clothing 0old Rag Trade the cardiac artery. sponsible German leaders. years he had been afflicted with gal The reason given for it stones. ailments. hardening of the arteries. He was Buelow‘l chief of staff. had for years been suf fering from Basedow's disease amd resulting dilation of the heart and Gen. Hentsch is mentioned as the fourth invalid of this group of re- He was general staff officer of the battie. For All four have since died of thejr published in the Deutsche Medi- zinische Wochenschrift by the retired | chief surgeon, Gen. Dr. Rocl In the medical journal the chief of general staff, Count von Moltke, is | described as having been a sufferer | for many years prior to the battle from hardening of the arteries, com. plicated by atrophy of the hegrt and inflammation of the heart valves. | The outbreak of the World War | interrupted a cure he was taking at Carlsbad. Gen. von Buelow, then considered one of the ablest generals in the Ger- man army, was also afflicted with FACTORY SALE replacing of woolen and cot- APARTMENTS TO LET All Sizes—Lo w Rentals L. W. GROOMES, 1416 F ST. The Tolman Laundry MODER[:S LAAUNDRY Phones Fr. 71-72-73-74 It is also said that are using their own rags than they used to do, and one-eighth of the German 10 DAYS ONLY ONLY Overstuffed 1v if ’:lfléa;:l'; s of the United States, a plan > Furniture by Otho McCrackin of $2,000 in an international com- . 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Women as purchasers should consider this seriously. “Women as voters must consider the tariff earnestly also when they cast their ballots. because the party in power to a great extent controls the tarlff mhintained by the United States.” Mrs. Laldwin has had extensive governmental _training in _matters dealing with living costs. She also attends all congressional hearings and floor debates on legislation related to subjects in the living costs program. Before her marriage in 1922, Mrs. Baldwin was an expert in the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and in three years traveled in virtually every State conducting special campaigns. “Wet or Dry” Another Issue. “Wet or dry?” is another question for which many enfranchised women believe they must find an answer. Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union tliroughout the country will pay special attention to the question of prohibition in all 2iec- tions. At its annual convention just held in Minneapolis, Miss Laura Val- stead, daughter of the author of the Volstead law, urged the assembly: to pay attention to the political fields. ‘With primaries approaching, with minor elections to be held locally and with choice of presidential candidates soon upon the voters, she urged the ‘women to favor only those men “who are earnestly in favor of seeing pro- hibition enforced.” When platforms begin to be laid, the National League of Woman Voters says one of the questions most fre- quently asked is “What do women voters expect of the political parties? “Just Plain Honesty” Advocated. “Just plain honesty of pronounce- ment of action,” answers Mrs. Caspar Whitney of Irvington-ondudson, N. Y., in behalf of the league of which she is a director. She bases her con- clusions on first-hand experiences gained in party activities and in league work since women were enfranchised. “I cannot, of course, pretend to speak for all women, but I believe that 1 can speak for a very large number of serious-minded, thinking woman voters,” Mrs. Whitney said. *“What women expect of the parties is per- 1 simple. “They expect parties to put the welfare of the country before anything else Fatimates Given Free. Mattresses Michael J. McDermott, chief of the l Made _to Order current information division of the State Department, has resumed his duties at the department after a va- cation of several weeks in New Eng- land. Five or six centuries ago—or it may have been ten centuries, for all any- body knows—a mischievous boy stole his father’s finest pipe, supposing that he could smoke it and put it back in place without being found out. But he dropped it clumsily and broke Jt into three pieces. To escape a whipping, he hid the fragments in a chink in the wall and lied convinc- ingly when questioned concerning the disappezrance of the implement. The lie probably served its purpose at the time. The boy grew old and died un- whipped. His falsehood has just been discovered by investigators of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, working among the Maya ruins of Chichen Itza in Yucatan. At least, that is one way in which they reconstruct the story. Another explantion is that the pipe was . dropped and then hidden by a careless servant, whose head might have been chopped off if the accident had been discovered. The fragments have been fitted together and form one of the most valuable relics of ancient Maya civilization which have come to light. It is a splendid example of Mayan artistry. The pipe, made of red clay, is 21 inches long. The flaring bowl, still showing traces of smoke, is set back about three inches from one end. The projecting stem is shaped into the likeness of a duck's head. The head itself is hollow and contains a pellet of clay or some other material, for the pipe rattles when it is shaken. Minor Toltec God. Among other discoveries just an- nounced is a remarkably well pre- served Chac Mool figure, made of stone and representing one of the minor Toltec gods. They always are represented as a human form reclining on back and' elbows, with knees drawn up, arms pressed tightly to sides and uplifted head turned to one side. The one found is in perfect co.dition ex- cept for the nose, which seems to have been batcered off instead of broken by a single blow. It is about four feet long and stands on a stone pedestal a foot high, which is covered ith stucco and painted red. The fifjure seems to have had several renewals of plaster and to have been painted at one time blue and again white, with vertical red . stripes. The hair, as carved in the stone, is long and hangs down the back. E. F. Morris, in charge of the exca- vators, writes to headquarters at Washington: “Dnring the excavation of the chamber something happened which 1 hesitate to mention, for I feel creepy as if, in some uncanay way, [ had for an instant touched hands wil. a shade © om the sears long past. One morn- ing I was standing amid the ruins, re. corstructing in mind the form and de- tails f the temple. Then, as learly as if some one had spoken, came the impression: ‘They dragged the Chac Mool irside and put it there in the southwest corner.’ “I was so impressed that I men- tioned_the probability at lunch next day. I could not get the notion out OCCliry . Courts ¥ Cut Your Rent in Half Pay as You ‘ “From Factory to You" Eern 1612 14th St. N.W. 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