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DECEMBER |HOLIDAY FESTIVITIES DESCRIBED BY PLATT| OV CC-MUNITY PLAN Georgetown Christ- mas Friday Evening With Elabo- rate Program at Montrose Park. D. €., WEDNESDAY. | FEDERAL RESERVE STAR. WASHINGTON. .“THE =~ EVENING THE BOY WHO MADE GOOD. S WeCL! WELL! CLAUDE! WE A GIGHT Strike Peace Move Fails. Georgetown school children will be held ~This will be followed by a short| . o o % pageant directed by Mrs. H. S. Tor- SEN, Germany, December 7 (# ant e general carol singing will | —Negotiations between iron and steel be eonducted by William T. Pierson. | gperators and labor unions for the set Arrangements _for the celebration | o, nent of their present controvers we under the direction of a commit- | LeWeR® T A G hout result. Bot | tee of Georgetown citizens, i s stuck to their demands, the of Craig, William erators maintaining that al i Mrs’ John_Thider. | &% e unerative operations next v . McReynolds, 1. B. Nord-| \ouid be surrendered if they . Albion K. Parris, | {5 labor's demand for increased Mrs. Laura P.land an eight-hour day. 2oger M. S Mrs. Lioyd | z . Mrs. H. B. Torbert, the F. Bland Tucker, Capt. and Mrs. Jared Irwin Wood, Rev. E. Pinkne, “"”“‘ ‘H"“"“‘]L i | Wroth and J. B, Wyckofr, chairman. | vice | 1 | e TR RN t vear by Garden Club, A carol contest —By WEBSTER. SOURE COMNECTED WITH TH THE - AY- soneice ’/‘\:\NTTHA’VFING L1 ALWAY S TRADEBOARD T0LD OF AIRPORT NEED Army Flyer Pictures Progress of Plane Transportation to New Committee. YoU s o To R SORE EYES! | WAS Goiry Roun S = 1-5r<’ AN HONTCHA OF, KE GOOD INTH THE TH' THE-AY-TER AN HOLTOAS mena ':,,A‘A,_ BusINESS FYA HeAT(al CAL = o il Q\ gusmeis N . : | & ’L07|Mn N = m How's | | g S— to Celebrate Vice Governor Tells Civitans Board Cannot Control World Price Levels. in the holi- | on with a_community Chrisi ation Friday evening at 7 t Montrose Park, T! Georgetown will usher sea as celeb Those in charge of the Federal Re ?"‘,",n"ll‘: serpe banking system are unable to |y o control price levels throughout the s heen charged in certan | circles, declared fdmund Platt. 2 governor of the Kederal Re Board, in doscribing the reserve tem in an address at a luncheon the Civitan Club in the La Faj Hotel yesterday. While admitting that the system might' be capable of making § fluence felt, Mr. Platt emph | that he did mot think it conld go s far as it has been accused of doing. Referring to the working of the cstem itself in this country, he de- ed that it is not a perfect system 1d that it does not work exactly like TR‘LK;”‘ Following the arrest of a man ar woman as pickpocket suspects, ti Paris police had to hold them unt their description and fingerprints we nt thousands of miles to the poli tl«mu{eluf Australia, who recognized the tw Australia. ' as confirmed criminal T e T T among xmmmmmmmmmmm; A picture of a tremendous develop _A carol contest amons groups oflto crops and_railways in Australia. as confirmed clmina®: of air transportation in the nex w years was presented to the newly ormed aviat committee ashington 1 meetir by Lieut. D Afr Corps, who port work Duke predicted that shor te AR % Santa Says: “GIVE JEWELRY” ,o., body knows. better anta what GI 175 T MORON (¢ 2l MBLK How YA WAS ALWAYS HANGIMN brocins MAID S, We'RE > & TH OP'RY HOUSE BACK HOME. | ¢ \,R,E‘J\':As BORN FER TH THE-AY- TU\ DoI A 45,000 t pre and HAVE A HARD | = A WEEK BUSINEZS its founders thought it could, but t establishment of [ works pretty well. | n the Distriet | < { 'The speaker declared this country an absolute 2 had the worst bankin, world prior to the C referred to the financial 1907 and showed how system protects the country recurrence. Bank fallures,” Mr. Platt declared, “are pecullarly an American institu- tion,” adding that it is very seldom that bank failures occur in other countries. Banks are seldom exam- lined in other countries, as they are lin this country, the governments | being willing to leave the running of the banks entirely to the judgment of the bankers, he said HAT SHOW HA\I6 YA 2':/01 Ghi oW ‘_"VFAN“WM ~N s€c i 5o eA <5 BACK in a con mriale And for the development of 2 permanent uirport on the Gravelly Point site on he south side of the Potomac River, for which the District Commissioners have intimated they would submit at the present sessi ut. Duke, who w from Gent's WATCHES Gent's Gola Filled El- &in or Waltham; white _or green; 17 NOVELTIES , presented maps <howing the prope pians for this development, urg the necessity of early action on thi that Washing ir mail service along the Departme f Perfect White DIAMONDS Beautifully set diamond Speciat 150 The latest design in Dinner Rings, set with 5 brilliant dia- enme. $19.85 Gent's Gold Filled El- yaltham, $11.65 Elgin _ Wrist $13 gin _or W i nickel . i g .56 o 825 Cigarette Cases, :‘.‘.‘.‘:’.‘ Sl 50 o 85 | Lofl’t;:. Sats, -n um-. 325 Others to slm Jotlet Seta, 3 ploves $10 © 825 lr’::e:l !et.$4050 = \ { Gent’s sterling silver belt buckle 52.50 up with belt Table set, 26 pleces, 10-year guar: : ring, B¢ the growth of chil- | | _One doctor s: | e entirely when they to ho inaugur dren takes pl: st. The V tempo! use Field as a landing field fc malil service, w i 8 \ that the D! i permanent port, Edwin C. Grah Board of Trade, urged the new tion committee’ to make a study the airport q Tawrence E. Williams, chairman, presided. MANY DEATHS ARE HELD DUE TO CARELESSNESS Preventable Industrial Accidents Deplored by Secretary of Labor in Discussing Daily Casualties. | AIN'T EXACTLY ROMMIST Y w BUTF ' TH Ro55 SEME NS RIGHT HAMD MA 1 LINE VER T JO8. T lo, .20 AN MADE TH' SHO! AL WE mnier A\‘; |1:-H1\ON TA ZEEMN )05 T SHOVIW SUL-DA & TLorPPeo T § e : monds $75 Diamond ‘and sapphire bracelet, open lace work, very pretty 920 | GentUs 7-stome cluster ring, 1-carat size, $75 |a wonder. 5 o aee our nele | DIAMOND RING | $25, $50, $75 and $100 CLOCKS | “Seth Thomas” mahog- any ense Mantel Clock $12 50 TAL — Mahogany wnm. Tambau Shape. HAD T w e w-w\‘/ "Rurhaus: ace_and T ‘Barbi: Belvec Apply_Secretary, Endsleigh Gar- m K ’ dmw London, W. C f;-.——( ifi \< WELLWE 125 X ALt MlGuT? committee $3.50 Philadelphia $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wilmington AND RETURN Next Sunday, Dec. 11 WATCHES Ladles’ 14-kt. Gold Wrint Rectanguine Shape, 17-jewel Ladies’ White Gold Filled Wrist Wat Rectangular Shave Ladies Gola' “Elgin» Watch. Diamonds Can | Be Exchanged | AT FULL VALUE ANYTIME | RN Bvery man of the 63 killed in pre ventable industrial accidents each day is a martyr to to the carelessness| of Americans in general, Secretary of Labor Davis declared today. Most of the casualties in industry.are -the re- sult of preventable aecident or care: lessness, which a little ‘thought or education would have prevented. “No other industrial nation produces S0 many goo as we do, and in no other country are so many men Killed and maimed in industry. We have been so busy speedin: this ll)fllN trial machine of ours that we turned our backs on the price we h l\: been paying for this in terms of Amer- ican workers killed or maimed e\?n day In the course of their occupation.” o T e CLUB MANAGER ACCUSED. Jean Monk Charged With Violat- ing Police Regulations. Assistant Corporation Counsel Seal filed charges today against Jean Monk as manager of the National Fellowship Club, alleging that a pub- lic dance conducted by that organiza- tion Saturday nigh the City Club ran over until an early hour Sunday. The hearing is scheduled for Decem- ber 13. The police regulations require that all publlc places of amusement that charge admission close promptly at midnight Saturday. - Recently similar charges against the managements of | four other night clubs were dismissed on the grounds of insufficient evi- To procure conviction it must be proved not only ‘that the club stayed open after midnight Saturday, but that it was a public place of STREET IMPROVEMENT T0 BE CELEBRATED Msss Meeting and Parade Will Mark Twelfth Street Cere- monies Monday. Plans for a large citizens’ mass | meeting and parade Monday evening to celebrate the Twelfth street im- provements in the Northeast section, were announced by the celebration committee at the regular meeting of the Brookland Citizens' Association Monday night. Gen. Marvin M. Me- Lean presided. Gen. McLean anmounced that Com- missioner Proctor L. Dougherty and Maj. William E. R. Covell, acting En- gineer Commissioner of the District, had accepted invitations to speak at the meeting_which will be held in the Masonic Hall following the parade. The parade will form on the north side of Rhode Island avenue north- east,” facing Twelfth street. A tape will be-extended across the entrance | to Twelfth street from Rhode Island avenue and a b formal ceremony will take place before the tape is woken, and the march, which will pro- seed north on Twelfth street, hegins. amusement and that atimission was charged. Edgar H. Nye, landscape’ artist of 1008 Taylor street northeast, C. Denekas of 4016 Georgia avenue, chair- man of the Park View Business Men's “arnival, and Milton R. Vollmer of 646 Lamont ' street, local attorney and president of the Georgla Avenue Busi ness Mer ion, have been ap- point judges to select the three best window displays, the three most beautifully decorated floats and the three best decorated private automo- biles, for which special prizes will be awarded. DR. T. S. TROY APPOINTED Veterans’ Bureau Official to Take Post at Diagnostic ,Center. Dr. Thad S. Troy, for the past two years chairman of ‘the appeal group on central office cases, has been ap- pointed by Director Hines of the Vet- erans’ Bureau to be assistant med- ical officer in charge at the bureau’s diagnostic _center, Mount Alto Hos- pital, on Wisconsin “avenue. Troy had 14 months’ overseas —If a gentleman could swear! Three days now, and the young chief still ab- sent from his band out there in the lot. Three &alling days of listening to his refers to him (not without scorn) as “mama’s little martyr.” Three days of about the neck destined for the collar of a con- . if only a gentleman could swear! queror . . e Never neglect a sore throat. upon it as a warning of an oncoming cold, or worse, and take definite steps to check it. At the first sign of throat irritation, rinse the mouth little sister who to strike. wearing a towel Pharmacal and gargle with Listerine full strength. Do it several times a day. Many’s the cold and sore throat that this simple precaution has nipped Listerine is antiseptic, and the in the bud. moment it enters the mouth attacks the countless disease-progucing bacteria that lodge there waiting till resistance is low Sharp changes of temperature weaken resistance, and crowds pass bacteria along to thrive in stuffy homes and offices. So, during the winter months use Listerine every day for your own protection. Lambert Co., St. Louis, Mo., U. S. 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