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CHONTESCHLGEN T MDREVSHED District Episcopal Layman Succeeds Bonsall as ‘President. H. Lawrence Choate, ored by being unanimousiy elected president of the National Brotherhood | of St. Andrews at the annual business | meeting of the order today in connec- tion with its forty-second national cor vention, held at the Mayflower Hotel The new president rd H. Bonsall of Philade d clined a re-election Yor a twentieth term. Other members of the nationel cil were being selected this as the business sessions continuec election of Mr. Choate was a foregone when the convention met | earlier today. He was placed in nom- | ination by Dr. B. F. Finney. president | of the University of the South, Swanee, | Tenn., and seconded by Courtenay Bar- | ber of Chicago Mr. Choate has been influential in | Episcopal affairs in° Washington since coming here four years ago from Chi- | cago, where he served as president of the Assambly. He i$ a_member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish, and has served as chairman of the convention during its sessions here, It is with genuine regret that the Brotherhood delegates look to the re- tirement of Mr. Bonmsall, who has a| record of more than 40 years' service in the Brotherhood. Before his elec- | tion as president, 19 years ago, he was | for a number of years a national coun- cilman of the order. A banker of Phila- | delphia, Mr. Bonsall is known widely for Y. M. C. A. work, and during the war engaged in promoting the Brother- hood work in 90 Army camps and naval stations here and overseas Talks by three successful men on “The Business of Being a Christian” were a feature of today's program of the General Convention, which closes to- morrow. The talks, before the junior division in St. Thomas' Church were given by Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, commandant of the Marine Corps, and senior warden of Epiphany Church; Samuel Thorne, New York capitalist, and James L. Houghteling, vice presi- dent of the Chicago Daily News, and a son of the founder of the Brotherhood | order. Speakers at Conference. Christian stewardship and the| church’s program were subjects coming | before the senior division today at the | Mayflower conferences. Speakers in- cluded Lewis B. Franklin, New York banker and national Episcopal treas- urer; Rev. Dr. Theodore R. Ludlow, di- rector of adult education of the Epis- copal Church, and Rev. Dr. Charles N. Lathrop, executive secretary of the de- partment of social service, who led the discussion. Earlier in the morning Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, jr. rector of Calvary Church, New York City, addressed the general meeting of delegates on “The Second Birth,” declaring that “there cannot be an advance of the church in other generations until we have a religion with a lot more kick in it than we_have today.” Following the National Council elec- tion this afternoon the problem of re- ligion in modern universities, & subject of recent startling reports, was to be taken up late, with Rev. John B. Hart, student pastor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Rev. Raimundo De Ovies, chaplain of the University of the South, leading in that discussion. Dr. Larkin W. Glazebrook, field secre- tary of the National Commission on Evangelism, also was scheduled to speak today on individual evangelism. Interest among the delegates centered in two addresses early this afternoon, one by Prof. S. L. Joshi of Dartmouth College; ont #The World’s Need,” and the other by Rev. Alfred Newbery, rec- tor of the Church of the Atonement, Chicago, on “The Great Triangle—Me, Him and It. Tonight's mass meeting, devoted to “The Influence of the Family of Chris- tians,” will be held at 8 o'clock in the Church of the Epiphany. The speakers will be Rev. Dr. Frank E. Wilson of Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Right Rev. Charles L. Slattery, Bishop of Massa- chusetts, and Right Rev. Logan H. Roots, Bishop of Hangkow. Finds Youth Unchanged. Modern youth was acquitted of being any better or any worse than youth ot former generations by Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, president of St. Stephen’s College, New York, speaking last night before the convention of the Brother- hood in the Church of the Ascension. “Young men of today are not a bit different from the young men of 25 years ago,” declared Dr. Bell. Some people talk as though a miracle hap- pened about 1915 which transmogrificd | the younger section of the race. This is silly. Sometimes a younger man asks me if I am not shocked at the wicked- ness of his generation. It gives me im- | mense joy to puncture -his pride by | telling him that there is no wickedness performed by him and his pals that I and my pals did not commit, and fre- quently with more skill, “The badness of modern youth does not interest me much. It is the same | conventional badness that I have known | all my life. The chief difference is| that when we did something wicked | we kept quiet about it, while modern | youth cannot do anything naughty without telling the world in a loud voice all the particulars. I cannot believe that the increase in this so-called | opeaness is anything more than a | growth in brag. “Some of us toted a good deal of liquor, but we did not bore everybody by gassing about it. Some of us petted, but we did not think it necessary to| tell afterwards. This increased frank- | ness is just bad taste, not a virtue. In short, modern youth is not any worse than it has ever been. Young People Distrait. “Nor is it any better. Youth is puzzled, distrait, self-conscious, almost pathetically desiring instruction, lead- ership and an understanding compas- sion. Youngsters are unhappy, almost all of them. Life is hardly to be en- dured. The only difference worth not- ing between younger men and older | ones is that the younger ones are more ignorant and inexpert. But that is natural.” a prominent | Washington Episcopal layman, was hon- | | Girls | speaker_said. ’ THE EVE | i Insp{ring Program Bearing witness to the zeal of lay i at nearly 15,000, gathered on the green afternoon for the open-air mass me - ing of the forty-second national con- vention of the Brotherhood of St. An- drew in what was declared to be one [of the mest soul-inspiring demonstra- | tions of Ch n faith this Capital has witnessed in many vears. The keyncte of the service, the wit- uth as well as maturity to of Christianity, was sounded in the addresses of two chosen laymen of the Episcopal Church and was em- laymen and clergy that preceded the opening of the exercises at 4 o'clock in | the amphitheater of Washington Ca- thedral Close To countless homes throughout Wash- ward Christlan Soldier,” that exempli- | fied the spirit of the solemn occasion was carried by radio, as were the ad- dresses of Dr. Rudolph Bolling Teus- ler, director of St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokio, and former Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsyl- vonia. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, who presided, introduced the speakers as “laymen” | prophets” and to the outstanding men in their respective fields of the church bore witness himself to the part the laymen of the church are taking in | its affairs. “Some of the mightest refor: in humar interests.” he declared been inspired from the zeal of laymen.” Throng of Young People Assemble. Long before the hour of the ser- | vice, the vast throng of young people | who were to participate in the demon- stration, began streaming into the Ca- thedral grounds from every section of the city. They marched, 5,000 strong, with banners bearing legends gleaming in‘the sunlight. Their ranks were drawn from 30 Sunday schools of the diocese, from chapters of the Brotherhood, the Friendly Societies, Boys and Girls Scouts and from the Episcopal High School near Alexandria. Ten minutes before 4 o'clock, the vested band of 25 pieces broke into the strains of “Onward Christian Sol- diers,” the signal for the formal pro- cession of choristers from the com- bined Episcopal choirs and clergy in flowing, colored robes, to begin its | march down the slopes between the swerving human walls down the slope that led to the platform erected in the amphitheater. An acolyte bearing an American flag and another bearing a cross headed the procession. Behind them came Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, canon of Wash- ington Cathedral and master of cere- monies, and behind him followed the boys of the chathedral choir in their purple and white vestments. Next in line came the diocesan clergy, the cathedral clergy and the following visit- ing bishops: Right Rev. Ernest V. Shayler, Bishop of Nebraska; Right Rev. James Wise, Bishop of Kansas; Right Rev. John Chanler White, Bishop of Springfield, IIl; Right Rev. Robert Carter Jeit, Bishop of Southwestern Virginia, and Right Rev. Hugh Latimer Burleson, Bishop of South Dakota. Bishop Escorted by His Chaplain. The head cathedral verger walked next bearing a mace and then came the Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, escorted by his chaplain, Rev. Raymond L. Wolven. Last of all walked the presiding bishop of the Epis- copal Church, the venerable most Rev. fl)hdn Gardner Murray, Bishop of Mary- nd. The combined boys’ choirs of 150 singers were massed at one side of the platform and were directed by Edgar Priest, organist and choirmaster of Washington Cathedral. Very Rev. G. C. F. Bratenahl, dean of Washington Cathedral, read the first portion of the service, and after the re- cital of the Apostolic Creed, the rest of the service was read by Rev. Dr. C. Ernest Smith, rector of St. Thomas’ Church. In introducing Dr. Tuesler as one of the speakers, Bishop Freeman declared he was the foremost lay missionary of the church, and he referred also to former Senator Pepper as the church's “foremost layman.” Dr. Tuesler, who outlined the 27 years of mission work conducted through St. Luke's Hospital in Tokio, gave credit to the advance of Christi- anity for a large measure of the prog- ress witnessed in Japan in recent years. Stresses Work in Far East. Taking issue- with a minority report which is to be presented to the Episco- pal General Convention, Dr. Tuesler solemnly warned that proposed reduc- tion of institutional work in the Far East by the Episcopal Church in this country and the Evangelican Com- munion should not be carried out if the church wished to continue as an influential factor in those countries. “There never was a more impossible idea conceived of the interpretation of the giving of Christ than this,” thg “The very moment we undertake to reduce the hospitals, churches and schools,” he added, “then | instantly do we deplete th> represent- ation of Christ in the Far East.” He declared no cleavage in the evan- | gelistic, humanitarian and spiritual work | of thz church in the Orient was pos- sible and that withdrawal or reduction | of efforis along these service lines, leav- ing them to native churches to carry out, would place too heavy a burden upon them. The former worshipers of Buddhe, he declared, have come to look | on these influences as a by-product of Christianity, which centuries before had never produced. Referring to the work of St. Luke's Hospital itself, he explained that it was founded 27 years ago with only eight hospital beds. Now it has a staff of over 40 physicians, takes care of 6,000 patients of years, has a record of 150,000 outside visitations and its property is worth nearly $2,000,000. Senator Pepper’s Chief Topic. Senator Pepper addressed himself particularly to the young people in at- tendance and the duties that devolve upon them as future leaders in the lay men in the, cause of the church, a| mighty host of worshipers, estimated | 115000 GATHER AT CATHEDRAL IN BROTHERHOOD SERVICE Held at Méunt St. | Alban in Connection With 42d Conven- tion of St. Andrew Organization. he coach, he told the young people, It's up to you.” Like ‘the people who formerly con- egated in the Holy Land, representing | Many different tonges, but all com- lopes of Mount St. Alban yesterday | bined in one solemn purpose, Mr. Pep- | per urged the young | witness for Christ in their daily lives eople to bear and_friendships. “To be a faithful witness,” he said, | “does not mean that you must talk | cant or look smng. | " “Nobody is called upon to be a prig or |a busybody in other people’s affairs. Nobody is called to develop a long upper |1ip or a mouth that turns down at the | corners or a pious expression that looks |like a dying duck in a thunderstorm. phasized in the colorful procession of | But every child in a Sunday school i called to be so much interested and so much in earnest about the work of the school that his interest and earnestness | become as contagious for good as his Lot Sl Vash- | scarlet fever and measles are for bad. Urges Readiness for Service. “Every brotherhood man is called to be ready for every kind of service, whether teaching, feeding, visiting or ministering, not officially, not in the spirit of the smart aleck, but quietly, tactfully and out of the spirit of true friendship for the man next to him.” Pointing to the great spires of Wash- ington Cathedral, Mr. Pepper concluded : “Here we are in the shadow of Wash- ington Cathedral. What it does in daily increasing measure is to bear silent witness in terms of beauty of design and strength of material and majesty of proportion. It is for us to be as faithful witnesses in terms of human conduct as it is in living stone. Each of you can make the skyline of your life a thing of beauty. Each of you can become a perfect stone in God's great temple. Each of you by faith- ful daily witness can rise nearer Heaven than even the summit of a Cathedral tower. “Will you do it? It’s up to you."” METHODISTS HAIL MANNING' STAND Ministers’ Meeting Congratu- lates New York Bishop on Dry Attitude. A resolution congratulating Right Rev. William T. Manning, Protestant Epis- copal Bishop of New York, for his “bold and unequivocal attitude with reference to the prohibition situation” as ex- pressed by the New York clergyman in his pulpit yesterday, was unanimously adopted by the Methodist ministers’ meeting of Washington at its weekly session in the Methodist Building this morning. Introduced by Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, pastor of Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, the resolution as adopted by a unanimous standing vote directs that a letter of congratulation and commendation be framed and dis- patched to Bishop Manning. In offer- ing the resolution, Dr. Harris read re- ported excerpts from Bishop Manning's sermon yesterday and suggested that the Washington - Methodist ministers should commend the New York bishop for his “bold and unequivocal” stand on the prohibition question. ‘The Methodist ministers’ meeting was addressed today by Dr. James M. Doran, United States prohibition commissioner, who spoke on the general situation of the dry amendment. Fifty Methodist ministers were in attendance and Dr. Harris explained following the adoption of his resolution that the dispatch to a member of another church of such a document as the voted congratulations to Bishop Manning was “most unusual” for clergymen of his church. HEALING BY FAITH WILL COME BEFORE EPISCOPAL GROUP it Page.) China last Winter reported against registering these schools. Bishop Roots argued in favor of registering them, while Bishop Graves spoke against it. The third missionary bishop in China, Right Rev. Daniel T. Huntington, is not at the convention, but has sent a letter strongly upholding the position of Bishop Roots. Woman's ht for higher official recognition will be forced to the front by a report of the joint commission on deaconesses made })ubllc today. A similar report failed of adoption at the 1925 convention. The reports asks sanction for an Order of Deaconesses in the church with a special service for their ordination and other pro- visions “to give the office of deaconess a distinctive place of its own in the ministry of the church.” Signatures on Report. The report is signed by Right Rev. Philip M. Rhinelander, D. D., retired Bishop of Pennsylvania, and Rev. Car- roll M. Davis, D. D., of Missouri, and includes Deaconesses Ruth E. Byllesby of Michigan, C. N. Carter of Pennsyl- vania, Helen M. Fuller of Chicago, Ro- molo Dahigren and Jane B. Gillespie of New York and Miss Stewart of Philadelphia. Another prominent mem- ber of the commission is Miss Emily Newell Blair, prominent in Missouri politics, and among others are Mrs. Augustus N. Hand and Miss Mary Van Kleek of New York, Bishop James Henry Darlington of Harrisburg, Bishop Thomas F. Davies of Western Massa- chusetts, Bishop E. L. Parsons of Cali- fornia, Rev. Dr. W. E. Garner of Boston, Rev. Dr. C. L. Richardson of (Continued from Fis affairs of the church. He contrasted Vermont and Rev. H. C. Robbins, D. D., Many Daughters of the King attend- | the episode of the ascension of Christ | dean of the Cathedral of St. John the ed the mass meeting in the Church of | With a modern foot ball game and, like Divine, New York. the Ascension last night, when the | topic was the young peoples’ work in | the church. Right Rev. Frank Alex- | ander Juhan, Bishop of Florida, who | also spoke, expressed the opinion that | young people are better today than 25 | years ago or else infinitely more hypo- | critical. In this view he differed from Dr. Bell. who spoke before him. He also said that the church must| cultivate a genius for goodness in the young people and through the develop- | ment of character this can be brought | about. | GALE CAUSES HAVOC. Wind and Fire Sweep Section of New South Wales. SYDNEY, New South Wales, October 8 (#)—Wind and fire wrought destruc- tion in New South Wales today. A gale which reached a velocity of 63 gulo an hour unroofed hundreds of 0u | merous bush fires broke out at the same time and were spread by the wind, causing a great destruction of prop- erty. A big paper mill at Lance Cove | was surrounded by fires and burned, with 3,000 tons of coal. There were no ‘ teaths, FULL NEWS REPORTS of the _GENERAL CONVENTION of the PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH October 9 to October 29 Will Be Carried in The Chening Star The Sunday Star A special eight-page section will be printed with the regular edition, October 10. The subscription rate for the convention period. The Star will be 75 cents for Leave orders at Memorial Continental Hall or The Star office, Eleventh and Pennsylvania avenue N.W. 1o i 1 | a month of exhibition. PLANIS DELAYED Federation to Defer Court Battle Pending Action of Utilities Boay. | Plans of the Federation of Citizens’ | Associations to take its fight against an Increase in street car fares into the courts, will be held in abeyance pend- | ing definite action by the Public Util- | ities Commission on the application of | the Capital Traction Co. for financial | relief, it was announced today by Wil- | lam McK. Clayton, chairman of the | Federation’s public utilities committee. In the meantime, however, Clayton |said he and William A. Roberts, vice | chairman of the committee, would hold a series of informal conferences with People’'s Counsel Ralph B. Fleharty to View of one room at the demonstration dwelling at K:nweod, Md., which was opened to the public yesterday for PLATT AMENDMENT REPEAL FAVORED Cuban President Tells Span- ish War Veterans Law Is Non-Existent. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, October 8.—Declaring that Cuba has outlived the usefulness of the Platt amendment, President Gerardo Machado intimated that Cuba would ‘welcome its repeal in an address before the United Spanish War Veterans’ con- vention which opened here today. Stating clearly that Cuba enjoys en- tire sovereignty, the President asserted that Cuban national evolution has made the Platt amendment morally non-existant, but that the United States, “due to Its own traditions, ought to be, perhaps, the one obliged to repeal it in order to have the moral greatness sought in the joint resolution of Congress and allow all the authority of their illustrious states- men to shine without the least shadow.” Tracing the progress made by Cuba sald that Cuba, in fact, had conquered her independence twice. Imperialism Intimated. “Cuba is today one of the countries that most freely exercises its sov- ereignty in spite of interpretations that accusing the United States of an im- ism that, if it existed, would be he negation of the principles contained in its declaration of independence. That Cuba considered the veterans’ encampment in Havana an event of extraordinary significance was evinced by its President in his opening words, which expressed appreciation of the Cuban nation to the men who fought for its independence. Seven Thousand Veterans Attend. Gratitude to Cuba for its hearty re- ceptiori was the keynote of an address by Gen. John J. Garrity, commander of the United Spanish War Veterans, in gmflng the convention, attended by "Cuba was praised for its financial and economic advancement during the past 30 years by Gen. Garrity. To Visit San Juan. San Juan Hill, famous for the hectic days of '98, when United States troops were fighting shoulder to shoul- der with Cubans for their inde- pendence from Spain, will be brought back into the limelight on Fri- day. On that day several thousand Spanish War Veterans, who are now assembled. in their thirtieth annual encampment, will go to the grim hill sto honor comrades who fell in the his- toric charges. Memories of the gallant drive of Col. “Teddy"” velt and his Rough Riders will be brought from the musty tomes of history when the veterans re- enact the storming of the brick fortress in the past 30 years, President Machado | 8 made regarding the Platt amendment, | bag | challenged Prince Lancellotti. that crown San Juan Hill. i Rome Prince Cuts Opponent in Duel Over Graft Charge Ex-Mayor Resents Patri- cian’s Slur on Regime. | Mussolini May Take Hand. By the Associated Press. ROME, October 8.—Prince Spada Po- tenziani, retired governor of Rome, has | defended his honor with the sword, wounding Prince Lancellotti in a duel, | and Roman society today was wonder- | ing what punishment was in store for the duelists. Premier Mussolini is reputed to frown upon dueling, which has long been pro- hibited in Italy, and since the Fascists came into power prison terms for those found guilty of settling their differences on the “field of honor” have been in- creased. The premier has stated that the custom should no longer be em- ployed by Italians who had fought shoulder to shoulder in the World War against a_common enemy. Prince Potenziani fought in a garden of a villa outside of Rome to vindicate the honesty of his administration of the oldest functioning municipality in the world. His duel was the second to grow out of a remark attributed to Prince Lancellotti that Mussolini had dismissed Prince Potenziani because of aft. Count di Sambuy, in whose presence Prince Lancellotti- was alleged to have defamed the retired governor, immedi- ately challenged him to a duel. They fought with rapiers and the count was wounded three times. He explained later that he was suffering from lum- 0. Prince Potenziani on hearing that his voluntary defender had been wounded in avenging his honor immediately The for- mer or succeeded in-“nicking” his adversary and the referee stopped the fight. There never have been any charges in the Roman newspapers against the administration of Prince Potenziani. It was understood that his retirement on September 9, when Don Francesco Bon- compagni Ludovisi, Prince of Piombino, succeeded him, was due to Mussolini’s policy of changing administrative per- sonnel frequently in order to build up an “elite” of Fascism which would be thoroughly conversant with adminis- trative problems. Prince Potenziani, who was host to Mayor James J. Walker of New York when he visited Rome last year, re- turned the visit last May. German Educator to Speak. Dr. Otto Hoetsch, member of the committee on foreign affairs of the German Reichstag and professor of his- tory at the University of Berlin, will give a public address on “Modern Ger- many” tonight at 8 o'clock in the audi- torium of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. The meeting is under the auspices of the school and is in line with its policy to have special addresses during the year by distin- guished foreign visitors to this country. Dr. Hoetsch is regarded as one of the best informed men in Europe on inter- national affairs. STORY TOLD OF St. Andrew’s Brotherhood, of Humble Origin, Now In- ternational Body. Hans Hansen Discusses Or- ganization Founded in Church Basement. The story of how 12 Chicago boys met in a basement room of St. James' | Episcopal Church 45 years ago next | month and founded what has become | an international order—the Brother- hood of St. Andrew—was retold today by Hans Hansen, only charter member who is attending the forty-second na- tional convention at the Mayflower Hotel. The inspiration for the founding of the Brotherhood, Mr. Hansen said, was a tattered and torn bum, a down-and- outer, who appeared at St. James’ Church seeking something to eat and shelter. It was as a last resort in his misery and degradation that the man appealed to the church. The rector turned the man over to a Sunday school class of boys, lead by James L. Houghteling, prominent Chicago busi- ness man. Founding Ceremonies. On November 30, 1883, the group of boys met at Mr. Houghteling’s call in a basement room of the church and there laid the groundwork of the first chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, the basic principles of which are prayer and service, helping men and bringing them closer to the church. “It was a cold, dreary night” Mr. Hansen today recalled of that initial meeting. “Yet there was warmth and joy among our little group. Under guidance of our leader, Mr. Houghteling, we caught a new vision that night. We saw & new and bigger work of personal evangelism, a practical application of the principles lald down by Christ cen- turies before. There was no_hesitancy about undertaking the job. There was no shirking. The-group was enthusiastic and determined. 45 YEARS AGO BY GROUP OF BOYS Little did we think that 45 years later, more than 1,000 men and boys ORDER FORMED HANS HANSEN. from throughout the world would gather in Washington, pledged to the same ideals which we accepted that night. And little did we imagine that ! today there would be groups of boys and men similar to that original group scattered throughout the world.” Joins at Age of 16. Mr. Hansen was 16 years old when the first Brotherhood chapter was or- ganized. Today he is 61, grayed of hair, yet still vigorous and as interested as ever in the work of the Brotherhood. Four others of the original group of 12 boys composing the first Brother- hood chapter are still living, although Mr. Hansen is the only one present at the convention. Mr. James L. Houghteling, jr., son of the founder and vice president of the Chicago Daily News, is among those attending the gathering. He was born the month that the Brotherhood was founded, in 1883, and as national coun- cilman and Chicago leader of the order, is carrying on in many ways the work which "his father started nearly half a century ago. Both Mr. Hansen and Mr. Houghtel- ing, ir. have besn attending national Brotherhood conventions regularly for a quarter century, JANY VI MODEL HONE ATKENWODD Attractive Residence, Spon- sored by Star, Combines Unusual Features. A pointed demonstration of the in- terest of residents of Greater Washing- ton in home ownership and modern | house construction methods was given | as throngs of visitors passed through The Star model home, at Kenwood, Md., thrown open yesterday morning to the public for a month of inspection and study. All day long streams of visitors filed through the house and wandered about its spacious grounds, studying the many unusual features of the great colonial dwelling, which is the zhl‘d of the series being sponsored this year by The Star and the Home Owners’ In- stitute. The builders were the Kennedy- Chamberlin Development Co. The house will be open each day during the ensuing month from 10 am. to 9 p.m. Route to Home. The Kenwood dwelling, located at the corner of Kennedy drive and Cham- berlin avenue, may be reached by driv- ing out Connecticut avenue to Chevy Chase Circle, turning left on Grafton street to Wisconsin avenue and con- tinuing west on Dorset avenue to Ken- nedy drive, then right to'the house. The place also may be reached by way of Connecticut avenue, Bradley lane and Bradley boulevard, west on Wisconsin avenue to Kennedy drive at the en- trance to Kenwood. The model home is typically colonial of the Jeffersonian period, and visitors yesterday were greeted at the door by a dignified butler wearing colonial knee breeches and dark coat with lace trim- mings. The facade is featured by a great semi-circular portico, crowned by a typi- cal colonial balustrade, which brought forth many comments of approval. In the large center hall visitors found* a large grandfather clock, which at once set the tone to the furnishings. Major floor coverings throughout the three floors of the house are seamless green rugs, against which contrast was attained through the use of varying dominating colors in the furniture and draperies. In various rooms bronze, burnt orange, rose, wistaria and lighter shades of green than the floor coverings were selected as the dominant color of the furnishings and draperies. Living Room Features. To the left of the center hall visitors entered a great living room, where were found Duncan Phyfe, Sheraton and other pieces of colonial furniture, and at_the rear wall of this room alarge colonial fireplace, with built-in book- cases on either side. The size of this room is augmented by a large solarium adjoining it. On the right side of the first floor are the dining room, breakfast room, fin- ished in cheery colors, and kitchen and puntry, where all the latest household developments are illustrated, including mechanical dish washer, mechanical re- frigeration and specially designed kitchen cabinets. A restful green, the color scheme for the kitchen, is seen even in the kitchen sink and ranges. On the second floor visitors found a master bedroom with its own cedar closet, an adjoining dressing room and private bath. Contains Many Baths. In sharp contrasts to bygone colonial days when even one bath was to be marveled at, the model home contains three full-size baths on the second floor, another on the third floor, a guest's lav- atory just off the center hall on the first floor, and a servant’s lavatory in the basement. These baths, with their cromium plate fittings, bright shower curtains and unusual colorings in the fixtures, attracted wide interest among visitors. The color scheme of one, off the master bedroom, is bright blue, an- other has a dominating color of laven- der, and a third is in black and white. Wall paper of the various fooms was i selected to conform to the color scheme of the furnishings, giving a distinct tone to each. Colonial furniture is used throughout the house, but to illustrate the latest in house decoration, furni- ture of the modern art style is used in a guest bedroom on the second floor, where legless twin beds set on a dias is to be seen. Servants rooms are located on the second floor rear, over the two-car ga- rage, which is a constituent part of the house. A feature of the house construction which gives great strength to the dwell- ing is a heavy concrete slab base for the first floor which also serves as a barrier to noise and dust from the base- ment.. The house was furnished for the demonstration by Mayer & Co. and the landscaping of the wide lawns was executed by,John H. Sm: determine the nature of the legal pro- | ceedings to institute in the eveht the | commission grants the fare increase. | Aside from authorizing the committee |to resist a fare increase in the courts, | the federation also has instructed it | to seek the support of Fleharty if his services are available. Fleharty an- | nounced today that he would co-oper- |ate and assist the committee in any way possible. Clayton said he was gratified to learn of Fieharty's willingness to aid the committee. “The federation,” he said, “will be ready to offer Mr. Fleharty everything within its power in the way of assistance and I expect some definite pl:n of action will soon to mapped out.” ‘The commission had intended to pro- ceed today with consideration of the fare case but on account of the open- ing ¢nf, hearings on the gas valuation case it was forced to defer such action. It is likely, however, that a definite deci;lon will be reached some time this week. SOCIALIST ADMITS HS RACE 15 VAN Thomas Hopes Election Will Awaken Masses to Form New Party. Admitting that he does not really ex- pect to be the next occupant of the White House, Norman Thomas, Socalist candidate for President, left Washington today after an address in the National course of which he described the Repub- lican stand on certain campaign issues as “insane” and the position of the Democrats on these matters as “worse.” ‘While Mr. Thomas is not banking on being the next President, he does hope the forthcoming election will result in an “awakening of the masses” and bring o the foreground a ‘“real party of the working people.” Has Enthusiastic Crowd. “We have reached the point” sald, “where we sit back and don't ex- pect candidates to take an absoluie and definite stand on important mat- ters. We like to sign a blank check with our eyes ‘clcsed and hope for Santa Claus to fill it in.” Mr. Thomas told his large and en- thusiastic audience that our economic poliey “endangers the lives of our chil- dren yet to be born.” “Mr. Hoover's theory that we must make our Army and Navy big enough to render foreign invasion impossible,” he said, “is both hypocritical and in- sane. If the Kellogg anti-war pact is to be anything more than a monu- ment to we must lead the world in. international disarmament.” ‘The Kellogg pact, he conceded, “might be worth signing.” Fareign Policy Hit. The speaker also disapproved of the administration’s - foreign ' policy, par- ticularly as applied to Latin America. “Petroleum and piety are always mixed,” he said. “When our dollars get tangled up in the West Indies, we call it an insult to our flag and send the Marines to collect, if the other country is small enough. We found that Mexico was too large for the Marines, so we sent Morrow.” ‘Touching for a moment on the policies of his own party, Mr. Thomas sald it favored an international council on raw materials and a system of real arbitra- tion which would embrace courts of ap- peal. He also urged the necessity for m-(igentlon among the workers of the world. SEMEéTER OPENS OCT. 15. Department. of Agriculture Gradu- ate School Enrolls Students. ‘The Department of Agriculture Graduate School, with classes open to employes of the department, will begin the first semester of the 1928-9 school year the week of October 15, it was an- nounced today. Enrollment is now being made in the office of the director of scientific work of the department, Dr. A. F. Woods, who is also director of the Graduate School. ‘The school is offering in the Fall semester seven graduate courses and eight undergraduate courses. The gradu- ate courses are soil genesis, classification and erosion; plant genetics, plant physiology, scientific instruments and their use, advanced statistical methods, grlcea and price relationships and the istory of American agriculture. The undergraduate courses are elementary statistical methods, review of mathe- matics, principles and practices in ag- ricultural co-operation, poultry hus- bandry, scientific French, intermediate scientific German, commercial Spanish and advanced Russian. Mrs. Lucy B. Gordon Expires. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., October 8—An| illness of several months of a compli- cation of diseases resulted in the death in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C:lll'lsl Edward gland, in Rockvill o years. She is survived by a son and two daughters—Charles Pine Bluff, Ark.; Mrs. Annie G. Smith of Washington, and Mrs. England. The funeral will take place from the home of Mr, and Mrs. England at 2 p.m. to- morrow, burial to be in Glenwood Cemetery, Washington. Mrs. Gordon, who was before her marriage a Miss Bullard, was a native of Spotsylvania County, Vi Tracks Swept of Broken Rail Peril By Device That Paints Bad Spots|igse By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 8.—Adoption of an electrical machine.designed to sweep from the tracks of American railways the broken rall source of accidents was announced yesterday by the American Railway Association. The association described it as “one of the most important safety moves in years, which will add a new factor of security to the work already done in decreasing the number of broken rails.” The trouble aimed at is “rail cancer, the cracks known as transverse fissures; which are invisible, because they start inside the rail and show no sign until the chine adopted to menace proceeds along the ralls seven miles an hour, methodically squirting a dab of white paint.on any spot where one of these hidden cancers exists. It starts within a week on a demonstration tour of the principal lAmerlcsn railways, giving each line about a week, Press Club auditorium last night, in the | early yesterday at the home of her son- | U Mrs. Lucy Bullard_Giordon, widow | :5tar G of Churchill Thomas Gordon, aged 87 | Ang: A. Gordon of | MRS, BONGERS DIES OF BULLET WOUND Husband, in Hospital, For- mally Charged With Mur- der—He May Recover.. Mrs. Iola Bongers, 33 years old, 310 E street, died in Emergency Hospital this morning of bullet wounds imflicte? -y her estranged husband, George Bongers, 43 years old, following an argument in Pension Park last Friday. Bongers, who shot himself after firing at his wife, is still in the hospital under police guard recuperating from his wounds. He has been formally charged with murder. Although Mrs, Bongers was shot through the right side of her back and was barely alive when brought to the hospital, she rallied Saturday and it was believed she would recover. Yes- terday, however she became worse. Oxygen was administered, but all ef- forts to save her were fruitless. Anger over his wife's persistent re- fusal to return to him was given by Bongers as the reason for the shooting. He accosted her in Pension Park last Friday about 7:15 a.m. as she was on her way to work, pleading with her return or at least give him of one of their two children. Mrs. Bongers was employed as a clerk in the Pathfinder Publishing Co. She roomed with Mrs. Martha Woodwa:d at the E street address. The couple were married 16 years ago and have two children, Wilson Elmore Bongets and George Rust Bongers. They are being cared for by an aunt, Mrs. William F. Dowell, 2854 Belair place northeast. HINES ADVOCATES DEPARTMENT FOR VETERANS’ RELIEF (Continued from First Page.) to lon such as this city has not known since the old cowboy days. Fire crackers and torpedoes revers berated frequently from all sections of the city. Joyous Legionnaires marched up and down the streets, shouting and capering and .State delegations bantered each other in the tongue of the A. E. F. gations, *Pershing Warmly Welcomed. San Antonio is traversed by a mean- | dering river which twists through the | business _districts under a number of | steel bridges and many of the Legion- naires devoted part of their time to walking the high curving arches on either side of the bridges. 2 “Black Jack” Pershing found more he stepped from his train last night and heavy police lines were necessary to hold the crowd back as he walked |to his automobile. - He was whisked !away to his hotel before the eager Estimates on the total attendance still varied, the more optimistic pre- "¢ | dicting 80,000 against the 50,000 expect- ed by the conservative. Later arrival of special trains will almost double the throng now here, in of the railroad officials and housing directors. A total of 75 special and regular trains were due to arrive before ! l;eoox;r:u; e:it m dguhtrul if they could W an Antonio’s ya: facilities in that time. e Use Catrs as Hotels. Most of ‘the pullmans will remain to serve as hotel rooms for their occupants. | Railroad companies have installed tele- | phones, radios, restaurants, electric | lights and ice water in their yards in jan effort- to make' the accomodations as nearly like those of a hotel as pos- "b.}f,“ | e message godw-rd d!e Sgfiggrd and mt‘he-race for | commander e ensuf ar were Ihe_molt absorbing toples ofyethe first | day's session. Spafford was expected to recommend a drive for legislation that would enforce a universal draft in the next war. The political race was speculation. Gen. Roy Hoffmen of Oklahoma City. continued to acquire prestige as a candidate for natiomal commander, with indications that the Texas delegation might swing to him after its first caucus. It was too early, however, for -any of the State groups supporting favorite sons to swing their votes to another candidate, and the backers of all of those now in the fleld were claiming marked sentiment for their favorites. John D. Ewing of Shreveport, La., long & leader in the “Southern caucus” at ’Letion conventions, with his arrival today. O. L. Boden- hammer of El Dorado, Ark.; Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, Gen. Albert L. Cox of North Carolina, J. Monroe Johnson of South Carolina and Frank O'Neil of Kansas, all among the leading contend- ers for the office, were supported by ac- tive campaigns. ‘The question of the next convention cltl\; seems to have settled down into a fight between Louisville, Detroit and Miami for the 1929 meeting, -and a contest between Boston and Los An- geles for the 1930 gathering. Gen. Pershing's arrival was more dramatic than most of the spectators who greeted him realized. It was from here that he entrained for Washington more than 11 years ago to receive com- mand of the A. E. F. FOR TOMORROW. FIRST RACE—Purse. $1,300; maiden fllies: 2-year-olds: 5'a furlon Corpus Dellcit. aJubilee ... Negofille .. SE RACE—Purse, 31, : 3-Senr-olds and Pttonge: “laimins: up: 6 furlong: 1 D HIRD RACE—Purse. up; 1% mi 1 11.300; ;3 J1300; elatming; 3 ral rolis ' rullon.“.{"' $1,300; claiming: i [ B FOURTH 2-year-olds: 8L rent; Voo et T anc Sl med, gained strength . Wild cries of “Powder River” proclaimed - the arrival of Northwestern State dele~ than 30,000 of “his boys” present when ° ;gl'k:lwds could get within 100 feet of : of National Comdr. still to embryonic to warrant more than .