Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1929, Page 5

et < 3 iy A g S i THFTHONOR GUEST AT FRAT MEE HEE HOUGES BESSED | Y ROMANCLEREY | ! Holy Saturday Ceremonies : Renewed Throughout City After 59 Years. ¢ S 7 112 Associated Press. ' ROME, March 30.~Tor the first, ime since 1870 ail rooms in private | thouses and public buildings of Rome | could be blessed solemuly today, Holy | Baturday, by the clergy of the Ram-u§ gmse with “bell, book and holy wa- g 1 PFrom early in the morning parish Priests of the 400 churches of the city, | their curates and the members of thel. “chapters” of the big basilicas, each ac- companied by an altar boy, were up and | about, sprinkling the apartments and offices of their parishioners. They re-! cited an old -prayer calling upon God | to send an angel {from heaven “to pro- | tect and defend all those dwelling with- | in this habitation.” The prayer was the same as is sung at the conclusion of the “ASperges Me” ceremony prior to the celebration of a high mass. In-return for the benedic- | tion the faithful inserted discreet con-} tributions in the little leather sack car- yied by the altar boy or into the holy water vessel itself. This offering was for the “good works” of the parish and for the poor. For an ordinary small} apartment. the sum of 10 lire—just over half a dollar—was gratefully accepted. Buildings Denied Blessings, After the fall of the temporal power of the Pope in 1870 the Parliament buildings—that is, the Chamber, at Monte _Cittorio, and the Senate, in Palazzo Mada —were rigorously —ex- cluded from participation in the bless- ing. Before long, however, the Roman clergy decided to “forgive” the Senate, | at least. Learning of the conciliatory Move, Senator Farini, then president of the upper house, ordered a handsome sum to be placed at the disposal of the visiting sanctifiers, ‘L'I“tlzegpksaflsh priest arrived on time and, accompanied by Farini’s private secre- tary, solemnly blessed all the commit- tee Tooms, cloakroms and secretaries offices of the senatorial palace. When e came to the chamber itself, however, he drew back, struck an attitude, and xclaimed: X ean bless no_room wherein laws against the church are debated and voted.” “In that case, father,” the secretary| ryeplied, gravely, “the Senate feeis that it can make no offering for your works of charity.” Ban Later Removed. Later the ban against blessing the yooms of the Quirinal Palace, residence of Italian sovereigns since 1870, was re- moved; but the royal bed chamber did not, benefit thereby. Nevertheless, & handsome offering, always paid in gold coins, was made to the officiating riest. » The little hitch about the bed cham- ber was solved some years after the accession of the present King, Victor Emanuel III, with the quiet tact which has characterized so many of the monarch’s actions. He moved out of the | Quirinal, returning to it only for offi- cial receptions and state dinners, and took up residence at the Villa Savoia, on .the outskirts of Rome, a comfort- able residence which he and his family still use. On the following Holy Satur- ,day the local parish priest came around and blessed every nook and cranny of the royal habitation, not omitting the “bedrooms. Particular emphasis will be given to tomorrow's Easter celebration in view of the newly established peace between Vatican and Quirinal. The ceremonies swill begin at midnight tonight, when, “amid the peal of the bells of Rome’s 400 churches, \Italians will wish another “buona pascua” (good or happy, Easter). P i SOCIAL AGENCIES TO ELECT APRIL 8! Council Will Name Executive Com- mittee at Annual Meeting in Y. W. C. A The annual meeting of the Council of Social Agencies will be_held April 8 at 12:30 o'clock at the Young Women's Christian Association, Seventeenth and K streets. Reports of the year's work will be made by .committee chairmen, and there will be an election of mem- bers of the executive committee. John A. Kratz, chief of civilian voca- tional rehabilitation of the Federal Board for Vocational Rehabilitation, will speak on the work of the bureau in the rehabilitation of the handicapped, made possible for Washington by the | passage of a bill during the last session | of Congress. i ‘The nominating committee, which in- cludes Miss Gertrude H. Bowling, 'Mrs. Charles Goldsmith and Frank V. Thom- | - son, has presented the following names as members of the executive committee for the next three years: Mrs. John Jay O'Connor, Mrs, Harry Bernion, Mrs. { Margaret Ford, William C. Smith, Linn ! C. Drake and Frank R. Jelleff. ‘The nominating committee also rec- § ommends that the council at the next meeting take definite action as to limi- { tation of the term ‘of service of the members of the executive committee. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. ‘The Art and Archaeology League will meet, 4:15 o'clock, at the Eastman School, 1300 Seventeenth street. Jaines : Townsend Russell, jr., will give an illus- trated lecture on “Two Summers of Pre- historic Research in Central France.” ‘The Washington Elmira College Club will meet, 8 o'clock, with Mrs. Orlando C. Troxel, 1901 Park road. Anacostia Citizens’ Association will meet, 8 o'clock, in Masonic Temple, PFourtesnth and U streets. ' Poets’ night will be featured at the tocrats’ Club, 817 Thirteenth street. Several Washington poets will read original poems. Capt. Frederick L. Jones will lecture on “The Borderland of Science,” 8:15 o'clock, under auspices of the League ~ for the Larger Life, at 1706 L street. FUTURE. . % Gen. Henry W. Lawton Camp, No. 4, United Spanish War Veterans, will meet ¢ Monday, 8 pm, in Pythian Temple. ‘The Lions’ Club will hold its mnext . weekly meeting in the Mayflower Hotel £ Monday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock in- & :"Gld of Wednesday, the usual meeting . day. . Barry Farm Oitizens’ Association will meet Monday, 8:15 pm., at the Barry Farm Suburban Neighborhood - house, Stanton and Elvins roads. ‘The Wanderlusters’ hike for tomorrow R. E. Lee | safd. Katsuji Debuchi, Japanese Ambassador, and his family yesterday viewed the | cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin. The trees were presented to the United Left 10 right: Masaru Debuc! sador's son; Mme. Debuchi, Taka-ko Debuchi, the Ambassador’s States by the Japanese government, the Ambassador. "the House leads i the Ambas- ughter, and ‘Wide World Photo. PASTOR DESCRIBES Dr. Sizoo Paints Picture of Jerusalem in Geographic Society Lecture. Dr. Joscph R. Sizoo, pastor of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, took | a National Geographic Society party on a pilgrimage to Palestine last evening at the Washington Auditorium, visiting the shrines from Bebron to Capernaum, made sacred by Bible narrative, linger- ing longest in Jerusalem, where more than 100,000 pilgrims are gathered for the celebration of ‘the Christian year. Jerusalem is the metropolis of Pal- estine, the speaker noted, .and he showed a piciure of its only named street, the Street of David, and the city's boulevard, 10 feet wide. It needs no fire department, because wood is so scarce few fires are built there, and.in its narrow streets there are no street lights. = Palestine is only about the ‘size of Vermont, with-about twice that State’s population, yet within that narrow limit there is a wide range of geogra- phy as well as historical association, he One reason one can trace the locale of many of the New Testament events is the practice followed by the population of Jesus’ day, which is char- acteristic of the present, of living along the water courses. Even from a geographic standpoint the River Jordan, though small, is of major interest, rising as it does among the snow-capped mountains of Lebanon, at about 9,300 feet, and trickling down until it descends to 1.300 -feet below sea level, when it ends in the Dead Sex a water body that is five times as salty as the Atlantic Ocean. No ships sall upon it; no bird has crossed it. Dr. Sizoo showed the oranges and 2apples of the Plain of Asdraelon, passed on to the Sea of Galilee with waters that are bluer even, he said, than those of the Bay of Naples, and, then visited the bend in the River Jordan hich still is a baptismal shrine for thou- sands of Christians, especially those who come from Russia and Poland with white robes, which they use there and carry home to be their shrouds. . WooDWARD 10™U™F “THE DAWN By ' Woodlothian Chorus onN For Our Transgressions The Master is Asleep / Bass Solo, Contralto Solo awd Chorus Our Hopes, Our Dreams, are Dead Let Not Your Heart Be Contralto . Tomorrow Day is Breaking AxD G StazETs ‘Motsing . April First, at 9:20 o’clock’ you are invited to ;hgaf the EASTER . CANTATA G Street Balcony RESERVISTS COMPLETE DINNER DANCE PLANS/ AR T RN i | | High Ranking Officers of Army Invited to Attend Affair i Thursday Night. Plans have been completed by the | committee of local Reserve Army offi- | cers appointed by Maj. Charles Demo- net, president of the local department of the Reserve Officers’ Association, for the first dinner-dance to be held in Washington by the Reservists. The party will be held at the Raleigh Hotel Thursdey evening. Four dance orchestras will play. Many | high ranking officers of the Regular| Army, including the chief of staff, Gen. Charles P. Summerall; the various as- | | sistants chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Frank | Parker, Brig. Campbell King, | | Edwin E. Booth, George Simonds and | | Col. Stanley Ford, Senator and Mrs.| David Reed and Representative and Mrs. James have been invited. Maj. Demonet asks local Reserve offi- cers to make reservations either direct to him, 1520 Connecticut avenue, or through the secretary of the depart- ment, Lieut. Charles Reimer, Room 710, Metropolitan Bank Building. ——te——— GLEE CLUB ON VISIT. 1 Earlham College Group to Give Concert at Friends Church. The Earlham Glee Club, a group of young people of Earlham College, Rich- mond, Ind., will make their initial ap- pearance in the Capital tomorrow night at 7 o'clock in a sacred concert to be{ given at Priends Church, Thirteenth and Irving streets, the church atiended: by President Hoover and his family. * { “The club has given concerts in cities of the “Middle West for many years. This year it is making a tour of the East, which already has included one radio engagement in New York City. No admission fee for the local appear- ance will be charged. The public is invited. [ 2001 16th St. N.W. 'l Exceptionally attractive apartments of three out- side rooms, reception hall, bath and large kitchen. | Reasonable Rentals | & LoTHROP OF EASTER” THE THE ‘.- Chorus’ ’ Mal; Quartet Troubled | and Tenor Duet and. Chorus Soprano_ Solo-with Violin Obligato | P Choras - Bass Solo ‘aud, Womdn's Trio { mittee, in announcing the d | heard Monday, he { hopes to hear Secretary Hyde next Allow House Side to. Catoh Up. Ey the Associated Press. || The Benate -agriculture committee took a day off from is farm relief hearing today and gave the House com- mittee, which began two days later than it did, a chance to catch up. Taking ulvmnée of this opportunity, ers were prepared not only to work all day but continue the hearing of ideas from spokesmen for various branches of agriculture well into ‘the night if necessary. Ty. Chairman McNary of the Senate com- lecision to have no hearing today, explained that all of the out-of-town witnesses avail- able had been heard. Louis J. Taber, master of the National Grange, will be said, and he also week. To Get Right of Way. Senator Watson of Indiana, the new Republican leader, meanwhile has made it clear that farm aid legislation will : be given right of way in the special ses- !sion of Congress which begins April 15. At the same time he took occasion to make an emphatic “answer” to com- | plaints that President Hoover: has not | formulated the actual terms of the new bill and to statements that he might be induced to favor the equalization fee, which caused his predecessor to veto the two McNary-Haugen bills. The new bill, Senator Watson de- clared, will follow closely the lines laid down m the Republican platform and in Mr. Hoover's campaign speeches at | ‘West Branch, Iowa, and Elizabethtown, Tenn., and will not provide for an equalization fee. Farm Board Called For. Mr, Hoover's campaign called for establishment of a Federal farm board empowered to help co- operative marketing associations and build up stabilization agencies, with initial capital from the Government, but without a subsidy, fee or tax on the farmer. ¥ Witnesses who have appeared before | ter the Senate and House committees thus speeches | * Members of No. 22 Engine Company, 5800 Georgia avenue, held a dinner and enterfainment last night at the engine | | house for three officers of the company who have been transferred to new platoon duty. ed the entertainment. Left to right, in center, are Capt. J. D. Green, Lieut. C. W. Rice and Sergt. H. H. Harrison. —Star Staff Photo. far have taken it more or less for granted that the equalization fee prin- ciple was not likely to enter into the new farm aid plan. The extent of au- thority to be granted the proposed farm board and the question of restricting production when crop surpluses have | piled up have been the chief points | considered by a majority of the-coms | mittee members and witnesses. 3 Many to Take Infantry Course. Many Infantry officers stationed in this city or at nearby posts have been | ordered to take the 1929-30 course at the Infantry School, Fort Benning. Ga., including Capts. Charles J. Deahl, | jr.: Hurley E. Fuller, Charles E. Speer, ' William P. Scobey, Paul R. Hudson Roy H. Evans, Frank Lockhead (an in- structor of the District National Guard), | Charles T. Phillips and Harold E. Pot- er and Pirst Lieuts. Carroll K. Leeper | !\ and Thomas R. Aaro : ‘[Seaman in Jail Says His Hero Role | ]nUS.S. A_lflerica. Sea Reserve War Myth By the Associated Press. ' OMAHA, Nebr., March 30.—Ben | Nodlere, seamati on thé S. S. America | at the time of her thrilling rescue of | the foundering Florida’s crew, last night tepped out of a hero’s character and into the city jail. Reacting bitterly against . the fate which incarcerated him on an assault and battery charge, he exploded the | nyth of his much-sung deeds. Accord- | ng to his- story, the halo of heroism | had been conjured by a Philadelphia ' 1ewspaper, which exploited his partici- pation in the rescue as a member of | he lifeboat crew in a featured but wholly imaginative tale. It failed to reveal, he said, that he watched the | Families of the firemen attend- | gnn;e proceedings from the America's leck. He had since been feted in Phila- Psi Upsilon Group Lists Him Central Figure at Conven- tion in May. By the Assoclated Press. Justice William Howard Taft is to be the central figure at the annual con- vention of the Psi Upsilon Praternity which, it has just been decided, will | be held in Washington May 16, 17 and 18. On the closing day a national luncheon is to be given in honor of illut lchkt Justice at the Mayflower otel. Among the Psi U’s in important pub- lic office, who are to be present, are Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State: Senators 3liram Bingham, Frederic C. | Walcott, George Moses, Guy D. Goff and Prederic M. Sackett, together with a large company of Representatives who are members of the fraternity. The new Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, David Ingalls, logether with Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War, and William P. Mac- Cracken, Assistant Secretary for Aero- nautics of the Department of Com- merce, are also to attend. ‘The convention will be held under the sponsorship of the Eta Chapter of Psi Upsilon at Lehigh University. Presi- dent Edward L. Stevens of the execu- tive council will preside at the con- vention, and invitations to attend are being sent to all members of the fra- ternity throughout the world. At this convention plans are to be formulated for the centenary of Psi.Upsilon, which is to be held with the Theta Chapter at téggon College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1933. delphia, his home town, but came to |~ Omaha’ two weeks ago to escape the ardors of hero worship. His arrest fol- | lowed an altercation with E. H. Thomp- | 3on, a Government mail employe. A | U. §. Tenor Makes Berlin Debut.| BERLIN, March 30 ().—Manton | Monroe Marble, tenor singer from Chicago and New York, made a suc- cessful debut here yesterday at a Good | Friday concert. A large audience heard him sing selections by Verdi and Schu- ert. The Argonne 16th and Columbia Road N.W. Four rooms, kitchen, bath and reception room, south- ern exposure. Reasonable rental. WooDWARD & [LOTHROP Recent Arrivals and First Steppers Have Their Very Own Specialized Infants’ Section On the Children the Fourth Handmade s Floor Silk Dress in pink, blue or white, $5.50. s Naine sook Dress, $3. Organdy $3. Hand-sewn Sweat- er, $3. 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