Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1929, Page 17

SCHOOL TESTS A T0 MEASURE MEN FROM “THE INSIDE” Dévelop Methods of Gauging «-Students by More Than Superficial Means. COLLEGE DEANS TOLD | OF WORK IN TESTING| Picture of Individual's Whole Per- sonality, Without Emoetional Bias, Is One Objective. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. American colleges are developing re- liable methods lor looking inside a! man’s skin. ‘This work was described to the As- sociation of Deans and Advisers of Men | meeting at the Mayflower this morning by Dr. David A. Robertson, assistant di- rector of the American Council on Edu- | eation, which is co-ordinating the tests. | ‘The objective, Dr. Robertson said, is | to work out a series of measurements | ‘which will make it possible to measure | ability, personality, ethical background | and aptitude. The ume-h?nored Ways of judging a man by casual observation and personal likes and dislikes, he said, | has proved so fallable that such meas- urements can no longer be accepted. One of the tests which the council is | working out, in co-operation with vari- ous colleges, among which is Catholic University here, is intended to produce & picture of the individual’s personality | entirely without emotional bias. In the | past, Dr. Robertson said. it has been the practice for somebody acquainted | with the prospective student or employe 10 write a pen picture, such as the com- | mon letter of recommendation, which | means practically nothing. The person is characterized as “of excellent charac- | Guns uncovered by exca been on some English vesse! on in TWO OLD CANNON FOUND BY DIGGERS Georgetown Relics Believed From British Vessel of Hundred Years Ago. went down a century ago. pieces are, left to right: H. C. Boschen, A. J. Paget and L. C. Bird. ter, industrious, enterprising. and a | leader of men.” Subjective Estimation. The American Council on Education | lish men-of-war escorted their mer- is trying to tear this picture to pleces | chantmen up. the Potomac River to the And e e v “who - mrites the | POTt Of Georgetown were being bandied recommendation usually is highly sub- | back and forth among the old-timers Jective. Often it is merely a matter of | along the riverfront today as 4 result of ‘[ Fanciful tales of the days when Eng- | form and means nothing, one way or; the other. Dr. Robertson cited the | quality of leadership. On cards with | which the colleges are experimenting | this is ‘divided into five grades, from | very high to very low, and the reporter is asked to specify into which grade the | subject falls. If he has had no oppor- | the finding of two ancient cannon buried 10 feet. underground at the foot of Thirty-fourth street. The two 4-inch cannon, of English make, were uncovered Tuesday by work- men for the Gow Construction Co. while digging a pier hole for the new plant tunity of observation, the fact Is| ded. | of the Lone Star Cement Co., now under recorded. at and Then he is asked to tell some specific incident which makes him think that the person is a good leader. This gives the person for whom the pen picture of the personality is intended an op- portunity to decide whether the re- porter’s judgment means anything. Dr. Robertson pointed out that the words “willing to work” give a very vague picture, but the statement that this estimate is based on the fact that the subject once worked 36 hours un- | complainingly and without sleep to help in an emergency gives a vivid picture of a man any college would like to have. Judgment of ability by scholastic marks, he said, has fallen down badly under accurate tests. These have shown that one teacher will “flunk” a student on a test which will be marked very hly by another. The same teacher fil vary greatly in his marks on the same examination from day to day. Marks are greatly affected by the teach- er's subconscious like or dislike. ~An | honor student at one college might be at the foot of his class in another. Series of Standard Tests. . This is being overcome by a series of | standard tests, which must be graded objectively, to be applied in all schools. The American Council now has a bat- | tery of 23 of these tests, from writing and spelling to modern lan- ages, and is developing others. Un- der this system every student is asked the same question and graded in the | same way. so that a mark from one school means en&tfily the same thing as & mark from another. Dr. Robertson questioned the validity of some of the standard intelligence tests as absolute measures of a man's capabilities. . The Army Alpha tests as ) to World War officers, he ted out, rated medical officers much lower than engineer officers in “intel- ligence,” due largely to the test being overloaded with arithmetic, which was outside the doctor’s range of inte_r-;eu. “At the Library of Congress,” he said, “there is a page from a notebook kept by a German gentleman who was It contains his calculations getting 36 kronen a week for four weeks. He couldn’t multiply 36 by four and tried to solve the problem by addition. s result was 242 HL"TM! man would have fallen down badly on such a test as the Army Al- pha. Yet I do not think we can thrust Ludwig von Beethoven into the outer darkness in & rating of intelligence.” Psychologists, he said, now are drop- ping the word “intelligence” altogether, estimating the results of such tests. An almost uncanny instrument, he , is being developed in co-operation with the American Council to forecast an individual’s aptitude for any profes- sion. Large numbers of leaders among engineers, teachers, physicians, minis- , artists have been asked to make lists of the things they are interested in. These lists are then grouped to- gether and students asked to indical own interests. If an individual's check with those' common to several hundred successful engineers the probability is that he will be suc- cessful as an engineer. Although the basis is somewhat ob- scure, this seems to be working out ex- cellently in. practice, Dr. Robertson said, and ' probably will save much wasted effort, discontent in professions for which a person s not adapted and result in faster progress. Boys come to college without clear-cut ideas of what they wish to do, and it is the duty the faculty to guide them. taking the test have no choices of the various { | construction ‘Thirty-fourth ‘Water streets. The cannon were found end to end. the muzzle of one facing the bluffs of Georgetown and that of the other look- | ing out toward the channel. From the | cars must run on schedule, Capt. Car- position in which the guns were found, observers expressed the belief they for- merly were on opposite sides of some vessel which was sunk in the harbor. It was pointed out that in colonial days the river extended considerably farther up the bluffs toward M street than at the present time. Although seriously impaired by the century under water, the exquisite workmanship of the old guns is” still apparent. and this is held to indicate that they were made in England at about the time of the Revolution. ‘The guns were found immediately under the site of the old Reynolds boathouse. They bore no mark or in- scription. BOY SEEKS DAMAGES. Minor Sues-for $25,000 for Auto Injuries. Charles E. Nunn, a minor, brought suit in the District Supreme Court yes- terday for $15.000 damages against Charles J. Robbins of 1305 Maryland avenue northeast. The complaint was filed through the boy's father, Floyd A. Nunn, of 1204 Ninth street northeast. While crossing F street near Twelfth street northeast last June, the complaint charges, Charles was struck by Robbins’ automobile and seriously injured. At- torneye Claude A. Thompson and Julius C. Martin appeared for the plaintiff. most research physicists in America, now stationed at the Bureau of Stand- ards, has kept an hour-to-hour record of his every act for 30 days. From this will be made up a picture of the actual physicist to take the place of the vague picture in the popular imag- ination. A similar picture is being standard- | ized for persons in the diplomatic serv- ice, . with 250 men in the American for- eign service co-operating. Then the student can be measured against this standard picture and his likelihood of making good estimated. What is probably the most important of all fields which require looking under a man’s skin, Dr. Roebrtson said, has hardly been touched. Several tests are being developed, in co-operation with the council, for measuring will, but this quality is so elusive that a standard measurement still may be far off. “We are moving away,” he -said, “from the standard of actual achieve- ment. in measuring an individual to the idea that it is not what a man does, but what he would do, that counts.” Thus, he explained, a requisite determination on the part of the indi- vidual to reach any objective may over- come all other factors in the final analysis. A cumulative record card for all students was explained by Dr. Ben D. ‘Wood of Columbia University. This is calculated to group all the factors which may determine a student’s success in college. Dean Robert Rienow of Iowa State University spoke on co-operation between faculty and student groups. Human Element Is Stressed. The human element in dealing with college students was stressed by Dean Emeritus Stanley Coulter of Purdue University at the annual banquet at the Cosmos Club last night.. President What to do with the student. came .m‘.tor Rl s almost solved cof-: 0on. “the: Georgetown which are believed to have Grouped around the —Star Staff Photo. PLAN WOULD BAR PARK TRAFFIC IAM fTravel in Late Afternoon on| Weekdays and on Sunday ’ Morning Urged. ‘The suggestion was made today by ! | Capt. P. J. Carroll of the U. §. Park | Police that Washingtonians travel in | Potomac Park in the late afternoon on | | week days and on Sunday morning, | to relieve the traffic congestion that is | | anticipated on Sunday, when the double | cherry blossoms are expected to be in full bloom. Capt. Carroll pointed out that hundreds of sightseers from a{ | wide radius out of Washington come to | the 'National Capital, on Sundays_to view the cherry blossoms. This .influx of traffic added to the thousands of au- | tomobiles operated by Washingtonians | in Potomac Park on Sunday afternoons causes the traffic jam, particularly when the cherry trees are in bloom. Explaining that it is necessary to| | keep_traffic to and from Virginia over | the Highway Bridge moving on Four- | teenth ~street, particularly the street | roll said that this flow causes traffic | coming from Hains Point to be halted |and backed up in the park, with re- sultant congestion. With the opening for traffic of the Arlington Menlorial Bridge within two or three years, Capt. Carroll foresees an appreciable change in the traffic coming out of Potomac Park, as some |75 per cent of the traffic to and from Virginia, instead of going over the Highway Bridge, as it does, will pro- ceed over Arlington Memorial Bridge. Another factor in relieving the traffic | situation in Potomac Park is foreseen when the projected bridge across Wash- | ington Channel to Water street is completed. This will enable a good | share of traffic coming out of the park | to turn to the right and be distributed by way of Water street into various parts of the city. SENTENCE SUSPENDED| ON WOULD-SUICIDE| | Despondent Father of Two Mother- | less Children Twice Tried to End Life. Prustrated in an attempt to commit sulcide by leaping from a window of Emergency Hospital, where he was un- dergoing treatment for poisoning, Earl; R. Rogers, young father of twp children, was arraigned in Police Court today, charged with violating the - pharmacy | law. According to police, Rogers became | despondent over the recent death of his wife and procured the to com- mit suicide. After. swallowing the | potion he was discovered and rushed to the hospital, where he made a second attempt to end his life. Arrested by Detective C. E. Mans- field of headquarters, the young man | was charged with violating the phar- | i ;’“lrl Court tods olice Court toda ers said that he had two smlllyc}mren and was having difficulty caring for them since the death of his wife. Judge Isaac R. Hitt suspended exe- cution of a $100 fine or 60-day sentence. BARTLETT MAY RETIRE FROM OFFICE TOMORROW | First Assistant Postmaster General Said to Be in Line for Pro- motion by Hoover. First Assistant Postmaster General John H. Bartlett may retire from office tomorrow. He is waiting for his suc- cessor to be announced. Mr. Bartlett's friends say he is to receive an appoint- ment from President Hoover that will be in the nature of a promotion. When he master General he expects to return to may be invited to occupy another Fed- eral office by the President. to who may be selected to succeed Mr. r at Minneapolis, and E. L. mf Baltimore. | SR N Ra o . BYRD SENDS REGRETS. A radiogram from Oom: m::xg::g R LR Jomses chieh o the S | committee was made up of men engaged | $13.50, while the foremen, who are re. i(v‘l{xgzu.’ls an hour, want an increase {in the opinion of Arthur L. Smith, meeting last evening. | value of construgtion work in the Dis- | exist WORKERS BISCOUNT EXCHANGE REFUSAL TO GRANT PAY RAISE Building Trades Spok.esmen‘ Say Action Is of Littie Importance. 10 PER CENT INCREASE IS FORMALLY OPPOSED Consideration of Resolutions byI Council Executive Board Monday Indicated. Spokesmen for building trades unions professed to be unaffected today by the action of the Builders and Manufactur- ers' Exchange last-evening in adopting fesolutions refusiig. to ‘grant wage in- | creases, About 200 builders, contractors and subcontractors, engaged in Government and private construction here, met at 2525 Pennsylvania avenue and decided formally to oppose a 10 per cent in- crease demanded by stone masons, steamfitters, ironworkers and other bullding trades workmen. Resolutions setting forth their position were adopted for transmittal to the Washington Trades Union Council, an organization | with which about 19 unions are affiliated Arthur L. Smith, president of the exchange, and W. B. Putnam of the Putnam Construction Co., described | building conditions here as *“eritical” and urged the exchange to stand firm in refusing the wage increases. Action Is Discounted. Representatives of the workers said today, however, that the action of the exchange was of little importance. the absence of formal comment on the exchange’s action, it was indicated that the executive board of the trades coun- cil ‘will consider the resolutions at a meeting Monday. Meanwhile the position of union offi- cials was that inasmuch as the con- tractors and subcontracters employ few union men direct and negotiate with them, their views in this instance are relativelv unimportant. John M. Botts, business agent of the Steamfitters’ Association, said contracts for increased wages already had been ! entered into with the Heating and Plumbing Contractors’ Assoclation, effective June 1, and that his group was | not interested in the tontroversy. Under this contract. Botts said, steam- fitters and helpers will receive an hourly increase of from $1.37'; to $1.50 and a five-day week instead of a five-and-a- half-day week, the net result being a 50-cent reduction in weekly wage. A resolution conceding the fiye-day week was disapproved at the meeting of the exchange. Rufus Lusk, represent- ing the operating builders, said his organizataion would oppose it- princi- pally because the half-day inactivity cest: in interest charges on money bor- rowed for building operations. Further Conferences Held. ‘While disposed to treat the matter | lightly, spokesmen for the unions toda: said if the contractors generally were adament in refusing readjustments their nclt—lon would be regarded as a ‘“lock- out.” Further conferences on means of op- posing the wage increase demands were held today by a committee appointed last evening by Arthur L. Smith. The | in various phases of construction work, | headed by W. B. Putnam, E. A. Miller, F. F. Cullen and E. H. Rosengarten, | representing builders. | Ross H. Johnson, secretary of the! exchange. said representatives of the | workers had not given any reason for | the wage increase demand except that “conditions justify it.” He sald that | while the average rate of pay for thei workers in 112 American citfes is $1.29 per hour, the contractors and subcon- iractors on Government projects are paying an average of $1.50 an hour. The eight-hour day's pay for journey- men is $12. he said, and they demand Practices Are Criticized. Practices .of out-of-town builders and contractors are at the root of existing unsatis! conditions in the trade, | t president of the exchange, and W. B. Putnam of the Putnam Construction Co., who outlined the situation to the ‘These contractors, it was said, who come here with successful bids on Gov- ernment and private construction, erect structures after acceding to 'wage crease demands and then quit the fleld, force local contractors to maintain a level of wages only apparently justified. “So far as we can see, there is no reason for the increase asked,” Mr. Putnam said. Pointing out that the trict between 1924 and 1927 aggregated $50,000,000 yearly, he said Government work was not a great amount of the total. “The immediate cause of the steel workers' demand for a 10 per cent in- crease is that the Interior Department building will employ virtually all that type of workers for about three months,” he said. “The Commerce Department building, to go up next, will be about & nine months’ job. A ‘higher scale granted now will mean increased costs in all lines of construction for all time.” Living Costs Quoted. Putnam quoted Labor it statistics ‘to show that costs of food, shelter; fuel and clothing are favorable to the worker as compared with costs of Wi | e ot Togiday night;at It will be deuvendmgy t;r fusing the -demands. A. H. Harris, municipal architect, id it would take a vear to make the retires: as Assistant Post~ ::m,., New Hampshire until such time as he | racts There is considerable speculation as o Spring Dance Is Planned. - annual _Spring_dance of ' T |is in serious condition and five other ening % WASHINGTON, :D: C., "FRIDAY, APRIL 12, .1929. Flood water of the Potomac which poured over the edge of Potomac Park this morning presented another menace to ;lh! Japanese eherry trees, which are just beginning to bloom in this section. —Star Staff Photo. (ONE DIES, SIXHURT ~ INAUTO MISHAPS 68-Year-Old Man Succumbs to Injuries When Hit | by Machine. | One man was fatally huit, a woman pedestrians have minor hurts as the. re- sult of traffic accidents early today and yesterday. Henry W. Moncure, 68 years old. sus- tained fatal injuries last night when he was knocked down by the automobile of George E. Hayes while walking acrcss Eleventh street at New York avenue | Moncure, who lived in the Woodward | Apartments at Tenth and M streets, was | removed to Emergency Hospital, where i he died at 6 o'clock this morning. | Hayes, who lives at 1732 S street, will | be asked to appear at a coroner’s in- | quest tomorrow, police say. Severe injuries were sustained by Miss Effa Casebeer, 43 years old, of 1124 Tenth street. when she was struck by an automobile at Tenth and L streets last night. She is receiving treatment in Emergency Hospital for several frac- tured ribs, a fractured knee and a sprained back. The driver of the ma-| chine came to the hospital and left his name as Angelo Vammino, 434 First street southeast. & | A T1-year-old woman, Catherine D. Steele, 206 A street southeast, suffered # broken ankle and possible internal | injuries when knocked down last night by an automobile driven, according_ to the police, by Herbert Wilbur of 4315/ New Hampshire avenue. She was taken | to Casualty Hospital by Wilbur. Other persons injured were Edward | J. McLaughlin, 63 years old, 926 Twenty- | third street; Luther Smith, colored, 39 years old, of 76 Defrees street; Alice Smith, colored, 30 years old, of 45 Massachusetts =~ avenue; Rita Carter, FIX AVIATRIX’S STATUS. Federal and Aerial Bodies Decide on Lady Mary Heath. The National Acronautic Association has followed a statement by Secretary Davis of Labor on the status of Lady Mary Heath's American citizenshiy with announcement that any world rec. ords established by her during the n five years must be recdgnized as Britich achievements. The announcement was in response ' to an inquiry by the English aviatrix | whether any records she established might be set down to the credit of the United ‘States. She declared her inten- tions to become an American citizen January 29, TRACTION REPORT REVEALS L0SSES Early Renewal of Company’s Plea for Financial Relief Indicated. (GRAND JURY HANDS - INTAINDIGTMENTS Charges . Include Embezzle- | © ment, Larceny and Dry Violations. The grand jury today reported 14 in- dictments to Chief Justice McCoy of i the District Supreme. Court. Stephen Snyder, former route agent PAGE 17 BROOKHART PLANS TOPLSHBILSFOR FEDERAL WORKERS Measures Will Be Reintro- duced at Special Meeting, lowa Senator Says. {ACTION M_AY BE DELAYED UNTIL REGULAR SESSION _:thry Increases and Abolition of Personnel Classification Beard Will Be Urged. Several measures of intercct to Gove | ernment. empioyes will be reintrcduced |in the Senate sdon aftr the new Con- | gress convenes Monday, Senator Brook- i hart, Republican, of Iowa announced | today, but it may not be possible to | obtain their pessage until the regular | session in December. | Senator Brookhart said the outlook | s that these bills probably cannot come jup at the special session, but he will | have them introduced and keep them {in mind for consideration when the | program permits. While it will be pos- | sible for Senate committees to econsider | pending guestions. th tention of icaders has been to confine the busi- of the session mainly to farm and tariff.. It also is planned to ‘e House reapportionment taken up the Senate. Asks for Appeals Board. The Civil Service bille, which Senator Srookhart plans to reintroduce are: _To correct the inequalities in the Welch salary law by giving an addi- tional increase of one salary step-up to employes in the lower grade, who were moved up only one step o1 y. The bill to create a Civil Service s0ard of appeals to hear individual com- for the Manhattan Laundry Corpore-|Plaints of Government employes on tion, 15 charged with embezzlement and | Saveice. This TS auro " haraions from removing mortgaged property from the | with the Personnel Classification Board District. He is charged with having | ;::‘ln?!lblhh a new system of efficiency withheld from his employer and aD-| = 7Tme IH to provide that when reduc= propriating ‘o his own use during the tions in force are NECcessary persons month of February about $217, collected | 2Dpointed from States whose quotas | from patrons on his route. | have not been filled, shall not be drop- The other indictment against Snyder ; ped. is based on his alleged removal of a | Although Senator Brookhart for sev- motor cycle and sidecar to Atlanta, Ga., | ®ral weeks has been collecting informa- | after purchasing it from a local com.|tion with regard to the amount of the | pany. ~ He is sald to have traded in !increases given to higher paid employes | the ‘motor cycle for an automobile. |in the professional and technical | An indictment for assault with intent ; branches under the Welch law, he sald {10 kill was returned against John Wil- | today he had mo desire to seek redue- son, colored. He fired a pistol at his pay. but rather to improve | | tion in Further indications of early renewal ¥ife. Sallie Wilson, from whom he wa by the Capital Traction Co. of its plea | fl"fie“v,‘{‘en he went “’fhel“x dhflme. for financial religf . were given today, |March 18 inst. His shot went wild. when the company filed its February | Other indictments Anancial repact witls the Public Buitiss ommission s} g a l06s = b7 e revenue and passengers in comparison [ AnK ‘Devis and George W. .D'“, with the corresponding month of 1928, | #tand larceny and joy-r iaml-' Earl The company’s income for the month, Jackson. Frank Johnson. John Steven- the report showed, totaled $35.768.04, %0 and Robert E. Davis. charged with a reduction of $16.304.80 under the net | 07-riding: Spencer 8. Jones, Claren income of February last year. A com- | Ash and Normand E. Goodwin, viol parison of the revenue passengers lor'l'“’" of g{\e :‘“‘tflnvflvli lfi’mh‘g‘?m’ ]PCY:_ |larceny after trust, am R. Phelps. | the same months also shows a loss of | "oy ¥ 2rang jury refused to indict | The revenue passengers carried by the | Louise Richardson. colored. in the theft | lines of the company in February. 1928, |Of 8 Watch and chain, and Odell Wag- | totaled 4860426, 1n the same ionth |ner. also colored, on Housebreaking and | included Jam: {lazceny charges. | of this year the number dropped to | colored, 16 years old. of 1640 Thirty: | _In the three liquor cases reported, those who received the lowest amount. e FOUNTAIN POSSIBLE IN SHERMAN CIRCLE Grant &y:Vilo;nnr ; Be Sought for Electrically Illuminated Memorial. An _electrically illuminzied 1 ntain for Sherman Circle, at I | available, it is necessary to engage pro- second street, and Mackey Babb, 38 years old, of 3020 Tilden street. PRATT DESCRIBES INFORMER POLICY| | | Will Employ Paid Under-cover Men Only When Necessary, He Declares. Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent | of police, announced yesterday he in- tended to follow the policy of his prede- cessor, Edwin B. Hesse, in using paid in- formers only when necessary. _It has been the practice of the de- partment, Maj. Pratt explained, to use members of the force for under-cover investigatons whenever possible, but there are times when the services of an outsider are essential. The usefulness of a policeman for such work, he point- ed out, usually ends when he appears in court to testify against a law violator, and when new officers are no longer formers. b mee in. police court trials, Maj. Pratt said, teaches that policemen are more effective witnesses than paid in- formers. Moreover, he declared, the paid informers frequently fail to get adequate evidence, which has resulted in a number of cases being nolle prossed. Reports that he planned to eliminate paid. informers were attributed by him as an outgrowth of the denunciaiion of the informers by Assistant United States Attorney R. F. Camalier at A meeting ‘Tuesday night of the Citizens’ Service Association. AR LAST OF LECTURE SERIES IS SET FOR TUESDAY NIGHT Carnegie Institution Program Will| Be Held at Administration Building. . series of lec- ll;lo ;'e!ock. nent, essor of biology at Bryn Mawr . Pfl.i“ research associate of the Institution. ‘Dr. Tennent's lecture 'will deal with some -of the fundamental characteris- ties of and with RECEIVES AWARD. Advertisements prepared by Malcolm 4,454,704, January Income $40,079.05. The company’s net income for Janu- ary was $40.079.05. and the more than $4,000 decrease in February was due partly, it was said, to the fact that it was a shorter month. The revenue passengers carried in January num- bered 4,792,138, or 237,344 more than in February. The total operating revenues of the company in February were $330,766.14. The expenses amounted to $240,075.54, and the taxes $26,185.97. The income from operations amounted to $64,504.63. The non-operating income was $2! making the gross income $64,717.78. The deductions made from the gross income amounted -to $28.949.74, which left a net income of $35,768.04. Report Follows. Visit. ‘The monthly financial report followed | a visit to the commission yesterday by E. H. Heberle, assistant to John H Hanna, president of the company, who made a check of the commission’s valu- ation of the carrier as of December 31. 1928. Although Heberle did not explain his mission, commission attaches re- garded it with utmost significance, and the assumption was that he is prepar- ing to bring up to date the elaborate set of exhibits supporting the company’s original application for a higher fare wh?ch was dismissed last Fall without prejudice to renewal after March 5. ‘The continued loss in revenue, it is believed at the commission, may force the company to file the higher fare pe- tition sooner than it had originally in- tended. The board of directors last | CO8T! month authorized the executive board to appeal to the commission for an in- crease in fare, but it was reported that the petition not likely would be filed until there was some intimation from Congress whether the transit unifica- tio nagreement had any chance of rati- fication at the special session. The agreement expires June 1 and the com- pany, it was said, does not want to make any move that would jeopardize its ratification. DENTIST SUED BY WIFE. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Benedict Allow- ed Only $5 a Week, She Alleges. Complaining that. her husband allows | € her only $5 a week for expenses out of his income of $25,000 a year from his dental profession, Benedict of 1326 Vermont avenue has filed suit in the District Supreme Court against Dr. Wilbur 8. Benedict of the t Apartments for separate main- n "owns property ued at more than' $125,000. They were married July 31,1921, and have one child, whose custody the plaintiff seeks. Mrs. Elizabeth M.’ | Jones, 20 years old. was arrested last { March 7 while operating an automobile !said to contain 84 half-gallon jars of corn liquor. Ash is charged with sale 2nd possession. having been accused by the vice squad in connection with sale of whisky March 29 at premises !in the -1700 block of Willard street. | Goodwin was arrested after a chase on | Benning Road, March 16, when his au- tomobile creshed intc a telephone pole .and was wrecked. Policeman C. | Newton of the eleventh precinct found 36 half-gallon jars of alleged liquor in the wreckage. Ash'is indicted for trans- portation and possession. ST S BUY-AT-HOME PLAN IS GIVEN IMPETUS C. of C. Declares Capital Has De- veloped Inito Great Mercan- tile - Center. hington has developed into & mercantile center, with cities throughout the United States, it is declared in a statement issued today by the committee of the local Chamber of Commerce on retail trade. The committee, believing that the people of Washington are not fully izant of this fact, suggests that this “revolution” in the scope and character of local mercantile service be brought g the atterition of the public of greater cational methods, upon by representative District mer- chants, to the end that the volume of buying from local establishments be materially inc: and to minimize the placing olm with out-of-town concerns. Sundlun chairman and John Z. Walker vice chairman of the 1920 “Buy in Wi ittee. "x"hm trade committee, of which Issac Gans is chairman; liam J. Eyne PFred S. Walker Dreyfuss. IR S A GIRL: RESERVES’‘PLAY T0 BE STAGED TONIGHT | “Cinderella” Will Be 'Repeated Matinee and Evening Per- formances Tomorrow. the and Ben F.| tion available, planting will be dong. The chamber has named Arthur J. | { Kansas avenues, is a possibil | the opinion of Lieut. Col. U. S. | 3d. director of the Office of | Buildings and Public Parks, if t "dents of that area favor the i { if a donor can be found to co; Ithe fountain in the form of | morial. Col. office hopes to pave the wal | Spring and, if there is an ap, ria- The director pointed out that Sher- : man Circle ms 1o be a very good location for an electrically illuminated fountain as a memorial. if some one desires to contribute one to the city | and this meets the approval of the resi- dents there." Making it clear that he does not desire to stand in the position of at- tacking the erection of monuments in | Washington. Col. Grant said that at the same time the Capital must pre- serve a balance and avoid an abundanee of statues and monuments that would tend to clutter up the city. Memorials | can take forms other than statues, he | explained. The cost of an electrically illuminated ' fountain, Col. Grant said. would be about $25.000, but that is considered cheaper than many statues. Plans of his office contemplate conw struction of flower beds and other £00ds | pla in S8herman Circle, Col. Grant comparing most favorably with sther | BLinuK Col. Grant pointed out that plans for a pool at Chevy Chase Circle as | memorial to Senator Newlands of Na- | vada, are under way, and this project | meets the approval of his office. TRADE BOARD TO NAME OFFICERS AT MEETING Directors to Assemble This After- noon—Murphy Expected to Succeed Everett. Officers of the Washington Board of . Murphy president. A second vice president also will be ‘elected. The directors also will fill positions now held by Ben T. Webster, secretary: Robert J. Cottrell, executive secretary: . Harry Cunningham, treasurer; E. e M be re-elected. School Contract Let. A contract for the construction of an to the Morgan