Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1929, Page 23

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. THURSDAY. MAY 23 1929 the ce in & whisper, forgetting ot faced | Bliminates Possibility of “Cutting| | Harding's inauguration, was undersiod| CREATES HEARTY LAUGH ‘ mifi;’x’.m: zgr‘u‘tho:‘tfll:nlg.hl;\’lwvngx | to have been hopeful to be represented | {hrough the room. The duke was & Corner,” Is Business Club View. again by this position, but the State’s o . ! | | Candidates were undersfood today not Prince’s Whisper Before Amplifier|gooq sport and smilingly chimed in, The American Business Club yester- | oy a0 04004 to Favor Man | o be any longer in the running. | as Duke Proposes Toast Bares | ~That is what I was going to say.” BN Cooper Advocates National| “Correspondence School” | System in Address. | | Childrest living on America’s fron- tlers, where geographical conditions and low tax values handicap the school would be educated through s mational system of correspondence ‘oourses augmented by radio, if a sug- | ‘gestion, advanced last night by William john Cooper, United States commis- | meeting that the chief difficulty with ! want to make right turns. | day formally expressed its approval of the tri regulatic ove jeft- B e e resulithaRgoverniS Hietl- | i epanksifor PortiasiReve- Pointing out that the regulation in | effect here eliminates the possibility | of “cutting corners” and thus further endangering pedestrian traffic, the club | expressed the opinion at its weekly With appointment of a commissioner jof internal revenue belleved to be im- the operation of the system seems to |Minent, the selection today appeared le 1 the fatlure of motorists to draw Unceriain, as Southern Republicans far ‘enough into the intersection so as | continued to ask for the appointment to give sufficient room to cars that| And Secretary of the Treasury Mellon vas understood to favor promoting a man from the ranks in Washington. While no official confirmation ~was Meteor Incased in Ice. | Secretary favored either his special as- It is recorded that the meteor that cistant, E. C. Alvord, or Benjamin Lit- | fell at Dhurmsala, India, in 1860, was | tleton. a member of the Board of Tax found coated with ice half an hour or | Appeals. 50 after its fall; in spite of the great| Supporters of Robert H. Lucas, col- gen rallroad interests in Pennsylvania Fifty British officers of the Rhine | ing a toast. | army in the World War recently visited | "The Prince has often to listen to|lish airman, who smuggled in a body the battlefields in the vicinity long—" began the duke. Charles R. Nash, former assistant R S commissioner of internal revenue, who | Aversion to “Boring Speecehs.” now is identified with the Van Swerin- | nd boring speeche: Airplanes for Gamblers, . | By the Associated Press. | An amazing case of gambling ma- | 3150 has been mentioned, but informal | NOTTINGHAM. England, May 23— | ooty Todey dia" ot dncliste” is | The" Prinice 'of "WAles, Whe fiew Here!| CHIBSS, {oF) ‘use: ab’ Desuille, betng | from London yestert created a |Smuggled by airplane into France re- s = | hearty laugh at & luncheon in his honor | cently came to light. The machines TG | while the Duke of Portland was pro- | Were made in England and, it is alleged, they were taken to France by an Eng- through the customs at Le Bourget and sent them to Deauville by motor ca { forthcoming, it was reported that the | M. B RO OK S sioner of education, materializes. | mosphere the meteor had not. had tim ‘Commissioner Cooper, speaking to the | enough to become heated through. 1In|s Potomac Grange, No. 1, also advocated | its interior it still retained the tempera- [ her Republican strength in last Fall's | 1 consolidation of rural schools | ture o‘r” empty space, some hundred de. 2 ‘whose facilities are too meager to make for efficient operation. State Surveys Suggesied. The speaker pointed out that the Bu- reau of Education will initiate a cor- respondence service next Fall to furnish elementary and high school training to children of Army and Navy officers, lighthouse keepers and others in Go ernment service who may be located m‘ isolated posts. The commissioner suggested that each State make a survey to establish | which schools should be consolidated and what territaries served by corre- spondence courses. intimating that the Bureau of Education would assist where States and territories cannot install their own systems. “This sort of work has been done successfully in the Australian common- wealths for many years, I have heard of one staff of 70 teachers who are in- structing 2,000 children, s 0 miles aw ranches,” Commissioner Copper said Turning to the need for improving agricultural conditions as a remedy for inferior school facilities in the rural sections, Commissioner Cooper said: Farmers’ Problems Cited. “Once the farmer lived in isolation and did not see even his nearest neigh- | 807 l4th St. N.w. bor often. He had little contact with * the outside world and little opportunity | [§ Franklin 5442 to adjust himself to changing conditions. e found that his neighbor was getting more for his crop, was told that this was due to & short swpply in the neighbor’s crop and an oversupply in his. So the next year he changed, only to go on the market along with thou- | sands of others and find the law of supply and demand working against hi im. “Now he is beginning to suspect that the buyers have found it to their ad- vantage to eliminate competition among themselves and have in some way pooled | thelr interests. He is beginning to real- ize that he is alone, that he remains the small independent business man in | & world that is rapidly becoming a world of big business.” | Commissioner Cooper, in his closing | remarks, predicted the growth through- out the country of farmers’ co-operative o tions and & closer attention to market conditions, with & view to the restriction of acreage. The speaker was introduced by J. Clyde Marquis, master of Potomac Lodge, on the. occasion of the May din- ner of the lodge, held in the All Souls’ Church, Harvard and Sixteenth streets. CHILDREN TO ENTERTAIN.. Three hundred children from the three Jewish Sunday schools in Wash- ington wili formally bring to & close thelr Sunday school year at exércises o’clock the Jewish Community Cen- | ter. The Council of Jewish Women will direct the exercises. Rabbi ‘William Rosenbloom of the Washington Hebrew Congregation: will | deliver the-principal address and offered for the best student in each Sundsay school class will be awarded by | Mrs. Leonard B. Schloss, president of | the Council of Jewish Wome: i “At Seventh and K" Eyes amined Free! heat generated by friction of the at- | lector of internal revenue at Louisvill 3 past eight years, were i1 ‘which has h Memorial Cemetery Bouquets and Sprays $1.00 C Flower Stores 804 17th St. N.W. 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