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22 £ AIMIS TO DEVELOP BABES" INITIATIVE Dr. Sherman Working for| Personality Rather Than Mind Training. Quite unconsciously, a few romping 3-year-olds - at the Washington Child Research Center are taking part in fundamental experimegts to extend the scope of education far beyond what has ever been contemplated by public school systems. They are thinking of dolls, puppies, kiddy cars and Santa Claus, but learned psychologists who are watching their spontaneous behavior, sometimes from hidden points of vantage, are thinking of some of the oldest and deepest_problems which have troubled the human mind. They want to know why folks act as they do, and what can be done about it. Such is the explanation of Dr. Man- del Sherman, research center director, of the experimental program under way which soon will make it necessary to add groups of children ages and to have an enlarged staff in bigger quarters. Minute Data Ts Secured. Dr. Sherman and his aides are pio- neering in the more advanced fields of character and personality education, which they consider of equal impor- tance with training the mind—or rather having _pupils accomodate a certain mass of information. They are check- ing the slight week-to-week changes which take place in the behavior pat- terns of children against changes in environment, incidents in play and physical changes which may have given rise to them Such _headway already has been made, Dr. Sherman says, that sooner or later public education must be rad- ically changed to be efficient in pro- ducing good citizens. From the begin- ning it has been concerned with giving the child knowledge, teaching it to read, write and do certain things con- sidered desirable. But it is obvious, the director say that the amount of this sort of educ tion, or even the intelligence which lies behind it, is only one, and probably not the most important factor in the suc- cess of the individual later in life. The smart boy or girl struggles through life on a pittance while the “dumb” kid be- comes a millionaire or the star student in medical school ends up as a second rate _country doctor while the fellow who barely got through becomes a famous surgeon. Platitudes about the value of hard work and honest endeavor don't work, and the world can't understand what' is the matter. Personality Development Important. ‘The trouble, says Dr. Sherman, lies in the defects of the educational system which goes on year after year staking everything on the mind alons without }Jnymg attention to the more important actor of personality, largely for the Teason that so little is generally known about it. The work at the Child Re- search Center is one of the first at- tempts to establish a schocl of per- sonality to which other educational systems can turn as a model. “With what technique we have al- ready developed,” Dr. Sherman said, “we find that we can raiss the intelli- gence_slightly, but very sligatly, in a year. The average intelligence quo- tient of children entering last year was 119, against 122 when they left. But their increased ability to do things was all out of proportion to this slight in- crease-in intelligence because so many other factors besides intelligence, to which schools pay no attention, are in- volved in actually doing things. x “The education of the future must be one not only of information but of per- sonality development, not only in ad- Jjustment to new situations which is the essential factor in intelligence but in ;:trta.llve ability and intellectual curios- A Work to Be Extended Later. The research work now is confined to children of pre-kindergarten age, but eventually it will be necessary, Dr. Sherman says, to add groups through all the age levels of the elementary grades in order to follow through the developing personality. “Children sent to the center are frankly made the subjects of research, but,” says Dr. Sherman, “this consists largely in watching them. Any detri- ‘mental experimentation soon would ruin the material by creating an abnormal group. The children actually receive such benefits from being the subjects of experiments that several still unborn are enrolled in advance for entrance when they are 3 years old, and there is-a far larger list of applicants than <an be considered.” The work is financed by a national foundation, with some of the newer ac- tivities financed by parents themselves, In addition to the work in checking the factors influencing personality de- velopment, the center staff has made some important contributions to the physiology of childhood during the year, which are calculated to upset #ome popular notions. “Air Doesn’t Increase Appetite.” It has been found that active play in the open air does not really increase children’s appetites. Observations taken every day for the past six months show that a moderate amount of play out- doors causes a child to eat a very little more than gtherwise, but after a very active morning the food consumptior actually drops. The same is true of sleep. There is the striking correlation, says Dr. Sher- man, of -53 between excessive activity in the morning and the afternoon nap. The more active the child has been the less likely that it will got o sleep. This is probably due to toxins stored in the body by the excessive energy of the muscles or to a tenseness of the muscles which cannot be overcome quickly. The experiments show, he says, that the young child doesn't need so much sleep as is generally supposed. Under the system at the center sleep is clock- like in its regularity. The children crawl into bed in the afternoon. go to sleep almost immediately, sleep almost exactly the same time every day, wake up very quickly and jump out of bed. And records of all the children for a year show that the average period of sleep, which is thus regulated entirely by the needs of the body itself, is 89 minutes, The two-hour nap, he says, seems foolish after this test and some parents probably insist upon it for their own convenience. But the clock-like falling to sleep and waking up would be diffi- cult to duplicate in the ordinary home, whose routine cannot be arranged entirely to suit the necds of the child Parents’ Organization Formed. The children at the research center, he says, go to sleep that way because it is the socially approved thing to do— a compelling motive even with 3- year-olds. Once the habit has been established in a group all the other children fall into it automatically if they are left alone. The fact that the children go to sleep in this way, the organism acting naturally, probably means that the afternoon nap is needed, Dr. Sherman says. The period grows shorter and shorter, however, until children of 5 or 6 don't sleep naturally at all in the afternoon, Just where the need for this nap ends will be one of the proj- ects to be investigated with the older group soon to be added. In order to carry the work into new fields with older groups an organiza- tion of parents of children attending the center and those who have attended in the past has been formed, and this committee now is engaged in securing larger and permanent quartergafor the zesearch. activities. e | | tha ! | i | THE SUNDAY S TAR, WASHINGTON, D. ., DECEMBER 15, Members of the National Catholic Schoo lof Service, 2400 Nineteenth street, are shown above h dolis which the school is planning to distribute among the needy children here during the Yuletide. right: Virginia Harrigan, Katberine Tumulty, Georgia Berryman, Jane Daniels, Mary Bandy and Virginia Murphy. DOLLS READY FOR DISTRIBUTION ine modele « the Reading from left to | —Star Staff Photo. RICH IN UPLIF Unfolds Picturesqu A proletarian gesture rules Mexico today. Calles, Portes Gil and now President-elect Rumio strike the chord of popular appeal by appearing to live v and nearer the level of the The influence of Dwight W. Tow. retiring United States Ambas: r. has had an amazing effect. Al this is brought out in a series of dis- patches written in Mexico as that coun- try is about to undergo another change in administration. ~The following dis- Datch is the first of the series. BY HUBERT W. KELLEY. MEXICO CITY, December 14 (N.AN.A).—Mexico, so near and yet so far; childish and, like a child, in- comprehensible. Only the silver-gray ribbon of the Rio Grande separates her geographically from the colossus of the North, but a gulf broader than tne Atlantic separates her from Angio- Saxon understanding. After an hour’s delay at Neuvo La- redo, the khaki-skinned, Kkhaki-clad customs officials having completed their long and ‘ceremonious inspection, the City of Mexico Express goes flying southward across the bleak vastitude of Mexican plains, over a straight one- way track out through the crust of crazy cactus and gnarled chaparral. The ocean is crossed. Bewilderment rides in the American Pullman and u stoical resignation rides with the un- smiling hordes in the chair cars. Sir John Percival of London, bound for the City of Mexico on & diplomatic mission, sprawls in the buffet lounge, his high-bridged nose buried in the latest book on auction bridge. Occa- sionally his pince nez twinkles, as he glances out of his window at the wheel- ing vista of gray plains and remote blue mountains. “Like Egypt, isn't it2” he says, ab- sently, and resumes reading. Others Are Indifferent. But two General Motors engineers, bound for the mile-and-a-half-high capital to find out why altitude dis- agrees with certain carburetors, do not reply. They are seeking refuge in a game of pitch with the French-Egyptian 1adio salesman from Chicago, whose chief interest is whether radio reception is good in the City of Mexico. It isn't The express flies southward. The livid vistas are as broad as the sea. At times the pale sunshine, released from wintry mist, colors the landscape delicately with silver, gold and blue. A cloud across the pale sun may change the tints to green and lavender. Now the landscape is faintly exhilarating, now it is melancholic. There in the brush stands an Indian, small in stature, yet a head higher than the stunted growth in which he works and dwells. He is chopping cactus with a machete. He is barefoot, his toes widespread, his sole tough as hoofs. A ragged sombrero shades his dark face. His emaciated body is clad in ragged cotton that once was white. Wrapped in Zarape. But the zarape folded over his shoul- der, in which he will wrap himself when the frigid breath of the mountains pufls | suddenly across the plains, is brilliant with color. A sunset or a gorgeous Sum- mer garden is woven in it to warm his soul as the wool warms his body. He is a speck in the landscape. Of what consequence is. his life in that wide horizon? His burro stands pa- tiently beside him, already laden with giant” blades of maguey cactus, food, drink and fabric to the desperately im- poverished creatures of the chaparral. They must feel a great sympathy for each other, that Indian and burro, NEW REGIME TO FIND MEXICO T OPPORTUNITY Train Journey From Border to Capital eness and Primitve Conditions Lingering With Progress. The Indian appears and ‘Teappears as the train flies on. Sometimes he 15 crushing maize with a stone, some- times he is weaving en an ancient loom. He Js lifting the bucket_from the well on a huge T-lever. He is huddled_at the door hole of his little round house of sticks and _stones, through the crevices of which the blue smoke of the morning fire is seeping. Tt is not much of & house. It is more like the nest of a large bird. The In- dian’s naked children play around him. A city! Monterey, Saltillo, Quere- taro. It is of little consequence. Mei- chants and beggars swarm to the train side, imploring the multitude in the name of all that is holy and celestia to partake of one terra cotta goblet of such ambrosian goat’s milk as that which steams in the dark-red pitcher. And, senor, ecries & shrivelled, bare- foot crone, there never was such w transcendent delicacy as this lump ot stewed chicken on the grimy pancake. Tortillas. Partake and know the height of culinary delight. Candy of cactus Exquisite. * A_stick of ripe limes, i and sweet. Oranges big as grapefruit. Honey and enchilades. A pancake wrapped around a spoonful of soft cheese. v Soldiers and Lunch, A small detachment of Mexican sol- diers, more like Japanese than Mexi- cans, scramble out of the coaches for lunch., They snatch food from ouw- stretched claws and leave a copper. They select morsels from trays that sing with a cloud of flies. But the tourists and the upper class Mexicans who ride in the Pullman lunch in the buffet lounge on San Antonian fooa, on which a very high duty has been paid at the border. A 4-year-old child, with matted black hair, large tragic eves in a pinched face, widespread toes and a single filthy garment, leads a blind hag through the platform crowd. Her head is thrown back, her empty sockets stare at _the sky. “In the name of God, senor!" “It seems to me something could be done about this” says an American siness ‘man, his face pained. “Hos- pitals or something.” In the market of tattered canopies and booths of piled stones the wares of the small Indian merchants are ar- rayed. There is a touch of art in the color arrangement of the miserable wares. The red corn, yellow corn, gray beans, green limes, oranges, catch the eye. Purplish meat hangs from poles. The merchant women drone a selling talk and push the crawling bables from the piles of grain on the spread canvas. The bell rings; the train rumbles on. The hemp factory, soap factory, brew ery or refinery lies at the outskirts of the town. But it is not an industrial country. Again the plains and moun- tains wheel. Dry corn blows in the wind, Over there is the full ditch of a half-hearted irrigation project. The maguey cactus is cultivated in rows which march miles across the plains into the mountains. Goats Tove the hillsides. From the chaparral dark eyes look up in wonderment. “For the love of God, senor.” The new government promises a Hooverlan _ administration. Schools, highways, irrigation projects, raflroad service for towns—the railroads some- how escape them. (Next: The ti Rubio). (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- s ) of President-elect aper Alliance. GovernmentObtains| Cheaper Money for New Treasury Bills Banks and Security Deal- ers Fix Own Rate of In- terest in Making Bids. By the Associated Press The use of Treasury bills to borrow money for the Government’s financing, put mto use for the first time Friday, was said yesterday by Undersecretary Mills to have resuited in “the cheajSest money that the Government nas re- cently obtained.” The Treasury sold $100,000,000 in Treasury bills, which brought an av- erage price of 99.181 and will be re- deemed in 90 days at face value. In presenting their bids, banks and secur- ity dealers fixed their own interest rate, which the Government figures will amount to 34 per cent. “Though the regular Treasury cer- tificate lssue going out December 15 bears a rate of 3 per cent, the $100,- 000,000 which we will obtain from the new form of securities is in reality cheaper money for the Government than that which it obtained on the cer- tificate sale,” Mr. Mills explained. “That is true because the Treasury in exchange for certificates receives d posit credits from the purchasing banks and pverage figures show that the funds | obtained lay.35 days on deposit with the purchasing bank. That means that the use of the money from certificate sales is only partly available to the Government, while for the new Treas- ury bills we receive cash. Umbrellas Auctioned. BERLIN (#).—Lost umbrellas, auc- tioned off here once a moath by the railway companies, are offered in bun- dles of 10. Even though 10 rain shields may be too many for an individual, it is good business ta bid from 75 cents to $1.25 for the lot, as it generally con- tains one or two gocd ones. Barge Scores Hit | In Another Blow | At Chicago Bridge |Sandmaster Raises Its Smashing Average to New High Mark. By the Associated P CHICAGO, December 14.—The Sand- master, a gravel barge, satiated its permanent grudge against the Clark Street Bridge again today by taking | another bite. The sand-sucking barge, inbound from the lake, stuck her nose in the piling of the old bridge and swung broadside across the Chicago River, blocking traffic across the up-turned | bridge for two hours. { Last April the Sandmaster crashed into the ancient turn-table bridge and knocked it from its pedestal. The web of a new steel bridge was already being spun, so they left the antiquated span, lopsided and useless, where it hung. Lightning might have considercd one bolt enough for one shot. but not the Sandmaster. With the same captain in charge, she scored another direct hit today. Last April's smash-up resulted in Capt. Ava Smith's suspension for 30 days as a pilot and a $175,000 damage suit was filed by the city against the Construction Materials Co., the vessel. The Sandmaster has rammed 18 dif- ferent bridges in its meanderings up and down the Chicago River, the com- missioner of public works said toda; :z has exhibited a particular antipathy or which it has bumped 18 times. River men attributed its blundering to-a response to the wheel at slow speed. They said the ship usually enters the river unaided by tugs and fs heavily loaded. ‘Today's river trip was its first visit t: l{;e harbor since the accident of last pril. ss. Russia expects to complete by 1932 the l{,flrxcsl hydro-electric project in the world, Hon. John Coventry, captain of the Worcestershire cricket fram, has bee elected mayor of Worcester. a owner of | the Diversey Boulevard Bridge, | U S, OPPOSITION FADING IN MEXIGD Friendship Bids to Ripen Under Administration of President Rubio. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, December 14.—Mexi- can-American co-operation and friend- ship, dating in its recent phase from the time of Ambassador Morrow's ar- rival in 1924, bitls well to ripen into full bloom during the administration of President Ortiz Rubio. While the chronic crities see in the President-eleot’s” visit to the United States a trip made for the sole purpose of receiving orders from the White House, those with different views agree that it means much for the promotion of mutual understanding and are in- clined to make little of the critics’ argument. U. S. Opposition Fading. The old dread of being told what to do by the United States, the eternal shouting about the “Colossus of the North” and the once-popular war cry of opposition to American “imperial- ism” rapidly are losing ground in Mex- ico. Some view this change as a resige nation to the force of circumstances, while others attribute it to a new out- look on American politics, but be that as it may, the present-day opinion nations, while much is to be won through co-operation. the occasion in the United States to speak of amity, mutual comprehensions and a neighborly spirit of interlocking progress. And in so doing he has fol- lowed the policy of the Portes Gil gov- ernment and the Calles administration, dating from Mr. Morrow's advent as Ambassador. bit further by paying a visit to the more outspoken in expressing his views, all of which leads to the belfef that in- ternational friendship will enjoy full sway when he comes into the presi- dency. Capital North of Rio Grande. ° _ For the time being, Mexico’s political capital is north of the Rio Grande. It is there that matters of state are being threashed out, there where the coun- try’s immediate future is being decided. Many of what might be termed the po< litical favorites are assembled about the president-elect and most of those with him are considered likely to figure prominently in the forthcoming admin- istration. Mexicans read reports from New York these days as avidly as they would ordinarily pursue the political columns of the local news. Locally there is not much doing, President Portes Gil and Secretary of War Amaro are running things In & quiet manner and unless an unexpected upset of large proportions comes the people will continue to de- vote their attention to the cable sec- tions. LEXINGTON TO SUPPLY TACOMA WITH POWER seems to be that nothing can be gained | by furthering enmity between the two Ortiz Rubio has taken advantage of | But he has carried it a. United States and has been somewhat | Aircraft Carrier Dro;l Anchor in Harbor—Drought Relieved by Rains. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash., December 14 —The U. 8. S. Lexington, giant aircraft car- rier, dropped anchor in Tacoma's har- | bor today, ready to begin a month’s service as an auxiliary power plant. Coincident with her arrival heavy .ains and warm weather in the higher altitudes caused a phenomenal rise of 3.3 feetsin the Lake Cushman reservoir, whose depletion, due to unprecedented drought, caused the city to ask the Navy for the loan of the Lexington. All preparations for making the 4physical connection between the city's power line and the Lexington’s giant turbines are being rushed, and it is thought that within 48 hours the vessel will be delivering power to the city. Once power starts flowing from the Lexington the Lake Cushman hydro- electric plant will be shut down in the city in order that the reservoir may fill sufficiently to carry the city over any other crisis that might be caused by a resumption of drought conditions. It is planped to draw a 20,000-kilo- watt load from the Lexington for 12 hours each day. Should favorable weather continue it may not be neces- sary for the ship to remain the full 30 days. The Lexington, one of the two largest battleships in the world, is the largest ship that has ever entered Tacoma's harbor. A fleet of tugs, aided by naval craft, will warp the 'Lexington into place at a local dock Sunday morning. KEEGIN RE-ELECTED. | Again Chosen Head of St. Jerome's Holy Name Society. Special Dispatch to Thé Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., December 14.— Archie Keegin was re-elected president of the Holy Name Soclety of St Jerome's Catholic Church at the annuai meeting. Other officers chosen were: { _Charles M. Brown, vice president; | Stephen J. Kelly, secretary; Caesar L. | Alello, treasurer; Willlam L. Hall, imn“h‘,‘ and Rev. Andrew J. Carey, i pastor of St, Jerome's, sp'ritual director. President Keegin appointed the follow- ing delegates to the quarterly meetings 1of the Washington section of the Holy Name Soclety and the annual meeting CHAMBER T0 WORK FOR NEW MARKET Commerce Body Also Names Committee on Education in District. The securing of “a proper new site for the Farmers' Market” was sought {in a resolution adopted yesterday by the executive committee of the Wash- | ington Chamber of Commerce. Charles W. Darr, the president, also made sev- eral appointments looking to the bet- | terment of education in the District. A committee to bring about a suitable Farmers' Market site named by Presi- dent Darr follows: Russell Balderson, chairman; C. F. Armiger, Gilbert C. Bensinger, C. Alfred Bolgiano, Wrisley Brown, J. H. Baines, Mendel Behrend, Thomas A. Cannon, Ulysses G. Cun- ningham, Robert N. Harper, Harry King, Thomas P. Littlepage and Nor- man W. Oyster. ‘The resolution adopted by the execu- tive committee follows: “Resolved, That steps be taken at the earliest possibie moment to secure a proper market site to take the place of the former market at Tenth and B streets to accommodate Maryland and Virginia farmers desiring to bring their produce to Washington, and that the president of the chamber is authorized to appoint a special com- mittee to work for the realization of this object.” College Committee Announced. The personnel of the committee on universities, colleges and private schools was announced by President Darr. Col. Willlam O. Tufts was named chairman and Miss M. Pearl McCall vice chair- man. This committee, officials of the chamber said, drafted the diploma mill bill and conducted the fight for its enactment, and is now engaged in com- al)llng a school directory of Washing- n. Col. Tufts has called a meeting of this committee for Tuesday at 12:30 o'clock at the organization’s headquarters in the Homer Bullding, at which a report will _be ‘made. on the progress of the compilation of the directory. Information on libraries, museums. art galleries, national associations, re- search bodies, statistical agencies and all other institutions relating to the ef- ficient conduct of education and re- search activities is being collected in conjunction with the committee's study 1929—PART ONE. of Washington as a national educational center, ‘The persormel of the committee on universities, colleges and private schools, as announced by President Darr, fol- lows: *William O. Tufts, chairman: Miss M. Pearl McCall, vice chairman; Miss Het- tie P. Anderson, Darrell P. Aub, Milton Baer, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, Anthony J. Barrett, A, Blustein, Miss May P. Brad- shaw, Dr. Frances Moon Butts, Charles A. Camalier, Laurence B. Campbell, Charles F. Carusi, Charles T. Clagett, Allan Davis, Eugene T. Dickinson, John Groover, P. J. Harman, Charles D. Hamel, Edward S. Hine, Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, J. A. Johnson, W. C. Ken- gust King-Smith, Clifford Lewis, Dr. | Harry Lewis, Paul J. Leverone. Dr. Cloyd A. Marvin, Edward W. Marti; Rev. W. Coleman Nevils, Dr. J. S. N lsmner. J. E. Palmer, Harold Pellegrin, | James W. S. Peters, Walter P. Plymalc, Robert E. Pyle, Dr. C. Jabel Robinson, Mrs. Caroline B. Stephen, Charles H Tompkins, Mme. Marie Von Unschuld, Miss Florence E. Ward, Miss Marjorie F. Webster, Dr. Oscar M. White, D, E. Wright, Ford E. Young. At the request of Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president of the Board of Edu- cation, President Darr appointed Charles H. Le Fevre, chairman of the commit- tee on public schools, to represent the chamber on the advisory board, which will co-operate with the Board of Edu- cation In its plans for starting a pro- gram of character building in the Washington public schools. Following authorization of the De- cember ~chambér meeting, President Darr likewise appointed Dr. Oscar M. White to serve as a member of the music group of the national community Christmas tree committee, of which Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard is chairman. WOMAN DRYS ORGANIZE FOR PROHIBITION REFORM First Organization of Its Kind in Maryland Formed in Green Spring Valley. BALTIMORE, December 14.—A group of soclety and professional women will launch the Maryland branch of the | woman'’s organization for prohibition | reform at a luncheon meeting Monday at the home of Mrs. Walter Wickes in the Green Spring Valley. 2 It is the first organization of its kind for women in the State. According to its sponsors, the association is in favor of temperance, but opposed to the pres- ent form of prohibition. P Mrs. William Cabell Bruce. wife of former Senator Bruce, and Mrs. Don- ald Symington have been asked to head the organization work In Maryland. T. Doyle, Hugh Everett, Dr. Thomas A. | dall, H. L. Kengla, John Kennedy, Au- | GASOLINE STATON ROBEED BY BANDIT 'Young Masked Man Takes $55 from Cash Drawer at Point of Pistol. | | william G. Lambert of sfreet northeast, manager of the Penn | Oil gas station at 401 Florida avenue northeast, was held up at the point of a istol and robbed of $55 by a young old about | Pasked bandit about 25 yea 8 o'clock last night The rober walked into | tion, ordered Lambert to * e gas sta- “|and rifled the cash drawer of its con- aid the bandit. after pocketing the cash, still kept him cov- ered and ordered him to accompany him outside to his machine. This, Lam- bert said. he refused to do. and was told by the hold-up man thai he would be permitted to Yem: in office pro- vided he did not make an outery for five The youthfui robber then d through the door, jumped into ting machine and rhade . The robbery of the gas sta curred within a short time after police had sent a lookout for an automobile owned by Guy M. Baker of Riverdale, Md., and which had been stolen from the front of a store at §17 H_strect northeast. Police declare ; believe the stolen car was used by the bandit the hold-up. tents. Lambert MARYLAND MOTORISTS WARNED TO GET TAGS Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, December 14 —Sound- ing another warning to speed up appli- cations for 1930 automobile licenses, E. Austin Baughman, commissioner of | motor vehicles, today predicted that | unless the distribution of tags reaches a daily average of 15,000 sets from now until January 1 there will be a chaotic rush for plates late this month. Figures compiled by Mr. Baughman revealed that so far licenses have been | paid on 59,366 of the estimated 325,000 | motor vehicles in Maryland, an aver- | age daily distribution of only 7,500 tags. | O” the total, 41.960 sets of plates were mailed, while 17,406 sets were delivered in person to auto owners at the com- missioner’s office here. 1204 Fifth| I M » | McKinley' High SPANISH TEACHERS - T0 CATHER HERE E Between 100 and 200 Ameri- can Association Members to Attend. Dean Henry Grattan Doyle of George | Washington University announced last night that the American Association of Teachers of Spanish will hold its thirteenth annual meeting hcie, undcr the university's auspices, December 27 and 28. Betwesn 100 #nd 200 mem {bers of the association’s 2,000 are ex- pected to attend, he said. | Coincident with this annou Dean Doyle made public tne members of the local committee who will as- sist in the convention. The personnci follow: Antonio Alonso, American \n'versity, president of the Washington Chapter of the association: Miss Heloise Brain- erd, Pan-American Union; A. Cabri v Vazquez, Catholic Unive: Miss M. O. Carpenter, representative of La Prensa: Prof. James C. Corliss, George Washington University; Prof. J. des Coutinho, _Cathol ersity; Miss » B. Crans, Central High Schosl; eferrari, University of iss Mildred Hutchinson, A 3 School: C. K. Jones, Library of Congress; M. G. Martinez, Georgetown University: Prof. Merle I. rotzman. George Washington Univer- s Prof. David Rubio, Catholic Uni- versity; Rene Samson, director of mod- ern languages in the District of Co- lumbia high schools: Miss Ruth Wilson, Eastern High School. The growing importance of Latin American relations, Dean Doyle sald, ;«‘dds to the importance of this conven- on. Pear]l Detector Success. Tests of a new invention to detect Japanese cultivated pearls from the natural ones are said to indicate that it is infallible. The device, perfected in Europe, is operated by elecricity. The pearl is suspended on a silk thread in a glass tube fixed over an electric magnet and exactly between the two magnetic poles. When an electric cur- rent is passed through the magnet it causes the cultivated pearl to revolve, but the natural pearl remains stabl To Dispose of All the Kaufmann Stock of ‘Character” FURNITURE Remember, This Sale Is at 1415 H ST. We Will Close Our Doors At KAUFMANN'’S on The 24th of This Month EVERY PRICE SLASHED!! [ NAME YOUR PRICE— NO REASONABLE OFFER REJECTED! Convenient Terms Arranged! The Julius Lansburgh Furniture Company’s Sale of the Stock of KAUFMANN Furniture Co. 1415 H Street N.W. of the Diocesan Union: Rev. Carey, ex-officio; Archie Keegin, Charles M. Brown, Stephen J. Kelly, . Alello, Willlam M. Hall, Pau!l Dutton and. Myles Quadl.