Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1929, Page 84

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. U, DECEMBER 15, | M ning, Decem dips or practice swimming from 11 in December 26 and observing the hours | Branch road, Monday evening, - the morning straight through to 9 in |12 to 2 and 5 to 10 until New Year ber 16, at 8 pm. i e the evening. The usual holiday ratc|day, when they will be closed all day.| The chapter council will meet to- will prevail. The 614 E street pool will | Parties may be arranged for the after- morrow at 11 o'clock. Mrs. Elizabeth maintain this dip period from Decem- | noon period 2 to 5 at the usual bowl- | W. Murray, hospital visiter for the NEED OF BALLOONS i Tea will be sezved in the fourth-floor | ber 19 to December 24, inclusive, while | ing rate. h | reading room from 4 to 5 o'clock pre-! the K strect pool is closed for clean-| A new term in all gymnastic dancing |speaker. At 12 o'clock Mrs. Georgette | ceding_the music hour at Seventcenth | ing. Both pools will_be closed on | classes starts the week of January s"Ross Howard will have an’hour of cur- 1929—PART FOUR. consumes beer instead of wine. Honce! HOLDS DIET DETERMINES | 55 Giteence in temperament between CHARACTER OF NATION | “ippiging ni Applying his theory to America, he | asserted that emigrants have assimi-| | fated both the food and thought of | Satire and steps “"l."d"'“;:“"r"‘“',‘,"“’“ their new country, discarding all tradi- | novel that is calie ncerity” and tions of idea and diet likely to impede | deals with the curious relationship be- them in a struggle in which they are | tween two women and a man. It con- et o e cerns Winthrop Beauvel and his wife = Isabel, and the ecircumstances that caused Isabel to leave the country for 10 years, while Beauvel and another woman masqueraded as man and wife before the town of Harrington, All of them had acted upon what they be- ERSKINE'S NEW NOVEL. John Erskine has disearded historical Y. W. C. A. News French Physician Says Wine and hich is t events. This meeting of the coun S T osos and K streets, when memvers of the|Christmas day. From December 26 to | The new folder, which is now ready, in- | rent events. meeting - | business and professional women's de- ! January 1, inclusive, the long dip pe- | cludes golf classes for _n!:oth beginne=s c‘(]h is ope:ob:reullnafigzz members and Homeland. | others wl D e ament | PARIS (7)—That national diet de- termines national temperament is the theory which a French physician, Dr.| BRUSSELS, (#).—To facilitate export Fiessinger, has formulated in the Figaro.| of the ceptionally heavy Belgian Wine and women, he said, are tht‘ipntam harvest, railroads have reduced two influences which have gone to the | their freight rates 25 per cent. As all and advanced pupils. 5 has been most fortunate in securing the | Piney Branch Chapter will meet to- service of Mr. George Diffenbaugh, the | morrow at the home of Ml"fi L. G. Rod- professional at the Indian Spring Golf man, 1410 M street northwest. | Club, as instructor. | i Chapters. According to the figures of the first | partment will be the hosiesses to mem- | riod will be observed daily from 11 a.m. | bers and friends of the Y, W. C. A.|to 9 pm. This includes Saturday and who care to come in. This is the third | New Year day. The 614 E street poo! of a series of “Christmas teas.” will be closed during this latter peried The third carol program will be given ' for its annual cleaning and overhauling. this evening at 5 o'clock in the fourth-! The bowling alleys located in the floor assembly room, Seventeenth and K | basement at Seventeenth and K strects Belgian Potato Rates Cut. Survey Follows Recent Tour Made by Assistant Chief I‘ of Staff. | | Provision of at least two additional | observation balloons at Army artillery | training centers is being studied by Air Corps officers as a result of an acrial | inspection trip of Army posts recentl completed by Brig. Gen. Edward L. King, newly appointed assistant chief of | staff. Gen. King, flying in a Ford C-9 | transport from Bolling Field, visited Army posts in 17 states. | He laft Bolling Field November 8, ac- | companied by Maj. John Brooks, Afr Corps, assigned to the gencral staff; Capt. Willis Hale and Capt. Willlam J. Flood, both from the office of the chief of the Air Corps. Maj. Brooks and Capt. Hale alternated as pilots. The trip was made to acquaint Gen. King with activities at the Army posts with the least possible loss of ti While at Pope Field, N. took part in the annuni gram, flying as observer in a plane in which the pilot dropped bombs for record and used his front machine gu on ground targets for record. At Gal veston, Tex. Gen. King also flew as | observer in various attack formations | and at Brooks Field, the Air Corps pri- mary training school, he took a half | hour of instruction in a_training plane. The balloons are needed at Fort Sill, Okla., where the Artillery School is! located, with the Pirst Balloon Com- | pany as the acrial observation unit. Another balloon would permit the use | of two ranges at one time and would aid materially the work of the school, | it was stated. A balloon company also is needed in conjunction with the artil- lery command at Fort Bragg, N. C., Gen. King was told. TOKIO FOSTERS BIRTH CONTROL AMONG POOR Information to Be Given to Help! Allay Suffering in Poverty- Stricken Homes. TOKIO (#).—The capital of Japan is making official preparations to furnish | birth control information to its poor in an effort to relieve the suffering that comes from large families in poverty- stricken homes. This _sociological experiment, _espe- clally startling in the Orient where an- cestor worship has placed a premium on large families, is hailed by pro- ponents of birth control as opening the way for application of this remedy on a national scale to Japan's overpopulation problem. i Yukichi Shirakami, deputy mayor of Tokio, said it was the purpose to give information only to couples that already have four children and can show that they are too poor to care for more. In- formation will be denied to young, newly married couples and to persons of wealth. Mr. Shirakami said that the muni- cipality hoped birth control would help to lower the high infant mortality rate | and_eventually reduce the number of | families dependent on offictal charity. BELGIAN SAYS BIRDS | MAY INFLUENCE AVIATION Possess (reater Speed Range Than | Modern Aircraft, Engineer De- | clares After Long Study. The Belgian engineer, Maurice Boel, | has made an exhaustive study of the | natural flight of birds. The study itself is, of course, interesting, but no more so than some of his conclusions regard- ing the possible developments in air- craft which his studies have suggested. Writing in Mechanical Engineering, he | says: “Among the ohservations made, there are several lessons which might profit- ably be learned by aircraft constructors. | Many birds, particularly the albatross, are ‘constructed’ with especial care. Moreover birds possess a greater speed range' than the majority of aircraft, while the energy which they expena when flying is relatively less than that of machines. Here, then, are qualities more important than can be fully ap- preciated, and which will eventually be embodied in the construction of air- planes that already possess superior speed. In other woids, the theory of natural flight does not introduce a new machine. It introduces merely a few remarks which will assist in perfecting | existing aircraft, of which there is every | reason to feel proud. Today man is do- | ing nearly as well as the birds. In a attle while he will be doing even bet- NEW NOVELS DESCRIBE | UNIVERSITY I\THLETICSI “Pigskin” Is Satirical Display of| College President Who Realizes Importance of Foot Ball. NEW YORK (Special).—Hard upon the Carnegie Foundation report on col- lege athletics come two novels that pro- fess to make similar disclosures. One is_“Pigskin,” by Charles W. Fer- guson. The other is “The Unwilling | God,” by that veteran interpreter of college life, Percy Marks. “Pigskin” is not an epic of the grid- | iron, but a grim, satirical display of an American college president who comes to realize that pigskin is today's sub- stitute for the sheepskin. | Dr. Horace Ethelmore Dickey dreamed | of a great university and poured his| dream, at last. into concrete forms. But | it was not without ruthlessness and | without suffering. Ferguson, in his first | novel, does present a picture as devas- tating as the foundation’s report, with additional scenes of the badged alumni. Percy Marks says these alumni are | “the worst offenders.” “They are,” he says, “far more hys. terical about foot ball than the under- graduates are.” | “The Unwilling God” describes the struggle of a campus hero against the accepted rules for such a role. He went to college to get an education, but_he finally gets the old college spirit, dashes through an opposing team for a touch- down and wins the inevitable girl. MAN NEVER A MONKEY. So Says United States National Museum Expert. Man is not descended from the mon- key. So says the authority on this sub- ject, Dr. Austin H. Clark of the United States National Museum. We offer this to you for what comfort you may de- rive from it. Writing in ihe Monthly recently, Mr. Clark sai never was arboreal, and none of his an- cestors was ever arboreal. All his char- acteristics are those of a ground-living creature walking erect. Man never was a monkey. Man is a mutation, from the same general stock as that which | produced the monkeys. Just what that was we do not know.” Man is differen- | tiated from the animals through hi: inherent instincts which enable him t cope with the animals more than suc- cessfully, although he is physically weaker and is further handicapped by @ slowly maturing family. | S A i American motorists, it is estimated, | will use 14,000,000,000 gallons of gaso- | Jine this vear—a lake 5 miles wide and « e esep. |and German carols in costume. { consisting of | service ‘and tea held by the student streets. The Madrigal singers, directed | and accompanied by Mrs. John Milton! Sylvester, will sing old English, French Miss Ecssie Brown will be the hostess for the afternoon. ~ Visitors are cordially invited to attend. i Of great interest is the dinner which group of Y. W. C. A. hostesses is iving for a number of foreign students now in Washington as part of the; Christmas program of the association.| The dinner will be held in Barker Hall | tomorrow evening and it is anticipated | that 100 will attend. | On December 19 the association wi celebrate the “hanging of the greens,” the annual Christmas ceremonial, when all departments, chapters and friends and members of the association are in- vited. The Girl Reserve Glee Club will sing during the dinner hour and host- csses will be present from 8 o'clock. ‘The program will take place at 9 o'clock, the “hanging of the greens,” the ceremony of the Yule log and good cheer around the wassail bowl. At this time the Elizabeth Somers Glee Club will sing Christmas carols. A spe cial dinner will be served in the cafe- teria and in the tea room. ‘There will be a regular meeting of the board of directors on Thursday morn- ing, December 19, at 10:30. At the Elizabeth Somers residence this afternoon there will be a vesper service at 5:30, when Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, will be the speak- er. Miss Essie Vaughan will be the leader and Miss Clara Vaughan the hostess. At the meeting of the staff last Tues- day morning Dr. Nolan Lewis of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital spoke on “Mental Hygiene.” Next Tuesday morning the staff will gather for a Christmas break- fast together at the Elizabeth Somers residence, followed by the regular meeting. Business and Professional Women's Department. Members of the business girls’ clubs are serving as hostesses at the tea this afternoon in the living room on the | fourth floor at Seventecnth and K streets. On Tuesday evening the Aricitia, Hitika, Tip Top, Premiere, K. G. and Wohelo Clubs will join in a white Christmas ceremonial, during which they will tell of the various social service projects in which they are en- gaged in the endeavor to create Christ- | mas cheer in places where it might not otherwise be. Santa Claus himself will be present to grace ths occasion. This program will begin at 7 o'clock and the club supper will be served at 6:15. Each of the clubs is planning a Christmas party to be held after the assembly program. The Biue Triangle girls will have a program of Christmas carols on Thurs- day evening, followed by a party around the Christmas tree. Later in the eve- ning they will join in the “hanging of the greens” through the house and all association Christmas festivities. Girl Reserves. Miss Mabel R. Cook, Girl Reserve director, will speak at the Christmas i | association at George Washington Uni- versity this afternoon at 4 o’clock. ‘Tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. the Adelphae Girl Reserve Club of Western High School will entertain 10 little children from one of the missions at a Christmas party in the Girl Reserve club rooms. Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock the | Girl Reserve Clubs at Dennison Trade | School will finish making toys and | dressing dolls for the Girl Reserve toy shop and will have hobby groups, in- cluding a clog dancing class and the toy symphony orchestra. At 2:20 the two Girl Reserve Clubs at Jefferson Junior High School will entertain 10 children from the Gospel Mission at a | Christmas party. The Semper Fidelis Girl Reserve Club of Tech High School will have a Christmas party at 3:30. The Tri-Hi Girl Reserve Club of Busi- ness High School will also have a Christmas party at the Y. W. C. A. The Girl Reserve Glee Club will have an important rehearsal at the Y. W. C. A. at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. ‘Thursday afternoon at 2:20 the Girl Reserve Clubs at Powell, Langley, Mar- farland and Columbia Junior High Schools will have Christmas parties and entertainments. At 3 p.m. the Fidells and Les Camerades Girl Reserve Club at Eastern High School will have Christmas parties. At 4:30 p.m. the Girl Reserve Club at ‘the First Con- gregational Church will have a Christ- mas entertainment. Friday afternon at 2:20 the Girl Re- serve Clubs at Hine, Stuart and Bright- wood Junior High Schools will have Christmas parties at the schools. At 2:45 p.m. the Girl Reserve Club at Sil- ver Spring High School will entertain the mothers of the Girl Reserves at a Christmas tea. At 3:30 p.m. the Bon Secour Girl Reserve Club of Central High School will meet. Saturday morning the grade school Girl Reserves will have a program of Christmas cerols, Christmas stories and a Christmas play given by the dramatic group. Next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock all Girl Reserves and their friends are invited to the Christmas celebration and exhibit of the Girl Reserve toy shop to be held in Barker Hall, Seven- teenth and K streets. Industrial Department. ‘The industrial department Christmas party will be held Thursday, December 19, from 5 to 9 p.m. There will be games and Christmas music with din- ner at 6:30, followed by a visit irom Santa Claus. The Greek Club will distribute gifts to six poor families on Monday, Decem- ber 23. The chairman of the social service is Miss Anna Demas. She will be assisted by Mrs. Jenis, Mrs. Lyos and Mrs, P. George in making arrange- ments. Health Education Department. The gymnasium will be closed for the class activities from December 16 to January 6, except for the “Happy Hunting Ground” for children during vacation, 10 to 12 daily, December 16 to January 4. Class instruction in the swimming rools will be discontinued for the hol- idays beginning December 19, but all classes will be resumed January 2. Dur- ing this time the peols will be used for Don’t Let Snow, Hail and i Weather Rob You of Winter 3 @ € oo *° o e ly Located Prepared TR MO T AN DOWNFOWN STATI STAR SERYICE STATION will be open during their usual hours | 12 noon to 10 p.m., until Saturday. De- | cember 21, at 2 p.m. At that time they will close for a sh it o a Princeton Chapter will hold jts meet- | census, in 1790, 88 per cent of the Amer- | ing with the election of officers at the | ican population was derived or descend- ¢ time, reopening | home of Mrs. Lee Robinson, 6725 Piney ' ed from the English, Welsh and Scotch. lieved to be high motives. Thelr troubles came from their attempt to be abso- lutely sincere. formation of the French temperament. | of continental Europe has a big potato Germany, on the other hand, regards | crop, most of the Belgian surplus will women as mere domestic toilers and'go overseas. 3rd FlSalel Womers*3975 t0'69 73 3rd Floor Sale of *13™ to *19” Dresses $9.9O Flat Crepes Georgettes Chiffons Moires Satins and Fish Net All New Silhouettes About 100 different styles. And almost as many colorings. Sizes for misses 14 t0 20. Sizes for women 36 to 46. And sizes for little women 1614 to 2414, (Third Floor, The Hecht Co.) An Extra Special Gift Sale of and % am in a Fifth Floor Sale 4995 The Usual $10.95 to $15 Qualities Gifts that the beau will appreciate. -loving woman In a sale that offers plentiful varieties in materials, styles and colors . . . not to mention the un- usual savings. NEGLIGEES that softly follow the new sithouette, with side drapes, flounces, -pleating and georgette ruffles. PAJAMAS—the lounging sort, so very practical. In many exciting color combinations. Great for col- lege girls. ROBES — quilted satins, for warmth and cozy comfort during the chilly winter days. (Fifth Floor, The Hecht Co.) COATS A Spectacular Sale of the Season’s “Best-Selling” Styles in Black Cloth Coats, Fur Trimmed Black Coats, with Black Wolf . #25 Black Coats, with Pointed Wolf, $25 Black Coats, with Kit Fox . . . $25 Black Coats, with Black Caracul, 25 Every coat lined with a beautiful crepe “ satin and flat crepe or sateen. Selected fur trimmings. The most careful tailoring. Fabrics of high quality. Entire section on our third floor given over to this sale. (Third Floor, The Hecht Co.) Also...A Startling Sale of 80 Beautiful R SCARFES 53950 Worth $49.50 to $69.50 Luxurious gifts. Red fox, brown fox, pointed fox and beige wolf. Natural, well formed heads . .. large, fluffy brushes. All packed in gift boxes. (Third Floor, The Hecht Co.) Iar Hecart Co. “F Street at Seventh”