Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1930, Page 40

All material for this column must be ggle Eflu office, room 101, Burlington , .. In recognition of the work done by the Singing Mothers, the executive board of the District of Columbia Con- gress of Puam.; mrgy mmt . ring a card pa y a mm‘& the Burlington Hotel. An exhibit has been placed in the Btate office available for use as exam- les of the work being accomplished ighout local associations. This 1s a collection of clothing given to needy school children to enable them to at- tend school, most attractively made from discarded shirts, sports clothes, ‘etc. This work has been done at the ‘Health Center, 1464 Columbia road, by mothers and grandmothers and shows ‘what loving hands can accomplish with partly worn garments, There are darned stockings, dimin- utive dresses, little boys' suits with trousers made from old sport skirts and blouse from the tail of father's shirt. All of these are inclosed in a suit case and may be used as exhibits at local meetings to show the work of the student ald, under Mrs. E. J. Dowl- ing, chairman. The second semester 'of the parent- teacher course at George Washington University will open February 5. The subject is “Program Making and Parent Education.” Mrs. Arthur C. Watkins, executive secretary of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, will conduct the course. It is open to members of the parent-teacher associations as a non- credit course. Annual programs will be considered. Registration must be made at Dean Ruediger’s office at the univer- sity, 2022 G street, February 3 and 4. A conference of the presidents of the District of Columbia Parent-Teacher Associations convened Tuesday after- noon in the Burlington Hotel. Fifty- one presidents were present. Important State matters were discussed, among them a three-day State carnival for the romotion of good fellowship, to be ld April 3, 4 and 5 in the Washing- ton Hotel. Thursday, the first evening, ‘will be in charge of senior high schools; Friday, junior high schools, and Satur- day, elementary schools. Mrs. Wallace Perry is general chairman, ‘The Parent-Teacher Association rep- Tesentatives to the Juvenile Protective Association will meet Tuesday at 1:30 pm. at the juvenile protective head- quarters, 1420 K street. Mrs. Croxton of the Social Hygiene Society will be the speaker. ‘The Singing Mothers will meet Tues- day at the American Institute of Mu- sical Art at 10:30 a.m. Cooke. The Cooke Association will meet In the school Tuesday at 8 p.m. Repre. sentative Allard H. Gasque of South Carolina will urak ‘on the elective school board bill. A musical program ‘will be given. Truesdell. Miss Catherine Watkins, supervisor of kindergarten extension, presented “‘Obedience” at a meeting of the Trues- dell Association. The dairy council gave a short health play. Volunteers ‘were to aid in repairing cloth- contributed to the student aid. canary, prize for attendance, was ‘won by Miss Jones’ class. The associa- Searle to take tion voted to send Miss %@ parent-teacher course at Tuary under Miss Searle. At the last executive board meeting lb'u'otedwholdlwdplny March 14 at the school. pageant and song. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter will be the guest speaker. Peabody-Hilton. . The executive board of the Peabody- Hilton Association meg Monday u{d formed plans for a Valentine party, to be given February 14, Mrs. Milburn, Sernnt Eam s oon ing February 4. P Receiving Home. Mrs. Morgan Otterback, treasurer of Brent-Dent Association, has been fur- nishing a series of entertainments for the children of the Recelving Home, , theatricals, story- telling, home i , ete. The is the District of Columbia of Parents U.:: Teachers, and each local “organizat is assisting in ‘equipment and entertainment. _ Gordon Junior. ‘The recent card party held in the lunch 100m of the Gordon Junior High School netted $100. The association has a set of Compton’s En- Bethesda Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Association will meet Wednesday at 8 pm. Rev. George L. 3;] (il’ev:.lfind'l Park Congrentlnml urch, ve & group of readings. ‘The Glee Club will s‘lrnx.p Langley Junior. Miss Catherine Watkins, director of kindergartens of public schools, spoke ‘Tuesday evening before the Langley Association on “Habit Formation.” Miss Matthews reported the library committee was purchasing both refer- ence books and fiction, which would be Teady for use next semester. Mr. Holmes, principal, outlined the work of next semester and gave an estimate of enrollment, according to present sta- ' tistics, which promises Langley to have | the largest junior high enrollment ot the city. Mr. Willlams gave a detailed account of accomplishments of the joint school | committee in obtaining land for the ! stadium of Langley and McKinley Schools and progress of the free text book bill. The association was asked to furnish persons to aid in the Com- munity Chest drive. Three persons re- sponded. Musical program consisted ot vocal solos by Helen Kause and Mar- Jorie Rudd, piano solo by Margaret Bar- Tinger and cello solos by James Beckert. Takoma. Farnham, pastor | PO! Bowen-Greenleaf. At the meeting Thursday in the kindergarten of the Bowen School the poster booklet by Mrs. John Laycock, president, was on display. This won & prize at the recent State meeting. Brookland. The executive committee met at the school l(omllyd utemoonhlrl\gs. H;z- gins, ways and means cl an, re- ported $86 profit from the Thursday luncheon. Plans were made for a valentine party for the children on February 14. The regular meeting will be held Mon- day evening. when Founders' day will be celebrated. Bancroft. A social, followed by a talk by Wil- liam Haycock, assistant superintendent of schoolz in charge of the third division, will be features of the Bancroft meeting at the school Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. His subject will cover some phasc this year. 3 Business to be brought up at this meeting will include a vote on the advisability of establishing a schoolboy patrol at Bancroft. This question has been undecided, as some of the parents feel that sixth grade boys, the largest in_the school, are too young for this responsibility. Another matter to be considered is a recommendation of the executive board that Bancroft establish a scholarship to the parent-teacher :Ruru at George Washington Univer- y. At the recent executive board mes! ing the following committee was ap. pointed to arrange a card party on February 17: Mrs. James Grubbs, Mrs. Clifton Stratton and Mrs. George Schoeneman. \ ‘The Bancroft News, which was issued to all parents this week, carried a list of all the block mothers of the school, Tepresentatives for the 'neighborhood. It is hoped by this means to bring the school and community which it serves into closer correlation. In notes about the school library the News announced that the children in Miss Moore's sixth grade are working on some attractive book plates. for the new books, designed by the pupils themselves. Pierce-Webb. A glee club, under the direction of Miss Heron, seventh grade teacher in Pierce School, is being formed. It will consist of mothers, s and & group of boys. The Pierce-Webb Schools had two large graduating classes Janu- ary 31. The Parent-Teacher Associa- tion will defray the expense of the MEETINGS THIS WEEK. Col. John Jacob Astor Camp, tomorrow night, Stanley Hall, United States Soldiers’ Home. Gen. Henry W. Lawton Camp, tomorrow night, Pythian Temple. Richard J. Harden Cam Thursday night, Pythian Temple. Admiral George Dewey Naval Auxiliary, tomorrow night, North- east Masonic Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast. Col. John Jacob Astor Auxil- iary, Thursday night, 921 Penn- sylvania avenue southeast. Lineal Society of the Spanisk War, Wednesday night, Pythian ‘Temple. The committee on pensions of the House of Representatives held a hear- ing Tuesday on a bill (H. R. 2562) pro- viding for an increase in pensions for Veterans of the Spanish-American War. Those who appeared and spoke in sup- port-of the measure were: Gov. Fred W. Green of Michigan, commander in chief; Judge Edward S. Matthias of Ohio, chairman of the national legis- lative committee; Past Commander in Chief Rice W. Means, president of the National Tribune Newspaper Co.; Past Commander in Chief William L. Gray- Lorin C. Nelson of the District of Co- lumbia; Past Department Comdr. Wil- liam H. Armstrong, mayor of Racinc, o M. Robsion of Kentucky; Col. Earl D. Church, com- missioner of pensions; Past Comdr. James G. Yaden of the District of Columbia; Past Senior Vice Com- mander in Chief Prank B. Dodds of Lawrence, Kans.; Past Department Comdr. Patrick F. Herney of New York; Past Department Comdrs. Otto N. Raths and George Moeller of St. Paul; Mrs. Lulu Shakespeare of Everett, Wash., president general of the National La- dies’ Auxiliary; Anna F. Frank, past department president of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of New York. In addition, several members of Congress who served in the Spanish-American War also spoke in favor of the legislation. Joseph Goetz, 4th United States Cav- alry, was mustered into membership at the last meeting of the Gen. Nelson A. p. Harry F. Hansen, United States Navy, and Walter W. Smith, Tth Battery, Coast Artillery Corps, were elected to membership and will be mus- tered in at a later meeting. Comdr. -Alexander T. Jenkins an- nounced the fol committee ap- intments: Sick and relief—Gerald F. McGillicuddy, chairman; C. P. Galpin, Nelson B. Durfee, James B. Carver, John A. Baxter, J. F. Buckner, Robert E. Culin, Mrs. M. T. Dowe. Recruiting Stahl, A. Roden, D. F. Cooney, P. E. Shomette, M. H. Gill, A. A, Hoffman, Elias Beisinger. Resolutions—Clarence A. Belknap, chairman; Lorin C. Nel- son. = Memorial day—Charles W. Mc- Caffrey, chairman. Entertainment—E. M. Luskey, chairman; Cleveland Ken- nicutt, Joseph Atwood, M. D. Mettee, of the “Wise Use of Leisure,” the gen- | eral cultural subject under consideration THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGT ribbon and the dip the writing of the names on Radio. Mrs. W. P. Roop, chairman of dis- cussion groups of the District of Co- lumbia Congress of Parents and Teach- ers, will be the Parent-Teacher radio speaker over station WOL Tuesday at 805 pam. acer subject will be The - er Assoct Parent-Study Circles,” P Park View Platoon. r‘:‘t_’;xnade:i‘ gay wm;» celebrated “ub- pm. by the Park View Platoon Assoclation. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter will speak. 'Other special fea- tures will be an electric-lighted birth- day cake and a 6-foot child welfars magazine containing life-size pictures Several national officers and all past presidents of the Park View Associa- | tion will be in attendance. There will | be_special musical numbers. Members perticipating in the “Earn-a-dollar” | campaign will bring their money. Wheatley. The executive board of the Wheatley Association will meet Monday at 1:30 o'clock in the school auditorium. The Mothers’ Glee Club, under the leader- ship of Mrs. Manning, will meet fol- lowing the board meeting. Plans are being made gor a Founders' day program, in whieh children wili take part, by Mrs. James Everett, presi- dent. The pageant will be given at the meeting of the association Fel 6. The Drum and Bugle Corps of TrooL 57, Girl Scouts, player at the Mid- winter court of awards. Troop 57 Is led by Miss Suzanne Mellichampe. The scrapbock which will be used by Wheatley this year was won as a prize by Mrs. Walter Jones for a poster made in the Parent-Teacher course given at | the Franklin Administration Building. Mrs. Jones generously gave her prize Lo the association. ‘Twenty-five plate luncheons served to teachers and children recently have proved so successful that a group of mothers is planning to serve such luncheons to the teachers once a week. Mrs. Wen will be in charge of the first luncheon. Langley. In appreciation of the efforts of Sen- ator Capper in ng the community to secure adequate land for playgrounds, etc, and for his support of the free text book bill, the Langley Association and citizens have sent out invitations to the State and each local association to unite with them in a ceremony which will take place February 11 at 8 pm. at McKinley Technical High Spanish War Veterans son of Georgia; Department Comdr. A with Catherine Dintler F. Zulch, C. G. Burkhardt, H. Ogden Lake, H. J. Stahl, Jerome Shipman, P, E. Shomette, J. K. Edwards, G. Mc- Gillicuddy, L. Davison. Employment —George McAlear, chairman. Grievance-—A. Eugene Pierce, chair- man. Widows' benefits—O. W. Hol- lingsworth, chairman. on the U. 8. S. Richmond during the Spanish-American War, was mustered into membership at the meeting of the Col. James 8. Pettit Camp. ‘Takoma's January meeting was at- ¢ tended by more than 50‘:! pnk:-fim.s, Ax rogram was presented by children of ?he sixth grade and the Takoma School Glee Club. elected president of the School Association in place of H. E. Allanson, resigned. Refreshments fol- lowed the program. Miss Bugbee's sixth grade won the $5 award for the largest attendance. Blair-Hayes, ‘The executive board will meet Mon- «day at 2 pm. at the Blair School. ‘Thomson. Speakers on the Community Chest and ‘the “Knighthood of Youth” addressed ‘the association at its meeting Tuesday. A demonstration was staged by children -of the kindergarten, which also won the ‘prize for attendance. Bryan. Contributions to the State Budget and Student Aid, as well as a birthday gift to the State in honor of Founders' day, were voted at the recent meeting at Bryan School. The Singing Mothers ‘were guests and led the singing of the | parent-teacher songs. A health play ‘was presented by Miss Eleanor Enright ‘of the Washington Dairy Council. The ‘Misses Hammer entertained with read- ‘ings. Miss Anna Murray’s third grade won the attendance prize. S. E. Blassingham was | Home and | liam I. Jenkins, assisted by Past Comdr. James E. Smith of the Gen. Henry W. | Lawton Camp, installed officers as fol- 'lows: Commander, Charles A. Strobel; | senior vice commander, Edwin J. Robb; junior vice commander, Monroe Mox- ley: officer of the day, Albert O. Cum- berledge; chaplain. Samuel G. Mawson; color sergeant, Edwin Halpin: quarter- master, William Irving; adjutant, Sam- uel Hubacher: quartermaster sergeant, John W. Brody; sergeant of the guard, Harry Pixton; trustee for three years, William T. Rya Comdr. Strobs sresented Past Comdr. William T. Ryan with a past command- er's jewel. The commander announced the fol- . Good and welfare, Samuel Hawkins, M. Wes- ley, Herbert C. Huff, C. P. Powell, A. P. Springer, Patrick McCormick, A. E. ‘Weatherby and the elective and ap- intive officers of the camp. Recruit- , C. P. R. Smith, chairman; Samuel Hubacher, C. A. Strobel, John J. Bourke. Grievance and employment, Samuel Hubacher, chairman. Enter- tainment, M. C. Moxley, chairman; H. Cornet, R. E. Dale, Harry Myers, A. E. Weatherby, Charles T. V¢ , Rob- Department Installing Officer Wil- | Willlam Martin Haggerty, who served ; Clety. | School. At this gathering a testimonial will be presénted to Mr. Capper. ert M. Maginniss and Charles A. Appich. Memorial day, elective and appointive officers of the camp. Auditing, Louis Felton, chairman; James M. Dean and Frederick A. Deck. Addresses were made by Department Comdr. Lorin C. Nelson, Senior Vice Department Comdr. Benjamin F. Mot~ ley, Junior Vice Department Comdr. Samuel J. McWilliams and Past De- partment Comdr. Arthur H. League. Department Comdr. L. C. Nelson and staff made the annual official visita- tion and addresses were made by the department commander, senfor and Jjunior vice department commanders. The following were mustered inf membership: David Dum, U. 8. N.; Harry A. McMich, Battery F, 2nd U. 8. Artillery; Lindsay E. Beach, 15th Regi. ment, Coast Artillery Corps; Charles C. ing, Troop M, 3rd United States Cav- ‘The chairman of the sick committee reported John Thrasher discharged from the Soldiers’ Home Hospital; George O, Briggs, Samuel Lehmon and Louis Roll- man, in. the United States Soldiers’|of Home Hospital, improved; Charles F. R. Smith, in Garflield Hospital, improv- ing: William Burke, Willard H. Wheeler, Milton L. G. Smith and Charles H. Hunter, improved. At the last meeting of the Gen. Nel- son A. Miles Auxiliary, President Susie announced the appointment of Janet Sikken as secretary; Annie Cross, treasurer; Lenora Barnes, reporter, and Hattie Ludwig, musician. The following were appointed chair- men of the various committees: Susie Adams, executive; Helen Kennicutt, finance; Hallie Harkrider, auditing; Gretta Ludwig, relief; Esther Erhardt, home and employment; Alice Luskey, good of the order; Mabel Hall, card party section of the good of the order; Elma Edwards, entertainment and mu- sic; Janet Sikken, legislative; Tillie Mae Roth, by-laws; Maud Cooper, re- cruiting; Mamie Galpin, delinquent; Florence Willy, custodian. Mrs. Cecelia Urquhart and Tilley Bieberitz were initiated. The charter of the auxiliary was draped in memory of Annie Marie Hin- tenach and Mary Elizabeth Grieshaber, who died January 11. Emma Neal gave an_oyster supper for the members at her home in Mount || January 21. The Presidents’ Club met January 22 at the home of Addle Kimmel, with Minnie Murdock and Elizabeth Norris assisting the hostess. Katie LeLaurin, Ethel Lowry and Susie Adams were initiated. Ella Ford, Bertha Cook and Eva Wilson were re-elected as president, vice president and secretary, respec- tively. The next meeting of the club will be at the home of Emma Tull, 424 PFirst street southeast, February are requested to inform the hostess as to acceptance or regrets. —_— Weights Weighty Problem. Officials of the Melbourne Royal Show at Melbourne, Australia, recently were confronted with what they considered to be a difficult scientific problem. They noticed that when 24 pounds of milk wer:l taken fl‘?:ll‘ :d 08:1 which I};‘dbfflé previously we! e bossy os only 18 pounds. The secretary of the Royal Agricultural Soclety weighed him- self carefully, then drank one pound of water. He was astonished to find that he had gained only 10 ounces in weight. The test was made before coun- cil stewards and Dr. H. McKen: the surgeon to the Royal Agricultural So- HOICE PIANOS FOR_ EN FREE TUNING UNDER RENTAL CONTRACT WORCHS (Continued From Third Page.) sent abroad as a pernicious politician after two weeks in the penitentiary charged with assault on the basis of his lively defense of his home. His return, after six years, was the for a great public demonstration, and this he followed, on July 4, 1919, with a bloodless coup d'etat, deposing President Pardo, his old opponent and the chief of the conservative wing of Peruvian politics. Shortly thereafter Leguia was elected President for the first of his present series of terms. Soon after his election the constitution was amended to allow re-election, and he has now just entered upon his third five-year term. Drama Within Drama. The drama of President Leguia's po- litical ups and downs in Peru has gone on behind the far more spectacular work that he has done for Peru with his right hand, while his left, so to speak, has been occupied with the prob- lems of his political control. Yet the material things outlined above are the background, and there is still another phase—the financial rehabilitation of Peru. This has been the work of Leguia alone, and the recognition of Peru in the money markets of the world is in a way a recognition of the work that this one man has done and is doing. From 1871 to 1905 Peru could bor- ToW not one cent of money abroad, and the loans of 1905 and 1909 were both secured by a pledge of all the revenues from the government monopoly on the sale orts;lt,b while tlne lonn‘o{h 1922 was supported by a pledge of the guano revenues. In 1927, however, the dam was broken, and from that date to the present, Peru has borrowed or refundcd at lower rates, a total of clos: to $100,- 000,000. This rehabilitation of Peru’s financial standing before the world—for these loans are without specific guarantees and without a fiscal agent collecting the service out of current revenue—tells more clearly than any description the work that Leguia has done. The prob- lem of more loans for carrying on the great public works program is now be- fore the President and the bankers, Lima Ts Hotbed of Gossip. Lima is a hotbed of gossip, and hot- bed, too of pessimism—and yet there is the most astonishing faith in and awe of the little man down in the govern- ment palace. Legula has never rested content; he has never been satisfied to do one thing at a time. He has never brought his work clear up to date— else how could he be working as far ahead as he must? The New York banker does not finish up each job and tie it up in a pink ribbon before he starts the next—nor does this business man President of Peru. And the world - nizes and honors him, despite gossip and talk of graft and wastage by his underlings. There is such talk—and well founded, too—but were President Leguia to halt his public works program until the graft were eliminated from every phase of his government, there would be no public works program any rcn;.:re than there would be in New York y. That public works program includes many things—roads and public build- ings and port works and government factories and sanitation. Leguia himself has put in more succinctly than any one else: “Figures do not lie; they are the co-efficient of reality. them, it can only be sald saved; saved b{ the timely substitution of healthy habits of work and order for those of dissipation and anarchy.” He traces this to the changing of the tra- ditional policies, one of which he notes as “municipal hygiene in place of mu- nicipal decoration.” Ancient Palace is Rebuilt. ‘The building pr m of Peru has in- cluded not only the reconstruction of the ancient palace of Pizarro in Lima into a modern structure, beautiful in the old style and yet superbly and com- Dletely done, but also the construction & modern factory where the govern- ment tobacco monopoly under the con- trol of a wise and capable young execu- tive from the United States produces its wares in the most sanitary and efficient surroundings. It includes, too, the modernization of the chief port of the country, Callao, where Atherican contractors are cre- nux;f & port that will rival any on the whole Pacific Coast, and will cut freight handling costs to half of what they are today. Paving and sanitation of 30 cities has been and is the ideal of Presi- dent Leguia, and from Lima, the vice- regal capital, to Cuzco, the splendid ancient capital of the Incas in the heights of the Andes, the work has been going on apace. Education in the prac- tical arts of husbandry and agricul- ture and in the higher flelds of learn- ing (for Peru has the oldest university in the New World—that of San Mar- cos) has been given attention, and the School of Agriculture has a new plant and new farmlands in the outskirts of Lima, and the sheep herders have a g\oodé} grange in the highlands of the u But' all these are practical things, through' which, however. the man 1o FEBRUARY 2 1930—PART TWO. Nation Builder of the Andes ia shines with an unvarying light gru has honored its ruler, and wil honor him, his admirers feel, yet more as years go on. He has not failed them i ‘any o4 His solution of the So year-old struggle with le_over the Tacna-Arica provinces has been met, finally, with appreciation and approval, although President Leguia himself fejt for years that such & solution would never be accepted; none but a political genius could have negotiated and won 50 much in the negotiations, and then “sold” it so well to his people, Yet always he Iooks beyond these things, to the people he is building. There is no question of that. Pery is backward; she has, we must remem- a‘;‘ gm;- millions of Indians in the highlands, But always, personally, I remember the confidence and faith' in ihe e, o 70 o, Preident g ago, an Told him T was PIanning to go fato ‘the hig] hlands. “There,” he said, “you will see the In- the white Indians. And they are white, and m.poulbflmzl lie before beiminc Bl h them, before Peru,” Such a man can look back calmly to the service he has done to those same Indians, the mle of Peru, and f , as well, to his place in history. As he himself said recently in a much quoted phrase, “These new generations will know how to judge me.” Character of the National Capital Held Sure Stimulus to Its Growth (Continued From Third Pa, of proof that present thought and feel- ing are molded by the past. No value to sentiment? Make a proposal tonight to tear down a landmark, remove the hal- lowed relics of a museum, or bring low a monument, and I guarantee a wave of public protest that will put you at your wits' ends to still. . Do we sense as we go about our d tasks that the very atmosphere of this city rouses memories of great person- ages and of great events? Pennsylvania avenue has resounded to the tramp of political and military legions. It has vi- brated under the ponderous impact of armored tanks and the rumbling wheels of artillery. The pomp and panoply of foreign powers is no stranger here, “"hat city can boast the two hundred =27, white and blue shields that are found at various places throughout this city? Do you know what they are? They are symbols of imperishable senti- ment, importunate signs that say to the passerby, “Stop & moment and take thought, for here history was made.” And he who does, comes to a better un- derstanding of his country’s travails and triumphs. “Why, the very bricks and stones and streets of this city are pro- fessors of history. What a variegated texture we find in ‘Washington's history. Here (‘leblll(:htl'ivl and corruption have held sway in higl places. Here we have had indecent scrambling for political preferments, and to the ears of citizens the ominous sounds of battle have been borne by the fateful winds. But also here men have planned great projects and performed prodigies of courage and devotion to principle and to country. And I doubt if there is one here to- night who has not stood a time in Teverent silence among the tombs of our heroic dead. The crypts of Arlington and St. Albans are powerful influences in the land of the living. Citizens of other cities regard a visit to Washington as a pligrimage to a shrine. Roles of Grace and Beauty. Grace and beauty have played roles Do less renowned than the strategy of statesmanship and war, and the charm of their presence still' persists in the old houses. A hard-boiled real estate man told me once he believed every old house had a soul. He saw in each one of them the imprint of the former owner’s record of life and living. This real estate man knows the value of sen- timent, because every old house does have a soul. The softening touch of age has descended upon it. It has met the. world and the weather on even terms, and survived with dignity. Its door- Wways are inviting. There is hospitality in its corridors. On its rooms have been lavished the loving care of a woman's hands. It has felt the glow of many cheerful fires. Take a walk with me. is Tudor place, in _Georgetown, where Washington and Lafayette and many another distinguished guest were enter- tained. Not far from it is the “Bellevue,” where a President's wife, Dolly Madison, found refuge from the invasion by the British; from there she took up her residence m the famous “Octagon” house, with its secret doors and panels. Only a block away from here is the house built by Com- modore Decator, hero of the war with the Tripoli pirates, and where his broken body was carried to his bride after a duel of which she was unaware. And across from the State Department Building is the house built by Francis Preston Blair, where Gen. Lee was offered the command of the Union troops. ass St. John's Church ‘zz ‘When you you get the full significance of why is called “The Church of the Presi- dents”? Stop a moment and realize that over those stones and into that door came Presidents Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Fillmore, Bu- chanan and Arthur. Story of Our Life Written Here. On every hand Washington is touched with_an historical significance. Here has been written the story of our na- tional life. Tragedy and sorrow have stalked here. Men burdened with great cares have sought solace in the silent streets, and we are told that A Special Sale and Demonstration Of the Famous DuPont “TONTINE” Water- Proof Window Shades Offering the Regular " $1.75 Quality at $1. —Waterproof, crackless shades, now being used in the modern homes and public build- Tontine shades can be scrubbed with soap and water as often as you wish—Neither sun nor rain can spoil them—They don’t A Special Representative— From the factory will be Tuesday and Wednesday—to onstrate these remark- here—Monday, dem ings. wrinkle or crack. look at. Choice of ivory, green, tan, taupe, white and other popular colors. Tontine Shades Are Mounted On Guaranteed Hartshorn Rollers Kanny the troubled Lincoln often made his solitary way about the city in quest of peace and calm. And on this street the hssassin’s bullet found its mark. The whole Nation bowed in grief. Every sightseeing bus that pasces your door should remind you that Washington has an enormous “in- tangible,” that it has an asset which gives to this city a distinguished place because of the things which are touched with an enduring sentiment. Lives New History Each Day. And if we had to rest our case here it would be sufficient to make the point that Washington has an individuality, a personality, second to none other American citles. But it does not stop there, Important as are the historical assocations of the past, Washington is living & new national history day by day. And to the war heroes and Web- sterian statesmanship of other days our modern life has added a new phase in the dramatic and varied economic ac- tivitles of the present day. I am bold to say that there is more history written in one year of the present time than in any 25 fi" of the last century. I have already mentioned one activ- ity, of last Thursday, and you and I doubtless as we wended our way to work brushed elbows on the street with Thomas W. Lamont of Morgan & Co. Harry Chandler of Los Angeles a; Pierre S. du Pont and Charles Cheney Alden’s Kin Saving Fruit. A direct kinsman of John Alden, Charles H. Alden, is engaged as ento- mologist at tt;e&ngw Pr:l.d hlbor-to:y in the heart of apple coun- ry, 3 to fight other bugs.| King George of England has just been He as a sizable brood of the genus made colonel-in-chief of the Manches- trichogramma minutum, arch enemy of | ter Regiment. myriad pests that stalk the orchards of BumsteadsWormSyrup Georgia. The “thricho” is classified as an in- sect parasite, living by its wits and ca- Tl - RC i R i te scarcity and ensrmous acity for the eggs of other insects. ehe t"l‘ldy Tricho finds their eggs, lays her own m‘g:u?}’w:”):“" and wi t;neet‘l"le oung larva e proceeds - iume‘ whatever there is on the inside "-‘u:"""ml:t- - - experiments have “To ol ireet| Al of Connecticut and Paul Shoup of tne Southern Pacific, and George Lorimer of the Saturday Evening Post, and Myron C. Taylor of United States Steel and Walter Teagle of Standard Ol and a score of others. Here we are, living at the very door of a vast laboratory in which are con- ducted pretentious experiments in po- litical, social and industrial adminis- tration. Here is the Farm Board, deal- ing with the wellbeing of 40,000,000 of our citizens. Here the Commerce Com- n, whose rulings affect our gigan- tic rail system. Over there the Ship- E‘nl Board, with our merchant marine; ere the Federal Trade Tariff Commission and a hundred other bureaus and commissions—a list as long as your arm—passing in review as they make economic and social history. Here we live in close proximity with the tremendous apparatus of government, as it reaches out over this broad land and touches the lives of farmers and raih men, mechanics, housewlves, W estinghouse Electrified Portable Sewing Machines Regularly . $68.50 0ld Machine Allowance........ $30.00 storekeepers, manufacturers—folk in every walk of life, and in every field of endeavor—and even citizens abroad. usiness, too, has its statesmanship and its public service, and they are exemplified before your eyes day by day in_Washington. Let us go forth resolved that Wash- ington shall be no longer called the “City of the Blind.” Knowledge is power, and knowledge in this case be- gins at home. Would Create Sentiment. 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