Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1930, Page 5

MOTHER STUDENTS REGRET VACATIONS Americanization Lessons for Foreign-Born Parents Lead to Citizenship. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. A certain group of public school stu- dents has accepted the Christmas vaca- tion under protest. “Why let so many days pass without lessons?” they ask. “It will only mean we will fall so far behind and take so much longer to learn.” This is neither a fairy tale nor a Christmas story. A visit to the Amer- fcanization School at Tenth and H streets will reveal a group of students poring over books and following the teacher’s instructions with an eager- ness and attentiveness surpassed only by their distaste for holidays. There is small wonder, however, that these ex- traordinary pupils do not wish to inter- rupt the lessons in reading and writing. Fo- them the school hours are restful | and entertaining. It means an escape from noise and responsibility. means the opening of a door to new pores and to the fascinating world of S, Mothers Are Pupils. For these pupils are. in the majority of cases, mothers and housewive as children in the “old countr: went to school and since their »1 the Tinit=d States have heen ve strn—ie~ ‘5 master a new and difi- cult tongue. Euc norning and_ afiernoon cloes- oreign-born_iliterates are held at the Americanization School. but few classes can hoast a more conscien- tious group of students than that which is attended twice a week by the mothers who are brought from Wash- Inmn‘s suburbs in a bus loaned to the school by the Rotary Club. These women, Greek, Italian. Russian or Turkish, whatever may have been the land of their birth, all speak English more or less fluently. None of them, however, reads or writes ever the lan- guace cf their birth, and to be able to read a newspaper, or to write a note to their children’s teachers at school, is now the all-absorbing ambition of their lves. The Americanization School under the able supervision of its principal, Miss Maude Aiton, has solved the prob- | to do with the little | ] | lem of vhat children” when mother goes to school. While “mamma” is learning how to read and write in the class room up- stairs, under the direction of Miss D. J. Donnelly and Mrs. H. C. Vasa, small sons and daughters romp and leugh in 8 bright sunny kindergarten, where Miss Grace Janney supervises thei play. Children Brought Along. Little Matima Nacos, the 18-mont! old daughter of one of Mrs. Vasa's upils, stops playing in the sand box Eonx enough to enjoy the midafter- noon bottle which is given to her by Miss Janney. Her luncheon finished, she patters about the kindergarter happily with the 20 or 30 little boys and girls, many of whom have accom- panied their mothers to the school in| the bus. The two hours spent in the class room by these alien mothers, who as soon as they have learned to read and write will take an examination for citizenship, pass quickly for children and parents alike. It is an inspiring thought to these women that, when the little boys and girls in the downstairs kindergarten have into the grammer schools, they will be natural- ized American citizens, capable of help- ing their children with lessons brought home from school. Small, wonder, then, that there will be regret, when on Tuesday, after the singing of Christmas carols and the distributing of small gifts made by the kindergarten children for their mothers, the lights on the jolly tree in the class yoom will be dimmed and the mothers will temporarily discontinue their les- sons for the 10-day Christmas vacation. PARIS POLICE TO GIVE BLIND WHITE CANES' Sticks to Be Used to Signal Traffic| When Sightless Desire to Cross Street. PARIS (N.AN.A.)—A simple but elever idea to enable blind men to cross the dangerous streets of Paris is the introduction of the prefect of police. The prefecture will issue to every blind man a white walking stick and motorists will be instructed to slow down or stop when this is raised to signal that its owner wishes to cross It also | | replaced within the next few years by THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, PUPILS SORRY THEY GET CHRISTMAS HQLIDA schoc!, have cnly requiremcnts for natural’zation. o aic siadying at the Americanization S chool, while their children play in the kindergarten of the regret that the Christmas holidays deprive them of that much time to continue their studies of the —Star Staff Photo. GUATEMALA QUIET ‘Foreign Diplomats Took.Part | in Restoring Peace Fol- lowing Outbreaks. By the Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, De- cember 19.—Peace had returned to Guatemala last night after a revolution which installed Gen. Manuel Orellana as the third President the country has had within a week. The Congress indi- ated in a formal manifesto a belief hat the trouble was definitely over. The statement disciosed that the va- fious Ambassadors and other repre- sentatives of foreign nations had sat in on congressional conferences looking toward re-establishment of peace. The | mediation of the diplomatic corps was helpful, the statement says, but the diplomats functioned only as unofficial observers. “The Congress considers the critical period over,” the statement read, “and calls attention to its satisfaction over the fact that the recent political diffi- culties resulted in a minimum of blood- spilling.” ‘The document bore the signatures of the representatives from Mexico, Ger- many, Italy, Belgium, the United suua‘ and several Central American states. It| contained a paragraph to the effect-that the diplomats gave their aid only as unofficial observers at the invitation of the Congress. NEW CHAIN BRIDGE PROMISED CITIZENS Gotwals Says Utilizing of 0ld Abutments Will Cut Cost by Four-Fifths. The present Chain Bridge will be a new structure, Maj. John C. Gotwals, District Engineer Commisioner, told a meeting of the Conduit Road Citi- zens' Association last night in -the Community Church, Cathedral avenue. Maj. Gotwals declared that under AFTER REVOLUTION WRITERS WHO By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, December 19.—The | New York Times today prints the fol-| Jowing from London: A New York Times correspondent asked George Bernard Shaw for his {opxmun of Sinclair Lewis’ address at | Stockholm, in which the Nobel Prize | winner attacked present literary stand- | ards in America. | This is Mr. Shaw's reply. in part: | “As far as I am qualified to judge, Mr. Sinclair Lewis has said just the right thing in the right way to the | Swedish Academy and at his own countrymen. They will not resent it. ‘They' expect to be flattered, but, far | from being grateful to their flatterers, they accept the tribute as a matter of course, just as they accept the cleaning of their boots at a hotel SHAW SAYS AMERICANS ADORE CRITICIZE THEM Declares Lewis' Remarks in Stockholm | Address “Just Right Thing"—Explains Belief in Own Popularity. “To rouse their eager interest, their distinguished consideration and their undying devotion, all that is necessary is to hold them up to the ridicule of the rest of the universe. Dickens won them to him forever by merciless projections of typical Americans as windbags, swindlers and assassins. “I (myself) have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot. And they just adore me and will go on adoring me until in a moment of senile sentimen- tality I say something nice about them, when they will at once begin to sus- pect me of being only a cheap skate after all, and drop me like a hot potato.” MASTODON SKELETON IS BEING EXCAVATED Bones and Tusks Found on Indi- ana Farm Reported in Excellent State of Preservation. By the Associated Press. | _ BUFFALO, N. Y., December 19.—The | Buffalo Museum of Science yesterday received word from Dr. John T. San- ford, one of its representatives, that re- moval of the skeleton of a mastodon discovered recently on the farm of Charles Feldheiser near Cornwall, Ind., had been started. The skeleton has been purchased for the Buffalo museum. The mastodon, Dr. Sanford said, is in an excellent state of preservation. Two ivory tusks are 121, feet each in length | and the skull has 26 teeth still imbedded | in the jawbones. The skeleton is ap- proximately 45 feet long. | Dr. Sanford believes the mastodon was deposited in Indiana by a glacier | more than 30,000 years ago. The glacier formed a pothole, into which the ani- | The hole apparently | mal probably fell. present plans a new span will be placed on the old abutment:. This, said the | Commissioner. would make the new | bridge one-fifth as expensive as if a | new site were chosen. The group indorsed a bill placed be- | fore the Senate which would authorize the District Commissioners to remove the road. It is hoped that when the white stick become generally recognized the blind will get about more easily in crowded places. To prevent the mis- use of the symbol of unscrupulous persons it is proposed that the police should supply the blind with sticks | bearing a numbered band, the carriage of which would be an offense for any one but the owner. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) RUM CONVERTS NATIVES Pastor Explains Hawaiians Reacted Favorably to Liberations. MONTREAL (N.ANA.).—Rev. Dr. Lioyd C. Douglas, pastor of St. Jam's' Church, addressing the Young People’s Association, said that rum converted na- tives on the Island of Oahu, one of the Hawalian Islands. Intoxication is strictly forbidden by the native religion, but when the ex- plorer, Capt. Cook. according to Dr. Douglas, introduccd rum to them, they debris from vacant lots i | oLD Pl:\LACE RESTORED | Seat of Prefecture at Verona Re- turns to 14th Century Style. VERONA (NANA)—A number of public works | carried through by the | italian government; forums, | crypts and “ buildings are being un- | earthed or restored all the time. | " An interesting restoration is that of the ancient Scaliger Palace here, now the seat of the prefecture. Thirty years ago the interior suffered from | some rather tasteless attempts at mod- ernization but it has now been re- stored in its original fourteenth cen- tury style and after a long period of | neglect a magnificent suite of recep- t6n rooms has been opened and fitted up on the first floor. (Copyright, 1930. by North American News- paper Alliance.) | contained mud of the consistency of | quicksand, and it is due to this fact the bones were preserved in their entirety. | VATICAN IS SHOCKED BY CATALOGUE OF SALE Those Responsible Called Upon to Make Amends for Men- ‘ tioning Nudes. | ROME (N.AN.A).—The Vatican had very large |# terrible shock when the furniture and have been | the works of art belonging to the late Cardinal Vannutelli, that very distin- guished prince of the church, were sold by public auction here the other day, for many pictures of nude [rures were mentioned in the catalogue. The church’s indignation was given expression in the papal organ, and its nopes that “those responsible, whether | they be in good or bad faith, will hastily | make amends for such a scandalous of- |fense against the lamented cardinal, whose austere Christianity was a model |to_the world.” It is to be feared that those daring works which were disposed of will not be repurchased by the venders. Italian auctioneers generally seize the oppor- tunity of sprinkling in & few extrane- ous objects when selling the goods of a | notability, and they made no exception HUBERT FUND DIVISION TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY Inventor's Will Left $4,600,000 to Be Distributed by Coolidge, Smith and Rosenwald. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 19.—Distri- bution of a $4,600,000 fund over which Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and Julius Rosenwald had control, will be- gin at once, it was stated yesterday. ‘The money was left by Conrad Hu- bert, inventor of the pocket flashlight, who died in 1928. His will provided that a committee of prominent citizens select charitable and educational insti- tutions which would share in the estate. The first accounting of the trustees, the Bankers' Trust Co. and C. Bertram Plante, was not approved until yester- day in Surrogate Court. Electric Machine a Time Saver. NEW YORK (#)—Half a day's work for two men is done in half an hour by an electric foundry machine which picks up sand, strains it to remove impurities and rams it into the molds, a'l as part of one operation. To the Ladies D C. ILATEST IN GANCER STUDY PUBLISHED New Journal Is Designed to Cover Entire Field of Malig- nant Disease Research. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 19.—The latest developments in cancer in more than twoscore scientific institutions in seven countries were made public yes- terday. ‘They are summarized in the contents of the first issue of the American Jour- nal of Cancer, now in press, a publica- tion designed to cover the entire field of cancer. 5 This, it is stated in’ the summary, was not possible previously in the United States because of the prohibitive expense of printing the lengthy papers with the colored illustrations which make them useful to physicians. Foundation Gives Funds. Punds for the new venture were sup- plied by the Chemical Foundation, of which Prancis P. Garvan of New York is president, as part of a plan to facili- tate national co-operation of physicians and scientists in combating cancer. Dr. Francis Carter Wood of Colum- bia University is the editor. The first issue has 500 pages, dozens of illustra- tions and numerous articles and ab- stracts of the work of scientists in America, Japan, England, France, Spain, Italy and Germany. There are | special articles from Columbia, Harvard, the Memorial Hospital of New York and the Mayo Foundation. Among the unusual sidelights in the first issue is an expression of doubt that age is a cause of cancer. Age Cause Doubted. Dr. William H. Woglom of the Insti- ite of Cancer Research, Columbia University, writes: “Today, it is known that sarcoma, like (both are forms of can- cer) become more frequent the greater the burden of years, and it is strongly suspected that age itself may really have nothing to do with the inception of malignant disease (cancer) save only that long life means an extended | period throughout which the action of an irritant can be exerted.” I By “action of an irritant” Dr. Wog- | lom refers to observations that irrita- tion of some sort frequently precedes cancer. | ‘There is also in the journal an un- usual point of view of benefits of sun- light in the treatment of cancer. “The patient,” it states, “should be allowed as much activity, especially in | the open air, as can be tolerated with- out fatigue. Sunlight is invigorating and helpful. “A moderate tan decreases the othe erwise pallor and may in some man- ner enhance resistance to disease.” JOBLESS ON INCREASE South Australia Faces Task in Add- ing Its Unemployed. J ADELAIDE, Australia (%).—Pledged to borrow no more money from abroad, South Australia is faced with the problem of keeping fts unemployed men and their families | Unemployment has increased at a rate of 1,000 a week. One in every 12| men in the state is out of work. | Wages of officials have been dras-' tically reduced in an effort to prevent bankruptcy. The state already has been greatly assisted by funds from the Fed- eral Treasury. Production of synthetic gasoline in | Germany is increasing rapidly. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 19, © tion 1930. Music and Mousicians Reviews and News of Capital's Programs. Christmas Program At University Club. HE spirit of the Yuletide swept down last night and settled in the concert hall of the University Club, where it remained for about two hours a8 a program of Christmas carols was given. Even the audience, silent critical body that it usually is, be- came magnanimous and joined with the Tuesday Evening Music Club in a hearty rendi- of “O Come, AV Ye P‘Alm(ul,"N and ard led an in- spired organi- zation of sing- ers through a program of Christmas music consisting of Dutch, French |/ and Czech carols. There were many fa- vorites in this group, such as “Sleep, Ba Sleep,” “Now the Rarest of All Days,” “Jesu Bambino, ‘The Chil- dren at the Manger,” “The Sailor's Christmas” and “Hearken, Every Frue Believer.” Evelyn Scott, youthful Washington violinist, gave a good rendition in the playing of a program of popular Yuletide numbers. B.W. Russian Concert To Aid Benefit at Willard. THE powers that are planning a Russian concert and bal masque for St. Alexander’s Russian Orthodox Church at the Willard Hotel on the evening of January 24 have an- nounced that great things may be expected musically on that evening. It seems that an imposing array of artists are to be soloists on this occasion—an array which is being gathered from the four corners of the country. Definite announcement as to just who these artists will be will come later, but there is more than a promise that from such mighty musical haunts as the Rus- sian Imperial Theater and the Chi- cago and Metropolitan Operas an impostant group of songsters will appear. 'HERE is much musical interest in the presentation of Dr. Henry Van Dyke's famous dream-legend, “The Other Wise Man,” which is to be played at Luther Place Memorial Church on December 28, 29 and 30. Katherine Riggs, one of this city's foremost harpists, is to take a prominent part in the play. There will be singing in and about and around, and finally there will be the deeply religious chorals, which are prominenty featured on the pro- gram. All of which is said to give to this play the atmosphere of the lately performed “Miracle,” since the action takes place throughout the entire church. And, further- more, there is much, much local in- terest in this, since its author; Bess Davis Schreiner, although modestly inclined, is an impressario of im- portance, her manuscript to this play having been looked upon with kindly eyes by Dr. Van Dyke as well as by one of the oldest and richest and most respectable of New York pub- lishing firms. M OZART and Chopin, Strauss and Puccini, will be prominently featured on the program of the Shoreham Lowe-Nevins Orchestra recital Sunday night in the lobby of the hotel between 7:30 and 9 Florence Howard. ‘<& Bnghinatons Christmas Store /«TyeneBous =N Select The Boys" Gifts Here Tomorrow Lumberjacks $5.95 to $12.50 Sweater and Hose Sets $5 to $10 Neckwear 50c to $1.50 Sports Hose 50¢ to $1.50 Silk Mufflers $1 and $1.50 Bath Robes $5 to $10 Sweaters $2.95 to $8.50 ‘are under way in Detroit. | ment and stay in the kennel voluntarily. Wl'ml the theremin has been causing a oconsiderable flutter among musical circles in this and other cities, last week Leopold Sto- kowski, most energetic of conductors, what in the shade. ment, invented draws music from the air under the title “ondes musicales,” or musical waves. Its advan seems to be & keyboard, incased & spinetlike frame, which has a wire that runs to a ring on the finger of the author, who stands several feet away. The sounds are evidently cellolike and smooth and were very much appre- ciated by a large audience listening to the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Incidentally, the conductor has recovered from his automobile accident. CHECKS UP ON METALS Navy to Test Material Used in Air- ship ZMC-2. The Bureau of Standards will be called upon to check tests being made by representatives of the Detroit Afr- craft Corporation ‘on metal samples taken from the Navy’s metal-clad air- ship, the ZMC-2. These tests now The Navy Department explained yesterday that these structural tests are routine in nature, so that a run- ning record of the airship may be recorded and the service may keep its finger on the pulse of its progress. Earlier in the week representatives of the builders visited the Naval Air Sta- tion at Lakehurst, N. J., to inspect the ZMC-2, which has been in naval service since September, 1929, DOG ADOPTS BABY PIG VISALIA, Calf. (NANA—A coon dog on a ranch, grieving over a litter of lost puppies, adopted a baby Arthur Griswold, proprietor of the ranch, said that at first the pig did not | think ‘much of its foster-mother, but in a few days was willing to take nourish- (Copyright, 1930. by North American News- per Alliance.) HEARING SET JAN. 3 ON HIGHWAY FUND Clatm of State of Tennessee for $252,000 From Trust ' Company to Be Tried. Taking of testimony as insolvency of the Holston Trust Co. and the validity of the State's claim to an allegedy $252,000 highway fund deposited with the company is scheduled in Chan- cery Court January. 3. After hearing arguments of attorneys Chancellor Robert M. Jones reserved judgment on the State's application for appointment of a receiver until proof is submitted. Jones said it must be determined whether or not the trust company act- ually recefved $252,000 State highway funds for deposit, as claimed by the State; whether it was regular, if re- celved, and whether or not the com- pany received any benefits, if an entry of deposit was recorded on its books. Injunctions which temporarily re- strained sureties on $600,000 bonds from disposing of their property were dissolved. The State charged that the bonds were given to secure State de- posits in the institution. The defend- ants denied executing and delivering the bonds to the State. A similar injunction against the Holston Trust Co. was modified to per- mit it to continue its business ip the ordinary way. HIKER, 79, SUCCUMBS Dies Trying to Prove Old Strength Had Not Left Him. HARRISBURG, Pa. (N.ANA) Neighbors used to say that John Henry Wilson, 79, wasn't as strong as he used to be. And Wilson set out to prove them wrong. Alone and on foot, he made for New York, determined to prove by this 165-mile hike that he was still very much of a man. The weather was cold, but Wilson stuck grimly to his job, refusing all hitches. He got as far as Newark, N. J.. and then collapsed from exhaustion. He died an hour later in a hospital. (Copyright, 1930. by North American News- paper Alliance.) WASHINGTON'S FINEST MEN'S WEAR STORE RALEIGH HABERDASHER 1310 F Street Pre-Christmas Sa | el IMPORTED MUFFLERS $7.50 Imported All Silk MUFFLERS Plain terns mufflers. $ 4.85 - shades and fancy pat- in heavy English silk Large square shapes in 18 combinations of the newest colors. $3.50 Imported Silk Crepe MUFFLERS Black : $2.35 and white is one of the most outstanding puffler styles this season. You'llfind WOMEN RUN CARS Officials Pronounce Them as Good as Men. Leather Coats $15 to $25 Overcoats 4 to 10 years $10.75 to $25 Overcoats 11 to 20 years $25 to $35 Students’ Suits With Extra Trousers 15 to 20 years $25 ook to it like & duck takes to water. | Drunkenness became an Oahuan cus- tom, and whe they suffered none of the traditionz] punishment supposedly due them for violation of their r-ligious taboos, said Dr. Dougias, they decided their old religion was no god and took to Christianity (Copyrient. 193 P | of the good cardinal. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) LEAVES CAT $15,000 Fund Established by Woman ' For 18-Year-Old Pet. SAN GABRIEL, Calif (NANA)—| Mitzi, an 18-year-old cat. pet of the| late Mrs. Maude F. Ide, will not suffer | from economic depression during the I fina it not nearly so hard as sew- | /O, “PONOML T CTEIC es. i iy ing and housekeeping. If you will look Mrs. Ice's will established a trust Meeting, William McKinley Circle, UP the records you will find that wom- 4,4 of $15.000 for the care of the cat. 5 S an tram operators have fewer accl- Gopyright, 1930, by North American News- = i o i G A P e e i ‘ P T 7 | 7 osiee " am 2. 8 to 18 years CI’i‘ES INHERITANCE OF EARLDOM | 815 - AS CAUSE OF BIGAMY CHARGE plenty of them along with 6 other color combinations in this group of silk crepes at $2.35. Russian MOSCOW (#).—Russian street cars | ay: woman “motormen” and con- ductors, and tramway officials say they Trust Nieehmerican News- ) e’ jobs s well 1f not better than | by § Alliance.) aper shouldn’t & woman run a street ried one “motorwoman’ when :ggested her job might be a CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY Sermon, Dr. Abram Simon, Washing- ton Hebrew Congregation, 8 p.m. Imported . MUFFLERS 5|85 Meeting. Anthrcpological Society of Wpshingtor, Natienal Museum, 4:45 pm Card party, Keane Council, Knights of Columbus, K. of C. 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An exceptional valve New York Avenue at Fifteonth Branch Store: 3113 Fourteenth N.W. at $1.85. ) NATIONALLY RNOWN @ Meeting, Cushing Auxiliary, Pythian Temple, 7:30 p.m. Meeting, Alpha Chi Sigma Praternity, Hamilton Hotel, 8 p.m. | By the Associated Press. 5 Siinlin | /PHOENIX, Ariz, Dec. 19.—Far from | Bt Hava) Sigma Fraternity. its pative heather, Seottish heraldry : st o [hes found its wav into the records of FUTURE | Ar: ra’s Supreme Court. bt Annual sale, Annie ‘34 H-nry Hart 1 " nE Home for Blind, 3050 7 rteat, rmain- | Y5 L TCAY DX Alan e e o der of month. eenth Earl of Stirling Sermon, Dr. Abram 5 mon, Washing- | #nd_inherit 250.000 pounds sterling, Attached to his_ap petition was B T e, ‘°"‘°"°"'1I-n leuer from an Englsh barviser. 1t Dr. Stirling “l‘l;‘ ust r;un'z 's deal o -succesd | J of ‘The physiclan was convicted on a charge of marrying Miss Virginia Ho- vatter, 17, of Wellton while married to Miss Elsa Worch, formerly of Goshen, New York. Hi- defense was that his marriage t¢ Miss Worch was veil and tat his sec- ond marriege in 1929 was n_compli- l‘l‘lz‘" with instruct'ons frcm his bar- ristor ‘The letter attached to the appeal pe- tition said the fifteenth Earl had taken | to task his heir for “disgracing an hon- | orable name to become a common ship’s doctor” and his lot with Pancho Villa RALEIGH HABERDASHER 1310 F Street