Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1933, Page 17

Washington News Che WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1933. D. E wm“_fl SHARE Geographic Society Trustees IN FEDERAL RELIEF PASSED BY SENATE jagner-Costigan-La Follette Bill Provides Direct Aid for Jobless. EMERGENCY AID ROLLS CLOSED BY COMMITTEE Action Was Taken Yesterday at Session to Enable Work to Continue to July 1. The District of Columbia. which is going to have difficulty 1 making its existing public appropriation for un- ! employment relief last until July 1 in | view of the number of families in ; distress, would be entitled to the same ' Federal assistance proposed to be al- lowed the States under the Wegner- Qostigan-La Follette emergency meas- . ure, passed by the Senate yesterday. This bill, which goes to the House for action next week, contemplates direct grants to the States, Territories and District of Columbia to aid in Lower: ° LECTION of four members of the i | director recently by President # in a by Leroy A. Hal relief, covering the sh an ex. i%s 3 ded ge5% g £H 9,396 applica rece'lvedp:nd on March 25, emains mded hlola ance 1,475.88 to cover the of 14 mflm March 25 to June 30,” r. Taliaferro stated. “It requires ap- proximately 10 days to ar the ma- | tloy weamy;ll;h e reduction $41,000 Is Maximum. “In view of these facts and the lack of authority to create a deficit, the committee determined, first, to approve itures, for all purposes, during the next two weeks of $41,000 per week; sccond, to approve expendi- | tures thereafter of $31,628 per week for the remaining 12 weeks to June 30, and, third, to direct that no new cases be accepted for relief payments. “The committee took this action with the greatest reluctance and regret, realizing that serious hardship would necessarily result, but felt that it had no alternative because of the necessity of keeping within the appropriations.” George S. Wilson, director of the ‘Board of Public Welfare, pointed out that whenever workmen are dropped from pay rolls, applications for Gov- ernment relief show an increase. The new District budget would eliminate construction programs which would have given employment to about 4,000 men who are outside the District gov- | the ernment service. PETITIONS FOR PROBATE FILED FOR TWO ESTATES Moakler and Joerissen Wills Dis- pose of Legacies in Excess of $100,000. Petitions for probate of two wills, dis- posing of estates in excess of $100,000, were filed yesterday in District Supreme urt. Miss Charlotte Moakler, who died January 18, directed that her estate be divided evenly between the Catholic Orphanage at Nazareth, N. C., and the Catholic Church Extension Society of the United States at Chicago. Miss Moakler, who was a Government em- loye here for many years, had accumu- ted an estate of $17,369 in securities and cach. Mrs. Gertrude L. Joerissen, who died March 21, left her estate, valued at Dr. Briggs, an eminent physicist, has been assoclated with the Bureau of Mg‘n lhf:fllll'ln‘lfl assistant di- Tector since L was appointed Roosevelt. it A He has been a member of the National ‘Geographic Soclety since 1913. Mr. Gifford has been head of the BOARD MEMBERS ELECTED TO SUCCEED FOUR DECEASED. @ \ Upper, left to right: Dr. Lyman J. Briggs and Walter S. Gifford. Admiral William V. Pratt and Dr. Alexander Wetmore. telephone company since 1925 and is a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard Umvemg ngid Iscl muteew lol Johns Hopkins University, Cocper Union and the Carnegie Institution. He has been a member of the Geographic So- clety since 1914. Behind Admiral Pratt is a notable career in the United States Navy. He accompanied President Wilson to France in 1918, was naval expert as- sistant to American Commission at the Washington Conference on Lim- itation of Armaments in 1921, and was naval adviser to the American delega- tion at the London Conference of 1930. In that year he was made chief of naval operations. He has been a mem- ber of Geographic Society for more than a quarter of a century. . Wetmore is a distinguished orni- ist and has traveled widely in b the Biological 5 f ited with Biological Survey of & ture Department, the Na- tional Park and the Smith- sonian Institution. In 1925 he became assistant secretary of the Smithsonian and was placed in charge of the Na- Museum. He has been a mem- ber of the Geographic Society since 1927. Mr. Hutchinson, the new secretary, has been on the staff of the society for more than 25 years. He became asso- ciate secretary in 1919. DEATH OF CABMAN DECLARED SUICIDE Body of Taxi Driver Is Found Near Canal—Bullet in Head. Acting Coroner' A. Magruder MacDon-~ ald ruled today that Aubrey R. Martin, 26-year-old taxicab driver, who was found shot to death beside the Chesa- peake himself. Dr. MacDonald issued a certificate of suicide following an autopsy, performed in the District morgue by Acting Cor- oner Christopher J. Murphy. A bullet of the same caliber as the pistol found near Martin’s body was removed from the dead man's head during the post mortem. Although official investigation of the case was closed by issuance of the cer- tificate, a_specimen of Martin's blood was submitted to the District chemist for analysis, to determine whether or not he was intoxicated at the time he shot himself. An empty liquor bottle was found in his cab, parked on Canal road, near the scene of the shooting. With a bullet wound in his head and a .25-caliber automatic a few feet from his body, Martin was found sprawled on the bank of the canal, at the foot of the stone wall between water and the 450 block of Canal road. Martin. who lived at 1915 G street, was found about 10:30 p.m. by Harvey Borkett, proprietor of a boat house which is about 100 feet from the scene of the shooting. Martin was lying at the bottom of the canal wall, a few feet from Bor- kett's mail box, which is numbered 4520 Canal road. His left hand was in his trousers pockeg, and his hackers' cap was hang- ing on a branch of a bramble bush. A few feet away was the pistol, from which one shot had been fired. His cab, with motor running and lights turned on, was parked on the road above. A gray fedora hat, later identified as his, 2n empty liquor bottle and the cartridges were on the front seat. About half an hour before he found the body, Borkett said, he heard a noise, “like somebody hitling two Aubrey R. Martin. $95,404, to her husband, Carl A. Joeris- sen of the Mayflower Hotel. The peti- tion for probate, filed through Attorney Hugh Obear, said the estate consisted of real estate at 1619 Massachusetts ave- nue, assessed at $39,874, and the bal. ance in securities. ke Crash Imjures Taxi Driver. ‘William P. Atkinson, 2v, taxl driver of the 1800 block of Kalorama road, was injured last night when the taxi and an automobile driver. by Isaac R. Barnes, clerk of the House of Foreign Affairs C , collided at Tenth and E streets, causing the cab to overturn, Atkinson was treated at Emergency Hospital for cuts on the head. . “| nowever, he continued, and he decided boards together.” Thinking somebody was trying to steal his skiff, he said, he walked up to the canal. He saw the parked taxi and heard a strange “gurgling noise,” he said, but thought no?.h{nz of it. After ascertaining that his boat still was where he had moored it, he returned to his house, he said. ‘The noises he had heard worried him, to investigate further. 'Returning to the canal and crossing to the road side in his skiff, he discovered the body and notified the police. Martin, according to other occupants of the G street house, where he roomed, had been despondent for several days. | bool f& Ohio Canal last night, killed | w; TODAY IS LAST DAY FOR INCOME FILING First Quarter of Taxes Also Must Be Paid as Time Limit Expires. ‘Today is the last day for filing Fed- eral income tax returns and paying the first quarter of the tax. Juc g from the scene at the local collector’s office, 1002 Internal Revenue Building, most of 's taxpayers must have set- tled up before the official deadline of March 15. date was extended 16 days by Treasury Department order for the benefit of those with funds tied up in closed banks. The local taxpayers, up to noon, came only in handfuls, and there was a complete absence of the crowds that stood in long lines waiting to fill in their blanks or deposit their money at the cashiers’ windows March 15. Total Not Estimated. Just how much the income tax will total has not been estimated by offi- cials, but already this month it has amounted to $176,325,778 for the entire United States, a drop of $13,000,000 from last year despite a much higher tax rate. For the fiscal year since last July 1 the tax has amounted to $559,657,806, or $228,000,000 less than for the same period a year ago. The tax this year is 4 per cent on the first $4,000 of net income and 8 per cent above that amount. Surtaxes start at $6,000, instead of $10,000 as under the old law. The new law also lowered the deduc- tions permitted a married person, from $3.500 to $2,500. and that permitted a single person from $1,500 to $1,000. It also eliminates the 25 per cent deduc- tions of the tax heretofore permitted on earned incomes. 4,000,000 Payers Expected. The number of taxpayers this year is expected to be approximately 4,000,000, or nearly double that of last year. Taypayers taking advantage of the ex- tended time must pay interest at 6% on the quarter instaliment due March 15. The returns may be sent in and tax paid without any other penalty if they are placed in the mail before mid- night tonight. MAN HELD UP AND ROBBED BY THREE MEN AND BOY Basilios K. Antpakokas, Victim, Loses About $45 When Sur- rounded Near Home. Basilios K. Antpakokas, 106 G street. was held up and robbsd of about $45 early today by three men and a boy. all colored, while in an alley in rear of his home, he reported to police, Clothing and jewelry, valued at $400, was reported taken from the automobile g:hAldEckils:flnn?! Far Kockaway, Long nd, while the machine ws ke in the 1500 block of Mk?aesl.“ PN Barbara W. Ward, 3446 Connecticut avenue, reported $21 had been taken from her pocketbook while she was try- ing on a coat in a downtown depart- ment store. She had left the pocket- k on a chair from which it disap- He came to Washington from Romney, W. Va., about three years ago, peared, but was later found nearby with the money missing. Y CHEMISTRY BRINGS SYNTHETIC SCIENCE IN BEAUTY CULTURE New York Woman Tells Con- vention Here Evolutions of Cosmetics. MICHIGAN ADDRESS ON CHILDREN’S DIETS Miss I. G. Macie, Research Director of Couzens Foundation, Points to Milk Importance. Modern organic chemistry is develop- ing a new synthetic science of beauty culture, according to a paper presented before the American Chemical Society here yesterday by Florence E. Wall, chemical consultant, of New York City. ‘The history of cosmetics, Miss Wall pointed out, passed from one group of practitioners to another in rapid suc- cession. Starting as a religious exercise, beauty culture for a long time was a part of medical practice, but, she said, this developed so rapidly that by the fifteenth century internal medicine and the cure of recognized disease were di- vorced from mere external embellish- ment. “The disorganization that followed this separation,” Miss Wall said. “was rapid and complete. The lore of cos- metics and beauty culture was scattered about among the alchemists, with doc- tors, pharmacists, barbers, hair dressers, idle ladies and their maids. Each group took what it needed from the old books, making up in mystery and hokum what was lacking in science. “The nineteenth century saw a gen- eral revival of interest. Many physicians wrote on skin and hair, manufacturers published -semi-scientific treatises to push the sale of cosmetic products, stage beauties began to confide their se- crets to the world, and self-appointed beauty experts arose on every side. Then chemistry first turned serious thought to cosmetics and beauty cul- ture and found them submerged in medieval, pseudo-science, trade secrets and nonsense.” Beauty culture logically belongs to organic chemistry, Miss Wall asserted. Physicians, she said, would like to have it ack in their clutches, but it has out- grown them. Children’s Diet Described. Diets for growing children, possible even in family budgets curtailed by hard times, were described by Miss I G. Macle, research director of the Chil- dren’s FPund of Michigan, founded in 1928, with a $10,000,000 gift from Sen- ator Couzens. There is a tendency in some of our mnnicipal economy programs,” she said, “to ce the amount of milk becl;u: 1t 18 & liquid and may a) expensive. In"eeom:mic distress, when it becomes necessary to curtail the food budget to a subsistence level, reduction must be made wisely if we are to escape the penalty. of malnutrition. “Children,” she explained, “may grow at the expected rate but due to mis- takes in diet their bodies may be in an actual state of impoverishment for some of the essential foods for tissue and bone building. In such a growth the muscular tissues may be soft, flabby and water logged, the blood anemic and the bones and teeth defective. Par- ents may believe the child to be enjoy- ing health but metabolic studies in thé laboratory demonstrate that an um- healthy type of growth of this nature endangers the well being of the child. It is during infancy and early childhood that conditions develop which handicap the individual later in life. “In the laboratory the foods of the runabout child are being subjected to close scrutiny and scientific tests. The actual amount of food used up and stored by active, healthy, rapidly grow- ing children over extended periods has been recorded. The instudy indicates that satisfactory growth may fluctuate and is not constant from day to day even under the most rigidly controlled conditions. Composition Variable. “The composition of growth is vari- able. In some periods, it may be rich in water and fat while in others more nitrogen and mineral salts are used up in the formation of muscular and bony tissues, Continuous metabolic balance studies were made on the same chil- dren when they were fed one pint of milk in a controlled diet complete in all known dietary factors, and again on one quart of milk. Coincident with the increase in milk consumption there was greater storage of nitrogen in_the body which tended to persist so long as the higher level of milk was main- tained and again decreased with a re- duction in milk consumption. Control of the red spider, an insect pest which annually causes large crop losse$ in the South and West, was prom- ised with the development of an insecti- cide based on selenium, an element closely related to sulphur, according to the report of C. B. Gnadinger, Minne- apolis research chemist. The spider feeds, he said, on nearly 200 varieties of plants and it is estimated that the damage to the cotton crop alone reaches $2,000,000 a year. The insects multiply very rapidly and always have been im- mune to commonly used poisons. Researches which may lead eventually to the complete separation of petroleum products into their component constitu- ente—a scientific development of vast future importance to the oil industry— were reported to the petroleum division of the society. Hydrocarbon Mixtures. Dr. M. R. Fenske of Pennsylvania State College, who submitted the report, asserted sufficient engineering data on four “hydrocarbon' mixtures had been obtained to enable equipment to be de- signed for their separation by distil- lation. The study of chemical reagents offers a field of investigation which “chal- lenges the knowledge and ingenuity” of the analytical chemist, according to Dr. Edward Wichers of the Bureau of Standards, chairman of the Washing- ton section of the American Chemical Society, who reported experimental procedure on this subject. Silicates used in soaps make it pos- jsible to wash dirty clothes clean even in hard water, according to studies conducted by John D. Carter and Wil- liam Stericker of the Philadelphia Quartz Co. The scientists declared they derived much of their data from washings of thousands of pleces of cloth, each immersed from 5 to 20 times. They found that tlean cloths, washed with dirty cloths, had a ten- dency to emerge from the process in soiled condition. Alumni of Cornell, Chicago, Harvard, Illinois, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State, Penn State, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Syracuse, Wisconsin and Yale held reunions during the week of the convention. ‘ Perform in Society Circus Today ' ROUGH-RIDING EQUESTRIENNES AND STUNT MEN IN SHOW. D. . WAGE EARNERS 10 PROTEST RENTS Federal, District and Private Employes Meet Tonight at McKinley High. On the eve of the placing into ef- fect of the Government's 15 per cent general salary reduction, wage earners in FPederal, District and private em- ploy prepared today to register oppo- 75008 ecting i “Meiniey High & mass K| BC%::X at 8 o'clock 'anlllzgt the . A meeting was called at - stance of the District Department of the American Federation of Govern- ment Fmployes as the first step in its E“mm to fight for a reduction in jiv- costs as a result of the salary re- ductiors. Costs Held Too High. ‘The - Government workers, through the ccmmittee arranging the mass meeting, announced that “it is the firm belief of Government workers that costs are too high in Wash- ington.” With Michael D. Schaefer, president of 'g;. Wfln‘z‘. anmrtment of the fed- eral , the program tonight will begin with the addresses by Sen- ator Arthur Capper of Kansas, Repre- sentative Virginia Jenckes of Indiane and Willlam Green, president of the American ‘Federation of Labor. “The High Cost of Housing in the District” will- be Senator Capper’s topic. while Mr. Green will discuss “The High Cost of Living in the District.” Mrs. Jenckes will speak on “The District of Colum- A - g these , the meetin, Will be given over to discussion and ing troduction hfl:‘ re:gluunnl. Meanwhile, e Washington Real Estate Board which yesterday announced formation of a “special committee to consider protests of tenants as to high rents, reported objections were being filed by tled renters. The board, however, is emphasizing that the protests are being accepted for study, and “recommendations” will be made where they appear to be justified. No city-wide rent reduction is planned, and protests are to be handled in- dividually. The real estate men pointed out that they cannot reduce the cost of housing until some of the factors entering into rent-making are brought down. They reiterated statements made before the Rent_Investigating Subcommittee dur- ing the last Congress that taxes, inter- est rates, and, in the main, operating f:vmelx o ttl_xllve remléned at the same ey were during more - perous days. S Figures made public earlier this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor show that the cost of living in Washington has drop- ped 21 per cent since 1928. The reduction, statisticlans said, is based on a reduction in food costs of 38 per cent; clothing, 27 per cent; Tents, 6 per cent; fuel and lights, 6 per cent; household furnishings, 21 per cent. No changes, the bureau said, have occurred in the miscellaneous items in Washington. Committee Heads, ‘The committes arranging for the mass meeting in the school auditorium |8t Second and T streets northeast is composed of Cecil M. Mears,. Miss Fanny P. Lamson, Charles E. -Ridge- way, jr., and J. P. Simpson. They have extended a blanket ‘invitation to all wage earners to attend the session, and accommodations have been made for several thousand persons. | MESSAGE FROM REICH Declares National Revolution Has Freed Europe From Com- munist Peril. The Koelnische Zeitung (Cologne Gazette), in Koeln-on-the-Rhine, Ger- many, informs its Washington corre- spondent, Dr. George Barthelme, in a radio message, as follows: “The na- tional revolution has freed Germany as well as Europe from the Communistic peril. ‘The Government guarantees safety, the people are quiet, the defense is well disciplined.” “The Koelnische Zeitung has been known throughout Europe as an organ of candid liberalism and tolerance,” Dr. Barthelme said, “as the intrepid spokes- man for free thought and free speech, and above all as a paper that religious- Iy refrains from ents, from sensationalism, exaggeration and dis- tortion. Thrown against such a back- ound, the above statement of the oelnische Zeitung may justly claim the attention of those who cherish the untarnished truth more than salacious- ly dressed-up telltales. “As soon as the hidden sources of all these atrocity stories are laid bare, we shall also see the motives that prompt- ed them. Even the cleverest legerde- main and Houdini trick is liable to be shown up. True conlusions can drawn only from true premises.” DENIES ATROCITIES | be ! ciation, presided at the meef performs_a through the human hoop. OP: The rough-riding young women who are Fort Myer Society Circus this afternoon and rail a while before their act begins. Below: Sergt. Clarence A. McGuire dangerous and difficult feat of horsemanship—jumping ‘The circus, scores of persons prominent in official and social life of Washington, its afterncon performances at 2:30 and the evening at 8:15. be repeated tomorrow afternoon and night. _|all other social agen e their skill in the omighy practice siding the ., which is attended cnnually by will begin Both shows will —Star Staff Photos. CIVIC GROUP URGES DISTRICT SUFFRAGE Conduit Road Citizens Favor Capper Resolutions and McLeod Bill. Resolutions demanding that Congress give the District national representation or permit the District to have a dele- gate in the House of Representatives were adopted by the Conduit Road Citizens’ Association at a meeting last night. In taking this action the civic group indorsed two bills now pending in_Con- gress, namely, the Capper resolution proposing an amendment to the Con- stitution providing for national repre- sentation for the people of the District and the McLeod bill providing for the election by the Commissioners of a dele- gate in Congress. The citizens’ body described the “po- litical impotency” of the people of Washington as “a national disgrace,” | An _amendment to the Constitution as | proposed in the Capper resolution would correct one of the mcst obvious defects in our basic law, the association said. “This association particularly ad- | dresses its appeal to the administration now in power, the Democratic party, chief tenets the keeping of political power as close to the people as mfl’f, the resolution on national representa- e association bel = lation believes that the administration can give the greatest exemplification of its adherence to these tenets by disenslaving the people of the District from the political bondage in which they have been held captives. We reafirm in the most vigorous and virile terms our belief in the justness of the great principle embodied in the Capper resolution. ez two resolutions were among | several introduced by Clyde S. Bailey, chairman of the Committee on Legisla- tion, on recommendation of that com- mittee. Other action by the associa- tion included indorsement of the Mc- Leod bill to provide funds for the feed- ing of children in schools; indorsement of the Harlan bill to supervise and reg- ulate the cale of securities in the Dis- trict; favoring the bill amending the law creating the Board of Indetermi- nate Sentences and Parole; and adop- tion of a resolution asking enactment of the bill to provide for election of the District Board of Education. A resolution indorsing George W.| Offutt, former president of the Board | of Trade, and Willlam McK. Clayton, | former president of the Federation of | Citizens’ Associations, for District Com- missioners was passed unanimously by the association. ‘The group registered a protest against the heavy assessment of property owners along Conduit road and adjacent streets for improvements to the road which have not yet begun, and for which the current supply bill fails to make provi- sion. The same resolution asked that work on the Conduit road project, for which an item of $194,000 was included in the District budget estimates which the last Congress failed to act upon, be pushed as early as possible. In other resolutions, the group voted to retain its present name; to oppose | the stand of the federation in opposing | the 10 per cent penalties on delayed | payment of eleetric light and gas bills; recommend that water rent be reduced 10 per cent in view of a surplus in the water fund, and to oppose issuance of “on sale licenses” for vending beer in the community. which has always had as one of its| POLICE FURLOUGH SYSTEM 15 LIKELY Creation of Vacancies Through Retirement Will Determine Course. ‘To come within the budget, the pos. sibility of establishing a furlough sys. tem in the Police Department appeared likely today, Supt. of Police Ernest W. Brown said, the event that 47 vacancies are not automatically created through the retirement of officers past 55, as the result of a medical survey to_be made next month. ‘There are 96 who are to be by the board of surgeons, and provided the number rev:om%unded by the board for retirement for disability, along with several who may be retired becas having reached the age of 60, does create a total of 47 vacancies, dget granted, it has been estinmted that it would be neces- sary to create a total of 47 vacancies to_come within the budget limits. There are already § vacancies, Maj. Brown pointed out today, and in the event the number is not brought up to 47 it would be necessary to estab- lish a furlough system. Maj. Brown said the reduction would |mean he would not have a sufficient number of men on duty/for the amount of policing he would ike to have, but emphasized that everything possible wil] | be done to keep within the budget. “THE FOX” TO FACE CONSPIRACY TRIAL | Norman Whitaker, Alleged Means Accomplice, Faces Local Charge Here. Norman Whittaker, alias “the Fox,” alleged accomplice of Gaston B. Means in the Lindbergh baby ransom plot by which Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean was swindled of $104,000, must stand trial in the District on a conspiracy charge be- fore he is turned over to other States where criminal charges are pending | against him, Assistant United States | Attorney Michael F. Keogh announced today. Although Whittaker recently was convicted under the Dyer act in Florida and sentenced to serve three years, Keogh ssid the District will exercise its prerogative to try him here. The con- in District Supreme Court. Whittaker recently was committed to jail when surrendered by his bondsman after the Florida Court of Appeals up- held his conviction under the Dyer act. His bond in the conspiracy cise was $5,000 and he had been pliaced under an additional $500 bond in Police Court to await hearing on a Virginia fugitive warrant. When the fugitive hearing scheduled in Police Court this morning was called Mr. zeoch requested Judge John McMahon to continue the case until May 10, by which time, he said, the Supreme Court trial probably will be concluded. He stated that if Whittaker is not convic’ed in the District he prob- ably will be turned over to Florida au- thorities and be returned to that State to serve his sentence, The Virginia warrant accuses Whit- taker of issuing a worthless check for Lucian Jordan, president of the asso- ting. $150 in Richmond. spiracy case has been set for May 5! PAGE B—1 PRESENT SYSTENS OF JVENLE COURT TARGET OF ATFACK Children’s Aid Society Head Addresses Jurisprudence Institute. PARENTAL DISCIPLINE AND CONTROL IS SCORED Baltimore Speaker Advocates Pun- ishment of Parents and Treat- ment of Children. An age when juvenile courts would punish the parents of delinquent chil- dren and treat the offenders was en- visaged today by Paul T. Beisser, execu- tive secretary of the Henry Watson Children’s Aid Society of Baltimore. Speaking before the Institute on So- cial Jurisprudence—the Child, the Law and the Court—at the United States Chamber of Commerce Building, Beis- ser attacked the present American Juvenile court system. He advocated: “Intelligent _discrimination between punishable delinquency and the mere absence of parental discipline and control. “That the juvenile court should pun- ish the parents and treat the children. Urges Modern Methods. “That it should use modern diagnostic methods and should not attempt to control all treatment processes. “That it should use its power to make people utilize prcper treatment facili- ties, but cthould not demand miracles the social of the treatment services, agencies.” Beisser said the juvenile court should not be bs ary cases of child activity, but should act as an_intelligent body and aul(hexore it the really punishal cases:” “Quality rearing”—the raising of chil~ dren in the proper envircnment—is the chief problem cf the jwfl‘; courts and new generations, sald Beisser. He at- tacked the present rystem by which parents can unioad their whole Tespon flm}« on the schools from the ol nursery age graduate efe ‘inheren “The worst thing to take the children a: parents. It is the violent, and e t that cau]dm‘ & wrong ascerting that the American this modern era apparen i the Mark Twainism of l‘e“’ ing hookey zn tic and exc "m.n it, !el.:er , no truancy case ould ever brought Court. In methods courts, larly the ents in fallecy of parental schools and then sending children to them instead of parents. Probation Officer Speaks, Beisser was followed ames Owens, probation dlrem:’or"me State. . of Persons Are Sponsors,of Institute. Sponsors of the institute includ Judge Jesse C. Adkins, Dr. Prank We. Ballou, Mrs. Louis D. Brandeis, Mrs. Frederick Brooke, Joseph A. Burkart, Judge James A. Cobb, Mrs. Hugh Cummings, . Wilson Compton, John O'Connor, Mrs. Whitman Cross, Mrs. Henry Gratton Doyle, Mrs. Charles Goldsmith, Bishop James E. Freeman, Dr. Paul H. Purfey, Judge D. Lawrence Groner, Mrs. = Gilbert Grosvenor, Coleman ~ J Dr, Loran Johnson, Mrs, A. J, McKelway, W. W. Millan, Mrs. Gerrit Miller, jr.. Mrs. Elwood P. Morey, with Myers, Mrs. Charles P, geawv_:ome:‘, Col. 'Brien, Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, District Commissioner Luther H. Reichelderfer, . W. M. Ritter, Elwood Street, Wal- |ter Ufford, Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- brandt, Arthur Wood and Sanf Bates, nford BEER CONVICTS’ RELEASE STILL BEING CONSIDERED Attorney General Cummings, How- ever, Has as Yet Reached No Decision. Possibilty of releasing Federal con- victs imprisoned for violations of the prohibition laws involving beer traffic still is being considered by Attorney General Cummings, but no decision has The duestion. sceonding to- the AL qu , according . torney General, is veZ involved and he to whether hu:notbeu:):bh - Justice Department could segregate those convicts who would not be guilty P. |under the beer legislation bill. “Open House” by Phone Company. Telephone subscribers in the North- Potomac-Decatur central office area will be given an opportunity to inspect the inner workings of a telephone central office at an “open house” to be held by the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. in the telephone offices located at Fourteenth and R streets, this evening. ”