Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1934, Page 4

A3 o5 sasaviasssiseteiie THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, RED CROSS SOCIAL || First Lady TRAINING PRAISED Mrs. Roosevelt Calls Course for Relief Workers “Fine.” Need Younger Persons. The manner in which the American Red Cross trains its social workers was praised by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at a meeting of the organi- zation’s National Volunteer Service Committee yesterday at national head- quarters. Among the others attending were Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Miss Mabel T. Boardman, chairman of the com- mittee, who spoke of the thousands of persons who had availed themselves of the Civililan Home Service course sponsored by the Red Cross—a simpli- fled training in social work practices for volunteers who can work under expert direction of trained social workers. “There is such a call for social workers that any training you can give is very good,” Mrs. Roosevelt said. “It is an added hardship to the relief client to have to submit to the ques- tioning of the untrained worker—who may ask personal questions which the trained worker would know through observation. Of course, there are many who have settled down peace- fully under relief. But there are thou- sands of others to whom it is a real hardship to go on relief, and the questioning and delving into their private lives is very hard for them. “The training given by the Red Cross is fine. The people who are now coming on relief are fine people who have used every resource of savings and credit. It crucifies their pride and whips their morale to have to apply. If the Red Cross can train workers to observe these things in dealing with families on relief it will help & lot. “I cannot emphasize too strongly that the people who are coming on relief today are people like you and myself, who never expected to have to accept relief. They are not poor worthless creatures, but the finest people we really have in our country.” Miss Boardman explained other ac- tivities of the committee and- Mrs. Roosevelt said she was informed of much of the work that the Red Cross did “so very satisfactorily” and had many letters of praise about it. She urged Miss Boardman to draw in more young workers. “Reduce your age limit,” she said. THE WEATHER District of Columbia — Fair, not quite so cold tonight, minimum tem- perature about 32 degrees; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and warmer, probably followed by rain at night; gentle variable winds, becoming mod- erate southwest. Maryland and Virginia — Fair, not quite so cold tonight; tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness and warmer, fol- lowed by rain in extreme west por- tion in the afternoon and in central and east portions at night. West Virginia — Increasing cloudi- ness, followed by occasional rain to- morrow and in northwest portion to- night; rising temperature tomorrow. Outlook From December 17 to 22. North and Middle Atlantic States— Fair early part of week, possibly pre- ceded by rain over south and snow eor rain over north portion Monday; rain over south and snow or rain over north portion again Wednesday night or Thursday. Colder Monday night, warmer Wednesday, colder about Friday. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature, Barometer. Degrees. Inches. 43 30.11 37 30.17 34 30.24 Yesterday— 30.31 30.39 30.38 Record for Last 24 Hours, (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 44, 3:30 p.m. yesterday. Year ago, 44. Lowest, 28, 7 am. #go, 31, Record Temperatures This Year, Highest, 101, on June 29. Lowest, —6'2, on February 9, Humidity for Last 24 Hours, (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 72 per cent, at 8 a.m. today. 5 Lowest, 32 per cent, at 4 p.m. yester- ay. today. Year Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Today. ‘Tomorrow. ees 3:42am. :11am. « 9:45am. . 3:46pm. pm. « 10:29 pm. 11:27 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Rises. 7:19 Sets. Sun, today.... 4:47 Sun, tomorrow 7:20 4:47 Moon, today.. 1:03pm. 2:0lam. Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation, Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month, 1934. Average. Record. January..., 197 3.55 700 '82 February.. i 684 '84 . 4 . 884 '91 . 913 89 10.69 ’'89 10.94 '00 1063 '86 ‘28 ‘3¢ '85 '89 01 August..... September. October..., November. . December. . T Stations. * - gwp1sak *-qyspu_ise we g o) W | Abilene. Tex Albany, N. Y Atlanta. Ga. Atlantic City Baltimore. irmingham n. 8 fu o.. 0. Charlesto: Chicago. Cincinnat, Cleveland.,” O Columbia, 8. Denver, Colo ¢ Cloudy Huron.' 8. Dal Clear Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas Cit Angeles Louisville. Omaha. Nebr’ Philadeiphia hoenix. Ari: rtland, Attends Red Cross Meeting Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt shown as she attended the meeting of the National Volunteer Service Commit- tee of the American Red Cross yesterday. and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. “ACRES OF DIAMONDS” STORY IS SERMON TOPIC Rev. E. 0. Clark to Preach at Chevy Chase Baptist on Dr. Conwell's Work. “The Story of Acres of Diamonds,” made famous by Dr. Russell H. Con- well, will be told Sunday evening by Rev. Edward O. Clark, pastor, at the | Chevy Chase Baptist Church. The morning topic is “Enjoying Religion.” “Light Divine” is the title of the | Christmas play, written by Miss Mary Pearce, which will be given at the white gift service December 21. Pro- visions for the needy and gifts for other causes will be received at the conclusion of the service. An early service will be held on Christmas morning at 7:30 o'clock. —_ PAGEANT TO BE GIVEN | Second Episode of “Gifts of Love” | at Columbia Heights Church. | “Dedication Sunday” will be ob- served at the Columbia Heights Chris- | tian Church. The second episode of | the pageant, “Gifts of Love,” will be | given, and an opportunity will be | given to the whole church member- | ship to make their gifts, laying them | upon the altar. The topic will be & continuation of the stewardship ser- mons, “The Ultimate Test of Chris- | tian Living.” The evening topic will be “What Lack I Yet?” | A dinner meeting of the Board of Education and Sunday school teach- ers will be held Tuesday night, while Thursday, at the prayer meeting service there will be a program of Christmas songs led by Guy Skinner. SIR ROBERT BORDEN ILL OTTAWA, Ontario, December 15 (P)—Sir Robert Borden, Canada’s war-time prime minister, is confined to his home by illness, Although his condition is not re- garded as serious, his advanced age causes anxiety among his friends. Sir Robert is 80 years old. Epworth League Dr. Arthur Jackson will speak at | the Petworth young people’s meeting tomorrow evening. Anacostia Chapter will have a tea social at 6 o'clock and | Miss Vivian Reed will given an illus- trated lecture on “Christmas” at 7 o'clock tomorrow. Last Thursday the | Anacostia group gave a pageant and | Christmas party to the old folk of the | Methodist Home of the Aged. | ‘The Methodist young people are Te- quested to go to Calvary Baptist | Church Thursday and fill the hospital | Christmas stockings for the Federa- tion of Churches in Washington. The groups will start the filling at 5 p.m. The Methodist young people also will sing Christmas carols and distribute some of these stockings at Sibley Hos- pital on Christmas morning. If you will join us call Miss Mary Bair at Potomac 2280. ARRRRRRRRAARRRRRARRRRAAR Open Left to right: Mrs. Roosevelt, Christian Science “God the Preserver of Man” is the subject of the lesson-sermon in all the Churches of Christ Sclentist to- morrow. The golden text is from Psalms, cxlv.20: “The Lord preserveth all them that love Him.” ‘Among the citations which com- prise the lesson-sermon is the follow- ing from the Bible: “For with thee is the fountain of life: In thy light shall we see light” (Psalms, xxxvi.9). The lesson-sermon also includes the following passage from the Christian Science Text Book, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy: “The true sense of being and its eternal perfection should appear now, even as it will hereafter” (page 550). Woopwarp & Lot « The Christmas Slore Holiday Dress —for women, 34 to 44. —for shorter women, sizes 1612 to 26Y5. $ wear and wear. ‘women. Dazsses, Trmp FLOOR 1314 F Street N.W. v Miss Mabel T. Boardman, chairman, —Wide World Photo. PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE Dr. H. H. Hollister to Preach To- morrow Morning. At Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church tomorrow morning “As Little Children” will be the subject of Dr. H. H. Hol- lister's sermon. ‘The Hearthstones will leave the church at 5:45 p.m. to visit the Sacred | Heart Church. At 7:30 o'clock &un- | day evening the Fireside Group will | meet at the home of Dr. and Mrs. | Henry A. Swanson, 3911 Jocelyn street; Collegians at the home of Miss Leis Huffman, 6301 Broad Branch road, and Young People’s Society in the young people’s room. Winchester Stone will lead the discussion in the young people’s group on “Dante.” ROP I 4.95 It comes at this time when every woman needs something for the holidays—and something new for very little, too. There are flattering touches of white—prints, especially refreshing now—lovely mate- lasse, in bright shades for afternoon—and informal dinner dresses that you will Sketched—one of the new prints (pure dye), in a tunic-dress, for shorter women —a dinner dress in black crepe with pail- lettes adding a bit of glamour—for D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1934, MARINE DEFENGE 'S HELD CRIPPLED Maj. Gen. John H. Russell Cites Weaknesses in Report. The Marine Corps, due to slashes in personnel, is now crippled as an arm of national defense, Maj. Gen. John H. Russell, commandant, said yes- terday in his annual report. “Due to the necessity of maintain- ing ships’ detachments and garrisons of foreign stations at full strength and | performing essential guard duty ati naval shore stations,” Gen. Russell| wrote, “the Marine Corps, under its present strength, cannot maintain the component units of the Fleet Marine Force required by its mission with the fleet.” Average Strength 15,000, ‘The commandant pointed out that, | due to the restriction on cash with- drawals, the average enlisted strength was kept below 15,000, the strength at the beginning of the fiscal year being 14,876 and at the close 15,174, the average being 14992. For the fiscal year 1935, provision is made for 1,023 officers, 151 commissioned warrant and warrant officers and 16,000 enlisted men. The new system of organization training inaugurated during the fiscal year was thus explained: “Under this system each regular organization will be assigned a com- plement which will constitute a | nucleus of key men; that is, those | men requiring several months’ train- ing. In general, this nucleus con sists of 50 per cent of the regular | complement of the organization. In l'event of an emergency, the nucleus ! will be filled to its full strength by (reserves or recruits who have com- | pleted the recruit training. $15,325 Property Reclaimed. “Plans are being perfected for passing recruits periodically through these organizations in order to test | out the efficiency of the system and | to famillarize the key men with the task with which they will be con- Promoted CHARLES PIOZET - fronted in the event of a major ex- pansion of the corps.” The reclamation department at Quantico, Va., reclaimed property to the value of $15,325, said Gen. Rus- sell, in citing economies effected. The final cost per recruit has been “ma- terially reduced” for the fiscal year, the general said, in declaring that “approximately 90 per cent of the men enlisted during the year had high school or college education.” Canned Fruit Imported. Canned fruits imported into England the last year were valued at nearly $25,000,000. () Woori “Corres WARD « The Christmas Siore pondin coming FORMER ROOSEVELT AIDE IS PROMOTED Charles Piozet Took Stenographic Dictation When President Was Navy Official. Charles Piozet, who used to take stenographic dictation from Frank- lin D. Roosevelt when the latter was assistant Secretary of the Navy, was named yesterday by President Roose- velt as chief of the appointment divi- sion of the Navy Department. Piozet succeeds Willlam D. Bergman, recent- ly promoted to chief clerk of the de- partment. ‘Thus Piozet finds himself over a man who used to be his chief, but who resigned from the Government service only to return to it shortly after the depression started. At one time Ralph T. Bartlett served the| Navy as head of the civilian branch and he now returns to the appoint- ment division to fill Plozet's post. Piozet recalled today he used to work with Mr. Roosevelt on wage | scales in the various Navy Yards, and sometimes did stenographic work for him. Piozet entered the department ls“ a messenger boy, and when he be- came 18, received his appointment | from the Civil Service Commission. He was named to the department in 1906 and has served continuously since in the appointment division. Recently, he was elected president of the Association of Personnel Offi- | cers of the executive department, an | independent establishment. He is a native of the Capital, but since child- hood has resided at Hyattsville, Md. | from Woodward & Lothrop Eaton' Crane’s St gift imaj Crane’s “Ligne,” a handsome silver-edged cards—72 sheets, envelopes ..... & Lo Highland Vellum, in a very smart cabinet— white—including 48 sheets, 24 cards and 72 envelopes Antoinette, a cabinet of fine paper—lined envelopes, letters, notes—in blue, white and bois de rose Crane’s Exquisite Natural Kid-finish, with 48 sheets—48 silver-edged cards—and 96 envelopes onery Chest, the most generous able—includes 192 sheets, 24 semi-notes —24 silver-edged cards—240 envelopes 48 cards CHICAGO EXECUTES 2 POLICE SLAYERS Electric Chair Avenges City in Death of Seven Killers in Last Two Years. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 15.—Two men, Walter Dittman, 28, and Herman Bou- lan, 36, died in the electric chair early today for the slaying of Policeman Earl M. Jensen. Their deaths bring to seven the to- tal of police killers executed in the last two years in Chicago’s grim drive against the slayers of her law officers. In his last hours, Boulan expressed “forgiveness” for his accomplice, but to the end Dittman remained bitter toward Boulan. Each had attempted to shift the blame for the brutal slay- ing to the other. Jensen, an officer in suburban Oak Park, was shot when he approached an automobile to question the pair concerning a robbery. Art Teaching Changed. Children of Vienna, Austria, are being taught art by a new method. OIL surner SERVICE 12 Years’ Practical Experience Immediate, Reliable, Reasonable Any Approved Make DOMESTIC SERVICE CORP. 1706 Conn. Ave. POt. 2048 Night and Sunday, Wis. 3053 ROP x gly welcome” $3.50 $2.50 3 ed stationery $]2.50 ed paper, with and 120 s7.50 shadow-s (Fine Foreign Papers, $1 to $3) STATIONERY, AlSLe 2, FirsT FLOOR. 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