Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1934, Page 20

FAIRFAX NEEDY T0 GET BASKETS Welfare, - Civic and Com- munity Groups Combine to Sprea(\i Yule Cheer. pecial Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., December 22.—In an organized effort to see that all needy families in the county are re- membered at Christmas, the Fairfax County Welfare organization, through the co-operation of various civic and community groups in every section, | will begin at once the distribution of Christmas baskets, clothing and toys for children, it was announced today by Mrs. Pearl Edler, local welfare di- rector. In order to prevent any duplication, all individual and organized contrib- utors are asked to list with the wel- fare office the names of those who re- ceive gifts. In any case where an individual or organizatftm is unable to * distribute its gifts, the welfare office, if notified, will see that it is delivered. The following communities have al- ready notified the welfare office that they will contribute to needy cases as follows: Town of Falls Church, 20 baskets; Fairfax Rotary Club, 20 baskets; Lee District Improvement Association, 20 baskets; Vienna and Oakton Relief Association, 20 baskets; Seminary, 25 | baskets, and McLean, 4 baskets. In a number of schools, Home Demonstra- tion Clubs, 4-H Clubs, Granges and other organizations contributions are being made in co-operation with her office, Mrs. Edler said. . OFFICERS INSTALLED BY WILBURN POST *E. A. Farrell Becomes Command- er of Kensington Legion Group. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. KENSINGTON. Md.. December 22. | ~—New officers of Arnold Wilburn Post, | American Legion, were installed last night at a public ceremony in Kens- ington Elementary School, with rep-l resentatives of Southern Maryland and Washington posts as guest of Thonor. Edward A. Farrell was installed as ccmmander, while others who took office include William M. Reading, | first vice commander; David A. Par- | 5 sons, second vice commander; T. H. ¢ Tremearne, adjutant; Clarence T. Fisk, finance officer; Martin H. Wright, historian, and Harry A. Wagner, sergeant at arms. * Mayor Alfred L. Geiger delivered the address of welcome to the visiting | Legionnaires and members of the | Ladies’ Auxiliary, while the official in- itiation team of the Southern Mary- land district initiated a number of candidates for membership in the local post. Lawrence R. Smoot of Kensington, vice commander of the Southern Maryland district, officiated at the installation of the officers. Past Comdr. Wilson L. Townsend presented the retiring commander, Eugene J. C. Raney, with a past com- mander’s button and lauded Raney for the rapid strides made in membership during Raney's administration. PRINCE GEOR.GES G.0.P. PATRONAGE ISSUE UP Seek Committee Agreement With Other Southern Counties. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., December 22. —Hoping to reach an agreement with the other Southern Maryland counties regarding the distribution of patron- age, the Prince Georges Republican State Central Committee yesterday appointed a committee to confer with committeemen from Charles, Calvert and St. Marys Counties. Dr. Thomas E. Latimer, Frank Small, jr., and John Littlepage com- prise the committee. The State tobacco inspector and other positions are involved in the inter-county negotiations. Dr. Lati- mer explained that if the counties reach an accord as to which shall have the various jobs it will simplify the patronage problems of Gov.-elect Nice. G. C. HOWARD DIES . Services Are Held for Resident of Chestertown. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. CHESTERTOWN, Md., December 22 —George Clark Howard, 73, died Thursday at the home of his niece, Mrs. Charles F. Wheatley, following - an extended illness. He was a well- known resident of this town and is survived by his brother, Joseph Howard of Philadelphia, and three sisters, Mrs. John A. Hyland of Fed- eralsburg, Mrs. John S. Hurlock of Pedericktown, N. J., and Miss Kate H. Howard of Still Pond, Md. Services were held at the home of his niece today, with interment in Still Pond Cemetery. Appointed to —— e DRAMA PLANNED Clarendon Church Group to Give Story of David. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va. December 22— A dramatization of the story “David, the Shepherd Boy,” will be presented at the First Baptist Church in Claren- don Sunday and Monday evenings, December 30-31, under direction of Mrs. Roy Gourley. Members of the cast include Miss Anna Myers, Frank Myers, Ashton C. Jones, jr.; Jack Jones, R. V. Hannah, J. J. McNeeley, Mrs. R. V. Hannah and Miss Virginia Langston. ‘The musical accompaniment will be given by a chorus of 30. Roy Gourley, director of the choir, will assist. The public is invited. Dividend Declared. DANVILLE, Va., December 22 (Spe- cial) .—Directors of the First National Bank have voted a semi-annual divi- dend amounting to $30,000, distribution to be made on January 2d. It will bring the total dividend for the year to $60,000. A panel of the bronze doors of the Capitol. likeness of the son of the sculptor. BY JOSEPHINE TIGHE WILLIAMS. Although thousands likely have seen it, probably no one has realized that in one panel of the great bronze doors to the Capitol is the likeness of the son of the sculptor who executed | the doors and who conceived the “Goddess of Freedom” statue atop the dome. “In the lower left-hand panel of the bronze doors is a portrait of the boy, Marion, exactly as he looked the first time I saw him at Lawtons Val- ley, when he was 4 years old. My mother discovered the likeness one day as she stood on the Capitol steps and waited for the doors to open for | the inauguration of one of our Presi- dents.” The above paragraph is from th pen of 80-year-old Maud Howe liot, Pulitzer prize winner, daughter of Julia Ward Howe; niece by marriage of Thomas Crawford, creator of the | “Statue of Freedom” adorning the | dome _of the Capitol, and cousin of the althor, Marion Crawford. taken from her latest book, “My Cousin F. Marion Crawford,” which reached the bookshelves only last month, Material Is Accurate. It is hardly & biography, but is the only attempt that has been made to | compile any sort of a life of the fa- mous American-Italian writer. In her foreword to the intensely inter- | esting material she has been able to gather together, principally through family letters, Mrs. Elliot states. “It is now 25 years since Marion Craw- ford died. To my knowledge no ade- quate account of him has yet been published. The material at my dis- posal is avowedly inadequate, but as far as it goes, it is accurate and may serve as a foundation for a fuller and better work.” It seems not to be too generally known that Marion Crawford, author of “The Palace of the King,"” “The ‘White Sister” and the amazingly pop- ular Saracinesca series, was the only | son of Thomas Crawford. Thomas Crawford, born in New York | City, March, 1814, studied in New York with Robert Launitz and John Frazee, and in 1834 went to Italy to work with Thorwaldsen, and, except for brief visits to the United States, he elected to live under the soft Italian skies. He married Louisa Howe, sister of Julia Ward Howe, author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and she bore him succes- sively three daughters and then a much-desired and only son, Francis Marion, who came into the world at Bagni di Lucca, Italy, in 1854. He was named for Gen. Francis Marion, from whose sister, Hester Marion, he was descended. Returned in 1849. Crawford, the artist, returned to this country in 1849 under a commis- sion by the State of Virginia to exe- cute the equestrian statue of George ‘Washington for the city of Richmond. It was at this time that he also re- ceived Federal Government commis- sions for the pediment of the Capi- tol, the bronze doors of Senate and House wings and the heroic Goddess on top of the Capitol. These diversified commissions kept him engaged until the Summer of 1856, when his health failed. He died T hese bonded FTD Vs Florists guarantee prompt and speedy delivery of your Flowers by wire or- der. Consult one now. Burton’s 4000 Balto, Bivd. Gude Bros. Co. 1212 F St. N.W. Nat. 1276 J. Dan Blackistone 1406 Park Rd. Col. 43733 Ao SR 2 S S S S R S SN At. 0162 Sauber’s, Inc. 1788 Col. R4. N.W. Col. 3503 Geo. A. Comley 3200 M St. N.W. West 0149 Blackistone, Inc. 1407 H St. NW. Nat. 4905 Geo. C. Shaffer 900 14th St. NW. Nat, 0108 Small’s Dupont Circle _ PR ERN SRR IENERNEENERNER % | It is | W hat Is Lovelier for Christmas Than ELOWERS? North 7000 ® Wire Service. THE SUNDAY -STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, DECEMBER 23, 1934—PART ONE. Likeness of Sculptor’s Son Adorns Door at Capitol ‘The small boy is the in London in 1857. The work of Thomas Crawford in the Capitol is represented by composition, rather | than actual production, the pediment figures being carved by Italian carvers and the Statue of Freedom cast in Maryland by Clark Mills. The plas- ter model of this work is in the Na- tional Museum. The bronze doors were cast at Chicopee, Mass. 1In the opening page of her book Mrs. Elliott writes, “My first meeting with Marion Crawford is the first thing that I can remember. I was 13 years old, he was 4. He was tall for his age, ‘his small head carried proudly and his thick hair carefully curled into a sausage of living gold.’ This was in the Summer of 1858. Marion’s father had died less than a year before.” Spent Early Years in Italy. The first 12 years of the boy's life were spent in Italy, Switzerland and England, and then his mother sent him to America to be educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. Later he attended Trinity College, England: Cambridge, Karlsruhe and the Uni- versity of Rome. At the age of 23 he sailed for Bombay and enlisted in the Dragoons. ‘When this service was over, he began a journalistic career on the Indian Herald, Bombay. From that time on his prolific pen never ceased to fly from | page to page, and from his first book, “Mr. Isaacs,” to his last, “The White Sister,” his popularity as an author never waned. The “Palace of the King” and “The White Sister” have been produced both on stage and in motion pictures, Miss Viola Allen ap- pearing in the former stage play. Marion Crawford died in Italy of brain cancer, in April, 1909, and the green, bronze cross in the center of a thick marble slab, marking his grave, is inscribed, “He who never rested rests.” It was his aunt, Julia Ward Howe, who discovered Marion Crawford's likeness, as a 3-year-old child, sculp- tured into lasting fame by his sculptor father on the bronze doors at the east front of the Capitol. It was this same great American woman who, two days after his death, stood, a little, bent, white-robed figure of 90, in the chancel of the Church of the Disciples in Bos- ton and said a few heart-felt words about her brilliant, favorite nephew, cut off in his prime. _— WORKERS GET $4,000 Iowa Button Company Distributes Cash to Employes. MUSCATINE, Iowa, December 22 (#).—Distribution of more than $4,000 cash in the form of extra compensa- tion today added Christmas cheer in homes of 500 employes of the Iowa | Pearl Button Co. and the Muscatine Pear]l Works. The week’s pay roll was the largest in the history of the button company, President O. A. Hammer said today. e Eastern Star to Give Dance. HERNDON, Va., December 22 (Spe- clal).—Herndon Chapter, Order East- ern Star, will hold a Christmas dance in the O. E. S. Hall on December 28. Ramsey Bready and Hirst Milhollen are in charge of arrangements. In All The World Flowers express that subtle “well wishing” that nothing else can. Regard- less of distance, you can wire your relatives and friends a Christmas mes- sage of Flowers. Let one of the FTD Florists— listed at left—handle your order. Each one s a BONDED member of the Florists’ Telegraph De- livery Association, which guarantees Flowers-by- e e s e e e e e e S T e S S St Sra Sa S FIXED EMERGENCY POLICY 1S URGED Dickinson Urges Program to Assure Return to “Pri- vate Initiative.” By the Assoclated Press. Abandonment of the New Deal emergency program in favor of & “definite, fixed Government policy” to assure a return of “private initia- tive” was urged last night by Senator Dickinson of Iowa, Republican key- noter in 1932. Speaking over the Columbia Broad- casting System, Dickinson said it was his conviction the administration’s program was ‘not bringing the ex- pected or the desired results,” and added: “As a Republican, my philosophy for recovery would be to increase pro- duction, lower interest rates and cur- tail Government expenditures so that taxation could be reduced. This is | not possible under the existing pro- gram. “It is clearly apparent that under the present reform system, monopoly is being encouraged, private initia- tive is being depressed and the small business man driven to the wall. The rich are becoming richer and the poor poorer, and the relief rolls are increasing. “Most of the regulation under the New Deal has been for the benefit of big business. Big business is always able to take care of itself. The bene- fits received by individuals have been in meager amounts, either by way of ‘wages, rental benefits or for service.” Dickinson said Congress should again “assume its legislative au- | thority” and “government by execu- tive orders” should be terminated. YUGOSLAVIA FREES CROTIAN LEADER Full Pardon to Vladko Machek | Seen as Evidence of Easing of Dictatorship. By the Associated Press. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, December 22.—Premier Bogolyub Yevtich's new government, in a Christmas good-will gesture, today granted a full pardon to the imprisoned Croat leader, Vladko Machek. The pardon was the gov- ernment’s first decree. Machek, senfenced to three years under the stringent defense of the realm act, had served a year and a half. Croats are planning a jubiliant demonstration. Machek was convicted of political activity subversive to the security of the regime of the late King Alexander. His pardon was regarded as evidence of the new government's intention to ease the Yoguslav dictatorship, swing- ing back toward democracy. —— Village Fights Rats. Wroughton, England, is seeking a pied piper, because there are so many rats in the village that one cannot walk through the streets without see- ing some of them. Bolder rodents in- vade houses, eating the food and damaging furniture. Every villager joined in a war against the rats re- cently, but the pied piper is still wanted. New Railroad Planned. ‘Tsinan, capital of Shantung Prov-| ince, in China, is to be connected with | Taokow, 80 miles away, by a new | railroad. Doctor’s Testimony On Flat Feet Falls Flat as He Falls By the Associated Press. REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,, De- cember 22.—Dr. Robert Monteith defended flat feet in testifying today in an accident case. “Why, I have flat feet myself, and I never have been troubled with stumbling over things,” he said. A moment later, leaving the witness stand, the doctor tripped and fell. FLOOD CONTROL EXPANSION SEEN Creation of Ten New Au- thorities Foreseen by Representative Disney. By the Associated Press. Creation of 10 new authorities to direct a vast program of flood con- trol, power development and soil erosion projects was foreseen yester- day by Representative Disney, Demo- crat, of Oklahoma. These authorities, to be patterned after the Tennessee Valley Authority, it was said in other quarters, are be- ing considered by Government en- gineers for inclusion in a one to five billion dollar public works program. President Roosevelt will shape defi- nitely the public works program within the next 10 days. Public Works and Natural Resources Board engineers have prepared an extensive list of projects which can be started immediately to provide thousands of jobs. Vi Disney has discussed plans for the improvement of rivers ‘and their tributaries with the Army Board of Engineers and he said the board had indicated that as many as 10 new au- thorities would be set up to carry forward the development work started by the President in the Tennessee Valley. One of the authorities, Disney hopes, will be located in Oklahoma and include the Arkansas, White and Red Rivers. An Arkansas Basin au- thority was regarded favorably by the Army Board, Disney said, adding he would urge it upon Mr. Roosevelt soon after Christmas. LEGION SCHEDULES WELFARE PARLEYS Conferences on Child Work to Include Baltimore March 1 and 2. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, December 22— Child welfare conferences, under direc- tion of the American Legion, will be held at Indianapolis, Memphis, Balti- more, Phoenix, Ariz., and probably at Burlington, Vt., in 1935, national headquarters here announces. Dates of the meetings have been fixed as follows: At Indianapolis Feb- ruary 1 and 2, at Memphis February 15 and 16, at Baltimore March 1 and 2, at Burlington, Vt. (city tentatively chosen), March £ and 9, and at Phoenix March 29 and 30. Through the meetings the American Legion child welfare workers will learn of the year's programs. Repre- sentatives of the United States Chil- dren’s Bureau, the Child Welfare League of America, the National Probation Association, the National Kindergarten Association, the Ameri- can Child Health Association, the American Social Hygiene Association and the National Child Labor Com- mittee will be invited to attend the sessions. MONDAYS & TH'IRSDAYS 630 W.RC. - ICE CREAM SANTA 31.50 Berves 12 to 14 Made of Strawberry, Egg-Nog, Chocolate, Pistachio. *Individual Holiday Moulds In Appropriate Forms All Flavors $1.75 bz *Christmas Pudding wnd Raspberry lce Cut 24, 28 or 32 Servings to Gal. 5150 Carrys 12 in. high. 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