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JUTLITY BILLS BEFORE STATE Measures Would Pave Way to Chain of Publicly Owned Plants. By the Associated Press. A string of publicly-owned and operated power projects, patterned in the main after the Tennessee Valley Authority, was depicted yesterday in administration quarters as & likely result of a legislative program pushed before State Legislatures by the Pub- lic Works Administration. ‘Three bills embodying the program already have been introduced in many State Legislatures. Each would per- mit the projected new organizations to borrow money. The Federal Gov- ernment would have money to lend under the $4,880,000,000 work relief bill. Three Courses Open. ‘The three measures now pending in the State Legislatures would: Authorize the formation of Rural Electrification Authorities Allow municipalities to set up power Histricts to supply cheap electricity. Permit formation of membership corporations to operate electric plants for members only. There were no official statements regarding the bills. In authoritative quarters, however. it was said they were designed to allow the States to take full advantage of the funds avail- able under the new work relief pro- gram. Already there have been numerous indications that a part of the four- billion dollar works fund would be set Russian Artist Paints Asi THE EVENING ST Journey From Beirut to Peiping Glimpsed. in Local Exhibit. AR, WASHINGTON, VISIONARY" PLANG Sees Danger of Old People Being Misled on Pen- sion Program. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 20.—Secretary Perkins asserted last night there was a “real danger” that old people were being led to expect the impossible by “vislonary” old-age pension plans. “Small, steady allowances built up by regular contributions during early and middle life are a_definite possi- bility for us,” she said. Miss Perkins did not mention any “scheme” by name. She frequently has said, however, that the Townsend plan was “impossible.” Unemployment - insurance and the other provisions of the administra- tion’s social security bill also were re- indorsed by the Labor Department chief. 7 : “Under a properly worked out sys- tem of unemployment insurance,” she said, “in which there is a systematic and co-operative saving toward the cost of that rainy day, we put within the worker’s reach the means of tiding himself over periods of difficulty. “No one believes for a moment that unemployment insurance will take care of all our troubles. The best cure for unemployment is, of course, em- ployment. “It is work that men want above everything else and the efforts of the administration, as you know, have concentrated on a program of recov- ery that will give work to the greatest number.” D. €, WEDNESDAY. | VIS PERKINS HITS}JELLEFF IS NAMED T0 PAROLE BOARD Organization to Be. Com- pleted in Few Days to Resume Debate. Frank R. Jelleff, prominent mer- chant, will be sworn in as a member of the Board of Indeterminate Sen- tence and Parole within the next few | days. He was appointed late yester- day by the Commissioners to succeed the late William W. Bride. ‘When the board organization is com- pleted, District officials will resume consideration of proposed changes in the operation of the parole system. The matter has been discussed at length by a committee named by Commissioner Allen. Among questions up for determina- tion are whether the board should be paid and placed on a full-time basis, a proposal to amend the law to make the District parole system conform to that of the Federal Government, and the matter of how much publicity should be given to parole cases. One-Third Minimum Considered. The committee consists of Commis- sioner Allen, Corporation Counsel Prettyman, Police Supt. Brown and members of the Parole Board. The committee has tentatively proposed that prisoners be required to serve one- third, instead of merely one-fifth, of their minimum terms before they be- come eligible for parole. The committee also has suggested that the board be paid and required MARCH 20, 1935 Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. BACK OF THE MAIL. NE of the lesser known divi- sions of the Post Office De- partment is that one known as the mail equipment shops, located at Fifth and W northeast. Besides saving the Gov- ernment something over $150,000 a year in the salvaging and sale of scrap materials annually, Supt. J. B. Cady mentions a few other items worth noting. Principally, one should mention the manufacture of 504,273 mail bags in the last year, then a matter of 1,480,- 386 locks of various types for the bags and street mail boxes, and locking cord fasteners for the sacks. But repair work, too, counts in on this saving For example, the shop, working under reduced personnel, re- conditioned 57,790 locks, 2,000 num- bering machines, 142 canceling ma- chines, 431 motors and 3,009,957 old mail containers. And 339,440 old bags, and 19,085 old locks were re- tired for salvage. A further matter of | 447,042, bags which otherwise would | have been condemned, had new bot- toms put in them or were altered to serve in other capacities. The shops have, at least once in the past, done something more with their millions of yards of canvas besides cut, stitch and whip it into bags. In the war with Spain, in 1898, says Cady, the mail equipment folks step- ped in and pinch-hit for the soldiers in a curious emergency: They manu- factured the tents that the Army carried! handkerchief, washed her hands daintily in the trough before 2426 Nineteenth street northwest; ammuni- tion for the neighborhood children’s squirt-guns; sea for their sail-boats and ocean to wade and drop rocks in; water to fill radiators with; material to scoop up, spread on sidewalks and make a slide from. And, once or twice, the milkman’s horses have used it to drink from. L BEAU BRUMMEL IN COURT. e W A BOY SCOUT LEADER 10 ADDRESS S. A.R. Percy L. Ports to Present First of Papers on Fighting “Isms.” The District Soclety of the Sons of the American Revolution tonight will hear Scoutmaster Percy L. Ports read the first of a series of papers on ef- forts in this country to counteract the propaganda spread among young peo- ple in favor of various “isms.” Maj. C. C. Griggs, president of the society, has arranged a series of ad- dresses by official spokesmen for va- rious organizations and governmental agencies, They will speak before the society on the campaign “to develop true American citizens and to keep intact our American traditions, stand- ards and ideals.” Youth Training Important. In notifying members of the society OUIS A. WHITESTONE is an as- sistant district attorney attached | to Police Court. There are a number | of other bright young men attached | there in a similar capacity and all of them have another common factor —they are very dapper about their clothing, though for what reason, no- | body has ventured an opinion, con- sidering the squalid nature of the Police Court Building. However, that is another angle. Now, Mr. Whitestone has completely outdistanced his contemporaries, in the matter of sartorial adornment. “Henry,” an unofficial colored attend- ant, appears each day with a rose, a gardenia or some other flower for the | | of the appearance of Scoutmaster Ports, who will represent the Boy Scouts of America, Maj. Griggs said: “To my mind nothing is of more importance than the training of youth as is being done so ably by the Boy Scout organizations.” Two committees, headed by Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries and Dr. R. J. C. Dorsey, will report to. the society on their study of subversive activities. Charles Colfax Long, author and lecturer, will address the society on “Evacuation of Boston,” which took place in 1776. Class to Be Presented. Dr. Clifton P. Clark, the registrar, K Chuk 42 Haddeo aside for use in rural electrification. Officers to Be Unpaid. The Rural Electrification Authority ‘Whitestone lapel. | will present a class of candidates for And Mr. Whitestone, no whit em- | installation as compatriots. These barrassed by the curious stares of the | candidates are Benjamin Dunlap Hill, court hangers-on, nonchalantly accepts | William Rhodes Lewis, Charles Col- to serve full time, but this point has not been finally determined, it is said. The board members now serve with- MISSION GROUP TO MEET bills would create a State agency as a public corporation. There would be three directors appointed by the Gov- ernor. Each would receive expenses, but no salary. The Authority would seek to encourage and promote the use of electricity, and make it avail- able at “reasonable” rates. It would study and formulate policies and might use municipal facilities for an agreed compensation. The Authority might buy, hold and operate nroperty. It might fix, main- tain and collect rates. It might build systems. It might borrow money and issue bonds Many of the same authorities would be granted municipal power districts under the bill covering that subject. Three ways were prescribed by which e Amers A drawing of Sheikh Sattani M4 de Naovag of the Haddidin, made at Palmyra, capital of Zenobia, by Alexandre Iacovleff. This is one of 26 paintings and 34 drawings of Asiatic lands and peoples by the same artist now on exhibition at the National Geographic Society headquarters here. BY LEILA MECHLIN. F THE many exhibitions held in Washington during the current season one of the most interesting is that of paintings and drawings of Asiatic lands and peoples by Alex- andre Iacovleff, which opened in Ex- | plorers’ Hall of the National Geo- graphic Society, Sixteenth and M streets, yesterday, to continue such a district might be created. through April 2. ‘They are: Upon resolution of the municipal governing Lody, subject to approval of the State utilities commission. Need Must Be Shown. Upon the motion and finding by the commission of the need for such a project. Upon petition by 10 per cent of the electors of the district, this to be ap- proved by the State Commission. The membership corporation bill would grant about the same general authority for borrowing money and fixing rates. Such a corporation would operate on a non-profit basis for the service of members only. Officials said they had no informa- tion of the progress of the bills. An Associated Press compilation, however, showed they were pending in Okla- homa, South Dakota, Minnesota, Cali- fornia, Washington and several other States. In Maryland a study was be- ing made to see if they clashed with the corporation laws In Utah, the Governor submitted the bills to a com- mittee of citizens for their opinion. CAPT. M'NABB BECOMES FORT MYER ADJUTANT Relieves Capt. J. F. Menzie, De- tailed to Adjutant General's Office Here. Capt. Alexander B. MacNabb, 3rd| manifest the unity in variety of ma Cavalry, has arrived here from Fort| Riley, Kans., to relieve Capt. James! T. Menzie, 3rd Cavalry, as post adju- tant at Fort Myer. Capt. Menzie has been detailed to the adjutant general’s office in the War Department. The new post adjutant is a native of Buffalo, N. Y., and is a graduate of the Cavalry School, the Troop Officers’ Course and the special advanced Equi- tation Course. His last duty was with the Department of Equitation at the Cavalry School. He was joint master, with Lieut. Col. J. M. Wainwright, of the Cavalry School Hunt, which was organized in Germany by Gen. Henry T. Allen in 1919 and reorganized at Fort Riley when the Army returned to this country. Capt. Menzie had been a conspicu- ous figure at the exhibition drills at Fort Myer during the past four years, and also was prominent in connection with horse shows. . GETS 120 DAYS Drunken Driver Must Also Pay Fine of $100. Police Court Judge Gus A. Schuldt yesterday sentenced George Henson, alias George Gulley, to serve 90 days in jail and pay a fine of $100 or serve another 30 days for driving while in- toxicated. Another 30 days was added for operating without a permit. Following a precedent set this week, another alleged traffic violator sur- rendered his operator's permit to Judge Schuldt for a period of 30 days, in lieu of the payment of a fine for speeding. He was Roy J. Booth, a taxi driver, of the 700 block TRAIN between Washington and Cincinnati, Lovisville and St. Louis with Secretary @ Valet ©® Maid- Manicure ® Reclining Seat Coach Leave. Washington 6:30 P. M. Daily BALTIMORE & OHIO NATIONAL LIMITED The artist is Russian by birth and | training, but the majority of his pro- fessional work has been done under French auspices. When the Citroen- Haardt expedition crossed Asia from Beirut to Peiping by motor car it was accompanied by Iacovleff, who made a remarkable pictorial record of the | trip. This_trip took nearly a year and was achieved under the greatest diffi- culties, but neither time nor dangers seem to have affected the artist. Wherever he went he made sketches, notes and portraits, and in several instances these served the expedition better than passports. According to a statement issued by the National Geographic Society, which co-operated in this expedition, “Jacovleff’s art speaks all languages.” Chinese savants marveled at it. Mili- ‘tary governors who refused passage of the motor caravan through their territory ‘yielded passports in return for his portraits. His crayons were mightier than pen or weapon. His art won where all other diplomacy failed, because his art was not only clever, but good and genuinely sin- cere. Studies From Life. The 34 portrait studies in this ex- hibition were made from life. They are in colored crayon, approximately life-size, very strong and vital. These are a record of types—ethnological as well as psychological—calculated to n- = <N -9 The Comtortable Heat Most | kind. They are essentially outstand- ing. | Among the most interesting of these | is one of the Sarikoli guide and hunter | who served Kermit Roosevelt and the Morden-Clark expedition in their hunt for the Marco Polo sheep. Another is of Baba Daria, the chief | of the boatmen on Afghanistan’'s | great River Helmand, under whose | direction the seven tractor-type cars | were ferried across. A third is of a Chaldean woman of | Baghdad whose face might well be | | that of a saint capable of martyr- |dom. What Malvina Hoffman has | done in sculpture iw recording the races of mankind, Iacovieff has done | in drawing. African Art Published. But this expedition was by no means | his first adventure. About 10 years |ago he crossed the African continent | with the Haardt motor expedition and | brought back a valuable collection of drawings of African chieftains and |types from little-known tribes, which | have been published in book form. He |also has traveled extensively in Asia, | and has published, in limited editions, works on the Chinese and Japanese | theater. He professes a disinclination to stay long in any place and has in- born the spirit of the explorer. Alexandre Iacovieff is a man in the late 40s; alert, wirey, with clear- cut features, betokening breeding and sensitiveness; also keenness of per- ception. His education in art was ob- tained in St. Petersburgh, before the revolution, when the great Russian Ballet was making history. He had no connection with the ballet, but he and his colleagues met and mingled | with the artists who made it in the Art Association, of which all were members. His training was of the | austere type—his associations were | with those of epoch-making creative | ability which he doubtless shared. | When asked if the bringing to America of the great masterpieces of /n the World-and at low Gost FEWER COLDS, BECAUSE OF UNIFORM, STEADY HEAT More than 50,000 owners confirm Spencer Comfort, Convenience and Economy ad- vantages. Low first cost and lower fuel bills. Burn coal ‘costing $4 less a ton. Savings help cover Installed by leading monthly payments. heating contractors. NO DOWN PAYMENT-THREE YEARS TO PAY FEDERAL HOUSING TIME PAYMENT PLAN PHONE NATIONAL 0050 for quick information : Visit Special Exhibit NOLAND CO 136 K ST, N. E, MPANY, INC. WASHINGTON SPENCER HEATER CO., Main Office, Williamsport, Pa. Young People's Secretary to Ad- dress Society. The annual meeting of the Women's Presbyterial Missionary Society will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the East- ern Church, Sixth street and Mary- land avenue northeast. The presi- dent, Mrs. William R. Rhoades, will preside. Annual reports from the different departments of the society will be given. The speaker will be Miss Mary Moore, Young People’s secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions. — painting from the Hermitage Gallery in St. Petersburg seems sad to him, | he replied, “Yes, you are so rich in out pay. Present members of the board are Wilbur La Roe, jr, lawyer and chair- man of the Civic Affairs Committee of the Federation of Churches, and Dr. Emmett J. Scott, an official of Howard University. ~ Commissioner Allen said the board would select its own chairman. Jelleff Community Leader. Mr. Jellefl was not a candidate for the appointment and was persuaded to accept at the urgent request of Allen. He was one of the organizers and now is head of the Boys’ Club movement of the District and has been active in the Community Chest work. A bank director, as well as a mer- such treasure here, and we shall need | P20t of long standing, he has been them by-and-by.” In other words, | Prominently identified with business while Iacovleff is one with the cour- age to adventure, in some ways modern, he is one who respects tradi- tion and knows its worth, an artist whose quest primarily is beauty in strength and power. At present Alexandre Iacovleff is teaching drawing and painting and design in the School of Art conducted by the Museum of Fine Arts at Bos-~ ton. He is completely absorbed in this work, enthusiastic over his pupils and their potentialities. But he has prom- ised to stay only another year. It was because of his Boston classes that he spent only a day in Washington, attending the luncheon that was given in his honor yesterday by the president of the National Geographic Society, and leaving after the formal opening of his exhibition. From today for a fortnight this ex- hibition will be open to the public. It contains not only the portrait studies to which special reference has been made, but also a group of 26 paintings of scenes on the Asiatic | journey elaborated from memory sketches and color notes made en route. Among these, most notable is one of a polo game in a great moun- tain pass. Dr. Alban Girault, the French Specialist, says: ““Almost unbelievable how well it works!”’ Dr. Girault (at right) has been chief of clinic of the Paris Faculty of Medicine @ leading member of nguished medical soci- eties. He says of this new yeast: “‘I was amazed at its re- sults when used on large numbers of patients. In- stead of acting harshly and temporarily as cathartics do, it stimulates secretion of digestive juices and re- stores bowel action natural- ly...0tis a notable discovery.” 1\ affairs of the District for many years. a|He is a member of the Board of | | Trade, the Rotary Club. the Columbia | Country Club and a director of the National Bank of Washington. He lives at 2439 Wyoming avenue, | e | TONG WAR AVERTED | Peace Agreement Signed as Trial | Plans Proceed. SAN FRANCISCO, March 20 (P — Threats of tong warfare over a bar- | tered Chinese bride assertedly stolen | back by the man who claimed to be her father were definitely averted yes- | terday when members of the Hop Sing Tong and the Four Families Associa- tion signed a peace agreement. The dispute arose when Gin Lem | sold Toy Fon Lew to a member of the | Four Families for $1,800 and then | fled with her to China. Gin Lem is | a member of the Hop Sing Tong. Gin Lem pleaded not guilty to the ‘charge and is now held in Los An- | geles in default of $7,500 bail. Toy | Fon Lew, now in Hong Kong, may be | brought back to California as a prose- | cution witness. the flower Henry has selected for the day, places it in the proper lapel button-hole, pats Henry with one hand, slips him a dime with the other and smilingly starts his assignment for that day. PLAY FOR MILK FUND “The Widow Lally’s Eviction” to Be Presented. Presented by the Troubadours of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, “The Widow Lally’s Eviction,” a play by Thomas Brahany, will be presented in the Willard Hotel ball room to- morrow at 8:30 under the auspices of the Ladies of Charity for the Washington Milk Fund. The cast QUOTES. 'LARENCE MARTIN of Martins- burg, W. Va. former president of the American Bar Association, tells of hearing the most eloquent sermon he ever heard preached. It was de- livered by an itinerant and almost illiterate preacher, who prefaced his sermon by making two fantastic strokes of his hands to the right and two more to the left. At the end of the sermon the preacher made the same signs in the air. So impressed was Mr. Martin that he met the p.m., | fax Long, Stanley Clifford Smock and Stephen Hopkins Walker. As a special reminder of the revo~ lutionary period the color guard will appear in Colonial -costume. The | members of the guard are James C. McGrew, Arthur E. Johnson, Horace M. Fulton and James M. Stevens. | Officers chosen for the coming year, ’ at the last meeting of the society, are: | Maj. Griggs, president; Maj. Lau- | rence Leonard, senior vice president; | Clark B. Cummings, second vice pres- | ident; Francis B. Hoffheins, third | vice president; Fred E. Kunkel. sece | retary; Col. Charles Y. Latimer, | treasurer; Dr. Clark registrar: C. | Leonard Brown, assistant registrar; | Clark P. Cole 2d, historian; John F. Little, librarian, and Rev. Dr. Luther Hess Waring, chaplain. preacher after the services and asked: “What were those signs you made above your head?” “Those,” said the preacher, “were the quotation marks.” * ok % % CHAIN LINKS. NE snowstorm last year cost the railway and electric company on | one bus line in Washington $2,800 for replacement links alone on its busses’ non-skid chains. Not the whole chains, | just the replacement links! |~ Figure up what a real snowstorm | costs companies operating busses in | the larger cities and across country: Anti-freeze liquids, chains, links and | | probable towing services when the huge coaches hit the drift districts. | * k ¥ % HORSE TROUGHS. | A\ DD uses for the Humane Society's | nine animal drinking troughs | scattered about the city: Handy foot- | | rest and water to wash the mud off | | one’s shoes; handy supply of water to | wash the car on Sunday morning; the well dressed lady who on a recent eve- | ning, after throwing away her candy | papers and drawing out her lace C;mp/ele ly conrected by this new aé.'fmwy/. ..Chronzc CASES OF CONSTIPATION A new food supplies “Protective Substances” stomach and bowels need to work properly. No other food", even fruits and vegetables, supplies enough of them! is a fact that hospitals are now even stubborn cases of Deorccing constipation — simply by food to the diet! 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