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j( S OCIATED press &h f !• j arc published in s? Evening Capital. fHIO rviHY tVENING EXCEPT SUNDAYS. —No. 115. [NISON ID HOLE ALL IS I'EEZEY’S PLAN ; , n of Penitentiary To B< Qf House Of Correction t And Believes Jessups i Place For Combined In jution. IKFORD OUSTED; reforms OUTLINED pttvliiuily Indicated, the State i„( Welfare has decided to piac? unaftement <if the Maryland ,if Cm ret tion. at Jcsnups, this t aiii ihc Maryland Penl _ in Baltimore, under one ami yesterdav tile hoard up ('„! Claude It. Sweczey, war i! the "IVn," to take charge or isstiuitiotis. He will succeed William K Lankford, who haa .jj, poult lon continuously since f r IMO, and for a period prior i, making ids total service about in. Would Heige Two Prisons jo not believe that the prison non of Maryland is large k to warrant the upkeep of two piani," Colonel Sweezey said •fore. I advocate a single insti . preferably located on the site f present house of ('orrectlon. i there is space for development growth. If the Peiiitentlury ni poHstbly could he utilized for ether purpose ly the State, 1 be i m*le penal institution would icthal and highly desirable.” Reforms Outlined el Sweczey said he wus in thy with the reforms outlined it: titement issued by lOmory L. itz. Mrector of Welfare, tw include the more effective (ration of prisoners, the cen ition of the shop industries, tile it ton of agricultural products the House of Correction for food t Penitentiary and the central! of the bookkeeping for both hnef paragraph in the Coblent t wnt makes mention of the pro consolidation, saying that h till be made of the project t board, through Chairman j 1. Cohlentz. announced that i Sweezey is to serve as war ! the House of Correction “wlth •l but. at the same time, it was that his salary as warden k Penitentiary had been in- Mfrom $6,200 a year, as fixed in hie budget, to $7,200 a year. In (fiiiitlntttfl On Png* LA NEAPOLITAN HAVANA l()c CIGARS Try Them °tice of Meeting of .Annapolis anj Eastport Building Association: ' ere by given that the reg meeting of the share “ °f Annapolis and Eastport ■" iation will be held at Co Association, Lee 1 Circle and South ' Maryland, on the 12th • uary. 1923, at 7:30 p. m.. ; Ci meeting the regular of directors will oc " C: >ach other business '•efore the meeting. H > F. U FRANTZ, NSKET - BALL l| Street Armory February 3 1 !i s SKNIOIt GIULS VS s J! Mon GIKL9* A 11. s. BOYS Vs ' ALVEItT HALL First game TSWJJ <££otntng lUsHii (Unpitnl TALK OP BUSINESS COURSE AT ST. IN'S “Collegian” Student Publication Suggests Its Addition To Cur riculum Of Institution WOULD INCREASE ROLL According to an article which ap peared in the current issue of the St. John's Collegian under the caption ’ A Needed Course.” the students at the local institution are anxious to have a course in Business Administra tion, and alliod subjects, added to the college curriculum. The article, In pnrt, follows: “We have here at St. John’s first class B. A. and It. S. courses, ones which we are proud to compare with any in the State or elsewhere, but we still seem to lack the very thing which is attracting the majority of students today, and that Is a course in Business Administration, and al lied subjects. Talked About Campus “Rumors have been heard around the campus that such a course will le incorporated Into the curriculum. If this rumor is true, there is cause for much rejoicing, but If It is not, wo, as students, want to know why. We could quote instances by the dozen to show the need of this course from its results in other colleges, but one ex ample should suffice. Gettysburg College inaugurated a similar course a few years ago, and since that time tlie student body has almost doubled \ In number, and this increase is ac- J counted for wholly by the course In Commerce and Finance, as it is called there. "Practically all of the men who at tend St. John's are men who expect to earn their own living after leav ing college, and they naturally desire an education that will more directly fit them for their life's work. A lib eral education is a great asset to any man. especially to a lawyer or a doctor, but when a man goes to work s socn as lie leaves St. John’s, as many of us will, he naturally feels the lack of a training enabling him to at once earn his living. Of course, he may secure a position as a teacher, but all poople are not endowed with the proper temperament for instruc tors, even should they have the in clination." LOCAL PREACHERS IN PULPITS TOMORROW With the exception of Calvary M. E Church the local pulpits will le oc cupied tomorrow' by their pastors, many of whom were absent last Sun day on account of illness or other reasons. The Rev. Dr. H. W. Burgan, who has been suffering from a severe attack of grip, has not yet recovered sufficiently to return to his clerical duties at Calvary Church. POLITICAL SCHOOL FOR WOMEN IN BALTIMORE Miss Mary Adele Joyce, of Millers ville, will go to Baltimore next week to attend the National School of Democracy, which will be an inten sive three-days’ training course given at the St. George Hotel under the auspices of the Democratic Women’s Club of Baltimore. The registration blanks may be had at the office of th s paper and the fee of $1 50 may be paid at. the opening of the session, or sent to Mrs. William Johns Brown, Wal brook postoffice, Baltimore. Oooooooosoooooosocoooooo SPECIAL Z For Friday and Saturday Z While They Last O - o o o o EXTRA FINE CAPONS, Z 50c PER LB. Z LARGE ARTICHOKES, % 20c EACH. SCALA & CO. I O PROMPT DELIVERY. PHONE S 5. c O o FURNITURE Upholstered, Repaired and Refinished. Picture Frame* Made to Order. J. B. BETHEL 117 Market St. Phone S3S-J r Business Established Over Sixty Years: W. F. CHILDS & SON Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables. Canned and Bottled Goods. Fresh a n<l Suiokwl Meats. Prompt deliveries. Polite service. Order* solicited. Phone 92. STORES; 100 AND 171 CONDUIT ST. no ANNAPOLIS, MD„ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY :l. 1023, I AMERICAN DOLLARS I \ BOON TO BUSINESS U. S. Money Supplants Portu guese Currency Which Is Legal Coin I Tlie A •**‘lnfe<l |*re*o FUNCHAL. MADEIRA, Feb. 3 The American dollar, although Portu guese currency in the legal coin of the Island, has become the favorite medium of exchange for local mer chants and hotelkeepers. Every in flux of American tourists, brought 1 here on the cruises to the Mediter ranean and Egypt, is watched with the keenest interest, and prices are ; marked and quoted in coin of the i United States. Even in a standard ! commodity like Madeira wine, the ' price quoted to Americans is in dol ! lars. While being more or less a conveni ence to the tourists, the dollar stand j ard of value brings considerable money into the pockets of the dealers. The depreciated value of Portuguese currency would render their returns very meager if they adhered to their own escudos. As it Is. they buy their merchandise in escudos and sell them In dollars. At the stores where sou venirs are sold, the sales boy snap out their prices in dollars and cent* with the alarcrity of street vendors. Wooden Sleds, Rut No Snow Wooden sleds drawn by oxen over cobblestone streets, on which not one flake of snow ever falls, again provide the principal form of amusement this j season for the American invasion j The quaint wooden sled is an elabor | ate construction as sleds go. It par | takes of the nature of a slel and. at : the same time, a victoria. It is gaily i painted, and is capped by a fringed canopy to* shade the passenger from the sun. The oxen .are hurried on by their driver with a whip which he slashes as he runs alongside the vehicle. A< intervals he throws a heavy piece or canvas, doubled several times and saturated with oil. under the runner jso that they may he 1 lbrlcated. The ' process is more habitual than effica cious. Sharing with the oxen-drawn sled, as an amusement feature, is the ! wooden toboggan. This is run down a fairly steep cobblestone road from the hill overlooking Funchal’s pic turesque harbor. A cog railway facilitates th e ascent. ANNUAL MEETING OF S. P. C. A. ON TUESDAY TO ELECT OFFICERS The annual meeting of the Society of Prevention to Cruelty to Animals I of Anne Arundel County (the local I S. P. C. A.) will be held on Tuesday afternoon next. February 6. in the sun parlor of Carvel Hall at 4 o’clock. All members are urged to be present. Unlike many other societies, the ; S. P. C. A. only holds one general meeting a year. It is therefore im portant that all members who are in terested in the workings of the or ganization make an effort to be present, not only to vote in the elec tion of officers for the coming year but also to make suggestions and hear reports of the officers. Thanks to two generous bequests and a donation to ♦he society, it hopes shortly to be able to extend the scope of its work. Four o’clock on Tuesday is the hour set for the meeting. The bills for the coming year will he out by that time and if members will bring their dues to the meeting it will save them time ' j and trouble. MERMAN'S GROUND HOG DISAGREE ► - The Weather Bureau and the ‘ ground hog are at odds. One says we i are in for the worst weather of the J season and according to the other the ► next six weeks are to be warm, sunny, and springlike. No one in this neighborhood has ever seen a ground hog, not even the erandfather of the oldest living man. but. none the less, the animal has a great reputation for sagacity where weather matters are concerned, so lo cal residents hesitate to ignore his forecast, particularly as it is in a line j with their most ardent wishes. With : I the shortage of fuel and the preval . ence of grip and pneumonia, the j ' thought of extreme cold and bad \ weather is an appalling one. Every one is backing the ground hog and * hoping he has the right line on ven , ther conditions, instead of Mr. Wea ther Man. ESTABLISHED IN 1884. Athletic Events On i Card For Today Following is schedule of ath- j leiic events for thi3 afternoon and tonight: Basketball—Navy vs. Buckncll, Dahlgren Hall. 2:30. Swimming—Navy vs. Univer sity or Pittsburgh. Gymnasium. 2:30. • Gymnastics—Navy vs. Phila delphia Turnverein, Gymnasium. 2:30. Basketball—Navy “P!el es" vs. Western High School, of Wash ington, Dahlgren Hall, 4:00. Basketball Annapolis High School, State armory Senior girls vs. Junior girls; boys vs. Calvert Hall School. Girls’ game starts 7:30. STATE EDITORS TO BE IDE GUESTS OF GOVERNOR RITCHIE Governor Ritchie will le host to editors of the ♦ re-s of Maryland at a luncheon to le given at the Exe-j cutive Mansion February 10, to be ! preceded by a discussion of Statei problems. Invitations havo been sent to editors of papers In all counties of the State, and a full attendance is expected. The Chief Executive, at the l e?,in ning of his administration, inaugur- j ated a policy of open and frequent j communication with the Press of the j State, giving them full information as j to his program of State business and I dolivering addresses at each of the meetings of the Press Association.; Previous to the last session of the Legislature, the Governor discussed at length with the newspaper men the then proposed re-organization plan, and acquainted them With the pur pose and details of it. Following the adoption of this ::lan by the Leg's!#- ! ture. he reviewed at last Summer’s i meeting of the Press the work that! had l een accomplished to that date, | and gave special consideration to the ; school and agricultural features at | the joint meeting held at Wilmington j last Saturday. The Governor is understood to' have in mind still further reforms in State government, besides the carry ing out of the program already start ed, and it is for the purpose of dis cussing these matters with the edi tors of the State that he has called j them together for the meeting next | week. “VETS” URGE McHENRY AS NATIONAL SHRINE _* Congressional action making Fart McHenry a national shrine, with pro visions for its proper upkeep and , care, is asked in a resolution adopted here last Thursday night by Equality- Waiter Reed Post, No. 284, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Erection of a flag or. the Francis Scott Key biidge at Georgetown, re cently opened to traffic, with the rais ing and lowering of a flag there each day, in accordance with military cus tom, was asked in another resolution, in which it was urged the bridge be called by its full name. IS. si. NEWNAM OILS AT 87; NAM OF CENTIME, MD. Mrs. S. E. Newnam. 87 years old,' widow of Rev. E. D. Newnam, died ! yesterday at the residence of her j niece. Miss Flora M. Woolley. 14S j Prince George street. Death was due j to complications resulting from the; infirmities of age. The body has been i prepared for burial by Undertaker ; William H. Feldmeyer, and will bej cent this afternoon to her former home at Centreville. Md., where the! funeral will be held tomorrow after- j noon and interment will be in the j family lot there. Mrs. Newnam was the widow of the late Rev. E. D. Newnam. of the Y.'il mington Conference. Methodist Epis copal Church. Surviving her is one daughter. Mrs. C. H. Whaley, of Xor- j wieh. Conn. She was also an aunt! of Mrs. Feldmeyer. wife of William I H. Feldmeyer, 137 Charles street,this, city. For the past three years she had made her home in Annapolis with her nieces. St. Anne’s Vestry To Meet There will lea meeting of the Ves try of St. Anne’s Church tomorrow morning after the 11 o'clock service. COIL MINE TIRES j BURN FOR YEARS; Starting In Refuse After Digging And Process Is Like Spon taneous Combustion my Tl Askoylatril l*r**i.) SPRINGFIELD. ILL.. Feb. 3 —Fires burning for years in coal mines, deep beneath the ground, are one of the j unsolved problems of coal mining In i Illinois. Many of these fires, walled up years j ago. recently have caused trouble in southern Illirfois mines, according to' Robert M. Medill, director of the state department of Mines and Minerals. The Donk 1 rothers mine at Col linsville. the North Mine of the Illi nois and Indiana Coal Corporation at Wilt, and several mines near Spring field have been compelled recently to steal up portions of their workings to prevent the spread of these smouldering furnaces, which burn without stopping in the hidden j chatnl ers underground. One nine was ordered closed entirely. The fires start in the refuse which | is left after the coal is dug and are caused by a process similar to spon taneous combustion, according to Mr. Medill. The miners call them “gob I fires," from the word applied by coal j diggers to the debris in the mine. , No Flaring But Burn Slowly They do not flare up in flame, but! burn slowly, smouldering away for years until thav eat themselves out of fuel. Chambers where these fires : start become a mass of live red coals and must le sealed up to keep the j air from them. The trouble is caused when a lire eats its way through a wall and threatens to break through into the mine workings. Some time the smouldering coals eat up the sup-! porting coal pillars resulting In weakening the support for the ground al ove. , Theso fires cannot be extinguished by water. Mr Medill stated. Water only makes them worse. It Is the chemicalization resulting from the mixing of water and the refuse that causes the original combustion. The! only way to stop the fires is to re-1 move the burning coals from the mine Many such fires may le seen on slack piles on the surface in this | section of the stato. These can be' flooded with water and extinguished, Mr. Medill stated. postalsawngsln ANNAPOLIS FOR 1922 AMOUNTED TO 515,125 More than ten million dollars worth of Treasury Savings Certificates were purchased in the Fifth Federal Re serve District in 1922. the exact fig ures being $10,512,893, according to a statement just received by Acting Postmaster James W. Robinson from Treasury Department officials. In Maryland the sales, through post offices, amounted to $607,533 with a per capita of $.45 for the State, while the Annapolis ’postofllee is credited with $15,125, or a per capita of 85 cents. Postoffice sales throughout the dis trict were distributed as follows: • 'West Virginia. $3,061,968, per capita $2.47; District of Columbia, $1,014,- 350. per capita $2.31: Virginia, sl.- 744.4G0, per capita $.82; North Caro lina. $1,515,143, per capita $.63; Mary land, $607,533, per capita $.45; South ' Carolina, $569,277. per capita $.36. In addition there was sold through the Treasury at Washington $057,255 and’ through the Federal Reserve Bank at ! Richmond $1,342,907, to purchasers scattered over e the entire district, making a grand total of $10,512,893, or a per capita $1.15. j The postmaster urges all holders of 1918 war stamps, who have not done ; so. to present their stamps for re ' demption or exchange immediately as each day of delay means a loss of in terest on their investment. Ex : changed for the new certificates, which have five years to run but may be cashed at owner’s option at values increasing every month, the invest ment again possesses earning power, as the savings certificates begin to bear interest the day they are issued. MONTHLY MEETING OF N. A. CHAPEL GUILD ! The Fe! ruary meeting of the Naval j Academy Chanel Guild will be held on Monday morning next at 10 o’clock at the residence of its vice-president. Mrs. Thomas R. Kurtz, 14 Porter Row. \il ladies in the families of officers, professors and instructors on duty at the Naval Academy are cordially in vited to attend the meeting. “BILL" INGRAM TO COACH INDIANA TEAM Former Navy Football Sta: Signs Contract As Head Men tor Of Varsity Eleven WAS CRACK OARSMAN Nows comes from Bloomington lad., that William A. (Bill) Ingram star football player and slroke of tin Navy Varsity eight-oar crew a few i years back, has signed a contract ti coach the football team of University of Indiana next season. Ingram resigned the service soot after graduation and last year he he 1 came head coach of football at Wil liam and Mary College. Williamsburg. Va.. where he developed a strong team. Indiana is Ingram's native State. His home is at Jeffersonville, and is one of three brothers who I showed prowess as athletes at th< Naval Academy. Commander Jonas I H. Ingram, an older brother now ir the service, was a star football an< baseball player, and like “Bill" hi stroked the Varsity crew. A yottnier brother, Homer Ingram, now de | ceased, was a crack gridiron man oarsman and member of the lacrosse i team. Coached Fleet Team. Too Ingram will take charge of football training at Indiana and will return next September for the 1923 season. The new mentor played quarterback j I on the Naval Academy teams of 1916. ’l7 and *lB. and was appointed first 1 assistant football coach at the Acad emy the fall after his graduation. He was head coach of the Pacific Coast : fleet team for two years and then ac cepted the offer as head coach of Wll- I liam and Mary College. Ingram is 26 years old. weighs pounds, and is G feet 2 Inches in height. He was selected from a List l of twenty candidates, the university athletic board of Indiana announce I. SURVEY TO DETERMINE INCOME FROM FARMS 1 A nation-wide survey to discovei the dollars and cents result of farm 1 operations for the country as a wfcah j in 1922 is now’ Icing made by the \ United States Department of Agrirul : ture. The survey, giving the facts cf re ceipts and expenses, is the first of J its kind ever attempted, and is pari | of a permanent project to determine the trend of incomes, from farming currently from 1922 forward, nnc ! backward, 60 far as available data j will permit. The survey will show acroage, farm value, method of op eration, production, receipts and ex penses on individual farms. Compila tions will le made by sections of the country and also by commodities. In addition to a general question naire distributed among 60.000 of the department’s crop reporters, a detail od Iroadcast questionnaire will be sent to all farmers in counties where the department has already m ide farm business analysis studies. This year the special county work will in clude 16 areas. 10 ty mail and 6 cov ered personally by department re. rc sentatives. SIX LOCAL ARRESTS : FOB VIOLATIONS OF MOTOR VEHICLE LAW: The weekly report of State Auto mobile Commissioner E. Austin Baughman, shows several motorists were arrested in Annapolis or vicin-l ity for violations of the State Mrtor Vehicle law. The report, aa usual, is for the period ended on Thursday of this week. Speeding and other of fenses were charged against the of fenders arrested in this section, the list and fines in each instance being as follows: Nicholas A. Cbomen, failure to stop when signaled, $10; Thomas Dorsey,] operating after license had expired. S 10; Norman E. Popham. exceeding ( 20 miles. $5; same, reckless driving. $5; Louis Phipps, no registration card in possession, $1; E. H. Picker ing, exceeding 15 miles, $10; James i A. Stevens, exceeding 25 mfle3, $5. : Daniel Ellison, arrested at Glen Bur . nie for exceeding 35 mile speed limit, was fined $25. The report shows total amount of t fines as $2,973, of which $1,776 rep - resents offenses committed In the counties, and $1,197, Baltimore city. THE WEATHER: * Partly cloudy with a cold wave tonight. Sun day fair and colder. COMPREHBN iIVB LOCAL AND OKNIRAL NIWL PRICE TWO CENTS. GOVERNOR WILL' OPEN AUTO SHOW HERE ON FEB. 24 • _ . _ Ritchie To Deliver Address At Event To Be Staged In St. John’s Gymnasium Mackall, Head Of Roads Commission, Also Booked For Speech. OBJECTION TO USE OF “GYM” REMOVED Governor Albert C. Ritchie will de liver the opening address at the An napolis Automobile Show, to be put on in the gymnasium at St. John’s College, beginning on the afternoon of February 24, and continuing Febru ary 26 and 27. The fact that tho Army-Navy basketball game is tn bo played the same date as the opening of the show, at first loomed up as an obstacle, hut as the time of this sport ing event is fixed for 2:30 o’clock, it ' will b P over in about an hour, so that the ceremonies of opening the auto show will be held along about 4 o’clock. Rond Mini nan n To Speak Announcement, also is made that John N. Mackall, chairman and chief engineer of the State Road Commis sion, now known as the “Director of Public Works," will attend the show on February 27 and deliver a brief address on “What the Automobile Has Done For the Roads of Mrayland." That Mr. Mackall has planned to at tend is received with much favor, and •he coun\/ folks will 'bus be afforded opportunity to get acquainted with the man at the helm of the State roads system. For a time there was some objec tion to the use of the college gym nasium for the show, but this has since been satisfactorily adjusted by the Annapolis Automobile Dealers’ Association, promoters of the show. It developed that the student bodv of the college at first made protest against using their “gym.” for fear that same taint of commercialism might be given the college. Students' Spirit‘’Commended Since it has been explained that 75 per cent, of the gross receipts are to be distributed between the Red Cross, Annapolis Emergency Hospital, and the fire companies of the city, how ever, and also that members of the Dealers’ Association are to contributo the main expenses for the function, the objection was withdrawn. And in this connection the students of tho college desire the public at large t > know that they always stand ready to co-operate in any movement for the benefit of Annapolis, feeliNg that the people of the city have the welfare of the college at heart. For the manifes tation of spirit in trying to protect the college against commercialism, the student body has been highly com mended by the promoters of the auto show and others. VAGABONDS DEFEAT STRONG WYMAN FIVE The Vagabonds basketball team de feated the strong Wyman’s Athletic ! Club, of Baltimore, in St. John's Col lege gymnasium last night by 44 to 24. Aftlt, last year’s Naval Academy cen ter. and Wilson, formerly of St. John's, played fast and clever basket- J ball. Wilson did all of his scoring in { the second half. Travers and Kelly | played well for Wyman’s. The j line-up: Vagabond A. C. Wyman’s A. C. Moran F Kress Musterman. , F Travers Ault C Kelly Craig G Byrne Bishoff G Barneit Field goals—Vagabonds: Ault (8), Wilson (7), Moran (2), Mustermari (2) Wyman’s: Travers (4), Kell/ (3) Barnett. Foul goals—Vagabonds: Ault (6 in 8). Wyman’s: Byrne (8 in 10). Substitutions—Vagabonds: Wil son for Bishoff, Bishoff for Craig, j Wilson for Moran. Moran for Wilson. | Referee, “Billy” Lush. Annapolis; un - I pire, Arthur Wheatley, Annapolia. Time of halves—2o minutes. AN “AUTO” SUGGESTION; NOT BY COUE, THOUGH When riding on a gravel road anil you hear an unusual noise bt-bind you. stop and investigate. A gravel may be jammed between the brake band and drum. If not removed, you*! brake lining may catch fire. Any wag It doesn’t do tbe brakes any gsed,