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THE WASHINGTON HERALD PUBLISHED EVERT MORJfTNQ BT . The Washington Herald Company Seventh Street Phone Main dm VUtn I. ROGERS PreaWea Gwnl FOREIClf RIPRRSRNTATrrUl THE BECKWITH SPECIAI. AGENCY _ ___ Tork. World Fulldlna: Chicago, Tribune Bulldlne; St. Ix>u>s, Po?t^pt?p?tehBuild I nj; Detroit, Ford Building: Ktn<ta City. Mo., Bryant SUBSCRIPTION RATES BT CARRIER: ' Dally and Sunday. 49 cent? P?r month; $4.8# per year. ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL.: Dally and Sunday, <0 cent* per month; IS.S0 par year. Dally only. I? oenti par month; 15.00 per year. Entered at the poet office at Washington. D. C? as second claaa mall Another Civic Hero. Another civic tragecf^"challenges attention and enrolls a new martyr for the cause of law and order. Policeman Oscar A. McKimmic is cut down in the prime of vigorous manhood, leaving a wife and three dependent children. Upon the community rests the responsibility of seeing that his loved ones do 'not suffer through his sacrifice, and without question . it will be recognized as it should be. ? Policemen are daily confronted with the possibilities of such sacrifices and meet them willingly. It is only wl>en one pays to the fuH for such fealty to duty that the complete realization of Ihcir potential dangers impresses itself on the public. H"herc should be a fund to reimburse the relatives and depen dents of these civic heroes who pay with their lives. To be sure a grateful community is invariably generous in rewarding such un teliish valor, but it tinges upon charity and is capable of miscon struction when the recognition is unofficial. For a long time the matter of police relief in the District has been more visionary than practical. It is only recently that some thought has been given to making the police relief -fund what its name implies and one ?n which the men themselves will have con fidence. In these days of high priccs the monetary relief offered officially is hardly worth talking about. Instances of signal bravery like that oi Detective Armstrong and Policeman> McKimmie call forth a hearty response, but there should be uniformity in this respect jitid l!ir rrlirf should be more substantial and of an official character. TW spirit which loads a policeman to lay down his life for the protection of a rommunity is one that cannot be reckoned in mere dollar* and cents. It is incomparable and it is thus impera tive that it should be kept alive. One of the best ways to guarantee it is to make it certain that the relief will be prompt and generous to tho^c whose grief is most direct and poignant by such sacrifices. The julep is gone, but the United States will still retain the mint ? I Gov. Coolidgc advises all to stop the mad scramble for inoucy. And substitute, no doubt, the mad scramble from creditors. Oi course the Senate will not forget that some of those who op pose Dr. Van Schaick want the job themselves: Nominated for the first class in pessimism?the salesman who says "You'd better take it now. It will cost you more later on.'* The State executioner in New York has boosted his rates from $150 to ii-,0. and the motion is made and carried that everybody boycott him.' Our Radical Officeholders The zeal and superpatriotisin which some of our public officials assume when vested with authority frequently defeat the very pur poses they are called upon to serve. Immigration Commissioner Henry J. Skeffington, of Boston, qualifies as a perfect reason why Congress must weigh heavily be fore it thrusts arbitrary power in the hands of bureaucratic officials. Says Mr. Skeffington: "I'll get sofic of these Harvard Liberal clubs myself. Heretofore we have been able to deal only with aliens, as all citizens have been exempt from our efforts, but last week the Senate passed a bill to include everyone, citizens and aliens alike, and I see that the House has made the bill even stronger. Some of the Harvard Liberal clubs which have been raising so much Cain around here?well if 1 have a warrant in my pocket, I'll take pleasure in getting them." Presumably Mr. Skeffington refers to the Sterling bill, which by the way, has not passed the House, but has been rejected in toto by the House committee. Let's sec what aroused the Commissioner's ire. The Harvard Liberal Club held a meeting recently. It was addressed by Judge George W. Anderson, of the United States Circuit Court; by Pro fessor Zachariah Chafec, jr., of Harvard Law School; Judge Julian Mack, of Chicago; Attorney General J. Weston Allen, Rev. Dr. Samuel McChord Crothers, of Cambridge, and J. Randolph Coolidge, jr. Among other things Judge Anderson said: "It is a depressing, almost an appalling fact, that as an aftermath of our war to make the world safe for democracy, real democracy .now seems unsafe in America. "Many, perhaps most of the agitators for the supression of the so-called 'red' menace are, I observe, the same individuals or class of forces that in '17 or '18 were frightening the community to death about pro-German plots." "As United States attorney I was charged with a large respon sibility as to protecting the community from pro-German plots. Now I assert as my best judgment that more than 99 per cent of the pro-German plots never existed." "I doubt if the 'red' peril has more basis in fact than the pro German menace. "Let us stop being scared at our own shadow. There will be no sunstrokes in Massachusetts this month. "There are 'reds,' probably there are dangerous 'reds.' But they are not half as dangerous as the prating pseudopatriots who, under the guise of Americanism, are preaching murder, shooting at sunrise, and to whom our church p-irlors and other public forums have hitherto been open." ^ Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the. United States Supreme Court, in the lettter read at the meeting, said: "I see no impropriety in suggesting, however isolated the reflection, that with effervescing opinions, as with the not yet forgotten champagne, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them be exposed to the air." Now there is nothing seditious in these statements, nor was there anvthint said at the meeting to draw such a tirade as that launched by the immigration commissioner. The reaction from such rabid and. impulsive statements as those attributed to Mr. Skeffington do<?s more to injure the movement afainst dangerous radical* than any direct action of the disturbing element itself. Sir Oliver Lodge arrives to lecture upon his belief that the spirits return, but this is cold consolation for the "wets." There never has beerv a lack of talkers for the national cam paign and suffrage for the women folks merely means the supply will be inexhaustible. Berkmaa aad Goldman will organize the Russian Friends of :erican Liberty in their new found country. As long as they con fine Its membership there, everybody will be satisfied? Helen Taft laments the faet that the public gives Babe Ruth tr""* a year and college professors can't get enough to live com fortably on. If the pedagogue* could only teach Young America how to make twenty-nine home runs in a season the problem would New York. Jan. 1?.-A P??* the diarv of a modern Samuel Pepys: Up While the ?hlm*? went sight and read my journal untll cook came and then with I>0? Byrne, the tale writer, to the barque where he sailed for Porto Rico and all the day aad that th'a 'rlendean CO there and that one another place rfnd yet I must remain at my tasks "dT'kUm!' the chyrurgeon. me In hie gasolene wagon and car rlcd me through the town *nd tell into a high dleeua.on oV.r medical theorlea as we alway? but parted fair friend., >?e promla Ins to .end me a haunch of v?nj not.. It came Into my head today t? give my wife, poor wretc*. a fine gift and I hunted ttirough the trading place, but the Prl?" T'w too .teep .o I Paid for a noaegay to carry hom? Home and ate ?lon* ",w mm Mme, Tvette " " school for play actors and ? great lot of notables there, the^ Idea oe ln?r as epoch making as If Bap 'reTurnedVo earth to reop?n * ? academy of ?>??>""?? .. ^.. or bert I deem as treat ?s m? " Bernhardt, and Clayton Hamilton, the critique, doth agree with ma All the afternoon at my. | machine and writ a fine Plec* prohibition which has ?on?W 'comic .ides and late cama'lt Staton and C. Brlggs, who brought their coachman, a bibulous fellow.to mv quarter, and all very merry with the drolling, drunken fellow I who had the reddest nose ever I .aw albeit he had great dignity 1" ia silk hat and Prince Albert coat. I In the evening to the ? ! petrol carts and came within a very i ace of buying a high Pricod ?*?on which would have been calamitous i for me. being 1? low estate lust (now. Home where I made shift to slumber a little, but was awake moot of the nlsht. Guy Bolton and George Middle ton have always written thejlngly. 1 girly. dancy sort of a musical com jedy. The other day a very aerloo. play bearing the name of "The 1,1 ght of the World" appeared on ! Broadway. The author was Pierre Sal.on and hi. name w..ln'l? I trie light.. Nobody ever _heard of him It now develops that Bolton anc) Middleton wrote the play a^d | created the pen name of Pl'rra S?l |.on. All their future serious play. I will be written under the ssme name. They feared that the would not take them seriously be i cause for year* they have been I Identified with the lighter forms of entertainment. The lobby of a theater In Forty F.iEhth .treet was thronged wttn playgoer. and a young man with a Icane accidently flicked It agaln.t the leg of the man behind. It ga'e I forth a queer hollow sound?dis i tlnct. unmistakable. He and ivoung lady at hi. side turned iharply to look into the face ot ? handsome boyish soldier who ac cepted their apologif-s smilingly. "Chateau Thierry" he confided ?n the friendliest fashion. "I'll fm lucky to be her* at all. This leg really isn't much tfouble?nor the arm. either." And the pair no ticed with a quick shocked fltnej the tell-tale glove on his stifT lert hand. "What bothers me most is tl.c shrapnel I'm still carry in* in my chest. But I'm all right. This is the spirit of the American sol dier?the undaunted smile always agreeing that he is all right. That any one of them should be out of a job?and man* are in New York right now?is a shame tlrtt is ever lasting. Social distinction** snd degrees of .superiority are interesting. Even ! this announcement of caste in a Broadway shoe shop at least amuses: "Bqots and Shoes for Men and Women of the Better Grade.' ' T was over , in Hell's Kitchen the I other dav when the district was opening for th* evening. Fiddles began to scream and pianos to .jangle and young fellows, fresh ened up for the evening, were oOt ion the corners waiting for their ; girls to go to the movies. Out in ithe street swarms of children were playing while hurdy-gurdy impre sarios ground out their tunes. A policeman was chatting pleasantly with some young fgctory worker?, waiting for a car. All sorts of voices lent their light noise to the street. From there I walked over to West End avenue, a quiet aris tocratic street. A little curly-hair led boy with his nose pressed against a huge window looked out j into the deserted street. Ho looked j mighty lonesome. K. P. By romisd vamck cookb. When Buckerinb come from France. L' Ripe to resume bis old romance. He called on captivating Nance And often stayed to dinner. ? But little did the find a chance To woo her and to win her. For all the family closely vied In sticking proudly to hi. side Till he was like to burst hi. hide ^ With "tushes:" and with "pishes:" And rhen. at length, he brightly cried. "Nance, let VS do the dishes! "For. let me boast, across the *e?. Although no medals hung on me. I won the thirty-third degree In dire and dreadful duty. I was Superlative K. P. To every second I-Jeuty O. then they vanished, as they swore The kitchen had no room foi more. And further help would be a bore And only cauac confusion; Then silence, as they closed the door Upon a sweet seclusion. And then he softened welt the soap \nd used it to ita fullest scope. And chewed the rag (which Is a trope To symbol he besought her) And she. sh? sprinkled him with hope And kept him in hot water. White mother, with her hands In lap, Said fervently. "Now there's a chap For whom I'd set a dautfiitWs cap: He meets my fondest wishes; A man who's ?traveled all the map And filled so full of army snap He T.IKES to do the dishes I" (Copyright. MSO. N. E. A.) Paying ?*?k Profitable. "We have a system of paging for what we buy which I. a real factor In lowering our purchase prices." says IWibert T. Parson, the new head of the F. W. Woolworth Co. "We pay our bills at least once a week and. no matter where a manufac turer la located, we send out his check ao that It will reach him on Friday, so that he can have the money for his payroll on Saturday.. To many .mall manufacturer, this 1. a great convenience, alnce It mean, that, as he gAta some credit when buying ha materials, we practically finance hm. ^ "We always pay cash, and a. cash discount, average 2 per cent, the sum thus saved on. say., our current year's purchases of approximately 4100,009.000. foot up to about $3.0?*. 000. Our prompt-payment rule In fluences many manufacturers to do business with us. and this, combined with the magsrttude of the orders we give, enables u* to secure extra favorable price ?i*otati?na.M?-Forbes L^gHQQL ' in??W**Tw w,q- <w J 1 . I>W 1 s*T *?7 fat J,ut mw-s *?h' Mne bin* &A /k ? ? Wfitfa rtwt ??? ?fe J? ?tfftt vl?t' I ?< >u? rf* J?u> ?ftcr feftmb a. tnui vW ow*j ? ?t*uwnu. lw io>j? ?? <id i? ?ytr go t;oI( owi o*.<b *U ??af>*ek ?* sf?kt W] vritl U tt W tit fco>* ?fc ti* tU^V it iii -til *\\tk lit lm id ? TO SoMr j?*t Itlw It >?J * JWvin t? jet WctU> U &l >ur ?** Jo fS?< ?? Et' Jwt a*r*i? imI By DWIG A >1 V I ^ fc?kt *? Sick! ?WKy - J Imwi 1 teat le>u) OVkO to friffci I X en ill tktcl ?7ttp?W<! ??> tiy twrfkw itii feck ilKaa^i I Cm ?>(Io ?ft tniltj do+*\ ivtb flu | m'diL ? fit e?>tl . -u .^ ?#???? ft? ii?c if . u $?* /ft % ^at( u ftoxiti mi ? itA. ?ivff Wkm bft*4 live ar> Wt'W Sea so$?*t* , ??ttt ?* daitflrl. ?k J>*juts w? tsnytimfUli? 1j f*Wm * *vtWsc5 tJt<V s. <WVftiO&l- of I mw wliu sEic <3ot* f/n{ t tt it or ? it W ? ?J iluh "Ume Kord- of Hono. nLTTry of l7!e ran I ii #i W-"h,nCton now. C"? rupport for ,hc ffor?iSh,<>aPd0pu?h *Thc nr't""'" pv&j j-pssisr^^ program of the union, which I, to tie toother In some We but vlt.l ,1 iiu -Tn,LP^P,?-r?' "nation-^ i the countries whose outlook ii I pre-eminently Asiatic and American :WMh?, European. through conferences" literature" ^n" Journalist In H.Uw.'i.": mJ??^;r:l to"mrke"rtan a"d I I lUz? 8,1(1 re,,K|oBS frater- I j ~ I ?"Uis0" the inventor anO ! ar?, V? fk'n th* P'atform to ' j Rue for a middle ftlass" iiprUIn ' 1 its foe* on Aher *Jdeth? J capita,1st and the laborer lie ' !<^ned for this mediating and co" j , trollinff ?#ct!Oii of society the clever ? "buffer and suffer claw* '? I i oenhrxr/ha',hi "??.! ? r* c ">?n it i |th; \~andals "a?^dr j fhan tha.rnied wi,h H sh?n>er sword | llol nJ, ?i the bal ?? ' ^uced to its essence his ar ! m.T ,'Vfnr I-'/- denmacrarv j ,?> an Intellectual, samurai groun jsuch as H. G. Wells would hav* | I Apropos this Peoples League for' .middle class unification and organi sation in the I'nitcd States it Is in. ' JtercsHne to note that one of uai MeltLr.K0'"'? (*horl,-i Hemv1 Imatie art ?k ?! mua,c ?"'<? dm- | pLS? sgs* i j # i John Drew, reappearance" on the! IhiX?' y a ;T'ial com**>y role. brings in* th?. ?tayer- with ? follow-i ling; that is loyal. Of? a f?mn. prominent in the upper social circles of t'T hut ;vi,h n" ascendancy now challenged Sy the Barrymores 1 this artist with manlier#' comes back ' from a siege of ill health 7To wt older "h^'T^ and h? wl" fl"<l the older dramatic critics kindly disposed. feaior'nf C" C.*^0t- who h' P- n- ! Lnuer..; T'al ?thic? Harvardi uni\ersit>, does so by the irencio itv I eratlons as socially important in the beat sense of the word "social " .iZ nTwnsc!e^5 Sir'a"' found'r of the I ana .,r ?f ,n<?dir?l "ocl.l service ? .ion." Cth;ren0forthe0no,d,fla ! Point of view R,? ,1. h"man't*rian , Siv&l '^ ^^^.Ch!,- i established wl!5f Th?mftlarrrC J?,!1 i ;th; ^ijiou^roattr^.,^;- i re^.1 ,nd Wliat men "V? by hIvTh^n' o"f rS? ri" rsi | teacher- of choice vonth* ?? j . I with' BO ?" tt? eori*l?..rf ? urk H*f*ld and w?n to not, thMP|hl " may the other way In other^m"" r"n" Clark Powell has Ju? Jl'" M"J' : an Important Do*it<i? i n *,ven the Atlanta Ponst'tutIrl? C?^tro' ut\ Powell and Clark P?wiT ,Ev"n P I Preceding- *en?-atlOM bf thlViSnVTv I | thTpro^rty ?ndma*rk J" ?5 ! !r3?HSi;: war recordfhe km'w,7h"" exr""-nt bViness because he ^l "'^pxper thT lower rani? ..h?a ^ked in 'the wav ii H. he ie on |?boe, whe^,^?.. :to hU father's A UNE 0- CHEER EACH DAY 0- THE YEAR By John Kr?4rlfk Banc*. A PI.EDGK. Do what they will For pood Or ill Unto the T.rapue of Nations; The Treaty take Or let It break ^ Beneath the Reservations? My hand and heart Will do tlieir part With Treaties or without them To stand for good And Brotherhood I When Huns or others flout them. ! (Obpjright, 19?. by MrClur? New?Mprr Syndicate.) |[xhe BIBLE Translated out of tha tongues and from the edition known as "Our Mothers Bible. The Srrvad B??k ?' Called KXODl'S. (CHAPTER WII?Caatla?ed.> S And Moses said unto Joshua. Choose us out men. and go out. fight with Amalek; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. 10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him. and fought with Ama lek: and Moses. Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand. Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses handa *era heavy: and they took a stone, and put it under him. and h? sa.t there on- and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the go inp down of the sun. 13 And Joshua discomfited Ams lek and his people with the edge of th<? sword. 14 And the Lord said unto Moses. Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse It in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Ama lek from under heaven. 15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jebovah-nissi: 16 I*'or lie said. Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from gene ration to generation. CHAPTER 18. 1 JMliro bringeth to Han hit wife tad 1*n (tor. ; Mo??w entertsinetb Mm. 15 Jethro ? counsel is aceepttd- - ?>??"" derstWh When Jethro. the priest of Mid ian Moses' father in law. heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of B2>PThen Jethro, Moses' father in law took Zipporah, Moses' wife, af ter he had sent her back. 3 And her two sons: of which the name of the one was Gershom. for he said. I have been an alien In a strange land: 4 And the name of the othei was Eliezer: for the God of my father said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of I'haraoh: 5 \nd Jethro. Moses' father in law came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilder ness. Where lie encamped at the mount of God. li / And he said unto Moses, I thy fattier in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wift, and her two sons with nrr. i % And Motes went out to meet his father-in-law. and did obeis ance. and kissed him: and they asked each other of their welfare: and they came Into I'M 8 And Moses told his father in law* all fliat the Lord hath done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the tra vail that had come upon them by the way. and how the Lord deliv ered them. 9. And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel, whom he had de livered out of the hand of ^ the Egyptians. . 10 And Jethro said. Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, aiid out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptian* 11 Now I know that the Lord Is greater than all gods: for In the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them. 12 And Jethro, Moses, father- n law, took a burnt offering and ???? rlAc'ea for God: and Aaron eanu-. and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread .with Moses' father in law be fore God. j I iTo Coouuuad.) Such Is Life As It is Seen By O. B. JOYFUL '1 ! Other people may worry over the I If. C. L. or the L* of N., or the Presidential prospects of this or ! that candidate, but Harpington'a | family is about flfty-flfty on "Mea i ales is catching" or "MeasTes are ' catching." It Is human nature to fuss over mighty little problems when it lacks! large ones to solve. Dr. Rupert Blue, of the U. S. Pub lic Health Service, advises sehool children not to carry home so many books. "Leave 'em in your desks," sur fcita the doctor. This platform just about wins the unanimous boy vote for the doc. whenever he chooses to run for any school office. These wintry winds are terrible! A wind that blew a scarf off the dressing tabic of Mrs. Josephine x Winter. Newark.*" N. J., cost her a ( husband. A letter was unuder the scarf in her handwriting. beginning "My Dear. Dear Joe." Her husband'* name is Augustus, and he picked up the letter. In old days they used to 'salt" a mine by streaking it with pay dust, and nowadays they sell an old : house by half-burying a bottle in the 1 t basement. ? 1 "The most favored." remarks a shoe-trade journal, are either long or medium vamps, the extreme *hort vamp of France not being popular in America." However. Theda in sists the lady's length or lack of length has nothing to do with it. ' And Theda ought to know what kind of vamps are best at vamping. 1 "Jazz works perfectly as a lubii-j cant for sin-stiffened joint* on the; glaringly lighted paths that lead 10 perdition." observes the Rev. G. ??. J Lackland. Denver preacher. And he asks: "Why not use it to limbefj tip the joints of the multitude who] ,are hesitating at the straight and narrow path?" J. B. Henderson's family, now liv- j ing at Dalton, Ga.. moved thirty-j four times in at least thirty years, I establishing a new help-the-poor moving-ma.n record. It is stated that the family moved' twice without having an opportun ity to milk the cow. and at one time j the older chickens were so well : trained they'd come and cross their ? feet to be tied. It took six years for I a letter mailed i;> 1914 to catch up with them. "Get a baby In your home." ad vises the Rev. Paul Rader. of Chi cago. The Yoang Lady Across the Way ?- iiiw/ni m\ The younir lady acroaa the way way? half-soled ahoea always look bad. but they have a way now of replacing the entira solsr system wo neatly -?bat It LARGER SCHOOL| PARKYIEWHEED ??-__?? Present Building Modem But Inadequate to Meet Bemandds. da enormous litn been the In enua hi the school populkUoa of the District of Columbia during the put year or two that I>U) of the madam buildings havs absolutely baaa ovUnvn No batter Illustration of this fact can ba obtatnad than brv a Til It to Uh Park Vkw School, on Warder street northwest, metwern Newton and Otis streets. This rchoool Is new overcrowded. Twenty, four rooms would not be too , much even now. s?d with much "new building (Olns on In Its territory. { thirty-two rooms will aoon be if quired to give proper care to the children from this section. But there is no room for expan sion, unless through the purchase of valuable improved real estat*.. This building furnishes evidence of fklure somewhere?either the school offi cials or Congress to loo far enough ahead and purchase enough land for school site* to give proper accommo dation to the children. Efforts to relieve the present con gestion will be made on February 1 by inauguration of the platoon sys tem In the school. At present twen ty-three classes are being taught in the sixteen rooms and two port aMea?not even this modern, three year-old building Is without its port sbles. Twenty-five teachers are now engaged In the school work. On February 1. by the platoon system, this school will be able to accom modate twenty-eight classes, with thirty teachers. Steady laereaae la Paslis. The children attending these twenty three classes today number 9Ti, while the number In attendance last month was *U, an incre^e of nine in a month. The number last year was m. 'All during this school term there has been a steady increase, although In some cases it has been necessary 10 refuse admission "> children because the particular - lasses they sought to enter were already too large. For this number of children there are in the buildinc and the two nnrt?f?i*? w ?eats Four cUnri above the second grade. which by law should be poms ? II day. ?re forced to take a half day's instruction. Howncr. It Is prt>posed to correct this on February 1 under the platoon system. The sixtty grade at this school now has fifty pupils, and there are three claases with forty-nine children and with forty-eirht?which mean* that the children in these particular classes cannot receive proper attention owins to their overcrowded condition. The backward pupils cannot be helped as they c ould If the classes were of the normal rise of forty each. The platoon system is a method wherehv rooms are set aaide for spe cial studies. Under the present order of teaching In the local schools the pupils receive all of their special in struction in their class rooms. This includes dramatics. sewing. penman ?hip. drawing, and natural science. H,w Platoon System Works. Now, under the platoon system the pupil occupies the classroom for two periods a day for the basic studies, such as nrnmniar. history, geography. arithmetic, etc. Theee are taught in the rooms which have desks. While children in the class rooms are having these studies the others are in other spec'ally equip ped rooms in the building receiving instruction in other linos Signal gongs are used to announce changes 1n classes, and the children then exchange places. This system conserves much of the children's time. For instance, time lost in distributing painting and drawing materials is saved, for when the children reach the draw ing-room the materials are already* laid out having been used by the pupils in the previous period. Under the new arrangement at Park \ iew one room will be given over to literature, two rooms for drawing?one for the four primary grades and one for the four sec ondary grades?one room for pen manship. one for sewing and ?ie for manual training. The auditor ium is to be used for classes In read 'nr. dramatic arts, music and community civics, while the library Is to be fitted up as a natural sci cncf laboratory. While It has been announced that the system is to be started on Februarv j. am! Superintendent Thurston. Super visee Principal Haycock, of the Third Division. and Mis* Fairlev. principal of the Park View School, have completed an elaborate pro gram of studies under the system, there at* certain mechanical features to be completed. An additional port able will be needed to carry- the sys tem into effect. The framework for it is up. l?ut for &ome unexplained reason work has been discontinued. Tool* for th?? manual tT*ainlng de partment have not arrived, the elec tric signal system hai not been com pleted and necessary construction in the library- has not even been start ed. However, every effort ia being made to have everything in readi ness by February 1. when the semi annual transfers take place in the local sehooy system. Plav?r?uB4a Private Us4. The building" is of the sixteen r?om type, with an auditorium, oc cupying just half of the city block on m-hlch it is located. No pla? - ground facilities are on the sc hool property, the present playgronnd* being across from the school on pri vate property. The children may low the plavgrounda at any time, a* it is understood that the owner will soon build there unles* the government desires to purchase the land for playground use. Many appeal* have been made by the children who use this play-] ground to Congresa a|>d the school b??ard. asking that it be puYcha-ed for them. If this ground is taken away from the children there is nractically no place for them to go but in the streets. A censv* taken on the grounds last September showed that its average daily uae was bv 1.400 children. Behind the School and in the same block is a row of eighteen am?Hl houses on Sixth street, divided from the school property by a twenty foot alley. Appeals have been made to the school board to recommend that this property be purcha-ed and a sixteen-room addition to the prev ent building be constructed, in or der to take care of the fast-growing : population. However, they have fallen on deaf ears, according to those who know, while home-build ing contiQ*ea in the*section and the school population continues to in crease. Tomorrow the crowded conditions at the Samuel G. Wheatley School. Twelfth and N streets northeast, will be outlined. An su hor.ieo ad dition to this building is be ins de layed -on account of increases In coets of material. The Weather It 12 aaaa.- ? 2 a. a l* r p. m Si 4"a. m 22 4 i? * ? a. ?..? 20 ? p. ? 21 8 a. p ID I p. m 21 W a. ? 22 I# p. m ? Hlgaa* 2* It RaUtNe a. m.. 4?. 2 r m.. K -. ? ?. m. Rainfall in pmto ? p. m> #. M. * Ml at A?TMiikM MritKT a* 1. I?9D. Me. Iteftrteacj of tomporntare ?tar* January I. i lft?J?. ?^2* . I Arruanlnted dag' HOcy of pmitiUtM .?tew J?mrr 1. 183A ?1 as* ' ?o8rteary ?f prrrtpitatten aim* Junaary i. im ?iji. Tfwpfrsmrt km date um >e?r?Higb ? out. 84; lo?a*t. 3f* Othrr TeaKrolBm. Lm?( Higher test Rail today. algbt. S r ? (all AafcorlH*. X. C B4 3? t! Atlanta. Ga 42 2l? S> ! Atlantic City. K.J "a it. lUllteatr. Mi . ** r, | Chl-nga. Ill I (Vytaw, Wyo ?? f itataal Ofcte.... i ! Iteaoor. Cote ! Don Motet*. lava a r j Itetfwit. MM a. b Ja Itelath. Mian ?4 -24 -* ... 1 Ualraataa. Teaaa TO ? f . Holoaa. Moat M 44 4* ' Indiana poll* lad 22 4 SO I Jackaoarlllo. Fla 82 42 3d ... kanna* CMy. Mo .%Q 24 44 < pta Aagrte. Oil K2 44 7? ... i Mamphia loaa ft2 12 M Mahih Ala ?4 4a M ... iNow York. K. T.... 22 12 1? I <*aaha. 8* H *? Philadelphia Pa 2a H 14 * fort la Ml. M?- 12 a c, , Portland Oro M 4? *2 Halt lak# City. Ctah 4k M ? ??. I?al?. Ma 82 3* an . Ht. l a?l Minn 4 a nr, ' Inn FraaHaoa. Oil... 7o .%4 a* I Tnapn ru ?k :?* an I Tated*. Ohio 14 la ia Vi?k?burg. Mia* Ta 42 *i i Waahiagton and 1 Caifmitr Alamnl ; Aaaoriatloo of Vavluncina will meet In Ilotol UfaTMtf t<afbt to ob?cr?e tbf j llStk anairomary of tlw birth of Gtc Rob. I art R. Lao. j Kaw National Mu?eum collection ?f an' : fortoa worn by fam?*a? officer* and aoldiara of thr World War will go ?? exhibition at : the Maaoam todav Tka Parent*' I/-njn? will maet tonigl t in the Now Bathol RaptiM Cbur?-h. Contral Citiaan** A?mn latmn will hold "India*" night" nt th<- N.?rth ? apuol M L Ckarrh tonic lit. UoKfrtuaa Citison- A>?niatioa will mret 1 la Potonac Bank Hall km.if lit I North Dakota A>a?i-l4tlon will Iw** a ! 4an<* at tbr Thoaiaon |(rtio?l tonight. I Paront-Taackara' t'lub ??f th^ Bnant ?irb??'?l ? will aart in tlia a luvf lwu?* t-.nic?u Vouuf Woaian'a C'kriatian Anaortntion will I benr an addrraa by Mia*. J*n?ia Hav^r. m* ' rotary of tha Con?umar?' I<aa(ua. toatflii. Ranean h ralramity itod^u will h*rin ? ! rourM> in fOTBB^rrlil r??arcti niKi.-r K< nn^r MBilwn ntnoo^t fur In* KrOar* I 1? M" fooniiKioa. 1 Miwk Lodr^1 Bon>mm B Ciaurt ? tin. Na. 21. F. I and Monat Pten?nnt a. M V * ?i* 't toaifb:. Royal nod W*rt lu?w Wanblnrt??n < oua? H No. I. will tiara a fraod visitation ; :?aiflit. i kaiflit* Tamfilar Oriont. Na. ft, orAar of tpr toaipla. Will maot toatgbt. ? Ord^r of th? EaMarn Htar. Rntk raapt-r I Na. 1. will loiTf a ttefraa and ontoru*intorct ton'gbt. Ht. Jnhm'm Ijadgr ? imp tar. No Ik. , dafrra*-. and <''?laaibla Ckapirr No. IS. n?art tnf tonifbt. | Iatftei. No. 26. Odd Fallowa. will aaat tonight. I Maganano Rarampoiont. Na. C. Odd Fal |?iw?. will aa^t tonigbt. Rntk. No. 2. Rtbakab bodge will ?oat toaight. Wo?t End Canp No. 13Wf ' Wood?an of Aa*on<a. wtll lantall aflem ' at Pythten T^tnpia fnigbt. Martlia MrCafrrr Canto. No. WT? Roral Naighboca of A Martin, will iaatall ?fk?-ora at Pytk'an TanpW> toalgbt. J Potomac ^ allay Forge Coaa?*:l. Na. 82. 'Jr. O. C. A. M. will glra a aurpri** ant*r talnnont nt tkoir naw kail 4M0 Ntntk , ntraot nortkwoat. toalgbt Capital Caanrtl i will gira a danra at Nart!?ai>t Maaonir Kpnlding Cooaril Knigbta of r.?lumhn*. will giro n daara nt K. of C. flail tvnlght. (lab K?fnt?. | Tha Tw-nottatta Coatary Clab. Hmiitw na?*tion. will aiaat tonight at tha boaa of Mr*. *piaodora Cola. 2?C2 Ontario mad north wa?t. Coltega ? Club will hara a taa tht? cftrn Tha M? "** -icrt to night to ? ? ? Tha IS at tbo Th Tha Cr. tbo ThoMkv... ( onunanlt* t. - I Powoll Coaaunity Con tor KtPiar night ine|?4a a baginnor*' Kpnni?n ?1a?* ni 7:80. tha Dramati< Hub maatmg nt T jn and tha Co?nmiin<tr Hnonjg Clab at ?. OiMrrn'i Fronoh <bnn will n^-t in tha aftoraaaa. Wllnon Normal t^ommnnity Orntrr will hnre clnaaaa on iarwa nahjarta at 7 Sa | Tylor Community Can tar will oa tie aft | Ing pte<-a for tha Virglaia Ar?aua fur* I ground ttirl 8oout? this aftornoon. E. V. Brown Commnnity Cantor will N? tha maating pinra for tha Choay O.a*o t.lfl Sk-out* thi<* aftorooon. Manlral ErratB. j Alaritia Bnnd Orrhaatra will (l?a a <*>* cart at tlie Marina Barracka -t 2 Crlok | tbiM afternoon. Naw York Bymphooy Orrhoatrn vti! gi e j a le?'ture-foe<rrt at Coatral High ftteal uight. Tlia l?nrk Vlaw Orrhrntra will n- iaare?- a? Park Vlaw Community Ontor t.ii-? af;?' i noon. Ihinhar Caator Chora? will raha?r*o ta I night in Dunbar Clric Con tar. At the Theaters ii VUtax-n* '"THmmod ia ft?*arlo< " tiarrlrk -"Tlia ?.ro?t l|ln%ion. ' Poll'a?"Tilly of Maaamhur.o." Ni'ttoaal -"John Fargonon CrandaM'a Motrnpolltna?Norma T?lma<1c ?a "??a Lwa? and I ten.** Moare'* Rlaltw?Caaatamr Tateiadg< ia ?Two Waok- " Uaow'a Patecr?"Br loved Choator" ?-iik Law Cady. B. F. koltb'a?^andoTjile ? randall a?Charlie Chaplin in "Carmen " i*a Oardan ? "TV Coppi4a> Moore"? Strnnd?Mne Marr* Maid* liOew'a Columbia?? \ Miv-h Ma< Cnaiam. Cm ? Cmndnir* ft .? ?? >#ga ta "Pho I . n ttayoty?Bar; - ? ?nt ? aiaftM Folly?BorWaac M j- imt." NEW YORK HOTEL ARRIVALS. New T?rk. Jan. It?The following are rocl?toro<l from Waahtngloi CL| W II Bait. OmiWl. U * rhinn. Hronlln J. I. teood. Hran<J. J- I ? Cioodwln. M*: B r, Morrill. Al catar. I?kn't. C^l. J. A. Adanio I*. B. A., Park Atrtat; C. O. l?at?a. Grand; to. fiaughan. Navarro; \V. L Oro-*a*. | Navarro; B A. Harlan. Herald Square; R- D. Ma4dox. HcrttiUak't. B, > J. WbiUkMd. Otu4