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JEWISH EDUCATION
OCCUPIES SESSION
Third Day of Chautauqua
Society Meeting Opened
by Miss Pashelles.
Further discussion of Jewish educa
tional matters marked the opening
sessions of the third day of the thir
ty-second annual conference of the
Jewish Chautauqua SocTcty, holding
Its meetings here, December 23 to
December 27.
Rabbi William Rosenau of Balti
more presided at this morning s meet
ing at the Washington Hotel, the head
quarters of the convention. Miss Car
rie I’ashelles opened the session with
» demonstration of "Lesson tor
Teachers in Third-grade Work.”
Using as her subject “Deborah, the
ITophctess." a discussion was led by
Miss Helen Green of Kansas City. Mo.
Paper h>- llniilii Tedesehr.
Rabbi Sidney Tcdesehe of New
Haven, Conn., road a paper on “Shall
Ethics He Taught as a Separate Sub
ject?" the discussion of which was
led by Rabbi Harry W. Ettelson of
Philadelphia.
This afternoon group conferences
on third-grade work and ethics took
pi ace, followed by reports of the
various group chairmen.
Tonight the local joint Jewish
women’s organizations will tender a
banquet at the Washington Hotel in
’honor of the visitors and delegates
to the conference.
Take Sightseeing Tour.
A sightseeing tour of the city by
the delegates took up most of the aft
ernoon yesterday and was followed in
the evening by group conferences on
primary and second grade Sunday
school work, at the Washington He
brew Temple.
The proper study of the individual
psychology of the child in order suc
cessfully to convey to him the lesson
sought to be taught, was urged at the
meeting, at which Mrs. Harry Rose
water of Cleveland presided over the
discussion of primary grade work, and
Miss Anne Finetnan of Pittsburgh
lead in the discussion of second-grade
work.
Tomorrow in the auditorium at the
Washington Hotel a number of papers
will bo read dealing with Jewish edu
cational ideals and will be followed
by a general discussion.
Society Officers.
The officers of the society are;
Abram I. Elkus. honorary president;
Arthur K. Stern, president; Rabbi
-Marvin Nathan, vice president; Emil
*elig, treasurer; Dr. Henry Berko
witz, chancellor: Dr. William Rose
nau, vice chancellor; Dr. Harry W.
Hudson, vice chancellor; Dr. Louis
C. Mann, vice chancellor; Jeannette
Miriam Goldberg, secretary.
Hoard of directors—Leon L. Berko
witz, Philadelphia: Joseph Caplan.
Philadelphia; Arthur A. Fleisher
Philadelphia; Walter Fox, Philadel
phia: Dr. Jacob S. Goldbaum. Phlla
ddphia; Julius Goldenberg. Washing
ton, D. C.; Joseph J. Greenberg. Phil
adelphia; Rabbi David Lefkowitz,
Dallas. Tex.; David J. Doeb, Phila
delphia; Oscar Doeb. Philadelphia;
Mrs. Max Margolis. Philadelphia;
J.iml Mayer. St. Homs; Frank J. Hu
benstein. Lancaster, Pa.; Dr. Abram
V' 1 "?"- Washington. D. C.; Joseph K.
MiUing, Philadelphia; Rabbi Louis
AV olsey, Cleveland.
BRAZIL MINERALS VAST.
Import Soon Due of Wide. Unde- *
(
veloped Belt.
CHICAGO, December 23.—The re
port to be made by Dr. Oliver C. Far
rington. curator of geology for the
Field Museum of Natural History,
concerning the rich and relatively
unexplored mineral belt of Brazil
will be laden with far-reaching com
mercial possibilities. Dr. H. W Nichols
associate curator, said last night.
The Brazilian iron deposits alone,
which are of high grade, are among
the most extensive in the world,
w hereas the deposits France and Ger
many have been in controversy over
we wouldn't look at. Dr. Nichols said.
’ The time is ripe for using the
Brazilian iron.”
Dr. Farrington’s arrival at New
Turk after two years in Brazil was
announced last night. With it came
ihy first tidings the museum has re
ceived that he had obtained gold
and black diamonds.
DEER LINE HIGHWAYS.
Ted From Motor Cars by Children
in California.
December 25.
Mild deer from the foothills above
the Santa Clara valley have descended
to safe pastures adjacent to Palo Alto
and Los Altos, about forty-five miles
from .San Francisco, and have become
si* tame that they trot nonchalantly
along highways.
Even terrifying motor cars fail to
make the arrivals scamper into the
brush. In several Instances children
have fed them from their hands.
Shooting is prohibited in the imme
diate vicinity.
WARMTH WAKES SNAKES.
Hibernation Disturbed by Mild
Winter, Virginia Report.
JA IN'CHESTKR. Va„ December 23.
The mild weather has brought snake’s
out of their winter dens. John Rod
gers of Silver Grove can vouch for it.
Rodgers was awakened a few
nights ago by a commotion in his
• hicken coop and his first thought
was of burglars. Seizing his shotgun
and lantern, he started to Investigate
and found that the burglar was a
blacksnake of enormous size, which
already had killed two young chick
ens and apparently was squeezing a
hen to death. Rodgers killed the
snake with a, club. When the hen
recovered her breath she started
squawking.
Too Much Style.
From Life.
Ton Tonson of the lumber camp
■returned only two days after leaving
for an Intended visit of a week with
relatives. The camp cook, surprised
exclaimed: "Back so soon? Didn’t
the folks use you right?”
“Oh. folks ban gude." replied Yon.
“but dey put on too much stvles.
Dey even eat pie with knife ihstead
of dere hand!**
Portland Hotel Dining Room I
14th and Thomas Circle
Luncheon
A la carte, 1 to 2:30 P.M.
Dinner
5:30 to 8 P.M.
Table d’ hole $l.OOl
Music by Sol Minster I
Typewriters
Lowest Rental Rates
General Typewriter Co.
3 Store*
1423 F St. N.W—6l6 14th St N.W.
COURT FINES EDITOR
FOR GIVING COST OF EGG
Berlin Journalist Violates Daw by
Printing Higher Than
Official Figure.
By the Aeiorieted Preen.
BERLIN. December 25.—Market re
porting is a dangerous calling in
these days of high living costs in
Berlin. Erich Dombrowski. the editor
on the Berlin Tage’blatt, who is held
responsible by the courts for every
thing published in that paper, was
charged recently with “attempting
to raise prices artificially." The case
presented against him was that the
Tageblatt quoted eggs at 150 billion
marks each, when the official price
fixed by the government was 20 bil
lion marks less.
Dombrowski testified that he and
his representatives had tried to buy
eggs at 130 billion marks, but that
dealers would not sell them for less
than 130 billions each. Consequently,
in their opinion, that was the market
price.
The court was inexorable. It held
that since the government fixed the
price of an egg at 130 billion marks
that was the price, and the publica
tion of a higher price was a crime
against the government for which the
editor was fined 30 billion marks.
SPIRITOFIDDAYS
OVERHANGSJALAPA
Capital of Mexican State
Barely Tinted by Progress
of 20th Century.
“Jalapa. capital of the Mexican state
of. Vera Cruz, which was one of the
first towns to fall to the insurrection
lists in Mexico’s newest revolution, is a
cul-de-sac in which old Spanish and
Indian customs and the flavors of past
centuries linger to a greater e\t«*nt than
in most of the other cities of Mexico."
says a bulletin from the Washington
headquarters of the National Geographic
Society.
“There the ’milk wagon* is a jar laden
mule, lovers nightly ‘play the bear’ be
fore their sweethearts’ barred windows,
and with each booming of the hour by
the cathedral bells, watchmen sound
their whistles and call out the tidings
.of the night.
“Only in the past few- years,” contin
ues the bulletin, “has there been added
a dash of twentieth century apparatus
and twentieth century ways, and as yet
those’traces of modernism serve only
to accentuate Jalapa’s quaintness as the
few grains of salt that an expert chef
scatters bring out the flavor of a cus
tard. 1
Human Burden Bearers.
“The railroad bound for Mexico City
passes Jalapa by on a lower level.
Spread out and upward on Us hiffsides,
the old city has gone on its ancient
way little disturbed by the trains that
roll by several times each day. Some
of the freight that goes up to the city
from the station is carried on mule
drawm tramcars, but most of it is borne
on parallel poles, each end of the de
vice serving 4s shafts between which
plod solemn mules. And competing
with the mules is an even more ancient
method of freight transfer, that of the
cargador. Your trunk, if you stop off
at Jalapa, will probably be taken to
your hotel balanced on the sturdy back
of one of these human burden bearers,
the weight held forward by his broad
head strap.
“As in modern cities of the United
States, there are few horse-drawn
[ trucks in Xalapa. But while horse-
vehicles are becoming passe
in Vankeeiand. their age has never
even been reached In Jalapa. All day
one hears the musical tinkle of mule
bells as trains of the animals pass
along the streets laden with sacks
of coffee and sugar from nearby plan
tations, cans of milk from small
farms, bags of charcoal from pits In
the hills or fearsome collections of
native pottery for the market. The
city is in the edge of a rich planta
tion country and Its big warehouses
fairly bulge with coffee and sugar as
sembled there before It Is sent to
Vera Cruz, seventy-five miles away
across the ‘hot country’ for shipment
abroad.
Male Yard Pornmi.
“The prominence of the mule in
Jalapa gives rise to one of its most
characteristic features. Scattered over
the town are big open courts formed
of narrow roofed stalls where are
quartered alike mules and muleteers,
while against the walls are piled
great tiers of pack-saddles. These
places, reminiscent of the wagon
yards of our old west, are Jalapa's
forums and coffee shops—the Fuftah
Flsher.'s boarding houses for her dry
land mariners. Fires glow in the
courts In the evenings and about
them the mule drivers loaf and joke
and curse, swap yarns, drink mescal
and settle to their liking the affairs
of their turbulent republic.
“To many Mexicans Jalapa Is ‘the
city of caves. Its one climatic curse
Is the ‘chlpi-chipi.’ a soggy, dripping
fog like those of at their
worst, that settles down on the town
during the rainy season and blots out
the sky for days at a time. Pious and
Impious alike mumble prayers on
such occasions: ‘Holy virgin, let the
sun shine again.’ Because of these
drizzling fogs the eaves of the houses
are extended over the narrow side
walks. Pedestrians, like the citizens
of medieval London, hug the walls,
and the water drips harmlessly Into
the streets and trickles off In a single
gutter down the middle of the road
way. The queer name given to these
dense fogs is believed to be an effort
of the Indians—and a good one—at
onomatapoela, the words simulating
the continual half-gurgling, half
chirping sound of water running
from the eaves.
Law of tkr Pot Shot.
"In Jalapa live old Spanish families
whose history there runs back almost
to the days of Cortez. Some have
palatial city homes and also wide
spreading haciendas and commodious
country houses not far away. In the
early days much dependence was
placed on ‘mlradores,’ tower-llke
lookouts on both town and country
houses, between which signals could
be exchanged. Only a few ‘mlradores*
linger on old Jalapa houses, but the
conditions that made them necessary
have not altogether passed. They
were most useful In the days when
Jalapa was a post station on the old
highway—named like most other
Sr IX/ MILJZ we highly vahte your hurt- 1
S we value still more the cordial 9
g relations that have existed between us, ji
g a (Smp Ortstmii and > frappg Dtp put! S
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THE EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTON’’, D. C.. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 25. 1923.
BUSTS TO USE
OANALHISIAND
Gov. Morrow Sets Apart Six
Square Miles in Gdtun
Lake for Research.
Gov. Jay J. Morrow of the Panama
Canal Zone has set aside In perpetuity
the Barro Colorado island In Oatun
lake as a forest reservation to be
used a biological station.
The station is to be under the di
rection of a committee of the Insti
tute of Research in Tropical America,
an organization Initiated by the Na
tional Research Council.
The institute Is supported by the
museums and colleges of America,
which are to give annual donations
for its maintenance. 1
This Island Is said to be a beautiful
area of virgin, tropical forest, six
square miles In extent, on which
buildings are soon to be started for
the scientific handling of biological
research work.
The beginning of this tropical
biological work is to be made early
in the coming year by Dr. James
Barbour of the Museum of Compara
tive Zoology, aided by Dr. Edward
Wigglesworth and Mr. W. S. Brooks
of the Boston Museum of Natural
History, who are to visit the Canal
Zone. Cuba and Central America with
the objective point of beginning the
organization work of this biological
station on Barro island In Gatun
lake.
Dr. Barbour, who Is to be engaged
In the pioneer work In Panama for
this station, hopes to have at least
temporary living quarters erected
and a water supply established and
trails cut through the island jungles,
so that naturalists may have reason
able accommodations when they visit
the station next summer.
SOUTH SEA FERTILE
| FIELD FOR SCIENTIST
Pan-Pacific Congresses Have Been
Means of Stimulating Great
Interest in Research.
The two pan-Pacific science con
gresses. which have been held, one
at Honolulu in 1920, and the other
in Australia during the past sum
mer. brought to the front the un
explored scientific wealth in the far
south Pacific.
In recent years the committee on
Pacific Investigations of the national
research council has emphasized the
importance of this practically lim
itless field of scientific endeavor, and
has redoubled its efforts to encourage
research undertaking in the Pacific
area, especially of problems which
are peculiar to that region.
The committee of the council for
this work on the Pacific coast, w hich
was begun a number of years ago,
for concerted study of the scientific
problems of the Pacific area, was
first suggested by the National
Academy of Science in the organiza
tion of a committee to direct at
tention to the Importance of de
veloping fKjientlflc work In the coun
tries within and bordering upon the
Pacific ocean, in view of the im
portance of developing the work
there and the important contribu
tion to scientific knowledge which
would come from such studies.
-^-F—u—;
Mexican roads, ‘EI Camino Rea!’—
that led from Vera Cruz to Mexico
City.
"Highwaymen infested the country
around Jalapa to attack the coaches
and mule trains, and often, growing
more bold, raided neighboring haciendas
and even the town Itself. A law that
recalls strikingly those stirring times
still exists on the statute books —a rule
that an American might well call ‘the
law of the pot shot.’ By It a citizen
is privileged—it almost becomes bis
duty—to shoot on general principles
at any horseman leaving the city at a
gallop.
“One American who has cast his lot
in Jalapa has brought to the citv
most of Its modern trimmings. But he
has worked slowly lest In mingling the
twentieth century with the sixteenth he
bring about a sort of social and‘eco
nomic indigestion. Twenty years ago
he built an electric light and power ;
plant. Two years ago he introduced l
•Jitney’ busses and gave most of the |
Jalapenos their first sight of an auto
mobile. Then, after observing the wavs
of Main street's booster clubs, he con- \
structed an amphitheater for civic cele
brations. built for Jalapa a full-fledged I
scenic driveway and organized a mer
chants’ association.
“But fete days pass, automobiles
pall, especially on Jalapa’s bumpy cob
bled streets, and the ’chlpl-chlpl’ blots
outt even the Toad of the clouds.’ At
best the things of the twentieth cen
tury merely graze the edge of Jalapa’s
consciousness. Beneath, the Jalapenos
live happily in the atmosphere of the
centuries that are gone.”
JanuaW
Clearance I
Safe|||
Turn to Pages 10-11
Trail of Person “Who ”
Elusive in- War Department
Why the rewrite man failed to obtain
a atory from the War Department the
other day:
“Give me the Quartermaster Gen
eral's office,” he said when the pearly
voiced operator answered her board
signal with “War and Navy.”
"The line's busy, will you wait?” The
rewrite man would wait. It was 10
o’clock. Several minutes later she re
turned to the line with the news “you
can have them now.”
The rewrite man made known hia re
quest for a story along a certain line
(nothing tremendously Important by
the way) after which lengthy recita
tion he was referred to Mr. Somebody,
who Is In charge of that particular de
partment. Gets new connection.
Thw connections were switched and
after going over the entire story again,
Mr. Somebody regretted that he didn’t
know about that certain thing although
it was in his department, but he was
sure Mr. Nobody could tell us, after
which was requested the second trans
fer- . - J
Mr. Nobodv happened to be out. but
his first assistant, after hearing the
third oration thought he wouldn’t know
what was wanted even if he happened
to be In. but he would very gladly
transfer the call to Branch blah-blah,
which he did.
A very nice young woman, at least
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Kann’s—Second Floor,
one with a young voice, anaswered
Branch blah-blah and said, after being
told the story that Captain Anybody
down in the Munitions building would
be the one to give ue all the facts as
she knew for a certainty he was in
active charge.
Agsts Is Transferred.
“Will you kindly have me transfer
red,” and like her predecessors, she
was willing and polite. The Captains
phone answered.
It was now 10:23. The caller was
pretty tired, but started in anew to tell
the story.
“Why the Captain is on leave and
won’t be back until the first of January,
but Major— ’’ crack, crash, the call was
disconnected. We didn’t know the num
ber we were talking to. There was
only one way of finding out and that
was to call the Quartermaster Gen
eral’s office and go on down the line.
We had reached the extremity of dis
tress when the city editor said “get on”
something else.
Extraordinary Ratiocination.
The Boston Transcript credits this
Item to an English paper;
“A motor car plunged into the
Thames at Richmond last Hunday
night It is thought that the driver.
Mrs. ——. failed to keep to the main
road."
THIRD-PARTY MOVE
DEALT HEAVY BLOW
Minnesota Members Vote Against
Holding of Farmer-Labor
Convention.
Bpe<-i«| Dispatch to The Star.
ST. PAUD, Minn., December 25.—1 f
straws show the direction of the
farmer-labor party's political wind,
there will be no national convention
of that party in St. Paul on May 30.
A body blow has been dealt the pro
posed convention "in Minnesota and
other blows of a similar nature may
be expected soon after the holidays.
This blow was the adoption of a reso
luion by the farmer-labor party of the
third congressional district disapprov
ing the proposed May 30 national con
vention.
A bitter fight preceded adoption of
the resolution. The national conven
tion was defended by William Ma
honey. who with Henry Teigan, secre
tary to Senator Magnus Johnson, is
the real sponsor of the proposed third
national party. It was denounced by
Kred A. Pike of St. Paul, chairman of
the state central -committee of the
party in Minnesota.
The farmer-labor party in Minne
sota would be called upon to pay a
large part of the expense of the na
tional convention and I’ike believes
that the money is needed more in
Minnesota.
In Democratic circles the week has
been marked by a call for a state
wide convention January 19 in St. Paul
to reorganize the party. Robert C”.
Bell of Detroit. Minn., attempting to
ot ganlze the state for William G. Mc-
Adoo, hit a snag when James A. No
well. member of the democratic state
central committee and president of the
Moderation league of Minnesota, de
nounced McAdoo’s dryness.
Nowell is expected to be for Under
wood and likely will put up a strong
battle for an unlnstructed delegation
from Minnesota.
"McAdoo's whole record.” Nowell
said, “.shows him to be on the side of
those who would keep on regulating
every man and business with due
deference to the peculiar brand of
Wall .street operator who may now be
found advocating his nomination.”
Republicans met here Friday to or
ganize the Volunteer Republican flub
in every county in the state. This
new organization will not dabble in
national politics, but will try to pre
vent a farmer-labor victory in the
state election next year.
Hea- larters for the Coolidge cam
paign m i| be opened in Ht. Raul soon
after .unary 1. Formal announce
ment of tire opening of the campaign
tor delegates for the President is ex
pected next week from Charles If.
March, the President’s personal cam
paign manager in Minnesota.
H. B. CROZIER.
U. S.-TO-INDIA LINE OPENED.
NEW YORK, December 25. —A new
direct freight service from Calcutta and
Colombo to Boston and New York, be
ginning February 20. has been an
nounce d by the Cunard line.
3ERMAN SAYS STEAM
MADE MOON’S CRATERS
From Kansas City «f*r.
1 lie old problem of how the man in
the moon &ot his funny face has been
solved, says Prof. G. Dahmer of Ber
lin. Too much blowing off steam
ruined his complexion, the sciential
declares as the result of experiments
which he believe* explain the great
size and curious form of the lunar
“volcanoes."
Earlier volcanic theories as to their
origin met with the objection that
tire craters were utterly unlike those
produced by volcanic action on the
earth. A theory that thev were du<
to the impact of great meteorite*
found jrome support from experiment*
which showed similar craters might
be caused in pasty material by throw
ing hard masses into it. but this
failed to account for the regular
shape of the craters. Since thev are
nearly circular all meteorites whic!
might have caused them must ha\i
hit head-on. a most improbable event
Dr. Dahmer asserts that the crater
were caused by Impact, but that tin
force was directed from within ami
was probably that of steam force.!
through the then pasty crust at tre
mendous pressure. This “steam jet
theory accounts for the central com
of many of the craters, the circular
shape, and the distant crater wall
built up by the wave due to the im
pact of the steam on the soft crus'
The shape of the craters is stated t<
vary according to the toughness of
the crust at the time the explosion
happened.