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BETTER FORECASTS
OF WEATHER SEEN
Beteorologists Predict Im
| proved Service for Bene
fit of Aviators.
•Pha seventy-ninth convocation of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science came to a
dose late yesterday when the Amer
ican Meteorological Society, the last
V the sectional organizations to
meet, held its concluding sessions In
the United States Weather Bureau.
Twenty-fourth and SI streets.
Discussion of improved knowledge
of weather conditions and better
forecasting for aerial navigation fea
tured the final papers presented.
Visibility was declared to be the
weather condition most important to
aviators, as the power and speed or
planes now make them, independent
of ordinary winds and rain.
Tribute to Melsinger.
Tributes were paid by his asociates
to the scientific work of the late C-
Leßoy Meisinger of the Weather Bu
jreau, killed during a balloon flight
last Summer. His work was < * e ”
olared by Charles F. Marvin, chief of
the bureau, to have been of the
greatest value in forecasting for avi
ators.
Luring of the cotton boll weevil by
sweet perfumes to an untimely end
was described by N. E. Mclndoo of
the Department of Agriculture. Gov
ernment chemists, he said, have ex
tracted flavoring substances from un
ripe cotton bolls to use them as lures
to poisoned baits. The work is still
Incomplete, but promising, he stated.
Knowledge of Stars.
Mound Builder ruins near Ports
mouth, Ohio, show evidences of a
knowledge of the heavenly bodies
similar to that possessed by the
Mayas and early Mexicans, Stansbury
Hagar of the Brooklyn Institute, de
clared. These ruins were the most
Important aboriginal remains In this
country.
The scientists during their week
sessions, indorsed the plan for a new
calendar of 13 months of four weeks
each; the establishment in Washing
ton of a national botanical garden
and aboretum, and of a national park
along Glacier Bay, Alaska. The pro
posed extensive study of the oceans
the Navy also was approved.
Most of the section had completed
their work the day before and a few
had adjourned even earlier, although
a majority of their members remain
ed over to attend the session of those
branches of science which were still
at work. The entire convocation,
however, adjourned yesterday to
meet again in Kansas City next De
cember.
Awarding of Prise.
One important task still remains ta
be done. It is the awarding of the
American Association prize of 51,000
to the delegate who presented a pa
per constituting the greatest contri
bution to science during the convo
cation. Selection of the author of
this paper was intrusted to a special
committee and the winner probably
will not be announced until the mid
dle of the week because of the tre
mendous number of papers that must
be surveyed for the final choice.
Never before in the history of the
world has so large a body of repre
sentative scientists been brought to
gether for a general discussion of tho
sciences and the researches of tho
past year as at this convocation of the
American Association. During the
week 4,300 members registered, many
hundreds more than had ever before
attended one of the conventions.
In that time more than a thousand
papers touching every field of science
were read, and most of them were
fully discussed in open meeting.
Nearly 50 societies, among them some
of the largest research organizations
in the United States met here simul
taneously with the American Associa
tion and still more were represented
by delegates.
Although most of the delegates had
begun their journey back home by last
night, a few are remaining over for
private conferences and for visits to
the numerous places of scientific inter
est in and around Washington. Virtu
ally the entire time of the delegates
was occupied with hard work during
the convention and little time was
found for sightseeing.
COOLIDGE SHELVES
PLAN FOR DISPOSAL
OF SHOALS AS A UNIT
(Continued from First Page.)
of regulation out altogether. The
tTnderwood substitute provides for
regulation by the Alabama State
commission if the lessee of the prop
erty sells part of It to consumers. If,
however, the lessee uses the power
for his own purposes or sold it to
tenants on the property under lease,
©r wholesaled it to a distributing
company, he would be specifically ex
empted from rate or service regula
tion under the provisions of the Ala
bama public service law.
To operate, the nitrate plants now
existing at Muscle Shoals to full ca
pacity would require 500,000,000 to
600.000,000 kilowatt hours per annum,
or not more than one-half the energy
that can be produced by dam No. 2
and the steam plant at Sheffield. Re
cent developments in manufacture of
nitrates are away from power. They
are using less and less horsepower
all the time in the synthetic produc
tion until some processes use very
little power at all.
More to Sell.
Bo the probabilities are that the
development in the processes of ni
trate production will be such as to
require constantly smaller and still
smaller quantities of electric energy,
and, therefore, there will continually
be 'a constantly increasing amount of
energy available to sell.
The location of Muscle Shoals is
anah that with the opportunities for
additional development, particularly
with regard to storage on the Tennes
see River, it could be made the most
important factor in a superpower sys
tem for the Southeastern States,
which would not only cover areas now
supplied, but additional areas to the
south and west —such as Mississippi
and Louisiana and the western part
of the State of Tennessee. Unless
there is a very considerable increase
In hydro-electrical development, it is
scarcely possible that Mississippi and
Louisiana can be added to the super
power zone of tlie South. There will
not be enough water resources avail
able for such extension without em
ploying in the southern superpower
Bone tho Tennessee River power.
Figures on Waterpower Resources.
The United States Geological Sur
vey estimates the waterpower re
sources of the six Southern States of
Tennessee, North Carolina, South Car
olina, Alabama, Georgia and Missis
sippi as approximately 4,200,000 horse
power. This figure does not include,
however, additional power that may
be produced by storage. The total,
therefore, is doubtless in excess of
4,200,000 horsepower. The Census
Bureau reports that the central sta
tion companies in these States in
1922 had an installation of 1,720,000
horsepower, and that the manufactur
ing establishments in these States in
1019 had an Installation of 2,650,000
horsepower, #r an aggregate of
Light Rains Today
Due to Transform
Snotv Into Slush
The District la about to undergo
at least a day of gross discomfort
if the prediction of the Weather
Bureau last night of light ralna
for today holds true. The rain* will
be accompanied by a rite in tem
perature and the two forces will
Join hands in changing the heavy
snow Into slush. Last night a
noticeable upward trend in tha
mercury created pools of slush and
water at many street crossings
and other places because the heavy
packed snow' had prevented a flow
to the sewers.
The Weather Bureau also stated
that there is no cold weather in
sight, which means no snow for a
little while. The forecaster was
further convinced that the precipi
tation predicted for today and pos
sibly tomorrow would be followed
by clear weather.
ACCUIMER
BEUEVEOINSANE
Hahne Thanks Police for
“Entertainment,” Refuses
to Admit Uxorcide.
By the Associated Preis.
OMAHA. January 3.—J. Warren
Hahne, 49, wealthy Omaha contractor,
held without bail at the local police
station in connection with the death of
his wife, Mae B. Hahne, 46, whose body
with 12 gashes in the head, was found
in the basement of their home yester
day, is probably insane and no further
attempt to obtain a confession will be
made. Chief of Police H. Van Deusen
announced tonight.
Mrs. Hahne’s body was found yester
day afternoon by Hahne and a plumber
whom Hahne had taken to the house
to fix a leak in the bathroom.
A bloodstained hatchet matted with
hair, and a small mechanic's hammer
are held by police and are believed to
be the death weapons.
Thanks Police.
Hahne’s replying to questioning by
police tonight, declared he is Innocent
and thanked police for the "enter
tainment.”
Police questioned him minutely in
an effort to establish his connection
with a “mob" in Columbus, Ohio,
which forced away into a bank and
blew the safe In 1907.
Hahne was arrested last night as
he was leaving a mortuary where he
made arrangements for his wife's
funeral.
The slain woman is Hahne’s second
wife. His first wife died in New
York in 1911. The Bureau of Vital
Statistics here declared her a suicide.
Hahne married his second wife in
Colorado Springs in 1914. She was a
business woman in the Colorado city
and was known there as Mae S. Ben
nett. The Hahnes came to Omaha
about eight years ago.
FIRST WIFE A SUICIDE.
Body Found in Bedroom of Home
in 1911.
NEW YORK, January 3. —John W.
Hahne, charged today by a coroner’s
Jury in Omaha with the murder of
his wife, Mrs. Mae Hahne, formerly
'ived in the Bronx section of New
York City. The Bureau of Vital Sta
tistics records that on November 14,
1911, Alice V. Hahne, who is be
lieved to have been Hahne's first wife,
died a suioide. Her body was found
in her bedroom.
SUES PHONE COMPANY.
SEATTLE. January 3.—J. L. Finch,
attorney for Roy O. Olmsted, former
Seattle police lieutenant arrested
when prohibition officers raided the
Olmsted home, has had his $31,000
damage suit against the Pacific Tele
phone & Telegraph Co. trans
ferred from the State courts to the
Federal court. The suit was the re
sult of a raid on Finch’s office In
which papers seized were said to
have involved Olmsted.
When Olmsted's home was raided
a powerful radio casting set was
seized. Officers charged that the set
was used ostensibly to send out bed
time stories, but really to dispatch
information to rum-running ships off
shore.
4,270,000 horsepower. That is, the
installation in water wheels and tn
steam engines In the Southern States
at the present time is approximately
equal to the estimates of its poten
tial water-power resources.
Due, however, to the fact that ex
isting Installations produce a con
tinuous energy output of only a part
of their rated capacity, there Is still
a considerable margin left between
the waterpower resources of these
States and their total power require
ments. The margin, nevertheless, is
not sufficient to make It a matter of
Indifference whether the energy
available from the 850,000 horse
power of proposed Installation at
Muscle Shoals is or is not to go into
the general utility market of the
South.
Alternative la Offered.
The alternative to this method of
handling the proposition would be a
concentrated industrial development
at Muscle Shoals, repeating tn the
South the mistake made at Niagara
Falls in concentrating cheap hydro
electric energy in a limited territory
for electro-chemical processes and
requiring general industries, trans
portation and domestic service to
rely largely on higher-cost steam
power.
In the early days of electrical de
velopment in this country, another
great power site—that at Niagara
Falls—was developed by a private
corporation without being subject to
public control. At present, more than
three-fourths of the energy generat
ed on the American side at Niagara
Falls is wholesaled to industrial cor
porations within the city of Niagara
Falls under long-term contracts, and
less than 25 per cent of the energy
is available for general public serv
ice in the adjacent territory.
While the cheapest hydro-electric
power on this continent is being de
veloped at Niagara Falls, the city of
Buffalo, a few miles distant, supplies
its citizens primarily with steam
generated power.
Holds Step Mistake.
The power site at Muscle Shoals
will develop the greatest block of
power at the cheapest rate available
anywhere In the South. It will be a
grave mistake, the President has
been advised by his cabinet officers
who are best informed on this sub
ject—such as the Secretaries of War,
the Interior, Agriculture and Com
merce—and a step detrimental to the
best Interests of the entire South, to
establish a second Niagara at Muscle
Shoals.
The development of the South as
a whole and the widespread utiliza
tion of electric energy in small in
dustries, homes and on farms and
plantations, is of greater value from
the standpoint of providing comfort
and convenience and producing
wealth than any concentrated indus
trial development in any single com
munity, the President realises,
THE StnSTDAY STAB, WASHINGTON, P. JANUARY 4, 1925-PART T.
ARBORETUM NEED
DECLARED VITAL
Dr. Coville Sees Great Aid in
Combating Flora
Maladies.
Possibility of increasing "strains
having disease resistance” in culti
vated varieties of trees and plants
and thus effecting great saving to the
American people le advanced by I>r.
Frederick V. Coville, botanist of the
Department of Agriculture, as the
fundamental reason why a national
arboretum should be established at
Washington.
Dr. Coville in discussing the need
for such an arboretum as la pro
posed in the Pepper and Luce bills
now pending in Congress explained
that the breeding of disease-resistant
varieties was becoming necessary be
cause of a weakening in the strength
of cultivated plants to withstand
attacks upon them by their natural
enemies.
“In the development of our agri
culture,” explained Dr. Coville, "It
is found that many of our cultivated
varieties have become, through nar
row breeding, susceptible to fungus
diseases and to insect pests, while
the wild stocks from which they
were derived are still vigorous and
resistant to such troubles.
See* Enormous Saving.
"There is no question that in many
oases we can introduce strains of dis
ease resistance into our cultivated
varieties and thus obviate the enor
mous expense and loss to which agri
culture is subjected in combating
these diseases and pests. This, it
seems to me, is the fundamental rea
son for the establishment of an ar
boretum In Washington.
"The Botanical Society of Washing
ton has nearly 200 members, profes
sional botanists," continued Dr. Co
vllle, “most of them engaged in the
advancement of American agriculture
through their connection with the
United States Department of Agri
culture. They often have had extreme
difficulty In obtaining the breeding
stocks they need, having to wait for
years before these plants can be
brought to the United States from
different parts of the world in which
they grow.
‘"[Tie work of these men would be
Immensely more valuable to the Na
tion if they were provided with the
additional facilities of an arboretum.
Like Great Library.
"I should regard an arboretum as
corresponding to a great library, in
which the books are trees and other
outdoor plants, which can be drawn
upon by scientific men for purposes
of study and scientific discovery, just
as we go to the Library of Congress
for rare and expensive books which
we need to use in some special in
vestigation.
"Such an arboretum would be of
immense value, not only in the work
of the scientific Investigators of the
Department of Agriculture here, but
also in the work of scientific men in
experiment stations throughout the
country.
"It ought to contain all the wild
relatives of our cultivated plants
from all parts of the world, at least
those which will thrive out of doors
in this latitude.
“In the arboretum these plants will
be brought together where they will
be available to every plant breeder
In the country.
Sees Subject Only Touched.
"In my opinion the wbrld has made
hardly more than a beginning in
the breeding of plants useful to the
human race. In a hundred years from
now people- will be looking back to
the present time as a primitive period
in plant breeding.
"The American Association of Nur
serymen and other commercial or
ganizations are deeply interested in
the establishment of an arboretum,
because it constitutes for them and
for the public who purchases plants
from them, a bureau of standards for
horticulture, in which the identity
and authenticity of varieties bought
and sold can be established.
“So many losses occur to purchasers
of Incorrectly labeled nursery stocks
that there is now pending in Con
gress a bill exacting severe penalties
of nurserymen who sell Incorrectly
labeled stock. A national arboretum
at Washington would serve as a very
valuable intermediary between the
public and the horticultural trade in
straightening out these difficulties.
“There are certain Incidental uses
of an arboretum in Washington which
! are distinctly worth consideration.
An arboretum established on Mount
Hamilton and the adjacent upper
Anacostia River flats would consti
tute a living museum of outdoor
plants, having great value for public
instruction and outdoor recreation.
It is the same sort of Instruction and
recreation that is found In museums
of science and of art, but it has the
additional advantage of being located
out of doors.
Many Lesson* Conveyed.
“The Mount Hamilton tract contains
some fine areas of our native hard
wood forests. In the more open spaces
some of the individual trees are of
great dignity and beauty and are fine
examples of the park or pasture type
of tree. Other areas have the im
pressiveness of the deep forest. All
these things convey lessons in the
art of tree planting, and they aTe
stimulating to persons seeking out
door refreshments and recreation.
“Along the Anacostia River at the
foot of Mount Hamilton and Hickey
Hill Is a laTge area of the original
wild rice marsh, which was formerly
characteristic of the Potomac River in
the neighborhood of Washington.
Dredging operations threaten to wipe
out all these marshes. It is now
posed that as a part of the arboretum
a suitable area of the wild rice marsh
be preserved forever, where it will
be washed by the tide, and thus kept
free from predatory animals, so that
the bobolinks, blackbirds and other
migratory birds, in their northward
and southward migrations can find a
quiet and safe resting place and feed
ing ground. The sight of hundreds of
thousands of these birds dropping
down at night Into such a wild rice
preserve within the limits of the city
of Washington will be a source -of
perennial satisfaction to all lovers of
birds.
Great Bird Resort.
“For 'many years Hickey Hill has
been known to ornithologists and out
door people as one of the greatest
bird resorts in the District of Co
lumbia. Its preservation with the
adjacent feeding ground for the Mrds
nesting there would make of this
part of the arboretum a permanent
bird sanctuary.”
Discussing the possibility of water
gardens in the new arboretum, Dr.
Coville referred to the success of an
establishment near the site for grow
ing water lilies. From this com
mercial place, he reported, thousands
of blooms are shipped daily to dis
tant cities, and on some mornings In
May and June as many as 6,000 new
blooms open, making the spot "one
of the show places of Washington.”
This establishment, Dr. Coville said,
was an illustration of the beauty
that might be developed in the water
gardens on a portion of the Anacos
tie River flats.
Stressing the value of the arbore
tum as a "permanent” place for pre
serving the trees and perennial
plants which would be gathered
there, Dr. Coville predicted that the
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TWO OF MT. HAMILTON’S BEAUTY SPOTS.
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tpprn View alonic Anacoatla River near Llcklnc Banka, an ancient deer lick. Lowers An open woodland
on a spur of Mt. Hamilton. 'Two typical views of the many known to those familiar with the Mt. Hamilton tract,
which U proposed in bills introduced In the House and Senate as a site for a national arboretum.
American people could look forward
to the perpetuation of the place with
some of the same trees for at least
a thousand years.
Dr. Coville summarized his impres
sions as to the future of the project
as follows: “A national arboretum at
Washington would do as much for
American agriculture and outdoor
life as Kew Gardens at London has
done for the British Empire.” Dr.
Coville is chairman of the research
committee of the National Geograph
ic Society, and a member of the
board of trustees of the society. He
is curator of the National Herbarium
in the Smithsonian Institution.
HERRICK CONTINUES
NEGOTIATIONS WITH
FRENCH ON DEBTS
(Continued from First Page.)
ernment was certain to bring up the
question of France's Indebtedness to
that nation next week while the al
lied finance ministers were meeting
in Paris, the State Department an
nounced that Ambassadors Kellogg in
London and Herrick In Paris, assist
ed by James A. Logan, has been se
lected to represent the United States
at the Paris conference.
United State* Claim* Big I**ue.
Regardless of what the British may
tell France on this point, and as im
portant as is the British attitude on
the question of debts owed by France
to the London and Washington gov
ernments, the prime motive behind
American representation lies in the
question of war claims and not debts.
The three Americans are regarded
as exceptionally well qualified to rep
resent the attitude of this Govern
ment and defend Us right to claims
payments from Germany out of proceeds
accruing to it under the Dawes plan. It
is pointed out that since the finance
ministers are called to meet tor the
specific purpose of allocating funds
to be paid by Germany, the claims
question will be the most important
from an American viewpoint of all
others to be considered.
Instructions to the American repre
eentatives to she Paris meeting will
be explicit. Congress has placed war
debt settlements In the hands of the
debt commission, and no one other
than that body is authorized to dis
cuss the subject with agents of other
governments.
W. R. RATHVON WEDS.
LANCASTER, Pa., January 3.—Mrs.
Lora C. Woodbury and William R.
Rathvon, both of Boston, today were
married at tho home hereof Mrs. John
Skiles. sister of Mr. Rathvon's first
wife, who is dead. Mr. Rathvon is a
trustee of the estate of Mary Baker
Eddy. The pair Went south for their
honeymoon.
We control one of the most
beautiful estates in Virginia.
700-Acre
Virginia Estate
Near Virginia Hot Springs
and the new National Park, on
the great Lee Highway.
The improvements are in
every way high class, but the
real value is in the land.
For sale or exchange. Priced
reasonably.
W. H. West Co.
Real Estate
916 15th St.
Main 9900
CAPITAL FUND BILL
BEST EVER DRAWN,
OFFICIALS BELIEVE
(Continued from First Page.)
Maryland and Ernest W. Gibson of
Vermont have also asked to be heard
on this subject and are prepared to
urge that the budget recommendation
of $600,000 for park sites be increased
to at least $1,000,000. Frederic A.
Delano, chairman of the Committee
of One Hundred on Development of
the National Capital; Evan H. Tucker,
for 30 years president of the North
east Washington Citizens' Association,
and Frederick G. Coldren, chairman
of the Washington Board of Trade
committee on parks, have also asked
for a hearing.
It will be pointed out that as the
National Capital parks commission
was authorized more than seven
months ago, the budget figures of
$600,000 to be made immediately
available would mean only that much
for two years, whereas the legisla
tion creating the commission spe
cifically contemplated an appropria
tion of $1,000,000 each year.
Representative Gibson will urge
particularly the urgent need for ac
quiring the Piney Branch, Klingle
Ford and Patterson tracts for park
purposes, since he was chairman of
a special subcommittee of the House
legislative committee on the District,
which investigated this phase of the
park system, particularly.
The committee will be told that
there are scores of other plots of
land that should be promptly secured
CAPITAL, , a
surplus , American security
and / Z?_AND TRLJiSTT C OMPANY °
UNDIVIDED n 11
PROFITS
Y CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION AT
$6,401,600.83 THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS DECEMBER 31, 1924
RESOURCES
Cash on Hand and Due From Banks $5,299,571.18
Member American U. S. Government Bonds and Notes. .$4,545,663.87
Bankers’ Association State and Municipal 80nd5.......... '501,282.78
Other Securities 5,948,633.44
Loans and Discounts 16,580,666.79
Clerks’ Pension Fund Investment 50,000.00
Customers’ Liability Under Letters of Credit.... 116,181.21
iAccrued Interest Receivable 238,628.81
/ff Banking Houses, Vaults, Furniture and Fixtures
and Real Estate Owned-... 1,749,162.22
ON SAVINGS - Qther Resources 35412.05
.. Total Resources $35,064,902.35
~A L IABILITIES
MAIN OFFICE
JMh St. and Penn. Ave. Surplus : 2,400,000.00
Undivided Profits 601,600.83
Reserve for Dividend Payable January 10, 1925... 170,000.00
BRANCHES Deposits 28,134,300.43
Gerks’ Pension Fund and Interest Thereon 54,200.29
1140 15th St. N.W. Reserved for Interest, Taxes and Expenses 185,888.18
7th and Mass. Ave. Letters of Credit Outstanding 116,181.21
Bth and H Sts. N.E. ° ther Liabilities 2 > 731 - 41
7th and E Sts. SAW Total Liabilities $35,064,902.35
Y-V .* ' ,
because a number or building opera
tions threaten to cut across the pro
jected parkways, as well as to pre
vent the denuding of forest areas
about the Capital and destroying
springs and water courses.
Emphasis will be laid on the fact
that this commission, especially in
first few years, ought to be given
every dollar of the intended million
annually, so as to catch up on long
neglected parkway connections. It
will also be forcefully pointed out
that steps are under way in Maryland
and Virginia to authorize co-opera
tion between these States and the
Federal commission in parkway de
velopments. For this reason the Na
tional Capital park commission ought
to be assisted in cleaning up on the
waiting work in Washington before
the more extensive developments in
adjacent States are taken up.
The District judges are summoned
to appear before the subcommittee
tomorrow or Tuesday, when they will
be questioned closely regarding the
disposition of cases of traffic violations
brought before them. The subcom
mittee is determined to do all it can
to make a short cut to relieve what
has been called “criminal conditions
now existing.” Several members of
the subcommittee have been studying
data supplied them so as to be pre
pared to cross-examine the judges
who have been accused at the hear
ings of having failed to adequately
support the police in enforcing the
traffic laws and regulations.
This emphasizes the opinion of tne
subcommittee that a very consider
able increase in the police force must
be allowed and that a regular traffic
force is badly needed. The subcom
mittee members have expressed them-
BIBLE CONFERENCE
TO OPENTUESDAY
Business Meeting to Precede
International Vacation
Schools Session.
Preceding: the official opening of the
International conference of the World
Association of Dally Vacation Bible
Schools In Calvary Baptist Church
Tuesday, 8 o'clock p.m., a business
session of the organization will be
held in the white parlor of the Hotel
Ebbltt at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Hev. Floyd W. ■ Tomkins, 8. T. D„
president of the World Association of
Dally Vacation Bible Schools, will
preside. Rev. E. A. Harrar of Cam
den, N. J., will Introduce the dele
gates.
This session will be follewed by a
reception to be 'held in the home
of Mrs. John Htrvey Young, 2212 R
street at 4 p.m. Welcome addresses
will be delivered by the the Right
Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of
Washington, and other prominent
churchmen. Brief responses will be
made by Bev. Robert G. Boville,
founder of the World Association of
Dally Vacation Bible Schools; Mrs.
E. P. Holdrlage, whose great-grand
father founded Colgate University,
and Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins of
Philadelphia.
The conference will open In Calvary
Baptist Church Tuesday night at 8
o’clock, with devotional exercises by
Rev. W. S. Abernethy. Among the
prominent speakers of that evening,
and the subjects they will discuss,
are: Cora Wilson Stewart of Ken
tucky, ’founder of “the moonlight
schools,” and noted authority on il
literacy problems, who will speak on
‘‘World Illiteracy.”, Dr. Frederic
Lynch of New York, editor of Chris
tian Work, “World Children, World
Peacemakers," and Rev. H. Pe&roe
Atkins, Cincinnati Federation of
Churches, who will deliver an ad
dress on “The Child at the End of
the World.”
Wednesday morning the delegates
will visit the White House, Lincoln
Memorial, Tomb of the Unknown Sol
dier, Arlington Cemetery; National
Cathedral and Christ Church, Alex
andria.
Wednesday afternoon, at 3 o’clock,
a round table conference will be held
in the white parlor of the Ebbitt
Hotel. Mrs. Oscar G. Levy of Balti
more will preside. The following
subjects will be discussed: "Policy
of the Association —A Thousand
New Schools in China; A Hundred
New Schools in Curea; Are They Pos
sible?” At 3:45 p.m., with John S.
Wurts of Philadelphia presiding, the
following subjects will be discussed;
“How to Make the Missionary Offer
ing More Effective Both in Quantity
and Quality.” “Is it Desirable to
Omit Handwork and Hygiene From
Daily Vacation Bible SchoolB?”
The program for Wednesday night
in Calvary P-aptist Church features
American-Oriental pageant presented
under the direction of Mrs. Marie
Moore Forrest; benediction by Rev.
Floyd W. Tompkins; brief addresses
by Rev. P. L. Vernon, pastor of First
Baptist Church, Alexandria; Rev. H.
W. O. Millington, head of Washing
ton Baptist Federation; Homer J.
Councillor, of Calvary Baptist Church
and Murray S. Kenworthy.
• Profs. N. C. Laird of Canton, Chtr>«
H. H. Underwood of Seoul, Corea, at i
E. C. Knapp of Shanghai, will
at the sessions scheduled for Wednes
day afternoon In the Hotel Ebbltt.
A music program is being arranged
by Sirs. E. X. McMillan of Philadel
phia. Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews is
honorary chairman of the conference
committees.
selves as willing to go to tiie full
limit of their authority to relieve the
bad traffic situation.
All that Is reasonable for schools,
police, streets and sewers and the
water supply will be allowed In the
bill, members of the subcommittee
have assured District officials. Chair
man Davis is especially interested in
sewer extensions, in view of the ex
tensive building operations. He feels
that sewer extensions are even more
important than street extensions, be
cause it is unwise to build houses
without sewers, whereas people can
wait a while for Improved streets,
according to his way of looking at it.
Dr. George W. Bowerman hurried
back to Washington from Chicago
last night to be ready to testify be
fore the subcommittee on the needs
of the Washington Public Library. He
probably will be heard Tuesday
morning.
The snowstorm which caused the
streets to become clogged has delaytd
the subcommittee from making a
personal inspection of the streets
which need repairs. This may result
in the District appropriation bill be
ing delayed until the following week.
Chairman Davis said last night that
the subcommittee wants to view the
roads when they are in U. fair con
dition.
PRINCETON PLAY
lOL MELODRAMA
“Scarlet Coat” Features
Murder on Lavish Scale
Before Big Crowd.
Prlncton University’s versatile Tri
angle Club dashed into Washington
last night and transformed the stag®
of the President Theater Into one of
the most dastardly, blood-curdllnfe'
frontier outposts of the gTeat North
west that a troupe of leering villains,
half-breed trappers, mounted police,
dance hall girls and what-not could
conjure up.
"The Scarlet Coat," a musical ro
mance In two acts, they called It, and
It was all of that. Featured by ac
tion of the two-fisted, Alaskan movie
melodrama sort lots of shooting,
heh-hehing. man hunting and all
around villainy—the capacity audi
ence of grads, relatives and friends
forgot all about the realistically oold
theater In the heat of the excitement.
It was a thoroughly Prlncetonlaji
production, from the tuneful lyrics
and orchestra to that chlll-produolng
snpwstorm on the Koyukuk River,
And you fellows who long for
wlmyun as Is wimyun, well, those
trading post gals didn’t even exempt
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur and
Speaker Gillett from those vamplsh
glances, despite the presence of the
ladles accompanying them. If any
thing, those chorus girls were too
effeminate.
Has Regular Plot.
Yes, there’s a plot to the thing.
It seems that somebody around the
trading post, seeking variety in mur
ders, had popped off one of the “scar
let coats,’’ those brave-hearted mem
bers of the Royal Mounted, Some
thing had to be done about It, so the
villain, curling his moustache, directs
suspicion at Pierre, carefree trapper
of the woods, and courts meanwhile
Charline, daughter of the dance hall
proprietor. Os oourse, Pierre also
falls In love with the Innocent, heart
tingling little Charllne, and the
mortal feud between these two men
serves as the basis for a liberal sup
ply of six-shooting and rioting.
Just as the police of the first pre
cinct were about to step in and
prevent the hanging of several per
fectly innocent men accused of the
murder of the s carlet coat, what did
the resourceful Pierre do but expose
the real culprit, who, gosh dang It.
was none other, exclusively and
solely the cringing accuser himself-
It was most thrilling, or, as Secret
W. Service, the anemic poet, whose
visit to the trading post for "color”
furnished the basis for many of the
laughs, would have it—“perfectly
priceless.”
Casting: Is Excellent.
The work of Irwin Thompson In the
role of the poet, let us say in pass
ing, won well merited applause. To
single out any particular performer
for praise, however, would boa diffi
cult task. Avery Sherry made a much
better saJoorfkeeper’s daughter than
the daughter herself would have
made, and Lawrence Bra man., as
Maybelle, the dance hall queen, had
even the rough voice of an uncouth
lady.
Robert Crawford made an excel
lently romantic trapper, aided and
abetted by a good voice. The char
acter acting of Jack Hamlin in the
role of pleptomaniac, is worth spe
cial mention. There Sever was a
villain with more sneers and ahas per
act than William Bren ton portrayed
last night. Broke-Again-Bill, a pros
pector, as conceived by Day Edgar,
should have rosy prospects, and
Scotch of several kinds was spilled
around during the evening by James
Macintosh, as MacGregor, the dance
hall owner.
Others in the cast were Julian Street
jr., as a mounted man-hunter; Hugo
Bell as a squaw, Adolph Schmidt as
another mounted policeman and
Waller Booth, jr., and Jack Evans as
gamblers.
In addition to the creditable musi
cal score rendered by the orchestra,
the production boasts some real jazz,
as played by the Triangle Jazz Band.
There were many high lights, such as
the illustrated "ballad,” "There's
No Place Like Nome," with heart
rending stereoptican accompaniment
and some lively stepping, both by
the choruses and individual stars.
The book is by Day Edgar and Ju
lian Street, jr., and the music by Rob
ert Crawford. Lyrics are by Ernest
Hfyn. Day Edgar and Julian Street,
jr.' The handiwork of Ned Waybum
was easily discernible in the work of
the chorus.
At the conclusion of the show the
ensemble and audience joined in
singing “Old Nassau,” winding up with
three cheers for their alma mater and
an ensemble cheer for Washington.
So everybody left happy.
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