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16 FOUNTAINS DOUBLE FOR WADING POOLS Children Find Relief From Heat in Small Parks De spite Lack of Facilities. With only a few wide]v scattered swimming and wading pools avail able on city playgrounds to give thou sands of children in Washington a re freshing dip on these Midsummer days, the youngsters are being per mitted to splash in many of the park fountains again this yea!-. Although Lieut, t'ol. U. S. Grant. ! 3d. director of public buildings and j parks, does not believe it would be i proper to have park fountains develop I into permanent wading places, he is disposed to allow ihe carefree kiddies to paddle in some of these park basins as an expedient, until the District of j Columbia is adequately provided with i regular bathing facilities. Fountains Again in I se. And the way the boys and girls who are fortunate enough to live near one j of these small parks flock around the fountains on warm days to paddle ‘ and play under the cool spray empha j sizes once more the advisability of pushing forward in Congress toward j adequate bathing facilities for both young and old. During the World W ar and for sev- j eral years thereafter, while Washing- ; ton was waiting for the enlargement of its water supply system, it was necessary to conserve filtered water in every way, and the fountains stood dry- Since the Summer of 1925, how ever, it has been found possible to turn on a considerable number of them, restoring one of the attractivye features of the park system of the 1 Capital. This season cool sprays are spark-, ling from 28 fountains all over the I city ard in approximately half of j them gleeful, barefoot children are ; being allowed to take advantage of j the shallow basins as wading pools. j Sprinkler Pipes May Follow. The District Government has not put in use thus far this Summer the score of sprinkler pipes that were set up on the streets last year to give children a shower on hot days. Al though they may be set up later if the temperature soars, a definite de cision has not been reached. These sprinklers, pieces of perfo rated pipe mounted on wooden frames and attached to Are plugs, also were ih the nature of an expedient pending ! the establishment of adequate bathing j facilities. Officials found it difficult j last year to place the sprinklers where * they would not give rise to com plaints. Mrs. Susie Hoot Rhodes, supervisor of playgrounds, believes the best way to use the sprinklers would be to in stall them inside the playgrounds. If that could be done, she pointed out, it would eliminate the objections that arise when the showers a: j erected on the streets and at the same time would keep the children under the watchful eye of a playground super visor. The supervisors, Mrs. Rhodes said, could see to it that a child did not remain under the spray too long and would remind the youngsters to go home for dry clothes as soon as they finished playing under the sprinkler. Difficulties Are Encountered. There is some question, however, as to whither the water outlets on the playgrounds would give sufficient pressure to operate the sprinklers satisfactorily. It also would be neces sary to build small platforms in the playgrounds beneath the sprinkler. Setting up of the sprinklers on the dirt surfaces of the playgrounds would make the yards muddy and interfere with other recreational activities. With 29 regular municipal play- j grounds and 42 school yards running as Summer play centers, the depart- i ment has only five wading pools and three swimming pools. Os this num ber two of the swimming pools and four of the wading basins are on white grounds, with one swimming and one wading pool on the colored grounds. These numbers do not in clude the municipal pool on the Monu ment Grounds. Mrs. Rhodes believes there should be either a swimming or wading pool on eVery playground. The few the Playgrounds Department has been able to obtain appropriations for are used to capacity by the children who live near enough to make use of them. Work to Start Soon. The National Capital Park and Plan ning Commission has a detailed plan i for the building up of a chain of bath- j ing centers, the first two of which ! have been appropriated for and will be started before the present Summer ends. Specifications for the first two pools are being prepared now and bids probably will be sought within a few weeks. It will not be possible to build them In time for use this Summer, but they will be in full readiness for serv ice early next year. Os the first two bathing centers the one for the white population will be on the grounds of the new McKinley High School, near Second and R streets northeast, and one for colored near a new' colored junior high school, at Twenty-fourth and N streets northwest. The Park Commission has picked out seven other sites for additional bathing centers, on the theory that these facilities should be accessible to all parts of the city, but the legis lation thus far enacted has authorized only two pools, the money for which is now available. It is virtually cer tain, therefore, that the next Con gress will be asked to turn its at tention again to the question of pro viding Washington with adequate, safe and supervised bathing facilities, a problem that has occupied public s.ttention continuously since the large Tidal Basin Beach was dismantled several Summers ago. , May Need New Law. The Office of Public Buildings and Parks believes it will need another authorizing law before additional pools in the proposed chain can be provided for. It is understood to be the intention of officials of that office to leave it to the appropriations com mittees of the Senate and House to determine how many more bathing pool centers should he provided for In the next annual supply bill. Col. Grant is proceeding carefully with the designing and planning of the first two pools, on which con struction soon will be started, because 1t Congress approves the Park Com mission program for a chain of such water.recreational t enters these plans will serve as a standard for future pools. The pools are being designed with every modern facility for safety and the .purification of the water. There will be, at each center a shal low pool for the children and a deep er one for the grown-ups. THREE THEFTS REPORTED. Store, Homs and Filling Station Cash Drawer Robbed. The store of Samuel Friedlander, 128 Nineteenth street southeast, was robbed of three cartons of cigarettes and $lO in cash last night, police were informed today. A thief gained entrance to the home of Bessie McMillan, 3649 Eleventh street, yesterday and stole a wrist ■watch, gold ring and $11.50 in cash. Ernest M. Cole, manager of a gas station at New York avenue and First street, reported the disappear ance of s2l from the cash register there yesterday afternoon. A POOR SUBSTITUTE FOR BATHING POOLS BUT IT HELPS Without municipal ha filing facilities, the children of Washington have tin n ed to the fountains in parks, which are in full operation tiiis year. Above, scene in St att ion Park. Below, at the Peace Monument. BUSINESS REJECTS SOVIET HELP PLAN ! Pierson Opposes Ivy L. Lee i Idea to Establish Bu reau in Moscow. i A suggestion of Ivy L. Lee of New ' York that, the United States Chamber of Commerce establish a bureau in Moscow to advise American business and the Russian government on trade, etc., was emphatically rejected by Lewis E. Pierson, president of the chamber, yesterday. In a letter to Mr. Lee he said: “We have received your letter sug- j gesting that ‘the Chamber of Com- j meroe of the United States establish} a bureau in Moscow for the purpose h of advising both American business and the Russian government regard ing the development of business with the American people.’ “The executive committee of the National Chamber instructs me to ad vise you that in its opinion nothing '. but propaganda harmful to our | country would result from such a j move. Business Resents “Insinuation.” i, “Your very full letter clearly states . that ail Russian trade, import and j j export, is not with individuals as in . countries where liberty prevails, but j is under the absolute, autocratic con trol fi ,of a small communistic group, j Since our own government has wisely refused to recognize the Soviet regime j your suggestion amounts to asking the , representatives of American business . in effect to repudiate the position of j, the representatives of the American , people. “The National Chamber by official j action of its member organizations 1 j unanimously indorses the action of our j Government. And we resent the im-;, plication in your letter that for com- i, mercial gain American business recog- i nize, even to this extent, the Soviet , regime which bv the pronouncements j of its leaders and by its deeds has proved to be one of continuous j tyranny, bad faith, confiscation of J property, and denial of individual | rights. . ; ! Expression of Sympathy. i “We do not believe that it is pos- j sible to bring the Russian people back < to normal conditions through trade j, relations as long as they are under the j complete control of such insincere, un- i : repentant and misguided rulers as! ; those who in the last 10 years have degraded the character and lowered , the living standards of 140 millions of people. 1 “It is hardly necessary to dwell on the sympathy of American business for the Russian people in the trials forced upon them by their present : s rulers. Our Government, our business j men, in fact our whole people, gave j practical expression of that sympathy j! in their aid and service in saving 20 5 \ million of Russian people from starva- , 1 tion under the Soviet regime. “Nor can the National Chamber for- j get the recent unfortunate experiences of other countries in dealing with the j; Soviets, whose every effort, short of 1; open war, has been to overthrow the ; governments of those countries. It } j cannot, therefore, ask American busi-jT ness to trade with a political group, } < whose system is that of selling for j 1 cash or its equivalent and buying j j with little cash and large credit in j order to provide funds to finance j ( propaganda designed to overturn ex- j; isting governments and to maintain j • its grip on helpless millions of its own i 1 people. “Trade relations prosper only when ' | founded on mutual good faith and 1 Bride of Early Season V T [ j JHI j MRS. ESSEX W. SHORT, Formerly Miss Louise T. Thomas, j daughter of .Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. : Thomas of Takoma Park, Md. j Keep Your Lovely Girlish Complexion j ! If your skin become* parched, •worn, j | freckled, tanned lrom exposure to the j j winds and sun, you can peel it away j ' quickly and easily by using pure memo- j j lucd wax. Procure an ounce from any j drug store or beauty counter, and use j according to directions. The wax ah • sorbs the old. dead skin, a little at a i time until it has all disappeared. After j the outer skin lia* been removed, the I under skin is revealed, smooth and vel- I vety-soft, with a delicate peach-like j I bloom. Mercoiixed fax bring* out j hidden beauty—Advertisement. THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON 1 . T>. C.. JULY 24. 1327—PART 2. '-• Vv r , ■— - -* integrity and no such foundation ex ists today in the whole Soviet record of repudiation, of conflicting and con fisontory edicts, of bad faith, and mis representations in international rela tions and in the treatment of their own people. “The National Chamber is heartily in accord with the policy of the American Government and it is our belief that no good and much harm will come from suggestions such as yours based upon either lac k of knowl edge of the facts or a misjudgment of the ethics of American business. “The motto of the National Chamber is that 'if it is not for the. public good it is not for the good of business.’ American business is certain that recognition of the Soviet regime, how ever skilfully disguised, is not for the public good.” —■ Marriage Licenses. Ashby B. Ross and Elv* M. Johnson. Ellsworth S Tucker and Lena M. Cook. Frank E. Dibert and Gladys M. Tomlin son. both ot Altoona. Pa. Herman L. Bennett and Lyle Hatcher, both of Charleston. W. Va. William Ponder and Josephine Frazer. H. G. Robertson and Ida Childrey, both of Richmond, Va. Whit T. Stowa of this city and Berenice G. Boynton of Crews. Va. Arthur R. Bussler of Takoma Park. Md., and Katherine M. Shea of this city. Nathan W. Saunders of Rockville. Md.. and Rebecca E. Cottrell of this city. Alexandria Chandler and Addie M. Ingram. Herman J. Hack of Baltimore. Md., and Frances Wisbnefsky of Philadelphia. Pa. Clave S. Webb and Julia E. Dumpson, both of Philadelphia. Pa. Richard E. Parks and Sallie Smith. - - : pu $ You Can Even ;JJ 8 Take Your Sewing SC S Aw.ay With You— IS I J | ¥II 1 X 5 If You Have an '* K Ever-Ready ft (A"civ Home Make) j ¥ Electric Portable * fcV ! W SaV 3 I* - ;V* M fore I go —and I know I’ll need it.” An Ever- )r& Ready Electric Portable solves all such vaca- Vj lion sewing problems with ease and dispatch. jjf* Instead of leaving half-finished wearables at g home—take along this machine —it weighs yj only 24 pounds—is easily carried about and : flr j can be used on anv table. 6 J |As Little As $5 a Month Pays for The jjjj Ever-Ready Portable —If You j Our Budget Plan (3 ITheHechtCql ¥1 —. . ---- - U “WARRIOR OF PACIFIC” TO BE R. 0. T. C. TROPHY j Prize Will Be Presented to Best Pvifle Team in Summer Camps. j i “The Warrior of the Pacific,” a ; trophy presented to the University of ; Hawaii team by the citizens of Hono- I lulu in recognition of tlie team’s ex j rellence in rifle marksmanship at the t 1925 R. O. T. C. Camp at Fort Lewis Washington in 1925 and again in 1926. i has been accepted by the War Depart- I ment for award annually to the R. O. T. C. Infantry unit, whose team j makes the highest average score in record firing at future Summer en s eampments, in the United States. A j feature of the proposed competition i is the requirement that each compel j ing team consist of all bonafide stu j dents of the institution’s unit attend j ing the camp except those actually | sick in the hospital. “The Warrior of the Pacific” rep [ resents an Hawaiian soldier of about th" period when Kamehameha 1 con quered the islands of the Hawaiian Archipelago and established the Ka ; mehameha dynasty. It was modeled by I Gordon Osborne, one of Hawaii’s fore j most sculptors, from poses by William I Wise (of Hawaiian ancestry), captain | of the University of Hawaii foot hall j team. Advice was sought from the 1 best known authority on Hawaiian ancient customs TOOTERS TO COMPETE. 500 Expected to Attend Field Day for Saxophonists. Special Dispatch to The Star. 'GERBER, Calif., July 23.—A saxo phone field day, in which the unre strained tooting of the instrument will win a prize instead of a complaint to police headquarters, has been ar ranged for some day in August. Promoters of the event expect the contests will attract 500 saxophonists. Orchestration pieces will be mailed to the entrants for a concert number. Reassigned to Fort Hoyle. Col. Henry G. Rishop, 15th Field Artillery, at Fort Sam Houston. Tex., has been reassigned to duty with the 6th Field Artillery at Fort Hoyle, Md. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 l Look for the red signs. Look for the red signs. Look for the red signs, j Mb' Clearance (J Fortunately for us July comes but once a year. For everybody knows July is the bug-a-boo month for retailers. Because it’s too early to sell fall merchandise and too late to carry summer stocks. C[ Women s hand made and embroidered gowns, 79c ; women s and misses’ brocaded girdles, 65c; 81x90-in. unbleached sheets (seconds), 51c; window shades (seconds), 29c; men’s white duck and khaki trousers, 5 1 25 ; men’s imported linen knickers, 5 1 25 ; women’s and misses’ flannel suits, s 4 9?< {| Tomorrow the July Clearance begins in The Hecht Co. Basement Store, with reductions prevailing on thousands of dollars worth of merchandise, of which the following are but a few examples. tj[ Women’s rayon hose, 27c; boys’ summer knickers, 35c; women’s straw and velvet hats, 19c; women’s gingham or print dresses, 35c; brassieres, bandeaux and bandelettes, 15c; women’s voile, nainsook and rayon underthings, 39c; girls’ wash dresses, 47c; women’s patent, white, satin, and colored kid shoes, 5 1 65 . H Also women’s georgette and crepe dresses, . $4 4?. women’s “Butterfield’’ Normandy voile dresses, 5 1 9? ; men’s broadcloth shirts, 79c; men’s nainsook union suits, 39c ; men's Palm Beach suits, $ 6 9 V women's im ported sandals, $ 2 95 ,* cretonnes, percales, ginghams, voiles, a yard, 10c; infants’white Bedford cloth coats, 57c. C[ Look for these red signs marked “reduced”; they point the way to once-in-a- while savings, such as you rarely find, even in the Basement Store. No Mail or Phone Orders I Look for the red signs . Look for the red signs. Look for the red signs. W , > •. t > i . . • | D. A. R. ACTIVITIES ] The Judge Lynn Chapter will give its annual benefit card party at the Mayflower Hotel Saturday afternoon, October 29. This is the one affair given each year by means of which the chapter raises the funds to carry on its educational and patriotic work. Col. Tench Tilglinian Chapter.— A j large meeting was held Friday at the , residence of the regent, Mrs. Enoch G. j Johnson. Plans were madp for next j season’s work and all committees are ready to begin activities which will be j well under way throughout the Sum- i mer. The title of the essay contest j in the Montgomery County high I schools, it was announced, is “Tench Tilghman’s Ride.” Austin B. Crane of Rockville was the winner of the essay on “Edmund Burke” this year. It is expected that all of the high schools will be represented in the next I contest. Mrs. Laura Griffith was elected to I fill the office of second vice regent, and i two names were presented for mem ! bership. ; The following committee will he In charge of the formal presentation of j the print of Gen. Montgomery to j the county commissioners on Septem • her 6: Chairman. Miss Lucy L. Bowie: I Mrs. W. 11. Talbott, Mrs. Laura Grit flth. Miss Lydanne and Miss Ma*» gruder. Mrs. William Chase, chairman of conservation, gave an account of the planting of the white birch trees In honor of the Nation’s mothers in the Capital and White House grounds. T.uncheon was served and a social hour spent before adjourning for the j Summer. j Bands to Play Irish Anthem. j “The Soldier’s Song,” regarded as ; the national air of the Irish Free | State, has just been added to the cob j lection of national anthems provided i for army bands. i The song has been furnished to the I Army Music School and the Army I Band here and will he distributed t«* ! all regimental and post bands.