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• ARLINGTON PARADE
TD SIARI IN D. C.
Water Carnival Will Be Fea
tured by Line of Floats
and Automobiles.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLARENDON. Va.. October 29.
Proud of the progress made on the
modern water supply system for Ar
lington County, citizens and officials
will unite Thursday in a celebration
to mark the official turning of water
Into the pipes from the new Govern
ment reservoir at Dalecarlia.
The committee on arrangements for
the celebration has decided that the
parade, which is to be one of the out
standing features, shall partly traverse
the Capital City, since Washington i 3
linked with the project, and the Peace
Monument, at the foot of the Capitol,
has been selected as the starting point.
The procession will form on Mary
land avenue and will begin moving up
Pennsylvania avenue at noon. Floats
taking part in the parade are to be
ready an hour before starting time.
Frank T. Tracey has been selected as
grand marshal of the parade. which
will go to Fifteenth street, to the
Highway Bridge, thence on Jefferson
Davis Highway to Frazier avenue,
thence to Mount Vernon avenue and
Columbia pike, thence to Glebe road
and Pershing drive, thence to Claren
don avenue and Wilson boulevard,
thence to Clements avenue and the
Lee Highway, thence to Virginia ave
nue, Lyon Village, where the festiv
ities for the remainder of the day will
be held on the athletic field.
Parade Without Marchers.
Walter U. Varney, general chair
man of the committee on arrange
ments, and Milford Witts, general sec
retary, announce there will be no
marchers in the parade—only motor
cars and floats. With the entire mo
torized fire apparatus of the county
entered and many of the civic organi
zations and business firms planning
to enter floats, it is expected at least
309 vehicles will be in line. All auto
mobile owners have been invited to
drive their cars. Prizes will he of
fered for the best decorated private
o»r and for the best decorated fire
chief's car. Prizes will be offered for
the best decoiated commercial and
school floats.
A holiday has been declared in the
public schools to allow the thousands
of youngsters to participate in the
memorial event. Twenty school floats
are promised for the parade.
A fire hydrant has been installed
rear the scene of the festivities to be
held ih Lyon Village following the
parade, and this will he turned on with
appropriate ceremony.
Representative R. Walton Moore,
who played the leading part in getting
the consent of the Government for
the county to connect with the Dale
carlia Reservoir, and Col. U. S. Grant,
Sd, of the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission will be the prin
cipal speakers during the afternoon
exercises.
A barbecue will be served free, fol
lowing which games will be In order.
The cadets of Washington and Lee
and George Mason High Schools will
put on a prize drill.
The evening program will open with
fireworks. A bonfire of great size will
help in the illuminations, and when
the flames get to a certain point the
fire companies will demonstrate the
full strength of the water flow.
The affair will be climaxed with a
costume dance in the spacious garage (
of the Washington, Maryland and Vir
ginia Coach Co., which will be appro
priately decorated. Preparations will
be made to accommodate 2.000 danc
ers. Costume prizes will be awarded.
Many Committees Listed.
I
Committees are:
Transportation—Leon Arnold, chair
man. Clarendon; K. A. Brumback, :
Clarendon: J. A. England, Clarendon;
T. E. Sebrell, jr., Clarendon; J. M.
Heinbuck, East Falls Church.
First aid —Mrs. Jennifer Broaddus,
chairman. Mount Ida; Mrs. Julian
Brown, Clarendon; Mrs. W. E. Willis,
Rosslyn; Mrs. M. A. Rudasill, Claren- ,
don; Mrs. Norma R. Davies, Claren
don; Dr. P. M. Chichester, Clarendon:
Dr. C. R. Boyland, Cherrydale; Mrs.
Mae Jacobs, Ballston.
Advisory—William J. Ingram, chair
man, Clarendon; Eugene Turnburke,
Cherrydale: Edward Duncan, East
BraddOek: Asa E. Phillips, Clarendon;
H. C. Saffell, Clarendon: Mrs. Florence
Cannon, Arlington; C. R. Taylor, Clar
endon; Mrs! Claude S. Semones, Aurora
Hills.
Bonfire and fireworks—C. C. Donald
son, chairman, Cherrydale; A. C.
SchefTel. Arlington; William Topley,
Cherrydale; C. M. Jones, Falls Church;
Charles Vermillian, Cherrydale; A. B.
Eaton, Clarendon; J. A, Spates,
Cherrydale.
Parade—Frank T. Tracy, Virginia »
Highlands; H. B. Field, Clarendon; H.
C. Roberts, Clarendon; J. B. Swecker,
Clarendon; O. R. Howell, Clarendon;
Randolph Koester, Clarendon.
Floats—A. J. Webb, chairman.
Clarendon; Robert H. Forman, Ball
ston; J. D. Cushman, East Falls
Church; C. L. Snoots, Arlington.
Prizes —Amos C. Crounse, chair
man, Clarendon; S. B. De Vaughn,
Potomac; R. E. Janson, Cherrydale;
J. R. Mossberg, Arlington; C. C.
Donaldson. Cherrydale.
Judges—Judge Harry R. Thomas,
Clarendon; C. W. Fitch. Clarendon;
Dr. Edward McCarthy, Cherrydale.
Publicity—C. A. Keefer, chairman,
Braddock; J. T. Lipscomb, jr., Clar
endon; A. M. Datvson, Clarendon;
Thomas D. Bailie, Clarendon; C. H.
Greathouse, Rosslyn; Grover Payne,
Ballston.
Finance —Arthur Orr, chairman,
Lyon Park; C. W. Smith, Clarendon;
R, B. Cobean, Potomac; Mrs. Ruby
Lee Minar, Cherrydale; B. M. Hed
rick, Clarendon; Mrs. H. P. Simpson,
Livingston Heights; Walter T.
Weaver, Cherrydale; Charles Boyer,
Ballston; R. Colton Lewis, Rosslvn;
A. C. Jones, Clarendon; E. Wade Ball,
Clarendon.
Speakers—L. C. McXemar, chair
man, Clarendon; Mat. E. W. Cushing,
East Falls Church; Harry K. Green,
Clarendon; W. L. Bragg, Clarendon.
I Greater Washington—C. W. Clever,
chairman, Clarendon; Charles F.
Kinchelne, East Falls Church; F. G,
Campbell, Virginia Highlands; R. Wal
ton Moore, Fairfax; R. E. Plymale,
Rosslyn.
Barbecue and refreshment—Mrs.
Catherine Rogers, chairman, Ballston;
Estler Palmer, Arlington; R. A. Rose
bury, Potomac; Randolph Robinson,
Clarendon; John Milstead. Cherrydale;
Mrs. A. D. Davis, Virginia Highlands;
W. W. Sealock, Ballston; Dr. John W.
Rogers, Ballston; J. A. C. Fought,
East Falls Church; Ernest Shreve,
Cherrydale; J. B. Malloch, Ballston; G.
Albert Veiteh, Ballston; Thomas
Crack, Ballston; Alwin Reiners, Clar
endon.
Music —Mrs. Sarah Carl, Lyon Park,
Chairman; Harold Brown, Cherrydale;
William Kleysteuber, Potomac; H. E.
Btelle, Rosslyn; Mrs. Sadia Catherine
Coles. Cherrydale.
Dancing—Mrs. Julian P. Simpson,
chairman. Cherrydale; Mrs. W. O. Tol
ford, Clarendon; Mrs. Ruth Lowell,
-Arlington; Frank Snyder, Clarendon;
IA- V. Brown, Potomac; H. A. Beattie,
Clarendon.
, %
Most of TJs Are the Alice Kind.
from the Boston Transcript.
“Alice is not a good listener.”
“Why, I never knew her to inter
rupt.”
“That is mere politeness. To be a
good listener means something more
than merely waiting until the other
9*r«cn la through.”
STATUARY HALL AT THE CAPITOL
AROUND THE CITY
ItY NANNIE LANCASTER.
I >—*v VER at the Museum, under
/ \ glass, there is a Sioux war
-1 I rior in a war shirt of tanned
buckskin, fringed and beaded,
and trousers of deerskin
dyed green. Around his throat is a
necklet of bear claws, and a stone
headed war club shows just how he
came by his dangling colors, brown,
auburn and gray
with a curl to it—
Ii , i the scalps of worn
r==r an pioneers.
'i 'li^' he useum * s
a pi,cnt place—
-1 except for some
times and a
~woman who had
been prowling
ySr ar ° un< i • r an
( Jh hour—on the floor
where the family
X » life of the Amer
ican Indian is tle-
t { picted by life-sized
figures of bucks,
* squaws and pap
pooses, both at work and play—seated
herself at a book table near a window
to study the Sioux warror until, in
that far-off, silent place, the plaster
of him seemed to quicken into savage
life and she could almost—almost —
hear the agony-screams of those
women at the instant that their scalps
became trophies to be worn at the
side of a chief. And then a young
school teacher came along with a
string of little children.
She was an intensely earnest young
woman, and as she swarmed her lit
tle flock around the case inclosing the
landing of Columbus, two hoys and a
tiny girl came over to the near-by
Sioux figure and beghn to size him
up—as little children have away of
doing—with everything.
“Don’t he look like he could fight?”
The elder of the boys made the com
ment, but the other one disagreed:
“Naw. I’d rather be a circus In
dian, because he is alive and can
ride a horse in the parade. You
could stick a pin in this one and he
wouldn’t holler.”
“Bet you wouldn’t talk like that
if he could get hold of you. Look at
those scalps—ge-mee-nee!”
“They was just stuck there for
show—no man ever had long hair
like that.”
“I know they didn’t, except Buffalo
Bill and Davy Crockett, but these
are women scalps, when the Indians
used to massacre whole families.”
“I don’t fink it’* pritty hair"—the
tiny girl seemed inclined to be sniffy
—“My mamma's hair is buful —all
yellow an’ bobbed. My gramma’s
hair is a whole heap nicer, too —she's
got it pepperminted to look like it
curls natch’l. If I couldn’ have nicer
hair than he’s got I’d be shamed of
the ugly ole stuff.”
The young teacher sprinted over,
shooed the three to the Columbus
case, and once they were there, the
elder boy, who must have had inside
of him an adventure-love for history,
shrilled out to the teacher:
"Say, Miss Maud, suppose these In
dians had killed Columbus and those
.other men in the boat, we never would
have had any United States, would
we?”
And that remark made the woman
at the table lose interest in the Sioux
warrior, to follow out the boy’s line
of suggestion. All of which is nothing
to tell about except that, doesn’t a
wise man tell us in a book that it is
the small things that make up life?
** * *
'JVHIS is about a little red candle:
An electric light, like everything
else In this world, occasionally lays
down on its Job. It is a phase of
earthly imperfection that neither hu
man nor thing-inanimate may dodge—
All of which is to let you know that
something went wrong with an elec
tric fuse the other night and put one
section of an apartment house into a
degree of blackness that we classics
call stygian. And if you are acquaint
ed with the stygian type you will
know that there is nothing so pall
black as the sudden snapping out of
an electric light; a blackness that fits
you like a shroud.
One tenant who was having a lovely
time all to herself in a comfy chair,
a just-right lamp and a fresh maga
zine, sat for an instant in rigid fear—
which was foolish in her, of course,
nrd then groping in every direction
but the right one, to find a match,
bumped into her door to find the corri
dor lighted and to hear the cheerful
voice of a little tenant below who had
come into the hall to find out what
was wrong. And the relief that fel
low misery begets sent the scared-cat
woman down the steps to join the
cheerful one below. And she was be
moaning that she had only two inches
of unreliable candle, the flower-gilt,
leavings of a tea party, and that she
was so scared she didn’t know what to
do—when another tenant of the apart
ment house in passing by beamed out
a cheerful assurance to the sensible
tenant that the lights would soon
; be on.
With this good news to go by, the
scared-cat one returned to her apart
ment—not so black with the door
' open—found the matches, lit the
1 nubbin of candle and then sat close
' to its sputtery glimmer and wondered
what site would do if it flickered out
before the light was on. And while
she was worrying, the hell rang, and
there stood a nice, small boy holding
; a little red candle. The kindly
■ passer-by had sent it up to help out
’ till the light came along.
It was a little red candle that looked
ns If it had a memory of some merry
doings last Christmas. And its sturdy
scarlet and businesslike wick gave
cheering promise of reliable rays to
come. To sensible, prosaic folk, who
- see nothing extra in a primrose by a
river's brim, it was Just an ordinary
i bit of candle, but—there is always
s more than one way of looking at our
• primroses— and little red candles — our
views depending greatly on what we
THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 30. 1927—PART T.
have been handed down —with this
for small illustration;
Once on a time there was a tiny
girl whose father was mostly away
and whose mother lay under a tree in
the country churchyard. For all of
her childhood she was reared by a
devoted brown mammy, who gave her
mother-love, but whose choicest bed
time stories concerned bad ha'nts that
would crawl from under the bed if a
little girl didn’t go to sleep quick, and
for lullaby preferred a certain “Ole
'ooman all skin an’ bones, who
scrunched little ehillen that tole fibs
an' threw stones ”
The child grew up, married, and of
a big family of children had one who
was a scared-cat that was afraid of
the dark. Years taught her to be so
ashamed of this inheritance that she
long ago fought it out of her system,
except that the sudden snap-out of an
electric light, somehow, makes her one
with that tiny girl who was her
mother; makes her hear —almost —the
bad ha’nt crawling from under a
bed. and almost —almost —feel the
touch of an ’ole ’ooman, all skin
an’ bones”—ready to do her scrunch
ing——
Sounds idiotic, of course, though, at
that, you may recall that at a one-time
gathering of great German physicians
a secret ballot, taken for the purpose
of showing what each member con
sidered the strongest of emotions, all
but three of the 20-odd present W’rote
the same word: Fear. But anyhow:
A little red candle may be just the
pleasant, ordinary thing it looks like.
Then again, it may be a kindly light
that shineth forth in the dark. And
kindliness, you know, is about the
most beautiful thing in this world —
and, doubtless, in the world to come.
** * *
SHE was a venerable nuisance with
weak eyes that couldn't stand a
lifted curtain that was letting in the
October sunshine, and a nettlelike
criticism that must have hurt her
tongue. It was the criticism that
brought her to where a woman was
pegging at a typewriter —in a big
place where many women work—also
men. Seating herself, placing a leather
bag—not so sanitary—on a page of
clean copy, and demanding the lower
ing of the curtain, she began what
she had come to say:
“There seem to be a number of
people employed here, and I suppose
you all get paid for it.”
YVhen you have had your years of
sampling odds and ends of humanity—
mostly good, often eccentric and
always mighty interesting—you learn
how to tune in on every occasion
that comes along. So the typewriter
said they did.
“And all of it so senseless! I should
think your consciences would upbraid
you for wasting your time on trump
ery when you might be doing some
good in the world. You have a soul
to save, you know.”
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The typewriter might have reminded
her that bodies also have to be cared
for. but she didn't. She enjoyed
listening.
“You know that death comes like a
thief in the night, don't you?”
The typewriter agreed that she
would have to go some time, and that
she hoped to be ready.
"Y T ou don’t certainly think you can
expect to go to heaven the way you
' are throwing away your time, do
you?”
This being somewhat personal, the
’ other woman put in a mild protest:
“I don’t have much time to throw
' away these busy days ”
“Y'ou are blind and you don’t know
it.”
Most of us can be pushed just so
far and the typewriter had reached
her dead line:
“Y'ou are mistaken, madam. My
ears are not entirely reliable, but my
eyes are first class." Having spunk
ed, up, she soothed the remark with
a smile—to which the venerable one
responded:
“My dear. I am only trying to show
you the right way. It is my mission
today to call out the best that is in
you—and the best in all I visit in this
place today. 1 might be taking my
life easy, regardless whether foolisii
people were saved or not, but I feel
that 1 have been called to arouse sin
ners to the eternal peril that awaits
them; to save them from their vani
ties and money greed—and I want you
to come to niy free rally call tomor
row evening. Won’t you, dear?”
Now, sisters, likewise brothers, if so
be any of them are taking the trouble
to listen In, no matter how interfer
ing a stranger may seem in classing
you among sinners to be saved, you
cannot rightfully return a wrathful
answer, for the reason that honesty
of intention covers an impertinence as
charity covers scriptural sins. So the
lady of the house took, with respect
ful Interest, the bit of card the mis
sioner handed out:
“Inspiring rally call tomorrow, 8
p.m., at . Mrs, Blank Blank, the
well known psychologist and orator,
will give her popular lecture on "How
to Save Sinners." Free admission. Sil
ver collection. Reserved seats, 25
cents, at the door.”
Pretty soon she left and the type
writer v'ent on with her pegging. She
knew*, however, that she had been
keeping company with a publicity
stunt—which was entirely all right.
There are many ways of making a
living and she, dear old soul, was en
titled to hers.
Kentucky’s Longest Koad.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The longest
road in Kentucky—s 24 miles—will be
completed before snow' flies. It covers
a greater distance than that from
Louisville to Chicago or St. Louis.
From Catlettsburg the highway skirts
the Kentucky mountains through
western Kentucky, ending at YVick
liffe. Seven of eleven congressional
districts and all important rivers in
the State are crossed by the road.
S. HAS PROBLEM
IN STATUARY HALL
New Memorials on Way May
Not Find Room Under
Present Layout.
Congress may have to turn its at
tention befoie long to providing more
space in the Capitol for Statuary Ilall,
in which the States of the Union pre
serve in bronze and marble the
achievements of their distinguished
citizens, to be viewed and remembered
by the thousands of Americans who
visit the building every year.
The 52 statues already assembled
in this American hall of fame do n<>t
leave much room for others yet to be
placed there, and information reach
ing the office of the Architect of the
Capitol indicates that 10 or 12 new
are likely to be presented
in the near future.
The adding of that many pedestals
to the gallery will present a problem
in spacing if these works of sculpture
are to be adequately displayed. If
that number meant the completion of
the collection, it might be possible to
arrange them satisfactorily. But the
story does not end there. The law of
1804, providing for a statuary hall,
gave each State the privilege of
honoring two of its noted citizens
with places in this national collection.
With 48 States in the Union, the num
ber of statues, therefore, may reach a
maximum of 90.
Form a Circle.
The 52 installed to da,te form a com
plete circle, closely spaced, around the
walls of the hall, with four pedestals
standing out in front of those against
the wall. The main corridor extend
ing from the Senate to the House
passes through the center of Statuary
Hall, and, while there is still some
open space near the center, installa
tion of many more statues would
tend to give the chamber a crowded
appearance. When it is considered
that as many as 44 additional me
morials can be presented, it becomes
apparent that at some time in future,
the housing will have to be studied.
While the question has not reached
• the stage of written reports, officials
in charge of the Capitol Building have
been discussing tentative suggestions.
One proposal is that the statues be
extended along the corridors running
north and south from the hall, but
it is the belief of some who have given
thought to the subject that this would
not solve the problem adequately.
Another suggestion is that the
crypt of the Capitol, a large, vault
like chamber beneath Statuary Hall,
and one of the oldest portions of the
historic structure, he decorated and
equipped with an adequate system of
lighting to serve as a statuary hall.
These are merely tentative possibil
ities and undoubtedly other solutions
will be put forward. How soon the
present Statuary Hall will become
crowded depends on how rapidly new r
statues are presented by those States
that still have one or two niches to
fill.
Statue of La Follette.
The next statue to be unveiled is
expected to be that of the late Sena
tor Robert M. La Follette of Wiscon
sin, who died in June, 1925, after a
long public career, and whose son,
Robert M.. La Follette, jr„ now oc
cupies his seat in the Senate. The
La Follette statue is being completed
in Paris by the sculptor, Jo Davidson,
and may be dedicated during the com
ing year. It will show the senatorial
orator of a few years ago in a seated
pose. The only other seated statue
in Statuary Hall is that of Robert
Fulton, holding the steamboat.
The late Senator La Follette served
in the House from the 49th to the
51st Congresses, three terms as gov
ernor of his State and 20 years in
the Senate. He made an unsuccess
ful race for tne presidency as an in
dependent candidate in 1924.
Word also has come to the office
of David Lynn, architect of the Cap
itol, that Kentucky has taken prelim
inary steps to award its two places in
Statuary Hall to Henry Clay, illus
trious statesman, and to Dr. Ephraim
McDowell, who achieved distinction
as a surgeon. Only a year ago, an
other State, Georgia, honored a mem
ber of the medical profession by pre
senting the statue of Dr. Crawford
W. Long.
The work of making the statues of
Clay and Dr. McDowell has been
intrusted by Kentucky to Charles H.
Niehaus, sculptor, of New Jersey. As
Speaker of the House, as Secretary
of State and as an orator on the floor
of the Senate for many years, Clay
stood out in the history of the era in
which he was in public life, from ISO 3
to 1852, and a statue of him will be a
notable addition to Statuary Hall.
Mississippi, according to informa
tion reaching Washington, is planning
to give its space in the hall of
statues to Jefferson Davis, president
of the Confederacy, and to J. Z.
George, a former Senator from
Mississippi.
A statue of Alexander H. Stephens,
who was vice president of the Con
federate States during the Civil War,
Is contemplated by Georgia to fill the
one space it is still entitled to in the
hall. Following the war, Stephens
was elected to Congress, and subse
quently was chosen governor of the
State, dying during his term.
California Has Two.
California is another State that has
plans under way for fllling its places
in Statuary Hall. According to the
architect’s office at the Capitol, that
State has selected Revu Thomas Starr
King, minister, lecturer and author,
and Father Junipero Serra, a Fran
ciscan missionary. The former spent
his early days in New England, but
in 1860 he became pastor of a church
in San Francisco. Before moving to
the West Coast Rev. Thomas Starr
King wrote a book on ‘‘The White
Hills, Their Legends, Landscapes and
Poetry." He became widely known in
California, and there is a monument
to him in Golden Gate Park. Father
Serra was in charge of the Lower
California missions in 1768, and later
founded the San Diego and Monterey
missions.
From South Carolina authorities at
the Capitol are expecting a statue of
Wade Hampton, soldier and states
man. He was governor of his State
from 1876 to IS7B, following which
he came to the Senate.
The legislation of 1864, creating a
National Statuary Hall in what had
been the old hall of the House, grew
out of a suggestion made as early as
1854 by Gouverneur Kemble, a former
member of the House from New York.
In that year Kemble visited the Capi
tol and discussed the question of the
future use of the old hall of the House
with Capt. Montgomery C. Meigs, who
was superintending the enlargement
of the Capitol. Ten years passed, how
ever, before the Statuary Hall legisla
tion was enacted.
Records of the architect of the
Capitol show that after the invitation
of the Government to send statues
was transmitted to the governors of
the then existing States, five years
elapsed before the first one, that of
Nathaniel Greene, was presented by
Rhode Island in 1870. Two years later
the same State filled its quota by
sending the statue of Roger Williams.
Comments by Lynn,
Discussing the development of
Statuary Hall in his last annual
report, Mr. Lynn, architect of the
Capitol made this comment:
“In the years following the setting
apart of this space for a national
statuary hall, the responses of the
States to the invitation were not as
prompt as might have been expected.
It may be that the invitation waa
“GETTING WELL ROOM” AT SIBLEY
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A corner of the “getting well room” In the Longwell children’s ward of
Sibley Hospital. Dues from “juniors’* pay for the care of other “juniors” here
whose parents are unable to afford hospital service.
such a departure from the existing
conditions and that the States were
waiting to learn whether this move
ment would be popular, and it may
ho that the art of the sculptor was
so little known that the use of
sculpture for such a national pur
pose had failed to impress itself
upon thf* Legislatures of the States
to he represented.
"This much is certain, after the
lapse of 19 years from the time of
the erection of the first statue in
Statuary Hall, but 18 statues were
to be found in this hall and that in
the year 1895 there were but 21
I statues in position. The display was
i hardly sufficient to give this large
■ space a proper dignity as a collection
, of statuary, and in order that the
! barren foresaken appearance might
: not be so noticeable other works of
art were exhibited there, -such as
the statues of Jefferson, Hamilton,
1 Baker and Lincoln, and the plaster
statue of Washington, also the busts
, of Lincoln, Kosciuszko, Pulaski arid
Crawford.”
The number of statueg has in
| creased steadily since that time.
CHANNEL SWIMMER
FACES PERJURY CHARGE
Dr. Logan and Her Trainer Accused
After Admitting Hoax
in Claim.
By the Associated Press,
i LONDON, October 29.—Indictable
summonses for perjury, News of the
World says, have been issued against
Dr. Dorothy Cochrane Logan and her
trainer, Horace Carey. Dr. Logan was
the perpetrator of the recent Channel
swimming hoax. She signed an affir
mation that she had swum the Chan
nel. but later declared that it was
merely a hoax. The case, the paper
I adds, has been set for a hearing on
November 7.
News of the World, says that the
summons were procured by Sir Archi
bald Bodkin, director of public prose
cution, who personally investigated
the circumstances of Dr. Logan's ad
venture, in which, she admitted, she
had spent most of the time of her
alleged swim aboard the convoying
boat. This was done, she explained, in
order to show that it was easy to
fake a Channel swim, in the hope that
her revelation would bring about or
ganized supervision of these ventures.
GERMAN POLICE DEMUR
TO SERVICE RULING
Law Forbidding Marriage Before
Completing Seven Years’ Duty
Regarded as Degrading.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.
BERLIN. —German police are dis
gruntled over the provision in the law
governing their appointment to the
service by which they may not marry
until after the completion of seven
years of service.
"It is unbearable in the long run,”
says Richard Betnareck, president of
the General Federaton of Prussian
Police Officials, "for policemen to be
degraded to the rank of citizens of the
jecond class and to be placed under
special legislation.”
Betnareck points out that the law
breeds dishonesty, because many cops
contract secret, common-law mar
riages. or, if they appear before the
marriage clerk, conceal the fact that
they are policemen.
A marriage thus contracted is un
der a cloud and renders the police
man incapable of doing full justice to
his job.
The constant fear that his action
may be discovered and he be dis
charged instantly weighs heavily upon
him.
IMMORTALS GET RAISE.
Trebled Income Assured 40 Acad
ernie Francaise Members.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.
PARlS—France’s Forty Immortals
of the Acadamie Francaise are going
to get a raise. Their income will be
tripled.
They have been getting 100 francs,
or about §4. a month for many years.
They also had bonuses for attending
sessions, which added, usually, an
other 50 francs to their salaries.
Once upon a time when the franc
was worth 20 cents the immortals
made about a dollar a day from their
membership, but now its just over 20
cents.
As many of the scholarly old gen
tlemen are really poor, most of the
academicians some time ago reduced
their own .salaries to 83.33 francs a
month and had the balance added to
the allowances of their less fortunate
fellows.
Eating Telephone
Directory Gives
Squirrel ‘Phon’us’
By the Associated Pres*.
RICHMOND, Va„ October 29.
"Phonumberatus” is troubling
Whimp, pet squirrel of John Jeter,
State librarian.
This means "too many wrong
telephone numbers.” Now the rats
in the library have long made it
a habit to feast on Virginia codes
escalloped with encyclopedias and
garnished with Supreme Court re
ports. Their digestions have' not
suffered, but on the contrary they
thrived and multiplied.
Whimp, who invades the library
regularly to pay his respects to Mr.
Jeter, decided that this was a dish
he had overlooked. Accordingly, he
attempted to devour the Richmond
telephone directory, He la expected
to
Volcanic Island Reappears.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, October
29 CO.—Falcon Island, which has re
appeared from the sea in the Ton?a
group as the result of volcanic ac
tion, is belching great columns of
steam and lava to a height of 3,000
feet and playing for the space of
about one minute at twenty-minute
intervals.
All workrrjen employed in construct
ing the new vaults of the Bank of
England are sworn to secrecy as to
the various methods employed to
! guard the treasure stores.
J. C. PENNEY
COMPANY
Needs a Man
\
HE must be successful in his present work, which
is selling dry goods, shoes or men's wear He
should be between 25 and 35 years of age. He
should have at least a high school education or its
i equivalent
His reason for making a change should be that
his present opportunity is growing too slowly, and
he wants a chance to grow fast.
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His first work with us will be as a salesman in
one of our department stores. His initial salary will
be a good one. We ask no man to sacrifice his
family's present security for the future.
But we want no man who is not more interested
in the future than in the present. We have a right
to be discriminating.
The ordinary business grows onJy about 10 per
cent a year. Our business grows at an average rate
of 100 new stores a year. Managers of these stores -
are salesmen who have made good. Their incomes
arc salary plus a share in the profits of their own
store plus an opportunity to share in the profits of all
the other J.C. Penney Company stores, which now
number 885. No financial investment is required.
We know of no other business where the rewards
are so large. Ours is the largest and fastest growing *
department store chain in the world. Starting with ’
one store in 1902, we had 745 stores and •*
$115,682,737 sales last year and now have 885 stores ’
witn sales for 1927 estimated at $1 50,000,00a
Our personal representative invites confidential
interviews with the best young retail salesmen.'
If you cannot conveniently see him, write to our :
nearest office, give your age and experience—and
ask for our new booklet, “Your Next Ten Years.’*
Do not hesitate for fear the place may be filled/
Our stores are being opened so fast that oppor-'
tunitics are constantly occurring.
For an appointment for a confiden
tial interview with our personal repre
sentative, who will be in Washington *
very soon, write immediately to our
New York office, 330 West 34th Street.
J.C. PENNEY
COMPANY
330 West 34th Street 1010 Pine Street
New Y ork Gty St. JLoui* Me.
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HOSPITAL GUILD
SEEKS MEMBERS
I
Sibley Memorial Group Uses
Dues for Treatment of
Needy Children.
The Woman's Guild of Sibley
| Memorial Hospital is announcing its
: annual appeal for memberships. It
] is the policy of the guild to us© the
! dues from new members for needy
j children who require hospital care.
Memberships range from SL to If 00
and may he sent to Mrs. H. S.
Fiance. exeeuti\e secretary. The
Woman’s Guild, Sibley Memorial
Hospital, 1150 North Capitol street.
Under the direction of Mrs. C.
Howard Lambdin, 1345 U street,
southeast, there is conducted a Junior
Guild which is open to all childrens
The membership is $1 a year and
money received in this way is also
used for the care of poor children.
On Friday, November 11, at Rust
Hall, will be held ‘ hospital night.”
when the ‘‘annual roll call dues” is
conducted. Renewals, new member
ships and all contributions should
be received a few clays before so
that they can be properly reported
j that night.
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SHORT PANTS FAIL
Correspondence of the Associated Press.
PARIS. —Short pants for men have
had a bad year. Their exponents have
failed miserably and they tire being
duly guyed by flippant humorist* The
leaders of the movement appeared in
high society, among frienus. a few
times, but short pants seldom got
farther than posed pictures by man
mannequins at the races.
Lamenting this lack of men’s cour
age in dress, a number of fashion
critics assert short pants really can
come into fashion if some leaders will
inly show courage enough to stand
ridicule and the gaze of the curious
until the rank and file of the well
dressed screw up their courage to fol
low them. However, the critics ad
mit they don’t want the job.
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