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CATHOLIC TIME
‘A WORLD SOCIETY’
International Peace Confer
ence to Be Held March
29, 30, 31.
**A World Society” will be the
theme of the eleventh annual con
ference of the Catholic Association
for International Peace, to be held
• t the Mayflower Hotel for three days,
beginning March 29.
The first two days have been
*et aside for the regular sessions of
the association. The third day will
be devoted to the program of the
Btudent Peace Federation. The public
will be received at ail sessions, in
eluding the international dinner on
the opening day.
Dr. Fenwick to Preside.
Dr. Charles G. Fenwick, president
of the C. A. I. P., w’ill preside at the
conferences. The subject of the first
round table will be "The Moral
Foundation of a World Society.” Rev.
Charles S. Miltner, C. S. C„ of the
University of Notre Dame, will’ be
in charge.
"Social Relations in a World So
ciety" will be the subject at the sec
ond round table, with Dr. Elizabeth
M. Lynskey of Hunter College, N. Y.,
presiding.
Prof. Carlton J. H. Hayes of Colum
bia University will preside at. the
third round table, which will be de
voted to "Nationalism in a World
Society."
Fourth Round Table.
The fourth round table will be
held under the direction of Rev. R, A.
McGowan, assistant director' of the
social action department, National
Catholic Welfare Conference. The
subject will be “Economic Relations
in a World Society." Prof. Fenwick
will conduct the final round table
with a discussion on “Political Or
ganization of a World Society.”
Michael Francis Doyle of Phila
delphia will be toastmaster at the
opening dinner. This will be at
tended by church leaders, members
of the diplomatic corps, Govern
ment officials and educational leaders.
TROUSSENEFF RITES
SET FOR TOMORROW
Former Clerk at Russian Embassy
Left Note Asking Pardon
for Mistakes.
Gregory M. Trousseneff, 45. former
elerk at the Russian Embassy, who
committed suicide yesterday, will be
buried tomorrow in the National Capi
tal Memorial Park, following services
there at 2 p.m, in the Chapel, of
Memories. The remains are at the
Tabler funeral home. 4217 Ninth
•treet.
Trousseneff, a member of the Rus
sian Embassy staff until 1920, was 1
found dead yesterday in a garage in ;
the 1200 block of Nineteenth street, 1
his head muffled in a blanket next to
the exhaust pipe of an automobile, j
According to police, Trousseneff was
divorced from his wife, who had
planned to return to Russia.. An
unaddressed note found in his pocket •
said, "Please excuse me for my
mistakes."
A certificate of suicide was issued by
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald.
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AIRPORTS NEARLY READY
Works Progress Administrator Har
ry L. Hopkins reported yesterday the
$80,000,000 airport development of
the W. P. A. is about 60 per cent
complete.
Hopkins spoke of the activity, which
employs about 45,000 workers, as con
servative and justified by the rising
curve of air traffic.
He set June 1 for completion of
projects now under way and esti
mated that by that time approxi
mately half the Nation's requirements
lor airports will be filled.
Pretending to See,
Watchmaker Holds
Trade Nine Years
Failing Memory Finally
Traps Aged Man,
Nearly Blind
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. March 13—Failing'
memory put an end today to a cour
ageous game of pretense that Howard
McMlnn, 73-year-old watchmaker, had
been playing for nine years.
None of the customers who watched
him screw the magnifying glass to hla
birdlike, quizzical eyes to peer con
vincingly at the timepieces they
brought to his workshop knew that his
sight had become too poor for his
work.
None knew that later he bundled
up their watches and docks and scur
ried to a downtown firm to have them
repaired.
Then Mollie Lobson, a customer, In
quired about the watch she brought
in two months ago. McMlnn denied
he had it. She called police.
At Central Police Station the aged
man. confronted by 39 watches
brought in from his shop by Chief
Probation Officer Edward Crawley,
admitted sadly he did not have the
slightest idea who owned them.
TEN BROADCASTS
TO URGE SAFETY
Mrs. George C. Thorpe of Com
munity Center Group to Be
Heard Tuesday.
A series of ten 15-minute broad
casts on traffic safety will be begun
Tuesday by Mrs. George C. Thorpe,
3218 Woodley road, who is safety ad
viser to the Community Center De
partment and who for three years
has been chairman of the Women's
Safety Committee of the District
Motor Club of the American Automo
bile Association.
The remaining nine programs will
be offered on successive Tuesdays at
the same time; 5:45 p.m., all over
station WMAL. The opening program
will deal with European traffic prob
lems and solutions, with talks from
Mrs. Wilbur Carr and Capt. Rhoda
Milliken, policewomen who investi
gated English traffic conditions last
Summer. !
In a later broadcast, Maj. Ernest
Brown, superintendent of Metropoli
tan Police, will analyze the causes
of the traffic fatalities, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Peeples of the Community
Center Department and Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle of the Board of Edu
cation will speak on the problem of
the child in traffic.
Mrs. Thorpe will give five talks on
Seasonal hazards, pedestrians, the
youthful driver, the acident-prone
driver and the two "jokers in safety”
—speed and liquor. Oscar Coolican,
who is sponsoring the broadcasts, will
collaborate in the program.
“WHAT MAKES A JEW?”
TO BE DEBATED MAR. 21
Rabbi De Sola Pool and Lewis
Browne to Speak Before Na
tional Temple Forum.
Rabbi De Sola Pool, distinguished
New York rabbi, will debate with
Lewis Browne before the National
Temple Forum of the Washington
Hebrew Congregation next Sunday,
March 21.
Their subject, "What Makes a Jew?”
will discuss every phase of the pres
ent question of race tolerance, answer
ing both whether or not a Jew can
cease to be a Jew and whether it is I
race or religion or neither that makes i
a Jew.
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1,500 Opera Glasses Stolen.
Fifteen hundred pairs of opera
glasses were stolen last year from slot
machines in London theaters.
Stone of Scone at Coronation
Once Jacob's Pillow in Field
Legend Says Sacred Rock Was Taken
From Egypt to Portugal, Ireland and
Scotland, and Then to England.
Of all the traditions that will dig- i
hify the coronation of King George VI
there is none more venerable than that
of the Li-Fail, the little block of stone
that rests within the coronation stone.
It is not impressive to the sight—gray
brown, flecked with mica, less than a
foot thick and only about 2 feet long.
Yet this chunk of syenite is the cor
ner stone of a legend that goes back to i
the patriarch Jacob.
The Book of Genesis tells that Jacob
Slept one night in the mountain plains
of Luza. above the Dead Sea. “And
Jacob went out from Beer-Sheba and
went towards Horan. And he lighted
Upon a certain place and tarried there
all night, because the sun was set; and
he took the stones of that place and.
put them for his pillows and lay down
In that place to sleep.” And on that!
hard couch Jacob had his dream of
the ladder that reached from earth to
Heaven. In the morning “he took the
stone that he had put for his pillows
and set it up for a pillar.”
It Became Valued.
This pillar, the tradition runs, was
held in high veneration among Jacob’s
descendants, the children of Israel.
They esteemed it for its association
with their great ancestor, and also be
cause of its power to confer leadership
and authority upon its possessor. So
they took it with them into their
Egyptian exile.
According to the legend, the power
©f the stone held good. Moses rose to
high favor at the court of Pharaoh
Orus and became captain-general of
the Egyptian forces. When the Ethi
opians swept down from the southwest
Moses met them and broke them.
With the victorious captain-general
was a young Greek. Gathelus, exiled
•on of King Cecrops of Athens. He
had fought valiantly in the campaign,
and shared in the glory of Moses. The
latter was embarrassingly popular with
the men of his own race. Pharaoh '
Orus feared his influence and took
advantage of the killing of an Egyp
tian by the Hebrew conquerer to ban
ish Moses into Madia.
Gathelus Got Power.
Gathelus was young and handsome.
He had no troublesome ties with sup
pressed minorities, and so Pharaoh
gave him his daughter Scota in mar
riage, and he succeeded to a major
share of the power and influence of
the banished Moses. Then, in due !
course. Pharaoh Orus was succeeded
by his grandson Chencres, a lavish
man who indulged in a primitive form
of Jew baiting. It brought the 10
plagues on the head of his country
men. and Gathelus the Greek began
to consider the advisability of emi
grating.
Matters came to a crisis when
Chencres’ army was swallowed up by
the Red Sea. Gathelus put his wife,
his children, his slaves and his chat
tels on a boat on the Nile and quietly
stole away. But Moses had told him
of the virtues of the stone of Jacob,
and Gathelus took care to include the
sacred stone among his effects.
It Moved Northward.
Scota and Gathelus first landed in
Lusitania, the modern Portugal. Later
their descendants moved northward
and settled in Brigantia, taking the
stone with them. Eventually it was
earned to Tara Hill in L-eland by
Simon Brecht, son of Milo the Scot.
It was now known as the Lia-Fail,
or Stone of Destiny, and all the rulers
of the race of Scota and Gathelus
were crowned upon it.
In the fifth century the Lia-Fail
was taken from Tara to Dunstaffnage
in Scotland, to lend eclat to the coro
nation of Fergus McErc. In 840 It
was carried to the Abbey of Scone by
Kenneth II. During its sojourn in
Scotland the Stone of Destiny seems
to have acquired a new accomplish
ment. If the ruler crowned upon it
were false, the stone groaned an ef
fective warning.
Now in Westminster.
In the reign of Edward the Con
fessor the Stone of Scone was moved
to Westminster, where it has remained
ever since to grace the coronations
of the Kings of England. Skeptics
are triumphantly refuted with the
fact that the syenite of which the Lia
Fail is composed in the mountains
northwest of the Dead Sea in Pales
tine. The Scots console themselves
W’ith an old rhyme that says:
"Except old saws do faile
And wizards’ wits be blind,
The Scots in place must reign
Where they this stone shall find/’
And the English must ieel grateful
for the fact that for many centuries
now the Stone of Destiny has re
mained contentedly mute.
CHILDREN’S CIRCUS
TO BE HELD MAY 8
Third Annual Festival of Com
munity Center Set for
Central Stadium.
The third annual children’s festival
circus, conducted by the Community
Center Department, will be held May 8
in Central High School Stadium, It
was decided yesterday.
Plans and details for the event are
In the hands of community secretaries,
under supervision of Mrs. Elizabeth
K. Peeples, Community Center direc
tor. A meeting will be held tomorrow
to arrange the program.
In case of inclement weather on
the scheduled date, the circus will
be held in Central's auditorium. Mrs.
M. W. Davis, secretary of the South
east Center, is general chairman,
Mrs. Edith H. Hunter of Central Cen
ter is chairman of arrangements and
Mrs. L. W. Hardy, supervisor-secre
tary at East Washington Center, is
chairman of concessions and special
ties.
Other committee heads are Mrs. A.
L. Irving, Mrs. D. E. Middleton, Mrs.
M. C. Combs, Mrs. Mabel Clark, Mrs.
Vera Robertshaw, Mrs. Louise Wynne
and Harold Snyder.
Early Alarm Saves Three.
Ringing exactly an hour before the
time it was set, an alarm clock woke
Mrs. Elizabeth Hume, her 11-year
old son and her sister in time to escape
from a fire in their home at Sunder
land, England.
QUOTO CLUB WILL SEND
RICHMOND DELEGATION
—
Tenth District Assemblage to Be
Held in Virginia Capital
March 20-21.
The Quoto Club of Washington
member of Quoto International, Inc.,
Is planning to send a large delega
tlon to the Tenth District Conference
at Richmond, Va , March 20 and 21.
Among those attending will be Mrs,
Ruth B Shipley of the State Depart
ment, club president; Mrs. Sallie V. H.
Pickett, society editor emeritus of The
Star; Miss Sibyl Baker, superivsor of
the playgrounds of the District; Mrs.
Blanche Knight, chief annotator, In
terstate Commerce Commission; Nor
mr Hardy Britton, attorney, and Jo
hanna Busse, Bureau of Standards.
Give* Blood to Parishioner.
To aave the life of one of his parish
oners the vicar of St. Andrew's, at
Eccles, England, has given a pint of
his blood.
BANQUET TO JEFFERSON
Thomas Jefferson's birthday anni-' •
versary will be celebrated on the
evening of April 13 by the Virginia
Society of the District at a banquet
in the Wilkird Hotel. The list of
guests, to be announced later, is
expected to Include many prominent
persons, a number of whom will pay
tribute in speeches to the early Vir
ginia statesman.
Assistant Secretary of State R.
Walton Moore, president of the society,
Is head of the Committee on Arrange
ments for the banquet.
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