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WHAT ABOUT SPIRITUALISM
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MANY NOTABLES WILL ASSIST IN DEDICATING JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER TOMORROW
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’lhe $400,000 building at Sixteenth and Q Streets Northwest, which will
house all the Jewish activities in Washington. It is one of the most
beautiful buildings along the Avenue of the Presidents. It will be
dedicated tomorrow with flag-raising ceremonies in the afternoon. Nota
bles from ail parts of the country will gather to participate in the cere
monies of dedication in the evening.
HOUDINI TO SUPPORT ANTI-SPIRITUALIST DILL
Urge Increase in Women s Property Rights
0. C. GfIDUP
STUDIES
BILLS
A number of important Disti ict
bills today were given preliminary
consideration by the judiciary sub
committee of the House District
Committee.
The committee held a hearing on
a bill to amend the District code
With regard to descent and dis
tribution, so as to give the mother
the same property rights as the
father in the transmission of
property.
Backed by Women
The measure is regarded by the j
Woman’s Bar Association and the '
National Woman’s Party as one of
the most important steps taken in j
many years in the District toward
the granting of equal rights to
women.
A case growing out of the Knick
erbocker Theater disaster was used
by Miss Pearl Bellman Klein of the
executive committee of the Wom
an's Bar Association as an example
of the need _for the new law.
A 17-year-old boy was killed in
the crash and his father died three
months later, Miss Klein said. The
mother sued for damages, but it
was held that the father had ex
clusive right of recovery and she
was not entitled to sue. Since the
father lived three months after the
death of the son his estate was en
titled to recovery for loss of services
of the son to his father for three
months.
Among the witnesses were Mrs.
Rebekah Greathouse, assistant Dis
trict attorney; Judge Mary O'Toole
of the Municipal Court, Mrs. Ber
nita Shelton-Matthews, Mrs. Legare
O’Bear and Miss Marie S. Ruth of
the District Bar Association.
Action Postponed
Final action on the measure was
postponed to permit Representative
Ralph Gilbert of Kentucky to pre-!
pare an amendment covering the
er.tire inheritance section of the Dis
trict law so as to remove several
discriminatory features.
The committee set the following
dates tor hearings on pending legis- i
la t ion:
February 26—A bill giving women
the right to sit on District juries
and the Dickstein bill, regulating
the sale of kosher meat.
March -1 —The Blanton anti-pick
eting bill.
March 4—The Lankford bill pro
viding Sunday "blue laws’’ for the
District.
March it —The Blanton bill pro
viding for licensing of real estate
dealers and to prevent fraudulent
real estate transactions.
To Put on Film of Alps
A preview of moving picture
films of "Switzerland’’ will be
shown tomorrow’ night in the Ward
'man Park Hotel Theater in honor
-of Marc Peter, minister from Swit
zerla&d to this country. The show
’ng Is under the auspices of the
Bureau of Commercial
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WHY LOVE GETS COLD i
Star married a decent sort es clmp.
Who loved her itqimre and true.
And would have been contented with
Moot anything ithe could do.
He did love something good to
And wanted ‘it in famion Orthodox,
But when he would come in quite
bungn-
She’d tell him. "look in the lee
And when he would look in carefully.
Hoping to find something nice.
About all he ever aaw was a smear
of butter
And a chunk of chilly looking ice.
At Christmas times he was liberal to
her.
Furnishing her with plenty of
And yet ids boot Christmas present
A pair of faded looking socks.
Os course you expect n moral to all
this.
Aad they are to be found In each
viriutty.
It’s wasn’t long until his love grew
col<i
And he got himself an affinity.
MARMALADE MIKE.
An Atlanta couple got
married while out walking.
They’ll probably sit down and
repent. H. G. D.
THE PROPHET
He doped all kinds of weather ever
known.
And some, of course, did really
tame to pass.
Twas dfne. he said, with Just a plain
goose bone.
But many thought the Jawbone of
an ass.
EDWIN I. SHOPE.
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UNFAMILIAR QUOTATIONS •
Fiourina up a poker game: Chipe
that paea in (he night.
At the fir at bluah of love: The
away of a man with a maid.
After he'a married: A rag and a
bone* and a hankering for ait;.
The loafing jokeatera: They toil
not, but they spin—yarn a.
When the radio liar atarta:
Where the peat begina.
STEAMBOAT STEVE.
DEATH WITHOUT VICTORY
A Boston widow, cultured and re
fined.
A monument for her late husband de
signed.
A plain marble shaft—a warning to
men—
" Rest in peace until we meet again.”
OLD SOCKS.
SNIFF! SNIFF! SNIFF!
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I’m Just an ordinarv handbag
In s corner at I nion Station.
But you see I’m spilling over
With stuff that gives elation.
Don’t tell Volstead you saw me,
Or he would have a spasm.
And I don’t want anything
To break up my enthusiasm,
VET BUREAU DIRECTORS
TO DINE AT LAFAYETTE
Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of
the Veterans Bureau, and the assist
ant directors, will be the guests of
honor at a banquet of the con
struction division of the Veterans
Bureau at the Lafayette Hotel this
evening.
Music and vaudeville features
will entertain the diners. Field
superintendents and office engi-
WASHKWFHMES
I MORRIS CAFRITZ
Chairman of the.
fund drive that made
the building possible,
who also will lead a J
membership drive.
HOW STATESMEN VOTE
H. L. Mencken, in a recent
article, sails into those states
men who vote “dry” but
“wet.”
Congressmen who vote dry,
but drink wet, or vice versa,
are not necessarily humbugs.
If a man with political aspira
tions lives in a dry or wet dis
trict he must yield on that point
to the wishes of his constituents
and is honest in doing it. He
can render valuable service to
his people along other lines.
A man’s constituents are inter
ested in his vote, not his thirst.
FRED VETTER.
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TO AN ABSENT MO'fHER
/ dreamed of a flower
And then at the midnight hour
I thought your hands reached out
to me,
Beautiful in their soft, white sym
metry.
They touched my face
Like an angel of grace
And all the pent-up emotions of
years
Burst their floodgates, I awakened
in tears.
I dreamed of black night skies
And then, immeaaurably calm, your
eyes
Like radiant stars, looked out at
ine
Lighting my heart with their bril
liancy.
Their light pierced so deep
That I atirred in my sleep
And awakened. The whole room
through
Seemed filled with the sweetness of
you.
KEVIN OGILVIE.
THIS DOES NOT APPLY
TO F STREET CONDITIONS.
(From the Osage, Kan., Independent)
We don’t remember In normal
time* ever having aeen caJvee up
higher than at the present time.
neers in charge of the fifty-six
veterans’ hospitals will attend the
dinner.
Upshaw to Speak
Representative William D. Up
shaw, of Georgia, will be the prin
cipal speaker at a meeting Monday
night of the North Capitol Citizens
Association to be held in the Sun
day school auditorium of the United
Brethren Church, North Capitol and
R Streets, at 8 o’clock.
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1926
I SENATOR THOMAS J. WALSH I
Os Montana who will be a speaker at
the dedication exercises to be held in
the great auditorium of the center
which wHI seat 1,100. ■
N. E. 1. HITS
LITERACY
FIGURES
For the first time in American
history, a nationally powerful or
ganization of educators today
questioned the accuracy of the il
literacy statistics of the Bureau
of Census, and named a commit
tee to visit the bureau in this con
nection.
The action came as a surprise
at the close of the morning ses
sion of the National Council of
State' Superintendents and Com
missioners of Education, in the
new Willard Hotel.
Woman Raises Point
An address by Mrs. Cora Wilson
Stewart, president of the World Il
literacy Commission, at yesterday
afternoon’s meeting of the council,
was the direct cause for the
council’s stand.
Mrs. Stewart's contention was
that cities and States are being
charged by the Federal census
takers with numbers of illiterates
considerably at variance with the
statistics compiled by municipali
ties. She urged the need of calling
this condition to the attention of
the Census Bureau, with a view to
having the census takers more
fully Instructed as to illiteracy
standards and tests..
In pursuance of this thought, dis
cussed generally by the council
after Mrs. Stewart’s talk, President
Josephine Corliss Preston appointed
as a committee to bring the coun
cil’s message to the bureau, Francis
G. Blair, of Illinois; George M.
Ford, of West Virginia, aud John
W. Abercrombie, of Alabama. All
are State superintendents of edu
cation.
Long Discussion Ahead
The illiteracy question, according
to Mrs. Stewart, is to be discussed
at great length during the conven
tion of the Department of Super
intendence, National Education As
sociation. next week. inasmu?h as
statistics on illiterates have been
questioned so often.
H. V. Holloway, superintendent
of public instruction for Delaware,
told the meeting that the cost of
education will never be so low as
it is at this time, due to the con
stantly increasing activities and
improvements in the schools.
The result of “economy that
limits the activities of our schools
to the ‘three R’s’ ", Holloway said,
must eventually be disaster to the
educational system. Changes have
come, he said, as “the irrevocable
outgrowth of our modern life.”
Improvements Recited
Some of these changes, he stated,
are improved text-books, vocational
classes, health provisions, special
schools for physically or mentally
defective pupils, a larger school
population, enforcement of compul
sory attendance laws, an Increased
ndmber of days In the school year,
increase in high school enrollment,
increased teachers’ salaries, in
creased cost of construction, trans-
I HARRY KING
President of the center, who
will have a leading part in the
I - dedication. The key to the
center will be presented to
I him by Isadore Freund.
President to Receive
District Heroes
President Coolidge, as well a« the public of Washington, in
tends to pay homage to the police and firemen heroes who
have been cited by a citizens committee of Washington for
bravery during the year of 1925.
The President today signified his 4
appreciation of the deeds of Wawi-1
ington’s own heroes by setting a 1
time to be introduced to them at
the White House. This meeting
will take place next Friday at 12:20
o’clock. Because of the great
pressure on the Chief Executive's
time, only the two gold medal
heroes and the recipient of the
special silver medal, together with
Commissioner Rudolph and Chiefs
Watson and Hesse, will be intro
duced at the White House. These
are Detective Michael J, Dowd and
Fireman W. J. Schmitz, who will
receive the gold medals and Drivqi
Jacob Wolf, for 'whom a special
medal has been provided this year.
Sixth Year For Awards
For the past six years The Wash
ington Times has given public
recognition to the outstanding j
members of the rank and file of i j
the police and fire departments
whose deeds in the performance of
their duty have been particularly' j
conspicuous.
Besides Dowd, Schmits and Wolf
ten other members of the two de
partments will receive merit bars j
for valorous deeds during the year '
1925. They are Lieut. C. D. Bar
telmes, Private P. J. Wheeler, Sergt.
T. H. Green. Battalion Chief A. C.
Buscher and Capt. A. C. Burch,
of the Fire Department. The merit
bar winners in the Police Depart
ment are Private J. H. Fling, Pri-
Nichola. Private O. v L. Blackwell
and Private T. M. Poland.
The citizens committee which re
viewed all of the exceptional cases
of bravery In the departments se
lected the thirteen mentioned in
cluded Commissioner Cuno H. Ru
dolph, Mrs. John Allen Dougherty,
Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke, Charles
W. Darr, Odell S. Smith, Dr. Ed
ward R. Gooken and Henry N.
Brawner, jr.
Public Honors Planned
At the public exercises to honor
the police and firemen heroes, Rep
resentative Clyde M. Kelly of Penn
sylvania will make the presenta
tion address. Mr. Kelly is an ardent
portation of school children, night
schools and continuation schools.
He was followed by Pierre S.
Du Pont, of Wilmington, Del., who
spoke on obsolescence and deprecla
tion of school buildings. He gave
the maximum practicable age of a
school building as forty years, and
Introduced voluminous statistics on
his subject.
Teachers College Men
Discuss Curricula and
Work of Institutions
The American Association of
Teachers Colleges and the National
Vocational Guidance Association to
day continued their meetings at the
Hotel Washington. The former
took up aspects of the curricula
problem in Institutions for Instruc
tion of future teachers.
Papers were read by President
H. A. Brown, of the State Normal
School at Oshkosh, Wis., on "What
Should Be Emphasized Chiefly in
Developing Higher Standards”: E. S.
Evenden, of teachers’ college, Co
lumbia University, on "What
Courses in Education Are Desirable
in a Four-Year Curriculum”: S. W.
Frasier. State College at Greeley,
Colo,, on ‘’Differentiation and Pro
fessionalization of Curricula and
I. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
Delivering a speech at the cornerstone laying last May. The
Chief Executive oh that occasion said: *ThA edifice which you
are rearing here is a fine example for other communities, it
speaks a purpose to uphold 'ancient and noble philosophy of
life and living.”
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admirer of Washington's public
safety departments and .believes the
local organisations are good enough
to be models for the remainder of
the country.
Happy Walker is arranging -a
program of music for the ceremony
which will take place at Central
High School Auditorium, March 1.
at 8 p. m., and the Hillblllie
quartet will render some at its
old-time melodies. Fred Buchholz,
following in his father’s footsteps,
will be host to the heroes at a
date shortly following the presen
tation exercises. The late Gus Buch
holz annually entertained the men
publicly honored by The Washing
ton Times and the son, Fred, has
a deep desire to emulate his illus
trious father In this as in other
things. ■«.
Courses in State Teachers’ College”;
W. W. Charters, University of Chi
cago, on “The Basis and Principles
of Curriculum Construction for
These Colleges,’’ and Charles H.
Judd, of Chicago University, on
“Some Features of the Curricula."
Personal service in connection
with vocational training as it re
lates to the individual, to college
work, industry,-* and for those phy
sically handicapped was discussed
ty the voeationalists.
Dr. William A. White, of St.
Elizabeth’s Hospital, took up the
last of these and Emma Hirth. di
rector of the bureau of vocational
information, of New York city, dis
cussed the general aspects of per
sonal service.
Other speakers on the subject
were F. J. Hughes, employment
manager of the Bureau of Agricul
tural Economics; C. C. Robinson,
director of the boys work, interna
tional committee of the ¥. M. C. A.;
Louis B. Hopkins, director of pei
sonnel. Northwestern University,
and H. L. Stanton, supervisor of re
-1 abilitation for North Carolina.
Federal Board of Vocational Edu
cation.
In the morning the executive
committee of the National Educa
tion Association held a routine meet
ing preliminary to the opening of
the convention proper
VOTELESS WASHINGTON
Fifty-two per cent of the land area within the Di strict of
Columbia bear, the teal estatei tax burden for the whole, qdw
to tax-free holdings by the Federal Government and religious,
educational and charitable organisations.
Theft Traced Through
Many Hands Ends
In $25 Fine
“The defendant went into this
man’s house, stole a numbef of
drinking glasses from his son,
. gave them to another man’s
wife, who gave them to her
mother, who was preparing to
give them to a friend of her’s,”
Policeman H. W. Gaither told
Judge Gus A. Schnldt in the
United States branch of Police
Court today, when Francis E.
Dent appeared in court and
pleaded “guilty” to larceny.
“It must have taken .you at
least'Six months to trace them
down, didn’t it officer?” hist
honor inquired?
“Yes sir, and they’re not
worth much anyway.”
Dent said that he is a “white
wing” employed on the city,
streets.
Judge Schuldt told him that
he is employed to clean up out
side and not inside, then sen
tenced him to pay a fine of $25
or serve 25 days in jail.
MOTHER SEEKS
MDG SON
A year ago last September, John
Thomas Kidd bade to his
mother. Mrs. Julia Kidd, at their
home, 224 % Quincy Pl. N. W., and
left to' drive a party of wealthy
tourists to Florida. That’s the last
the little, gray-haired woman has
heard from her boy—and her anxiety
over "his welfare has grown dally.
"Johnny is a good ’ boy," Mrs.
Kidd told The Times Missing Per
sons Bureau yesterday, when she
asked aid in finding the youth. “I
don’t know why he has stayed
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away. 1 love him. and I believe
he loves me. If I only could get
some word that he is alive and
safe.”
Mrs. Kidd describes her son as
being 25 years old, ,of light com
plexion, light blue eyes, slender,
about 5 feet. 8 inches tall and a
“careful dresser. ’’ He weighs about
J 45 pounds and is a chauffeur.
DR. SHEPHERD TO ADDRESS
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Dr. W. Thomas Shepherd will
address a meeting of the Society
for Philosophical Inquiry, to be held
the National Museum Tuesday
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock. His sub
ject Will be “The Influence of Edu
cation and Environment on the
Religious Ideas and Beliefs of
Children.”
t JUDGE IRVING »
LEHMAN
Os New York, presi
dent of the Jewish Wel
fare Board, who will
I apeak at the dedication.
MEDIUMS
HEIDI TO
BITTLE
The battle over spiritualism
and the right ®f spiritualist me*
diums to practice in Washington
will be fought out before the Sen
ate District Committee next Fri
day.
Houdini, celebrated magician J
and arch-foe of the spiritualists,
will be the star witness before
the committee in support of legis
lation which would virtually pro
hibit mediums from indulging in
spiritualst “communication” with
the departed, within the boun
daries of the city.
Spiritualists Mobilize
The spiritualists are mobilizing
in defense of their mediums ana
will give Houdini a hard fight be
fore the Senate District Committee,
according to all present Indications.
The legislation before the commit
tee would drive out of the Wash
ington all clairvoyants, sooth sayers,
palmists, phrenologists, mediums
and the garden variety of fortune
tellers.
The spiritualists are incensed ovet
being classified with fortune tellers,
and insist upon being recognized
as a religious faith and having all
the rights guaranteed them under
the Constitution, including freedom
of religion.
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FAMILY ROW
During an altercation in their
home late last night between Mrs.
E. H. .Lairfbert and her husband.
1142 Morse St. N. E., the wife was
cut slightly on the side of her
heck, police allege, by her husband.
: She was treated at t Casualty Hos
pital and then returned home.
i Lambert was arrested by police of
I the Ninth Precinct and charged
' with assault with a dangerous
j weapon.
FILIPINOS TO DISCUSS
OWN PROBLEMS MONDAY
Washington’s birthday will be the
occasion x Of a discussion of the
Philippines question, at the Play
house, 1814 N St., at 8:15 p. m. v
Among the speakers will be Sergio -J
Osmena, president pro tem of the
Philippines Senate, and - former
speaker of the. House c* Repre
sentatives of the Islands; Repre
sentative James A. Freer of Wiscon
sin, Representative Clyde H. Taven
ner of Illinois and Charles Edward
Russell. Filipino musicians will play
Fiiipino music.
UNITY GROUP TO HEAR
NEW THOUGHT TEACHER
Miss Mary A. Williams,
minister of the Unity Society and
a spiritual teacher of New Thought,
will speak on "Humanity’s Highest
Mission." at a. meeting tonight of
the "League for the Larger Life.”
at the club rooms, 1628 K St. N.
W., at 8 o’clock.
The program will include a
dramatic reading by Miss Jean
Wilson and musical selections. Re
freshments will be served and ad- ,
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