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Evening star., 1913-12-06
BY Selene Armstrong Harmon.

Eugenics" Its something Of hard old
word and far from frivolous. Yet in
Washington. at least. IT'S ali the fashion.
Mrs. John Hays hammond. wife OF the
millionaire mining engineer, has sue
ceeded in interesting The women Of the
capital i'll this difticuIt and ,ittle known
subject. Many Of her friends have caught
her enthusiasm. with the result that sew
eral women of social prominence will
open their homes this winter TO- lectures
10 which the public viii he invited and at
which eminent scientists viii present the
subject of eugencs. not in a scientitc,
but in an educational way.
At The convention held recently in the
capital by the Association for the Study
and Prevention Of Infant Mortality Mrs
Hammond was a prominent figure and
she delivered two addresses. Under her
leadership. also. there has just opened in
Washington the Woman's Auxiliary Clinic
where working women may receive the
best medical attention outside working
hours and at a cost commensurate with
their wages.
Mrs Hammond is hostess of interna-
tional prominence Her home is fire.
quented by the most exclusive members
or the residential. diplomatic and official
sets In New York, where the Ham
monds are spending part of the present
season. their friends number society lead
ers, men and women in the front Tanns
OF artists. writer's and social workers
When John Hays Hammond was sp-
pointed by President Taf5 special am
bassador 10 the coronation OF King
George. the Hammonds occupied the Lon
don house OF their old + lend. the late
Baroness Burdett-C0u'ts, and dispersed
Evening star., 1913-12-06

ator 0emale). 27Is cents an hour. ruling
and sewing section.
Miss Lizzie NJ. Thomas, machine oper-
ator femaie), 2sis cents an hour. ruling
and sewing section, to skilled laborer
femalel, - cents an hour, pamphlet bind
ing section. night.
Miss Matilda NJ. Proctor skilled laborer
demale). - cents an hour pamphlet bind
ing section. night to machine operator
female), 21ie cents, ruling and sewing
section.
Charles r. Malpas. bookbinder. Office
foreman binding. to pamphlet binding
section. night.
William Holt. bookbnder. pamphlet
binding section. intermediate. TO forward
ing and finishing section. day.
Alfred Daniels. bookbinder, pamphlet
binding section. day. to Intermediate
Mrs Ruby :. Johnson. skilled lahorer
Gemalel. pamphlet binding section. inter
mediate to night
Mrs. NJ. Louise Jones. skilled laborer
femalel. forwarding and finishing sec
tion. to pamphlet binding section, inter-
mediate
Mrs May Il. Proctor folder. Francis
Drum. ir.. helper. and George ID. Car
pente.. skilled laborer. pamphlet binding
section, day 10 night
Hoyi A. Holton, Joseph =. Swinburne
and stephen T. Walton. compositors.
monotype section. day. to hand section,
night.
Joseph W. Belcher. William H. Berin-
ger. George W. Du Frame and Charles
Il. Huse. monotype keyboard operators:
Admiral *. Bosworth, John W. De Vries.
Walter +. Drenner. William II. Howe.
Scott *. Young and William l.. Grimes.
compositorst Frank r. Burton, Fred T..
Davis. Aubrey (. Johnson and Frederick
u. Viii, caster helpers. and Joseph Mex.
Hodges. skilled laborer. monotype section.
day 10 night
Evening star., 1913-12-06

q lavish hospitality to all properly ac-
credited Americans. The gowns worn
by Mrs Hammond al various coronation
festivities were of regal beauty and her
jewels We're on the same scale of mag
nificence. Her emerald eardrops once
delighted an EMPRESS, having originally
belonged to Catherine III of Russia.
Mrs Hammond interest does not CEN
ter in clothes and jewels BY virtue OF
not only wealth and high social position,
hut of an extraordinary personality, she
has influenced large number of women
along more serious lines. Being born
leader, il has required no special cour-
age to make good works the fashion
among her friends.
Mrs Hammond took the initiative in
interesting Washington women in eu-
genics recently, when she invited teach
ers- preachers physicians. sociologists
and society folk to a meeting at her
home Mrs Woodrow Wilson and the
women of the cabinet Were among those
who accepted the invitation and attend
ed. Mrs. Hammond presented them TO
DIR. Flnora G. Folkmar. who for years
has waged a campaign for a broader
education Of adults and children in mat
ters of sex hygiene. and VINO made a
stirring talk along this lire Now Mrs.
Hammond is working heart and soul for
the cause Of practical eugenics.
We need, she declares, "a great ma
tionaI organization for scientific research,
hut one which Will have for its purpose
the popularizing of the facts of eugenics.
so that these facts may be Incorporated
into the practical life of the people"
Mrs Hammond is the happy mother of
five children. 1t is ont of q largess of
blessing that her desire for the happiness
of other women and other women's chill
dren has arisen. She is born enthu-
siast and she IS doing a good work to-
ward the populariZing of those sedate
companions whom Irwin Cobb calls THE
Genie Twius En- and Hy'''
Evening star., 1913-12-06
ION. Library of Congress departmental

sion. Library of Congress departmental
detaiD.
Isaac II. wendal. machinists helper.
~ cents an hour. TO monotype machinist.
90 cents an hour monotype section.
Miss Mamie T. Hayes, press feeder.
press division. intermediate TO day.
Josiah II. Brnker. clerk. S1,Soc, office
superintendent OF documents. TO acting
superintendent Of documents, SS.opo
Frank NJ. Hatley. proof reader, 80 cents
an hour. proof section, TO acting fore
man. S2,n0o war and navy section.
William T. Hastings. foreman. s2,"oo;
war and navy section. to composstor' -
cents an hour. monotype section.
Louis ". Schneider, machinists help
err 10 cents an hour 10 monotype ma
chinist, 80 cents an hour, monotype sec
ton.
James A. Simmons unskilled laborer.
stores division, 10 plate vault section.
John +. Jones, messenger. office superin-
tendent of work, TO linotype section.
night.
George 5 Fitzgerald. compositor. -
cents an hour. monotype section. night.
TO proof reader. Go cents an hour, proof
section. night.
Charles NJ, Wright. Charles r. Smalley,
Lee J. Runyan. Merwih .. Howe, Ernest
Arm. Lewis c. Tuttle. proof section, day
to night
Edward J. Hall. proof reader. proof
section. night 10 day.
rtNtfu =. 113W. caster ntiptI, cents
an hour. to machnists helper. ~ cents
an hour, monotype section.
John NJ. Loughran, compositor, - cents
an hour. 10 maker-up. 60 cents an hour.
monotype section, night.
William w. Wallace. caster helper. -
cents an hour monotype section day, Il
machinist's helper - cents an hour.
monotype section, night
Franklin Welch. monotype keyhoa rd
operator, 90 cents an hour TO deskman.
o. cents an hour. monotype section. night.
Charles T.. Tompkins and Theodore Ger
ber. compositors. hand section, day u
night.
Bernhardt r Freuss. Edward l.. May.
Alexander j. Watson. Joseph A. Scannell
James r. Johnson, Louis r. Danforth.
John w. Griffith and Theodore y. g VIII
lis, linotype operators, linotype section.
day to night
Robert r. billiard. machine helper, lin
otyDe section, day TO night.
George A. Sutton, machine helper. -
cents an hour. to helper. - cents an hour.
linotype section, night.
Walter ". Haring. skilled laborer. >.
machine helper, 81 cents an hour, limo
type section, night.
Charles &. Brodie, compositor. % cents
an hour. linotype section night, TO maker
up. 60 cents hour.
Albert J. Weber, stereotyper, foundry
section, day to intermediate.
Mrs Mary L. Nervis. folder, - cents
an hour. pamphlet binding section. day
to skilled laborer demaleD, - cents an
hour. pamphlet binding section, night
Miss Daisy Z. Davis, skilled laborer
Cfemaley, > cents an hour pamphlet
binding section. night. TO machine oper-
Evening star., 1913-12-06
POST OFFICE BUSINESS
REPORTED ON INCREASE
Quarterly Financial Statement
Shows Improvement Over
Same Period Year Ago.

The quarterly financial statement of
the auditor for the Post Office Depart
Inent shows that the revenues of the de-
partmeut Tor the three months ended
June 81. 1919, amounted to $50. $40 103. 81,
an Increase of s5,65sd1:.53, or 81 per
cent over the same period OF last year.
OF this sum s59. .422 1881 was collected
from the sale OF postage stamps, stamped
envelopes and postal cards. and S2,J1i,
30 from second-class mail matter sent
by publishers. The audited expenditures
totaled S66 80. .si3 an increase of s., So.
5D6.l6, or . per cert over the preceding
year. Some of the larger items of ex-
penditure were for salaries of postmasters
and clerks in post offices. Si7.5s1 J6T .o1 ;
rural letter carriers. sl1 ,522. 1856 city
delivery carriers Ss.SS5. 1868: and rail-
road mail transportation Sl1, 7i3 2I4.6o
There was an increase OF 10 per cent in
the volume of money order business The
number OF domestic money orders ISSUED
was 23,515.414. amounting 10 SIj9 os2-
$3.50. In addition. s6i, I0I international
money orders amounting to s2l. .>5l 62l 81
were issued oy United States postmasters
payable in foreign countries Generally
ders are issued at the 45.tsp Iourth-cIass
post offices and paid in half dozen of
the large cities. one uut Of every tive
money orders issued j. paid in Chicago
and one out Of every ten in New York.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
In the Government Printing Office

tary Seibold will call the roll of the de-
ceased members The committee in
charge of the exercises consists Of Nelson
F. Meyer, chairman; J. Louis Ferber.
John III. Davis. Mary A. Connolly and
Clarence Miller.
Continued i'll health has compelled
George Fl. Stull, reader in the proofroom.
to apply for limit of leave of absence.
Mr.. Stull is veteran of the civil war
and one of the old-time employees on spec
ifications in the office.
Proofreader ]. A. u. Turner is con-
fined TO his home with an attack of
grippe.
William C'Cuppy') Farmer Of the mon
otype machine room returned to work
Monday after an absence of three months.
during which time he was acting coach
for the Furman University foot bali team
of Greenville, 5. G.. The Furman team
played championship games with a num-
Der Of southern college teams and the
winning of seven out of nine gridiron
contests demonstrated the effectiveness
of Mr.. Farmers coaching.
James Sewers, imposer in the document
thand section. has returned to work
after two-month vacation spent AT his
former home in Jonesboro. Ill
Imposer c. A. Capell of the specitica-
IoilS DIVISION is spending MS vacation IN
Michigan.
Theodore Gerber, Charles l.. Tompkins,
Harry w. Zeigler and l.. J. Bennett of
the night document section are among
those who have been on leave the past
week.
A. L. Fessenden, operator in the day
monotype section has been absent the
past week on account of illness in his
family.
Appointments, separations, transfers,
etc, in the office for the week ended
December , have been announced, as
follows:
Appointments-C. A. Chabeaux. tempo
rary stereotyper, and James III. Camper,
temporary compoSitor.
Separations-Frank G. Wallace. super
intendent of documents, resigned: Miss
Gladys NJ. Rinehart, assistant telephone
switchboard operator. resigned: Edmund
A. Hutchison, proof reader, resigned
George j. Finch, bookbinder, resigned );
John A. Phillips, compositor, resigned,
and Horace Z. HoWes and Benjamin H.
Jamason. skilled laborers, resigned.
Transfers, etc.-George +. Pyemont.
book binder, Office foreman of binding to
forwarding and finishing section.
Michael j. Hagerty. bookbnder. Depart
ment of Agriculture, to catalogue divi-
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Farmer Browns Boy Lives Up
to His Word.

Sammy Jay followed Farmer Brown s
boy all the way through the Green
Forest scolding and saying impudent
things to him. But he was wasting his
breath. Farmer Browns boy didn't pay
any attention to him. He just didn't
notice him at all. OF course, this made
Sammy angrier than ever, but try as
he would he couldn't make Farmer
Browns boy even look at him.
You see, Farmer Browns boy was
thinking very hard. He was thinking
about that splendid pond and that
splendid dam and that splendid
house and that splendid canal back
there deep in the Green Forest,
and how wonderful it was that they
had been made by Paddy the Beaver
The more he thought about it the more
his respect for Paddy grew. It was the
first time that he ever had had real
respect for any of the little meadow
and forest people. and it gave him a
queer feeling.
Why said he. talking aloud as he
walked along, IF ! should meet that
Beaver | should feel just like taking
my hat off and bowling to him
realiy would. ! was planning to trap
him and get his skin, but now after
seeing what he has done, and after
having him actually mend his dam
without my knowing it. l just couldn't
trap him, No. sir: I just couldn't He's
afraid of me- but he doesn't need TO be
any longer. I'm the best friend he's
got If he only knew it. That was a
mean thing I did this afternoon when
tore hole in his dam TO let the wa
ter out of his pond. I'm ashamed OF
myself and yet-well, I'm kind of glad
| did it. too. You see. / wouldn't have
known how smart he is if ! hadn't
guess he was some worried when he
found the water growing lower and
lower In his pond, and I'm afraid he's
worrying some now for fear I'll do il
again. II ought to make it up to
him somehow. I'll just have to think
how / can"
Farmer Browns boy was quite right
about Paddy. He was worrying 1t
was bad enough to know that Old Man
Coyote was prowling around and that
he would have to always be on the
watch to keep from being caught and
eaten up. But Paddy had a great deal
TO warn him Of danger. That was what
they had been given him for by Old
Mother Nature. IF I'm not as smart
as old Man Coyote then | deserve TO be
caught, thought he. But to have
Farmer Browns boy making trouble
for him was another matter. Yes. in
deed. that was quite another matter.
1t certainly did worry him. He had
made his pond very deep in the Green
Forest because he had thought that
no one but the little people who live
there and of whom he had no fear.
would find it, 1t was too late for him
10 go somewhere else and build "A new
dam and make a new pond, because
Jack Frost would be along most any
day now. There was nothing to do but
spend the winter right there and watch
out sharper than ever. He sighed long
and deep.
why men and boys SO cruel are
] cannot understand
If they would only be our friends
What joy would fill the land"
Paddy sighed again as he said this
and then swan over to his dam to see
that the place he had mended was all
Evening star., 1913-12-06

money order and the registry systems,
are among the safest in the world me
amount of money lost by individuals IN
this way is negligible quantity. and the
amount lost by the government almost So
With a system of checks in each instance
that insures safe handling there are very
few slips that can come between cup
and lip in transferring money by mail
During one year nearly four billion dol
lars worth of money and stamps was
sent by the Post Office and Treasury de-
partments through the mail on their own
account, without loss Like the money
order system, the registered letter sys-
tenn is being extended over the interna-
tional boundaries of the world until now
1t is difficult to travel far enough to get
away from a place where one cannot send
o. receive money by registered mall
Evening star., 1913-12-06
HERNDON MAYOR BETTER.
En0s L. Garrett Ill at Home of Son
in Richmond.
Special Correspondence of The Star


HERNDON. Va. December G. 1919
The condition of Mayor Enos l.. Gar
rett, who was stricken with PARALYSIS
while at the home of his son. i'm Rich
mond. Is reported as improved. Magnus
T. Wilkins is acting mayor in Mr.. Gar
rett's absence.
W. J. Zopfi Of Pleasant Valley has
sold his farm to w Alexander Of
southwest Virginia. Mr.. Zopfi will re-
move to New Jersey.
Rev. Everard Meade of Pohick Church
held services in ST. Timothy.s Church.
this place, Thursday. DR.. Meade was
the guest while here of DR. Charles r
Russell.
meeting of the League of the Hern
don Schools was held Friday. Mr.. Bin
ford. head of the league in Virginia.
will address the school next Thursday
At meeting of the Herndon Chapter
OF the Red Cross, held Thursday, the
following officers were elected: Chair
man, Mrs. Joseph b. North: secretary.
Mrs. Warren M. McNair, and treasurer,
Rev. w. c. Harden.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Support for Peace Centenary Plan.

LONDON, December 6.-Thc movement
Tor celebrating the centenary Of peace
among English speaking peoples and the
holding of AZ -Nngio-American exposition
in London received promises of support
from many sources at dinner last night
at which the Duke of Teck presided
Earl Grey. Sir Algernon Kintere and
other prominent men made addresses
while Sir Edward Grey, the British for
eign secretary. and James Bryce former
ambassador TO the United States, sent
sympathetic messages
Evening star., 1913-12-06
CANADA IS WILLING
TO HELP FOOT BILL
Ready to Match American DOL
lars in Paying for Peace
Celebration.

j. \. Stewart. chairman of the Ameri-
can committee to arrange for the inter
national celebration OF the hundred years
OF peace between English speaking peo-
pies. told the House foreign affairs COM
sn.ttee late yesterday afternoon that he
had learned from Premier Borden of Can
ada that the Dominion is ready and will
ing to put up one dollar for every dollar
the United States government will ap-
propriate toward the celebration.
Mr.. Stewart appeared before the COM
mittee III an effort to have passed the
bill appropriating preliminary sum of
$780, 600 and appointing a representative
committee OF high government officials
TO act for the United States when the
international celebration is held on the
centennial of the signing OF the treaty of
Client in 1919.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Wants Half a Million.

If Mr.. Stewards plans are not cur
tailed the government will have pretty
sum to pay. as he fgures that the United
States should appropriate at least half a
mi lion dollars for the purpose of making
a proper governmental demonstration In
addition, there will be state and munich
pal celebrations and il was proposed to
the committee that copper tablets be
placed on the faces Of certain great
glacial rocks properly TO record the event
IL the United States does not take
hold of this celebration properly" he
said, Great Britain viii take the lead"
Evening star., 1913-12-06

And all the time Farmer Browns
boy was keeping right on thinking
and thinking, and If Paddy could only
have known what he was thinking
he wouldn't have worried half so much
You see. Farmer Browns boy was do
ing his very best to think of some plan
to help Paddy and make him safe He
was trying to live up to his word when
he had said that he would never again
meddle with Paddy's dam or allow any
one else to.
Evening star., 1913-12-06

memorial tablet To Ensign Charles F..
Hovey OF the navy, killed in an engage
ment with natives in the Philippines in
1911. is being Installed in the memorial
room of Bancroft Hall. at the Naval
Academy. Annapolis, Md, and will be un-
veiled Sunday.
Evening star., 1913-12-06

The Western Maryland Railway Com
pany has laid off about 3UU men at Han
cock. Md All of the trackmen but three
were furioughed
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Rotary Registry Lock
Seldom Tampered With.

with. The two clerks who open the pouch
and check up its contents very seldom.
indeed find that the list does not agree
with the statement furnished by the two
clerks who made 1t up. These locks have
been in use for years. and so accurate
and careful is the record kept of the
times they are opened that the postal au-
thorities could tell months afterward ex-
actly what clerks opened a given lock az
each stage of It's progress in the postal
service.
The money transferring systems Of the
American postal service-that is, the
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Difficulty Is Found
in Auditing Accounts.

diting the money order accounts OF the
$1,000 post offices of the country 10
overcome the trouble of checking order
by order. by the hand process. which re-
cuired much time and gave no little room
for troublesome mistakes the new me-
chanical audit system was devised. IN
der this system each office is given a
serial number composed of five figures
and by the use Of punching machines
cards with holes punched in them are
made to tell to tabulating machines the
name of the office issuing the order, the
number Of the order. the face value Of
the order. and the fee received by the
postmaster for issuing it, Every one of
the hundred million money orders has us
own punched card, and by machinery
these cards are assorted by the holes thai
have been punched in them until those
of each of the fifty thousand post offices
are packed to themselves and arranged
serially.
With the extension of the money order
system to thousands of additional post
offices there Is a slight tendency Tor the
use of the registry system to fali or,
with the result that the number Of reg
istered letters sent through the malls TO-
day is approximately only third of the
number of money orders sent. The totai
amount of matter registered amounted
to IS, 100000 pieces In 1912. OF which near
ly 3O,OOO,OOO were registered letters. The
state of New York does nearly one-ffth
of all the registry business OF the coun-
try.
The bulk Of the registered mail Of the
country Is handled In pouches. carrying
rotary locks. keys to which are possessed
only by postmasters and others having
direct occasion to open them. A pouch
cannot he opened without changing the
number indicated on the lock. which reg
listers each successive opening just as a
speedometer registers each successive
mile travelled. When one of the pouches
is made up two postal employees put the
registered letters into il. making trip
licate list Of them they do so and writ
ing the number indicated by the number
Ing machine in the lock. on the three
lists The pouch then is locked and sent
forward to its destination. When it
reaches there the clerks whose duty it
Is 10 open IL note the number Indicated
BY the lock, and If it corresponds with
the number on the list inclosed with
the contents they know that the lock
has come through unopened. But IL they
find that IL registers a higher number
they know that some unauthorized person
has tampered with ii. and the fact is
finally placed In the hands Of the post
Office inspectors
Tho ta,l-faJa qualities of a rotary rap
Evening star., 1913-12-06

The tell-tale qualities of a rotary reg
istry Jock are so well known, however
Evening star., 1913-12-06

One of the difficulties that hitherto have
been encountered in the handling of
Evening star., 1913-12-06

Robert Bell linotype machlnisl, lel
~ Sa+urdav for his home in Cleveland.
Ohio Obi to attend the funeral services $, OF
his mother, who died November - Inl ium-
oral services being held Monday MIS-,
Rell was eighty-Six years Oh age.
Evening star., 1913-12-06

The annual memorial exercises of Co
lumtia Typographical Un. on, No. 1O1 will
be held in Typographical Temple tomor-
row afternoon at , O'Clock. The pro-
gram will consist of music and speak
ing. The speakers of the occasion will
be President John s. Dickman. Rev. j. s.
Montgomery of the Metropolitan NJ e.
Church and Rev. G. +. Fultz. pastor OF
the United Brethren Church. Rev. Mont
gomery was formerly printer and holds
union card. Music will be furnished
by Redfield's Orchestra and there will
be solos by Mss Mabel Louise BenZler,
Maurice r. Fitzgerald and others. Secre-
Evening star., 1913-12-06

proofraader T.. A. Hutchison reslgneu
1ast week to accept position as law
cIar,, in the office of Indian affairs, De
nartment of the Interior. where his work
will be in connection with cases OIL heii
of Indians.
Evening star., 1913-12-06

,,;ss rosenha Lange of the proofiOom
+, Snending a two-weell vacation IN New
York and New Jersey visiting wlth
friends. She attended the Army Ma
foot ball game in New York last Satui-
day.
Evening star., 1913-12-06

proofreader John r. Durisoe has peeh
confined to mis- home for the past "ee4
,iTh a severe attack of rheumatism
Evening star., 1913-12-06

At the recent meeting of Local No. -
International Brotherhood of Bookblnd.
ers George Hurst and B. S. Gynan OIL
the bindery were reinstated as meiipeis >