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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
EDUCATIONAL POSITIONS
HELD BY MANY WOMEN
Bureau of Education's Directory
Shows They Occupy $500 of
$4,000 Executive Berths.

women hold many executive educa :
uonal positions in the United States,
according to the bureau of education's
directory for 1866 issued today. 1t
shows that of the 1900 conspicuous
positions, largely of an administrative
character, $500 are held by women.
These include college presidents, state
and county superintendent of educa-
tion. directors of Industrial schools.
heads of departments in colleges and
universities. directors of schools for
afflicted and librarians
Twenty-four out of go colleges and
universities are presided over by wom-
en-. OF the nearly 5000 county su-
perintendents sos are women
Of the seventy institutions for the
blind. fifteen are directed by women.
OF the seventy-five state schools for
the deaf ten are under the leadership
of women. and of the twenty-five pri-
Vate institutions of the same character
sixteen have woman superintendent.
or the thirty-on private institutions
Tor the feeb1e-mindeJ twenty are SUI
pervised by women
Fourteen out of eighty-six directors
of industrial schools are women. and
forty-eight of the 200 schools of art
are in charge of women. out of the
1900 public and society libraries wom-
en- supervise 1915
or the thirty three bureau officials in
the bureau of education itself eleven
are women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
.LUMBERMEN TO APPEAR
At FINAL HEARING HERE
Investigation Facts Will Be Sum-
med Up Before Trade Com
mission.

Lumbermen from all parts OF the
country are expected to appear peiore
the federal trade commission Decem-
Der 10 at hearing to be held at the
New Willard Hotel. The hearing y
the final of a series held in various
parts of the country by the trade BODY
during the summer in an attempt 70
find out why the lumber industry IS
not in healthy condition. as pointed
out by the lumbermen. No new state
ments of facts will be received, II IS
announced, the hearing to be rather
in the nature of a summing up on the
part of the lumbermen. l.. {. Boyle OF
Kansas City, Mo-. and Joseph \. Teal
of Portland. Ore. are scheduled TO APP
pear as counsel for the lumbermen.
Representatives of the United States
forest service and of the bureau OF
foreign and domestic commerce Of the
Department of Commerce will be pres
ent. it also has been announced.
THE coming hearing" says a state
ment issued by the trade commission,
will mark the eliminating incidents
of a rather significant development IN
the relations of government agencies
with modern business. Heretofore, as
general rule. the government mas
taken the initiative in Investigations
Of Industrial conditions. and not lnfre-
quently its inquiries have met with
on the part of the industries investi-
crar eI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
MOVE TO HALT ALEXANDRIA.
County Wants Incorporation to Stop
Further Annexation.

The incorporation of Alexandria
county into a city, to be known as Ar
lington City. was discussed at a mass
meeting held last night at Clarendon,
presided over by William II. Fowle.
A committee, composed of ]. r. Smith,
Del Ray: Clarence Thalt, Cherrydale,
and Frank Follansbee, was appointed
to present the matter to the legisla-
ture at its coming session. in January.
1t was explained that the principal
object of Incorporation is to prevent
Alexandria city from obtaining any
more of the county territory, it re-
Gently having taken over the subdl-
vision known as Rosemont and also
a part of Braddock.
Towns proposed to be taken In the
city. totaling twenty-siX square miles,
include the following: Rosslyn, Claren-
don. Ballston Cherrydale. East Falls
Church, Mayied, Del Ray and ST.
Elmo. Arlington, Livingston Heights.
Park Lane, Arlington village and Bar
croft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
BYRON D. ROGERS DEAD.
Passed Assistant Naval Paymaster
Was on Duty in Haiti.

The Navy Department is advised of
the death Of Passed Assistant Paymas-
ter Byron d. Rogers, L. s. Navy, which
occurred at Les Cayes, Haiti, yesterday
morning.
Paymaster Rogers was born at
Mechanicsburg. H., April %, 1884. He
was appointed a midshipman July 3,
1908. and his resignation was accepted
February s. 1904. He was again APP
pointed midshipman June IA, 1904,
and his resignation was accented
March Is. 1906. He was appointed an
assistant paymaster July 10. 1906; was
promoted to passed assistant paymas-
ter August %, 1912, in which grade he
served on the Massachusetts, from De-
cember >, 1872, to April -, 1919
He served on the Maine from Aprll
1919, until August u, 1915. when he
was ordered detached ON relief and TO
take passage for Haiti. September 10
1915, he was appointed collector of
customs and captain Of the port at
AUX Cages. Haiti. serving on that duty
until the date of his death
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
STEPS TO GUARD CAPITOL.
Special Precautions Being Taken
Against Bomb Outrages,

special preca utions against bomb
outrages in the Senate wing of the
capitol are being taken by Charles p.
higgins, sergeant-at-arms of the Sam
ATE. Inc attempt of Frank Holt last
summer to blow up the Senate wing
OF the capitol building and the actiyi-
tles OF cranks and incendiaries through
out the country have made the ser
geant -at-arms study the possibilities
closely.
The force of Capitol police and guards
not only viii be increased and instruct
ed carefully in precautionary measures,
but visitors to the public galleries of
the Senate will be closely observed.
Admission to the reserved galleries.
which is supposed to be only upon a
special card signed by a member of the
Senate, will be restricted as closely as
possible. and the issuance of cards
signed in blank and for indeterminate
periods will be materially curtailed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
Some Reports in March.
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
Arrivals.

Schooner Oakland cord wood from
Eanjemoy creek at 18th street wharf
for J. H. Carter & Co: schooner Silver
Wave, at an Eastern branch wharf
from Potomac creek with lumber for
Johnson & Wimsatt; schooners Bertha
May and Eleanor Russell, cord wood
from Maryland shores at 18TH street
wharf for j, Maury Dove; schooners
Halle K, J. K. Dixon and Mary Chap
man and power boat Jewel. oysters
from river and bay beds at 18th street
wharf for the market here: schooner
Mary Ann Shea, lumber from Aqua
creek at 9Th street wharf for johnson
Il WimsatJ, sloop Crockett cord wood
from Marshall Hall at 10Th street
wharf for johnson q Wimsatt. steam
er Northland. from Norfolk and Old
Point; steamer Northumberland from
Baltimore and river points. steamer
Wakefield. from Lower Nachodoc and
NOrnful creeks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
NEEDS OF BUSINESS WORLD.
John H. Fahey Discusses Proposed
Legislation With President.

John II. Fahey. president Of the
Chamber Of Commerce of the United
States, told President Wilson yesterday
that business men want Congress to es-
tablish d BIPARTISAN tariff commits
sion and provide means to strengthen
the merchant marine.
Mr.. Fahey declared there was great
need for more ships TO carry the ex
ports Of the United States, and that
the advocates OF different ways of
securing the ships should effect com
promise, IN order that leg Station might
be passed during the coming session Of
Congress. The President told Mr.
Fahey he was studying both questions
very carefully.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
SIDELIGHT ON CELEBRATION.
Rotary Club and Others Witness
Display of Electrical Prosperity.

hundred members of the Rotary
Club of Washington and a number of
out of-town guests enjoyed private
Electrical Prosperity week" luncheon
and display today at the Raleigh Ho-
tel, afterward listening to addresses by
Clarence p. King. a member of the
club, on electrical Prosperity and
General Prosperity" and others. The
out of town visitors who delivered
brief talks included Rev. Ernest
Thompson of charleston, W Va; o.
Scott Anderson of Philadelphia and
A. j. Brooks of New Haven, Conn.
one of the principal features of the
occasion was an address by +. s Droop,
d member of the club. on The Appli-
cation of Electricity to Musical Instru-
ments." with a demonstration of cleo
trically operated musical instruments
which attracted great attention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
MRS. REBECCA NELSON DEAD.
Was Resident of Washington for
More Than Sixty Years.

Mrs. Rebecca J. Nelson, eighty-three
years old, widow of Charles l.. Nelson
| and for more than sixty years a
resident of Southeast Washington. died
yesterday afternoon at o'clock at her
residence, 504 9th street southeast Flu
neral services are to be held tomorrow
afternoon at . o'clock, and interment
which will be private, viii be at Con-
gressional cemetery.
Mrs. Nelson was formerly Rebecca J.
Bryan of Bryantown. Nd and is the
last mem Der of the old Bryan family of
William Thomas Bryan of Thomas She
leaves three daughters. Misses Eliza
beth and Otie r. Nelson and Mrs An
drew Barnes. and two sons, George b.
and o. r. Nelson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
AUDITING The FARM
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

The government has spent lot of
making rich farm lands out of deserts.
This work has been a great and much
advertised success. Meantime, the farms
Of the east that nourished our fathers
have been forgotten and deserted.
Not literally and altogether. OF
course. but from New England 10
Georgia lands are lying fallow that
might produce good crops. 1t would
require intensive cultivation. crops
varied and rotated. to do the thing sue
cessfully. Both capital and labor are
looking for easier propositions.
Now the Department OF Agriculture
has set out to boost farming in the
east. While the vigorous young west
prospers. it is going to show this de-
crcpit old man of colonial lineage how
to get the most out of his enfeebled
energies.
Credit for the basic idea upon which
this study of intensive farming is
BASED must be given to W. j. Spillman.
one of the department crop experts.
He has devised method which will
| in time enable the department to tell
just how much of each crop he must
plant in order to get the greatest pos
sble return from his land.
Like most large ideas. this one seems
remarkably simple after ii is explained
to you. 1t consists in taking a CEN
sus of crops in given county and
finding out what proportion OF each
crop yields the greatest return to the
greatest number.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
Gets Thanks of Seaman's Union

Secretary Wilson of the Department
of Labor has received handsomely
engrossed resolutions adopted by the
International Seamen's Union. thank
ing the Secretary for his efforts to-
ward getting the seamans bill adopt
ed The resolutions We're presented by
Andrew Furuseth, president of the
union They are handsomely bound in
leather. The engrossing is in coiors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
WILL GO ON FORD SHIP.
Washington Student Applies for
Passport to Neutral Nations.

Francis Stirling Wilson, twenty
fhree years old. student. applied TO-
day to John r. Young. clerk of the
District supreme Court, for his sigma :
ture to an application for a passport to
Norway. Sweden. Denmark and Holland.
He explained that he is accompanying
the Ford peace expedition. Mr. Wilson
was accompanied by a witness. Julian
Hammack. a local attorney, who Ger
titled that the applicant is a resident
of the District of Columbia and a ma
tive citizen of the United States.
When Mr.. Young had affixed his sig
nature and the seal of the court to the
application Mr.. Wilson left for the Stat e
Department to procure the passport
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
German Deserter to Be Admitted

Louis +. Post. assistant secretary OF
Labor has reversed the ruling of
board of special inquiry and ordered
the admission of Karl SchulZe,
stowaway from Rotterdam. who ar
rived at New York and said he was
deserter from the German army.
Schulze was held at Ellis Island as
likely to become a public charge. Mr..
Post reversed the ruling when two
persons who had heard of Schulze's
predicament offered him work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
Mrs. Mary Hannah Carter Dies.

Mrs. Mary Hannah Carter, eighty
years old, widow of Charles Monroe
Carter and for nearly all her life
resident Of this city. died last evening
at $50 O'Clock in her apartments in the
Victoria apartment house. Funeral
services will be conducted at the apart
ment house tomorrow afternoon at
O'Clock and interment will be at Rock
Creek cemetery. She leaves one son,
Charles #. Carter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
Officers for Continental Army.

Assistance IN providing officers for
the continental army proposed by The
administration national defense plans
has been promised to President Will
son by members OF the Association OF
Military Schools and Colleges now
meeting here. The organization in
cludes military schools in all parts of
the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
Trinity Church Holding Bazaar

Trinity Church, Takoma parish. Rev.
Frederick William Smith. rector. is hold
ing its annual bazaar and dinner this
afternoon and evening IN the parish
hall of the church on Piney Branch
road with the women of the church
guild in charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
UPHOLDS LAIRD ELECTION.
Maryland Court of Appeals Sustains
Montgomery County Tribunal.

sI7ttFas UIspdtIN 70 INf SUIT.
ANNAPOLIS. Md. December 3-The
court OF appeals yesterday filed It's
full opinion sustaining the election Of
Philip ID. Laird member of the house
OF delegates from Montgomery.
The court several weeks ago filed a
decision briefly unfolding the lower
court, the opinion yesterday being am
plificstiou e rs reason.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03


to be applied to the whole United
States. so that the
Applied to Entire d e p r tment can
rr;4l cA tell a farmer in
any state n t
crops he can best afford to raise. For
this purpose the whole country is to
be divided into regions of similar con-
ditions as to soil and climate and a
separate survey made for each region.
When this data is complete it will be
OF especial value TO the amateurs-the
ever-increasing number of men who
go to farming as a recreation, an anti
dote to city life and city nerves.
Perhaps the most striking thing
brought out by Mr.. Spillman's investi-
cation Is what the farmer makes 1t
shows that farming in an old and get
tied community is a hard working bust
ness with relatively small returns. 1t
SHOWS that the man who owns forty
acres of land can make only a day la
borers wages, plus about $500 year
as interest on his investment Yet
MS farm, with equipment, is proba bly,
worth at least $4,000. The man who in
vested that much in a small business
in a city would expect to make more
than 800 year, which is the small
farmers average income
To succeed, the farmer must be an
agricultural scientist and a good bust
ness man. He must be tireless work
er Yet his calling is more certain
ana more truly productive than any
other: The government experts are
showing him how to make the most of
1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
What Size Farms
Give Best Yields

farms among those tabulated that were
less than forty acres. Though these
farms We're mostly we'll handled, the
returns show that their owners. after
paving interest on their investment,
had a wage for the year of only $40.
There We're siXty-one men who had
farms from forty to sixty acres in size
and these made - wage of $3.50 a year.
Then came the class which is known
as a two-man farm. The owner of such
a farm. with a hired man working UNI
der him. made for himself q wage of
sS4S above the interest on his invest
ment.
Finally, there came that class of men
who operated farms of more than 100
acres. These men made interest on
their investment and cleared $1,000 a
year for themselves. SO it was shown
the larger the farm the better the
proposition from the standpoint of
yielding net profit TO the owner.
This survey, this application of the
yardstick, this business analysis. this
use of the efficiency engineer on the
farms of Chester county, developed eX-
act facts that may be applied to farms
of the same class located in the same
part of the country. There are nine
counties of this sort in Pennsylvania,
five in Maryland and two in New Jer
sey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03

In this connection it should be remem-
bered that wheat has brought COM
paratively uniform price for a hundred
years. There has been time for the
farmers to adjust themselves in that
respect
But corn has been a profitable crop
for less than twenty years and only
one-tenth OF these farmers are raising
the right proportion of this crop. Half
la generation has not been long enough
for readjustment. The tabulation shows
that farmers who grow oats fan low
in the scale of prof. producers Oats,
las a matter of fact, can he grown only
at loss in this community This has
been true for sixty years. Yet 30 per
cent of these intelligent farmers are
still raising them 1t takes long
time for an unprofita BILE crop to die of
itself.
The tabulation showed that the farm
ers orchard in this district should not
be more than three acres 1t showed
that on the farms which yielded the
best profits there We're hocks of from
100 to 100 hens. smaller or larger
focks were less likely TO yield profits.
On farms where the cows produced
milk that sold for less than $50 per
cow per year the annual income of the
farmer was S4lS, On farms where only
high-class cows We're kept. yielding
Sl2O per COW per year. the average in
come of the farmer was 1,6o2 n year.
The ownership of the most expensive
cows proved most profitable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
Custom Is Reversed.

At recent meeting of President W IL
son and his cabinet the question of the
publication of the current annual re
ports arose. and at the suggestion of
the President ii was decided to change
the practice. The program. agreed
upon. was for the publication first of
the Presidents message to Congress.
hNed this year for NEXT Tuesday. to be
followed by the publication on sue
ceeding days of the reports of the
members Of the cabinet. and then fol-
lowed by the publication from day to
day. of the reports Of the various bu-
reaus of the several executive depart
ments. The seniority Of the various
departments will govern in the order
of precedence in the publication of the
reports of the cabinet officers and their
respective subordinates.
According 10 the new program. and
In view of the fact that the Secretary
OF State makes no annual report. the
report OF the Secretary of the Treas
ury will be published on the day fol-
lowing the day or the publication of
the Presidents message. to be followed
on each succeeding day by the publ
cation, in the order given. of the re-
ports of the Secretary of War. the At
torney General. the Postmaster Cen
eral. and the Secretaries Of the Navy.
of the Interior, of Agriculture, of Com
that all these reports will have been
published by December 90.
On that date will begin the daily pub
LEGATION of the numerous reports of the
heads of bureaus of each of the de-
partment. beginning with the Treasury
reports and followed by those of the
War and the other departments in the
order OF their esta blishment.
Some Reports in March.
No statement has been made as to
how much time will be consumed in
the execution of this elaborate plan,
but il is roughly estimated that the
publication of the executive reports
will begin with the Presidents mes
sage Tuesday and continue daily until
some time in February or March.
The date of publication in all cases
are based on the theory that Congress
viii have organized in time to permit
of the publication of the Presidents
message Tuesday Any delay in that
respect necessarily viii delay the pub
LEGATION of all the reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
Farms Tabulated.
Results Recorded

was shown that those farmers who
neglected corn were not financially
successful. Their returns improved as
corn cultivation increased above 20
per cent, and reached its maximum
along about a per cent. Those farm
ers who devoted from 40 to so per cent
of their attention to corn and from 90
to 30 per cent of ii to wheat We're
usually in the prosperous class.
The third great crop Of the region
is hay. Located as it is between Phila-
delphia and Wilmington, Chester coun-
ty has an excellent market for it's hay,
and prices are usually around $40 a
ton. At such prices the average ex-
pert would be inclined 40 advise these
men to raise as much hay as possible
1t looks like a sure winner
But the unfailing rule of results OBJ
tanned in the past lead to different
conclusion. The farmer in this region
who makes most money is the. man
who devotes about % per cent of his
farm to hay.
In returning profits, corn should be
the leading crop of this region. Yet
the farmer must be careful not to
raise too much of it. He should raise
enough corn and enough hay for his
own use. and have a little to sell
Those who set such a gauge make the
most money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-03
Investigation Courted.

THE initiative for the investigation
OF conditions in the lumber trade by
the commission, however, was taken by
the lumbermen. Early last summer
the National Lumber Manufacture
Association requested in a formal way
that the commission grant the lumber
men an opportunity to lay before the
commission the problems of the indus
try to the end that the powers of the
commission might be enlisted in tho
task Of working out their solution.
The lumbermen frankly Informed
the commission that their business was
in an unhealthy condition. That it was
unstable as to production and market
ing conditions. That this situation re-
suited in enormous waste of precious
natural resource and demoraliZed an
industry which ranks second in this
country in Importance. with an invest
ed capital of over two billions of dol
lars and an employment roll of over
seven hundred thousand men.
Offer to Throw Open Books.
THE petition of the lumbermen set
up that they desired to throw open
their books and plants to the most
searching inquiry by the commission
and the forest service. and offered to
submit themselves to such personal in
QUESTION as the commission might
deem necessary. to the end that the
commission might have spread before
it in comprehensive way the exact
business conditions in which the indus
try found itself The lumbermen rep
resented that competitive and other
conditions appeared to them to be such
as not to be susceptible of permanent
remedy without the helpful interven
ton of the commission