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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
Cause of Housing Shortage.

10 the Editor or The Star:
You published Thursday an inter-
view with Assistant Attorney General
Classic in which it is suggested that
the alleged housing shortage in
Washington may exist only in the
minds of some landlords who wish
to justify high rentals, and that the
giving of wholesale notices to quit,
without disclosing to tenants what
rent would be acceptable, could easily,
for the time being, create an apparent
stringency. The opinion expressed by
the assistant attorney general is the
conviction of the vast majority of
the renting public of Washington.
Did we hear anything about a house
shortage 4 month ago? Everybody
seemed to have "A place to live. Con-
gress is away; the departments have
been reducing their forces for a year
There are probably less people in
Washington than at any time since
the war emergency began. There are
more mammouth apartment build
inGs coming on the market than ever
before Still. we are suddenly con-
fronted with an acute housing short
age Committees have been APP
pointed 10 find out about it.
Why is there a shortage? A little
| before October l we began to hear
! that this. that or the other apartment
| had. or would be, sold under the So
| called cooperative ownership plan
| This heretofore. available roomine
/ space may as well have been bodily
| removed from the city-as far as tn,
! renting public is concerned. Nobody
/ can rent in them and many are large
! ly vacant. or would be, except tina
| those heretofore. occupying them in
/ tend to stay right where they are
| until evicted.
| We all say. God speed the assistan
| attorney general in his effort to ge
| at the root of the matter as to jus
how this situation was brought about
JAMES r. SMITH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
DIR. BALLOU CITES
! D. C. SCHOOL NEEDS
Says Adequate Fund for
Housing Should Be
Appropriated.

Cooperation of all the people OF
Washington with the board OF edu-
cation to induce Congress to ap-
propriate adequate funds to cope with
the school housing situation in the
District was the keynote of the
speech of DR.. Frank W. Bailou.. SUI
perintendent of schools, at JOINT
meeting of the Petworth Woman's
Club and the Petworth Citizens As
Sociation last evening, at the Pet
worth NJ. T.. Church.
IF appropriations large enough to
meet the present demands of caring
for all the children of Washington
cannot be obtained from Congress-
he said then we must go about it
in some different manner because
tho whole school system. at the pres
ent time, is in pitable chaos, and
il is of vital interest to all the cltl-
ZcnS Of Washington to demand that
the children are properly provided
for
Dr. Ballou said that the board of
education was meeting conditions as
best it could. under the present cir
CumstanccS, but that it was the "au-
thority that holds the purse strings
that held the key to the situation.
and that the citizens themselves could
approach that authority with greater
hopes of success than the board of
education. because the body of peo-
pie could make more noise and IN
sist that their positions be heard.
DIR. Ballou said that from the COM
mittee of forty-five delegates from
the different citizens associations
that had approached him with the
needs of the schools in the various
districts there was not one unreason-
able request He told Of the made
quate housing in all parts OF the city'
and showed how the board OF educa-
ton could handle only the most critl-
cal cases with it's present funds.
Special Treatment Needed.
Due to the present high cost of
building the ordinary budget from
Congress would in no way cope with
the necessity of making accommoda-
lions for the increase over last year
of 1900 new pupils" he added. The
emergency demands special treatmen
board of education will lead the way
The Commissioners have shown their
Willingness to back US up in any line
we may follow, but it is the people
who by their demands and persistent
hammerin can alone get satisfactory
results"
Looking into the future, he showed
the necessity for having lump sum
appropriated for school use instead OF
the present system of having so much
money allotted for each particular
project. With a regular school fund
with no strings attached to it the
board of education could then meet
emergencies. and cope with the vari-
Gus new situations that are continual
ly arising, he said.
DR.. Ballou closed his speech by say
ing that his one idea and one deter
mination on coming to Washington
was to take the material and the re-
sources which were at hand. or which
could be obtained, and construct with
them as fine a school system as was
possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
Useful Bill.

| watched Old Wilhelm as he
wrought, and knocked the state
ly view trees cold, while down
his regal dome of thought the
sweat of honest effort rolled.
OF old this Wilhc>a, seemed no
good, when he was iIUodooed by
a crown; yet now he whacks up
cords of wood--pE1 cannot
keep a good man down. There
is no nobler task than his, now
coal is scarce and hasd to get !;
| watch him make his bucksaw
whiz, and cry, "Old Bills our
one best bet" When he was
ruler of a realm he earned no
high and rich reward, such as
he earns while saving elm and
pulling down six bits a cord !;
now, when he goes to roost at
night, he has 10 crimes DER
which to fret; the record of his
day is white, and Wilhelm is our
one best bet. If we'd all do as
Wilhelm does, and ply our buck
saws in the sun, the bats that
in our belfries buzz would find
their futile errands done. We
ply the swift and tireless jaw
until its hinges creak and smoke,
when we should WELD the
trenchant saw and pile up ricks
OF helpful oak.
WALT MASON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
FOLLY TSSAai Ei s:,s
MISCHIEF MAKERS
World Series Electric Score boaro
Wrestling Tonight After sho"
TIrRNER VS.. DALLAS
NINE AS HONOR GUESTS.
Plate Printers, Union to Honor Re
tired Members.

Nine retired members of the Plate
Printers Union, Local No. 2, Will De
guests of honor at a meeting at Elks
Hall. 919 H street. Sunday night
u,ben members of the organization
viii present their former fellow .
employes with engraved certificates Of
life membership in the union. An
entertainment will be furnished by a
special committee. =,
The members who VIII De gwen
dette. william E. Little. Archie B.
Gibson, John Hof1e. Jacob Hofie, Will
liam Edwards, James Burdette, Jo-
senh Burns and George Thurber.
President Clark of the union Will
express the welcome, ana each OF
the meeting in reply.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
PLANE BOARD NAMED.

Col. Chalmers G. Hall, Maj. Horace
M. Hickam and Capt. Harold E. Hart
ney. air service, United States Army.
have been appointed board to meet
with similar naval board in this
city to discuss sales of aeronautical
equipment to foreign governments
and to nationals of foreign countries
with view to reaching an agreement
on such points of difference regarding
such sales as may exist between the
War and Navy departments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
P. o. TO HAVE CLEANUP.
Process Used on Union Station Will
BE Emploved.

Cleansing of the Washington city
post Office building by the process
which has been used on Union sta
ton will begin the latter part of the
week. according to decision of Chief
Clerk Ruskin McArdle of the Post
Office Department.
When the superintendent Of the
terminal asked Postmaster Chance If
he wouldn't like to get in" on the
cleaning business, the postmaster
said he would. but that he would have
to put it up to the Post Office De-
partment. which has custody Of the
local post Office building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
New Philadelphia Express Train
IN Atlantic Citv

Pennsylvania System. effective Oc-
tober is, new express train. with
broiler buffet parlor cars and coaches.
will be operated. leaving Washington
daily 1880 pm, arriving Philadelphia
400 pm, connecting with Bridge
train for Atlantic City.-Advertise-
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
Wedding Decorations.

Consult GUIDE for original and dis
tinctive designs. 1914 F.-Advertise-
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

Shaner Floral COrsages Complete
many fetching costumes. 900 14th.-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
CITY NEWS N BRIEF.

The wOman's division of the Hard
!! ing Coolidge Club will hold lunch
con October 20 at 1880 pm. at the La
Fayette Hotel.
The Blue Triangle Recreation Gem
ter will hold instructions in social
dancing at o'clock this evening and
a dance at o'clock.
The Spanish-Americnn Antheneum
will hold it's monthly meeting tomor-
row evening at the Thomson School,
The Washington District Of the
Zionist Organization will meet in the
Y NJ H. A. building, 18th and Penn
sylvania avenue. Thursday at $3.50 pm
Louis Lipsky will speak officers will
be nominated.
The KaIornmn Citizens' Association
will meet at the Highlands tomor-
| row evening at 8 o'clock. Commits
sioner J. Thilman Hendrick will speak.
will hold it's monthly meeting in the
parish hall Thursday at pm.
The Day Nursery Association will
hold it's monthly meeting tomorrow
morning at 1890.
The reading class Of the Spanish
American Atheneum will meet this
evening at s o'clock at the Thomson
School, 18th and l. streets northwest
| The College women's CluE will hold
card party Saturday at 2:30 pm.
! National Capital Post. No. 127. Vet
| Grams of Foreign Wars. will meet this
evening at s o'clock in Carroll Hall,
924 G street
! The Chemical Society Of Washing
| ton will meet at the Cosmos Club
Thursday at 8 pm. Executive COM
mittee meets at 7:3O pm. Dr. w. M.
Clark will speak.
The Cornell Women of Warrington
will hold their first meeting of the
season at the home of Mrs. J. c. Zir-
lkle. 1851 Irving street. this evening.
! Officers will be elected.
| The Blaine Republican Club will
meet at Fishermen's Temple this
evening. r. H. Jones will speak.
| The ai2th Machine Gun Battalion.
Post No. "a, American Legion, will
meet this evening at the Ebbitt Hotel.
Compnny Of the District Guard
will drill tonight at the L Street
Armory.
Washington Camp, No. 3O5. Sons OF
Confederate Veterans, will meet at
confederate Memorial Hall, 1922 Yer
mont avenue, this evening at
o'clock.
The monthly dinner of the Wash
lington Advertising Club will be held
this evening at the Dewey Hotel.
The Catholic Women's Service Club
will hold a card party and dance at
the National Catholic Community
House, COL E street, at o'clock this
Ievening.
The teacher training class VIII meet
this evening at o'clock at 1888 F
street.
The aPrent-Teacher Association OF
THE Thaddeus Stevens School will hold
Its first meeting of the season this
evening at the Stevens School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The Mems Club of St. Luke's Church
will hold it's monthly meeting in the
parish hall Thursday at pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The kalornmn Citizens' Association
will meet at the Highlands tomor-
! row evening at 8 o'clock. Commits
lsioner J. Thilman Hendrick will speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

Warrington Camp, No. 3O5, Sons o.
Confederate Veterans, will meet a
Confederate Memorial Hail. 1922 Yer
mont avenue, this evening at
o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The monthly dinner OF the WASH
ington Advertising Club will be held
this evening at the Dewey Hotel. q.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The Catholic Women's Service Club
will hold a card party and dance at
the National Catholic Community
House, COL E street, at o'clock this
evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The Day Nursery Annexation will
hold it's monthly meeting tomorrow
morning at 1890.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The vvOman's division OF the Hard
ng-Coolidge Club will hold lunch
con October 20 at 1880 pm. at the La
Fayette Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

Company of the District Guard
will drill tonight at the l. Street
| Armory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The reading class Of the Spanish
American Atheneum will meet this
evening at o'clock at the Thomson
School, 18th and l. streets northwest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The Blaine Republican Club will
meet at Fishermen's Temple this
evening. r. H. Jones will speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
Washington Dancing Academy

431 18th ST. NV
Modern dancing. especially TO beginners, %
.ha most uniaue character taught. Class anc
,rirate instruction every evening. II You car
walk we guarantee you TO dance. Jazz band
Phone Franklin 42s3 10
ION 81 n,w-Class Monday and Friday. &c
II 40 nm; private lessons ny appointment
phone North GTS6. Established 1000: II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The 3l2th Machine Gun Battalion,
Post No. "a, American Legion, will
meet this evening at the Ebbitt Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The Cornell Women of Warrington
will hold their first meeting of the
season at the home of Mrs. ]. c. Fir
kle, 1851 Irving street, this evening.
Officers will be elected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
ADJUSTMENTS.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Tn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The teacher training class will meet
this evening at o'clock at 1883 r
street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
'Warren''

STUDIO: ll4l CONN. AVE.
Phones: Day Col 1885, Eve. Franklin 1898.
Individual private lessons in ballroom dancing'
All fsncy and shoe-dancing for stage specially
9'A N' 16s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The aPrent-Teacher Annexation OF
the Thaddeus Stevens School will hold
its first meeting Of the season this
evening at the Stevens School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
il ]. Hoffman and Mrs. H. L. Hol'

SALON OF DANSE
>o,, located AT 1905 kalorama road. block
so,+b Of 18Th and Columbia road Phone Col
TAG. ballroom and all branches OF stag
d,rcinp correctly taught. Ballroom for rent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12
ADJUSTMENTS.

Observation-Disclosures
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The Washington District Of the
Zionist Organization will meet in the
Y NJ H. A. building, 18th and Penn
sylvania avenue. Thursday at $3.50 pm.
Louis Lipsky will speak Officers will
! be nominated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The Chemical Society Of Washing
ton will meet at the Cosmos Club
Thursday at pm. Executive COM
mittee meets at 1880 pm. DR.. w. M.
Clark will speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

Washington School Principals Union
No. lat. meets at the Garnet School at
3:45.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-12

The West Virginia Society will meet
at Thomson. School, 18th and l. street
northwest, at s o'clock.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-05
MOTORCYCLE POLICEMAN
INJURED IN ACCIDENT

Edwin Suggs, motorcycle policeman
of the city of Ardmore, is lying IN.
the Hardy sanitarlum with his right
foot slightly cut up and bruised as
result of an accident yesterday when
he collided with a touring car on
North Washington near 9Th avenue.
According to reports of the coll
lission Suggs was pursuing the tour
ing car, believing it to be speeding.
The driver of the speeding car slowed
down. suggs was unable to stop his
machine in time, and smashed into
the automobile,
The motorcycle was completely
wrecked and Suggs was thrown to the
ground The running board and fender
of the automobile We're smashed
Reports from the hospital state
that suggs is doing nicely, and viii
be discharged from the sanitarium
within the next few days.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-05

GAS AND ELECTRIC BILLS FOR
OCTOBER ARE DUE AND PAY
ABLE. BILLS MUST BE PAID ON
OR BEFORE NOVEMBER 10TH IN
ORDER TO GET BENEFIT OF DIS
COUNT. CONSUMERS LIGHT 4
POWER CONIPANY.-adv. 4-6
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-01-06
q WALKER
$4,000 -MORNINGSIDE
LESLIE BROOKS
REALTY COMPANY

Member Tulsa Real Est1t" Exchange
4U7 South Boulder Ostgc 2St5
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-01-06

FlNL tlU-r " rou~ VIM 81 tso' OF tonnage 900
uafssEr. Hl. 0ue story brick s21lH0 with concrete
floor 20 constructed that tEO more stories rU
be- added Only i've biu.ta from business center.
Phone Usage ut0I. W J Henry 'ur appointment
The Washington times., 1920-01-25
Spectral Messages from the Other

deal, with today more iutsrsstins thing h bsing
done by this spook, according TO Ms ourrsn and
her friends. "Pstisnos Worth" commanded llu
Curran who b ohildlsu TO search for certain red.
headed blus-sysd infant with dark lines in then"
whose father was Ingfsh and mother wss Scotch
Such baby was found and adopted By Hin
CuITan. I.
And this child, smbodying to-day features and
parsntags similar to Patience Worth" who did 80
years ago, Is being brought up by it, spectral god
mother. Day by day Patience Worth" gives Nh.
Curran ouija board message Of advice about Htts
Patience Worth Wee whenever Il h needed.
The Washington times., 1920-01-25

Ev11Y pubic library and al the book stores have
-. On their shelves one more novels BY "Pstisnos
Worth" But there u no such living human BE-
ing - Patience Worth ''-shs is . spook spirit,
ghost voios from the world beyond the grave It s
claimed
These entertaining and rather well written novels
were dictated by the spirit Of Patience Worth to
Hrs. John B. Curran, Of st Louis M1 Cwrsn solemn
y asserts. Mn. Curran says she wrote every word Of
these novels and many poems on ouija board word
Tor word ss the spectral voice Of Patience Worth
whispered them in her ear.
But these spooly novels are not what this page
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-23
SEES GOOD IN THE TEA CUP
Doctor Eliot, Aged Educator, Goes on
Record as Having Faith In That
Moderate StimuIant

DR.. Charles W. Eliot. now In his
eighty-sixth year, confesses to q devil
alton from the strict rule Of abstemi-
BUSINESS which cannot but cause con-
Germ in the inner circles of moral re-
form, says the New York World.
Though he has always INDUCED in
"stimulants like tea, coffee and al:
eohol," and In tobacco not at all for
more than half a century, he yet finds
q certain virtue in tea drinking. II
have used tea most" he says, because
1t seems to me to facilitate the men
tai effort of writing and speaking"
If the venerable ex.president Of
Harvard university had merely said
that he derived some dietic benefit
from tea, no exception would be taken
to the statement. 1t is his frank ad-
mission that: he uses tea as a 4stimu-
liant and finds that it helps his mental
processes which will be challenged.
Can there be good in any stimulant?
Can the willful excltation Of the mind
by, any kind of brew. be other than
immoral~in it's essential nature? All
simon-pure reformers of the drink evil
will feel sure that the use of tea has
drugged Doctor Eliot's intellect and
robbed it of Its highest productivity.
But what the world has lost in that
particular will count as nothing to
the self-revelatiOn that this distin-
guished champion of temperance is
not 100 per cent perfect in his pro-
hibition views.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-23
FISHING in BoYHooD. DAYS
Glorious Time When Mother Kept
NJ N Supper and Praised the Five
...~2- Little SunfIsh.

H The city man who was the country
&b0y Of yesterday closes his eyes few
Aminutes and lives over again sum-
gmer afternoon of long ago, notes the
milwaukee Journal. A day when his
Nttle crowd, equipped with enough
WQrms TO feed a school Of fish, betook
!. its1 to the pool where 1t was annu-
tally reported and fervently believed
the big bass were hiding. III
They didn't get big bass. Bites came
slowly, and those they landed were lit
tie sunfsh. Is there anywhere In any
Lake. a muskie big enough to give him
a. great q thrill as those little sun
hshf He was late to supper, but there
was supper kept for him. And mother
didn't scold., She was pleased as
punch, and told him to hurry and clean
the fish, and she would cook them.
And she did. 'r,...- ,,.~,'~
w No other grown person praised his
catch. In all the world he and mother
alone recognized how worth while
those i've little sunfish were. And yet
It didn't seem wonderful that she
didn't ask him where the bass were.
That: was what other people did.
It was a wonderful day, but as he
looks back on 1t, he sees that the won
derful thing was not the little string
Of boys fish," but the mother who
was 30 pleased that she stood over
hot stove cooking them. How glad
she was to DO It. How happy she
would be II she could do it again, to-
day 1But she lives too far away now.
& .zs ~ wonder If he remembers to write
"a tell her Of his discovery-his dis
Kcovery- that mothers heart was big
enough to make his little fish splen.
did catch.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-23
Trucks Grow In Favor.

There were 953, O93 trucks in use at
the end of the year 1919, as compared
with approximately 100000 for the
preceding year. This is gain Of 81
per cent, 16 per cent greater than the
increase shown by passenger cars.
Only eighteen states make compila-
lions Of truck registration. New York
leads with others following in this or
der: Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Cali
fornia Iowa and Texas. Nevada with
100 Is at the foot of the list.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-23
Heart Expels Bullets.

During the war surgeons did some
extraordinary operations on the heart.
An account of these and Of the tech
niaue is given by Sir Charles Balance,
consulting surgeon Of st. Thomas hos
pital, London, in the Lancet. An IN.
teresting fact related by him is that
bullets that penetrated the heart were
often expelled through the aorta with
the blood and were found at remote
parts Of the body where they had
stuck in an artery.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-23
lncendiary Bullets.

The incendiary bullets used during
the war, mostly. fired from machine
guns carried by airplanes, we're In
effect miniature. high explosive shells
Those supplied to our armies (mil'
lions Of. them were made at the Frank
ford arsenal) were Of brass, followed
out to hold a composition of which
the principal Ingredient was barium
nitrate. To set this of, each bullet
had a printing charge Of magnesium
and red lead.
An ordinary rifle bullet, Of course
Ii solid. The tncendiary bullet is Of
wholly different construction. though
Of the same caliber, being. meant II
carry flame. Its discharge sets fire
to the explosive stuff contained in It
kansas City Star.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-23
Peanut Production,

Alabama is the leading state in
peanut production, with 6,s40. 900 BUSH
els to her credit in 1919. while i've
other states produced from 800, 900
bushels to $4,000 bushels each.
The total production Of peanuts in
the United States last year was 49,
$4,000 bushels, having a cash value
Of $9O,O0O,OO0. Last winter the aver
age price paid for peanuts was $40
per bushel. l.