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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-25
u. s. WILL SPEND
BILLION ON ROADS
Secretary E. L. Powers Out
lines Plans of Federal and
State Authorities.

More than 4 billion dollars will be
spent this year for good road and
street construction and Improvement
in the United States" said Secretary
r. l.; Powers of the American Road
Builders Association. This state
ment is not based on guesswork. nor
on loose estimates, but on careful
tapulation of the amounts. federal
state, county and municipal. already
appropriated. and n careful approx
nation of the amounts customary in
localities where the appropriations
have not yet been made"
ut is expected that the seventeent h
annual convention of the association.
Louisville. Ky, February to l3. will
also be the most important in the
history of the organization. Large
conventions were held before the war
period. when the annual public eX-
penditures for highways hard y
amounted to per cent of the stu
pendous sum named above.
Must spend Money Wisely.
The membership of the association.
which consists principally of state,
county and city highway officials and
contractors, appreciate the gravity of
the responsibility of seeing that the
money is wisely expended. The inter
Change Of views and experiences has
always been found of great value to
them in their official duties.
This meeting will be held AS the
tenth annual good roads congress and
will bring into its sessions many
members of other organizations less
technical in their scope than the
American Road Builders. These are
persons whose views of collateral
subjects are of interest and value.
Good Roads Show.
The eleventh annual good roads
show. ALSO under the auspices of the
American Road Builders Association,
will be held on the main floor of the
building, and will present many new
features in machinery and materials
for the construction and maintenance
of roads and streets. Labor-saving de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-25

Bruce Emerson of the firm of En-
erson * Orme, Buick car agents, fell
at his home on Monday and sustained
a fracture of two ribs and was pain
fully bruised about the body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-25
TRADE NOTES.

The George c.. Rice Auto Company.
local distributor for the Davis and
Stearns- X night cars, has just secured
the agency for the Columbia Six.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-09-16
lPlay Lessons For
Little Children

When the older children 'of the
home and neighborhoOd go back to
school in the autumn, the mother is
often taxed to find occupations
which will fill in the gap for the ac-
tive two, three or four year-old who
misses their companionship. This is
just the time to delight his heart
: and satisfy his unconscious desires
<and needs by starting him on set
of Simple play lessons. For these
the mother needs no elaborate ma
terials or schoolroom training. She
can find in her own home and ex-
perience both the tools and the skill
for their use.
Every mother lives over with her
children the experience of each hui
man being in discovering and adapt
ing himself to the world about him.
Let her pause and take thought Of
few of the common facts with
which her child must become famil-
lar. One is an appreciation of the
relative sizes Of things. Think how
you would feel if you had never
consciously entertained the idea Of
size and it suddenly dawned upon
you one day that two objects which
had seemed alike yet vaguely unlike,
differed in that one was slightly lar
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-09-16
GOODYEAR SERVICE STATION
RACAN-CAY MOTOR co.

lucky. Export tobaccos of this re-
gion are open fire. cured giving them
a strong flavor of creosote. The
growing scarcity of wood in many
regions is making the curing process
very expensive and in time it will be
almost impossible to secure the nee
essary supplies of wood at reason
able figure. The experiments at the
Experiment Station were dsigned to
determine the possibility of accom-
plishing results equivalent to those
obtained by open wood firing by a
combination of fue- curing and
smoking with wood smoke. The
heat in fue- curing is furnished by
any kind of fuel. In appearance the
tobacco cured by this process is
equal to open-6re- cured in all res
poets but does not have quite so
pronounced an odor of smoke. This
experiment is TO be continued. II is
not known how the buyers will value
the leaf cured in this way.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-09-16
Change in Method
Of Curing Tobacco

In the annual report of the Ken
lucky Experiment Station which is
just off the press, Director Thomas
Cooper writes: "For several years
past the Experiment Station has
been attempting to determine a
method Of curing hurley tobacco by
artificial heat. Enough work has
been completed to show that as high
grade of leaf can be obtained by
hue-curing at a relatively low tenn
perature as by air curing, thus elm
mating completely the danger of
house burning.
With the increasing Importance Of
the hurley tobacco industry, it is
probable that the use of artificial
heat may be advantageously resort
ed to more generally. This would
hold true especially in seasons when
climatic conditions are unfavorable
for curing.
During the past year, curing ex-
periments were conducted with dark
tobacco as grown in Western Ken
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-09-16

ger than the other. You would have
a new testing rod with which to try
out the world. Give a child that
idea with a nest of boxes, with a set
of books graded by sizes, with
blocks. with spools, with tin pans.
Any set of objects in series will be
the materials for a group of play
lessons for which the words '1arge"
and "larger," "small' and "smaller"
are the keys.
Along with size come length and
height. Following size comes shape,
taught most easily by sorting out all
the blocks of kind or all the beads
of a kind from the usual boxes of
blocks and wooden beads which are
to be found among the plaything of
most children. They all love to pick
out shapes by touch, finding in
group of objects hidden under an
apron in the mothers lap the twin
of an. object they hold in their hands,
then, when they have the idea, do
ing the same from piles of their own
making. They are interested in like
enness and differences. This inter-
est is, indeed, at the bottom of most |
play suggestions for little children.
Through it We start the child on the
training of his sensibihties. In dis
covering differences and noting them
and in performing operations which
make note Of them through tourh or
sight, the third is developing these
powers which are at the moment
awaiting development.
Other plays with duplicate spools
or blocks introduce the idea of
things, selecting one and
finding its twin. Then we come to
sorting and here are opportunities
for a variety of plays. Mix from
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-09-16

the kitchen supply closet brown,
white, and speckled beans; provide
three receptacles into which to sort
them. Make a play set from your
button box. Children's delicate fin
ger-tips are quickly susceptible to
differences in texture. Go to- your
piece bag and cut squares (patch-
work size) of cotton, flannel, velvet,
corduroy. burlap, chamois skin,
leather and silk, to be sorted into
pieces of each kind, first by touch
and sight, then by touch alone. Col
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-09-16

II is all right for a girl to throw
her hips out of joint and then throw
them back in again when she is
dancing the Maxixe or a new-fau-
gled Tango. But there was a time
when we used to think it real devil
ish to pay a dime and go in and
watch Hootchie dancer.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-09-16

or plays come in a natural Sequence
employing only at first only the pri-
mary coIors, red, orange, yellow,
green, blue and violet.
The whole secret of home educa-
ton for little children is for the
mother to meet awakening instincts
and powers with play supplies and
play suggestions. "The A. b. G. of
things" says Froebel, "must pre-
cede the A. B. c. Of words" Moth
ing the little child is earring is be-
vond his mothers experience. To
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-09-16

Thank the Lord for prosperity. 1t
helps you to pay the bills, and If the
bills don't take all the prosperity
from you, it won't be the fault Of
the bill collector.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-09-16

meet his needs she has only to get
his viewpoint and travel with him
the road Of investigation and appre-
citation of the interesting world
about him.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-09-16

Thou art loved-love; thou must
die-work while it is yet day; abol-
ish anger by kindness. overcome evil
with good.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-19
TAX COLLECTION
AND HIGH COST
SHOWN BY KAHN
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

NO-N -NILD r NUN AOb O-NE
and how long would it stay there?
The whole theory of such a con-
tention is incompatible with our ira
ditions and with the spirit and es-
sence of our institutions. And I feel
certain that the vast majority of the
American people are not prepared
to permit a temporary emergency
to uproot the basic conceptions of
our economic and social system and
to put in their place the doctrines
and methods of socialism or some
kindred outlandish creed
Trend Toward Improvement.
No doubt the prevailing appor-
tionment of monetary reward is not
free from defects (though less so in
this country than anywhere else).
But there has been a steady and
pronounced tendency and movement
especially within this generation,
toward mending such defects and
remodeling inequitable conditions.
Evolution and the Irresistible pow
ers which make for progress, en-
anu gdoNlCC may DS ut-
pended upon to continue and ad-
vance that process. There can be no
turning back. But improvident
measures of economic violence will
not hasten that process; on the con-
trary. they will impede it.
Thus far no civilized nation has
ventured upon the step of placing a
limit on what a man may earn. The
consequences and repercussions of
such an act would be almost Incal-
culable, and they would, 1 am sure.
prove sinister and destructive. At
any rate, if we ever want to make
so fundamental an alteration in our
economic order, the proposition
needs first to be exhaustively dis
cussed before the people in all it's
bearings, so that it's inevitable con-
sequences may be clearly under
stood. and the people must then have
the opportunity to pronounce them
selves upon the subject definitely
and unmistakably.
Certainly the purpose must not be
sought to be accomplished without
a positive mandate, by indirection,
in the guise of a revenue measure.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-19
Here's What Bankers Will Do
And When They'll Do 1t, Today

Program for the first general session today American
Bankers Association Kehs Theater, Fifteenth Streets
from a. nj. to I245 p.
Executive council members former presidents, Presidents
and honorary guests invited platform
Music by the United States Marine Band 9 o o:3o
mConvenon called order by the president
S. Hawes
93I-Invocaion Rt Rev. Thomas J. Shshan D, rector
Catholic University.
o35-Addess of welcome Col Robert Harper, president
Of the District OF Columbia Bankers Association
94o-Response address of welcome Thomas B. McAdsms
second president Of the American
945Annual address, Richard Hawes president of the as
sociation.
1oo-Report of constitutional committee NJ A. Traylor,
I1oo-Address Secretary OF Agriculture E T
and Agriculture"
chairman
1I5-Address John J. Puleyn president Emgrant Industrial
Savings Bank New York City Transportation and Its Effect
Credit"
123-Repo of public relations cop1miee William P Share
chairman Communications Announce Adjournment
The Washington herald., 1920-10-19
CUT
OVER BILLION
Treasury Department E.sti-
mates Show Vast Decrease
In Past Year.

Expenditures of the government
departments for the period from
July l, of this year, to September 30,
totalled $1,25o,s49,556 as compared
with s2,4O9, ,292,944 expended for the
corresponding period of last year,
according to estimates announced
yesterday by the Treasury Depart
ment. From July l, 1919, to June
80, 1920, it was estimated that ex-
penditures amounted to s6,4oS,343,-
S41.
Inclusive of government expendi-
lures made on account of interest
payments of liberty bonds and other
securities outstanding, the total Of
expenditures from July l, 1920, to
September 30, 1920, was estimated at
S2,S79, ,S0S,266, as compared with the
gross expenditures during the same
period of last year of s5,962,307,425.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-19
FOUR ARE HURT
IN COLLISION
Traffic Accidents Here Send
Men to Hospitals for
Treatment.

Four persons were injured in
traffic accidents last night.
Lucas Lamar. 81 years old, OF
1903 F street northwest. was struck
by an automobile while crossing the
street in front of his home yester-
day. He was taken to the Emer-
gency Hospital where he was
treated for shock and an injury to
his arm.
While crossing near Fourteenth
and G streets northwest, yesterday
George Shannon, 81 years old, 34li
/ knocked down by an automobile and
suffered slight injuries. He wa.
treated at the Emergency Hospita
and later went to his home
Edward Scott. colored, AZ year.
old. OF s33 X street southeast, EN-.
ployed by the Washington Railwa!
and Electric Company. was struck
| by a street car of that company
while he was working on the track.
near Twenty-fourth and P street!
| northwest He suffered a fractured
leg and was taken to the Emergency
! Hospital
Suffering from slight injuries or
! the head and body received wheI
! the bicycle he was riding wa:
: struck by an automobile neal
! Twenty-sixth street and Bennins
road northeast. yesterday, Herbert
Dean, colored. Is years old. of 44l
| S street northwest, was taken e
| Casualty Hospital.
Slight damage resulted when ar
| automobile operated by Herbert
| Hurley. 6l5 Upshur street north.
west. collided at Sixth and K streets
| northeast, with an automobile
| operated by r. H. Hanford, 632 A
! street northeast.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-19
1OOBOLT COP.
T0AIDLEAGUE
Harding Represents Little
America" Says Statement
Given to Public.

New York, Oct. 1s.-Declaring
they cannot indorse Senator Hard
ing's policy of America last" more
than 100 representative men and
women who have supported hither-
to the Republican or Progressive
tickets have signed a statement that
this year they will vote for Cox
and Roosevelt and for Senatorial
candidates who are committed to
ratification of the covenant of the
league of nations.
The statement. made public to-
day. sets forth the belief of its
signers that its present leadership
has permitted the Republican party
to become a little America" party.
1t has been diverted from the policy
adhered to from Lincoln to Taft Of
establishing closer understanding
among the nations OF the world.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-19
NEW SCHOOL
PLAN DEVISED
Trade Board Would Use
$4,648,666.69 Surplus
Fund of District.

Use of District surplus funds,
raised under the old ifty-fifty plan
and now held in the Treasury, to
construct needed school buildings
for the city's growing army OF chill
dren is asked in a resolution adopted
last night by the Board of Trade
schools committee headed by Roy c.
Clafin.
. For several years a fund OF s4,-
64s,666,69, raised through taxation
in the District, has lain idle. inso-
far as the needs of Washington were
concerned, in the Treasury. Under
the hfty-hfty law of taxation the
government was required to add the
same amount to the District fund
making a total of ss,297,3S.3s as an
equitable credit of the National
Capital.
Mids Have Accumulated.
This money would have been
spent, it is claimed in the resolution,
if Congress had appropriated it for
use at proppious times. Municipal
needs, especially during the war,
were allowed to accumulate, the
resolution says, leading to the pres
ent school CONGESTION.
The resolution asks that Con
Cress appropriate from this ss,297,-
333.3s OF available District revenue
such sum beyond that supplied from
current revenue as may be required
to construct quickly and fully these
necessary additional school build
ings. Cooperation of the commits
sioners and civic organizations in
achieving the object of the resolu-
ton is asked.
Ask Reduced school Fares.
Another resolution was adopted
asking the Public Utilities Commits
sion to reduce carfare for school
children, proposing that six fares
be sold for 25 cents. A third res
olution asked that the Municipal
tuberculosis Home be removed
from the Hamilton School to more
suitable quarters.
The resolutions will be referred
to the full Board of Trade at the
annual fall meeting December Is.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-19
BODY OF SLAIN
STUDENT FOUND
Dartmouth Senior Killed in
Philadelphia; 5000
Left in Pockets.

Philadelphia. Oct. 1S.-The body OF
Elmer G. Drewes, % years old, a
senior at Dartmouth College, was
found near Adams Lane and the
sity line at $50 yesterday by a
Iamplighter. a bullet wound was
over the left eye.
Drewes lay on his back in the
grass. His hands were folded over
his chest His overcoat was draped
over the lower part of his body.
Detectives believe he was killed
in some other district and brought
to the spot by his slayer
In Drewes' pocket were a rail-
road ticket to Reading. Pa. 5000 in
cash, a watch, $500 in liberty bonds.
two checks for 500 each, signed by
his father, Christian T. Drewes, and
a slip Of paper on which was his
name and address. His rings were
not removed.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-19
Notes of Bankers
From Their 46th
Convention

One of the youngest bankers at
the convention is Craig b. HazIe-
wood, vice president of the Union
Trust Company. Chicago. Hazle-
wood started his banking career as
bank messenger, but he later de-
Veloped his career along the lines
OF bank advertising, upon which he
admits he is bug"
Robert Foster Maddox. president
Of the association in 1919; owns a
home outside Oklahoma City. which
is reported to be the most beauti-
full home in that section.
One of the leading bankers here
from Philadelphia is William A
Law. Law is a typical Southerner,
having been born in the midst of
the largest cotton plantations in
ganiZed the North Carolina Bank
ers' Association in 1901. He is a
former president of the American
Bankers Association.
Guy Z. Bowerman. general secre-
tary of the \. B. A, is a man of
wonderful business capacity and has
always been in the midst of the pro-
gressive movements of all sorts. He
resigned the office of commissioner
of finance in the State of Idaho to
come with the a. B. A.
A. Barton Hepburn. chairman Of
the board Of the Chase National
Bank of New York, and chairma n
Of the currency commission of the
American Bankers Association since
its organization over fifteen years
ago, was one of the arrivals from
New York yesterday. Hepburn is
considered the dean of the American
hnanciers.
Walter w. Head, president of the
Omaha National Bank of Omaha.
Neb., is reported as having been
unanimously elected head of a new
ly formed organization within the
association known as THE Beau
Brummels of the Golf Course" Head
taught school to get his start in life
and is now head OF several of the
largest insurance companies and
banks in the Middle West
The Washington herald., 1920-10-19
Mrs. Rinehart
Favors Gangs
For Yank Girls

New York. Oct. Is.-sMotbrr"
I'm going out to join the gang,
mentions daughter.
90 X" murmurs mother.
Mrs. Mary Roberts Rfnebsrt
advocates the gang spirit,
among girls, she announced yes
terday when she accepted the
post as chairman of the girl
cout membership campaign,
"The girls need to he taught,
she added. that their youpp
bodies are to be used rs well as
decorated. Until, they learn that
we shah have sickIy mothers and
puny babies.1
The Washington herald., 1920-10-19
V0LSTEAD ACT
WILL REMAIN
So Declares Kramer in
Speech Before Church
Gathering.
SCORES THE POLITICIAN
Vets Would Nullify the Con-
@ stitution Itself, He De-
clares.
SCORES THE POLITICIAN

Asserting that the politicians who
are now advocating amendment OF
the Volstesd act to permit the sale
Of light wines and beers would null
lily the Constitution itself, John F
Kramer, Federal Prohibition Com.
missioner of the United States
spoke with great feeling to a large
audience of the sixth convention
of the Lutheran Brotherhood al
Rauscher's last night.
They would make a farce of the
Constitutional amendment, which
says that intoxicating liquor shall
not be sold nor transported" he
said. II can tell you that beer is
intoxicating unless IL has changed
in the last thirty-one years.
Mr.. Kramer was greeted with
great enthusiasm by the delegates
and held his audience for almost an
hour while he scored those Amer
lean citizens whom he declared put
men in public ONCE and then re-
fused to back them up when they
attempted to carry out the law.
Fought Hard for Liberty.
There is a big difference" Mr..
Kramer pointed out, between a
principle being in the Constitution
and in practice every day OF the
week. No great principle was ever
established by proclamation. or by
merely writing il into a law" he
added, and cited the fact that from
the day in 1915 when Englishmen
had wrested the Magma Charta from
King John to the signing of the
Declaration of independence men
had fought hard TO retain the prin-
ciples of liberty contained in that
document.
They talk about the greatness
of the Declaration of Independence" ."
Mr.. Kramer said. There are only
three lines in il that really amount
to anything. They are the lines
by which the trainers pledge their
lives. their fortunes and their sa-
cred honor that the Declaration
might be effective"
Live in Democracy.
The responsibility does not end
with going to the polls" the speak
er declared The American people
must stand back Of the agent whom
they elect to represent them in Of
fee. No business man would Sc
leCt an agent and then sit back.
Instead. he would have all the more
interest. II he did not. his bust
ness would not last long" Mr.. Kra-
mer pronounced church people the
greatest sinners in this respect and
said that in the majority of in
stances were too apathetic with ref
erence to the conduct of their gov
government.
No Repeal He Says.
Mr.. Kramer concluded with the
prediction that the prohibition
Amendment would never be repealed.
''YOu cannot think Of thirty-six
States doing it-you could not get
even twelve TO take it out of the
Constitution" he declared.
John l. Zimmerman, Of Spring
field. Ohio, president Of the brother
hood. presided at the reception and
buffet supper given in welcome to
the 1000 delegates representing more
than 10000 LUtherans throughout
the United States.
Harry T. Domer of the District
Supreme Court. extended a welcome
on behalf Of the churches. while
Henry B. Macfarland. former presi-
dent Of the District Board Of Com
missiOners, welcomed the delegates
10 the District. Response was made
by President Zimmerman Today's
session will conclude the convention.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-19
Bloodhouhds Trailing
Minister Assailants

Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct, 49,
Bloodhounds early today were
searching for the assailants of Rev
L. c. Ledford, of Hartman. Several
shots were fired through the church
window last night as Ledford ad-
dressed a young peoples meeting,
according to reports here.
One glancing shot wounded Mrs.
w. W. Whalen. Her condition was
not considered dangerous today. A
cause for the attack had not been
learnf.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-19
QUITS DEMOCRACY.
BLAMING WILSON

New York, Oct 1S.-Frederic R
Coudert has renounced the Demo
cratic party and will vote for Hard
ing. So he announced yesterday in a
letter TO Henry A. Wise, saying the
experience of past years seems TO
have demonstrated the inability of
the Democratic party to produce a
sufficiently sound and practical
leadership to meet the problems Of
the day"