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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-17
CHURCHES AIDING
GOOD CITIZEN CALL
SUNDAY Schools Take Active In
terest to Back UP Mayors
Proclamation
NOVEMBER 27 IS DATE

pbilodelphia Sundty schools are tax
,r1 advantage of Better Citizens Day,
Tovembcr 27, to distribute membership
literature as an important adjunct OF
the movement.
The Philadelphia Sunday School As
Isolation has taken the lead in dstri
hmtion of literature seconding Mayor
Woore's proclamation calling for
greater attendance in the churches.
Pamphlets urging the Sunday schools
IN increase their membership by tax
inc advantage of this day have been
cont TO every Sunday school super
intcndent in the city by Samuel Il.
Fares. general secretary of the asso
The pamphlets, besides calling for
greater attendance, give detailed
Instructions to insure success of the
movement and make the Sunday school
membership Of this city pass the 500,
900 mark.
Churches Plan Programs
George W. Schroeder, superintendent
NJ the Sunday school at the Bethlehem
Raptist Church, Eighteenth and York
streets, has engaged II special speaker
for the day and will follow the pro-
gram outlined by the Philadelphia Sun
day School Association.
At the Emmanuel Reformed Epis-
copal Church. East York and Sepviva
streets. Superintendent James A. An
dprson is having pledge cards printed
for distribution. and the mems Bible
class has sent out special cards calling
attention to the significance of the day
and urging them to triple the attend
ancc.
Pledge cards have also been distrib
utpd at the Frankford Methodist Epis.
copal Church, FrankfOrd avenue and
Fculkrod street. where Arthur r. Ire
land is superintendent.
At the Zion German Presbyterian
Church, Twenty eighth street above
Cirard avenue. August Klose, Super.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-17

continental highway, and for north and
south roads, one on the Atlantic and
one on the Pacific Coast. The advan-
tages Of such roads. according to the
club, in the event of strikes or internal
disorders is obvious.
The matter will be laid before Presi =
dent Harding, members of Congress,
and the backing of every automobile
club in the country will be asked.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-17
FALLS DOWN SHAFT: DIES

William Riba, 2206 Summer street,
injured in fall down an elevator shaft
died this morning at the Medico- CHR
urgical Hospital. While working in
the warehouse of the John Lang. PAPER
Company. Twenty sixth and Wood
streets late Yesterday Kibn stepped into
the shaft at the third floor and fell TO
the first floor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-17
WANT WAR CASH FOR ROADS
Keystone Auto Club Would Use
Money Saved on Highways

Roads instead of battleships," is to
be the slogan of the Keystone Automo-
bile Club, If the Conference for the
Limitation of Armament eventually de-
cides on n naval holiday. Resolutions
to this effect have been adopted by the
club.
1t is suggested by the club that
money now used for naval construction,
il saved by the Government through
such holiday as proposed, be used for
the construction of one great trans
Evening star., 1921-01-16
ELECTRIC RAILWAY
ASKS FARE RAISE
Applies to |. c. c. for Raise
in Rates to Virginia
Stations.
The Virginia Railway

The Washing Virginia Railway
Company has made application to the
Interstate Commerce Commission for
another raise in its rates. to take ef-
feet February 13. The raise is on
fares between Alexandria and Wash
ington and to all stations south as
far as Mount Vernon and also on its
Fairfax end. The increases are gem
eral. Unless a protest is made by
the commuters. il is stated that the
new rates will become operative Feb
ruary 13.
Fare for the round trip they seek
to increase from 3S cents to As cents
They also propose to increase tn,
fare of the monthly commutatioN
books known as the monthly ticket
which contains fifty-two trips. OF
twenty-six round trips. between Alex
s5.5S
The company also asks permission
TO take off the twenty-five-trir
ticket. considered the family ticker
and good for 4 period of three
months from date of issue. This
therefore. would leave only tn.
straight ticket at As cents and the
monthly ticket. which is supposed to
be used in months time and is good
issued. whereas the twenty-five-triI +
it. and was one of the most popular
tickets sold.
Commuters are expected to protest
the raise in fares, and the executive
committee of the Commuters Clut
has called a meeting for tomorrow
night in the chamber of commerce
| rooms at Alexandria.
Evening star., 1921-01-16
ELM JUMPS T0LEAD
IN D. c. VOTING
Ballots TabuIated Embrace
: Only Those Cast by Read
ers of The Star.

| The elm jumped into the lead yes
endum being taken by The Evening
Star and the American Forestry AS
sociation. First returns do not take
| into account the voting in the schools.
| put only the voting by readers of The
Evening Star. which are being sent
direct 10 the associations hcadquar-
terS, 1214 18th street northwest. Ihc
| tSchOol vote cannot be aScertalncd
/ until the count is completed by
schools. 1t is known that the Amer
/ lean elm is a heavy favorite in some
! of the schools and the "four-mlnute e
squads having the elm for a candl :
| date are getting the bulk OF the
applause from the pupils some teach
| erS report.
In the votes being tabulated by the
F.. American Forestry Association !he
| first to be opened was for the eim'
/ and the ballot was cast by Mrs Mar
and the second ballot opened was Tor
! the elm. and WAS from Ida tiIiberi
! Myers. 1332 | street. Then followed
: Il long string Of votes for inc 'ihi
! before a break came for the OAK ana
/ Ihc walnut. with many scattering I"
! other candidates..
-FOUR Minute Men Listed.
| Additional "four-minute men arc
announced by the nature study de-
partmcnt as follows:
HYDE School-Nllen Darn"S. SEra :
, more; Charles Carrioo, oak; Mary
Eliot. elm; George Shafer. maric, IN
derwood Graham. hickory; Herman
Nolmer. tulip; Edwin Humphries, dog
! wood: Lillian llse. pine.
= V. i,rown school-Prescott Cat
! ley. hickory: Charles knaebel. tulip:
Winona Won Ammon, apple; Wilfred
Hcrn. oak; Elizabeth Carey. pine; Ma
rion Han, dogwood; Sydney Prince.
elm: Wayne Buchanan. sugar maple;
| Evelyn Fletcher, sycamore.
! H. D. Cooke School-Ross Popkins
black walnut; Marsha Pierce, dog
wood: Margaret Zane. sycamore: Cole
man Jones. tulip; Paul keyser, oak
Edmund Pigeon. sugar maple: Tom
Page. hickory: Margaret Graham. ap-
| ple Isabel Almond. pine; Ruth Mer-
/ rill. elm.
Morgan School---John Hodges. sugar
| maple: Anna Gleaves. oak: Sue Birnie,
elm; Dorothy Coggeshall, pine: Fan
ME Dial. apple: Claudia Gleaves. tu-
; lip: Charles Hyer. hickory; Eliza
. Boyd. dogwood; Thomas Joyce, syca-
more.
! Hundreds of Votes in Schools.
! The nature study department of the
! schools reports hundreds of ballote
| cast by school children on the first
day The Star printed the official bal
/ lot and many insistent demands were
| made for announcement of results.
! This cannot be announced, of course
until the final count, when the tree
work exhibition is held at the Will
son Normal School, January II to 81
The thing to do now is to vote for
your idea of what tree best represents
America.
At this exhibition, to which the pub
| lie is invited, there will be the great
est miniature furniture display ever
put on in Washington.
Evening star., 1921-01-16
REPORT ON CLUBHOUSE.
James Sharp to Tell City Club Of
$1,oOO,OOO Project.

Prospects for the erection of the
proposed $1.000.000 clubhouse for the
City Club on & street. between 18th
and 14th streets, will be outlined by
James Sharp. chairman of the build
ing committee of the club. in d report
to be delivered at the meeting of the
entire club membership in the large
ballroom of the Willard Hotel We'd
nesday night. 1t is expected that the
report will be favorable to the project.
The clubs housing group will meet
at 8 O'Clock tomorrow night at the club
house, Farragut square. H. Clifford
Bangs. the chairman. will preside. Fur
ther plans for relieving the housing sit
uation in Washington will be discussed
The public utilities group will meet
at 8 o'clock Thursday evening. Fran
els r. Weller, the chairman. will pre-
side Street railway problems. the
Great Falls water power project and
rates of return for public utilities
will be discussed.
Evening star., 1921-01-16
MORTGAGE is BURNED.
Ceremony at Randle Highlands
BAPTIST Church.

4 mortgage burning was held by
the congregation of the Randle High
lands Baptist Church Friday evening.
Addresses were made by Rev. John E.
Briggs, pastor Of fifth Baptist
Church. and by c. A. Muddiman. Rev.
DIR. Hubert Bunyea, pastor of the
church, and others fired the mort
gage Rev. T.. w. johnson, pastor
of Grace Baptist Church, represented
Columbia Association Of Baptist
Churches.
With the burning of the mortgage
it was announced by the pastor that
the church is now free of debt. Fol-
lowing the exercises refreshments
were served
Evening star., 1921-01-16
MALELABOR IN SCHOOLS.
Appoiutment of Female Laborers in
Future to Be Avoided.

Employment of female laborers in
the District public school system in
the future will be avoided. IL possi-
BILE. it was learned last night School
officials. it is said, have decided that
on account of the era OF unemploy-
ment men are available for these posi-
tions.
There are approximately thirty
women employed in the school sys-
tenn who. were hired during the
neriod of the war. when male labor
was scarce Many of these women
officials say. have rendered valuable
service. but. in their opinion. the posi-
ton of laborer in the schools is "a
mans job
1t is the ultimate aim of school ofii-
cials to place men in all positions now
held by women.
Evening star., 1921-01-16
Hrpe-Fourths Of the Worlds
Population Under the League
Instrument Is Year DID, With Fortyne Nations KEEP
resented-Councl First Met in Paris,
January is, 1920.

habilitation of countries ruined by the
war. Friends of the league point 10
its intercession in the Poland-Lithu-
anian and SWedish-Finnish disputes,
the latter over the Aland Islands, as
among its achievements, although
both cases await final settlement.
They also enumerate as standing to
the leagues credit the repatriation OF
more than 100000 war prisoners and a
campaign against typhus in Poland.
They say it has furnished i govern
ment for the Saar district. formerly
German, and that it has helped Dan
zig to assume it's position as free
city under the leagues special pro-
teCitOn.
Evening star., 1921-01-16
WILL CBeE-'- "'9THDAY.
North Capitol .Iiu lexington Citi-
zens ORGANIZED 25 Years.

The North Capitol and Eckington
Citizens Association is planning a
special meeting and entertainment in
the Sunday school house of the United
Brethren Church, North Capitol and
r streets on the evening of Janu-
ary 25 in observance of the twenty
fifth anniversary of its organiza-
ton.
William A. Wise. chairman of the
entertainment committee, promises
the members an interesting program
Of speeches and musical numbers. A
buffet supper will be served.
Evening star., 1921-01-16
WOMEN

Heavy Walking Shoes, Of
heavy tan chrome leath-
er. Were $500
Black Vici or Natural Hid,
One-Eyelet Ties, wit b
Cuban heels. Were $3.50
Russia C;iIfskin Colonial
Ties, with Cuban heels
FieIdmousc High S h O s,
with French heels
Black Natural Hid High
Shoes, with French heels
Evening star., 1921-01-16

The league of nations will be one
year old today It's membership now
comprises forty-nine nations, repre-
senting, it is estimated, 1860, 100000
people, or three -fourths of the
worlds population of 1,6o3.0000 600.
Eleven additional states, with total
population of 44.000,000. have formal
" applied for admission, while it is
known that Germany, with It's 6O.-
600. .O00 people, wants to join as soon
as it is given Il chance. This leaves
about 3G1.000,0GO of the worlds in
ha bitants completely outside the
league.
The league began it's life when the
council met for the first time in Paris
at the summons Of President Wilson
on January 16, 1920, with twenty
three members. BY the time the first
meeting of the assembly was held. a
few months ago, the membership had
Increased to forty-one. Eight have
since been added.
At the time of its birth the league
had no quarters of it's own, but today
it is installed in it's permanent seat
at Geneva. where an old hotel has been
transformed into the Palace OF the
Nations The general secretariat, un-
der Sir Eric Drummond. has stan
of more than 900.
There have been eleven meetings of
the council of the league, and most
Of the subsidiary or semi-independent
bodies contemplated by the covenant
have been brought into existence.
These include the International court
of justice, the first institution of its
kind in the worlds history; machinery
for the registration of international
treaties; commissions to deal with
disarlnam mandates. economic
blockade measures public health, in
ternational statistics and the inter-
national labor office.
Preparations have been made for
bodies to deal with international com
munications and the suppression of
the white slave traffic and the ere
alton has begun of permanent ma
chinery for the regulation of interna-
tioral credits and the economic re-
Evening star., 1921-01-16

Patent Leather High
Shoes, with suede tops
and French heels
Evening star., 1921-01-16
QUITS RED CROSS WORK.
William E. Nicoll Resigns to Enter
Commercial Life.

William +. Nicoll. who entered the
service of the American Red Cross in
May. 1918. has resigned his position
of director of accounts for the Potoy
mac division and will enter commerk
cial life in Baltimore. He will be sue
ceeded by Mr.. Lghtbown. who has
been designated acting director.
In addition to his duties as division
accountant. Mr. Nicoll was chairman
of the salvage committe and pur-
chaser of supplies.
Evening star., 1921-01-16
DIR. F. w. BEAVERS DIES.

Dr. Frank w. Beavers Of Cleveland.
Ohio, brother-in-law Of Mrs. A. H.
Chase of Washington and Mrs. r. N
Atherton of Chevy Chase. died yester-
day at Scranton, Pa. He is survived
by his widow, d son. Frank w. Beav-
ers. and a daughter. Elizabeth j.
Beavers. The body will be brought
here and interment will be in Glen
wood cemetery Tuesday.
Evening star., 1921-01-16
DETECTIVES TO SPEAK.

Inspector Grant. chief of the detec-
tive bureau, and Detective Sandberg.
tinger-print expert of the police de-
partment will be speakers at the
meeting of the Home Defense Lague
Monday evening in the boardroon,
at the District building. Inspector
Grant will tell of the work of the
detective bureau and Mr.. Sandberg
will give a stereopticon lecture on
finger prints and theiI. use in secur-
ing evidence against Violators of the
la1,
Evening star., 1921-01-16

Patent Leather High Shoes,
with buck tops and baby N.,, "a cE
French heels. wv" Y1'VO
Tan Hid High Shoes. with N eAcE
military heels a>O" %7'O~
Tan Nici Kid High Shoes, N CAcc
with French heels aNO" %1sVO
Tan ni,S S1' f,sSss hi1 hisn nas. Shoes Now s9.e5
c'~s' French nEs Sse,s Shoes with Now $e.e5
"sns sj4s S1snes n'Ie bssia mifh Shoes Now $9.95
Black or Tan Hid Pumps, N e0 0c
with tailored bows "dNOW @o'S0
h'asa n:loxues eslfsA'n o1fofo Now $9.95
Black or Tan "MunsOn
Last High Shoes. For
those who have trouble A. en 0e |
with their feet. -iNUW @0.JJ !
Brown Suede One-Eyclct N en- nc
Ties. with satin backs -1\O" @0.0O
Tan Vici Kid Plain Oxfords, NJ co ne
with Cuban heels 1'U" &o'So
Evening star., 1921-01-16
BARUCH AWARDED D. S. NJ.

= NJ. Baruch, former head OF tAe
War Industries Board and one of TIN,
trainers of the economic clauses or
the peace treaty. has been awarded d
the distinguished service medal.
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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-07-13
EMONSTRATION
or POWERFUL GUN

Washington, July 11.-A silent, re-
coilless gun capable of shooting a
gas bomb weighing 5000 pounds 300
miles at Il speed rate Of from one to
five miles per second is i'm process
Of development by Miller Reese
Hutchinson, former chief engineer for
Thomas A. Edison, and Hudson Max
i'm, the great inventor.
The demonstration of the gun in
New York last week was witnessed
by a number of people, including
Rear Admiral Samuel MCGOWAN of
the navy, and William NJ. Williams
Gently commissioner of internal reve-
nuc. Those gentlemen have returned
to Washington, and are eXubcrant
over the success of the new instru-
ment of destruction.
The demonstration was made in an
office on the tifty-fifth floor of a
New York skyscraper. A steel bull
let, three inches long and half-inch
in diameter, was shot through a
three quarter inc hstccl plate at a
velocity of one mile per second. This
is greater speed than ever before
developed in projectiles of any kind.
The demonstration was soundless
except for the impact of the bullet
as it bored through the plate. The
sllenccr is an entirely new principle,
and in no wise connected with the
old Maxim principle.
The ultimate application of the
gun to the hurling of shells of great
weight to great distances at remark
able. speed has been passed on by
the ballistic experts of the United
States and England and pronounced
practicable.
Until another war develops, the
machine will be applied to steel con-
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HEALTH OFFICER HAYNE
IN MANNING monday

DR.. j. A. Hayne, Public Health OF.
lcer and Secretary Of the State Board
of Health, who was in Manning Mon
day in regard to the Tonsl and Ade-
mold Clinic to be held on July 10Th,
9th and 2Sth, expressed himself as
pleased with our town and its CYL
dences of progress.
Dr.. Hayne has been head Of the
South Carolina Department of Public
Health for ten years and III that time
this portion Of the states activities
as~grown from insignificant proper
tions to place where it ranks high
among the states in the work Of pre-
vention Of disease and in the lowering
of the mortality rate. For one in
stanre. in 1915 there were $500 deaths
in the State from typhoid; while last
year there were only 2500, and it is
hoped to reduce this rate still further.
Good results have been obtained also
through the tuberculosis work. The
State Sanatorium for tuberculosis in
Columbia, put into operation during
Dr.. Haynes incumbcncy, is producing
splendid results.
DR.. Haync has had varied cXpcr-
ience, fitting him for his position. He
was, for several years, a general prac
titioner; spent three years as a sur
geon IN the United States Army; was
for three years under General Gorgas
on the Isthmus of Panama during the
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building Of the Panama Canal, and
took part in the work Of freeing the
Canal entirely of malaria and yellow
fever. He is ex-president of the
South Carolina Medical Association,
and is at present Chairman of the
Section of Public Health and Preven-
tive Medicine of the American Medical
Association.
DR.. Hayne made o splendid Impress
ion upon those he met here as. an able
and we are indeed fortunate in hav-
ing him personally in charge Of our
Clinic.
He says that he will return and be
here during Il portion of the Clinic to
see that his plans are carried out and
that everything is properly done.