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Evening star., 1922-06-06
i. s. lob SEEKERS
ARE FACING QUIZ
Government Wants to Know
Something of Personal At
tributes of Applicants.

The Civil Service Commission has
just put into use its new confidential
inquiry blanks. aiming to learn the
character of applicants as well as
their scholarship. For the present
their use is confined to the fourth
civil service district, including the
District of Columbia, Maryland, Nir-
ginia, West Virginia and North Da-
kota, and the tenth district, including
Louisiana and Texas.
Appearance and manners, ability
to learn, industry, initiative and CO.
operativeness are inquired about in
the blanks, which are being used
ssassN<ui4 s1eliner soa clerks and carriers
in the postal service, but which later
will be used for all positions in the
civil service.
Mere Recommendations Inadequate.
No longer will Uncle Sam be content
with a mere recommendation" from
some party who is friend of the ap-
plicant. Five Of the new blanks will
be sent out in each case. the infor-
nation secured to be confidential.
Under appearance and manner the
person filling out the blank will be
asked to give the applicant a rating
under one of the following hVe
heads: Very favorable. favorable. un-
impressive, makes poor IMPRESSION
or antagonizes.
will be- indicated by: Very superior.
learns with ease, ordinary, slow 10
learn or dull.
Under industry" the applicant will
he marked according to the follow :
ing: Very energetic. industrious. MOD
erately active, indifferent, or lazy.
Graded on Initiative.
Under Initiative" the applicant is to
be marked one of the following: Very
original, resourceful, occasionally sug-
eests, routine worker or needs constant
supervision.
Under "co-operativeness." the would
be clerk or carrier will be graded as
to highly cooperative, cooperative,
follows instructions, difficult to handle,
or obst-uctionist.
These five character inquiry blanks
will be almost the last word in ac-
cepting or rejecting the applicant, it
was indicated today.
SlVll ocENlSc uiSt III ScCletdIicS "iil
use this new power with discretion,
however, and common sense, with the
applicant always getting the benefit
of the doubt. Doubtful cases will be
put up to the Civil Service Commits
sion here.
The first reports under the new sys-
tenn must be turned in by the district
secretaries in the two districts named.
and in certain other districts yet to
be determined, within six months
This work Is the first under the
appropriation of $40, 900 given by Con-
gress to carry on character examina-
tions.
Evening star., 1922-06-06
PRESIDENT TO END
. DAYL|GHT-SAV|NG
| ONLY IF j. s. IS HIT
Administration Willing to Ad-
NIT BIunder if Disadvan-
tage Is Shown.
UNCONCERNED ON VIEWS
OF BUSINESS INTERESTS
Has Had No Evidence of Disad-
vantage in Departments-Hours
Likely to Stand.

When President Harding is shown
That the daylight-savinG plan is work
ing to the detrment of the govern
,uent departments he will readily is
sue an order bringing about the
former working hours. This fact
vas made known at the White House
today. but at the same time 1t was
explained that thus far there is no
evidence that the recently inaugu-
rated daylight-saving plan is work
ing unsatisfactory in the depart
ments
The President also is known to
have very recently admitted that
when he is convinced that the day
light scheme was working to a dis
advantage. he would lose no time in
publicly admitting that the admin
istration had made a blunder. but so
far as the business concerns in wash
ington are concerned. he has nothing
To do with their interest in the mat
ter.
Not Keen for Change.
1t was intimated that the President
has been advised that the plan is not
working satisfactorily among the
business houses of the city, and in
This connection it was explained that
The Presidents action in bringing
about aylight-saving in the depart
mcnts was due to a large measure to
requests made by a delegation of
leading business men.
1t was made known that the Presi-
dent personally was not keen for
the change, but he was willing to
engage in the adventure after rep
,"sentationS had been made to him
that the change to be made would
benefit all concerned 1t was pointed
cut that these representations which
raIsed the President to yield were
no doubt made in an honest man
ner. and as the result of a careful
survey.
Plan to Continue.
The Presidents attitude toward
daylight saving would indicate, 1t
was stated today, that the plan now
III effect in Washington will con-
tinue throughout the summer, un-
less cabinet officials take the initia-
tive and request a change.
Cabinet officials recently questioned
on the subject in the majority were
represented as believing that the
new plan which had been given a
fair trial, was working, so far as
the government departments are con-
cerned, efficiently and there Is no
need. in their opinion, for going
back to normal hours.
The business men of the city. cred
tied with starting the movement here.
have no inclination, as far as can
he learned, to revisit the White
House in an effort to have the Pres
ident reverse his action on daylight
saving.
summed up. therefore, the Presi-
dent has put the matter squarely up
TO the government departments,
whose heads, in turn, believe that the
nlsn should not be changed.
Evening star., 1922-06-06
ADMITS NUMBERING MAN
TO CLEAR PATH TO LOVE

PORT ARTHUR, Ontario, June g.
Fred Baldwin, farm hand, last night
confessed to the murder on May Q of
Robert Motion, his employer and
father of the girl he loves, because
he considered him an obstacle in the
path of his courtship. He was held
on a murder charge.
Il talked with my girl before I did
it," Baldwin is said to have told the
police. I'VE agreed that we could get
along better IL her father was out of
the WaX
Evening star., 1922-06-06
Special Dispat tch to The Star.

Special DlBpatcn 70 Inc quar-.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. June S.
Is a baby carriage a common car
rier? This question is perplexing
Judge Sam D. McReynolds Of the
criminal court of Hamilton county
The judge is diligently seeking the
answer in his law books because on
it hinges the liberty Of Eva McFad-
den; colored person Of 400 pounds
displacement, who played the stellar
role in a comedy drama which held
the boards at the courthouse for an
hour today.
Two local plain clothes men suspect
ed that Eva, despite her bulk, had
concealed bootlegging proclivities.
They paid an unexpected visit TO her
home and found her just leaving
behind q baby carriage, which con-
tanned a well blanketed form.
Enforcement officers held up Eve
and feAnd-not = baby. but several
Evening star., 1922-06-06
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGED
Boy Is Shot Playmate Who Was
Riding Away on Bicycle.

MIAMI, Fla, June 6-William Les
ter. fifteen. who killed his playmate
Philip Heslington. jr., thirteen, Sun
day with a twenty-five caliber rifle,
as the latter was riding away on
bicycle, in attempting, it was said,
to shoot an object out of his victims
hand, was held by coroner's jury
yesterday afternoon on a charge OF
manSlaurhter
Evening star., 1922-06-06
7-YEAR-OLD GRANDSON
OF WALLACE RIDES IN
BUGGY FOR FIRST TIME

Times do change" Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace remarked to-
day as he climbed out of the horse
drawn carriage which by custom
conveys the agricultural chief on
official missions. and entered the
White House executive offices for
the regular cabinet meeting. His
small grandson, aged eseven. rode
with him in the ancient eQuipage.
THAT is the first time this boy
ever rode behind horse" the
Secretary explained.
Evening star., 1922-06-06
PATIENTS IN PANIC.
Bullets Pierce Belfast Hospital
Windows-Attack Mystery.

By the Associated Press.
BELFAST, June 6.-Belfast was
mystified last night by reason of
intense and long continued firing in
the vicinity of the Mater infirmary,
adjoining the Crumlin road Jail.
A number of bullets struck the wall
of the hospital and six windows were
pierced. CONSERVATION reigned among
the patients, and those who were able
left their beds, taking refuge on the
floor. The police combed the district
for the gunmen. but without result.
The official report on the incident
said shots were fired at the Jail. and
the guard, believing that institution
was being attacked. replied with ma
chine guns some of the bullets from
which struck the hospital.
Evening star., 1922-06-06
MILL LABOR sCANT.

MANCHESTER, N. H, June 6.-Ths
cotton mills that reopened yesterday
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
Evening star., 1922-06-06

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights Of publication of special
dispatches herein also reserved
Evening star., 1922-06-06
WEATHER.

Generally fair and continued warm
tonight and tomorrow.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended at 2 pm. today: Highest, IS,
at 2 pm. today; lowest, 50. at am.
today.
Full report on page 4.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
IN THEATERs UPTOWN.

John Drinkwater's Abraham Lin
coin" with Frank McGlynn, will be at
Shubert-Riviera Theatersthis week.
The Theater Guilds production of
Franz Molnar's 'Iiliom." with Joseph
Schildkraut and Miss Eva lie Gallienne,
comes to the Bronx Opera House.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
Music World to
Honor Memory of
Franz Schubert
l25th Anniversary of Compos-
er's Birth to BE Celebrated
This Week.

The musical world Is preparing to pay
tribute to the memory of Franz Sehu-
pert this week. The 125th anniversary
OF MS birth falls on January 81. and a
iationwide celebration will be held to
honor the genius of the man who has
been called "the greatest song writer
who ever lived The festival was in
spired by Blossom Time" the operetta
at the Ambassador. which embodies the
character and melodies of Schubert.
Among the organizations which will
pay homage to the memory of the COM
poser are tho Music Publishers Asso-
citation, which will have a dinner at Del
monico's on January 81; the Music In
dustrfes Chamber of Commerce. COM
prising the most important musical In
strument manufacturers and merchants
In this country; the Talking Machine
Hen. Inc, and other enterprises. An
tonia Sawyer. r. Z. Johnston and
Charles l.. Wagner, managers of musi-
cal artists. have offered their coopera-
ton and that Of the vocalists and in
strumentalists under their direction.
Leading department stores will also lend
their support.
Special Schubert selections will be
played In theaters under the direction
of the Messrs. Lee and j. j. Shubert.
Other organizations preparing to honor
Schubert in one way or another are the
National Bureau for the Advancement
of Music, the Caruso Memorial Founda-
tion, the Park Community Symphony
Orchestra, of which Jacques Gottlieb
Is conductor, and the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Company,
through the medium of the radiophone.
Such artists as Joseph Wolf of the Chi
cago Opera Company and Miss Christine
Langenham of the Hamburg Opera will
give all-Schubert recitals during the
week. The orchestras Of the Hotel Nc
Alpin. under the direction of Nahan
Franko. and the Hotel st. Regis, under
the direction of John Rochotti, will
feature Schubert songs.
In addition. there will be recitals of
Schubert music at the Ambassador Thea
ter this afternoon and February ). The
winning prizes in the Schubert essay
contest, now In progress among high
school students, will be awarded on
Saturday morning, February 4, at the
Ambassador Theater. and special pro-
gram for children will be given.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
Miss Helen M0ller to
Give Dance Recital

Miss Helen Moller one of the leading
exponents of the Greek dance, has re-
Gently returned with her dancers from a
successful season In Paris and London.
In her little theater. atop the Lexington
Opera House, with all artistic decora-
tions. her company will give dance re-
cital tonight at nine o'clock.
Among the dances on the long pro-
gram given to music of the masters will
be Dawn, Serenade, Autumn, Liebes-
traum, Gavotte. Souvenir, Valse Petite.
Reflections in the Water, Morning,
Asses Death, The Swan, Etude. The
Greek Run. Narcissus, Spring Voices,
Liebesfreud, Musette, Rondino. Etude,
To a Waterlily, Valse. Minuet Elegy--
Unknown Grave; Butterflies to Foun-
tains, Pan and Bacchanal.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1922-10-05
ANNOUNCE PROGRAM OF
BETTER BUSINESS MEET
Retail Merchants to Spend Day At Ed
ucational gatherings, 900 Bust.
ness Men expected.

Plans have been completed for the
annual Better Business Convention
which is to b. held IN Iemrhis on
October jth at the Hotel Chisca. which
will b. attended by approximately l..
300 business men of Memphis and sur
rounding territory. Fred +. Mann, sue
cessful retailer of Devils Lake, North
Dakota, who did $1,000 business in
l92l in town of 1000 persons, will
be the principal speaker.
Tho completed program as announc.
I'd by r. W. Reich, general chairman,
follows:
10000 a.m.-Welcome address, Steve
II. Butler president of the Memphis
Chamber of Commerce.
1915 am.-"The Banker and Mer-
chant" by John ]. Helm, manager of
the Memphis Branch OF the Federal
Reserve Bank of st. Louis.
1916 a.m.-"Present Business Con.
ditions." by John W. Mcclure, sec.
retary-treasurer Belgrade Lumber Co..
Memphis, Tenn.
1890 p.m.-Luncheon, Hotel Chisca
ballroom.
LIS p.m.-"How to Increase Your
Sales by Fred P. Mann OF DEVILS
Lake, North Dakota.
M
by Fred p. Mann.
The convention opening was fixed at
10 am to allow plenty OF time for Wis,
iting merchants to arrive in Memphis
on the early trains and yet reach here
In time for the start OF the convention.
The afternoon session will also close
in time for visitors 10 catch the even
ing'train for home.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1922-10-05
INJUNCTION ORDER
MADE PERMANENT
ATTORNEYS FOR STRIKE LEAD,
Frs OFFER NO OBJECTIONS.
VIOLENCE is ON DECREASE
More Strikers Return to Work-vIo.
lance Throughout Country De-
creases, and Strike Appsr-
emily Has Died Out.

Chlcago.-Federal Judge James II.
Nnkerson has formally entered the or
asr sought by Attorney General Daugh,
srty, restraining officials OF the rail-
road shipments unions from all activ-
tiles aiding or promoting the strike.
Except for a few minor changes In
wording TO make 1t CLEARER the judge
put into effect without modification,
the injunction draft submitted by the
attorney general.
Attorneys for the strike leaders en-
tered no objections, but, imm ediately
after the courts announcement, they
forwarded 10 the attorney general an
urgent request that he have the hear
Ing on the final order in the case
placed before three judges of the cir
euit court OF appeals because OF the
tremendous Importance as legal pre-
eedent attached to the final ruling In
tn case
ii was pointed out that months and
great expense on both sides would be
'ssvSd by this plan and would leave
tfc tourt's decision ready for imme-
diate review by the supreme court.
Assistant Solicitor General Esterline
said he would get In touch with the
s,torney general on the matter at
once,
Seventy-five hundred more striking
shopmen will return to work on two
roads this week. Receiver w. G. Blerd
Of the Chicago & Alton, has agreed to
peace plan patterned after the VII
iard-Jewell agreement and three thou
sand strikers will go back into the Al
ton shops Wednesday.
Letters authorizing the return OF
four thousand Big Four shopmen
we're mailed out, but the road made
It clear that the returning men will
not have seniority.
Repres antatives of $4,000 signal men
appeared before the United States
Railway Labor Board and asked for
return 10 war time wages and more
pay for overtime They want the over
time to begin at the expiration OF eight
instead of nine hours. In the federal
boards decision of July !, the wages
OF signalmen we're cat, but they re-
fused to join the shopmen in their
walkout.
Violence appears to be decreasing.
but there are still some bombings at
tempts to destroy bridges and isolated
cases Of smuggling chiefly in the south
east.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1922-10-05
MRS. sT|LLMAN
WINS IN COURT
HUSBANDS CHARGES PROVE a
BOOMERANG IN COURT RuLlNe.
DECIDES CHILD LEGITIMATE
Ne Proof Of Mrs. stlllman's UNfsaA
fulness But plenty o. EVidsHee
That stlllman Himself Wee
Guilty, says Rsfsrss.

Carmel. N. Y-James A. Seffi@Aa.
nuitimillionaire banker II New.Tsfk
lost his fight to divorce Mrs. Anas y.
Stillman and disown baby Guy. eesk
man, and was himself found guilty a
Tie charge he made against his viz
the psrentass Of an illesitinAts
child. t
Mr.. Stillman. n was indicstss. kae
not given up the fight. His lawyssv
you'd not say whether they weaN
appeal from the fiAdings Of the ssA
cree should these be upheld by9a -
prsme court tnstics, bat they were
reported TO have made . move wkish
seemingly makes clear that thsy 1--we
not conceded defeat
II was announced by John z. Mach.
guardian ad Item for Guy StillmaA,
that at Poughkeepsis he would ssh
Justice Morsehauser to confirms -
cree Gleasou's findings. As scsn 10
this announcement was given out, n
was learned that the plaintiff wi1
seek to have the matter placed b.
fore Supreme Court Justice TomrkiaB
instead Of Justice Morsskauser on Ne
same date.
Most Of the court hearings IN the
case have, in the past, been before
Justice Morsehauser. II was he We
granted Mrs. Stillman record ailneaS
Of $4,000 year, and It was Justice
Morsehauser who granted, over yre-
test, the shifting Of the trial b
Montreal last spring. There MIRA
stiiiman presented some Of her most
damaging evidence.
The report Of the case. flied here
By Daniel ]. Gleason, the refefss.
rave to Mrs. Stillman a complets VIC
tory in her defense Of her own honor
and the good name Of Guy. her three
ysar-old SON. She was also victs-
rious in the counter attack she .wagsA
against Mr.. Stillman. The rsfsrss
upheld her accusation that the bank
Dr. had lived with former Broadway
show girl, Florence II. Leeds. n the
manner Of husband and wife, and that
he had acknowledged himself the
tather Of two children born to Ma
Deeds.
Mr.. Gleason ruled that Mr.. Stiik
nan had not proved his allsgatios
that Mrs Stiilman had violated the
marriage VOWS n her conduct with
Fred Beanvais, half-breed Indian
Tuide. He also found Guy Stillman 10
be the legitimate son Of Mr. and Mr..
stillman. The banker. In impugninu
the legitimacy Of little Guy, born \
November. 1918, had charged that
Beauzais was the baby'si father
As result of today's victory. Guy
stillman retains his right TO share
with his two older brothers and HE
sister In the ts,oo0.ooc trust fuHs
established for them by their grand
father. the late James Stillmsn, aaa
IN q 327.O0o.o0o fund 10 BE- distrihntao
mhen James A. Stillman dies.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1922-10-05
STATE HAPPENINGS
TOLD N BRIEF.
THE HAPPENINGS or A WEEK IN
TENNESSEE PREPARED FoR
OUR BUSY READERS.
TO LENGTHEN SCHOOL TERMS
Rural Schools Have Average Term Of
1877 Days-Expset Seventy coun-
ties to Increase Session.

Nashville. Tennessee rural schools
will have longer terms this year than
ever before, So counties having report.
ed to the state educational department
plans for extending the number Of days
school will be in session. Between
60 and 20 conSttes are expected to in
crease the term.
The Sc counties in 1920-21 had an
average term of 119 days. The aver.
age last year was 1872 days and this
year the average will be 10 7days.
This increase is largely due to the
increased state aid now given the sew.
eral counties and the basis on which
this aid is apportioned. Under the
acts OF 1921 each county is required TO
maintain a term, OF at least five months
before 1t can share In the state equal.
izing fund. During the scholastic year
1920.21, before this law was effective,
the school term in IA counties was
less than 100 days. During the past
year it was less than 100 days in only
one county, and during the present
not one county will fall below this
minimum.
1t is fast developing into race be-
tween the smaller counties to see
which can get out of the minimum
To-day column, All of the SIS counties
reported to date have succeeded in
getting out of this class and 1t is ex.
pected that the remaining 40 will be
equally fortunate.
Counties in West Tennessee show
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1922-10-05
GEORGIA SENATOR
DIES SUDDENLY.
CAREER MARKED BY BRlLLlANCE
AND INTOLERANCE.
HAD SUFFERED FOR is YEARS
Populis Leader Could Arouse Georais
Crackers Quicker Than Cloud.
bust Could Fali-Suceessor
10 in Doubt.

Washington.-The death here OF
Senator Thomas f. Watson, the fire
brand of the Senate and political die
tator OF Georgia. promises revolution
in politics in that state, as viewed BY
Georgians at the capital.
Senator Watson died at his subur-
ban home Chevy Chase, Md, follow.
ing an intermittent illness from asth.
ma that had kept him at home the
greater part of the last three weeks
and from which he had suffered for
IL years. His death, however, came
Unexpectedly.
Senator Watson's body will be taken
to his home at Thomson, Ca, for the
funeral ard interment.
The death of Senator Watson marks
the passing OF brilliant pamphleteer,
historian of merit, an orator pos.
sessing the ability to larrup a politi-
cai levil around the stump in the
shake OF a cats tail-and an erratic
genius who permitted prejudice to
blind reason and passion TO distort
truth.
Born in Columbia County, Ca, he
was admitted to the bar in 1876. When
the wave of populism swept America
the man in the hills"-the small
land owner and the day laborer-
thrCnged the ranks of the party that
promised heaven on earth. Watson de-
serted the aristocratic traditions md
threw himself into the foldi Of re
Populist flag. His reward was sea:
in the Fifty-second Congress. While
there he secured the first approprla.
ton for free delivery ~ rural mails
that Congress ever passed.
He was nominated for vice PR,
dent at the ST. Louis sPopulst conysn.
ton in 1895 which Endorsed Bryan FL,
president. In 1904 he was nominated
for pr s5iden' by the Peone's party. h.
made IN extensive tour osttfe soItE
at that time. but was mO.e ridicUlra
than admired. One night in Nashville,
after a negro fife and drum corps had
paraded the streets all day advertising
his meeting, Watson spoke to less
than a corporals guard in Ryman Au.
ditorium. which houses $500 persons.
From 1900 to 1909 he was busy at
Thomson writing history, essays and
fiction. His STORY OF France" was as
brilliant as a diamond with a cash
across its face. II was written in
poetical prose, but prejudice against
Catholicism robbed 1t OF truth. II was
used in the French schools after the
separation Of church and state.
Between times he edited Tom Wat
sons Magazine, first published in New
York. and the Jeffersonian Magazine.
His publications we're barred from the
mails on the charge Of obscenity and
he was prosecuted in the United
States court. Watson was his own law.
yer. After several trials he was ac-
quilted.
Watson then established the Colum
bia Sentinel, more pamphlet than
Journal, which was mainly devoted to
the expression OF his views against
many accepted institutions. not the
least being the Cat*olic hierarchy.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1922-10-05
cARBAGEs TOO LARGE.
bap Farmer In Oregon Can't Tell the
Seasons Crop.

Idaho Falls, IDAHO. X. Ando, q
japanese farmer, planted cabbages on
his acreage last spring and now al
harvest time he finds no buyers for
his product, as he let them grow too
large. Ando has so tons Of cabbages
which average Is pounds to the head,
paking ,them too large and too costly
Tor the average consumer.
Local commission men refuse An
io's cabbages on the ground that
when they reach market they would
have to sell for around 75 cents each,
which they declare is more money
han the average housewife will spend
or one cabbage.