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of the courtesy of free transporta-
ton on the connecting lines of his
own personal railroad.
Mrs. Ford and her party got caught
in several of the worst traffic jams
OF the day. but avoided the accidents
which befell so many other shoppers.
The police say that war has nothing
on the present street conditions in
New York and they seriously assert
that every one visiting the city at
this time of the year should wear
Identification tags of some sort.
Speaking more lightly. however, one
of the policemen at 42d street and
5th avenue allowed that he would
not have to uo any Christmas shop
ping if a few more pedestrians would
only get hit and have their bundles
scattered far and wide.
Greatest Rush known.
There is not only a greater shop
ping crush than New York has known
before, but the average of purchases
per shopper is the highest in history.
This is in keeping with the lavish
spending New York has been doing
during the last twelve months.
Theatrical and moving picture
prices have been at their highest this
season. 1t has made no difference
what prices the prize fight promoters
asked. their mills" have ground a
gOlOen SrlSL from the PUBIC. Zap
aret palaces" deprived of the priv
ilege of selling liquor legitimately
have placed outrageous prices on food
and water items, only to find that the
public has clamored for more and
more extravaganza.
The toys this season have been far
beyond anything the country has ever
known before. Toy limousines, driver
by foot-power, have been bought fol
kiddies at price that would pay fol
a regular automobile. French dolls
at from $50 to 500 apiece have be er
| in great demand.
! The Christmas buying, however, ha.
not been confined tP. the more ex
| pensive shops. The and 10 cen
| stores report that during the first TIVE
} weeks of December their returns hav,
| shown an increase of 90 per cen
| above the sales of the same perioC
last year. This means millions of dol
| lars in 8 and 10 cent purchases.
The Woolworth chain is said to b.
taking in more than $1,000.000 a day
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GIN DR|NKER WALKS
HIMSELF TO DEATH
Liquor Also Found to Cause
Fatal Attacks of Ap-
pendicitis.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
SAN FRANCISCO. December "a
Two new and grim penalties of boot
leg liquor-in both instances arising
from the use of so-called synthetic
gin-have introduced themselves into
the Pacific coast death records with
IN the last twenty-four hours.
In one instance insomnia. induced
by over-stimulation of the nerve GEN.
ters from a few glasses of gin. re-
suited in a man literally walking
himself to death. His death. at
tributed to heart failure, disclosed the
fact that the gin-drinking had caused
more than 100 deaths from heart af-
fections in the last two years.
Causes Appendicitis.
The other penalty Of synthetic GIN
drinking is acute appendicitis. State
hospital records for the first eleven
months of 1928. just made public.
show 1000 cases OF acute appendicitis
traceable to gin-drinking. or these,
more than 1900 were fatal.
The man who walked himself to
death was Charles II. Haughton. a ro-
bust. sixfoot bricklayer. Last Sunday
night Haughton went out on a party"
and drank four or five glasses OF syn
thetic gin. Returning home early
Monday morning, he was unable to
go to sleep. He started pacing the
floor. That afternoon doctors were
called in and administered a sleeping
, potion. 1t was Intellectual. and
Haughton kept on walking. He
| walked necessarily, day and night,
until Thursday Finally he keeled
| over dead. His heart had failed.
Unable to Sleep.
Physicians said that there were at
least a hundred in which overstimu-
| lation of the sleep centers' had
caused death. One man hanged him
self because he could not sleep.
Another drink -crazed patient killed
| himself with athletic gyrations.
| ina gining himself to be an acrobat
The fatal appendicitis cases attrib-
uted to consumption of synthetic gin
| showed that Intestinal decay in the
! vicinity of the appendix. caused by
| poiSons in the gin, had caused death.
| In the majority of the cases, peri
| tonitis followed the operations.
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PACTS WITH MEXICO
NEARER APPROVAL
President of Senate Denies Con-
flict of u. S. Claims Conven-
tions With Constitution.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, December % (via
Laredo o).-Prospects for approval of the
claims conventions, formulated last
summer by the United States and Mexi-
co at pre-recognition conferences,
frightened perceptibly upon announce
ment by Teofilo GRANTEES, president of
the senate. and Enrique Colunga, secre-
tary of the interior, that they hold
groundless certain objections presented
that the conventions confiicted with the
constitution.
Orantes headed a commission which
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CHRISTMAS RUSH
BREAKS RECORDS
New York Wild Mob of Rush.
ing Spenders, Needless
. of Accidents.
ny ROBERT IT. SMALL.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 22.-New
York is ending up it's year of tre-
mendous spending with Christmas
shopping rush that is breaking all
records. Through trade channels it is
reported that many lines of merchan-
disc have been cleaned out fully
week before the Christmas trade
usually ends.
VIRTUALLY all of the big department
stores have been so swamped with
crowds that they have had to insti-
tute traffic regulations. One-way
aisles and one-way entrances and
exits have been established and uni
formed employees are acting as trafhc
poIice, giving the signals when to
go" and when to stop" Late de-
Iiyeries have been made next to i'm
posible and limousines and taXica os
have been pressed into service to
carry home the bundles.
Street Trafic Heavy.
Traffic in the streets has become
an almost impenetrable maze. The
police have found it difficult enough
to handle the vehicles. They have
of trying to direct the onrushing
Christmas shoppers, who 60 dashing
across the street, regardless of the
semaphores turned against them. SIX
police stationed at the busiest cor
ners of 5th avenue have been unable
10 stem the tide of reckless walkers
who will not wait for the safety
eign. Much Of this wild traffic run
ming Is attributed to the thousands
of out -of-town people In the city.
Among the most distinguished OF
the out-of-towners has been Mrs
from her home. in Dearborn: Mich
in a private car to do a single days
shopping in tho metropolis.
Like all the rest Of the metropoli.
tan commuters" she almost missed
her homebound train. Mrs. Ford
travelled in the private car Fair Way
and she was accompanied by a party
servants. They trailed through sew
eral Of the more exclusive shops, Mrs
Ford in the lead and friends and
servants following in close forma.
ton When the party dashed through
the Grand Central station to make
"The Wolverine" express the serv-
ants, each ad every one, looked like
a Santa Claus.
1t was said at the railway office.
nearly $1,000 in railroad charges
alone Henry Ford is president OF
railroad. the Detroit. Toledo and
Ironton, and as railroad man his
family would ordinarily be entitled
TO the courtesy of the other rail.
roads But the. auto MANUFACTURING
il IL said. declines to avail himself
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was named at yesterdays secret in
formal meeting of the senate major
ity, which included both administra-
tion and de la Huerta supporters, to
investigate fully the conference con-
ventions.
The senate was unable to hold a
meeting last evening on account of
lack of a quorum. but confidence was
expressed that the conventions when
formally brought up were certain of
approval.
II was disclosed that some objec-
tons had been overcome by the ex-
planation that certain passages in
the Spanish version of the conven-
tions were inaccurate translations of
the English version. Upon corrected
translations. especially references
relative to claims of the United States
for damages in connection with rev.
olutions, which were set forth in the
Spanish version as bandit outrages,
the objections of the numerous op-
ponents were withdrawn.
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OF the eight fir trees (Abies) in cul-
tivation in this country the Nord-
mann's fir is the most frequent 1t is
a very beautiful tree during the first
fifty years of it's life, and as depend
able and satisfactory as any of this
desirable genus. In New England it
frequently suffers from cold and be-
comes thin and unsightly, but in the
middle states is often a tree of great
beauty. Its native home is in the
mountains Co the south and south
east of the Black sea and the western
spurs of the Caucasus range.
There are twenty-three known
species of fir in the world, confined to
the northern hemisphere and segre-
gated mostly in the Cascade noun
tains of Oregon, in the countries to
the north and south of the Mediter-
ranean sea and in Japan. AS timber
producing trees they are less valuable e
than the spruces. The wood is soft
and perishable. In the Pacific states
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the wood of several of the frs is
used in making fruit boxes and
woodenware. In Europe the wood of
the Europeaa fir is valued. and the
tree is sometimes planted Is a forest
crop.
The Nordmann's fir is capable of
producing a tree 100 to $50 feet in
height, with trunk diameter of four
to six feet. The leaves are dark and
very lustrous above, giving the
foliage an attractive color of rich
ness and quality. This is true also of
some of the other frs. The under
sides of the leaves are silvery white.
There is a variety, aurea variegata,
OF which the foliage on the new
shoots is pure golden yellow in color
The cones are four TO six inches long.
cylindrical and slightly larger near
the base dark orange brown.
1t is fairly frequent in the parks of
the District. The tree illustrated is a
labeled specimen growing in the
northeast corner of Lafayette Park.
There Is another Nordmann's Ar in
| the northeast corner of Franklin
Park This tree also is labeled.
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legged to have violated the passport law,
when they mistook Lepper for one Of
them and struck him. When Lepper,
said TO have been former pugilist, re
sponded by knocking one Of the police
men down, the other shot and killed
him. German authorities Immediately
began an investigation.
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United States lines. was shot and killed
by a. German policeman in an alterca-
ton aboard the Roosevelt when it was
at Bremerhaven, members of the crew
reported when the vessel docked at
Hoboken.
Two German policemen were search
ing the Roosevelt for two sailors al
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P!MP[ES ON
FACE 3 YEARS
So Sore Could Hardly
Wash Il. Cuticura Heals.

Il had a very bad case Of pim-
pies. They were scattered all over
my face and made l. SO sore that ]
could hardly bear to wash It. The
pimples were large and red and fes-
tered, and troubled me for three
years,
Il tried most everything that
could be found but failed to get any
benefit until I tried Cuticurs Soap
and Ointment and after using
about three boxes Of Cuticura Oint-
ment, together with the Cutieura
Soap, / was healed in three months.
(Signed) Luther w. Scoggins, r.
IL Box %, Walden, Miss.
For every purpose of the toilet
and bath. Cuticura Soap, Ointment
and Talcurn are excellent.
Samples Free BY Man. Address: "cutieurs Labor.
atoriss, pspt. d, Maiden -, Mass." Sold every.
where. Soap BE ointmsnt Is and boe. .Taleum &c.
Cuticura Soap shaves without mug.
Evening star., 1923-12-22

There are now about 10000, ,000, 900
copper coins in circulation in China
so many that it is no longer profitable
70 mint them.
Evening star., 1923-03-11

Waters was indicted by the grand
jury for Prince Georges county for
manslaughter on April Z, and a week
later he was placed on trial in the
circuit court at Marlboro.
A two-day legal battle was fol-
lowed by Waters acquittal. his de-
fense being that he was blinded by the
glare from the headlights of an ap-
preaching Army truck and could not
see the pedestrians.
Tried to Halt Prosecution.
1t was at the bedside of the injured
sister Of the plaintiff that the romance
of the couple began. During the
trial the plaintiff, it is said. did
everything within her power to pre-
vail upon her family to abandon the
prosecution. and Immediately after
ward the courtship began.
Waters is thirty years old. He is a
Washingtonian by birth. For thir-
teen months he saw service in the
world war. driving an ambulance on
the battle fronts of France.
Mrs. Waters is a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs w. G. Mulligan of New York
city and is twenty-eight years of
age. She came to Washington during
the war to accept a position in one
of the government departments, but
resigned after a years service and
entered the Fulton r. Gordon Com
pany'S office.
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DEATHBED LOVE
STORY NEARS END
Mrs. Waters, Who Met Hus-
band When Her Sister Was
Killed, Sues for Divorce.
HE WAS TRIED AND FREED
Wife Charges He Deserted Her
Three Weeks After Marriage
for Another Woman.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md. March 10.--Mrs
Agnes NJ. Waters of Edgemoor, this
county, has filed suit in the circuit
court here for an absolute divorce
from John Z. Waters of Berwyn. Md.
on the ground of desertion. She also
asks the court to award her the GUS
tody of the couples child, Marie Ce-
celia Waters. aged one year. Mrs.
Waters is represented by Attorney
John A. Garrett of Rockville. Mr..
Waters is a civil engineer in the en-
ploy of the Maryland state road COM
mission.
According to the bill, the couple
was married at the home of friends
at Chevy Chase on May 81, 1921, by
Rev. Thomas G. Smyth. a Catholic
priest and three weeks later, while
living at Cumberland, Md. the plain
tiff was deserted for another woman.
whose name the bill gives. The bill
further sets forth that ever since the
day of separation the plaintiff has
pleaded repeatedly with and entreated
} their child, but on each occasion has
been met with curses. threats, vicious
assaults and declarations of hatred.
elimination of Romance.
The plaintiff was formerly Il Miss
Mulligan and for some years was as
| sociated with the Fulton X. Gordon
| Company of Washington. Her mar
riage to Waters followed short
| courtship and was the elimination of
| d romance that attracted attention at
! the time and which began with the
| accidental killing by the defendant of
| the plaintiffs young sister.
Miss Alleine W. Mulligan. eighteen
4 q n
versity of Maryland. The evening of
! January q. 1921. she and four other
girl students and Il young boy were
walking along the Baltimore pike
near Hyattsville, when machine
| driven by Waters plunged into them.
Miss Mulligan sustained injuries
which resulted in her death two days
later. None Of the others was Sc
riously hurt
| AS a result of the girls death
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MISSION TICKETS S|FT
| LAZY AND INDUSTRIOUS
Employment Bureau of Gospel Mis-.
sion Provides Average of
Five Jobs a Day.

An average Of five men has been
put to work daily since the opening
a month ago o fthe free employment
bureau of the Gospel Mission, PA
John Marshall place northwest. Rev.
G. w. Cory. superintendent, an
nounced last night
In the thirty days since the bu-
reau was established 149 men, the
majority Of them white. have been
taken from the streets and given
employment at good wages, it was
stated. OF this number sixty-nine
were placed with Washington firms,
while the remainder were turned
over to outside employers, principally
the Baltimore 6 Ohio Railroad Com
pany.
The individual attention given
every one who comes to the mission
for "a lift" in seeing that he is
bolstered up spiritually and physi-
cally and started out again on a
new path in the world. has made the
mission a clearing house for worthy
but unfortunate men. really desirous
of bettering themselves. and at the
same time has kept professional beg
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Social Workers to Plan Here
For War on Crime and Disease

doubts of victory these two ADVANCE
items may cheer him.
Battle Against Ignorance.
when the barons of England signed
the Magma Charta at Runnymede, IN
1915. they used their seals because
many of them could not write their
names, but our census for 1901, tWeh-
ty-three years ago. showed in all New
York city only SiXty-eight ch1luren
born of native parents VINO could not
read and writes and in all Boston only
six. Are we winning against 1gno-
rance?
1--WE are winning also against dis
ease. In Shakespeare's time the aver
age length of life was somewhere
about twenty five years, and now 1T Is
"fu' instead of plaques like the black
death. which have disappeared. In
Chicago, for example. cholera pre-
vailed to an enormous extent between
1850 and 1860. when the average
death rate was as high as 323 per
1OO, 900, but there have been no deaths
/ from cholera in Chicago since 1873, or
! fifty wears ago. If we had the old rate
still there would he nearly l0,Oo0 peo-
pie dying of cholera i'll Chicago an
nually.
! NEARLY all of the great plaques in
| the disease army have surrendered
Gen. Typhoid Is now showing the
white flag, and Gen. Tuberculosis is
on the run. w nat tillS 1uedlS W uS
can be realized if we recall that
minor troop, the "flu." took more
! human lives in the 1918 epidemic than
| were lost in the whole world war. 1t
was said above that ignorance,
disease crime and poverty are a more
: dangerous enemy than Germany ever
| was. Is not disease alone far more
! dangerous enemy? If we need volun-
! teers and a draft to fight our military
foes. do we not need them to fight
| our social foes? "On to Washington"
J means in 1923 as much as it did in
; the civil war days.
/ Volunteers Needed.
, the social war as regulars. and both
/ ton rally next May by the special
! rates offered. The fighters. both
/ volunteer and regular. are many. but
+. they are far too few. There were
I, shirkers and slackers in the world
/ war and we treated 'em rough. There
are shirllers and slackers in this So
| cial war, and in a social war we can.
at least. punish socially.
! "The day is coming. and in many
places has already come, when a man
! or woman will be not quite respect
} able, not quite tolerated socially-in
! fact a bit ostraciZed-if he is not on
at least one committee for unpad id
| service. As is said by Edward T
! Devine. one of our chiefs. the promo
| tion OF the common welfare must be
| thought Of, not as the affair Of any
small group of professionals, but as
! the common concern of every citizens
of the republic
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CHILD HEALTH AID
| ASKED BY HOOVER
New Organization Formed in
Cooperation With Ameri-
can Relief Association.
URGENT APPEAL ISSUED
Secretary of Commerce Holds We'll
fare of U. S. Youth as of Ma
tional Importance.
URGENT APPEAL ISSUED

An appeal TO supporters or the
American Relief Administration to
help in the work of the recently or
ganized American Child Health As
sociation has been sent out by Her
bert Hoover. chairman of the relief
adminisiratio who is also president
Of the child health body.
Charact> >riZing the matter as "one
of national Importance" Secretary
Hoover asks for support in this new
activity OF the American Relief Ad-
ministration. The relief administra-
tion has Joined with the American
child Health Association, which was
formed by an amalgamation of the
American Child Hygiene Association
and the child Health Organization OF
America.
Outline by MIR. Hoover.
The part the American Relief As
sociation will play in the work is
clearly outlined by Mr.. Hoover in his
appeal He says. in part:
''.AS you are aware, the American
Relief Administration has at one
time or another during the last four
years found support necessary to
maintain life in upward of 15,000.OOC
children. II has thereby acquired
great experience in problems of child
nealtf, Whlcn IL seems TO me linpor-
tant should be translated into Amer
lean child life. more particularly IN
relation to the children in backward
sections and in large industrial cen
terS of the country.
Our physicians report that over
80 per cent of all children in America
are born normal, whereas less than
20 per cent reach maturity in normal
physical health. Much constructive
l,y q - n
cies and by voluntary agencies in
endcavoring to develop the proper
care of normal children as distin-
"uished from the care of those who
rave fallen by the waySide and re-
;uire actual medical treatment, but
Evening star., 1923-03-11

Mobilization of forces lighting ig-
norance, disease. crime and poverty
Will take place when the fiftieth an
nual session of the National Confer
ence of Social Work meets here May
16 to %.
Telling of the task of the army of
social workers of the country. Fred
erick Amy, former president of. the
conference, declared that there will
be as many women as men in this
army" He said, in part:
This army has had startling sue
cesses, especially in the last decade,
and is visibly winning it's war on ig-
norance, disease and crime. There
are ten divisions in the social army,
each competently generated. The
commander-in-c chief this year is Col.
Homer Folks of New York, president
or the conference. who organized and
directed the department of civil at
fairs of the American Red Cross in
France during the war.
Brigade Officers.
The seven days of the conference
week will be given in turn to seven
brigades-the home. the school, the
church. health, industry, public opIn-
ION and law and government. The
commander for the home will be
Porter r. Lee. the director of the
New York School Of Social Work: for
me school. Mrs. Helen T. Woolley of
Detrolt, assistant director of the
Merrill-Palmer School: for the
church. Mrs. John NJ. Glenn. a former
president of the conference: for law
ana governm ent, Prof. Roscoe Pound,
dean of the Harvard Law School; for
industry. Rev. John 4. Ryan. pro-
fessor of moral theology and indus
trial ethics in the Catholic Cniver-
Sity at Washington; for health, Dr.
Livingston Falrand, president Of
Cornell University. and for public
opinion. DR.. John RI. Finley, asso-
ciate editor of the New York Times
Not all the ten divisions are win
nlnS equally, though all are winning.
some of the ten have been newly or
sanlZed to attack new enemies lust
brought from ambush. but from an
ambush where their fire is deadly
Just as civil service reform has
fought the spoils system since the
end of the last century, the divisions
on industrial and economic probIems
and on neighborhood and community
NE are attacking dangers lust
realized.
There is plenty Of fighting left be-
fore the world is made safe for hu-
fnanlty. but We are striding fast inro
the enemy's country. and the social
map Is changing even faster than the
map OF Europe. Our darkest Af-icas
are growing lighter. The special cam
palgnS Will be described in the special
articles which will follow this one
put II any faint-heart reader has
Evening star., 1923-03-11
SDrinR FIowers

Potted plants, unique bouquets. :
GUIDES, 1912 F.-Advertisement.
Evening star., 1923-03-11

received the tickets from their bene-
factors in a somewhat crestfallen
manner. Persons sincere in their ap-
peals on the street for aid. however.
lost no time in making use Of the
tickets. and they eventually were
provided with lucrative positions.
The fact that the mission was able
to find more than sufficient openings
for men industriously inclined is Il
good omen in favor Of the country's
prosperity. Mr.. Cory declared last
night