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Evening star., 1923-05-29
DIPLOMAS FOR z
| NURSES AWARDED
First Graduating Exercises
Are Held in GaIIinger
Hospital School.

Twelve nurses were graduated at
the first graduating exercises of the
Capital City School of Nursing of the
Gallinger Municipal Hospital at the
institution last night. Commissioner
Cuno Rudolph presided.
DIR. James A. Cannon, who present.
ed the diplomas. paid a tribute to
the nursing profession and told OF
the work which Senator George f.
Chamberlain of Oregon did in secur-
ing appropriations for the hospitA.
"Why did these nurses choose to
train at the Gallinger Municipal Hos
pital, which treats only the poor,
rather than one of the endowed hos
pitfalls used by the rich. where pleas
ant and profitable associations might
be made which might smooth their
pathway through life to considera-
BILE extent?" DR.. Cannon asked.
II will hazard the conjecture that
it is because in this hospital they
could practice real charity by making
life more bearable for less fortunate
people without hope of reward other
than their own feeling of having
done we'll"
Speaking of the part Senator Cham
pldy eu III the VI
the hospital, DR.. Cannon said. in
part: The people of the District
owe Senator Chamberlain a large
debt of gratitude for his part in the
erection of this beautiful modern
hospital, and 1 know that no officer
of the United States or the Dis
trict government who had part
in securing our new hospital will
begrudge him this belated public rec
ognition."
Those who received diplomas last
night are Margaret Rachel Ralston,
Ida Rose Arkin, Mary Katherine
Woltz, Ruth Evelyn Price, Charlotte
Vivian Sapp, Leta May 'McNiss Gro
CHAN, Edna Fay Sargent, Adele, Va
leria Herbert, Belle Laff, Frances
Clare Nick Kenna, Eunice Christian and
Mabel Irene Stonesifer.
Dancing followed the graduating
exercises.
Evening star., 1923-05-29
SUES FOR maintenance.

Alleging that her husband. a po-
liceman, kicked her out of bed and
then deserted her, Mrs. Rachel l..
Grove filed suit for maintenance yes
terday against Roy c. Grove, a pa
trolman of the third precinct. They
were married at Charlottesville, Va,
August II, 1916. and most of the
time, the wife states. she has been
compelled to live with her mother
because her husband did not furnish
a home for her. The alleged deser-
tion occurred April IL. Attorneys R.
A. Ford and w. Cameron Burton ap-
pear for the wife.
Evening star., 1923-05-29
GEORGETOWN U. PREP
SENIORS TO BE GUESTS
entertained by Faculty Tonight at
Hamilton Hotel-Diplomas to
Be Awarded Saturday.

Class day exercises for the grad.
gates of the Georgetown University
preparatory School, at Garrett ParE
Md, will be held tonight in connec,
tfon with the farewell banquet TO he
rendered the members of the senior
CLASS by the faculty, at the Hamilton
President John B. Creeden. s. J.. Of
Georgetown University, will be
among the speakers, who include the
Rev Samuel J. Robb, s. j., headmaster
of the PREP school, and the Rev.
George i. Kelly. S. j., of the faculty.
Charles Dale Dean of Highland
Park, Chicago. the president of the
outgoing class. will act as toast
master, and the class prohecy will
be delivered by Morris j. Higgins Of
Detroit.
Twenty-six seniors will receive
their diplomas at the Garrett Park
school Saturday afternoon, the oc-
casion being the first commencement
exercises since the reorganization of
the preparatory department. Admiral
William s. Benson of the United
States Shipping Board, an alumnus
Of Georgetown, will make the ad-
dress to the graduating class. The
exercises will bring to a close the
most successful year in the history
of the Prep School, with students
from all parts of the country.
Evening star., 1923-05-29
ToDAY,s ADJUSTMENTS.

BELAsCO - Captain Applejack," !"
comedy. at $3.50 pm.
PREsTDENT-"Give and Take"
comedy. at $3.50 pm.
MEITH's-Helen Ware, vaudeville,
at 2:16 and S.15 pm.
COsMOs-"The George Primrose
Minstrels," vaudeville. at 8, $3.50 and
8 pm.
STRAND - Discovering Movie
Stars" vaudeville, at 2:45, $3.50 and
8:45 pm.
METROPOLITAN-R Barthel-
mess and Dorothy Gish. in The
Bright shawl" photoplay. at 11:25
am. 1926. $3.50. b:25. 1880 and s:35
pm.
COLUMBIA-Brando lyman, in
Success" at s11:25 am, 1:25, 1886,
$3.50. 1880 and 9:45 pm.
PALACE-Antonio Moreno and
Mary M. Minter, in 1.-THE Trail of the
Lonesome Pine" at 1855 and 12:40
am; 2:25, 4:20. sos, 1855 and $3.50 pm.
RIALTO-Betty Compson. in THE
Rustic of Silk" (second weekly, at
1890 am, 1880, $3.50. $3.50, 1880 and
$3.50 pm.
CENTRAL-Helene Chadwick and
Richard Dix, in "Quicksands." at
11:40 am, 1:40, $40; $40, 7:4O and
$40 pm.
Evening star., 1923-05-29
D. C. GIRLS GRADUATED.
Five in Class at Gunston Hall Re
ceiving Diplomas.

Five District girls were among the
seven graduates of Gunston Hall, who
received diplomas today at the annual
commencement exercises at the insti-
tuition. The commencement address was
delivered by Rev. Charles Wood, pastor
of the Church of the Covenant. Herman
c. Rakeman directed the orchestral Sc
lections.
A postgraduate diploma was awarded
Dorothy Venning Seward of Virginia
Academic diplomas were presented to
Florence Trenholm Wickliffe Wooley of
Virginia, and the following from the
District: Henrietta Barr, Virginia
Josephine Church. Helen Lambert Crop
ley, Margaret Britton Russell and Page
Johnson Shepherd.
Evening star., 1923-05-29
WILL STUDY RUSSIA.
Ladd, King and Frear Plan Trip
at Own Expense.

In order to study conditions in
soviet Russia at first hand, Senator
Ladd of North Dakota, republican
Senator King of Utah, democrat, and
Representative Frear of Wisconsin,
republican, are to sail for Europe
July IA.
Assurances have been given, Sena-
tor King said yesterday, that an op-
portunity will be given the legis-
iators to see for themselves what
the situation really is in Russia. The
members of the party are to make
the trip. Senator King said, at their
own expense. ii''t SssaI
Evening star., 1923-05-29
MOUNT VERNON

and ALEXANDRIA, round trip. SOC
Arlington. side trip. 1oc additional
Avenue Northwest, on the hour and half hous
$500 AM to $50 Pm.
Running T1Ae-SS Minutes
Mashington-Vi Virginia Railway Co,
PAspe Main ~
Evening star., 1923-05-29

Flowers for Every Occasion.
Beautiful homegrown specimens at
GUIDES, 1912 F.-AdvertiSement.
Evening star., 1923-05-29

Study class in "Epitome Of Theos-
ophv' will meet. o'clock, at S12
18th street. Subject: Spiritual De-
velopment." All welcome.
Evening star., 1923-05-29
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Starmont Aid for C0nsunptfves
has arranged to hold a card party,
from o'clock until o'clock, and a
garden party. until o'clock. next
Friday, at the home OF Mrs. George
w Harris. 3703 Morrison street.
Chevy Chase, d. c.
Federation of CitiEens' Associations
will meet Saturday. pm, in board
room of Municipal building for last
time this season.
Conduit Road Citixens' Association
will meet Thursday. pm, in st. Da-
vid's Parish Hall. Annual election.
Senator Duncan u. Fletcher will
make address for the Daughters of
the Confederacy at its annual celebra-
tion of Jefferson Davis birthday an
niversary to be held in First Baptist
Church, Friday, s pm. Musical pro-
gram. Welcome extended to all.
The Bible Institute will hold it's
school year closing exercises Thurs
day, 8 pm. at Western Presbyterian
Church. DR.. Clovis G. Chappell, pas
tor of Mt. Vernon NJ E. Church, South.
will give the main address.
Evening star., 1923-05-29
DANCING.
MIR. LEROY III. THAYER

Teschsr> of washington's Social Bet.
Glass and private instruction In all forns
of dancing. Now introducing the new Tango,
Thayer Eox Trot and Debutante waltz.
las CONNECTICUT AVE. MAIN 2Ks3.
Evening star., 1923-05-29
Conduit Road Citi.ens Asso,
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES.

Southeast Washington Citizens AS
ISOLATION will meet, s o'clock, in Tyler
School
Evening star., 1923-05-29

Brig. Gen. Amos A. Fries. chief of
the chemical warfare service of the
Army. will address the graduates of
the Y. NJ. c. a. schools at commence
ment exercises in the Tech High
School auditorium at s o'clock. A
class Of 125 will be graduated
Evening star., 1923-05-29

A flower and vegetable show will
be given at Iowa Avenue Methods
Church, 7:30 o'clock.
Evening star., 1923-05-29

The Epworth League of Douglass
NJ. E. Church will give a play. The
End of the Rainbow" at s o'clock.
Evening star., 1923-05-29

Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford
will be honor guest and speaker at
reception given by the bod Noon Club
for the senior class. in Mcmahon
Hall. Catholic University, $40 o'clock.
Musical program. All friends of the
university invited.
Evening star., 1923-05-29

Anacostia Citizens Association will
meet, 8 O'Clock, in Masonic Hall.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-07
Georgia HGteracy Lessons

georgia IU7teracy Lessons
-HE special efforts of the last few years
to free Georgia from illiteracy have
been highly fruitful, if we may Judge
by the latest educational census. From this
it appears that the number of persons in
the state ENABLE to read or write has de-
creased from 25,7S3 in 1913 to 1892 in
1923.
In the county now having the largest
quota of illiterates there are five hundred
and nineteen, of whom five hundred and two
are negroes. This proportion is typical. Yet
there is less illiteracy in Georgia's colored
population than in the foreign-born element
of several Northeastern states. From the
establishment of our public school system,
some fifty years ago, negro illiteracy in
Georgia has decreased from well-nigh one
hundred per cent to fifty-two per cent In
1900, thirty-fve per cent in 1910, and TWEEN
ty-nine per cent in 1920. In the last three
years the reduction has been marked by
an unusual gain in negro school attend
ance 1t is not amiss to observe that the
funds wherewith this has been accomplished
were contributed by a people whom the war
of the sixties left bankrupt and whom long
distance critics sometimes absurdly misjudge.
White illiteracy in this commonwealth
has declined from twenty-seven and four
tenths per. cent in 1870 to SIS per cent in
1920. Since the latter year much has been
achieved through intensive efforts to enroll
all children of school age and to reach adult
illterates by means of afternoon and eve
ming classes for their instruction. The IA
nous moonlight schools for remote noun
tain districts have given many a father and
mother their first key to the treasures of
the written word. The city counties have
done we'll, but especially to be commended
are the educational leaders Of the country
side, who have carried the light of learning,
ofttimes at keen sacrifice to themselves, into
the lowliest rural homes.
What Georgia has accomplished In the
last three years should inspire to redoubled
effort to cancel entirely the record of 15,432
illiterates before another school census is
taken.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-07
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THE COUNTRY HOME


the baroness where there used to be such
plentifulness 1t used to be little Eden OF
cheerful, contented people, and now-well,
I'll let 1t go at that Words fail me-
There must be a change, and very soon.
We are not anxious, I presume, to settleaths
farm section with immigrants from Russia.
Polandsand Italy, who do not speak the Ameri-
can language and are not acquainted with
the history of our country, and who come
out of world turmoil and will only increase
our unrest. They are not our sort and
never will assimilate except with classes who
are and will ever be disagreeable and odan-
gerous to home-lovlng people. We are the
descendants of good forefathers aid fore
mothers who won over these American coll
c:.:es from English tyranny. felt Hike
Jeremiah of old who walled over the de-
cadence of Jerusalem and all Israel. could
have wept over the toboggan slide which mas
made this well-known section SO helpless
and poverty-stricken when the soil is asagood
as it was ten years ago, and the failure of
crops and the tax-gatherers greed 80 has
sucked out the pep and sap of the whole
farming business for the land owners. E"'
When the rural districts go down grade
to decay tits only a question of time when
the towns and cities will also go down the
same way. We are tapping the roots OF
prosperity every time lay burdens on the
rural sections too heavy to bear. Woe is
me! for | have lived with these people, who
once were so happy and prosperous. Ifsuf-
fered with them during the civil war, but
we got on our feet, because the country
people were willing and loyal and indus
trious after obtained peace. We seem
to be afflicted now with a dry rot thatrpro
duces apathy, Wits out any courage to meet
this crisis. W. ire afflicted with more
liquor drinking Aan ever known in palmy
saloon days. ntle miserable hooch makes
the inebriate insane. When he gets insane
he will shoot or stab or hurl an ak. One
thing which is cursng the country now is lie
licit whisky-the making and the selling
and the decay of public morals, which is
cultivated and propagated' by the illicit sale
and vending of bad liquor by bad men, and
winked at by unfaithful officials. Every
day the papers are filed with these atroci-
ties, and every day the courts are filled with
criminals and witnesses. The difficulty of
law enforcement is the main trouble in that
direction, but the difficulty ends in disaster.
too often, and then the fees. the costs and
the torture of anxiety are to be reckoned
with inevitably. ,ers
When 1 reached my home and pondered
on the condition of farming classes be-
set with boil weevil, hindrances concerning
labor and the enormous taxation, state and
county, which these farms are burdened
with, I almost lost heart as to the future.
government. They are taxed out Of all
up town schools and pay official salaries, and
those who are able do either move to town
or haul their children to town schools, and
there seems to be no relief in sight for
these exhausted rural communities.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-07
CREATIVE READING
BY H. Addington Bruce


WOULD insist, with all the emphasis at
my command that one OF the worlds
great needs today is creative reading.
This need has steadily become greater in pro-
portion the peoples of the world have
inclined to democratic principles of govern.
ment. FAVE
For clearly, democracy to be successful
requires not merely an enlightened leadership
but clarity and soundness of thinking by the
general population. In the absence of such
thinking there always is danger that leader
ship by the enlightened may come to be de-
spised blatant demagogue be given power.
and social experiments tried of disastrous
possibilities.
And to insure clarity and soundness, of
thinking there ISL nothing more necessary
than what 1 would Call creative reading. +,
By this I mean the attentive, interested
reading of books, articles and editorials cal
culated both to instruct and to exercise, the
intelligence There is available album
dance of reading matter of this sort, and to
make use of it, l do not hesitate to add,
should be regarded moral obligation
the part of all who believe in government OF
the people by the people.
1t is so regarded by all? Is it so regarded
by the majority? aas
Ask any book dealer and you will quickly
learn that the reading matter most in de-
mand by, his patrons is not literature OF qin-
formation. but literature of entertainment,
mostly of frothy entertainment. Ask any
newsstand dealer and he will promptly let
you know that all-fction magazines are his
"best sellers"
Use your own powers Of observation. ,.
For every street-car reader scanning the
editorial page OF newspaper you will find
fifty absorbed in the sporting page. You are
likely to discover that, in about the sans
proportion, readers of light fiction dominate
over readers of serious books during rail-
way Journeys.
How do things stand with yourself? DO
you make it point to do some creative read
ing, reading that will nvigorate your mind
and the better qualify you to meet your, re-
sponsibilities as member Of self-governing
society?
If you do motif your reading habits are
those OF the of your neighbors-y6u
will do we'll to question yourself sharply with
regard to the degree of your personal blame
for governmental errors and defects concenn-
ing which you may have been loudly COIN
planning.
That government, so far as it has been ss-
tablished through your opinions and your
vote, is Of your own making. II it Is to be
changed for the better, the change caE 70
effected only as result of wiser thinking by
you and by your fellow-voters. To gain the
wiser thinking creative reading is indispen-
sable.
But, you perhaps protest it is impossible
to persuade people in general to do creative
reading, for creative reading means dry
reading" and the people will have none OF
that.
To which my only answer is that they must
have some of it if democracy is to endure
and they must have a great deal of it if de-
mocracy is, not simply to endure, but to
come anywhere near realizing its aspirations.
Copyright, 1921
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-07

pared. A superior physique and a placid
temperament delayed the execution of his
self-imposed sentence. For them this is the
whole story.
Woodrow Wilson's experience was in many
respects the same as President Harding's
But, in the case OF DR.. Wilson, there was a
tougher brain structure acquired through
years of concentration, and a greater IA
tive. And there was the element OF assured
ness in the Wilson psychology which saved
him the strain of doubt Mr.. Wilson never
doubted his own judgment. Mr.. Harding
was never without doubt. He was preyed
upon by both aspects OF every question: he
moved about in perpetual debate.
There is too much demanded in our po-
litical system Of the chief executive; too
much imposed on him by custom, and too
many foolish customs The customs at the
White House, many of them, are pretty much
the same as when America meant but few
millions of people, OF whom only a small per
cent ever reached Washington. No of
these customs is more to be deprecated than
the constant invasion OF the White House
the Presidents home-by visitors, whose sole
object is curiosity, the desire to write
home that they have shaken hands with the
President; and by people whose business is,
really, with some department OF government.
Perhaps after we have sacrificed few
more presidents theaa altar of mistaken
democracy, one may be found bold enough
to close the White House to visitors, and rele
gate all business to departments to which Its
character naturally assigns it.
For give man the peace of his home and
fireside to which he may retire at will and
forget, and where he may refresh himself
in the exercise of the gentler emotions Of
heart and SOUL he WILL In his hours outside
be enabled to endure great deal. The I'M
lifted strain destroys steel, and it destroys
brain. Nothing long withstands the maxi
num- and that is what we impose on our
maximum strain.
Something snapped said the physician.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-07
CROP CONDITIONS IN MY PART OF THE
COuNrHRX


A LONG ride through some farming lands
~ in Barlow county, with which l have
had acquaintance for seventy years. in
some measure, but which | have not seer
for few years past until yesterday, ma kes
me able to compare farm conditions of FIVE,
ten, twenty years ago with the appearance
Of what l saw yesterday, in decadance
and decay. The first thing of note was the
immense quantity of good land which is ly-
ing idle, not a furrow turned in this good
year 1928! Perhaps this lack of cultivation
may be accounted for by the exodus of the
colored labor.
According to the best or most carefully
collected reports the number Of colored ref
ugees going north and west is set down at
100000 from Georgia. Beginning in 1922,
and continuing up to date, the railroad
trains have been crowded with colored peo-
pie going north and west, going out of Geor-
gia where they were born and raised. Some
persons attribute the exodus to the activities
of the Ku Klux Khan, others to the bad
crops, and some others to the verdicts of the
courts, where negroes are continually called
for trial. Be that as it may, the fact ex-
lists that the labor we relied upon to cult
vate lands in Cherokee, Georgia. is largely
gone. There are a good many colored men
who are hired by railroads and by cities in
public work and by merchants as draymen,
etc, but the farm laborers are scarce.
The taxes on farm lands are so heavy that
owners cannot MAKE advances TO tnrlftleSS
tenants, because that only increases the
losses at the end of the year.
Anyhow, the blight is evident in the ap-
pearance of the crops on this last day of
July. Farms are become a liability, not an
asset. Lands that sold as high two hun
dred dollars per acre in 1871 $40 in some
places cannot be sold at all at half that
amount. There are no persons now who
desire to invest in farm lands unless they
can buy up tax fl. fas. and later sell to
great landed syndicates at auction figures.
The common schools which cost so much
to the taxpayers-money paid out on war
rants drawn from the state treasury-are
being centralized in towns. Ditto the
churches. Everything is forsaking the rural
sections
The farmers who were accustomed to go
to the country churches, where their fathers
and mothers were members must now go to
town for their gospel If they expect to hear
can intellectual sermon. The country is be-
ing famished to flush the towns and cities.
Ere long the activities of the masses will be
only exploited in towns and cities, because
the country places are drying up. like last
winters "cracklin's," and nobody lives in
these rural sections who can get a job or
salaries elsewhere than on farms. In a
ride of thirty miles going and coming, the
aspect was more than gloomy, tC was de-
pressing and disheartening.
For seventy years. as before said, | have
had acquaintance with this section, because
my own dilap idated farms make up part
of this gloomy scenery l am panied to see