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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-04
BOARD Or TRADE
TOLD Of CITY
NEEDS
More Police, Night Court and
:. Widening Of Streets Is
Urged by Committee :.

A central police headquarters,
establishment of thirteenth police
precinct, further means for dealing
with the traffic situation. and
widening of several downtown
streets were recommended by the
public order committee of the Board
of Trade in its annual report just
made public,
Two hundred traffic policemen
should be added to the Metropolitan
police force, the report urged, A
traffic courts, legislation making use
Of smoke screens a serious crime,
and the widening of certain streets
were recommended as remedial
measures to alleviate Washington
traffic troubles. IN
The committee suggested widen
ing Sixth street from Louisiana to
Massachusetts, avenue northwest;
Tenth street from F street to
Massachusetts 4--avenue northwest;
Twelfth street from Pennsylvania
avenue to e street; and Fifteenth
street from II to l street north
west. This with resurfacing of GER
tain parts of B, Twelfth and Water
streets, would facilitate movement
Of traffic, it was pointed out.
The report also recommended
establishment of a central police
headquarters in connection with the
First precinct station, and a
Thirteenth precinct station at
Colorado and Georgia avenues
northwest.
The report was submitted by
Odell s. Smith, chairman of the
public order committee, and will
be acted on by the trade board at
a meeting December Is, in the new
United States Chamber Of Com
merce headquarters.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-04
DR.. MEDFoRD TO TALK
ON EMANCIPATION DAY

! Doctor II. IT. Medford, pastor Of
the John, Wesley "A. M. e: Zion
Church. will address an emancipa-
ton celebration. to be. held at the
Metropolitan Baptist Church, r
street northwest, Monday Decem-
Der 8. ga s
Doctor NJ. w. Norman, pastor of
the church, will preside at the meet
ing. Mrs. L. McGray, midget Sun
day school teacher, WI give a mono
logue. White people are especially
invited to attend. =.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-04

Armstrong and Dunbar high schools.
On the same day Columbia Junior
high school and mcfarland junior
high school will hold exercises at
1870 p. m, Hine junior high school
at 2:15 p. M. and Randall junior
high school at 1890 p. m. Shaw
junior high school will hold its exer-
cises January % at 5 p. m.
The four-year course graduating
class Of Eestern will be given diplo-
mas on the evening Of January 80,
when the Langley Junior high school
exercises also will be held. Wilson
Normal school exercises will be
held on the evening of january 81.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-04
MAN KILLED BY.
AUTOMOBILE
TRUCK
Samuel 3. Stork Fatally In
iured on Highway Bridge.
Three Injured

Traffic injuries slumped yester-
day, though there was one death.
Only three injuries were reported
to police and none of these is Sc
rious.
Samuel B. Stark. TAO Ninth street
northwest, was run down and fatally
injured by an auto truck on the
Virginia end of Highway bridge
Yesterday. He died in Emergency
Hospital.
Henry Peyser. sixty.nine, 1901
wyoming avenue northwest, while
crossing the intersection of Wyom.
ing avenue and Eighteenth street
was knocked down by an automobile
driven by r. A. Coontz, of Silver
Spring, Md. Coontz took Peyser
TO his home from where he was later
taken to Emergency Hospital. He
was treated for a fractured leg and
bruises.
An automobile operated by Mrs.
annie Boyer, apartment 2O8. South
Clifton Terrace, collided at Fiji.
teenth and Euclid street northwest.
with an automobile operated bv
Harry j. Selby, Silver Springs, Nd.
ana then bumped into an autono.
bile parked in front OF 1902 Euclid
street. In the first collision Mrs.
M. j. Selby, a passenger in her
sons car, was injured slightly, but
refused treatment. All three cars
were slightly damaged.
Helen L. Aston, colored, nine.
1905 Girard street northwest, while
running across the street in front
OF 2710 Eleventh street northwest
ran in front of an AUTOMOBILES
operated by Frank f. Edmonds.
SiO5 Eleventh street northwest.
She was taken home in the auton1o.
bile which hit her and treated bv
her mother, for injuries on the
right arm and left knee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-04
Plan M|D-YEAR
GRADUATION
EXERCISES
Schools Will Have Programs
During Latter Part of
Next Month

Mid-year graduation exercises of
the public high schools viii be held
January %. 20 and 80, according to
the schedule approved by the Board
Of Education.
The graduation exercises on Janu.
ary 30 at 8 p. m, will be Central,
Business (four-year coursel, Eastern
(two-year coursel, Mckinley, in Will
son Normal auditorium; Western
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-04
WEEKS IS TOLD FRISCO
BRIDGE WORK TO BEGIN

Colonel Frank Il. Webb. who has
a War Department permit for the
construction Of bridge across
upper San Francisco harbor. had
a conference with Secretary Of war
Weeks yesterday.
He informed the Secretary suffi-
cient funds had ben raised for
construction Of the bridge. and ey.
erything was in readiness for actual
work to begin.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-04
FRENCH AND SPANISH
RUNNERS TO CONTEST

BARCELONA, Dec. 4. - France
and Spain will meet in International
races at 1000 and 5000 meters Sun
day, with the best runners of both
countries entered, it was an
nounced today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-04
University Club Lecture

Modern Development of Air
Power" will be discussed by Briga'
der General William Mitchell, as.
sistant chief, army air service Sat
urday night in the University Club
Moving pictures and lantern slides
will illustrate the talk.
Evening star., 1924-10-12
EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D.
Bishop of Wdhington

the method He used to reveal to men
their better nature, and the inspira-
tion He gave to call it into action.
Example OF His Methods,
The whole story of His life illus
trates His unfailing practice in deal
ing with those whose lives had mis-
carried, yes, those whose finer quail
ties had been seemingly lost beneath
the overburden of sin. The case re-
ferred to in the above text, where
He came into contact with Zaccheus,
the despised publican, is a fine ex-
ample of His method. Here was a
man, virtually a social outcast, whose
very riches had brought him into
diSrepute, whose curiosity had
prompted him to catch, if possible,
vision of the Master as He passed
through Jericho.
Probably there was not a man in
the community moro conspicuously
unWelcome to his associates than
this Zaccheus. 1t was to him that
Christ gave the hand of fellowship
ana 1t was under his roof he sought
shelter. Immediately the voice of
stern criticism was raised. They
passed the world along that this
great teacher, this prophet who had
esSayed to overturn their customs.
for his companion. His anHwer was
swift and decisive, the Son of Man
is come to seek and TO save that
which was lost"
Message of Eternal Hope.
Here was the bold announcement of
His mighty purpose. How many
thousands from that day to this
have turned to this declaration as
to charter of liberty 1t is the
message of eternal hope and it is
the message our age peculiarly needs
to-day. Somehow we seem to have
fallen upon Il time in which the
/; hopeful generous note seems to be
lost. The whole postwar period haS
been ShadoWed by a widespread spirit
OF forbidding peSSimism. The cynic
and the critic stand upon every high
way and utter their dolefui prophec-
les concerning the worlds utter de-
generacy. God knows We are not i'm
peccable, perhaps for the while We
are not reckoning with the sinfulness
of sin or the inevitable consequences
that attend it. We certainly do sore
ly need the prophet for an age of
sin, but we need that kind OF a
prophet who will deal with men as
the Mast did. Stevenson's "Celes-
tial Surgeon" suggests the spirit we
have in mind-it is the helpful. hope
full spirit that stirs our deeper emo
tions and calls forth our finer quail
ties. To set at the true ore, the
oVerburden will have to be removed,
but this requires something of the
spirit of Him who came to seek and
20 save that which was lost. The
work of salvaging human life is the
biggest, noblest task before us.
Evening star., 1924-10-12

factors that affect the very sovereign
foundation of Republican govern
ment, that to get these votes honestly
and intellig gently cast is public
service that transcends all purely
political concerns
Best Showing by Women.
The best showing made by the
women of any single State would ap-
pear to be in Montana, where women
cast 10 per cent of the total vote
and where g. per cent of them seem
to vote. Throughout the middle West,
which is conceded to be one of the
main battle grounds IN the present
campaign. women make excellent per-
centages both in the total vote cast
and the number of eligible women
voting, as in Illinois, Minnesota and
Kansas.
In 30 states the women cast 10 to
As per cent of the total vote for
President in 1920. In SO States they
polled 40 per cent and over OF their
own vote and in q States polled so
to 20 per cent of women of voting
age.
In ore-fourth of the States the per-
centaSe of women voting equals or
exceeds the percentage of the male
vote for the country at large.
some on the Atlantic seaboard, where
women voted for the first time, they
polled as high a percentage of the
total fote as in States where their
suffrage is of many years standing.
Interest in National Affairs.
As showing that the interest of
the majority of women does not yet
extend to all elections and Offices
but principally exhibits itself in the
National election. Chicago returns af-
ford good illustration: In 1920
Chicago women with a registration
of 33S,613, cast 312,s59 votes for
President. In the city election of
1921, with an even larger registration
they cast only 119,247 votes. In the
general election of 1922 Chicago
women cast 264,241 votes and in the
judicial election of 1923 dropped to
57,167 votes. The March, 1924, regis
tration of women reached the high
point Of 349 2S3; in the April presi-
Dental primary they cast 200,791
votes and in the June judicial cleo
tion only 56,557. Their maximum
vote may be expected in the Novem-
Der presidential election.
Registration returns for 1924
and especially for this year, indicate
on the whole largely increased ac-
tivity of women in the elections.
Evening star., 1924-10-12

officer and signs for all the official
acts of the commission in administer
ing under law an open competitive
system based on merit and not upon
charity or partisan considerations.
Then think of the hundreds of thou
sands of human interest problems
that arise in connection with the
wedding out of more than 100000
persons who have sought employment
and the setting TO work of 1,500. 600
of them. And Mr.. Doyle's heart is
with the workers just as his zeal for
business efficiency is with the en-
ployer. During the two score years
he has been on this job of permanent
director of personnel for the biggest
industrial plant in the world he has
been constantly and far-sightedly
working to improve the service as a
life-job for ambitious and devoted
employees in all branches. He is a
director of the Federal Club, com
posed of administrative officers of the
Government. He is also chairman of
the committee on retirement, which
is interested in securing improved
Legislation for pensioning superan-
uuated employees on just basis.
X x
Mr.. Doyle personifies the merits.
system. He was working in the New
York City postoffice in a secretarial
capacity in 1878 and when the first
civil service rules required all ap-
pointments to the New York post Of
flee should be by competitive exami-
nation they were in Mr.. Doyle's hand
writing and signed by President
Hayes.
The United States civil service has
been in operation since 1888, when
there were $4,000 positions, which
have been increased to 100000 at the
present time. The commission first
net in the famous old Wormley's
Hotel, at 18th and II streets north
Evening star., 1924-10-12

west. where the Union Trust Building
now stands, and it's first Offices were
in back parlor of a boarding house
on 18th street between + and G.
streets. For some time Mr.. Doyle was
the only employe. and when the com
mission moved into a Government
owned building he helped a colored
man, hired for SO cents. to load the
entire Office equipment into a push
cart and trundle it along Pennsyl
vania avenue to the old seed shop of
the Department of Agriculture
Mr.. Doyle received his formal ap-
pointment as secretary of the United
States Civil Service Commission on
September Is, 1885, signed by Presi-
dent Cleveland. The first classical
ton of civil service employees applied
only to postmasters and custom
houses having so or more employees
and to the clerks in the Government
departments in Washington.
From MIR. Doyle as the first en-
ploye of the Civil Service Commission
that Government agency has grown
until today it has $50 employees of it's
own. so of whom are in the field. 1t
has 1000 boards of examiners and be-
sides occupying it's own special build
ing in Washington its activities have
overflowed into three or four other
buildings. During Is months while
this country was engaged in the
World War more than 100000 per-
sons were examined for the classified
civil service.
In the light OF this growth Mr..
Doyle looks back with amused
reminiscence to the early years when
d commissioner demonstrated with
him because he recommended the pur-
chase of two filing cases, the COM
missioner insisting that one would
be ample. And now one entire tempo
rary building is being used to store
Evening star., 1924-10-12

"The Son of Nan is come to seek and
to SGue that Uhich lcds loSt."-St. Luke,
htneteehth chapter, tenth uerSe.
" HE discovery of rich deposits
of iron ore in northern Mime
sofa resulted in the opening
up of one of the greatest il
not the greatest, open-pit iron
mine in the world.
How the discovery was made is a
story of surprising interest, but to
my mind the work that was done
after the discovery was made in re-
moving the over-burden of earth and
rock, even to the changing of IA
rivers channel and the penetrating OF
the earth's surface to a depth of hun
dreds of feet, is IA story of still great
er interest. Through centuries of
time the rich ore had lain buried and
undiscovered. 1t needed but the skill
and perseverance of the engineer to
make it serve the large interests Of
mankind. 1t was literally the dis
covery of unknown treasure; all that
was needed was the genius OF the
engineer and the perseverance of
those who set themselves the task
of recovering the rich deposits of ore.
Christ DiscIOses Hidden Treasures.
What a striking analogy this fur
nlsheS of the method Christ employed
in dealing with men. His great work
Nas that Of disclosing the hidden
treasures of character that lay be-
meath the overburden of sin and
ignorance. His was the high art of
character revelation. HE knew what
was in man'-1new it better than
man himself. He saw always in every
man possibilities of character devel-
opment that no one else had ever
limited at No matter what the ante
ccdent conditions were, no matter
what the present circumstances might
disclose, yes. no matter how grave the
situation or repulSiVe the guilt,
everywhere and always he was able
to discover that that was worth sal
vaging. Repeatedly he incurred the
hitter CONNIE ndation Of the church.
men of his day for his generosity and
unfailing charity. He boldly declared
that God sent not His Son into the
world TO condemn the world, but that
the world through Him might be
saved" AS a matter of fact He gath
cred about Him for His imm ediate as
sociates men whose characters were
far from exemplary. SO accurate was
His diagnosis, so strong was His ap-
peal, so winsome was His influence
that everywhere man felt the spell of
His personality and responded to His
hopeful and compelling appeal. His
dealings with the iInpuisiVe Peter.
where he declared that Satan had de-
sired TO have him that he might sift
reminder but l have prayed for thee
that thy faith fail not" his silent re-
buke, given with a look when this
same Apostle denied Him, suggests
Evening star., 1924-10-12
Scientist 1ransplants Beating Heart
From One Living Body to Another

A living, beating heart has at last
been transplanted from one living
body to another.
DR. Stohr of Wursburg, Bavaria,
is the scientist who has accomplished
this feat. The experiment was per-
formed on two embryo salamanders,
DR.. Stohr not only transplanting the
heart from one to another, but also
succeeding in keeping both organs
alive and functioning in the same
body for some time.
Although there is a wide gap be-
tween SalamanderS and man, it is
the hope of scientists that the same
operation may be accomplished in
the case Of man.
The doctor discovered that the pow
er to perform regular contractions
is the inherent property of each heart
cell and not function of the nervous
system or of the immediate sur
roundings of the heart.
He also noted that each heart cell
or entire heart has a rhythm all it's
own, and that it cannot be influenced
by the rhythm of another heart in
the same body. Neither heart cared
what the other was doing. A rise of
temperature caused the pulse rate of
both hearts to increase, but in the
same proper zion in each case.
DR.. Stohr also learned that the
heart is extrtmely jealous of its func-
tions. The two hearts battled for the
blood stream. If both were fortu-
nate enough to obtain enough blood
there was no danger to either's ex-
istence, and both developed. The
original heart, however, being the
first on the spot gained supremacy
over the new heart in most cases and
the development of the new one
ceased.
F., In other cases the new heart proved
the stronger. and little by little de-
stroyed the old heart.
It was noted that when a new
heart was first introduced in an
embryo salamander development was
Evening star., 1924-10-12
Sees Woman Vote in Control
At Presidential Election

Far from being II failure, woman
suffrage promises TO be the control
ling factor in the election of PreSi-
dent during the present campaign.
This is the conclusion reached by
Simon Michelet, a Washington law
yer whose tabulations of the Stay-at-
home vote and the new voters this
year, previously printed in The Sun
day Star. have attracted nation wide
interest and who has just compile ted
d careful analysis of the woman's vote.
The stay-at-home vote and the
woman's vote are two hitherto un-
known factors that are big enough
to settle the issue of any national
campaign, so the Importance of this
Washington expert statistician's sur
veys can readily be appreciated.
Analysis of 1920 Vote.
The analysis shows that women
cast 81 per cent OF the 1920 popu-
lar vote for President, or. in all,
approximately 10000, 600 Of the total
&c, 900.
There. were 23,994.5S0 native and
naturalized white women of voting
age, as shown by the 1920 census, and
45 per cent of them in - States went
to the polls and voted for President.
This indicates that in 1920 ST per
cent of the women of voting age
tailed to vote, or Il trite larger stay
at-home percentage than for men.
This year the nation wide drive by
the women to get out the stay-at-
home sisters, which is now at it's
height in most Of the States, indi-
Gates that next November the women
of America will make a far more i'm
pressive showing than on their first
general ballot, in 1920.
Cites Vermont as Example.
In Vermont, for example, the wom-
on who cast apparently only 80 per
cent of the 1920 Vermont vote have
increased their registration to AZ per
cent of the total In Boston the
registration of women approximates
that of men. In Los Angeles women
cast over 45 per cent of the August
primary vote. In Kansas the regis
traGon of women is A per cent of
the total. The Baton Rouge registra-
tion of women, which is As per cent
of the total, shows the interest of
women has extended into the South
While the campaign orators are
busy with many issues of Temporary
public interest, those who are work.
ing most effectively for good govern
ment are impressed by the fact that
a stay -at-home vote of 26,O00,000 and
the woman's vote of 23,000,000 are
Evening star., 1924-10-12

debate in the commons on the 8th was
exceedingly bitter. Among other mat
ters aired was the suspicion of a con-
nection (of what imagined nature is
obvious) between the suspected in
tervention of the government in the
Campbell case and the government S
almost cotemporary reversal of ac-
ton regarding the negotiation with
Russia-the government one day
Nbreaking off that negotiation, the
| very next (under pressure from the
Labor extremists signing the treaties
with Russia.
Mr.. Macdonald and the attorney
general hotly denied that the sus-
picions of the government had any
foundation.
Mr. Macdonald, having declared
that should the resolution calling for
an inquiry pass he would ''go to the
| country" on the 9Th advised the
King to dissolve Parliament as soon
as action should have been completed
on the Irish boundary bill, which ad-
vice the King accepted. Events fol-
| lowed rapidly. Within a few hours
the lords had passed the Irish bill and
| it had become an act by royal as
sent. At pm. Parliament was pro-
| rogued by royal commission; at pm.
| Parliament was dissolved by royal
| proclamation
General elections will be held Octo-
| Der 20. 1t is the general opinion, that
in a strictly political view, the Lib
| erals and Conservatives would have
| been we'll advised not to force the
| Campbell trial issue-rather to down
! the government on the issue of the
| Russian treaties. On the other hand
| Mr.. Macdonald need not have made
| the vote on the resolution for COM
mittee of inquiry one of confidence.
Apparently, knowing that his govern
| ment was doomed, he chose that 1t
should fall on that issue. 1t Is un-
| likely that the said issue will be
comprehended by the mass Of electo-
rate, and probably that very many will
| easily be convinced that the fuss over
| the Campbell affair was "a tempest in
| teapot" and that the government
got a raw deal.
| Presumably the government will re-
main in Office till the new Parliament
meets in November. Probably the Con-
servatives and Liberals will direct
their main attacks in the election
campaign on certain features of the
Russian treaties, particularly the
stipulation of guarantee by Parlia-
ment of loan to Russia, and on the
aueSeO LudueQudCy Vi LduoT uOIueS-
| tic policy. Labor will counterattack
! on the Russian issue, will it's sue
/ cesses in regard to the Dawes plan
and rehabilitation Of the entente and
| at Geneva, and contend that it has
accomplished all that a minority
J party could toward amelioration of
domestic conditions. Possibly there
will be cooperation between Con-
| servatives and Liberals looking to
| avoidance of triangular contests.
| Though the lords passed the Irish
boundary bill without amendment
they did, by Il to SO, vote a "declara-
ton" (no effect on the bilD that in
their opinion Article XII of the Lon
don treaty of 1921 contemplates MOTH
ing more than a minor rectif1cation
of the boundaries between Ulster and
| the Free State
Mahatma Gandhi, Saint Gandhi. lead