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Evening star., 1924-12-02
CONGRESS SESSION
BRIEF AGAIN TODAY
Real Work to Begin Tomor-
row After Reading Of Pres
ident's Message.

Another brief session was arranged
today for Congress. Neither house
had planned to get down to the Sc
rious work OF the session before to-
morrow.
Advised formally yesterday Of The
opening of the fnal session OF the
Sixty eighth Congress. Mr.. Coolidge
today sent the report on the state OF
the Treasury and on estimates fol
the noxt fiscal year. His annual mes
sage Will be sent in tomorrow.
Coincident with the receipt of the
budget, the appropriations committee
presented to the House the first OF
the annual supply bills, the passage
OF which is the chief objective o.
Congress IN this session. This mas
terror Department.
Call Up Rns Tomorrow.
Leaders plan to have this bill called
up tomorrow and passed before the
end of the week. Other OF the ap.
preparation measures are In process
OF preparation, and the committee ex-
poets to report them at frequent in
tsryals.
Resides an already crowded calen-
9ar coming over from the last ses-
sion. the Senate had before IL a new
resolution. adopted yesterday by the
House, and proposing n congrsssional
memorial service for Woodrw VIII
son In the House chamber on De-
cember -.
A large part OF tho attention OF
Senate Republicans during the re-
ma!nder OF this week will be devoted
to the perfection Of the party or.
ganization by the filling of vacancies
on standing committees caused BY
the death OF members during the
recess.
Borah to Succeed Lodge.
The majority committee on com
mittees prepared a report late yes
terday on this subject and will pre-
sent II to a conference to be called
for tomorrow morning. Meantime the
report rs withheld, but II is under.
stood that Senator William r. Borah
of Idaho will succeed the late Sena.
tor Lodge as chairman of the foreign
relations committee and Senator
Johnson Of California Will become
head OF the immigration committee
in place Of the late Senator Colt.
Besides the consideration OF general
legislation, including farm relief
Muscle Shoals and that relating tc
the railroads. tie Senate has a mum.
ber of Investigations in progress OF
IN prospect. The internal revenue
inquiry is going forward and thu
special committee under Senator
Borah soon will resume It's inauir,
into campaign expenditures
The oil committee also probably
will again be active. It has before II
two resolutions calling for specia
Investigations, and Senator WALSH
OF Montana. prosecutor In the famous
Teapot Dome affair. expects to ask
action in the near future. These
resolutions deal with leases to the
Honolulu Oil Company in Naval Re.
serve No. 2. in California, and to the
Midwest Oil Company, q subsidiary OF
the Standard Oil Company of In
diana, In Wyoming and Montana.
Evening star., 1924-12-02
GERMAN TREATY FINISHED
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 2.-The Anglo
German commercial treaty will be
signed today. 1t was announced short
ly after noon. An agreement by
which the 20 per cent reparation tax,
which has been the sticking point in
the negotiations, has been placed in
another category, was reached this
morning after the German delegates
had communicated with Berlin.
Evening star., 1924-12-02
INSIST NEW JAPANESE
ENVOY COMING TO U. S,
Press, Despite Denial, Says Mat.
sudaria Will Succeed
Hanihari.
BY the Associated Press.

TOXIC. December 2.-Despite de.
NAL by Tsuneo Mstsudaira. vice min
lister of foreign affairs, of the report
that he is to succeed Masanao Hani-
hari as Ambassador to Washington,
the newspapers Hochi and Yomiuri
printed All authoritative statement
confirming his reported selection.
Both newspapers say a formal an
nouncement will be forthcoming
shortly and that Matsudaira will sail
in February.
Evening star., 1924-12-02

And q fine drill in orientation,'
suggests the st. Joseph News-Press.
"is to try TO locate the drug section
In a drug store"
Evening star., 1924-12-02

The Springfield Leader believes that
those who appreciate the beauty of
the Autumn leaves are not the ones
who have to rake them up.
Evening star., 1924-12-02
INTERNAL REVOLT
CHIEF SOVIET FEAR
Communist Ring Not Worried
by Czarist Aims, But by
Own Party Split.

Soviet Russin, despite q deep tcdre
Of nnrest, u IN no danger of a mon
os-chfstic upristng. hut the present
government does face q serious re-
toh tcithtn Its oUn pGrty-and is
taking stern measures to checknldte
1t. Mr. Mackenzie amalyres the
cGtGses o. this unrest in toddy's dis
patch. one Of series Of uricensor'ed
stories about Russia 1chich he tcds
compelled to leope the laad of the
S'ovfctS in order to gire TO the public.
Evening star., 1924-12-02
STATE LAW PROVIDES
FOR RETURN TO SCHOOL
OF CHAPLIN'S BRIDE

(Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1924-12-02

Chairman Cramton's report says
that II is an injustice in the appli.
cation OF the average" Limitation to
require an employe passing from
grade to a higher grade with more
important duties or responsibility or
both to suffer reduction in salary
along with such a change.
The committee believes that such
opA4tion of the average" limitation
IS . hardship which should not con-
tinde.
The number of positions affected
Is small, but the injustice to the small
number is very great. Tho third
modification Is the elimination Of the
words "or class thereof" from the
language OF the limitation. The cur
rent Limitation provides that the
average Of the salaries of the total
number Of persons paid under any
grade or class thereof shall not ex.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-09
Golden gate Glib VIII
Greet Miss Bacon

Bill Jones, in which Californians
say that Bacon was "just him
self"
Native sons boast that the Ba-
cons are first and foremost a
California product. Frank Bacon
appeared in stock productions at
the Alcazar Theater, San Fran
cisco. for upwards of seventeen
years, and was as popular there
as he was destined to become
later on Broadway. At intervals
he toured the State with his
rip and tear show" as he
termed his repertoire company,
so that his name became a house.
hold word in the smaller cities
and towns. Bessie BAG n was an
actress at, three and accompanied
her father on all his barnstosm.
ing expeditions. She also ap-
peared in the opening perform.
ance OF the first theater erected
in San Francisco after the fire.
Miss Bacon inherits much of
her fathers humor and playwrit-
ing ability. She has written sew
eral vaudeville sketches. and one
of her plays, Five O'clock" en-
joyed a successful run at the Full
ton Theater, New York, q few
years ago. She is now at work
on an uncompleted manuscript
left by her father.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-09
SCANDALS
BREAKS A
RECORD

What had been a house record
for many years standing at the
Forrest Theater, Philadelphia, was
shattered in the past two weeks
during the engagement Of George
Whites Scandals which 10 en-
joying the biggest business it has
known since that production first
introduced the Scandals" in 1919.
The receipts Of the first weeks
engagement at the Forrest The
ater was $3S,9O1, while the state
ment for the second week showed
$4S,640, a total on the two weeks
Of $s2.541.
OF interest, along with these
figures. is the fact that, with the
exception of New Year Eve
when the house was scaled at
$4.40 top, Mr.. White at no per-
Torrance charged more than
1885 with the best seats at the
matinee obtainable for $3.50.
The first day the Washington
papers announced the Scandals
would play this week, at reason.
able prices, more than $4,000 was
taken in at the box office.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-09
CLARA YOUNG
QUITS FILMS
FOR STAGE

Still another disciple Of the mo-
ton pictures has turned her back
on the screen drama In favor or
the spoken word.
After SO many years as q film
star that even the memory of the
Oldest inhabitant refuses to serve
sufficiently to compute statistics,
Clara Kimball Young Is leaving
the gilded sets and grinding
cameras of Hollywood behind her
tomorrow noon to embark on a
transcontinental flier en- route for
New York.
Mrs. Young ID making the trip
to engage in a stage venture, her
first in a dozen years, under the
management of Joseph K. Shea,
the New York impressario, whose
last enterprise, THE Cup" evoked
so much comment at the Fulton
Theater. This sudden decision to
wend her way toward the Atlantic
marks q complete change of plans,
for originally the star had intend
ed appearing first on the Coast
and then playing her way across
country to the East. This would
have brought her to New York
late in the spring.
Mrs. Young has chosen William
Hurlbut's play, Trimmed in Scar
let" for her return to the stage
and, as a natural sequence, Mr..
Shea was selected as her Eastern
manager, as Messrs. Shea and
Hurlbut are associated in the pro-
duction of all the latter's works.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-09

Members Of the California So
ciety will attend the opening per.
Torrance Of 'Lightnin" at tho
National Theater Monday night
to greet Bessie Bacon, daughter
Of the late Frank Bacon. who
wrote the play and was starring
in it at the time of his death in
Chicago a year ago.
The Golden State is proud OF
the Bacon family, and it is CO.
incidence that Representative Ar.
thur NJ. Free, presid ent OF the
California Society here. is an old
friend and neighbor. His home
at Mountain View, Santa Clara
county. adjoins the Bacon home,
and he was the close associate
and chum Of Frank Bacon when
the latter ran small weekly
newspaper in Mountain View.
Although the two exchanged let
tiers frequently after Bacon be
came an actor and finally drifted
east, Mr.. Free will see "Lightnin"
Monday night for the first time.
1t 10 O matter of keen regret to
him that postponements and other
circumstances prevented him from
seeing his old friend in the role
that lifted him from obscurity to
stardom. Thomas Jefferson, son
Of the late Joseph Jefferson, has
succeeded to the role of Lightnin
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-09
ANNIE OAKLEY IS.
MOTHER Of
PHRASE
Passes Punched With Hole.
Looked Like Her Famous
Rifle, Trick.

Around the world the expression
Annie Oakley used to designate
a complimentary admission ticket to
some sporting. theatrical or other
professional event.
This IL the story of how the term
came into use.
1t may ba recalled that Annie
Oakley. In the heydey of her youth,
was the greatest woman rifle shot
in America One of her favorite
tricks was to shoot a piece OF
cardboard full Of holes.
One day Ban johnson, president
Of the American League, was stand
ing inside the gate Of the White
Gox, park. together with Charles
Coniskey, the club owner. A man
came along and presented a com.
plimentary. that particular one was
full Of holes.
It had so many punch marks in
Il that Johnson, out Of curiosity,
asked to look ut It, Then he turned
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-09
PARK VIEW BODY
BACKSPOL|CE
INCREASE
Association Also Hears Ad.
dress by Senator Magnus
johnson.

Increased pay for policeman. fire.
men and teachers was urged last
night in a resolution adopted by the
Park View Citizens Association
meeting in the Park View school.
The organization also went on rec
ord IN favor Of the distribution Of
automobile license tags at police
stations instead Of at the District
Building.
Senator Magnus johnson. Of
Minnesota. was the principal
speaker at the meeting. He steered
clear Of local questions. speaking
from . national viewpoint. He
declared he was going to obtain
fair play Tor the working man and
farmer IN Congress.
Thirty-EWO new members were
elected TO the association, bringing
the total membership TO 986.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-09

Flowers via Telegraph
to all parts of the world. Consult 0udo.
1912 F.--Advt.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-09

to Comiskey and said: 'HThaE ticket
looks as If Annie Oakley had been
using It as a target"
] Comiskey told the story to 9
reportera and within q short time
every complimentary admission
ticket became known as an annie
Oakley"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-09
Woman CoIIides With Pillar.

Losing control Of her automobile
when she entered the Union Station
driveway, Mrs. Bernadine Rocco,
twenty-five, 1911 Varnum street
northwest, steered into one Of the
pillars yesterday. Her head and
face were bruised slightly.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-09
PRESIDENTS PROGRAM

1000 q. Hn.-Polish Minister
to present Madame Lo1vodslEa-
1890 a. m.-C Congressman
William ]. Graham Of Illinois.
1895 q. m. - Congressman
Robert q. Simmons of Ne
braslka. and Marshall Cronin.
1O:45 q. m-Henry Lane
Wilson.
100 q MIRA Nelson
Norris.
Has q. m.-Senator Ralph
Fl. Cameron Of Arizona.
1l:30 q, m.-F. 3. LOOMS.
11.46 q. MFRS. Harriet
Taylor Upton.
1900 noon--M. L. Burton,
president of the University Of
Michigan.
1925 p. m.-John Barrymore.
1890 p. me-. M. Bless
ington.
800 p. m.--Senator James
=. Watson Of Indiana, and Mr..
Healing and Mr.. Wald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-28
HE BIRMINGHAM AeE-HERALD SUNDAY DECEMBER 2s, 1924

Chicago proposes to retire school teachers for lack of>efficiency. He did the job, the greatest in the history of the world.
 Many presidents of the United States were more than sixty years of age, and the earlier ones who laid the of the republic. Woodrow Wilson, one of the greatest of all of them, was ffifty-sevAn the year he became pres ident, and he did his greatest work years after that. Quite number of United States senators have passed seventy. Edi- son did his best work after he was fifty seven years old. Many of the worlds s greatest men, who have had the most in- fluence in shaping the destiny of man. kind, accomplished their greatest work after they were fifty-seven.t
 A teacher acquires some age before becoming efficient in that capacity. The majority of the best teachers in this coun- try are around fifty-seven years old or more. Chicago might try a number of men more than fifty-seven years old to clean up that city. That is needed be- fore any cf it's teachers at any age can accomplish the maximum service of which they are capable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-28
OFFICIAL ELECTION FIGURES

Official returns of the presidential election give MT. Coolidge 15,718,789 votes. John w. Davis received 8,378,962 and Senator La Toilette 4,822,319. An analysis of election returns is for the average person more or less of an idle pastime, but it is interesting, and as long as we have politicians, political cam paigns and candidates, election post mortems will offer fruitful theme for discussion.
 Mir. Coolidge received larger plural ity than did MT. Harding four years ago. Both were running on a Republican ticket, but the explanation offered for the Coolidge victory is quite different from that set forth to show why MT. Harding won in 1920. Then, we were told by the political wiseacres, the nation wanted a change; it was tired of Wilson autocracy; it was fretted by the post war problems for which the Democratic administration was held to blame, and very unjustly, too; and the nation wanted to get back to normalcy.
 MT. Harding, scarcely known as na- tional figure before his nomination in Chicago, became the symbol of the "good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-28
Is Efficiency Fading Away?

The theory was that a so-called efficiency engineer" could come into the headquarters of a commercial industrial or financial con cern. and after a few weeks of intensive study recommend drastic changes and new methods designed to increase production, promote sales, develop new markets, eliminate waste, and work a series of business miracles generally.
 Experience frequently proved that even where these results were secured 1t was az cost which offset any advantages gained because the necessary readjustments some- times left faithful and valuable members Of the organization feeling resentment which tended to destroy that spirit of loyalty and of teamwork which is one of the most potent factors in carrying on big enterprise or necessitated the adoption of complicated sys- tens which proved unavoidable in practice'- Montreal Gazette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-28

The greatly-overdone efficiency" movement made the target of criticism by serious minded commentators. while some barbed shafts of ridiculs have been launched at it by caustic wielders of the pencil or the pen, including some effective jabs by Sinclalr Lewis in "Babbitt"
 Now comes man of large affairs, Robert E. M. Cowie, president of the American Ex- press company, to add his testimony that the craze for "efficiency" is one of the cardinal weaknesses of the national system of busi- ness economies, two others being extravaganza in general and that particular form of it rep resented by purchases on the installment plan.
 So insistent has been the harping upon this matter of efficiency" for some years past that the term, as applied in the restricted sense that it's users have given it, has come the average man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-28

In the Federal courts procedure is much more expeditions than in the State courts of record. One reason for this difference is that the Federal judiciary possesses the authority to frame and prescribe rules of practice, whereas the State tribunals are unduly ham, pered by legislative regulations
 Yet even the procedure in the Federal courts is not as simple and businesslike as 1t might be, and important changes in the rules de- signed to speed up trials and lessen conges. tion have been worked out at conference of senior Circuit Court Judges. These changes have been approved by the United States Su- preme Court and recommended to the Judges of the district courts for immediate adoption.
 Among the new rules prescribed are these Examination of talesmen may be made by the presiding Judge alone, without any aid from counsel continuances and postponements by agreement of attorneys should be refused ex- cept for ample cause; cases that might have been brought 70 trial, but have been, Dy Te-- son of negligence or indifference of counsel or of the psEties represented, should be dis missed by conrt order at the beginning of 8 term.
 Thsse aSs ether safeguards against needless
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-28

technical research laboratories. The cost of education to the individual has been reduced, so that there is no longer a bar to mental development in. the. path of any large number of young people in this land."
 There is no doubt that the public well fare has been materially and worthily advanced by endowments of institutions that work for the betterment of human ity. The North has long been favored by such examples of individual generosity and vision. Even the South has bene- fitted from such nationwide magnanimity. But MT. Duke is the first Southern man of wealth to give so largely all at one time. The last two decades have pro- duced many other Southern multi-million- aires who are able to do the same thing Very likely some of them will.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-28
The Herd And Future Barbarians

am of teh opinion that when we are thrown out of our homes and business places, and therefore become servants to new masters, we will be succeeded by men who have few of our most conspicuous bad habits. The new men will control their women and children, certainly, and not play many foolish games, or belong to many foolish clubs. They will go directly at every problem, and avoid the senti- ment which is slwoly running us.
 Half of teh things we profess to belierl in we make fun of. The new men will be lieve in everything they profess to believe ia, We will call them barbarians but they wM have excellent common sense They may fight among themselves good deal. but when it comes to the main issues of enslaving the fool Yankees, they will act as a unit; they will cannot divide them with tAe Ku Klux, the Protestant, the Republican, the Progressive. the Democratic or other s4 our well known issues. They will stand lossther for their barbarianism. They may finally divide on issues of their own, but Saey will pay no at- tention to ours.
 Nearly every man believes the world is going to the devil, and taat the next Jew years vii lshow great changes. And all are mis- taken: the world will carry on in future as usual, with a few changes and Improvements men learn from experience. History records a few violent changes, but in each case the
 
 to the old, tiresome, but safer, conditions. Base the next twenty years on the twenty years you have lived, and know about, and you will be right.
 Fun is universally made of patent medicine testimonials. I'rather like the idea. Suppose a man has been benefited by suggestion or remedy. In the name of high heaven, should he not wish to pass it on to others who are afflicted? late&y bought little apparatus suggested in an advertisement. It met my needs so perfectly thta I actually would not take thousand Collars for it, if could not get another like it: restrain myself with dif and call him a benefactor. He charged me a good price. and is getting rich. but Is a benefactor just the same. A peculiar thing is that no apparatus equally good is sold at the stores Why do not dealers handle itf Why do not those who call at stores get the best there is? One apparatus for the same purpose is generally sold, and so bad that the manufacturer could be successfully prosecuted for using the mails to defraud, because of wide advertising. (Copyright, 1924, by The Bell Syndicate, Incl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-28
Forum Of The People
The Deserving Negro.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Some time ago a gentleman in Boston, who had given much to the negroes of the South. said to the writer that he was disappointed in the colored race He founded his dis satisfaction on the reports from the South concerning the faults and crimes of the negro. Not unlike many of our own people, he had come to judge the race by the worst, rather than by the best. The bad negro gets full Advertisement, while the worthy gains only sderation was had for the deserving class of the black race, and more encouragement were given to that group, they would emore stim- ulated in lifting up those that are lower. Of the highly deserving negroes we have not a few in our midst. An evidence of the pride and progress of the race is afforded in the Christmas number of the Birmingham Re- porter, of which Oscar W. Adams is the editor It is a mmoth production which 'af- lords the taste and deftness of metropolitan journal. Adams is 6 young man who has developed into a wide and successful leader of his people. He gives to his paper lofty tone devoid of cringing or sycophancy to the dominant race, while his paper is so respect full and conciliatory, and yet radically de- voted to the promotion of his people, as to compel not only respect, but genuine admira- tion. He publishes the best paper of his race in the South, if not in the entire country. Men of his type, and women equally worthy, deserve recognition and stimulation. Fms IS the class of colored people that merit more attention and encouragement, since in their influence and work they render a substantial service to the community A fairer and juster estimate of the negro race would be had if more whites would read The Birmingham Reporter in connection with the weekly con Itributions made by Dr. c. l.. Fisher in The IAge-Herald.
 B. F. RILEY, D. D. Rirminpham Ala. Dec 27 1924.