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Evening star., 1924-04-04
BUILDERS REJECT
.PLASTERERS' RAISE
Turn Down Demand for $14-
Day Wage-To Keep Costs
at Present Level.

PIedging themselves to hold con-
struction costs during 1924 at a level
no higher than their present price,
real estate builders, financiers, in
vestors, bankers and real estate men
of Washington, meeting at the City
Club yesterday afternoon, turned
down a request of the plasterers for
an increase from s12 to s14 a day.
The builders agreed that construc-
tion costs must not mount any
higher. The men attending the
meeting last year financed andt con-
structed more than s15,0oo,00 worth
of construction, it was stated.
Resolutions adopted at the meeting
follow:
I'VE, the undersigned, being en-
gagged in the building industry in the
city of Washington, D. c., and in an
basic industries appertaining to the
building business, and in immediate
view of the demands of the local
plasterers' union for an advance in
pay from s12 to s14 per day and a
forty-hour week, do hereby agree as
follows.
First, that we will not pay a greater
wage to journeyman plasterers than
S12 per day for eight hours labor and
insist on the men working a half day
on Saturday.
Reject Bonus to Workers.
Second, that we will not pay any
bonus or commissions to journeyman
plasterers which will bring the wage
above aforementioned $12 per day.
Third, that we will not allow any
subcontracting plasterer to employ
men on any work in the construction
of which we may be engaged and who
will pay journeyman plaSterers in ex-
cess of $12 per day
Fourth, that we shall abide by all
rules and regulations formulated for
the proper conduct of the building
industry by the majority vote of those
men signatory hereto"
Among the builders and financiers
who helped draw up the resolutions
were the following: Herbert T. Shan
non of Shannon & Luchs. D. J. Duni-
gan, w. NJ Taylor, Wenger Brothers,
Harry A Kite, Thomas Jameson,
Clarence H Small, Taylor & Hedges,
w. M. Kennedy of Kennedy Brothers,
B. Fl. Gruver. Morris Cafritz, Joseph
Shapiro, w. c. & A. N. Miller Breun-
niger Brothers, Dwight Particle,
Walter A. Dunigan, w. D. F'uhner,
Harry M. Bralove, the Shapiro Com
pany.
Evening star., 1924-04-04
JAPAN WILL SEND THOUSANDS
OF SURPLUS PEOPLE TO BRAZIL
Earthquake Leares Bad Economic Conditions. Fore.
ing observation-disclosures Sees Exclusion
Policy Justified by This Ne,cs.

already there are 5000 Japanese,
while in Peru some 10000 are settled.
The majority are contract laborers
and their arrival is welcomed. Up
to 1918 and 1919 there was a steady
flow of Japanese emigrants to those
two South American countries, but
since the war it had receded. Now
the Toxic government will do its
utmost to interest young Japanese
in the Latin republics as places
where more assured existence is
possible than in overpopulated, dis
aster-stricken Nippon.
The plight in which the Japanese
find themselves is frankly set forth
in Yorodzu, an important Toxic ma
tionaliSt newspaper, as follows:
Emigration is a matter of urgent
necessity for US. Japan's population
increases every year, by 100000. II
this rate is maintained the number
of our inhabitants will soon be doubled
1t thus becomes question how the
japanese can sustain their daily life
Our yearly rice crop is not enough
to meet the demand. Accordingly
millions of pounds must be imported
because the extension of our rice
growing fields is not keeping pace
with the growth in population.
Called Grave Menace.
This is grave menace to our
national existence. The COM
mostly from unrest in daily life. TIC
appease this unrest the solution OF
problems regarding foodstuffs is in
diSpensable. Problems of foodStuffs
are closely related to population ques-
tions. This issue is fraught
with such vital Importance for japan
that the government ought to create
a special Investigation commission tc
determine the best conditions fol
emigration of our people to foreign
countries"
Now and then alarmist voices are
raised in the United States, urging
that wholesale emigration of Japa-
nese to Central or South American
countries can become menace" tc
this nation. Alleged Japanese plans
to obtain a territorial foothold on the
west coast of Mexico are heard OF
from time to time. Brazil does not
appear to be frightened over the pros
pect of a systematic or even a sub
sidized emigration from Japan. In
deed, according to Japanese authori-
ties, the Rio de Janeiro government is
even advancing colonizing funds tc
Japanese immigrants, payable on easy
terms after they have become prop
erly established as artisans or tiliers
of the soil.
Evening star., 1924-04-04

heart of the sagebrush land and miles
from civilization" a spokesman al
ready has been chosen. Likewise, the
Texas panhandle has not been with
out its echo of the din of words In
the state of Washington, a Nez Perce
chieftain's son, descended from one
of the greatest of redskinned ora
tors, already has won his way to the
point where he is recognized as a
Formidable contestant for state hon.
ors.
In the territory clearing through
rPhiladelphia (the birthplace Of the
IConstitution), more than 100000 pu-
pills are participating. So has it been
in Virginia, in the deep south, in the
central states, and in fact throughout
the nation.
Within a few weeks, even the larg-
est contest centers will have selected
their spokesman. Then, on May 16
there will be the meetings to deter
mine the sectional campaigns. The
sectional meeting places will be in
New York city, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Birmingham, Kansas City and Los
Angeles. The sectional champions
having been selected, they will on
June 6, in the presence of the Presi-
dent of the United States, compete
lin Washington for national honors,
and for the national awards of $4,000,
$1,000, and $500.
Evening star., 1924-04-04
CHILDREN TO AID
MONTICELLO FUND
Young Jeffersonians" Will Pre-
sent Gift at Ceremony to Be
Held in Keith's Theater.

The children's gift to Monticello
will be formally received tomorrow
morning at 10:15 at a mass meeting
of children of Washington in Keith's
Theater, under the direction of Mrs.
Albert n. Baggs and the children's s
gift team of the jefferson Oppor rtunity
Fund for the purchase of Monticello
as a national shrine
During last month children of all
the schools in the city have been Wis
tied by members of this committee
and special entertainments have been
held to raise a collection toward the
$50, 600, which is Washing gton's quota
The Young JefferSonians' ] of the Busi-
ness High School are preparing for a
dance to be given next week for this
purpose, the students of Gunston Hall
gave a benefit some weeks ago and
the children of the Chevy Chase Coun-
try Day School gave Shakespeare S
Two Gentlemen of Verona on Thurs
day, all for the Monticello fund.
DR.. Ballou VIII Attend.
At the meeting tomorrow members
of the National Monticello Associa-
tion, DR.. Ballou and members of the
board of education and officers of the
Parent-Teachers' Association will be
on the stage and in one of the boxes
will be the presidents of the various
local chapters of the Children of the
American Revolution.
The program is as follows: Music
by the United States Army Band,
under Band Leader Stannard; Amer
ica,' sung by the audience of chill
dren, led by Edwin N. c. Barnes, mu-
sic director of the public schools of
Washington; presentation of gifts by
delegations from the schools. each
group carrying it's school banner
gifts received by Mrs. Albert N
Baggs, and formally received by the
officers of the National Monticello
Association; short address by DR..
Larkin w. Glazebrook, chairman of
the executive committee of the Jeff
erson Opportunity Fund; music by the
Army Band, and "The Star Spangled
Banner" sung by the audience with
the band.
Children's Committee.
The committee of the children's
gift includes, in addition to Mrs.
Baggs, Mrs. Howard Hodgkins, Mrs.
Randolph Keith Forrest, Mrs. Giles
Scott Rafter, Mrs. Luther Derwent,
Capt. Julius Peyser, Mrs. Francis
CadwaIlader Hall and Mrs. Josephine
L. Harley.
Evening star., 1924-04-04
AUTO PRESENTED
TO NURSE SOCIETY
KiWanis Club Gives Fully
Equipped Machine and
S1,4OO to |. v. N. S.

Harry G. Kimball, president OF the
Kiwanis Club, in the presence of the
club members at the south front of
the Treasury Department yesterday.
presented fully equipped sedan au-
tomobile to Mrs. Whitman Cross,
president of the Instructive Visiting
Nurse Society, for the use of the
nurses in visiting the sick.
The presentation was made imme-
diately after the meeting of the club
in the Washington Hotel. In addition
to the automobile Mr.. Kimball, on
behalf of the club, turned over check
for s1,400 to pay for the services of
a nurse for a year. This is one of
the contributions being made by XII
wants for civic welfare.
The presentation ceremonies were
simple. While the club members sur
rounded the automobile and president
in a large semi-circle, Mr.. kimball
told Mrs. Cross of the desire of his
organization to aid the work of the
visiting nurses in some small way and
thereupon announced the donation of
the automobile. Then he produced the
check and turned it over.
Express Gratitude.
mobile and the check, announced the
appreciation of the organization for
the present and past services of XII
wants and assured Mr.. KimbalI of the
gratitude of all connected with the
visiting nurses for the generosity.
Accompanying Mrs Cross were Mrs.
G. Brown Miller, second vice presi-
dent; Mrs. David Potter, and Joshua
A Evans, treasurer, as well as a dele
CATION of the nurses. Chairman
Baker Weaver of the special COM
mittee which selected the automobile,
Maynard Burrell and John C. Wine
man accompanied Mr.. Kimball at the
presentation as the official Kiwanian
representa- tives.
Within eighteen months four auto
mobiles have been donated to the
visiting nurses. In February, 1928,
one was given by an anonymous do
nor. in May, 1923, the Washington
Rotary. Club donated another, and
some time later DR.. John Van Rens-
selaer presented still another
The automobiles will facilitate the
nursing service greatly, it was said
yesterday. Eventually, it is hoped,
the entire visiting nursing service
will be motorized.
The object of the society is to pro-
vide at a nominal rate visiting nurs-
ing service in the home for all cases
which do not require the services of
a full-time nurse. Among such are
prenatal and post-natal cases; the
care of crippled persons; the care of
convalescents, whose breadwinners
are compelled to be absent through
the business day: cases involving
daily changing of dressings; cases
involving the health of delicate chill
dren, etc. In every case, where
necessary, the visit includes instruc-
tion in both hygiene and the care of
the sick. as well as nursing care. No
fee is asked from those who cannot
afford 1T, and the fee, when accepted,
is large enough to cover only actual
expenses. The organization is sup
ported through the fees collected and
through contributions from in
dividuals and organizations interest
ed in the work. Every member of
the nursing staff. which numbers
more than thirty, is graduate nurse.
Evening star., 1924-04-04
PAROLE LAW NEEDED
IN D. c. H0YEM SAYS
Prison Society Officer Tells An
thony League Criminals Gould
Be Reformed.

Enactment of parole Legislation for
the District of Columbia, recently in
troduced by Senator Ball of Delaware
and indorsed by the District Commis-
sioners, would relieve the congestion
means by which criminals can be re-
formed, Oliver Hoyem, executive sec
retary of the National Committee on
Prisons and Prison Labor, declared
before the Anthony League at 1874 N
street northwest last night. He said
that all states now have parole laws
and that there is federal parole
law, leaving the District of Colum-
bia alone without such legislation.
Jails should be used as detention
houses for those awaiting trial, and
Evening star., 1924-04-04
Charities to Celebrate.

The forty-third anniversary of the
Associated Charities of the District
of Columbia will be celebrated at a
meeting to be held at 8 o'clock
April 8 at Rauscher's. Addresses are
to be made by Rt. Rev. James E.
Freeman, Bishop of Washington, and
Karl de Schweinitz. secretary of the
Philadelphia Society for Organizing
Charity.
Evening star., 1924-04-04
CANDIDATES ARE NAMED.
Women's City Club Will Have
Election Nav z.

The Women's City Club has an
nounced, through Mrs. Robert c.
Dean, chairman, the following candi-
dates for office, to be chosen at the
annual election, May z: President,
Mrs. William E. Chamberlin, DR.. A.
Frances Foye; first vice president,
Miss Maria Ewing, Mrs. J. G. Pritch-
ard; second vice president, Mrs. Marie
Stair Lawyer, Mrs. John Mock; treas
urer, Miss Ruth Jeffers, Miss Nell
Price; corresponding secretary, Miss
Judith Barbaux, Mrs. Goodwin Price
Graham; board of directors (six to be
voted for), Miss Margaret Hanna,
Mrs. Victoria Harrington, Miss Es-
telle Hellmen, Mrs. Granville Hunt,
Mrs. w. B. Lipscomb, Mrs. M. c. Nc
Closkey, Mrs. M. T. Morss, Judge Mary
O'Toole, Miss Margaret Patch, Mrs.
George Kicker. Mrs. John Lorentz
Steele, Mrs. Charles Wilcox, Miss
Agnes Winn.
Evening star., 1924-04-04
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Under the auspices and at the ex-
pense of the Japanese government,
thousands of Japanese men, women
and children are to he sent to Brazil
and other South American countries
The exodus is the direct result of the
earthquake disaster that devastated
Toxic and Yokohama last September.
Mr.. Tomita, an official of the social
welfare bureau of the Japanese de-
partment of the interior, is now en-
route to Rio de Janeiro to inspect
conditions in Brazil and make prep
aration for the immediate arrival Of
the first detachment of Japanese i'm
migrants. During April it is hoped to
send 1000 to South America, and to
dispatch other contfngents more or
less regularly throughout the year.
The japanese government has appro-
priated 100000 to aid quake-stricken
families in colonizing in the Latin re-
publics.
California Sees Lesson.
California's spokesmen, who have
just made urgent representations to
the Senate immigration committee in
/ favor of Japanese exclusion, see un-
answerable arguments in favor of
their viewpoint in the government
directed Nipponese migration to Bra
United States were to let down the
bars the Pacific coast today would be
on the verge of "a yellow innunda-
tion." Californians feared there would
be wholesale exodus from Japan as
result of the earthquake, but from
Japan came word that reconstruction
would keep all hands busy for years
to come.
That has not turned out to be the
case. The latest reports show that
unemployment in Toxic is on the
increase. The government employ
ment bureau is unable to find jobs
for more than one man out of every
forty that apply for work. To meet
this situation a concern called the
Overseas Development Company en-
tered into negotiations with the gov
ernment of Brazil to receive Japanese
settlers and emigration is now to be
organized under official Japanese
supervision.
10000 Now i'm Brazil.
Nowhere in North or South Amer
lea or Australasia are Japanese immi-
grants received without restriction
except in Brazil and Peru. In Brazil
Evening star., 1924-04-04

those convicted should be sent to the
large prisons, where the parole sys-
tenn can be worked, he said
S,J0e,OO Women i'm Industry.
Miss Mary Anderson, director of the
women's bureau, Department of La
Dor, said there are 100000 women
in gainful employment in the United
States. Out of this number, she said,
there are 100000 in the production
and distribution trades.
Investigations carried on by her
department have disclosed many cases
of women working nine. ten and
eleven hours a day, the speaker added.
t'There are 100000 married wom-
en-, living with their husbands, who
are obliged to work in order to render
financial assistance within the home, !"
she asserted.
Vocal solos were rendered by Mrs.
Ruth Parks, accompanied by Mrs.
Irene Miller Chainey. Miss Bede
Johnson presided.
Evening star., 1924-04-04
COMMITTEE NAMED.
Commerce Chamber Announces Re-
tail Trade Members.

The personnel of the standing COM
mittee on retail trade of the Wash
ington Chamber of Commerce was
announced today as follows:
James B. Henderson, chairman;
Wistar NJ Balderston, vice chairman
J.. ]. Breen, Charles A. Camalier,
Henry G. F. Castens, Appleton P.
Clark, jr.; Bertram Cohn, Mark Dobrin,
Joseph D. Dreyfuss, James C. Dulin,
Max Fischer, Morris Ganss, o. B.
George, J. G. Jalapos, Harry C. James,
Isadore Kahn, H l.. gla, Maurice
p. King, Edward Kohner, Jacob
Kohner, Adolph Kuntz, Ben Living
ston, Gus Louis, D. L. Nunnally, Simon
L. Nye, 0. A. c. Oehmler, II. D. Orms-
by, Charles Phillips, William j.
Rogers, L. E. Rubel, E. A. Smith, Will
liam M. Smith, c. B. Stokes, Robert l..
Swats, j. Clinton Tribby and Eugene
C.. Welsh.
Evening star., 1924-04-04
WOODWARD SCHOOL
FOR BOYS NAMED
Y. M. c. a. Dedicates Project to
Commemorate Memory of De-
ceased Benefactor.

To honor the memory of the late
S. W. Woodward, the Y. M. C. A. Day
School for Boys, 1886 G street north
west, was today named the Wood
ward School for Boys" William
Knowles Cooper, general secretary of
the association, made the announce
ment at the chapel exercises this
morning. He announced that this ac-
Evening star., 1924-04-04
HUGHES MAY GO ABROAD.
Will Attend Bar Association Meet.
ing in London, if Possible.

Unless unforeseen hindrances de-
velop Secretary Hughes said today
he would go to England in July with
the American Bar Association to be
the guest-of the British Bar Associa-
tfon- At the present time, it was
said, there is nothing in prospect in
the horizon of foreign affairs that is
probable to upset the Secretarys
plans.
Evening star., 1924-04-04

Miss Marie Weeks, elected presi-
dent of the Editorial Association of
Nebraska, is the first woman to win
that distinction. She has been pub
fishing the Norfolk, Neb., Press for
the past twenty-three years.
Evening star., 1924-04-04

Clara Rocha, known as "Mexico's
Joan of Arc" rides at the head of
her dead husbands command with
an Official commission from the war
department.
Evening star., 1924-12-16
Home Study

I bought large white polar bear,
and kept him in shed; I wished
to study Bruin there, by, love of
nature fed "I'll study him.. l. said,
"gadzook,, I'll count his snowy hairs,
and then some day I'll write book,
and shed new light on bears. The
critter spends his lite in snow, and
doesn't care a hoot; that's all the
people really know about this splen-
did brute" The bear, he yearned
for polar seas and icebergs large and
tall, and every night he Jared the
breeze with dreary caterwaul He
loathed the trim abodes of men, alb
horred the human door, and longed
to sroam and howl again on some
far Arctic shore. Then came the
neighbors in group; heard the
spokesman say. You turn this
Bruin from his coop, and let him
fade away. Night after night we
hear him yell, too long his noise
we've stood; and then he has a
rancid smell that spoils the neigh
borhood Your talk OF study will
not wash; if you must study things,
go get yourself Hubbard squash,
draw charts of that, by jings. Go
get yourself a bale of hay, of that
a study make; it will not rear
around and bray and keep the towI,
awake We've brought an ak, we've
brought gun, we've brought some
TINT, SO let your bear get out and
run, while we count one, two three r
The student who'd improve his
mind and learn Dame Nature
curves should leave the haunts of
men behind, for neighbors have
their nerves.
(Copyright) WALT MASON.
Evening star., 1924-12-16
NAVY YARD WORK LIGHT.
Gradual Reduction of Gun Factory
Force Explained.

Gradual reduction in the force at
the Washington Naval Gun Factory
is taking place because of the lack
of work, Admiral 3. F. Hutchinson,
commandant, said yesterday. AS the
work falls off it will be necessary
TO drop employees from time to time,
but there will be no general re-
duction of the force necessary.
However, 1t was pointed out that
should Congress make provisions for
the new cruisers now being asked of
Congress. 1t will be necessary to add
materially to the force at the local
gun factory in order to construct the
necessary guns and mounts which
will be used on the proposed ships.
1t will be some time before such an
increase in force will be necessary.
While the general plans for the new
ships are ready, none of the details
IS, and it will be necessary for the
department. to draw the detail plans
before the work on guns and mounts
can be begun
Evening star., 1924-12-16
SCIENTIST SCORES
!. CHARLATANS HERE
Says PhrenoIogy and Pain.
istry Are Without Slight
est Foundations.

The number of phrenologists, physi-
ogamists and palmists who evidently
are able to make living in the Ma
tional Capital constitutes an unfortu-
nate commentary on the average of in
telligence. DIR. Ales Hrdlicka, anthro-
pologist of the Smithsonian Institution.
said in a lecture at the New National
Museum yesterday afternoon.
All three methods of fortune telling
or character reading are without the
slightest foundation, DR.. Hrdlicka said.
Only one, phrenology. or the reading of
character, by various protuberances on
the skull, has any basis in an exact
science. About the middle of the
nineteenth century medical psycholo-
gists learned that IL particular sec
tion of the brain was injured the ef-
feet was felt in certain muscles. They
developed this knowledge to the point
where they can tell to within very
small distances the exact point in the
brain where various muscular activi-
ties are controlled. 1t was upon this
that the fakirs seized and attributed
mental qualities, as well as physical.
TO certain sections of the gray matter
of the brain. The actual fact is, DR..
lIrdlicka said, that the mental facul-
ties are rather generally distributed
throughout this section.
Physiogamy, he said, never had a
basis in science. The practitioners Of
this fraud pretend to read character
in the face-thus attributing fighting
qualities to a man with a square,
heavy jaw or courage to man with a
Roman nose. The actual features tell
nothing, DR.. Hrdlicka said, although
often the light of mans intelligence
stands out in his eyes and in his
general expression. A clever judge
might be able to distinguish between
the characters of two living men, but
not between those of two dead len
with only the actual features to de-
pend upon.
Palmistry, he said, is the least harm
full of the three. 1t cannot lay any
claim to a scientific basis. Not SO
many people are fooled by the claims
of palmists.
The study of human variations as
revealed by ply anthropology;
now in its infancy, is destined to do
n great deal of good, DR.. Hrdlicka
said. I'll will result in more special
ized education, rather than the. appli-
cations of rules to averages. 1t will
enable a more exact application of
medicine, dentistry and surgery. There
is one school of dentistry, he sadi.
in which it is assumed that there is
only one normal type of human jaw
and every effort is directed to bring
the Jaw of each patient to this nor
NAL type. AS the matter OF fact, he
said, there are four types of jaw,
to say nothing of the som etimes con-
siderable variations from these types.
BY not recognizing this fact the dem
list is liable to cause a great deal of
damage.
Evening star., 1924-12-16
PLAN CHRISTMAS FETE.
Colored. Ministers and Deacons t,

The annual Christmas celebration OF
the Ministers and Deacons Union
colored. of the District of Columbia
according to an announcement of Rev
Simon p. w. Drew, seer etary of that
organization, will be held at the Ma
tional Cosmopolitan Baptist Church
N street between Ninth and Tenth
sstreets, December 20 at 8 o'clock
jointly under auspices of the Minis
ters' Union and the American White
Cross
Three decorated trees, donated by
former slave owners, will be set up
Finr the church. One will represent
Abraham Lincoln. the second, Gen. U.
S. Grant, and the third Gen. Robert f.
Lee. More than a dozen former slaves.
male and female, will attend the tree
present distriba ton. The celebration
will last until New Year eve, when
the memorial of the emancipation of
the slaves will be celebrated by his
torical moving pictures. DR.. Drew
will preach the sermon.