Evening star., 1924-11-09
Local Events

Voteless Washington watched an
other election from the sidelfnes
last week. One of the features of
e'ection day, which emphasized the
| condition of the disenfranchised citi-
zens of the District, was the placing
of locked ballot boxes throughout
| the city by members Of the League
Of Women Voters. Election night
found most of Washington downtown
watching the returns flashed on the
screens in front of newspaper offices
or sitting quietly at home with the
radio receivers strapped to their
ears. The lack of enthusiasm was
noticeable. n This is probably ex-
planned by the belief that the ma jority
knew what would happen beforehand.
one-sided race never arouses emo
ton.
Jesse G. Suter, native Washing
tonfan prominent in local affairs. was
elected president of the Federation
of Citizens Associations-one of the
toteless Districts few means of ex-
pression-at a meeting of that organ
ization last week.
Gen. Plutarco Elias Gales, Presi-
dent elect Of Mexico, was a visitor in
Washington last week. He was met
by high officials of the Government
at Union Station. presented to the
President. entertained by the Secre-
tary of State, and taken to Arlington
and Mount Vernon, where he deco
rated the tombs of George Washing
ton and the Unknown Soldier
School children of Washington as
bankers and farmers were discussed
in a section of the annual report of
Or. f. e. kimball- supervising prin-
cipal of the third division. made pub
lie last week. School children de-
posted s45.5S0.74 during the last year
in the automatic receiving tellers
placed in some of the schools The
market value of products raised in
school gardens. Mrs. f. K. PEBBLES,
director of school garden work re-
ported. was s1,550.1s.
One of Washington's many annual
flower shows, the chrysanthemum ex-
hibit of the Department of Agricul-
ture, has been in progress the past
week and thousands attended it.
Three decisions of local Importance
were handed down last week by the
District Court of Appeals.
The Rent Commission was dealt
another hard blow when the court de-
clared that as the Supreme Court last
April decided there was no housing
emergency" in the District. the law
| subsequently passed by Congress to
extend the provisions of the Ball rent
! act was unconstitutional. The Rent
Commission will mark time awaiting
| final judgment by the United States
Supreme Court.
When the District Commissioners
started to enforce a law of Congress
! last year to dispose of Washington's
alley nuisance by evicting the alley
dwellers, they were prevented from
doing so by an injunction. The Court
of Appeals last week set aside this
| injunction, and the Commissioners are
now confronted with the problem of
| carrying out the orders of Congress
when they frankly state they do not
know how to proceed
Edgar Randolph Perrygo. 22-year-
old youth, who killed a woman four
years ago and was sentenced to death,
won new trial through decision
| of the Court of Appeals. which found
that his conviction was the result of
his confession obtained under third
degree" methods of the police. The
court strongly denounced such police
| practice.
Tax assessments for the District
| for next year will be materially in
creased, perhaps as much as S32,000,-
! 900, the District assessor, William z.
Richards. predicted last week. The
! Increased property valuation will ap-
ply principally in the northwest sec
tion of the city.
Samuel Tilden Ansell, a brigadier
general during the World War, and
now local attorney. last week was
chosen president of the Public School
Association of the District, succeed
ing Julius /. Peyser.
There are 10000 obsolete geo.
graphies and geographical readers
now in use in the District public
schools, while text books adopted for
the schools in 1921 by the Board of
/ Education have not been supplied
because of lack of appropriations. DR..
Frank w. Ballou revealed last week
! in making public the annual report
| of the late Alexander T. Stuart, di-
rector of intermediate instruction in
| the public schools. Other text books
are worn out and in an insanitary
] condition.