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The Washington times., 1924-08-02

LIS mayor, PRESIDENT w. w.
Campbell, Of the University of Cali
fornia. the half a dozen persons
who have aided in making the
elghteen-year-old girl the tennis
sensation OF the decade, and hun
dreds OF townspeople who have
known her since childhood will be
on hand, according to present ar.
fragments, whe1 Miss Wills train
pulls in.
Tennis-loving Berkeley and CALI
1ornia generally IL enthusiastic to.
day when mention is made Of
little poker face," because the be-
lief Is general that this State
through her il due to hold the
women's tennis championship for
many years to come.
Doctor G. A. Wills, Dad" as he
Is known to Helen ana the init.
mate friends who have followed the
neteoric rise OF the girl to stardom
IN sport, frankly shows his pride
today as he discusses Miss Wills
prospects.
You know, though" he said to-
day, I'm going to have a hard
time explaining why 1 didn't for.
ward her school reports before I
did. Helen wrote me just before
her match with Miss McKane at
Wimbledon asking me to send back
her standing in school, and 1 was
just 30 excited didn't do It."
Interested In School.
Miss Wills, coed at the Univer.
sity of California, is as much inter.
ested In making her mark in
scholastic work as she IL in win.
ming on the courts-more 30 in GER
tain particulars, declared Doctor
Wills.
It was being recalled today
around the Berkeley Tennis Club.
where Miss Wills does all OF her
court practice, how she divided her
leisure time equally between study
and tennis during the months OF
good weather preceding her de.
parture early In May for New York
and Europe.
Helen's concentration Is one Of
the main reasons why she Is alle
to surpass In the tennis world. At
the university, where she is major.
ing in science, Miss Wills is equally
as intent on her work, said Doctor
Wills, as she Is on tennis.
Under the tutelage OF Doctor
Wills, Helen first began to play
tennis at the age Of eleven. and
within year, according to his
frank admission, she surpassed him
ana sought new males to conquer.
Later. when the war came on,
Doctor Wills wen. with the A,neri.
can forces to France and placed
Helen IN q Vermont school, whore,
No ~ T.. 49,
court, she was unable to continue
the sport.
Two years later, upon returning
to Berkeley, she was able to take
up her game apparently just where
The Washington times., 1924-08-02
FISHING RESORT
To GET new
HOTEL
Building at seneca-on-the-
Potomac to Be Completed
This Summer

ROCKVILLE. Md. Aug. 2s-
Seneca. on the upper Potomac.
which has become popular as q
fishing and all-round summer ~.
sort, is soon to have q hotel.
Artemus Griffith has begun the
erection Of a ten-room building and
expects to have 1t completed in
time for the accommodate OF
guests before the close of the pres
emit season. He will also, It IL
understood, build q boat house and
have gasoline launches and other
boats on hand.
Paul e. Peer. Of Arlington, Va.
and Miss Catherine d. Weaver, OF
Washington, rnotored out to Rock.
vile yesterday and were married
by Reverend Nolan B.. Harmon, IT.,
pastor OF the Methodist Church, at
the home of the minister.
Reverend p. Rowland Wagner,
pastor Of the Baptist Church, OF.
ficiated at the marriage Of Leonard
Heath and Miss Alma q. Enbrey,
both Of the vicinity of Bethesda,
the home of the minister being the
scene Of the ceremony.
Under the auspices Of the Mont
eomery County Christian Endeavor
Union, which comprises the So
cieties of the Presbyterian churches
Of Kensington, Rockville and
Jamestown, the Rockville and
Hyattstown Christian churches and
Montgomery Methodist Chapel, a
picnic will be held at Kensington,
this county, on Saturday, August
Q. Reverend 8. j. Goode, pastor
CT the Rockville Christian Church,
who is president Of the union, ia
in charge Of the arrangements.
The Service Company, First
Regiment, Maryland National
Guard. Of Silver Spring, left on
Thursday for Virginia Beach, where
all companies of the Maryland
National Guard win be in camp
for the next three weeks. It num-
hers sixty-five men, principally
residents Of the lower section Of
the county, and the commanding
officer is Captain Joseph c. Cigsel,
Of Silver Spring.
The Howitzer Company, of Ken
sington, also connected with the
First Regiment, Maryland National
Guard, will leave for the same
place tomorrow under the COM
mand of Captain Clarence v. Sayer.
1t has a membership of one hum
bred and twenty.
The Washington times., 1924-08-02

against the will Of the White
Against the will Of the White
House, as interpreted by Mr.. VIII.
liam M. Butler, the Coolidge man.
aRer, and as by him transmitted to
Cleveland, the convention proceeded
to nominate Dawes for the Vice
Presidency.
On the Coolidge ticket, therefore,
there is now the alleged savior
Of Europe, although he would not
have been there IL Mr.. Coolidge's
manager had been permitted to
have his way and although the
revival Of Europe was done, as
Mr.. Young himself has pointed
out, by Europe itself and not by
anybody from America at ALL
q. o. p. Takes Credit.
The Republican managers now
DEFY Mr.. John w. Davis to per-
suade the American electorate that
Europe needs rescuing and they
even propose to attribute the i'm.
proved condition Of Europe to the
White House statesInanship which
permitted the PREPARATIONS commits
sion in Paris to ask Mr.. Dawes to
take trip to Paris.
Oriental magicians make q tree
grow up out Of q rug and spread
Its branches to the sky just by
looking firmly at the rug.
BY that method Coolidge has
magnificently increased the pros
perity Of the American wheat far
mer and has magnificently in
creased the prosperity Of Europe.
BY doing it he, for the moment,
has closed the mouth Of Robert
Marion La Toilette and Of John
w. Davis on the topic Of the
necessity for governmental action
at Washington on behalf of pros
perity on the Mississippi and on
the Rhine and the Danube.
It remains to be noted that Mr..
La Toilette and Mr.. Davis have
many other arguments left.
1t remains to be seen whether
Calvin Colleges luck will or win
not catch up with those other
arguments also.
It IL felt that his luck now ought
to be tired. It has worked hard
and long. 1t does not seem within
reason to think that It can keen
going. At this weekend, however.
II can truly be said that the heavy
arguing and thinking have been
with Davis and La Toilette ana the
luck has been with Coolidge.
Copyright. 1924. by Current Nowa
Features. Ina.l
The Washington times., 1924-08-02

1t had been left Off and. on the
courts Of a playground, attracted
considerable interest with her even
then exceptionally fast game.
Interested In reports OF "a new
tennis prodigy" William C. Fuller,
OF the Berkeley Tennis Club, met
ner. and shortly thereafter Helen
began to play there sunder his
Glaring defects in play were
gradually erased under careful IN.
structton, and In 1920 Miss wills
The Washington times., 1924-08-02
OPERATION MAY SAVE
PAINTER HURT IN FALL

Edward Smith, twenty, of Brent
wood. Md. who fell from a scaffold
while painting the exterior Of the
Metropolitan Church, Jonn Marshall
place and G street northwest, yes
terday, is still unconscious.
Physicians at Sibley Hospital said
an operation would be performed
Immediately
The Washington times., 1924-08-02
Conduit Road Opened

The Conduit road will be opened
today after 4 o'clock and viii re.
main open all day tomorrow, &C.
cording to II, United States En-.
gineer's Office. Road notice For
next week viii be made Monday.
The Washington times., 1924-08-02
FIRE SAL EGUARD
FOR POTOMAC
PROPOSED
Town Council TO Consider
Establishing Modern
Department

CLARENDON, Va, Aug. g..
Discussion OF the establishment
OF modern fire department In
the town Of Potomac will be the
outstanding business at the monthly
meeting of the town council which
will be held in the town hall on
Monday night
At the present time, Walter u.
VRrney, corporation attorney for
the town, said, Potomac has to
depend on Alexandria for fire pro-
lection, the distance being too great
Tor the county departments to
reach the town.
Mr.. Varney said the Alexandria
Water Company is now laying q
six.inch water main q distance Of
1000 feet on Stewart avenue and
az soon as the line Ii finished q
fire plug viii he installed by the
town OF Potomac.
Announcement of the appointment
by Governor Trinkle Of Sheriff
Howard B. Fields Of Arlington
county, as delegate to the fifty.
fourth annual Congress of the
American Prison Association to be
held at Salt Luke City, Utah, Au-
gust Is to % was made last night.
In appointing Sheriff Fields to
present the Commonwealth Of Vir-
gtnia, the governor in his letter
said he did so in recognition Of
his services. rendered the State
and the county Of Arlington.
According to william II. Duncan,
clerk OF the court of Arlington
county, the petition prepared by
Commonwealth Attorney William
G. Cloth, requesting Judge Samuel
@. Brent to set a date for q bond
issue Of $125,O0O for q new Jail.
record room, remolding Of the pres
ent jail into office room and heat
Ing plant will not be presented until
the minutes Of the board Of super
visors meeting in July are signed.
Mr.. Duncan said the minutes
would not be signed until the regu-
lar August meeting, to be held
August IL.
The health department announces
that their trucks will visit Thrifton
village, Aurora Heights, and Park
lane on Monday, and Queen City,
Johnson's Hill, Arlington, Nauck
and Radio on Tuesday.
All citizens are requested to have
all trash placed in front of their
property early as trucks will not
make return trips.
=. j. Matter, recently appointed
postmaster at the Rosslyn office,
assumed his duties yesterday. re-
.lieving w. n. Rixey, who retires
after many years at the office.
Mr.. Rixey will make his home
with Henry Apperson. Of TT. Myer
Heights.
"A special meeting of Columbia
Lodge No. 1855, A. r. and A. M,
will be held in the Masonic Temple
at Clarendon tonight at 8 o'clock,
when the Master Mason's degree win
be conferred.
The BalIston JUNIOR Athletic Club
will hold their regular monthly meet
ing tonight at 8 o'clock in tho Ju.
Nor Hall.
The Fort Myer Heights Citizens
Association at their meeting on
Monday night win discuss the sew
erage question as 1t has been pre-
scented by the health department of
Arlington county.
The Sewing Circle Of the Del Ray
Methodist Church viii hold benefit
cake sale today at Hamilton drug
store on Mount Vernon avenue.
Mrs. Danial Bell, Of Virginia
Highlands, who has been a patient
at the Alexandria Hospital for sew
eral days, Is reported ct greatly
improved.
against the will of the White
House.
The Washington times., 1924-08-02
Runaway Mule Kills Boy

GETTYSBURG, Aug. Harvey
Davenport, thirteen years old. an
orphan, adopted by Mr.. and Mrs.
George Haar, Of Hamilton town.
ship, near New Oxford. was drag.
ged to death by a mule.
The Washington times., 1924-08-02
'|LittLe Poker Face" to
Get Royal Welcome

NEW YORK, Aug. Back from wonderful trip and
winner of the Olympic tennis championship Miss Helen Wills
American tennis champion had only regret today and that
was that she did not get to engage Mile Suzanne Lenge
French tennis star, the courts
- am proud and glad the outcome of my contest "
said Miss Wills II Mile Suzanne LengIen play one set
at Wimbledon Ny only regret of entire trip was that
was unable to arrange match with her.
Miss Wills expects play the women national torna-
men here and also visit Boston before returning
Berkeley, Calf, her home.
ny International News Service
BERkELEY, Calf, Aug. 2-Heen Wills home town is
preparing monster welcome against her from
The Washington times., 1924-08-02

!, Mrs. Danial Bell, Of Virginia
Highlands, who has been a patient
at the Alexandria Hospital for sew
eral days, Is reported ct greatly
improved.
The Washington times., 1924-08-02

The Sewing Circle Of the Del Ray
Methodist Church win hold benefit
cake sale today at Hamilton drug
store on Mount Vernon avenue.
The Washington times., 1924-08-02

The Fort Myer Heights Citizens
Association at their meeting on
Monday night win discuss the sew
erage question as 1t has been pre-
scented by the health department Of
Arlington county.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
What Uncle Sam Is Doing
For. Former Service Man Cited

What the federal government is
doing for the ex-service men has
been summarized by Representative
Will r. Wood of Indiana, chairman of
the Republican congressional COM
mittee. as follows:
have received hospital treatment, 23,-
900 .ex-service men are now receiving
hospital treatment, over 100000 ex-
service men have been called for
examination to ascertain if they are
entitled to hospital or medical treat
ment
2. Over $4,000 ex-service men
have entered vocational training; ap-
proximately 1892 are now receiving
such training, and 10000 more have
been declared eligible to receive such
training.
8. Over 100000 medical examina-
tions are being made free every
month in order to ascertain the phys
ical and mental treatment needed by
affiicted ex-service men,
4. Disbursements direct to ex.
service men or their dependents are
being paid out at the rate of in ex-
cess of 100000 in cash every day OF
the year, including Sundays
S. Free medical treatment is be-
ing given 10000 ex-service- men every
month .outsidA= Of hospitals Ia cases
Evening star., 1924-07-06

for a sufficiently insistent purchaser
could get any one of the thirty-four
models in any one of the thirty-five
brands, in any of the eleven finishes,
In any of the nineteen sizes. This
afforded him a wide range of choice
between 994.S40 varieties of axes.
"A manufacturer of mems hats at
this very time produces for the more
or less standardized male head 1864
styles and colors of hats. We have
found that 80 per cent of his busi-
ness is done on seven styles in ten
colors. But he insists on carrying
the remaining $500 kinds to get 10
per cent more business. This means
that the 80 per cent who are content
to wear the usual styles must pay
huge tax to support the queer tastes
of the other 10 per cent. 1t is from
the enormous production costs en-
tailed by this useless diversification
that the great bill for waste comes.
The remedy Is simplification."
~1ou speS Of simpliHcation." !
Evening star., 1924-07-06

tessence of her militaristic aspira-
tions, il she had such aspirations-
these leaders sprang into the struggle
Tor peace. They called back our ad-
vance troops. They cried out: There
must be no slightest appearance of
proVocation. There must be no out
post incidents. We must give phys-
ical and indubitable evidence of our
desire for peace This evidence cost
US dearly. We gave up, on this side
OF the Franco German frontier, a belt
OF territory ten kilometers wide, and
many French boy died to take that
territory back.
please remember" suddenly inter-
Jected the speaker, Il am not plead
ing for France now. I am pleading
for history. I have told you why
France fought. Now, how did France
fight? AS there were two mentalities
in conflict. as regards civilization
the HohenZollern mentality and the
mentality of democracy-so there
were two antagonistic views respect
ing methods Of warfare. Short and
atrocious war was the German slogan
not long war humanely waged.
To the spirit of France this seemed
a barbarous sophism.
Again our scruples Of civilization
cost us dearly. Just as we had si-
fenced the voice of our rightfuI
claims, just as we had given up our
territory the better to prove our love
of peace. SO we sacrificed our sons to
the principles of humanity. We had
no resource to dishonorable ruses.
We invented no processes of bar
barity. We left to Germany the
initiative and the dismal benefit of
atrocity. We practiced no deception
or bullying to win the sympathy of
the neutIals. 1t was not our agents
who made the strikes and assassina-
tions a weapon of propaganda"
Purposes Of Two Nations.
your mature judgment is that a
German victory would have been a
world fatality" / suggested.
Poincare looked straight at me.
What did the intuition of the
world say?" he exclaimed. '1t said
that France was right. 1t under
stood that freedom was in peril.
Virtually all of non -Germanic hu-
manity appreciated the true position.
Belgium was to be annexed. North
ern and eastern France and Poland
were to be annexed. Austria was to
take Serbia. All the near east was
to be subjugated. Dismemberment
for the British empire. Yoking of
all nations under an iron hegemony.
appropriation of property-owning
classes German colonies governing
everything and everybody. Slow
den of the democratic
masses by the prescription of their
CONTINUED on Thirteenth Page)
Evening star., 1924-07-06
i. S. Public Debt
Cut Five Billion

:. The public debt has been reduced
more than Ave billion dollars in less
than five years.
The public debt reached its maxi
mum on August 81. 1919. when it was
s2s.5ss.7o1.e4s.o1.
On June 20, 1924. the public debt
was $21,so1. sol. .o55.sS, a clear reduc-
tion in. less than flve years Of 35,-
2s5.200,5s2.15.
In the past year the debt has been
reduced more than the usual $1,000,-
600. 600. or, to be exact. $1,04s,206 :
3os.50
The present Congress has cut $685.
$4,000 OF the income taxes to be paid
this year and about $472,000. 900 Off
the tax you would have been called
to pay in the next calendar year
The last Congress reduced taxes for
the fis04l year ls23 more than $685.
COO aen ;. ~ - !.
Evening star., 1924-07-06

interrupted. rs this not in reality
standardization? And does not the
American business man resent it as
having Prussfdn favor?"
mo. we don't Ike the word stand
ardization," was Mr.. DurEin's in
stant rejoiner. And Americans don't
like 1t. Besides, we are not aiming
at Standardization. If we were. our
methods would be different. The gov
ernment would name commission to
make survey Of heads as 20 shape
and dimensions, bump development,
scalp temperatures and the ventila-
tion needed to, control them; there
would be conferences with social
arbfters. questionnaires to hat mer-
chants. conferences with hat makers.
Then, after ten or fifteen years, the
government would announce standard
hat sizes and manufacturers would
have to- conform to them. That is
Standardization.
Our plan has been. to- help manu-
tacturers set ct the tacis for. them.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
Ten Billion Dollars Wasted Yearly
By American Industry and Business

selves. After that they have abso-
lutte liberty of choice. We do not
furnish them with standards. We
try to get them to confine their pro-
duction to the sizes and types ac-
tually in demand and to cut out the
unnecessary styles which add enor-
mously to their cost
At this point there began to dawn
on me a consciousness of the average
mans incredulity in the presence of
the theorists figures.
Your figures and your plan sound
plausible" / said. But will they
work out in practice and can you get
the business men to adopt them?"
They not only will work out, but
are working out" Mr.. Durgin assured
me. I'VE are bringing new groups
of manufacturers to adopt the plan
every month. We got a great manu-
facturer Of foods to simplify his
products. He decreased the variety
50 per cent. For every dollar he
spent on his sales force before he
now spends 81 cents. For every dol
lar he formerly spent on advertising,
he now spends % cents. For every
dollar he spent on overhead, he now
pays out 20 cents. His sales have in
creased 600 per cent. I could give you
scores of incidents like this.
"Why should the government in
terfere in this business? Why spend
the peoples money? That is a ques-
ton YOU have not asked me- But
some criticism of the department has
been made on this score. The an
swer seems simple. without the
governments entry into the problem
nothing would ever be done. The
Inauguration of simplifed practice in
any industry requires the co-opera-
ton of so many men in so many
groups that they would never be
brought together without the aid of
the government. As to the money
we spend, is not the reward worth
the price?"
Evening star., 1924-07-06
BY JOHN r. FLYNN.
MERICAN industry wastes
every year ten billions Of dol
\ lars that can be saved.

~ lars that can be saved.
This is not a wild guess. 1t is
the statement of a distinguished engi-
neer who is accustomed to deal with
hard facts and who has under his
direction a large staff of specialists
engaged in the study of industrial
waste. He is one of that group
of engineers surrounding Herbert
Hoover in the Department of Com
merce. He is William A. Durgin,
chief of Hoover's division of SIM
plified practice.
IT am not including in this figure"
said Mr.. Durgin, "all the vast values
destroyed every year. speak of
nothing but the avoidable waste. It
is distressing to know that a great,
intelligently directed and highly or
ganized industry like that covering
the production and fabrication of
metals should permit waste to de-
YOUR 20 per cent of it's expenditures
every year. Yet, compared with
other industries, this is good show
ing. In the boot and shoe trade the
loss is Al per cent. In the textile
made the value of another yard is
wasted. In the building trades the
annual waste amounts to SO per cent
and in the printing trades So per
cent. The mems clothing business
has the worst record. 1t cost as
much to make a pair of pants as it
should cost to produce a whole suit.
In the country as a whole the values
thus thrown overheard every year
are not less than ten billions of
dollars"
Sum Almost Incredible.
1t is difficult to visualize how great
sum is ten billion dollars. If Adam
had signalized his first year in the
Garden of Eden by putting away
$1.000,000 and the human race had
gone on adding to it $1,000, 900 every
year to the present time, the fund
would not yet have reached the ten
billion dollar mark and would not
do so for another two thousand
years. Ten billion dollars would pay
all of our federal taxes and then
leave enough surplus to buy all of
the automobiles produced last year
and all of the houses built for Amer
leans to live in.
These figures were impressive and
/ asked for an explanation of the
manner in which our so-called
shrewd and prudent business men
permitted this tremendous loss in
their operations.
THE waste we are warning
against comes entirely from the
practice of overdiversifcation. Let
me explain. An ak seems a fairly
simple sort of tool. Some months
ago ] had a conference with three
leading manufacturers of axes.
found that they were making thirty
four models in four qualities, eleven
finishes and from five to nineteen
sizes. This means that they were
actually offering in their catalogs
over six thousand varieties of ordi-
nary single-bit axes. The situation
is even worse than this. ,hoWeyer.
Evening star., 1924-07-06

world. 1t has been said, and it is
said, that France is militaristic.
Deeply pacific. she has been called
warlike. After the mutilation of 1870
she was accused of dreaming of mill
tary vengeance. Yet of all this there
is not an iota of evidence. After
1870, despite our wounds and wrongs,
we adopted Gambetta's saying that
even great evils may be righted by
legal means
did our forbearance. despite the
nobility-of our cause, protect us from
provocations? What is the record?
Every three years after 1905 a heavy
hand fell upon the diplomatic table of
Europe. Each time, combining dig
Evening star., 1924-07-06

where confinement in a hospital is
not necessary for proper medical
treatment.
8. over zoo new claims are being
handled every day by the Veterans
Bureau, and all work in taat bureau IS
being conducted practically up to
date at a minimum loss of time to all
parties concerned and at a minimum
expense both to the government and
to the ex-service men.
Z. An insurance business of over
$4,000 ex-service men is being con-
Quoted by the government without
any cost of administration to the ex-
service men at premium rates far
below those which private compa-
nies charge for like policies.