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Evening star., 1924-12-05
C|TY-W|DE SCHOOL
PARLEY IS CALLED
BalIou to Outline Needs Not
Met in Budget, at Con-
ference Monday.
AA-i.-IIss.E.s-sA-I - s.I Lsia

Every civic. trade and parent
teacher organization in the District,
as well as the clubs interested in
public education, was invited today
by the Board of Education to send
representatives to the joint confer
ence at the Franklin School, Monday
night, at S o'clock, at which the un-
met needs of the school system will
be outlined by superintendent Frank
w. Ballou.
An analytical report on the original
estimates of the school board for the
next fiscal year as compared with
those sent to Congress last Tuesday
by the Bureau of the Budget, will be
made by DR.. Ballou. The representa-
tives will then be given an opportui-
ty to submit the needs of the schools
located within the boundaries of their
respective territories.
Object Is Outlined.
The invitation which was sent out
by Harry o. Hine, secretary of the
board, follows:
For several years the Board of
Education has invited the various
citizens associations of the District
of Columbia, the numerous trade
bodies, civic clubs, parent-teacher and
home-and- school organizatio etc,
to meet the members OIL lHS DOdEu III
Joint conference. These groups with
their extensive membership, their
knowledge of local and city-wide edu-
cational needs, and their influential
connections have heretofore rendered
valuable help to the school admins
tration.
Another call is being issued for
such conference to be held on Mon
day evening, December 8, 1924, at
o'clock in the Franklin School Build
ing. The estimates for the operation
of the school system for 1926 have
been presented to Congress, and the
data carried therein and the items
allowed by the Bureau of the Budget,
now released to the public, will be
subjects for discussion.
"A representation from your asso-
citation is desired, preferably one or
more persons who are identified with
the committee on schools, or by some
officer who is conversant with the
wishes and the school needs of your
constituents. In behalf of mutually
profitable gathering, your attendance
and hearty cooperation is greatly
desired"
Evening star., 1924-12-05

the committee a voluminous docu-
ment, prepared by ]. Edward Cas-
sidy, a consulting engineer, with Of
fees at SIT Fourteenth street north
west, challenging the constitution
ality of the proposed hydro electric
development. He ~contended that the
Federal Government is without au
thority to expend public funds in
such a project, and in support of his
contention said that an examination
has been made of, the Supreme Court
decisions bearing on this point, and
submitted a brief covering various
phases of the matter.
He also advises the committee that
Government bureaus, with the sole
aim of securing funds for squander-
ing, and propagandists know little
and care less about how public funds
are spent. have no interest in the tax
payer, who must foot the bill; so un-
less Congress exercises proper judg
ment and consideration the public is
left without a friend at court"
He referred to the proposed devel-
opment as a pork barrel raid on the
public"
Evening star., 1924-12-05
HITS FIRE MENACE
TO TAX RECORDS
Blair Report Shows U. S.
Paid S1.24 to Collect Each
S1OO in 1924.

The Bureau of Internal Revenue
spent s1.24 in collecting every 500
of Federal taxes in the fiscal year 1924,
Commissioner Blair shows in his an
nual report, which gives the total Of
tax collections for the year as s2,-
796, ,179,257. Collections for the fiscal
year 1923 were $2,621, ,745.227, the cost
OF collection for that period being at
the rate of $1.39 for each 800.
The danger of housing tax records
of the American people in the present
temporary and widely scattered build
ings throughout the city is empha-
sized by the commissioner, who recon-
mends to Congress a suitable fire
proof building to provide for the
entire bureau"
1.-The bureau has been functioning
in ten separate buildings" the report
states. 1.-The income tax unit has
headquarters in six buildings, which
are in practically every section of the
business part of the city. The prohi-
bition unit occupies portions of build
ings all over the business sections of
the city. Other departments are in
the same condition"
Discussing the fire hazard In tenn
porary buildings, the report says:
Thousands of tax returns, assess
ment lists and other valuable papers
are. kept in these buildings, while the
returns are being audited. Many of
these papers could not be replaced,
and should they be destroyed heavy
losses would result to the Govern
ment, and possibly, in many in
stances, to taxpayers as we'll"
Substantial progress is being made,
the report discloses, in the auditing
Of returns, despite that many cases
which originated during the war still
are pending. The work of auditing
the war returns, it was explained,
was by far the most difficult task
with which the bureau has been con-
fronted, but it was approaching COM
pletion.
In. the fiscal year ending last July
1, the bureaus auditors went over
1888, ,191 returns, nearly twice the
average number received annually at
the bureau for auditing in the last
three years. Pending cases are being
worked out of the way along with
the maintenance of current auditing,
and the net result, the report says, Is
to reduce materially the number of
returns awaiting attention.
Outstanding in the list of sources of
taxation, excluding income and prof
its, was the total paid under the
levies on tobacco. For the fiscal year
1924 the tobacco collections were
$325.638.s31, a sum declared by the
commissioner, to have been greater
than the total internal revenue col
lections from all sources for any year
prior to 1918. The sum was s per
cent greater than was collected from
this source in the fiscal year 1923, and
constituted almost IL per cent of the
Governments internal revenue from
all sources, as compared with an
average Of about per cent in the
preceding two OF three years.
Evening star., 1924-12-05
STREET CHANGES
SOUGHT. IN CITY
Commissioners Seek to
Widen WoodIey Road and
Close Others.

The District Commissioners today
transmitted to Congress favorable
report on a pending bill to close GER
tain streets in the northwest section,
provided the bill is amended in such
a way as to authorize the Commits
sioners to proceed with condemna-
tfon proceedings for the widening of
Woodley road.
The main purpose of the bill was
to provide for the closing of Thirty
fourth place northwest. north of Gar
field street, and for the elimination
from the highway plan of Cleveland
avenue between ThiFty-fourth street
and Woodley road; Cathedral avenue
between Thirty-fourth street and
Wisconsin avenue, and Thirty-sixth
street between Garfield street and
Woodley road.
The report says that in connection
with the closing of these streets the
Commissioners desire to call atten-
tion to the urgent public necessity of
widening Woodley road in that vi
cinity.
Commissioners say that buildi z
operations in the neighborhood un-
der discussion are increasing traffic
congestion on Woodley road, which is
not wide enough at the present time
to permit of sidewalk construction
and highway development.
The city heads point out in their
report that they are prohibited from
lnstituting condemnation proceedings
for the widening of Woodley road be-
cause of a proviso enacted in Con-
gress in 1917, directing them to sus-
pend all proceedings in the Woodley
road case until further action by
Congress. In their report today they
asked Congress to repeal the act of
1917.
WILMINGTON, Del, December s.
Nothing to it, said Gen. Coleman
du Pont today when his attention was
drawn to reports that the real estate
holdings of the United States Realty
and Improvement Company and those
owned by him were being conso1i-
dated. There Is absolutely no truth
In it, he said, when further. asked
about the report.
Evening star., 1924-12-05
URGES VOICE FOR D. C.
In NATIONAL AFFAIRS
E. F. Colladay Outlines, in Address
to Club, Reasons for Demanding
Right of Franchise.

National representation for the Dis
trict of Columbia was urged by Ed
ward r. Colladay, former president
of the Washington Board of Trade, In
an address before the Cosmopolitan
Club at its weekly luncheon at the
Franklin Square Hotel yesterday.
Mr.. ColIaday outlined the efforts
made by the residents and various or
ganizations to get Congress to give
the right of franchise to the resi-
dents of the District. He declared
that the people of the National Cap
itai paid taxes greater than many of
the States, that they gave in men and
money to all the conflicts that the
United States engaged in, and yet
they were not allowed a voice in the
making of the laws which governed
them.
Representation according to popu-
lation, in respect to members of the
House and one or two Senators, was
the District to Congress. Mr.. Cola
day also said the residents of the
District should have the right to par
ticipate in presidential elections.
Pointing out that Washingtonians
had nothing to do with the laws but
to obey them, the speaker urged the
members of the Cosmopolitan Club
to stand for their rights of franchise
due them as Americans.
Expressions of sympathy in the ef-
forts now being made to obtain the
right of franchise for the District
was expressed by the club.
Announcement was made of the
postponement Of the club trip to Nor
folk, which was to have taken place
tomorrow. The trip now Is sched-
uled for May 2s.
A Christmas party for children will
be held by the club December 80. DR..
J. Rozier BiggS will be chairman of
the committee on arrangements, and
| New Year party also will be held.
Paul F. Brandstedt. president of the
club. presided
Evening star., 1924-12-05
By the Associated Press.

By the Associate Press.
NEW YORK, December s.
George F. Baker, octogenarian
banker and philanthropist, who for
almost ree-quarters of d CEN
tury has ruled the destinies of
huge financial institutions, rail-
roads and industrial corporations,
faltered yesterday before the
greatest obstacle of his career
his maiden speech.
Mr.. Baker confessed to several
hundred New York bankers and
bond dealers, who honored him at
a luncheon, his failure to COM.
pose a speech-the first one he
had ever promised to make. Elect
ed an honorary member of the
Bond Club of New York. he re-
sponded in a voice breaking with
emotion that he could not put
words together to express his
gratitude.
''If you continue to conduct your
Evening star., 1924-12-05
Baker, Financial Po,Uer for Years,
Stumped in attempt at First Talk

business and live your lives as you
have been doing. to gain the re-
spect and love of your fellows" he
told his Wall Street associates,
you will accomplish the best in
life, and withal and most i'm
poItant, If you maintain that in
tegrity, for which you are all so
noted, it will bring you greater
happiness and joy than great
wealth."
Mr.. Baker was acclaimed the
first citizen of New York" by Ell
bert H. Gary, chairman of the
United States Steel Corpora ton,
who praised the banker for his
generous benefactions for the
public good, his patriotic services
in marketing millions of dollars
worth of national securities dur
ing the war and his part in avert
ing a financial panic in Wall Street
many years ago.
Evening star., 1924-12-05
PARK OWNERS TO WAR
ON PETTING PARTIES
Amusement Men Put Ban on vii
lage Vamps and Roadhouse
Shieks.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 5.--Amuse-
ment park owners in convention here
yesterday. declared war on petting
parties.
]. H. Smith of Cleveland declared
mo more shall the village vamp and
the roadhouse shiek and the gangs
of rowdies and the groups of fighty
girls indulge in rowdyism in the
amusement parks. The petting parties
and necking must STOP"
A. r. Corey, Des Moines, Iowa,
speaking before the International AS
sociation of Fairs and Expositions,
said that children create 40 per cent
of the business of all State fairs.
They bring their parents and stay the
longest and spend the most money
on the concessions"
Government exhibits at fairs were
discussed by Joseph w. Hiscox. chief
of the Office of exhibits I'm the Depart
ment Of Agriculture.
Evening star., 1924-12-05
Meets High Demands.

Before you buy securities from amy
one be sure they are a. good as your
Dollars.
Evening star., 1924-12-05
VETERANS TO BE GUESTS.

War veterans in the Walter Reed,
Naval, st. Elizabeth's and Mount Alto
Hospitals will be the guests of Brooke
Johns tomorrow afternoon at 2:30
o'clock, when a matinee Of Uncle
Sans Follies" will be given at the
President Theater.
At last nights performance more
than 400 were turned away from the
box office after the house had been
filled. The show Is considered %
have been a tremendous success.
Evening star., 1924-12-05
Measure to Honor
First President
Sent to COOLIDGE
~ s>~~-~
kkIkiiElIakfsa gEs.shaAGskJSi

Authorization of a bicentennial
celebration of the birthday of
George Washington, February %,
1928, is up to President Coolidge.
A measure proposing appoint
ment of commission of Is to out
line plans for such a celebration,
passed at the last session of Con-
gress but lost in the last minute
jam, has been signed by Speaker
Gillett of the House and sent to
the White House. Senator Fess,
Republican, Ohio, introduced the
bill
Evening star., 1924-12-05
ChiIdren's Fund
Again May Sare
sold IrOnsides''
By the Associated Press.

BOSTON, December 5. The
United States frigate Constitution,
saved once by the impassioned
poem, "Old Ironsides," written by
Oliver Wendell Holmes, may de-
rive a new lease of life from
pennies contributed by the children
of the Nation. Rear Admiral de
Steigeuy, commandant of the
Boston Navy Yard, today an
nounced at a meeting of Daughters
of 1912 that it was the plan of
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur to
ask the children for pennies for
her preservation.
Evening star., 1924-12-05
SONGS IN ENGLISH
CHARM AUDIENCE
Anna Cases Fine Enuncia-
ton and Versatility of Pro-
gram Score at the National.

The cause of singing songs In Eng
lish was never better champfoned
than yesterday afternoon when Anna
Case, who net only has glorious
soprano voice but is one of the most
beautiful women on the concert stage
and all-Amerfcan," gave a recital at
the National Theater.
There are those who contend that
1t matters little whether songs are
sung in English or in a foreign
language, that the words are always
indisting guishable to the audience
Those who think so should have heard
Miss Case, for her enunciation and
pronunciation of English were excel
lent and added greatly to the enjoy
ment of an unusually we'll chosen and
interesting program. Only Elena
Gerhardt, the great 'lieder" singer,
and De Gogorza- baritone, have given
such fine Interpretation of English
numbers here this season.
Trained I'm This Country.
This American singer received all
of her training in this country. Her
open, well-rounded tones, exquisite
phrasing, nicely placed emphasis and
shading are a delight, and she has
charm of personality that grips her
audience.
Winter Watts Joy" Rachmani-
noff's 'Lilacs," Besley's Listening"
and Terry's 1.-The Answer" formed a
group of lovely songs with remark
ably fine lyrics as we'll as original
melodies. Miss Case gave three songs
in English as her encores, Spross'
familiar Robin, Robin. Sing Me a
Song; Rodendeck's ITO You," and
Farley's much heard Might Wind"
The first group of old Italian songs
showed the singers fiexiblbe colora
tura work to perfection. Especially
lovely were Stradella's 'Pieta Signor"
and Borettfs Aria Di Jole." Palla-
vicinos mon Saro Pin Gelaso" and
Grossrs Aria Di Ersillo" were others
in this group.
Meets High Demands.
Handers difficult Care Selve" and
Angels Ever Bright and Fair the
latter substituted for Mozart's "Porgi
Amor" were given with fine style.
The swift tempo and clean-cut Ger
man enunciation demanded in Bach's
Patron das Macht der Wind" were
we'll sustained. Mozart's lovely "Alle-
LULA" although sung without the high
"C'' in the finale, was one of the
brilliant bits Of the program.
Unusually delightful is Miss Cases
French, and her group of modern
songs in that language was also re-
markable for dramatic beauty. They
included Poldowski's "Pannyre aux
TaIons Dor" D'Erlangers "Chanson
Legere," Flegier's lie Beau Reve" and
Pierne's lie Moulin"
Edouard Gendron proved an excel
lent accompanist at the piano.
Evening star., 1924-12-05
Davis to Visit 'Algiers.

PARIS, December John w.
Davis, who, with Mrs. Davis, arrived
here last week, left today for the
south. They plan to visit Algiers and
French Morocco, returning to Paris
IN the middle of January.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-18
"Better Films
Catalog Issued
Lists Films Suitable
for Family Audiences

According 20 ihc newly issued
caiaioE Of tho National Committee
Tor Better Films, entitled selected
Pictures. 1885" the national
board OF review. in New York city,
which makes the selections. saw
last year out OF n total OF 1918
films submitted TO IL. soc. or Amos,
exactly one-third. which the skilled
disinierestsd committees ~ tho
board deemed suitable for listing az
worthwhile entertainment They
include ais marked az especially
suitable for the family audience and
boys and girls matinees. tho rest
being recommended simply for
either tho general audience or ma
turc audience As the board views
tho pictures In advance OF release,
these arc all new or current pro-
duciions
The motto OF tho committee !,
"Selection-Not Ccnsorship--ths SO.
luton" and the catalog is offered
ns ono means OF encouraging the
exhibition and patronage OF the
better films" Tho committee IL.
sues thruout the year monthly and
weekly lists and bulletins OF news
and critical information on the films
devoted to the same end. which are
sent TO It's associate and cooper
uting members.
Application for membership. which
Is open TO the general public. may
be made to the National Committee
for Better Films at 20 Fifth Ave.
New York city. The catalog costs
20 cents
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-18
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-18
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-18
Contest Editor
Gets Complaint
M isun d ers t a nding
Over Closing Time

Tho following letter was received
Tuesday mornlng and is printed
here in order that there may be no
further misunderstanding In the
DO You Remember" contest. The
letter was not signed.
DO you remembor--pu published In
fall ia last Fridays star, a womana
letter on tile above subject. Her.
sclf and friends remarked that sure.
~ sho would be one OF the prlke
winners. What caused them to
imagine was. Il was also stated the
contest would end Friday. at / p.
m. (which later was extended. This
may seem small thing TO you. but
the person has often tried different
contests and failed. causing her TO
surmlse that probably subscribers
only are successful, aitho Tho star
Is daily bought OF the nearby news.
boy and is fayorlto paper in her
home"
Surely the writer OF thls letter
has made some mistake. The DO
You Remember contest mas been
followed out exactly according TO
the rules, First announcement OF
the contest was made Saturday.
March s. II was stated that the
contest would close the following
Friday. at l y. m. The contest did
close Friday. March IA. az n. m.
and the winners were announced the
next day Saturday At The same
time the contest was reopencd IL
IS ON now and viii close Friday.
March 81. NJ p. m. winners will
again be announced the following
day. and 30 on until the contest Il
called orr definitely.
Also. tho contest Is open 20 every.
one. whether subscriber or not
star employees or their relatives
are no, eligible,
We hope this clears up any mis-.
understanding In regard 10 the con
test. and that ma. pa and tho kid
dies all win get IN on Il.
Among today's contributions, Elva
Patterson. OF i14 Third ave. s..
writes:
Il remember when a picture
was shown here In 1910. with Mary
Pickford and wilfred Lucas, the lat
ter as a minister. who. OF course.
foil in love with Our Mary. No
names were given on the screen,
but the faces remain fixed in ms
memory"
Remember. folks. this weeks con
test closes Friday. az n. m. Send
your letter TO the 'Do You Remem
her3' editor.