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Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-13

Petrarch was born outside of Flor
ence, Italy, as his parents were driv
en- out of the city by civil war.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-13

s,SDante ASA. boy was 'very- beapti-
fnl and precocious.
Evening star., 1924-04-30
MAY DAY FESTIVITIES
AT rs FAIRGROUNDS
Children Also Will Combine Health
Week Exercises in Games
and Dances.
SCHEDULES ARE ARRANGED
Directors Plan Appropriate Exer-
cises in Each Neighborhood

Hundreds of boys and girls Will
take part in athletic contests and
carnivals on the twenty six munici-
observance of May day and health
week
In dances and in games the chill
dren will seek to demonstrate that
the Fairgrounds are producers OF
health and vigor for the future men
and women of America.
Under the leadership of Mrs. Susie
Root Rhodes, supervisor of municipal
Fairgrounds, the directors of all tn.
recreation centerS have arranged ap-
propriate exercises to be held he
tween 4 and 6 o'clock
Schedules Arranged.
On each ground the following
schedule will be followed: From /
to 1880. boys athletic contest; 4:4O To
$50: May day festival, and 5:35 Ia
=, girls athletics and folk dances.
Here is list of the grounds on
which celebrations will be held and
the directors in charge:
Bloomingdale, Elizabeth Mahon and
olyVe BaTbee. 1St and Bryant streets
northwest: Chevy Chase. Gwynn Hell
len and Roth Coleman, 41st and I.iy-
Susie X. Hand, + street northwest be
tween 21st and 22d streets; Garfield
Louise Sullivan and Olga Iglehart.
"a and F streets southeast; George
town: Abbie Green. 33d and Volta
streets northwest; Happy Hollow
Pauline Woodruff. f. Davis and EliZ-
abeth Hart, 18th street and kalorams
road northwest; Hoover. Margarer
Harris, I'd street and Delaware ave
nue. southwest; Iowa. Avenue. Jacoue-
Nrnr
Iowa avenue between Narnum and
Webster streets northwest; Mitchell
Park, Margaret Patterson, 23d and :
streets northwest; Montrose Park.
Katharine Collins 30th and f streets
northwest; New York Avenue Marie
McAulliffe. 1st street and New York
avenue northwest: Park View, Martha
Dunham and Grace IllinSki. Warder
and Otis streets northwest; Plaza
Swanson and Ellen FouIois
I'd and E streets northeast; William
$. Phillips, Gertrude Gibson, Long
fellow, Madison, Sth and 9Th streets
Rosedale, Caroline Alex
ander and Helen Tompkins, 18th and
Kramer streets northeast; Thomson.
Clyde Borders, 18th and l. streets
Twin Oaks, Evelyn How
ard, 14th and Taylor streets north
west; Van Ness, Hilda shannon. 3d
and M streets southeast; Virginia
Avenue. Thelma Smith and Cecil
Hedgeman, Virginia avenue south
east between 9Th and 18th streets
Cardoza, Lola LIE Brant, lst and /
streets southwest; Howard, Daisy
Pierce and Glayds Thomas. 5th and
w streets northwest; Logan, Mary
Sd and G streets north
east; Payne, Goldie Robinson, 18th
and C streets southeast; Phillips,
Violet Mckinney, 9th and o streets
nor thwest, and Willow Tree, Gladys
Stokes, Sd, Az, B and C streets south
west.
Evening star., 1924-04-30
D. c. HELD FAR BEHIND
IN WATER POWER
Geological Survey Report Shows
Only Four Small Plants
Located Here.

Water power development in the
District of Columbia lags far behind
the possibilities for such development
in and around the District, it is
shown in a survey of developed and
undeveloped ater-power in the United
States, made public today by the
geological survey. Four power plants
using water to develop. power in the
District produce 666 horsepower, ac-
cording to the records of the survey.
Potential and undeveloped water
power in the District of Columbia and
Maryland available 80 per cent of the
time could produce 100000 horse
power if put to use, the survey says,
while under the same conditions,
2SS,000 horsepower would be available
SO per cent of the time.
New York state, with 1,5429S3
horsepower, is still the leading state
in developed water power, with Cali
fornia, 1,451,S30 horsepower, a close
second. Water-power development in
the New England, east north central.
west north central and mountain
states has not kept pace with that in
other parts of the country, the survey
said. There are now 5000 water
power plants of 100 horsepower or
more. having total capacity of
9.086,95S horsepower in the United
States.
Evening star., 1924-04-30
LOUIS POTTER PLAYS
OWN COMPOSITIONS
Pianist Pleases Audience With Pro.
gram of Modern and CLASH
cal Numbers.

Louis Potter, prominent among the
younger group of Washington
musicians, presented delightful
program in his piano recital in the
small ballroom of the Willard Hotel
last night.
Mr.. Potter gave Scarlattis Soma ia
in G. Minor" and Cesar Franck's s
prelude, Chorale and Fugue" in his
opening group. The work of the
early Italian was given colorful en-
phasis and smooth execution in the
skillfully woven variations which are
an outstanding characteristic of the
sonatas. NJ. Franck's lengthier and
heavier work was given with feeling
ing tones of the choral being par
ticularly we'll presented.
1t was in the second group, how
ever, that Mr.. Potter. showed to best
advantage as sympathtic interpreter
of Chopin and Liszt. The great Poles
dainty Waltz in G Flat" vivid "Etude
in A Minor" with it's crashing chords
and cIean-cut runs for the right
hand and the poetic "Fantasie in +
Minor were all given in a manner
that held the audience fascinated.
Liszt's "Ballade in G. Minor and his
Concerto in D Flat" showed much
brilliance of mood and ease of
technic.
In the third group Mr.. Potter ap-
peared as composer as we'll as per-
former. His numbers were given for
the first time in public in Washing
ton and aroused much interest. The
"Polonaise in A" was a. delightful
composition, quite Chopinesuue in
style. "The Alarm Clock" with the
illuminating subtitle, THE Bachelor
Arises" was an example of program
matte music Although written in
decidedly modern realistic style, 1t
does not contain the dissonances
found in most of the ultra-modern
music. AS encore to this group Mr..
Potter played his Folk Song" an
exquisite bit of melody, written in
the style and tempo of minuet.
The final group included Debussy's
lovely waltz, La Plus Que Lent"
and "Bourree FantasQue," by Cha
brier. Moszkowskis dashing Ca
price Espagnol'' was the last encore.
Mr.. Potter was handicapped by too
close proximity to revelry in the ad-
joining ballroom, a telephone that
persisted in ringing and an open door
that acted as d def1ector of sounds.
Evening star., 1924-04-30
UNCLE SANS PANSIES|
ADMIRED BY THRONGS
Floral Display on Department of
Agriculture Grounds Delights
Tourists and Residents.

Just a few steps from the thick of
Washington traffic, in the business
section, is a bower of restful beauty
that is attracting the attention of
thousands of persons daily.
Walk south from Pennsylvania ave
nue. on 18th street and you enter the
Department of Agriculture grounds
or walk a short distance west from
the Capitol or the Smithsonian group.
or a few steps east from the Wash
ington Monument-these three main
routes come together in front of the
administration building of the De-
partment of Agriculture.
There bursts upon the vision of the
pedestrians, or the automobilists,
more than an acre of pansies, set off
in ten large beds.
These pansies are of the finest
strain that the expert gardenrs of
Uncle Sam have been able to find
Contrary to the guess of many visitors
that they have recently been set out
from the greenhouses, these pansy
plants have been in the ground all
winter.
Biggest Floral Display.
The entire plaza in front of the
administrative building has been
given over to these pansy beds. which
will be replaced in June by beds of
crotons and other tropical plants
The scores of high school parties
and the whole tide of tourists are
drifting past these pansy beds daily
with ordinations of delight The
big sightseeing buSses stop to let
their passengers admire, for this is
the biggest floral display in Wash
ington beautiful at this season.
The garden clubs of America were
among the interested visitors this
week, and they were rendered a re-
ception on the pansy plaza by Secre
tary and Mrs. Henry c. Wallace.
Evening star., 1924-04-30
AUDIENCE ENTHUSED
AT BENEFIT CONCERT
Mrs. Lawson and Representative
Woodrum Especial Favorites
in Vocal Numbers.

A large audience responded with
enthusiasm to the numbers given at
the benefit concert under the aus
pices of the District Chapter of Ma
tional American War Mothers, at the
Willard Hotel last night.
The United States Marine Band
Orchestra, Taylor Branson, directing,
opened the program with several Sc
lections of which the most popular
seemed to be an orchestral arrange
ment of "Oh, That We Two Were
Maying." Franceska Kaspar Law
son, soprano, and Representative C.
A. Woodrum of Virginia, the BARI
tone, shared vocal honors, and gave
the Song of Love-" duet from "Blos-
som Time" as the final number.
Mrs. Lawson, well known in local
music circles, sang the aria from
Rossini's Barber of Seville" in her
usual finished style, and her two
groups of lyrics were given interest
ing Interpretation, one Of the pref
test being Carl Engle's "The Sea
Shell" She sang Songs Ny Mother
Taught Me-" as encore.
Representative Woodrum also sang
an unusually interesting cycle of
songs by E. A. Ashford. including
Moods Nights Sunset and
Dawn" and ever a Song Some
where"
The last mentioned was particu-
larly delightful. Mr.. Woodrum's reso-
nant, mellow tones were given oppor-
trnity for full power in Gounod's
Song Of Vulcan" and his encores,
Were I a Leaf ''The Pilot" "Oh,
Let Night Speak to Me" and Garry
Me Back to Old Virginny,'' were
heartily received.
Both the singers had excellent ac-
companists. Mrs. Carl Chindblom
played for MIR. Woodrum and Harry
Wheaton Howard for Mrs. Lawson.
Mary Muller Fink of Baltimore
proved a charming harpist, playing
her instrument with skill and ease.
She played Zabel's 'Iegende," Tades-
chis "Pattuglia Spagpuola," which is
heard on nearly every harp program.
and Alfred Holys Romance"
Little Isaac Miovich, leader
among Washington's child violinists,
played De Beriot's Ninth Concerto
with good tone and accurateness of
pitch. He was accompanied on the
piano by his sister. Dora Minovich.
Won Hindenburg Not Ill.
BERLIN, April 3D.-Adviees from
Hanover say that Field Marshal Won
Is in good hetaith.' There
had been rumors that he was serious
ly i'll. At Brunswick recently he spoke
at demonstration staged by the
League or Steel Helmets
Evening star., 1924-04-30
NEW FISCAL SYSTEM
FOR D. C. is FAVORED
Representative Cramton Expected
to Propose Lump Sum Pay
ment by U. S.
FUND BILL UP TOMORROW
Larger Voice in Tax Problems
Urged for Local Residents.

When the District appropriation
bill providing for the expenses of
the National Capital for the fiscal
wear beginning July 1 next comes
up in the House tomorrow for amend
ment, Representative Louis c. Cram
ton, Republican, of Michigan, who
was in charge of the bill last year,
will offer an amendment proposing
different system for federal par
ticipation with the local government
in paying the bills.
While Representative Cramton is
reluctant to announce his PROPOSE
tion in advance. it will have to do
with the plan he suggested last year
for having the national government
make fixed lump-sum appropria-
ton of some amount which will be
about equivalent to what the federal
Treasury now contributes under the
69-40 system of fiscal relations.
Others IndOrse View.
Endorsement of such a proposal
was given in speeches on the floor
yesterday by Representatives Will
liam A. Ayres. Democrat, of Kansas,
the ranking Democrat on the sub
committee that drafted the pending
appropriation bill. and Joseph j.
Mansfield of Texas, who argued at
length that the local tax rate is in
adequate.
Speeches during debate on the ap-
preparation bill reflected the growing
sentiment that the people of the Dis
trict should be given some form of
self-government and that some
scheme should be devised under
which. they would have more to say
about how their local taxes are
spent.
Johnson Hits Tax system.
Representative Ben Johnson of
Kentucky, who was chairman of the
District Legislative committee during
Democratic control and who is now
on the appropriations committee
also attacked the local system of
taxation.
General debate on the District bill
was concluded yesterday. The bill
will be taken up under the five
minute rule tomorrow, as this is
calendar Wednesday ard the time of
the House has been allocated to con-
sideration of the Rogers bill for re-
organization of the foreign service.
Drops His Amendment.
The amendment which Chairman
Davis said yesterday he would offer
to the bill providing for a compila-
tion of laws affecting the District of
Columbia will not be offered. Chair
man Davis has since learned that the
joint committee on printing is now
preparing and will soon have COM
pIeted such a compilation by author
ity in a Senate resolution.
AS the situation now stands, Chair
man Davis will have no committee
amendments to the bill, and the only
important general amendment is the
one proposed by Representative
Cramton. Represen tatiye Ayres of
Kansas, the ranking Democrat who
Yesterday advocated lump sum ap-
uropriation from the federal govern
merlt toward the expenses of the Ma
tional Capital, said today that he does
not believe such legislation ought to
ne hitched as a rider on the present
He believes that the whole question
should be seriously considered and
Evening star., 1924-04-30
PAGEANT WILL BE GIVEN
AT CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Music Department of Schools Will
Present Colorful Scene Tomor-
row and Saturday.

King Sol in Flowerland." a color
full pageant-cantata, will be pre-
sented at Central High School tomor-
row and Saturday nights by the
music department of the public
schools, under the direction of Z. y.
c. Barnes. director.
Friday night a program will be
given entirely of nigh school music,
combined choruses. orchestras and
bands bands assisted by the Teachers
mer; Midsummer Night" by Bliss.
and THE Landing of the Pilgrims"
by Coerne, will be given. All seats
are reserved and tickets may be OBJ
tanned at the schools or at the door
on the evenings of the performances.
King Sol in Flowerland" depicts
the visit of the monarch and his sis
ter, Princess Raindrop, to the people
OF Floweriand. The herald intro
duceS each flower to the king and
sponses in song and dance from the
early morning -glories to the MONDAY
sunfiowers, as well as the four winds,
wood nymphs and bees. The visit
GENES to close with a chorus of
Farewell, 0 King, Most Glorious"
About 500 grade school children, all
OF whom are monitors" in their mu-
sic classes, have been selected for the
chorus, special honor for ability and
earnest work. The solo parts will
be taken by normal, high and grade
school children, assisted by Harry
Angelica, baritone, who will sing the
part of the king.
Preceding the pageant Thursday
night, there will be a demonstration
OF work of the school classes in or
cheStral instruments, under the direc-
tion of Mrs. L. f. Ward. A quartet
by the teachers in this field of music
also will be presented.
Saturday night the pageant will be
preceded by numbers by the com
bined grade and junior high school
orchestras; by Herbert Burkart, "the
youngest pupil" assisted by small
group and a string quartet of grade
children
Evening star., 1924-04-30
VALUE OF STAR ADS
SHOWN IN CONGRESS
House Members, in Speeches, De-
clare Medium True Gauge of
Rent Conditions.
ACKNOWLEDGED IN RECORD
Supreme Court Will Recognize
Such Evidence. Blanton Says.

The value of The Washington Eve
ming Star as an advertising medium
and as a gauge of local conditions
SO reliable that it will influence a de-
cision of the United States Supreme
Court has been called to the atten-
tion of Congress. and the people of
the country generally. in speeches
on the floor of the House.
When the bill to extend the life
of the District Rent Commission was
under consideration in the House last
Tuesday, Representative Henry L.
Jost of Missouri, former mayor of
Kansas City, and now a member of
the committee which has charge of
legislation for the National Capital,
flashed on the House pages of The
Washington Star carrying some 500
For Rent" advertisements. He used
this as evidence that there was not
housing shortage, confirming the de-
cision of the Supreme Court that
from what it judicially knows the
law has ceased to operate"
Carried Free In Record.
Under leave granted to extend his
remarks on the same legislation
Representative Thomas L. Blanton,
Democrat, of Texas, inserted in the
Congressional Record For Rent" ad-
vertisements that had appeared in
The Star. Ipso facto, the advertisers
in The Star got so much more for
their money, having their advertise
ments carried free in the Congress
sional Record.
Later, in the House, Representative
Blanton emphasized that the Con.
gressional Record has a circulation OF
10000 copies. .,o,
Representative Allen T. Treadway OF
Massachusetts, gave the advertlsers III
calling the attention of his colleagues
again to these advertisements when he
said:
davis proceedings we find the gentle
man from Texas (Mr. Blanton) extend
ed his remarks to the extent OF twelve
pages, five pages of which mad peen
previously printed as committee near
ings; and then again, without Permls Pnn5
fifteen pages of advertisements taken
from the issue of The washington
Star. I maintain that that is contrary
to the use of the Record, and 1t Is an
expense of $1.042, estimated by the
government printing Office. I maintain
that that is an expenditure that the
gentleman from Texas ought not TO
inf1ict on the House
Considers 1t Good Bargain.
Right there Representative Tredsl-
way stressed what a good bargain
The Star advertisers are getting
when they pay a few cents for an
insertion in The Star. He said it
cost the. government. with it's huge
printing plant already running and
its army of employees at work, $1,042
TO reprint those few advertisements,
that were just part of usual days
run for The Star.
Representative -Blanton clinched
the argument for the value of Star
service when he showed that these
pages taken from The Star were such
a reliable evidence of the real condi-
tions here that the Supreme Court
Evening star., 1924-04-30
Special Counsel Appointed.

Henry p. Brown of Philadelphia
has been appointed special counsel
for the Department of Justice to
prosecute the governments claim
against the Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Company. The claim, which has been
brought up in the House investiga-
ton of Shipping Board affairs,
amounts to approximately 10000
and grows out of alleged overpay-
ments by the government to the ship
building concern during the latter
part of the war, and other transac-
tionS
Evening star., 1924-04-30
Coolidge Is hnrited
To attend Banquet
For DepeW May 81

President Coolidge received an
invitation today to join a group
of prominent men in honoring
Chauncey NJ. Depew at a dinner
to be given him at Briar Cliff
Manor, New York, May 81, in
recognition of his recent attain
ment of his ninetieth birthday.
The invitation was extended the
President through Cornelius A.
Pugsley. former representative
from New York. and Chauncey
Depew Steele. Mr.. Coolidge was
unable to give definite reply. but
indicated that in event of ina bility
to attend he would send a mes
sage to be read at the dinner
AcCeptanceS to invitations already
have been received from Chief
Justice Taft, Gen. Pershing and
Elihu Root.
Evening star., 1924-04-30

stead of being put on tie appropria-
tion bill.
Chairman Davis intimated III his
speech yesterday that he would not
be opposed to an amendment which
would strike out a limitation hith
erto carried in the bill-that the fund
for Anacostia park development
should be expended below the bridge.
There will probably be offered an
amendment, which will provide that
a part of the $150,000 appropriation
may be expended above the bridge,
thus establishing a precedent for
continuing the work.
1t is certain, however, that the
$150,000 carried in the bill under the
Anacostia park item will not be in
creased in the House.
IT. is very likely that individual
members of the House will offer
amendments to restore some of The
items of street improvements. There
is little doubt, also, that some Of
the school items submitted to the
budget that did not come to Congi css
also will be proposed as amendments.
Evening star., 1924-04-30
WCAP PROGRAM BEGINS
AT 7:15 O'CLOCK TONIGHT
Broadcasting Starts Half Hour
Earlier Than Schedu1ed-Healt
Talk Feature.

WCAP will start it's program at
7:15 o'clock this evening instead
7:45. as scheduled. Two features have
been added to the program. prior to
the 'broadcasting of the community
concert at the Eastern High School.
DR.. John A. Foote, president of the
American Medical Association, will
open the program at 7:15 o'clock with
a talk on Child Welfare" in connec-
tion with Health week. He will be
followed at 1880 by a talk on trans
continental motor highways by a
representative Of the Civil Service
Commission.
Evening star., 1924-04-30
FIRE FIGHTERS EXHIBIT.
Blazing Oil Quickly Extinguished
Yesterday in Baltimore.

Commissioner Oyster, Fire Chief
Watson and Maj. Sullivan went to
Baltimore yesterday afternoon and
witnessed a demonstration in which
the firemen of that city extinguished a
tank of $500 gallons of blazing oil
in a fraction more than nine minutes
The department was trying out a
new piece of apparatus designed for
fighting oil fires Instead of using
water, which is Ineffective against OIL
the engine throws out a stream of
chemicals, creating 4 blanket of huge
bubbles over the burning surface and
smothering the fire.
Evening star., 1924-04-30
Cut in Milk Price
Of Cent a Quart
Due Tomorrow

The retail price of milk will
take a drop from 15 to IA cents a
quart in Washington tomorrow.
inquiry among the larger dealers
today disclosed.
This follows a cut of cents a
gallon in the wholesale price paid
by the dealers to the farmers of
Maryland and Virginia.
The new price probably will re-
main in effect until fall.
Evening star., 1924-04-30
MAI. COOK TRIAL LEGAL.

Maj. Gen. w. A. Bethel, judge ad-
vocate general of the Army, compIet-
ing the final review of the proceed
ings of the general court-martial
which convicted Maj. George w. Cook,
Medical Corps, former commandant of
the hospital at Fort Eustis, Va, of a
charge of neglect in the treatment Of
Private Guy Pendleton, has found the
proceedings of the court legal and
regular, closing the case.
Mai. Cook was convicted of having
failed in proper supervision of the
treatment of the soldier, who lost
both legs following a traffic accident,
and was sentenced to be reprimanded
and to lose twenty-five numbers in
his grade. Maj. Cook is now on duty
at the arsenal at Elgewood, Md.
Evening star., 1924-04-30
CHURCHMEN ELECT.
Edward A. Hartman Chosen Pres
ident OF League.

Edward A. Hartman was elected
president of the Churchmen's League
at the annual meeting of the league
in the Cosmos Club last night.
Other officers elected were: George
A. King, vice president; William H.
Church, secretary, and DR.. Charles
Diedel, treasurer. Additional mem
bers of the executive committee
elected were: Rev. George w. Atkin-
son. c. F. Abbott, II. V. Q. Lounsbury
and George b. Selden.
Pictures of Zion National Park
were shown the league by c. F.
Blanchard, who was a special guest.
Another guest was J. y. Stephen of
England.
1t was decided at the meeting TO
give a dinner in honor of Bishop
Freeman some time next fall.
Evening star., 1924-04-30

will pay more attention to those
advertisements of property for rent
on the issue of emergency than,to any
part of the debate on the bill when
they come to construe the language
of the bill and the debate thereon"
Representative Blanton paid further
tribute to The Star. when he said:
THAT is as important a matter as
is ever seen in the Record
Evening star., 1924-04-30

Motion, picture films if properly
sealed will last $4,000 years, it is
C, aimed.
Mental disease increases as physi-
cal disease decreases, and there is
proportionately more mental disease
in cities than in the rural districts. a
New York hospital statistician has
found.
Evening star., 1924-04-30

BERLIN, April 3D.-Adviees from
Hanover say that Field Marshal won
Hindenburg is in good hetaith. There
had been rumors that he was serious
ly ill. At Brunswick recently he spoke
at demonstration staged by the
League OF Steel Helmets.