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Evening star., 1924-12-10
NEW PAY SYSTEM
FOR i. S. IS LIKELY
McCarI Sees Change Depend
ent on Decision in Navy
Officers Suit.

Controller General McCarI, in his
annual report to Congress, made pub
lie last night, declared court decision
in favor of group of Navy officers
who are attempting TO prevent de-
aductions from their pay checks for
sums alleged to be due the Govern
nent would proba bly, make necessary
an entirely different system of pay
ment of Government employees.
Much of the difficulty of his office
Mr.. McCar1 said, was due to the "un-
husinesslike methods" in various ex-
ecutive agencies of the Government
which he said involved such lack of
personal responsibility as not to in
sure observance of the law with re-
spect to the uses of public funds
He also criticized "the advancing of
public funds to approximately 5000
inadequately bonded disbursing Off
GERS for payment of obligations ad-
ministratively incurred"
The report was addressed to the
PRESIDENT pro tempore Of the Senate,
since the office occupies a position OF
independence under the statute au-
thorizing it's operation.
U. S. Officials Scored.
Mr.. McCarl insisted that the stat
utes clearly contemplate" submis-
sion by heads of departments to the
accounting office of all doubtful ques-
tions as to availability of appropri-
,ated funds for proposed use, and de-
"lared the failure of Government Of
ficials to live up to this spirit had led
to much confusion when the transac-
tions had to be disallowed after the
damage had been accomplished"
Administrative opposition to his
rulings, he said, has been encouraged
by "obsolute statutes intended for a
particular beneficial purpose, but now
advanced as authority for conduct
never intended by the enactment, and
second, certain unfortunate advisory
opinions of administrative officers
used as reason or excuse to justify
evasions of proper accounting requir-
nents."
There are evidences, however, that
this is subsiding," he added "as dur.
ing the fiscal year there has appear
ed in some quarters an evident pur.
pose to cooperate"
The report showed settlement il
the last year of $4,000 claims involv'
ing $50,107, 900. More than 9,77:
claims were pending at the date of re-
port.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
Forgotten Craze
Bars Development
By Realty Group
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, December 10.-A
lone gravestone. hidden by tangled
weeds; the withered stems of
flowers, circled loosely by twists
of wire, red with the rust of years
Beneath these, in an abandoned
family burial plot behind the
Brookside Inn, at Pompton Lakes,
n. j., the bones of nine-year-
Susan Hoffman Ludlum have lain
&c years. Fourteen years ago the
Ludlun1s moved away, arranging
for their dead TO be taken ceme-
teries.
But Susan was left. Her father,
William Ludlum, was dead. Her
divorced mother could not be
found. Legal authorization was
lacking for removal of the body.
SO it was forgotten in the shadow
of the Ludlum. mansion, now an
inn.
A company. headed by State Sen
ator Hirshfeld. is seeking rela-
tives of the child so 1t can obtain
permission to move the body and
go on with its real estate de-
velopment.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
HIGHWAY SAFETY
CONFERENCE TOPIC
National Gathering Here
Monday to Devise Plan for
Minimizing Street PeriIs.

The program which will be the guide
of the national conference on street and
highway safety conference, which will
open next Monday at the Chamber of
commerce of the United States at the
call OF Secretary Hoover is being pre-
pared now and will point the way. it
Is hoped, to a great reduction in the
Toll OF lives and property taken in
traffic accidents throughout the Ma
ton.
Topics of Committee Reports.
The conference will have before it,
In addition to the agenda now in course
or preparation, eight reports from as
many committees dealing with definite
traffic findings and the recommends
tions for dealing with it, compiled
by groups of men who have made ex-
tensive studies of the subject and
have approached it from an angle ca
pable of applying their findings to
every community and municipa lity
which has a traffic problem.
With these definite conclusions be-
fore it, the conference, which will in
clude the police chiefs and traffic
heads of a great number of cities
Will Immediately get down to dis
cussion, instead of appointing COM
mittees to draw up reports and
custom in previous conferences
Eliminates Duplication.
This method. according to spokes-
men for Secretary Hoover, will elimi-
nate much duplication of effort in the
organization of the meeting and will
permit it to get down to work with
out delay and protracted discussion
OF subjects not germane to accident
prevention. Mr.. Hoover will open the
meeting himself and hopes to preside
at most of the sessions.
The committees which have already
reported and the conference itself
will make no attempt to find a cure
for the traffic problems of particular
communities, but will confine them.
selves to recommendation of general
features of traffic control capable OF
application to any community within
| a certain population group.
Secretary Hoover has taken a great
interest in the preliminary work ot
the conference and will place the re.
sources of his organization at the
call of the conference.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
FORCED AGREEMENT
CALLEDPEACE MOVE
Sir Esme Howard Sees
Adoption of General Protocol
as Necessary Requisite.
By the Associa ted Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 10.-Great
Britain may have to go further than
the United States in cooperating
with other European nations to pro-
duce state of confidence leading up
to disarmament and peace, Sir sEsme
Howard, the British Ambassador, told
members of the English Speaking &
Union of the United States last night.
This must not be construed, he as
serted. as implying a possibility of a
clash between America and England,
which the other nations of the world
must really learn to consider-as
we already do consder-as the one
thing we will neither admit nor en-
dure."
Every European power, Sir Esme
said, would be glad/to reduce expend-
ituFes on armaments If only a sense
of security could be established. This
could be done, he believed, by the
adoption of the Geneva protocol. Com
pulsory arbitration, he asserted, was
the only way to establish sense of
security.
The aim of the United States and
Great Britain, the Ambassador con-
tinued, was to promote peace and not
to establish an Anglo-Saxon domina-
tion of the world.
Coolidge Sends Greeting.
President Coolidge sent a message
asking to be numbered among those
who will pay their tribute to the
Ambassador and the great country
he represents."-
1.-The aim of your organization to
promote those sentiments of good
will and cooperation between this
country and your own is deserving
of all support" the President wrote.
Secretary Hughes sent a message,
which said. in part:
Il deeply regret that l am unable
to join you this evening in the greet
ing to Sir Esme Howard, the British
Ambassador.
I'VE are happy in the thought that
the chief value of our diplomatic in
tercourse is realized in the cultiva-
tion of friendships and we recognize
Evening star., 1924-12-10
PUTS BUFFALO ON MENU.
National Park Director to Serve
Rare Meat at Meal.

Memories Of the days when the plains
of the West were covered with herds of
hson will be brought back to the guests
at dinner to be given at the New Will
lard Hotel December II by Stephen T.
Mather, director of the National Park
Service who will entertain in honor Of
Horace NJ. Albright, superintendent Of
Yellowstone National Park.
Included among the guests will be
Senators Kendrick of Wyoming, Oddie
OF Nevada and Representative Louis C..
Cramton of Michigan. There will also
he present number of newspaper men
who accompanied President Harding on
his trip to Yellowstone Park when the
President was en- route to Alaska.
: Buffalo meat will be the piece de re-
sistance of the dinner, from one of the
herd in Yellowstone Park. This will be
the first time in the memory Of employees
nf the hotel that such meat has ever
been served at the New Willard.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
WaUe
Forces Change In
Clothing Styles
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 1o.-The
crossword puzzle is not only tying
the populace up into mental knots,
but it is playing hob with the
plans of fashion designers.
Mill stylers, who prepare fabric
designs we'll ahead of the con-
sumer season, were all set for a
plain" color season next Spring,
but the puzzles have switched the
demand to checks of all sizes.
Shepherd checks and plaids will
be featured in the sport Spring
wear bigger than ever, says the
manager of large manufac-
turer's women's dress goods de-
partment.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
Surg. Gen. ireland to Speak.

Surg. Gen. Merritt w. Ireland
of the United States Army will ad-
dress members of the District of Co
lumbia Medical Society tonight, his
subject being the coming convention
of the American Congress on Internal
Medicine. Papers of interest to mem
bers of the society will be presented
by Drs. W. Fl. Hough, Dunlop o. PEN
hallow and NJ I. Bierman,
Evening star., 1924-12-10
Asks His Name Be Changed.

Carl Frederick Stein today asked
the District Supreme Court to change
his name to Stone, which is the Eng
lish translation. Stein says he was
born in this country, October 81. 1901,
and his family has resided here for
get away from the foreign sound of
his name, he states. He is repre-
sented by Attorney George A. Pre-
vost.
Evening star., 1924-12-10

in Sir Esme Howard one who Is an
expert in that art.
1T is not too much to say that the
hopes of a world which should enjoy
the opportunities created by the
advancement of science without the
waste and destruction of war
find an essential condition of their
fulfiliment in the strengthening of tho
bonds of friendship between the peo-
Piles represented In your gathering
this evening
Evening star., 1924-12-10

Seventeen denominati tions were rep
resented at the recent convention in
Chicago of the Association of Women
Preachers.
Evening star., 1924-12-10

When men admire a great tree
without wanting to convert it into
lumber, romance will come back.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-04
The Washington Team Must
Have Square Umpiring
By BILL PRICE.

The Washington baseball team is fighting Clean manly
game battle win the pennant Of the American League
That pennan should go to the team possessing the merits
and courage to conquer Nothing else WILL saEsy patrons
of the national game.
In the heat Of close battle with preuces and passions
rising high the Washington team and back OF it the whole
city Of Washington wishes advantages and seeks no
favor For the good Of the they desire the pennant
10 60 to the team clearly entitled to it..
There serious charges however that at least umpire
In the league is exhibiting prejudice toward the local team
and failing to give impartial chance There is feeling
between that umpire and players the Washington team
arising Of minor incidents which cooheaded just umpire
should forget.
The situation is one which President Ban Johnson Of the
American League should not overlook for minute It is
which he should give his personal attention turn
70 close to him on whose advice and Judgment
he has faith.
The unfolding Of umpires necessity where is apparent
That they eveheaded fair men, who know that being
uman they make Mistakes but try hard to make as few
possible.
It is the duty Of the President of the American League
houg to absolutely know that every umpire possesses these
Ind Of the petty preudice that may pre-
who permits happenings of previous games rane in his
makeup and possibly influence him, is entitled to be the
foer OF games Of much consequence those be played
IN the nsxt few weeks
The good will Of The American public is essential to the
OF the national game The patrons of sports are square,
Wnen Sogy swayed by home pride feeling they
~ [ue INSIST upon fairness under all circumstances.
PRESIDENT johnson should lose no time in keeping in close
WIN tne mental altitude Of the umpire whose fairness is
Nnaenged not going to be sufficient for Mr. johnson to
sna OH a. Long diStancs and uphold the parte state
ents OF nus employee He should be the lob himself wide
awake to the importance Of the remaining games
In the meantime, our team should go climbing obvious
go tne alleged hostile attitude Of the umpire in question Little
TO be gained by clubbing whether pitched hall snls
e plate Or runner is safe base It will be best tn
That the atocats Of the diamond mean well and ara
doing their duty they it there further indications
on partay the facts will become known and the Washino
on public should then unanimously demand their prompt
cessation. FAP'
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way of earning their three squares per- &c. although they
felt exactly you feel about glazed eyes, flushed faces
dry lips etc. they married their lords and masters and
proceeded to live quite unhappily after
But things have changed Marriage longer the only
job open 10 Bessie gets her pay check regularly
Bill And having gotten it she proceeds to make expert
ments with it, just Bill has been making experiments with
his since the first job started And why not9 Hadn't Bill
been acting cute and smart his experiments for thousands
Of years. Hadn't he been pulling the lofty with her be-
she didn't "know the ways Of the wordH He had
So that she has the opportunity Bessie proceeds to in
vestgate all these hitherto masculine amusements
In this investigation Bessie animated by exactly the same
impulses which animated Bill in all the generations which
have passed She is exactly curious She just rest
less Doubtless that statement irrates and shocks you
John. You've pretended for long that linen were diff
ferent from women"that experienced desires and
temptations that felt There's just as great
proportion Of paprka in Besses mortal clay there in
Bills
So there you are and you have brought on your
selves refuse pay the ladies' way for they can
pay their own Then what you do9 YOU CAN CUT OUT
SOWING WILD OATS YOURSELF JOHN. That's the
answer want quiet conservative wives you have to
settle down to queness and conservatism in husbands
Otherwise, you're outta luck.
Incl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-04
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Whole Wheat Bread


campaign for bread made of the whole grain Of the
wheat is not only rampant in America but in Europe
The efforts Of miers please the eye by whitening
with its perfect color have resulted in taking away from the
flour those elements of tho grain which necessary for
the sustenance of the human body.
book recently published in England holds that cancer
which is increasingly prevalent in civilization is due to
devazed food that the best for this mysterious
and horrible disease the preventative influence Of whole
wheat whole meal bread Doctors yet agreed upon
that which the germ Of DUE but is the general
impression that be due to manutron of Sort
least that malnutrtion furnishes it favorable soil
which to work.
Another terrible disease is that of poisoning such
circles that blood poisoning only attacks those whose
vitality is weakened by under nourshment and that tho
continuous of the products OF devazed products is
favorable to blood poisoning.
Whatever conclusion may reach to the influences
which favoraby these diseases cannot be
beneficial to the We have considerable instances
recently of attempts to popuarize whole wheat flour ana
the products Of the Wheat the natural food or
the human body and probably people live the
products of wheat than other one thing except
those Of rice.
It established that devtazed RICE polished rce brings
the disease known berberi.
It is also we'll known that the disease OF pelagra is
caused by the eating of food products made OF devzed
flour.
what nourishes the human body is among the sec
rets IF that mysterious science known organic chemistry
but there considerable grounds for believing that the
Of whole wheat flour the Of the whole gram IN
way is beneficial and that the of devltazed tou
or flour made white in the endeavor to make it pretty
responsible for diseases of than one kind.
In the interest of good health therefore, the OF whole
wheat flour should be encouraged.
Copyright Mcclure Newspaper
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-04
Thinking Is Hard Work
Cigarettes Prove It.

Lucy CASTOR Page who devoted life to warfare against
was buried the other day Her last request was
don't send any flowers Use the money to fight the
sdgarette evil"
MISS Page was not the first to prove that when you fight
the stream Of human inclination is like swimming
against the Niagara river just above the waterfall
AS Miss Page ends her in the cemetery the Government
an increase in cigarette smoking Of II per cent
tor the st SIX months OF this year. compared with
ear And the companies that sell cigarettes show profits
Arom 10 to II per cent higher than they were.
No man ever became great merely by smoking cigarettes
ON the other hand the human being has been thinking on
small scale for only fifty thousand years so and hasn cot
used to it. and must find something that will stop thnn~
occasionally Tobacco is the least harmful relief Alcohol
n9 drugs also stop thinking in too harmful fashion
The average man thinking like dog walking on his hind
70 test your mental any subject and see if
can Keep your thought that subject as much as
three minutes by the watch Not in hundred can do
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facts They home Late get very little Sleep and the
following morning rush to work. and excited falling
all themselves If careful study made in the morn
ing the in the train will notice the CLASSY
stare in their the flushed faces the dry lips the deep
breathing they couldn't get enough airs the general
nervous, uneasy manner.
When they arrive at their places of employment they try
to put good front and then look everyone to see if
they've noticed anything strange When sudden question
asked they hesitate their minds dull and they
can't think quickly.
These girls do not take the seriously with whom
they have wild parties but look to who quiet
and conservative for life parnersn other words soft
who have bank roll, whom they depend upon
These girls from respectable families and they are
not really bad girls only restless But after found them
out we lost all respect for them Don't you think
justifiedG ''JOHN AND HIS PALS.''
That's sad situation, John-very very sad. But where
do you gel your evident bunch that it's new condonH For
countless generations other Worthy Young People have been
similarly disappointed and disilusoned They too had high
ideals which fouted by the objects Of their choice
they too viewed with DISGUST the results Of dissipation
Yep their suferings and reactions identical with yours
and your pals John The only difference between you and
Copyright BY Kin
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-04

NE of the most interesting
places in Paris is the Insti-
" tute of Papyrology, where
they unfold the covers Of num-
mics thousands of years old, to
discover ancient writings on the
papyrus paper that was pasted
and glued layer upon layer to
make the decorated breastplates
and masks, with which the num-
mics of all great and rich Egyp.
tians were decorated after being
wrapped for the sarcophagus.
If we had a similar custom OF
interment our funeral directors
and embalmers would, no doubt,
make use of old newspapers, and
Of the leaves Of law books, and
dead novels, to form our Itinerary
plastrons and masks-to the great
edification of the psychologists
and tomb openers Of far future
centuries. The ancient Egyptian
undertakers found that old papyri,
that is manuscripts written on
papyrus, served that purpose as
admirably as if made for no
other, and thus, Internationally,
they filled the graves Of Egypt
with historical documents which
were to prove Of inestimable value
to the students Of a later age.
Kings Decree.
Sometimes it Is a kings decree
that has outlived by many long
centuries the generations to whose
ears 1t was as the word Of god;
surviving because fragments Of
the papyrus on which 1t was writ
ten were worked up into the
gorgeously decorated mask or
plastron buried on his mummy or
on that Of some great officer of
his court. Sometimes it is a liter
airy work Of a quality which still
gives it value. Thus fragments of
q papyrus edition of Homer's
Odyssey" were discovered en-
bedded in the plastron of a num-
my inferred at Favcum 225 years
before the Christian era.
The work Of unfolding these
fragments, disengaging them from
one another and from the vari-
Gus thicknesses Of the stiffened
fabric into which they were
worked up, and then flattening
them out, matching them together
and finally reading the characters
with which they are covered, de-
mands great skill, patience and
special knowledge.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-04

Imagine what you would do
with a similar plaque composed
of layers Of fragments of old
newspapers and letters, firmly
glued and pressed together. COW
cred on the outer surface with
a deposit of lime and then with
a mass Of painted figures and
symbols, the whole having lain
for two or three thousands years
on the breast or the face OF the
dead in an Egyptian tomb!
The papyrus is a true paper,
made from strips of the pith OF
the papyrus plant, doubled,
pressed and pasted with fine
flour boiled in vinegar water;
then beaten with wooden hammers
and glued a second time. and
finally sun dried. The writing
upon it was done with ink. The
sheets of papyrus consisted OF
rolls from eight to ten Inches
wide and nearly fifty feet long.
Such a roll was called, in Latin,
'volumen," whence volume"
Soak Manuscripts.
In order to free the fragments
Of papyrus manuscripts that have
been used for funeral masks
and breastplates. it is necessary
first to soak the whole in warm
water; then it is sprayed with
acetic acid which slowly dis.
solves the superficial layer or
lime and the gluey paste holding
the layers together.
Piece by piece, with the utmost
care, the layers are separated
and cleand off with acidulatd
water. They are already more or
less torn and fragmentary, and
even the most skillful unrolling
is attended with occasional rend-
ing.
When all have been separated
and dried on plotting paper, they
are matched together, 30 far as
possible, and then put under a
magnifying glass for decipher.
ment. Two men work together at
this --one concentrating light
upon the pieces Of manuscript by
means Of a concave mirror; the
other, with his lens, carefully
studying the faded letters and
figures on the illuminated areas.
These are ''papyrologists''; there
is a profession Of ''papyTology."
1t is one of the lamps in the
modern temple of learning. and
men devote their lives to It.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-04
Stop the Nonsense
What Is the Use Of Embassies

The Turkish Government remains in Angora It annovs the
British who think that Consannople should be the Turkish
seat OF government Now the British suggest nations
that they have only MINISTERS instead of Ambassadors in
ConstannOpl thus saving great deal of money The idea
IA this case to persuade the Turks to make Consantnope
Che government headquarters.
Why wouldn't it be good idea to abolish the nonsense and
numnery Of embassies EVERYWHERE With radio and cable
service the ambassador only expensive messenger boy
ne usually sent from the United States to reward him for
campaign contributions or to give his wife chance to meet
the king and queen. A-O''
What's the use Of spending so much money on that?
Great Britain with LABOR government might well set
good example by cutting out that expensive nonsense This
country which has high FINANCIAL government can hard
II be expected to make the start.