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Evening star., 1924-03-26

tuition in Sh0rt-Story Writing, Buslness Ad-
mnstration Modern Literature, Business
Finance, Secretarial Studies, English, Express
sion, Foreign Trade. Economics, Sociology,
Languages, etc. 20 jackson Place. Main $40.
Evening star., 1924-03-26
AMENDMENT BALkS
PROMOTIONS, CHARGE
Wittner Complains to Lehlbach on
Madden Proviso for Appro-
priation Bills.
SEES ADVANCES HALvED
Average Salary Limit Imposed
Subject Of Attack.

Chance for promotion in the civil
service here is killed by the Madden
amendment to the various apropria-
tion bills, according to a letter
TO Chairman Lehlbach of the House
civil service committee from Loren
II. Wittner, chairman of the depart
mental classification protest commit
tee.
The amendment disregards indi-
yidual efficiency IF the employe is
forced below the average compensa-
ton in any grade under the CLASH
hcation act" Mr.. Wittner told Mr.
Lehlbach. He explained the protested
amendment as follows:
TT provides that in eXpending an
preparations for the payment for
services in the District of Columbia
during the fiscal year, 1925. in ac-
cordance with the classification act
of 1928. the average of the salaries
of the total number of persons under
any grade or class thereof. in any
bureau. office or other appropriate
unit, snail not at any time exceed
the average of the compensation rates
specified for the grade"
Sees Promotions IIaIved.
The amendment. Mr.. Wittner con-
tinued, limits the promotional range
allowed by the act An employe is
prevented from promotion as long
as one-half of the employees are re-
ceiving more than the average COM
pensation. he said.
"Effcinecy means nothing under the
Madden amendment" Mr. Wittner de-
clared. Under the classification act a
uniform system of efficiency ratings is
20 be established which sha!! set forth
The degree of efficiency which shall con-
Stitute the ground for any increase. con-
tlnuance at the same compensation, a
decrease and dismissal.
THE classification act was ignored by
the personnel classification board when
the present salary was used as a basis
for ALLEGATIONS. and now the classifica-
ton act is further nullified when the
efficiency of the individual employe
works for naught if the employe hap
pens, through low pay, to fall in the
lower bracket created by the Madden
amendment"
Evening star., 1924-03-26
POLICEMAN is FREED
OF fNT0xICATION CHARGE
Declared to Have Driven Auto
While Drunk-Fined $25 for.
Speeding.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va, March ga
warrant charging J. w. Musselman
Washington policeman. with operat-
ing an automobile while drunk, was
dismissed yesterday when the case was
heard before Judge Frederick G
Duvall. Musselman was fined $25 and
costs for speeding.
Testimony introduced by Alexan-
dria officers was to the effect that
the Washington policeman had been
drinking. Defense testimony, how
ever, raised doubt which Judge
Duvall considered sufficient for dis
miSsal in view Of the seriousness OF
the charge. MuSselman declared
that he had not had a drink all day
The arrest was made Sunday fol-
lowing a chase which lasted more
than eight squares through the
busiest section of the city.
Evening star., 1924-03-26
THOMAS CIRCLE FOLK
DISCUSS CITY HEADS
Citizens Association Passes Resolu.
tion for Public Hearings on
Nominations.

The Thomas Circle Citizens Asso-
citation last night unanimously adopt
ed resolution calling upon the Sen
ate District committee to hold public
hearings on the nominations of Dis
trict Commissioners Rudolph and
oyster.
"A great many citizens are op-
posed to the appointment of these
commissioners, especially Mr.. Ru
dolph,' declared DR.. Starr Parsons,
president of the association. The COM
mittee, he contended, should afford
opportunity to all classes of citizens
to present their views regarding the
Commissioners, in public hearings,
not executive sessions.
The association also adopted a res
olutior by Edward n. Parker re-
Questing President Coolidge not to
reappoint Judge Katheryn NJ. Sellers
to be Judge of the Juvenile Court, but
instead to name man, upon the eX-
piration of her term in June.
4 resolution was adopted APPROX
ing the principle, that charities
boards here should be consolidated.
and that the controlling board should
be elected by members of the citi-
8ens' associations of the District.
Frank G.. Foster was elected to men,
bership in the association. There were
nine members present.
Evening star., 1924-03-26
T0DAY's ADJUSTMENTS.

NATIONAL-"The Magic Ring" at
$50 pm. Matinee, 2:20 pm.
POLpS-'Trene," at $50 pm.
BELASCO-'The Rivers End" at
$50 pm. Matinee 2:20.
KEITH's-Nance O'Neill and Frank
Crumit, vaudeville, at 2:15 and Sis
pm.
COSMOS-Clem Bray's Maryland
Jazzers. vaudeville and pictures, con-
tinuous show from / to IL pm.
sTRAND-Arkansaw Valentines,
vaudeville and pictures. at 2:45, $3.50
and $40 pm.
GAYETY-Jimmy Cooper Revue,
burleaue, at els and S:15 pm
RIALTO-"Daughter of Today"
at 1880 am, 1928, 2:20, AIS. $50,
7:40. 9:40 pm.
METROPOLITAN "GaIloping
Fish" at 11:10 am, 12:4o. 2:25, AGO,
$50, $40 pm.
COLUMBIA-"A Society Scandal"
11:2o am, lis. 3:25. $50, 1880; 9:4o
pm.
PALACE-"The Fighting Coward"
at 1885 am, 1920, 2, 4, $50. 7:45,
.11d1I .1A1MRAssADoR-Agnes ass Ayes in
pm.
CENTRAI-"The Old Fool at
di;SS aiS a;m.' 1;a5. s:s5. 5:s5, 7:a5 and
CRANDALI'S-Tho Meighan, in
pied Piper Malone" at II am, 1880,
z. 5:50. .. 6:30, $3.50 pm.
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SUED FOR $50, 900.
Worker Claims Damages for In
juries in Accident.

William Pooh. 1714 A street south
east, has filed suit to recover $4,000
damages for alleged personal injuries
against the George A. Fuller Com
pany, the Otis Elevator Company, the
Kraft Murphy Company and the w.
G.. Cornell Company While employed
in the erection of a building at 18th
street and Pennsylvania avenue June 3,
1921, the plaintiff says his leg was
crushed when he was caught between an
elevator and hte floor of the building.
He is represented by Attorney VIII
liam j Crane.
Suit to recover $4,000 damages has
been filed by Eleanor Sexton against
the Rose Coal Company for alleged
personal injuries. She was riding In
an automobile which was in collision
with a truck of the company at !th
and B streets southwest, Decemoer
% last. and sustained serious injury,
she states. Attorneys Burns, Leeman
and Dean appear for the plaintiff:
Evening star., 1924-03-26
SEES BUILDING BOOM.
Hoover Expects Business as Good
as Last Spring.

Regarded as the balance wheel in
the industrial and commercial situa-
tion, construction contracts for build
ing this spring doubtless will be as
large as they were last spring, Sec
retary Hoover declared today. The
Commerce Secretary takes a favora-
BILE view regarding the trend of busi-
ness conditions, pointing out that
construction contracts have not slack
'ened to a material degree and may be
expected to pick up with the advent
of warm weather.
Mr.. Hoover regards employment
and business contracts as the indexes
of the trend of business in the nation,
and looks favora bly, on the future of
commerce and industry for this year
in the light of his information on
these two matters. There is some un-
employment in coal mining, he said,
because high-cost mines are shutting
down
Evening star., 1924-03-26
Many Auto Tourists,
Bound Home From South
Stop of at ID. c. Camp

Pending the selection of a new
site for a camping place for tour
ing automobile parties passing
through the District, the old camp
on East Potomac Park will be
continued in use. At present the
tide of such travel Is mainly from
Florida and other points south.
and will continue heavy for some
weeks. Thirty-five touring par
ties which spent the winter in the
south camped at East Potomac
Park Sunday on their way home.
Evening star., 1924-03-26
PROFITABLE LEISURE

4 great cOnl Sc OF pOnu-
lar lectures on Scientific
PHYSIOLOGY will he
given by President L. W.
Rapecr, Phi. D., of Re
search University, every
Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, at T:3o. from
March 81 TO June 20; also
n siX-week course. New
college term starts next
week with unusually valu-
able courses at nominal
Evening star., 1924-03-26
ARBITERS ARE CHOSEN.
William Knowles Cooper to Repre-.
sent Public.

William Knowles Cooper an official
of the Y. NJ. c. A. has been decided
upon as the public'S representative on
the board of arbitration to settle the
wage question between the Capital Trac-
tion Company and it's trainmen.
Representative Tague of Massachusetts,
is the unions spokesman. and the COM
panys choice is Stanton c. PeelIe a
lawyer.
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WHAT 1T MEANS

mo SOME citizens may of little Importance that the
progressive Republicans in the Senate finally joined with
the Democrats elect Ellison D. Smith Democrat chairman
of the important Interstate Commerce Committee
But of progressive of mind the country over
it should this n4aehS atheist
FIRST 1t wrecked the plans of little hierarchy fee
Die and eaconary old running the p which has been
preventing passage any legislation except their particular
brand
SECOND. 1t that Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin
who entitled the Craftsmanship by all the rules of seniority
has been cheated of because seniority takes second place
when bumps against special interests of the G. o. P At all
other times seniority rules from high.
THIRD La Toilette doesn't care personally
concerned La Toilette didn't politics for honorS He
IN it for the business of accomplishing reforms If the
party which he has adhered all these stabs him in the
back toward the end of his long him,
long he accomplish his work But it will the
party
FOURTH Things like honor matter lot to Old Man Cum
Minis of Iowa. who sent to Washington ago
gressve Old Man Cummns wanted be both chairman of the
Interstate Commerce Committee and president of the Senate He
and the of the old guard Toilette from the post
his. Now both have lost it.
FIFTH The Democrats who with La Toilette aid,
troll the committee have promised in their campaign talk
peal Infamous guarantee clause act
badly they managed high freight rates
had be boosted do it. 1t the Democrats
and the country whether their talk real
That's what this breaking of the deadlock in the
Commerce Committee of the United States Senate
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WHY EDIT ORYAN's REPORTq

"V7E ARE determined to get to the bottom of this
wv ter Senator Reed of Pennsylvania chairman of the spe
United States committee investigate the
declared last After several weeks of public
hearings revelations of astounding character involving highly
placed Republicans friends of the Administration
light
Rather abruptly the hearings brought close The
explanation made that sufficient irregularities had already
been found to be used basis for report the Senate.
Now weeks later, given for still further ques
ton of the committee sincerity.
General John F. Organ, the committee counsel and
tany wenfomed the subject of the veterans bureau
any committee prepared report
ngs Publication of this report aroused the of Senator Reed
that before the
his fellow Senators withhold their judgment until they
ceived report which had been edited by the committee
Is that getting the very bottom of the matter7
Why edit Organs reportR Let's have the truth,
how bitter may be-
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Desert DisillusiOn
BY BERTON BRALEY

(Wanda Hawley, the movie star,
says that the real sheik of the desert
is usually seventy and black
oh ladies who seek for a peek at a
sheik,
Who lives his life rudely and
rawly,
A Bedouin grand in the land of the
sand,
Consider the words of Miss Haw-
ley.
"a sheik," she reports, 'Ts a geek
who's antique,
And black as a heavy cigarro.
A patriarch dark who, as you may re-
mark,
Is not like young Ramon Navarro"
How sad is the shock to the feminine
flock
To find that the sheik in his glory.
OF whom writer's tell is a-well. lust
sell,
And only exists in a story.
The deep wrinkles streak the bleak
cheek of the sheik,
Who isn't a bold young deceiver.
But old as the hills. Why. he kills all
the thrills,
This antediluvian beaver.
So ladies who yearn and who burn to
discern
A sheik who's a torried bambino,
Don't roam DER the foam but remain
here at home
And worship Rodolf Valentino.
You shrek for a sheik who is sleek.
young, unique?
You seek, very likely, to share a
Romance with a sheik? See the films
once week,
But don't go away to Sahara!
Copyright 1924, NEA Service, nc.)
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THE "KING" GOES TO PRISON

MOTHER king has been crushed This George RemuS
~ lawyer, of dlleries in Indiana and socalled
king of the Bootleggers"
Remus who conducted part of his illegal business in the
Hooser State has been living in Cincinnati He is
change his residence shortly Atlanta Ga where he will
be prisoner in the United States penitentary for two
The king has just lost long fight against the law. Su
Court has denied him rehearng He convicted of
violating the prohibition law
Remus whose game to buy distieres and then
whisky truck to grief when Indiana
hbion officers raed his business to Death Valley Farm
place in Ohio few miles the State line
When the king gets his desserts awabidng folk have
faith the theory that the prohibition law aimed at the
high well the owy Remus has been rated millionaire
How much of his wealth went his lawyers his fight keep
out of prison is question But money won't save him
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Animal Facts

Banana tree" grows as high as
forty feet and its trunk may reach a
diameter of two feet, all in season
from the roots, yet there is no wood
in it. The whole plant consists of
nothing but leaves-the trunk Of
tightly wrapped leaves-and after the
fruit is ripened it is cut down and
soon rots.
Where a big birN flies low you can
hear the flap of Ste wings. But not
the owls. That's because his wing
feathers are edged with down. He's
a total surprise when he lands on a
rats back with claws that are pointed
like needles.
The sHippy fish of the Samoan is
lands, with big pop eyes and mug
on him like a bulldog, lives out of
water at low tide and climbs bushes
in search of insects that have no hook
attached to them Manages this feat
by reason OF strong muscles at bases
or n1H
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power. And the earth receives only
about one two-billtonth of the total
energy radiated by the sun.
Theory Abandoned
It was first thought the suns
heat was due to combustion like an
ordinary fire. But mathematical
astronomers have shown that If the
whole sun was composed of pure
coal it would burn itself out at the
present rate in a little over 5000
years. And we have rearon for be-
neving that the sun has already
been shining for more than 1O0,-
900 900 years.
A second theory was that the
fires Of the sun were replenished
by meteors falling into the sun.
This theory. however. has been
abandoned as improbable.
A third theory, and one which
undoubtedly accounts correctly for
much Of the suns heat, was first
advanced by the scientist. Helm
holtz
According to this theory, the sun
is contracting under the gravita-
tional attraction OF the sun upon it's
own material This pulling Of the
outer layers of the sun down upon
the inner one would exert a pres.
sure OF millions of tons upon the
central portions Of the sun. This
tremendous pressure is thought TO
develop the heat OF the sun.
Astronomers have calculated that
II this were the only source of the
suns heat, the sun would contract
to half it's present size in 1000 600
more years and that it's heat would
give out in 10000 900 years.
When radtum was discovered the
theory was advanced that there
might be radioactive substances in
the sun which contributed to the
heat OF the sun. This is likely.
though not yet definitely proven.
Electron Theory
The newest theory advanced By
such men as Prof. w. D. Har-
kns Of the University Of Chicago.
Is bound UP In the eleotron theory
or matter.
Harkins and others believe that all
the known elements upon the earth
were built up originally out Of atoms
OF the gas known as helium and that
these atoms previously were formed
through a combination Of atoms of
hydrogen. Harkins has shown
automatically that tremendous en-
ergy would be liberated II hydrogen
gas was converted into helium gas.
1t is now believed that this action
may be going on in the sun due to
the tremendous pressures which are
exerted upon the gases in the sun,
and that this accounts for the en-
ergy Of the sun.
Next: The Solar System
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Box Award
o the Editor of The Times

To the Editor Of The Times
The Box Peace Award to be voted
on now in and through the press is
not fair or honest.
Why did the advertised big commit
tee OF nine real and good judges re-
sign?
Why is the name of the winner
withheld after the straw vote? Why
are not all the peace clubs and So
cieties Of experts, and live wire. wide.
awake workers for world peace al
lowed to discuss this award before the
vote? Who really appointed the com
mittee of set-up judges?
Is 1t not strange that out of the
thousands of plans not point was
accepted in or from any of them as
was, according to the promised plan,
to be awarded $4,000 each?
Can anything be more evident and
plain of all masquerades than this
being nothing but an old guard.
standpat, Rrejudiced and concocted
award?
ALVIN NJ. THREEWITTS,
CenterVille, Ind
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Khan Critic

To the Editor Of The Times
wish to answer the two Klansmen
who seem to be offended by my re
cent article in The Times.
In answer to -. r. I. of Madison
Rd.," who states the only time they"
were radical was in 1918 against
the Hum. too, was in the service,
as also were two of my brothers. We
can show the scars and gas burns
received in defending our America,
and we happened to have noticed
that there also were many Catholics,
Jews and negroes who CALAMITY
fought for America; also many for
eign-born Americans.
AS to the one who signs as James
r. Young of 532 Virginia Ave" his
hot-headed manner in answering my
former article is typical and also ex-
emplary of Khan radicalism. He is
to be pitied. G. D. H.
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The moment he touched her tooth,
she began to squirm and scream to
beat the saxophone. The painless
dentist waxed wrothy. Impressively
and angrily he said:
What's all this fuss about? Don't
you know I am painless dentist?
Didn't you see my advertisement out
side2'
'''I done know an 1 done see dat
'tisement all t1ght.' replied nanny.
an you may Sc painless all right.
honey. but ali isn't
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Tongue Tips

Mrs. Mabel Raef Putnam. Wisconsin
chairman National Woman's Party.
"Chivalry or equality? My sex speaks
for equality and let somebody who
needs it take the chivaIry. Wiscon.
sin is the only feminine free State.
We have won our fight. We are no
longer inferior to men. We can GO
legal surety on a husbands note. we
have contract rights, property rights
and control of our children. Rest of
all. every woman in Wisconsin knows
she cannot be Disseminated against
And that knowledge, believe me. is
better than all the chivalry in the
world"
Secretary Davis, Labor Department:
Il like the old-fashioned preacher
whose sermon comes from his heart
and SOU as well as from his mind.
His is no coldly statistical religion,
charted by mental engineers and an
alyzed by theological chemists.'
Clyde Reed, chairman Kansas Pub
lie Utilities Commission: 1.-THE farmer.
by virtue of his occupation, Is an in.
dividualist. He does not organize
easily except in a local sense. We
hear much Of cooperation and farm
marketing and there Is held out the
thought that, perhaps, by some scheme
Of cooperation the price Of the prin-
cipal farm staples might be affected.
Personally, I doubt very much the
probability of such result desirable
as 1t may be in the present emer-
geucys's s,..sssg.ps., ;ssss@s
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MISSIONARIES, SACRIFICE

HER lives periled by Chinese bandits Christian
sionaries of Indianapolis the Batang valley may
have to pay the price for their devotion ideal
In these days of highly complex civilization variety
creeds and dogmas almost becoud underlying
the simple devotion of the God becomes
ing by contrast.
The martyrs sacrifice their lives to their souls
The missionaries have Indirectly made their sacrifice
spirit They however, would the
Christian faith.
If they die, the College of Missions here will
with righteous honor those who modern civilization
willing to sacrifice martyrs of old.
HAPPY Leap Year to those who have any for it.
THERE talk of forming glee club among Congressman
Good idea. It viii help them to pass the time away
AMONG other things captured by the insurgents and
eralists in Mexico is the front page
BRYAN he has candidate for the presidency
Bryan third party or just of the very old
WE ARE handicapped somewhat because much abi
ty is employed in breaking than in making the laws.
THOSE Mexcans crud of spurse We long proved
hs shooting way Office effective more pain
suf than doing little jndcous lying here and there
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What Editors
Are Saying
7 hanks
(south Bend News-Times)

South Bend News T1nnes)
1t is now announced that Senator
Watson will not be a candidate for the
Republican nomination In this State.
but will use whatever influence he
may have to promote the Coolidge
campaign.
The decision of the Senator not to
offer his name in this State ought to
bring him a vote of thanks.
1t means that politics will be a
little more honest than they would
have been had Watson been merely
a bunco man to mislead the voters.
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Heard in the Smoking Room

m lHE train side-tracked at a small
station. Across the street from
- the depot a flaming sign an
pounced the ministrations of pain
less dentist. The smoker with d
long cigarette-holder smiled as he
puffed. THAT sign reminds me Of one
% those fellows down in our town.
Ire talked and advertised the pain
lessness of his operations every day
in every way. He attracted the at
tertion of an old colored woman who
had a bad tooth. She went to him
for relief by the painless >methode
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General secre-
tary Of the Y. w.
c. A. world com
mittee is her Of
fetal position. Her
headquarters are
in London. but
she's rarely there
for any length Of
time.
Miss Spencer
was one OF the
pioneers in asso-
citation work in
foreign countries.
She was one OF
three women to
gain admission TO
Russia during the
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Violence

lebanon Daily Reporter)
Williamson County, Illinois, should
either come into the United States or
take itself off to Russia, where it's
present program of violence would fit
in appropriately without mussing up
the national scenery.
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Lens Querv

To the Editor Of The Times
Dozens of autoists pleaded guilty to
using bright headlights in the city
says an article in your paper.
Several month"; ago every autoist
was ordered to chance the lens on his
car. Now l see where dozens of auto
lists have pleaded guilty to using bright
lights 1 thought those lenses were
to take care of that. Tell me. Mr..
Editor. who profited on the lens?
sassa.I ~ slsesta.ezse JUST A READER.
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Different

Iogansport Pharos-Tribune)
Here is the way it looks from the
steering wheel A slowpoke is any
one whose car we can pass; a speed
maniac is any one who succeeds in
passing us.
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- UNUSUAL PEOPLE -
Y.W.C.A.WOrld
Traveller

BIZ NEA Serptce
All EW YORK, Jan. 13.-Sixteen
mi years of travelling for the Y.
. w. c. A. is Miss Clarissa Spen-
GERS record. Her home Is the world,
for she doesn't know where she may
be tomorrow.