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Evening star., 1924-09-23
DISTRICTS SCHOOL PROBLEM
Inadequate Facilities for Education of Youth Re-
proach to the National Capital.
BY JAMES E. CHINN

duced at Business several years ago
when the student body passed the
buildings classroom facilities.
The alumni association Of Business
for some years has conducted an in
tensive and concerted campaign for
a new and larger building for the
school. The Board Of Education rec
ognlZed this urgent need and has
for several years included items in
the school estimates for an appro-
priation to begin the construction of
new school. only to have them
stricken out either by the Bureau OF
the Budget or Congress. The school
budget for the next fiscal year. it
is understood, carries an item for
the preparation of plans for the new
building which it is proposed to erect
on the Government owned site al
Fourteenth and Upshur streets near
the Macfarland Junior High School
This item has yet to be approved by
the Budget Bureau and Congress.
Both OF Washington's colored SEN
ior high trong and Dun
bar-started the new school year
with student bodies considerably
larger than last year Armstrong,
with 1,225 pupils. an increase of 100
over last year. and Dunbar with 1000
have been forced to continue the
emergency relief measures instituted
several years ago.
Armstrong, the most seriously con-
Bested OF the two. is using II port
able buildings. which form colony
in the rear of Dunbar, three blocks
away from the school Armstrong
has seats for 565 pupils, and its en-
rollment has passed the 1900 mark
n
Dunbar today has an enrolment of
1000. 1t is not using portables. like
Armstrong, to meet the congested
situation, but has adopted as a tenn
porary expedient the staggered hour
plan. Ofictals at Dunbar have fought
vigorously against the dual shift
system which it may be forced to
adopt If additional accommodations
are not soon forthcoming.
Armstrong; deplorable overcrowd-
ed condition will be relieved with the
completion of its new addition, now
under construction. Work on the
addition was started last January
1t was expected to be ready for oc-
cupancy at the beginning OF the sec
ond semester on February |, next
year. A deeper foundation than orig
inally planned had TO he dug and the
completion of the sorely needed an
mex may be delayed until next Sep
tember
Dunbar's only hope for relief at
the present time is dependant on the
construction of the proposed new
building for the Mckinley Manual
Training School. The plans of school
officials call for the transfer of the
Shaw Junior High School into the
present Mckinley building, leaving
the old NJ Street High School build
ing, now occupied by Shaw, available
for the commercial department of
Dunbar. 1t will be three years and
perhaps longer before this shift can
be made
Evening star., 1924-09-23
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

Q. When the Prince of Wales
lunched with the President, what was
the order of service?-A. NJ
a. The head steward of the White
House says that the procedure Of
service was as follows: President
Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge. the Prince Of
Wales.
Q. When were base ball players
first paid for their services?-C. w. T.
A Cincinnati was the first city to
organize a team of salaried base ball
players, in 1869, during which year
they did not lose a single game.
Q. What is the Milk and Honey"
Express?-E. II. M
a. This is the popular name given
TO a through train between Cairo and
Jerusalem
q. Who was the youngest officer in
the United States Army?-S. w s.
A. Secretary OF War Stanton be
slowed a commission as lieutenant
upon Thaddeus (Tad) Lincoln when
young Lincoln was 8 years of age
toad of East North America live?-
II. l. ID.
A. Under favorable conditions toads
will live approximately 80 years.
Q. Why do some soaps float while
others sinks. w. F.
A.-The soaps that float are those
in which air has been dissolved dur
ing the manufacturing process
Q. How did Sing Sing prison get
its name?-N @. p
A. Sing Sing was derived from the
name Ossining, the village in which
the prison is located. The name comes
from the Indian and means stony
place"
Q. How many words does the aver
age person have at his command
Q. NJ II.
A The vocabulary of the average
educated person seldom exceeds $500
words
Q. Why did the Indians wear
masks at ceremonies?-S s. X
A According to the Bureau Of
American Ethnology, tribes Of In
dians throughout North America wore
masks at religious festivals and at
some social gatherings. Sometimes
the priests alone were mask ed
though in other cases the entire com
pany would appear in masks The
false faces generally represented su-
pci SLi al Ine pl6Sf form
OF mask was one prepared from the
head Of buffalo. deer, or some other
animal. The mask stood, not for the
actual animal, but for the type of
animal and its supe rna tural charac-
teristics, and the person wearing it
was for the time being endowed with
the distinctive quality of the animal.
@ What is "midshipmen's butter?
II. o. H
A In the days Of sailing vessels
this name was given to the edible
portion or pulp Of the alligator pear.
or avocado, because the pulp is soft
and somewhat like butter.
Q. What makes a thermos bottle
heat and cold proof?-J r
A A thermos bottle is a double
walled receptacle. The air in the
space between the walls is complete
ly exhausted and the walls are sill
Vered like a mirror so as to reflect
radiation. This guards against the
access of heat or cold from without.
Q. Please give a recipe for date
sticks.
A Beat three eggs thoroughly. add
one cup of sugar. one cup OF flour
that contains one teaspoonful or
vanilla one cupfuI of broken nut
meats and one cupful dates which
have been cut in small pieces Bake
Evening star., 1924-09-23
ARTICLE v.

With it's actual classroom space
considerably less than last year,
Western High School reopened for
the new term confronted with the
greatest congestion in its history.
Although the enrolment approx
mates the same as that of the 1928
1924 scholastic year. despite a gain
OF $50 freshmen, the reduction in
classroom space portends a serious
situation until the new addition is
completed.
In erecting the addition to West
ern. now under way, the chemical
labora tory and several classrooms
were put out of use as well as one
half OF the assembly hall and an
equal portion of the lunchroom. Tenn
porary corridors also were cut
through the classrooms, reducing
their size materially and at the same
time intensifying the overcrowded ID
condition.
The contract for the construction
or the addition called for it's COM
pletion by March l, 1925. School Of
ficials, however, do not believe that
the work will be finished at that
time, and Western may not have the
use Of it's increased facilities before
the l925-l926 school term, which be-
BlHS next september
The annex will provide Western
with % additional classrooms. an as
Scmbly hall, gymnasiums and | ad =
dittonal biographical and physics lab :
oratori,S.
Western has been operating for a
number of years on a double shift
system in order to accommodate it's
ever growing student body, with a
consequent curtailment in its edu-
catlonal program. The same plan
will be followed until the addition is
ready for occupancy. The morning
shifts report at $50 and are dismiss
ed at 1880 o'clock. The afternoon
shifts attend school from / to 4:30
o'clock
Tho normal seating capacity at
Western is 724. The present enroll
ment is approximately 1.l00. If the
new addition could be occupied to-
day. every classroom would be filed
to capacity. The entire school. of
course, would go back on the tradi-
tioral hVe-hour program.
Y
Business High School also opened
the new school year facing virtually
the same conditions as last year-an
enrolment about 400 greater than its
accomm odations. There are 962 seats
in the building with 1900 pupils
clamoring for them.
Two hundred and twenty-six fresh
man pupils have been enrolled in
addition to about so who were pro-
NOTED in June from the ninth grade
of the junior high schools. The
new students, however. did not in
crease the enrolment over last
years peak. as virtually the same
number were graduated from Busi-
ness in June
Business. like Western, is running
on the two-shift system in order to
accommodate its excess enrolment
This emergency measure was intro
Evening star., 1924-09-23
Discusses Accidents.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Bditor Of The Star:
your editorial of Wednesday on
Roller Skates" written in connec-
ton with the death of 1O-year-old
homer Burch in front of the Y. M.
Z. A on Tuesday, suggests the elimi-
nation of skates, bicycles and wag-
ons as measure of safety to chill
dren- You suggest likewise a greater
degree of care for both children and
aduits In going from sidewalks into
streets.
The dangerous playthings NAV he
withdrawn from children, and preach
mentS may induce more care in adults.
but no flats, however solemn. and no
campaigns of safety will ever change
the instructive tendency of children
to dart into the street If we retain
our modern motor cars in our cities,
organized as they are, we do so with
our eyes open to an inevitable toll
OF the life of playing children. To
every parent there must always be
present the possibility that his child
may be the next. The most carefully
sheltered child will be victim as
we'll as the little Arab Death will
overtake the agile as well as the
awkward. The little Burch boy was
bright resourceful little fellow,
just returned from the Y, NJ C. A.
ooyS' camp at South River
One might dream of a drastic re-
organization of city life which would
reduce danger to children to a. mini
mum, but the dream can hardly come
to pass. Business and residential
zones might be strictly marked of
one from another, children being alb
solutely excluded from coming afoot
into the former and vehicular traffic
closely limited to the latter. Houses
in the residential sections might face
on large open areas not traversed by
vehicles, vehicular passages existin p
In the back, fenced on either side
like some of the street car tracks in
st. Louis. The childish instinct of
play could then vent itself in the
space free from traffic.
Esthetically we are approx imating
a parallel in those rules which for
bid business in residential sections.
But the practical obstacles in the
way of similar segregation of chill
dren from traffic are well nigh in
superable. 1t means the abandon
ment of that lucrative business of
renting old residences which sur
vive in business districts. 1t means
that parents cannot take their chill
dren afoot to the shops. Many other
practical difficulties suggest them
ical arrangement it is impossible
to see how we can avoid the shocks
that such an incident as that Of Tues
day brings.
CHARLES ". nnEx.
Evening star., 1924-09-23
October 4 at Washington.

The world series will open at
Washington on October 4-unIeSs
something happens which Washing
tonians hope will not happen. The
monument of the 1st Division of
the American Army in France will
be dedicated October 4. The stadium
of the Catholic University. planned
to seat $4,000 persons. will be dedi-
Gated on October 4 by the foot ball
teams Of the Marine Corps and the
Catholic University. The prospect is
that October will be a day long to
be remembered.
If the world series opens in
Washington October and a
WaShingtonian writes the word if
through a sense of caution but with
confidence that il is superfluous-
Washington will be crowded. 1t
might be safe to say that it will be
crowded as it has been sometimes at
an Inauguration. Games Of a world
series are a mighty attraction and
somewhat of an unusual attraction at
Washington. The reunion Of the
1st Division will call a large crowd
to Washington, and the parade as an
accompaniment of the monument
dedication will be a brilliant martial
affair. The program first adopted was
that the parade will be in the after
noon Of October 4. The committee of
the reunion has decided that "in order
not to interfere with interest in the
| world series games the parade will be
held in the morning and the dedica-
tion exercises completed by noon"
The committee believes that part Of
the world series will be played here.
In the dedication OF the Catholic
University Stadium, which is a cere-
mony of outstanding importance in
the college and university athletic
world, the foot ball game between the
Marine Corps and Catholic University
teams was to be fought in the after
noon. The understanding is that the
schedule has bene arranged and that
the game will be played at time
which will permit everybody who can
get in the Griffith Stadium to attend
the opening game of the world series
at Washington.
The Washington and Lee and the
University Of Maryland foot ball
game, which was to be played in
Central High School Stadium on
October 4, will be played October 5. so
that it will not interfere with, or be
interfered with, by the opening Of the
world series. The indications are that
we are moving toward mighty events,
and that large part OF the American
population will be in Washington on
October 4, and that all who cannot
come to Washington will be at the
radio and around score boards attend
ing on the news from the Capital.
Evening star., 1924-09-23
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHIIANDER JOHNSON.
Shopping.

Shopping.
Oh, Gentle Salesman in the store.
Forgive my furry!
I haven't many minutes more;
So, prithee, hurry.
The sign near which my flivver stands
Reads Park One Hour" And its
commands
Have left no leisure on my hands.
So, prithee, hurry,
Please do not pause to smooth your
hair,
For 1 should worry.
Don't greet me with a baby stare,
But, prithee, hurry!
The money which with you 1 drop
Is nothing, if too long 1 stop,
Compared to that grabbed by the cop
So, prithee, hurry.
Evening star., 1924-09-23

IN thin sheets or buttcred pans in
not oven Cut in strips while warm
and roll in powdered sugar
Q. Will the corn borer live on ap,-
other food than corn?-K. f. l..
A. This pest, which was brought TO
this country from central Europe or
Asia, seems to be able to subsist
| upon all herbaoeous plants and mas
| already been recorded as feeding
upon no less than 167 kinds OF plants
in this country.
Q. What was the horn book--M. v
A. This is an elementary school
book in use in England down to the
time OF George H. 1t consisted of
a single leaf on which was written
the alphabet in large and small let
ters. the Roman numerals and the
Lords prayer.
Q. At what period was the Roman
| Empire at it's height?
A The rule Of Trojan. 90 to III
| A. d., marked the height OF the
Roman Empire. The rule following.
that of Hadrian. was memorable for
It's peacefulness and for the fact that
IT was the most splendid era OF
Roman architecture
| Q. Can pumpkins be kept without
canning?-D. l.. T.
| A. Pumpkins may be kept fresh
| until Spring if fully ripe when gath
cred, If the storage place IS dry, cool
and protected from frost The beer
| method is to place them in shelves
seeing that they do not touch each
other. Occasionally wipe them OF:
with a dry cloth.
! q. Has il ever been contcndcd tina.
! Darwin did not originate the theorv
/ Of evolution that bears his name
! G D. )
| A Darwin originated the natural
| selection theory OF evolution, 50 far
! as he himself was concerned but il
! is curious fact that by an extraor-
| dinary coincidence Alfred Russel
Wallace formulated the same theory
| at the very same time Of its utter
ance by Darwin. Both men published
articles presenting this theory in the
same number OF the Journal OF the
Linnaean Society in 1858.
| Q. Who was the professor of
things-in- general in the University
Know Not W here?"-A v n
A. Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" has
| such Character-Herr Teufulsdrockh
| tMr. Devils Dirt.
Q. How did Esperanto get ITS
| name?-- G. H.
| \. Esperanto received its name
from the Russian physician, pr
Zamenhof He first published Il
treatise on the subject in 1887. sIgn-
ing il Or. Esperanto, meaning
| hopeful"
.. Is there more hardwood grown
annually than softwoOd r h
A The annual growth Of hard
woods is 1886 million cubic feet as
compared with 2,s03 million cubic feet
of softwoods.
Q.-Some one said that taxicabs
had heavy taxes TO pay. Is that cor
rectHT s
a. Taxicabs have about Il Federal.
State and local levies to pay in many
communities.
(The Star snt5tcs its readers to nsr
thts Information ser11ce freely An er-
tenStre organisation is maintained 10
serre you iH G7ly capacity thai rcLdtcs to
Information. FGlire to lLSr the service
dep71DeS you OF benefits TO phtch pou
are entitled. Your obligation Is orly a
tro-cent stamp. tnCFOSed ruth yo1Ir 81
qtAtry for direct reply address The StGr
Information Bureau. Frederic J. Hlsktn
Director, Ttoenty-Ji JirSt and Z streets
nOT1hlCest.)
Evening star., 1924-09-23
Unbelievable Votes.

Senator La Toilette is having the
same difficulty in collecting on the
mass Endorsement of the Won Steuben
Society of America as he has had in
cashing in on the Endorsement Of the
American Federation of Labor. 1t is
one thing for nonpOlitical organi-
ZatIon to indOrae a candidate and an
other thing TO deliver the goods. For
some time it has been evident that the
vote Of ratification of the La Toilette
party and ticket cast at the Atlantic
Cly federation meeting did not result
In a wholesale support by organized
labor. Many Of the constituent bodies
have repudiated the Endorsement, leav-
ing their members free-as all the
members are free anyway-to vote as
they please and great numbers of the
members have expressed themselves
as not feeling bound to follow the die
tation or suggestion of Mr.. Gompers
in this matter
Just so with the Won Steuben So
ciety of America. which is the new
name of the old German American AS
sociation of antebellum times. This
society, through its representatives
and delegates. strongly indOrsed La
Toilette and Wheeler and the third
party platform. and ever since that ac-
ton members Of it have been evidenc-
ing their dissent in protest and an
nouncements of contrary view and
purposes.
The Won Steuben Society is COM
posed of Americans of German birth
or descent. The fact that they are,
through this society, indorsing Mr. La
Toilette is challenging the hostile in
terest of those who feel that Mr.. La
Follette's attitude during the war was
lot correct from a strictly patriotic
point of view. that he unduly favored
Germany both before and after the
United States entered the conflict
One of the declarations of the La Fol
lette platform favors IAN active for
eign policy to bring about a revision
of the Versailles treaty in accordance
with the terms of the armistice." Just
whatever that means must be left to
the ina ginatiOn. II is difficult to see
how the United States could take the
field actively to force the rewriting of
the Versailles treaty without repudi-
eting the participation of this country
In the Paris peace conference and en-
dangering our friendly relations with
the governments Of Europe. There are
many German-Americans, to use the
hyphenated title which went out of
fashion in 1917, who DO not hold with
the demand for a revision Of the Yer
sailles treaty. There are many. too.
who do not denounce the Dawes plan
which the Won Steuben Society and
the La Toilette candidacy condemn.
There are many Americans Of Ger
man descent who favor at least the
American loan feature Of the Dawes
plan, which Mr.. La Toilette has been
careful thus far not to denounce
openly.
The La Toilette policy, with respect
10 German affairs. is that, in effect, of
the Nationalist or Monarchical party
Of Germany. A great many. probably
the majority, of Americans of German
descent are, so far as they are con-
cerned in or with German politics, dis
tfnctly hostile to the Nationalist party
at Berlin. Hence the refusal of a
large portion of the membership in
the Won Steuben Society to obey the
direction to cast their votes for La
Toilette and thus help to precipitate
political chaos in this country.
Evening star., 1924-09-23

Americans take their golf. their
base ball and their pugilism with
great seeming seriousness. The ear
nest interest is a part of the game.
But they have demonstrated many
times that the enthusiasms of sport
in no way likely to prevent getting
down to business with more important
problems.
Evening star., 1924-09-23

japanese diplomatists sagely assert
that human antagonisms are largely
due to misunderstanding arising from
differences in language. The Chinese,
according to this theory, may be con.
sidered as suffering from multi.
plicity of difficult dialects.
Evening star., 1924-09-23

Sports are fascinating to the Aneri-
can public. They permit differences
Of opinion which involve no rancorous
dispute on matters ethical or moral
relieving the critical sense without
creating intellectual antagonisns. A
sporting event once decided is decided
for keeps, and there is no thought of
a referendum.
Evening star., 1924-09-23

The regular parties would doubtless
be grateful to the La Toilette boosters
if they would refrain from cheering
when Democrats and Republicans pro-
ceed in the orderly and accepted man.
ner to remind each other of alleged
delinQuencies.
Evening star., 1924-09-23

No phaSe OF the presidential cam
paign has shown partisan lines in
editorial comment more sharply drawn
than in the discussion of John w
Davis Omaha speech. Newspapers
favoring the Democratic ticket say
Mr.. Davis presented a definite pro-
gram to meet the needs of the Ameri-
can farmer. The Republican view is
that the speech gave the farmer only
empty promises in hopeless effort
to get votes in the agricultural
States
Typical of the favorable express
sions is the comment of the Portland
Oregon Journal. which speaks of the
wide difference between the pledges
of Mr.. Dawes and those of Mr.. Davis
to the farmers of the nation, and
adds: The talk of appointment of a
commission is admission that the ad-
ministration does not know what is
the matter with agriculture, in spite
of nearly four years in office. on the
other hand, Mr.. Davis has a program
He pledges a reduction of the tariff
He proposes reduction in freight
rates on farm products. He pledges
reduction in taxes and stimulation
of the cooperative marketing move
ment. both intended to reduce cost
of operation to farmers. And above
all. he pledges a revision of American
foreign policy in order to open the
markets in Europe to American farm
ers.' To some this will seem a good
and satisfactory program: to others
it may not, suggests the Omaha
World Herald independently, but
anyhow. it is a program. 1t if def
mite and frank. The voter is not ask
ed to buy a pig in a sack. On the other
hand. pig in sack is all that Gen.
Dawes offers in behalf Of his party
Another pig in sack, rather, for
several others, in the form of pre-
vious commission have been pur-
chased and found to be only scrawny
runts. The farmer, and all the rest
of us who are partners of the farmer,
will do well to think it over"
While conceding that not all of Mr.
Davis suggestions will be easy to act
upon, the New York Times Gndepend-
ent Democratic) is convinced that "he
shows that he has the root of the
matter in him when he contends that
the great need of the American
farmer is. first of all. to get rid of
a tariff which is only a burden to
him, whether it be or not a benefit to
anybody else, and then to secure a
market for his wares that is national
and international rather than re-
g1OnA or lOC<il-here Is something d1-
rect and constructive" The Pitts
burgh Sun independent Democratic)
contends that "he went to the heart
of the Nations problems in his inva-
sion of the West when he declared
that the need is for 'blocless' gov
ernment-"
The New York Evening World Gin
dependent Democratic) declares that
no one even among the agricultur-
lists has presented a more graphic
description of the tragedy of the
farmer or shown a more sympathetic
comprehension of it's meaning than
John w. Davis in his Omaha speech"
In fact, the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch
independent Democratic) declares
"at one fell swoop Mr.. Davis takes
the wind out of the sails of La Fol-
lette and puts the Coolidge
ticket on the defensive by calling for
the reasons for the delay in doing
something for the farmer in the last
three and a half years. when the Re-
publican party was in power at the
White House and at both ends of the
Capitol"
Evening star., 1924-09-23

1t might be interesting for psyche
analysts to look Castor Means over
and try to decide just what type of
"dream" he is trying to realize.