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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-05
RIGHT To.
TAKE GIFT FOR
LIBRARY
4
Putnam Backs Mrs. E. s.
cooIidge's Donation in Plea
to Congress

Permission Of Congress for the
librarian Of the Library Of Congress
to accept donation of 1000 from
Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, of
Pittsfield. Mass, for the construc-
ton Of an auditorium in connection
with the Library, is requested in
a communication sent to Congress
yesterday.
Mrs. Coolidge, in making the offer,
specified that the auditorium should
be used for the performance Of
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MIL"
DOCTORS HIT
BY COURT
Branded as "CuiIty Of Cross
est Fraud appeals From
Convictions Dismissed

NEW HAVEN. Conn, Dec. 5.-A
final faint echo Of the st. Louis
and Kansas City medical diploma
mills, broken up year ago, was
heard here yesterday when Judge
Avery, in superior court, dismissed
appeals of five Bridgeport men
whose licenses to practice as
eclectic school doctors had been sus-
pended by the State board Of health
as a direct result of the diploma
mill exposures.
Judge Avery. finding, called the
petitioners guilty of the grossest
fraud in presenting themselves at
all as qualified to practice medi-
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chamber music, and that it should
operate In conjunction with the
music division Of the library. Mrs.
Coolidge has previously made do
nations to the Library
In his communication to Congress
Librarian Herbert Putnam declared
there is pressing need for such
an auditorium. Space FOR the pro-
posed building Is available in the
northwest courtyard of the Library,
adjacent to the music division, and
fora hall seating about 600 persons,
he stated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-05
Burglars Eat Typist's
Candy, But Miss
$500 in Cash

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-Two
burglars ate a stenographer's
box of candy and each stole q.
suit Of clothes, but overlooked
a safe containing $500 in cash,
according to reports made to the,
Newark police by the Stewart
Clothing Corporation on Mar
ket street.
Investigation showed that the
burglars had climbed a fire es-
cape and removed a plane of
glass to effect entry.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-05
Smiths Talk Written
On Deaf Woman's
Back

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.--Cath-
crime McGirr, blind and deaf,
''heard" Governor Smith make
an address through her back.
Catherine has been trained since
early childhood to interpret
words written by finger point
either on her back, arm or cheek.
When Governor Smith attend
ed the annual sale of the New
York State Commission for the
Blind, one Of the attendants
write the words on GATHERINGS
back as the governor uttered
them.
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cine" and declared the schools
where they obtained their diplomas
''were not in any sense of the word
medical colleges, but simply SO
many mills for issuance of medical
degrees to unqualified persons"
He also declared that the diplo-
mas could never have been secured
except by fraud anad collision"
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Woman Fined for Gossip

UWENsBORo. KY. Dec. 5.-First
ytlFA ye owensboro's anti-gossipl
I6M Nffss Maude Basham. paid al
$40 fine for saying 1.-THE police were
$3.50 with the bootleggers."
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Before you buy securities from
anyone be sure they are as good as
your dollars.
The Washington times., 1924-07-04

palm leaf fan and sniffeth
susoiciously at every ballot.
There Is the delegate who de.
voteth himself to the comfort OF
his wife and the delegate who de-
voteth himself to other mems
wives.
There is the delegate who goeth
sightseeing" dutifully between SEES.
sions, and ''doeth" the museum and
the zoo properly-and the village
cut-up, who enliveneth the sessions
with his merriment and pranks.
There is the delegate who spend.
eth his days upon the golf links
and regardeth the convention ais a
holIday-and the delegate who sit.
teth continuously in his chair and
regardeth the convention as "busi.
ness"
Yea. verify, my daughter, human
nature is the same the wide world
over; and even in great con-
vention, there are fifty.seven va
rieties Of men, and ninety-and-nin
varieties of politicians.
But all the women are ONE
woman--and that one fresh as the
North Star in her devotion to duty.
Selah,
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Sidel Ugh is Of the.
Convention

NEW YORK. Jnly>4. The con-
vention has reached the wise
crack stage. Everybody IL clever,
or trying to be.
One illustrious newspaperman,
who writes solid and serious
things, but who knows he has al
ways meant to be a humorist. has
sent for his winter underwear.
He imagines It will get right chilly
about the milhonth ballot.
never want to smell a hot
dwag again! This plaintive re-
frain is frequently heard in the
environs Of the convention news
paper club, where the delicate
aroma of grilled ''wienies'' delights
the nostrils.
But doggies for lunch every day
Tor ten days has not ruined the
appetite of William Jennings
Bryan. Bin was downstairs at the
frankfurter stand today. He ate
two hot ones without roll or
mustard. He just held them in q.
paper cup and grabbed 'em by
their tails. Bill likes them raw.
The most attractive woman at
the Democratic convention is Mrs.
! Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife
Of the Republican leader in the
House Of Representatives.
Somebody suggested that q fair
The Washington times., 1924-07-04
BASEBALL I ANS
WILL JUDGE
COMEDY
Camp Meade citizen-SoIdier
VIII Mimic Nick Here
Ruth Gives Balls

Washingtonians present at tomor.
rows double-header between the
Griffmen and Yankees will witness
the finals of a comedy contest fea-
turing Uncle Nick Altrock, Babe
Ruth, both writer's extraordinary Of
The Times sporting department
staff, and ten fortunate members of
the Camp Meade citizens military
The program! which win be
staged between the two ball games,
is being arranged by this newspaper
as its bit toward encouraging tho
idea of summer encampments for
Americas young men.
The Christy Walsh Syndicate OF
New York, which handles Ruth's
and Altrock's newspaper features.
and the War Department are CO.
operating, of course. Washington's
baseball fans viii be asked tomor-
row to be judges in the stunts
which will begin at Camp Meade in
the morning and wind up within
the baseball grounds here lust after
the. first game is over.
Tomorrow moaning Babe Ruth
and Uncle Nick Altrock will be
whizzed over to Camp Meade in a
big War Department automobile.
where Babe will autograph two
dozen baseballs, official American
League baseballs at that. and hat
them out to members of this sum.
mer's citizens camp.
Then Nick Altrock with GO
through various of his and Al
Schacht's comedy stunts IN the
Camp Meade diamond and invite
the boys there to initiate him.
The ten who give the best repre-
sentation of Altrock's stuff viii
be brought to Washington to
reproduce it here for the pubic of
Washington tomorrow afternoon
between the games. To hte one
who draws the greatest amount
Of applause, The Washington Times
and A. q. Spaulding Brothers. win
give $25 dollars worth Of athletic
equipment which the winner NAV
choose at his leisure from the
Washington branch OF Spaldings.
While at Camp Meade tomorrow.
Babe Ruth will leave an auto.
graphed bat, one Of his regular
stock Of clubs. to be awarded ia
the best batter developed during
this summers encampment.
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N. Y. EDUCATOR SPEAKS At
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD

Lincoln was pictured as embody-
ing an inspiration to higher educa.
ton for the results he obtained from
his meager advantages, by Frank
Pierpont Graves, State commissioner
of New York, in an address today to
the educators who made the Pilgrim
age to the Gettysburg battlefield.
when we think of Lincoln at Get
tysburg, where the plain. and UNI
adorned sentences of a back woods
man and rail splitter put to shame
the product of the finest scholarship
Of Europe and America, we are
tempted to say that it is well to take
to the baclswooda and leave the col
lege behind u.s." said Commissioner
Graves.
but we should remember that
Lincoln himself did not think SO. He
looked with real regret upon his own
want Of opportunity, and. good ia
ther and citizen that he was, he was
ever eager to give to his own chill
dren and those of all others every
advantage of which he himself had
been deprived"
The Washington times., 1924-07-04

benol0, there is the standpat
delegate, who will not alter his
vote, though the Heavens fall; and
the tired. homesick delegate who
would vote for Barney Google, If
1t would but free him to return to
the cool corner of his own riazza.
Wnere the hammock swipgeth and
the ice drink awaiteth.
There is the bored and indiffer.
ent delegate who yawneth through.
out the day-and the "hail-feIlow''
back-slapping delegate who trotteth
about with his "cheerios," trying
to inject pep" into this sleeping
CULVER.
There is the delegate who ar.
riveth always late at the sessions,
but is always bright and early at
the poker game and more alert and
snappy at IL p. m. than at high
noon,
And the veteran delegate who
misseth no move or word upon the
platform; and the flapper delegate,
who casteth his opera glasses over
the hall in search Of an eye full of
feminine pulchritude.
There is the demonstration"
delegate who cheereth every an.
nouncement and the snappy
dresser, who goeth out between bal
lots to change his whiting collar and
admire the set of his top.hair
There is the delegate who il here
to vote as his wife hath instructed
him, and will faithfully stick it out
until he hath done his duty and
obeyed his masters voice.
And the delegate who hath left
his wife at home and. hath found
New York so refreshing that he is
willing to remain on forever.
And the delegate with the New
England conscience who suffereth
In his soul and his feet, but will
stick at his post as Horatius at
the bridge until the last enemy
hath fallen.
There is the delegate who an.
peareth cooler than an Eskimo Die
and the delegate whose collar
wilteth after the first hour and who
compelleth pity as a fat woman in
the steaInroom of a Turkish bath.
There is the delegate whose van.
ity hath departed and who sldppeth
an occasional shave-and the dele.
gate who bursteth upon the scene
each morning In pristine white flan.
nels and shining boots and a fresh
boutonntere.
There is the delegate, both mascu-
line and feminine, who continuously
waveth a flag and applaudeth the
announcement Of each ballot-and
the delegate who YEARLY wieldeth
The Washington times., 1924-07-04
TOMB OF WILSON
VISITED BY TEACHERS

Included in the visits to spots
Of historic sentiment today by
teachers attending the National
Education Association il pill
grimage to the tomb Of woodrow
Wilson.
Admirers Of the war President
will meet at the Peace Cross at
Mount st. Alban at ESQ this after
noon to pay homage to Mr.. VIII
son. Rear Admiral Cary +. Cray
son, physician to Mr.. Wilson and
his close friend, viii be the speaker.
Representative Of the education
association viii go to Bethlehem
Chapel after the open-air service
to place a wreath on the Wilson
tomb.
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$4,000 K I'm
TO MARCH IN
MICHIGAN
Largest KIonyocation Ever
Held Encamps on Out
skirts Of jackson
Interna9ional news gerviea.

JACKSON, Mich., July ls-Moro
than 100, 900 members Of the IN
Klux Khan were encannped today
on the outekirts Of the city.
It II the largest klonvocaticn OvOe
held Ia America. A farm 112 acrcn,
rented for the ccnclave, was found
inadequate at .. m. this morning
when the huge farm property re-
sembled q waster land buried be-
meath two or three feet of snow.
Tonight the lIansmen have
planned what they can the greatest
parade since the soldiers march
down Pennsylvania avenue Ii 1865.
There win be more than $4,000
members Of the Irlan and Kamelia
organizations In blue, they declared.
All will wear their flowing robes
and crosses. There viii Be, 40
masks.A It was feared BY anthori.
ties that mask wearing might incite
trouble, The klansmen agreed rs IS
maskless for the parade.
the klansn1en are from Indiana.
Ohio, Illinois and Michigan.
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RURAL SCHOOL CHILDREN
FORM BIGGEST U. S. GROUP

No other large group of the ma
ton has so many children as the
farm group, G. j. Galpin, of the
Department Of Agriculture, told
members OF the department Of
rural education of the National
Education Association, at meet.
ing yesterday in the Interior build.
ing.
There are 1873 per cent more
persons under twenty-one years in
the farm population than in any
equivalent population group dwell.
ing in the cities of the United
States, the speaker asserted. Point
ing to the few children In the cities
al compared with the rural dis.
tricts, Mr.. Galpin indicated this is
one of the big problems which
education must solve.
The Washington times., 1924-07-04
CRACK DESTROYER HERE
FOR NAVAL MANEUVERS

The United States Destroyer,
Kane, arrived at the navy yard yes.
terday from a long Southern cruise.
She Is here to attend the naval
maneuvers to be held shortly.
The Kane has the distinction of
being the most efficient oil.burning
ship of the navy, for which she Is
entitled to wear a large white letter
"E" on her smoke stack.
The Kane win be open to visitors
tsaaw.
The Washington times., 1924-07-04

Tribute to the work Of human
reconstruction done at Walter Heed
hospital and to the memory of the
man for whom 1t was named was
voiced by Superintendent J. M.
Gwinn, San Francisco, Calf, at
the visit to that institution. today
by members of the National Edu-
cation Association. The hospital
was included among the "patriotic
pilgrimages" made by the teachers.
The Washington times., 1924-07-04
MANS STRANGE MALADY
PUZZLE TO PHYSICIANS

Doctors at Gallinger Hospital de-
clare that the malady with which
Leslie Wanzer, colored, OF Alexan-
dria, Is suffering, is not sleeping
sickness, but a strange illness.
which they have not been able as
yet to identify.
Wanzer Is fully conscious today
and talks nationally, and his gen.
eral condition is somewhat i'm
proved. Doctor u. r. zanbarano
has his case.
The Washington times., 1924-07-04
BOY BRINGS BAY STATE
GREETINGS TO COOLIDGE

Birthday greetings from thou
sands of his admirers in Massa-
chusetts were delivered to President
Coolidge today by Louis Demon
treaux, Western Union messenger
No. 1, from Boston. Mass.
The messenger reached here last
night and delivered the greetings
this morning.
The Washington times., 1924-07-04

and equable way Of ending the
deadlock would be to draw the
democratic candidate out OF =. hat
his name, Of course. Why not3
Anybody has q chance Of being
nominated except McAdoo md
smith. It would be rather cute.
Baby Peggy or Jackie Cookan
could be hailed by fast express
from Hollywood to pluck forth
from the hat the name OF the
next President Of the United
States Josephus Daniels q r..
sponsible for the latter half OF
that idea.
Another wise cracking individual
thought it would be a good idea.
TO start the next national conyen.
ton on the hundredth ballot
Think Of all the time it would
save" said he.
The newspaper men and women
meet In caucus whenever thu
conee and ginger ale flows. One
fraction Of the ingeniousnesr ~
these over-WOrked and borod
49, AAreAS1So CAkU4UHCu 10 1&kltS0
this job. would send q Thousand
delegates home. .1..
The. delegate who. grows the
longest beard" one suggests.
should have the privilege Of pick
Ing the candidate"
A dozen little ragamuffina.
beating drums and waving fIags.
paraded on ''the sidewalks 81
New York" today, right by all
the police lines and everything.
They created such q sentimental
stir in the Smith-ish hearts, that
there was much talk Of bringing
them into the Garden to start 8
stampede for al"
The band has sense Of huYnor--
II the delegates haven't. Among
the compositions rendered. to-
day s'Linger a While and 1--WE
Won't Get Home Until Morning
We Won't Get Home At ALL"
Just after the fifty-eighth bal.
lot-the new record in the history
of national conventions-the band
struck up the playful nursery
song, ooh, Dear What Can the
Matter BeDear, Dear, What
Can the Matter Bee"
The Washington times., 1924-07-04
FIRE FOLLOWS ATTEMPT
TO CUACE GAS BY MATCH

Lighting match to see, how much
gasoline he had in the tank of hia
automobile, Edward L. Carter, 4
marine, Of Quantico, Va, while in
the garage at s07 Eighth street
southeast, caused a fire resulting in
burns to Charles e. Deaton, also a
marine, from Quantico. who was In
the car, and damage to the lar
amounting to about SIS.
The Washington times., 1924-07-04
By HELEN ROWLAND.

Copyright, 1924 ssrvce)
NEW YORK July 4-Veriy, my daughter as the band
playeth nger Whle' and the last few rounds Of the
Daotmg continue gaze out sea weary voters and
reflect that it aketh all kinds Of delegates to make
convention go !"
The Washington times., 1924-07-04
Mrs. SOlOmOnL ooksin
on the Convention

Mrs. So'omo" Says il TaA.. All Delegate. 70 Max.
The Washington times., 1924-07-04

Walsh-South Dakota 1; Philippines, q Total, s.
Saulsbury-Delaware, 6. c. w. Bryan--Nebraska. 2.
, 1924-01-30

/ believe that all our aims can b. real
lied; it is true that our POPULATION has
been gradually dNindling. but it is rot
numbers that tell in every mnvement, it
is lite and force And ife an force are
ours If we only believe il. What we need
m lst is unity Of purpose and unity Of &C.
ton. Ii is the exercising and forgetting
transferable personal diff arences and con
TRACTION on our plain duties and doct-
rinos. This is my Message to you the peO-
pIeof Chrisjiansted and St. CrOix this af-
ternoon. Act upon it, and We may be
perfectly confident that. whether after a
long Interval CT a short one, we shall at
tain the realization or our ideals and win
a triumphant victoro for our cause WHICH
we know to be the cause of freedom,
justice and good government.
, 1924-01-30
LOCAL

We are informed that the Commission
sent by the President to investigate an |
report on conditions in these islands will
arrive in Christiansted on Saturday this
week at 500 O'Clock p, m The Governor
has placed his backward automobile at
the disposal Of the commission during
its stay 10 st. Cr0ix.
In this issue there will b. found the
addresses of the Chairman of the MUM
cipal Committee and the Despatching
Secretary at the ceremony on Monday
afternoon, Another address by the As
sistant;PubIic Works Officer received too
late for this issue will be published to-
morrow.
We have been asked to mention that
the Native Brass Band will give a con-
cert or the wharf this evening.
, 1924-01-30
s Pc
SPEECH
DELIVERED BY HIS HONOR THE
DESPATCHING SECRETARY e.. L.
BARRErTl, ON MONDAY, JANUARY
%, 1924.

The HONORABLE Members of the Colo
NAL Council, Municipal Committee and
Citizens of st. CrOix.
History tells US that Sir Waiter Ra-
ltigh landed on the shores of this island
dlrlng the early part of the seventeenth
century. The inhabitants of this island
at that time presented him with a very
beautiful basket Of manchineel apples
and a copy of a local newspaper. In all
probability he read in the local newSpa-
per that a water supply for the island
was CONTEMPLATED. The article no doubt
wound up with information reading
something like this We will have
more to say upon this subject later y
Both the manchineeI apples and the pros
poets of water proved to be a bitter dis
appointment.
For approximately 100 years the ques-
ton Of a water supply for this c0mmu-
nifty has been a~gitated, but nothing con
crete was done. To lay, cue to the IN Argy
and foreth0ught OF your LEGISLATORS. ta-
thered by the Municipal Com nittee, the
question of a water supply for this com
munity is now an established fact. Money
has been appropriated, the site selected
and the actual work started. In ord r
10 compete lnlS project II VIII De nPcSS-
sary TO have the hearty cooperation of
each and every citizen with your legis-
lative body and>your Government. The
time for action and results is at hand.
The day of qubbIiDg, pickering and use
less talk is passed There has never been
in the history OF the world any improve
ment contemplated for tho benefit of a
community which has not met with OPP
position. individuals may have their own
ideas and may condemn the work of
Others, but when the feat is accomplish
Cd and all have benefited; those who cri-
ticised, those who condemned and those
VINO scQffed, will be the frs, ones TO
, 1924-01-30
E. CHI
DELIVERED BY THE HONORABLE
D. e. CANEGATA, MONDAY, JANU-
AIRY %, 1924.

Honorable Mr.. Secretary, Honorable
Members of the Colonial Council, La
dies and Gentlemen:
| esteem ii a very high honor to have
b=en accorded the privilege of saving a
few words to you this afternoon. 1t ur.
Their enhances to the honor that the oc-
casi0n should mark the beginning of the
construction OF what we hope, will be
tho means Of furnishing a public water
supply for the town of Christiansted.
We have long waited for an effort to be
made in this direction and we can all
feel some measure Of satisfaction at this
flint realization Of our dream. think
too that this project in a way forms a new
departure, or rather it is an exception
to what appears to have besn the estab
llshed rule; we have in the past always
waited for the initiation of any project
to be made by the Executive Department
Of the Government; this however can
truly be termed a peoples measure and
n that r spect it is an exception to the
rule.
When the Budget for 1923-1924 was
first submitted to the Municipal Commit
lee sometime IN May last year, that Com
mittee making an effort to secure some
measure Of economy based on efficiency
in the several Departments, proposed
several different amendments with the
nope, that the amounts saved thereof
should he used for such constructive i'm
prOvemeutS within our limits that would
tend towards the material benefits and
welfare nf the inhabitants Of this island.
The representatives OF Christiapsted
worked There are 3 of US. Mr.. A%bramson.
Mr.. Alexander and myself and worked
hard TO gain some share of the spoils,
and by the recommendation Of the Mu-
nicipal Committee, with the support of