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Evening star., 1925-01-04

Several attractive patterns of stamped pillow
cases, including day case with hemstitched ends
for crochet edge. pair. .$1.3e to $1.7s
Beautiful All-linen Towels, in guest and regular
sizes; in many new designs. At. 7sc TO sI.ss
Evening star., 1925-01-04
Unusual Values i'm Bed Coverings

-SI2.95 Atwood Filled Comforts,
with fine sateen coverings, iii floral
and oriental designs, and plain bor-
ders and back. Special at...
-S8.95 AII=wool Filled Comforts,
with good sateen and mercerized
cotton covers These have plain
colored borders, pure wool filled,
Fine AlI=wooI Plaid Blankets,
66xS0-inch size. in large block
plaids Colors are rose, gold, pink,
tan. gray, lavender. and blue with
white, and red with black. Pair.
Kann' Street Floor
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This big special purchase from of the leading mills in
this countryA sale that will considerable attention
among generally Early selection is urged there
bound be spirited response unusual an offer
coatings include Bovias Veloria, Venewvo Chncia
Arabia and Veloboom, in black and coors.
Evening star., 1925-01-04
n Stock Pieces to EmbrOider,
Finished Models on Display

Beautiful Buffet Sets, stamped excellent quail
ty linen; designed for crochet edge. A set,
sec o
Large All-linen Table Cover, "a inches square.
stamped in attractive pattern. Each. .&4.as
Napkins match. Each. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS soc
Kann's-Fourth Floor.
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Fur Trimmings
In LARGE VARIETY

Here you will find all the most popular
prices that will please every one Fur
has never been as popular as this sea-
son for trimming, being used on every
thing from dainty evening costumes to
negligees.
Kann's-Street Floor.
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A Very Remarkable January Sale Value!

The dress goods include sports fanne in plads stripes and
bordered effects plain anne eours reps bocades Poiret
twis, crepes and serges.
Lengths the from 3 yards and black
and coors select from.
Kanns-Street Floor.
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.$l.95

the of Handbag in this that she has
waiting thought perhaps she would be to
pay and style and there
variety O from, and, of course, black.
Evening star., 1925-01-04

Mill Remnants of $500 to $50
Fine Coatings and Dress Goods at
Evening star., 1925-01-04

Exquisite soft shades and gorgeous color
ings of the most popular weaves, suitable for
street, afternoon and evening wear.
Also, there arc silks for the dainty under
things and negligces, dear to a womans
heart; all beautiful quality, indicated by
these mentioned.
Evening star., 1925-01-04

Run of the Mill" Fancy Turkish o-
Towels, full size, and of good heavy <A0
weight. Pretty pink blue large OcS
plaid patterns. Each.
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Kann's-Street Floor.
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Novelty MateIasse (SiIk and Wool)
AI-Silk Satin Messaline
AH-SiIk Lingerie Radium
AH-Silk Crepe de Chine
Colored Canton Crepe
Plaid Tub Silks
Black Charmeuse
Pictorial Review Fashion Book for
Spring, 1925. Priced ..............25 .25c
New Pictorial Repiet0 Embroidery
Magazine. Priced. Csc
Pictorial Review Free Sheets for
February Are Ready
Evening star., 1925-01-04

-s6.95 Atwood Single Blankets,
66x80-inch. Strictly all wool, solid
colors of blue, rose, pink, tan,
lavender and gold Special Monday,
-Part-wooI Plaid Blankets, 66x80-
inch size, in large block plaids, in
the wanted colors; all finished with
soisette bindings. A pair.
Evening star., 1925-01-04
Strap Purses, Special

One lot of Strap-back
books, in three different
styles. These were made
to sell for $1.O0 and more.
Kann's-Street Flc
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35c Glass Toweling

Pure Linen Glass Toweling, II inches -
wide. of good heavy weight and very ~
absorbent. Blue or red check pat ~
terms. Yard. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
-Hemmed Dish Towels, of nice absorbent era
Full size, with tape hangers on end.
White only. Each Observation-Disclosures.
John s. Browns Pure Linen Dinner Napk
2O-inch size, nice weight and in neat 2S
patterns. Special dozen. ~
Evening star., 1925-07-04
DAY Is CELEBRATED
IN FRENCH CAPITAL
Americans in Paris Attend Dedi-
cation of New United States
Embassy Building.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, July America Inde-
pendence day was celebrated in tradi-
tional form in Frances capital today
with the dedication of the new en-
bassy as the principal feature of the
program
EXecises were held in most of the
schools and other institutions having
American connections or benefiting
from American endowments, and the
city was gay with the interwined Tri-
color and Stars and Stripes.
The annual pilgrimage to Lafay-
cites tomb in Picpus Cemetery was
followed by the placing of wreaths on
his statue in the Louvre Garden, and
on the monument to the American
volunteers who served with the
French forces in the World War.
AS was the case last year, a dele
cation from the American Legion was
accorded the privilege of replenishing
the perpetual flame" above the tomb
of the Unknown Poilu in the Arc de
Triomphe. The Navy was represented
in the celebration by a contingent
from the u. S. S. Pittsburgh, flagship
of the squadron in European waters.
The embassy's new home, purchased
for 100000 is a handsome building
once the residence of former Presi-
dent Jules Grevy. on the Avenue Jena
overlooking the Trocadero Gardens.
Among the gifts displayed for the
first time to visitors to the embassy
were a portrait of Washington, pre-
sented by Ogden Mills. and one of
Franklin. given by Mrs. Whitelaw
Reid; a tapestry from Sir Joseph Du-
veen. candelabra from Mrs. G. b.
Alexander. an engraving of Franklin
from the Pennsylvania Cincinnati So
ciety, and "A bronze fountain from
Miss Janet Scudder.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
"Muster Day" in NeO England First
Defense Test on Record in america
All Able-BOdied Men We're Required Four Times
Year to Drill Whh Companies-The Wa
Of independence History Sho,cs.

The celebration OF the 149th anniver-
sary of national independence day
as defense day, as suggested by
President Coolidge, on the line of
Muster day of colonial times. re-
calls the very beginning of the ma
tional military protection under the
thrilling sounds of the fife and drum
of what has long since passed into
history as Muster day in New Eng
land"
Immediately following the American
War of Independence the several
States of the new Republic enacted
military laws of their own. In New
York every able-bodied male between
IS and 40 was required to meet with
his company four times each year for
training and discipline, once by bri-
gade, once by regiment and twice by
company, for such length of time as
the governor might direct. Similar
laws were in force in the New Eng
land States, also in all of the original
13 States and upon them was based
the United States law of 1892, which
sought to establish a uniform militia
throughout the country. 1t has been
said that the good old method of ma
tional military defense under the fea-
lures of the original establishment of
UNIFORM militia throughout the
country proved to be a failure mas
much as the President is commander
in-chief of the militia only when it is
in actual service of the United States.
Speaking of Muster day in New
England, F. G.. Mather in Lippin-
colts, in 1885, says the several States
therefore. kept up their ununiformed
militia until it became a laughing
stock-an army with broom sticks, to
evade serving in which but SO cents
year was required, and then the
present uniformed militia arose from
the ruins"
1t seems that the high tide of Mus
ter day military duty reached it's ze-
NTH of popularity in the spirit of ma
tional defense during the so years
from 1890 to 1910. In those days the
military duty" consisted of two com
pany trainings" of half day each in
Evening star., 1925-07-04
MAJ. GEN. FRIES SCORES FOES
OF AMERICAN IDEALS AND LAWS
Declares People Should Guard Against Sinister
Forces That Tend to Kill Patriotism and
Destroy Faith in Nation.

by which this Government has grown
great in any other way than to point
out the great military deeds.
Let us not forget that it was with
the power of the sword, aided, il is
true, by the power of the pen, that
our freedom was won, and ii has been
with the power of the sword ever
backed up and often led by the pen,
that we have maintained that indie
pendence and fought off every ag-
gressor until today the Stars and
Stripes float in glory over a happier
and more numerous people than ever
any other flag ever fioated over"
Gen. Fries referred In MS speech to
letter which he said was sent out
recently from the headquarters of the
Women's Peace Union in New York
City containing an oath TO be taken
by persons in opposition TO future
wars, Offensive or defensive, inter
national or civil ."
Gen. Fries declared that most of
them must not realize what this oath
they are urging people TO take
means"
Referring &c the movement 70 strike
from the laws of the District the
clause forbidding teachers to teach
that the United States form of govern
ment Is an inferior one. Gen. Fries
said:
You. the fathers and mothers of
the children of the District of Colum-
bia, need to watch many things. just
the other day it was reported that al
a meeting of a federation of teachers
a resolution vas adopted to appeal 10
Congress to strike out from the pres
ent laws of the District of Columbia
The clause forbidding teachers to teach
our children that the United States
form of government is bad. AS a IA
ther of four children in the public
schools of the District of Columbia, l
desire to say that ! shall use every
bit OF power that in me lies to see
that that part of the fundamental
law of the District of Columbia is not
repealed. The parents have a right to
demand that their children be taught
only the ideals for which our flag
stands-the ideals for which the patri.
OTIS of the Revolution, the Rebellion.
the SpaNsh-American War and the
World War fought and died. We have
a right to demand of the teachers
hired by our money that they shall
Evening star., 1925-07-04

Sounding warming against forces
which he said are seeking to destroy
confidence in the American form of
government, Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries,
chief of the Chemical War Service
lauded the patriotism of the founders
of the Republic, addressing the Inde-
pendence day celebration of the Asso-
citation of Oldest Inhabitants of the
District of Columbia, at the Western
Presbyterian Church, near Nineteenth
and II streets, today.
Gen. Fries was the principal speaker
at the patriotic exercises, which be
gan in the church at noon, following
business session of the association
in the Union Engine House, a few
doors away.
I'VE are here to pay reverence to
the memory of those founders OF this
great Republic" Gen. Fries declared.
1T is WELL indeed, that we should do
SO, for today there is, unfortunately,
throughout the length and breadth of
this land a group of people who praise
everything in the world except that
which is American
Hits Foes of Patriotism.
Efforts also are being made, Gen.
Fries asserted, to "fill the text books
for our children with thoughts and
ideas that our ancestors were neither
honorable, patriotic nor brave.
IF you kill patriotism and love of
country in our youth" the general
continued, they will fail the country
in the years to come. There are those
who object to any word about the
military prowess of our ancestors and
seek to eliminate from our history all
reference TO what they are pleased to
call the 'pomp and glory of war. But
we cannot tell our children, we can
not record for posterity the method
Evening star., 1925-07-04
CRACKED CONCRETE.
WILL KNIT TOGETHER
Tests Show Material Will Become
Stronger Under the Natural
Amending Process.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 4.-Concrete that
has been cracked will knit together
again, according to tests just COM
pleted here by Prof Duff A Abrams
at Lewis Institute. These tests were
said to be the first of this type.
Concrete cylinders once cracked and
retested after eight years exposure TO
the weather were found to be more
than two and one-quarter times as
strong as they were when the original
test was made. When they We're
examined before retesting, practically
all Of the cracks caused by the high
pressure had disappeared. 1t was
known that concrete gained in
strength with age but Prof. Abrams
test gave definite knowledge con-
cerning the healing properties of con-
crete which was kept moist.
The original test was made in 1917
by applying an average pressure of
one and one-fifth tons per square inch
to a number of 2S-day old concrete
cylinders, six by twelve inches, which
was sufficient to cause cracking. This
month another compressive strength
test was made with these same cylin-
ders, which then withstood an average
pressure of more than two and half
tons per square inch, a pressure 22S
per cent as great as the blocks were
able to bear eight years ago.
Fine cracks which appeared in a
test concrete highway bridge when it
was subjected to a tremendous load
later closed up. The cracks were
carefully mapped and photographed
after two preliminary tests had been
made A year later, when the bridge
was greatly overloaded again, com
parison revealed that many of the old
q L c
appeared under the unusuel strain.
Prof Abrams stated that this con
dition was due to the healing of the
cracks and the forming of a joint
even stronger than the unbroken con-
crete.
Evening star., 1925-07-04

not teach our children that the Gov
ernment for which those patriots
fought and died is a foul one"
In concluding his address, Gen. Fries
paid credit to the oldest inhabita nts
of the District for the part they have
played in bringing about the upbuild-
ing of the Capital City of today He
said:
ITO you, the oldest inhabitants of
the District of Columbia, pay my own
most humble respect. When look
about me and see here the most beau
tiful city of the world, gaining in
beauty and influence every day | real
lze that to you, men and women Of the
older day, should go the credit. Down
on Pennsylvania avenue there is a
statue to Maj Shepherd. the man who
had the foresight and the ability and
the nerve to push forward the paving
dation of the finest system of paved
highways in the Nation.
Other great men, beginning with
Washington and the French engineer
l. Enfant, have laid deep the founda
tion of a city that shall be a credit
not for decade, nor for a hundred
years, but for a thousand years. As
one looks over the pages of time
down 10 the present we find that men
of correcting some of the errors that
were occasionally made, and you who
have fought the good fight deserve
the credit. You have been the in
spiration and the force that has helped
Congress to see the light. You have
been the inspiration and force that
has built our city which we have d
right to be proud of and in which we
have a right to demand that the ideals
of the nation shall be taught-that
reverence for the Bible shall continue
among all and that love for the flag
and for the ideals of liberty for which
it stands shall be the paramount
lesson taught in our schools in what
ever grade and at whatever season. -
Patriotic Services.
In the opening part of his address
Gen. Fries recounted briefly the con
ditions which prompted the colonists
TO revolt from British rule and lauded
the spirit with which they carried
the Revolutionary War to a success
full conclusion.
The patriotic exercises were opened
with an invocation by Rev. j. Harvey
Durham. following which the as
semblage joined in reciting the Amer
leans creed. Portions of the Declara-
ton of Independence were read by
W. s. Armstrong
els Scott Key, author of The Star
Spangled Banner" was recited by John
Clagett Proctor. The program was
interspersed with vocal solos by vii
lard S. Haynie, accompanied on the
piano by Mrs. Haynie. The members
of the association joined in singing
patriotic airs.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
"PAY AS YOU co., MILLIONAIRE.
WHO STARTED WITH $1,000, DIES
Robert r. Sizer, Lumber Firm Head, Declared Sue
cess Was Due to Neuer Going Inch Farther
Than Income ALIOiUed

into the lumber business because my
uncle was in it. l think it is likely
that | would have done just as well
in wholesale groceries or cook stoves.
You can sell dead cats if you work
hard enough
Mr.. SiZer worked hard when he
started his business in New York with
his office desk that he hired for
$40 a month and his home a fourth
floor back hall room. Working from
8 am. sometimes to midnight he
bought lumber in carload lots, solicited
orders in long hand letters, called on
all retailers possible and sold for cash.
After a year his 81 900 had grown to
$4,000 At his death he was president
of the wholesale corporation bearing
his name.
He was born in King and Queen
County, Virginia. and studied farming
at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Instead of becoming a farmer, how
ever. he got a job as Office boy with
an uncle. lumber dealer in Balti.
more, and il was against this uncle's
advice that he started in business fol
himself.
Evening star., 1925-07-04

May and October and one general
training" or 'regimental muster" of
one day in October. While no uni
forms were required at these muster
day trainings. except to distinguish the
officers, yet there were usually enough
public-spirited people in every town to
furnish uniforms to the crack COM
pany.
According to tradition, the fields of a
New England muster parade ground,
in the long ago, at a respectful dis
tance from the regimental line, was
covered with auctioneers' stands, ped
dlers' wagons, refreshment booths of
rough boards and planked platforms
for dancing to the music of the violin
the picture of a college town on COM
mencement day, magnified to 10 times
the proportion.
Speaking of an "Old New Hampshire
muster" H. T. Perry said: This was
Muster day, the annual muster of the
regiment of the New Hampshire mill
tia, a holiday before whose glories even
Independence and Thanksgiving paled
their lesser lights and Election day
with its varnished buns was wholly
out of count. 1t seems I was old
enough to be let go to muster" and a
servant led me over the field.
The Spring, the Summer and the
Autumn training" all leading up to
the crowning day of muster were sim
ply the bright side of life for thou
sands of the hardy yeomanry who
peopled the New Hampshire hills ana
among whom it was my good fortune
to be born
Thus President Coolidges sugges-
ton that in observing Defense day in
celebrating our great national holiday,
the Fourth of July, on its 149th ami
versary, with the features of the old
time Colonial Muster day" recalls the
original source of reflected civilian SOL
dier military spirit for national defense
which prevailed to a more or less ex-
tent in every State of our Federal
Union from the heroes of the f1int-lock
New England days of Miles Standish
down to the humber men of prowess
of the decades just prior to the Civil
War.
Evening star., 1925-07-04

L. Browning, Frank Cox. F. ]. De
MolI. G. H. Goodman, /. A. HaXton,
r. c. Miller, John O'Neill, William
Stuart. Garrett Waters and LoriS E.
Williams.
Concessions-Joh E. Donker, chair
man; C. l.. Redman, vice chairman;
Mrs G. A Scott, Mrs. H r. Thomp-
son.
Decorations-Frank l.. Coll chair
man; Samuel j. Danzic, vice chair
man: Thomas S. Brock, Fred l..
Harries, Charles G. Royle.
Field committee-Fred D. B. Austin,
chairman; William F. Fischer, vice
chairman; Walter r. Metz, Ralph T.
Brown.
Finance committee-C. c. Waters,
chairman; w. A. Hooker. Guy Clinton,
c. A. Reed. vice chairmen.
Eastern district-D. N. Shoemaker.
chairman; Frank Cushman. F. ]. De
Moll, j. B. Derrick, S. D. Grove, 1. A.
Gehrman. Daniel NJ. Goodacre. H. w.
Harmed, H. C. Heffper, H. D. Lawson,
]. T. Maddox, Thomas Manley, R. M.
Shank, Mrs. c. B. Smith.
Central district-C. D. Blachly,
chairman; John r. Adams, Elizabeth
Bozart, Phyllis Deemer. Virginia
Deemer. r. T. Dowsett, Charles East
wood, Frank Hayes. Mrs. w. r. Mat
Rutledge, Harold Smalley, Mrs. VIM.
Stuart. Mrs Louis Vogt, Mrs. S. w.
Williams.
Northeastern district. V. Lamp
son. chairman; Ralph E. Gould, II. c.
Heffner, Mrs. H. l. Houston, Anthony
Hutchinson, Mrs. W. r. Metz, P. q.
Mygatt, F. A. Nickols, F. w. Ranno,
Charles G. Royle, l.. NJ. Simpson, 1r.;
w. G. Slappey, j. H. Strowser
Northern district-C. A. Reed,
chairman; H. L. Ducker. w. r.
Fischer, Fred H. Pearce, JOY Hop
kins, Peter Remsen.
Northwestern district. w. Jones,
chairman; E. w. Bond, S. DantZlc'
c. L. Garrett, H. C. Heiges, S. E.
Williams.
Southern district-F. E. Reppert,
chairman; w. c. Beck, T. X. Bur
rows. S. ]. Dennis, E. w. Eden,
w. Preston Gibson, w. NJ. LeaVitt'
S. II. McCrory, r. l.. McDormand'
F.. c. Merritt, H. C. Metcaf, sam
Observation-Disclosures Wilson, chair
man: Barry Black, vice chairman;
r. B. Deemer, A. F. Iengle.
First aid-Dr L. F. Coolidge, chair
man. DR.. l.. E. Elliott, vice chair
man; J. Walter Dudley, DIR. A. Is.
Little. D. ]. Mattingly, DIR. A. V.
Parsons. Z. *. Richardson.
Parade - Mrs. Henry T.. Ewing
chairman: E. Clyde Shade, vice chalr-
man: B. Y. Morrison, Henry Il.
Ewing. Mrs Jesse B. K. Lee, Milton
| Derrick, Mrs. V. T. H. Bien, Mrs. II.
Dotterer. Harold Dotterer, Mrs. l.. V.
Lampson and Mrs. A. w. Harmed.
Patriotic exercises-H. D. Lawson,
| chairman: Frank c. Merritt, vice
| chairman; Asher c. Ryerson and w.
! o. Little.
Publicity-R. B. Deemer, chairman;
Thomas A. Bright, vice chairman; }.
W. Coffman, r. B. Deemer, jr.; How
ard S. Fisk and w. z. Thompson.
Reception-Henry F. Taft, chair
man; Jesse c. Suter. vice chairman;
John r. Adams, Fred D. B. Austin,
LLOYD W. Biddle, Norris Bien, Louis
D. Bliss, Rev. r. F. Bryan, LIE Blond
Burdett. l.. 5. Cannon, Rev. T. G.
Clark, Guy Clinton. Z. V. Crittenden,
r. T. Dowsett, W. Preston Gibson,
Ira G.. Hersey, H. X. Hobart, w. A.
! Kroll. Mrs Alcena Lamond, Rev. VIII
liam e. La Rue. r. d. Lille, w. G.
Platt, S. c. Redman, H. f. Rogers.
E. G.. Salisbury, Mrs. G.. A. Scott. c.
II. Snencer, Walter Whitney and
Rev. c. NJ. Young.
Police and public order-Preston c.
King and John r. Adams, and fire
protection. j. Walter Dudley.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
DEVICE REVOLUTIONARY.
U. S. Invention to Radically
Change Flaxseed Marketing.

A method for determining the oil
content in fiaXseed within 7 minutes.
as compared with "a hours now re-
quired, has been developed by the De-
partment of Agriculture and is expect
ed to revolutionize fiaXseed marketing
methods.
The new process is known as the
optical method the oil content being
determined by use of a refractometer
and a chart. 1t was devised after
three years work by department grain
investigators, under the supervision of
DR.. D. A. Coleman, chief of the grain
chemical research laboratory. Recent
demonstrations at Duluth and Mime
apolis won the approval of experts en-
gagged in the trade. 1t is so simple,
DR.. Coleman declared today. that its
use does not require special training.
1t is often the photographer who
can make unnatural pictures who
gets the most patronage.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July 4.-Robert Ry-
Ian SiZer, who was the son of Vir-
ginia slave owner, and who came
to New York 38 years ago with 81 900
and build up a lumber concern that
now does more than $1,000 900 worth
of business year, is dead. After a
long Illness the end came at his Long
Island Summer home yesterday at
the age of &c.
He leaves a widow. who was Miss
Minnie Thomson of Baltimore: three
sons and two daughters. One of the
sons. Theodore Sizer, is a curator at
the Cleveland Museum.
II know exactly why l succeeded" 3"
said Mr.. Sizer shortly after his re-
tirement from active business a few
years ago. II did it by continuous
hard work and by following the
maxim, pay as you go and never go
an inch farther than you can pay
IF / were giving advice to young
men it would be to be "a crank on
paying bills. II is not alone that it
gives you credit with others; it is
the self discipline it promotes. l went