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The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20

BABY CHICK - Golden Buff and
White Leghorns (Tancred Strain) ,
Black Minorcas, Barred Rocks and
r. 1. Reds; special rates to broiler
plants. ENOCH CREWS, Seabright,
California. 1Z-tl~
Evening star., 1925-11-26
Weary Willie.

When the autumn gales grow
rougher / feel sorry for the duffer,
for the hobo who must suffer, for the
man without boss; it is bad for
Weary Willie as he plods the road so
hilly, when the nights are long and
chilly, and the farmers dogs are cross.
He's a bleak and joyless figure, shak-
en- by the weather'S rigor. hoping for
a handout bigger than the one he had
before; nothing, nothing can awaken
self-respeCt, by him forSaken; hoping
for some eggs and bacon, he is knock
ing at the door. He is tattered and
unshaven. croaking hoarsely like a
raven. and he has no other haven
than the poorhouse or the Jail; he is
shooed from every cottage, shooed
with adjectives and sWattage, told to
go and earn his pottage, told to hustle
for the ka1e. He might have the legal
tender he might live in state and
splendor, if he'd ruin a suspender,
working hard, as others do; but if he
must Sprain his body to secure cot
tage gaudy. all our culture is but
Shoddy, he believes, his mind askew.
So we have but little pity for the out
cast from the city, tramping where
the roads are gritty, when the night
is coming on; and it's little men are
caring if he dies where he is faring,
if he's deader than a herring on some
cold and bitter dawn. For the man
who doesn't labor with sawbuck or
a saber, who is idle while his neighbor
earns the shilling or the pound, and
who thinks it smart and clever to
avoid all wise endeayor, and to bum
his way forever, might as well be
underground.
Copyright, 1880 WALT MASON.
Evening star., 1925-11-26
SENATE TO HAVE OLDER PAGES
If SCHOOL LAW ISN'T MODIFIED
Compulsory Education Provision Playing Havoc
With Aspirations of Boys in Higher House of
Congress and in Supreme Court.

The compulsory education law for
the District of Columbia is playing
havoc with aspirations of certain
youngsters to serve as pages in the
Supreme Court and the Senate. it was
learned today. After consultation with
the officials of the Board of Education,
two boys have been dropped from the
rolls of the Supreme Court, and the
probable list of Senate pages will have
TO be considerably revised unless when
Congress meets there should be some
modification of the new law, which
was put through last Winter.
The compulsory education law de-
clares that all children under "A years
of age must attend school in the Dis
triCt whether they be children of per-
nanent residents or those whose guard
ians are only temporarily residing in
Washington. They must perform the
school work equivalent to the courses
in the public schools.
In the Senate at its last session,
where there are 21 pages, so per cent
or more We're under IA years of age.
The custom has been for them to range
from Il to 16 years of age, and a very
large number of them have been less
than IA, especially when first appoint
ed. The pages are to be appointed all
over again at the opening of the new
session. Their appointments are part
of the patronage" among employees
Evening star., 1925-11-26
ALEXANDRIA.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ALEXANDRIA,, Va, November 20.
The biggest raid on the bootleg traf
fic in many months was made by the
Alexandria police early this morning
when 72 gallons of whisky We're cap
tured at the north end of the Wash
ington Street Bridge, just outside the
city limits.
Some one telephoned the police that
bootleggers were transferring liquor
from an automobile and hiding it
under the bridge. Chief of Police w.
w. Campbell sent several members of
his motor cycle squad to investigate.
AS the officers neared the bridge the
men fled, deserting the automobile
after wrecking it. The car has a Fir
ginia license and was headed South.
Through the commissioner of motor
vehicles, Richmond, the police expect
to identify the owner of the machine.
The liquor was brought to police
headquarters and will be held until
Judge Frederick G. DuVall opens
court tomorrow morning.
Funeral services for Mrs. Eleanor
Phillips, As, matron of the Anne Lee
Memorial Home, who died yesterday
will be held at the residence of Miss
NJ. Z. Garner, Alb South Fairfax street,
at II o'clock tomorrow morning. The
body will be taken to Herndon.
City Manager Paul Morton yester-
day completed moving stoves from the
offices of the City Hall, following the
installation of the new heating plant
The new plant furnishes heat to all
departments of the city government.
Arthur 3. Herbert, chairman of the
local committee in charge of selling
stone Mountain coins for the Confed-
crate memorial at that place, will
start drive December 9 and con-
tinuing until December IA, inclusive,
when, it is expected, Alexandria s
quota, 81 900, will be raised.
Practically all business was sus-
pended in observance of Thanksgiving
day. City offices were closed. Banks
and other business houses took a holi-
day. Many AleXandrians went to
Chapel Hill, n. c., to witness the an
nual foot ball contest between the Uni
versity of Virginia and the University
of North Carolina.
Evening star., 1925-11-26
JEALOUS CONVICT
WINS N. T. DEGREE
SLAYER Overcomes Enormous
Handicaps to Achieve
Sole Ambition.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BELLEFONTE, Pa, November 20
Two years ago James Horvath was
committed to the Western Peniten-
tiary at Pittsburgh on a charge of
second degree murder 10 serve a term
Of 10 years. Today he is still man
without q name-a man with a num-
ber-in the State Penitentiary at
Rockview. but he holds a diploma as
a graduate of the Pennsylvania State
School of Mines and a certificate from
the State bureau of mines, the latter
a mark OF approval from the self same
system that sentenced him to dec
ade of futility.
There is irony in that-there is also
something infinitely imposing-for it
marks this man Horvath-this NO
So and So" as one of the few men
who have beaten the game" by the
simple process of playing it accord
ing to the rules.
He was arrested December s, 1923, al
Yukon, Pa, charged with the murder
of his father-in-law. The details of
the murder as revealed in the court
procedure in February of the follow
ing year are hardly germane to the
subject, so it is only necessary to say
he was sentenced by the Westmore-
labor and solitary confinement.
Veteran of World War.
Horyath was a veteran of the World
War-having served with the famous
9Th Marines and having returned from
the turmoil of war to take up again
his civil life The murder had been
an unpleaS MT mess, and while public
opinion of one persuasion was crying
out from press and pulpit for his con-
yiction there were others who pointed
to his war record, his former unsullied
career in civil life are things deserving
of leniency. But he was convicted and
he began his term.
On the second day of his imprison-
ment he was made one of the instruc-
tors in the prison school, teaching the
rudimentS of grammar, mathematics
and history to prison mates who had
not been favored with such an educa-
ton as his. For he had been gradu-
ated from the KiSki School, not far
from Pittsburgh, and had enlisted in
the marines while sophomore at a
Western college.
Though the advancement to the po-
sition of an instructor was signal
mark of favor on the part of the
prison officials, those first few weeks
of prison life had been brutally hard
for him. Even to the ordinary man,
even. to the hardened criminal, who
suddenly finds himself seated on a
prison cot in the half-light of a penal
institution, there is an awful feeling
of futility.
For Horvath, better tutored in legal
procedure and the barriers that So
ciety has erected to separate the abN
! from the weak, the vicious from the
true, it was even worse.
~ oI1
driving himself in a fever of despair
in order to blot out those other years
which in their passing seemed des'
/ tined to make of him a thing like those
about hina-snarling mongrels that
snapped at the heels of society. After
he had served six months he was told
he would be transferred to Rockview,
Evening star., 1925-11-26

of the Senate. which Is divided up
among the IS Senators.
When the child labor law for the
District of Columbia was enacted in
1908. providing that no children un-
der II years of age shah he permitted
to work in factories, Offices etc, the
Senate. mindful of its pages. sue
ceeded in having a provision inserted
that boys employed by the Senate
should not be included in this prohi-
bition. No such provision was in
serted to cover the House pages. 1t
is understood that the House de-
cided that it was better for the young
sterS to go to school than to attend
the sessions of that body.
The Senate, however, has been able
to operate as usual with pages under
IA years old on the rolls. But the new
compulsory education law makes no
exception for the Senate boys, and
while boys over II who have com
pleted eighthgrade work may be per-
mitted to work, the Board Of Edu-
cation officials have informed Senator'S
that they do not see any way for
younger boys to serve this year in
the Senate unless the law is amended.
The sessions of the Senate come dur
ing school hours, and there seems 10
satisfactory way TO adjust the matter.
1t probably will be argued in some
quarters that service in the Senate
amounts to a liberal education for the
boys, but the law does not recognize il
as such
Evening star., 1925-11-26
CROSSROADS PLAY
BIC HISTORIC ROLE
Great Centers of World Traf-
fic Usually Due to Natural
Conditions.

One Of the most important men in
the United States is the traffic police
man at Washington and Meridian
streets, Indianapolis. With one blast
on his whistle he can send automo-
biles TO Miami Fla. or Seattle,
Wash. At will he can turn his back
on Florida and Seattle and route cars
to New York or Los Angeles.
The Washington and Meridian
streets intersection in Indianapolis is
the crossroads of the main transcon-
tinental highways Of the United
States.
Mankind has many remarkable
crossroads" says a bulletin of the
National Geographic Society
There are crossroads of the sea at
Singapore, Panama Canal. Hawaii,
St. Paul Island and Colombo: cross
roads of cable lines at Guam and the
Azores, crossroads of history in
Palestine, crossroads of intercourse
between Europe and Asia at Con
stantinople. And now appear the
crossroads of the air at Prague.
Great Cities Are Crossroads.
practically every great city has
to be a geographic crossroads before
it can be a great city. History
counts Chicago only fledgling cross
roads, but the Windy City lays claim
to two records in fusing streams of
men and metal-its 'train-a-minute'
advertisement is q hint to its posi-
ton as the worlds greatest rail cen
ter. it's feverish trade gives to the
intersection of State and Madison
streets the title Of the busiest
corner in the world Fifth avenue
and Forty second street, New York.
may make more people bump should
ers. but for thronging pedestrians
and vehicles Chicago's most crowded
crossroads stands alone.
THE spot where Braddock met de-
feat. where the extending avenues of
British and French colonial progress
collided, is today one of the most re-
markable Of the United States cross
roads. The town of Brstddock. s miles
out of Pittsburgh. on the Mononga-
hela River, is supposed to be the ton
mage center of railway traffic. Iron
ore comes in from the North and coal
from West Virginia to feed the hun
CRY blast furnaces. Six of the heavy
freight-carrying railroads pass Brad
docks front door.
Claims Busiest Corner.
London questions the American
claims to street traffic records, point
ing, to the Bank OF England corner.
Under this frowning. austere facade
vehicles and pedestrians in unendins
streams debouch from Cheapside
Threadneedle, Cornhill, Lombard
King William, Queen Victoria and
Princess streets.
so strictly immutable are the laws
| of geography that London's traffic
whirlpool today is the same cross
roads of England that Caesars cap
tains established 1000 years ago. The
Romans entered England by the
| Thames and by the Kent coast. The
old Kent road sought the most salts
| factory crossing of the Thames which
would be still wirflin reach of the sea
| 'Londinium' became the crossroads to
the fertile midland. London is not
only the crossroads of England to
! day, but also the intersection Of many
Evening star., 1925-11-26

are meeting the same problems. But
Hovarth had courage.
He matriculated ''eX cOllegio" in a
mining engineering course offered by
State College, with an inSuperable
determination to win, he set about his
work. All lights at the penitentiary
were supposed to be put out at 9
O'Clock and before that hour, the
corridors of the dormitory We're vocal
with the strumming of musical in
struments and the cacophony of men
relaxed in rest. Through that bedlam
Hovarth sat in his cell struggling with
his problems.
He almost gave up. He went to the
chaplain, since resigned, who obtained
through the deputy warden, w. j. Nc
Farland, the permission to use the
chaplain'S office until midnight every
night.
For the entire month before the
examination, in July, 1925, he studied
until midnight and then rose again at
O'Clock. Moments of depression be-
came fewer. He was winning the
fight.
His was almost the energy of the
zealot or the fanatic. He lost 21
pounds, but he still fought on night
after night in the darkness of the
prison, sibilant with the snores of
sleeping men.
His individual victory was not with
out it's tribute from those set to watch
! him, for when the time for the eX-
aminations came he was rendered the
almost unheard of privilege of leaving
| the prison and going to the college to
| take his examinations.
| When he was informed that he had
| passed the examination of the bureau
| of mines he went back to his cell
back TO the dull round of prison duties
-contented for the first time in his
life. Now, while carrying on his
duties as a clerk, he is still studying
studying texts of his profession, not
profession, fortifying his mind
against the years, planning great
| dreams that cannot be diSSipated by
! any ydiscouragement-dr dream
ing, dreaming.
Evening star., 1925-11-26

the penitentiary near here, not yet
completed, where usually only light
term" prisoners are incarcerated.
At Rockview the former Marine was
given position as clerk in the
office of the general stores manager.
He was the second longest term man
doing time there, and by the time
it was obvious he was regarded as a
"trusty." What had added fuel to his
desperation was the fact that he had
been contributing to the support of
his aged mother, who, deprived of his
support, was virtually on the border
line of starvation.
Out of all of his conflicting emo
ton into which has been poured fear
l and defiance, regret and hatred, am
bitton and then the blighting shroud
of a prison sentence, he found one
moment of challenge. Some people
call it conscience, others fate, still
others the breaks of the game
1t suddenly occurred to Hovarth
that in spite of the years between
him and the life and laughter beyond
the barred gates and the walls there
still was a margin of life. After all,
when he stepped forth again, a free
man, he would be in the zest of early
middle life.
The eternal question, brought to
lllS loIS DS puAC SllSoS VI ClICliili-
stance, kept battering, battering, bat
tering at the portals of his mind.
What to do? What to do?
1t is not known just what instincts
| prompted him to seize upon mining
engineering as his objective. OF
course, any one brought up near coal
mines learns the language and the Gus
toms and the problems of those who
delve for the black gold Whatever
it was, that inward voice, transcend
| ing the irksome round of prison life.
ceased it's interrogative whispering
and said, That's it! Go in and win,
man! That's it!'
Studying any type of engineering
! in the best environment is difficult
requires concentration and encourag-
ing instructors and a bit of talk now
and then with ones classmates who
Evening star., 1925-11-26
ANDES BABY MOUNTAINS.
Youngest Range in World, Hop
kins Geologist Believes.

BALTIMORE, November % LP).-
The Andes are geologicaily the worlds
baby mountain range. in the opinion
of Joseph 7. Singewald. professor of
geology at Johns Hopkins University.
Returning from an exploration trip
along the waters Of the upper Amazon
river in Peru. Prof. SingeWald says
red beds containing fossils have been
located on both the east and west
sides of the inner range Of the Andes.
indicating that these mountains are
at least 10,O00.00O years younger than
previously believed.
This discovery, with the added fact
that fossils also We're found at an ele-
walton of 1900 feet. ConVinces the
professor that the Andes is the young
est large mountain range.
Evening star., 1925-11-26
CHURCH CONC! AVE
DRAWS CRITICISM
Some German and Finnish
FundamentaIists Want
New Conference.
BY +. A. MACKENZIE.

By Gable 10 The star and Chicago Daily New
STOCKHOLM, November 26.-The
Stockholm conference. at which
churches Of the world met in an a
tempt to formulate n united social pol
icy, is being denounced by Scand
navian and German fundamentalistS
They are now attempting to arrange
conference for next Summer at Aho.
Finland. as a counter demonstration
under the presidency of the Finnish
Archbishop Gustaf JohansSon. on the
basis of The Bible and the Lutheran
Confession
Many German delegates to th,
Stockholm conference expressed un-
easiness over its attempt to supple
ment individual religion with a great
religious, social program. one Swed-
iSh group severely criticized Arch
bishop Soederhloom as a latitudinarian
modernist, but was temporarily
silenced. Later Pastor Schroederheir.
of Stockholm attacked the confer
ence. charging ii with suppressing the
truth concerning the guilt of the allies
in starting the war.
Admits Information Faulty.
The Rev. Schroederheim subse
was inaccurate, apolOgized and re
signed the pastorate of his church.
His resignation was not accepted.
Pastor Schroederheim's attack re-
vitalized protests in Germany and
Scandinavia against the conferences
action.
Reports from Finland indicate that
Archbishop Johansson's repeated
criticisms of the conference are not
| approved by the majority of the
/ clergy there, who have warned him
| against the policy. He has summoned
conference Of Finnish bishops at
! Helsingfors to discuss the matter.
Seeks Closer Union.
| The Abo conference apparently will
! center upon a policy of closer union
of Lutheran churches upon a strictly
| religious basis.
| Archbishop Soederbloom, when in
| terviewed, said that if Archbishop
| Johansson had been present at Stock
holm he would have better realized
! the conferences spirit
The local archbishop declared he
| could not understand the animoSity
\ Iagainst the conference, whose sole pur
! pose was to relieve religious distress
and create Christian rapproachment.
| Luther" he said, urged "a Chris
! tian concilium that should do some
| thing to check the greed of princes
and the diSSension between princes,
| and the moral and social wrongs OF
communities, instead of giving all of
| its attention to minor, unimportant
| questions. This is what the Stock
| holm conference tried to do"
/ Copyright. 1928. by Chicago Daily News Co.,
Evening star., 1925-11-26

world streams OF trade. Before the
World War no important banking
transaction took place on earth with
out the guardians of the financial
crossroads Of the world in London
taking their toll. New York now
pockets the poll tax for moneys high
roads.
Europe's Civic Center.
probably the best investment in
crossroads real estate is Paris.
Geographers say Paris is the natural
headquarters of mankind. That it is
the inevitable crossroads of France
is plain. for it commands the best
routes to England. Belgium, Ger
many, the Mediterranean and to the
Loire. When all parts of the world
have been developed to their natural
capacity Paris, they say. will hold
sway. She has easy access to the
Mediterranean and Africa through
the break between the Alps and the
| Pyrenees. She is more convenient
to the Atlantic than Germany and
Italy. Vast Eurasia can come to
| her better than to England, Spain
or Italy. She has better access to
| America than Japan or China.
Paris international atmosphere to-
day is evidence that all roads lead
to Paris not Rome.
The Worlds Zero Zero.
"A good question for a geography
| final examination is: Where is the
worlds zero zero? Answer: The
| intersection of the Equator, zero
| latitude, and the zero longitude which
runs through Greenwich, England. is
| the arbitrary map crossroads of the
| world. This point lies in the Gulf
of Guinea 400 miles off Accra on the
| gold coast of Africa.
When the Turk became traffic
policeman and turned the stop sign
against Europe in Palestine, he pro-
| duced one of the few traffic jams for
| which the world can give thanks
| Fasco da Gamma went off on a de-
| tour and discovered the way around
Africa and around Palestine, the
| most important crossroads Of ancient
| history. And what was still worse
! for the Turk, Columbus started off
in the opposite direction. Columbus
discovery of America broke the
Ottoman monopoly. The busy
isthmus between the Red Sea and
the end of the Mediterranean has
| been the parade ground of conquer
! tors-CambyseS, Alexander the Great,
Pompey, Saladin, Richard the Lion
Hearted, Allenby and many, many
others. No real empire could do
Panama Canal last year passed the
Suez. The crossroads Columbus dis
covered has eclipsed that of history"
Evening star., 1925-11-26
PARIS FLOCKS TO RIVIERA.
Cold Weather Drives Society
South Early This Year.

PARIS, November 26 (P).-The cold
.s weather prevailing in Paris is send
ing the people southwark to the Ri
viela earlier than usual. All reserva-
tions on trains for the Mediterranean
coast have been booked for the next
three weeks, including even the
trains running from the Channel ports
for the convenience Of English trav'
tIers.
Evening star., 1925-11-26
Burns Fatal to Woman.

Annie Birt, colored, % years old,
died at Freedmen's Hospital this morn
ing as the result Of burns received
yesterday morning while attempting
to eXtinguish fire in her home, 1104
Fourth street. Coroner Nevitt gave
a certificate of accidental death.
Evening star., 1925-11-26
Perfectly; Safe.
From the London Answers.

From the London AnsWerS.
Agent-Don't you want your office
furnishings insured against theft?
The Manager--Yes, all except the
clock. Everybody watches that.