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other equipment for the school and
to augment the general fund.
Music" was the subject of the
Langdon association at its meeting.
May s. A talk on Music Apprecia-
ton" was given by Miss Keith. who
gave demonstration of how music
can be effectively taught to the
smallest children, giving brief Illus
trated lesson to a class of first grade
children. A music memory contest
was conducted. the prize being won by
Mrs f. a. Linger. Refreshments
were served.
The executive board of the District
of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teach-
er Associations met at the home OF
Mrs G. S. Rafter Tuesday afternoon.
The regular meeting will be held Tues
day at the Shoreham Hotel at LAD
pm. Nine. Won Unchild will at this
time present the association with a
large American flag. The three dele
gates to the national convention, Mrs.
Rafter, Mrs. Saunders and Mrs. Smith,
will each make report Each dele
gate was assigned a certain part.
thereby every phase of work done dur
ing the convention has been recorded.
1t is hoped every association in the
District will be present. The executive
board took a stand Tuesday against
and magazines; also questionable
theaters that show and say things
unfit for children to see and hear.
The festival and luncheon of the
Peabody Hilton association, which was
to have been held May II, has
been changed to May 20. Miss Evlyn
Naylor of the physical training de
partment will be in charge. All
pupils, about 600 in number, will
take part. The proceeds from the
luncheon will go toward helping to
pay for the stereoscope machine and
views, also the recently purchased
duplicating machine. The assocfa-
ton has already expended about $500
this year for school supplies besides
helping needy families in the neigh
borhood. School officials. including
Supt. Ballou, Mr.. Kramer and others
with their families, are expected to
attend the May festival Wednesday
afternoon. The two kindergarten
classes will have May pole dances
the three schools of each grade viii
have folk dances at the same time,
similar to a three ring circus. Forty
eight girls dressed in costume repre-
senting the 4S States in the Union
will have a special drill, and the
Boys Glee Club will sing. Miss NJ.
The monthly meeting of the Weight
man association was held May 8.
with the vice president, Mrs. M. j.
Hanley, presiding. The pupils of the
sixth grade, under the direction of
their teacher, Miss n. Stewart, gave
an entertainment. The treasurer.
Mrs. William Donohue, reported
S49.65 was received by the moving
picture benefit. A petition to restore
the seventh grade to the Weightmana
School was proposed and is to be re-
ferred to the West End Citizens As
ISOLATION for action.
The monthly meeting of the Lang
ley association will be held Tuesday
at 1880 pm. in the Langley Junior
High School. The speaker of the
evening will be DR.. Arthur D. Call.
An interesting program has been pre-
pared ard important business will be
transacted. Election of officers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17
BY LEILA MECHLIN.

~ LANS are progressing for the
- exhibition of early American
art, which is to be held here
in the National Museum next
December under the auspices
Of the Washington Loan Exhibition
Committee, of which Mrs. Eustis ia
chairman. This exhibition will consist
of early American paintings. ninia-
lures and silver. The chairmen OF
these subcommittee are as follows:
Painting, Miss Leila Mechlin. with
Mrs. Porter Chandler as vice chair
man; miniatures, Miss Ernst: silver,
Gist Blair. Up to the present time
these subcommittee have been col
lectlng information and data concern
ing local loans. The intention is to
secure the majority of the exhibits
from Washingtonians but additions
will be made to the collections by
collectors in other parts of the coun-
try. One of the best known collectors
of early American paintings in New
York has generously consented to
allow the committee to draw upon
his collection to almost an unlimited
extent. There will be members on
the committee on miniatures in Balti-
more, Philadelphia, New York and
Boston. Mr.. Blair has secured the
promise or cooperation from the lead
ing collectors of American silver in
Baltimore, New York and Boston. The
success of the exhibition is therefore
already assured.
1t has been something of a surprise
to find how many beautiful examples
of early American painting are owned
in this city. The committee on paint
1ngs has been fortunate enough to
secure the cooperation and assistance
of H. B. Wehle of the METROPOLITAN
Museum of Art, who is regarded as
one of the leading experts in this
country in this field of art Mr., Wehle
spent four days in Washington last
week examining the paintings here in
private ownership. and expressed him
self as greatly IMPRESSED with, not
only the number, but their interest
and merit.
This exhibition will be set forth in
tnat portlo.i of the National Museum
Whlch MS been set aside for the dis
play N the works of art belong ing to
the National Gallery, and, while it
.Till demonstrate the beauty and value
OF the works Of our early American
artists, it will also call attention to
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The book gives one an excellent
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do things that brought the folks
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THE INDIvIDUALIST. BY Sir
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17

Henry Lehrer died at Carthage
Mo-, from blood poisoning that de-
veloped after hen pecked him on
the arm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17

The monthly meeting of the Lang
ley association will be held Tuesday
at 1880 pm. in the Langley Junior
High School. The speaker of the
evening will be DR.. Arthur d. Call.
An interesting program has been pre-
pared ard important business will be
transacted. Election of officers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17

The May meeting Of the Monroe
association will be held Tuesday eve
ming in the school. There will be cleo
ton of officers. All officers of the asso-
citation since its organization in 1911
will be guests of the evening. DR..
K. n. c. Barnes. director of music in
the public schools, will have charge or
the program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17

~ LANS are progressing for the
- exhibition of early American
art, which is to be held here
in the National Museum next
Evening star., 1925-09-30

waltz. and stiff joints have kept them
from learning the new dances. Tho
gayety and noise of young persons
bore them. A young person who is
not gay ought to be looked on with
suspicion or turned over to the family
doctor. Young people laugh easier
and make more racket than fellows
rusty with their years.
All through the ages the older gem
sration has decIaimed that the ynungsr
generation was not up to standard,
and when the younger generation has
become gray or bald and been fitted
with false teeth it takes it's turn in
lambasting the rising generation.
There are some boys ans finds It hard
to approve, but fifty years ago thers
were the same kinds of boys, and to-
day many of those fellows, wearing
carpet slippers and going about on
crutches, insist that boys are very
much worse than they used to be.
Mr.. Dests Pickett says, '"Fhe erotic
dances. are evolved by bald.headed
dancing masters; the sratic plays are
produced by men Of maturity; salacious
novels and magazines ars not the
product Of youth, but produced by the
older generation for youth Deets
gives same hard knocks to the older
generation. .- i.-
Evening star., 1925-09-30
InsurRent Wi1eensiA.

Wisconsin. faithful to the memory
of Robert M. La Toilette, senior. yes
terday voted Overwhelmingly to send
to the Senate his sen, also Robert M.
La Toilette, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Senator La Toilette.
Mr.. La Toilette will enter the Sen
ate. as his father did twenty years
ago, opposed by the regular Republic
ans Of that body, although he won the
Republican nomination at the State
Wide primaries two weeks ago and
yesterday was elected as Repub.
lican. When the senior La Toilette
came to the Senate In 1905 the term
progressive" was unknown. He did
more than any other single man to
bring about the development of the
progressive movement. His son has
declared himself in favor OF carrying
an" along the trail blazed by his
father.
Wisconsin, by the election of MI.
La Toilette as Republican to succeed
his father, is still "eutside the Union"
III tHt oplaioI Ok tic ic6uAoi AASPud,
licaa organization. For years the
anti-La Toilette Republicans in the
Badger State have striveR 10 wrest
control from the La Toilette forces.
Their most recent effort has proved as
vain as the earlier efforts. Wisconsin
has said to the party, This is my
brand Of Repuhlicanism, take it or
leave it."
If the more conservative element Of
the Republican party is to gain con-
troll Of Wisconsin it must happen
through conversion Of the voters in
Wisconsin itself. It is expected that
the regular Republican organization
of the Senate will turn cold shoulder
to Mr. La Toilette when he comes to
Washington next December; that it
will decline to recognize him as
Republican because he has attacked
the national Republican administra-
tion and it's policies and because he
was one OF the managers of his
fathers presidential campaign last
year. 1t attempted to read the senior
La Toilette out Of the party by similar
tactics last Winter and Spring. But
these tactics dc not appear to have
been impressive to the Republican
voters of Wisconsin. Indeed, it seems
to have made them mere set in their
ways.
Evening star., 1925-09-30
Youths Morals.

A man who may have some way Of
appraising the morals of a large num-
Der Of persons defends the younger
generation" The man who takes up
the gauntlet for the younger genera
tien is Beets Pickett, described as "re-
search secretary of the board Of tenn
perance, prohibition and public morals
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church."
1t is not clear that one can list and
sort the vices and virtues OF a mil
lion young persons and then strike a
balance as to whether they are seod
or bad. "Good' and bad" are terms
that men wrsngle on the definition Of:
1t is a pleasure that a man who spe-
cializes in morals looks on the younger
generation with a friendly eye. No
matter what statistics he has gath
cred many men feel that he has logic
with him. .-s
The woof -woof of older persons that
boys and girls are going to the bow
vows 10 overdone. Hordes OF the
shocked moralists are men who have
revised their habits Of life because Of
physical degeneration. They have to
be careful of what they eat and
drink. To stay up late makes them
suffer next day. They cannot mix
mince pie, SODA water. ice cream and
pickles. They have forgotten how to
Evening star., 1925-09-30
Man Proposes, Wife Disposes,
One View of Wallop Earldom

Americans have followed with gen
eral. though mild. interest the roman
tic story Of Oliver Henry Wallop
wealthy Wyoming ranchman, who re-
Gently became the Earl of Portsmouth
through the death of an elder brother
in England. His expressed intention
to continue as an American citizen
has caused much delving into the law
to determine whether he becomes
Briton or still has the rights of citizen
ship here.
IF Mr.. Wallop retains his American
citizenship while sporting the title Of
Earl of Portsmouth" SAYS the Spring
field Republican, he will not sudden
ly hecome a menace to our republican
institu tions. Other American citizens
have held British titles. Wyoming,
Idaho and Montana could absorb all
the titles held by the British nobility
and lose nothing of their America nlsnl
in those great open spaces. The mo-
tion picture business would thrive on
photoplays having Cowpuncher dukes
as the heroes and villains. We have
for years brought into this country
the precious art collections and an
tiquities of England. Surely we can
absorb a few earls."
The Richmond News-Leader as
sumes that the Wallop family. and
especially the wife, will see 10 it"
that the new earl goes TO England.
times when Oliver Henry will get
powerfully lonesome for a Wyoming
sunset, for beef that is not clad in tin
or wrapping paper, for campfres and
the peace OF sky that everywhere Is
dripping stars" The Richmond paper
quotes writer on the West who said
recently that Wyoming is crowded
assuming that Wyoming could ever
be crowded-with younger sons" of
titled foreigners, and that virtually
all seem to be as contented with their
free and easy lot as they are soft and
chary Of speech and are resigned. in
deed, to obscurity:
X x X
oliver Henry Wallop could not re-
nounce his title, SO far as the English
rule is concerned" explains the Reno
Evening Gazette. because it Is perma-
nent SO long as the male heir to 1t sur
wives in his family. The title goes on
and on. whether the heir assumes it or
not, and thus there are Italian, French
and German subjects who are mem
bers of the British peerage. 1t is true
that in American law, since the adop-
ton of the immigration act amend
ments, an applicant for citizenship
must renounce his claim to foreign IT,
ties, but the new Earl of Portsmouth
became a citizen before the amend
ment was adopted. And even If he
had renowned his British rank, he
could not bind his own heirs, for any
one of them might return to England
and, becoming a British subject, lay
claim to seat in the House of Lords
at some future time"
Noting that Wallop was naturalized
two years before the American law
was passed, the Louisville Post calls
attention to the fact that "the earldom
did not fall on him until 19 years
later" and it is interested to know
whether he will do his cow punching
in the future as Mr.. Wallop or the
Earl of Portsmouth"
The New Yorker who once upon
time said "he would prefer to be
lamp post in New York than resi-
dent" OF q certain other American city
Evening star., 1925-09-30
Stars i'm North Rival
The Southern Cross
To the Editor of The Star;

To the Editor of The Star
High in the starlit sky, the Norih
ern Cross sparkles amid the constel-
lation of Cygnus. We have heard and
read about the famous Southern
Cross, but some of us have not heard
about the large symmetrical North
ern Cross. 1t is situated just east
ward from the bright, beautiful star
Vega, in the constellation Lyra, and
it possesses, for a ornamental back
ground, the dim, remote Milky Way.
The Northern Cross is formed by Ave
suns, extending, at present, in The
direction northeast to southwest.
The five suns are named Deneb
Albireo, Delta, Gamma and Epsilon,
Deneb, also known as Arided, gill
ters at the top; Albireo at the bot-
tom. Between Deneb and Albireo.
there sparkle, in line, Delta (north
West). Gamma lin the center). and
Epsilon (southeasn. OF these Ave
stars, Deneb possesses q brilliant
white color, Albireo is yeIlowish. az
is Epsilon. Deneb or Arided glitters
with first magnitude brillance. Be
cause of its remoteness, 1t does not
shine SO brightly on us as do soms
OF the other first ma gnitude suns of
night. Nevertheless. Deneb Is 9 very
brilliant star. its luminosity having
been estimated at 1000 times bright
er than that Of our own sun.
CHA ELES NEVERS HoLMHs.
Evening star., 1925-09-30

large boys. otherwise called men, have
been lured by buried treasure. Es.
pecially has pirate gold a charm.
There was Capt. William Kidd, who
went to sea from New York in the
good ship that became the bad ship
Adventure Galley. Gardeners Island,
N. r., has been dug up for his buried
gold. his jewels, precious stones, his
plate and for his pieces of eight. The
shores of Long Island Sound and the
banks Of the Hudson have been spaded
up In quest of his ill-got booty. which
was quite likely all recovered by Earl
Bellamont. colonial governor, about
the time he sent Capt. Kidd prisoner
to London, where he was cepemanious-
ly put to death for piracy May "a.
1701.
All through the lower Mississippi
country and the strand Of the Gulf
boys immature and hays grown UP
have dug for Jean Lafitte's gold. Jean
was Gulf pirate Of prominence and
settled a pirate colony on Barataria
Island. and either because he hated
Englishmen or loved Americans he
helped Andrew Jackson win his great
fame by beating Packenham at New
0rleaRs
He weuld he q busy man to set
down all effarts to find the buried
treasure Of the buccaneers. freeboot.
Il
Gulf and Caribbean. Sunken galleons
have been dredsed fer, but so far as
recorded precious little Of the gold Of
Sir Henry Morgan, Laurent, Avery,
Blackboard and Reherts has been
brought back to circulation.
Evening star., 1925-09-30

tions next year. They will attack the
administration wherever they think 1t
vulnerable. The Republicans, on the
other hand, are planning to so to the
country again with q, further tax re-
duction III hand and record for
economy.
The World Court. which is one of
the subjects for early consideration in
the Senate, has political possibilities,
although the people generally at the
present time are paying very little
attention to the court Issue and do
not seem inclined to get excited about
it. Word is brought here from Kan
sas, for example, that nobody is think
ing about the court, and up In Wis
consin. where the Democrats split in
senatorial campaign In the senatorial
primary over the court and League
Of Nations. With Bruce opposing the
league and court and Rogers support
ing 1t, Rogers got less than 200 votes.
All Of which wonld indicate that the
court proposal is not popular In Wis.
consin.