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The Washington times., 1925-11-06
Business Before, Fac.

Claire Windsor, who plays the
feature role in "Souls for Stables, y
which is shortly due at the
Rialto, cut short her honeymoon
with Bert LyteIl to portray the
role Of Alice Kendall in this story
suggested by ''Garlan & Co.." by
David Graham Phillips.
The part called for an elab-
crate display of gowns and fur
coats, and all the spare time
Miss Windsor had was given over
to the dressmakers, who utilized
the beautiful screen stars time
day and night in making more
than twenty-six gorgeous gowns,
which she wears throughout the
picture.
The Washington times., 1925-11-06
Capacity FrOIics

The special Halloween cos.
tune parties" held October 81 IN
all of the Crandail neighborhood
theaters proved one of the most
popular and most successful add
ed attractions ever devised for
the entertainment of the patrons
Of residential playhouses. At the
Ambassador and Home theaters,
the crowds were so great that
the capacity of the respective
stages was totally inadequate to
accommodate the children pre-.
senting themselves in costume.
Cash prizes were awarded for the
most original and funniest CO.'S
tunes worn by the juveniles.
The Washington times., 1925-11-06

Minnie bud" Harrison appear
ing next week at the Mutual as
featured player Of Hollywood
Scandals is "touted" as one of
tho best women singles in vaude.
vile who was won over to bur-
lesque when the Mutual circuit
heads offered her 60 per cent
interest In this company. Hence
the new week brings a come
dienne.manager to the Mutual.
The Washington times., 1925-11-06

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Among other things that the
English do better than as is in
the decoration Of small drawing
room talk. Given half a chance
with dialogue, an ordinary Eng
lish cast can be snlartly enter
tanning merely by sitting around
spouting, interfering, objecting.
surmising and back-biting.
In ''The Last Of Mrs. Chey-
ney," for instance, there is
superb flow Of conversation; an
atmosphere from the actors Of
being at ease" and thoroughly
at home, which has the effect
Of hypnotizing the auditor into
believing he's a guest at the
party. This effect springs from
a number of carefully dove
tailed sources, the greatest,
probably, being the proposition
that rarely will you find an
English actor mugging or bait.
ing an audience with the wittier
line. There is seldom an i'm
preston from behind the foot
lights of an actor bracing HIM
self and silently cue-ing the
audience:
"Wait till you hear this next
line."
A veritable torpedo Of wit is
uttered with the natural non
chalance that marks small talk
with the butler. And the result
is wonderful. A smart line has
the SAVIOR Of spontaneity and is
invested, really, with more wit
than it has, intrinsically. All
of US like the fellow who shows
only a small part of a large
load Of goods. We like his inr
difference to boastfulness; his
not caring much Of a damn
whether you are fully posted on
his surplus of merit or not.
"The Last Of Mrs. Cheyney,"
interpreted almost wholly by an
English cast-despite the OBJ
servation of one local critic that
the spectacle of American ac-
tors here trying to act like Eng
lishmen made him sick - one
stumbles on the shocking revela-
ton that repression is greater
art than expression.
And by the way, if you
haven't seen Miss Claire and
Mr.. Young and Mr.. Matthews
and all the others fencing with
wit and wits in this attraction,
you're cheating yourself out of
a grand evening.
The Washington times., 1925-11-06

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square SAT. lots and 4-Same tc
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slS S.h :. cs. (1sD
81. me-, square 1858, lot 72-Jacob b.
Shapiro to Walter A. Clarke ct ux.
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North OF Irving ST., east of BIadens.
burg I'd. me-, square 1895. lot WIN
Griggs ct ux., ODESSA. to- Mary H.
South OF Brandywine st. ana west
lot. w SOC soa a Set HSs square 5s
ehents Securities Co.. to Joseph A
na Inss .,. ODD
conveys same property to Abner Drury
co, rn o. :, -. u t9sl ,
and asa st. NV. square zoos, lot l3-
Harper j. McCIurg ct ux, Mary tc
William u. Terrell and Arthur j
Dinger, SO. I94l
2ss 18th pl. me-, square 1910, lot i2s
Samuel w. Barrow ct ux.. Julia, Il
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The Washington times., 1925-11-06

The whole towns talking about
The Washington Herald's offer Of
a beautiful, artistic and adorable
"HuSh-A-Bye Baby" that talks,
sleeps and is indestructibIe, i'm re-
turn for just three new six months
subscribers for The Washington
Herald, daily and Sunday.
Evening star., 1925-11-13
RED CROSS LEADER
SPEAKS AT SCHOOL
Gen. Barnett Addresses Steward
Students on the Annual
Enrolment.

Maj Gen. George Barnett, chair
man of the District Chapter Of the
American Red Cross, spoke In con
nection with the roll call enrolment
this morning before the students OF
the Steward School, 1902 f street.
Mrs. Frank Steward sang, accom-.
panied by John Vaudeville, baritone
soloist of the First Congregational
Church.
Among the active workers for the
District Chapter during the roll call
are the Gray Ladies at Walter Reed
Hospital, under the leadership of Miss
Elizabeth Potter, chairman Of the
Gray Lady committee for the RED
Cross drive. Those assisting include
Mrs. George T. Dunlop, Mrs. e. o..
Fox, Mrs. w. W. Galbraith, Mrs. Ell
bridge Jordan, Mrs. Reeve Lewis,
Evening star., 1925-11-13
Mrs. A. G. McClintock. Mrs. Austin

Mrs. A. G.. McClintock. Mrs. Austin
Moseley, Mrs. Charles Robb, Mrs Syl-
vanus Stokes, jr.; Mrs. Charles War
rem, Miss Ida Young, Mrs. Lester VII
son. Mrs. Cecilia Sniegoski. Mrs.
George Deering, Miss Mary w. Bow
Dire, Miss Mildred Mccullough, Mrs.
Charles McRoberts, Miss Mary Don
nelly. Mrs. l. NJ. Boniface, Miss Julia
Schelling. Miss Betty Byrne, Mrs. L..
&. Gunnell, Mrs. Robert Choate, Miss
Edith Osborn. Miss Josephine Ram
mage, Miss Elizabeth Rammage. Mrs.
n. K. Record, Mrs. w. II. Hall and
Mrs. George W. ThOmpsOn.
Evening star., 1925-11-13

to pay sufficient annual substitutes,
which are provided for by law at
present, and that these substitutes
be assigned preferably to schools
where the absence of the regular
teacher IS likely to be over an ex-
tended period.
"2. That a pay rate for per diem
substitutes be established sufficiently
high to attract men and women who
are trained and capable of teaching
our Washington school children.
3. That in keeping with the
standard almost universally adopted
throughout the United States not
more than three-fourths of the basic
annual salary be deducted for a
period of 90 school days in a year
for illness.
q. That Congress be petitioned to
enact such legislation and provide
such appropriations as will make
section 8, article " A, of this state
ment workable.
Five Days Sick Leave.
"B. That Congress be petitioned
for appropriate legislation to make
possible the granting to the teachers
Of five days sick leave without loss
of salary. (Such legislation being a
very modest approach to the uni
versal custom in practically all
forms of public and private employ
ment)
"V. That in order to maintain and
promote the high professional stand
ard of teachers and the high quality
of teaching in the District of CO.
lumbia that provision be made, with
out cost to the community, to aid
teachers in securing additional pro-
fessional betterment, a provision gen
orally known as the Sabbatical year
Such legislation to provide:
q. That teachers wishing to i'm
prove themselves professionally be al
lowed one years leave of absence on
written application to the superin-
tendent of schools, such leave to be
granted to the applicants therefor in
order of filing applications. and in con-
sideration OF the good of the service.
provided that:
"(a) There should at no time be more
than s per cent of the teachers of the
corps or of any part thereof so alb
sent.
'(b) That the grants of such leave
of absence be equitably alloCated to
all parts of the school system.
"(c) That during such period grant
ed for professional betterment the
teacher be given as salary the total
Evening star., 1925-11-13
Gloria Swanson Is Sued for $25,OOO;
Process Server Says He Was Slapped

ure to appear as a witness in the sep
aration suit of Janet Beecher and DIR.
Richard Horace Hoffman. Instead of
going to court Miss Swanson sailed
for Europe. The court then directed
she be arrested and held in Ludlow
Street Jail until the fine of $3.50 was
paid.
On her return to the United States
recently her attorney sought to have
the contempt order vacated on the
ground she had not been served with
Il subpoena. Last night she was
served with papers in the damage ac-
ton brought by S. Alexander Cohen,
q process server, who asserted that
he had not only served the subpoena,
hut had been slapped for his pains.
Evening star., 1925-11-13
ROYALTY EXPECTED HERE.
Swedish Crown Prince Due for
Ericsson Statue dwelling.

The memorial statue being erected
here of Capt. John Ericsson, builder
of the Monitor, will be dedicated on
next May %, it was decided yester-
day by the memorial commission.
Representative Chindblom of Illinois,
chairman of the citizens committee
announced he expected the Crown
Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden
to attend the ceremony.
President Coolidge will be invited to
speak
Evening star., 1925-11-13

amount over and above the basic sal
airy of his class which he, because of
length of service. would receive We're
he regularly employed in classroom
teaching at that time.
Id That during such absence there
be assigned to the place of the alb
sentee a temporary teacher, who shall
possess the qualifications and other
professional requisites of the teachers
of that class, and who shall serve at
the basic salary of that class"
Evening star., 1925-11-13
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, November 13.-The
order placing Gloria Swanson in con-
tempt of court for ignoring a sum-
mons as a witness yesterday was up
held by Supreme Court, and at the
same time it was learned that the
process server had brought suit for
$4,000 damages against her because
she slapped him, he alleged.
The Supreme Court ruling makes
Miss swanson liable to $3.50 fine. The
contempt charge grew out of her fail
Evening star., 1925-11-13
Ordered to HOSPITAL.

First Lieut.. Warren ]. Clear. United
States Infantry, language officer at
Toxic, Japan. has been ordered to the
Letterman General Hospital, San
Francisco, for treatment.
Evening star., 1925-11-13
Quartermasters Ordered Here.

Three quartermasters, Maj. Ed
mund De T. Ellis, a student at Har-
ward University; Capt. Emil II. Block,
at Fort Monroe, and Capt. John
Biggar, at Chicago, have been or
dered to this city for duty in the
Office of the Quarterpaster General,
War Department.
Evening star., 1925-11-13
TEACHERS OUTLINE
SUBSTITUTE PLAN
Union Committee Urges Five.
Days Sick Leave and
! Part Pay for go Days.

Recommendations of the executive
committee of the Washington Teach.
ers Union for an equitable salary law
Tor substitute teachers will be sub
mttted to the union for approval at a
meeting this afternoon at $50 o'clock
in the MaChiniSts' Building. The rec.
concentrations were adopted by the
committee at meeting Monday. and
II Endorsed by the union will be for
Warded to the Board of Education
and school authorities.
A statement outlining the commit
tees views on the question and con
tanning its various recommendations
was issued today at the union head
quarters. 1t follows:
The Washington Teachers Union
earnestly desires to maintain a high
standard of teaching in the Wash.
ington public schools. 1t recognizes
that one Of the most essential and
basic considerations in the mainte
nance of a high standard of teaching
is the demand that the entire teaching
personnel of the schools possess high
professional qualifications. and that
only persons possessing such qualifi-
cations be permitted to teach any class
at any time.
Favor High Standard.
1T heartily agrees with the school
authorities in their view that higher
salaries enable them to obtain better
teachers, and that the salary sChed-
ule provided for the teachers in the
Keller bill attracts teachers and en-
ableS the city to maintain the splendid
reputation which the present caliber
of its teaching makes possible for it
to enjoy throughout the country.
The Teachers Union is very anX-
ious that the pupils of Washington
should receive the best type of in
struction possible, and, therefore, Is
very happy that the school authorities
wish to provide for substitute salary
law, which will assure a professionally
trained personnel to the schools for
all times.
With the interest of the child in
view and with the full realization
that the school authorities also wish
to change the present school rule re-
gardinS substitutes for the best in
tereSt of the child and not as means
of penalizing a teacher because of ILL.,
ness, the executive committee of the
Teachers Union submits the following
precepts for consideration and rec
ommends their adoption:
u. That as annual substitutes are
authorized by act of Congress in the
present organic school law. that the
city be given the full benefit of such
substitutes, and they be used as sub
stitutes for teachers absent because
of illness, and not TO be used as cleri-
cal assistants or teacher helpers
-. That sufficient appropriations
to pay for annual substitutes be
sought in Congress.
Sick Teacher to Pay Part.
''3. That the present organic school
law be so amended as to make pos
slble an equitable adjustment on the
question of pay for substitutes.
''ta). AS the statistics Of the United
States Bureau of Education show that
substitutes in 26 cities out of 45 sub
mitting data pay substitutes more
than Washington pays them, and as
in "a per cent of these cities the
teacher pays only a part of the sub
stitute's pay, we recommend a SINH
lar adjustment for Washington. This
adjustment to be:
i. That appropriations be secured
Evening star., 1925-11-13

Convict labor is to be used in re-
forestation work in Michigan.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-27
TEXAS WATER WORKS
SCHOOL WILL OPEN

AUSTIN, Dec. 26.-The eighth an
nunl school for Texas Water Works
operators will be held in Fort Worth,
January 1923, 1926, under the au-
spices Of the Texas section of the
Southwest Waterworks association,
the Fort Worth city health and water
departments, the Texas Christian uni
versity, and the State Board of
Health.
This school was instituted in 1919
for the purpose of giving water works
and filter plant operators actual
laboratory training and demonstra-
tons of simple tests i'll determining
the safeness of water supplies, and
has grown from n handful OF opera
tors in the beginning to an estimated
attendance of 1900 for the coming
session. At the beginning of this
school only six cities were treating
surface water supplies, and now more
than 100 towns are treating such sup
plies by some method. At that time,
too, Texas had annually some TO-
600 cases of typhoid fever, and it is
estimated that since then, water borne
typhoid has been reduced 90 per cent.
and dysentery has also been reduced
to n minimum.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-27
CLOATING CEDAR TREE
COMES TO TRAGIC END

After the tree had been used in a
Christmas celebration there, the Rev
J. Leighton Green, pastor of the West
minister Presbyterian Church. Offered
Miss Ora johnson, principal, So for it
Humiliated and panied, the tree was
cut half in two. The upper extremity
was taken to the church where last
Tuesday night children gathered and
gave n Christmas program.
And the tree wept softly to itself.
But afterwards the Rev. G. b,
Strickler, pastor-jf the Highland Parl;
Presbyterian Church, came along. He
offered the Rev. Mr.. Green $3.50 for
the tree.
Then on Wednesday night the tree
was decorated again-little children
crowded about its green branches and
were happy.
The tree thought surely that was the
end. But no.
After the serviceea member of the
congregation stepped up.
SMALL ONE LEFT.
II will give you one-half of what you
paid for the tree if / can have the top
of it to take home" the man offered.
The cedar walled piteously as all but
three feet of its giant body was sawed
away.
Now it stands in some family's
home. Its life is fast ebbing. Soon
the trash man will be paid to carry its
dead branches away.
But the small. gnarled. twisted cedar
by the boulder is still alive.
1t stands where 1t will grace the
countryside for years to come.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-27
TRINITY RIVER MOST
POLLUTED OF STREAMS

AUSTIN. Dec. GA summary of
The Trinity river pollution studies
made by the sanitary engineering
division of the State Board of Health
shows this stream 10 be one of the
most grossly polluted of any in the
South. end that this condition inter
feres with the comfort. recreation and
welfare Of those living in its vicinity.
1t also handicaps irrigation. stock
raising. dairying, menaces oyster beds
at the gulf, and plays havoc with fish
life.
while the natural purifying
agencies of many Of the rivers of
Texas are greatly overtaxed, it is
possible for all these rivers TO be
restored. to their original purity. +"
stated DIR. H. o. Sappington. state
health officer. eff the cities on the
water sheds of these streams will re-
quire Industries within their corpo-
rate limits to treat their wastes, and
IL the cities themselves will treat their
liquid wastes to such degree that
the water in the stream below the
point of discharge is not inferior in
sanitary quality to the water in the
stream immediate above the city
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-27
REDUCE VALLEY
/ FREIGHT
/ RATES
New Charges Will Go Into
Effect January First,
Pawkett Announces.

New single line freight rates from
San Antonio to various points of the
Rio Grande Valley on the lines of the
s. A. L. and G. railroad, will 20
INTO effect January 1. U. S. Pawkett,
secretary and general manger of San
Antonio Freight Bureau, announced
Saturday.
This reduction is the first step
taken BY the Missouri Pacific system
since the purchase of the s. A. U.
and G. railroad, Mr.. Pawkett said.
snd will make freight traffic between
San Antonio and all points in the
Valley lower than from Houston.
Ono of the provisions put before
the Missouri Pacific system for the
purchase of the S. A. L. and c..
Mr.. Pawkett explained. was that the
railroad should be put in common
point territory between San Antonio
and Corpus Christi, and to apply
single line rates between San Antonio
and points on the Brownsville road.
In commenting ON the difference
of rates. the secretary of the San An
tonic Freight Bureau explained that
with the old tariff the first class rate
from San Antonio to Brownsville was
SLIT, while with the new single line
the rate viii be S1.65.
The new single line rate means to
merchants and farmers in the Valley
savings of several thousand dollars
year on their freight charges on
business from San Antonio, Mr.. Paw
kctt declared.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-27

In the foothills near Kerrville
few years ago two cedar trees tool
root, sprouted and grew.
Ones growth was hampered, how
ever. 1t had come up beside hug,
boulder which iwarfed every branch
the tree put out in its direction.
And, as the small tree struggled tC
live. the other, in fertile, clear spot
grew and grew and grew.
Before many months had passed, thu
tree in the clearing was twice the
height of the one by the rock.
The big tree looked down on the
small, gnarled, twisted one. and
laughed.
GLOATS OVER DWARF.
All the sunshine fell upon its
spreading branches-the cool WIND
whistled through its leaves.
But there was no sympathy in. the
heart of this tree. 1t gloated over
the dwarf at its feet. 1t enjoyed sap
ping the life from the other.
Years-three or four in number
elapsed.
Just two weeks before Christmas
the fortunate tree had nearly reached
maturity. 1t was taller than all the
rest. Its twelve feet in height per
mitted it to look over the tops of the
other shrubs.
But the owner of the land CHANGED
by. That's the very one / want!" he
exclaimed.
And ms the sharp blows of the
woodman's AK cut deep into the big
trees trunk, the small one wept.
The tree was brought to San An
tonic and sold to the Brackenridg,
High School for SO.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-27
FIVE MEMBERS OF ONE
FAMILY ARE CRUSHED

PILGER, Neh., Dec. 26.-Five
members of the Fritz vonzeggern
family, living four miles north of
Wisner, Neb., were killed and another
probably fatally injured when a North
western passenger train struck the
automobile in which they were riding
near here.
The dead are:
Mr.. and Mrs. Fitz Vonzeggern, Gus
p years old, Louise % years old
and Emma, IA years old. Fritz Won
zeggern, 90 years old who was driv-
ing the car, was probably fatally in
jured.
The family was on their way to
spend Christmas with their son, Her
man Vonzeggern.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-27
LIQUOR IS KILLING
SOUTH SEA NATIVES

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 26.-The
effects Of civilization-and mainly
the liquor which civilization furnishes
are rapidly killing off the native
Indians of Patagonia, according to
a report made to the government by
DIR. Antonio r. Ribeyrolles.
In all of Terra Del Fuego there
are only $50 Indians, DR.. Ribeyrolles
states, and there are less than $50
in the territory of Santa Cruz. In
telligent and docile. they have adopted
the worst features Of civilization,
neglecting the virtues.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-27
LIONS WILL TEACH
S. A. K|DD|ES TO PLAY
Learn how to play.

A<taAA ~" ~ fA"%Sf
That's the invitation the Lions
Club is extending to San Antonio kid
dies. Monday and Wednesday eve
ming the club will hold "open house y
at Lions Field for all San Antonio
boys and girls and their parents.
The parties will begin at the club
house at 80 o'clock each evening and
will last until o o'clock. Miss Mar
gnret Rosy, teacher of dancing, will
have charge of the programs which
will consist chiefly of games and
dancing.
Il. c. Oliver, superintendent Of the
field. invites all children to use Lions
Field during the holidays. 1t is open
from s a. IN. to 6 p. m. Parents are
urged to send children Of 10 years of
age and younger to dancing classes,
which Miss Rosy conducts at the
field every afternoon at 4 o'clock.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-27
INDIAN PRINCESS
WINS FARM HONORS

SNOHOMISH, Wash. Dec. o.
Farm products exhibited by an in
dian princess of the Lummi tribe car
ried off honors at the fall festival in
Everett.
Chief Kwina of the same clan, also
entered squash. potatoes and onions
from a tract of land cultivated by
him
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-27
HYPNOTIC EYE GETS
QUICK CONFESSION

RICHMOND. KY. Dec. ga ne
gro. believing himself under spell
cast by a mesmerist, has just confessed
here that he stole sixteen hens from
the poultry house of E. c. Moore and
sold them.