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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-17
SATIN CREPE AND KASHA
ARE RACE AT n6NTE CARLO

MONTE CARLO, Jan. 17.-Satin
crepe-in pink, emerald green, rose
wood, silk Ottoman-and natural
colored kasha are the most success
full dress materials Of the Riviera
season. Kasha cloaks, trimmed with
brown fur, are prominent at sun
down on the terrace at Monte Carlo
and the promenade Des Anglais, at
Nice.
Some frocks, of natural colored
kasha, have the narrow, straight
line effect. but the skirt has an
apron tunic unobtrusively attached
at the low waist-line and extending
nearly to the hem. Beneath this
tunic. which is split in the front,
the skirt seems narrow, but its
width is extended by an inverted
box pleat at the left. Tunic, skirt
and pleat all combine to make walk.
ing easy and achieve the straight.
line effect.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-17

northwest, from Wallace Luchs. c.
W ~ Simpson Company mempesaanAed
the purchaser.
One of the new homes in Aurora
Hills, Va, recently completed by
the Aurora Hills Homes, Inc, was
sold to John II. Bittenbender.
The Columbia Realty and Con.
stfuction Company purchased from
Eugene Smith the desirable site at
the corner of Connecticut avenue
and Backbone street, Chevy
Chase, Md.
No. 81 r street northeast, was
bought by Charles B. Lott from
Carl A. Ries, and will occupy same
in the very near future.
Clara f. Berchtold bought from
john Fl. Bittenbender the six-room,
modern bycik home at No. 4608
Eighth street northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-17

tribe Of Indians. who freQuented
this valley. >TAa.l designs on the
vessels vary on nearly every piece.
Several Boy Scouts interested in
Indian lore are assisting In the
work, ana Rock Cabin has proved
a repository Of Indian relics. Mr..
Schrabist believes that 1t was used
as an Indian shelter rather than as
a permanent habitation Of the tribe,
which many erroneously believed TO
be 2. tribe of the Delawares.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-17
PENNSYLVANIA INDIAN
NPOTTERY' UNEARTRED

wILKES-BA Pa. Jan. H.
Forty-three different kinds of pots
have been made from 500 frag-
ments Of pottery unearthed by Max
Schrabist, archaeologist of the Wyo-
ming Historical Society, who has
been making excavations at Rock
Cabin, on Wyoming mountain. The
pottery was the work OF the Lenape
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-17
OPPORTUNITY
Are You Satisfied With the Amount
Of Your Pay CheckP

The Washington. d. c., agency of
The Mutual Life Insurance Company
Of New York will inaugurate classes
OF Life Insurance Instruction ana
Salesmansmp covering a THOROUGH
Prof. W. w. winsbro. late of William
and Mary college. beginning Thurs
day. January 20. at p. M. at the
company's offices. Each class will
meet two nights every week to com
pIete the course OF six weeks.
Ambitious. high Grade men. pref
srably those without life insurance
selling experience, are invited to
make application to join the January
classes.
Upon completion of each course
who aIify. This AGENcY's
system OF cO,oPERATIoN MAKES
1T PRACTICABLE. TIL r o USG II
JOINT WORK WITH EXPERIENCED
REPRESENTATIVES. FOR STU.
EVEN DURING THE PERIOD of
and purpose Of this department to
develop successful life underwriters
for this company.
Life insurance IL today a part of
the modern scheme of business and
social life. Life insurance practice,
therefore, invites one TO a more
speedy financial success than most
any field OF endeavor where HON
ESTY, ENERGY and BRAINS are
ESSENTIAL PREREQUISITES.
Men who have come to a -reaIiza-
ton of the income limitations of
their present occupation OF employ
ment will do well to seriously consider
and investigate this opportunity.
It il our work TO SEE THAT
YOU SUCCEED.
Conferences at our offices beginning
Thursday. the 18th.
Call. write or telephone.
Henry 8. Baker, Assistant Manager
johnson r. Morgan and w. w.
WinsbrO. Agency Instructors.
an aauthsrn Bids, 18TH and Sta. nv.
Main 762-76S.
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w. r. E. co WILL OPERATE
.anBussEs 10 GAF1lEL D

The Public Utiiities Commission
yesterday gave permission to the
washington Railway and Electric
Company to operate bus line from
its Anacostia line to Garfield and
Barry Farm. y. G.
The new route will be In operation
for three months. IL after that
time, the Commission believes the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-17
Citizens Body to Elect

Officers OF the Connecticut Ave-
nue. Citizens Association will be
elected Wednesday night at that
organizations meeting in All Souls
Parish Hall
Evening star., 1925-05-10

tails an enormous expenditure, which
VIII have to be shared by the States
and the railroads.
The campaign of warning has Its
value. 1t should, however, not be
seasonal, but continuous. 1t should
comprise the placing OF permanent
precautionary signs and siSusis ut
safe distances from each highway
track intersection, effective at all
hours, both day and night. In short,
while waiting for the elimination of
the grade crossing the public should
be specifically informed in unm;s-
taxable manner of every point of
danger on the road.
Evening star., 1925-05-10

However infrequente such hand,
1t is one of the most satisfying com.
binations of cards, something to re-
member for a. lifetime. And yet as
a playing proposition 1t Is 1 disa p.
pointment. There is no chance for
speculation in it. The holder of such
hand can bid the limit with perfect
confidence.
If the perfect hand for single
player can occur only once In six
hundred billion deals. what Is the
chance of four perfect hands heing
dealt simultaneously? That would
make lively combination. The bid
ding, with such hands held around
the board, would be something worth
while. But no one has computed that
possibility. The supply OF ciphers does
not suffice to permit such a reckoning.
Evening star., 1925-05-10
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.

II ever shot was heard around the
world this one was. That was nearly
20 years ago. and only recently have
the echoes died out with the final free
ing of Thaw from an asylum in Phiiss
delphia.
trials OF Thaw brought out some of
the most amazing testimony ever
heard In courtroom. There was us1-.
folded, for instance, the story of the
room OF the mirrors in Madison Square
tower, the retreat of Stanford White
and a small. very small coterie or
his brother bon vivants. There were
the stories of the esthetic and exotic
parties in the tower suites. The news.
papers OF Paris, Of Madrid, of Peking
and Toxic cried for more and more OF
the salacious details of this amazing
episode. 1t was all part of the life
of Madison Square Garden, soon to be
but a tangled pile of dust and debris
like. some of the mortals who strutted
their brief hour In its calcium glare.
If one doubts that romance and sim.
plicity have fed before the onward
march of utilitarianism, let him 'bfit
gaze upon the photographs of the
ground-breaking ceremonies the past
week at the Cathedral of st. John the
Divine. in New York City. where the
work on the western part of the great
ecclesiastical pile has just been
started. '>pt
In the years agone the grotIitd
breaking would have been done with
silver spade. A gold one was used
at San Francisco when even such an
ephemeral thing as the Panama PA
cif1c exposition was started. And thst
was only IA years ago. -,rte
Prtf fnIa L.
! ture of the ground breaking at the
cathedral the great blunt nose and
bucket of a giant steam shovel. After
suitable ceremony and invocation the
word was given, and, with rattle anG
a roar, a snorting and putting, the
big teeth Of the shovel bit into the
| sacred ground. The rush of the con
struction work was on. No useless
moments were wa sted. ''
| The gloomy dean" of st. PauEs.
| London, the Very Rev. w. r. Iuye.
| didn't let the newspaper men say it
for him. He said it himself. He said
| that If Englishmen were treated by
the English customs officials as Amer
leans are treated by the American n
customs officials. the Englishmen
| would raise Acheron." -.
AS a polite way TO express "cuss.
ing" the deans method is quite price.
| less, as they would say on the Strand.
For the benefit of the benighted who.
do not know what it means to raise
/ Acheron,' it may be stated that In
| Greek mythology Acheron is the name
| of a river in Hades. bu. it has come
to mean just simple Hades in these
| modern times. Therefore, when the
! dean said raise Acheron" the man in
the street can easily guess what he
meant.
Copyright, 1925)
Evening star., 1925-05-10
BY THOMAS r. MARSHALL.

b1 IHUMAS n. MARSHALL,
Fsrmer Vice President Of the UniteA states.
We have base ball and tennis in
Summer. foot ball in the Fail, basket
ball In the Winter and golf most OF
the year. Shall they continue merely
| as healthful sports or shall they be
affected by the American tendency
| to hook up everything with material
reward? The base ball fan-amone
whom l count myself-gets a world of
enjoyment out of the game, but the
! average fan no longer ia content TO
| watch amateur players. He clam to
pay a good price fora ticket to see
professionals who ostensibly are en-.
gagged in sport, but who in reality
are making big money out of a com.
mercialized, enterprise. Golf. with a
hold upon its devotees which is az
gripping as it is universal, has be.
come such a serious business that q
large gallery invariably follows the
play OF professionals who are in the
game for the money they can get out
OF 1t. The college sport OF foot bali n
regarded by some of. our educators
as splendid advertiser, Of our institu.
tions of higher learning "a ~, : .,t2
Whether the inspiration SPRINGS
from pleasure or business, much time
now'is devoted to the physical. Thirty
years ago the intellectual side of
man was In the, ascendant. Oratory
was the great desideratum of the col.
iese student. Debating societies were
IN all our institutions of education.
Declamations and orations were the
order OF the day. The trend was not
only toward knowledge, but toward
the ability to stand on ones feet and
impart with clarity and impressive.
ness such thoughts and beliefs as he
possessed. Oratorical contests were
IN rhlgh favor. Impressed that words
were the only things that lived for
ever. students as well as instructors
ielt that the acquisition Of style of
expression was as important "a the
accumulation of knowledge. 1t was
accepted as an axiom that II was not
worm While for a man to possess
knowledge unless he could transmit
II TO others. one of the real object a
Oh education was to train a person TO
assist, by pen and voice in the crys.
tallization Of truth.
Ihere was, of course, in those days
the training of men for business, for
scientific research, for the purs,,it ~
most Of the so-called professions Yst
the urge OF those years was for that
training Of men which would enable
them easily, clearly and impressively
TO impart their knowledge. But N
the years went by 1t was disclosed
that facility of speech in the nulpit.
at the bar and on the rostrum did not
bring returns in material rewards as
large as those which were obtained
oy men who did little talking, who
could not engage in public discussion,
or at least did not. Perhaps the quiet
business.
The moving impulse in those far.off
days was desire TO represent one g
college In the State oratorical contest.
The students came with banners and
bands to uphold, support and defend
the champion orator of their institu.
ton. II was one of the big DAYS of
Evening star., 1925-05-10
In Berlin Tomorrow.

Arrangements that are being made
for the Inauguration of Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg as President Of Ger
many this coming week indicate very
clearly the trend OF things in that re-
public. Monarchical influences have
been chiefly effective in the framing
Of the program Of events. Organiza
tions that are favorable to the resto
ration Of the old regime have been
given preferred places In the line OF
march upon the occasion Of the new
Presidents arrival in Berlin. Repub
lican organizations have been crowded
to the rear or have been omitted alto.
sether from the course Of the progress
to the executive mansion. 1t has been
officially announced that when Won
Hindenburs passes along the line OF
these assembled crowds the bands
must play only "Fredericus Rex
which is the march most dearly be-
loved by the royalists Of Germany.
The pew President of Germany may
be entirely sincere in his republican.
ASA'' ho iuS OlcsScu dItST u
fashion. But the crowds in Berlin this
week will have something to- say to-
morrow. when the idol of the milf.
tarists enters the capital. Goose.step.
ping will be the measure of the march.
To the rhythm of the royalist tune
the masses densely grouped along the
line of the progression from station
to palace will chant their 'hochs."
Echoes Of the acclaim will carry far
over the Dutch boundary. to Doom.
But shouting crowds and blaring
bands will not determine the fortune
OF Germany. Out of the war came a
new idea in that country. an idea of
self-determination. and it was not de.
stroyed by the recent election. Mon.
archy cannot be restored there by
gesture, however impressive and
eloquent Of the past glories OF the
royal regime. Republican Germany
may be crowded into the background
for this occasion, but it is yet to be
reckoned with when the time comes
to choose between the new road Of
progress and the old road Of miiitarism
and imperialism.
Evening star., 1925-05-10

The hammer and clamor of destruc-
ton at last have wiped out the
echoes of "Alaba bama-Twenty-four
votes for Oscar w. Underwood" from
Madison Square Garden. The old Gar
den survived many shocks, many
knockouts-it even survived year after
year of the six-day bicycle races-but
the memorable Democratic national
convention of 1924 evidently was too
| much. The Ga rden after that gave up
the ghost. And now Diana who 70, 30
| long stood tiptoe on the dizzy tower
top. has been lowered to the mere
earth. there to remain until the tower
college campus.
In Europe the destruction of a land
mark like that OF Madison Square
Garden would have been looked upon
/ as a sacrilege. But in a new country
like the United States the people are
restless and there must be constant
destruction and building anew. Every
now and then lalt is called when
! some PARTICULAR sacred bit of archi-
| lecture Is attacked, but taken by and
large, this Is the age of destruction
and reconstruction in America. The
ground where the Garden stood in
New York was far too valuable for
| mere amusement purposes.
Like the departed hanson cab, New
York will not seem the same without
| the Garden. Every one knew the Gar
| den; even the taxi drivers in New
York knew where it was-and that is
! going long way for New York taxi
! drivers. The Garden, it has we'll been
! said, meant something in the life OF
! every New Yorker. Wild West shows,
the circus. the horse show. fistic
championships. opera, evangelistic re-
| vivals. dog shows, chicken shows,
1 oh oil ad hal Stxrirr IN,
| tanks. bolshevist debates, Roosevelt
| denunciations of the predatory inter
| ests, Woodrow Wilson appeals for a
| league of nations. William Jennings
Bryan declarations for the public
ownership Of railways. AL Smith and
red fire, the last appeals of political
| mpaigns-all these and more have
been to the Garden and made it ia
nous. 1t has been a place Of thrills
and laughter and romance. The Gar.
| den tried to keep pace with modern
| developments and modern ideas, but
| perhaps. after all, it was an anachro-
nism, belonging to another age and
| time.
| The Garden also was the scene of
| one of the great tragedies of New
York-the Staying of Stanford White
by Harry X. Thaw. The Garden was
1 regarded Dy many as StanIOEd w nlte
masterpiece of architecture, and it
was an ironical turn of fate which
made it the scene Of his death. 1t
was in the gala days of the old-time
roof gardens in New York, with their
| Summer musical shows. White was
seated with several friends. Thaw
approached him unseen and. mutter-
| ing something incoherent to those
about him, drew a pistol and fired.
| The famed architect crumpied to the
| floor a dead and pitiable thing.
Evening star., 1925-05-10
Grade Crossing Publicity.

Beginning the 1st of June. the
railroads of this country, through the
American Railway Association, will
begin a campaign intended to reduce
the number of grade crossing acci-
dents. This campaign will last
through September. thus covering the
period of heaviest highway traffic
1t will be similar to that conducted
last year, when, through posters and
other forms Of publicity. warnings
were broadcast throughout the coun.
try against carelessness in the use
of highways at railroad intersections.
1t is believed by the officials Of tn.
association that last years campa ign
resulted In reduction of Is per
cent of grade-crossing accidents from
the previous year, despite II per
cent increase in the number of motor
vehicles in use.
Publicity, pictorial and otherwise,
undoubtedly will help to cause the
motorists of this country to realize
the need of greater care in the use
VI lHC ioduS. ouI IL VIII not ellIns
mate grade crossings. and as long as
they remain. as long AZ 1t continues
possible for reckless. thoushtless
drivers to gain access to the tracks
in the face Of railroad traffic, acci-
dents will continue.
These campaigns of warning are
only palliatives. They are not cure
for an evil which has developed III
this country with the Improvement
of highways and the great growth
of motor traffic. The only cure for
that evil lies. in the eli:ninatio Of
crossings at grade by raising or low
ering the highways over or beneath
the rails.
Railway corporations realize this
fact and are looking forward to the
me when, at least In more contested
areas, all crossings at grade will be
aboliahs1. Such . work, however, en-.
Evening star., 1925-05-10
Marshall Deplores Passing
OF Oratory as School Sport

the State. The winner was hero,
glorified by his fellows and envied by
all others,
The ld,fashioned debating society
seems to have gone by the board, 1t
was a very remarkable institution,
one which should have been preserved.
A member entered the hall with no
intimation whatever as to the ques-
ton which would be proposed for de-
bate. He would not know whether
he WAS to be. called upon to take part
In the discussion and, II 80. which
side Of the question he would be ex-
pected to uphold. Not until the ses-
sion began would the subject Of dis
cussion be announced. The presiding
officer would then pick the speakers
and designate sides. Each member was
hound by honor. to participate when
selected, The first experiences were
awful but as the weeks and months
went by one detected hardening Of
his intellectual muscles, and soon was
able to hit the ball of discussion for
base or perhaps to make bogie
with it. II was q great game--the
great scholastic sport of the time.
True, It might lead subsequently tc
a financial return. but as played the
game WAS free from every. financia'
confederation. -
x Recently I observed a startling con.
trast. The State ,oratorical contest
and the State finals in basket ball
fell on the same night. Some 400
persons assembled to hear the ora
tors. Around the corner 1000 clam
ored for seats within the coliseum. II
so happened that student Of my
college won the oratorical contest and
that my colleges basket ball team
won the State championship. The
students went wild over the team.
When later I reminded them that WI
also had won the State oratorical. con
test they said they had heard so. -
name Of the fellow student who had
won.
I am glad much attention is being
paid to the physical welfare OF our
young men and young women, but
doubt whether 500 students profit
physically from the success Of five
basket ball players or IL foot ball play.
ers. Perhaps fewer champions and
more average players would be better.
I am not against athletics in any par
ticular. but 1 believe that capacity
for expression Ia as valuable as abil-
ity to knock some one down. e
The age Of the orator is not passed.
Never was he as important as he is
now: never was his influence greater.
In this day, when many persons do
not believe that which they read and
many more have no time to read any.
thing but headlines. public opinion, or
public prejudice, or public whatever
you-chooss.to-call-it is being moved
more by the public utterances and
private expressions Of men who have
the ability to make themselves under.
stood than by anything else. have
no desire to restrict the physical ac.
tivities Of the young. In fact, il
could not now be done. But would
urge upon the young the recrudes.
cence Of the ancient sports Of orator.
and debate.
tCopyrifht 1928. 21st Century Press.l
Evening star., 1925-05-10
The Perfect Bridge Hand.

Ntatisticians, attention.! For the
second time within four months q
perfect hand In bridEe has been
dealt in the city Of Chicago. When
the first one came experts at the
University Of Chicago computed that
such q hand-which, 1t should be ex.
planned to non.bridse players. il q
combination Of ali the cards Of one
suit In one hand-could happen only
once in 600 200. 200, 900 deals. Yet II
has happened again within 12o days.
Question: Does the ratio of / to
COZ. .o0o, 100000 apply?
Everybody who plays cards knows
that there IL nothing so deceivfng al
the law Of averages" A certain
combination occurs that. according
to that law, can happen only once in
50 many times, and yet 1t viii happen
again almost Immediately. The four.
ace hand in poker Is rare, .bpt II has
been held twice in one sitting. Here
is the 1a.trump hand held twice In
the same city in months. Does
that mean that It cannot happen
again for twelve hundred billion dsaisl