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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31

Bush. Sacred to the memory Of c-r dear
HUSBAND and father. SAMUEL Hush whn
died II re years tgo today, Deaemacr 81
49,.
In our hearts your memory Lncerz
There IS not ios CAV d i@ io5 as1 9 5ree
That we do not THINK Of YOU.
HIS DEVOTED WIFE KATE AND CHI
DREN.
CAMPHOR. In sad h,,t ro,-fr7 ,,e,,,o-, ..
our darling damrb ' NJ [s-fl+
PERLISTER CAMPHOR who Isft Is
three years ago today December 81 1907
weaker eanh Ia, -''''''1 49,. s''"''-
No one knew her suffering hut God who
called her AWAY
sadly, md lo,,ol,- 800, = ,-. ..
YOU went 49, cav J. ''di'st aunt sih'"
For miss your gentle faots,cpa ana vo.,-
eweet and loving wayz '''i '''"
HER LONELY MOTHER.
Just vbeu ou- hon. PIE ,.z.r - 81.
God took s,strr t-n"3 ms ,,,.rl,I y, MI,
,,n And ~ us t. saffer the tesJ . '1''
PLUMMER
COATES In al Inn, r,,,.,,..- .,-...,--...- -,
our dear mother SARAH Fl CgsJF'-
who departed this life 10 years azo toiav'
December 81. 1915.
Loved in life. in death inferred
HER CHiLDRE$.
Do DC, d ar, In sad but LOVING remembrance
DooNEY, VINO departed ms tbis lie -1s seven
your TS dear FACE sI. n 52 4 TO ~ your hand
lrrrr1
which meant 80 much 1lr Ion" 10 ON voice
LOVING N0Tt4Ep III VI VI - 1rit" me, GOV
ursu,r. n -,F-+-4-iE Mccoy.
Of our dear m6 5t5 ep IA .GI9
Dec q nj @r5 a i ia5. life on yea- 40 today
st. Aloysfus Church 7''' ii'asS ~
wba, =, -,
All - i1Hie "ithput a mother,
B,,t AZ me tlr thhEs tins world MAY -a15.
We lost our 5.ara, "a" 49, ....- !lo'h'E
Sh. ,,.s ~
Va NE one with soul divine.
orn us ntaft was constant ana true.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31
FOUND

COLLIE. large size. male. sable and Whit.
back very curly. Apply Washington Animal
Rescue League. $40 MARYLAND ave. sw.
COLLIE. dwarf size. female, brown and
white; some ones pet. Owner apply Wash
lngton Animal Rescue League $40 MarylanG
ave. s.w.
POODLE. male, all white. in fine condition.
Owner apply Washington Animal Rescua
League. 800 Maryland ave sw.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31
ARGENTINA DATA

For the week ending December 2s 1895
Temperature. Precipitation.
Current Dept. Current Dept
Corn and northern
wheat area. 20 i o4 -O.5
southern wheat
area ........... IS 3 20 Ii
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31

A fire which recently broke out in
a Rumanian oil field is expected to ,as1
for several Years, as no method of
eXtinguishing it has been discovered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31

s We Dedicate 1926
: To Service
s. BUSINESS is sensitive. 1t goes where it is
~ invited, and stays where it is we'll treated
e In 1925 proved to the world in general and
Washington in particular, that could grow
$ and grow fast
81 We added three million dollar investment
al old building; tripIed floor space
81 for selling and service; enlarged per-
ST. sonnet from $50 people to l4OO
And yet through all the excitement of tearing
III down and building up we have always tried
s. remember that service is the one big thing
6 that makes back to store
a If in 1925 service good in 1926 it
81 is going to be better. The Hecht Co. is
ST. satisfied with something good when it
Nl give something better.
Service, store, may mean the clerk
ST greets you; may the style of Dress
81 it may the finding of something that
g cannot be obtained elsewhere;
81 prompt delivery; may sterling quality
@l 1t may nothing, but it every
nj thing!
81 s.
Sl In 1926 we shall try make this the of
SS you have always wanted Washington to have
III "a New York with moderate prices.
3 s.
I'll And if the end of 1926 you do not think of The
81 Hecht Co. Washington's best store, it will
not be because didn't try please you,
q every way.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
( We misb pou E
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES.
TONIGHT.

The National Fellowship club Will
give an informal dance at the WASH
ineton Hotel Visitors welcome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31

The Independent Order Sons Of
Jonadab will hold a watch night meet
ing for men only from o'clock until
midnight at 623 Louisiana avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Hpbrpw Conrrerafio

pr Simon will preach a sermon to-
morrow evening appropriate to New
Year day. Subject, "One Increasing
Purpose.
Childrens services will be held at
the temple Saturday morning.
There will be no concert at the
Marine Barracks tomorrow.
The Legion of Loyal Women will
hold a reception In honor of the Grand
Army Of the Republic. Spanish War
Veterans and World War Veterans
tomorrow. from l TO ) pm. at the
Willard Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31

The Ohio Girls club VIII give :
dance at the Denlee, 1JlT X street
Ohioans invited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31

The Tivoli Pastime Club will give q
dance, 9 o'clock, at the Arcade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31

Watch night services will be con
Quoted at Bible Hall Ninth and +
streets, from 80 to midnight. Miss
Dorothy buckingham and Miss Jennie
Petersen in charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31

At Emmanuel National Baptist
Memorial Church a watch night serv-
ice will be held at 1916 o'clock. fol
lowing the regular fellowship and
prayer meeting at s o'clock, and d
social hour from o'clock to 1890.
Testimonies of worth from those who
have had experiences will be heard
The pastor Cove 6. Johnson, Will be
in charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31

Grace Baptist Church. Ninth street
and South Carolina avenue southeast.
Will hold a watch meeting, beginning
at s o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31
gin Menorlanl.

husband and father SAMI-EI Rush who
qieG II re years ilgO today December ~.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31
FOREIGN.

g am. Greenwich time. today
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31

HOWARD. A special meeting of Past Grand
Masters Council. No. 4. G. I. o. Of O. F.
will be held at the hall this Thursday
evening at O'Clock to arrange for the
funeral of Rev. Bro. WILLIAM J. HOW
ARD. A full attendance is requested
w. T. SLAUGHTER, Council Master
SAMI-EI " WATSON Secretnr1
Evening star., 1925-11-27

the earliest possible time, and the
case then should be speeded before
the highest court. so that if possible
a decision may be reached before the
Sd of March,
In the present state of the coun-
try, with crime so prevalent, court
delays should be minimized. The
protraction of this Chapman case
would have a most mischievous effect
upon the public mind and would en-
courage criminals. Every delay Sc
cured by convicted lawbreaker is an
incitement to crime. The question in
this case is not whether Chapman is
guilty of murder-he has been con-
victed in Connecticut beyond the pos
sibility of appeal-but whether the
law shall be thwarted by the invo-
cation of one crime to- prevent ex-
piation for another.
Evening star., 1925-11-27
Can BRAND Meet the Crisis

While Aristide BRAND is seeking to
form cabinet in the hope that he
may be able today to effect the neces-
sary combination, Paris is nervously
discussing the possibility of coup
'etat. Nobody seems to have any
definite idea as to the form of such a
reaction, yet the conditions are GER
tainly propitious for a change, even
possibly in the form Of government.
There are on the one hand the mon
archiSts, whose candidate for the
throne in case France should be re-
stored to the ancient mode is the
Duke of Orleans, collateral descendent
of the Bourbons. On the other hand
are the radicals and communists, who
favor a system similar to that now
prevailing in Russia. These are the
extremes. Nobody appears to expect
either extreme. No one party in the
Chamber of Deputies can control the
situation. This doubtless means that
the republican organization will be
maintained. Indeed, it is almost in
conceivable that France could revert
to monarchism or descend to COM
crisis is most serious.
BRAND is evidently the strongest
man in France today. He has been
premier before and has shown a mark
ed capacity for administration. Re
Gently at Locarno he was instrument
tai in securing a compact of powers
which guarantees the security of
France agains. aggression. He has
been hailed in Paris as 1.-The hero of
Locarno." 1t is felt that if he cannot
form a ministry that can carry on
through the present crisis, there is no
other man capable of the task.
A Fascist group has been organized
in France, representing the ultra ma
tionalist sentiment. Its numbers are
unknown. Its power is unrevealed.
In this present situation it is now sus.
pected of design to place a dictator
in authority at Paris. But there is no
known strong man in leadership.
France today has no Mussolini. Re-
put SdSSCSlS tIldl anu VI CdS-
telnau might be chosen by the Fas-
cisti as their spokesman and leader.
Seemingly this organization has been
developed in secret. Eminent states
men and politicians may be members
of it without the fact being known.
1t is this faction that makes the pres
ent situation uncertain.
The French Fascist. so far as they
disclose themselves, wear a distin-
gushing garment, consisting of blue
shirt instead of the black shirt of
their Italian prototypes. They have
raised fund of 5000 900 francs for
propaganda, but at a recent meeting
of leaders it was voted not to spend
this money on arms, but on PAM
phlets for countrywide distribution.
Evening star., 1925-11-27
Tickling Babies Feet
Condemned by NJ. ID.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
The writer of this article was in
active practice of medicine "A years
and is fully aware that doctors do
absurd things and make unreasonable
suggestions. Sometimes one can be
found that will say: Let your child
in the cradle cry when it awakens, so
as to strengthen its lungs" The
writer has seen three children with
hernia, caused by the mother doing
that very thing. When an adult
awakens the first move is to turn
over. If his flesh aches, what about
the tender flesh of baby?
The acme of idiocy was reached
when some M. D.-God same the
mark-in a late issue of The Star
suggested that we tickle a baby and
make 1t laugh for the same reason
that we should let it cry. The writer's
practice was largely among children,
at one period for five years at an or
phan's home containing between 200
and 800 children, and was always
careful to forbid tickling of babies.
Their nerves are of more importance
than their lung power. Tickling when
the victim was bound was one of the
old, brutal forms of torturing a cap
tured enemy.
HARRY T. DUNBAR.
Evening star., 1925-11-27
Calendar Changes.

A committee of the New York Mer-
chants Association is seeking sim
plification of the calendar Suggestions
are invited by the committee, and the
whole question will be thrashed out
at public hearing on December II.
Having already gone on record as
favoring a fixed date for Easter. the
association is endeavoring to have the
year divided into four equal quarters,
each quarter to contain three months,
two of which will have thirty days
and the third thirty-one days.
Another proposal is that the year be
divided into thirteen months of
twenty-eight days each. If this plan
should be adopted every month would
begin on the same day Of the week.
Attempts have been made, since
time immemorial, to change the cal
endar. 1t Is not believed that the cur
rent effort will meet with any more
success than the hundreds of others.
the same category as the simplified
spelling advocated by Theodore Roose-
welt during his terms of presidency
Although there are a few users today
Of this type Of spelling it has never
come into popular practice.
Interesting discussions will doubt
less be heard when the public hearing
gets under way, but prospects OF a
permanent, accepted change in the
calendar are considered to be extreme
ly small. Habit is difficult to change,
and the peoples of the world have
been using the present calendar for
several years. to say the least.
Evening star., 1925-11-27
John Witherspoon
Not Princeton Founder
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Mr.. Josephus Daniels should be
more sure Of his facts before making
historical statements of some impor-
| tance. In connection with the pro-
posed Woodrow Wilson memorial, Mr..
Daniels makes public announcement
of John Witherspoon as the founder
of Princeton University. In point of
fact that noted institution of learning
| was established by the Colonial Leg
islature of New Jersey in 1746 with
Rev. Jonathan Dickinson, a Presby
dent.
At the death of Dickinson, a year
later, the college was removed to
Newark from Elizabethtown, where it
had been first placed, and Rev. DR..
Aaron Burr-father of the traitorous
| one of later years-was made it's
president To President Burr was
due the more complete organization
of the college, with it's governing
boards, faculty and curriculum.
Under his administration the college
was removed to Princeton, where for
several years it continued to function
and progress favorably under his care.
President Burr was succeeded by
that greatest divine and philosophical
treatise writer of his day, Jonathan
Edwards, whose death, however, took
place within a year from his inStalla-
ton. He was succeeded in turn by
Samuel Davies and Samuel Finley till
1868. when John Witherspoon was in
augurated president, % years after
the foundation of the college.
Witherspoon was a Scotch minister,
a graduate of Edinburgh University,
who had become noted as theological
treatise writer. He proved to be quite
as much a man of affairs and poll
tician as schoolman. In truth he was
| man of high commanding abilities,
who, while conducting the affairs of
the college with increasing success
in all directions. took part in the stir
ing political affairs of the colonies
previous to and during the Revolu-
tionary period. He was q signer of
the Declaration Of Independence, and
for six years was q member Of the
Continental Congress, always fore
most in debate during the time when
the college functions were partially
suspended as a result of war damage.
John Witherspoon was in fact quite
as much a statesman and political
manager Of his day as he was a col
lege president and educator in gen.
eral. 1t was, perhaps, this political
slant Of his character, differing from
any of his predecessors, that led Mr..
Daniels in sympathy of a kind, to
name him as the founder of the col
lege. Under Witherspoon's admins
tration Of 26 years the college
achieved success and high reputation.
He was succeeded by his son-in-law,
Samuel Stanhope Smith, in 1875.
For many years princeton" con-
tinued to be known officially as 'the
College Of New Jersey" and various
ly, as Princeton College" and
Princeton University" 1t was not
till its one hundred and fiftieth an
niversary in 1896 that it was formally
promulgated as Princeton Univer-
sity"-under which title II now ranks
among the very foremost of great
American schools of learning.
H. NJ. Scale JORDAN.
Evening star., 1925-11-27

time at it than his prototype OF the
plains days and the period OF the
mining pioneers. He can arm himself
without difficulty. He can readily find
swift transportation for escape. And
there Is more loot to be had, for peo.
pie are more affluent and careless
about their belongings, more osten.
tatious in display, more reliant upon
the law safeguards. which have be-
come, in fact, so ineffective.
1t is one thing to paint the picture
of the evil and another to prescribe
remedies. or the evil there is no
doubt. OF the cure there Is much
question. Certainly the present cCndi-
tion of the courts. congested with in
Vulnerable dormant cases. offering
lawhreakers lavish opportunities for
delay and technical grounds for de-
feat OF justice, may be corrected
through legislation and reforms. Po-
lice activity may he intensified.
Greater care Of valuables and funds
may be shown by people whose af-
f1uence attracts the birds of prey. OF
all the remedies proposed that of
swifter, surer and more drastic pun
ishment for those who are caught is
the most likely to be effective. Ban
ditry was to a great extent stamped
out in the Western country through
rigorous punishment. The dashing
Of two or three genera
tions ago passed off the stage of ac-
tion by the short shrift of summary
justice. Today's banditry may be cor
rected by the same means.
Evening star., 1925-11-27
Modern Happenings
Cause Dizziness

To the Editor of The Star:
I'm dizzy-Lenin is in a class
coffin so that the world may see him;
King Tut is wrapped in gold, be-
decked with precious stones and hid
from the world in the sand dunes of
Egypt: Mussolini is a benign die
tator expecting to go Napoleon one
better: ex-Emperor William says
England has no statesmen: Mitchell
is fighting the Army and Navy
single handed: potatoes are SIS
bushel; Federal Government finds it
necessary to pardon Chapman for
stealing several millions of dollars
before Connecticut can hang him for
murder: bandits take several hours
to shoot up a town in Michigan;
5000 Northwestern University stu
dents celebrate the winning of
foot ball game by nearly killing the
mayor who interferes with their
"pranks" besides burning down a
college building and interfering with
firemen and policemen in the per-
formance of their duties. These little
tales, tersely told in the news columns
OF the day, incline me to believe that
the word eudemonics is a much mis-
understood word.
Amateur foot ballists acting like
bandits, bandits acting like amateur
foot balltsts, banditry an avocation
and foot ball the entire university
curriculum. I'm dizzy.
over in England the other day the
trial of a murderer lasted just
minutes-he'll be dead in a week,
but Chapman may live forever.
What are universities and courts
for, anyhow? Looks like universities
are operated to graduate bandits and
courts used to defeat justice-that
is. in this country of liberty and
license, grace and disgrace.
I was taught in school-(just the
common, ordinary public SCHOOL,
that universities were places boys
and girls went to learn how to do
the fourth dimension and other mind
broadening stunts, not how to become
bandits, through an intensive study
of the philosophy of foot ball. Of
courts my school teachers told me
very little, except, probably, that
Thomas Jefferson. Alexander Hamil-
ton. Abraham Lincoln. didn't grad
uate in foot ball before "tempering
justice with mercy"
I'm dizzy! Are we becoming
Nation of foot ballists?
GROVER WARREN AYERS.
Evening star., 1925-11-27
Speed the Chapman Case!

Gerald Chapman's refusal upon the
advice of his lawyer to accept the
commutation of his sentence Of twen-
ty-flve years for mail robbery granted
by the President brings the case back
to the application for habeas corpus
TO secure his removal to the Atlanta
Penitentiary. That application will be
heard on Monday by a Federal judge
at New Haven. He, it is expected,
will deny the writ on the ground that
Chapman no longer is a fugitive from
Federal justice, in view Of the COM
mutation of sentence, despite his re-
fusal to accept it. The point of Chap
mans right to refuse Communication
will not, 1t is understood, be consid-
cred by the court. Should he refuse
the writ, application then will be
made to the Federal Court of APP
peals, and the case then will be car
ried to the Supreme Court of the
United States for final decision
Meanwhile, a formal reprieve has
been granted in stay of execution
until the Sd of March.
Every effort should be made to ex-
pedite this case. If Judge Thomas
at New Haven denies the writ on
Monday, the appellate court Of that
circuit should render its decision a
Evening star., 1925-11-27
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

to 1861. and later from 1857 to 1857. in
Statutory Hall, at the Capitol Miss
Walker also designed the statue of
Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wiscon-
sin, at Marinette, Wis. One Of her
most picturesque works is the heroic
figure of Chief Keokuk, overlooking
the Mississippi River at Keokuk,
Iowa. Weighing scarcely 100 pounds,
energetic, optimistic and we'll inform
ed, Miss Walker is wholly unspoiled
by fame. Recently she gave a soiree
at the Chicago Art Institute for all
the old Hawkeye friends she could
drum up. One was a boyhood play
mate, now a barber in a Windy City
hotel.
The first father ever to visit his son
in the White House was Nathaniel
Fillmore, father Of President Millard
Fillmore. The elder Fillmore was a
pioneer log-cabin settler in Cayuga
County, n. Y. He was a vigorous
octogenarian when he came to Wash
ington to stay with his distinguished
son some time in 1852. Fillmore, ST.,
blamed his physical decline to the fact
that he was induced to move from the
frontier country in central New York
to the up-and-coming town of Buff
falo Squire" Fillmore, as the old
CdIile " bc hlo"i III
Washington, was a much beloved and
warmly welcomed figure at White ;
House functions. But when urged to
prolong his stay, he exclaimed: "No,
no! l don't like it here. 1t isn't a
good place for Millard. I wish he was
home in Buffalo, where he belongs,"
Just why Squire" Fillmore didn't feel
at home in Washington the records
fail to disclose.
IL y
VIII the Coolidge economy result in
adding a word-the Presidents own
Surname-to the English language?
If it does, it will be a case of history
repeating itself. The word silhouette"
Ca profile portrait in black) Is derived
from Etienne de Silhouette, French
minister of finance in 1859, who was
subject to fierce attack because Of his
attempts to reform the finances of
France through rigid retrenchments
in expenditure.
X X y X
This is the season of annual reports
by the heads of executive departments.
I, In a day or two it will rain reports in
Washington. They give accounts of
stewardship during virtually IL months
of the calendar year, are formally ad
dressed to the President and are actu-
ally for the information of Congress-
The average citizen never reads them,
although they are crammed with
meat"
Copyright 1925)