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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-24
BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH

18th and v SITS. N. w.
REV. d. F. RIVERS. A. NJ, Pastor
Sunday School. $50 A. M
Preaching. II A. NJ. and sP NJ
Midweek Service. p. M,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-24
Will Discuss Soviet

1.-THE Soviet Form Of Govern
ment" will be discussed in the open
forum Of the Secular League, Mu-
sicians Hall, 1905 e street north
west, tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock. j. Powell will be the prin-
cipal speaker. The public is In
vited.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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METHODIST. EPISCOPAL.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-24
THIRD ANNUAL
MID-WINTER INSTITUTE
Washington District


Epworth League
TO BE HELD
january %, 80, February
6, IS, 20 and Fl, 1925
Metropolitan Memorial Church
AZ and C Streets N. w.
REGISTRATION FEE S1.OO
PROGRAM
6:45 p. M.-Song Service.
1900 p, M.-EVeDing Watch, Rev.
w. CLARK MAIN DEAN.
7:15 p. M.-BfbIe Study, Rev.
CHARLES s.. COLE.
$500 p. M.-Mission Study, Mrs.
LILLIAN g. DORRELL. Life
Service, Rev, $. carroll COALE.
y Christian citizenship, Rev. f. G.
S:4O r. Authorization Period, Rev.
$500 p. M.-EpwOrth League Methods,
Rev. b. /. MCGOWAN. Recrea-
tional Leadership, Rev. d. STEW
ART PATTERSON
0:40 =. M.-PrayeF Groups.
February 20, a Campfire Service
will take the place Of the Prayer
February Fl, the closing service
of the Institute will be held.
For further information address
Howard M. StackhOuse, Mgr.
811 Webster st. n. w. Col. 1913.
Send all registrations to RALPH ID.
LINDSEY, 900 Webster st. N. w.
Evening star., 1925-07-03

Miss Ella Sykes. noted English
traveller and writer, was the first Eu-
ropean woman to cross Katta Dawan,
or Great Pass, leading to Lhassa. the
roof of the world
Evening star., 1925-07-03

The remarkable collection of Egyp-
tian. Grecian and Phoenician antiqui-
ties of Edward Sampson, 1888 Twenty
first street. has been loaned indefl-
nitely to the National Museum to
form part of the Old World archie
ology section, in charge OF DR.. I'M
manuel Casanowicz. DIR. CasanowicZ
now is engaged in labelling and cata-
loguing the 350-odd specimens in
cluded in the loan, and these will be
placed on exhibition in the next few
days.
The collection includes a consider
able variety of articles recovered from
Egyptian tombs, such as charms and
miniature statues of the sacred Egyp-
tian monkeys, the sun goddess with
the body of woman and the head of
hippopotamus, the cat goddess, the
god of the sun in the form of a hawk,
the god of dancing with his feathered
crown and the sacred asp. There is a
little lizard statue which DIR. Casa
nowicZ believes was sacred to some
goddess and mummified crocodile.
In the Egyptian collection Is a wood
carved human face found on coffin
lio.
Another group includes alabaster
vases and an unusually beautiful col
lection of Phoenician, Syrian, Egyp-
tian and Greek glassware. There are
a number of fragments of Roman
vases. Among the most interesting
articles are some polished stones col
lected in japan and representing the
tools and utensils used by the in
habitants of Nippon during the stone
are,
Evening star., 1925-07-03

Mrs. Frances Virginia Smith OF
Benton, Tex, is herself a teacher. the
wife of a teacher and the mother of
sssght tea chers.
Evening star., 1925-07-03
POWER PLAN TRUST
BAR, SAYS P|NCHOT
Plant Is BuIwark Against
Electricity Monopoly,
Governor Declares.
Copyright by p. & A. Photos.
By the Associated Press.


SPOKANE. Wash. July 3.-The
giant power plant undertakes to pre-
vent the Nationwide electric monop-
oily, now almost formed, from acquir-
ing industrial, commercial, financial
and political control of this Nation"
Gov. Pinchot of PENNSYLVANIA de-
clared in an address before the Ad-
vertising Club of Spokane last night.
Explaining the power project which
he launched in Pennsylvania when
he became governor, he said:
1T does not aim at public owner
ship, but demands that in all plans
for electric development the public
interest shall receive first considera-
tlon. 1t proposes to break down and
put an end to unfair discrimination
against moderate and small users.
The essentials of the giant power
plant are four: First. the public must
have voice in the plans for the
great electrical developments which
are just ahead; second. the public
must share by rate reduction in the
enormous economies which consolida-
tion of the companies is already pro-
ducing; third, rates must be based
on money actually and prudentiy In
vested; fourth, the milking of the
moderate and small users for the
benefit of the few exceptionally big
users must stop"
The governor declared il his pur-
pose To show that Nation wide 'un-
regulated monopoly, under the name
of superpower. is already under way
Setting forth the difference between
superpower and giant power. he said:
I'm the first place the sole object
of superpower is profit to the cleo
trio compa nies, while the object of
giant power is. the public welfare in
Guiding the welfare of the electric
companies as well as the welfare of
the people who use their current"
Evening star., 1925-07-03
IS MEN NEEDED TO FILL
D. C. POLICE VACANCIES
Mental and Physical Tests to Be
Held at Intervals Through
out Summer.

FItteen able-bodied men are wanted
to fill vacancies in the Police Depart
ment. Mental aud physical examina-
lions will be held at short intervals
IN an effort TO get the department S
fuit strength of 1882
Inspector W. s. Shelby. personnel
officer of the department. and Sergt.
l.. |. H. Edwards, in charge of the
statistical work, have prepared a.
chart showing the distribution of
members of the force as follows
Headquarters and Detective Bu-
reau, 50; precincts-1. 90; ., 1O7; 8,
l02; +, "a; ., -; 8, 81: 7, III; s, 81; 9,
S3; 10, 1876; II. SO: u, 61; harbor. %
Women's Bureau, %. There are u
civilian employees at the House of De-
tention.
1t is explained that the large nuN-
ber of men in No. and No. 10 is
made necessary by the amount of
territory beyond the city boundary.
within the confines of the two pre-
cincts. No. 10 precinct includes the
long stretch out Georgia avenue and
across the country to Takoma Park,
while No. Z includes the Tenleytown
subdistrict.
Evening star., 1925-07-03
R. R. HEADS TERM
CHARGES SCANDAL
Nickel Plate Officials File
Answer to Stockholders
in Merger Case.
BY the Associated Press.

Declaring charges made against
them by representative of Chesa-
peake and Ohio minority stockholders
constituted scandal and were imperti-
nent, j. j. Bernet, president. and w.
A. Colston, vice president of the
Nickel Plate Co., today asked the In
terstate Commerce Commission to
strike the allegations from its records.
The Nickel Plate officials filed
formal replies before the commission,
which is considering the plan of o. p.
and NJ. J. Van Sweringen to consoli-
date the Nickel Plate, Chesapeake and
Ohio, Pere Marquette, Hooking VAL
ley and Erie Railroads.
Chesapeake and Ohio minority rep
resentatives. protesting the consoli-
dation, charged the Nickel Plate Of
fiCerS, acting with the Van Sweringen
brothers, "conSpired to despoiI' the
minority stockholders of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio and Hooking Valley.
Mr.. Bernet and Mr. Colston denied
they had violated any order of the
commission or rule of equity by serv-
ing as officials of the Chesapeake and
Ohio and Hooking Valley while retain
ing their Nickel Plate positions The
had asked that they, as well
as the Van SWeringens, be excluded
from their corporate positions in the
and Ohio.
The two Nickel Plate officials also
the authority of the com
to take any such step as the
demanded, declaring that it
would be "unwarranted interference in
the private affairs of the Chesapeake
and Ohio corporation" and would be
the installation of minority control
over the iority."
A counter attack was made upon
the George Cole Scott committee,
made up of Chesapeake and Ohio
minority stockholders, the Nickel
Plate officers demanding that the
commission require the committee
members to state their interests and
list the other stockholders which the
committee claimed to represent The
result of votes of stockholders in the
various companies concerned in the
Nickel Plate merger were set out to
demonstrate that Il ma jority of the
stock ownership had expressed APP
proval OF all steps in the consolidation
plan.
Evening star., 1925-07-03
Sampson Collection of ancient Art
Objects LO,ned to The National Museum

The Greek collection is the most
artistic of the lot. The principal ar
ticles, all of marble and none of them
considered the work of outstanding
Greek Sculptors, are a small headless
statue. probably intended to repre-
sent Venus; heads OF Demosthenes,
Sophocles and Homer, and four mys-
terious ladies. whose identity DIR.
Casanowicz has not yet determined.
There also is Venus Genetrix statue
in marble which is not a Greek prod
ust, but Middle Ages imitation of
the famous classic statue.
The collection, DIR. Casa novice says.
will have considerable educational
value. filling in several missing links
in the Old World archaeology exhibits
with genuine ancient articles col
lected in the Near Eastern countries.
The labels which he is preparing will
state, as far as possible, the exact sig
nificance of works of. sculpture and
charms, the latter as used in the
mystical religions of ancient Egypt.
The articles win be distributed in
the cases devoted to Egyptian and
Grecian exhibits. which form a con-,
siderable bulk of DR.. Casanowicz's
section at the museum.
Evening star., 1925-07-03
CIVIL SERVICE JOBS OPEN.

The Civil Service Commission to-
day announced open competitive ex-
aminat tions to fill vacancies In the
following positions:
Laboratory. aid and technical clerk,
Public Health Service. for duty III
the Hygienic. Laboratory. Washing
ton, at Wilmington, N, c., or else
where in the fourth civil service dis
trict, at $l,l40 a year.
Physiotherapy assistant, St Eliza
beth's Hospital. Washington, at
81 500 a year.
Educational assistant (nursing),
Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, at
$1.320 year with board and lodging.
Junior photographer iartistic). En-
Sineer reproduction plant. Washing
ton Barracks, at $1,320 a year. -,
Laundry worker, Quarternlasier
laundry at Fort Myer. Va, at $50 to
S1.0S0 year
Full information and application
blanks may he obtained at the ofT9oa
of the secretary. fourth civil service
dis street. --.-.......z--
Evening star., 1925-07-03
SHAHAN IS ELECTED
BY CATHOLIC BODY
Catholic u. Man Heads Edu-
CationaI Association.
Sessions End.
pv the Associated Press.

~ 'tl' NS-N'19leu lFeeS.
PITTSBURGH, July 3.-The Cath
oliC Educational Associa ton concluded
its twenty-second annual convention
here Yesterday with election of Off
GERS, as follows:
Right Rev. Thomas J. Shahan of
Washington. y. G., president general;
Right Rev. John B. Peterson, Boston,
first vice president general; Very Rev
James Burns. Notre Dame, Ind. sec
ond vice president general: Rev Ralph
Hunt, San Francisco. third vice presi-
dent general; Right Rev. John T. Mo-
ran, treasurer general, and Right Rev
Francis W. Howard. Covington, KY.
secretary general. The department of
colleges and schools al morning ses-
sion elected Brother Thomas of New
York president.
a cableEram from the Pope. express
ing praise of the association and its
work. was read before the convention.
a meeting of the general executive
committee will be held next Fall. at
which time the next convention city
will be selected.
Evening star., 1925-07-03
ROCKEFELLER PROTEGE
PUT $4,000 In BANK
Railway Watchman, Often Recipi-
ent of Cash Gifts, Was Both
Frugal and Economical.
By the Associated press

By the Associated Press.
TARRYTOWN, n. Y, July By
ron O'Loughlin, the railroad crossing
watchman at Pocantico Hills. who
was often the recipient of a new
nickle or dime when John d. Rookie
feller passed by, left more than $23.-
600 in banks in Tarrytown and
Brooklyn, it became known yester-
day. OLoughlin died recently after
spending IA years at the Pocantico
crossing
At Christmas Mr.. Rockefeller al
ways sent him SO. OLoughlin lived
frugally. His home was in a box car,
and when he received his monthly
check from the railroad he put aside
only so cents day to live on.
his daughter, Mrs. John Foley of
Long Island City, who is said to be
wealthy, is his only heir.
Evening star., 1925-07-03
DIVORCED WIFE TAKES.
PEARSON SETTLEMENT
Accepts $4,000. Giving UP Dover
Right in Former Husbands
Inheritance.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, July 3-Mrs Gladys s.
Pearson, q, yesterday accepted a
$4,000 settlement and relinquished a
dover right to a S2,000,000 inherit
ance when she obtained a divorce
from Frederick Beverly Pearson,
sportsman and heir to the late Wal
ter Z. Pearson, manufacturer. The
Pearsons were married in 1922. Mrs.
Pearson charged her husband with
drunkenness since that time Pear
son, now 30. will get one-third of his
fathers S6.000,000 estate when he is
35 years old
Evening star., 1925-07-03

The corner stone of the present
State capitol at Raleigh was laid on
July 4, 1888.
Evening star., 1925-07-03
Found Dead in Shop.

Harry Yager, an insurance collector.
found Albert Brooks, colored, So, As L
street, dead yesterday when he called.
Brooks had conducted a shoe repairing
shop in rear room of the L street
house the past 80 or more years and
was we'll known in that vicinity 1t
is thought his death resulted from an
attack of heart disease.
Evening star., 1925-07-03
Files Accounting Suit.

William Zumhrunn, trustee and at
torney for the Farm Mortgage and
Loan GO. or Kansas City, Mo-. yes
,terday filed suit for an accounting in
the District Supreme Court against
the Texas Title and Loan Co, r. J.
Coleman, e. III. and w. A. Briggs and
G. w. Coleman. all of Washachie,
Texas. In January, 1928, the plain
tiff says he advanced $2OG, 900 to the
defendants as a loan on certain prop
erty and there remains. ne claims, a
balance due him of $5926329. At
torneys Connaughton and Yerny ap-
pear for the plaintiff.
Evening star., 1925-07-03
Commissions Awarded.

Commissions in the Officers Reserve
corps OF the Army have been issued
oy the War Department to Benjamin
r. Hamilton, Fourteenth and Fair
mont streets. as major in the
Quartermaster Corps: to George p.
walton, 600S Thirty-third street, as a
captain In the Chemical Warfare serv-
Ice, and to Milton F.. Bessemer. Ar
gonne Apartments. and to Henry s.
Marshall. 129 Fifteenth street. as
second lieutenants In the Field Ar.
tiliery.
Evening star., 1925-07-03
Invalid Charges Swindle.

Special Dispatch to The star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, July 3.-Mrs.
Belle F.. Eakle, hotel proprietress at
Bolar, Va, wrote the Cumberland Po-
lice Department that two men claim
ing they were doctors defrauded
her. out of $50.
Evening star., 1925-07-03

Free public schools were established
in Prussia in Tia,
Evening star., 1925-07-03
FEDERAL WORKERS
GET HALF HOLIDAY
BeIated Decision Closes Most
Offices at | PM. on Eve
of the Fourth.

Government employees were served
pleasant but belated surprise in most
departments today when nearly the
entire Government machine decided at
late hour this morning to shut down
from L o'clock until Monday morning
Uncle Sans personnel poured out
of the doors and gates with grateful
feeting at the liberty of a half day
before the Fourth of. July. with pros
poets of more than a whole week end
in view.
But there was some grumbling at
the delay on the part of those whose
decision was put off until practically
the last minute, when they could have
decided earlier and made il possible
for the clerks and others to make
plans in advance -.
The Navy Department was the only
big establishment which. up to 1890
today. had not yet determined whether
to close. All other big departments
and establishments had issued notices
and made plans, most of them. how
ever delaying the decision until some
time during the morning
&. Z. o. Sets Example.
i ne Government Printing Office was
understood to be the first to take IN
the matter yesterday This office
operating under a different control
from the rest of the Government. took
referendum yesterday as TO whether
TO close all day and charge it up TO
the annual leave of employees. The
vote was 3,163 to 426 in favor of
closing from Friday night until Mon
day morning. This also affected the
night force.
Other departments and establish
ments which announced definitely
they would be closed at / o'clock today
insofar as employees could be spared
were: Treasury. War, Justice Com
merce, State, Post Office, Labor, In
terror. Agriculture. War Department
the Veterans Bureau and Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Closing of the Government depart
from the second Saturday in June
to the second Saturday in September
is done by an executive order of the
President issued recently The action
taken today has ample precedent. as it
is entirely within the power of the
head of a department to permit those
employees who can be spared" to
take the afternoon off.
The Library of Congress announced
it closed at l o'clock today, would be
closed all day tomorrow. the Fourth
of July, but would be open Sunday
afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-28
N. Y. Bootblacks on
Strike and BARRIERS
Threatening Walkout

NEW YORK CITY, Oct. $500
bootblacks are out on strike and as
a result the residents of the Wash
ington Heights and Harlem section
will have to get along with unpublished
boots.
The strike was called by the union
hat cleaners, shoemakers and boot
blacks. The strikers are demanding
an increase in wages and working
conditions, and a minimum wage of
S22 per week.
At the same time the BARRIERS union
is planning to capture the white light
district. According to James Peretti,
organizer Of the Journeymen BARRIERS
Union, FIVE thousand razor wielders
will be on strike at an early date II
the boss BARRIERS refuse the demands
OF the union BARRIERS. Unionization of
all beauty parlors will be followed
and an attempt to organize all ma
nicprists will be made in the metro
pcSss<n eSstrict.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-28

niture and even clothing"
Due for Collapse, says Annalist.
Commenting on these various re-
views Benjamin Baker of The Anna
list says: This is the dominating
feature in the business of today, and it
is certainly in large part an unsound
feature. both in its social results and
purely as business. Too few business
men, and certainly too few bankers, see
in its right light this furious scramble
Of discounters to sell what large
part of their customers cannot afford
to buy. A reasoning scrutiny of the
current statistics of. business shows
pretty clearly that both hopes and
prospects of heavy business for the
rest of the year are founded mainly
on the belief that the forced buying
on an inflated credit basis will continue
for at least that length OF time, and
without any shock severe enough to
tip over the pyramid. That 1t will
topple over, ultimately, is all but
certain"
Baker quotes a banker in one OF
the western federal reserve cities who
says: There is at least $4,000, 900 900
Of part payment paper outstanding
about one.twelfth of our entire nation
al income for year. This situation
cannot continue indefinitely; the first
crack in the balloon will bring 1t down
in heap" ct is about II of the
annual wages paid factory workers
and " OF the total wages paid by
mines. factories and land transport
atom.
Baker says: 1T is probably not an
overstatement to say that the most
judicious bankers. all over the coun-
try. are making preparations to
weather storm of which there is yet
no visible and material indication"
How about lahori
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-28

and work more congenial But they,
also, are exploited. Their youth and
inexperience proves a liability and is
taken advantage of by the bosses. AL
though it is generally thought that
they command higher pay than the
other workers they in reality are Of
fered only around $40 and $50 per
month to begin with.
The Old, Old Bunk
or course a smooth, we'll oiled talk
accompanies the offer in which pic
lures of future great salary, etc. are
flashed before their minds, but many
of them never rise above the fifteen
dollar per week mark. On that they
are expected to always be dressed
well, have a large bank account, be
able to afford all comforts, etc.
There is one thing that distinguish
es all the workers here. They are
not organized! Nothing has been done
along that line for years. The bosses
hate organized labor so much that
the workers dare not even think Of
such an atrocity as a union. Thus
they are exploited as much as the
capitalists see fit and must bear any
reduction in wages, longer hours, or
anything else without a murmur.
Firms Always "FaeIng Ruin
OF course, here as in every other
part of the world, the firms are al
ways on the verge of starvation when
it comes to improving the conditions
of the workers. They are always
facing ruin and bankruptcy-onlyt the
dividends paid, instead of diminish
ing, are increasing and the satisfied
grins on the faces of the stockholders
grow wider year by year.
To add insult to injury the capital
lists blame the workers for their liv-
ing conditions and their lack Of cash
to the fact that they do not have
bank account They should save and
hoard the wonderful and enormous
wages paid them and never be short
of finances!
What fertile field for organiza-
ton here, but, oh, what a fight would
have to be put up to accomplish such
thing!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-28
LEARN HOW TO
CIRCULATE THE
WORKERS PRESS
Form Readers Circles
Right on the Job
BY L. p. RINDAL,
Worker Correspondent.l

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26.-Among
the workers on the building where
the writer is working, two papers, The
DAILY WORKER and FL Machete,
have been introduced. This again has
led to exchange of opinions and the
passing around of other papers, ma
gaines, etc. containing food for
thought"
All the Mexicans on the job want
the organ of the Communist Party
of Mexico, and every time they see
yours truly they like to talk about
FL Machete in one connection or
other. On the other hand, some Of
the whites" have learned to appre-
ciate the true value Of The DAILY
WORKER as the foremost champion
for the liberation Of the working class
from wage slavery into more adj
vanced form of social order.
Lawyers and Workers.
A carpenter on the job handed me
> page from The Carpenter from
which the following is taken: Re
d upon a reorganization program and
employed two New York law firms to
handle the legal detail required. For
this service the lawyers charged
S75O,O0O.
Upon being asked to itemize the
bill they claimed that under the Esch-
Cummins law, $65 an hour was a
just and reasonable amount for the
services rendered Yet these same
lawyers insisted that 30 cents an hour
was fair and living wage for other
railroad employees. How was it these
lawyers arrived at such a valuation of
both their own services, and that
rendered by the railroad employees
we cannot say, yet any fair-minded
man could hardly call it fair or just"
Down with Lawyers and the Wage
Systeml
The arguments about what consti-
tutes living wage or just wage
have all ended in meaningless
phrases" The Carpenter states, and
goes on to say: while we all agree
that workman should receive a just
wage, who is there to decide what this
wage shall be?"
At this point the more advanced
workers will take issue with the organ
of the carpenters. There is no usch
thing as "just wage" AS the work
ers are producing everything, there is
nothing @just" about it-unless they
get all they produce. And when the
workers have reached their goal
there will be no master class left to
hand out miserable wages-just or un-
just. The bosses will then either be
in Notwithstanding side by side
with other useful workers-or find
themselves on junk pile forever after.
When. capitalism and the wage
system are both gone, the S. dollars
an hour corporation lawyers will have
to go also. The proletarians of the
30 cents an hour type will then rule
~..1~I1