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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-01-17

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learned the day before.
It's 100 easy to say just what you
mean, but not mean what you say.
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Evening star., 1925-09-14

believed to have been one of the
strongest factors in giving the streets
Of the National Capital a longer life
than those of many other cities. Out
side contractors have bid low to lay
streets here Just for the advertising
they will get in having made good un-
der this laboratory control. a
So we come down to this condition
about our Washington streets: Many
of them have outlived their natural
life, even though they have given
service for or 10 years longer than
similar types of street construction
In other cities.
Our highway engineers are recog
nized as among the very best in their
profession and we have a laboratory
studying materials that is envied by
other great municipalities.
For many years, until the present
year, we have not had adequate funds
to merely keep these roads from de-
teriorating.
We are at last started on steady
grind to hold them up to what they
must be to care for the traffic over
them The first big step In tnprov-
ing the very bad condition that re-
suited from wartime neglect and
Evening star., 1925-09-14

The trouble with the macadan
streets Is that they are inherently
unequal to the heavy truck loads that
use them.
Another grave trouble. that has cut
up our streets of all types, all over
the District, is 'cut-ins.' You will
be driving along quite comfortably on
what looks like the smoothest street In
town, when all Of student you strike
place where the pavement has been
cut across to make a trench for
plumbers, or public service con-
tractors, or for a sewer trench. The
hole has been filled in with dirt and
left to settle; a rain has settled it,
leaving a gulley in your path which
throws you from your seat and per-
haps breaks a spring ir our car
There are something y, 60. 900 of
these cuts a year, with a total area
OF more than $4,000 square yards.
and 1t cost about $425, 900 last year
TO patch them up. The District gov
ernment maintains a separate organ
ization for this work.
That means about 200 cuts every
working day. First they are filled in
with dirt, which is left to settle be-
ore being resurfaced. Usually one
Evening star., 1925-09-14

rough usage has been in repaving
practically all Of the big avenues Of
approach to the Capital.
Now. specifically, as to wherein our
streets are bad:
The basic trouble with the asphalt
streets is that they have outlived their
natural life. and the answer Is that
they must be resurfaced.
Maintenance Of old asphalt streets
necessarily implies considerable patch.
ing. and that patching-no matter
how well done--willAnot furnish uni
forInly smooth surface. Automobile
traffic is sensitive to such uneven sur
face. and while the integrity of the
surface may be maintained 1t is not
comfortable to ride over.
The asphalt block pavements are
not only as class OF considerable
age but unequal in design to the
modern legal wheel loads that run up
as high as 61 tons on a wheel, or
more than IL tons on an axle. This
makes dents and ruts and even kicks
up the asphalt blocks.
Such cement concrete roads as we
have are in good condition: when they
are not in good condition they are
converted by asphalt resurfacing.
Evening star., 1925-09-14

ton, not because there was any real
defect In the type of construction. The
heavy wheels Of truck progress put II
down and out because 1t proved toe
expensive a design when 1t became
necessary to use concrete base.
The best job Of street work to be
done In the Capital for many years Is
the laying Of some $4,000 square yards
Of gnanite block in NJ street, George.
town. between Twenty-ninth and
Thirty-fifth streets. This is also the
a square yard. exclusive of grading
and other incidentals.
There are also 100 miles out Of our
$50 miles OF streets that have either
gravel or cinder surfacing. or no sur
facing at ADJUST plain dirt
Where the Improvement has come
in the last few years Is i'm replacement
of inadequate pavements with good
ones Of a different type or in paving
with a good type previously unfm-
proved areas. This replacement of de-
fective OF unsatisfactory types is best
Illustrated in the main arteries of ap.
proach to the National Capital Here
is how this work Is progressing:
On Wisconsin avenue from the
River road to Massachusetts avenue
some 5000 feet of concrete is bein z
laid. Half the road is done, and it will
all be finished, the engineers promise
within three months
Within the last couple of years Con-
necticut avenue has been repaved from
Chevy Chase Circle TO Macomb street
partially with concrete and partially
with asphalt.
Georgia avenue was paved in the
same period. from Buchanan street,
past the Walter Reed Hospital. nearly
to the District line.
Rhode Island avenue has been paved
from 4th street east to the District
line with concrete and asphalt.
BIadensburg Road Repaved.
Bladensburg road has been paved
from l. street to the District line. and
money is available during the present
fiscal year for completing the repave-
ment from L street to Florida avenue
with concrete
Central avenue is now being paved
under contract to be completed within
six weeks, from Benning road to the
District line
Within four years Pennsylvania
avenue has been extended from the
Eastern Branch to Alabama avenue
and Alabama avenue from Pennsyl
vania avenue to the District line.
This is. the road to Marlboro, which
has been made an asphalt surface.
Good Hope road has been resurfaced
with asphalt from Minnesota avenue
to Naylor road and Naylor road from
Good Hope road to the District line
On Nichols avenue a concrete road
way has been laid from the main gate
of st. Elizabeth's Hospital to Fourth
street. with q small stretch not yet
finished, but under contract
Lieut.. Col. J. Franklin Bell, the En-.
gineer Commissioner, In defending the
streets of the National Capital against
criticism from outsiders, protests that
those in charge of our roadbuilding in
the Capital are recognized in their pro-
fession among engineers and authori-
tative writer's throughout the Nation
as unsurpassed in training and expe.
rfence and ability,
c. B. Hunt, the engineer of high
ways, is a graduate of Rensselaer, Poly.
technic Institute, 1882. He has been
with the District Government since
1s9o-for 35 years, first as engineer OF
Evening star., 1925-09-14

bridges and since 1897 as engineer of
highways.
j. w. Dare. the assistant engineer.
mas been on the job here since 1889
ana Is in direct charge Of all the out.
door work. 1t is claimed that no man
In the country has had better expe-
rience or done better work. He stands
so high with the profession that his
formula for street crowns Is cited in
Blanchard's Engineering Handbook.
the bible OF the profession.
Col. +. s. Besson, formerly Assista Mt
Engineer Commissioner and author of
a text book on City Pavements," has
just been in Washington, and, after q
tour OF inspection of the streets here.
said, Those who are complaining
about Washington streets ought to see
some other cities"
The street engineers give credit to
the work in the laboratory which
makes studies and tests of road mate
rials for our District streets. There
mas been remarkable succession of
chemists In charge of this laboratory.
For 80 years this laboratory has main
tanned excellent control of our pave
ments and is recognized for this fact
among other municipalities. This Ia
Evening star., 1925-09-14
STATE OF STREETS
HERE LAID TO LACK OF FUNDS

with tar, and are great deal
younger.
That macadam is not a fit type of
pavement For any fairly heavily trav.
eled street brings up the very peril.
nent question, Then why was this
type put in on what we know are main
avenues of approach to the National
Capital from the north, which must
bear much heavy traffic from sub
urban Maryland" The answer OF
our highway engineers is that they
were put in because sufficient funds
were not available for a more sub.
stantial base, and because at that
time the engineers thought d lot bet
ter of macadam roads than they do
now. Ii was then the approved type.
'" AL falrne's It must be remembered
that the problems of traffic have been
>--,>..e..Ie rap.u-y during the last few
years, and especially since before the
war. Automobile and especially truck
traffic have during very recent years
introduced new and very serious
problems.
The new main avenues of entrance
to the Capital are mostly all of con-
crete construction. They started lay
ing these concrete highways in 1912
We now have some "a miles, or
about 100000 square yards. much Of
II OF recent construction. All of
these concrete highways are dropped
a couple of inches below grade, so
that if they fail to stand up they
can be salvaged by being used as
base and resurfaced with a blanket
of asphalt.
Concrete Construction.
The other types of road construc-
ton have had many years of test .
but the concrete roads being A more
recent development haven't had the
practical test of many years. Just
how well they will stand up to the
strain time alone can tell. In fact,
some of the first to be laid have
not stood up well. None of those in
use exceeds 10 years of life and some
began to break down under traffic In
six or eight years. These have been
covered with asphalt and are now
very satisfactory and should last for
25 or 80 years.
There is a large area east of the
Capitol which has asphalt block
pavement-31 miles of streets with
$4,000 square yards Of surface. That
type of construction gave excellent
service until the heavy wheel loads
which they are now getting under
l4-ton trucks began to play havoc
with them. We now have a large
part of this asphalt block pavement
in the northeast and southeast that
is in a horrible condition, disgrace
under the very shadow of the Capitol
Buildingg.
The greater portion of this asphalt
block pavement was laid on gravel
base, and gave magnificent service un-
til the wheel loads became too heavy
for it. Then when 1t came to supplying
the needed strength by putting in a
base the cost ran up 50 that
II lost out in competition with sheet
asphalt Our highway engineers have
not laid any of this asphalt block work
for 10 or 12 years. 1t passed into the
discard because of economic competi-
Evening star., 1925-09-14

rain and sometimes two come before
the repair job is done. When repairs
are made in an asphalt surface II
takes two gangs to repair thenn-the
first puts in a concrete base and the
other comes along later and spreads
and rolls the asphalt covering
These cuts should be repaired as
soon as possible in the interests OF
traffic, but IL they are repaired toe
soon they make the condition even
worse by allowing the pavement to
sink. Every proper consideration
rust be given to the comfort and con-
venience Of traffic in fastening the
repair work.
The fact that these "cut-ins" are
scattered all over the city and in all
types of street construction necessari-
ly means lapse of time before they
are repaired. The District authorities
cordially invite those using the streets
to keep headquarters in the District
Building advised OF the location of
cut-ins that are in bad condition and
should be most promptly repaired.
Czechoslovakia plans government
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Evening star., 1925-09-14
Continued from First Page.)

street southwest, from Sixth to
Seventh street
& street, from New jersey avenue
southeast to First street southwest
vermont avenue, from Thomas cir
Gle TO Iowa circle,
seventeenth street, from II street to
h street
T street. from Third street to F'lori-
da avenue
street, from Fifteenth street to
vermont avenue.
l street, from Sixteenth to Sew
enteenth street.
Fourth street northwest. from, G to
K street
Fourth street from Florida avenue
to T street
Florida avenue, from Fourteenth to
Fifteenth street
New Hampshire avenue, from V
street to Florida avenue.
Wisconsin avenue, from r street to
Thirty fifth street.
Prospect street tGeorgetown), from
Potomac to Thirty sixth street.
New York avenue, from Seven
teenth to e S4teenth street.
seventeenth street, from Pennsyl-
vania avenue to New York avenue.
new York avenue, from Thirteenth
to Fourteenth street.
Massachusetts avenue, from Four
Scott Circle.
Thirteenth street, from Massachu.
setts avenue TO n street
street, from Thirteenth to Four
teenth street
New York avenue, from Ninth to
Eleventh street.
Fifteenth street. from Pennsylvania
avenue to Ohio avenue
jackson place. from PENNSYLVANIA
avenue to H street.
Eveneteenth street, from TO X
street.
New Jersey avenue. from H to X
street.
Third street, from Fl to K street.
eighteenth street, from r street to
New Hampshire avenue.
Belmont street. from Fourteenth to
Fifteenth streets.
Thirteenth street, from l. street to
Massachusetts avenue
1t will be noted that this list in.
cludes our principal thoroughfares.
those that are the most travelled
daily
Macadam Fairly Satisfactory.
Next largest to the asphalt streets
are those Of macsdam construction.
or which there are some 1900 900
square yards. Practically all of this
receives bituminous treatment This
IS the type of street Surfacing that
has been put in on Sixteenth street
north OF Columbia road and on Four
teenth street north of Park road. The
low down" on this type Of street
work is that 1t is only fairly salts
factory. They haven't a concrete
base and suffer especially from trucks
because they are not strong enough
to cary the load. They have this
in their favor, however. that the bad
esphaf streets haven't-they are
under constant patching and spraying
Evening star., 1925-09-14

Czechoslovakia plans government
aid of home building.
Richmond planet., 1925-07-04
Who's Who in
EU05utiOn Trial.

PROFESSOR JOHN 7.
SCOPES, %, Paducah, KY, In.
stcuctor n science and ath.
ietcs az the Dayton and Rhea
Centre. nigh school, Dayton.
Tenn. defendant who is
charged Nth Violation of Ten.
nessts sta;e law, which makes
it q criminal oifeRsa 20 teach
the Dsrwinian theory Of evo.
luton in the public schools.
WILLIAM JENNINGS
BRYAN. defender of the Bible
as = is written. ana bitter
enemy of all eraiutionists. as.
soCiated with counsel for the
prosecution OF Scopes.
CLARENCE BARROW Chi.
Cage criminal lawyer, whose
services as associate ccNpasi
Tor che defense sas sesa &c.
cepte1 by
JUDGE JOHN RANDOLPH
n Y - T. Knoxville. Tenn.
fo<ruar professor Of law IN the
Tennessee University. hut v;ho
Ws eusted from the faculty
for fds support OF Dr.. J. W.
Spfowls. professor OF psscho.
osy, who ordered some teri
books which contained Com.
ment Or evolution, ard was
Sdssmissed. i Judge Neal WI.
bod the sdetense. aud wfR
hsSe with him. besides Dsr.
row
D DUDLEY FIELD MALONE,
New York lawyer. former col.
1ecsor Of the New York port.
and former 4 thi,d assistant
secretary o. SeAte.
X roHN L. GODSsY,
AND W. & BENSON. Day.
Goa. will assist ste deferee,
while the pe~secu&saa Is In !!
charge Of
M. THOMPSON Of
the state Of Tennessee, who !
win have with him
E. J. STEWART, prosecut. !
ing attorney. and p /
SUE X. HICKS W. g. ;
1AGGARD aNn 4. y !
HICKS, Dayton Nsse~ress
Richmond planet., 1925-07-04
Bryan SAYS.

The hand which writes the i>>y
checks should rule tho schools. :.
majority of the people Of tho natioi.
believe in the Bible. Tho disgraca
Is not the law Of Tsnnssse. signed
by the governor and passed by tie
legislature-the diseracs Is that a.
n would make such q law r:
sary.
The teachers are employees Of
taxpayers, and should no more ~
allowed to teach what they person.
ally believe than a clerk should lie
allowed to dictate the policy Of a
bank. The Disgrace is that teachers
shou'F>betray the trust that is i'm.
posed In them by the taxpayerst
/ believe that the greatest menace
we have today Is the substitution Of
education for religion.
Richmond planet., 1925-07-04

CITY THAT HAS BECOME The :
III LIE struggle between old time
L religion which accepts the Bible
version OF the creation OF man
and the universe. and the new scjen-
tific liberalism of modernLsts and
colleges which want to remake the
Bible in the moulH of things proved
in the laboratories Of science. Is
bcins hroa@ht 80 Il head in the 1t
lie :v: e Dayton, Tenn.
SnAty.GVe years ago Charles Oar
win promulgated ;ne theory of evo-
lution-that ali life. plant and ami
NAL, descended through slow and
successive stages from q single cell.
WHAT DARWIN TAUGHT
The theory, contrary to general
belief. does not teach that man de-
seconded from the monkey, any more
than a horse descended from a mon
key. But that men, monkeys, horses,
trees, corn, wheat, in fact all forms
OF life, have a common ancestor, a
small one.celled living organism,
when existed some hundreds of mil
lions of years ago.
Scientists claim that the theory
is backed up by plenty of evidence.
obtained by a close study Of animal
and plant life.
Those who believe in the letter of
the Bible, take the explanation of
the creation, as given in the first
chaDter of Genesis.
And thus for siXty-five years there
has been. strife between the. follow
ers Of the Two beliefs.
In Tennessee a state law was
passed. prohibiting the teaching of
the theory of evolution In the public
schools.
But regardless of the law, text
books, upholding the theory. were in
use in many high schools and col. |
leges.
I John T. Scopes. a Kentucky uni.
Versity graduate, teaching in the
Dayton CTenn.l schools. was using
one of these books.
Meeting in the towns drug store
with George w. Rappelyea, chemical
engineer of the Cumberland Coal
Company, and two young lawyers.
just out Of college, Sue M. Hicks
and Wallace Haggard, the men
Richmond planet., 1925-07-04

/ LINN, LIE u AS|
POTLIGHT OF THE NATION.
started an argument among them
selves over evolution.
Scopes mentioned the book be was
using In school They found "a copy
OF the book In the drug store, and
read the chapters on evolution.
DECIDE TO TEST
Then ltappelyea. 4 firm believer in
the evolution theory. induced Scopes
TO permit himself to be indicted to
test out the Tennessee law, and
clear w the argument.
T4,e Indictment a returned, and
at orce the entire nation became in
tercstcG.
William Jennings Bryan, one OF
the nations hardest fighters of evo.
luton, wired his assistance as prose.
cutor of young Scopes.
Clarence barrow, noted Chicago
criminal lawyer, entered the fight as
counsel for Scopes.
Scopes, seeing that he was being
made the spotlight of the world,
tried to withdraw, but the case had
gone too far.
1t was not q question Of whether
Scopes should be fined a few hun
dred dollars for violating the state
law, but whether the Bible version :
of the creation of life. or the scien.
tific version, should stand.
Other prominent attorneys includ-
ing Dudley Field Malone. New York.
offered their services for the defense
of Scopes.
And equally as many t~heoIogians,
and firm believers in the Bible YER
sion, came to the aid OF the states
attorney general and the county
prosecutor for the prosecution of the
Isl
ARMY TENTS FOR VISITORS
Dayton, Tenn. a town of 1890
population. began wondering how
the city could take care of all the X
visitors at the trial.
Congressman Hull of the district.
has arranged with the War Depart.
ment for cots and tents. The coun-
ty fair grounds or the baseball park,
possibly will be used as "a place for
the court to sit.
The trial is scheduled to oDcn J. i;
10, and will continue Cor Wschs.
Richmond planet., 1925-07-04
d Neal Says

The question is not whether evo-
luton is true or untrue. but involves
the freedom Of teaching. Or, what
is more important, freedom Of learn.
ing.
AS we see It, the great question y
whether the Tennessee ~legisla'r:"
has The power to prevent the yo"''
minds Of Tennessee from knowi.r
what has been thought and said J.
the worlds greatest scientists. :
thus to prevent them :ruu' f"';
their own judgment 10 ~E";
questions Of life and science
We regard 1t Is equally up..Aa;;
can and, therefore, unconstituti'
whether-it is kingly or ecclesiaA
authority or legislative power 8
would attempt to limit the hu
mind in its inquiry after tho
Richmond planet., 1925-07-04

Dudley Field Malone, regarded as
n Of the leading attorneys of New
York City, has volunteered his serv-
ices in behalf Of John T. Scopes.
young Dayton Tenn.) school teacher
who goes on trial July 10, charged
with teaching the theory Of 'evolu'
ton Yin violation Of the Tennessee
state laws.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-19

The Indianapolis Theater Guild Is
now incorporated with Mrs. william
o. Bates, Donald G. King, Bartholo-
NEW Brooks and Test Dalton, on the
board Of directors for the first year.
Their motto is Indiana plays for
Indiana people," Mrs. Bates states
they consider their native State rich
in dramatic material, and that this
material is so varied that it will have
universal appeal.
There are plays, big plays that will
eventually be written by Indiana
playwrights about the sand dune re-
gion, where Indiana touches Lake
Michigan, plays of vital force and
great movements of the steel mills
at Gary. historical plays of old. Vim
cennes and the French quarter.
primitive and picturesque plays Of
Brown County. plays of farm life in
the rural districts, and plays Of So
ciety in the larger cities Of the
State. according to Mrs. Bates.
Mrs. Bates states: 1T is our in
tention to produce plays that please
the public. Great plays that live
have that human quality. They shall
produce interesting plays, not high
brow dramas; plays that are strong
and vital, not morbid or depressing;
comedies that are amusing. not sa-
lacious or suggestive, and they will
be new plays, not revivals. or those
which have been produced by COM
mercial managers. Lectures will be
given by experts on lighting, acting,
production, costuming and play writ
ing to subscription members, and
those who are suitable will have an
opportunity to act in plays and gain
practical experience. 1t is a wide
movement and will interest all who
are interested in plays and acting"
+ +
A FEW WORDS CONCERNING
A GREAT THEATRICAL NAME
Among the aristocratic families of
the American theater, one that that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-19
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