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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
McCarl Will Rule on
Wittner's Right to
Told Treasury Job

Wittner's future in the Federal
service is the chief subject of spec
ulation in the Treasury today. A
request for formal ruling on the
validity Of the affirmations taken
by Wittner. in lieu of the pre-
scribed oath, on entering the Gov
eminent service, has been forward
ed TO Comptroller General McCarl
1t was said at the Treasury to-
day that the ruling will be given
as soon as possible. Those who
have followed Wittner's coIorful ca
reer in the employ of Uncle Sam
recall that he was the chief insti-
gator of litigation which caused
Comptroller McCarl considerable all.
noyance many months ago.
The Wittner case has opened a
new question in the matter OF oath
taking, and it has been suggested
that as there probably are other
atheists in the Government service.
IT might be interesting to search
the files to see whether they, like
Wittner, used the word affirm" in
stead of swear" and struck out
the phrase, so help me God" from
the official printed oath. However.
the division chiefs Of the DEPART
ments are none too anxious to pore
through the voluminous files and
possibly stir up more trouble.
In any event. such action will de.
pend upon the decision Of the comp
troller. who has been virtually
called upon to say whether an athH
eist may be legally employed by the
Federal government.
An adverse decision may require
Wittner/ to appear at the Treasury
70; the purpose of taking the pre-
scribed oath which he has stated he
will refuse to do. There is a scant
possibility that the comptroller may
decide that Wittner has not been
legally an employee and therefore
not entitled TO pay received since
his first appointment
James T.. Harper, chief Of APP
pointments, and other officials saw
that there is little chance of such
action being taken inasmuch as
Wittner performed service<for the
paw he has received.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
5-HOUR WORKING DAY
FOR CONVICTS URGED

NEW YORK, July 28.-The ad.
vantage which inmates Of New
York prisons hold over workmen
on the the outside. in the matter,
is threatened. Plans are afoot to
work them eight hours a day, in
stead of seven.
The State Prison Commission las
made public report at Sing Sing
urging that prisoners in the fac
tories in Clinton prison, Dannemora
be required to work an hour more
every day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
WON 7 RUN FOB.
!. SENATE SEAT

s (Continued from First Pagel
for myself, she said. ''It would be
against nature for me to undertake
the responsibilities Of political lead
ership.
IT realize that my election might
pave the way for other women TO
be elected to the Senate, and I am
deeply mindful of the Importance
of women sharing the Responsible
ties Of high offices and of having
direct voice in shaping govern,
nent of the people.
Warns Party to Unite
After giving careful thought to
the special obligations which cir
cumstances place upon me, / can
not. however, bring myself TO be-
lieve that It is my duty to enter
the field."e
Mrs. La Follette sounded a warn
ing to Progressives to unite har-
mcniously and Establishing in fur
thering the work to which the Sen
ascr gave his life
This is a critical time in the his
tory of the ProgI essive movement.
declared Mrs. La Toilette. PRO
grcssives in the Senate are few In
number but they are vested with
great responsibility and power
need not suggest how vitality the
choice of Mr.. La F'ollette's success
sor may affect the cause.
when the Progressive voters of
Wisconsin perform the solemn duty
Of choosing a ca, ldidate to I'LL out
tie unexpired term l would ask
them to think. not only of the IN
swerving devotion to tie cause, ca
pacity mad fitness but also of the
iron resolution, enthusiasm and
faith necessary to carry on the
work he has laid down. ;"
Working on Biography
The remaining years Of her life,
Mrs. La Toilette said, she would de-
vote to completing the second
volupae of the Senator's biography
He had prepared a wealth of nores
and material for that purpose.
'"rhe writing of the record of thai
period including The world war OF.
ferS a great opportunity for serv-
ice,'' she said 10 This undertaS-
ing and to the continuance of La
Follette's magazine l shall dedicate
my time and strength confident
that it offers me the largest field
Of usefulness.
Mrs. La Follette's position was
made known in letters to Mrs. Edna
Chyr.oweth, chairman of the com
mlttee, urging her candidacy; Elsie
w. Schafer. secretary, Progressive
Women's League, and the Wiscon-
sin branch national women's party.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
WIT TNER QUITS,
THEN RESUMES

Continued from First Page.l
and Peyton Gordon, United States
District Attorney, to have the case
dismissed.
Justice Siddons announced that
the first question to be considered
Friday morning would be W;ttner 8
right to bring suit, and that he
would not consider any other as
had been passed upon.
Immediately after Justice Siddons'
decision to postpone the case until
sci Hart filed the Districts answer
to the rule to show cause why the
injunction stopping the pay Of
school officials mentioned by Witt
ner should not be issued.
The answer declares that in teach
ing biology and chemistry in the
public schools of the District of Co
lumbia, these subjects are taught
from approved textbooks with the
approval Of the Board of Education.
Disrespect Denied
Denial is made this disrespect Of
the Holy Bible is taught in the
public schools of the District but
elementary principles OF biology.
chemistrys sphysics and other ma
tional sciences are taught in the
usual manner in which the sub
Jects are taught by similar institu-
lions as facts, and they are known
to be facts, and as theories. when
they have not become established
as facts.
Nothing is taught concerning the
Bible or the doctrine OF the Bible
ol the possibility of miracles as
set out in the Bible or the eyolu.
zion of men from lower forms ex.
cept as theories or fats which are
known to the ordinary intelligent
person who have read or studied
such subjects, the Corporation
Counsel's answer states.
Peyton Gordon, United States
District Attorney, who represents
Frank White, Treasurer of the
United States, also filed the. Gov
ernment's answer, in which ne
says:
cit is manifest upon the face OF
the bill of complaint that this de-
PENDANT Drank White) has no in
dividual interest in this contro-
versy, or should, and that the rs.
lief sought against him in his Of
fetal capacity only as Treasurer
Of the United States, and that the
United States alone can be affected
by any decree against him. 1t is
a suit against the
United States and the United
States has not consented to be
sued.'
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
DEAD Filler ABSOLVED
OF BLAME FOR BLAZE

DETROIT, July 28.-Milton Steen.
thirty-five, who was burned to
death with two others when the
plane he was plotting fell in a mass
OF flames yesterday afternoon, was
absolved of blame today by John
p. Fleming, whose bride of seven
months, Violet, twenty, was one
Il the victims.
Fleming, a real estate salesman.
said that Steen had always shown
cautious ability during the time he
flew for him doing advertising
work.
Steen took up Mrs. Fleming and
year-old. Evelyn Herzog yester-
day afternoon for a short pleasure
ride. Shortly after refueling, the
feed line became ignited and the
plane was enHe.oped in flames.
Strapped in, none of the occupants
could escape.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
CHOSE OWN
RESTING
PLACE
Continued from First Page.y

(Contlnueu from tlrSI Fds:e.'
the house, and they are enforcing
what they think she desires.
Plans Here Approved.
Major r. Owen, son-in-law Z of
Bryan, announced at noon that
Mrs. Bryan has approved funeral
plans made in Washington by Ben
@. Davis.
These plans. he said. provide for
services at the New York Avenue
PRESBYTERIAN Church of which the
Reverend Wallace Radcliffe is act
ing pastor The body will be taken
from the church to Arlington
Cemetery.
The City of Dayton offered Mrs.
Bryan q lot in the local cemetery
for the burial of her husband
among the people for whose reli-
gion he made his last fight. but
she said that the Commoner had
desired for many years to have his
resting place in Arlington National
Cemetery, overlooking the City of
Washington, and that this wish
would be carried out. The funeral
train will leave Dayton tomorrow
morning. arriving in Washington ON
Thursday. Funeral services prob
ably will be held there on Friday,
some delay being anticipated to
permit William Jennings Bryan, Jr.,
to arrive in the Capital from Los
Angeles with his sister, Mrs. Rich
ard Hargreaves.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
SINCERE,
SAYS HEARST
CONTINUED from First PArn.l

CContinued from First PAT".l
them with intense force and effec-
tiveness, but it ought to be pos
sible for all our people to realize
that Mr.. Bryan's views were al
ways genuinely democratic, that
his opinions and expressions were
always sincerely in support Of what
he honestly conceived to be the well
fare Of the great majority of his
American fellow citizens.
There is no higher praise to be
paid a public man than to say that
he was extremely able, entirely sin
cere, and wholly devoted to the in
terest Of his fellow men.
Influence Invaluable
"With such great abilities as Mr..
Bryan possessed and with such
high purposes, his influence in the
life of the nation has always been
of the utmost value because there
has been great need Of an uncom-
democratic force like Mr..
Bryan in the community to offset
the autocratic and arIstocratic tend.
encies OF our time.
Mr.. Bryan served his country
and his people we'll, and while pay
ing him the honors he deserves
and mourning his departure from
the scene of his great and bene-
fetal activities, we must hope that
some other great man viii arise
who will continue the fight for
essential democracy which Mr.
Bryan so long and SO ably led.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
Of GRANT
CLAN 0USTED
BY GIRL
Lord Strathspey Lives on
Pittance While Countess
Enjoys Estates
By F. A. WRAY

PUTNEY. England July 2S.-
Chief of one of the most famous
Scottish clans. heir to vast estates
in the Highlands of Scotland, LORD
Strathspey is living in tiny house
in this suburb of London, on a
total income Of less than $4,000 q
year.
The estates that Lord Strafhspey
claims amount to more than O,OOC
acres and include Castle Grant. at
Grantown. Morayshire: Cullen
House. Banffshire, and also several
other smaller houses and shooting
boxes-which, he states, should
have passed to him on the death
of his brother. the Earl OF Seafield
who died OF wounds received at
Ypres.
Strathspey is a handsome. mid
dle-aged man, with light blue eyes
and black, brushed-hack heir; who
frequently speaks in the House OF
Lords on matters relating to the
British Dominions.
81 am in a strange position" he
says. Prior to my brothers. death
there had never been sny mention
of his daughter succeeding to
everything:
But that is what happened. and
] am living on small annuity left
Ly my aunt, the widow of the
seventh Earl. and have not the
funds to take the necessary legal
pi oceedings.
''My father took my brother and
myself to New Zealand when we
were boys, and there seemed no
prospect of the estates coming our
way.
II spent three wears in a law
yer's office there and eight years
in Government service. When l re-
turned to London l found that my
niece, the Countess
of Seafield, was in possession of the
estates: but /. though the Oldest
Scottish chieftain in line-the thirty
first chief of rhe Clan Grant-was
out in the cold.
II approached the trustees of the
Seafield estates, which extend to
more than 400, 900 acres, for help
in finding somewhere to live. and
told them l. was quite willing to
pay rent.
but, definitely, they win not
help me. and it seems very strange
that they should adept this attitude
when. I think. MOST people would
q gree that it would be only just
to allow me at least a portion of
the estate.
"The trustees are the Macintosh
Of Macintosh, SIR Reginald Mac
Leod and Sir David Baird, and they
seem quite content to let me go on
living on what is just a pittance.
Being an overseas man. l find the
greatest difficulty IN adding to my
income here in England.
"As to the estates, they are just
falling away, stone by stone, for
want of someone TO take an inter
est in them. No one is bothering
in the slightest degree about the
people"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
GEN. PATRICK WILL HEAD
ARMY AIR SERVICE AGAIN

SWAMPSCOTT. Mass, July e.
Major General Mason NJ. Patrick
will be reappointed as chief of the
army air service. 1t was announced
officially here today at the sum-
mer white house,
1t was emphasized by a spokes,
man for President Coolidge that the
air services of the army and navy
are in better conditions today than
ever before, and are being strength
ened steadily
Tribute was paid to the ability
and efficiency OF General Patrick
~ this work.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
ICED SHOES FOR MEN;
DUAL CARRIERS, GIRLS

LONDON, July 28.-DoubIe gar
tiers and iced shoes are the --latest
bra:nstorms induced by the London
heat wave.
Two carriers are worn on each
leg, one above the knee. the other
below, both different and of ex-
trnmely colorful design. Since ell
fashionable women in London are
wearing skirts a fraction below the
kneerap. two of the garters are in
tended for the public eye.
Aluminium shoe trees, followed in
the center and filled with ice, wall
soon be seen in London as a So.
perior luxury for the stylish man.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
COOLIDGE OPTIMISTIC
ON TEXTILE INDUSTRY

SWAMPSCOTT, Mass, July 2s.-'
Depression in the textile industry
of New England does not reflect
a general depression in it through
out the country in the opinion OF a
spokesman for President Coolidge,
who commented on the textile
situation of the country at the
summer White Houss~r0day.
Generally, the industry is sound,
it was stated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
Husband Finds His
14-Year-OId Bride
Locked-Up

WILMINGTON, Del, July %.
The fourteen-year-old bride of
William Burbadge, 1906 French
street, was locked in her room
when he called to claim her,
and his father-in-law of twenty
four hours, John Jackson, 926
Kirkwood street, ordered the
youth from the house.
The girls parents declared
they would keep the young
couple apart until they can annul
the marriage, which was per-
formed at Elkton, Md.
The girl declared she would
stick to her husband in the face
of all opposition, but she seemed
to be swayed by the desire of
her mother.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
A Fearless Crusader
In Unpopular Causes,
Says Capper of Bryan
BY ARTHUR CAPPER
United States Senator from Kansas
Written Expressly for the international

United States Senator from Kansas
Written Expressly for the international
News Service
PARIS, July 28.-William Jen-
nings Bryan was a fearless cru
sader, he espoused unpopular
causes if he believed them right.
No man in America did more
for prohibition than Bryan. He was
courageously fighting for prohibit
ton in America when prohibition
was not popular in his party.
Mr.. Bryan and I were neigh
bors. / have known him for thirty
years. I disagreed with him on
many Of his political and economic
theories, but I think he was a
useful American citizen who has
earned an undoubted position in
American history.
Few men in politics had Bryan's
undaunted moral courage to battle
for his principles.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
Britain CondOIes on Death

LONDON. July 2S.-The British
government today took Formal no.
tice of the death of William Jen-
nings Bryan, the foreign office dI-
recting Sir Esme Howard, British
ambassador in Washington to con-
vey through the American State
Department Britain's condolences on
the passing Of the Commoner.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
Gets Commerce Post

Charles Artman. Of Evansville, n.
Y, today was appointed assistant
chief of the domestic cOI1Iuerce
division of the Department Of Com
AeTcO.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
EGYPT To BUILD
z MORE DAMS
ON MIL:
Government to Spend $751;
900, 900 on Project-WiII
Minimize Risk Of Floods
BY international News Service.

CAIRO. July 28.-With the com
pietion of the vast Assuan dam
scheme over the Nile, the Egyptian
government has decided to place
contracts for two further immense
dams over the Nile at an estimated
cost of $25 900, 900.
An impounding dam will be- built
on the White Nile at Gebel Aulia.
twenty-five miles from the famous
city of Khartoum. while a barrage
will be built at Nag Hamadi, on
the main Nile between Assuan dam
and the Assiout barrage.
Indicative Of the tremendous size
and dimensions OF the new works,
II is stated that the Gebel Aulia
dam. at it's designed storage level
will impound about $500 900 metric
tons of water. and the total length
Of the reservoir formed will be
nearly 200 miles.
The result will be very large
addition to the irrigated lands in
Egypt. while the new dams will
greatly minimize the risk of floods,
which annually do great damage
to crops.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28
lie RITES WITHOUT MILITARY H0N0RS PLANNED FOR BRYAN
BRYAN,S VOICE PLEADSFROM
BIER FOR BIBLE FAITH

I'VE have reason to demand
something more than guesses. We
may well suppose is not suffi.
cient substitute For thus saith
the Lord
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-28


psychologists who build upon the
evolutionary hypothesis teach that
man is nothing but a bundle of
characteristics inherited from brute
ancestors. That is the philosophy
which Mr.. barrow applied in this
celebrated case. Some remote an
cestor'~-he does not know how re-
mOte-'sent down the seed that cor
rupted him. You cannot punish
the ancestor, he is not only dead
but, according to the evolutionists,
he was a brute and may have Lived
a million years ago. And he saws
that all the biologists agree with
him. No wonder so small per
cent OF the biologists, according to
Leuba, believe in personal god.
This is the Quintessence of evo-
luton, distilled for us by OAe who
follows that doctrine to it's Hogical
Analyze this dogma OF
darkness and 7peath. Evo1utionists
say that back in the twilight of
life, ii beast, name and nature I'M
known, planted a murderous seed
and that the impulse that originated
in that seed throbs forever in the
blood of the brute's descendants, in
spring. killings innumerable. for
which the murderers are not respon-
sible because coerced by n fate
fixed 10y the laws of heredity. 1t
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-06
WAS NOT FIT
TO DO her WORK
Dreadful Condition Of Mrs.
FuIIerton's Health Rene
died by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Clearfeld, Pal cannot begin to
tell you how much LydiaE Pinkham's
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-06
CAILLAUX THE WINNER,

When Caillaux goes 10 America, it
is already announced that he proposes
20 take with him a staff Of financial
experts. Then be will come face 10
face with Mr.. Mellon who knows more
about finance than even the eTpCri.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-06
SIGNAL WILL GUIDE
KELLY FIELD filters

A signal similar to the block sys-
ten devised by Lieutenant Colonel
C. C. Culver for the guidance of pilots
along the San Antonio-San Diego air
route, will be placed on top of ham
gar at Kelly Field to indicate the
routes leading away from San An
tonic.
Colonel Culver, who now commands
Kelly Field, Saturday announced his
intention of having the signal painted
on the hangar within short time.
The signal will be Of shade OF
red that shows to best advantage
through the haze and will consist OF
a circle with arms pointing in the
direction of the air routes.
One arm of the figure will poirt
out the direction of the moiel airway
route to st. Louis by way o: New
Braunfels, another will point toward
Houston, one toward Corpus Christi.
a. i, fourth toward Brownsville aud
others toward Laredo and Fort Clark.
The magnetic north will be indicat-
ed by an arrow.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-06
LOST FORT WORTH
MAN FOUND IN S. A.

San Antonio proved to be the sport
of Missing Men" that yielded c. L.
Kindle, 30, of Fort Worth, whose dis.
appearance from that city last Thurs
day baffled detectives, relatives and
his employers for two days.
Mrs. Kindle, who had directed the
search for her husband despite her
distraction, received a letter from
him Saturday saying that he was in
San Antonio. He is at local hotel.
For two days three Fort Worth de-
tectivcs were kept busy looking for
the missing man. Neither Kindle's
relatives nor his employer had seen
him since Thursday, and when they
failed TO find him they reported his
DISAPPEARANCE to the police. They
feared foul play.
The delivery car he drove was
found Thursday night in a park at
Fort Worth. and Friday night neigh
bors told the Fort Worth detectives
they had heard two shots soon after
the wagon was driven into the park.
Early Saturday morning the Off
GERS arrested a man at whose home
they found a pair of blood-stained
trousers. He was released after Mrs.
Eindle received the letter from her
husband in San Antonio.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-06
Grated Tree Is Considered
Remarkable for Its
Development.

NEW BRAUNFELs, Sept. 8
A most remarkable grated pecan tree
on the place Of II. V. Schumann here,
is attracting attention Of horticul-
turalists. The bud was taken from a
grated Success Pecan tree and
budded on wild pecan tree by Theo-
dore Tolle.
This budding was done in October,
1924, and it started to sprout in
April Of this year. 1t grew ten feet
from April to August and is two
inches in diameter at the base, as
large as the tree itself. The sprout
Of over ten feet in five months is con-
sidered very remarkable.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-06
CAILLAUX BESTS ENGLISH IN DEBT PLAN
Lovd GEORGE Saws Britain Otaan euered Finance Scheme
HIDES $500 IN
STOVE, NEGLECTS
TO TELL HIS WIFE

LONDON, Sept. 5.--For picking
out a stove as a hiding place for his
$500, a miner in the Ashby de la
Couch coal fields in Leicestershire is
now minus that amount.
He did not wish his wife to know
he had taken the money out of the
bank, and be could think of no better
hiding place in summertime that a
kitchen range. But his wife decided
TO heat. some water for washing
clothes, and, the moral is: LET the
wife in on your secrets"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-06
FAR-EASTERNERS
WIN SCHOOL HONOR

VICTORIA, B. c., Sept. 5.-Re-
suits of examination in British Co
lumbia recently for entrance into high
schools were marked by the excellent
showing of two Oriental students, No
buichi Yamaoka, a Japanese boy liv-
ing in Vancouver, and Alice Lee, a
Chinese girl living in Victoria. Both
won medals for the highest standing
in their respective school districts,
in competition with Canadian chill
dren.
The work of the japanese boy is
all the more remarkable for the
fact that when he came here from
Japan three years ago, he could not
speak English.