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Evening star., 1925-05-31
LILLE WINSSTAMP
PRIZE AT CENTRAL
Campaign of Bigger Band at
/ High School Grows With
! Twenty Volunteers.

Rupert B. Lille was awarded first
prize in the annual stamp collection
contest and exhibition last week at
Central High Scholar international
stamp album donated by w. Frank
Clark of the school faculty. Second
honors went to Mary KYLE. secretary
or the Central Stamp Club. Leo
hasehagen, S. l.. Gregg, Raymond
beln, John Letham and Charles
SchWab received honorable mention.
An organization which is rapidly
winning recognition at Central is the
stage crew. Each member is given a
change to manage the crew for school
productions ''Tillie" Ellenberger and
Jack Thompson supervised the stage
management of the Spring play;
Frances Hoffheins, the student play,
ana Aleck Hopkins, a musical comedy
presented at the recent cadet night.
y call for new members had been
ISSUED by Miss Lent faculty director
The present active members are Til
lie Ellenberger. Frances Hoffheins,
Kenneth Dunn. Jack Thompson, and
Aleck Hopkins.
Band Campaign.
The better, bigger band" cam
palgn is being carried on for the pur
pose of making Central music organ
lzation more successful than ever be
Tore Twenty-Five students have
volunteered, but 90 more are still
wanted. Brass instruments, including
comets, trOmbones and altos, are
needed as well as ClarinetS and oboes
OF the reed class. jor credit for
practice during school hours, reduc-
llon in prices of Instruments, few
instruments 10 be let out personal
instructions, and reduced prices for
professional instructions are some of
the attractions which it is hoped will
draw more students.
The Central GIee Club last week
offered program of eight numbers al
business in return for the entertain
ment provided at Central by the Busi-
ness songsters. An orchestra com
posed of Carl Rrockway, Buddy
Schlegel, Bruce Carpenter, Harold
TeXter, Allan Lutz, and Bill Jemison
showed Business students how Jazz
should be played.
Liberty Motor Studied.
Mr.. CorneH's auto class made a. trip
recently to Boiling Field in order TO
acquaint themselves with the Liberty
motor. They also learned about the
parts of an airplane and the manipu-
iaion Of the parachute The class
expects TO visit the Bureau of Stand
ards and the National Museum soon.
The first Central girls TO win
ScnoIarshlps this year are Florence
Fellows and Lucille INLAY. The
American University awarded its
scholarship for the State of Connect
cut TO Florence Fellows of the Feb
ruary class, and its scholarship for
the State Of Maryland 10 Lucille I'm
lay of the June class.
Several members of the Central
track squad entered the Junior and
senoir A. A. L. South Atlantic meets.
Those who competed in the junior
meet We're j. Suter, Earl Smith, Gott-
lieb and Freeman The senior roaa+
will be in the Central stadium June
Chaconas, J. Suter, Earl Smith, Colt.
heb, Freedman, Freeman and L. Suter
are expected to represent Central in
the meet.
Evening star., 1925-05-31
WHY CROSSES FOR KISSES.
Symbol Is a Relic of Day When
Few Could Read and Write.
FROM the London Answers.

1rpHl bne LONDON Answers.
Whatever your sex. at some time
or other YOU have probably written a
letter and put some crosses" in it
for kisses. But have you ever won
-dered why cross should be used as
the written symbol of a kiss?
This story takes us back to the
times when few could read and still
fewer could write. In that respect
the nobility were no better than those
OF lower station in life, but deeds
transferring property, wills and other
documents had to be signed somehow.
So those who could not write their
names made their mark" and this,
in an age when religious symbolism
was very much in evidence, almost
invariably took the form of a cross.
From motives of reverence the shape
used was not that of the cross of
Calvary, but the st. Andrew cross,
which resembles the letter "
Having duly made their mark, the
6ignatories of a document then kissed
it-partly as a pledge of good faith
and partly as an act of reverence
And SO a cross marked on paper be-
came associated with kiss
Evening star., 1925-05-31
TREE 1873 YEARS OLD.

BALTIMORE, May 30-A tree 13s
years old-older than any planted
tree previously known to the State
Forestry Department-has been en-
tered in the Forestry Department S
tree contest which closes July l. ac-
cording to State Forester F. W. Bes-
ley.
The tree was planted in 1887. after
the Revolutionary War, on the Blair
estate in Montgomery County, ac-
cording to information received by
Mr.. Besley. II is a sycamore and is
approximately 10 feet tall While
trees much older are known of in
Maryland. these were already grow
ing before land in their vicinity was
settled, Mr.. Besley believes. The syca-
more was planted by early Montgom.
cry County settlers, it Is said.
Evening star., 1925-05-31
POLICEMAN Is FIRE HERO.
Hammond, Ind, Officer Saves Gas
Tanks in 100000 Blaze.

HAMMOND, Ind. May 80 CP-
Fire originating in the Paxton Lum-
Der Co. today spread TO the Hammond
Brass Works nearby and caused ST.
100000 damage. Two huge gas tanks,
with a combined volume of TOO 900
cubic feet of gas standing across the
street from the main blaze. would
have exploded but for the heroic work
Of Carl Mcfarland, a traffic policeman.
A pipe joining the two tanks was
surrounded by flames. Despite the
flood Of water from the hose. a gas
leak continued to burn. Mcfarland
wet a blanket and snnt hered IL
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Forest Fire Damage $88,300.

Special Dispatch to The star.
BALTIMORE, May 3O.-Forest fire
damage in Maryland during the
Spring fire season IS estimated in eX-
cess of SIS. 300 according to reports
received from forest wardens by Cor
don d. Marckworth. assistant State
forester. There was a total of 269
fires during the few months compris-
ing the Spring fire season.
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Scientists.

Doctors and physicians the country
over attending sessions of the Amer.
ican Medical Association in Atlantic
City were amazed last week at the
successful and accurate diagnosis of
an afflicted heart. made in d few min
utes by a physician a thousand miles
away. The diagnosis was accomplish
ed when photographs of the patient s
heart-beats were sent by telephone
from Atlantic City to Chicago. The
Chicago physician examined the photo
Sraphs-which were sent in seven
minutes-and telephoned back his
dia gnosis, which was broadcast to the
physicians in their convention
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CLUB ENTERTAlNS.
Is Host to Senior Glass of Business
High.

The Friendship Club OF the Busi-
ness High School entertained the
four-year graduating class with a
dance in the school gymnasium Tues
day. Under the direction of Eleanor
Patlen, bright-colored decora tions,
balloons, and confetti turned the hall
into a fairyland. Besides the nu-
merous members of the Friendship
Club. representatives OF the Business
High School faculty and practically
all of the graduating class were pres
ent.
A large number OF Business High
School students attended the weIcom-
ing dance, given by the George
Washington University TO the five
Washingtno senior high schools
Thursday evening.
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Geography.

Dispatches last week from abroad
stated that Esthonia has leased TO
Great Britain the Islands of Dagoe
and Oesel, III the Baltic Sea Just south
of the Gulf of Finland, and this news
was interpreted in some quarters as a
decision by Great Britain to establish
naval base in the Baltic which
would dominate northern Europe.
Since the elimination. during the war,
of the German and Russian Baltic
fleets, the Baltic Sea has been regard
ed, 1t Is pointed out, as sort OF a No
Mans Water" and the press of
France and England has discussed
the advisability OF securing its domi-
nation.
Donald B. Macmillan. who will head
an Arctic mission this Summer under
the auspices OF the National Geo
graphic Society and the United States
Government. thrilled an audience COM
posed of newspaper correspondents
last week over his plans, which he
believes may result in planting the
American flag over a million square
miles of unexplored territory between
the northern tip of AXel Heiburg Land
and the North Pole. Northern ex-
plorers Perry and Macmillan among
them. have brought back strange tales
North which could plainly be seen
with the naked eye, but which has
never been reached. Appearing over
the ice OF the polar sea, Macmillan
himself followed the vision of this land
for $50 miles, then, with provisions
low. saw it disappear as suddenly as
it had appeared. This Summer, with
planes which will cover in day the
territory formerly covered in a long
Summer Of perilous marching, he
hopes to establish definitely the truth
or falsity of this legendary lands
existence.
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CiUicS.

Judge G. H. Williams of st. Louis,
prominent lawyer of Missouri and
a close personal friend of Gov. Baker
of that State, has been appointed to
succeed United States Senator
Selden P. Spencer, who died recently.
1t is expected that new Senator will
be a candidate for nomination for
the post in the August primaries next
year The Republican party is rep
resented as well pleased with the
new Senator's selection.
Springfield, Mo, has attempted a
unique experiment in teaching its
younger citizens some of the require
ments of citizenship. Tiny Town" "
which stands on a plot of ground
250 by 1000 feet and contains a COM
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GIRL ASSAULT VICTIM.
Attacked by Unidentified Man
Near Homecoming, Nd.
Il Dispatch TO The Star

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, May 30.-Vir-
ginia Easter, II years old, of Lonacon-
ing is in a serious condition at Miners
Hospital, Frostburg, as the result of
a criminal attack by an unknown man
early last evening.
According to the Sirl, she was re.
turning from the county school track
meet at F'rostburg when aCcosted by
a stout man who had dark cloth on
his face The girls stepfather, Arthur
Swift, is a coal miner. The attack
was along the Cumberland and Penn
sylvania Railroad at a lonely place
the family living AT the extreme end
of town
Evening star., 1925-05-31

Mrs Gladys Kuhn, secretary and
treasurer of u prominent wholesale
coal company OF Columbus. Ohio, is
one Of the few women III the United
States having an expert knowledge
of the coal business in all its phases.
Evening star., 1925-05-31

Municipal suffrage. which has just
been granted to women in Italy, viii
be limited to real estate owners, high
school graduates and those who had
sons in the great war
Evening star., 1925-05-31
A. A. CONVOCAT|ON
RITES WEDNESDAY
Bishop Mcdowell to Dedicate
University Hall, the New
Woman's Dormitory.

The annual convocation Of Ameri-
can University will be held Wednes
day at the campus, at Massachusetts
and Nebraska avenues, beginning at
] 0 am. with a meeting of the trustees
in the Hall Of History and d meeting
at the same hour of the Woman's
Guild in another part of the building
At noon, luncheon will be served for
the trustees, and the members of the
guild will be guests.
The public convocation exercises
will begin at . pm. with the academic
procession. Bishop William Fraser
Mcdowell will make d short address
and dedicate University Hall. the new
dormitory for women. The second
address win be made by Mrs. Anthony
Wayne Cook, president general of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
ton, after which doctors and masters
degrees vii be conferred upon thirty
five candidates by the chancellor. The
exercises will be held in the reception
room and lobby of University Hall,
where ample seating room is avail
able.
Degree Awards
Those who are to receive degrees
include the following:
Master of Commercial Science.
Wesley Earl Craig.
NdSItI VI i DllN4Nc1l totACLlg' " 4LlAcl4Aa
Smith StoneT.
Master of Science-Charles Spauld--
ing Howard, Amer Benjamin Ny
StrOm.
Master of Laws-AnEel Pecson'
Casiano, Henry Martin Lewis, jr.,
Frederick p Myers.
Master Of Arts-Clarence Herman
Cochran, Isidoro Rubio Collado,
Dedimo MagIaya Fonbuena, Estelle
Satchwer Gatke. Wilbur Lake Iiarri
son. Lillian Agnes Helliwell, George
Edgar Johnson, William Earl LaRue,
Mariana Garrison Lopez. John Cham
bers Mcdowell, Charles Pergler, Irene
d. oplawska-Leinewerber Willis
Cleaves Russell Ralph Della Smith,
Edwin Allan SwinEle, Matthias Joseph
Vinikas. William Claude Waltemyer,
Joseph Steinhauer Fucker.
Doctor of Science-Frederick Leslie
Benton.
Doctor of Civil Law-Seth Thomas
Bowen, Walter a. Brown, Henry Bar
hard Hazard. Ezekiel Ransom Stegall.
Doctor Of Philosophy-Jame Alex
ander Bell, Frances Moon Butts, Eu-
genia Maglaya Fonbuena, Robert
Moulton Gatke, Marie Margaret
Ready, HeIga CONQUEST Todd, Harry
Swain Todd, Sarah a. Wallace.
Evening star., 1925-05-31

Forty-five miners, trapped more than
1000 feet below the surface of
the earth in the Carolina Coal Com
panys mine at Coal Glen, Y. c.,
perished from an explosion last week
Rescuers found only dead bodies.
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Freight QUIZ
REPEAL ASKED
State C. of c. Committee
Launches Movement.

Freight and traffic committee or
the Indiana State chamber Of COM
merce at a meeting Thursday,
launched a movement to repeal the
Smith Hoke resolution adopted by
the last Congress, which ordered a
wide spread investigation of the
freight structure of the entire coun-
try. The committee resolution was
presented by L. r. Martin, Of the
Oliver Chilled Pl1w Works, South
Bend. and received the unanimous
approval of the twenty-eight man.
ayers of industries and secretaries
of chambers of commerce who were
present.
r. B. Coapstick, of the State
chamber of commerce said he be-
lieved the investigation as carried on
under the Smith Hoke resolution was
a waste of time and money and
would never result in complete
readjustment.
The freight and traffic committee
went on record as being opposed to
the general freight rate increase
proposed by the carriers. The COM
mittee is not opposed, however, to
increases in specific cases when ne
cessary, according to George H.
Mosser, State chamber secretary.
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her left shoe touching the heel of
her right. Then, presto, and her
toes turned in toward each other
and her right foot waited ceiling
ward for the space of about a hun
dredth Of a second, and closed rapid
ly with her left, the heel of which
was right smack up against the toe
of ner right. Figure it out.
That's the first movement in the
"Charleston" for the feminine half
of the partnership. the man uses
his left foot for the assault and bat
terry on other dancers. In the pic
lures above, Miss Berry is demon
strating the mans obligations, and
the pictures are numbered in illus
tration Of each move of this move
ment." She says the eXaggeration
Of the Charleston, as shown here,
is taught at first $50 that we poor
dumbbells can get\ the hang Of it,,
but that for proper ballroom dancing
only a modified movement Is used
that just suggests the flippancy Of
the dance.
The next little movement has a
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Der. he has been engaged by the
Indianapolis school board for the
year 1924-25. Rae was born in Aber.
deem Scotland, and came to Indian
apolis in 1906 after winning high
honors in England as a scientist.
He was assistant manager of the
Edison & Swan Electric works at
London. His interest in entomology
was aroused one day when he was
making d microscopic study Of a
small piece of wire. Through the
miscroscope he saw a small bug
crawling along the wire. He be.
came interested in insects from that
time and began making microscopic
slides.
Assisted by Mrs. Rae. who is en-
thusiastic over her husbands work.
Rae has made more than 10000
microscopic slides. One Of his great
est pieces of work, he said, was
making a lantern slide from a micro
photograph of a tiny speck of living
cells from the bottom of the ocean.
The tiny animals. enlarged. show
beautiful diagrams. similar to snow
flakes, when photographed.
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An l want to have ink and
write with a PEN a thin, little voice
piped, and Miss Ethel Scofield. phys
ical director of the new crippled
children's school which started this
week at California. and Washington
SITS, nodded an understanding as
sent.
The speaker, tiny girl. whose
small crutches rested against her
desk, was one Of twenty pupils who,
in a large. sun-filled room Of the
Oscar Mccullough school, will take
corrective. therapy training while
developing eager little minds in the
regular school course.
but we're not ready yet." Mrs.
Jeanette Williams. principal of the
new school announced. We're to
have equipment-specially construct
ed desks and tables. There will be a
dining room with an excellent cook
serving hot dinners every day to
the children"
: Just here, small boy shifted in
his desk. Il can spell" ne volun-
teered in a stage whisper as Miss
Anna Townsend, the , academic
teacher handed out bright new
readers to members OF the first
group to recite.
The children are divided into three
groups and because they tire rather
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quickly. their occupations are fire.
quently changed. They study a
short period, rest, then have therapy
or muscle training work. The lat
ter work is in charge Of Miss Ethel
Scofield Some children are given
individual treatment but the greater
part takes the form Of what the
children call games" and is done in
groups.
Its fun--this school" one tiny
girl said in answer to a question Il
went to school before-a regular
school, but l got so tired. my back
always does and l couldn't keep up
with them. bet I can here though"
and her big. dark eyes took in a
wistful inventory of her small com.
panions.
They are normal children, except
for their physical disability" Mrs.
Williams remarked. I'VE endeavor to
impress them with their ability and
opportunities rather than their sup
posed handicaps '-thereby proving
the principals knowledge of modern
applied psychology.
There is blackboard work and
when that class was called, at least
half a dozen small crutches tatooed
eagerly across the room. The rest
of the class were pushed in their
movable desks and many wavering
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little arms drew signs and made
figures along the length of black
board, pleasantly conscious that
they were doing work just like their
sturder brothers in adjoining rooms,
Occasionally an insecurely placed
crutch would rattle TO the floor ana
the children, like children every
where, giggled happily at the UNI
expected noise.
reshments-bottles OF milk
came next and were disposed Of with
dispatch and then presently there
were suppressed little squeals of ex.
citement-the bus had arrived and
the children were to be taken home
In the big auto furnished by the
Indianapolis Foundation. Strong
arms lifted the little pupils who
could not walk and those on
crutches brought up merrily in the
rear.
See you tomorrow Jimmy" one
bright little cripple called as he was
carried ahead and, "II see you -
morrow" Jimmy called back and his
crutch pounded sturdily down the
length OF the hall
The crippled children's school was
started here this year by Superin.
tendent T.. u. Graft with the aid Of
the Indianapolis Foundation. The
Foundation provides a bus to take
the children to and from the school.
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floor and out of other enthusiastic
persons way.
The Charleston as a gloom dis
perser takes first prize. II has that
joyous spirit of action that accom-
panied the old-time dances. II brings
a sparkle to the eyes-and certainly
n twinkle to the toes. 1t loosens up
old joints and keeps young ones
supple. If you're blue or jaded take
a course of Charleston" Sounds
like a color scheme combiner. but if
it is it combines only the bright
est colors.
Perhaps it is only new step
back to the old steps that are more
and more in demand. Among old
time familiar dances to be seen on
indianapolis ballroom floors this win
ter will be the old square dances,
the lancers, the heel and toe polka
and contra dances. They all fill a
long felt need for sociability at
dances and balls. and the young
people arc just as fascinated by
them as the older couples. Perhaps
Henry Ford really started something
that will spread nationwide when
his employees, who sent their in
structor to Cleveland last week to
show the dancing teachers some
dances that were still new. though
old
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partment, in gathering data and
products for the museum.
Miss Frances assemblies, for in
stance, flax exhibit. The exhibit
includes the flax, itself, as it grows
in the field. Then it is carried step
by step through the various proc
esses by which it is made into linen.
Similar object lessons are carried out
with silk, from the silk-worm to the
finished piece of goods; pottery from
clay, through the moulds and glaz,
ing process to the, finished piece of
pottery, and paper from the trees
in the woods, through the pulp mills
to the finished stationery.
The museum will be one of the
most complete in the United
States, Dalman said. 1t is being
developed with the greatest care
for accuracy and for its educational
value.
The child's interest Is attracted by
the interesting features, and as the
story is unfolded the valuable educa-
tional truths are inculcated easily.
Rae began his work, wi ich is
unique in this country. last Novem.
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by Eloise Walton

r. + you want to learn to dislo-
cate your knee-cap in a jif-
L. fly, take up the Charleston,
the dance that's swaying the coun-
try-and swinging the feet just now.
Some folks can do 1t in one lesson
dislocate the knee cap, that is. But
about the best thing the Charles
ton" dislocates is a sour disposition.
You can't be interested in this
sprightly new hop, skip and jump
and nurse a grudge. You can't
hold your tongue between your teeth
either, so be warned. l tried it.
Upon the slippery ballroom floor
at 216h N. Meridian ST., Miss Mae
Berry, who has just returned from
a dancing teachers convention in
Cleveland, Ohio, where the Charles
ton" was put through all its PAGES,
turned on the electric player piano
and glided away In a special exhibit
ton.
One, two, three, four walking steps
she took, and then--nOw lessee, how
was that-she put her left foot be-
hind her right foot, with the toe Of
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New Charleston Dance Step Makes
1t Easy to Dislocate Your Knee Cap

partners shoes you should get some
sort of prize.
Left foot crosses in front of the
right foot, and somehow or other the
right foot scoots out and does a
shenanigan in the air. The move
ment is reversed to fit the left foot
and then you go on. This is called
See-see Charleston. You can do it
doubly or singly.
The Charleston" is certainly a
false-toOth loosener and is admirably
suited to very young people since the
"Toddle" forms a good part of it.
But there is no Bunny-hugging
about the Charleston. The idea that
the dance is wicked certainly has
been shot wide Of the mark. Fond
parents needn't become excited over
their little chicks flying off to flap
this new step, because the only
couple that could do the Charleston
and dance cheek 10 cheek. would be
n pair of cranes or flamingOes or
storks. IL your mind isn't on your
feet and what you're going with
them, you might as well get off the
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By Frank Getty
-css Sfnff CorrosDondcnt

United Press Stnn Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-
Smiling General "Dick" Null
cahy of the Irish Free State,
who a few years ago was fight
ing like one of his native
terriers against the English,
poked a cautious nose out of
his window in the Commodore
Hotel this morning and gazed
through a discolored eye up and
down Forty-Second st.
For General Mulcahy had seen
more fighting since he arrived aboard
the President Roosevelt last eve