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The broad ax., 1926-12-25
Studying the Constitution:


The legislatures of thirty-seven
states have passed laws requiring def
mite courses of instructions in the
United States Constitution, which, next
to the Holy Bible, is the greatest in
strumental directorate of human rights
ever conceived and written into the
history Of mankind. At present, there
are 200,500 teachers, white and col
ored, teaching the Constitution to four
million school children, white and col
ored, in the United States. The
course is compulsory in every State
excepting Connecticut, Louisiana
Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Mon
tana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Texas
Virginia and Wisconsin.
1t is not our pleasure at this time
to be engaged in the pleasant duty
Of teaching the precious mandates Of
the u. S. Constitution IF we, how.
ever, were SO engaged, we would, with
human and racial feeling, point out
along with the things which the Con
stitution essays to provide, those for
which it makes no provision.
For instance, the Constitution does
not prescribe for groups or classes
nor does it purport to favor any spe.
cial social orders in America, any spe-
cial sects, religions, or races.
The Constitution does not provide
for any particular kind of American
ism. What it does provide for and
construe in its purposes constitutes
AMERICANISM ITSELF, which
does not exist in grades or percent
ages.
The Constitution proclaims the fact
that every natural born or naturalized
citizen Of America is a citizen Of the
United States and of the State ii
which he resides; and the Constitution
does not say that because such citizen
far, far away from the Nations Capt.
tai he shall be DENIED the privileges
and the immunities and the protection
which the Constitution essays to create
for all citizens of the United States Of
America.
The Constitution does not deal in
terms of eve" and they" as to any
particular types OF American citizens
All of US are the democratic content
Of democratic nation.
The heritage Of American citizen
ship is indeed a high heritage. And
the unalloyed fullness of that heritage
NOTHING LESS-is what every
American owes to every other Ameri-
can without regard to any description
other than the description that De
SCRIBES AMERICAN CITIZEN
SHIP.
The broad ax., 1926-12-25

made Of brilliants as centers. con-
bined with crystal beads, giving an
effect of crystalline loveliness that is
difficult to visualize. A collar and
cuffs Of white fox finish this wrap,
which win be worn by a fashionable
bride, not with her wedding dress, but
with an elaborate evening gown Of
georgette and polished silver spangles.
This wrap is lined with velvet, as
many Of the evening wraps are, in a
faint shade OF rose.
These delightful wraps are volumi-
nous and graceful. In dazzling white
with Innings Of velvets in delicate
shades Of blue, rose. yellow. the or
chids, Of which there are many subtle
degrees. and green. A superlative
wrap OF white chiffon velvet is EN-
broidered as q deep border with
BeQuins in opaIescent tints. very lus-
trous and pulsing with color, with
strasa and crystal beads interviewer.
The broad ax., 1926-12-25
Too Much Care

The human body Is good for only
about 10 years anyway. Why keep 1t
too much wrapped up in cotton wool
You won't succeed in living forever.
If you are healthy use your health
even to the point of wearing it out !:
that's what 1t is for. AS Bernard
Shaw says, spend all you have be
fore you die" You cannot use your
cake and have 1t. and the worst Of
all Is to let II mold on the shelf.
Don't outlive yourself A master
word liz work
The broad ax., 1926-12-25
FIVE MILLIONS IN FIVE
WEEKS

Penny by penny, dime by dime, ave
million dollars is the sum to be raised
in the last FIVE weeks of 1926 to fight
tuberculosis. Five hundred million
pennies; half a billion Christmas seals
what tremendous undertaking this
must bel
AT least 10000 people, it is esti-
mated, will volunteer part or all their
me during this period. They are
drawn from every walk of life. Per-
haps banker in Texas acts as treas
urer; the government Of Wyoming en-
dorses the job in proclamation; while
$40 school teachers in Minnesota take
charge of the sale in their commune
ties, and 6,146 school children in Butte
scamper from house to house with
seals in their hands and please buy"
on their lips. Women's clubs as well
as mems frequently cooperate in a
body, sometimes handling every de-
tail Of the campaign. The list Of local
workers is often roster of the pub
lic-spirited people of the locality.
Catholic and Protestant, Gentle and
Jew, Democrat and Republican, step
from their separate paths to join the
line of those who sell as well as buy
Christmas seals in every city, town,
hamlet and crossroads in the country
More than 5000 such groups were
ready for the sales which opened on
Thanksgiving Day.
The Christmas seal is now 1o years
old. The first year, 1907, the amount
raised was only $4,000. But see how
the infant grew into child and now
almost into a man, for the second year,
the return was $135,0O0 when six years
old, it was $450,O00-at Ia years in
1921, $3,522,OOO, in 1924, $4,5OO,OO0,
and in 1925, $4,87o, 400. 1t is not too
much to expect 10000 volunteers to
make it $5,OOO,OOO in 1926.
"That depends" one might answer,
ION what has been done with the
money in the past" Well, ninety-fve
cents Of every dollar has remained in
the state where it was raised, there to
be administered under the supervision
of responsible local citizens; only FIVE
cents has gone to support the parent
body, the National tuberculosis Asso-
citation. "But this is not what we want
to know" might be the reply, what
has been accomplished"
Since the first Christmas seal was
sold, the number of deaths from tuber-
cuIosis in the United States has
dropped from 200 in every hundred
thousand living people to fraction
over 90. One hundred thousand or
more people will be alive in America
to eat Christmas dinner in 1926 who
would have died in the past year if this
rate had remained unchanged Think
of their families, their friends, to say
nothing Of themselves, who have es-
capped the terrors Of untimely death,
though they may not know it!
Isn't it worth $5,000,00O to hack a
little harder at the death rate in 1927?
That's the national budget; for Chi
cago and Cook County $225,000 is the
goal, and every cent of it is needed
in order to give back in better COM
cunity health the effort and energy Of
the workers now laboring 50 earnestly
in every city and hamlet to make the
campaign success. 1t is a success
thus far, but the Chicago Tuberculo-
sis Institute says that much more is
still needed.
The broad ax., 1926-12-25
SITE FOR FORT WORTH JIM
CROW PARK HAS BEEN
PURCHASED
preston News Service

Fort Worth, Tex, Dec. 24.-Ofi-
Gals Of this city have made plans for
the $4,000 Negroes Of this city to have
a city park comprising 60.24 acres.
The tract was bought by the city park
commissioners Tuesday for slightly
more than $4,000 1t said that suit
able site for a Negro park has been
sought here for several years.
The broad ax., 1926-12-25
Howard University Appropriations:

Inasmuch as the country at large is
so genuinely interested in Howard
University, this column takes pleasure
in quoting, in detail, that portion of
Bill H. r. No. 1882, which provides,
in the Interior Department appropri-
atoms for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1928, the fund of $368,000 for the
maintenance and Improvement of the
Races greatest institution Of higher
education.
Lines IS to 10, page 81, of the bill,
provide for payment in full or in part
of the salaries OF the officers, profess
sors, teachers and other regular en-
ployees Of the university, the balance
to be paid from privately contributed
funds, $4,000 of which not less than
$500 shall be used for normal in
struction."
Lines 20 to "a, page 81, Of the bill,
provide "for equipment, supplies, APP
paratus, furniture, cases and shelving,
stationery, ice, repairs to buildings and
grounds, and for other necessary ex-
penses, including $1,000 for payment
to Freedmen's Hospital for heat and
light, $6S,OOO"
Lines and 2, page 90, of the bill,
provide "for the construction of one
additional dormitory building for
young women, $l50,OOO."
In the same bill there is provided,
for Freedmen's Hospital, the sum of
$4,000 "for officers and employees
and compensation for all other pro-
fessiona1 and other services etc; and
the additional sum Of $4,000 "for sub
sistence. fuel and light, surgical instru-
ments, X-ray apparatus" etc. making
in all, for Freedmen's Hospital, the
Esum total Of $188,O00.
The broad ax., 1926-12-25
repentance-not Christian reprisal, if
there is any such thing.

repenfance-not CHrfStian repr1SaI, II
there is any such thing.
Two Southerners Discuss Dixie:
"As a southerner from Mississippi,
I safely venture to make the assertion
that there exists no more religious or
racial prejudice in the South, proper
tionately, than in New York, Mary
land, or any other states north of the
Mason and Dixon line" writes Sam
Gordon (white) Of Baltimore.
In contradistinction to Mr.. Gordon's
descriptive view of Dixie, however, are
the conclusions of DR.. Edwin Minis
(white) Professor Of English Litera-
ture at Vanderbilt University, Nash
vile, Tenn, who says:
81 am a southerner of one kind, but
not all kinds. The solidarity of the
South is no longer a source Of pride,
but Of HUMILIATION to many Of
its most devoted men. There is a
South that finds expression in the
crude and blatant utterances of men
like Cole Blease and Vardaman and
another that finds expression in the
craftsmanship of men like Carter
Glass and Oscar Underwood There
is South that practices and justihes
lynching and another South that be-
lieves it is unjustihable under any and
all circumstances, and is resolutely de-
termined to put an end to it.
There is South boasts of an orig
inal contribution to the Nation in the
Ku Klux Khan, and there is South
that believes the KIan is un-American
and I'M Christian, and that holds out
the helping hand to every race and
creed.
$May South Carolina now punish
the mob that lynched the Lowman
Negroes All honor to Judge Reed
of Georgia for his courageous main
tainance of the law in the recent Geor-
gia 1ynching case.
The southern states are still at the
bottom of all statistics that register
actual educational conditions of the
country 1t is also true that there
is not a single university in the South
that has adequate resources for the
highest type of graduate work. These
are facts that cannot be gotten around
by hifalutin' talk about the beauty of
southern women and the chivalry Of
southern men,"
Gentle reader, kindly tell US Who's
Who and Why, Mr.. Gordon or Mr..
Minis.
The broad ax., 1926-12-25

IT II the nature OF the human dis
position to hate him whom you have
injured.-Tacitus-
The broad ax., 1926-12-25

The covetous man pines In plenty,
like TantaIus up 10 the chin I'm water.
and yet thIrsfy-Rev. r. Adams
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COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES
By THE CAMERAMAN

/. Studying the Constitution.
z. Christianity; Truth; Tolerancel
3. Two Southerners Discuss Dixie.
4. Howard University Appropri-
atoms.
The broad ax., 1926-12-25

I've never tainted Adam about thu
number Of men who had proposed t.
her.-Florenee Herald.
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the Passion play at Ober-Ammer-
ran was established in the year 1888
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-24

between. And because in small rooms
most of the furniture must be placed
means that there is nowhere to put
the furniture and no opportunity for
artistic interior treatment
One solution of the problem is the
steel easement window. Because of
it's slender sash and muliions, smaller
window openings may he allowed
without mitigating the actual amount
of light and ventilation obtainable,
the portion of the window opening
being available for glazing.
An appreCiable percentage Of wall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-24
FEWER PLASTER CRACKS.

Shrinkage of The wood in frame
house is quite apt to cause PLASTER
cracks and as a preventative metal
lath is used under the plaster as the
plastering base. The plaster, so re-
inforced, has sufficient strength to re-
sist considerable Of the shrinkage
stresses.
The extra expense for using better
plastering and lath is more than off
set by the lessened upkeep cost for
the interior decorating Besides, this
form of lath has unusual fire-resistive
qualities which add measurab bly, TO the
security of the home owner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-24
METAL LATH IN STUCC0
WORK Is GIVEN PRAISE
Method of Construction Said to Be
Less Expensive-Makes for
Warmer Housing.

In back-plastered stucco construc
ton on metal lath the lath which
comes in sheets is placed over the
wood studs and nailed directly 20
them without the use of sheathsng
boards, the stuGs being braced with
diagonal hracing and also horizontally
The plasterer applies stIcco over
the outside face and similarly TO the
inner face of the hath from the I'm
side of the building), so that the
metal lath is thoroughly embedded IN
the stucco. The latter is thus
strengthened and made substantially
crackproof.
1t is said that this method of con
struction is less expensive than when
sheathing boards are used. Heat In
>sulation is taken care of by usin..
building paper in the hollow space
between the inner and outer faces ol
the studs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-24

but 1t will also have a furnishing and
equipment department that will be of
general interest to the public.
William Knantz, director of the
Delaware County Real Estate Board
of Pennsylvania, visited Washington
this week to study the methods of
the local board In organizing it's ex-
position in order that the Pennsyl-
vania organization may also put on a
similar exposition in the Fall. Mr..
Knantz praised the Washington
Auditorium as one of the best exhibit
places that he had inspected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-24

high, with larger leaves and more
uneven growth it is as satisfactory
as ivy to plant under trees, as it
grows most luxuriantly in the
denSest shade.
These are the things best for a
solid groundcover. TO combine with
stone paving; for incidental planting
here and there there are many others
which must be taken up in another
article.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-24
WALL SPACE Is CHIEF
APARTMENT PROBLEM
Question of Where Furniture Is to
Go a Bugaboo to
Architects.

1t is not unlikely that the sleep of
small home and apartment architects
is occasionally disturbed by a night
mare concerning wall space.
1t is the bugaboo of the profession
To lay out a compact floor plan re-
quires cutting up walls with doors and
windows. This means that large
areas of uncut wall are few and far
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-24
BETTER HOMES SHOW
AROUSING INTEREST
All Space in Washington Audito-
rum to Be Available for Ex-
hibits Beginning October 16.

All the available space in thesWash-
ington Auditorium will be used for
Better Homes and Building Exposi,
ton to be conducted by the Washing
ton Real Estate Board at the Audi
torium Octobed is to %, ii was an
nounced by Clarence F. Donohue,
president of the board, today.
Those In charge of the exposition
state that an unusual amount of in
quiries and reservations are being
wade from time to time by local and
nationally known manufacturers,
real estate and commercial OrganiZa-
tions, The exhibit will not only con-
tain booths and demonstra tons In re-
gard to construction and land values,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-24

Indications are that bank credit
viii continue in ample supply and
tinctly easy, tending more toward
fractional decline than toward i'm.
mediate rise. Retail sales should be
slightly heavier than in 1925, with
profits about on a par with last year.
Standard Statistics Co, Inc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-24

The outlook is for continued mod
crate curtailment in probably all lines
A further reimbursement In commodity
prices is probable. We expect slight
downward trend in money rates dur
ing the Summer. Industrial stocks
promise to be lower before going APP
preciably higher.-Tnited Business
Service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-24

space is thus saved. Many architects
specializing in apartment and small
home design are solving some of their
aegravating difficulties by stardardiz
ing on steel easements.
Evening star., 1926-04-19

Second place is held by the eighth
semester with two wins and no losses.
Lillian Baker and Evelyn Zychltnski
are captain and manager. respectively.
Other team leaders are: Seventh
semester, Thelma Wallace. captain;
Naomi Connick. manager: sixth.
Jeny Blocksom. captain: Daisy New
kirk. mana ser; third Rose Brill, cap
tain: Clara Belle Sparks, manager;
second. Mary Garland. captain; Mary
Mcqueen. manager.
This afternoon the sixth and third
semeSters are scheduled to meet in
one game and the seventh and second
in the other. Thursday afternoon
three games will he PLAYED: the fourth
will oppose the third; the eighth will
meet the second and the seventh will
play the sixth.
Letters will he awarded the out
standing players in the series, just
as in basket ball,
Six of Washington's eight ranking
feminine racketers will play top posi-
tions on the teams of the Women's
District Tennis League in the annual
round robin series which is scheduled
to open this week.
Marvwill Wakeford and Betty Pyle,
the two who are not signed up with
a team. may get into action later in
the season. Miss Wakeford headed
the Racqueters for several years.
This team has disbanded, which leaves
her without a berth. 1t is expected
that place will be found for her.
however. before the series is well
under way.
Miss Pyle has announced her inten-
tions of remaining out of competition
this year
Luise Kelley. winner Of the District
League title for 1925 and rated No.
| by the District committee. will head
the Liberty team. Frances krucoH,
District titleholder and No. 2 PLAYER,
will top the list of Columbia Clus
players.
Mount Pleasant will have Delphine
Hevl in No. ! position again this sea
son. Helen Sinclair will retain her
ranking position on Departmental
Dorothy Kingsbury is signed up with
the Bureau of Standards eight and
Corinne Frazier heads the Midcity
group.
Mrs. Clarence Norment. ir., former
District Tennis League champion, will
he back in the field this season after
"a months absence. Mrs. Norment
will top the list of players on the
Wardman Park team.
Mrs. Duffey Gilfond. newcomer In
the District. has accepted the invita-
ton of the Capitol Athletic Club team
to act as it's ranking player.
Van Ness and Smallwood. Bowen
schlag ball teams will clash tomorrow
afternoon in the opening game of the
Garfield division series of the ele
Evening star., 1926-04-19

For the first time in my life 7 did
something outside the orders of my
coach-late one evening / went over
to the training field and ran eight
miles al my best speed. ] did not tell
him about it the next day. and he
wondered at my stiff-leeGed appear
ance Ny rubber fixed me again, and
when we stepped on the train for
Stockholm the whole team was in fine
form.
| was TO compete in the following
events, all on the same day: Broad
Jump; hop, step and jump, pole vault
and 400-m meter.
The dav came with rain and heavy
courts. which is the usual thing for
big competitions in Scandinavia.
won my first event-the broad jump
easily with % feet 10, and had one
| dead" jump 24.10. The second event
was the pole vault. l won and stopped
vaulting at exactly 13 feet. In the
following hop. step and jump ] was
second, with the second best mark !
had ever made in that event.
Experts Not Convinced.
Then came the time for the 400
meter. No one knew who was to be
the second representative of Norway,
! and the surprise was great when
Kreigsman put me in. saying he had
no one else. and anyway II wouldn't
hurt me since l was already througsc
with my other events. | only hs u
time to wash off little dirt ats
| the pole vault before the start.
! My most dangerous rival was Nisse
| Engda hi. who is one of the best Eu-
| ropean runners on the 400 meters. He
! was third in the Antwerp Olympics.
! led for the first 300 meters, but then
/ exhaustion came. and Engdahl passed
me, beating me by 3 meters.
! ! was second with a time of 5035,
| which / consider quite good on that
| heavy, wet track, and as my fourth
| event.
/ Even with these results to my credit
/ all the European journalists and ex-
perts persisted in saying that | was
| a good athlete, but lacked the stam-
! ina necessary to win a deCathlon with
my top results. But / never minded
what they wrote and said ] knew my
time to show them what ] could do
would come some day.
(Next-The result Of Hoff's Feud With
England)
Evening star., 1926-04-19
MACKENZIE E-M'LE0D
LEAD IN GOLF MATCH

Roland Mackenzie and Fred Nc
Ieod Columbia's stellar amateur-pro-
fessional golf pair. will start the final
1S holes of their 36-hole home-and-
home matches next sunday at Co
lumbia with a victory in the nag over
Page Hufty and Tommy Armour,
amateurpro combination OF congress
Sional Country Club.
The Columbia duo Yesterday out
drove and outputted their Congress
sionai opponents in a match at Con-
cressional to win by and |, over
coming an early lead gained by
Armour when he reached the green
on the fifth with bis braSsie second
shot, and going ahead on the second
nine to win on the seventeenth, where
Mcleod sank birdie 3.
The two professionals played bril-
liant golf notwithstanding chilly
hreeZes that swept over the course
following a light snowfall in The morn:
ing. Mcleod was the low scorer of
the quartet with "a Armour was To-,
Mackenzie 7S and Hufty about So.
Both the amateurs are holders of sec
tional titles. Mackenzie is the cham
pion of the Middle Atlantic Golf AS
sociation, while Hufty is the holder
of the North and South amateur
championship.
Eleven holes were halved In par
and seven were won with brides.
Armour driving the eighteenth green
to annex the hole with 3. The Con
gressional professional was not putt
ing up to his usual standard, but
holed a chip shot at the short six
teenth for birdie to win the hole
when his side was down and to GO
George T. NoiCt amateur champion
of the District and r. G. McKimmie,
professional. defeated George Diffen
baugh and Frank Hartic. profession
ais. up in a match at Beaver Dam
yesterday.
John F. Mccormick. amateur, and
Eddie Towns. professional, both of
Indian Spring, defeated Tom Moore.
amateur of Indian Spring, and Robert
T. Barnett professional of Chevy
Chase, in a match at Indian Spring
yesterday.