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Evening star., 1926-05-07
ARMY OFFICERS GUESTS
AT DINNER TO FlDAC HEAD
Col. George r. Crosfield and Legion
Officials Also Entertained by
Belgian Amba ssad dor.

A notable gathering Of members Of
Congress. officials Of the American
Legion and others were guests AT
dinner rendered Lieut.. Col. George Il.
Crosfield. president Of the lnterallied
Veterans Association Fidacl. last
night at the Racquet club. by Comdr.
Julius I. Peyser Of the District of
Columbia Department of the Legion,
The club was decorated with flags of
the allied countries.
Among those present were Col. Han
ford Mac Nider. Assistan Secretary
of War; Gen. Lloyd NJ. Brett. com
mander Of the Military Order of the
World War; Nal Gen. William A.
Bethel, former Judge ajyrate general
OF the Army: Mai. Gen. Anton
Stephen. Mai Gen. Samuel r. Ansell.
Col. James A. Drain. past national
commander Of the Legion: Represent
ative Fish Of New York. Representa-.
tive Gasque of South Carolina, Rep
resentative Seger of New Jersey, Rep
resentative Jacobstein of New York
Representative letters 81 Alaha ma
and Maj Oliver r. Newman. former
District Commissioner.
Col Crosfeld and the party of
American Legion officials who are
accompanying him ON his visit to
Washington were luncheon guests
Evening star., 1926-05-07

street on Tuesday To make arrange
ments for issuing the British Gazette.
Reference to the Gazette in the House
of Commons have brought cries from
the Laborites of "Who is the editor?"
but the government has not disclosed
his identity.
1t Is reported that the leading arti-
cles BY Cabinet Minister" graph
iCallV outlining the governments posi-
tinn, are from Mr.. Churchill's pen.
Evening star., 1926-05-07
Doctor Finds Child Dead.

KANSAS CITY. May tP>.r-Short-
ly after school was dismissed here
yesterday. Camille sherman, s. was
run over by motor truck. Excited
witnesses rushed for a physician. One
was found and hurried to the scene
il was the child's father, DR.. e. A.
sherman. She was dead.
Evening star., 1926-05-07

today of the Belgian Ambassador. The
party was scheduled to leave the Cap
ital later in the day for Pittsburgh,
where Col. Crosheld will speak to-
morrow,
Evening star., 1926-05-07
Mind Tax Cut Proposed.

MILWAUKEE. Nav Gpl The
Government should make provision in
Income tax laws. II an equita hle
n1ethod of SO doing can he found. for
deductions nv taxpayers for depre
eiation of their minds. DR.. Horace NJ
Brown, surgeon and scholar, be-
iieves.
Bathing except when prescribed by
o. physician was unlawful In Boston at
nnA time
Evening star., 1926-05-07

French Morocco has ZOO aut"
busses and Persia has only four.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-03-19
KNOW ILLINOIS
Observation-Disclosures.

The lowest point of land in Illinois
is at Cairo, Pulaski County, PCS feet
above sea level.
More than $4,000 persons own the
securities of Illinois telephone COM
panies.
One hundred years of uninterrupted
pottery making will be celebrated this
year by the two large potteries at
White Hall, Ill.
Chicago's first gas company was in
corporated in 1850. Sales of gas the
following year amounted to 10000, 900
cubic feet. In 1925, the figure ex-
ceeded 81 800, 600 900 cubic feet.
The city of East st. Louis acquired
five new industries in 1925. They
represent total capital investment of
Sl,l75, 900 and employ more than $50
workers.
With less than per cent of the ma
TONS inhabitants, Illinois consumed
last year more than 200, 100000 kilo-
watt-hours of electricity, or per cent
of the total for the United States.
One out of every four and nine
tenths persons residing in the state of
illinois is a customer of an electric
light and power company, according to
Neal Albin, statistican of the Illinois
Commerce Commission.
Danville has the largest face-brick
factory in the United States.
The first street railway in SPRING
neld, ILL.,, was started in 1861. Mules
FURNISHED the only motive power.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-03-19
\ FAR-OFF WHINE FROM THE
REDS.

Communist activity aimed at the
American labor movement is not con-
fined to the United States.
From South America comes an echo
of anti-American Communist propa-
ganda in the form of an editorial
published in the Communist organ in
the Argentine and reprinted in the
principal Communist organ in Spain
This editorial is an attack on the
project of Argentine labor utilization
with the Pan American Federation OF
Labor and contains the usual Com
munist charge that the Pan American
Federation of Labor is the servant OF
Wall Street.
The Communist strength in the
Argentine is about as great as the
strength of the /. w. VS. in the
United States, and the editorial is OF
no great Importance except to show
that the Communist effort is similar
everywhere, and that it is the intema.
tional Communist purpose to use every
avenue through which blow can be
struck at the labor movement of the
United States and the constructive
labor movement of Pan America.
The Argentine Communist editorial
threatens to bring into being fedora
ton of the communist minorities
throughout Latin America in hostility
to the Pan American Federation Of
Labor, though whether this can be
done is doubtful. Whether it would
have any great effect on labor any
where, except to add to an already
considerable chaos in Latin American
labor ranks, is still more doubtful.
The Communist hostility to bona
tide labor organization is each day
made clearer, and the course of real
labor unions in standing by their col.
ors in defense of real freedom made
imperative.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-03-19
Can Public Utilities
Help The Farmers

| Springfield, ILL.,, March 17.-"CaI
the public utilities help the farmers Z
This question is the keynote of the
+ convention of more than 500 OF the
leading public utility executives iron
all parts of Illinois, who are in session
here Wednesday and Thursday, March
II and Is, for the sixth annual joint
convention of the Illinois State Elec'
trio, Illinins Gas and Illinois Electric
Railway associations.
ave cam" was the positive answer
of Prof. +. J. Lehman, of the Unlver-
sity of Illonins. Ten practical farm
ers near Tolono have partially found
| the answer. There, under the auspices
of the state electric association the
university is applying electricity to
! practical farming. Farm wives are
| wearing pedometers to measure the
steps they save when the silent ser
want does the household chores. BY
making our life easier it is keeping
our boys and girls with us; these
women tell me. Dirt farmers, the
largest users of power of any Illinois
industry, claim that the economies OF
general application of electricity to
agriculture will spell the difference
between profit and loss"
Speaking for the electric light and
power men, whose association he
heads, J. Paul Clayton, vice-president
of the Central Illinois Public Service
Company, says:
"A general use of electricity on the
farm depends on the farmer. 1t is not
economically practicable to give all
| farmers electric service now. Their
machinery is not adapted to it. Light
| ing alone will not give the farmers
the service they need and want. When
| farmers, the electric light and power
industry, and appliance manufacturers
| together attempt TO electrify agrlcul'
| ture, it will be DONE" he declared.
| convenience of manufactured ga:
will soon be commonplace to even the
smallest towns" prophesied Roy +
| Chew, president of the state gas asso
| citation, and general manager of thu
| Union Gas & Electric Company
Bloomington. Making gas from Hi
nois bituminous coal in large, central
| ly-located plants and distributing il
over wide areas through high pres
sure pipe lines seems a possibility Of
the near future, according to advance
reports of engineers of the Universit.
of Illinois and gas companies Smoke
less heating of homes, and accurately
controlled heat in industry offer q
future to the manufactured gas in,
dustry that is little realized even by
its leaders"
Transportation facilities of mod
en electric railways give the work
er the pay of large industrial CEN
tiers, while allowing him the healthful
home life of the small town." j. f.
| Egolf, president of the Illinois Elec-
trio Railway Association and general
manager of Aurora, Elgin and Fox
River Electric Company, told the
Convention.
I'VE need the bus" he said. 1T has
its place in transportation, and
through the financially responsible
long established and experienced cleo
trio railway companies it will do its
| greatest good. The menace of pirate,
irresponsible, fly by night bus opera
tons will eliminate itself when the peo-
pie of Illinois demand adequate trans
portation service for their fullest
economic and social development"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-03-19
FINANCIAL STABILITY.

In one Of the sessions Of the Decent
Der meeting of the American Econo-
mics Association, Owen d. Young told
a story which was essentially as fol-
lows. When the Dawes Commission
began its work at Berlin it invited to
come before 1t representatives of DIFF
ferent social and economic groups
and asked them to suggest what the
commission could do to help Germany
and their group. For labor then came
before the Commission, Peter Gross
man, who said he represented ten MIL
lions of wage earners and in reply to
the usual query, said: Give us q
stable currency" No more fundamen'
tai suggestion was made to the COM
mission. The German Labor move
ment had experienced the penalties Of
initiation and had learned that stability
is essential in guaranteeing human
progress. Inflated credit is one of the
roads to an unstable financial stua-
ton.
With a proper concern for possible
light which detailed knowledge of the
nature of bank loans might have on
this problem of stability, the New
York Stock Exchange has inaugurated
reports on loans by New York banks
to members of the Exchange. The in
auguration of the practice marks
distinct advance in the acceptance of
the obligation for public accounting.
As these records accumulate there will
be light on loans for speculative pur-
poses, and as a result, losses for de-
velopment of constructive policies to
disclose illegitimate speculation and
the relation of such cases to the money
market and discount rates and to-
financial stability.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-03-19

Royal Coal commission of Great
Britain recommends state ownership
of coal mines but continuance of their
development by private enterprise un-
der government supervision; commits
sion declares against naturalization
as urged by miners union.
Angry debates in house and senate
over Volstead law; wet" and "dry"
leaders in both houses clash on oues-
ton of modifying statute.
Fiftieth anniversary of invention of
the telephone celebrated all over the
country.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-03-19

The tree that never had to fight
For sun and air and sky and light;
That stood cut in the open plain,
And always got its share of rain.
Never become a forest king,
hut lived and died a scrubby thing.
The man who never has to toll.
Who never had TO win his share
0t sun and sky and light and air.
Never became a manly man,
But lived and died as he began.
GOOD timber does not grow in ease;
The stronger wind, the tougher trees;
In farther sky, the tougher length;
The more the storm, the more the
strength,
by sun and cold, by rain and SHOWS.
In tree or man good timber grows.
"heie thickest stands the forest
growth,
We find patriarchs Of both.
And they hold converse with the stars
whose broken branches show the
scars
0t many winds and much of strife
This is the common law of life
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-03-19
Capital Comment


Sunday blue laws for the District
of Columbia IS taking some OF the
time oil congress, ana Is u typical
example OF the efforts OF outsiders
TO lost upon Us by legislation some
tnlng We don't need, don't want, and
will not stand for if we can prevent IT..
How would you IKE 10 nave some one
IRON another state come IN and per
suaue your legislators TO enact IN
10 law unpopular restrictions that
were repulsive TO you?
The papers announce that Vaselino
expects 10 engage another wife. VI
course, the movie wives he lives with
is good advertising tor the boy, but
we can recall at least three stars
whose connubial indiscfetions took
them off the screen.
You will recall that several years
ago President Harding fired bunch
OF employees of the bureau of en-
craving and printing between two
days and they were out about two
years. After Harding's death these
men, except those who had died, were
reinstated, but no reason was ever
givn, although their subsequent re
turn to some extent cleared their
names of the stigma. There is a bill
no win congress which provides for
paying them for time lost and it is to
be hoped that congress will not be
too busy to pay these men for that
great injustice.
A representative of Middle Western
contractors appeared before CON
grssional committee and protested
that army engineers are socialists be-
cause they construct river and har-
Dor projects with day labor and in
stead of giving contractors chance
to bid on the work--and, incidentally
to grab off fat profit while paying
ing the men less than the government
pays them.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-03-19
Lathers Raise Wanns

Minneapolis, Mar. IA wage in
crease OF 81 a day has been Secured
oy the Lathers' union. The new rate
IS eIo. The contract calls for a a.
n.our week and double pay for over
Evening star., 1926-04-08
Merriam.Bra Wedding
In Brides Home Last Evening.

Miss Eunice Wilbur Brandt and
Mr.. Gordon Phelps Merriam. son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Porter Merriam
of Lexington, Mass, were married
last evening in the home of the brides
mother. Mrs. Schuyler Coe Brandt, at
110 Shepherd street, Chevy Chase.
Md, the Rev. William L. DeVries Of
the Cathedral Of st. Peter and St.
Paul officiating. Only members Of
friends witnessed the ceremony,
which was followed by a reception
with dancing at the Village Inn in
Chevy Chase, d. c. The house had a
pretty arrangement of palms, ferns
and Spring flowers and Miss katha-
rine Riggs, harpist, played during and
preceding the ceremony.
The bride was escorted and given
in marriage by her brother. MIR.
Schuyler B. Brant, and wore a gown
Of white georgette crepe heavily
beaded in crystals. Her tulle veil
was gathered at the back of her head
and held by a band OF lace which
was fastened at each side with clus-
ters Of orange blossoms. band Of
the blossoms being across the front
of her head. She carried orchids
with a shower Of lilies Of the valley.
Mrs. Robert C. Merriam. a class
mate of the bride at Birmingham
School for Girls, was matron of hon.
or, and wore flame color chiffon trim.
med with gold lace and carried sweet
peas in shades of fame, tango and
orchid. Mr.. A. Wilbur Brandt of
Evanston, H., brother of the bride,
was best man.
At the reception after the ceremony
Mrs. Brandt and Mrs. Merriam.
mothers of the bride and bridegroom,
received with the wedding party.
Mrs. Brandt's gown was of white
Evening star., 1926-04-08

georgette crepe beaded with gold and
Mrs. Merriam wore gray georgette
crepe.
Later in the evening Mr.. and Mrs.
Merriam started on their wedding
trip. the bride. travelling in a navy
blue crepe Elizabeth gown with a
coat of twill and small visca straw
hat in the same shade. They will
go first to Richmond, and later to
Chimney Rock. N. c.. and on their
return will temporarily be at home
In Washington.
Among the out of.town guests were
MI. and Mrs. Edward Phelps Mer.
riam. parents Of the bridegroom: Mr..
and Mrs. W. c. Hill and Miss Hill,
Mrs. Charles c. Goodwin, Mr.. George
w. Emery and Mr.. and Mrs. r. G.
Merriam Of Lexington. Mass. Mrs.
Z. c. Graves of Brookline, Mass; DIR.
| and Mrs. j. w. Schirmer of Need.
ham, Mass; Mrs. ]. o. Powers of
Cuba, n. Y, and Mr.. Ellis o. Briggs
of New York City
Miss Louise Lang and Miss Jim
Lee Bell, students at the Randolph
Macon College. at Lynchburg, spent
| the Easter holidays with Miss Lucille
| Miller who is student at George
Washington University Law School.
Miss Betty Ridstfale. who is senior
at Ogontz School. is spending the
holidays with her parents. Mr., and
Mrs. Percival S. Ridsdale. .s
| Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Eugene
Herndon will have as their guest over
| Sunday Mrs. Frank c. Henderson OF
| New York. who started. yesterday
from st. Augustine, Florida, where
she has spent the Winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank ,Treherne.
Thomas will arrive in New York to.
| morrow abroad the Aquitania from
| their home in London, having come
| for the marriage of Miss Margaretta
| Edwards Wherry, daughter OF Mr..
| and Mrs. William NJ. Wherry. to Mr..
r. Hugh Treherne- Thomas, which will
| take place in st. Bartholomew
l Church, New York. Saturday, April
Evening star., 1926-04-08
SOCIETY
The Presidents Son, Mr.. John Coolidge,
Left Last Evening for Amherst
College After Visit Here.

| ter, Miss Starr Eaton, who attends
the National Cathedral School; Miss
Lorraine Coutts of Plainfield, N. j.;
Miss Margaret Demler Of Providence,
r. T.; Miss Helen Macdonald of Plain
field, N. j., and Mr.. Clarke Suther.
land of Watching, N. J.
Mrs. John H. Smithwick and Miss
Mary Smithwick. wife and daughter
of Representative Smithwick of Flori-
da, have returned to Washington
from Panama. where they spent a
month.
Miss Blanche Wingo is entertain
ing at bridge this afternoon in COM
pliment to Miss Annunciata Darton,
whose marriage to Mr.. William James
Kerlin will take place Tuesday, April
49,, Additional guests have been
asked to tea and the hostess will be
assisted at the tea table by Mrs. Win.
go, Mrs. Darton and Miss Newton.
Mrs Charles D. Walcott leaves for
California today for a brief visit to
San Diego, Los Angeles, and Santa
Barbara, returning early in May.
Mrs. Allen. wife of Capt. Henry 4.
Allen, jr., entertained at luncheon to-
day in her quarters at Fort Myer. her
guests remaining through the after.
noon to play bridge. In the company
were Mrs. John L. Hines, Mrs. Ed
ward A.. Sturges. Mrs, Rene E. Der.
Hoyle. Mrs Hamilton s. Hawkins.
Mrs. Samuel G. Talbot, Mrs. Jonathan
M. Wainwright, Mrs. Douglas Nc.
Caskey, Mrs. Way and Miss Way, sis
ter and niece Of Mrs. Hawkins; Mrs
Samuel A. Greenwell, Mrs. Henry T.
Allen, Mrs. Robert Beck. Mrs. Jeffer-
son f. Kean, Mrs. Charles Kilborn,
Mrs. Charles G. Treat. Mrs. Coke and
Miss Hawkins.
Mrs. Henry Haywood Classic and
Miss Caffrey will be at home Satur-
day from to o'clock, in compli-
ment to Mrs. Van Norman.
The Bishop of Washington and
Mrs. James Z. Freeman are in New
York for few days and are at So
Gramercy Park north.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel II. Kaufman
had 80 guests to dine with them at
Rauscher's last night, and more than
$50 attended the dance which fol-
lowed.
Mr.. Leander Mccormick -Goodheart
of the British embassy gave dinner
last night at the Club Chantecler for
Miss Caroline Story and Miss Mar
garet Flint.
Mrs Cornelius Wagstaff Remsen,
New York, has come to Washington
to remain until after the marriage OF
Miss Margaret Flint to Mr.. Thomas
Emerson Proctor, I'd, which will take
place Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Danforth
Stimson will entertain at bridge this
evening in their home on Bradley lane
in compliment to Mr.. and Mrs. Alden
Dallas Redfield. whose marriage took
place about a month ago. Mrs. Red.
field was formerly Miss Elsie Sterns.
The Congressional Club will have
Evening star., 1926-04-08
Luncheon Party at French
Embassy for LIE Comte du Nouy.

The Amba ssador of France and
Mime Rereneer had as their guests at
luncheon at the embassy today M.
lie Comte au Nouy of the Rocke.
feller Institute of New York anand
Nine. lie Comte du Nouy, Mrs. George
Ehle and Mr.. William Phelps Emo.
The Ambassador of Mexico and
Sonora de Teller were at home at the
embassy Yesterday afternoon to sew
eral hundred guests, many OF them
from the diplomatic corps and unoff1-
cial society. During the afternoon
Senorita Rosita Renard. famous
Chilean pianist, played. Assisting the
Ambassador and Sonora de Teller. who
received alone, were members or the
embassy staff, who escorted the guests
TO the dining. room for refreshments,
to the conservatory, where there is a
marvellous collection of cacti and other
plants native in Mexico. The Mexican
room. entirely decorated in the style
Of that country and filed with treas
ures, also interested the guests.
The Secretary of Labor, Mr.. James
J. Davis. who will entertain at dinner
tonight in the Garden of the May
flower, will have as his guests the
members of the Sharon basket ball
team Of Sharon, Pa, which has just
won the national basket ball cham
pionship.
The Minister of Guatemala and
Sonora de Sanchez Latour have
Cancelled their social engagements
owing to the illness of the latter.
The Minister of Poland and Nine.
Ciechanowska were hosts at dinner
last night, entertaining in honor of the
Speaker and Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, the other guests being the Min
lister of Hungary and Countess
Szechenyi. Mr.. and Mrs. William Cas-
tie, jr.: Mr.. and Mrs. Porter Chandler.
Mrs. Koch de Gooreind and Mr.. Dol
beare
Mrs. Reed. wife of Senator David
A. Reed. was hostess to a small COM
pany at luncheon yesterday.
Mrs. Deneen, wife of Senator
Charles S. Deneen, has issued invi-
tations for two tea talks, Friday and
Saturday afternoons at 4 o'clock in
her apartment at 2029 Connecticut
avenue, when Mrs. Rose r. Anton of
Chicago, who is her house guest. will
talk on her experience in India.
Representative and Mrs. Charles Z.
Winter of Wyoming will be at home
at 1871 Madison avenue northwest
Sunday, April IS, from 3 to s o'clock
Representative and Mrs Thaddeus
G. Sweet of New York, who occupy
one of the residential apartments at
the Mayflower. will entertain at a
large dinner there this evening in the
Chinese room. Covers will be laid
for 90.
Representative and Mrs. Charles A.
Eaton have an informal house party
in their Wardman Park apartment
for Easter week. Their guests include
their daughter. Mrs. Fred Corey of
Buffalo, y. Y; their schoolgirl daugh-
Evening star., 1926-04-08

II. Miss Wherry has been a frequent
visitor in Washington, where she as
been the guest Of the CHIEF of Staff
and Mrs. John L. Hines.
The marriage of Miss Olive Pres.
cotts only daughter Of DIR. o. Jose.
phine Baird and Edward William
Diggs of Clarendon, Va, and Wash
inston, was solemnized last evening
at 8 o'clock.
The ceremony was performed at
the Church Of the Covenant, with the
Rev. DIR. Charles Wood officiating, and
was followed BY a reception at the
burlington Hotel, where DR.. Baird
makes her home.
Mrs. George Boyce of Bronxville,
N. T., is spending this week in Wash
tngton. 49,
Mrs. Franklyn Mousley has re-
turned from a visit with her mother
Mrs. Steve le Giglia, in Norfolk.
The marriage of Miss Corinne More
mead Boger and Mr.. John Oscar Wood.
all took place last evening at the home
OF the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Derr Boyer. Rev. Andrew r.
Bird. pastor Of the Church OF the Pi!.
grims. oficiated. The bride. who was
given In marriage by her father, wore
orchid georgette crepe over taffeta
and carried a bouquet of orchids and
roses. The attendants were Miss JAMS
Larkin. the maid Of honor. and Mr..
Ralph Harvey Dillon. best man. Mrs.
Boyer. mother Of the bride, played the
wedding music.
a.
North Carolina family, being a grand.
daughter of the late George Phifer
Erwin and a great-great.grandda
ter OF Gov. Morehead of North Caro-
lima. She is a graduate of Central
High School and Wilson Normal
School. Mr.. Woodall, a son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John ]. Woodsll of Danville, Va,