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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
CITY TOURIST CAMP
NEEDS TO BE STUDIED
Steps to Be Taken to End Conges.
ton Will Be Considered
by Park Body.

A study of tourist camp needs in
the District is to be made by officials
Of the Office of public buildings and
public parks of the National Capital
as a result Of, reports to the Office
that the camp in East Potomac Park
was becoming congested.
The special committee to study the
situation will look into tourist traffic
on the highways entering the city
from the North and East. This COM
mittee is composed of Maj J. w.
Meehan. sanitary officer: Charles w.
Eliot, Sd. and Capt. NJ. II. Parsons.
chief of the park protection division.
The opinion was expressed by of
ficials that the congestion noticed in
the East Potomac Park camp is due
largely this year to the fact of the
late Summer. 1t was reported that
between 700 and 500 automobile
parties occupied the camp on certain
days. Sites tentatively selected by
the committee will go to the park and
planning commission for approval, as
this agency will be the one to pur-
chase the necessary land.
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Now It's the "Hindenburg" Crop.

BASLE, September P).-The
"llindenburg" crop is the rage among
the girls. 1t is the latest thing in
coiffeurs; as much like mans close
cut as possible: front trimmed way
down, neck shaved and everythin'.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
D00LITTLE AGAIN FLIES
OVER ANDES MOUNTAINS
American Officer, Who Carries
Clutches to Save Broken Ankles,
Makes Third Crossing.
By the Associated Pres,

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES. September A.
Lieut.. James III. Doolittle, American
flyer who walks on clutches. again
has crossed the Andes Mountains in
his one-seated plane. He arrived
here late yesterday afternoon from
Santiago, Chile. on a nonstop flight
of about $50 miles. which took him
over the mountains at a high alti-
tude. The time of his third Andes
flight was about IL hours.
Lieut.. Doolittle. who some time
ago broke both his ankles in fall
at Santiago. recently few from
Santiago to La Paz. Bolivia, which
necessitated his crossing the Andes
at an altitude of about $4,000 feet.
He carries crutches in the plane to
aid him in walking when he is not
flying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
ONE KILLED, SECOND HURT
IN CRASH OF AIRPLANE
"Texas" Grissith Loses Life, HIS
Companion in Critical. Condition,
Result of Accident.

BY the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. September o.
Texas" Grissith of Minard, Tex, was
killed and Robert Meade, Cincinnati,
injured, when the plane in when
they were riding crashed to earth
near Yorkville,. Ind, late yesterday,
according to dispatches recelVed from
Lawrenceburg. Ind. last night. me
plane was believed to have run INTO
an air pocket.
Grissith was barely alive wheh
farmers who had seen the crash ar
rived, and died within few minutes:
Meade was brought to Cincinnati
Hospital, where he was found to nave
suffered multiple bruises and anra-
sions, fractured nose and broken RIBS.
His condition was said to be critical.
The two aviators were from Eaton
airport In this city.
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OSBORNE c. WOOD ILL.
Physicians at Hospital Unable tt
Diagnose His Ailment.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. September 4
P).-Osborne c. Wood, son of Mai.
Gen. Leonard Wood, is in a local hos
pital suffering with an ailment not
yet diagnosed, it became known to-
day. Physicians at the hospital. un-
able to determine the nature of
Woods illness. withheld any opinion
as TO whether his condition is source
of alarm.
Wood recently came into the lime
light when he went to work in local
refrigerator factory as a day laborer
to learn the business from the
s,f.oIlnd IN y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
NO PLACE FOR CAVEMAN.

NEW YORK. September 4 GP).-
Modern civilization is wearing down
our nerve centers, in the opinion Of
Sir James Pruves Stewart, eminent
English neurologist. who came here
on the way to a case in Montreal.
Primitive man could not dwell in our
cities, he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
SPECIAL NOTICES.

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
The annual meeting OF stockholders of the
Woodbridge Langdon Savings & Commercial
Bank Of Washington. D. c. will be held
q the bank ing house of said bank, 2O2 :
on, September s. 1926 for the selection OF
board of directors of said bank and the
transaction of such other business as may
come before said meeting. Polls will be
transfer of stock will be closed from
August % to September = inclusive No.
tice is also given that meeting Of stock
holders OF this company will be held at
the office OF the company in the offices of
the Stoddard incorporating Company in
the city of Phoenix. Ariz. at 10 O'Clock
am. September D. 1926. TO consider. ap-
prove. ratify and confirm all actions pre-
viously taken at meetings of stockholders
held outside the State of Arizona and for
the transaction of such other business as
NAV properly come before the meeting
FRANK NJ. HATLEY. Secretary
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF THE PART.
NERSH1P OF McHUGH & LAWSON
Notice is hereby given that the partner
chip. composed of the undersigned. hereto
fore doing business under the firm name of
McHugh & Lawson. at 1900 st. NV
Washington. p. G.. has this day been dis
solved. and ali OF the assets of said firn,
have been transferred to A. w. Lawson &
Co. partnership composed OF Alfred W.
Lawson James f. Flaherty and Correll F
Smith. who haye assumed al! Of the liza
KATHERINE NJ McHUGH.
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ported the storm lasted more than an
hour. sweeping northward into Ne
braska along 15-mile path.
Edward Richardson, "a, who was
milking when the storm struck, was
carried more than a quarter of mile.
His condition is critical.
A heavy rain and electrical storm
swept central and southwest Kansas
last night. Gripping telephone and
telegraph service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
LANSBURGH WILL FILED.

Stanley I.ansburgh, who died Au
gust 5, left an estate valued at 1922
900. according to the petition for the
probate of his will filed by r. 3. II
Lyon, the executor and trustee.
The estate consists chiefly Of cash
and securities with life insurance OF
con
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
DE[UGE CR|PPLES
MIDDLE WEST AREA
Three Dead, Communication
Hampered by Wind and
TorrentiaI Rains.
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, September 4.-Crippled
communication, the. threat of swollen
streams and a mounting loss estimate
today marked the Midwestern course
of a Summers end storm of wind and
forrential rain. Cities and towns
labored with curtailed utilities service,
meager outside contacts and disrupted
transportation, while farm lands in
some areas were under water.
There was little promise of relief
before Sunday. The weather predic-
ton for most of the fiood-stricken
areas was for cloudy to unsettled. and
thunderstorms and showers. These
conditions prevailed in Iowa, Illinois,
Missouri, western Indiana and out
through Kansas and Nebraska.
Three Killed i'm Illinois.
The toll of the storms, which last
night surpassed their previous fury
of the week in some sections, could
not be accurately determined with
lines of communication down, but it
appeared there was small loss of life.
Three persons are known to have met
death in Illinois. NJ
William Gutzweiler so, of Spring
field was electrocuted when he
touched live wire blown down dur
ing squall, and Henry Keil, IS, was
killed by lightning while working in a
field near Beardstown. At Maquon
James Sprinklers, a highway worker,
was drowned when he plunged into a
raging stream to inspect a bridge.
Property damage will be heavy.
Railroad trackage and many bridges
have been washed out. Farm build
ingS In some sections have been de-
stroyed
While in the central areas the
damaging element was the rain which
added to the effects Of deluges of
few days before, along the Nebraska
Kansas line wind of tornado proper
tons f1attened farm buildings. No
deaths were reported in early com
munications from the region, al
though some areas were entirely cut
off
Rail Service Hampered
Wind of similar velocity swept
down near the Illinois Iowa border
and several railroad cars on a side
track at Duncan, H., were tossed
from the right of way. In sections
of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri rail
roads abandoned operation entirely or
strore to continue service by routing
trains around breaks in the line.
Large areas were inundated in all
three States, and miles of highway
were entirely impossible. While many
cities were Inconvenience by flooded
streets and cellars, others were fear
full Of more serious consequences from
streams out of bound and swelled by
further downpour
The broad ax., 1926-07-24
Batik Has Been Given
More Important Place

Batik-that crude yet attractive col
oring which first made its style APP
pearance In scarfs-has been given a
more important place In the fashions
this season.
There is a touch Of these blended
colorings splashed on the back Of the
blouse of the crepe silk frock. The
design has a studied carelessness Of
detail which makes 1t charming. Be
ginning at the collar line, the batik
colorings fall with a design over the
sleeves and at the back of the blouse,
forming a yoke. The sleeves are long
and snugly cuffed at the wrists, add
ing the touch Of tailored beauty so es-
sential to most two-piece costumes.
Batik takes another form. This time
it is used In its more vivid shades and
is simulated rather than painted or
dyed. Angular blocks Of felt, In gay
colors, are cut and fitted together In
a sort Of batik design. These are
appliqued to the crown of a large
straw hat. Bound with soft velvet,
the brim affords becoming frame for
the features.
The broad ax., 1926-07-24
Exit: "The Slave Clause"

Those who a few weeks ago COM
memorated the Declaration of indie
pendence might do we'll to reflect over
the deletion of the so-called Slave
Clause" which was stricken out of the
Declaration Of independence by Con-
gress when it considered the docu-
ment penned by the drafting commit
tee, composed by Franklin, Jefferson,
Adams, Livingston and Sherman, just
prior to July 4th, 1916. The commit
tee had written paragraph of protes-
tation against the King of England,
in which it said: HE has waged cruel
war against human nature itself, vio-
lating its most sacred rights of life and
liberty in the persons of a distant
people, who never offended him, capti-
waiting and carrying them into slavery
in another hemisphere, or to incur
miserable death in their transportation
thither Determined to keep open a
market where men should be bought
and sold, he has prostituted his mega
tive for suppressing every legislative
attempt to prohibit or to restrain this
execrab1e commerce, and that this as
senlblage Of horrors might want no
fact Of distinguished die, he is now
exciting those very people to rise in
arms among us, and to purchase that
liberty of which he deprived them"
Some significance attaches itself to
the veritable EAST straw" Of which the
declarants complained bitterly, and
that is the fact that some of the slave
people had been excited to rise in
arms" and attempt to purchase lib
erty"
Withal, the iamented Thomas Jeffer-
son, father Of the democratic party,
whom southern democrats lovingly re-
we're in this day and time, was insistent
that the "slave clause" should be in
cluded in the Declaration of Indepen-
ence; and when it was stricken out By
congress, Mr.. Jefferson evinced bitter
The broad ax., 1926-07-24
Paillettes Adoln
Milady's Apparel
Pearl Beads Also Return to
Feminine Styles for
Summer Wear.

The mode is showing itself particu-
larry coquettish this season. An ir-
resistible desire to return to femininity
has accounted for the use Of a thou
sand delicate, fral and precious &C
cessories. The pearl beads which
have been worn on evening frocks dur
ing the last few seasons remain great
favorites, but share their popularity
with the long-neglected paillettes.
These pailettes appear either in
gold or in silver, and sometimes in
night-blue. The gold paillettes are
rather large, and perhaps a bit too
garish; the silver paillettes are more
discreet and charmingly distingue.
They are mostly used for the straight
evening tunics which a few smart
women are starting once more to
wear.
Flowers, too. are enjoying a great
vogue this season. They come in
many varieties. There are gauze
flowers, velvet flowers and taffeta
flowers. There are graded flowers
and hand-painted flowers, and these
harmonic well with the grosgrain
hats in beige or blond tones.
The flowers that are worn on frocks
are put on in the manner Of garlands
and fall from the belt downward on
the skirt A tuft of flowers Is often
worn on the shoulder; and it is very
chic to put a rose or a carnation
in ones furs. Sometimes an entire
medici collar on an evening wrap is
covered with fiat flowers that are set
one next to the other.
AS to ribbons, they are often used in
the grosgrain variety. There isn't a
single smart Parisienne at present who
doesn't have her little grosgrain hat
In graded shades.
These charming hats are easily
worked into cockades and mosaic de-
signs. In any shade from beige to
tete de negre, they are very practical
and harmonic as well with the morn
ing tailor-made as with the simpler
afternoon frocks.
Some Paris designers sponsor vel
vet ribbon for hats as well as for a
trimming on taffeta frocks. TafPeta
ribbons are also quite popular and
are made into attractive hats
Ostrich feathers promise to become
the great mode for trimmings on sum-
merry evening wraps. A noted cou-
turiere shows an evening wrap which
Is entirely lined with pink ostrich
feathers. Feathers for the evening
are a delightful and very feminine
trimming, and may be depended on to
fight VIGOROUSLY against any too
masculine tendencies in the present
mode.
The broad ax., 1926-07-24
Inherited Mentality

According to a new theory on the
mode Of inheritance of mental traits
there are at least five pairs of heredi-
tary characters that have to do with.
the passing on of intelligence. If both
parents are persons Of high intelli-
gence and possessed Of all five pairs
of these characters, their children
will also average very high. If they
are idiots, having none of the pairs of
characters, their children also will be
idiots. intermediate conditions rep
resenting people Of good average in
telligence, but not geniuses, will pro-
duce a mixture of offspring types, with
occasional exceptional children, and
once in a while also offspring Of low
mentality.
The broad ax., 1926-07-24
Above Nations

Goethe, without being a Shakes
peare, was cast in that mighty mold
which we must call Shakespearean. He
fell short Of Shakespeare and he was
different from Shakespeare, who was,
so to speak. a ninth wave" breaking
on our Elizabethan shores with the
momentum Of great seas behind him,
whereas Goethe was virtually first
wave unsupported and unimpelled by
tradition and racial inspiration.
Shakespeare crowned English litera-
ture. Goethe founded German litera-
tGre. No Chaucer, no Spenser behind
him; no long speech Of his race; no
great companions such as Shakespeare
had; no air of poetry and national ex-
preston such as Shakespeare
breathed.-H. G. Wells.
The broad ax., 1926-07-24

ethics and practice Of Negro attorneys
at law. Thus was the National Bar
Association formed in 1925; and this
year, from his room in Mercy hospital
in Des Moines, President Woodson
has sounded the call of the 1926 annual
meeting of those lawyers who joined
hands with him to form a countrywide
coalition Of the Negro followers Of
Blackstone and Kent. The National
Bar Association sounds an open call
to lawyers to become members and
thus cooperate in building a national
legal fortitude Of high demeanor.
Although it is an ethical blemish
upon the brow of civilization and
christianity that separate Negro bar
association is necessary, yet facts are
facts, and Woodson and his associates
are to be commended in seeking quasi
legal means to advance the national
ethics of the law, among both black
and white, the latter being at least
partially subject to the influence Of the
Woodson organization.
God knows the Negro needs the law.
Were American Jurisprudence to do
all it purports to do, there would be
no need of a division among the ranks
of its alleged advocates. The Negro
legal profession is still an infant.
Stunned frequently by its own race
litigants, who still worship at the
shrine of the contra-race barristers, the
Negro legal group is nevertheless
gaining in prestige and favor. The
National Bar Association will stimu-
late this growth The National Bar
Association can teach both race and
foe that the law should know no
color; that the time is overdue when
the law and not the instincts of the
man should take precedence in Amer
lean courts, without exception; and
that the unity for which America seeks
should include all-not some-Ameri-
cans.
The broad ax., 1926-07-24
Suit With Long Jacket
Proves Winsome Style

Much has been said Of the vogue of
the cape ensemble and Of the mannish
tailleur, with its short trim jacket and
equally short trim skirt. Both types
are seen in considerable numbers at
every gathering of smart women.
There is, however, another type which
as yet is a bit more exclusive and has
not been taken up by the general femi-
nine public.
The suit, composed of a coat reach
ing almost to the hem Of the straight,
short skirt, has among its advocates
women noted for their keen apprecia-
ton of fashion values, and one sees 1t
against a most satisfactory back
ground when it appears on the deck
Of a transatlantic liner.
AS rule suits of this type are made
Of novelty tapestry designs. and their
soft-toned hues are set off by a shawl
collar of fur in harmonizing tone.
The broad ax., 1926-07-24
Negro High Schools

The June, 1926, issue Of THE Bulle-
tin" the official organ of the National
Association of Teachers in Colored
Schools, is devoted to study Of Ne
gro high schools in seventeen south
ern and border states. This study was
made by Prof. N. A. Robinson, Super
visor of High Schools, Raleigh, n. c.
Prof. Robinson's study lists 100 Negro
high schools, public and private, ac-
credited by the various state depart
ments of education as follows: North
Carolina, 43; Virginia, Is; Mississippi,
Is; West Virginia, IS; Georgia and
Kentucky. II each; Oklahoma and
Tennessee, 9 each; Missouri, 8; Arkan-
sas and Texas, 2 each; Kansas, 8;
Maryland, z; Louisiana, 8; Florida, i;
and Alabama and South Carolina,
none.
Nearly so per cent of the schools
are departments Of colleges and nor
NAL schools. Lack Of funds, discrim-
nation in distribution Of school taxes;
The broad ax., 1926-07-24
Birds FoIIoGD Icebergs

Each season when the icebergs
break away from Greenland and start
to the south in the Atlantic they are
followed by ever-increasing flocks Of
sea birds
Officers Of the coast guard cutters,
on duty near the icebergs to warn
shipping, report the bird life with the
bergs is much greater this year than
In the past. Fulmars, shearwa-
tiers, murre, kittewakes and dovekies
are there in large numbers, apparently
to get the food supply that is pro-
vided when the waves dash against
the bergs and disable the little people
Of the water or the melting Of the ice
releases food imprisoned in the far
north ages ago.-Ohio State Journal.
The broad ax., 1926-07-24

lack of interest of parents and teachers
are given as the chief reasons for
such small number Of standard four
year high schools A promising sign
in the report is the awakening of white
authorities in southern states to the
necessity Of providing more and better
high schools; higher teaching stand
ards, better salaries for Negro teach
ers, and more liberal support of the
Jeanes, Slater, and Rosenwald funds.
The broad ax., 1926-07-24
The Toll Of Fireworks

Those Of our group who may have
thought that the Race has no repre-
sentation in the consuming fires of
Fourth of July festivities, will be sur
prised to know that not few Negro
fireworks experts are engaged in the
manufacture of "shots" and "shells"
with which the American people cele-
brate the Declaration of Independ-
ence. Sad is the reflection, however,
when it is revealed that Negro FIRE
works employees are the frequent vic
tins of phosphorus necrosis, ravag-
ing disease which exacts the health
and Outlines the lives Of those who
manufacture irecrackers, pinwheels,
slyrockets and other articles of Fourth
of July combustion.
In fourteen cases recently studied
by United States Government experts
the colored workers contributed fifty
per cent proportion of the victims of
necrosis, which usually attacks the
molar sockets Of the teeth. The Negro
cases are of great significance when it
is reflected that at first, as the re-
ports of a physician shows, one case
was presumed to be Of syphilitic or
igin "a diagnosis persecutingly applied
to colored people, upon the slightest
pathological Provocation), and was
given syphilitic treatment, but without
favorable results In this case, the
infection continued to spread and the
patient was ordered to the hospital,
but died before admission. The death
record gave septicemia duration sew
en- days. and the occupation Of de-
ceased was given as Underestimate
fireworks"
The other six Negro cases, females
all, gave varying diagnosis and symp-
toms, with developing necrosis from
the phosphorus poison which exacted
its toll without discrimination
Despite Wasserman tests and the
like, neither germs, disease, nor death
make any discrimination as to color.
It is for human beings to do that.
The struggling creators of torpedoes
and roman candles were working for
bread and butter and rent. They like
their intra-racial contemporaries are
willing to suffer all the hazards Of
employment that any other people are
willing to risk; and they ought to have
all the advantages along with all the
Disadvantages, which are infrequently
thrust upon them.
The broad ax., 1926-07-24
General vincendon's Admonition


General Vincendon, Commander Of
the Fifty-ninth Division Of the French
Army, which, at the time his General
Orders No. 47S5 were issued, included
the Three Hundred and SEVENTEEN
United States Reserve Infantry, solid
Negro battle unit, has given America
something to think about, if it will but
pause and engage in introspection.
Says General Vincedon, in his opin-
ion Of the Negro troops who formed a
part of our beautiful division" and
gave France of their best out of the
fullness of their hearts: "The blood Of
your comrades who fell on the soil Of
France, mixed with the blood of our
soldiers, renders indissoluble the bonds
of affection that unite us. We have
beside the pride of having worked to-
gether at magnificent task the
pride of bearing on our foreheads the
ray of common grandeur"
Someone has said that Misery loves
company" and It's fact that when
men look towards the reckoning arms
of Death, the misery of war, they be-
come as one. Yet, gentle France has
carried on, both before and after the
miseries of war, the oneness of men
before God, their Creator. France has
seen the Goodness and beauty of men,
as General Vincendon says, further, of
the Negro troops: "We at first adj
mired your fine appearance under arms,
the precision of your review, the sup
pleness of your evolutions that pre-
sented to the eye the appearance Of
silk unrolling its wavy folds"
To which we would say, that Amer
lea would do well, in the precision of
its onward progress, both Christian
and military, to give fuller interpreta-
ton to Liberty and Union, which are
so dear to the hearts of all Americans.
The broad ax., 1926-07-24
Printed Handkerchief
Worn Instead of Flowers

The last word in boutonnieres is the
magnolia and beautiful ones are being
shown In various pastel colorings.
Perhaps you would prefer to wear
your hanky instead Of a posy. Get
one of these little printed georgette
handkerchiefs, tie it In a bow and
wear 1t as you would an artificial
flower on your sleeve. 1t Is the very
latest idea In fashion fads.
Perhaps you have seen these hand
kerchiefs worn on the slipper in place
of buckle? Quite fetching isn't tit