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Evening star., 1927-11-20
MARJORIE HODGES
WINS BABY PRIZE
BaIIston Youngster Declared
Best of ESQ in Food
Show Contest.

| Out of the grand total of approx
| imately $50 youngsters over l and
| under years of age who were entered
! in the contest for the healthiest baby,
| staged as features of the matinees
! of the annual food show at the Wash
| ingtOn Auditorium. little Marjorie
| Hodges, 3-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. w. II. Hodges. Ballston. Va.
| yesterday afternoon was declared the
winner.
Little Marjorie was winner over
| eight other babies selected as eligible
| for the final contest in preliminary
afternoon contests and was presented
with a $5 gold coin donated by the
Franklin National Bank.
This contest yesterday was the last
of a series of special events at the
food show, which was staged on the
lower floor of the auditorium by the
local Retail Grocers' Protective Asso-
citation from November 8 to 10 as a
means of presenting to the public
latest developments in food manufac-
ture and food preparation. The show
was concluded last night when q
record crowd attended.
Besides the winner, other finalists
Yesterday afternoon were:
Norma Rowena Neal, College Park,
Md: Richard Lawson, 1928 Seventh
street northeast Bobby Whitam, 2119
Fl street: Mary Martha Wood, 1439
Spring road: Betty June Sanders, 1892
X street; Shirley Louise Evans, 1921
Columbia road; Carol Humes White,
371S Twenty-fourth street northeast.
TheIma Lorraine Pierce, 1743 l. street
northeast.
The last preliminary baby contest
was held yesterday afternoon prior
to the final judging. One-year-old
Norma RoWena Neal of College Park
was declared winner in this contest.
Other entrants We're: Melvin
Posey, 1417 Massachusetts avenue
southeast; Katherine Louise koest2r,
300 Fourteenth street northeast;
Sidney Drain, 1919 + street; Robert
Marion Smith, 6912 Willow street,
1922 L street southeast; George j. Pa
duda, 1922 r street southeast; Paul
Sanile, Hyattsville, Md; Virginia Lee
Dawson, 146 Quincy place northeast;
Priscilla Johnson. 2S19 Twenty-eighth
street; Dorothy l.. Smith, 2706 Good
Hope road southeast Elizabeth
Cramer, 1901 Montgomery avenue,
Bethesda, Md; Rosaling Cardell
Bishop. 1907 / street southeast: Betty
Ann Macpherson, apartment 203. the
Kling!e Apartments; Doris Marjorie
Sanford, 4217 Grant street northeast;
Shirley Ann Walcott, 800 b street
northeast; Katharyn Frances Gleeson,
162 T street northeast; Jack Prend-
able, 328 South Carolina avenue south
east; Dorothy Presley, 4 Sixth street
northeast; Francis Macaboy, 1901
Otis street northeast; Clara V.
Thomas and Mary NJ. Thomas. lisa
Fifteenth street northeast; Jackie Nc
Mahon, 65 M street, apartment 2:
William F. Lyons. 200 Q street: Rob
ert Chester Neal, College Park, Md;
Shirley Fac Cooperstein, 3403 Otis St,
Evening star., 1927-11-20
Ankle Deep.

From the Boston Transcript.
rs Mrs. Newrich in the social
swim?"
well, hardly enough to get her
bathing suit wet
Evening star., 1927-11-20
ESTATE GIVEN TO ORDER.
Prince Deeds Holdings as Son Joins
Benedictines.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.
BERLIN.-On the day on which his
son. Prince Emmanuel, took the mo-
naStic vows in the Swabian Abbey of
Neresheim as Brother Emeran of the
Benedictines, the Prince of Thurn and
Taxis decided the cloister, church mad
all the vast domain of Neresheim to
the Order of the Benedictines, which
up to then had occupied the premises
merely as tenant. The value of the
decided property is estimated at over
5000, 900 marks. In return the Prince
of Thurn and Taxis was proclaimed
patron of the abbey, which was found
ed by Bishop of Augsburg in 1895.
Evening star., 1927-11-20
FILE ESTATE PETITIONS.
Administrator Asked of Property
Left by Woman Decedents.

Mrs. Florence X. Harris, who died
November 8, left an estate valued at
more than $4,000, according to the
petition for letters of administration
filed in Probate Court by her sons,
David r. Harris and Robert w. Har-
ris. The estate includes premises 172S
n street.
Sophie w. Condict. who died Sep
tember %, left an estate valued at
more than $4,000, according to the
petition for letters testamentary filed
by William Meyer levin. the execu-
tor. The estate includes premises 174S
I street. The testatriX was survived
by a niece, Frances G. Remsen, and
the grandnephews, John c. Smalt2
and Woodruff G.. Condict.
Evening star., 1927-11-20
CONCORD CLUB TO MARK
GERMAN DAY" TUESDAY
Members to Pay Tribute to Baron
Won Steuben, Revolution
ary Hero.

Members and friends of the Con
cord Club will celebrate German day
Tuesday by paying tribute to the
memory of Baron Frederick William
Augustus Henry Ferdinand Won
Steuben. distinguished German sol
der who fought for the American
cause in the Revolutionary War.
The celebration will take place at
$50 o'clock Tuesday night in the
clubhouse, at 3i4 C street. There will
be a program of addresses and music.
Among those who will speak are
Richard Brauner, president Of the
club. Judge G. l.. Becker and Rev.
DR.. Richard Schmidt. There will be
vocal selections by German singers
Members Of the staff of the Ger
man embassy and prominent German
Americans have been invited.
The committee in charge consists
of Frank Loeff1er, chairman; William
Hannemenn, Gustaye Bender, Mrs
August Schmidt, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Nachler. DIR. Margaret Eek, DIR. c. T.
Christiani, Herman Winkler. Mr.. and
Mrs. Altos Schlachter, George Diener
Gustave Geilich, Mrs. J. Bruegger
Mrs. +. Brandt, Paul Rieder and Carl
CUssler.
Evening star., 1927-11-20
THREE ARE SENTENCED
ON ROBBERY CHARGES
Given Three Years Each by Justice
Siddons-Two Others Sent to
PenitentiarY.

James r. Fleet and Frank L. Lee,
both colored, were sent to the peni-
tentiary for three years each yester-
day by Justice Frederick l.. Siddons
in Criminal Division .. The men
broke into the store OF y: nan Miskin
August s and stole a cas- .egister and
quantity of cigarettes.
Anthony Ford. colored, was also
given three years in the penitentiary
for robbery. He beat David F'iournoy
and took $1.25 away from him Sep
tember Z.
James Cerreta will spend two years
in the penitentiary for grand larceny.
He stole a watch, valued at SIS. from
Elizabeth NJ. Kettler.
Ford Muse, colored. was sent to the
penitentiary for IS months on q
charge of assault with a dangerous
weapon.
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will be repeated Tuesday and wednes-

will be repeated Tuesday and Wednes-
day nights.
other plays are being planned for
the Winter, according to Miss Sue FL.
Murray of 5000 o street, director.
The leading roles will be acted by
Rosanna Roach, Anne Waters. j.
Robert Shaw and j. Calvert King.
Others in the cast include Mary
Roach, Dorothy Cavanaugh.~Mary V.
Murray, Margaret du Fief. May Harty'
stuart Sullivan. Jack Duvall, William
Duvall, stephen j. Keating. Charlie
Roach and Joseph Kearney.
Evening star., 1927-11-20

Mount Rainier, Md; Mildred May
Eisinge, Gas Park road; Patricia
Eileen Patterfeld, 6811 Laurel avenue,
Takoma, ID. c., and Dorothy Jane
Goldman, 1886 Rodman street.
Evening star., 1927-11-20
SEES COOL lDGE IN 1928.
Depew Expects President to BE
Drafted for Nomination

NEW YORK. November 10 R.-
.Chauneey NJ. Depew today predicted
traffic JAIN in candidates at the 1925
Republican convention. which viii eni
only with the denomination of Presi.
dent Coolidge. He predicted that ths
convention would so. into recess until
the President should have fully con.
sidered what would amount to an
unanimous call for him TO run again.
Mr.. Depew did not indicate whether
he thought the President would &C.
cept the denomination.
Evening star., 1927-11-20
6. 0. ?. PRIMARIES
MAY Be NEGLIGIBLE
Other Candidates to Keep
Out Despite LoWden's En-
trance Into Indiana.
DT DAVID LAWRENCE.


News that former Gov. LoWier
of Illinois viii have his name on th'
presidential primary ballot in Indian.
will not affec; the decision OF some o
the other candidates to keep out o1
the primaries.
1t can be taken for granted now
that anybody who asks President
Coolidge for authority to place hi>
name on the ballot will receive Z
negative answer. And the same prob
ably holds good for Herbert Hoover
and Charles Evans Hughes. Both
men have announced that they be
Eeve Mr. Coolidge should be ronOmi
mated and reelected. Certainly, unless
Mr.. Coolidge definitely says he will
not accept the nomination if rendered
the disposition of two men who have
served in his cabinet will be to assume
he is going to be drafted
This leaves the Republican pri-
maries for presidential preference
likely to be of little consequence in
the final choice of n candidate. Sen
ator Curtis of Kansas is an avOwed
candidate and may so into the race
against MessTs. Lowden and Dawes,
but the others viii stand in the back
ground aWaitin" developments.
GUTtSS aEdN IfdNt t~EEtfi5slb'
II the Kansas Senator should de
ra:op strength against either Mr.
Lowden or Mr.. Dawes. there is no tell
.hg what the convention might do if
It should find Mr.. Coolidge adamant
about rejecting a nomination. Mr.
Curtis is not looked upon at present
as having any strength comparable
to that of Mr.. Lowden or Mr.. Dawes,
but the primaries may reveal him as
having good deal more backing in
the West than appears on the surface.
Mr.. Curtis is the Republican leader
of the Senate and has an Opportunity
at tho coming session to exercise his
leadership in a way that will attract
the attention of the party leaders.
There is as yet some doubt about
the role that Vice President Dawes
will play. 1t has been suggested that
he will not make an active campaign
before the convention, but will hope
to win the support that goes to former
Gov. LoWden.
BOrah May Renew Attack.
Already there is discussion that Sem
ator Borah of Idaho has not finished
his attack on Mr.. Lowden, and that
between now and convention time he
will have revived some of the opposi-
tion that helped to spoil Mr.. Lowden's
chances in 1920, though in behalf of
Mr.. Lowden it is asserted that the
Republican convention by its willing
ness to nominate him for Vice Presi-
dent in 1924 eliminated the Missouri
primary episode from its mind COM
pletely.
A number of favorite son candi-
dates may appear in the primaries of
their respective States, thus helping
begins to look, even at this early date,
that the presidential preference pri-
mary will mean very little toward in
fiuencing the delegates st the next
Republican national convention.
fCopyright. 1872
Evening star., 1927-11-20
Federation TO AID
RED CROSS WORK
In TORNADO AREA
CONTINUED from First Page.)

/. CONTINUED from FIRST Page.)
with a goal of 40 900 members, to be
reached by Thanksgiving day. This
has been raised to $4,000, to enable the
District to take care of its own tor
nado relief. The membership fee is
81, SO that if the goal is reached,
there will be $4,000 received as d
result Of this years roll call. for use
in the present disaster and throughout
the remainder of the year, i'll addl-
ton to such contributions as are be-
ing made.
More than 5000 memberships have
been received thus far and the roll
call workers are now redoubling their
efforts. a group of workers in uni
form. under direction of Mrs. w. S.
Spencer, chairman Of hospitals for the
District chapter. yesterday made col
lections at the Army-Marine foot ball
game at Catholic University Stadium.
Departments Contribute.
Reports have come in from Red
Cross booths maintained in the Gov
ornment departments and bureaus
The Department OF Commerce yester-
day turned in sufficient to make its
enrolment receipts up to date
81 1,12225. The following sums have
been received from other Government
agencies: War Department, $685.;
Treasury. $2,890.55: Navy Department,
| $758.S7; District Building, S192; State
Department, S120.25; Federal Trade
! Commission, S133.75. and Civil Service
Commission, $64.45.
/ Washingtons tornado has served
! lzKa fA
| Red Cross relief work in the flood
| stricken regions Of New England. In
/ II desperate race with the fast-ap-
| preaching Winter. the Red Cross is
| using every available means in that
| part Of the country to speed up re-
| construction work for the 10000
| flood sufferers under its care. James
Il. fieGer, vice chairman of the Red
| Cross, on his return here today from
| the food area, where with Secretary
of Commerce Hoover he has been di-
recting relief. said that the organi-
zation is working at top speed.
ALREADY much has been done, he
| said, land in the face Of the most
destructive flood that section has
ever suffered. there is no prevent
able suffering"
Official Police Report.
Official police reports of damage
done by the tornado showed 19 persons
were injured and 429 buildings dam
aged, according to a statement issued
last night by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse
superintendent Of police.
The reports were compiled by Capt
j. +. Wilson of the ninth precinct
Capt. w. II. Sanford of No. 5 and
Capt. Charles 7. Peck Of No. II.
The number of residences damaged
was placed at 400. Nine business
places, 10 combined dwel!inys ana
business places and 10 classified as
miscellaneous buildings were reported
damaged. The uncIasitied buildings
included structures at the Naval All
Station, an ice plant and schools.
Maj Hesse explained that the re
port does not include the Navy Yard
which is under jurisdiction OF the
Navy Department.
Evening star., 1927-11-20
AMATEURS TO GIVE PLAY.
"stellar" Group to Open Season
Tomorrow Night.

Opening their season of amateur
productions, the Stellar Dramatic
Players will present tomorrow night
in the Holy Trinity Auditorium,
Thirty-sixth and o streets. a three-act
comedy, 1.-The Boomerang" The play
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
THE PRACTICALLY OF TT

Congressman Theodore Elijah Burton, who Just
passed his 18th birthday and who, reviewing his fe
opines that bacheiorhood aided him to scale those
heights which he has scaled once led flibuster
in Congress.
This fbuster has gone down in history as the
most famous of all talkfests ever witnessed within
those sacred walls.
Eos nearly twenty-four consecutive hours Bur-
ton TALKED against rivers and harbors appropria-
ton bin then pending.
Congress was about to adjourn, and Burton had
only to talk long enough to prevent the bill from
coming to a vote
He talked and talked and talked some more. A
page brought him some soft-boiled eggs Burton ate
them danty, still talking while congressional ways
yelled, don't egg him on!"
Burton is proud of the fact that this was no
Mother Goose or Holy Writ or Shakespearean fill
buster but that he well informed on his sub
ject that he could have talked on it alone forty
hours if necessary.
Perhaps Burton, who says that the price of
fame is bachelorhood, knows whereof he speaks.
Who but bachelor could have had any oppor-
tunity to get in trim for such vocal marathon?
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HAPPY NEW YEAR

There is every reason for faith that those VINO
wish of happy and prosperous New Year
4 cir neighbors will see that wish realized
The old year in this State has brought a new
3ening. not only of industry and material
IS, but spiritually.
II has helped to lift something of burden that
been borne so long by Indiana, burden Oh
Snpt abroad and distrust at home.
q has seen the beginning of a new spirit and
n faith. rather a revival of the old spirit and
I'D faith of the fathers.
Fhere is passing, very rapidly the belief that
ing can be done to make equality more than
In the dictionary, law and justice more than
hes, more than commodities upon the bargain
|ers of the powerful and privileged.
Evil is being driven back into its caves and
bousness stands out of the shadow OF fear in
b 1t fingered for so long.
h it's sincere wish to the people for the coming
The Times knows of no better or higher hope
that this awakened spirit will take on new
18th and new zeal.
trusts that before another year shall pass
history that the people of this city and OF this
will feel themselves redeemed and upnfted.
i believes that before another celebration is
that there will be pride of accomplishment and
2f~ the shackles of bondage to the mercenary
- greedy will be broken.
M at wish goes to much larger family on this
Ian it did one year ago. For The Times
N is growing and enlarging it's circle of friends
Followers Where three families found this
Ne, of good will one year ago, there are four
zbs now reading it today.
nd with the wish of happiness and prosperity
hood will goes anew the pledge Of service and
kfaltering fidelity to the causes which will make
eh come true.
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OLD-FASHIONED!

That anything anyone is "od-fashioned" is one
of todays most scoring attacks.
With the glib adjective "old-fashioned" we are
inclined to dismiss everything and everybody that
does not coincide with the thought of the passing
second.
This comment by the late Anatole France on
"old-fashionedness" is worthy Of attention:
1.-THE other day some declared that Balzac
was od-fashioned. don't quite understand the word
in that sense though I've tried many times to fathom
its exact meaning. 1t conveys the idea, think, of
something that is antiquated, of no use. necktie
which the dandy throws away is oldfashoned.
"Is Bazac like threadbare neckte? Should the
thought OF the human mind the product of ones life
force, really be doomed thus wasted?
''In the great universe where not atom is lost
not tiny portion of the worlds energy squandered
should it be only the creation Of the human brain
which is wantonly spent?
Youth is proud Of its power that it wants to
rid itself of the creations of the masters and try
They thinking ahead many centuries and the
most modern isn't modern enough for them. They
want to destroy that they can build; they want
to annihilate SO that they ca nbegin.
They want to have a Bible. Life's new
Bible, written in new language. Do they forge;
the atavism of blood? Don't they realize that
they'll have to continue the subconscous life of theil
fathers whom they want to bury alive? How can
they get away from the eternal continuity of things
new sort of challenge to youth-the challenge
of tolerance for "oldfashonedness!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01

Mere may be those who laugh at the ancient
~ hi swearing off their bad habits on the
ming Of the year.
|he strong mcy look upon it as device for
bings, trick to bolster up a failure of
Hence or of will power.
be course the time to stop any habit or custom
ling that is injurious and detrimental is the
Int the individual decides that the habit is
br dangerous or wasteful.
hut if the day does give courage to those who
ADt otherwise find within themselves the power
AZ and curb their own wanderings, it is
"a to stop and take stock and throw aside all
wss>t @ar bind one from full life.
N how Imuch more sensible would it be, instead
Kerely taking vow to relinquish some evil
s. to sw ear on for some better
7hy not make this day to pledge oneself to
md more constructive effort in life
rill YOU find more kindness and more friend
b n the coming year? The solution is simple
Dledge to be more friendly and more kind is
y and kept.
ould you drive out Of your mind the sugges-
Of evil or of idle thoughts? A pledge to read
Il hooks and think only of better things would
the temptation of the evil and the salacious
kible.
4 his is the day to swear on, rather than to
Off
is the day to pledge anew ones thoughts
Iltions, ambitions and energies to better things
that is done, you will not have to swear off
hence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
Water "CIoCkS"

Back in ancient Babylon, priests
experimental with water-jar until
they found one that would exactly
drain itself between sunrise and sun
set. Then they found what proper
ton would run out while the suns
disk made its full appearance above
the horizon. Thus was born the
idea of that worldwide unit Of meas
uripg time, the minute.
After the minute had been discov-
cred and established, it took more
than hundred generations of
Woodworking scholars to contrive
some device that would record it
precisely, convert it into hours and
the hours into days without too
much inaccuracy.
When you look at the dial of a,
modern clock, or at the calendar
that hangs above your desk, you are
beholding one of the greatest
achievements of mankind, an
achievement which is not only rootc-
in the painful efforts of unnumbered
scholars. but without which modern
life would be impossible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
GOOD FORM AND GEOGRAPHY

These funny savages How childish, how super
stitious, how utterly irrational they
Take the South African bushman, for instance;
he Will not drink water unless he is standing and
throws it into his mouth with his hands
The Senoi Of Malacca however, will only drink
when the water is held in a folded leaf.
And other races would feel defiled if they did
not drink from pumpkins, gourds or cocoanut shells
and some from human skulls or cups made from the
scalps of their slain enemies.
But suppose you told bushman or Senoi or
some other funny fellow that there land where
it was considered very very bad to soup the
south instead of the north, that knives spoons
must be laid to the right of the plate and forks to
the left that napkins should only be half unfolded
and thatItin cups were never put on the table How
funny he would think of us.
Etiquet and good form seem largely matter of
geography.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
Rome'S Troubles

Rome, in her proud, self satisfied
youth, decreed a year of 304 days
and got off the track before she was
well started. An emperor added two
months, hoping to correct the fault,
but he fell short by ten days. Then
somebody thought of the happy ex-
pedient of packing twenty-five or
twenty-three days into February
every second year.
The job of padding February was
left to the high priest, and he
doesn't seem to have been bound by
any rules. If he liked an administra-
ton he could, and often did, prolong
it by adding an extra week or so.
If an administration did not meet
with his approval, he could shorten
it by taking reverse action.
For several centuries there was
quite as much politics as science in
the Roman calendar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-01
Caesar Acts

You have wondered, perhaps, why
we have seven months with thirty
one days. four with thirty days and
one with twenty-eight
1t all goes back to the Julian cal
endar, supplemented by the vanity
Of man.
The Julian calendar provided for
a 365-day year, with an extra day
in each fourth year.
In order to divide the year into
twelve fairly equal months, it was
decreed that there should be six of
thirty and six of thirty-one days,
running alternately in the 366day
year, and that day should be taken
from February. which was the last
month, according to the Roman cal
endar, to provide for a 365-day year.
July, thirty-one-day month, was
named for julius Caesar, and some
years later August, thirty day
month, was named for his distin-
guished nephew.
The distinguished nephew did not
like this arrangement. He thought
himself entitled to just as long a
month as the great Julius. so he
took another day from February to
make it so.
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Tracy
New Years Day Is Re-
mindef of Centuries Re-
CURED to Make Calendar,
BY NJ. f.. Tracy

Well, another year has rolled into
being, and you would never know
1t but for the calendar and the clock
So many ticks to the minute, so
many minutes to the hour and so
many hours to the day-who thought
out the system with all it's elaborate
detail and exactness?
1t took 5000 years and more to
produce a reasonably dependable
almanac.
There were natural phenomena TO
begin with-sunrise, phases OF the
moon, seasons-but it was very
difficult to make them fit.
The earth turns over once every
twenty-four hours, the moon goes
around the earth once every twenty
nine and one-half days and there
are twelve and one-half lunations
during the solar year.
Men. began to measure time by
using 'one or another of these
phenomena, but they did not succeed
until they had learned to work the
combination.