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Motorists who request parking space
are compelled to stand aside in defer.
ence to the air pilots who demand
landing fields.
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One Of the greatest objections to
the Fourth Of July firecracker lies in
the fact that when its origin is con-
sidered in connection with American
history, it does not mean thing.
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Scrapping a battleship becomes a
serious matter in world affairs. Yet
solicitude turns to the possibility OF
accidentally scrapping an airplane by
nnaladroit management
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Summer Hotel,

The landlord has a deferential air,
For sudden wealth may rise most any
where;
And any patron with new gotten pelf
May buy and run the shack to suit
himself.
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ing edition is delivered by carriers within
the city at 80 cents per month: daily only
as rents oer month Sundays only. 20 cents
per month Orders NAV be sent by mail OF
telephone NJ ain 5000 Collection is made by
carrier at end OF each month
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For sudden wealth. may rise LloSL ANY"
where;
And any patron with new gotten pelf
May buy and run the shack to suit
himself.
"a prohibition agent inspected my
mint patch" said Uncle Bill Bottle.
top. "He regarded it as suspicious.
| but had not enough epicurean sense
to perceive how it might be incrimi.
mating"
"We throw paper wads at joss"
said Hi Ho, the sage Of Chinatown.
1.-THE writing on them matters little.
The fact that we throw them whether
in worship or defiance shows that we
are still held in obsequious superstt-
ton"
Jud Tunkins says old friendships
must be carefully managed in order
to decide whether they shall make mel
low wine or sharp vinegar.
The Feminine Cynic.
EVERY woman wishes to make one
man happy"
IT have done better than that" said
Miss Cayenne. 81 fancy that I have
! contributed to the happiness Of sew
eral gentlemen whom I refused to
marry"
To Cover.
Mother, may I go out to SWIM!
! YES" cried Fashions slave.
Find depth where every limb
Is covered with a wave"
Serious Situation.
Here's another trouble" exclaimed
the film comedian.
"serious?"
Every. The Bakers Union has as
serted itself and refuses to produce
any more custard pie"
"a jazz band" said Uncle Eben. sis
mostly an excuse fob stayin' up all
| night and not workin' much de next
daNG 4.naaMaAamAkia Aaa1nzah, zabassazsp
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The Feminine Cynic.
To Cover!

To Cover!
Mother, may go out to swim?"
yes" cried Fashions slave.
Find depth where every limb
Is covered with wave"
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"A jazz band" said Uncle Eben. sis
mostly an excuse fob stayin' up all
night and not workin' much de next
daNf9 ss.as..ass, ,..sess.xss
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Jud Tunkins says old friendships
must be carefully managed in order
to decide whether they shall make mel
low wine or sharp vinegar.
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Serious Situation.

Here's another trouble" exclaimed
the film comedian.
"Serious?"
every. The Bakers Union has as
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q. What is the average age Of stu
dents entering college?-F. H.
A. 1t has been estimated that 10 Is
the average age of entrants and %
the average age at which students are
graduated
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McC ormick and Bride
Are Visiting London

LONDON. May 4.-cyrus H. Nc.
cormick. ST.. of Chicago. multi.
millionaire Chairman of the board Of
the International Harvester Conl-
pany. and his bride to whom he was
secretly married Just before their
departure from New York. arrived
from Ireland today and began the
English part OF their honeymoon
with quiet life in flat.
The couple took furnished
sserviee" apartment in Hanover
Square. where they will live while
IN this city.
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lions only. 'A'se'
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WHO MURDERED MANTON?-R osalind was
escorted outside into waiting taxicab. On the
streets boys were crying the news Of the murder
OF Samuel Manton. The mention of his name
brought back to the girl the horror Of the night.
So strange had it all been-this nightmare
that she had never given thought as to the ident-
ity of the murderer. Who could it have been?
she wondered numbly. Roger, noting her dis
tress, leaned down and whispered in her ear.
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of Custodian. April 80. 1927. Sealed pro.
posals will be received at this building until
Y o'clock p. m. May 10. 1927. and then
towels during the fiscal year ending June 80
1928. The right to reject any and all bids
is reserved by the Treasury Department
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THOs. J. OWEN q SON. AUCTIONEERS
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Street n. W.. on FRIDAY he sixth day 81 i
May A. d. 1927. at one o'clock p. NJ. the
collateral named Therein. 70 wit: One second
trust note for S2.0OOtl0 secured on Lot
60 and improvements in Wells and Wells
subdivision of Palestine. One second trust
note for $3.500.00 secured on lot 10
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peared, charging the rate earned
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tools. This bed is worth about $50
| labor.
CENTRAL HIGH. SCHOOL offers
- woodworking courses merely as a
part of the cultural education which
| it seeks to give its graduates. The
majority of the students go to college
after completing their preparatory
work. The shop work thus is an in
formal and invaluable introduction
to the boys-particularly those who
study engineering or architecture
to the advanced lab" where they
will spend many long and difficult
hours before they finally win their
'sheepskins."
Though the majority Of the boys go
to college, some few have to earn
their living after leaving high school.
About a dozen boys during the last 10
years have engaged in professional
work as pattern-makers at the Wash
ington Navy Yard.
About so boys take the pattern
making course at Central each year.
Mr.. Wilson instructs the lads con-
corning manufacturing plant systems
and methods, while they also study
mechanical drawing so that they &C.
Quire adeptness with caliper, square,
drawing board and hard lead pencils.
After being we'll versed in the funda-
mentals of pattern-n1aszing practice,
the youngsters begin their shop work.
There they make accurate wooden
patterns of gas-engine parts, grinder
patterns, and patterns for lead ladies,
piston rings and locomotive bells.
Display cases in the Central corridors
are filled with remarkably fine pat
terms which the schoolboys have
made.
The demands for the spare-tine
services of these amateur carpenters.
cabinetmakers a d woodworkers
would be legion If the school authori-
ties followed the practice Of obtaining
outside employment for the students
This, however, is not done, although
Washington householders who value
the skill and training of these school
boys occasionally gain their assist
ance. Those who know Central stu
dents who are interested in such out
side work have to deal directly with
the junior woodworkers. The high
school authorities are opposed to the
school shop competing With outside
firms.
Gale Murphy recently constructed
capacious built-in china closets for a
certain Washington lady during his
spare hours. This 17-year-old car.
penter, was paid $40 for his service
when he completed the task. His
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who is engaged in his second year of
shop work at Central, Sc hours to de-
sign and make the chairs. Their re-
tail value is about $35. Young Nc
Tendon plans to present his mother
with the set when it issf1nished.
Earl Foster, another lad of IS, has
Completed a bOok-trough type mahog-
any table which would cost $25 if
procured from your favorite furniture
store. Another Washington mother
will be delighted when her son brings
home this gift-the product of loves
labor, and as fine a piece of crafts
manship as any schoolboy has made in
Washington shops during the last ~
months.
Another Central student designed
and made an oak tea cart which has
ELECTED praise from all who have
seen it. This dining room appur-
tenance represents rs hours of hard
spun labor, and has a monetary value
of approximately $25. Yet another
student, who had no ambition to make
any article of furniture for his home,
is now Nbusily engaged in the hand
production of quarter-sawed oak
desk for Principal Alvin w. Miller,
who has supervisory charge of the
upper Thirteenth street educational
institution.
X X
THE schoolboys that are unsteady
inclined naturally wish to make
instruments which they can play
Hence, many ukuleles, banjo-ukuleles
and violins are manufactured in the
high school shops. Edward Davis, who
completed his work at Central last
June, despite the fact that he was not
musician, gained fame and notoriety
throughout the country as a wizard
violin maker. Young Davis made
four fine violins during his years in
school. The best Of these was q won
'derfully faithful copy Aot-sa. Stradi-
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| for his father was carved by hand
and is typical example of the ex.
captional craftsmanship displayed by
Washington's junior wood carvers
Harold Hobbs has made a walnut
chess table for his dad" He carved
the double size hessmen-knights and
bishops and pawnS-from specially
selected maple and walnut material.
The table and chessmen would cost
about $50 at a f1rst-class retail shop.
Young Hobbs devoted 145 hours of
his shop work to the design and COM
pletion of these handsome products.
John FISHER, another District
schoolboy, who has observed his
seventeenth birthday anniversary. de-
signed and made a collapsible rowboat
which folds up into a 30.inch cube
which can be transported readily in
an automobile during summer tour
ing trip. This boat, made Of white
pine, is one of the most remarkable
sport goods products of the local
high school laboratories. 1t was made
in three sections, each of which was
provided with waterproof bulkheads.
The design is such that these three
bulkhead sections are hinged together
to form a Noteworthy boat suitable
for fishing, duck hunting or other ex-
cursions on the Potomac or similar
rivers or lakes.
The two end bulkheads fold back
upon the middle section when the boat
is not in use 1t is really surprising
what a good sized boat can be pro-
duced as If by magic from this con-
densed package when it is trussed up
for overland travelling. The COLLAPSE
BILE boat, although light in weight and
easy to handle, is strong enough to
resist such hazards of river Voyaging
as pointed submerged rocks and other
shoals. The white pine was bent to
shape after being steamer thoroughly
John Fisher built the abbreviated
| rowboat in about 40 hours of actual
bench work The material consisted
of 81 board feet of clear white pine,
inch thick. The complete cost of mat
terial and hardware amounted to So
Carl Van Lowe has just finished
work on the finest ornamental table
ever produced in the Central High
School work shops. 1t is in Japanese
style, with turned legs and ornamental
stretchers. This exquisite table, which
is fine enough to ornament the home
of the Districts Wealthiest millionaire,
has been finished in mandarin red
with black and gold decorations. 1t
has a crackle lacquer top, embellished
with an attractive Japanese design.
This fancy table is striking example
of the skill which some youths gain in
scholastic shop work. Carl Van Lowe
made this table in 80 hours, its retail
| value being $40 to s35. He presented
this table to Mr.. Wilson as a Yule-
/ tide gift.
Cecil McLendon, Is years, has made
a set of six dining room chairs at a
total cost of SO for material. The
chairs are made of cabinet oak, the
bottoms being upholstered by hand in
attractive leather It took this lad.
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had borrowed for the trip. At a GER
tain Washington automobile dealers
show room. the lad saw on display
exactly the type of sport roadster body
which he wished to build. He inter
viewed the dealer, explained his plan
and secured permission to take meas
urements of this body. These figures
were the basis for the plans which the
bow subsequently drew. These plans
were the guideposts which he fol-
lowed in cutting. carving, chiseling
and chipping the solid oaken boards
into the shape and form of an auto
mobile body. Some of the material
had to be steamed for several hours
and then bent by handpower and
mechanical pressure to the desired
shape.
This student purchased a discarded
chassis and automobile engine of a
popular make of car from the school
automobile shop for S.. He mounted
the homemade body upon the chassis,
hooked up the engine, purchased
set of solid disc wheels-and soon
was ready for his first ride in the
salvaged and hand-assembled machine.
The body was a very creditable piece
Of workmanship, and after the owner
had decorated it with several coats
of paint and varnish. 1t looked like a
factory-built product. This little car
has travelled more than $4,000 miles
since it's schoolboy owner put the
finishing touches on his first auto
mobile manufacturing job.
A four-poster mahogany bed, such
as the ones that delight you as YOU
gaze at exhibition furniture during
your windowshopping tours, Is an
other valuable article made recently
by one of the scholastic artisans. This
boy chose that difficult piece of fur
niture to make when he was given
free choice az to what he would build.
He turned ont the tapered posts and
rails on electric lathes and did the
rest of the work with simple" hand
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varius. 1t was constructed by hand of
maple imported from the Tyrolean
Alps. Experts who played and eX-
amined the violin when completed said
that it will be worth at least 81 600
after two years use.
This violin is now being played reg
ularly by talented musician in one
of Washington's leading orchestras.
Edward Davis is having this man
season" the violin thoroughly before
he attempts to sell the remarkably
violins, although slightly inferior to
this masterpiece, are, notWithstand-
ing, exceptional illustrations of the
skill which the District WoodcarverS
gain in their unique school courses.
Edward Davis presented one of these
vfolins to Central High School and it
is now displayed in glass case among
the relics, historical exhibits and ath-
letic trophies which are the property
of that establishment.
Raymond Talbert, another, Central
student, has been riding Washington
streets and avenues this last year in
a homemade sport roadster which
he made during the time when he
was studying automotive engineering
and woodworking, as well as mechani-
cal drawing. This homespun car is
all the more remarkable In that the
body is made from white oak which
grew and was logged and sawed on
the Virginia farm of young Talbert s
grandfather.
When the youth determined to
build an automobile, he remembered
some white oak lumber piled away in
a barn on his grandfather's estate
He telephoned to his grandfather and
asked if he could have enough of the
lumber to make an automobile body.
An affirmative reply resulted in
Raymond driving down to the farm
the following Saturday and hauling
back several hundred feet of lumber
in the small motor truck which he
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work was equal to that which the
average professional carpenter would
have done. The glass-faced cabinets
were built according to their owners
plans and design.
During the Christmas holiday an
other Central student spent his spare
time in inclosing and partitioning sew
eral rooms in the attic Of Washing
ton residence. He earned the wages
of the skilled mechanic during this
assignment. The job was a real test
of the boys skill and ability to apply
in practice what he had learned in
shop and classroom.
When Winter comes some OF the
schoolboys always make skis, hoping
that the snowfall will be heavy enough
weeks so that they may test out their
wooden runners on the District.
Maryland and Virginia hills. The skis
are made of birch and are bent to the
desired shape by the use Of a. special
steaming apparatus which one Of the
Central teachers has rugged up from
discarded furnace pipe.
The boys or their parents pay for
the lumber and material used in max
ing the various pieces of furniture or
other ornamental woodwork which
the junior mechanics produce. Cedar
chests are popular, and at an outlay
of SO for material, including hard
ware, the average student can make
one of these storage receptacles which
would cost double or treble that
amount If purchased downtown. The
boys mill the cedar.
DURING the 1926.1927 classwork
Mr.. Wilson is allowing his stu.
dents to make copies of a popular toy,
patent papers for which have been
taken out under this teachers sigma
ture. a certain Eastern factory pro.
duced and sold 10000 Of these toys
during the last Christmas season. Mr..
Wilson has also written a special text
book for the use of Washington's wood
carvers.
Several of the most proficient stu.
dents usually work for Mr.. Wilson in
the vacation period. During a recent
Summer, the teacher and his aides
decorated and adorned the notable
Chinese room" at Central with the
Oriental panels, screens,
grillwork and ornaments in that me.
mortal room. Alfred SEE, the Chinese
Ambassador to Washington. donated
5000 for the Identification of this
particular room. The. former user OF
this room was Miss Ella MorRan, who
taught Ambassador SEE during his
Juvenile school days in Washington.
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BELL LAUDS D. c.
GOVERNMENT

'"The Districts form OF govern.
ment has given Washington honesty
and efficiency of administration
that can not be matched in any
other American city. 1t should not
be changed"
That is the parting message Of
Lieut.. Col. 7. Franklin Bell.
engineer commissioner for the past
four years, delivered last night on
the eve of his departure from
Washington. The statement was
made in his address at the farewell
lawn party in his honor by District
employees at Fort Dupont.
Colonel Bell also took the on.
portunity in his final message 10
the people Of Washington to pay 4
tribute to the press for its interest
in the welfare of the District and
TO the District Building personnel
for their courtesy and loyalty.
Five hundred District employees
attended the party. Addresses were
made by Proctor L. Dougherty.
president OF the board of Com
nissioners; former Commissioner
Cuno III. Rudolph, r. b. Gordon.
District sanitary engineer and Rob
ert NJ. Buck, representing the news.
paper men covering the District
Building.
The District Building reporters
presented Colonel Bell with a small
The Washington times., 1927-06-16
Indy To HAVE
70 IN ESCORT

Twenty Army pursuit planes
which viii form the air escort Of
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh on his
flight to st. Louis tomorrow, re-
turned to Washington from New
York just before noon today.
After the pilots had been given
their lunches as guests of the
officers at Boiling Field, their
planes were refueled and the entire
squadron. forming the First Pursuit
Group, left for Dayton, o.
The group will be joined at
Dayton tomorrow by Colonel Lind.
bergh and win fly with him to St.
Louis, it was announced at Boiling
Field.
The pursuit group is commanded
by Major Thomas Lanphiar, hero
of the Army flight last year from
Michigan to Porto Rico and return.
The pursuit group flew from
Selfridge Field, Mich, to Washing
ton last Friday and escorted Colonel
Lindbergh to New York Monday.
After escorting Colonel Lindbergh
to st. Louis. the squadron will
return to Michigan.
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joying the sheer luxury of the re-
union with I'VE
Il sure had a grand time,H he ex-
claimed when he finally came TO
earth.
Plane Is Under Guard
Lindbergh was enthusiastically
greeted by a number of West Point
cadets, several aviators, some Army
officers and few civilians who
had been in or" his secret flight.
The plane was taken to a hangar
at the west end of Roosevelt Field
and Lindbergh watched and super
vised as 1t was put away. The
hangar doors were locked and a
heavy guard placed outside.
Lindbergh said THE Spirit of st.
Louis had functioned perfectly
en- route from Washington and does
ton of any kind. 1t is ready for
Lindbergh's take-off tomorrow morn
ing for st. Louis.
The exuberant young flyer was
escorted to the quarters of Colonel
Benjamin d. Foulois, commanding
officer of Mitchell Field, for break
fast
Lindbergh said he would take a
short rest after breakfast before
leaving for New York by automo.
bile. He hadn't had any sleep. His
friend, Blythe. sought to dissuade
him from this and have him go to
New York at once as Lindbergh is
to be the guest of Brooklyn this
morning, but the flier won his
point.
A double guard was placed out.
side the quarters of Colonel Foulois
as Lindbergh ate breakfast. Mean.
while, a battery of camera men as
sembled and waited for Lindbergh
to reappear.
Blythe said "I.indv,' mazda LIN his