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The Washington times., 1927-09-02

Hamilton and Lieut.. Col. F. r.
Minchin, spread over England to-
day.
Members of the princess family,
who violently opposed her attempt
ing the flight, expressed alarm.
Her brothers. the Earl Of Mex
borough and Hon. George Savile,
and her sister. Lady Mary Louisa
Savile. kept in constant touch with
officials of the Imperial Always,
Ltd.
Officials of the Bristol AeropIane
Company, which constructed the
engine of the st. Raphael, said that
fuel tests prior to the flight had
shown the plane was capable of
remaining in the air 4S hours.
This period has now passed, and
even the most optimistic no longer
believe that the st. Raphael is still
in the air.
Mrs. Douglas Hamilton, mother
of Captain Hamilton, told Inter
national News Service today that
she still held out the greatest hopes
that her boy is safe.
IT think well get news today, /"
she said. II am still hopeful"
The Washington times., 1927-09-02
By international News service

LONDON, Sept. 1.-The gravest
anxiety over, the fate Of Princess
Lowenstein.W ertheim and her two
flight companions, Captain Leslie
The Washington times., 1927-09-02
PRINCESS IS ANOTHER
SEA VICTIM, BELIEF

that some word would
come.
Plane Down Is Belief
The st. Raphael Is down, either
in the ocean or at some isolated
spot between Newfoundland and
Ottawa, 80
It carried only enough fuel for a
flight Of A hours.
That mark was passed at 10
o'clock last night, and hope that
the fliers might still be in the air
now has passed.
Captain Hamilton's wife, b slender
girl in her early twenties, kept vigil
throughout the night with the wife
of John A. Wilson, director of civil.
Ian aviation, at whose offices reports
from the radio lookouts in contact
with ships in the st. Lawrence Gulf
were centralized.
Mrs. Hamilton, an English girl.
shyly kept outside the range of
newspaper representatives, but she
was reported as confident and cheer
full.
Everywhere, the holiday expect.
ancy OF Ottawa changed with the
passing Of the hours.
Even the most optimistic could no
longer hope that the st. Raphael was
still in the air.
Genuine and deep grief on the fate
Of the princess exists all through
Canada.
The manner in which the sixty
three.year-old noblewoman decided to
join the flight, just as another
woman Of her age might order her
limousine for q trip to the country
club, has captured the Imagination,
and the hope Is expressed every.
where that the. passage OF a few
more hours may find the aviators
safely landed.
The Washington times., 1927-09-02

RIO DE JANERIo, Sept. 1.-The
National Telegraph Agency issued
a communique at 10 a. m. today
announcing that no news has been
received Of the missing American
aviator, Paul Redfern.
Evening star., 1927-04-17
Equal Suffrage in Britain.

The British cabinet has promised
British women equal suffrage. A bill
to equalize the franchise of women
and men win be introduced with
government backing at the next ses-
sion of Parliament, Premier Baldwin
has announced in the House of Com
mons. Outside of enabling several
million more women to vote in Great
Britain, the equalization of the fran
chise may or may not have a wide
effect on government and govern
mental policies. At present men
twenty -one years of age vote, but
women must be thirty years old be-
fore they can cast the ballot. There
are other restrictions against women
over thirty. The grant of equal suf-
frage to the women of Great Britain
win, it is estimated, give the women
the upper hand at the polls. A pres
ent majority of 100000 in favor of
the men will be turned into ma
jority of 100000 in favor of the
women.
Under the proposed new conditions
on the surface 1t would appear the
women will rule England. If the men
end wanaan aivided in politics strictly
Evening star., 1927-04-17

showing of the film questions are
asked and a discussion is carried on
with the pupils as to what they saw.
l. is the usual practice, although not
invariably followed, of showing the
film a second time after the class has
discussed it thoroughly.
Following each film lesson the in
formation gained therefrom is utilized
in the school in oral discussion, de-
bates, decentralization, memory tests,
paragraph writing, letter writing,
map drawing. making of booklets and
charts and reproduction by construc-
ton of models of what was seen.
The conditions in a moving pic
t1ra theater are ideal for carrying on
visual education. Few, IL any, school
buildings can be equipped with as
fine motion picture machines, screens,
seating arrangements and proper
lighting conditions as are found III
our better moving picture theaters.
ANY city could inaugurate program
similar to that in Washington with
managers of its moving picture
houses prompted by the same flne
civic spirit which always has char
acterized the attitude of managers
of the moving picture houses In
Washington which have been placed
at the disposal of the schools.
tCopyright. 1921
Evening star., 1927-04-17
CHINESE MOTION PICTURES
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

gets welded who should do so and
they all live happily ever after.
In this last picture there is some
thing of interest to American manu-
facturers, If not to American movie
producers. Instead of going in for
props" that leave everything to the
imagination, as is done in their spoken
drama, in their motion pictures the
Chinese use real stage settings. and
almost every scene in the film men
toned presents modern American
manufactured articles.
In a Chinese dwelling all the furni-
ture, such as tables, chairs, daven-
ports, cabinets, beds, etc, was de-
cidedly of the Grand Rapids type. In
one scene the Chinese heroine plays
a phonograph. while her brother, an
editor, in an adjacent room fitted with
such foreign appurtenances as desk,
swivel chair, typewriter and file cabi-
net. becomes incensed at the playing
of a particularly distracting popular
record. In another scene a drawing
room is shown with oVerstuffed fur
niture and conventional foreign paint
ings or prints. Again the villain
hastens to his evil doings in a snappy
American roadster and still again
bank is pictured that is wholly Occi-
dental in it's equipment. Then there
is a tea dance, with fox trotting and
even a bit of a Charleston. and q
modern cabaret. with the men wear.
ing tuxedos.
The result of the showing of such
pictures, produced by the Chinese
themselves in their own studios, will
be inevitably to create a wider de-
mand for innumerable articles of for
eign manufacture, and If American
manufacturers fail to get their share
of such new business it will be their
own fault.
Evening star., 1927-04-17
EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN D. D. LII. D.
Bishop of Washington

his vision could no longer behold the
majesty of the heavens, he would be-
hold the greater majesty of his Crea-
tor. 1t is this hope and assurance
that have constituted the supreme
satisfaction of the human mind. Said
John Fiske, 1.-THE materialistic as
sumption that the life of the soul
ends with the life of the body is per
haps the most colossal instance OF
baseless assumption that is known in
the history of philosophy" Search
where we will within the range of
human thinking we discover this
outreaching for a better country. In
deed, it has been this that has not
only sustained men in the hour of su-
pren1e trial, but has been the great In
centive to higher forms of service and
the inspiration of the nobleSt things
we possess in our literature and mu'
sic. Henry Drummond, in his LAS.
cent of Man" seeks to disclose the
stages of progress by which we have
come to our present state of develop.
ment. He refers to the building of
the scaffolding, and afffrms as the
fabric of life develops we abandon the
scaffolding and press on to higher
accomplishments. This reminds us of
oliver Wendell Holmes "Chambered
Nautilus
Build thee more stately mansions--O my soul
As the swift seasons roll
Leave thy low-vaulted past
Let each new temple. nobler than the last,
Shut thee from hea.en with dome more
vast
Till thou at length art free.
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's un
resting sea.
In his great poem on immortal
ity wrought out of deep and abiding
sorrow, Tennyson maintained:
Thou wilt not leave us in the dust;
Thou nladest man he knows not why.
He thinks he not made to die
And Thou hast made him; Thou art lust.
The mighty message of Easter
brought to man by a living Christ
seeks to affirm his higher aspirations
for better country. No voice saving
that Of the risen Savior has ever af-
firmed mans Immortality. No other
voice saving His has dared to says Be-
cause / live, ye shall live ALSO TO
every life that has been shadowed
with grief and disappointment His
message comes, bringing peace and
comfort. We are reaching out for
new frontiers, we are seeking a bet
ter country and in our better hours
we know that it exists.
We aa~~ hut faith. we cannot know;
For knowledge is of things we see:
And yet we trust it comes from Thee;
A beam in darkness. let 1T grow.
Evening star., 1927-04-17
Greater Washington Projects.

Approximately fifty million dollars
will be recommended for early ap-
preparation here to carry along i'm.
pertant permanent improvements al
ready started or new projects that
have long been under consideration
by Capital builders as soon as the
Seventieth Congress assemblies. Most
OF this is a holdover charge from the
last Congress, which would have ap-
propriated about $40, 100000 Of this
total but for the Senate filibuster
which caused the failure of the second
deficiency appropriation bin and other
important substantive legislation.
The fifty y-million-doIlar Federal build
ing program, which Senator Smoot
said will eventually reach S150.000, 900,
has been delayed by condemnation
proceedings to acquire certain land and
by the failure thus far of Congress to
pass the bill directing the purchase of
the entire triangle between Pennsyl-
vania avenue and the Mall although
each house of Congress has sepa-
rately approved this proposition, at
an estimated cost Of $25 ,00o, 900. The
Federal Government, however, owns
the land on which two Of these new
departmental buildings are to be erect
ed, Commerce and Agriculture, and
three-fourths Of the site for the new
Internal Revenue Building, so that
work should actually be started soon
On these three buildings
Congress on its return is expected to
pass the Avenue-Aall triangle bill,
which carries with it an additional
800 900 for public buildings all
over the country; to authorize the
erection of model municipal group
TO meet the present overcrowded con-
dition in the District Building and to
provide for some years to come, with
a better coordination of the various
branches of the local government; to
appropriate funds for the abolition of
RI dangerous grade crossings in the
District, for purchase of the Mount
Hamilton tract for a great National
Arboretum, and for. a new site and
buildings for the Botanic Garden.
Congress is expected also to appro
briate for the new House Office Build.
ipAz, sorely needed for the efficient
nsansaotian of their duties bv the 42A
Evening star., 1927-04-17

representatives of all the people OF
the country; to make an initial ap-
preparation for the Supreme Court
Building to match the Library Of Con.
gress structure, an appropriation of
81 500, 600 having been made for ac-
QUESTION of the site: and to direct the
architect of the Capitol to remove the
so-called Government Hotels" be-
tween the. Capitol and Union Station
and to start improving that entire
area by park development.
In connection with this latter beau
tification of the front yard of the Ma
ton will come appropriations for start
ing work on the great new avenue from
Union Station to Pennsylvania avenue,
which is already authorized in SUBJ
stantive law.
Early action is imperative upon the
Mount Vernon Boulevard project If it
Is to be completed for use when peo.
pie from all over the world come here
in 1882 to make pilgrimage to the
tomb of George Washington at Mount
Vernon. Important fills have to be
made and the soil given time to settle
before the actual surfacing of the
road way can be started. The bicen-
tennial commission headed by Presi.
dent Coolidge is expected to ask Con-
gress to give priority consideration
to this project.
Waterfront development and in
creased funds for acquiring park sites
that may be lost through delay. with
a transfer of Forts Hunt and Wash
ington from the War Department. sex
tension Of the chain of bathing pools
throughout the Capital, and many
other permanent improvements are as
sured of early and sympathetic con-
sideration.
Sentiment is growing throughout
the country, and happily in Congress,
that these important developments
and embellishments of the National
Capital. are not solely for the local
community, but are for the benefit of
all Of the people of the country, as
proof of their patriotic love for the
Capital City, that Washington visioned
and projected, and visualizing to the
world the wealth, taste, power, dignity
and stability of the greatest Nation
that ever existed.
Evening star., 1927-04-17

along lines Of sex, the women would
rule with such q majority. But there
is no such division. The experience
of the United States, where there
has been countrywide equal suffrage
for the last seven years and equal
suffrage in many of the States for
some years prior to the Federal con-
stitutional amendment, proves the
contrary. Women divide into politi-
cal parties, liberal, conservative, radt-
cal, just as do, the men.
Predictions by militant suffraglsts.
and feTninists are that with equal
suffrage women in Great Britain will
occupy seats in the cabinet, that they
will crowd the House of Commons.
Again the experience of women with
equal suffrage in the United States
may be reviewed. Up to the present
time no woman has been elected to
the Senate and only a handful to
the House. No woman has held
place in the Presidents cabinet.
Some women have aspired to sena-
torial nominations and elections.
Many more have tried for the House.
So far, however, the men have been
favored. AS q national proposition,
equal suffrage in this country Is still
in it's infancy. The day may come
when the women will demand and
obtain greater representation in the
legislative, judicial and executive
branches of the Government.
Equal suffrage in Great Britain
may not be without its effect on the
movement in that country for pro-
hibition, however. Women there as
well as in the United States have
been strong advocates of suppression
of trade in Intoxicating beverages.
That is something else for the British
to think about.
Evening star., 1927-04-17
YOUR CHILD
In SCHOOL
By DR.. Frank ". Ballou,
Superintendent of Schools. Washington.
u C.
VISUAL INSTRUCTION.

Visual instruction, in it's broadest
sense. covers not only the most recent
provisions for the use of motion PIC
ture reels and lantern slides, but also
those other means of education which
bring the actual objects to be studied
within the vision of the children. such
as excursions, museum collectlons,
pictures. models and blackboard
drawings. Many schools in Washing
ton have been provided with pfoJec-
tors for slides. These have been pur-
chased largely by the parent-teacher
associations. Forty-eight elementary
schools and six junior high schools
now are provided with such proJec-
tors. This work is handled by the,
respective classroom teachers.
By far. the most interesting and
most important aspect of visual In
struction in Washington relates to
the use of motion pictures. rms
work is being carried on at mini
mum of expense, and with q max
imun of educational results Since
September, 1928, nine motion picture
houses making up circuit or nelgh-
borhood theaters have been placed at
the disposal of the school department
without expense. Operation service,
electricity and all other expenses are
theater owners likewise have offered
the use of their theaters for this
purpose.
Each theater is used once week.
The pupils~ of a given grade in the
elementary schools In the immediate
vicinity are brought together IN the
theater for the lesson. The number or
pupils in attendance varies from lou
to 400, with an average of from 215
to 800 at a given lesson.
different grade of pupils attends
the theater for visual instruction each
week, An individual pupil ATTENDS
upon such instruction approximately
once in every four weeks. During a
piven week two or three thousand
pupils are in attendance upon visual
instruction in the several theaters.
In authorization of the visual instruc-
tfou lesson in the theater each teach
er prepares her class for the lesson.
The teacher in charge of visual IN
struction announces well III advance
the date on which a given film Will
he shown. The teacher of the regu-
lar class then adjusts her instruc-
tion accordingly.
Pupil participation in the discus
sion which forms part or each les.
son in visual instruction is provided
Tor IN the IneateE dS lei 90 eAiA8 -.
practicable. This procedure Is based
on the general principle that there
should be some prompt expression as
result of the impressions from the
film. Passive viewing of films is not
necessarily educative.
The teacher in charge OF the film
makes a general Introductory state
ment about the film and what the
children are to see. After this has
been done the film is shown. Dur
ing the showing of the film comments
on it are made in order that it may
be certain that the children will direct
their attention to atne important fea-
lures of the film. Following the
Evening star., 1927-04-17
The Pilgrims Quest.

"No,e they desire better country"
-HebrelCS, Tt.16.
In this amazing message, which DR..
.Towett aptly calls 1.-The Westminster
Abbey of the New Testament" the
writer describes the children of men
as strangers and pilgrims on the
earth" The long story of human life
is an unending arch <or new from
tiers, Man has ever been pushing
un from one place to another, from a
lower to a higher level, seeking for
better conditions of living and the
satisfaction If the deeper things of
his mind and soul. AS the poet puts
it, Man is an eternal becoming.
Where he has been satisfied with
things as they are or been too indo-
lent to improve the conditions of his
environment, he has degenerated. 1t
has largely been because of his I'M
willingness to rest or to be satisfied
with life as he found it that he has
made progress and that the world
has advanced. His great quest has
been for the satisfaction of that which
hfs deeper nature craved, namely. the
assurance that beyond the utmost
boundaries or frontiers of his life was
a better country country to which
ultimately he must come and in which
his higher and holier aspirations
must find their satisfaction.
Shortly before his death Carlyle
wrote an expression of this longing.
"Three nights ago, stepping out after
midnight and looking up at the stars
which were clear and numerous, it
struck me with strange, new kind
of feeling; in a little while l shall
have seen you also for the last time.
God Almighty's own theater of i'm
mensity--the infinite made palpable
and visible to me--that also will be
too, in. my faCe-and l
shall never behold death any more
and then a second feeling rose upon
me: What if Omnipotence that has
developed in me these appetites, these
reverences, these infinite affections,
should actually have said: Yes, poor
mortal, such as you who have gone
so far shall be permitted to go far
ther. Hope, despair not" Gods will.
not ours, be done" The great old
Scotsman, who had pondered long
the mysteries Of life, felt yelling up
within him, not only the desire for
the fuller life, the life OF completion,
but the assurance that somehow, when
Evening star., 1927-04-17

Adults and seniors" who have
prided themselves upon their ability
to answer the daily questions put
to them through the medium of the
public prints ghould try their talents
on the following quiz faced the past
week by the first year students or
high school in Washington, and see
il by crediting themselves with Tour
or five or six points for each question
correctly answered they can match
the record of Bobby Livingston, ia
years old. who scored n 81 in the
official records. Here are the Problems
/. What is bank note?
2. What is q Government note?
g. For what purpose did Hamilton
establish bank
4. Give an account Of the first and
second banks of the United States.
5. Describe the present national
bank system.
6. Give an account of the paper
money issued during the Civil War.
7. What are the essential features
of our monetary system.
s. How is power in respect to COM
merce divided?
Q. What is the extent of the power
Congress has over foreign commerce?
10. sketch the course of tariff legis-
lation in the United States.
II. Give an account OF our immigra-
ton policy.
-. Distinguish between interstate
and intrastate commerce.
1S. Give an account of the services
of the Post Office Department.
IA. What can you say OF the per
sistence of bribery in the history OF
politics?
Is. What forces operate to check
the evil of bribery?
16. What can be said of the i'm
nortance of education in democracy?
II, Trace the growth of popular
education in the United States.
1S, Name the several supervising
officers of a public school system.
10. Tell the duties of the United
States commissioner of education.
To the innocent bystander 1t would
seem that about the only question
omitted by this efficient and studlous
nuiz-master was "How old is Anne!
One loyal subject of King George
at least has decided there is no use
irving to learn the Kings English as
it is spoken in the United states.
on a Journey across the continent
he was endeavoring particularly TO
make himself understood in the dining
oars