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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13
DINNER TO Be HELD
AT JEWISH CENTER
First Anniversary viii Be Gel
ebrated in 18th Street
Building Tonight.

The Jewish Community Center to-
night will celebrate the first anniver-
Sary of the Sixteenth street institu-
ton with a banquet at $50 o'clock.
The principal speakers will be Max ID.
Steuer of New York. Frank j. Hogan
and Morris CafritZ. vice president of
the center, who will preside. Prom
inent Jews of the city will attend.
Following the banquet a tableau
will be presented by various groups
connected with the center. Boy Scouts.
children's departments and the music
department. The tableau will show
the achievements of the center during
the past year.
Membership Drive to Start.
A membership enrolment campaign
will begin tomorrow under the leader
ship of Mr.. Cafritz. The re-enrollment
of $500 members and enrolment of
200 new ones will be sought.
Leaders in the drive are: Edward
Rosenblum, Milton Norman, Mrs.
Charles RoSenthal, ii. M. Goldstein,
Harry I. Carroll, jeanette Rod
Charles Lebowitz, Mrs. NJ. Bisgyer
Stanley Bialos, Mrs. r. Lichtenberg.
Goldie Paregol. jeremiah WeitZ, Zal
man IIenkin, TIilda King, Eva Loeh,
Mrs. A. Lehman. Mrs. Gilbert Hahn,
n. Lesnie. Milton Kronheim. Max
Raine, Mrs. A. koplin. Mrs. L. lis
man, NJ. Garfnkle. Morris Gewirz,
Irwin Gensberg, Isidore Shere and S.
Tenstein.
Prophesies made a year ago at
the dedication of the new building
have been more than fulfilled, accord
Ing to the annual report made pub
lie today.
Educational Work Successful.
THE center is responsible for
geneous Jewish communal life than
report says. 1t points out that here
Jews have national problems to meet
which the center has been a means
of solving.
Unusual success has marked the
educational work of the center. ac-
cording to the report. The average
weekly attendance of the building is
$500. of whom more than 700 are
children attending classes in Hebrew
dancing, physical culture, elocution,
dramaticS and story telling. Fifty
organizations use the building for
meetings. The educational depart
ment includes George Washington
&. University extension courses and
round table groups.
In physical training and music, the
report says. the center has made
rapid strides. Many activities have
been built up and meetings of Boy
Scouts, junior clubs and other or
CARNATIONS are being held regularly.
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bious novelty to it's present Status as
a business and household necessity.
A delineation of the Washington
Rapid Transit Co.'S service will be
given. A bird's-eye view of the lines
in operation will be supplied by large
route maps.
Elimination of an admission fee for
this years exhibition Is receiving wide
spread approval, officials of the dis.
play stated. Admission will be by card,
distributed by exhibitors free OF
charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-17
Communicated Motorists.

The unusual and tragic case which
occurred in New York recently when
a Communicated motorist was shot
and killed has aroused widespread dis
cussion. A traffic policeman observed
a stolen car being driven past his
corner. Hailing the following auto
mobile he ordered the driver TO step
on it, to catch the thief. A few
blocks of the chase had gone by with
out an apparent gain on tho pursued
car when the policeman drew his re-
volver and began ayiag. His bullets
were promptly answered and the citi-
zen who had lent himself to the law
slumped down In his seat, shot
through the body. He died before he
could be rushed to a hospital. The
thief and his woman companion were
caught later by other policemen who
had joined in the chase.
The fact that the motorist who gave
his life was the sole support of his
wife and family has nothing to do
with the case outside of stressing the
responsibility of the city of New York
to provide for them the same pension
that It would for a policemans family.
but the right OF a policeman arbi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-17

For generations we spent most OF
our time thinking about what should
or should not be included in the
course Of study in our schools.
We were the docile slaves OF sub
ject matter.
The question that everywhere
buzzed through the corridors OF edu-
cational conventions was-what shaV
we teach?
And then one day we began to
think that maybe the most important
thing was not what we were teach
ing, but how we were teaching 1t,
and as a result Of this new question
the concern of educators began to
shift a bit from the content OF the
curriculum to methods of teaching.
This new interest in the methods
Of teaching ushered in an era of ex-
pertinent in education. We found
new and better ways OF teaching
reading, spelling, arithmetic, and so
on. The presses were kept busy turn
ing out a lush crop Of text books OF
the new methodology.
The methodiZers were riding high
and the world was theirs.
The methodizers played gadfiy to
the old-timers who seemed content to
be merely retail merchants of canned
information. But lately-as happens
too seldom--a still newer group OF
educators arose to play gadf1y to
the methodizers.
The significance Of this newer
group lies not so much in their IL
Illuminating criticisms Of the old-time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-17
NEW CADFLIES FOR SCHOOLS
BY GLENN FRANK.


, education as in their deliberate at
| tempts to reform the reformers.
We are beginning to see that lot
| of the educational reform OF the last
| 25 years. while it has greatly i'm
proved the merchandising methods OF
the old education, has left education
still a task of conveying organized
| information to students in neat pack
ages.
The latest educational reformers
| boldly shift the emphasis from sub
| ject matter to student.
| They see education as a process by
which the student discovers and de-
velops himself.
They recognize the differences that
exist between students, but they do
| not fall into the sterile and sinister
business Of herding students into bar
ricaded pens Of inferior and superior
| In a way that makes the one crest
/ fallen and the other cocksure.
They see the fallacy of recogniz-
| ing differences by sorting out the
students and then, after sorting them
out, ignoring differences by subject
| ing good and bad, quick and slow.
alike to standardized and crystalliZed
lessons.
They do one thing that lies at the
heart of real education-they make
the teaching process take its cue
from the learning process.
The old teaching often made docile
slaves and disconnected rebels; the
newest teaching makes creative citi-
Zens.
DOWNRIGHT 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-17
From Riches to Poverty.

Twenty-Five years ago Philip d.
Armour died, leaving a fortune esti-
mated at one hundred million dollars.
He was for the time one of the rich
est men in the country. Yesterday
his son, who succeeded to the estate
of the packer magnate, died In Lon
don, worth, it is estimated. only
$4,000, The virtual disappearance Of
this great fortune is one of the TRACE
dies of American finance, and
tragedy, too, that involves no reflection
upon the integrity or the character
or behavior Of the man who has just
passed, broken-hearted over his fail
ure and undoubtedly fastened to his
death by the modification caused by it.
The Armour failure was one Of the
great casualties of the postwar period.
1t was due primarily to the high in
fiation of prices in 1920 followed by
the sudden and severe defiation Of
1921. During the former year hogs
and cattle were at their highest price,
fourteen cents a pound, whereas, in
the slump Of 1921 they reached their
lowest price, seven cents. Previously
there had been trouble in the Argen-
tine owing to seizures Of food supplies
by one of the allied powers, settlements
for which were slow and, in fact, have
not yet been completed.
Following the slump of 1921 came
the necessity for reorganization. The
Armour Co. was virtually bankrupt.
Banking interests took it over and eff
fected a REIMBURSEMENT in the course OF
which J. Ogden Armour sold all but
a small amount of his personal prop
erty to aid in the rehabilitation. He
sacrificed at heavy losses great vol
umes of securities. His common stock
in the packing company was sold to
the public. Later came scandal In
the grain department of the corpora
ton, which was compelled to restore
SO, 900 900 obtained in the fraudulent
grading of wheat. This was not in
any sense attributable to the manage
ment of j. ogden Armour, who was
deeply Inundated by the affair and
sold out that department.
Through making an honorable ef-
fort to redeem the losses in which his
company had been involved this man
rendered himself comparatively pen.
niless. He made no complaint. He
hid his chagrin and tried to carry on,
but the blow had been too severe and
he succumbed eventually to the wreck
age of his fortunes.
There have been many instances Of
the dissipation Of great estates through
fast living, extravaganza. improperly
and debauchery, and the public always
feels that Nemesis has been just. In
the case of J. ogden Armour, how
ever, no blame attaches to him per-
sonally for the loss of his fortune. He
was the victim Of circumstances, per-
haps In part In consequence Of an un-
due extension of business and credit.
That he died actually a poor man is
no reflection upon him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-17
Congress and the Cruisers.

President Coolidge, it is reported
from the Black Hills, is Gliding Con-
gress for delay in the naval building
program. 1t is doubtful, however, that
Mr.. Coolidge can convince the Ameri.
can people, certainly that part of the
people which is interested in the Navy,
that the blame must fall on Congress
rather than upon himself.
Mr.. Coolidge is represented In the
press reports as asserting that fail
ure of Congress to adopt a suggestion
made by him that ten 10,000-ton
cruisers be authorized" at the last
session has been responsible for de-
lay. His argument appears to be that
had such authorization been made, he
could include estimates of appropria-
ton for these ships in his budget
which he will send to Congress in De-
cember. 1t is implied that he cannot
now include such estimates in the
budget. AS a matter of fact, there
Is nothing in the law which would
have forced the President TO submit
such estimates in the budget. There
Is nothing in the law, moreover. which
will prevent him from submitting esti'
mates in The budget for ten cruisers
whether Congress had previously au
thorized them or not.
A review Of the cruiser incident OF
the last Congress, in which that body
OVERRIDE the protests of the President
shows that Congress made an appro
priation for the actual construction
of three cruisers, previously au
thorized. The President, it will bC
noted, had omitted from the bulge,
any estimate of appropriation for these
cruisers, and had done so deliberately
Yet had no appropriation been made
for the cruisers In the last session, the
authorization for their construction
would have expired by terms of the
law authorizing them. The President
suggested first that the authorization
for these cruisers be extended by Con
efess. When this did not appeal Il
Congress, he suggested that a bill b.
put through authorizing the construc
-,tion OF ten cruisers. The Congress
however, declined to swallow the [ait
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-17

Ten cruisers authorized" with nc
money for their construction, would
be no better than three or hundred
when ships were needed. In the end
therefore. a slender appropriation for
| beginning work on the three cruisers
already authorized was made by Con
gress, over the opposition of the Presi'
dent.
! Mr.. Coolidge, in opposing the appro'
| priation for the three cruisers. had in
mind the naval limitation conference
| in Geneva, and believed that appro-
priations would be unwise until that
conference had been held. 1t is doubt,
full. however, that the meager apnro-
priatlon made by Congress for the
three cruisers had the slightest effect
upon the foreign powers taking part
in the conference. Indeed, as things
turned out, an appropriation by Con-
gress for the construction of ten or
1 dozen new cruisers might have been
much mo- = effective in bringing the
British to terms.
The contest in Congress over the
cruiser program at the last session
served the useful purpose of focusing
the attention of the American people
upon the lack of cruiser strength of
the United States for national defense.
1t became increasingly apparent dur
ing the debate that the Senate would
not ratify any treaty for further naval
limitation which did not accord the
United States real equality with the
British. This aroused sentiment for
the Navy made it all the more easy
for the administration, at the recent
Geneva conference, to stand firmly for
the American viewpoint Of naval
equality.
If Mr.. Coolidge really believes that
ten additional 10,000-ton cruisers
should be constructed for the Ameri-
can Navy, he has only to send the
estimates to Congress in his budget
message. He will have done his part.
Then the responsibility will have been
transferred to Congress. lie has all
the power to submit such estimates
that he would have had if his sugges-
ton for the authorization had been
made. The mere inclusion of the esti-
mates in the budget would give
privileged status to these items and
they could be included in the next
naval appropriation bill, provided Con-
gress would go that far.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-17
Triumphs of Science
Increase Lies Span

From the Los Angeles Times.
Now the claim is made that our
scientists are about to fight the germ
that causes consumption with a rem
edy furnished by the bacillus itself.
In other words, from the poison it
puts into the blood, which the
scientists at Berkeley say they have
just discovered and isolated, they hope
to make a serum that will repeat the
triumphs won in other fields. This
gives point to the recent assurance
that the span of life is growing far
beyond the threescore and ten for
merly allotted us. Indeed, we are
told that the meager few who reach
The century mark are but the advance
guard of the multitude to reach and
pass far beyond that record in the
near future. To the triumphs al
ready won, in case the first redoubt
has been carried by some invading
disease, must be added the greater
triumphS of preventive medicine. The
report of the Rockefeller Foundation
acquaints us with wonderful work
they have accomplished in that di-
rection, not only in this country, but
all over the world. The dry pages of
the usual report turn out to be an in
spring booklet of great deeds accom-
pllSneu. here as ELSEWHERE an ounce
of prevention is better than a pound
of cure. All workers engaged in maxi
ing broad the pathway of health and
longevity-and they are to be found
everywhere now-insist that optim.
ism. cheerfulness, throwing off worry
and fear as you would discarded gar
ment, and the cultivation of. the right
mental attitude toward disease is of
the utmost Importance. Where disease
claims one victim, worry and fear
claim a score.
We are living in a wonderful age
in fact, we are just beginning to live
as the Creator intended us to- 1t has
required untold centuries for man to
gain his present vantage ground. He
Is just beginning to assume his right
full authority over the many ills to
which flesh is heir. We will learn to
grow old gracefully when double our
present tale of years has run it's
| course. And we will need these added
years to gain even q passable knowl-
edge of the wonders and beauties and
mysteries; the, at present, little known
forces of the universe in which we
| have been placed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-17

trarily to command a citizen to en-
gage in dangerous work is being ques-
toned. or course, every citizen
wishes to uphold the law and to aid
it in every possible way, but when it
comes to a defenseless motorist being
called upon to risk his life and prop
erty without assurance of compensa-
ton for either to catch an automobile
thief the case assumes an entirely diff
fercnt aspect.
1t is probably the natural impulse
of every motorist to comply when a
policeman jumps on the running
board and orders a chase. Danger Is
not considered, excitement is fore
most in the mind. But suppose the
Communicated driver has Just learned
how to operate an automobile. The
havoc he could cause under forced
speed would be far more than could
possibly have been accomplished by
the pursued speeder. thief or over
time parker And If the pursued was
Of more dangerous type no citizen
should 'be asked to engage in the
fight unless he voluntarily indicated
his desire to do so.
The whole matter, of course, re-
verts to the need of every police de-
partment for an adequate equipment
in automobiles and motor cycles.
Then there would be no occasion to
call upon unframed citizens to engage
in police work. Until communities
awaken to this fact there will prob
ably he other deaths and injuries to
It's citizens. 1t may be pointed out,
however, that no man can be criti-
cized if he refuses to be Communicated
for dangerous missions. He is his
own master and there is nothing in
the law which provides a penalty for
refusal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-17
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

@. How much money is invested in
the railroads of the United States?-
X. +.
A. The total property investment
accounts of the Glass / railways in
the United States. including their in
vestment In road and equipment,
cash and material and supplies.
amounted to s23.759, 100000 at the
end of 1926.
Q. What is the name Of the syn
thetic glass that is being made
abroad?-M. G.
A. Pollopas, invented in Vienna by
DR.. Fritz Pollak and DIR. Kurt Ripper.
is synthetic organic compound
formed from urea and fOrmaldehyde.
1t is said to be indistinguishable from
glass in appearance.
@. What automobiles are made in
Cleveland, Ohio?-C. n.
A. Chandler, Jordan. Peerless,
Stearns- Knight and White.
@. What is meant by the expression
"a kiss three feet long"?-T. r.
A. This expression probably refers
to the number of feet of film used
while the kiss is being portrayed in a
motion picture.
@. How long has gold fringe been
official" on regimental colors?-
f. p. G.
A. In 1895 fringe was officially
added to the Stars and Stripes for all
regiments.
@. When Is Church Rally Sunday
II. Z. T.
A. The first Sunday in October has
been selected upon which to empha
size family church attendance.
0. How did our Army compare with
foreign armies at the close of the Civil
War;. G.. Z.
A. At the close of the Civil War
the armies OF the principal European
countries were as follows: France,
1871 ,79S; Italy, 1876, 100; Prussia, 6O9,699;
Russia, 1,135,975; Great Britain.
1917. On January 9, 1866, the
Regular and Volunteer Army Of the
United States comprised 1881
officers and men.
O. What Is a moron?-J. NJ.
A. The term moron is applied to an
individual with arrested intellectual
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, development, whose mentality corre-
spends to that OF normal child from
s to II years Of age.
Q. How much did Dempsey and
Carpenter receive in their fight
: j. j. 5.
| A. Jack Dempsey received $500, 900
and Georges Carpenter received
$4,000 for the Dempsey-Carpentier
| fight.
| @. How many cruisers has the
| United States that are as large as
Great Britain's largcst?-N. c. Z.
| A. This country has no cruisers at
! the present time which compare in
| size with the largest cruisers Of Great
| Britain. We have started Construc-
| ton. on two cruisers of 300 tons
| Great Britain already has about %
such cruisers and is building IL more.
| 0. How far is it from New York
City to Pittsburgh over the Lincoln
| Highway?-D. n.
A. 1t is 377 miles. The highway has
excellent paving all the way.
| Q. What is meant by atmospheric
| drama ge?-B. Y.
| A. The Weather Bureau says that 1t
means the down-slope flow of relative
| ~ cool air. 1t is well illustrated by
| the flow of air over glaciers, called
glacier wind; by the flow of air on
generally still clear nights down many
valleys, called mountain breeze" and
by the rush of night air down many
canyons, known as canyon wind"
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES f. TRACEWELL.

| stomach takes place. resulting in ex-
treme and protracted nausea, is rest
necessity.
| Some persons never catch cold but
what nausea accompanies it. This is
new sort of cold. evidently, having
| appeared since the epidemic of in
nuenza in 1918, when every symptom
in the medical calendar made it's APP
| pearance.
Often the nausea is the single
| largest symptom, superseding the ira
ditional signs of a cold in Importance.
, A warning may be issued to all per-
sons whom colds affect in this manner
that rest in bed is the one essential
step.
1t is a step from the vertical to the
horizontal position. if you will. 1t is
in its best sense, however, a step up
ward toward health.
X x y X
One has to be mighty i'll, indeed not
to he able to read. This is one of the
benefits of such a sickness.
Most persons have some particular
sort Of reading they would like to do,
but somehow never seem to be able
to get around to it in health.
Well, try it the next time you have
sense enough to go to bed when you
have bad cold.
Perhaps detective fiction intrigueS
one. There are any number of books
and magazines filled with such stories.
They move swiftly enough to make
one forget, for the time being, the
worst cold.
Passing away the time is. indeed,
the one big necessity of the sick per-
son. Especially do the hours between
6 am. and pm. drag. This period
seems endless to most persons laid up
for several days.
Take it out in reading.
x X X X
After an enforced absence one goes
back to work feeling much better and
with a quickencd interest in life.
This outlook may wear off quickly,
but usually some sense Of it is gotten
by the most obtuSe person.
Even after so little as two or three
days in bed the living room looks bet
ter than it did before. Those who go
away for vacation, even for two
weeks, usually comment, on their re-
turn, upon how we'll the house looks.
Il thought this stuff was about
ready to be thrown away" said one
housewife, 'but the room really looks
quite nice, doesn't it?"
Familiarity does breed contempt,
not only for persons, but for things.
Close association, day and day, gives
one a disregard for the total picture,
with too much emphasis on the worn
places.
Come back again, after an absence,
and one looks upon ones own things
something as stranger does, who
has not yet had time to note that the
davenport has been clawed by the cat
or the dining-room paper smeared up
by the children.
These are a few of the little gains
of illness. The greatest, of course, is
a return to health. The rest in bed
however, has done something else. 1t
has allowed the system to wind itself
up bit, through rest, always needed,
in the ma jority Of cases, in this truly
high-prcssure age. Too many pretty
girls have tired eyes.