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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-17

Arcade n. Eimoneau. 1924 Florida
avenue. has filed In the District SUI
preme Court a plea for justification
70 the suit for SIS, 600 damages brought
against him by Archibald r. Campbell
for alleged false arrest. Through At
torney L. H. Mercier. the defendant
says that March 3. 1923, he swore out
o warrant In good faith against Camp
bell charging him with making threats,
and a. hearing the next day before
m assistant United States attorney he
agreed TO drop the case after Campbell
had promised not to carry out the al
legged threats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-17
ELECTIVE SCHOOL
BOARD ADVOCATED
Appointment Of Members
Termed Secretive Before
Citizens Group.

The present method of appointment
of members of the Board of Education
was termed "secretive" by Levy Dabid,
attorney. who last night urged the Sc
lectien of members of that body by
direct legislation of the people in an
address before the Connecticut avenue
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Most Powerful Values in Our Career
Crowd Every Bond Store!

No smaller firm could have done it. We bought thous.
ands of yards of choice sungs and overcoatings cut
them into the popular and advanced STYLES OF the
moment in Two Pants Suits and Overcoats. Therefore
you will see and buy nesp goods-not the models of
three months ago, but the styles of todayand tomor
row. Clothes you can't help but buy, if you see them
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\ TARKET conditions alone made this event posi-
WI bilty Business in the textile lines has not been
good, and the best mills never let backward season
stop them They dispose Of their stocks regardless
take their loss and start their looms on goods We
bring this situation straight home every with
in shopping distance of any Bond Store
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-17

Stimson, newly appointed Governor
General OF the Philippines.
Manuel Roxas. speaker Of the Philip
pine House, declared that he un-
derstood from Washington reports that
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has said: The story of the leaders of
the race is the story Of those who cul-
tivated the creative spirit III spite OF
the Schools members of the assocla'
t2on recall.
Prof. Mearns will take as his sub
ject, Setting Free the Creative Spirit"
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stirnaon was 10 have civilian advisers.
His objections 10 the appointment Of
Col Winship we're backed by those Of
Senator Qiirino and Representatives
RnctO and IacsOn,
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WILL AIDS EMPLOYEES.
Copenhaver Bequeaths $4,000
Each to Three Workers.

Mrs. Carrie w Cassidy. Miss Anna r.
Hunter and Eugene Saranof, employees
Of the Copenhaver engraving business
at 1921 Connecticut avenue, are each
given $4,000 by the Will of John c.
Copenhaver, one Of the proprietors. who
died January on his way to the
charity ball at the willard Hotel
An income of $500 per month for life
is provided for Beulah r. Davis. de-
scribed as a friend of the testator His
interest in the engraving business is left
TO his brother and partner. Harry ..
CopenhaTer
Frank Stetson and the brother are
named as executors.
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STIMSON AIDE OPPOSED
BY FILIPINO LEADERS
Appointment by President of Col.
Winship, Military Officer, as
Legal Adviser Criticized.

By the Associated Press
MANILA, January ~ Filipino W,iiLs
ical leaders have erffassed dist,iHasy
ure over the naming al On risp'An
Winship. military aide III tlssidhtit
Coolidge. as legal adviser u, Henry l.
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find provender for my army, The coun-
tryside Is bare OF hay and grain, and
my men are suffering from want, Open,
then. the doors OF your storehouses."
"
IGENGHIS KHAN stayed only two
hours in Bokhara, Fastening ON to
seek the Shah In samarkand. the
strongest OF Islam's cities, The Shah
had fled but he left 40 armored ele-
plants and one hundred and ten thou
sand warriors, Turks and rerSianS, to
guard the city The Mongols were less
numerous than the garrison. and
denghls Khan made preparations for
Q long siege assembling the people Of
the countryside and the captivea from
nokhara 10 aid In the work.
The swift and methbdioal prepara~
tlons OF the Mongols alarmed the Mu-
hammadans, who beheid In the dis
tance the vast multitude OF captlves,
and thought the horde much greater
than IL was, The garrison sailed out
once-~WaS drawn on into one OF the
Usual Mongol aEnbuShea~- and Jared
badly, The losses In this battle disheart-
ened the defenders aud the imanis and
ludges went out, on the morning the
MongolA were preparing 20 storm one
portion OF the wall and surrendered
the city,
Thirty thousand Kankah Turks ON
their nwa account went over to the
Mongpla we're received amiahly, given
MQngnl military dress and masaaered
q night or two later The Mnneols
would never trust the Turks OF
khAfNaln, especially those who turned
traitor
AT SAmarkand, after he learned that
MnhamMad Shah had foraaken the city
and gone SOUTH denghis Khan deter
mined 10 make the Shah captive he-
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at the intersection Of Park street and
the old Piney Branch road (now Mount
Pleasan street) and that adjoining his
property on the west, on what was then
called Pierce Mill road, was the resi-
dence Of Herman ID. Walbridge.
William Mattingly. the father Of the
late William r. Mattingly. lived on a
large tract on what was then called old
Fourteenth street road. now Fourteenth
and Newton streets. One of his daugh-
ters married the late DIR. W. r. Sewers.
who started the practice OF medicine
here"
Speaking of Mr.. sturtevant, Mr..
Lipsconb continues
''On the north side OF Howard avenue
tnow Newton street, between Four
teenth and Sixteenth streets, was the
residence Of Albert l.. Sturtevant, chief
Of the stationery division of the Treas
ury Department and who was also the
first secretary of the National Savings
Bank. now the National Savings and
Trust Co. Fifteenth and Pennsylvania
avenue. He was also my Sunday school
teacher and superintendent of the
Sunday school. which Wac In a large
frame structure on The south side of
Howard avenue opposite the residence
Of Mr.. Sturteyant. This place was
called Union Hall. IL was used as q
church on Sunday, and during the
week dances and amateur theatricals
were held. 1t was also the home of
the Mount Pleasant Temperance So
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Of the desert-~so eager to make ha3t3
that he did not linger To molest the lit
Tie towns In his path, and asked only
water for his horses, lie expected to
surprise Muhammad ut Bokhara; but
when he arrived he learned that the
ahah had fled He was confronted by
one OF the strongholds OF Islam, the
city Of academies. by wall 10 leagues
In circuit. through which ran fair
river, lined With gardens and pleasure
houses,
denghis Khan had said 1.-THE
strength of wall Ii neither greater
nor less than the courage Of the men
who defend It." In this case, the Turk
ish officers chose To leave the towns
people To their fate and escape 10 join
the Shah. so they went out, with the
soidiery OF ths Shah at night. by the
water gate and headed toward the
ANU
flood of horsemen soon tilled the
wide streets Of the city, breaking into
the granariea and Ht0rehousea, stab
ling their horses In the libraries, To
the frantic sorrow nf the Muhammadans
who beheld more than once the sacred
leaves Of the Koran tredden under the
h0ofa Of tho ponies, The Khan himself
drew rein before All imposing building,
the great mosque OF the city, and asked
II IL were the house of the emperor He
was told that II was the house of Allah
At once he rode his horse up tha steps
and into the mosque diamounting. and
ascending ia the readers daak, with It's
giant Koran Here, IN hia black lacquer
armnr and laathereaartalned helmet,
no addressed the assembled mulIaha
and aeholara, who had expected To he-
hold fire descend from Heaven tn blast
this ungainly figure In strange armor
u have come to this place." he said
10 them. only to tell you that You must
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frozen II caught In the pass during a
Duran. black windatorfn. by now
most Of the cattle had died Off and had
been eaten The last stores OF hay had
vanished: the carts had been left be-
hind. and only the hardest Of the
eanieis had survived
Forging ahead In the utter cold. 200.~
900 men endured hardsfipa that would
have put modern division into hos
pltal. The MongoIs did not seem ia
mind u particularly Wrapped up In
their Eheepskins and leather. they
could sleep under drifting snow, at
need, the round, heavy yurta warmed
them, When food failed they opened
\ vein In q horse, drank u small guam
tity Of blood, and closed the vein
On they went aeattered over hun
dred miles OF mountain country, the
sledgaH rolling In their wake, the bones
OF dead animals marking their trail,
Before the snow melted they were out
ON the western stappes, by the time
the first grass showed, they were
threading Into tha last barrier OF the
Black Range, 0n lean horses, they
finished the firat i.20o miles of their
march.
Now the various dlvisiona olossd up,
liaiAon officers began 10 gailop back and
f0fth betWeen Tho catntnanda nonde~
script looking merchanta rode OF I'm
groups OF two or three 10 hunt infofma-
ton. A screen af scouts was thrown
ahead 0f each column,
Through the forests, they could see
below them the first frontier of Islam
the wide river Byr, now swollen by
Spring ffeshets,
Mnhammad, tho warrior, called by
his people second Alexander, had been
twice defeatad by the advance forces oi
fhe Manaoi horde heture aenghis Khan
appeared. Then the KhAn hAstenea ON,
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must be governed even from the other
slde OF the mountain ranges.
With this problem he dealt I'm his
own way. MuhnIi was keeping Catl1av
occupied with fire and swGrd and the
princes OF Lioa were busy enough RE-
storing order behind him, denahlA
Khan cofnbed over the rest of the eifl-
pHe Tor aolables In the conquered
countries, men of family and ambition
VINO might cause trouble In his ABB
seilce. To each OF these n Mono0i c0Ii~
rier was sent with silver tablet and q
summons 10 the horde. On the pre-
tense Of needing their services the
Khan took them With him out Of the
empire.
There remained tile greater problem
to transport the horde OF n quarter
million warriors from Lake Eaikll over
tne ranges OF midsAEia Into Persia. Il
distance Of some 1000 miles M the
crow nies and \ country wherein tray~
eleFE today only venture with q we'll
equipped carayarls~~a march impossible
for n modern army of that size,
lie had no doubt OF the ability 0f the
horde W make the march In II he had
fashioned d fiGhting fofes that WAS able
10 no anywhere on land, Halt nj Ii
never saw the l0bi again, but some 0f
his Mangols marched over 90 degrees Of
longitude and back again.
In the Spring of 1910 he gave orders
tor the horde 10 rendezvous In the pas
Liirs lands of river In the southwest.
Here assembled The humans under the
different inarsbais, each man bringing
With him string OF four or fiye horses,
Great harde of cattle we're driven Id the
pastures and fattened comfortably dlira
ing The Summer. The youngest son nj
The Khan arrived IN assume command,
and IN the FIRST crisp days ~ Autumn
tls Klinn ltlinsejf t9de gvsr from Kara
koruna
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Charlie Sturtevant (perhaps Charles
L. 5turtevant) was the son of Albert
L. Sturteyant, who helped to make
Mount Pleasant grow. The sturtevant
residence was on Howard avenue. and
they retained 1t as their home for
many years.
The program also gives the name OF
w. q, Lipscomb, jr, as reading the
Declaration Of Independence. It was
he who built the second house in the
village In 1865, and to his son and
my friend. Lysle s. Lipscomb, the writ
er Is gratefully indebted for helpful
information regarding the people of his
Old stamping ground.
Mr. Lipscomb, who at the time of
moving TO Mount Pleasant, was a clerk
In the Sixth Auditors once of the
Treasury Department, and who later
taught school In the county. had, to
my knowledge, two other sons. namely
j. Mel. and Andrew A., and daughter,
Maud
Andrew A. Lipscomb will be- remem-
bered as having been one Of Wash
ington's most celebrated lawyers. In
his prime he handled some OF the most
noted criminal cases. and when not
thus engaged, was conspicuous I'm local
and national political circles. Miss
Maud Lipscomb married MIR. Gren-
valid and I believe resides here. The
LiDscombs lived on the north side of
Park street, near Fourteenth street.
l.. q, Lipscoinb tells me that IS. r.
Brown, founder of Mount Pleasant lived
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Nomad oDeAryW Trained
II Men tH oron The Baas-Co Islam
Savage Nomads Numbering

In the holy war against the mailed host
Of Christian crusaders that came 10
Wre9t Jerusalem from thsn.
Now In the beginning Of the thirteenth
century Islam was 1T the height OF its
martial power. The weakening cyusad~
srs had been driven 10 the coast of the
Holy Land, and the first wave o. the
Turks Was taking Asia Minor away from
the soIdiery Of the degenerate Greek
empire.
II In the center Of Islam Muhammad
Shah of Kflaresn had enthroned him
self az war lord, His domain extended
from India to Bagdad and from the Ees
III AraI To the Persian Gulf. Except
for The fseIiuk Turks. yictoTs over the
crusaders, and the rising Mamluk dy~
nasty In Egypt, his authority was ssi-
preTne.
the core Of his host Of 100000 war
rlofg WaA made up Of this Khafekln
Turks, but he had besides The ARMIES VI
the Fersians At his summons War ele-
| E3iaauts, vast camel trains and multi
tudG Of armed slaves followed him.
| But the main defense of his empire
Was the chain of great cities along The
/ fiyersw fsDk1aFa, tE1s center uf IslAms II
academies and mosques. 6amarkarad 0f
/ The lofty walls and pleasure gardens,
BaIkh and Herat. the heart 81 kho~
tssssll.
u n
This world of Islam with It's anabI-
= ti9us AfsH. itg nuititlldsg 1f war
riofs afld lt@ mighty cities was almost
unknown ~ Ienghlk Khan
Two problems had to be solved before
he could Lead his army forth, When
1s had moved 10 the conquest NJ China
he had taken most 0f his desert con
| federaey with him Now he must leave
a gast empire beEsad HIN fgf several
years efnpiFg AsVly knaG. Wilieil
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Slowly the horde moved through the
smaller ranges, driving this cattle herds.
II was about 100000 strong great a
number To keep together. ~ they must
live on this herds and the country.
Juchi the eldest aon. was detached with
q couple Of humans 10 Join the fiery
Gen. Chepe Noyon on the other side of
The T'ian Shan, The rest spread out.
keeping 10 the valleys.
The march began when the dawn
drum~roll sounded, the herds being
started Off first. and the warriors fol-
lowing with the carts. AT evening, the
herds would be oyortaken. the standard
0f the offieer commanding pitched, and
the camp would rise around IT, the
warriors taking their yurts from The
carnela or carts.
Rivers had TO be- crossed. The hnraes.
rnped together, by the saddle horns
90 OF more In line, breasted The cur
rent Sometimes The riders had 10
hWirn, holding 10 the tails, A branch
would be thrust into the leather kit. and
the iacing frightened, no II would float.
lied 10 the warriors glfdie. Before long
they could cross rivers on the Ice.
SNOW covered everything, even the
sand dunes nf The wastes, Withered
gray tamarisk danced under tbs wind
gllslg, like the ghosts of old men The
trails we're marked by antelOpes' or wild
ahaepa' horns projecting through the
drifts.
n II
THE main body of the horde moved
= slowly westward, dropping through
gorgeh, and over fra1en lakes 10 The iey
floor gf the Bungarian gate. the pahs
from which all the nDmad clans have
come out 0t high AklH. Here they we're
bufteled by winds and chilled by cold
10 great That whole herds might be
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fore new armies could be raised against
him. Now he sent for his chiefs, Chepe
Noyon and Subotai, and gave them
orders.
'Follow Muhammad Shah wherever
he goes in the world. Find him, alive
or dead" -et
A strange task. to hunt down an en-
peror through a dozen kingdoms, II
was task. indeed, for the most reck-
less and most infallible OF the Orkhons.
They were given two humans, twenty
thousand men. With these instructions
and with this cavalry division, the two
OrkhonS set out at once toward the
south, It was then April. i220, the Year
of the Serpent.
Muhammad had gone South from
Samarkand TO Balkh. ON the edge Of the
lofty ranges Of AfghaniStan. HeSitating
between varied counsel and his own
dread, he turned due west, crossing the
barrens to the mountain region OF north
ern Persia, and arrived at NiSapur, put
Mig, as he thought, 500 miles between
him and the Mongol horde
Leaving the eaSkets containing his
Jewels at q fortreSs~~where the Mongols
found them later--he decided 20 tourney
the very Kalit with whom he had QUAR-
relied In other days. 1
But At Hamadan the MongolS appeared
At his heels, Ills men We're scattered
and ridden down. and q few arrows shot
at him-~the Mongols unaware Of hts
Identify, He escaped and doubled back
toward the Caspian, Some of his Turk
ish warriors grew disconteneed and re-
hellious, and Muhammad saw nc ID sleep
IN q small cent pitched beside his own
And one morning he found the empty
tent nlled with arrows.
us there no place on earth" he asked
an officer. where can be safe from the
Mongol thunderbolte"
He was advised 10 take ship ON the
Caspian and SO to an island where
he could be hidden until his sons ana
atahega could collect an army strong
enough to defend hun. ~
This MuhamnAn did, DlsgMlSing hllh-
self, with y few nondeseFipt followers,
he pessed throuRh the gorges, seekins 4
Continued on seventh pags.)
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4 Si46A Was n martial world. apgfecia~ s.
AFe ~ song, With GD ear not uY.a
l musical A world Deset sgy inward
u tltF0ess slsye~Fi0aen. Wealth gatllefs
}tag. In left the management of itg
SfaiEE W eztoFLieneFs and its Wgraen bJ
ne custody NJ estnaghs, and liz con-
@eience W tlae keepiilg Of Allah
IL followed various deguiak. and IL In
lefpfet&d Nae Koran hi different Ways
II gave aIras ~ 6eggATs, washed sera~
pgal0Ugiy, gathered hi eUnIit egigrtyaFdf
~ gossip, and lived largely BY favor oi
alAs great Al least 04eE during Hi
4lsetsH2e Il naade tIle journey 10 the black
Haeteorgiit3 under velvet curtain With.
Ia Mecca, tlae stone tiiat was IilG III alta
Upon this pilgrimage tIae men Of Islam
T8bLeG shoulders feiaeWeG their zeal, and
tame hons rati4ef aWed by the iulnaefs.
ity N ttleiF lands agad thG uluItitldee of
the believers,
Centuries ego H9flF prophet had light,
90 FIRE That iaad been carried far b5
the Arabs. Since tlaen all the YaFi0Hs
Degptes u Islam nad been united IN il
common caAiaA conquest The fifel
waves ~ gsrriors ha0 eEfead 10 Ora.
nada, la SpaiD. and all northern Africa
Ef"ljy and Egypt. In time the military
rf#ef Gf I&iam iad passed from tbt
.slapS ~ thE 1uIkS. bgt Dota joined
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BY JOHN CLAGETT PROCTOR.

|O look back to your CHILDHOOD
days and see farm land wherI
now even flower gardens are
4 scarce, and where business prop
erty has taken the place o.
beautiful cottages and spacious lawns
is TO nearly every one q most interest
ing and yet sometimes a painful thing
to do.
/ never lived in Mount Pleasant, but
my youthful mind often prompted my
agile feet 20 wander to this beautiful
settlement many times, when there was
not a single private residence, that re-
Ill, facing old Fourteenth street road
from Florida avenue to the gateway OF
the village at Park road now one OF
the busiest centerS of the new north
west.
Columbian College, of course. was then
on the west side Of the road, situated
a distance back and out of the way
of the dust churned up into clouds by
the fast stepping horses many years be-
fore the appearance of the gasoline
buggy. Up until 1890, and even later,
this thorouglfare was extremely dusty
in dry weather and veritable mudhole
after every heavy or continuous rain.
and at times the mire was SO deep, be-
fore the road WAS improved with asphalt,
that little children living to the west
Of ST. Stephens Church found 1t inn
possible on Sabbath morning to cross
over, and were consequently forced tc
return home,
Before Columbia Heights made its ap-
r>arance cn the map ana p.at book
this area was the farm Of the late w, j.
Stone. and Skirted the east side Of Four
teenth street from Florida avenue out
as fer SIS Park read, or at least nearly
50. 1t was later purchased By Gen.
john A, Logan, while he was serving in
Congress as Senagcr from Illinois. end
named by him Calumet Place. 1t was
here that he died December 10, 1885.
In view OF the forthcoming political
conventions, it might be interesting to
know that Blaine and Logan were both
residents of Washington when nomi-
mated. respectively, for President and
Vice President, in Chicago, on June 6.
1884.
The Stone mansion stood at the
northeast corner Of Thirteenth and Cliff
ton streets. and during the Civil War
was used as hospital from April. 1852,
to July /, 1865 The site is now occu-
pied by an apartment house. A view
CT Florida avenue to the south of the
Stone property. made III 1850, shows
this avenue then to have been typical
G084lt&y lUdA VA 1k1aS pEAASAls dAtd OGk111ta
the kind Of roads the pioneers of Mount
Pleasant had to cross over In order to
reach their homes or places of employ
ment.
North Of the Columbian College
buildings, about where is now Harvard
street, stood. during the Civil War, the
Carver Hospital. consisting of several
frame structures One of the hospital
buildings was still standing here until
about 1900. 1t was occupied as a resi-
dence by a family named Bright, Har-
ward street then being Bacon street
named for joel Smith Bacon, third
president OF Columbian College, now
George Washington University.
" X n
THE college buildings were finished
around 1922. and for many years
they were the oldest standing in that
vicinity. The college grounds consisted
Of nearly ~ acres of land and extended
from Florida avenue on the south to
shout Columbia road on the north and
from Fourteenth TO Fifteenth street.