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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
CONGRESSIONAL COUNTRY
CLUB LISTS NET PROFIT
John c. Rooms Re- Elected President
at Meeting of Board of
Governors.

The Congressional Country Club made
net profit Of $4,000 during 1928. a re-
port on operations Of the club submitted
to the board of governors at the annual
meeting last night at the clubhouse,
near Rockville, showed.
John G. Rooms. under whose admin.
istration the club has prospered during
the past year. last night was reelected
president at the meeting of the board of
governors following the annual meeting
of the membership.
At the membership meeting, IL men,
bers Of the board of governors were
named for three-year terms. They
were: David H. Blair, Edward F.. Col
laday, Thomas P. Littlepage, Benjamin
c. Carey, Edgar P. Copeland. John j.
Pershing, Albin B. Parker, Royal C.
Johnson, Edwin c. Graham. Leonard p.
Steuart, p. M. Anderson and Cooper G.
Lightbown.
Other officers of the club will be
elected at the meeting of the board of
governors Friday at the club house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia 49, Increasing
cloudiness and colder tonight, followed
by rain tomorrow; lowest temperature
tonight about 50 degrees: diminishing
northwest winds, becoming east or
southeast by tomorrow.
Observation-Disclosures cloudiness and
colder tonight. followed by rain tomor-
row: diminishing northwest winds, be.
coming east or southeast by tomorrow.
Notwithstanding cloudiness and
colder tonight, followed by showers to.
morrow; diminishing northwest, shift
ing to east or southeast winds.
West Virginia-Cloudy and colder to-
night followed by rain, beginning late
tonight or tomorrow.
Records for "a Hours.
Thermometers pm, IS; 3 pm, 50;
IL midnight, IS: 4 am, So; 0 am, 81;
IL am, 81.
Barometer-4 pm. 2s.7s: 9 pm,
1857: IL midnight, 29.57; 4 am, 29.67
8 am. 29.e2: IL am, 29.92.
Highest temperature, SO, occurred OIL
am. today
Lowest temperature, 81. occurred OIL
7:35 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, ST: lowest. SO.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today-Low tide. S:l6 am. and 9:1t
pm: high tide. IS am and 2:32 pm
Tcmorrow-Low tide, 9:l9 am. ant
1923 pm; high tide, 2S8 am. and
3:34 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 7:24 am. sun set:
STA pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 1928 am; sur
sets Sis pm.
Moon rises 1910 pm; sets l:14 Am
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset
Condition of the Water.
Great Falls-Very muddy.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
LABRADOR PATRON
WILL SPEAK HERE
Sir WiIfred Grenfe|I, Physi-
clan, Became BenefaCtor
of Fisher Folk.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell, we'll known
physician, who became the patron and
benefactor of the Labrador fishermen,
will reach Washington this afternoon
for a several-day visit during which he
will tell of the life and hardships Of
the North Coast f1sherfolk in radio
talk and in two addresses at local
churches.
Sir Wilfred will speak over radio
station WRC tonight and he will talk
tomorrow morning at the Church Of the
Covenant and tomorrow night at the
Central Presbyterian Church.
Having. worked first among the fisher
men of the North Sea, DR.. Grenfell went
to Labrador in 1892, where he found a
people demoralized by their fruitless
struggle against poverty and disease.
DR.. Grenfell stayed with the people
of Labrador and lived as one of them.
He indicted sanitation methods to the
barren coast, fought the epidemics with
courage and skill, established several
hospitals and dispensaries along the
coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador
and founded the Mission to Deep Sea
Fishermen He also founded chain
Of supply stores in which the f1sherfolk
themselves have interest and in which
they may buy the necessities of life at
small profit, thus freeing them from
the traders. A splendid home for sea-
men has been built at st. Johns, New
foundland, where men of the sea have
a wholesome place to stay while in that
port.
Throughout his efforts for the better
ment of the conditions in which the
fishermen Of Labrador live, DR.. Gren-
fell. who recently was knighted by King
George, has been aided by his wife, the
former Miss Anna Mechanism of Chi
cago. Lady Grenfell has been an en-
thusiastic worker and adviser at the
Grenfell Mission and she is accompany
ing Sir Wilfred to Washington.
The doctors visit here is sponsored
by DR.. James H. Taylor and Charles
Henry Butler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
SHIP F|L|BUSTER
PLAN IS CHARGED
Senate Group Seeks to
Wreck Bill, 0ddie Declares
in Address.

A group of Senators Is planning q
flibuster TO wreck the pending cruiser
bill in the Senate, Senator Oddie, Re-
publican, of Nevada. charged last night
In an address before the American So
ciety Of Naval Engineers. held ct the
willard Hotel doctrine Of destruc-
tive pacifsm, being preached by num-
Der of organizations, the Senator blam-
ed for the impending filibuster and ex-
pressed the hope that correct informa-
ton" would be conveyed to these SEN
ators to avert filibuster.
Secretary Wilbur, another speaker,
insisted that the Nation needs an ade-
1uate Navy, pointing ont that real pre-
paredness means 1.-The development and
appropriation Of scientific problems"
Navy Called Laboratory.
"'The Navy is great laboratory
where scientific discoveries are first
tested out and then put into operation.
but it is only by conscientious and long
continued development that Nation
will find itself fit in another war;" the
Navy head asserted.
Explaining that the life Of an air
plane is three years. the Secretary told
the engineers that the airplanes OF to-
day will not be A match for the plane
of 10 years from now. and unless We
visualize & war within that period every
dollar spent is for developing q plane
that Is yet to come"
Vigorous criticism of pacifists was
given BY Rear Admiral c. w. Dyson.
o. s. N, the presiding officer at the
banquet. who asserted that II no more
ships are built, the United States will
be brought face to face with the condi-
ton that prevailed in 1883. when there
was none competent to build ships.
Critics' Reasons Ridiculed.
''when / read in the papers Of the
reasons offered by some as to why we
should not build any more ships, then
I am driven 10 the conclusion that the
BIOLOGISTS haven't told us everything"
he said.
The American merchant marine will
have an opportunity to develop through
the passage Of the Jones-White bin last
year. Rear Admiral Hutch I. Cone, re-
tired. said J. Z. Burkhardt. chief
engineer Of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Corporation. and Dr. Phillips Thomas
of the Westinghouse Electric q Manu-
featuring Co. were other speakers at
the banquet. At which Rear Admiral r..
H. Leigh was POSTMASTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
TWO WOMEN HELD
|FOR KIDNAPPING MAN
Facing Trial for Forcing Ray
mond [. SchWenck to Drive
to New Jersey.

Mrs. Sadie Christina Altizer. % years
old, and Mrs Mary Helen Wozniak, II.
held here as kidnapping suspects on COM
plant of q taxi driver, were brought
into headquarters this morning ano
went through the usual routine of being
measured. fingerprinted and photo
graphed and were questioned by detcc-
tives. Mrs Wozniak incidentally. adj.
mitted a previous conviction on an auto
theft charge.
The girls were brought here yester
day from PennS Grove, N. j., by De
tective Frank A. Varney with Elmer
Kyle Altizer. 81. husband of Mrs. Altizer
on complaint of Raymond L. Schwenk
1447 East Capitol street. alleging that
they kidnapped him in this city Tues
day night and compelled him to drive
them to the New Jersey town.
No formal charge has yet been pre-
ferred against the trio.
Identified as Jail Inmate.
Mrs. Wozniak. who appeared espe-
cially amused. told detectives she was
from Winchester, Va, and was accus-
toned to driving an automobile al
though she did not take hold of the
wheel while on the trip from here to
Penns Grove Tuesday night.
While Mrs. Wozniak stood before the
detectives answering questions pro-
pounded by Capt. Walter Emerson
acting chief, Detective Henry M. Jett
recalled that he had seen her In the
jail at Harrisonburg, Va, about l8
months ago, and the young woman ad-
mitted he was not mistaken.
Have you ever been arrested be-
force" Cant Emerson asked
Il have" was her prompt response
but not here"
I'm Winchester"
yes"
For what?"
Stealing an automobile"
Admits S-AIopth Sentence.
Mrs. Wozniak said she was sentenced
to eight months in Jail and that she
was in the Harrisonburg Jail part OF
the time.
Mrs. Altizer said she had been ar
rested only once before. That arrest,
she said, was followed by her marriage
to Altizer.
Robert W. Kidd, county detective
who arrested the trio, has been asked
by Detective Varney to ship the be-
longings of the trio here from Penns
Grove. Their effects, consisting of two
suitcases. hat box, wooden box and
two pasteboard boxes, were shipped
from here shortly before the trio and
Schwenk started their automobile trip
to New Jersey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19

wind about gentle slopes. over which
the sledges swing sideways and are
checked by the driver with his gee pole,
q long pole which projects upward from
the front end of the leading sled, two OF
which are linked together.
The next bad spot Is between what
is known as the seal holes-holes made
by the dropping down OF the bay ice
between pressure ridges. The trail
swings here so that all the drivers skill
must be exercised to prevent the sledgcs
sliding first into one and then into the
other on opposite side. Every sled has
| tipped over here at some time. and
every driver, even Walden, with all his
skill, has been in difficulties. The sled
swings viciouSly to the right toward a
hole and escapes 1t and then slides
down toward the left, while Strom leans
all his vigorous 200 pounds on the pole
and yells. Gee. Dinty. gee" as he calls
his lead dog to pull over to the right.
Sledges Hard to Handle.
With gasoline drums weighing 500
pounds each, these sledgeS are not so
i easy to handle
Beyond the holes the trail winds in
and out among huge pressure ridges,
blocks of ice forced up 10 or IS feet
in the air. a movement which Is going
on all the time. There are many places
where sledge tracks show on top of I'M
scalable chunks of uplifted ice, tracks
which a few days ago were on level
ground. Even though the bay ice is
not going out, 1t is moving, and the
pressure against the barrier is almost
beyond comprehension.
Cape of the barrier is turned, the
trail slides down slope with ridges
on either side and far ahead and to
| the left is our future home, yellow
house on the top of gentle incline from
| the tiny bay. Up this slope the dogs
gallop. There is final hard pull in
which Stroln puts a rope across his big
shoulders and helps. The dogs haul
around in front of one of many big
piles of supplies, which are being
checked by Capt. Mckinley, who just
now is general supply officer. A cup
of coffee and bit of bread for Strom at
the house. erected by the Antarctic
construction firm of Gould g. Gould,
composed Of Larry Gould geologist. and
Charles Gould carpenter, and we start
back. Half way we meet other teams
coming out with more gasoline drums,
teams driven by Goodale, Crockett,
Bursey, and then sight which made
Strom exclaim again.
A team of yellow husky dogs came by
pulling four big gasoline drums and
some other material. more than a ton
altogether. 1t was Walden. who moves
in and out, silently and efficiently, his
dogs moving just as he wants them to
at word from him. What a team
of horses" cries Strom in admiration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
Conductor Dies of Injury.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
FREDERICK, Md, January 10
William Henry, as years old, of Har-
risonburg, Va, Baltimore e. Ohio
Railroad conductor, injured Thursday
when he fell under train at Viewer
ton, died at the hospital here yesterday
Henry was found with his leg crushed
He is survived by his widow and two
children. The body has been sent to
Harrisonburg for burial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
STUDY OF HOSPITAL
COSTS is BEING MADE
Trade Board Committee Seeks Data
on What Patients of Limited
Means Must Pay.

A study of the cost of disqualification
for paying patients of limited means
In the District has been started by
the committee on public health of the
Washington Board of Trade, Of which
DR.. d. Percy Kicking is chairman.
Questionnaires have been sent to all
local hospitals asking for information
needed in the study, and replies are
asked for within the next two months.
In letters to hospital heads DR..
Kicking stated: I'VE direct our studies
toward ascertaining what, II anything,
can be done toward bringing adequate
hospital treatment within the financial
strength of the average working man
or woman, likely with dependents, who
wants no charity and yet must of neces-
| sity consider all personal expenditures
before running hospital bill"
DR.. Hickling also informed hospital
heads his committee would be glad to
receive suggestions along this line. The
committee expects to continue its study
| for about two years. Statistics con-
corning efforts being made to provide
| hospital care at reasonable rates to
salaried families in other cities also are
being gathered by the committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
Two Couples Licensed.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK, Md. January 19.-
Marriage licenses have been issued here
to the following: George Albin VAIL
strom, 81 years old, Of Silver Spring,
and Miss Ruth Helena Bryant, "a, Ia
koma Park: Leonard l.. Rutherford, %,
Point of Rocks. Md, and Blanche G.
Reid, 81, Lovettsville, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
Gear of Great Lakes" Dies.

CLEVELAND. January 10 up. --
Harry D. Colby, who as a penniless
youth walked from New York to Cleve-
land to begin career that earned him
the nickname of Gear of the Great
Lakes" died at the Ritz Hotel, London
England. Thursday night, friends here
were advised by cablegram yesterday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19

Some of these drivers have handled
dogs before. but the remarkable part
of their operations Is that more than
half of them never drove team before
or had even seen one. Far ahead the
tiny lines of the ship can be seen
against the dark of the sea and II
sled moves slowly and steadily tow4ru
1t while we sit and talk or think along
thoughts and smoke. Truly this is an
other world.
(Copyrieht. 1929. by the New York Times
and the st. Louis POst-Dispstch. All right0
for publication reserved throughout ~
world)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
WIDER H STREET URGED.
Broadening From Massachusetts,
Ave. to Seventeenth Recommended.

Widening of H street from Massa-
chusetts avenue to Seventeenth street,
provided the property owners along the
street approve the plan, was urged on
the District Commissioners by the COM
mittee on police, fire protection and
public safety of the washington Cham
day afternoon.
Harry M. Bedell. vice chairman Of
the committee, presided Lengthy con-
sideration was given the project, held to
be needed for relief OF traffic congestion.
H street between Seventeenth street ana
Pennsylvania avenue recently ives Wild
ened.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19

Federation of Citizens Associations
will meet, 8 o'clock, in the board room
Of the Municipal Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19

Columbia Chapter. No IS, o. E. s.,
will hold its annual dance and card
party at the Washington Hotel. Special
music.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Bethany Chapter, No. "a, o. E. s.,
will give a card party, o'clock, at the
home Of Mrs. Adele S. Leibert, 5013
Fourteenth street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
FOREIGN.

81 am, Greenwich time. todayD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19

The Dramatic Club of Mckinley
High School will have its annual dinner
and entertainment at the All-States
Hotel,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-08
Everyday Psychology
Release Of Unconscious.
nY pR. JESSE ". sPaowLs.

Geniuses possess strong secondary
powers. These secondary powers are
for them readily accessible. In some
cases, at least. they come to the genius
without effort.
These clues suggest another clue
the question Of how these powers come,
into play. The whats" Of Q person-'
quite another.
An old German saying runs some
what as follows: All weiehty questions
should be considered on two occasions
once when drunk, once when sober
While this proverb, like most proverbs,
is In all probability false proposition,
q mere Saying" 1t does suggest the
fact that mental powers operate on the
basis Of mechanism Of release. Some.
O release Of hidden powers. The genius
must shift his mental gears IN some
way, 50 as to draw upon the vast
wealth OF his unconscious. The in.
hibiting powers Of the conscious mind
must be paralyzed, so as to utilize the
power Of the several secondary selves.
Something like 125 noted men have
suffered from tuberculosis: So often
has some physical debility harassed the
lives Of geniuses, that one Is rather IN
clined to sgree with a noted physician
mind a single really healthy genius"
There is, however, a serious bit Of
faulty logic In all this argument about
the debilities Of geniuses. The vast
majority Of men, geniuses or otherwise.
have some physical debility. Astounding
health is rare. Geniuses, IL would
seem, are geniuses in spite OF disa-
bility, not on account Of 1t.
The most important release mocha
nism seems to lie on another plane.
Those who are able to tap their UNI
conscious powers are those who form
the habit Of ignoring habits and laugh
ing at mere conventions. They prac-
tice the art of utilizing their native
energies without too much concern
about what other people think. That's
why practically every genius Is some
thing Of q queer person" as well Is
a creator Of something beautiful or
something useful,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-08
WORLD FAMOUS STORIES
Should We Rise With the Lark?
BY CHARLES LAMB.

seer to remind us Of the form of them.
They seem to us to have as much Sig
nificance as our waking concerns, or
rather to import us more nearly as
more nearly we approach by years to
the shadowy world whittier We are
Fastening.
We have shaken hands with the
worlds business; We have done with 1t;
we have discharged ourself Of It. Why
suit to solicit nor affairs to manage.
The drama has shut In upon us at the
fourth act. We have nothing here TO
expect but in a short time a sick bed
and dismissal. We delight to antici-
pate death by such shadows as night
affords. We are already half acquainted
with ghosts.
We were never much in the world.
Disappointment early struck q dark
veil between us and its dazzling illu.
sions. Our spirits showed gray before
our hairs. The mighty changes OF the
world already appear as but the vain
stuff out of which dramas are COM
posed. We have asked more Of life
than what the mimic images in play
houses present us with. Even those
types have waxed faint. Our clock
appears to have struck. We are super
animated.
In InS oearCn OF mundane SaLlSIac-
ton we contract political alliances with
shadows. It is good to have friends at
court. The distracted media Of dreams
seem no i'll introduction to that spir-
itual presence upon which In no long
time we expect to be thrown. We are
trying to know a little of the usages
of that colony: to learn the language,
and the faces we shall meet with there,
that we may be less awkward at our
first coming among them. We will
ingly call a phantom our fellow. as
knowing we shall soon be Of their dark
companionship.
Therefore, we cherish dreams. We
try to spell in them the alphabet of
the invisible world, and think we know
already how 1t shall be with us. Those
uncouth shapes which while we chung
to flesh and blood affrighted us have
become familiar. We feel attenuated
into their meager essences, and have
given the hand Of halfway approach to
incorporeal being.
We once thought life to be something,
but 1t has unaccountably fallen from
us before its time. Therefore, we
choose to daily with visions. The sun
has no purpose Of ours to light us to.
Why should We get up?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-08
OUR CHILDREN
By ANGELO PATRI.

Whist is a Joke? II one could ex-
plain that to children they would be
saved a great deal of unhappiness. But
Jokes differ according to the sense OF
humor of the individual. What Is q
great joke to one Is o deadly afiront
to another. How is the child to know?
What Is all In good fun one time may
not be regarded as funny at all. How
Is a child to understand?
Mother tells father q story and he
looks startled. He asks q question or
two and looks more and more worried
until suddenly mother laughs and says,
Il was only joking. He said nothing Of
the kind. Just called up to say he
hoped you would be able to run over
this evening and plan for the new
route so as to start next week instead
Of the week after. Just thought I'd
tease you"
Very good. Everybody laughs and
little Peter laughs loudest. He knows
now what a joke is. He'll do one. He
comes home next day or so with excite
ment in his voice and in his eyes.
Mother, what do you think? Old 10
jumped the tracks and everybody's
killed" Mother gives him q strange
look and faints away. Well, how was
Peter to know that one story was not
as good as another? He likes wrecks
and things.
One afternoon the family was In
speeding a house about IS miles away
from home. Just for a joke grandpa
shut Peter in closet and made be-
lieve lock the door and go away. When
Peter, after pounding upon the door
like wild man and yelling like an In
dian. discovered the door to be un-
locked, he didn't appreciate the joke as
much as his elders did.
The family strolled along through
the fields and the orchard for about
quarter of an hour without grand
was? Nobody knew. Peter looked as
though he might burst with the
grandeur of his knowledge and impor-
lance, shook his head and said, He'll
be along all right. He'll come along
pretty SOON"
But he didn't come and mother,
sensing a cause for Peters strutting,
shook him by the arm and sternly de-
manded that he tell anything he knew
about grandfather. Il played joke
on him. When he went into the coal
all right"
The coal bin happened to be no coal
bin at all, but an ice house built into
the ground, and you can imagine poor
grandfather shut in that dark. damp
hole. But Peter did not understand all
that when he turned the wooden but
ton across the door.
Children have no discrimination in
such matters. Pins on chairs, chairs
pulled from under folk, salt In coffee,
chemical powders blown into rooms,
frogs in beds, wires cut, false alarms,
seem to them to be all right. They
are jokes. Grown people have said so.
How are they to know unless we teach
them that horse play, coarse behavior
and personal jokes of any sort are all
wrong? Example Is better than pre-.
cept here as everywhere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-08

ct. Avoid, soon after the German in
vasion OF France in ths Franco-Prus-
sian War, his officers lsmented that
while there was plenty of cognac, red
wine and Mayence wine to be had,
there probably would be no beer.
THAT is no loss" said Bismarck.
Excessive consumption of beer makes
a man stupid, lazy and useless. 1t is
responsible for the democratic nonsense
spouted at our tavern tables. good
rye whisky Is much better" His per-
sonal preference was for brandy.
His enthusiasm for good food is we'll
conveyed in one short sentence Of a
letter written to his sister: "Blest be
the masterpieces of your kitchen
At a shooting party Bismarck did
not feel we'll. Two days in the open