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a number of surprises. The chairman
of the general committee. James E.
Collinower, is assisted by George E.
Strong and William S. Shelby.
Newly elected officers of Washington
Lodge will be installed on April 3. They
are: John Dillon Fitzgerald, exalted
ruler; David I. Barry, esteemed leading
knight: George e. Strong, esteemed
loyal knight: John u. Moriarty. es-
teened lecturing knight; william S.
Shelby, secretary; Michael G. McCor-
mick treasurer; Thomas j. King, tiler;
Nathan WE'LL, delegate to the Grand
Lodge; Daniel r. Nihon, alternate dele
gate, and Victor Woodbridge, trustee for
three years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
HEADS OF MILITARY
SCHOOLS TO CONVENE
Four-Day Session Will Be Attend
ed by rs Educa tors, Including
Retired Army Officers.

Retired ARMY UMcefs.
Heads of many leading military
schools in this country will open a
four-day meeting tomorrow at the May
flower Hotel
This Is the sixteenth annual con-
ference of the Association of Military
Colleges and Schools of the United
States. About rs educators, mostly re-
tired Army officers. will be in attend
ance. Brig. Gen. L. r. Gignilliat of
Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind,
is president.
Discussions of problems arising in the
military training of American youth
are scheduled for the sessions. Tomor-
rows opening session will be prelim-
mary The business meetings are to
follow Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
daY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
CONVENTION ANNOUNCED.
Catholic Students Mission Crusade
Told of Gathering.

At a meeting of the Catholic Stu
dents Mission Crusade, held at st.
Cecilia's Academy, COL East Capitol
street, Rev. Louis c. @Vaeth, director of
the Propagation of the Faith, announced
that the national convention of the So
ciety would be held in Washington in
June.
Mrs Mary Smith of st. Cecilis's was
elected corresponding secretary to sue
coed Miss Irene O'Hanlon Of I'M
maculata Seminary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

children's hospital of the University
Of Iowa not only permits its young
patients to use sling shots, but encour-
ages target practice
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

Hollywood, Calf, Is to have q new
100000 Episcopal Church.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
Editorial Comment
NO REFORM FOR MIR. DARROW
Duluth Herald)


For many wears there has been criticism OF prolonge
criminal trials this country and the techncatlcs oi
court practice that often make 1t easy Tor clever law
yers and financed defendants to escape justice
The Illinois legislature is trying to put through some
desirable reforms in that state, and as tne pilS m
trodced have the support of the Chicago bar associa-
ton, probably they are reasonable -,
But they do not suit the lawyers who thrive by Defend
ing the powerful criminal element in that state.
At hearing in Springfield the other day Clarence
Darrow whose reputation as defender OF notorious
criminals is countrywide strongly opposed the reforms
The impression and arguments he made were disap-
pointing to those who hoped to find him Interested IN
his later years. administration OF law
Expressing dstrst of the courts he said that the re-
form program would enlarge the of the judiciary
and made some vague nsnuations that it was spon-
sored by special interests He charged that the courts
would not allow time enough for the trial OF ordinary
cases because they had to hurry into the hearing OF
thirty million dollar cases..
member of the committee promptly reminded hin,
of the time he took in the Leopold and Loeb case one
of the longest drawn cases on record and sharp ex-
change between him and the committee followed leaving
the veteran criminal pleader in rather poor light.
OF there is nothing very surprising in Mr.. Dar-
standing up for system that brought him proi-
nencc but this and similar hearings reveal how hard It
is reform anything that gives lawyers Of his type
money and fame
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
THE FAMILY AND THE NATION

Periodically greatly disturbed by the news that
marriages falling off and that divorces arc on the
increase And then the heels of this news there
come numerous declarations how serious this evil
is, ard numerous suggestions as TO now II
ulay be speedily checked
No int clligcnt woman who will give any thought
Tic problem needs to be told how serious 1t is 1t
mcnaccs virtually everything hold dear in social
order 1t touches not only the lives OF those immediately
implicated: 1t involves somehow the foundations OF
society. 1t means that in something fundamental to
social welfare and happiness not succeeding
ought to-
Nor will any intcigen. man or woman close his car
any the many suggestions which will presently be
given to how the solution Of this problem must be
approached to be effective. We shall be told that it
ought to be made difficult get married. and less
easy to get divorce We shall be told that the problem
is not merely economic cne although it is that too.
in part they will say that it is individual in far
anything be individual: and they will tell that it
is also a social problem.
III the meantime there those who have given much
thought not merely to the present situation but to the
historical aspect of it also. and the conclusions of these
thinkers may be worthy Of consideration They will tell
that the family is the basic unit of civzaton that
where amy community nation has clng to this basic
family unit its progress has not been endangered and
where the integrity of the family unit assailed there
decay inevitable.
but clear than that is the logic of it. 1t is
within this little group that the ideals developed
which necessary to human progress and pcrma-
ncncc and is through this group that these ideals
maintained When for any reason tho integrity of this
group is threatened told. then all civilization is
threatened for, it not be too often repeated, the
family is the unit which the whole structure of civil
ization is built
In proportion as we can bring ourselves realize the
4 Of riS fart. in nrn1n
| keep out the theories of this or that or fads OF
ono kind another from our thinking about the
family in that proportion we may avert the dan
ger of which the of divorce and decrease of mar
rages is only symptom Whatever be done in the
home any other cducatve influence outside of the
home, to keep before the fact that except we
maintain the family intact the outlook is dark one
this is worth doing No nation continue to be great.
except its greatness is based enduring family rela
| tion.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
A NEW WORD
(New York Tinesl


Readers Of English industrial and political discussion
during the past few months must have noticed the COM
ing of term It is decentralization" The word ap
In print and in debate It is not might
pect mysterious Freudian adaptation. There is no
subtle attempt to give plausible but false for
motives of which you secretly ashamed Boiled down
to its simple meaning the process Of naturalization
applied to industry simply the creation Of vast
mergers combinations with the ain and sometimes
with the result OF bringing together virtually all Of the
COMPANIES in given line Of production or business and
50 establishing what amounts to monopoly
What Is really happening is that England is going
through something like the great American Trust
mcnt OF thirty years more ago. English banks and
capitalists Insist upon the economies that can be
made by great simple unit. against the wasteful
competition OF concerns fighting each other for
kets Our old arguments for Trusts are fact, re-
produced almost intact today In England But the Eng
ltsh are asute enough sipleinded enough to give
the thing another name. It pity that our
selves did not invent 1t this side Of the Atlantic All
the political heat and horror engcrdered BY the spec
tace OF gigantic Trust extending it, tenta-ss like IN
octopus to embrace and crush defenseess people might
have been spared US had only learned earlier
talk about the naturalization Of industry This Il
Whist the wise English knowing how much better Is "a
Aay convey than "steal," quietly talking about
Much better would It have been for - II instead Of
Hervester Trust for example could have been inyit-
Ing subscriptions for the shares Of American ANAL
gamated naturalization.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
TURNING OFFICERS INTO COOKS

The old maxim that any army travels-is 1t fights?
-on its stomach is given added confirmation in new
tactics just adopted by the U. s. War department.
Army officers under these ORDERS have to learn
how TO cook At Fort Sam Houston in Texas, there is
class of l3 commissioned officers studying the mecha
les of preparing army ratons They learning how to
get meas-everything from beef stew to salad and pump
kin pie The theory doubt is that officers with such
knowledge will be able to the work of the
pany cooks much better and thus will be able to make
that their getting the proper kind of food
The War department. to notion is showing
celcnt judgment The soldier is great to grumbe
his lot but the grumbling is really serious
unless it the food he is eating If is
properly. he doesn't much mind his other troubles;
and II he isn't his dissatisfaction rapidly becomes
acute.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
AIRMEN-AND A NEW ERA

Ono of the peculiar things about human nature is
that will accept almost any kind Of change if the
change comes unannounccd.
For instance II group of energetic, restless young
men should come the and announce that they
were about remakc tho whole nation that countless
old customs and habits would wiped out and all the
cities and towns would be moved closer together we
probably would resent it very firmly.
But when they simply go ahead and do it, without say
ing anything about it, don't mindindced we rather
like it, Instead of Gcfyng the young who are push
ing lis bodily into kind Of society. we applaud
them.
The avators arc doing just exactly that. When they
get through with the United States in common with
the rest OF the world will be very different from its old
self The change probably will be for the better; hut
we don't even realize that there change until after
it is accomplished
Read this little dispatch from recent paper:
Edmonton. Albcr;a-Whcn Pinch Dickens, Edmon-
ton flyer brought his monoplanc to landing on the
Edmonton flying field the other evening he completed
notable flight Of 800 miles from Fort Good Hope on the
rim of the arctic circle The plane carried valuable
consignment of furs from the northern parts
In those two sentences there is compressed volume
about the order that the aviators are bringing
The outlying fur posts in the Canadian northwest have
been for centuries among the isolated unattanabc Sec
tons Of the world. Each man separated from his
ncghbor by long days of hard travel To get to civiza
ton was task that took weeks long canoe trips on
lonely rivers endless hikes dcsoate waste lands
night after night Of solitary camping in racAcss forests
and limtless plains
Now young Mr. Dickens, gifted with the flip nickname
Pinch off in his monopane-and puts the arctic
circle within "a hours time of the city OF Edmonton
Without saying anything about it, he has simply taken
The map Of northwestern Canada and made it shrink
The era OF isolation and great distances is ct end
forever.
That is what all the airplancs arc doing though VIC
don't often realize it. The flyers bringing us closer
together Our present form of society drawn up tt
fit country Of long journeys and widely separated
cities: the arplanes in fair way to make it a.
compact Holland
II the airmen declared themselves In advance might
resent it, at the very least we'd probably ask them
wait while we figured things out But they don't They
pulling all OF into closer contact with each other
wiping out old distances, killing isolation: and all w
do about it is recognize the fact and adjust our
selves to changed era.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
THE MOTORIsT PAYS ENOUGH

The motorists Of this nation surely paying their
share Of the taxes.
In 1923 according to estimates OF the United States
bureau Of public roads, various state gasoline taxes
netted over $300O000O0. Increases voted in nearly
every part OF the country will boost the figure this year
to the neighborhood Of s450000000.
Obviously the motost ought to help pay for the good
roads that his activities make necessary and SO long
the money is used for that purpose alone the situation
lint bad But states beginning to divert part
Of this revenue to other purposes and in addition many
Legislatures to have the idea that no gas tax can
Be too high The motoris right paying just about
III that can in justice be demanded Of him.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
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Sixty-four years ago today the two
most colorful military figures Of the
Civil War met without ceremony In
q private home In Appomattox Court
House. Va, and silenced forever the
guns Of the war Of secession.
General Lee bore on his shoulders
the broken hopes Of the south. stocky,
plain-spoken General Grant would be
proclaimed in few hours by . joy
maddened north rs the greatest hero
Of the day.
OF the two, Lee seemed to be better
aware Of the historic significance OF
the occasion. But Grants diffidence
may have been pose-a gallant ges-
ture to hide embarrassment at meet
ing defeated foe. It Is customary
for the victorious general to demand
the others sword. Grant did not.
Instead. he apologized for having
neglected to bring his own along. He
permitted no theatrical display on the
part OF his men. There was no VIC
torious march Of troops with banners
flying: no demands made for the
Confederates to stack their arms"
The terms OF peace were liberal and
within few hours, Grant was on his
way to Washington by train.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09

The European pictured the p!tiful victim Of en-
tangling. bureaucratic red tape Every bureau OF the
European nations represents for American onlookcrs just
50 much government intcrmcddlng il private af-
fairs private expense And every American taxpayer
thanked his lucky stars there bureaus in tho
United States
But all this while this country just about as bu-
reaucratc any European country BY giving the bu-
the Of departments congress and the state
legislatures completely deceived the public synonym
may cover multitude deludc whole nation
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
Parents Happy When
Baby Sleeps Soundly

Here's q way to soothe crying,
wakeful babies to sleep quickly and
easily. IT'S the way doctors endorse,
and millions Of mothers have proved
is safe and harmless. A few drops OF
purely-vegetable. pleasant-tasting
Fletcher's Castoria, has the most fret.
full, restless baby or child asleep In .
few minutes! And for collie, consti-
patton, colds and upset spells. there's
nothing like Castoria. The Chas.
H. Fletcher signature Is the mark Of
genuine Castoria. Avoid limitations
and be safe.--Adv.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
TOURISTS AND GODS

The goos Of ancient Greece died long time ago. Even
however they must be turning over uneasy in their
graves today For the Greek government is planning
turning the famous Mount Olympus into national park
modelled on those in the United States and Canada
Mount Olympus was supposed by the ancient Greeks
to be the actual home of the gods Now however 1t Is
to become haunt of tourists Hot dog stands doubt
will encirce its base and motor roads flivvers
can spin to the cloudkssed peaks where Venus, Zeus
and Apollo once devouty believed to have their
celestial palaces!
The idea is startling-and, somehow, extremely at
.racvc.
It is all right to tell your wife everything that happens
II you don't tell her even more than that.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
Talks '1o&&
- Parents
n WANT A NICKEL"
By ALICE JUDSON PEALE

Mamma, I want Nickel" says the
4-year -old. "Give me quarter, dad"
says the grade school child. Il need
some money" announces the high
school girl across the breakfast table
with dignity and reserve. They say
it differently, but to them all, nickels,
quarters, dollars mean the same thing.
They spend them with light heart
that literally takes no thought for
the morrow.
Children who never have earned
money, whose father and mother give
them generous amounts to spend al
most whenever they ask, regard their
Parents as kind Of miraculous pitch
er. One may pour from 1t again and
again, but it remains ever full.
Although from time to time these
parents protest at the apparently In
satiable demands made upon them, It
is evident that on the whole they
find the situation q pleasant one.
The faith and utter independence Of
their children flatters the wish for
power and Importance that dwells in
even the most devoted parental
bosom. It makes possible an abso-
Lutte control which can be achieved
under no other circumstances.
The policy Of giving money to chill
dren on request is, however, most
unfair and short sighted. It teaches
nothing Of economy and planning.
nothing Of the value and limitation
Of money. It fixes in the child the
idea that money is obtained In return
for love rather than work, that 1t Is
his by divine right rather than as the
fruit of his own effort.
The wise parent will see that even
the littlest child has opportunities to
earn his coveted nickel, and he will
encourage the older ones to find
work for which they may be paid. He
will fix an allowance In accordance
with the state Of the family purse
and the needs Of the child-and from
its limitations he will admit no ap-
peal.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
SUBWAYS AND HIGH TAXES

The city Of Detroit In special election, rejected
0l000.0oo subway proposal BY huge majority.
Like other fastgrowing populous cities Detroit Is
crippled by lack 0f adequate transit facilities Some
1cem q rapid transit is needed and needed badly Yet
TIE voters vy decsvely turned down the plan to build
- extensive subway system Beyond doubt it was the
1as tat the cost would boost too high and that
1a6e them look With dsfavor on It.
Ihns uetrot exsmpli1M the dilemma Of the modern
- 1lneh mey n1st - spent on transportation; yet
~ "a ncu - woefuly high. What s harassed
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
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AlLENE SUMNER

Mrs. Myrtle Flanagan, "a, a road
show dancer, willed her little five
year-old daughter to her mother as
she was dying. The law is saying
however, that parent may not will
child as 1t would tract of land or
money in the bank, and that re-
gardless OF the mothers will. the
child must 60 to whomsoever the Law
designatcs. probably to her father.
X X X
FAIR ENOUGH!
Fcminists might grow inflancd at
this. citing the injustices of women
bearing the pain of childbirth, only
to have no right to direct the destin-
les of their own children. And yet
here's opining that such law is a
good thing. If women could legally
will their children away like so many
puppies, there would be as many in
justices done to fathers as the present
state Of affairs wrecks them or
mothers. There are no more wise
and just women than men.
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BREAD BEFORE STYLE
Women workers In a certain cotton
mill in Salem. Mass, are learning the
evolution Of fashion as it goes hand
in hand with industrial safety. A
few months ago they were ordered to
substitute low heels for high; a little
later, skirts no longer than knee
length were suggested as necessary
for safety, and now the company sug-
gests that overallS would be prefer
able to even the shortest skirts III
consideration of whirring machinery
Meekly the women are submitting
We hear a great deal about fashion
being first in woman's life; it looks
sometimes as II the urge for bread
and butter were even sterncr neces-
sity.
BABIES KILLED
The two little youngsters of Mr.
and Mrs. Martin Wallach of Beth
lehem. Pa, were killed when their
fathers still exploded the other
morning. The father explained that
it was his first attempt at making
moonshine, and that he did it be-
cause he could not support his fam
lily on his weekly wage of $18 a week
Here's a dramatic tragedy. The
paternal urge to do more for his kids
sent the father into the moonshine
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
URGES SAFETY

indianapolis, Ind.-The American
Legion through its 10000 posts has
begun q national safety campaign to
cut down the total Of accidents that
occur yearly. Signs reading Protect
Our Children" are used on highways.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09

business, and that very move killed
the kids.
Perhaps the same officials who
met the bootleg liquor curse by
languidly opining that everybody who
broke the law and drank ought to be
poisoned by bad liquor, will also opine
that II a few more babies are killed
by still explosions, it may help to stop
the business.
"UNWRITTEN LAW"
The famous "unwritten law func-
tions very well when husband shoots
the destroyer of his home" Mrs.
Olive Adams, %, widow of Harry
Adams former head of the weather
bureau in Hartford, Conn.,, is wonder
ing If it will work so we'll when mere
wife invokcs it and slays not the
third person. but the immediate
faithless spouse. She chloroform-
ed her husband the other day be-
cause of his various infidelities.
II she'd killed some of "the other
women she'd probably have had an
easier time with the jury than she
will because she killed her husband
Human nature does love to see '.tlle
destroyer" pay and pay and pay!
MOTHER LOVE
Little Edith Reynolds, 6, of Fort
Worth Texas. was burned almost to
death while playing with her dolls in
front of a gas stove. Her mother
gave 80 square inches of skin to be
grated on her child. An obvious
comment might be a reflection on the
superiority of maternal to filial love.
with some glib comment to the effect
that while a mother would make this
sacrifice for child, few, If any
children. would make it for a parent.
But that's not SO. Just about as
many children would surrender skin
for a parent, as vice versa. They'd
give the dramatic, momentary gesture
of affection, even if they couldn't
stand a long continuous gesture such
as living with parent or supporting
him or her.
-
"CRADLE OF THE DEEP
With all the excitement about
Joan Lowell, author of Cradle Of
the Deep" who spent most of her
life till she was II on her fathers
trading schooner, and who has writ
ten Of seeing sailors torn asunder by
man-eating sharks and the wild vir-
gin dances Of savages, nothing seems
so amazing as the fact that her shore
mother would let her go with sea-
faring father. The maternal instinct
generally fights to keep all the off,
spring with it, even If there are eleven
Of them.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
STEALS CANNED MUSIC

London.-A van. containing 1000
photograph records rolled along Old
street, stopped and the driver got out.
He entered building and while
there, someone made Oft with the
records, leaving the empty van stand
Ing.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
OKERS SPANKING

Youngstown, O.-Althougl.. school
days, past and present, have changed,
they still have one common denomi-
nator In spanking. A champion Of
the cause is Supt. J. J. Rocheson, who