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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
CHILDREN RECEIVE
SHOES AND COATS
Merchants Join to Help Associated
Charities in Spreading
Cheer.

One hundred small children of Wash
ington, representing a cross-section of
the Christmas charity cases investi-
gated by the Associated Charities. were
QUILTED in Winter overcoats this
morning for the forty-second year by
Saks & Co.
Numbered cards issued by the AS
ISOLATED Charities entitled the young
bearers to a new overcoat and other
wearing apparel The distribution,
which is annually arranged by Issac
Cans, manager of SakS g. Co., was
supervised by Mrs. Laura B. Glenn.
supervisor of the seventh district of
the Associated Charities.
In addition to the gifts of the Saks
g. Co., each youngster received pair of
shoes from George d. Horning and q
box of candy from Bernard Harding,
local tobacco dealer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
We Virginia Editor
Likes We Capital,
But 1t Brakes Bad
So After Telling Readers
of Own Mishaps He
Warns Them AWAY.

The country folk visit the Capital Of
their Nation in shiny new automobiles
only to their deep and abiding sorrow,
Virginia editor tells his readers.
A poignant pain is his chief reminder
of the Capitals left turn, and as he rue
fully regards his pocketbook he dis
counts much on the parking place he
didn't get in President Hoovers back
yard.
In the lead editorial of his paper, the
Shenandoah Valley, which is published
at Newmarket, Va, j. G. Miller, the
editor has this to say of the trials and
tribulations Of the country visitor to
the Capital:
THE jokes on Ye Ed this time. A
few weeks ago we reminded our readers
that the city was made for the city
folks and the country made for the
country folks, or rather that city folks
were made for the city and country
folks made for the country. Then last
Saturday we spent a few hours in
Washington. We should probably bet
ter have stayed away.
Thanks TO the cooperation of the
efficient Washington police force, We
crashed into a moving van. The traf-
fic cop motioned the moving van to
stop. It did-forthwith. We did, too
but a few seconds too late.
"On Sunday our car was still going
but when we went to church the radia-
TOR and motor meter displayed a bat
tered appearance and bowed reverently
not in keeping of the day, however.
Washington is bad place for q
man to be with an automobile. It take!
3 hours and Is minutes to make thu
trip comfortably and another hour Of
two to get parked after you get there
We almost found parking place tr
Herbert Hoover's back yard, but moved
! on, fearing that our car would be tagged
by the afore-described efficient Wash
/ ington police force. After circling ou
intended goal for half an hour anC
being hollered about whenever We trieC
/ to make left turn, we gave it up ant
bribed a man with a garage to let u
! park our car in his place Of extortiol
for about three hours"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
MRS. POTTER'S RITES
ARE SET FOR TOMORROW
Takoma Park Woman, Wife of
Capital Business Man, Died
After Brief Illness.

Funeral services for Mrs. Virginia E.
Potter of 412 Aspen street, Takoma
Park. who died Monday night at Emer-
gency Hospital after sudden illness
will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock at Takoma Park Baptist Church.
Burial will be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery
Mrs. Potter was the wife of Charles
H. Potter, who has been in the print
ing business here for many years. She
had been resident of the Capital for
80 years and was active in church and
fraternal work here. She was born in
Wilmington, N. c., January 10, 1873.
She is survived by her husband, three
daughters, Mrs. o. G. Yount of Van
dergrift, Pa; the Misses Harriet L.
and Florence Potter: four sons, Charles
A., William E., Hallett H. and Walter
j., all of Washington, and two brothers,
William and r. B. Hodges of Whining
ton, N c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
CANADIANS TO OPPOSE
LAKE WATER DIVERSION
Plan Protest If Chicago Makes
Appeal for Congressional
Authority.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
OTTAWA, December 25.-Charles
Stewart, minister of interior, asserted
yesterday that Canada would protest
strongly against any attempt by Chi
cago to obtain congressional authority
for diverting water from Lake Michigan
into the Mississippi River.
ut is possible" he said, that Chicago
will endeavor to secure from Congress
authority to divert water for the os-
tensible purpose of improving naviga-
ton. This will have the effect of trans
ferring the dispute to Congress, where,
of course. it is to be anticipated that
the bordering States will undoubt-
eddy oppose such a procedure, while IL
linois and the Mississippi States may
support the same"
Mr.. Stewart expressed satisfaction
with the recommendation made to the
United States Supreme Court by Spe-
cial Master Charles E. Hughes, whereby
diversion from the Great Lakes by the
Chicago sanitary district would be re-
duced in stages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
FIRST LADY GIVES FOOD BASKETS
TO SALVATION ARMY POOR PARTY
Mrs. Hoover on Departure Compliments Girl Scouts
Honor Guard Their Appearance

The lady who lives at 1000 Pennsyl-
vania avenue was hostess at 606 E street
yesterday afternoon.
And Washington's less fortunate re-
ceived from the hands of Mrs. Herbert
Hoover baskets of Christmas dinner
foo6 which the Salvation Army had
prepared for them.
1t was the first time that Mrs. Hoo
yer, as First Lady of the Land, had pre-
sided at the Salvation Army's annual
Christmas party, and she marked her
presence there with generous tribute to
the "Army's" work and with gracious
greetings to recipients of the baskets.
On her visit to Salvation Army head
quarters Mrs. Hoover was accompanied
by Miss S. L. Dyer of California, her
personal friend and house guest, and
Maj. Oliver Haines, White House aide.
She reached the r street address at
2:3O o'clock, to be greeted by Commits
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
Washington News
BrOOkhart Is Posing
For Picture, but Can't
Say What It's About

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Brookhart, Iowa's Re
publican independent, is having
his picture painted.
While he said that he was
rather proud of the half-com-
pleted job, the Iowan doesn't
know for what purpose the por-
trait is to be used, how much it
costs or who is to pay for it. The
artist, he said, is a fellow named
Slade,"
Hes Just a fellow who paints
pictures around here" he added.
Brookhart posed in his Office
yesterday, and the painting pro-
crossed to the point where the
Iowan's broad face was half
'sketched above a rough outline of
his broad shoulders.
Its only in the pin-feather
stage" the Senator said. explain
ing that a similar picture was to
be made of Senator Borah of
Idaho, another of the Republican
independent group.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25

Christmas day dawned cold and cloudy
for thousands of Westinghouse this
morning, but to the little family of John
Schutt at 666 E street northeast it is
the happiest and sunniest day in all
their lives.
Their most valued Christmas gift
came in the form of brief message
from Gallinger Hospital, which said that
Mrs. Rose Schultz wife and mother of
the family, had won her fight for life
and is now beyond any danger.
Several weeks rest is all that is re-
quired to give the woman sufficient
strength to return to the husband and
two children from whom she has been
separated since Thanksgiving day. when
she entered the hospital in a critical
condition.
Under the constant attention of Drs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
CHERRYDALE BOY DIES.
Edward Lockton Victim of Auto
Accident Near Home.

Edward Lockton, 7-year-old son of
Sergt. Frank G. Lockton, U. S. A., of
Cherrydale, Va, died yesterday at
Walter Reed Hospital as a result of
injuries sustained near his home Sun
day when he was struck by an auto
mobile of a California tourist. First aid
was given by a Cherrydale physician
and the boy was taken to the hospital
here. Sergt. Lockton formerly was Gen.
John j. Pershing's orderly.
The motorist convinced Arlington
County authorities that he was not
responsible for the accident and was
allowed to continue on his way to New
York. Funeral services are being ar
ranged today for the victim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25

sioner Dougherty, Dr. w L. Darby, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Federation OF
Churches; Maj and Mrs. James Asher
of the Salvation Army and Elwood
Street, director of the Community Chest.
As she assembled the stairway lead
ing to the Salvation Army auditorium
on the second floor Of the building she
passed between an honor guard of Girl
Scouts and Boy Scouts. Following a
brief ceremony. In which Mrs. Hoover
extended Christmas greetings to every
one. she and her encourage went to the
basement floor, where hundreds of
baskets were waiting for the city's poor.
After passing out the first few baskets
Mrs. Hoover made her departure.
On her way out of the building, how
ever, she stopped long enough to COM
pliment the Girl Scouts on their
appearance. She threw them a kiss
as she left for the White House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
FALL FROM BALCONY
IS FATAL TO WOMAN
Accident to Mother of District
Pastor Reported Here
Today.

The death in a Reading, Pa, hospital
last night of Mrs. Llewellyn F. Schear-
rer, 81 years old, mother of Rev. r
Paul Schearrer. pastor of Takoma Park
Presbyterian Church here, was traced
to fall from a balcony. A dispatch
to The Star from Reading, Pa, today
brought the news that Mrs. Schearrer
sustained a fractured skull and other
injuries when she fell from a second
floor balcony at her home there while
shaking a rug.
Mrs. Schearrer is survived by her
husband, her daughter Anna, her son
and daughter-in-law, who came to
Washington from Binghamton, N. Y.
a year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25

Last night the men at the precinct
were busy distributing As baskets of
food to the precincts needy families.
Lieut.. William Benter, played Christ
mas music as the children filed past
the Christmas tree and received their
presents.
Three hundred or more children were
clothed from head to foot in warm
clothes distributed by the precinct
The 70 men stationed at the precinct
worked for 10 days to make the party
success. The leaders of the work
outside of Capt. Sanford are Pvts. Jack
O'Connell and william Ais.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
BISHOP DAVIS SESSUMS
DIES PLANNING SERVICES
Louisiana Protestant Episcopal
Diocese Shocked as Leader
Succumbs.
~ One Associated Press.


NEW ORLEANS, December 49,
Right Rev. Davis Sessuns, d. D.. Bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Louisiana, died last night as he turned
from the completion of plans for his
personal celebration of the holy COM
munion on Christmas morning in Christ
Church Cathedral.
The churchman's death was a shock
to the entire diocese. Aside from the
infirmities of his II years, his health
did not confine him to his home.
Bishop Sessums, during his 80 years
in the Louisiana bishopric, achieved a
position of distinction in the councils
of the Episcopal Church in the United
States and was noted as an exponent
of conservative theological thought.
He was born in Houston, Tex, July
z, 1858. and received his ecclesiastical
training at the University Of the South.
Sewanee, Tenn. He was ordained 10
the deaccna.e and the pripst:.ocd in
1882.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
PEASANT UNION FORMED.

Austrian Minister of Interior Or
ganizes Dissatisfied Fascists.
VIENNA, December Is (P.-Minister
of the Interior Schumy yesterday an
nounced formation Of the Peasant
Patriotic Union, made up of former
members of the Fascist Heimwehr, who
were dissatisfied with the political activ-
titles Of that organization. Schumy
himself was expelled recently from the
ranks Of the Heimwehr because of his
criticism of its policy. The new union
which has considerable strength in the
agricultural district, will cooperate
with the Austrian Agrarian League.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
YOUNGSTERS STORM PRECINCT
FOR CAPT. SANFORD'S PARTY
Six Policemen Required to Handle Traffic
as 1000 Children Call for
Annual Gifts.

More than 1000 children stormed
Capt. William Sanford's seventh annual
Christmas party at the fifth precinct
station house today. 1t took six police
men to handle the crowds of children
in front of the station house and man.
age the traffic as they entered the
precinct to get their presents.
Each chIe was given candy, nuts,
fruit, ice cseam and toys. The gifts
were contributed by nearly every bust
ness place in Washington. Although
theoretically the party was for fifth
precinct children, children came from
all over town.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
REINDEER FLEE COLD.
Swedish Lapland Animals Crowd
Coast Land by Thousands.

STOCKHOLM, December 25 R.-
Driven by cold and hunger, thousands
of reindeer in Swedish Lapland are
fleeing the mountain ranges at Gel
livare to seek food in the warmer and
more hospitable coastland.
A sudden intense cold has formed
heavy crust on the surface of the snow,
and the animals are unable to dig out
the reindeer moss, which is their main
food. On the borders of more civilized
communities they find stacks of hay,
which they Immediately devour This
has caused friction between their Lapp
owners and the farmers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
Danish Queen Is Fifty.

COPENHAGEN. Denmark, December
rs P1.-The Danish people paid tribute
yesterday to Queen Alexandrine, whose
fiftieth birthday was celebrated at the
royal castle. Huge floral offerings and
large sums of money for her charitable
organizations came from all over the
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
Will Discuss Crime Wave.

1.-THE Maccabees and the Jewish
Crime Wave" will be discussed by
Judge Nathan Cayton of the Municipal
Court at meeting, next Friday night,
in the Sixth Street Synagogue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
SPANISH TEACHERS
CONVENE FRIDAY
DR.. Marvin Will Welcome Ed
ucators at Opening of
TWo-Day Session.

Educators of Nationwide repute will
speak here Friday and Saturday at ses-
sions of the thirteenth annual meeting
of the American Association of Teach
ers of Spanish to be held at the Will
lard Hotel under auspices of George
Washington University.
The Spanish teachers will be well
coined by DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, presi-
dent of George Washington University
at the Friday morning session. Re
Spouse will be made by George w
Shields, supervisor of modern languages
in the Los Angeles public schools, who
is president of the association.
Three addresses are scheduled for the
opening morning session. They are:
by products of the Modern Foreign
Language Study by DR.. Charles r.
Mann, director of the American Council
tional Advisory Committee on Education;
''Hispanism in the British Isles and Its
Relation to the Work of the ASsocia-
tion," by Prof E. Allison Peers of the
University of Liverpool, visiting pro-
fessor at Columbia University; Spain
in 1929" by Lawrence A. wilkins, di-
rector of modern languages in New
York City high schools.
A luncheon will be held at 1890
CLOCK at CIle COSIuOS Clup.
Six Speeches in Afternoon.
At the afternoon session six talks are
scheduled as follows:
1.-The Psychological Novel in SPAIN
by Prof Arthur l.. owen of the Uni
versity of Kansas; "Style and Ricardo
Leon" by Prof. S. L. Willard Rosen-
berg of the University Of California
THE Renegade in the Spanish Thea
ter of the Seventeenth Century" by
Prof. Esther L. Crooks, Goucher Col
lege; IAN Inventory of Aims and
Methods" by Prof. S. Patterson. SYRIA
Texts for Beginners" by Prof. Colley
Sparkman, State Teachers College,
Hattiesburg, Miss: "Satirical Rules of
Etiquette in the Siglo de Oro."
DR.. Don Herman Velarde, Ambassa-
dor of Peru, and DR.. Don Enrique
Olaya, Minister of Colombia, will be
guests Of honor at a dinner Friday
evening at the willard. They will
speak, as will DR.. Henry Suzzalo, of the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching.
Elect Officers Saturday.
Saturday morning the association
will meet in the cabinet room of the
Willard, hear five addresses and then
enter into a business session, at which
time the officers for 1880 will be elected
and the meeting of the association ad-
journed. The speeches will be as fol-
lows:
"A Spanish Feminist in the Early
| Nineteenth Century" by Prof. Ernest
! H. Hespelt, New York University; "A
| Group of Auto Sacramentales Found in
a Spanish-Speaking Region of Colo
rado," by Prof. Edwin B. Place OF
the University of Colorado; Some
| International Periodicals." by Prof. Al
fred Coester, Stanford University; Ray
mond Foulche-Delbose. by Prof. John
D. Fitzgerald of the University of Ari-
IONA, and "Fallacies in the Teaching OF
| Spanish" by Prof. j. Moreno-Lacalle OF
Rutgers University
At 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon as
ISOLATION members will receive the
greeting Of DR.. Leo S. Rowe at the Pan
| American Union.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
HURTS PROVE SERIOUS.
H. r. Burroughs, New Yorker,
Fractured Neck Vetebrae in Crash.

Fractured Neck Vetebrae in Crash.
LUMBERTON, N. c., December Is
OH. r. Burroughs of Brooklyn, N
Y, whose automobile turned over Sun
day on an icy highway near here, was
in Lumberton hospital yesterday in
a serious condition. Physicians said Mr.
Burroughs was suffering from q dislo-
Gated and fractured vertebrate of the
neck, which left him partly paralyzed.
He is expected to recover.
Mr.. Burroughs, president of H. r.
Burroughs & Co., engineers, New York
City, was on his way to Miami, Fla.
His chauffeur, William Tuchski, suffer-
ed broken leg in the accident.
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13
IT PAYS TO BE DECENT
NOTES FAMOUS EDITOR
BY WILLIAM ALIEN WHITE

The onAa> unmishkable definite
trend in the Anaaericln newspaper Is
the astonishing rise in profits In the
last fifteen years. Every paper from
the New York Times to the smallest
village weekly has seen an enormous
rise in its income-chief1y from ad-
vertising but also a considerable rise
in subscriptions. AS the public
schools turn out literates by the
millions, newspaper readers in
crease.
What is more, the type of readers
rises; so that in a decade and a half
the readers of high grade newspapers
find their subscriptions rising
whether that grade is in the city or
the village and with the rise in read
er intelligence curiously an exact
parellel follows in the purchasing
power of readers. They earn more
money. Hence advertising pays more
and more and profits for publishers
rise.
The editor who whoops it I'D for
the school bonds is working for his
own till. And all over the land news
PoPOAo Oh IhC WnOlC dlG
better. This is not because of any
startling idealism of the editors but
because of the working of economic
law. 1t pays-in the newspaper bus
iness-to be decent in the long run.
And this goes even in the face of the
Shiny all day suckers sold to morons
in the lower levels in great cities.
Advertising is becoming news
more and more. New inventions are
rapidly lowering prices of many
commodities. Mass production is
changing distributing methods.
Science is introducing new things
for instance the radio-into the life
of the common man for common use.
To know of these new prices and
new commodities a man must read
advertising. So naturally advertis-
ing is the most important news in
any paper.
Which translated into highbrow
terms means that human interest is
shifting from politics to business,
from ideas to things.
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13
SEEK LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE
FOR FLOORS OF LONG BRIDGES

Highway engineers or the United
States Department of Agriculture
are conducting experiments which
involve improvements in quality of
concrete in floor slabs of bridges and
possible advantages to be gained by
the use of lightweight concrete in
floors of long-span bridges.
The tests are being conducted at
the experiment farm, Arlington, Va,
under a cooperative arrangement
between the Bureau of Public Roads
of the department and the port of
New York authority. The construc-
tion program of the Port of New
York Authority includes number of
long-span bridges, the most notable
of which is the Hudson River bridge,
which will have main spain of
$500 feet, the longest suspension
bridge in the world.
The experiments at Arlington
Farm embrace the construction of %
concrete slabs, each 6 feet wide and
% feet long, with materials and
methods such as might be used in
the construction of bridge floors. Diff
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13

tain ten times as much vitamine A
as milk. While it is true we use
much more milk at time than we
do eggs, their great vitamine A con-
tent makes them valuable addition
to milk. As Vitamine A is credited
by competent Investigators with
helping to prevent diseases OF the
lungs, the Importance of eggs IN the
diet is readily appreciated. Eggs
and milk have long played an i'm
portant part in the diet OF tubercu-
lar patients.
Eggs are quite as rich as milk IL
vitamine B. This member OF that
mysterious family is the one which
aids bodily growth and gives protec-
tion against neuritic disorders. Get
ting on down the vitamine alphabet
we find eggs comparatively rich IN
vitamine D, the one which prevents
ricketts,. Generally speaking, tney
have less value in this particular
than cod liver oil. They contain
quite enough of this element, how
ever, to make them valuable subsu-
tutes for the oil for people whose
stomachs refuse to retain it. A daily
ration of egg yolks will prevent rlc-
kets and, in many cases, heal rick
cts that have already started.
Having justified our title in one
sense by showing the value OF eggs
as food, it would not be amiss TO
show that eggs are good to eat in
still another sense. While few OF
lis would care for the racy tang de-
manded by the youngster quoted
at the beginning, it cannot be de-
MED that eggs are ever popular be-
cause they have a most agreeable
flavor all their own. Served IN the
simplest manner, they are always
acceptable. AS a garnish for various
salads and other dishes,
they are both attractive and palata-
BILE. But what would we do for
cakes, pies, pastries of all kinds,
and other dishes were 1t not for
eggs?
Thus in hundreds of ways the egg
its health giving and body
building values into our daily menu.
Unlike other foods that are good for
is, the egg is something that caz
appear in some form or other at. eV-
sry meal without making us tire of |
t. This is good, for the egg Is one
If the most valuable of all the many |
hings used for human food. We
,an hardly eat too many eggs. Let |
is, therefore, endeavor to make ev-
.ry week an "eat more eggs week"
~ finding more attractive ways and |
/ greater variety of ways to serve
hese valuable and ever tasty food /
Copyright, 1929,
by Or. L. D. Leoear, v. S.)
Milford chronicle., 1929-12-13
HILL, NOT HE'LL

He failed to catch the lady's name
When he was introduced.
So not to seem completely dumb,
Poor Jenkins tried a ruse.
Your name," he said, "I've often
heard,
The spelling-let me see.
Which do you use, wonder now,
An 'i,' or just an 'e'?"
The look the lady turned on him
Made poor old Jenkins ill.
81 spell it with an g." she said,
"My last name, sir, is HILL"