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The Washington times., 1930-01-20
SCHOOL BOARD
|. EXPENDITURES
QUESTIONED

Two departments Of the District
government are being investigated
by the Bureau Of Efficiency, it was
learned today.
The Board Of Public Welfare.
insofar as its administration of
penal institutions for the District
Is Concerned, and the office Of the
District purchasing officer are the
departments which have drawn
the attention Of the efficiency ex-
pertS.
Declared Merely Routine
While William H. McReynoldS,
assistant chief ofthe bureau, de
clared. that the Investigations are
merely routine" it is understood
that a complete report on the Of
flee Of the purchasing officer has
been sought by a member Of the
House District Committee.
The study being made Of the
Board Of Public Welfare is merely
following out the plan of Herbert
D. Brown, chief of the bureau, to
bring up prison industries to a
point where they are not only self
supporting, but will net the in
mates a small sum Of money for
their laborS.
The question Of prison reform
and expansion has been before
the Bureau for three years and
the plans for an extension of the
Fderal penal system are about
completed it was said at the
Bureau today
Changes Not Indicated
just what changes or exten-
Sions win be recommended for
local penal institutions, officials
Of the bureau declined to make
known.
In regard to the study being
made Of the office Of the District
Purchasing Officer, it has been
Indicated that it involves certain
expenditures by the Board of
Education which it is oll:med
were unnecessary and extrava-
CANT,
The Washington times., 1930-01-20
Purchasing office Is Investigated as Extrauagant
D. {. BLUE LAWS
SEEN UNLIKELY
THIS YEAR

Although Representative William
c. Lankford. q crusading expo.
mont Of Sunday blue laws" for
the District Of Columbia, has put
In q compromise" bill, it was al
most a hundred-to-one shot to-
day that such restrictive legisla-
ton cannot come to a vote at
this session Of Congress. The
new bill goes to an entirely diff
ferent committee, anyway.
Representative Lankford, an
earnest and Jealous fellow, is
quite frank about it. He realized
some months ago that his Sun
day observance" bill, which was
referred to the District Of Colum-
bia committee, had been caught
in q legislative jam. So he virtu.
ally abandoned that proposal,
which would have made the Dis.
trict Of Columbia a mo mans
land" on the Sabbath, except
for works Of necessity. His bill
would have barred all sorts OF
professional sports. including
baseball, and closed all theaterS.
Yet, Mr.. Lankford insisted, it was
not a blue law" in the Puritani.
cal sense.
BilI Hung Fire
The original Lankford bill was
referred to the House District
of Columbia Committee. which
held a hearing upon it. The
Lords Day Alliance and other
reform organizations were repre-
Sented. Since then the legisla-
ton has been hanging fire.
Judge Lankford apparently has
abandoned hope that his original
proposal could be enacted into
law. He has today q substitute,
and he talks about it like this:
II realize that the calendar OF
the District Of Columbia Com.
mittee Of the House is jammed
by several dozen bills. The other
bill I offered was not a blue
low measure, but it has been so
called for sometime.
Il wanted to cut out all pro
feSsional sports in Washington
on the Sabbath; also all theaterS
and everything except activities
Of necessity, such as newspapers,
drug stores, restaurants. hotels
and so on. I thought my first
bill was reasonable.
However, the new Landlord
resolution has been referred to
the House Committee on Inter
state and Foreign Commerce. It
is a rather hard-boiled committee
of % members. Judge Lankford
will ask a hearing pretty soon
But there is always that matter
| 0f cr0wded calendars
The Washington times., 1930-01-20
Day Without Arrest
Is Recorded by
Detectives

No arrests were made yes
terday by members of the De-
tective Bureau, the first time
such a day has passed since
October 5.
Police court, on the other
hand, today will be confronted
with Is males to account for
tFeir wroag-doings over the
weekend. No females were
listed among the culpritS.
The Washington times., 1930-01-20
Times Staff Photo

tive Central Labor Union Of
that city. .
Later he was sent to Raleigh
by the State Federation Of
Labor as organizer and chief
steward of that section Of the
State. The years have taken
their toll of Energy from the
dynamic frame Of Ed Shaken
burg and now he is engaged in
the important work Of seeing
that the Congressional Record
is published accurately and that
no Senator or Congressman is
misquoted through a miSspelled
word or q displaced comma.
The Washington times., 1930-01-20
Nurse Is ExOnerated
In Death of Child. 3

Coroner j. Ramsay Nevitt last
night issued a certificate Of death
from natural causes in the case
of Mary Ellen johnson, 3, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Claude A.
Johnson, Of the 1900 block
st. N. w., who died at the home
Of her nurse in the $500 block F
st. N. w.
The parents Of the child tCld in
veStigating officers that the child
had been placed under a nurses
care several weeks ago because Of
the grave illness of her mother,
The Washington times., 1930-01-20
CIVIC LEADERS WANT D. C. MEN FOR OFFICES
GOOD MATERIAL
ABUNDANT IN
CAPITAL

Civic leaders Of the District
are one in their opposition of the
bill introduced in the Senate by
Senator Wesley Jones, Of Wash
ington. which would give Presi-
dent Hoover authority to appoint
Ionresidents to the posts of Dis
trict commissions.
1t Is the attitude Of those who
are most active in civic affairs
that Washington has ample ma
terial upon which to draw for
city heads, and, in fact, is better
equipped with men of outStand-
Ing qualifications than any other
city in the United States.
Fear has been expressed by
many that, should the Jones bill
be enacted into law, it would
open the door for the appoint
ment of political lame ducks or
retired Army or Navy officers to
the important positions as Com
misSioners.
Would Damage City
This, in the opinion of many.
would work irreparable damage
to the city, in that the post of
District Commissioner should be
filled by men who know Wash
1ngton from the ground UP and
what the needs Of the District
are.
Thus far President Hoover has
not signified just what his atti.
tude is toward the Jones bill. . It
Is believed, however, by those
close to the President that he
would prefer to appoint men who
know Washington rather than
draw on the States for men to
fill the positions. ..
It is understood that two men
have been offered the posts, soon
to be vacated by Commissioners
Sidney F. Taliaferro and Proctor
L. Dougherty, and that they have
refused point blank. ..
Seeking City PIanner 49,.
Rumor about the White House
has it that the President is seek
ing for an engineer and city
planner to take over one Of the
positions. ,........
In any event civic leaders are
prepared to fight the passage of
the Jones bill, taking it as a
direct slap at the District, where
according to them the President
has more and better material to
pick from than he would be able
to find in some time on the out
side.
The Washington times., 1930-01-20

the White House toward the
Dale-Lehlbach bill as it is now
framed. Representative Lehlbach
would not reveal what transpired
at this conference, but it is sig
nificant that today he regards
as hopeful" the enactment of
the bill of which he is co-author
This indicates that the President
will not turn thumbs down on
any reasonable civil service re-
tirement bill Congress may send
up to him.
The Washington times., 1930-01-20
Poison Liquor Blamed
AS D. c. Man Faces
Loss of Ewes

The first serious case result
ing from poisoned liquor in
Washington this year was re.
ported to police last night
when physicians at Emergency
Hospital announced that Frank
Mahoney, "a. colored, 14OO
block Rhode island Ave-, prob
ably would lose his eyesight..
Mahoney. police say, gave
them the name of a man from
whom he purchased the sup
poSedly poisoned bootleg. His
condition is critical.
The Washington times., 1930-01-20
Copeland to Be Guest
At Dinner bv Chamber

Senator Royal S. Copeland, of
New York, health authority,
author and teacher, will be guest
Of honor and speaker at the
twenty-third anniversary banquet
Of the Washington Chamber of
Commerce on Thursday night at
the Mayflower.
The Washington times., 1930-01-20
DR.. ECKHARDT TO SPEAK

An address on the Economic
Problems Of Central Europe" will
be delivered before the foreign
service students of George Wash
ington university by DR.. Tibor
Eckhardt, former leade~ of the
Independent National party. Par
lament member and minister of
the interior of Hungary Wednes-
day morning at IL O'Clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25
Household Methods
BY BETSY CALLIsTER.
Small Houses.

Makers of attractive furniture seem
to have adapted themselves recently to
the demands of the small apartment.
Many of the new cottages and houses
show nearly as small rooms as the
apartments, and unless building costs
go down considerably We shall most of
us have to live in small quarters for
some time to come-that is, of course,
unless we are fortunate enough to pos
sess or to secure one of the old-time
large-room houses.
But the small room. has advantages
and it can be furnished quite satisfac-
torily If advantage is taken Of pieces OF
furniture that are made for small quar-
tiers. Chests of drawers and chiffoniers
used to be almost always made quite
shallow and quite wide, now the top Of
many chests Of drawers or chidoniers is
almost square, giving as much drawer
space as possible for the amount Of
room occupied against the wall
There is a new piece of furniture that
combines the requirements of desk
and chiffonier. There are two or three
lower drawers and then q top section
that let's down like an old-time desk.
Within this there are small drawers and
cLbbyholeS as in any other desk and
above them two or three drawers which
might be used for clothes and dress &C
ceSSOrieS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25
Garments of the Sports Type
By MARY MARSHALL.

think that many women who must fig-
ure closely in buying clother should take
advantage Of the sports type of dress
and suit.
There are sports jacket suits of knit
wooden material that are every bit as
smart and up to date as the more ex-
pensive tailored suits Of covert or wool
voile, and there are wearable one-piece
silk dresses of the sports type that are
suitable for almost every occasion in the
life of the busy woman. This Spring
there are charming little dresses of
gayly printed silk, made with short
sleeves or with a short crepe collar to
cover the shoulders, with high waistline
and gracefully f1aring skirts that are
just the thing for informal evening
wear, and yet, because of their SIM
plicity, not at all expensive.
The sheer silk or cotton dress that
your little daughter will want to wear
when the weather becomes a little
warmer requires some sort of washable
underslip. This weeks circular gives a
diagram pattern for a slip of this sort
that is very easy to make. II you would
like a copy please send your stamped,
self addressed envelope to Mary Mar
shall, care of this paper, and it will be
forwarded to you.
(Copyrisht. 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25

THREE PIECE GOLF COSTUME.
CONSISTING OF CARDIGA AN
JACKET AND SLIGHTLY FLARING
SKIRT OF PASTEL GREEN LIGHT
WEIGHT JERSEY AND A SLEEVE
LESS TUCK-IN JUMPER OF EGG
SHELL TONED JERSEY.
sports type of costume in many women's
wardrobes. Here and there you en-
counter the opinion that sports clothes
should be chosen for sports, that they
should 60 back to the place where they
belong Especial clothes for special oc-
casionS.
And yet dresses and suits and coats
of the sports type are produced in as
large amounts as ever and there Is a
steady demand for them. Personally, I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25
Your Baby and Mine


The widespread interest in Galleries
has been stimulated by the equally
widespread interest in dieting. While
this is fine for an adult under expert
guidance, it is unnecessary in feeding
average children, and sometimes this
interest leads to very poor diets.
We can determine the probable num-
Der of Galleries a child will need accord
ing to age and weight, give the chllo
that exact number of calories ana sun
have him very badly fed. Certain foods,
such as fats and sugars, contain large
number of calories in a given amount
tablespoonful or cupful, as the case may
be. other foods-notably, tomatoes,
cabbage and green vegetables OF all
typeS-contain a small number OF cal
cries in the same amounts. But tnaC
does not make cream and sugar better
foods to be stressed in the diet than to-
matoes or cabbage. We need many
foods valuable for their bulk, minerals
and vitamins quite aside from their
caloric content.
When a mother writes, "Send me a
list of all the foods and their calorlc
values" ct would take booklet to con-
vey such information), feel that the
mother has the wrong idea about diet
She is think of it in terms of calo-
ries and not of food. Such considera-
lions belong to the scientific neld OF
dietetics and not to amateurs.
Children need all kinds of food In
the diet. That is Supremely important
for the mother to know. II she sees
that the child gets these varieties and
his appetite is satisfied, she needn't
have the least idea of the number Of
Galleries he is getting to know that he
is properly fed.
If the child is grossly overweight, she
should take pains to see that he gets
the same varieties of food in lesSened
amounts to discourage an enormous
gain. If he is underweight and is eat
ing in amounts all he can manage at
the moment, she is wise to try adding
to his diet foods that are of high caloric
content without adding much to the
diets bulk. But again she needs ex-
pert help with this problem.
We might compare calories to the
better known standard measurement,
inches. When we make a dress for a
child we fit the dress to her, seeing that
it isn't too long or too short. When we get
through we don't worry about the dress
and say, Now, wonder If 1t has the
right number of inches in it." It is
much the same with calories. Good
diets are figured by dietitians to con-
tain an adequate number of Galleries.
If the child gets all the types of foods
he should have, if he is fed regularly,
eats an amount that satisfies him,
keeps him gaining and obviously happy
and well, then what odds how many
calories are in the diet? If the diet
fits the child, that is all that matters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25
Everyday Psychology
By DIR. JESSE w. sPRowLs.
Mind of the Savant.

It is generally conceded that the
worlds great savants possess a rare
sort of temper or temperament which
marks them as something entirely diff
ferent from the ordinary run Of people.
At the same time very few people are
able to describe this very temper which
they imagine they recognize in the
psychological makeup of savantS in
general.
Savants are supposed to possess big
heads with bullying areas over the eyes.
These bullying areas give a peculiarly
deep-set and piercing appearance to the
eyes. And so we popularity read some
thing uncanny into the eyes Of the
savant. Beyond this eye-psychology
none of us have much to say.
OF course, there are savants and
savantS. Many reputed Savants are good
actors and succeed in getting savant
credits they do not deserve.
A real savant is q negative sort OF
creature. He appears to be interested in
anything but the things that are inter-
esting He has no reverence for an
tiuuity, unless he happens to be an
archeologist, anthropologist or a coll
lector Of antiques. Moreover, he has no
reverence for himself. In fact, he for
gets all about himself in his eagerness
to find out the meaning of the few
thousand curious facts he keeps pom
dering over.
The real mark of savant mind, how
ever, is rather easy to describe. He DIFF
fers from the average man only in the
way he looks at things. The savant has
acquired the habit of looking at the
facts Of science from the inside. Aver
age mortals look at the same facts from
the outside. The savant is interested in
how things come to be; the average
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25
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NTOW clever women - taking their cue from
IN famous interior decorators - know the
secret that achieves charming interior with
very small expenditure of time and money.
Every floor - every piece of furniture -
plistens with wonderful sheen, so utterly hard
that it is impervious to scratches, heel-marks,
and children's rompings.
There's only one polish that brings such a
perfect surface. That is Old English Wax.
AS easy to apply as mere sweeping. When you
surface floors and furniture with Old English
Wax you adon your home with charm and
beauty that lasts :. "A slight retouching of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25
A Sermon for Today
BY REV. JOHN r. GUM.
One-Talent Men.

"And unto one he gave five talents,
to another two and to another one."-
Matt. xxv.15.
- is not given to many of us to be
endowed with the "superlative talent"
We "do not belong, by profusion of
temperament or aff1uence of faculty.
with the lords of light, the creators of
beauty or the rulers of men," The gift
extraordinary has been withheld from
us. w, cannot think in the great way
We cannot write in the great way. We
cannot act in the great way. We have
not the genius to reach the towering
heights where the masters dwell and
reign with the ease of rulership that is
the distinction of the mighty ones of
earth" We belong to the world of ordi-
nary men, the men endowed with the
single talent.
And yet we have our place in the
scheme of human affairs. We may not
achieve the results of the man of the
two or the five talents, but we can make
some contribution to the worlds good
The fact is, the world has greater
need for men with the ordinary gift
than for men with the gift extraordi-
nary. Where one man is needed to
lead. hundreds are needed to fill the
ranks, and these rank-and-file men are
the ones counted on to, do the larger
part of the worlds work. The sum total
Of their talents mounts far above the
sum total of those possessed by the men
of two and five talents. If they should
all bury their talents, as the one-talent
man in the parable did, the whole pro-
gram of the worlds work would go to
smash.
Let not the common man be ashamed
Of his gift or of his place in the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25
Free State Coins Banned.

City officials of Belfast, Northern Ire
land, recently refused to adopt the plan
of accepting Irish Free State coins on
municipal street cars. One official pro-
posed the idea, saying that money from
Northern Ireland was accepted in the
Free State, but another city father said
the difference in weight between the
two coinages was to the detriment OF
the Northern Ireland cofnages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25

It is a rule in Britain's House Of Com
mons that members must be addressed
as honorable members" certain
M. p. who was called to order for
addressing the House incorrectly got
out of it by saying, 'I much regret that
I called you gentlemen"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25

We hear less about the sports type Of
clothes for general everyday wear this
season than in seasons recently past.
The tailored suit. with suitable Access
sories, has usurped the place of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25

H. K. Eve do not "plan on a
thing; we "plan" 1t. IF you plan to
make garden" is the correct form, not
plan on making a garden"
Prolific (pro-liffik) means character
lied by abundant production; as. This
has been prolific year for cabbage"
THE rabbit is a very prolific animal"
II you are puzzled about Q word or ex-
preston, ask jolly Polly!
There is no such thing as pure water
in nature. The only way in which one
can secure chemically pure water is
by the process of distillation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25

Trademarks Reg.-Licensee under Pat. No. LlIl6Ss
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25

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with the things after we have them.
Smyrna times., 1930-10-15
KENT HOSPITAL GROWING
In Three Years 1t Has Worked a
Steady Increase. Report Shows

At the monthly meetings of the
executive committee of Kent Gen
eral Hospital reports showed that
there has been steady increase in
the work of the hospital since it
was opened three years ago. and
some of the figures submitted by
the superintendent, Miss Ruth
Cooper, will be interesting to peo-
pie of Kent county. The total
number of admissions for the
three years has been 2297. The
first year the hospital was opened,
there were 583 admissions, and for
the year just ended, I'll. The I'll
admissions during the last year
were divided into the following
classes: 461 surgical, SO obstetri-
cal, 137 medical, and "a infants
The increase in the hospital work
is further shown by the days ser
vice and daily average of patients.
For the first year, there were s.
436 days of service; for the year
just ended, b,9l9. during the first
year of the life of the hospital,
the daily, average of patients at
the institution was 14.7, and dur
ing the year just ended, it was
1872. For an institution of this
character, the operating loss has
been lower than the public had
been led to believe might be possi-
ended was S4,562.23. This COM
paratively low figure has been
brought about by an economical
administration by the superinten-
dent, and the assistance of the
Women's Auxiliary of the hos
pital. During the past year, the
Auxiliary has contributed in cash
S250O.