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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25

decision of the Supreme Court on Tues
day to be what it turned out TO be.
The technicality which created SO
much furore in December and which
is now reduced to nothing arises out
of article of the Constitution. That
article provides two ways in which
amendments to the Constitution may
be ratified, by the legislatures of three
fourths of the several States or by con-
ventions in three-fourths thereof"
One Method Always Used.
Until the New Jersey judge made his
startling gesture in December, no one.
for l40 years had made any distinc-
ton between those two methods. They
were regarded as equivalents. One was
as good as the other. IN practice the
first method, by lgislaturs, has always
been used Every one of all the 10
amendments to the Constitution. from
1890 to 1921, has been ratified by the
method of legislatures.
The other method, by State conven-
tions, has never been used. No court
until the New Jersey judge in Decem-
Der raised any question about the
method of Legislatures being perfectly
equivalent to the method of State con-
ventions. No one raised any question
about ratification by Legislatures being
perfectly binding for all amendments.
The New Jersey judge, going into
ground utterly new, invented the theory
that there are two kinds of amendments
to the Constitution. One kind has to
do with the form of Government. That
kind, the New Jersey judge said, can
be ratified by State Legislatures. The
prohibition amendment, however, ac-
cording to the New Jersey judge, is
different. 1t has to do with the per-
sonal liberties of the citizens of the
various States.
This kind of amendment, according
to Judge Clark's New Jersey decision.
must be ratified by State conventions
called specifically for this purpose
Since the prohibition amendment was
actually ratified by State Legislatures,
the New Jersey judge held that there
fore the prohibition amendment was
not properly ratified.
This, very roughly, was the decision
of Judge Clark in New Jersey So brief
a summary of Judge Clark's decision
necessarily does injustice to the learning
and the exploration into history and
political science upon which he sup
ported it. In any event, the Supreme
Court now reverses Judge Clark and
Sustains the validity of the prohibition
amendment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
DRY
GROUPS APPROVED
Units in 48 States to Have
Headquarters in D. C. for
National Strategy.
By the Associated Press.


Organization of we'll centralized po-
litico- temperance fighting units In each
of the 48 States bore the Endorsement
today of the National Conference of Or
CARNATIONS Supporting the Eighteenth
Amendment.
DR.. Ernest Cherrington, president of
the dry conference, said the decision
to form these units, reached last night,
was pointed iii Getty toward the next
presidential election. He asserted it was
the most significant step yet taken by
the assembled leaders of the 33 organ
lied prohibition groups.
AS the third day of secret sessions
opened, the conference began considera-
ton Of proposal to form board dedi-
Gated almost solely to placing dry planks
in the 1882 platforms of both political
parties. There was, however, some OBJ
lection to the measure.
Other Changes Planned.
Approval of the plan to set up State
temperance conferences, each to be rep
resented as unit in the national con-
ference, was not gained until shortly
before midnight last night. 1t was part
OF drastic rewriting of the organiza-
tons constitution.
Other highlights in this unprece-
dented revision were:
The establishment in Washington of
a national headquarters for the Nations
combined dry groups.
The creation of committee or board
of strategy" of Is outstanding dry lead
ers to provide unified command upon
all matters arising between meetings of
the national conference
An opening up of the organization to
permit the election of nationally prom
lnent men and women not members of
any dry organization.
Expects United Front.
DR.. Cherringon said today it was
hoped the effect of these provisions
would be to create an overwhelmingly
strong national temperance group, mo-
bilized to present co-ordinated front
upon all prohibition matters
In the organization to be initiated
Immediately throughout the United
States, he said, the State units of the
Anti-Saloon League, the w. c. T. u,
Good TemplarS and other national
groups would be invited to join State
conferences similar in organization to
the national conference.
Other local units not affiliated with
the national dry organizations now
members of the national conference
likewise would be invited to join the
State groups.
Each State conference would be rep
resented in the national body by two
elected representatives, so the head
quarters to be established here would
stand at the point of a figurative
pyramid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
VETS NOW ADMIT
DRYLAW LEGALITY
Decision of Supreme Court
Turns Fight to Outright Re-
peal of Amendment.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

There's significance in the decision
Of the Supreme Court of the United
States, unanimously rejecting the idea
advanced by Judge Clark that the
eighteenth amendment had not been
properly ratified, in that the decision
sweeps away attempts to bring about a
change in the prohibition status by
legal Subterfuges.
The Wickersham Commission took its
stand emphatically on the proposition
that onuly change in the wording of
the eighteenth amendment ITSELF for
mally ratified as a new amendment,
could change the present situation with
respect to the distribution and sale of
alcoholic beverages.
For while the thought that by tech
nicalitieS the eighteenth amendment
could be nullifled was a weapon of the
vets, but now they are advocating out
right repeal or revision of the amend
ment. The. decision of the Supreme
Court corroborates the view that funda-
mental changes in the Constitution it
self afford the only method of baSicly
altering prohibition as it exists today.
While the Clark opinion thus has
been swept aside, the incident has given
publicity to another method of propos-
ing and ratifying constitutional amend
mentS, namely by the action of con-
Stitutional convention. This has been
very little discussed at any time in
American history, but it is recognized
even by the Supreme Court of the
United States as legitimate method OF
amending the Constitution.
1t is up to Congress. however, to de-
eide by two-thir0s vote whether the
method by ratification by State LegiSla-
lures or by constitutional conventions
shall be used. The Supreme Court lays
down the rule that Congress has final
authority to decide on the method and
that all the amendments heretofore
adopted were properly ratified because
Congress did specify the exact method.
1t is believed that the Clark case will
be the last of the efforts to attack the
validity of the eighteenth amendment.
Several cases have been tried during the
last decade, but the Supreme Court has
upheld the constitutionality of the
amendment on every occasion. The fact
that there was no divided vote in the
latest case and that the entire bench IS
recorded on the proposition is expected
to dispose of any further discussion on
technical points.
Justice Roberts, who rendered the de-
cision, spoke of the Clark ruling as a
document in political science" and
contends that no matter how desirable
1t might be to ratify the Constitution,
the choice of mode rests solely in the
discretion of Congress.
The dryS are naturally pleased over
the decision, while the vets realize that
all their efforts hereafter will have to
be concentrated on the merits of the
eighteenth amendment rather than any
antiquities in the Constitution or the
VolStead act
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
THREE SUITS ARE FILED
FOR ALLEGED DAMAGES
Woman Who Fell From Union Sta
ton Loading Platform Asks $780,
900 for Remuneration.

Elizabeth bennett, 1915 @ street, has
filed suit to recover $4,000 from the
Washington Railway g. Electric Co. and
the Washington Terminal Co. for al
legged personal injuries. She says she
fell from loading platform in front of
Union Station and was more than seven
months in a hospital
William B. Wood, years old, through
his father, William Wood, 1118 Twenty
third street, has filed suit to recover
$4,000 damages from James T. Baggett
& Son, coal dealers, 1919 Twenty-second
street. The boy was injured February
"a, 1880. when struck by truck of the
defendants while crossing at Twenty
first and L streets.
Damages of $25, 900 are asked in a suit
by Ebba Van, through her father, JEFF
ferson Van, 1926 Twelfth street, against
William c. Bond and his wife, Rachel
Bond, 1445 Park road, owners of the
Twelfth street property. The child says
she was injured while riding in an auto
matte elevator at the Twelfth street adj
dress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
Jeritza in Cay Mood
DIvAs GENIAL EMOTIONS ovERwHELM HER.
ME genial emotions of Maria
Jeritza, blonde Viennese prima


TIME genial emotions of Maria
Jeritza, blonde Viennese prima
donna of the Metropolitan
Il Opera Company, were too much
for her yesterday afternoon at
Constitution Hall. Before Mrs. Herbert
Hoover and vast audience she broke
| oown-not with Iturbi temperament but
| with laughter. She had scarcely reach
ed the halfway mark in a song when
the spirit of merriment that had been
pursuing her for some time came to the
surface and she gave way to an out
burst of laughter.
II beg your pardon" she said, when
she had partly mastered her mutilated
feelings Il beg your pardon" And with
that such wave of sympathy and APP
prevail went through the hall that the
applause that came seemed almost the
most fervent of the afternoon.
Nine. Jeritza explained all this after
ward. You see," she said behind
doors which had been locked to keep
away the large crowd of autograph
seekers which had assembled, II had
begun the wrong words of song, and
Mr.. RuhrseitZ" accompanist-"in
stead of stopping went right along, and
somehow it seemed so funny, that
Well, was terribly ashamed. And the
audience was so nice. All could think
OF TO say was i peg your pardon " ana
with that still smiling and evidently in
the best of spirits, and surrounded by
personal attendants, she ran down the
corridor and disappeared
AS matter of fact, the afternoon had
been replete with amusing interpola-
tons. Nine. Jeritza, after her first
number, started to walk through the
wall, far from the stage entrance-that
is, she headed straight for the massive
tapestry which covers the right side OF
the stage and might have tried to force
her way through if Mr.. Ruhrseitz hadn't
steered her right. This started the re-
pressed laughter for in her next num-
Der she was seen to be struggling with
somewhat hilarious emotions, which
gave way not so long after. And then
during number played by the assisting
artist Leonid Bolotine. an arm-which
obviously belonged to the famous diva
was seen to reach out from the side door
and forcibly remove an attendant who
had stationed herself just outside.
In no way did all this, however, de-
tract from the singing of the great ar
tiste. In fact, as though wishing to
atone for the impeachment in the prog
ress of her recital. Nine. Jeritza con-
tributed probably the most brilliant en-
cores of the year after it was all over
An audience that stood around and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
MAN AND WIFE FOES
IN CITIZENS DEBATE
Logan-Thomas Circle Meeting OPP
poses $4,000 Congress Aid of
Undernourished Pupils.

The question of the proposed appro-
priation Of $4,000 for the feeding of
undernourished school children in this
city, which is now before Congress, sep
arated the unity of man and wife last
night before the Logan Thomas Circle
Citizens Association for a brief period
when Horace NJ. Fulton. secretary of the
association. took the affirmative side of
the question and Mrs. Horace M. Fulton,
delegate to the Federation of Citizens
Associations, took the negative.
Mr.. Fulton favored the measure be-
cause, he said, if children are underfed
they should be cared for. Mrs Fulton
expressed her opinion in the debate
that the situation should be met by the
Community Chest and other civic
groups, rather than by the GovernAhent
Following the discussion, however the
vote on the question revealed that the
association was largely opposed to the
appropriation by Congress-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25

cheered in its efforts to hear little
more of her forced her to sing again
and again, and also made her bow
straight to the ground, which is one of
the defteSt and most gracious of her
manneriSms
Undoubtedly the most pleasing of the
selections which she offered we're the
German songs, one of which, Hat dich
die Liebe beruehrt," stood out most
emphatically on the program. 1t wasn't
really until she reached this number
that she seemed to be giving her very
best But there was little question of
the warmth of her voice and her tech
nique at that moment. And thereafter
all went well-barring the time out.
Leonid Bolotine, violinist, assisted
with some solo selections, of which the
Dinicu-Heifetz "Hora staccato" was cas-
lily the most noteworthy. And Kurt
Ruhrseitz was the very distinguished &C
companist of the afternoon, playing for
both artists, and leading Nine. Jeritza
of the straight and narrow with little
or no sign of contrition
E. de S. MELCHER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
SPEAKS 1T CATHEDRAL

Canon Arson Phelps Stokes of WASH
ington Cathedral will deliver a sermon
on THE Meaning of Lent at the Len
ten services to be held at Washington
Cathedral this afternoon at 4:3O O'Clock.
This service is one of the series of
services to be held every Mondoy, We'd
nesday and Friday at the Cathedral
during Lent
The speaker for Friday afternoon will
be Canon Raymond L. Wolven, chaplain
to the Bishop of Washington, who will
speak on THE Teaching of the Prayer
Book" Rev. John w. Gummere will
speak Monday.
Following the services members of the
clergy staff will conduct pilgrimages
through the Cathedral crypts and to
other points of religious interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
CHANGE IN ALCOHOL
RULES AWAIT 0. K.
DiStiIIing, of Brandy and Al
IoWance of Liquor to Den
lists Also Planned.
BY the Associated Press.


New regulations to further prevent
the flow of industrial alcohol into boot
leg channels and to permit wholesale
distilling of high-proof brandy awaited
today the signature of Attorney General
Mitchell. They are designed to go into
effect March l, but Mitchell said there
might be some delay, since he intended
to STUDY them thoroughly. The sigma
ture of Secretary Mellon also must be
obtained.
Under the revised regulations dentists
will be placed on par with physicians
in the amount of liquor allowed for Of
fee use-six quarts annually. Commits
Sioner Doran of industrial alcohol said
they did not include, however, any reg
ulation of physicians medicinal liquor
prescriptions.
The authorization of large-scale
brandy distilling. Doran explained, will
principally affect the California fruit
and grape interests
The brandy making was provided for
under the Smoot-Hawley tariff act.
DiStillerieS would be set up in connec-
ton with wineries and the product
placed In direct competition with indus
trial alcohol. Strictly for non-beverage
purposes, it would be issued only to
holders of alcohol permits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
CANNON OPENS MEETING

NEW ORLEANS, February 25 R.-
With Bishop James NJ. Cannon, jr.,
presiding, the General Missionary
Council of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South today studied its prob
lens in foreign countries.
A preliminary session last night
heard DR.. Fletcher S. Brockman of
Nashville, Tenn, describe his mission
airy work in China and appeal for
friendly aid of the Christian world to
country that has made a titanic
struggle the past half century TO over
throw corrupt and autocratic gov
eminent"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
Duchess Seeks Divorce

LONDON. February Is CP.-The
Duchess of Manchester, the former Miss
Helena Zimmerman of Cincinnati, Ohio,
has served the Duke of Manchester with
a petition for divorce, a statement by
the duke said today
The duke was married to Miss
Zimmerman, daughter of the late
Eugene Zimmerman of Cincinnati, in
1900. They have two sons and two
daughters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

Meeting Executive Committee, Ma
tional Capital Federation of Garden
Clubs, Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth and
K streets, 7:30 pm.
Banquet, American Patent Law Asso-
citation, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 pm
Meeting, Argo Lodge, B'nia Birth,
Jewish Community Center, Sixteenth
and Q streets, 8:15 pm.
Unemployed benefit ball, veterans of
the District, Willard Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Anacostia Citizens Associa-
ton, Masonic Temple, Fourteenth and
U streets southeast, 8 pm.
Meeting, Geological Society, Cosmos
Club, 8 pm.
FUTURE.
Benefit dinner, Community House,
Chapel and Carmody roads, Seat Pleas
ant Md, tomorrow, pm.
Dinner. st. Marks Episcopal Church,
Third and A streets southeast, tomor-
row, pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25

are full now.
MusSells Shoals is one of 'em. If
the Government runs it, we lose
money. If somebody runs it, they
make money. So lets keep it as it
is. tribute to our engineers, a con-
slant argument to our statesmen.
and a nightmare to our taxpayers.
WILL ROGERS.
(Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25

pocket v e Z o.
If a bill is
passed it comes
to him, and he
has 10 days to
carry it in his
p o cket and
think it over,
b ut Congress
hasn't got 10
days to go, so
he can't pocket
veto any more,
for his pockets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25

TR1TZI, the police dog of Frank T.
- Gartside, chief of the park divi-
sion of the Office of, Public
L Buildings and Public Parks, is
lost in a Massachusetts, blizzard,
but her owner believes she will find her
way back to Washington. unless appre-
hended or killed. A short time ago
FRITZ went with Mrs Gartside to Whit
man, Mass, and on Friday morning the
dog get away from the house and fol-
lowed the scent of her mistress in the
snow.
The animal has not been found, al
though thorough search of the town
has been made. Mrs. Gartside is re-
manning in Whitman in an effort to
locate the pet. FRITZ is years old,
weighs about IS pounds, is of medium
SIZE gray and black in colcr, with light
saddle and light tan under the throat.
She has extremely large ears and is
exceedingly gentle, Mr.. Gartside says.
The dog was bred in Bethesda, Md,
and has been raised from a pup by
Mr.. and Mrs Gartside. On one occa-
sion FRITZ saved Mrs. Gartside when
she fell overheard from a small boat
at nearby Maryland seaside place.
The dog has been trained to play ball
and is great favorite around 1916 Van
Ness street, her home here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
NEW YORK WORLD
SALE IS SOUGHT
Pulitzer Brothers Petition
Court to Save Newspapers
From Collapse.
Continued From First Page.)

fight for progress and reform, never toll
crate injustice or corruption, always
privileged classes and public plunderers,
never lack sympathy with the poor,
always remain devoted to the public
welfare. never be satisfied with merely
printing news, always be draStically in
dependent, never be afraid to attack
wrong. whether by predatory plutocracy
or predatory poverty"
Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911. His will
provided for the continuation of the
newspapers forever" upon the same
ideals
The three newspapers have 2,867
employees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
Will Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-The
President has what is called the
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Meeting, Geological Society, Cosmos
Club, pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25

Unemployed benefit ball, veterans of
the District, Willard Hotel, 9 pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25

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after by practical roofers- Call US up.
KOON& Roofing ll9 Bird 81. "
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Evening star., 1931-11-01

was residing at 1411 Senator Thomas F.
Bayard at 14l3, later occupied by Senator
Shelby NJ. Cullen; Mai Thomas B. Ferguson
assistant commissioner of fisheries at 1435;
James OTmond Wilson, superintendent of
public schools, 1899; the u. S. Fish Commission
1443, and next door. at 1445 Prof. Spencer F.
Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
and director of fish and fisheries, made his
home; Senator LuciuS @. c. Lamar at a later
date lived across the way.
Senator Orville H Pratt was residing at
1925 Massachusetts avenue zebulon B. Vance
in the adjoining home, and in the block to
the west at No. TIT, lived william Walter
Phelps then a member of Congress, and at
the end of the block on the same side was the
handsome new home of Belden Noble which
the writer believes was later remodeled into
the three apartment building the northeast
corner of Massachusetts, avenue and Eighteenth
street, where resides the Secretary OF the
Treasury, Mr.. Mellon, having as a close neigh
Dor across the way, at 1900 Mrs Hugh wallace,
widow of the recently deceased Ambassador to
France. and daughter of the late Chief Justice
Melville w. Fuller of the United States SUI
preme Court Many will recall her marriage
here in the eighties to Mr.. wallace in the old
st. Johns Church.
c ENATOR LODGE, the Walsh family, the
- Letters and other prominent people were
early residents Of this noted avenue, but not
Evening star., 1931-11-01

ONE can hardly form an idIa of how sparseiy
settled some parts of Washington were for
half a century and more after the Capital was
moved here until they become interested in
items OF the past which, directly or indirectly
describe certain parts of the city. Some time
ago the writer introduced in one of his stories
scene showing cows grazing along X street
northwest between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets, about 1850.
At that time he might have mentioned the
Rugby Academy, conducted by Reginald h
Steele In the Rugby House, on the site of the
Hamilton Hotel at least up to 1882 when the
school was moved to Thirteenth street How
ever, when the academy was at Fourteenth and
K streets we find it said that it was so far out
that pupils were not allowed to 60 to the city
without special permission.
Highlands Terrace" north side of Massa-
chusettS avenue between Fourteenth and
fifteenth streets, was the result of the boom
in real estate before referred TO- which, how
ever, was only short lived, but worked wonders,
particularly in the northwest while 1t lasted
number Of important men bought on the
terrace and erected homes there. In 1885 the
Chinese Legation was at 1401 Massachusetts,
avenue, next door was the home Of Repre-
sentative Theodore Lyman, and No I4OT was
the home Of ut. Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee, first
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of washington
who died here. Senator Arthur p. German was
then living at 14os, Senator George p Edmunds
Evening star., 1931-11-01
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