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METROPOLITAN Baptist.

Dr.. John Compton Ball will preach
TOMORROW morning and evening The
them for the morning is, How One
Shqid Behave in the House of God"
and n the evening What Did Edison
See aust Before Passing?"
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Congress Street NJ. p.

The Harrison Bible class will meet to-
morrow morning, GAS o'clock, in the
church. George w. Offutt, president of
the Washington Board of Trade, will
speak on christianity in a Cosmopoli-
tan City" ]. o. Curtis will have charge
of the lesson and give short talk on it.
DR.. Hirl A. Hester, the pastor, will
preach at IL am. on THE Conquering
Christ" and at 8 pm. On "a Squander-
ed Birthright" Prayer meeting, Thurs
day, subject: "A Stranger They Will
Not Follow"
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New Bethel Baptist,

Rev. William D. Jarvis will preach
tomorrow at IL am. on THAT Boy and
His Worth" Bible school, $50 am;
Sunday school rally, pm; C. E. meet
ing, $50 pm.
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Bible Class Speaker.

The Mems Bible class of the Francis
M. E. c. S., Sixteenth near Lamont
streets, will be addressed tomorrow ct
GAS am. by Attorney Tracy L. Jeffords
His subject will be Walk In the Spirit"
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Howard University.

DR.. w. Coleman Nevis, president O
Georgetown University, will speak a
the religious services tomorrow at l.
o'clock, in Andrew Rankin Chapel.
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Commander to Preach.

Choosing the subject II Was Hun
cry and Ye Fed Me-" Lieut. Col. Frank
H. Wise, regional commander Of the
Volunteers of America, will preach to-
morrow at o'clock I'M the Volunteers
Mission, at All Pennsylvania avenue.
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EpiphanY Chapel.

The theme of DR.. Francis Yarnall
tomorrow is 1T Might Have Been St.
Demas."
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Unity Services,

Miss Thelma Holder, an exponent Of
practical Christianity as applicable b
the commonplace problems Of everyday
life, who has been speaking twice each
day to increasing audiences at the
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to be trn down some time ago. The
spac. vas needed for a big office build
ing, it was said, and preparations were
well utder way for the razing when
pubic spirited citizens of Boston started
coletion to save Old South Church.
It est $500, 900, but popular subscrip-
ton nised 1t and the church stands to-
day I'd for all time as milestone in
the fsinnins OF American independ-
(CopNsht, 1881, By Publishers syndieate.)
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Friendship BaptiSt.

1.-THE Old Man and New Man" will
b the subject Of Rev. B. H. Whiting
tanorrow at IL am. Rev. j. w. Hen
drson will preach at 8 pm. Sunday
chool, 10 am; B. Y. P. u, pm;
rayer and praise service Tuesday, 8
i'm.
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100000 is RAISED
Western Presbyterian Congregation
Pledges Sum for Church.

The pre-ded:cation program at the
Western Presbyterian Church came to
close last Sunday when the congre-
cation raised 100000 in cash and
pledges. The program was under the
direction of DR.. A. G. Hageman of the
Presbyterian Board of National Mis-
Sions.
The pastor, DR.. Durham. will take for
his subjects tomorrow THE Rebound
of Faith" and THE Human Face"
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Activities in Local Churches

Unity Society OF Washington, 1925 I
street, will complete her engagement
here next Friday night. She leaves for
lecture engagement in New York.
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VISITOR WILL PREACH
DR.. J. r. Saunders to Fill Second
Baptist Pulpit.

DR. j. r. Saunders, pastor of Zion
Baptist Church. McKeysport. Pa, will
preach tomorrow at Second Baptist
Church, Third street between H and I
streets. The Helping Hand Club will
conduct a special pew rally service at
$3.50 pm. Rev. E. L. Harrison, pastor
of Shiloh Baptist Church. will preach
At the evening service the pastor
Rev. j. L. S. Holloman, will preach on
THE High Road of Christianity"
Bible school, $50 am; B. Y. P. u,
pm.
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The Church Helping to Relieve
Unemployment
BY RICHARD SPENCER PALMER.

but should do And this Winter the demands for such assist
probably will than before will
~ test the reality Of religion; they should bring to sober
thinking appropriate action.
For the Vaughn Class large organization Of in
first Of that kind country This five
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BURNS PROVE FATAL
Burl Gwaltney, 26, Dies From In
juries Sustained October 5.

Burl Gwaltney, &c, of Ill Fourth
street southeast, died at Emergency
Hospital early yesterday from gasoline
burns suffered october while cleaning
a floor at 1859 @ street.
Gwaltney was scrubbing the flooring
with steel wool and gasoline, when the
wool came in contact with an electric
floor socket and ignited the gasoline.
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Plymouth CONGREGATIONS

The pastor, Rev. VIM. Herbert King,
will preach tomorrow at pm. and II
am. Church School, $50 am; Y. P.
S. C. E., $50 pm; Prayer meeting
Thursday, 8 pm.
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SERMONS ANNOUNCED

ments" and "Being Steadfast."
DR.. J. J. Rives, pastor of Francis As
bury Methodist Episcopal Church South,
Sixteenth between Irving and Lamont
streets, announces the following SER
mons for Sunday: At the morning serv-
ice, Being Steadfast"; at the evening
service, "Amusements.
The Thursday evening prayer service
will be In charge Of Dr.. Rives.
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
Who Is Stupid?

Now according reports in the press Prof Pitkn is at
work history of human stupidity have, IN fact re-
ceived letter from him. asking my cooperation and if
thought had the kind of information he wanted, would
gladly But in this field specialist In reverse
am interested the stupidity of the stupid only IN the
stupidity of the cultivated the superior Ones the intelligent
Take for example, the artists and the aesthetics who cling
their skirts Could anything be more stupid than the de-
lberae and fanaca nsstence of these chosen ones that
thev are superior to all men and that work may only be
understood the few? Or if that is not stupid enough add
to the that after the aesthetics had proclaimed
the mystery obcury of they rounded the bus
ness man and gave him intellectual hell because he did not
understand them.
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
The Stupidity Of the Wise

Stupidity s literally, ncapacity to act ones age IL
S mot stund for little children imagine that they
touch the ky stupid although heroic Of Wilbur Glenn
Volva to deny that Post and Gay flew round the world
1t stupid for adult to believe anything on neasay
vet more than nnetenths economic POLITICAL medical
astronomical biological beliefs accept the syso
of people whose qualifications ourselves not quaed
to Judge It is stupid for believe that tire rises
and the rain falls in order to keep alive and happy;
but stupid for Thoreau to that the Concord River
might flowing if he not there have never
heard of stupidity superstition which not at
some time held by the wisest and the most eminent
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
True to Type
DUBIOUS CONTRIBUTION
TO NEW HISTORY OF
HUMAN STUPIDITY
Nv GILBERT SELDES-

Prof. Walter B. Pitkin is phenomenal person. He has
written books how write stories and must fight
Japan the psychology of happiness and the psychology
Of achievement and motion pictures and at least
he best and sensational newspaper feature
have encountered and appeared if remember
recty, in the Atlantic Monthly.
Ranking the "Ten''
He asked number of people Il have forgotten how many
and how he selected them rank the Ten Commandments
In the order of their Importance the modern world You
get famary enough symposa Do You Believe in God?
and Should Wife Forgive7 But here symposium
which, by inference took in most of the problems of modern
life. The results extremely interesting.
The social commandments against theft and false witness
ranked high the injunction not kill think first the
seventh commandment came the middle and the purely
religious orders at the bottom Of the list wonder
whether the same results would be found Beacon Hll in
Pittsburgh steel mill and Georgia plantation; even
wonder whether people about those commandments
which paraeed in the civil and criminal laws Of the
land.
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
"VeriIy, Ye Are the People.

And further Isn't the prime stupidity OF all to be tound
in the incapacty of the wise and the enlightened Accord
ing to themselves they have been the repository OF for
generations untold they have been totally
They tell that because OF democracy stuploy IN the
masses more wdespread powerful and danger
Gus to civilization than has been. Whose fault is
thousand years of intelligence haven't made dent IN the
hard skulls of the many headed rabble. Why not? And
whose is the blame? Certainly it not the fault of the
poor and the oppressed the ignorant and the
In every generation the of mind had single oblga
ton-o impress their wisdom others They are them
selves confessng gnobe failure.
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
The Old Disasters

OF all ills of humanity only two have been conquered:
We are no longer slaves the blind forces of nature
we can rrgate rergerate and put up lightning rods
and sail the and the air. and fairly free of the
scourge of disease But and and jealousy murder
and colds poverty and the fear of poverty still
with u.s. If those who stupid have known for a
years how to avoid these things why haven't they
been able make the rest of 1t particularly
futile and cowardy that they have done their BEST
but the ignorance and greed the make it i'm
possible to teach him. That imposs'Hy is exactly what
intelligence should have Fsosidering what came
of it. the whole epic of Napoleon have been stupidity
but he put The wise of the time, who may
have foreseen its futility, did nothing. S..
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
Who Is Wise?

The attitude of the British government toward the Amer
colonies seemed in 1776 crowned stupidity, but the
loss Of the colonies the actual foundation of the British
Empire. The whole of the Great War to the
most disastrous stupidity of which humanity has been
guilty but whom does the burden rest? Is it possible
that the only wise the handfus of pacfsts in
every country' And if that is true why they too
stupid practically to make themselves powerful before the
broke out?
Was it stupid of Darwin let whole side of his life die
out order do his work that at the end he dplored
his incapacy understand music and poetry? Was that
any stupid than the furious with business
which leaves micnaires high and dry at the of 80
without happy memories without pleasures and with
little to with their money and lcsure is stupid to be
faddist and if so Shelley and Bernard Shaw to be
called stupid because they vegetarians'
The Washington times., 1931-07-23
A Fair Instance

It is stupid against ones best interest and
one own best interest has the nasty habit of being
eealed until is late Our judgments of human inel
gence all made after the event. And it to
that to call yesterdays action stupid today is in itself
fairly good example Of what Prof Ptkin is looking for
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11

a shirred and puffed velvet neck
piece likewise a handbag will be
added.
Not infrequently velvet shares
the glory with fur in that the two
form an alliance in the making of
these decorative ensembles. The
black velvet hat and muff which is
trimmed In white ermine is a favor
ite theme with designers. One-color
schemes are worked to perfection
such as, for instance, brown velvet
with mink trimmings for both muff
and beret The fat pelts such as
caracul, galyak and astrakhan are
especially favored since they per-
nit of a fabriclike handling as they
combine with the velvet.
The little shoulder cape which is
made of velvet which is banded
row-and-rOw with fur is exceedingly
smart. OF course, in order to at
tain chic supreme it must be accom-
panied with a muff similarly worked
with fur and velvet.
1t is quite the thing, too, if ones
muff be all fur to adorn it with a
huge velvet bow to match the vel
vet of ones hat and ones neck
piece. Fact is there is a thousand
and one ways in which velvet is
partnershipping with fur in the
making of the new hats. scarfs and
muffs, and the game is to choose
the set you like best and be the
envy Of your neighbors and your sis
ter club members as they note the
chic and charm of your appearance.
The bag shown in the panel above
is smart for formal afternoon and
evening. 1t is the new long shape
which fits the hand. 1t is closed
under the flap with talon fasten-
er. The bow-knot and bracelet are
of pearls, for a revived flair for
pearls is noted in the realm of jew
elry.
O0. 1891. Western Newspaper UnionA
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11
WALKING DRESSES
REVIVE PROMENADE

Walking dresses are we'll in the
running this season. The apparently
lost pastime of the promenade is be-
ing revived and whether the lovely
street frOcks are a cause or symp-
tom it is not for US to discover.
Wool, of course. is about the most
popular fabric and is used in its
various weaves, with the corduroy
weave being a tremendous favorite.
Despite the apparent simplicity of
these frocks. there is a vast amount
of fine workmanship and detail
about them and fine furs are smart
ly used to complete the scheme, al
though the model must never be
overburdened with fur trimming.
Harmony and restraint must of ne
cessity be the keynote of the really
fine frOck meant mostly for outdoor
town wear.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11
LITTLE KNOWN OF
OLD BIBLICAL CITY
Archaeological Find Brings
Sepphoris to Memory.

The st. Louis GlObe-Democrat says
In commenting on the discovery by
University of Michigan psychologists
Of the remains of a Roman theater
and early Christian church at the
site of Sepphoris in Galilee:
Few people ever heard of Sep
phoris. 1t is nowhere mentioned in
the Bible. Even in the synOptic
gospels, which deal largely with
events in Galilee, its name does not
appear. Yet it was at that time the
largest city in Galilee, Josephus says,
and he also describes it as the chief
ornament of Galilee." In political
and social Importance it was rivaled
in the period of which the gospels
treat by the new city of Tiherias,
which King HerOd Antipas had built
and made his capital. But during
the childhood and youth of Jesus,
and in the next generation after him,
judging from the statements Of Jose
plus, Sepphoris held first rank.
And the silence of the gospels as
to this city seems all the more
strange in view of the fact that Sep
phOris was only a few miles from
Nazareth. From one place to the
other was a walk of only about two
hours, and the walls of Sepphoris
must have been in plain view from
the top of the rise on the north side
Of Nazareth. Jesus, therefore, must
have been intimately acquainted with
it and often within it. During the
youth of Jesus, Herod Antipas estab-
lished his capital there, residing
there until he built TiberiaS, and he
built a palace and other edifices
upon Greek lines. Perhaps the the
ater just discovered was built by
him. At any rate there was active
building going on there when Jesus
was in his early manhood, and a re-
cent biographer (Case) thinks it
probable that Jesus as a carpenter
was employed in some of this work.
All this marks the discovery just
reported of peculiar interest to Bib
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11
Papal Error That Cost
Spain Much Territory

King Solomon offered to divide
small boy to whom two women laid
claim, and won a great reputation
for wisdom by so doing. Pope Alex
ander VI-bOrn Roderick Borgia-
actually did divide the world, and
got no special credit for it even in his
own day.
He was an ADLER administrator,
more versatile politician, a more far
sighted statesman, greater patron
of the arts and sciences and a much
better friend to the common people
than was the Hebrew monarch, and
that's about all the good it did him.
Vasco da CANA had rounded the
Cape Of Good Hope to give Portugal
a foothold in India. Columbus had
sailed west to discover what might
prove to be a new continent, and he
represented Spain. 1t was inevitable
that there should be conflicting
claims, and perfectly natural that
the rival rulers should turn to the
pope as the logical umpire.
Alexander did not find the prob
lem difficult. For generations the
Portuguese had been sailing south
ward along the west African coast
and their claims were obviously to
be preferred along the routes they
followed. The Spaniards, through
their Genoese agent, had found land
in the West. What was easier than
to draw a line from north to south
on the map and let the broad Allan
tic separate the new dOminions of
the rivals? Every one was happy.
1t was seven years before the Por-
tuguese discovered that Brazil stuck
out so far to eastward that it
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11
Modern Clothes Given
Touch of Old STYLES

Even if we sometimes cannot ex-
actly date any particular coat or
frock, there is no gainsaying the
charm and gracious lines of the
new autumn clothes. And why
should it be necessary to tag a his
torical epoch onto a garment that
is quaint and picturesque, with a
touch or feature that is reminiscent
of other days.
If any particular garment was
definitely of the Second empire or
of mid-VictOrian days it would look
dreadfully out of place in a mod
ern building. No, the new clothes
are splendidly up-to-date.
Designers are far too wise to 90
in for sartorial anachronisms. They
use just enough of the bygone styles
to give a different look and feel to
ultra-modern clothes.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11

lical students. That the place Is not
mentioned in the gospels is 10 argu-
ment against their credibility. The
city of Tiberias is mentioned but
once and that quite casually, and
other places of known Importance
not at all. In fact, very few places
are mentioned by name, although
there were 204 cities and towns in
Galilee, according to Josephus. Jose
phus himself names many of these
places but he does not mention NaZ-
areth. Yet Nazareth was there, and
JOsephus was a credible historian.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11

but there was something about the
way you said that that set me to
thinking. Do you have folks of
your own, and-and a Christmas
tree and everything?
For a moment Lena Masters was
silent, then as she looked into the
strong, kind face, she answered:
"The only relative | have, an uncle,
lives in Montana, and-and | have
never had a home Christmas. But
but love the day just the same"
Then John Anderson told her
something of his own life. He had
gone away at twenty-two-had been
sent abroad as the representative of
q large concern-now, after five
years he had come back at the re-
quest of his father, to help him with
his business. His father and moth
er were growing old. And because
he had come back, they wanted a
Christmas tree, and so he had come
for the fixings.
Later that evening, just as Lena
Masters was getting ready for clos
ing time, she looked up to find John
Anderson standing by the counter.
He was accompanied by a sweet
faced old lady-his mother, Lena
knew even before he introduced
them. L just had to bring mother
down." he said. "As soon as l told
her about you today, she just in
sisted that you spend Christmas
with us. You-you've got to see
the Christmas tree, you know; you
had a part in its making"
The days that followed were the
bappiest Lena Masters had ever
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11

nESlGNERS are as busy as bees
- creating the most fascinating
ever hope to see. These little sets
which invariably include a muff-
for not in decades have we been
privileged to carry such intriguing
muffs as the style program now of
fers-are mostly made of velvet
which is shirred, shocked, ruffled.
puffed and otherwise manipulated
TO the queens taste.
You will be finding one of these
fiattering sets just the thing to wear
with your winter fur coat. Note
the winsOme velvet hat and muff
which the Smartly clOaked young
woman to the left in the picture is
wearing. Black velvet ribbon shirred
in full ruche effect makes the
muff, a band of the same encircling
the caplike turban which dips
down over the right eye exactly as
1t should to be fashionable.
The very charming velvet hat-and-
muff set which adds such a con-
spicuously outstanding note to the
coat of black broadclOth which the
seated figure, below to the right in
the picture, is wearing, stresses the
ever chic black-and-white note, for
they say in Paris that the feeling
for black and white is. waning not
a whit, which is some record when
one considers the beguilment of the
delectable colors shown on the fall
and winter color card. The muff
in this instance is especially inter
esting in that 1t Is one of those
tricky little affairs which is sup
posed to slide up the arm like a
huge cuff when not in actual use.
Sets which feature velvet in con-
trast, as does this one, are also be-
ing shown in brown or in dark green
with beige landings. The idea is
that they be a perfect color match
TO the cloth of the coat or suit
which they complement.
There's simply no way of telling
all the designful things that are be-
ing done with velvet in the creation
of these sets which fashion DEGREES
shall be worn with the afternoon
suit or the street coat. One sees,
per example, the hat with a brim
crowned with velvet all puffed and
shirred. the treatment repeated for
the muff. Like as not the ensemble
will develop into foursome, in that
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11

S h e tied I h e
p a c k a G e and
handed 1t across
the counter.
"SOmebod y S
going to have a
lovely Christ
mas" she said.
Il can ina CINE
h o W beautiful
this tree will
look.
The man took
the box and
started to move
away, then re-
turned rather
slowly. Pardon
me-" he STAN
mered, but
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11

crossed the pope's line, and that the
holy father had given them far more
than they had dreamed of. They
were quick to colOnize, and that is
how Brazil speaks Portuguese to
this day, although every other Latin
land prefers Spanish
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11

flashed across her face. "In just a
moment" she answered, "as soon as
get this package tied up"
Carefully she went over the cOun-
ter, selecting such things as she
would put on a Christmas tree her
self. Yards and yards of silver tin
sci, boxes of Christmas snow, num-
erous tree ornaments, several Santa
Claus figures, and all the other
things that go to make a Christmas
tree a thing to exclaim about. And
on the top layer of the box she put
a beautiful shining silver star, care
fully wrapped in tissue paper. Then
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11
Glover as Fire Check

The Pennsylvania department of
forests and waters is experimenting
with clover growths as a means of
checking fire outbreaks in the woods.
Experiments have shown that the
clover will remain green during dry
weather and will form a mat thick
enough to impede the advance of the
fire.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11

that this could not last forever.
But Lena Masters found the hap
piness that Christmas had brought
her was going to be lasting. From
now on, all the joy Of happy home
life and comradeship was going to
be hers. For, as they stood beside
the cleaning Christmas tree, John
Anderson's hand reached out and
clasped hers. and she heard him
whisper: Ever since l put that star
on the Christmas tree, tit seems
like a symbol of the happiness that
lies ahead for US two"
Oo). 1891 Western Newspaper Union.)
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11
Dresses Grow Wider at
Top in Latest Fashion

Whether you have worried about
narrow shoulders and wide hips as
exhibited by your own figure or just
let them go unnoticed, you will
glory in the new fashion for max
ing the dresses wider at their tops.