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EDUCATORS MEET
HERE TOMORROW
National Council of State
Executives to Hold Two
Day Session.

The annual meeting OF the National
Council Of State Superintendents and
Commissioners of Education will be
held here tomorrow and Tuesday. it
vss announced yesterday by DR.. John
Cooper, United States commissioner of
education, who has returned to his
desk IN the Interior Department fol-
lowing a serious illness.
DR.. Cooper viii preside over tomor-
rows sessions, which will be held in the
Interior Department auditorium. John
Callahan, State superintendent Of public
instruction in Wisconsin, will preside
over Tuesdays sessions
Secretary Of Interior Wilbur will ad-
dress the council tomorrow. when ma
fiOnal problems in education will be
under discussion. DR.. Charles r. Mann
will present report for the National
Advisory Committee on Education, and
David E. Wcglein, Baltimore superin-
tendent Of schools, viii discuss the work
of the Department of superintendent
Committee on school costs. Education
Commissioner Payson Smith of Massa-
ChuSettS and SUpt A. F. Harman Of
Alabama will lead the discussion at the
opening session.
Others who will take active partici-
patton in the tWO-day session Will in
clude Dr. Leonard V. KOos, associate
director. National Survey Of Secondary
Education, Ben w. Frazier, Federal
teacher training specialist. and Dr. Gay
c. Gamble, Federal education survey
specialist, active in the National Survey
Of Education Of Teachers; DR.. H E.
Barnard. director, White House Con-
ference on Child Health and Protec-
tion; DR. Randall J. Condor. represent
ing the National Advisory Committee on
1llteracy, Nj Fred c. CToXton, as
sistant director, Presidents Organiza-
ton on Unemploym Relief: Supt.
John Callahan. Wisconsin. Supt. w. F.
Bond, Mississippi: Supt. E. c. Gifen.
South Dakota; Supt NJ. L. DUggan,
Georgia; Mrs. Katherine NJ. Cook,
chief division Of special problems, Fed
eral Office of Education and Supt.
Charles w. Taylor, Nebraska.
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EDUCATION GROUP
URGES TAX REFORM
National Association Believes Re.
currence of Slump Pre-
Ventable.

A reform of the State and local public
revenue systems as a means of combat
ing the possibility of a recurrence of
depression is advocated by the National
Education Association in a booklet,
Childhood and the Depression" Just
issued
Pointing out that in times Of eco
nomic stress, public education systems
are confronted with the necessity of in
Structtng increased student rolls, while
their revenues are materially decreased,
the association contends the present
difficulties in raising revenues bring
into sharp relief the problem. long ago
recognized as imminent by tax experts
and economists, of basic reform in our
public revenue system"
Given modern, just and well ad-
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York University, Lehigh, Ohio Wesley
an, Oberlin, Lincoln, Wilberforce, Fisk,
Virginia Union, Virginia State, Shaw,
Morehouse, Hampton and Tuskegee
One subject has already been ac-
cepted, namely: Resolved, That the
Philippine Islands should be given alb
solute independence, Another subject
concerning the relative merits Of So
cialism and capitalism has not yet been
phrased.
The schedule begins with the debate
with Virginia State College on Decem-
Der II, Howard taking the affirmative
of the question on Philippine indie
pendence.
Howard's squad of seven debaters has
been selected on the basis of a compe-
tition recently held in Andrew Rankin
Chapel The men selected are: Fred
Mmnis, Miami, Fla; Raymond Jones,
Chicago; Fred Green, IaWrencevilIe,
Va; Leroy Scurry, Jacksonville, Fla;
Monroe Plant, TeXarkana, Tex: Leon
ard Terrell Miss, and T. D. Richard
son.
Women of the university, not to be
outdone in the forensic ventures of
the men, have organized a Howard
chapter of Mu Lambda Lambda Debat-
ing Society. with chapters at Wilber-
force, Fisk and other institutions. The
president OF the new sorority is Joy
Powell Of Struthers, Ohio, a sopho-
more.
Fred MINIS is president of the
Kappa Sigma Club, sponsoring male
debates. George D. Lipscomb, instruc-
tor in English, is coach and faculty ad-
wiser of both teams.
Guests will be received informally in
the new dormitories for women at
Howard University today from to 8
pm. The purpose of the "at home" is
to afford an opportunity for inspection
of the buildings which have recently
been completed. There are three
buildings forming an 81" on an entire
city block adjacent to Mcmillan Park.
now designated as the womens cam
puS.
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Births Reported.

The following births have been reporte
10 the Health Department in the last
hours.
Rosario and ANGELINA Ansstasi, boy.
Walter ! and Charlotte v Reeves, girl.
Arthur and Mamie Smith, girl
Russell W. and Helen C. HOwells. girl.
James A. and Anne Ring. girl.
/ Bris0n and Marion Norris, boy.
Wilder D and Cora Baker, boy.
John Z. and Mildred Kuhn. boy.
Panald NJ. and Mary +. Briggs. boy.
Leslie A. and Elsie N. DAILY boy.
Lew and Theresa EdmCuds, boy
William W. and Elsie V. Walker, boy.
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MAN TRAPPED BY RUSE
Police Hold Mechanic on Charge
of Selling Liquor to officer.

Trapped through ruse by members
Of the first inspection district vice
squad, Arthur S. Ferguson. 26-year- Old
mechanic, Of 1907 Seventeenth street,
was arrested yesterday afternoon on
charges Of sale and transportation of
whisky.
Ferguson was telephoned by a mem
Der of the squad who posed as a Gus
toner and instructed him to deliver
two pints of liquor in front of a hotel
near Eleventh and E streets. He was
taken into custody when he is alleged
to have delivered the order to Sergt.
r. A. Johnson. A search Of his car
disclosed four additional quarts of
whisky, police reported.
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G. L. Choir Organized.

DR. EDWARD J. DONOVAN, profes-
II sor of music at Georgetown Uni
versity, has organized a choir
among the college students which will
sing at the solemn high mass In
Dahlgren Chapel next Tuesday in honor
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Howard Plans Debates.

DEBATING at Howard University
- again comes to the forefront with
the completion Of the largest
schedule ever attempted including TWO
debates with l3 of the leading educa-
tiOnal institutions of the country.
HOWard'S schedule includes New
Evening star., 1931-12-06

Of the fifteenth
centenary of the
Council of Ephesus.
The occasion Is be-
ing observed in ac-
cordance with the
recent encycliCal
issued by P ope
Plus XI.
It was the Coun-
ell Of EpheSus
which promulgated
the dognatic def
milton Of the Di-
vine Maternity Of
the Blessed Virgin
Mary. Rev. Dr'
w. Coleman Nevis,
S. j., president Of
GEORGETOWN, who
will deliver the ser
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Will Address Club Espanol.

Hector Lazo. commercial adviser to
Gov Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico,
will address the Ell Club Espanol of
George Washington University at 8
O'Clock Friday night in room %, Cor
coran Hall. His subject will be Porto
Rico Comes Back"
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Students to Hear Lecture.

A
IN engineer of the U. S. Geographical
Survey, will give an illustrated lee
ture on Alaska before students of the
Washington Preparatory School of the
Y. M. c. A. next wednesday at 500
o'clock, according to an announcement
by r. o. Eliason, principal.
Mr.. Sargent, who has spent much
time in Alaska during the past 80
years, will Illustrate his address with
motion pictures. His topic will be
"Photographing Alaska From the All" :"
DR.. Paul Bartsch, a curator of the
National Museum, will speak December
16 on The Naturalist's Visit to San
Salvador" the island on which Co.
lumbus first touched the soil Of the
New World.
Both lectures will be held at 1886 G
street and will be free to the general
public.
Joseph A. Canoe, aluminium expert,
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ing as chairman Of g temporary or
ganization until the class held its elec-
ton.
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Does College Pay?

Wharton School Of Finance Of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania RI 1881 and the
College Of Commerce in the University
of California in 1898.
The earnings Of the graduates from
these higher institutions who received
the degree Of Bachelor of Business Ad-
ministration and Bachelor OF CONNER
cial Science run far above those of the
Bachelors Of Arts and Bachelors of
Science. Dean Lord shows that the
lifetime earnings of B. B. A. or
B. B. S. are now PROBABLY more than
500. 900 greater than those Of the aver
age college graduate. However. as time
goes on and larger numbers Of young
men take these courses. some OF this
difference will disappear
In fact, DR.. Paul S. Achilles, executive
secretary Of the Psychological Corpora
ton of America. has sent me proofs of
a new study in this field entitled Uni
versity Education for Business" by DR..
James H. S. BoSsard, professor of soci-
ology. and DR.. J. Frederick Dewhurst,
professor OF industry at the Wharton
School. The feature Of interest is that
the median earnings of l.65s Wharton
graduates In 1880 was $3.50. This in
cludes all ages and years Of expert
ence. and Is near treble the similar fig
ure for Dean Lords eigath-grade men,
and one and q half times greater than
this high school men.
Furthermore. study discloses the fact
that the median earnings Of men who
have been out OF Wharton Is or Is
years is $500, while the n1edian earn
ings Of those graduating in lel1-l3 is
$4,000. Forty per cent of the men
graduating In l9l7-18 are already earn
ing over $1,000 and ~ per cent are
are the bright ambitious Office boys who
started business life in 1918 or even ak
years earlier. compared to these men in
point Of income? Forty-one per cent
of the 1928 graduates are already earn
ing more than 81 900 and FL per cent
more than $4,000. 1t would be interest
ing to learn what percentage Of offics
boys who kept their eyes and ears open
during the four years these boys were
In college and two years thereafter are
earning more than $4,000 a year.
Coming now to the third series OF
investigations, again dealing with the
question OF whether high-mark college
men earn more than low-mark men
ard whether success in general college
and campus activities outside the
courses Of study indicates future business
success. two investigations have been
made on the men in the Bell Telephone
System-one by DR.. Walter S. Clifford,
president Of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Co., and tie other by
Donald s. Bridgman, Of the personnel
department Of the Bell System. Presi-
dent Clifford published his study in
1928, and the results have attracted
wide attention. The Bell System Is the
greatest corporation in the world. and
il 1t finds 1t worth while TO pay higher
salaries to brilliant college students, 1t
certainly skaters the stubborn myth
that the college prodigy peters out in
business life and at the age Of so or
so Is discovered as a minor college In
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BAKER LIKE MORGAN
IN EvADING SCRIBES
Reporters Troubles Recall How
Cub" Made Page One on Inter.
view With Banker.

NEW YORK CN.ANA0.-The DIM
culties incurred by reporters trying to
interview George r. Baker, jr., bring to
mind the first assignment given to
Robert j. Kennedy. advertising man.
ager of the Biltmore chain Of hotels.
city editor on the old New York
Herald. meeting the new cub" who
had been hired by James Gordon Ben
nett, told him to interview the elder
j. Pierpont Morgan, who was sailing
for Europe that day.
Kennedy went happily to the pier.
not knowing that Morgan never gave
out an interview. He found the banker
pacing an upper deck, and approached
him with Good morning, Mr..
Morgan"
. Who are you'" demanded Morgan;
the reporter. BY the way, are you
going to Europe?"
Where would you think I was
going? To Chicago?"
mo. and would you mind telling me
If your trip Is concerned with financial
matters?"
would you imagine that was going
over for some London fog?"
Kennedy was somewhat abashed, and
returned mournfully to the Office.
Get the interview" inquired the
city editor.
mo. SIR" said Bob.
Talk to him?"
"Yes, and he was very abrupt when
asked him why he was going to
Europe"
"What?" The editor nearly fell
from his chair. Listen, son." he said.
II take 1t all back. Sit down and
write exactly what happened"
The cub reporter made" the front
page Of the Herald with column story
on his first assignment.
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structor, subeditor Of small magazine
or running an ice-cream parlor.
President Clifford studied the salary
and scholarship records Of 3,806 coll
lege men In the Bell System by dividing
them into four grades, as to scholar.
ship, as follows:
i. Those graduating In the FIRST tenth
Of their class
2. Those graduating In the first third
but not the first tenth.
3. Those graduating in the middle
third of their class.
4. Those graduating in the lower third
Of their class.
How have these men Jared as to SAL
aries In the Bell System? The results
are all in favor of the brilliant college
scholar as q success in business. After
five years of employment the upper
tenth scholars began to earn more than
the other college men. AS President
Clifford says: These men continued to
increase their advantage until they
were IS years out Of college. Then they
began to go ahsad still more rapidly
The group as whole averaged
substantially higher earnings than the
rest of the $500 men"
Taking next the 1,468 men who grad
uated in the middle third of their
classes, after 80 years out Of college
two-thir6s as much as the median
earnings Of those In the first tenth Of
their classes. The earnings of the 784
men In the lowest third Of their classes
trend in the opposite direction from
those in the upper ten-that is, the
longer the best students are in business
the more rapidly their earnings rise,
while the longer the poorer students
are In business the slower their earn
ings rise.
Stimulated by this research and the
public interest 1t aroused, Mr.. Bridg-
man made further study Of various
college achievements and their relation
to subsequent success with the Bell
Telephone System. BridgmanS object
was to see If other things besides q
mans scholarship in college were re-
lated to his future business success
For this purpose he classified the 3.606
men Of President GiffordS study into
three groups:
/. Those with Substantial campus
achievements" including editor in chief
OF a magazine, winner OF an important
oratortcal contest or member of a de-
batting team, manager Of a major team
or important student newspaper, ma jor
/ class ofiieer or member of an honorary
| senior society or leader Of a dramatic or
! musical club.
z. Some campus achievement, In
Guiding member editorial board Of q
magazine, manager of q minor team or
| magazine, minor class officer or mem
Der Of social fraternity. member Of
minor athletic team or OF major var
| sity squad.
3. mo campus achievement" - Just
plain two-legged student.
Taking the man with substantial
college achievement" 1t is clear that
the men who went in for public speak
ing and debating and the ones who
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ranked high for literary effort in the
editorial field are the ones who are now
drawing the highest median salaries in
the Bell Telephone System.
Next in order Of subsequent success
come the managers Of major teams or
important student newspapers. Next
come those with social achievements
such as major class officer or member
of an honorary senior society. Next TO
these come those who made athletic
achievements. and lastly, leaders Of
dramatic or musical clubs.
Another thing that has always been
assumed to indicate future success has
been working ones way through col
lege This has been lauded as giving q
man grit, determination and the work
habit that would carry him to future
practical success. In this study at
least, this factor has no significance.
The men who earned their expenses
had been equslly successful, bat no
more successful than the man who
went through on flowery beds Of ease.
In all these studies there are too
many individual exceptions for any
young man to conclude that we have
unearthed q set of iron.clad rules or
sure-flre prophecies of future failure or
success. Enough men who did poorly
In college have risen high in later sue
cess to prove that a young man who
has not ranked high in college should
not conclude from this alone that he
has no chance. Often. by industry and
courage and by finding his line Of best
development. he surpasses men whose
college achievements were more spec
tacular.
Furthermore. the man with high
college achievements finds no warrant
here for lying on his laurels and think
ing he has rosy path to success. But
what these studies prove Is that the
character, and that the more education
q man has the larger are his financial
rewards. They show, further. that the
American high school, college and
university give American youths a
splendid chance to show the funda-
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LEST WE FORGET
BY BRUCE BARTON.

Such a record, to the end of
1880, would read something
like this:
June /, 1929. Business BOOM
ing. Everything I own go
ing up every day. If things
keep on this way for a year
I can retire.
December /, 1929. This is ter
rible. I am worth only half
what I was. Everything
looks hopeless.
March /, 1880. Things are
picking up nicely. Depres-
sion will soon be over.
June I, 1880. Just when we
were beginning to see sun
light the storm broke again,
worse than ever.
December is, 1880. Am afraid
we are in for many years Of
trouble. Can see no hope
ahead.
This memorandum should
be carefully filed, to be pro-
duced and studied when the
next upset occurs.
For the history of business
cycles is absurdly common
place. They present no nov
elites. Always there Is un-
bridled optimism just before
the crash. Then blank de-
spair. Then a quick rebound
of hope. Then discourage
ment, growing deeper, until,
just before Improvement
starts, everybody is agreed
that 1t will never come.
A few wise old men like
George F. Baker, having pass
ed through many of these
crises, take them very calmly.
But most of us endure the
same hopelessness each time.
Just as we repeat our same
old golf mistakes season after
season.
L 1891
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PLAY WILL CELEBRATE
SARAH SIDD0NS DATE

i. LONDON (N.A.N.A.).-The cenAen-
airy Of Sarah Siddons, the great actress,
who died on June 8. 1881, Ii to be
celebrated at Hereford by the produc-
ton Of . chronicle play dealing with
various stages in her theatrical career
and her marriage to William Siddons.
Mrs. SidconS was a member or the
great histrionic family of the Kembles
and the name Of her brother, john
Philip Kemble, Is perpetuated at Here
ford by the Kemble Theater, where the
play will be performed. 1t is hoped
that the chief parts will be taken by
descendants Of the Siddons and KEN
bles, including Lady Keeble, better
known as Lillah Mccarthy.
During the celebrations two speeches
will be made by Dame Madge Kendall,
and the mayor of Hereford has also
arranged for an exhibition at the old
house. Hereford, of relics belonging 20
Mrs. SiddonS and the Kembles
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ACH Autumn for a num-
r. Der of years 1 have said
L. to myself: This sea-
son I have at last made some
definite progress at golf. Next
Spring I shall play much bet
ter"
But when the next Spring
arrived, and / shook my clubs
out Of the moth balls, I would
be much discouraged. All my
progress disappeared. I was
right back where I started
from.
Last Thanksgiving day I
conceived a brilliant notion.
1 seized my trusty typewriter
and wrote a long memoran-
dunn to. myself, setting down
all that I had learned, by pa
tient practice, through the
Summer-how to grip the
club, how to take 1t back. how
to approach and how to putt.
There" ! cried triumphant
ly, when the warm weather
comes again, and the robins
return, and the grass Is green,
I shall not suffer my custom
airy relapse. shall remember
what I learned this season
and start forward from there"
AS to whether the plan
worked or not, I refuse to an
swer; but it contains an idea
that might be constructive as
applied to business depression.
Why shouldn't every bust
ness man who is so years of
age or under sit down and
make a memorandum of eX-
actly what has happened in
his own mental processes since
June /, 1929.
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tCopyriGht, 1s3l.)
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| their product in bulk at current prices"
although how this is going to be done
by a capitalistic state in world business
without producing an economic bedlam
is a problem which only the pr /essional
mind could solve.
Critics of the Plan say that no indus
:. try which has to meet any kind Of world
competition can lay down five-year
plan for the conduct Of its business.
| Prices rise and fall. no producer who
was ever born can estimate demand. and
even the measure of reorganization
which Is being helped by the big bank
ers in England today is recognized as
being largely determined by pure guesses
at the probable future volume Of salable
production.
Invite Amendments.
Anticipating such criticism, the Plan
makers very wisely announce that what
they put forward Is not the Plan, but
tie raw materials for the Plan. subject
to addition, omissions and amendments
something to think around.
The big and important point about
it is that 1t Is crystallizing the argyll
ments for and against planned eco
Monies in a non -communistic state.
Planned economics have come to the
| forefront Of discussion in almost every
state on the planet which has been hit
by the fal OF some 40 per cent in the
prices Of commodities over the last two
years-a fall equivalent to a rise in an
equal amount in the purchasing value
Of gold.
How can these recurrent crises - of
which the present one is the most vio-
lent ever recorded-be avoided? Marx
always said that the private capitalist
world was based upon unregulated COM
petition and that unregulated competi-
ton produces periodical overproduction,
unemployment. financial panicS and all
the other symptoms our economic doc
tors are now examining. He therefore
made Planned economies basic princi-
pie of the system which the Russian
revo'utionaries are now attempting to
put into practice.
But planned economics in Russia have
pattern all their own. Russian indus
try was nine-tcnths foreign owned and
exploited before the revolution, and the
Russia of Stain Is not an old-estab-
lished industrial state busy recognizing,
but Q backward egrarian state trying
to get itself industrialized It's imme-
date problem Is net how to curb over
production but how to get adequate pro-
duction for its own needs for q start
and. subsequently, share In world
markets commensurate with It's size and
energies.
Seeks Lost Markets.
Britain's five-year plan, on the other
hend, Is designed to enable her to re-
gain the disproportionate share Of world
trade-or at least q large portion of that
share-which she held in prewer days
when she was virtually the worlds
workshop.
The schisve this object the Plan
makers envfsaga arrangements with for
eign nations on the bargaining basis Of
you-buy my goods-and Ill buy yours,
and reject the Beaverbrook idea of re-
generation through tariff wall around
the empire and intensive development
inside Of 1t. They also call for dy-