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The Washington times., 1936-01-17


Lowell, comes from too haSty
choice of life partners, and he
thinks the time to stop divorce
is before young people get mar
ried."
His anti-divorce problem will be
attacked from the practical side
income, outgo, temperamental ad-
justment-just as he tried to help
his parishioners when he was
stationed in Waterbury, Conn.,, at
the beginning of the depression,
and established a financial serv-
ice for his congregation, by inter
viewing both creditors and debtors
and attempting to adjust their
differences.
EXPLODED THEORY
Now he is turning his attention
to the young people of his flock,
anad trying to save them from
that tremendous American ratio
one divorce in every six mar
riages-which is our record.
The theory of one mutton chop
being enough for two, he thinks,
is exploded. If they are to be
happy, people must not go hungry:
Prospective groomS are advised
to wait until they see their way
clear to pay rent and grocery bills,
before taking marriage VOWS.
Rev. Mr.. Lowell's school will
be open to all young people be-
tween the ages of Is and Is,
whether or not they are his par
ishoners.
In one of the old-fashioned
brownstone houses in New York,
somewhere in the fifties, there
has been opened lately School
for Brides" which is showing
excellent results. Primarily this
is intended for young business
women, who have had no expert
ence in housekeeping, and couldn' t
tell a duck from a chicken if the
feathers were off, or a rib roast
from shoulder clod.
These girls are first taken to
market and told how to shop,
then inisiated into the mystery Of
q balanced ration, and, as the
GROWING glory of their domestic
science education, taught how to
make a pie which will compare
favorably with mothers.
Difficulties
Grounds for divorce have fire.
uuently been coffee grounds, and
the bride-to-be will learn to make
coffee which will pour out as clear
as cognac. Also tea, which will be
made with actively boiling water
and brewed in a pot which has
been scalded.
The spiritual and tempera-
mental difficulties of marriage
are not taken up in this particu-
lar school for brides, the head
of the institution feeling that If
you feed the BRUTE" these finer
adjustments will look after them
selves.
Some weeks ago this column
discussed courses in marriage at
Antioch College, Ohio, of which
Judge Ben Lindsay approves
heartily.
Schools for brides and educa-
tional courses in preparation for
marriage we're once regarded as
comic supplement stuff.
Today every right-thinking per
Snn is hiohlv in favor of these
The Washington times., 1936-01-17
Deserted at Dance
Spells Children
[isS Fairfax:

Dear Miss Fairfax:
my girl friend and 1 were in
vited to :. dance by two boys.
When they gave US the invita-
ton, they told us they would
see us home, but they left before
the dance was over. One of
the boys came over and in
formed us they we're then leav-
ing. They didn't say anything
at all about taking us home, or
seeing that we got home, with
some one else.
What would you do in such
a case, and how shall we treat
these boys, if they call on us
again? T. and S."
In your case, my dears,
should have called a cab. Anc
in future, drop these unmannerlJ
men, who evidently have
not a bowling acquaintance with
good manners,
The Washington times., 1936-01-17
Confusion Often Results
From Not Knowing
Your Textiles
By WILMA LAVILLE

women alike. We go in store and buy something sales
suggests, usually We don't know whether it's wool
cotton, rayon silk, alpaca mohair Yet will expect
to give service send to the dry cleaner with
structons but expect them to know all about it, and
disappointed suit other garment doesn't we'll
The Washington times., 1936-01-17

charts which point out the sub
merged rocks on which so many
unions have been wrecked.
The Washington times., 1936-01-17
Time to Stop Divorces
Is Before Youngsters
Are Married.
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX

Famous Authority Problems of Love and Marriage
The Rev. Moses Lowell pastor of the Second Congregational
Church of Holyoke Mass thinks of prevention bet
ter than pound of in correcting our high divorce record
brides and brdegrooms in few weeks The curriculum will
center about pitfalls of marriage which lead to divorce
Evening star., 1936-01-19

and built the November" theater fall
right, then-cageD. 1t contained few
of the runWays and spinning discs.
Next month, the idea gathering mo-
mentum, he bought A more mice
and constructed the December cage.
1t had still more of the rodent amuse-
ment park devices.
For this month. the Midway for
Mice has been enlarged again. The 25
fastest-moving fellows get the break.
Out of tin cans, roller-skate wheels,
sheet metal, chicken wire, and odds
and ends from here and there
Shechan has built this mad house for
mice delight. There are rolling bar
rels, spinning platforms, climbing
poles, skyline drive" chute the
chutes. and wheels within wheels no
end And every mouse seems to have
its favorite play spot: Take look
at the picture. and you'll see 'em
either on, just getting off, or running
back to get on, some kind of ride
Our camera stopped the action. of
course. but, believe us, they're every
one of them on the 60.
So that no attendant need be around,
Sheehan invented an automatic water
ing and feeding device 1t drops five
kinds of food into an open pan, bit
by bit, for three days without re-
loading.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
TUESDAY MAY CLOSE
0EHMANN INQUIRY
Commissioners to Hear Remain.
der of Building Regula-
tions Complaints.

Complaints against administration
Of the District Building regulations
not considered at the recent trial of
Building Inspector John w. Och
mann. probably will be disposed of
finally by the Commissioners Tuesday.
according to statements yesterday at
the District Building.
The outlook was for complete ex-
oneration Of both Col Oehmann and
Capt. Hugh P. Dram, director of in
spection, who has directional con-
troll over the Office of building in
spector. though he is not legally re-
sponsible for the actions of Col. Och
mann.
Commissioner Allen tomorrow will
call before him both Col. Oehmann
and Capt. Dram for a verbal answer
to some 16 complaints not involved
in the trial Of Col. Oehmann, who was
given q clean bill Of health by
trial board, consisting of Allen and
H. Winship Wheatley. president Of
the District Bar Association.
Allen has studied the remainder of
the complaints, which were preferred
by q. union official He declined YES
terday to state his reactions, but it
Is expected he will advise the Com
missioners they are of less weight
than those of which Col. Oehmann
was cleared.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
GASF|RM MERGER
IS SOUGHT IN BILL
Measure to Be Presented
Soon to Congress, Say
Two Companies.

Merger Of the Washington and
Georgetown Gas Light Cos. will be
sought in bill to be presented soon
to Congress. according to word re-
ceived yesterday from the companies
by the Public Utilities Commission.
One of the principal purposes is to
gain permission to enlarge the stock
issues of the concerns. now definitely
limited by law to 10000 shares of
common stock for the Washington
company and to 5000 shares for the
Georgetown company, which is owned
outright by the Washington company.
Company officials have protested for
years against the limitation. declaring
1t has resulted in an abnormally large
bonded Indebtedness. The bond debt
of the Washington company at the
end of 1884 was reported to be $15,-
1879 500 and for the Georgetown COM
pany s1,000o00.
Commission members Riley E. Elgen
ard Richmond B. Keech, as well as
Peoples Counsel William A. Roberts.
declined to tell company officials
whether they would indorse the move
until bill had been presented to
Congress and referle to the commits
sion for report.
Commission officials have said they
agree the investment structure OF the
companies needs readjustment
A similar move for merger was be-
fore Congress several years ago, but
failed of approval when the late
Senator Howell of Nebraska demanded
the companies waive any claims to
going concern in a valuation con-
test. The companies refused to make
that concession.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
ALL. TO WEIGH
LEW|SS|TUAT|ON
Federation Not RigidIy Com.
mitted to Craft Unions,
Says Green.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla. January l8.-The
American Federation Of Labor's Ex-
ecutive Council will turn its atten.
ton next week to the situation cre-
ated by the formation last year of
John L. Lewis new committee for
industrial organization
The president Of the United Mine
Workers quit the council last Novem-
Der shortly after he formed the sep
arate committee to further organi-
zation of industrial. as opposed to
craft. unions in big mass production
industries.
He had suffered defeat each time
the issue came before the council,
which traditionaily favored craft
unions, and, resigning. said he was
tired OF looking out the window"
at its sessions.
Yesterday the council, accepting
Lewis resignation, named Felix H.
Knight, president of the Brotherhood
Of Railway Carmen, to replace him.
Not Rigidly Committed.
President William Green, who has
deplored the formation of the Lewis
committee, indicated today. in an
nouncing 1t would be considered next
week. that the federation was not
flatly committed to the craft union
system.
mo policy can succeed that is a
rigid policy" he commented. 1T must
be flexible"
Citing demands from rubber, ce-
ment, radio. steel and other workers
for broader types of industrial unions.
he mentioned the charter granted re-
Gently for an international union in
the automobile industry, and said:
Il don't recall that the American
Federation OF Labor has ever granted
such broad original industrial or
ganization charter as in the automo-
bile industry
Other Issues on Agenda.
Other issues slated to come up.
Green said are consideration of thc
constitutional amendment suggested
at the Atlantic City convention to
broaden Congress powers in passing
labor legislation, final settlement OF
this years convention city. consdera-
ton OF radio workers application for
an industrial union charter, and plans
for further organization in steel, auto
mobile and other unions.
The council adjourned yesterday un-
til Monday.
Evening star., 1936-01-19

MOUSE CIRCUS.
Twenty-Five trained white mice;
excellent window attraction; no at
tendant needed.
~ UR curiosity being piqued by
4 the above, which appeared
in the business Opportuni-
~ ties" column of The Stars
recent classified ads, We answered 1t.
To our complete satisfaction, we met
% year = old William Sheehan -
Capt" Sheehan. as matter Of fact
-Washingtonian, who for the last
three years has called the cabin
cruiser, Sappho, anchored at the Cap
ital Yacht Club harbor, his home.
We also met-and shook the tails
of-each individual performer in this
rather unusual circus of white mice.
In fact. We assisted in their removal
from the December to the January
theater.
A long time ago somebody gave
Capt. Sheehan a white rat. He made
it whirligig of sorts to play around
on. The whirligig worked swell
Three months ago he got another
gift-two white mice-from up in
Pennsylvania. They gave him an idea
for way to make bit of pocket
money through the Winter months.
He bought IA more of the mice
Evening star., 1936-01-19
LABOR ROW HALTS
/. SEWAGE PROJECT
lronWorkers and MiIIWrights
Halt Work at Blue
Plains Plant.

All work on the District sewage dis
posal plant at Blue Plains has oeen
halted by . strike caused by juris-
dicticnal dispute between ironworkers
and millwrights, District officials an
nounced yesterday.
Engineer Commissioner Dan !. Sui
tan has appealed to the Labor De-
partment for the assignment OF How
ard r. Colvin, conciliation commits
sioner, to seek solution Of the tangle.
Col. sultan declared the District has
no preference as to which class Of
labor gets the right to perform the
disputed work, but expressed hope the
construction Of the plant would be
resumed quickly. He said the con-
tractor, the Suburban Engineering
Co. Of New York, also is not con-
cerned over which contestant wins.
The strike was called Friday, Of
1icials said, after the iron workers and
millwrights failed to reach agreement
over which should have the work of
installing conveyors in the grit cham
bers, now under construction. Both
union groups claim the right to the
work.
The principal concern of District Of
11cials is that an extended strike will
delay completion of the plant and
thereby cause embarrassment with the
Public Works Administration, which is
making a partial loan and partial
grant for financing the project.
The original agreement called for
completion Of the plant by July /,
under terms laid down by Secretary
1ckes, but due to delays in approval
of q number of contracts the COM
pletion date already has been de-
layed to middle August, some officials
said yesterday. 1t was said the p W.
A. has been informed as to this de-
lay.
The Washington Building Trades
Council is said to be supporting the
iron workers in the strike.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
Chinese Visitors
Reueal Antiquity
OfFingerpri''ting
Police Showing Modern
Methods Told System,
Ofl, 900 Years Ae0.

Folice odicials explaining modern
methods of crime detection to a group
OF Chinese visitors yesterday learned
that at least one phase Of police
work, nngerprint identification. is
Just IN old Chinese custom.
Il Shih Tsen, secretary Of the M
lice department Of Nanking, explained
that Impressions Of fingerprints haye
been found on ancient Chinese doc
uments, some Of them 1000 years old
Or more. Il, who has been In Eur
ope studying police methods, arrived
here yesterday en- route home with
. group Of students and friends In
tarested In police work.
With members Of the Chinese Le-
CATION, the party was taken to po-
lice headquarters and shown methods
of crime detection and criminal pro-
cedure BY the various department
heads.
Ii explained that the fingerprints,
which are quite common on old
Chinese documents, are believed to
have been employed In much the
same manner Is the Occidental world
used signet rings and seals. but that
there must have been some apprecia-
ton Of the difference in the finger
print pattern. the basis of scientific
tlngerprint work developed the last 30
years. to bring the practice into
existence.
Modern methods Of police work are
being adopted IN China as rapidly as
possible. II explained, but lack Of
funds has hampered police oflcials
In securing up-to-date equipment.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
ROPER WILL SPEAK
ON PUBLIC SERVICE
Mayor La Guardia and Gov. Fitz.
gerald Also to Appear in
Broadcast.

Secretary of Commerce Roper,
Mayor Forello LaGuardia of New
York. and Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald
OF Michigan will speak in a Nation
wide broadcast January 20 on behalf
of the National League of Women
Voters campaign for trained person.
mel in public service They will be
introduced from Washington by Miss
Marguerite NJ. Wells. president of the
league.
Secretary Roper's topic will be Eff
cheney in Public Service" Gov. Fitz-
gerald will discuss civil service in
State government and how his desire
to eliminate the spoils system and es-
tablish Statewide civil service led him
to create a special civil service study
commission and to recommend a State
program for improved public person.
mel. Mayor LaGuardia will discuss
municipal personnel problems.
The broadcast will be over National
Broadcasting Co.'S blue network from
10:30 to II pm. Listening in parties
have been arranged by leagues of
women voters in some 600 commune
ties.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
WAR SPURS SHIPMENT
OF CHILEAN NITRATES
December Panama Canal Volume
OF Munitions Material Equals
That for Year.

CR1STOBAL. Canal Zone (P.-The
extent to which the Italian campaign
IN Ethiopia and talk of war abroad
speeded up manufacture of munitions
may be seen in the fact that Deem
Der shipments of Chilean nitrate
nearly equaled the total value of that
cargo transiting the Panama Canal
through the fiscal year ending June
20, 1885.
Nitrate Is used in the manufacture
Of munitions.
Nitrate shipments from Chile in
that year reached 146,848 tons. while
IN December 114,466 tons of that
commodity transited the canal either
en- route for the Azores, or Cristobal
Tor orders" or to the Southern ports
Of the United States.
The December figure nearly doubled
that of the previous month, 60,s5l
tons.
Evening star., 1936-01-19

Grand Encampment, /. o. o. F., we're
held last night to designate members
to attend the funeral.
A member of the Odd Fellows since
1885, Mr.. Wood in July. 1893, was
elected grand master of the Grand
Lodge of the District. being one of the
youngest to hold that position. Mr..
Wood also was past grand patriarch
OF the Grand Encampment, I. o. O..
F., having been elected grand patri-
arch in July, 1902, and was a past
grand representative of the Grand
Lodge.
His other affiliations with the order
included membership in Federal City
Lodge No. 20; membership in Fred D.
Stuart Encampment. Canton WASH
lngton No. !, and of the Doreas
Rebekah No. T. He was a member
OF Harmony Lodge of Masons.
A native of Chandler, Ind. Mr..
Wood came to this city when 81 and
was employed in the Pension Office
for 49 years. He retired about five
years ago while serving in the Records
Division.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Annie c. Wood; daughter. Mrs.
Dorothy Neitzey. 1909 Allison street
and five sons, John S. Wood. Interior
Department employe; Kenneth Wood,
Post Office Department employe:
George Wood of Baltimore, Ralph F.
Wood, employed on the Chester, Pa,
Times, and Walter Wood. with the
Chase National Bank, New York.
Two other sons we're the late Arthur
and Harold Wood.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
TW0LEAD IN RACE
FORD. c: ASSESSOR
ScantIin and kIIen, City
Deputy Officers, Are Fa-
v0red for Post.

Harold d. Scantlin and Fred Allen,
District deputy assessors, are leading
contenders for appointment as sue
cessor to william p. Richards. veteran
assessor. who will give up his post
next month, District officials an
nounced yesterday.
Both Scantlin and Allen have been
residents Of the District for years and
are said to be familiar with details Of
the problems Of assessments, partic-
ularly as applied to real estate.
ofncials made clear yesterday they
desire to give the appointment to some
one now in District service. This will
be done unless some unexpected pres
sure is applied by high Federal Of
ficials.
It has become apparent the selec-
ton of q man to succeed Richards
was giving the Commissioners consid.
cradle concern. Richards has won
national recognition in his many years
as District assessor and officials say
it would be difficult to find a man as
qualified as he.
Both Scantlin and Allen have been
given strong Endorsements by those
who know their work.
Allen has been in District service
for about 20 years and in the as
SCISSORS ONCE for about IL years. He
has been a student Of methods fol-
lowed by Richards.
Scantlin has been in District serv-
ice for three years, for the past year
and a half as deputy assessor. Prior
to that he was valuation engineer
for the District Public Utilities Com
mission. For long period he was
valuation expert for the Southern
Railway. appearing in cases before
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Previously he had been q construc-
ton engineer.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
Hilltop
Echoes
Random Observations
in the Halls of
Congress.
vATuRALLY, you expect q NAL

n NATURALLY, you expect D man
nj from wyoming to love horses.
N It's that way with Mills Astln,
4 Y assistant secretary to Senator
Joseph O'Mahoney. Mr.. Astin is
lieutenant of cavalry in the Wyoming
National Guard. He has a stable OF
his own. Since he cannot bring his
horses to Washington, he does the
next beet thing Has models o.
them-in his offlce. So any one COM
ing into the O'Mahoney-Astin suite
in the. Senate ONCE Building is liable
to think Of this place as an eques-
trian art museum. Friends who know
of Astin's prediction for horses have
sent him cute little horse statuettes
from almost every country on the
globe. He has horses carved from the
sandlewood of India, celluloid horses
from China, china horses from Japan.
ivory horses from India. bronze horses
from the Bronx, pearl horses from
Pearl Harbor. plaster horses from Mad
agascar, cast-iron horses from CAL
cutta, pewter horses from Port Said,
StO44C A1Ol cCo 4LOlll val lOuo 0CaVSo IA
the Union, and a horse made out Of
Indian beads from the old Indian
Reservation. Oklahoma. Mr.. Astin's
favorite song, in keeping with this ex-
hibition. is Horses. Horses, Horses
Crazy Over Horses!" And he Is.
The big question around the hill
these days is: viii there be another
woman in the Senate? At present
there is only one: Senator-or is it
Senatress?-Caraway of Arkansas. In
all the history of the Senate only two
women ever served. First was the
late Mrs. William H. FELTON, of Car
tersville, Ga She attended only two
sessions-back in l922-but Mrs Hat
tie w. CaraWay has been on the job
ever since she was appointed to fill
the uneXpireo term of her husband.
and later elected to her own full term
Now Mrs. Thomas D. Schall, widow
of the blind Senator from Minnesota,
victim of an auto accident, has thrown
her hat in the ring. With this chal-
lenge, all the Minnesota delegation and
the State forces. back home, are
made to sit UP and take notice. Plans
have been somewhat upset. Gov.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
PARIS RIOTERS HURT

PARIS. January 18 tP.-Severa
students were Slightly hurt today in {;
renewal of the fighting in the stu
dents strike over the failure of tt
University of Paris to dismiss Pro.
CASTOR Jeze. who acted as an advise.
for Ethiopia at the League of Nations
The fighting broke out in the Med
ical School. where heavy police patrols
were attacked by students. Strikers
picketing the school were finally chased
away. but classes were suspended.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
Most of Ser,ate's
Debate Credited
To "a Members
Long Most Verbose Last
Session, Says C.. ".
Professor.

More than two-thirds of the time
of the last session OF the Senate was
used for debate by "a Senators, Prof.
w. Hayes Yeager of the department
of public speaking, George Washing
ton University, declared in radio
address Friday night. The professor
discussed senatorial oratory.
First prize for senatorial verbosity
would 60 to the late Senator Long.
Yeager said in announcing that the
Louisianan spoke more than three
times more words than any other
member.
Senator Wheeler OF Montana ranked
next, speaking 4 per cent Of the total
number of words. The late Senator
Schall took third place.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
falling elevator in the Capitol, anx-
ious friends back home have INQUIRED

falling elevator in the Capitol, anx-
ious friends back home have inquired
about his experience.
The new elevators are styled self
leveling. That is, they seek the floor
level automatically. Being rather in
tricate, the mechanism went haywire
on this particular occasion, but the
fall was pleasant one, as Mr.. Jacob
sen admits. The elevator came down
by easy stages, a notch at a time.
And all hands were let out at the
subbasement level, to walk back to
the main floor of the Capitol.
AS Representative Jacobsen had
practiced walking each day since his
election to Congress in 1880, he gave
other elevator inhabitants q good
handicap and beat them to the House
floor. This Representative admits that
he not only walks the Capitol and
House ONCE Building stairs. but when
occasion demands it he runs-just like
he runs for Congress.
Evening star., 1936-01-19
MAI. GEN. JOHN BIDDEE
DIES AT FORT HOUSTON
Commanded Sixth Engineers in
World War-Burial to Be
at West Point.

By the Associated Press.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex. January
18.-Maj. Gen. John Biddle. retired,
died today in the Station Hospital.
Fort Sam Houston. after lingering
illness. He was rs.
The body will lie in state until
Monday when funeral services will be
held in the Fort Sam Houston Chapel.
The body will be sent to West Point
where it will be buried with full mill
tary honors.
Gen. Biddle served as military aide
to the Prince Of Wales when he visited
this country shortly after the World
War.
He enlisted in the Army in 1877
and was graduated from West Point
in 1881.
In the World War he commanded
the 9th U. S. Engineers. In 1918 he
was assistant chief of staff and in
1919 he commanded the American
forces in England.