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Evening star., 1936-02-16
London Policemen
Too Refined, Say
Critics of Force
Influx of Collegia,,s Is
Changing ''BObbies''
to Men of Letters.

LONDON R1.-London policemen.
critics asserts. are getting too refined
In their speech and accent.
The very character of the metro
politan police force, it is charged, is
changing as result Of an influx of
Oxford and Cambridge graduates.
The modern London "bobbie," it
Is claimed, is getting to be a highly
educated, smooth young man, who,
when he lays aside his uniform, puts
on dinner jacket and mingles with
the best Of them.
And the new Police College at Hen
don is being challenged as being
place where candidates bow politely,
speak with an Oxford accent, real
or assumed, and discuss matters very
much in the abstract.
But officials of the force have come
forth with new facts and figures to
show that there is no danger of the
London bobbie becoming too refined.
or learned, or highbrow for the public
good.
Recent examinations at the Police
College, it is pointed out. were passed
by only 81 of 60 candidates and of this
number IL had been to a public school,
2 held Cambridge University degrees,
while the remainder we're graduates
of the police force proper.
And the brightest young man to
pass the examinations was not col
lege graduate, but one who had passed
though Peel House, the training
ground for all young metropolitan
policemen.
More police colleges are now being
planned.
Evening star., 1936-02-16
COPY OF ATHEN|AN
ScULPTUREFOUND
Baltimore Gallery Has Relic
That Recalls Ancient
Scandal.
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, February I5.-A rare
sculpture, recalling a scandal that
rocked ancient Athens, has turned
turned up at the Walters Art Gallery
here.
1t is portion Of a copy Of the
great Athena Parthenos" Only three
authentic copies are known to exist
of the glamorous ivory and gold
statue, blamed for a furor involving
Phidias, greatest of the Greek sculp-
tors.
The original work, fashioned of gold
and ivory more than 80 feet high, has
long since persisted. The temple Of
which Athena was presiding goddess
was built between 447 and 432 B. c.,
and the supposition is that when
Greece fell before her Eastern con-
querors the famous sculpture was
carried away to Constantinople.
Two OF the recognized copies, both
probably Roman, were found in
Athens and still are there. The copy
at the Walters gallery, which is Of
marble, was a part of the Massarenti
collection, formerly in Rome, and was
purchased in 1902 by Henry Walters,
who gave his rich art collection to
the city of Baltimore.
1t is feet 3 inches tall. It shows
the back Of a draped woman, the
right side and the front from should
ers to knees. On the breast is the
aegis, a breastplate of hide, with
snakes at the edge and the face of a
gorgon at the front.
The scandal emanating from the
famed original embodied accusations
that some of the gold in it was stolen
and that Phidias, its creator, was
guilty of sacrilege.
The Sacrilege was supposed to be
that the sculptor represented himself
and his patron, Pericles, among the
figures in the battle of the Amazons
and Greeks portrayed on the shield
of the goddess. incidentally, the fig
ure supposed to be Phidias is that Of
a bald-headed old man.
Evening star., 1936-02-16
HOWARD DEAN TO TALK
AT ROSENWALD RITES
Exercises by z. M. C. A. to Honor
Philanthropist Who Aided
ORGANIZATION,

DIR. B. E. Mays, dean of the School
OF Religion of Howard University, will
deliver the memorial address at the
Julius RoSenwald memorial exercises
at the Twelfth Street Branch of the
7. M. c. A. today at 4 o'clock.
The exercises, conducted by the
local "" are a part OF a national
commemoration of the life and phil
anthropy Of the great Jewish friend
OF the colored race. Beginning with
a $25,000 contribution to the local
Twelfth Street Branch, Mr.. Rosen-
wald, through additional $25, 900 con-
tributions, stimulated the erection of
modern Y. M. G. A. buildings for men
and boys in 81 cities. In addition to
his Y. M. c. A. benefactions, Mr..
Rosenwald gave largely to the cause
Of education.
Music will be furnished by a quar-
tet from the Synthic Male Chorus, of
which Lexington Smith Is director,
and students of the Howard Uniyer-
sity School of Music. Others. on the
program include Rev. n. z. Austin,
assistant pastor of Shiloh Baptist
Church, and E. M. Booker. These
services are sponsored by the activi-
ties department of the association, of
which Robert M. Harris is secretary.
Maj. Campbell c. johnson is executive
secretary of the branch. The public
Is invited.
Evening star., 1936-02-16
Presidential Jockeying On

Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland,
would take a walk" if Roosevelt were
renominated on a New Deal platform.
But while this schism exists in the
Democratic party, there seems no
possibility of preventing the renomi-
nation of Roosevelt, and on a plat
form indorsing the New Deal What
will happen in the general election
in November. however, is another
matter, a matter which may give
Chairman Farley some concern. How
ever, Farley hopes to Offset Democratic
defections by gains from the liberal
Republican voters and the independ-
ent liberals. Farley is confident that
Roosevelt will be reelected. He ex-
presses this confidence after recent
trips to various parts of the country.
Democrats Awaiting Convention.
If the Democrats are less vocal than
the Republicans and the anti Roose-
velt Democrats these days. it is no
reason to believe they will be so later.
At present they have no target. There
will be none until the Republicans
have nominated their presidential
candidate next June and adopted their
platform. AS son as the Republican
nominee emerges, the Roosevelt forces
VIII turn loose a barrage, they prom
ise. which may or may not tear the
G. o. P. leader to pieces.
One thing Chairman Farley is de-
termtined upon. President Roosevelt
is to be entered in every State prefer
ence primary where it seems at all
necessary. Already he has been placed
IN the Ohio and Illinois primaries. He
VIII be entered in the PENNSYLVANIA
primary and in a number of others.
The plan is to give the President as
great an Endorsement before the
Democratic National Convention as
possible.
Not great deal is being said these
days about Vice Presidential candi-
dates. OF course, Vice President Gar
ner's selection by the Democrats is re-
garded as thing accomplished. He
has been entered as second choice"
IN the Ohio primary, with Roosevelt
as first choice" just way of giving
Mr.. Garner official preference for the
vice presidential job.
A group of Eastern Republicans,
however, has recently talked over the
advisability of nominating Gov. Lam
don for President and Representative
James W. Wadsworth of New York for
Vice President. A balanced ticket,
they say, with Western man at one
end and an Easterner at the other:
supporter of prohibition in the old
days and bitter opponent of prohibi-
ton at any time. Wadsworth was for
merly Senator from New York. He
has In the past himself been men
toned as a presidential possibility.
Another Republican Representative,
Hamilton Fish of New York, has been
active in the campaign for the nomi-
nation OF Senator Borah. He, too, has
been mentioned as a presidential can
dldate. But he has sunk his own pres
idential aspirations in his loyalty to
the Borah candidacy. In some quar-
ters it has been suggested that Fish
should have the vice presidential NOM
ination in the event Borah Is the
choice for President.
Evening star., 1936-02-16
Harmonious Convention Predicted
For C.. o. p. in Deciding on Candidate

that Of Coolidge. So also was the
clarity of his meaning.
In some presidential elections much
of the voting is done, not for one
candidate but against the other. The
1920 election was an example which
many saw at the time and historians
have come to recognize. In that elec-
tion the President in Office was Wood
row Wilson, and he was not candi-
date for reelection, for he had served
two terms. The Republicans, nomi-
mated Harding, the Democrats, Gov.
James M. Cox of Ohio. I think it
was a former member Of Wilson's
cabinet, Franklin K. Lane, who OBJ
served that a majority Of the voters
paid little attention to either Hard
ing or Cox, but cast their ballots
against Wilson. Wilson and the DEM
ocrats had conducted the war, and
the people, after the war, felt "let
down" and disillusioned. Wilson ha6
advocated the League of Nations, and
a majority of the people had become
strongly opposed to that. Added To
these specific reasons, many of the
voters were moved by a factor COM
mon in many elections, the mere de-
sire for change.
Without assuming there Is any an.
alogy between Wilson and Mr.. Roose-
velt, and without assuming too strong
an analogy between 1920 and 1886, II
is fact that a great many votes this
year will be cast merely against the
New Deal. The country will be sharp
ly divided between those who like the
New Deal and those who don't Those
who don't like it will vote with their
minds focused on one consideration
to bring the New Deal to an end. They
will not think primarily about the
Republican candidate. They will not
minutely make comparison between
the Republican candidate and Mr..
Roosevelt.
Under this condition. what the Re-
publicans need primarily is a candi-
date who would make a satisfactory
President and against whom no af-
firmative objections can arise. They
need candidate adequately equipped
to be President, who has nothing in
his record or personality that would
ALLEVIATE large groups of voters. This
specification is reasonably met by any
one Of several of the Republican pos
sihilities.
(Copyright, 1850
Evening star., 1936-02-16
CONTINUED From First Page.)

Of personality? II the November
election Is merely to decide which Of
two men has the best radio voice, Mr..
Roosevelt has the contest won before
1t begins, There Is at least possibility
that much Of the public has ceased to
be stirred, primarily or greatly, by
attractiveness of utterance. It is just
possible much of the country is in a
mood to be impressed by some one
with great simplicity Of personality.
In this connection, when Gov. Lam
don made his first important Nation
wide address over the radio, it was
said he did not have good radio
voice." 1t was true enough; the voice
went along at a rather even and high
pitch. At once, no doubt, many we'll
wishers are pressing on Gov. Landon
the desirability of learning the art OF
speaking before the microphone. He
may be unwise II he takes such advice
too seriously. Without doubt, speak
ing before the microphone has spe-
cial technique. ANY public man must
learn it. 1t is, under modern condi-
tions, as necessary as ability to speak
clearly and effectively to personal au-
diences. But anything that goes so
far as to become artificiality, anything
In the nature of posturing, would be a
mistake. 1t would be worse than a
mistake, because 1t would be viola
tion of integrity Of personality.
Coolidge Recalled.
Besides, it may be that much OF the
country is seeking simplicity of per-
sonality. If Calvin Coolidge were still
living, he would be, at what would be
his present age, "a, the favorite of
many persons for the presidency. And
if the elevation of Mr.. Coolidge to the
place he had in America had de-
pended on the art of being agreeable
over the radio, he would hardly have
arrived. Without stressing too much
the idea that Gov. Landon is Kan
sas Coolidge" it is true that to many
listeners to Gov. Landon over the
radio, the voice was affectionately
reminiscent of Coolidge's. True, Cool
idge had that authentic Vermont
sharpness. the pungency, the giving
of the full value to every syllable and
vowel which hardly any one not born
in New England can acquire. But the
clarity of Gov. Landon's voice, its
evenness and its pitch, was much like
Evening star., 1936-02-16
OPEN AIR FETE
PLANNED IN MAY
ChiIdren's Festival Will Be
Held in Central High
Stadium.

A children's festival Is being
planned by the Community Center
Department to be held some time in
May. eliminating in an open-air
festival chorus in the stadium at
Central High School.
Beginning this week, children S
dance groups in several centers will
hold a series of parties, when the
rhythm, tap and toe community CEN
ter classes will mark the completion
Of one semester's work. Letters
will be awarded to the children hav-
ing 1000 attendance since October
!. A demonstration lesson will be
given by Miss Frances Brightwell.
and refreshments will be served. A
uniform" for all the groups has
been one of the developments Of this
semester.
The series of parties will begin to-
morrow at Barnard Branch, Tuesday
and Friday at Eaton Branch, Wed
nesday at West Branch, Thursday at
Janney Branch and Saturday at La
fayette Branch.
Special events for adults this week
will be the contract bridge class al
Langley Community Center tomorrow
at 7:45 pm, led by Mrs. M. E. Myers;
the book review by Mrs. Mary Wood
ward Davis at Hle Junior High
Branch of Southeast Center tomor.
row at 8 pm, the public speaking
class, led by Mrs. Maude O'Connor. at
Langley Center Wednesday at pm;
the community dance at Buchanan
Branch of Southeast Center Thursday
at $50 pm; community dance at
Langley Center Friday at $3.50 pm
and contract bridge at Thomson Cen
ter Friday at 8 pm, taught by Mrs
M. E Myers.
Gordon Young Mems Club will be
the scene for the next two months on
Tuesday nights of the University of
Scouting. which the Boy Scout head
quarters will hold there once a week,
to be attended by 200 students taking
an advance course in Scout leader
ship. The program of the club at Cor
don Community Center will continue
during this period.
The George Odeon Players will re-
sumo meetings tomorrow night. On
Thursday night young men and girls
are invited to the wood working
group of Gordon Young Mems Club.
Evening star., 1936-02-16
FRANCES {. WILLARD
MEMORIAL Is TODAY
Service to Be Held at Foot of
Statue of Organizer of
World W. c. T. q.

A memorial service for Frances
Elizabeth Willard will be held at 8
O'Clock today in Statuary Hall at the
Capitol at the foot of Miss Wizards
statue.
Rev. Clifford H. Jope. Rev. John c.
Palmer and Mrs. Ida Grower will
take part in the program, and Mrs.
Dorothy Sinnot will sing.
Frances Willard, who was the or
ganizer of the Worlds w. c. T. U.
and its president from 1881 until 1898.
also was president of the National
w. C. T. U. from 1879 until her death
in 1885, She was dean of the Wom-
ans College of the Northwestern Uni
versity for many years and she also
was a lecturer and author.
Evening star., 1936-02-16
FEATHERS CONVICT MAN
Sentence Follows Charge of
Chicken Stealing From Preacher.

LUMBERTON, N. c. P).-Andrew
Bethea protested vehemently that he
had not stolen Rev. r. N. CaShWells
chickens, even if it was true that
chickens had been found stewing in
a pot at a friends house.
Just to make his denials more en-
phatic. Bethea pulled his hand from
his pocket and waved it before him.
That was a mistake. There were
feathers clinging to his fingers. He
was sentenced to four months in jail
Evening star., 1936-02-16
CHEST CAMP PA|GN
PLANS DISCUSSED
Decision Reserved on Ten
tative Changes in Allo-
cation of Days.

Coleman Jennings, campaign chair
man of the Community Chest, held a
meeting of members of his organi-
zation at his home last week, when
preliminary plans for this years cam
paign were discussed. Tentative
changes in the number of days allo-
Gated to the campaign was among the
subjects taken up, decision being re-
served until a later meeting. The
group also discussed possible changes
in the set up of the Group Solicitation
Unit.
Mr.. Jennings decided to hold MONTH
~ meetings for the present, working
along gradually toward the weekly
meetings which Immediately precede
the compaign.
Council of Social Agencies.
The seventh of a series of lectures
for volunteers in social work being
held each Monday at the United States
Chamber of Commerce under the
auspices of the council will be held
tomorrow at II o'clock. Edgar Syden-
stricken, scientific director of the Mil
bank Memorial Fund, will speak on
friends in Public Health"
Columbia Polytechnic Institute.
The institute has a booth at the
United Food Stores exhibit at Calvert
Hall that opened last night. There
will be three blind men working on
chairs and displaying other crafts
carried out at the school.
Florence Crittenton Home.
The annual board meeting was held
last Friday. Reports of the various
officials were heard. Luncheon was
served.
Salvation Army.
A united life saving guard valiant
will be held Thursday night at the
temple, 6o6 E street.
st. Roses Technical School.
The girls held 40 hours devotion
last week. with Very Rev. Hanlan
secretary to the apostolic delegate. il
charge. He was assisted by Fathe
Edward Roach and Father Ignatiu'
Smith. The services closed last Tues.
day evening with procession through
the corridors of the school, the strl
dents being dressed in white dresII
and wells.
The girls held a Valentine part!
with an amateur program and dance
st. Vincent's Home and School.
The Ladies Auxiliary gave bingC
party wednesday night for the chill
dren in honor of St. Valentine.
st. Joseph's Home and School.
The boys held a Valentine part,
Friday night
Southeast House.
A monthly publication is being is
sued known as the Bugle, in which
is featured, each month information
regarding the people of some othe
country. This months Bugle talk
about China.
A birthday party will be held at tn,
settlement Tuesday at 7 pm, and ;
girls night February 25.
Southwest Community House.
Under the direction of Miss Telinc
of the Instructive Visiting Nurses
Association, a group of student visit
ing nurses visited the settlement las
week and inspected the plant. Mrs
Alma j. Scott, director of the settle
ment. conducted symposium, giving
the group history of the house anc
explaining the present program.
Phyllis Wheatley Y. w. C. A.
A number of the members of the
Girls Reserve Department attended
the interracial Midwinter conferenc,
held in Baltimore yesterday.
Evening star., 1936-02-16
S n
y K
= X j X x X x
j. K Xxx

I naturally continued 10 five, which
was made easily. My opponents
claimed that should not have made
a slow pass, as it had influenced my
partner to bid.
Answer-Players should avoid the
slow pass whenver possible. However,
an opening pre-emptive bid always
creates unusual problems. After such
bid, player may not be able to
decide instantly whether to bid or to
pass. Obviously your hand did call
for thought and you cannot be criti-
cized. Here. however, your partner
has duty. If he allowed for the
fact that you had thought, thereby
showing strength, to influence him in
bidding four diamonds, then he is
at fault. On the other hand, even
had you passed quickly, your partner
might reason as follows: The open
ing pre-emptive bid has shown a
weak hand; third hand could take no
action; have a freak hand with 10
cards in two suits; obviously my part
ner has strength; a four-diamond bid
cannot lead to much loss"
(Copyright 1860
The Four Aces will be pleased to answer
| letters. from readers If a stamped :l-cent,
self-addressed envelope is inclosed with
each communication.
Evening star., 1936-02-16
Public Library
SUSAN B. ANTHONY,

TINE 116th anniversary of the
birth of Susan B. Anthony
was celebrated on February
Is. In connection with the
observance of this memorable date
in the history of woman the Public
Library offers the following list of
books, taken in part from that COM
piled for the Susan B. Anthony Foun-
dation, Washington. D. c., by the
Library of Congress. All books listed
may be borrowed from the central
building of the Public Library at
Eighth and K streets.
The Leader.
The Life and Work of Susan B.
Anthony; including public ad-
dresses, her own letters and many
from her contemporaries during so
years, by I. H. Harper. 3 v. l898-
1908. E.An84h.
A story of the evolution of the
status of women.
The Great Woman Statesman, by N.
B. Paul 1925. E.AnS4p.
An abstract of 'The Life and Work
of Susan B. Anthony"
Susan B. Anthony, the Woman Who
Changed the Mind of a Nation, by
R. L. C. Dorf. 1928. E.An84d.
History of Woman Suffrage, ed by E
c. Stanton. S. B. Anthony and
others. 6 v. l88l-1922. KWz.
St26.
Susan B. Anthony and Others.
Americas Twelve Great Woman Lead
ers. 1898. E.9Am375.
Lives of Girls Who Became Famous,
by S. K. Bolton. 1925. jE.9B63g.
(Children's room.)
Makers of Freedom; Biographical
Sketches in Social Progress, by G.
S. Eddy and Kirby Page. 1926.
E.9Ed28.
A Group of Famous Women; Stories
of Their Lives, by Edith Horton.
1914. EsH7S7g.
Heroism and Service, by M. E. Hoss.
1925. E.sH79h.
Causes and Their Champions, by M.
A. Dew. Howe 1925. E.9H833c.
Women Pioneers, by ]. Y. McCallum.
1929. jE.9M123. (Children's room. }
Uncommon Americans; Pencil Por-
traits Of Men and Women Who
Have Broken the Rules, by D. c.
Seitz. 1925. E.9Se44u.
The Story of Pioneer, by A. H. Shaw.
1918 KWZ Shoqs
Evangels of Reform, by M. B. Smith.
1884. E9Sm663.
"Women in the Modern World" "
Women in the Modern World. ed. by
v. B. Boothe. 1929. KW.Am3w.
A symposium covering woman's
contribution to the social system under
her present conditions of citizenship.
Women in the Twentieth Century; a
Study of Their Political, Social and
Economic Activities, by S. P,
Breckenridge. 1888. KWWB74
whether the reader be of the
opinion that woman's political, social,
or economic status has improved in
the present century or not, he will
find a fund of material in this ex-
cellent monograph"
Women and a Changing Civilization,
by Winifred Holtby. 1885. XIV
H748.
"The survey is not by any means
exhaustive, but its very brevity serves
its purpose. 1t is doubtful whether
more comprehensive history could
have presented the position with hall
such clarity"
Angels and Amazons; q Hundred Years
of American Woman, by I. H
Irwin. 1888. XIV. .Ir9.
This book is an enlightening and
entertaining record of a century OF
transition; its pioneers deserve our
thanks in that it seems less and less
necessary for women as such to be
either angels or amazons."
Evening star., 1936-02-16
Southern Weather.

CHICAGO CR-John P. Kurtzwell,
assistant Government weather OBJ
server. told the woman who tele-
phoned to ask the outlook: 1T may
rise to zero by afternoon" Beseech-
1ngly she said, Don't you think it'll
get little warmer in our neighbor-
hood? You see, we live south-on
Forty sixth street."
Evening star., 1936-02-16
BUSINESS MEN TO MEET
Independent Dealers to Open Ses-
sions Here March 4.

The National Conference of the In
dependent Business Men of the
United States will be held here March
and 5, it was announced yesterday
by Curtis Hodges, executive director
Of the Greater National Capital Com
mittee of the Board of Trade An at
tendance in excess of 1000 is ex-
pected.
Arrangements for the meeting are
being made now, under the direction
OF r. H. Rowe, 837 Inv itment Build
ing. The meeting probably will be
held in Constitution Hall.
Evening star., 1936-02-16

ly graSped. Its
definition follows:
A forcing pass
occurs when a
player passes a
bid made by his
right = hand op-
ponent after the
previous bidding
has indicated that
he and his part
ner hold the best
cards, in order to
give his partner
A.. l1A.,sN- - -
Evening star., 1936-02-16
Robber Takes $12 Out of $50.

BALTIMORE (P).-Druggist Rob-
ert Lotterio produced a roll" totaling
$50 when an armed robber came into
mis- place of business. but the man
took only $l2.
That's all need" Lotterio quoted
him as saying.
Evening star., 1936-02-16

- UCCESSFUL contract bidding
must always follow along log
ical, but not necessarily simple
~ lines. The forcing pass is def
nitely logical bid, and is easily rec
ognized, once the principle is thoroug-
Evening star., 1936-02-16
Mumps Raid C. C. C. Camp.
LEXINGTON, KY

, LEXINGTON. KY. R)RooSevelt
Dollar, lS. and II other c. C. c. en-
rollees of the camp at Painstville, KY.
were in Good Samaritan Hospital
here today, suffering from mumps.