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The Washington times., 1938-09-06
Extraordinary Children s Wear Specials Wednesday

For school and early
fall wear, here's an un-
usual ''buy" in cotton
dresses. Dirndls a md
Bolero styles for little
girls from / to 6.
Pleated or Flare Skirt
Models (some with
ripper closings) for
girls from z to Ia. All
guaranteed color fast!
EASEMENT
The Washington times., 1938-09-06

Half-ZippeF, Crew or W
neck styles! Plain or Sport
Backs. New FAN jacquard
patterns or solid COlOrS.
Sizes 8 to 16.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
Tnrdy Pupils Try
Ne1v undOId AHbis
On d. C.. Teachers
Excuse Slips Sho,o Stu.
dents Usually Shift
Blame.

The art Of the alibi is still flourish
ing in Washington high schools, ac-
cording to an investigation by the
Woodrow Wilson Beacon of the ex-
cuse slips of tardy pupils.
Some of the justifications foisted of
on the teachers include:
''The living room clock stopped dur
ing the night"
MY feet got wet and I had to go
back and change my shoes or I would
have gotten a run in my stocking"
Had to do the breakfast dishes
this morning."
Just couldn't get up in time"
Nine out of ten. however, accord
ing to the Beacon, blame 1t on the bus
driver or somebody who promised them
q ride and was late. Tire and battery
trouble also are In vogue.
One pedestrian offered the explana-
tion that "the short cut was too muddy
and had to take the long way get
ting here this morning."
When the alibis aren't a little bet
ter than these, however, the boys
and girls sit out 45-minute punish
ment period after the bell rings at
3 pm. The number of late varies from
10 to about 80 daily.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
LARSON JOINS STAFF
AT MARYLAND u.
Research Specialist With National
Archives Will Teach Po.
litical Science.

Harold Larson, research special
ist with the National Archives of
Washington, has been appointed to the
political science staff OF the Uni
versity Of Maryland, it was announced
here yesterday.
Mr.. Larson, who has studied in
documentary repositories in Norway
and England as a Roberts fellow, last
winter was detailed by the Federal
Government to catalogue the official
governmental documents of the Virgin
Islands. Being specialist in the Dam
ish language. he was able to bring
back to the United States Is tons of
Danish manuscripts and documents
left on the Virgin Islands when the
United States bought them. in 1917.
Courses he is teaching at the uni
versity include State government and
recent political thought.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
.H0N0RS ARE WON
BY Is STUDENTS
Six on Georgetown College
List in First Semester
Are From D. c.

Six Of the fifteen students of George
town College receiving honors for scho-
lastic standing-during the first semes-
ter are from Washington.
In announcing the honor roll at the
recent mid-year convocAtion, the dean
Of the college. the Rev. John E. 6rat-
tan, s. j., said each Of the students
had made the grade Of A in all their
subjects during the entire semester.
They are:
Seniors-Blair M. Bennett Of Wash.
ington; Francis J. BRING Of Erie, Pa,
and Francis H. Walton, jr.. of WASH
ington.
Juniors-E. Markoe Dugan of Bal
timore, Richard K. Martin of Taun-
ton. Mass; Martin s. Quigley of New
York City, John r. Sullivan Of jack
son Heights, N. Y, and Joseph L.
Ward OF Washington.
Sophomores and Freshmen.
Sophomores-Dexter L. Hanley of
Hampstead, N. Y, and Dobald F. Heany
of Chevy Chase, Md.
Freshmen-George A. Christy of
Washington, Bartholomew B. Coyne of
South Orange, N. j.; Alvin ]. Cum
minis of Wheeling, w. Va; Daniel v.
Harkin, jr., of Glencoe, ILL.,, and
Thomas A. Rover Of Washington.
Beginning next Friday and contin-
uing through May 20, medal competi-
tion in all phases of scholastic endeavor
will be featured on the Georgetown CAL
endar.
The first contest is for the Pulaski
Medal essay, one of the two open to
the entire student body OF the uni
versity. Three subjects pertaining to
Poland have been selected from which
choice may be made.
The other open contest is for the
Mallory Medal In American history.
The subject is The Growth of the
Executive Power in the United States"
That contest will open April 8. There
are l3 medals in all offered in COM
petition in the various departments.
Occupational Survey.
DR.. Walter J. OConnor, registrar of
the college. Is making an occupational
survey Of recent graduates of George
town which seems to bear out the con-
tention that few college students i'm
mediately seek outside positions on
leaving school.
All but nine Of the college graduates
OF last June responded to the ques-
tionnaire submitted by DR.. O'Connor.
OF the remaining 66 in the class, 81 are
attending law schools; 10 are studying
medicine; are in graduate schools of
arts and sciences: have undertaken
the study Of theology: l is attending
dental school and are in schools of
business administration.
Eleven students replied they have
entered business; two are teaching and
two others are neither attending school
nor gainfully employed DR.. O'Connor
intends to carry the survey to other
graduating classes.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
c. v. j. TO SEE.
INSTALLATIONS
Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar
Board to Inaugurate
Chapters.

George Washington University will
witness installation Of chapters Of two
important organizations during the
coming week.
Tuesday at 2:3O pm. the first Phi
Beta Kappa Chapter In the city will
be inaugurated at the university, with
. charter presentation that night at
$50 o'clock in Constitution Hall.
Saturday at 3 pm. in Strong Hall
. university chapter of Mortar Board
will be installed. Mortar Board Is q
national society for recognition Of
college women combining good schol-
arship with leadership In student af-
fairs.
Mrs. F. D. Coleman of Lincoln,
Nebr, national president of Mortar
Board, will come to Washington to act
as installing officer.
Saturday night the Mortar Board
Alumnae Association of Washington,
which includes IS women graduates
representing "a colleges and univer-
sites. will give banquet in honor Of
the members of the new chapter at
the Dodge Hotel. Miss Nancy Finch,
president Of the Washington alumnae,
will speak. Mrs. Raleigh Gilchrist,
who was the first president of the
local alumnae club, Is in charge of
arrangements.
Nine George Washington University
women students and 40 alumnae of
the local Hour Glass Honor Society,
which becomes the sixty-seventh
chapter Of Mortar Board, will be ini-
tiated Saturday afternoon.
The student members are Katherine
Baart, Ruth Brewer, Alison Claim,
Tatyana Jasny, Katherine Porter,
Jane Ramseyer. Jane Saegmuller,
Susan Slater and Esther Yanowsky.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
TROPHY AWARDED:
PHI KAPPAAT c. j.
Chapter Attains Highest
Scholastic Rating of Any
Unit in u. S.

Catholic University's chapter Of the
Phi Kappa Fraternity has been
awarded the scholarship trophy Of
that organization for the academic
year 1936-37 for having attained the
highest scholastic rating among the
active chapters of the fraternity
throughout the United States, it was
announced yesterday.
The National Interfraternity Con-
ference, national organization Of
all the Greek letter college fraternal
societies, makes an annual scholarship
survey Of the chapters in all the COL
leges and universities Of the country.
The scholarship ratings OF all the
chapters are compiled and a report
prepared for the national officers Of
the several societies, making particular
note Of the highest ranking chapters.
Omega Chapter Of Phi Kappa at
Catholic University will hold the
trophy for one year.
Prof. James B. Thayer Of the Har-
ward University Law School has pre-
pared manuscript on Gross Neg
ligence and the Subjective Standard
of Care in Common Law" which will
be the basis Of discussion at the Feb
ruary meeting Of the Riccobono
seminar of Roman law in America
in the law library Of Catholic Univer-
sity at 8 pm. Thursday. DR.. Brendan
F. Brown of the Catholic University
is the serbia or secretary of the
seminar.
The Rev. J. Edward Rauth, O. 8.
B., Of the department of psychology
will preside at an educational and
psychological conference at st. Mary's
industrial School in Baltimore Tues
day. Sister Helen de Sales, a Phi. d.
student in the department of psy-
chology OF the Catholic University.
will present = talk on Difficulties In
Arithmetic"
Evening star., 1938-02-20
Seeing,Eye School Graduates
Successful College Students

Graduates Of the Seeing Eye School,
Morristown, N. j., where dogs are
educated to guide the blind and the
blind taught how to use them, are
meeting with considerable success in
college, according to Dorothy Harri-
son Eustis. Seeing Eye president.
Blind graduates, she declared in a
Phi Beta Kappa news magazine, have
attended such institutions as Harvard,
the University of Pittsburgh, the Uni
versity of Washington. Brown, Rad
cliffe, University Of California and
the University Of Pennsylvania.
A principal value Of the Seeing Eye
dogs to blind college students, it was
revealed. is in aiding che forming of
companionships. A student declared
to Seeing Eye oflicer:
Before had dog I was blind.
Now I'm just the fellow with the
dog"
Far from excluding the dogs from
Evening star., 1938-02-20

He was sitting second hand, and, of
course, passed. His partner. who was
fourth hand, bid a diamond. The op-
ponents never bid. North properly bid
one spade over the diamond in order
to ascertain whether there was a pos
sible game in either major, despite his
lack of top card strength. South now
bid three clubs. North should have
passed this bid unless he believed that
it was short suit jump bid to indi-
cate support in spades. If his partner
was bidding naturally, North should
have known that, with his partner
holding so many diamonds and clubs,
no game could be made, and there
fore the proper sign-off was to pass.
North nevertheless bid three hearts,
and South now bid four diamonds.
Again North should have passed, but
he kept right on bidding and respond
ed with four hearts. The partnership
eventually arrived at six clubs, which
was doubled and set three tricks. The
South player had bid correctly, since
he held:
Evening star., 1938-02-20
G. W. U. NEWMAN CLUB
MEMBERS TO RETURN
IA Due Tonight From Convention
at Philadelphia-Host Chap
ters Entertain Delegation.

Fourteen members of the Newman
Club Of George Washington University
will return thir evening from the Mid
die Atlantic Councif Convention Of
Newman Clubs at Phladslphia. ~
The three-day session was featured
by formal dance Friday night and a
formal banquet Saturday evening.
The George Washington delegation,
led by Tom Dobson, local president,
was entertained by the host chapters,
the University Of Pennsylvania and
Temple University.
Other schools represented were
Bucknell, v. P. l., La Sale. Penn State
and Maryland Newman Clubs are
made up Of Catholic students in nom
sectarian colleges.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
SIX PASS TESTS

Six graduates Of the BENJAMIN
Franklin University Accountancy
School were notified last week of their
success in the November. 1887, District
Of Columbia certified public account
ant examinations. A total of IA candi-
dates passed the examinations.
Names Of the successful Benjamin
Franklin graduates were: Charles Earl
Deery. class Of 1886; Joseph s. Han
son. 1884; E. G. Jansson, 1897; Fred
erick Kitchener, 1895; Gerald M. Wall
work, 1885, and Ralph P. Yount, 1885.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
Three Fqmous Women Enlisted
To Raise Funds for Monument
Dolly Madison, Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs.
adams Became. Pioneers in Money
Drive for Ideals.

terms IN which you have communicate
ed their invitation to me-"
AS President. the always glamorous
Dolly Madison's husband had succeed
ed John Marshall as president of the
Washington Monument Society. To
his expression Of opinion concerning
the Monument, she refers in her
letter:
In accepting with great sensibility
I feel the highest qualification and,
believing that I can in no manner
80 well express my heartfelt concur
renee In my husbands opinion, will
repeat, as you have done, his venerated
words. "A monument worthy the
memory OF Washington reared by the
means proposed will commemorate at
the same time q virtue. a patriotism
and a gratitude truly national which
with the friends ofliberty everywhere
will sympathize and of which our
country may always be proud" she
wrote.
In connection with Mrs. Madison's
acceptance of the invitation and her
presence at the corner stone laying Of
the Monument, a member of the
committee later wrote Mrs. Anne
Payne Causten. the niece of Mrs. Mad
ison. with whom she lived at the
northeast corner Of Lafayette Square,
Every possible attention will be paid
to her comfort, but it will no doubt
be very hot, dusty and disagreeable
occasion, and fear she might be in
jured."
Responds to Challenge.
But Mistress Dolly's spirit even at
fourscore was not to be daunted by
possible weather conditions She ap-
peared triumphantly, as befitted one
who had been the outstanding FEM
inine parsonage Of four presidential
administrations, under the escort Of
handsome, magnificent appearing Gen.
Walter Jones'"
Concerning the committees fears
for the weather and the comfort of
the occasion. she wrote afterward in
q letter: THE day was fine, for a
rain had laid the dust and infused a
delicious freshness in the air."
We know. too. from q faithful, FEM
inine diaryist Of the time, that Mrs
Hamilton was also in the seats OF
the mighty that July day when the
corner stone Of the Monument was
laid, for we have this description of
her personal appearance: Both her
bonnet and her attire were very
plain"
And thus. from the dusty records OF
the past. three famous, as well as an
cient and honorable patronesses of
notable achievements in the long ago,
rise up to challange us lady doers"
of the present, as to whether some of
our activities are as typically goth
century as We had supposed.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
10 SENIORS CHOSEN
FOR COLLEGE YEARBOOK
Wilson Teachers Selects Grouu
for National Honor From
20 Candidates.

Ten seniors have been elected to
represent Wilson Teachers College in
the American College Yearbook.
These students were chosen by the
senior class from list of 20 candi-
dates nominated by a special student
committee from all teaching fields, in
conjunction with members of the fac
ulty.
The 10 outstanding persons were:
Annette Temin. chosen as Wilson's
outstanding senior in academic
achievement; Claude Willis, Bernice
Boutwell,, Jean Smith. Eldridge Tur.
ner. Ruth Branson, Bernard Harrison,
Monroe Goldberg, Anne Cochrane and
Edith Barry.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
PASS c. P. A. TESTS
Three From Southeastern Univer-
sity in Successful Group.


sity in Successful Group.
Three Southeastern University
School of Accountancy graduates were
among the IA successful candidates
who passed the recent c. P. A. ex16nfs
nation In the District. They were Har-
old w. Savage, Theodore Shapiro and
John M. Stoy.
Mr.. Savage received the bachelor
OF commercial science degree in 1887
and for the past two years has worked
as q Junior accountant for Wayne
Kendrick & Co. Mr.. Shapiro received
has B. c. s. degree in 1885 and M. C.
S. In 1885. He has been employed as
q junior accountant with BENJAMIN
Regardie & Co. Mr.. Stoy received his
B. c. S. degree in 1885 and is en-
ployed as senior accountant with
Clifford M. Stoy & Co.
Evening star., 1938-02-20

campuses, President Eustis declared.
several colleges have advised blind
students applying for admission to
get them to get the most out Of
campus experience.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.

david Burnstine. Merwln D. Maier,
Oswald Jacoby. Howard Schenken,
o the sysfe thaf S., beatnn every
other system in eXistence)
Evening star., 1938-02-20

Certain inhabitants of Ireland and
the Scottish Highlands believe in the
banshee-a spirit who makes mournful
noises near house when a person
Is about to die.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
Spades K
Hearts
Diamonds A K j 10xxx
Clubs A @ 109x

Thus. instead Of making a part score,
the partnership incurred 4 severe pen
atty
There are certain bids, however,
which indicate to partner that the
bidder holds blank or nearly blank
hand. For instance. if partner opens
with two-bid, a response Of two no.
trump indicates blank or near
blank hand. Similarly, if a player has
opened the bidding originally and his
partner has not passed and makes a
jump bid of two in q higher rank
ing suit, the original bidder should
respond with two no-trump if he holds
q psychic bid IA blank or nearly blank
hand).
These sign-offs in no-trump, how
ever. should not be carried over from
the situations they are intended to
cover. In ordinary bidding a bid of
no-trump is not sign-off bid. Many
players appear to be confused and
Use a bid of no-trump to sign of in
other situations with disastrous re-
suits. Thus. in a recent duplicate
game, the South player was the dealer
and held:
Evening star., 1938-02-20

closed with each communication addressed
4 you desire the pocket outline Of the
Four Aces system Of contract bridge, send
With your request to the Four Aces, care
self addressed. large size envelope, and
you VIII receive an outline without any
Evening star., 1938-02-20

Tbs. Four Aces will be pleased to an.
sver letters from readers II Q stamped
(3-eent). self addressed envelope u in.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
Spades A X 10 XXX
Hearts Jx
Diamonds @ J9x
ClIhs Y

South properly opened the bidding
with one spade. His partner re-
sponded with three clubs. South's
proper bid was now three diamonds
South, nevertheless, felt that he had
opened a weak hand and should sign
on by bidding three no-trump. North
passed the bid of three no-trump,
holding the following hand:
Spades Jx
Hearts AK
Diamonds K 10xx
Clubs AK QJ.
To North's amazement, the con-
tract Of three no-trump was set one
trick. Actually, the hand was q
spread for six diamonds. In the
main, the disaster occurred as the
result Of south's misconception of
the proper use Of sign-on bids.
The absolute definition Of what are
and what are not sign-ofis is almost
impossible. In general, repeated re-
bids Of the same suit, or minimum
responses at every instance indicate
. desire to stop at the aforementioned
contract. Players should avoid. how
ever. any attempt to use bids in the
no-trump denomination as the sole
means Of signing OF. Such bidding
will cause bad results in the long run.
In the main, a great deal should de-
pend on the ability Of one partner to
infer whether or not the response is
. sign-od bid. No absolute conven-
ton can b3 agreed upon in advance
except as indicated herein-namely,
Q response Of. two no-trump either
to IN original two-bid or to q Jump
response of two Of . new suit over Z
one-bid where the original bidder has
opened psychic.
(Copyright. 103S.)
Evening star., 1938-02-20

OF Catholic University La1u
School has been a1Udrded q
Sterling Fellowship for 1859
BY the Committee on Grad
uate Study OF the Yale Uni
Uersity La1D School. Mr.. Hduk
received his A. B. from Regis
College, DenDer, magma cum
laude, and 1Uill receiUe his
LII. B. from Catholic UniUer-
Sity in June. This is the sec
ond successive year a Catholic
UniUerSity ld1D student has
1Don q Sterling Fellowship.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
Sign.Of Bidding.

THERE is no more troublesome
problem to both the beginner in
contract bridge and the more ad-
vanced player than the question Of
what is "sign-off" bid.
In the first place, most players do
not seem to realize that the best and
only complete sign-off is the pass. An
interesting hand illustrating this prin-
ciple arose in rubber bridge game
the other day. The North player held:
Spades JXX
Hearts JXXxx
Diamonds x
Clubs Xxx
Evening star., 1938-02-20

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