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Evening star., 1938-02-27
SCHOOLS EMPHASIZE
VOCATIONAL STUDY
Shift in Educational Stress Is
Made After Demands of
Chicago Public.
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Feb, 26.-The American
public is demanding that secondary
schools train their -college-bound
pupils for successful competition in
commerce and industry, DR.. William
H. johnson, superintendent of Chi
cago schools, said today.
DR.. johnson made the assertion in
describing a shift in the educational
stress in Chicago's high schools to
put more emphasis on vocational
training-a shift which has brought
widespread comment. some favorable
and some unfavorable, both in and
out of scholastic circles.
The new system of providing Ger
tificates Of accomplishment to gradu-
ates in commercial. industrial and
technical courses which do not qualify
pupils for college was inaugurated,
DR.. johnson said, after an investi-
CATION disclosed that mot more than
Z or per cent Of high school fresh
men actually go to college"
A study of academic subjects, DR..
johnson said. is required during the
first two years for commercial stu
dents. Exploratory courses are given
flrst-year students in regular high
schools to determine for what lines
of work they are best fitted before
entering the boys technical schools,
which are to be converted into three
vnor ipetif,,tiooe y,Ax,{ Fo
Evening star., 1938-02-27
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATIONS.

Charles H. Carll, 80. "a st. ne. and
Edith J. Maxwell, 60. 1903 st. NV;
Lawrence NJ Gray 90 I2f Scho,ts court
ne. and Rosie C. Jones. 10, ~ Fenton
,,, ST. ne; y, the Rev. Alexis St: ,Onee.
nw nv, and Rachel "A. Norton: 10, al
Robert g: Wood, 10: a4l Fifteenth ST. Sc,
Va: the Rev. A. F. Poore
Mark McHarmon. 81. 1924 Maryland ave
ne, and Flossie A. Moss, ~ Ardmore.
. Md; the Rev. Charles Enders.
James .. Ferguson. ir.. 33. Rockville Md.
and Frances H. ,Combes, -. 35:l Thir-
con ii IT, nS Yeivhstdn hs Rev BroTnsve 0G0Hns
Tex: and Vera c.. Clampitt. 30. 213S
Florida ave. NV; Judge Nathan Cayton.
ReTinad Troas A A yiekers, 81. and Emma Jane
aoove Zee " 0Se Soth Of washns,on sah Msasares
son. ~, both OF washington.
'snd snd Isain' Rsih MeMsn AAsassen Aerdssen e.
William Dakin McKim. ~. Arlington Va,
sndria and Mary y. Elizabeth Ballenser. 10. Alex
orris c. Butler. 45, and Caroline l. Robin
son. 43. both Of Holmes Run. va.
Raymond Rice Hall. %. Alexandria, Va,
and Dorothy Viola Pier. is. Potomac.
Holbert I. Riley. %. and Edith H. Bupp.
u. both OF Gettysburg, Pa.
James Robert Henderson, 81, and Rebecca
johnson. %. both of Arlington Va.
Evening star., 1938-02-27
DEATHS REPORTED.

Elizabeth w. Burke. s5. 1910 37th st. NV.
Edith Morgan Willett. 81. 1897 Massachu-
SettS ave. NV.
Irene Rucker Sheridan. 81. 2211 Massa-
c5usetts ave. NV.
Msrgsret Mst considins, 90. 1aoa st. nv.
Harry Stansbury. 20. Garfield Hospital.
Alice He.n;t., Neyin Touhy' H. Homeopathic
oleyua < Harvey. 80. Homeopathic
Rebecca S. Ennis. 20. 2bO1 14th st. NV.
Charles M Eiker. SO. George Washinston
University Hospital.
Walter johnson. 81: Casualty Hospital.
Louis A. Mayhem. 55. Veterans AdmNnis-
tration Facility
Clyde e. McCleery, 81. 1905 Jefferson
Resina Waller: "a: sibley Hospital.
Ruth Dodge. %. GeorEe WashinRton Uni>
versity HOSPITAL.
Infant Kenneth Hoffman, Children's
MarSaret Lucas, 90. 1905 4th st. NV.
PAUL Washington, 6s, Home Ased and
Alexander Horne. Al, .e1e 4th st. Sc
friedman D. Lewis. %, Rock Creek nenf
MaseaChusettS ave nv.
Infant, Beatrice Thomas, 0allinger xsV-
Evening star., 1938-02-27
1.-THE LATE Mr.. BEAN"
CHOSEN AS CLASS PLAY
Junior Members of Trinity College
Dramatic Society to Give
Performance March 8.

Junior members Of the Dramatic
Society of Trinity College have select
ed Sidney Howard's The Late Mr..
Bean as their annual class play
March 8.
The cast includes Rosemary Kiely,
Mary Clavin. Katherine Keelty, Mar
garet Crowley, Rita Kentz, Catherine
Doran, Kathleen O'Connor, Rosemary
German and Anna Mae Rover.
Trinity's Washington Club will hold
its annual tea for parents of members
and for the faculty next Sunday.
Miss Katherine Friant is in charge
OF arrangements.
Miss Ellen Ganey, secretary of Trim
itys Alumnae Association, and Miss
Florence Judge, president of the
Washington chapter. are attending a
meeting of Trinity's Board of Direc-
tors at the Midston Club in New
York. Yesterday they we're enter
tanned at tea given by the Eastern
chapters of Trinity alumnae.
Evening star., 1938-02-27
FAMILY SERVICE BODY
STUDIES 500 APPEALS
Association Able to Aid Only 322
of 500 Families Due to ~
Lack of Funds.

A study Of the troubles that brought
more than 500 families to ask aid from
the Family Service Association dur
ing January was made public yester-
day by William Savin, director.
Investigation revealed that 246 of
the families had no food in the house
at the time they asked for aid, l8 had
been evicted from their homes during
the month, 100 were threatened with
eviction, IS were without fuel and in
1877 homes there was no income.
Nearly 100 families were asking aid
for the first time. Because of a short
age of funds the association was able
to give aid to only 322 of the most
needy families by arranging for food
supplies, medical care and the extern
sion Of credit.
Evening star., 1938-02-27
Ex-Inn,ate of Alcatraz Seized
With Bogus DC. Bank Checks
arrested IL, Kansas City,
Karl Strain Tells of
Visit Here.

Karl c. Strain, described by the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation as
wanted for kidnapping. robbery, imper-
sonation and automobile theft, had
several fraudulent checks on WASH
ington banks in his possession when
arrested by G-men in Kansas City,
Mo-, Friday night, it was announced
at F. B. I. headquarters last night.
Strain told F. B. I. agents he had
been in Washington recently. stopping
at tourist house just outside of the
city. The house, he said, was owned
by State police officer. who did not
suspect the real identity of his guest.
In Strains possession G-men said
they found drivers license issued
to the State police officer and a num-
Der Of the latter's personal cards. Fur
ther details of his visit in this vicinity
were withheld.
Federal agents picked up the fugi-
ti"e's trail in Illinois and followed it
to this city. southwark to Tennessee
and thence to Missouri. Three G-men
surprised Strain on a bus In Kansas
City, where he had an apartment con-
tanning two revolvers. Agents said
Strain expressed regret he had neg
lected to carry the guns with him, as
he had mo intention of ever being
taken alive" He said he would rather
die than 60 to Jail, and he admitted
he had made three attempts to COM
NIT suicide after previous arrests.
In addition to the checks on the
Washington banks, F.. B. I. officials
said Strain had checks drawn on
banks in Chicago. There were 13
checks in all and each was made out
to Lieut.. James Murphy" They were
for amounts ranging from $40 to $50.
Conditionally released from Alcatraz
Penitentiary last July after serving
three years for impersonation of Fed
Evening star., 1938-02-27
PLAN
DISTRICT CHAPTER
New York Delegation to Come
Here for Banquet and
Meeting Tuesday.

Forty explorers who live in and
around Washington will meet Tuesday
Evening star., 1938-02-27

eral officers, Strain violated his re-
lease by leaving California. Return
ing, he shot policeman who sought
to arrest him in San Diego and fled
to Tia Juana, Mexico, G-men declared.
F. B. I. officials said Strain told
them he was captured in Tia Juana
after police and Mexican soldiers cor
nered him in a warehouse with ma
chine gun and rifle fire. He escaped
after being taken to hospital.
After leaving Washington several
weeks ago, they said, Strain married
a l9-year-old girl in Montgomery,
Ala, but left her in South Carolina.
During most of his travels, it was
alleged, he cashed fraudulent checks
by impersonating an Army officer.
Evening star., 1938-02-27
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

TODAY.
Meeting, Bartenders' Union No. IS,
720 Fifth street NV, 3 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Society of Military En-
gineers, Army and Navy Club, 1890
pm.
Card party. Chinese Relief, Shore
ham Hotel, 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1938-02-27

evening ut the Cosmos Club to eat
and swap yarns about adventures in
out-of- -the-way places.
The men are members Of the New
York Explorers Club who thought it
would be wise to organize locally to
get acquainted and form an unof-
ficial group that could meet several
times q year.
Gen. D. L. Brainard and George
Shiras. Sd, who are expected to at
tend the Tuesday meeting, were orig
Evening star., 1938-02-27

inal members Of the Explorers Club,
which is sending down delegation
headed by jeremiah Hunter. secretary.
The dinner begins at $50 pm.
Robert Marshall, Of the Forest Serv-
ice, and Herford T. Cowling, Of the
Unemployment Census. constitute the
Committee on Arrangements. Mr..
Cowling has Travelled in Canada, the
South Sea islands, Australia, New
Zealand, the Philippines, Japan, Dutch
East Indies. Malay States. Siam, Indo
China. Burma. India. most Of the
Evening star., 1938-02-27
BIRTHS REPORTED.

MICHAEL and Lula Mantzouris. boy.
Wiloert and Margaret Krumm. boy.
John and Warnetta Libby. girl.
Lawrence and F1ossie Curineton, boy
Carol and Emily Osborn, boy.
Edward and Ruth Maxley. girl,
Peter and Gertrude Costas, ,irI.
Lemuel and Louise Dowell, boy.
Domily and Evelyn Muse. girl.
Allan and Evelyn Thomas, girl.
Marcel and Ollie Holland. girl.
James and Lucille Bowyer. girl.
Herbert and Rosetta Scott, boy.
Earl and Marion Douglas, boy.
James and Helen Howard. boy.
John and Constantia Ellis. boy.
David and Argentine Diges. boy.
James and Helen Simmons. girl.
David and Vivian Cross. girl.
Moffet and Irene washington, Girl.
James and Irene Holt, girl,
James and Evelyn Parker. boy.
Fletcher and Martha Morton, boy,
Walter and Elizabeth Thomas, boy.
Berry and Clinton Lewis. boy.
Edward and Martha Young. boy.
Henry and Ophelia Mccoy. boy.
Robert and Gordie Steward. eirl.
Walter and Annie Harris. girl.
Evening star., 1938-02-27
Cadets Make Honor Roll,

Cadets ]. L. Germany, M. A. How.
anian, Francis A. Hare, William A.
Hare and Roy L. Burgess, all Of WASH
ington, made the honor roll at the
Fork Union Military Academy, Fork
Union, Va, during the last month. It
was announced yesterday.
Evening star., 1938-07-08
DIR. Morgan's Suit.

The suit by DR.. Arthur E. Morgan,
former chairman Of the Tennessee Valley
Authority, to test the legality of his re-
moval by President Roosevelt, may be
expected to determine questions OF great
importance concerning the respective
powers Of the President and the Con-
gress in removing administrative officers
whose appointments are subject to ap-
proval by the Senate. e+
It is provided in the Tennessee Valley
Act that Congress by concurrent resolu-
ton may remove any officer at any time.
and that the President may remove any
ofacer found guilty Of considering poliu-
cal qualifications in the appointment or
promotion Of personnel
Mr.. Roosevelt, however, did not con-
tend that DR.. Morgan was being removed
under the latter clause, but asserted a
power to oust him for "contumacy" under
Q section of the Constitution directing
the President to see that the laws are
faithfully administered.
Those opposed to the removal con-
tended that the President had no such
Evening star., 1938-07-08

how they 50 successfully handle their
relief Just send them few millions,
we should not be feeding and caring
for. Then after several years Of ex-
perience they might give us a clearer
answer. We are told that when Presi-
dent Roosevelt made the statement in
flreside chat early in his administra-
ton, That no man, woman or child in
America should want" That our shores
were flooded with aliens. Is that being
fair to the American people? Richard
c. Patterson, newly appointed Assistant
Secretary Of Commerce says, Debts are
healthful." Well if that's the case, we
in America should worry. We are grow
ing healthier every minute of the day.
The only worry is We may become too
bloated.
President Roosevelt made this state
ment in his Madison Square Garden
speech in 1886. That those who didn't
like what he was doing, could go to
some other country. Rather a bold
statement from a President who is sup
posed to be a representative Of the
people. Could he have said such q
thing back in 1917-18-19 and escaped
serious injuries?
President Roosevelt is not playing fair
with the American people, He's con-
stantly promising one thing and doing
another and that's what is causing all
the unrest in America.
MRS. H. E. LOvELACE.
Kansas City, Mo.
Evening star., 1938-07-08
THIS AND THAT
,, CHARLES Z. TRAcEWELL.

amount Of time and patience would
yield results II not accompanied by this
peculiar ability.
There can be little doubt that few
birds would respond so readily as the
sparrows. for few are so sensible.
Whatever some people may hold
against this species, 1t remains one Of
the most intelligent of all birds.
A graduate of the famous university
Of hard knocks, the English sparrow
takes life as he finds 1t and insists on
fhding 1t good.
All the members of the sparrow family
are smart. Bird lovers must, and all
persons should, keep in mind that there
are many, many sparrows. The bird
books show whole plates full Of them,
large and small, many striped, some
with black caps, some with white
throats.
There are sparrows everywhere, all
Of them closely resembling the others,
50 that there can be little doubt that
many ignorant persons who fondly
imagine they are casting aspersions at
the English sparrows are really finding
fault with the song sparrows, and SO on.
All sparrows are intelligent, but per-
haps the English sparrow is just q bit
brighter than its cousins. Some OF its
habits have turned some Of mankind
against it; actually, man sees himself too
well reflected in this bird to like the
picture he sees.
The English sparrow Is aggressive.
He is fighter, hustler, a "go-getter."
He likes crowds and plenty Of noise,
Is not above slipping something over"
on q fellow, is very sharp and shrewd.
These sparrows are almost always the
hrst birds to spot feeding station in
neighborhood.
An interesting experiment, II one has
kept a station in summer, is to cut of
the supply and permit the feeder to go
empty for a week or so.
Then suddenly refill 1t, and watch.
The flrst birds to appear. although per-
haps not a one had been in the vicinity
for days, are the English sparrows.
There they are, just as II they had
never left.
Feeding these birds Is one Of the best
ways to prevent them from nesting in
. garden. and thus tending to keep some
Of the choicer varieties from doing so.
English sparrows do not like to nest
near a man-made feeder. So they will
ny to the yard of a neighbor.
This is probably based on the belief
OF the sparrows that where there are
many other birds the young will not
have such good "pickings."
The happy bird observer is he or she
who finds interests in all birds, who
realizes that they are pure creatures
Of nature, not humans, and who holds
nothing against them.
1t is not so easy to apply this phil
osophy to the animals which go on four
legs.
That Is one reason bird watching Is
good, because the observer may apply
easily such good precepts as he may be
in possession Of. and bring to his sport
some Of the better traits Of human
nature.
Evening star., 1938-07-08

about earning It's daily bread, public and
private. for three hundred sixty-fo days
On Nemesis Day the seismographs might
rumble, the charwornen OF the Capitol
might find their duties arduous, and few
individuals would ind themselves for
gotten. OF course, the economic royalists
would try to escape by trekking OF to
their shooting moors In Scotland, but
that need be no deterrent. The export
Of voodoo supplies from Haiti should give
that island republic = prosperity never
to be gained from sugar cane.
Evening star., 1938-07-08
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON,

Holidays.
I've travelled afar and I've viewed the
parade.
I've strummed q guitar In a sweet sere-
made.
I've murmured "Oh, why must our cit:-
zens try
To hold perpetual Fourth of July?"
On Christmas and New Year my Joy is
complete,
When my craving is neat just for some
thing to eat,
With gifts gayly proffered to check any
sigh,
But we still feel the need of our Fourth
of July.
: We have warbled the tunes that are
anciently gay.
But we do what We may with cold rea-
sons display.
We pause for some thought and We say,
by and by,
There's q serious side to this Fourth Of
July!" ..
Evening star., 1938-07-08
KING PLACE, NV.

De4t 61fs
"In these days, when the papers are
full Of wars and rumors Of wars, 1t II
refreshing. indeed, to be able to read
articles 70 full Of humor and UNDER
standing. especially Of such an i'm
personal subject as nature.
"Of course, there are people who can
see nothing interesting In the subject
of birds, animals and green growing
things: but there are many others who.
witnessing an exquisite happening, like
your correspondent Of the scarlet tan
ager, like to share that happiness with
some one.
when ono is sitting at the dinner
table, and sees . Wild rabbit cutting
didoes around . quail. for lack Of .
playmate Of his own kind, one feels he
or she Is indeed privileged that 1t is
their yard in which 1t happened.
when one can get within six inches
Of said bunny's nose with offerings Of
clover. before 1t darts away, one real-
lies the time and patience that Is re-
quired to gain the trust Of the wildings.
"The man you mentioned In Hyde
Park, London, has done moro than
tanned the sparrows.
HE has names for them
when he toSSes o pellet, he deSig-
mates which bird is to have it. There
is no wild scramble for 1t. but the bird
called. catches it neatly, on the wing.
Sometimes an over anxious bird may
get his cue mixed: but the old man is
q strict disciplinarian-no reward, until
the act Is correct.
Il asked him If they would take Offer
ings from me. He very graciously gave
me q few pellets Che painstakingly told
me how he made them himselD, called
a name, and only one bird came for 1t,
catching 1t in mid-air
Il did 1t again and again, the birds,
good little troupers, playing up to their
gallery.
Finally the old man called loudly,
"All right now, sing!"
"Whereupon, such clatter and furry.
and much fiuttering Of wings, occurred.
We knew the act was over for the day.
1T interested me to note, on the same
day your article about the turtle and
the baby robin appeared. I had the
chance to observe the fact that turtles
will attack helpless animals.
"One had crawled into q nest Of new
born rabbits, and had eaten the leg OIL
one Of them.
In your observations, have you ever
seen wild rabbit drinking water7 We
have two lily pools, from which the
birds. squirrels, cats and dogs will drink,
but have yet to see wild rabbit do so.
Your sincere admirer, A. H. B."
4
This first-hand account Of the bird
tanner Of London shows positively that
1t is the man, himself, who has the in
f1uence on the birds.
AS long as he is around. the English
sparrows he has trained will do the same
things for others as they do for him.
Just what this magic influence is no
one knows, not even the man who wields
1t. One may feel quite sure that no
Evening star., 1938-07-08
Reply to Attack
On independent Women.
To the Editor Of The Star:

On independent Women.
To the Editor Of The Star:
The sun Of our system has its cyclic
eleven-year heart beat. called sun spots:
the ancient Egyptians experienced the
scourge Of the seven-year locusts, but
attacks by disgruntled males on woman
kind, like Tennyson's Brook. goes on
forever" We hear the babling in q
letter to The Washington Star under
the heading, Business Women Blamed
for Economic Ills Of United States" in
which letter the demand is made that
women return to the kitchen. or, Is an
other correspondent says, put these
females back Of the kitchen stove and
baby carriage where they belong"
As our correspondent cries out in Q
loud voice in his wilderness Of Nmita-
ton, memories heavy with the odor Of
ignorance wing their way to us across
the centuries, we see woman as she
stumblingly plods along yesterdays
corridor of years.
Through the mist of centuries is re-
vealed her prison walls from which she
dare not pass: the tented kitchens to
which she was relegated so long; we see
her reluctantly admitted to the house
Of worship, but with silence enjoined
upon her; the humiliation she felt as
yoked with oxen she plowed the fields;
and when after centuries of pleadings
she was permitted the marriage cere-
mony, to be arrogantly told by authority
that since she felt such ceremony would
give - :.r-.ri.ual status, leaders would
yield to her demands, but she must
always remember that she had no soul
apart from her husband.
Why was woman 50 degraded? Why.
with her appreciation of the arts and
sciences was she denied their study:
why denied entrance to schools and
colleges until late years?
Woman has gradually risen from her
almost complete submergence in the
turgid waters Of subjection and SUBJ
ordination, and in the degree she has
freed herself from the web of depend
ency has her thought expanded to that
level where she Is aware at last that
she has q mind capable of creating
ideas.
Some European leaders Of late seem
determined again to regulate, standard
ize and conflne their womankind to q
sphere" that is bounded on the north
by the washtub, on the east by the
nursery, on the south by q fault finding
husband. and on the west by a supreme
effort to make one dollar answer for ten.
While this sphere" may be the Hitler
Mussolini axis Of Utopia, the American
woman insists that no avenue be closed
to her mental approach. She declares
that If either divinity or nature pre-
cipitates us into earth life, that favorit-
ism is shown II the mind of man Is
left unfettered while her mind is to be
specifically. placed" and It's horizon
limited. GLORIA DARE.
Evening star., 1938-07-08
Peace at Sea.

Few Government instruments are
facing . task more delicate or more i'm
portant than the new Maritime Labor
Board, delegated to help keep the peace
IN troubled INDUSTRY and to draft
recommendations for curing some Of the
Ill which have beset the American mer-
chant marine.
Several factors contribute to the deli
cacy OF the job set forth.
First among them, perhaps, Is the
temper Of the industry itself, that Is the
operators and the labor unions, both
relatively inexperienced in the processes
OF collective bargaining and the At
tendant responsibilities. In 50 far as it
has the power and the opportunity to do
so, 1t will be part Of the task Of the new
board to impress these responsibilities
upon both operators and unions.
Second, is the limitation of the boards
powers imposed by the law which created
1t, namely, that it Is not privileged to
intervene in maritime labor disputes
except by express consent of all parties
to the controversies.
Although such q requirement may
have the effect Of delaying board inter-
vention In . number Of cases, 1t is
hardly likely that either or both sides
of any prolonged maritime labor dead
lock would risk loss Of public support
by refusing Indefinitely to consent to
allow the board to use Its good of,ces.
And in this circumstance probably
rests the most finely balanced RESPONSE
bility weighing upon the tribunal,
namely, that 1t must establish for itself
a foundation of absolute impartiality
and fair judgment in order to prevent
creation Of any determination by either
employers or employees against permit
ting the board to function. Its initial
decisions, therefore, will be of the utmost
importance and significance.