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Evening star., 1938-03-07

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Development Of school savings for
children was urged at the recent
American Bankers Association Saw
tngs Conference, by James K. Steuart,
treasurer of the Savings Bank of Bal
timore.
Mr.. Steuart stressed the oppor-
tunity that school savings give to
banks to educate the customers of
the future. He pointed out that
school savings introduce the bank
into the home. "The continued use
fulness Of banks depends not on the
days and people that have gone," he
said, but on the people and the needs
Of today and those days to come"
Evening star., 1938-08-25

of the filing fees OF candidates for
State Offices, which was 500 more
than for four years ago, according
to Mrs. Clara c. Holmes, board
chairman.
The reason for the large difference
Is the unusually large number of
candidates this year. Nearly two full
tickets and several unattached candi-
dates are running in the Democratic
primary, while several contests are in
prospect for places or the Republican
slate.
The primary in 1884 was unusual
too, in that the Republicans entered
no slate in the primary, but combined
with the anti-organization Democrats
to file ticket by petition in the gen.
eral elections in November. That left
the organization Democratic candi-
dates and one Republican in the
primary, and their filing fees amounted
to only $50.
The filing fee for candidate for
an office paying more than $500 a
year is $25, and for Office of county
supervisor, $40. No fee is charged
for candidates for State Central Com
mittee or delegate to the State con-
vention Of either party.
Evening star., 1938-08-25
NIGHT CLUB NOISE
CASES CONTINUED
Thomas Circle Operator Has Been
Warned, However-Illness
Delavs Secnnd Decision

Police Court Judge John p. Nc
Mahon continued again yesterday two
cases in which night clubs are ac-
cused of disturbing the peace Of their
respective neighborhoods.
In one case Bernard Goldstein, man
ager of the Melody Club at Thomas
Circle, charged with using machine
to amplify the human voice to the
disturbance of the neighborhood, was
told by Judge Mcmahon:
1.-THE Government has made case.
The people are being disturbed, and
I don't propose to have these annoy
anceS continued"
Testimony last week revealed that
Evening star., 1938-08-25
FATAL FEVER TICK
WARN|NGPLANNED
Montgomery Health Officer
Hopes to Have Speedy
System Worked Out.

epeedier means of warning Mont
gomery County residents of danger
of Rocky Mountain spotted fever is
being considered by DR.. v. L. Ellicott,
county health officer, to combat fatali-
ties next year.
The death of George Kuster, 40, in
Georgetown Hospital yesterday was
the countys third this year resulting
from the fever out of six cases re-
ported No fatalities resulted last
year or in 1886, although six cases
we're reported in 1887 and eight in
1885, he said.
Mr. Kuster lived at the Rockville
pike and Garrett Park road, only a
short distance from William Offutt,
80, who died of the same ailment in
July
The season during which cases of
tick fever are usually reported is
during July and August and thus is
nearly at its close, DR.. Ellicott eX-
planned. However. in advance of the
midsummer months next year he
hopes to work out some plan for
warning nearby residents whenever a
case of the disease is reported that
the virus is prevalent in the area.
The fever is spread principally by
ticks in much the same way that
malaria is spread by mosquitoes, but
not all ticks are infected with the
spotted fever virus When a victim
of the disease is reported to the county
health office DR.. Elllicott plans tc
make special efforts to warn neigh
bors to give special attention to tick
bites.
One method being considered is to
ask cooperation of post Office officials
so that warnings may be distributed
by mail carriers throughout any
threatened district.
Evening star., 1938-08-25

the amplifying system had been re-
moved the previous month. Judge
Mcmahon said he would hold up the
case until october 1 to see If any
further complaints were made.
The second case, in which John
H. Rowe, owner of Rowe's Sea Food
Restaurant. 4408H2 Georgia avenue
NV, was the defendant against q
much broader charge of disturbing the
peace at late and unusual hours of the
Evening star., 1938-08-25
CANDIDATE FEES
HIT COUNTY PEAK
Long Ballot Crosses $2,110,
With $3.50 More From
State Sources.
BY Stan Correspondent q The Star.

BY Stan Correspondent q The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, Aug. 25.-Mem-
bers of the Board Of Supervisors of
Elections were lingering over a record
breaking take" today as a result Of
the long ballot in the Montgomery
County primary next month.
The board has received a total of
Sl,780 from the ia candidates to flle
for the county Offices this year, as
compared with only $50 from the
same source in the 1884 election. In
addition, the board today received a
check for $3.50 representing its share
Evening star., 1938-08-25
HOLLYWOOD DIVORCES
ARE CALLED 'DISGRACE'
Pennsylvania Sons of America
Convention Asks Actors to Set
Better Example.

BY the Associated Press.
READING, Pa. Aug. 25.-The Penn
sylvania convention of the patriotic
order Sons of America today labeled
Hollywood divorces "a national dis
grace" and called upon all actors ito
produce a finer example in their pri-
vate lives"
A resolution read:
Marriage is a sacred trust except
in Hollywood and among people of the
screen The constant publicity of di-
vorce after divorce among the people
of the motion picture industry has be-
come a national disgrace ="
Another resolution denounced GER
tain actors for lending their names to
the Anti-Nazi League and declared
that by so doing they were raising
funds to assist Communist program
in America"
Evening star., 1938-08-25
Free Rent for Immigrants.

Immigrants entering Argentina
through Buenos Aires are housed and
fed free of charge by the government
for five days, or longer if circum-
stances require it, while arrangements
are made for them to continue to their
destination.
Evening star., 1938-08-25
AUTO is ABSOLVED

Coroner Holds Boyles' Death Is
Not Traffic Fatality.
Coroner A. Magruder Mcdonald de-
cided yesterday that the death of
Morris M. Boyles, 81. who died of
injuries received in a fall as he stepped
back to avoid a passing automobile,
should not be listed as a traffic
fatality.
Mr.. Boyles, who lived at 64 U street
NV, died in Casualty Hospital yes
terday He was injured August 5
when he stepped backward to avoid
q passing car, stumbled and fell
against the curb in the first block
of Florida avenue NV Police were
told the automobile did not strike
him
Evening star., 1938-08-25

night with loud and unusual noises"
was continued until August 81 be-
Evening star., 1938-08-25

cause Of the illness Of one Of the
principals.
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Clean-UpDrire
In Mt. Pleasant
NO1U Under Way

A cleaner Washington and particu-
larly cleaner Mount Pleasant is the
present objective of the Mount Pleas
ant Citizens Association.
A letter received by The Star from
John De La Mater. secretary, dis
closes that plan has been adopted
by the organization to clean up the
community, not sporadically but an
all-year proposition.
With the aid of the teachers and
pupils of both the Powell Junior High
School and the Bancroft Elementary
School, the respective Parent-Teach-
er Associations, the Boy Scouts and
citizens Of the community are to be
enlisted by the association in the
drive.
Cooperation of business men Of the
community, the District Refuse De-
partment and newspaper distributors
will be asked.
Three suggestions toward cleaner
Mount Pleasant have been made and
sent out to every individual in the
area in the form of pledge cards,
namely:
pledge myself to take part in the
Mount Pleasant Citizens Association
cleanup campaign.
will not throw trash on pave
ments or in streets: I will use the
public trash cans.
I will help others to remember their
pledges.
Evening star., 1938-05-08
PLANS FORMULATED
FOR DINNER PARTY
Affair to Be Held May 10
at National Press
Club.

The "victory dinner" sponsored by
the Southeast Council and the South
east Business Mems Association will be
held Thursday, May 10, at z pm, in
the National Press Club and not the
Continental Hotel as originally
planned.
A. w. Lee, committeeman of both or
ganizations, made this announcement
yesterday, coupled with q statement
that it was expected chairmen of COM
mittees of both the House and Senate,
who were instrumental in obtaining an
appropriation for beginning of con-
struction of the Pennsylvania Avenue
Bridge, for which reason the dinner
is being held. would attend as well as
the District Commissioners and leading
civic leaders of the city.
A program Of entertainment Is be-
ing arranged by the committees Of
the two organizations. A dance also
will be held following the dinner.
At a meeting of the Southeast Bush
ness Mems Association, to be held to-
morrow at 8:l5 pm. in the Offices of
the president, Clarence F. Donohoe,
314 Pennsylvania avenue Sc, the
final arrangements are expected to be
completed. The business men also
plan to discuss the outcome Of the suf-
frage referendum held last month.
Evening star., 1938-05-08
People Need to Know
The Districts True Story.

Two things which came promi-
nently to the front as side-light
incidents Of the recent unofficial
District suffrage referendum were
the multitude of questions asked
regarding the District and its past
and the mass Of alleged facts cir
culated which were anything but
true. It has been asserted in this
column on several occasions that
there are probably more things be-
lieved about the District that are
untrue than are in circulation re-
garding any other place.
Events which never happened
and conditions which never existed
are remembered CD vividly by some
people who are supposed to know.
They pass such statements on to
others and they are repeated again
and again and improving with each
repetition are accepted as actual
history. These people Of such re-
markable memory. that they re-
member things that never hap
pened, are a serious handicap
every time an effort is made to
bring about a better state Of local
affairs.
The particular breed will not die
of for there are others always to
take the places Of those who pass
on. There is an antidote which is
q genuine solution Of this problem.
The only way to combat error and
false statement is with truth.
The only way to use the truth as
an effective weapon is to first know
the truth yourself. THAT We shall
know the truth and the truth shall
make you free" was the way the
Great Teacher put it. The late
John Garland Pollard, former Gov
ernor Of Virginia. in that bright
little volume which he called "A
Connotary" gives several defini-
tions of truth" He refers to it
as "the only thing that can't be
AmPAONCA uPOA ouu ICA1c uS tlAhV
Truth is the anvil which has worn
out many hammer"
It is q sad fact that there are
many active workers in the civic
ranks who do not have any SUBJ
stantial background of the funda-
mental facts regarding the origin
and government Of the District of
Columbia. The District has an in
teresting history and its knowledge
is absolutely essential to intelligent
understanding and participation in
our civic affairs. This. Is particu-
larly true at this time when all
sorts Of proposals are being ad-
vanced for changes in our system
Of local government. Civic workers
also need 1t to combat with facts
the false statements In current ctr
culation. They must have the Dis
trict's true story.
. Says one writer, "The fewer
voices on the side Of truth, the
stronger must be your own"
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Twentieth street NV, 8 pm.
TmA~Aov NGav "A

Twentieth street NV, g pm.
Tuesday, May 10.
BURLEITH-Gordon Junior High
School, g pm.
NORTH RANDLE COMMUNITY
Free Methodist Church, Minnesota
avenue and F streets Sc, 8 pm,
RANDLE HIGHLANDS -Mechan-
les Hall, 2407 Minnesota avenue Sc.
pm.
SUMMIT PARK-East Washington
Heights Baptist Church, 8 pm.
Wednesday, May IL.
CATHEDRAL HEIGHTS CLEVE.
LAND PARK-Parish Hall, st. Adams
Church, 8 pm.
RHODE ISLAND AvENUE-Wood-
ridge Branch Public Library, . pm.
Thursday, May IL.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PARK
Hurst Hall, American University, 3
pm.
CONGRESS HEIGHTS Congress
Heights School, 8 pm.
Friday, May IL.
BRIGHTWOOD - Brightwood
School, 8 pm.
Saturday, May II.
MOUNT PLEAsANT-Mount Pleas
ant Branch Public Library, 3 pm.
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Chicago Firm to Plan
New Government for District,

Reorganization of the District
government. long talked of and
often surveyed. is now to have pro-
feSsional treatment and a definite
prescription written which may be
used as the basis for hearings and
later enacted into law. Under the
$4,000 Of District tax money appro-
priated by Congress the job has
been given to a Chicago firm spe-
cializing in public administration
and finance.
The fruits of several surveys are
to be turned over to the representa-
tives of this company and they are
to work out in legislative form a
plan which will be complete and
ready for action. Members of the
District Committees have told these
experts that they are not after
"just another plan" to be filed
away. but something concrete and
ready for enactment into law.
Some in the civic ranks would
rather have seen some one selected
for this job familiar with the
peculiar conditions which obtain
here and which are not to be dupli-
Gated elsewhere in the country. Past
experience has proven on numerous
occasions that people in other parts
Of the country. experts or not. do
not as a rule even begin to grasp
the peculiar governmental condi-
tions under which these subjects of
the United States live and are gov
erned.
If the amendments proposed to
the Constitution which would make
the District Of Columbia really a
part Of the Nation. were made, then
something could be done along the
line Of reorganization of the Dis
trict government which would be
worth while.
Evening star., 1938-05-08

Women Voters which succeeded in
getting the Legislature OF that State
to pass resolutions memorializing
Congress to pass our suffrage
amendment and submit it to the
Legislatures of the States for rati-
f1cation. 1t will be to these intelli-
gent and energetic, patriotic women
the District must look for much
help in getting the amendments
through Congress and then the
ratification by the Legislatures of
three -fourths of the States.
Evening star., 1938-05-08
BY JESSE C. SUTER.

ME dlteTSlOW OF LNc OlSCrlcC
Of Columbia unofiicial suf-
frage referendum of April
80 continued to be the big
civic news during the past week.
The $4,000 votes polled was really a
surprise to every one. However, In
well-informed circles there was no
surprise that it overwhelmingly IA
vored granting the right to vote to
the voteless and unrepresented resi-
dents of the District. II proved
that the District is normal Amer
ican community which would have
been unworthy of the name to have
expressed itself otherwise,
The Senate has to its credit four
District bills passed on Thursday.
The most important of these pro-
vides for a modern and humane
method for the handling of lunacy
cases. Under this bill a mental
health commission will be substi-
tuted for the old jury proceedings
which was so much like a criminal
procedure. Provision is made for
jury trial when demanded by the
person suspected of being insane
or by his representative. The COM
mission is to consist Of a lawyer,
as chairman, who shall serve for
term Of four years. and two physi-
clans drawn from a panel Of eight.
This bill requires House action.
The. other bills passed by the
Senate control operators of beauty
parlors and BARRIERS, and the last
amends the charter of Howard Uni
versity. A board of examiners for
BARRIERS and board Of cosmetology
for the beauticians will be set up if
the bills are enacted into law. The
addition of these new professional
boards to the existing similar ones
will give the District an array of
such officials.
The Senate has approved the
conference report on the District
1889 revenue bill, with the special
taxes running for only one year.
The report has been held up by
the chairman of the House District
Committee. who Is said to be striv-
ing for support to defeat the bill
because Of the objections of some
Baltimore business men to some Of
its provisions. Should he be sue
cessful and Congress adjourn with
out providing q substitute measure,
the Commissioners will be left with
no choice but to raise the tax rate
of real estate and tangible personal
property to at least $l90.
The House has passed a bill
which will increase by three the
number Of associate justices of the
United States District Court for the
District OF Columbia and will add
one associate justice to the Court
OF Appeals. AS this bill has passed
the Senate with provision for only
two additional judges for the Dis
trict Court. it must go to conference
unless the Senate accepts the House
amendments.
Evening star., 1938-05-08


Mothers Day which would give 1t a
new and finer significance.
Those children-boys and girls
who live their childhood and adoles-
cent years under the loving and tender
guidance Of a mothers hand, never
know what the lack Of such a stanch
ally can mean. But those other chill
dren whose mothers have had to leave
unfinished their task, who have an
swered call which cannot be disre-
garded, are indeed the unfortunate
ones. And it Is for these children that
speak today, and for whom believe
Mothers Day could be made to have
new significance.
Seek Out Motherless.
If somehow a means could be de-
vised whereby mothers all over the
country would make a special effort
on this one day Of the year to seek
out these motherless children, and in
some manner, some how, supply to
them the love and friendship and help
which they lose when mother steps
out Of the scene, what a truly Mothers
Day" it would become!
It is lovely to have children turn
their thoughts toward their mothers
on this particular day, but the ma
jority Of mothers. am sure, feel that
they are being honored every day in
the year by the fine behavior and
worthwhile accomplishments Of these
children whom they have had the
privilege of ushering into the world.
So perhaps, on this one very spe-
cial!y designated Mothers Day" we
who are mothers may take this
thought with U.s. and because We have
been so signally honored. turn our at
tention toward its observance in future
years in manner which would make
it more truly Mothers Day."
At the 25th annual convention of
the District Of Columbia Congress of
Parents and Teachers last Tuesday
and Wednesday the following officers
were elected: Mrs. j. Phil Campbell,
second vice president; Mrs. E. j.
Dowling, fourth vice president; Mrs.
Richard J. Purcell. sixth vice presi-
dent; Mrs. w. G. Greenleaf, secretary;
Mrs. w. A. Meyer, treasurer; Mrs.
Fred E. Manning, historian They
were installed Wednesday afternoon
by Mrs James G. Sheehan, national
vice president.
Tuesday at 10 am. in the N. E. A.
Building.
Wallach.
The association will meet tomorrow
| at 8 pm. Officers will be elected and
| installed.
A May festival and luncheon will
be held on May 26.
Benning.
A May Day party for parents will
be given tomorrow at pm.
A mother r-daughter dinner will
be held Thursday at $50 pm. Mrs.
c. D. Lowe, first vice president of the
District of Columbia Congress. and
Mrs. Edward R. Seal, director of pub
licity, will be guests Of honor.
Henry D. Cooke.
The Executive Board will meet We'd
nesday at pm.
C0rc0ran.
Joining in the schools May Day
program, the association will meet
Tuesday morning in the school yard.
The operetta, "Hansel and Gretel,"
will be presented the afternoon Of
May l6 and evening of May II in the
Peck Memorial Auditorium.
Brent Dent.
The association will meet tomorrow
at Z pm. at the Dent School. Seven
groups of children from the Brent
and Dent Schools will present the
program. A representative from the
Virginia Avenue Fairgrounds will
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Plebiscite Value in Solving
Problem of Votelessness.

On every hand questions are be-
ing asked as to just what will be
the practical contribution of the
suffrage plebiscite Of Saturday,
April 80, to the ultimate solution of
the voteless state of the National
Capital community. There have
been those who have innocently
asked If the vote would not be
given the District Immediately in
view Of the overwhelming senti-
ment shown in the poll.
There Is no way of putting a
definite value on this fine piece of
civic work. It's most immediate
value is educational and informa-
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Finer Significance Urged
In Mothers Day observance
PIT. A. President Suggests Mothers
Seek Out M0therless Children
and Ciue Them LOue.
BY MRS. WALTER b. FRY.

Of sandT
IL country Mothers
to the parenteac association
cance not because mothers
but because by its designation much
wonderful
ing mothes grateful daughters full
straton
mothers dedicated to the
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Recruits in Civic Ranks
RHODE ISLAND AVENUE.

The current membership drive Of
the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens
Association has been rewarded with
the following new members, received
during March and April:
Evening star., 1938-05-08
TRIP FOR VETERANS
Legion to Give Boat Ride to
Disabled Men at Hospitals.

The National Guard of Honor Of
the American Legion, with the Coop
Grafton of the District Legion Depart
ment, will give boat ride to the dis
abled veterans from Mount Alto, Wal
ter Reed, Naval and St. Elizabeth's
Hospitals May 81 at pm. Capt. Guy
c. Nadeau is general chairman.
The veterans will be taken to Mount
Vernon, where refreshments will be
served. Charles Kohen is arranging
the entertainment, as well as the
transportation. The Guard Of Honor
and the American Legion oficials will
attend.
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Mckay. c. H.
Mead, H. =.
Storie. william K.
Baardse. John.
CONGRESS HEIGHTS.

Seventeen were elected to member
ship in the Congress Heights Progress
sives Citizens Association at its meet
ing last week, r. A. Sullivan, chair
man Of the Membership Committee,
reported. They are:
Evening star., 1938-05-08

Fathers night will be observed We'd
nesday at 8 pm. The following officers
will be installed: Mrs. Leslie Hinkel,
president; Mrs. Edna Veihmeyer. first
vice president: Mrs. Elizabeth O'Brien,
treasurer; Mrs. Virginia Adair, secre-
tary; Mrs. Ruth Heinlein, historian.
Guest speaker viii be the Rev. II. v.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-30
Bethlehem Fair History Dates To 1920

go the appreciation of the fair so- ciety for the great amount of ef- fort she contributed during the early years of the event and which she is continuing to give to the fair today.
 Until the year 1928 the manage ment of the fair was left in the hands of a committee elected each year by Bethlehem grange, and usually consisting of three grange members. That committee appointed committees for the event. As the fair continued it's growth, how ever, the work involved became far more than such committee could handle, and the grange therefore decided to establish the Bethlehem Grange Fair Association, which in- cluded all members of the grange and whose officers were elected by the grange. This association had a president, vice-presldent, secretary and treasurer, and committee of seven or eight to meet with them which was called the executive com mittee of the fair.
 First Officers
 First officers of the association were Paul Johnson, president; Frank Coward, vice-president; Mss Ada Hunt, secretary: Mrs. Dora Bloss, treasurer. The president and vice-president have remained in their offices since that time, while Miss Rita Butler has held the office of secretary during the past few years, and Miss Helen Logue has occupied the office of treasurer with Miss Edith Banks. present treas urer, holding that position for sev- eral years Executive committee of the fair has been changed some what with the passing years, partly due to the fact that the master of the grange was always included as 6 member of the executive board.
 Following the establishing Of the