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Evening star., 1939-02-04
Left to Nature.

"Where," quoted the poetic person,
"are the SHOWS of yesteryear?"
"I don't know answered Mr.. Sirius
Barker. "but we owe no thanks to the
street-cleaning department that they
aren't lying precisely where they fell
Evening star., 1939-02-04

G. Please give some information about
the homespun woolen industry in Ashe-
vile, N. &C. N.
A. The Biltmore Homespun Shop at
Asheville, N C., was originated in 1901
by Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt to furnish
employment for a few mountain people
in her neighborhood. 1t has grown
steadily ever since, employing at present
a lnd so people. After the industry be-
came we'll established, Mrs. Vanderbilt
sold it and the shops were moved to the
Grove Park Inn estate. Most of the raw
wool used comes from Australia, Wales,
Scotland and the Shetland Islands. It
is first dyed, then dried by natural air,
no artificial heat being used. The colors
are mixed, fibers broken up, wool recoiled
and then run through carding ma
chimes onto spinning frames. Power
driven machines are used for these
processes and for setting up the warp
on the loom, but the actual weaving is
done entirely by hand on hand looms.
Evening star., 1939-02-04

@. How many post office employees are
there in the United States?-D v. R.
A. The total number of employees in
the postal service is 293,167.
Evening star., 1939-02-04
Letters to The Star

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the 1Driter, although the use OF
a pseudonyn1 for publication is
permissible. Please be brief!
Evening star., 1939-02-04
Deferred.

Not yet in Valentines he sings,
"The rose is red, the violet blue"
This message now the postman brings
"The gas bill and the rent are due"
Evening star., 1939-02-04
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Evening star., 1939-02-04

"At las'." said Uncle Eben, 'de price
O. meat is gettin' lesser. but dis weather
whets up yoh appetite so you doan' save
nuthin'."
Evening star., 1939-02-04

ut is sometimes an injury to man
to lend him money" said Hi Ho, the
sage of Chinatown, "but my friends
have most Christian way of forgiving
injuries"
Evening star., 1939-02-04
Comparison.

above all things said the sincere
friend. 'avoid getting proud and
naughty"
That's easy" answered Senator
Sorghum, 'every time I feel myself los
ing my grip on my humility, I'll think
of the size of my salary compared to
that of child movie star"
Evening star., 1939-02-04

@. When will the United States feet
be in New York this spring?-W. W. c.
A. One hundred and nineteen vessels,
the six patrol squadrons and Aircraft /,
Fleet Marine Force, of the United States
feet will visit New York from April 80
to May II.
Evening star., 1939-02-04
Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. HGskin.

A reader can get the anS,Der to any
question OF fact By Urtting The Eue-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. HaSkin, Director, Washington,
D. c. Please inclose stamp for reply.
Evening star., 1939-02-04

c. How many ChiIds Restaurants arc
there?-J. H. NJ.
A. The Childs Co. operates 81 restau-
rants in Is cities.
Evening star., 1939-12-24
A. N. {. Young People
To Hold Conference

The third annual Young Peoples
Congress of the Philadelphia and
Baltimore Conference of the A. M.
E. Church will be held Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday at the Gal
braith A. M. E. Zion Church. Bishop
Cameron C. Alleyne is the superin-
tendent; DR.. Victor j. Tulane, con-
ference director Of Christian educa-
tion; Rev. James L. White, pastor
Of the host church, and Warren
Hicks, conference president.
The session will open Wednescray
morning. An address will be made
at noon by John w. Huguley, jr, on
Has Science Become a Franken-
stein in Our Social Order?" In the
afternoon there will be commission
groups. At the evening service
Challenges to Youth in a World
OF Conflicting Ideologies" will be
discussed.
On Thursday morning William ].
Trent, jr., will speak on The Flu.
ture Place of the Negro in a Democ-
racy." There will be a general
assembly and commission groups in
the afternoon, followed by an ad-
dress on Significance of the Present
World Crisis to the Negro by DR..
Ralph ]. Bunche. A banquet will
be held in the evening.
Charles M. Black will speak on
The Amsterdam Conference as 1t
Prefaced the Present European
Crisis" at the Friday morning ses-
sion. At noon will be Livingston
College Hour" The commission
groups will make reports in the
afternoon, followed by elections.
Bishop Alleyne will give an addres,
on "Consecrated Youth in the World
Today" at the closing session. ON
GERS will be installed.
Evening star., 1939-12-24
Fire Company Mergers
Assure Safety and Economy.

Seldom, If ever, has there been
so thorough study Of District
civic problem as the one recently
completed of the local flrefighting
facilities. Local experts with the
assistance of 10 national authori-
ties on fire prevention have made
this study. This work has been
done by practical men and not
by theorists who desire Ito try
it out on the dog"
Roughly, the plan is to consoli-
date companies located in nearby
neighborhoods and thus cut down
the overhead in a larger. modern
house. Maintenance costs would
be reduced in the larger units and
the sites occupied by the existing
small buildings could be sold If
not required for other District
uses. Finally, there would be a
considerable saving through re-
lief from the necessity Of rebuild
ing a number Of old obsolete
stations.
There is every assurance from
these experts that there will be
no sacrifice of fire protection or
Evening star., 1939-12-24
Gen. Marshall 10 Discuss
Organization for War

Speakers, including Gen. George
G. Marshall, Army chief of staff
Will discuss military strength before
joint meeting of the American
Military Institute and the American
Historical Association at the Nav
flower Hotel at 10 am. Thursday.
Gen. Marshall's subject, ma
tional Organization for War" will
be discussed by Senator Thomas of
Utah, member Of the Senate Mill
tary Affairs Committee. following
his talk.
DR.. Alfred Vagts, an officer in the
German Army in the World War
and now connected with Princeton
University, will talk on land and
sea power in Europe. DR.. Edward
M. Earle will discuss DR.. Vagts
paper.
DR.. A. Whitney Griswold of Yale
University has as his subject TN.
huence Of History on Sea Power: A
Comment on American Naval Pol
ICY" Capt. w. D. Puleston. U. s. N
will review this talk.
Evening star., 1939-12-24
Secretarial Groups
To Be Formed al
Strayer College
New Closes to Stort
In All Departments
February 5

E. S. Donoho, president Of Strayer
College, has announced that day
session classes will be resumed on
Tuesday, January 2, and students
attending the evening divisions of
the college will resume their studies
Wednesday, January 3.
The schedule of new year classes
provides for the admission of new
students on January 8, when class
groups will be formed for the Sec
retarial course offered in both day
and evening sessions.
February S has been designated
as the beginning Of the midwinter
semester, when new classes will be
formed in all departments of the
college. At this time a special 18-
week course in shorthand and type
writing. designed particularly for
midyear graduates who expect tc
enter college in September, will
begin.
Midyear classes in Strayer COL
lege Of Accountancy will also be
formed on February S.
During the Christmas vacation
E. G. Purvis. vice president, will at
tend the annual convention of the
Federation Of Commercial Teachers
as a delegate from the college. This
convention will be held at Pitts
burgh, Pa. Wednesday through Sat-
urday. Mr.. Purvis will deliver a talk
on Curriculum Planning in Private
Commercial Schools"
During the convention Mr.. Purvis
Will also appear on the program pre-
sented by the Board of Governors
OF the National Association of Ac-
credited Commercial Schools and
discuss Selling Business Educa-
tion."
Evening star., 1939-12-24
Important School Problems
Requiring LEGISLATION.

Several important school prob
lens require legislation for their
solution. The diminished need
for the use of the health schools
opens the way for the use Of the
Allison Building for use as a
school for white crippled chill
dren. The 81 children enrolled
at this building have been ex-
amined by the Health Depart
ment and found that most, If not
all, of them may be returned to
regular schools. This would per-
NIT the transfer from the Lang
don to the Allison School of the
white crippled children.
1t will, however, be necessary
to do some remodeling of the
Allison Building before it can be
put to this new use. The Con-
gress having specifically appro-
priated for this building as q
health school, there exists doubt
Evening star., 1939-12-24

as to the authority to use general
repair funds for such work, which
viii cost some $500.
The Langdon Building is not
at all well located for the Grip
pied children, who come from all
over the District. The Allison
Building appears to be well To-
Gated and being . one-story
structure is especially adapted to
the use for crippled children.
The Board Of Education in this
case, as in many others, has the
responsibility but apparently
lacks the necessary authority.
It is not proposed to transfer
the colored crippled pupils from
the Toner Building to the An
thony Bowen Building, which now
houses 46 health pupils and will.
on advice Of the Health Depart
ment, be returned to regular
classes. The Toner Building Is
said to be too old to be used for
such purposes.
Another old problem, which it
was thought would gradually
solve itself through the building
up Of modern educational sys-
TENS In the contiguous metro
politan area, is the increase Of
nonresident pupils in the schools
and teachers colleges. The re-
cent report Of the superintendent
Of schools indicates that there
are at present in the District
Of Columbia 2,793 nonresident
pupils.
This Is an increase over last
year Of 3l1. The necessity Of the
District taxpayers being required,
by a Congress in which they
have neither voice nor vote, to
carry this burden is another ex-
ample of the tyranny Of taxation
without representation. Legisla-
ton seems to be the only remedy,
for the courts have held that the
District schools must be open
to these non-residents whether
there Is room for them or not.
The Board of Education and
the school officials continue to
have to give of their time and
study to applications for the
licensing Of liquor selling estab.
nshments near the schools. To
relieve these officials of this bur-
den there could be q law which
would define plainly zones around
the schools in which no license
could be granted. 1t is UNDER
stood that under the present law
the Commissioners have ample
power to make such a reg,,la-
ton. Failing to exercise that
power, the natural course Is to
seek from Congress the required
amendment.
There are q number of other
problems Of the schools requiring
legislation for their solution.
Some Of the citizens would prefer
to increase the power OF the
Board of Education so that Con-
gress would not be the con-
trolling educational force.
Evening star., 1939-12-24
Della Kappa Epsilon
Convention Here 10
Open Thursday
50 Chapters in U. S.
And Canada to Be
Represented

Approximately $50 undergraduate
members of Delta Kappa Epsilon,
one of the oldest fraternities in
American colleges. will attend the
95th convention opening at the
Shoreham Hotel Thursday. Some so
chapters in the United States and
Canada will be represented.
On Saturday, designated Alumni
Day." several hundred alumni men,
bers from Baltimore Richmond and
Philadelphia will attend. The New
York delegation will arrive in a
special train.
Committee sessions will discuss
finances, scholarships, rushing
pledging and chapter responsible
ties and policies Thursday morning
while the afternoon will be featured
by water frolic in the Shoreham
pool. At night there will be an "all
American" stag party.
Friday the delegates will tour the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and
hold more committee sessions. A
tea dance will be held in the after
noon and symposium on opportu-
mites in the professions will be held
at night.
More sightseeing is scheduled Sat.
urday with a round table discussion
by alumni and committee reports tc
the plenary session also on the pro-
gram. At 5 pm. the delegates will
be received by Mr. and Mrs. George
Maurice Morris at 2401 Kalorama
road NV.
The stag party, it was announced
will include four boxing bouts and
several stunts sponsored by indi-
vidual chapters
DR.. Don S. Knowlton is in general
charge of the convention.
Evening star., 1939-12-24

University, will be hostess for the
reception and tea and will head the
Reception Committee. Ross H. Sny-
der, local attorney and professor of
law at the university, is chairman
In charge of arrangement.
In addition to dancing and tea,
another feature of the program will
be general information contest,
which will be given at o'clock. Only
Southeastern University students
are eligible to participate in the
latter. The participant from the
accounting school who receives the
highest score in the contest will be
awarded scholarship equivalent
to $50 for the spring term 1939-40.
A similar scholarship will be award
ed to the winner from the school of
law.
Assisting Mrs. Bell and Mr.. Snyder
will be the following committee
members:
Ralph l.. Bailey, representing the
Alumni Association; Jean Thorn,
Southeastern University Graduate
Fraternity; Estelle Baldwin, Kappa
Phi Epsilon Sorority; Howard Rip
ley, Sigma Alpha Sigma Fraternity;
Virginia McKenney, Sigma Phi
Omega Sorority; Rodham Delk, Sig
ma Mu Delta Fraternity; Norman
Baker, Charles L. Rust, senior ac-
counting class; Robert Peck, w. S.
McClaren, J. Weldon Choate, senior
law class; Howard johnson, Walter
Tolson, Bernard Felter, junior &C
counting class; Joseph Matthias,
Harold Katz, Thomas Harrison,
junior law class; w. F. Donahue,
John I. Kennedy. Evelyn Lewis,
freshman accounting class, and Rog-
er Craven, Gerald Coughlin, James
A. McKensie, freshman law class.
Evening star., 1939-12-24
Y. W. c. A. News

Tea will be served today from 4
to S o'clock. There will be carol
singing in the lobby beginning at
4:45. Later the singers will visit the
hospitals and at 750 carols will be
sung at Union Station. The public is
invited. The tea room will be closed
today and tomorrow. The cafeteria
maintains its regular hours today
but tomorrow from l to o'clock.
Girls residing at Strong Residence
and remaining in town during the
holidays will have breakfast and
dinner together on Christmas Day.
On Tuesday there will be Kamp
Kahlert tea from 4 to 6 o'clock for
all campers from the ages of IA to
18 and their mothers. Miss Eliz-
abeth Haney, general secretary, and
Miss Elizabeth Morrow, chairman
of the Kamp Kahlert Committee
will pour.
The Board of Directors will meet
on Wednesday at 10:30 am.
Members of the Kamp Kouncil
will 60 for visit to Kamp Kahlert
and return on Friday.
On Christmas Day at E street
NV. Mrs. E. E. Pugh will show
stereopticon pictures on the Life
of Christ and carols will be sung.
Miss NJ F. Nicholson will be hostess
from 3 to S. The public is invited.
The General Education Commit
tee is entertaining members of the
faculty on Thursday at dinner at
$50. Mrs. Harold G. Moulton is
chairman of the committee.
The teen-age girls at GA E street
NV. will have Christmas dance on
Friday from to II o'clock. Miss
Kitty Pridmore is president of this
club.
Counselors of the Kamp Kahlert
staff will be at Kamp Kahlert Sat-
urday. Dinner will be served at
4 o'clock.
Evening star., 1939-12-24
Christmas Week Relieves
Strenuous Civic Tension.

Breathing spells are not only
good for business, but for civic
workers and organizations as
we'll. Many of the workers get
the real Christmas spirit through
the community and neighborhood
Christmas tree celebrations, the
friendly rivalry in home decora-
ton and illumination and the aid
to the needy which is a part of
the program of most organiza-
tions. Boundary disputes and
heated partisanship on contro-
versial issues all melt away under
the magic influence of the sea-
son-all become in reality men
of good will"
This wholesome letup will clear
many a brain to the clearer un-
derstanding and mastery of many
a civic problem. Fresh from the
Christmas relaxation there should
be impassioned, intensive studies
Of the many intricate civic prob
lens requiring solution for the
Evening star., 1939-12-24
Jewish Center Drive
For Members 10
Start Today
Signing Up Of 5000
Will Be Sought by
Volunteers

The Jewish Community Center's
annual membership enrolment gets
under way today, with several hun
dred volunteer workers striving to
sign up 5000 members for the Six
teenth street institution during a
months campaign.
The campaign is not expected to
start in earnest, however, until after
he first Of the year, when the Or
ganization Of workers will have been
completed.
Burnett Siman and DR.. Maurice
Goldberg, co-chairmen of the drive,
announced last night the leaders of
the divisions and the captains of the
drive teams. Each team will have
from S to 10 workers.
The following have been appointed
division chairmen
Gymnasium department, Matte
Brown; service council, Hirsh De
Laviez; organizations and clubs, Moe
Gutenberg and Leo SchlosSberg;
girls clubs, Miriam Glasser and Ber-
nice Epstein; boys clubs, Harry Vic
tor; mothers division, Mrs. D. Min
ster.
These have been designated to
serve as captains of teams of from
to 10 workers each:
Gompers Lodge, Edward c. Os-
troW; Council of Jewish Women,
Mrs. Joel D. Wolfsohn; Council of
Jewish Juniors, Ruth Kaplow; Ha-
dassah, Mrs. B. Polack, Mrs. Bur-
nett Siman, Mrs. Gilbert Street, Mrs.
Phillip Diatz, Mrs. Maurice Cohen,
Mrs. S. M. Fagelsohn and Mrs. Law
renee Koenigsberger; Junior Hadas-
sab, Nettie Shapiro; Jewish Con-
sumptives' Relief Society, Mrs. Sam
uel Brill, Mrs. Eleanor Rubenstein,
Mrs. Ruth Meyers and Charlotte
Cohen; Jewish War Veterans, JACK
Riefkind; Service Council, Samuel
Bossin, Ethel Tobey, Mrs. Hirsh De
Laviez, Sara Grossman, Samuel Ru-
dolph, Meyer Pumps and Sophie
Caplan: gymnasium division, Flea
nor Crownf1eld, Mrs. D. Ochsman
and AL Leichtling; Center Board,
Leopold v. Freudberg.
A new series of weekly Wednesday
night institutes on Jewish history
will start January 10 at the center.
1t was announced last night by Ed
ward Rosenblum, executive director
Rabbi Isadore Breslau, president of
the District Zionist Organization,
will be the initial speaker.
Evening star., 1939-12-24
Trinity Students to Aid
Historical ConcIuve

Washington students of Trinity
College will act as committee of
registration and information at the
convention of the Catholic Historical
Society at the Mayhower Hotel
Thursday through Saturday.
The committee of Trinity students
chopen by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Peter
Guilday, head of the association, in
clude Rosemary Mawhinney. chair
man, and Virginia Hunter. Doris
Babbington, Lenore Alice O'Conor,
Elinor Oliver, Margaret Pallansch
and Corinne Shanafelt.
The convention is the goth meet
Ing of the American Catholic His
torical Society, which will be held
IN conjunction with the American
Historical Society. The general
topic under discussion will be THE
Role Of Catholic Culture in Latin
America"
Evening star., 1939-12-24
ID. C. Legislative Situation
Exacts Careful Preparation.

the District.
ID. C. Legislative Situation
Exacts Careful Preparation.
National politics and making
things solid with the folks back
home are expected to be the
theme of the approaching session
of Congress. District legislation
has always in the past been difn-
cult Of attainment in a presiden-
tial election year. No signs have
so far appeared on the surface to
indicate that history will not re-
peat itself.
This is no pessimistic, defeatist
cry about stern reality to be
faced and to be guarded against.
The District civic forces must be
prepared thoroughly with a pro-
gram upon which there shall be
general agreement. Preparation
not only of the subject matter,
but the supporting facts and fig
ures must be able to stand up
under the most rigid examination
of our legislators. They are be-
yond the control of these voteless
and unrepresented Americans,
therefore much more thorough
ness is required than If it was
their own voting constituents
seeking or opposing the legisla-
ton.
There is another very impor-
tant requirement for this pre-
paredness program and that is
the careful organization of the
civic forces for systematic team
work. Unless there is careful
planning there will be presented
to Congress such q confusing
mass of ideas that confusion will
surely be confounded. A people
whose only right before its legis-
lature is that Of petition are al
ways at serious disadvantage.
They need the reputed wisdom Of
Solomon, the patience Of saint,
the genius of Washington and
the persistence of the Devil to
succeed.
Shippers will not get anywhere
in this legislative game confront
ing the District, but the Macedo.
nian phalanx method gives PROM
ise of success.
Evening star., 1939-12-24
public safely through these pro-
posed cancellations.

public safely through these pro-
posed cancellations.
The opportunity for efYecting
these savings through consolida-
tions is produced by the change
In the motive power Of the fire-
fighting apparatus. In the old
days of the horsedrawn equip
ment the slower speed required
a much wider placement Of the
flrehouses. With the motorized
equipment now In use the picture
has changed completely. Now
companies from considerable dis
tances arrive at the fire in a far
shorter time than 1t formerly
took for the horse-drawn neigh
borhood apparatus to reach the
scene.
There was a time, that some
who are not very old well re-
member, when the horse drawn
flre engines reached the fire too
soon on a short run and had to
wait until 1t got up steam.
This problem was met by keeping
the engine coupled up with q
stationary boiler In the engine
house. Hot water was kept cir
culating through the engine boiler
In this way and steam was
produced in short order, the fire
being lighted in the engine auto
matically as the engine left the
house.
The report of this survey should
be given careful study, as some
Of the civic groups have already
planned to DO. The problem
should be approached from a
broad modern and not a mar
row horse-and-buggy viewpoint.
Neighborhood pride has no place
in reaching a decision to either
support or oppose this program.
The plan contemplates the plac-
ing Of companies at strategetic
points in the outlying sections
and ample protection given.
The Board of Trade has,
through a committee, made a
careful study of the plan and
approved it with minor modifica.
tions. That committee also ad-
vocates the acquisition In advance
Of needs of suitable sites for the
location of future firehouses.
This is along the same plan as
has been followed, under au-
thority of Congress, by the Ma.
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission in acquiring
sites for parks and recreation
centers.
Another thing these experts
who made the survey tell In their
report is that a study of FIRE
losses in the District for a five
year period indicates that q
further reduction Is warranted in
the relatively low fire insurance
rates.