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Evening star., 1941-09-29
Mrs. Roosevelt AssaiIs
IsoIationisfs in Broadcast
BY the Associate Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Sept. 29.-The sin
cere advocates of America first "are
misguided because they seem to
think that there is such a thing as
separation and isolationism for any
individual country" Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt said last night in opening
a series of sponsored radio broad
casts over an N. B. c. network
She added that they have been
carried away by the feeling of ma
tional pride and security"
"One can forgive these sincere
idealistS," the Presidents wife said,
"but one cannot forgive those who,
for personal and selfish reasons, in
sist on being blind and advocate a
course which would destroy us as a
nation. and which seems to indorse
the principles which hold sway in
other nations because their leaders
consider them necessary to their
national life.
Sometimes I think that some OF
the isolation leaders forget that If
they begin to break up this country
into self conscious racial and re-
hgious groups, they will destroy the
nation which they profess to want
to preserve, for we are made up OF
racial strains from every part of the
world and we allow people to prac-
tice whatever religion they wish"
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Jews Will Observe
Solemn Festival Of
Yom Kippur
Special Provisions
For Men in Uniform
Planned at Services

Candles will be lighted in the
homes of devout Jews at sundoWn
tomorrow in preparation for the
most solemn festival in the Jewish
religious calendar, Yom Kippur, or
the Day of Atonement.
A pre-holiday feast will begin the
24-hour period of fasting, which
lasts until sundown Wednesday. The
lighted candles on the dinner table
will symbolic the sou! as Coos
flame and will burn until the con-
clusion of the holiday.
After the feast parents will bless
their children and forgive them for
their misdeeds before leaving for
temples and synagogues.
ShOfar to Be Sounded.
Services will end late Wednesday
with the sounding of the shofar,
symbolizing the coming OF the Mes
sianic age. During the services
the traditional Ko1 Nidre will be
chanted.
The Combined Hebrew Congre-
cations and Rabbinical Council Of
Washington, in cooperation with
the Jewish Welfare Board, have
announced that special provisions
will be made for the accommoda-
tion of Jewish men in uniform at
Yom Kippur rites.
Kosher meals will be served to
service men before and after the
fast. Those wishing to participate
in the pre-Yom Kippur feast have
been asked to report at the Jewish
Welfare Board Office at the Jewish
Community Center, Sixteenth and
@ streets NV, tomorrow at noon.
10 Days of Penance Ended.
Known as the Sabbath of Sab
baths, Yom Kippur concludes the
Today period of penitence that
opened with Rosh Hashanah, the
Jewish new year.
In advance of the holiday, Capt.
J. F. Shafroth, Assistant Chief of
the Bureau of Navigation, United
States Navy, and Brig. Gen. Fred
erick Osborne, chief of the Army
Morale Division, broadcast greet
ings of the season to the men in
the services by radio from Wash
ington yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Patronage Loss Closes
Famous Both House
BY the Associated Press

bS lHe hSSUclated Press.
REDONDO BEACH, Calf, Sept.
25.-The 33-year-old Redondo bath
house, famed as the worlds largest
warm salt water plunge, closed to-
day. Patronage had waned. The
peak attendance for one day, 400
was established % years ago.
Also closed permanently was the
Santa Fe Railway station. w. M.
Fraser, passenger agent, said:
She's folded away like the ray
COS petticoats."
Evening star., 1941-10-19
On Watching Chess
By Basil Gordon.

the hustle of pioneer days and attained
an honored status.
1t could not have done so without
innate merit. Chess is good game to
play, because even in inactive moments
the contestants are exercising their
minds and making plans to do in the
opponent. Watching the game is some
thing else. The first and most obvious
advice for the amateur chess kibitzer is
the same as that given by the London
Punch to young man contemplating
matrimony-don't. But, if you have to,
one good way is to do it in nstallments
Take look and return in Is minutes
when perhaps a piece or two will have
been moved. Repeat ad lib, and piece
the fragments together in mind to create
an illusion of real movement.
But to catch those magic moments
when a piece is actually in motion-a
pretty sight-the kibitzer must stay on
the job, for he never knows at what
hour, or even on what day, it may oc-
cur. 1t is this type of kibitzer that
must be careful not to make a gauche
but understandable error. When he sees
the players staring glassy-eyed, as mo-
tionlesS as w. P A. workers, it is a great
temptation to call the nearest under
taker or at least some doctor who special
ICES in catalepsy. Don't do it, without
a simple test or two.
Even the most engrossed chess player.
unless actually dead, will fog a mirror
held before his face. If the mirror re-
mains unclouded, however, it is polite
to notify the opponent, just on the
chance that it might be his turn to
move. To test for catalepsy. pin may
be stuck into any convenient portion of
the anatomy If the muscles twitch, all
is well.
Chess is too good a game to be spoiled
by its one major fault-delay. AS the
rules stand, only the merest hint of a
speed-up eXists-a sort of rudimentary
balk rule, that piece touched is in mo-
ton and must be delivered somewhere.
But hope is in sight. Some far-sighted
chess clubs, acting unofficially, have time
limits between moves. Perhaps the
technical excellence of these moves may
suffer under the handicap, but players
and kibitzers dC... :. They have more
fun.
Evening star., 1941-10-19
Keeping the Treasury's Books
Suppose you are a bookkeeper.

Suppose you are bookkeeper.
One side of your ledger shows 20-odd
billions, a few hundred millions. some
more thousands several hundred dol
lars and 80 cents. The other side shows
the same number of dollars and % cents.
You are just cents off balance on an
account of 20-odd billions
The easiest thing to do is dig down
into your pockets for the cents, call
the books balanced and go home in
hurry.
But for a self-respecting accountant
to do a trick like that would be in the
same class with surgeons sticking a
wound together with adhesive tape be-
cause he had forgotten to bring along a
needle.
A billion-dollar error, or even one of a
few millions, would be easy to find. 1t is
those picayunish little ones that are hard
to track down. And that is true of the
United States Treasury just as it is of
the cashier in your branch bank down
at the corner.
Such a thing as that sets men who
tioNc SAO"il DoAN anu sIdy Ill oSlNlIC W
chewing their nails puckering brows and
going into conferences of ones and twos
checking and rechecking accounts.
1t doesn't happen often.eaBut you try
keeping books on S27, ,251 900 900 spread
through some 10000 accounts and see
what happens.
When an error does creep in it hap
tbroI1uh lie cI, or IF oir
cumStances like the one that gave An
drew Paananen his check for S1,0O0,-
o1525.
The check was an A. A. A. payment
and was supposed to be for S1525. But
the girl who was operating the check
machine hit the million-d dollar key with
her elbow and the check slipped through
before she noticed the error.
A substitute examiner saw the check
and puzzled over the big amount. But
she thought it would be impossible for
any one to make that big error.
Paananen created quite a commotion
at his Carver Mass, bank when, as a
joke. he turned the million dollar check
in for collection The Treasury recov-
cred it quickly and with very red face.
1t still doesn't enjoy talking about that.
For the Treasury has more foolproof
bookkeeping gadgets, more checks and
double checks than the average banker
ever dreamed Of. 1t has accounting ma
chimes and tabulating machines that will
do just about everything but track rab
bits. 1t has sorting machines that will
compare checks with pay rolls at the rate
of 43O minute and throw out any that
don't match.
Evening star., 1941-10-19

A list of the accounts Gust the number
of them alone is enough to start lay
man going in circles. Here are some of
them:
The Treasury has over 10000 revenue
and appropriation accounts covering
Government departments and agencies.
1t has 4y800 disbursing accounts for
qualified paymaSters). 1t has 28, 900 900
accounts with taxpayers, 100000 ac-
counts with registered owners of Gov
ernment bonds, 100000 loan accounts
with the Farm Security Administration.
But that is only starter.
The Social Security Board has 35 ,OOO,-
900 accounts in which money is being
piled up for workers pensions.
The Railroad Retirement Board has
100000 accounts with railroad workers.
There are $4,000 borrowed accounts
under the Home Owners Loan Corp.
Pensioners, benefciaries and policy
holders have 1000 900 accounts with the
Veterans Administration.
Borrowers have $500 900 accounts with
the Farm Credit Administration and
affiliated agencies.
The Reconstruction Finance Corp. has
over 10000 accounts with banks insur-
ance companies, railroads. credit unions,
building and loan associations and other
agencies.
Those are just samples.
Obviously not much of the money car
ried on Treasury books ever actually
gets, physically into the grimy old build
ing on Fifteenth street. If SO, the build
ing would crack open wider than the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
Last month, when the Treasury hit an
all-time high for the amount of money
it had, there was s27,251 100000 on its
books. Very little of that was in the
tills in Washington. An idea of about
how much was here shows up in the
records for the end of the l941 fiscal
year.
Then the Treasurer was accountable
for just a shade under s27,000000, 900
(actually s26,90o,0O0 0OO. He really had
less than the shade in the Treasury here.
He could have put his hands on S84,-
100000 in Washington.
The remainder was scattered among
1886 repositories in this and other
countries. These include IL Federal Re
serve banks, 1,013 of their members, %
spots on islands and in Territories, Is
in foreign countries and 1924 special de-
positories. 1t is moved about from one
to another and from one account to
another to meet local payment demands.
Evening star., 1941-10-19

Chess and war are two ancient pas
times of humanity which have been
linked in the mind of man for ages.
That is to say, war has beeh compared
to a glorified chess game.
The master strategist corresponds to
the player, the board is the battlefield,
and the destruction of the opposition
government is symbolized by the cap
ture of the king. Out of politeness he is
never actually deposed when there is
no escape for him, the game ends. The
major pieces are the officers, preserved
If possible, and the pawns, which are
freely sacrificed without the trace of a
tear, are the privates or in British par
lance the P. B. Poor Blooming In
fantry.
The simile, once fairly good bogs down
somewhat in these days of blitZkrieg. A
blitz chess game is a contradiction in
terms every bit as f1agrant as a silent
sound or an invisible sight.
Chess originated in China. This may
account for its tempo, as ancient China
was notoriously slow. Tennyson said
Better so years of Europe than cycle
Of Cathay'-though it is by no means
certain that he would say so now. Any
how, time was almost as cheap there as
life, and chess games lasted indefinitely,
often handed on from one generation
to another.
In an off moment, when the frontier
guards were lax, chess spilled over into
India, where it found fertile ground
The principal occupation of the Hindu
was waiting for. the next incarnation,
and time was no object. 1t could be
murdered slowly over chessboard with
less discomfort involved than in other
pastimes of the country, such as lying on
beds of spikes or crawling on the stomach
from Bombay to Calcutta for religious
reasons.
From India the game percolated into
Persia in much the same fashion as Nazi
agents did 1000 years later, when Persia
became Iran. There were no British or
Russians to drive it out, so it stuck,
grew, and then spread to Europe too
late to be resisted. When the Mayfower
landed on Plymouth Rock, chess had
missed the boat, but caught another
not long afterward, somehow survived
Evening star., 1941-10-19

millions by the discovery Of coal oil up
in Oil Creek, Pa.
Some of the residents of I street in
the 1900 block, in 1871, included, at 1886,
Mr.. Constantin de CatacaZy, Minister
from Russia; at 1910, which was at the
corner of Fourteenth street resided Capt.
Don Carlos CarranZa, secretary of the
Argentine Republic, and Tomas Mota,
the attache; Senor Don Carlos Morla
Vicuna, Secretary Of the Chilean Lega-
tion; Don Julio Prieto Urriola, Attache,
and Don Eduardo Villena, secretary,
Peruvian Legation. At 1884 lived Sena-
tor Allen G. Thurman of Ohio. Later,
Senator Thurman was the running
mate with Grover Cleveland, who was
nominated in 1888, for a second term
as President, but upon this occasion was
defeated.
Where is now the Franklin Park Hotel.
at 1882 I street, once stood the Iturbide
Mansion, the home Of the granddsugh-
ter Of Gen. Uriah Forrest and wife of
Don Augustine Angel Iturbide, son of
Evening star., 1941-10-19
By ". B. Ragsdale.

Contrary to the general impression,
however, the Treasury does not keep
all of the Governments books. 1t simply
keeps the master accounts, acts as a
banker for the various Government
agencies. 1t stands in the same relation
to them as does the bank down on the
corner to the business houses in your
home community.
The bank doesn't keep books for the
business houses whose accounts it han
dies. They keep their own. Which
means that the new bookkeepers and ac-
countants, by the hundreds, who have
been hired to keep books on defense are
in o. P M, the War Department, the
Navy Department and the spread of
other defense agencies. They are not
in the Treasury.
When Congress passes an appropria-
ton bill, the Treasury goes through the
necessary formalities and sets up an ac-
count for, say, the War Department, or
the Navy Department, or defense aid,
which would be lease-lend This done,
the agency in, question is allowed to draw
against the account.
That is, agency officials who have been
empowered to spend money for guns or
tanks or planes or to pay soldiers and
sailors may draw checks against these
accounts. There are 1916 men over the
country, or in the various agencies in
Washington, who have been authorized
to draw checks on the Treasurer of the
United States.
Like a bank, the Treasury takes care
of the checks when they flow in, charges
them against the general account for
that department or agency. The books
on how the money is handled by that
particular agency are kept by the agency
itself. There are ITS separate bookkeep-
ing systems among the Government
agencies, not all of them alike, some
highly original.
In fact, under the late Controller Gen
eral John R. McCarl the General Ac-
counting Office, which is the Govern
ment's supervising and auditing agency,
operating as an agent of Congress,
created its own separate code numbering
system, different from the one the Treas
ury used. Checks had to conform both
to the Treasury code numbering system
and to that of the General Accounting
Office
On the outgoing side, by checks and
cash. $50 million separate payment items
are made each year, each OF them to be
duly recorded in their proper place on
the Treasury accounts. On the other
side of the ledger, 80 million collection
items are being set down.
Evening star., 1941-10-19

Don Augustin Iturbide, proclaimed En-
peror of Mexico in 1922, and executed
two years later. His family sought
refuge in America Iturbide, the son,
was appointed secretary of the Mexican
Legation in 1856.
On June 25, 1881, crime occurred at
1886 I street, few doors west of the
house in which the Red Cross was
formed, in which William G. Whitney
was fatally wounded by his prother-in-
law, James Y. Christmas. A report of
this celebrated homicide, as printed in
The Star of June 27. 1881, follows:
The mansion, No. 1886 I street, oppo-
site Franklin Square, which since its
occupancy some years ago by Minister
and Nine. CatacaZy has been known as
the Catacazy house, was on Saturday
evening the scene of a startling tragedy.
The house is now kept as boarding
house by the Misses Narrower. Among
their guests have been Mrs. Myra Clarke
Gaines the celebrated claimant; her son,
Mr.. William G. Whitney, with his wife
Evening star., 1941-10-19
By John CIageh Proctor.

always appear in the directories of that
period. In 1879, her address is given
as 947 T street NV, and this same
number and street are given in 1885.
AS indicated, this was on the north
side of T street, between Ninth and
Tenth streets.
AS the writer recalls this block. here
was long row of two-story frame DWELL
ings, perhaps as many as 10 in all Four
are still standing, two between houses
numbered 929 and 935, and two between
residences 9l9 and 927. The site of No.
CAT T street is now covered by a more
modern building, and the home where
once resided William C. Robinson, at 927,
has likewise been replaced Mr.. Robin
son had two sons, J. Clinton and Edward
c., both employed in the Treasury De-
partment around the early 80S.
This row of frame houses was just to
the north and across the street from the
old ball park and circus lot, later known
as Athletic Park, and nearby, still in the
Dos, at 1924 Tenth street, resided the
family of William H. Teepe, clerk,
whose son, William T. Teepe, of the
District Office, and his family, now re-
side in nearby Washington Grove.
Old Family
At 1105 S street lived Roswell c.
Sneden, clerk in the Pension Office,
whose daughter, Miss Phoebe Sneden,
married a Mr.. Haight. The Haights
of old No cl, 80,
kept grocery store at the southwest
corner of Vermont avenue and S street.
South of the Haight store, at ITO
Vermont avenue, was the home of Lucius
Randolph, and to the north, at 1900
Tenth street lived the Frankland family,
and at No. 1906, the family of T. Brooke
Amiss, who died some years ago as
captain of police.
Miss Barton apparently liked the
nelghborhood Of the old ball park for
it was just around the corner that she
erected the first Red Cross Building, an
insignificant sort of brick structure,
two stories high and used mainly for
storing Red Cross supplies and material.
This building stood on the east side of
Vermont avenue between T and U
streets, near T. and was an odd looking
structure-slightly narrower in front
than in the back-due to the shape of
the lot. A few doors away from this
building, at 1915 Vermont avenue, lived
for many Years Detective George O. Mil
Ter of the metropolitan police force, and
it is said that this officer was the first
contributor toward erecting this building
Evening star., 1941-10-19

OF all the cities in this country, there
b not one that can be depended upon
20 contribute larger per capita of
financial aid to worthy national cause
than will the Capital City. This has
been demonstrated in innumerable in
stances, and no doubt will be repeated
again when the financial returns from
the present Roll Call of the local chap
ter of the American Red Cross are all
in. And really, especially in this case,
the people of this city should be more
than liberal with their contributions.
since 1t was in this city that the Red
Cross in this country had its inception
so years ago, when meeting was held
on May 81, 1881, at 1926 I street, by
Clara Barton and others, after Secre-
tary of State James G. Blaine had de-
cided that day that he would recommend
adherence to the Red Cross treaty or
the treaty of Geneva OF this initial
meeting The Star of Monday, May %,
1881, says:
SRed Cross of Geneva
"A meeting of prominent citizens
interested in the organization of So
ciety of the Red Cross of Geneva, was
held Saturday evening, at No. 1926
I street, at which Judge Lawrence,
First Comptroller presided, with Mr..
Walter P. Phillips, secretary. Judge
Lawrence spoke briefly of the great
work accomplished by the Red Cross So
cieties during the wars which have
disturbed Europe and other countries
since the organization was created in
1864, It's object being to ameliorate hu-
man suffering. whether from the bullet,
the sword or from pestilence. wherever
civilization was known. Miss Clara
Barton read papers showing the eff
cheney of the Red Cross societies in the
81 countries where the order is rec
ognized. Mr.. John Hitz spoke warmly
In support of the plan. A future meet
ing for the election of officers will
shortly be held"
1t is possible Gas has been said) that
this meeting place was at the home of
Miss Barton, though it IS more likely
that 1t was the residence of some one
of the other SO friends of hers who
were present upon this occasion. 1t
was not the home of Judge William
Lawrence, here mentioned, for the city
directory shows that he was then re-
siding at 1874 Vermont avenue; that
Walter P. Phillips was living at 1925 @
street and John Hitz at SIT C street
Sc. Miss Bartons name does not
Evening star., 1941-10-19
Birth of American Red Cross

and was also instrumental in securing
the ground upon which it was erected
about. 1881 for Miss Barton. The south
end of the school building In this block,
for colored children, covers the site of
this early building.
First Meeting
However, though it is interesting to
know where Miss Barton resided in 1881,
yet it is more interesting, as before
stated, to learn that the first meeting
preliminary to organization OF the Red
Cross was held on I street between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets,
across the street from the south side Of
Franklin Square, a historic spot during
the Civil War, where the Twelfth New
York Volunteers encamped in 1861 OF
this incident, veteran Union soldier
said 43 years ago:
II little thought when cut the initials
of my name in the tree in Franklin
Park "a years ago that I would ever
see them again, but it has come to pass.
Our regiment was camped, or housed,
I should say. in Franklin Park, for we
built nice frame barracks there, for
some months prior to our joining the
Army of the Potomac The entrance
to the camp was on I street, midway
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets, where the guardhouse was To-
Gated. On recent examination of the
tree I found my initials without much
trouble, as well as the initials of q
number Of our men.
''The guardhouse was square frame
building about 25 feet square. 1t hap
pened that I was in the guardhouse,
with a dozen others, for having gone
down to theater one night without
having secured the necessary pass or
leave Of absence for I was kept there
several days for punishment.
Initials Found
I'VE found that We could climb out
through the roof of the building and
get up into the tree without being
noticed by the guard, and we spent con-
siderable time there. 1t was then that
the whole Of our party cut our initials
in the bark of the big poplar that still
stands there as a silent witness of the
days when We were younger than we
are today. The big F. R. just as the
limbs fork out. and which are easily
seen from the foot walk, are the initials
Of Frank Ryan, who was one of the
best soldiers in our regiment, and who
afterward, with Coal Oil Johnnie, made
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