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Evening star., 1942-03-01

Church, the Rev. J. G. Butler, preached
the sermon, and the honorary pail
bearers were Matthew G. Emery, A.
T. Britton and Charles A. Beavers. The
active pallbearers were B. P. Snyder, E.
Southland Parker, David A. Winslow,
Frank T. Rawlings. Peter NJ Dubant,
John w. Shaw, r. p. Mohun and Daniel
Ramey.
Mr.. Morrison was q lover OF nature,
and provided for an elaborate floral dis
play at his funeral. and the parlor was
accordingly banked with one mass of
flowers. and even the gas fixtures were
trimmed with roses and blossoms.
Mr.. Morrison was generous in life, and
gave to the Lutheran Church its first
pipe organ, and In his will left his home
at Eleventh and L streets to a Miss
Byington, with whom he probably
boarded.
Site of Club
The Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
Club, which now owns this building, and
has occupied 1t since January 81. 1924,
was the outgrowth Of q society known
as the Ladies' Union Mission School
Association, founded In Albany, N. Y,
by a devoted band of ladies at the insti-
CATION OF Mrs. E. Troop Martin, in
1872.
Five years later, Mrs. Martin, having
moved to Washington during the mean
time. undertook the organization of the
Army and Navy Auxiliary, which not
only followed in the wake of the Albany
society. but by collecting and sending
miscellaneous reading matter to military
and naval hospitals, by the furnishing
OF needed communion sets, and by aid
ing Christmas parties for the children
Of soldiers. contributed much to their
comfort and happiness. The first presi-
dent Of the Army and Navy Auxiliary
was Mrs C. C. Augur.
In 1894, the name Of the organization
was again changed to the Woman's
Army and Navy League Of Washington.
D. C.
BY 1899, the fact was brought to the
attention of the league of the existence
of home for soldiers, sailors and ma
rines at No. 38 street NV, the activi-
ties Of which Miss L. H. Chase had di-
rected for many years with varying sue
cess. Realizing the worth Of the home,
to the support of which 1t made frequent
Evening star., 1942-03-01

Tarnham, house at the nort west corner
Of Eleventh and M streets, ns - ne
earliest homes in Northwest Washington.
1t II large, well preserved brick house,
and from the nature Of its construction
was evidently erected prior TO 1870.
Robert Farnham, the father, lived there
as early at 1S43, when he kept sta
tionery store at the northeast corner OF
Eleventh and D streets. opposite Ths
Star ONCE.
He also was residing there IN lS45,
when New England Society was formed
here with David A. Hall as president,
George Bender and N. c. Towles vice
presidents, George J. Abbott CORE
spending secretary, Jesse E. Dow re-
cording secretary and Mr.. Farnham
treasurer.
Apparently he was an sbolitionist, for
In December, 1850. we find Robert Farm
ham & CO." publishing the Constitution.
which, however, had but short life. Mr..
Farnham's name appears last in the city
directory for 1858. and his wife Jane Is
referred to as widow in 1860 and there
fore he must have died between these two
dates.
In 1874 lots to 6, facing M street,
between Eleventh and Twelfth streets,
were assessed as follows: Lots l and 2,
In the name Of Jane Farnhan1, sr.;
and 4, Mary Farnham Miller; S, Caro-
line Farnham, and 6. at the northeast
corner Of M and Twelfth streets, in the
name Of Jane Farnharn, jr. According
to the old numbering, the Farnham
house, in 1860. was 4S6. and the widow
and Robert, jr., then a physician, were
living there In 1878. Subsequently DR..
rarnham moved to 1912 Eleventh street,
and later returned to the old home,
where william L. Farnham. probably O
son, was also residing.
On the south side of M street between
Eleventh and Twelfth streets, across the
street from the Farnhams, at No. 1104.
lived Crosby 8. Noyes, editor OF The
Star in the 70s, and east Of him, on the
corner, was the Mount Vernon Seminary.
a boarding and day school for young
ladies, conducted by Mrs. J. Eddy Som
erS.
The corner house, where was the SEM
mary, was also once the residence OF
Philo B. and J. W. Wright, while Mrs.
e. Wilson Brown once resided at 1l08
M street and James v. Gait at lilo. The
house at the southwest corner Of Tenth
and M was an early home of Samuel Hay
Kaufman, and at 1905 lived Sevellon A.
Brown. chief clerk Of the State Depart
ment, and G. Brown Good Of the Smith
sonian Institution resided at 1918 NJ
street in 1880. And other prominent
citizens Of Washington were early resi-
dents of this neighborhood.
Evening star., 1942-03-01
By Basil Gordon.

half a year sgo to chief Of the Detective
Bureau.
During all that time he kept up with
two hobbies. cartoons and kids. To in
dulge the former, he has for 16 years
drawn for The Star the well-known
Sunday feature, Those Were the Happy
Days" Incidentally, he is the only
policeman-cartoonist to win second
prize In Nationwide contest for news
paper cartoonists. top honors having
gone to the late Glare Briggs.
AS for children, he has loved them all
his life. Now that his own are grown
one an ensign in the Navy, the other 19-
he has unoficially adopted all others.
and has in particular done noted work
for their safety.
In all his years in the ninth precinct,
second largest of the city and with more
schools than any other precinct. there
have been no trafic deaths Of children
during school hours and but four out
of hours. Mansfield had impressed
safety on their minds. He still does,
giving much of his otherwise free time.
TT is important work." he says. In
one nine-year period more people were
killed by autos than by all the wars Of
the United States through the First
World War. A high percentage were
children"
When word spreads to . school that
he will appear. no one plays hockey.
Dick Mansfield is large and imposing.
And not only is he in profession CLAM
orous to childhood, the police-he is &C.
tually real live detective. "Gee!" they
say to themselves, as they gaze at his
uniformed figure-and uniforms are i'm
pressive to young minds-"wed better
listen to him"
His voice is in keeping with his ply
sique, clear and booming, and his words
in keeping with the minds Of his audi
ence; simple, direct and entertaining.
Here is where his training in the show
business counts.
you all know what jam is" he may
say. There Is q chorus of assent-they
have snitched it from the pantry too
often not to know it well. And tea,
too" Yes, they know tea as well. "One
kind of jam is bad" he continues.
'Trafhc jam. Watch out for 1t. One
kind of tea Is good-safe T. Practice 1t. )"
All the time his educated hand has
been busy with q piece Of chalk. Jam
and tea are drawn; but more important,
attention y drawn.
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Training a Million Men
For New Armament Work
BY Gladwin Hill,
Wide World News.

In preparation for General Motors
aluminium fabrication plant, a small
group Of supervisors was sent to study
operations at the Aluminium Co. of
America plant in Cleveland.
Another group went to the Pratt g.
Whitney airplane plant in Hartford,
Conn. A hundred men from Fisher
Body plant went to the North American
aviation factory in Inglewood, Calf.
When these groups got back, they
started spreading out what they had
learned. A group of eight from the A-C
Spark Plug plant that was being con-
verted to machine gun production
watched operations at arsenals in Hart
ford and Springfield, Mass, and when
they got back trained 40 other men.
These 40 in turn trained 240 "setup
men," machine supervisors, who taught
$500 of the operators who are now turn
ing out machine guns a-mile a minute
at the completely revamped A-C plant.
This last level of training, the biggest
job. since it involves the biggest number
of workers. is accomplished by two prin-
cipal methods: The supervisor" system,
where a trained man keeps an eye on
several novices each at his own machine;
and the "trainee" method, where novice
Is assigned to an experienced workman
at machine to learn from him.
Here the industry follows its basic
mass production principle of breaking a
big job down into easily manageable
parts, and tackling the parts one by one.
A .30-caliber machine gun has 265
parts, with an average OF 80 manufactur-
ing operation for each part. For speed,
the work is laid out among as many
operators as possible. If one man is per-
forming three operations, they see If
they can't divide 1t among three men
doing one operation each.
This reduces to minimum the amount
that an operator has to be taught.
Teaching him is similarly speeded by
breaking down his operation into its
essential parts. Thus. once an operator
becomes familiar with q machine and
the names Of the parts, all he has to
do Is to be able to read the directions
the way you would on vacuum cleaner
He doesn't even have to stop the ma
chine; 1t stops automatically when the
operation is completed.
And that's the way, by pyramiding
learning downward from a few men to
many. pyramiding a single product down
to many parts, pyramiding part down
to operations and pyramiding an opera
ton down into movements, that they're
training 100000 people in the shortest
possible time, and thereby winning one
of the wars most important engage
ments.
Evening star., 1942-03-01

contributions, 1t was not long before the
league found itself In complete control
of what soon became the Soldiers, Sailors
and Marines Club at 50 street.
In 1901 the club was able TO secure
more adequate quarters 1T 3l7 G street
NV, next to the Young Women's Chris
tan Home, and in 1923, through the gen.
erosity of the Naval Auxiliary Of the
Red Cross, through . legacy from Miss
Margaret Ruff and from other sources,
the club secured the present premises at
l0l5 l. street, into which 1t moved on
January 81. 1924, and which formally
opened the following March 4, when
Mrs Calvin Coolidge. wife Of the Presi-
dent, headed the receiving line. In which
were Mrs. John w. Weeks, wife Of tho
Secretary Of War: Mrs. Edwin DENLY.
wife Of the Secretary Of the Navy, and
other women prominent In service and
civilian circles.
The next big event occurred In 1880,
when Mrs. Jesse H. Metcan. wife OF the
Senator from Rhode Island, gave the
club $l7500 for the purchase OF the
residence at 1913 L street, adjoining the
building purchased In 1923. A month
later the same donor gave the club $500
to connect the two buildings and to repair
the one to the east. which was named
the Metcalf Annex.
The two spacious dwellings, thus con-
verted into a club, have an atmosphere
of early Washington life and the large
brick stables are certainly reminiscent
of the horse e-and-buggy days, however.
the latter, having been remodeled and
well furnished, now serve as the recrea-
ton hall and dormitory Ordinarily the
club has $50 beds. but In an emergency
50 more can be added, and when pushed
to the limit, especially during warm
weather, when the courtyard and porches
can be used, accommodations can be
provided for $50 enlisted men, for which
a nights lodging costs but so cents,
and an excellent dinner so cents extra.
The two buildings that comprise the
club were, as before stated, probably
built by Mr.. Morrison, and If he did not
build them, he certainly improved and
beautifled them, especially the interior.
where the large mirrors are one Of the
attractions. and the white marble man.
tells are of such a pleasing design that
they appear to have come from an earlier
Washington home and placed in these
structures. Indeed, though this club is
only for enlisted men, any general or ad-
miral would not feel out Of place there
Prior to the Civil War, and even later,
the high elevation of this section Of the
city induced many Of our early residents
to build their homes here, and in addi-
ton to those already mentioned was the
Evening star., 1942-03-01

DETROIT, Feb. 28.-This is the story
Of an important battle that America is
winning.
It Is the battle to train million work.
ers to make the ornaments that our
armies will fight with.
The biggest piece of the armament
program falls to the automobile industry.
which month ago stopped making cars
and is in the process of conversion to
war work.
When it is going full blast again-it Is
hoped within the 10 silver months" re-
naming this year-it will need around
a million workers, twice as many as
there ever were before.
Virtually all of these will have to have
had some special training. There is
hardly an operation in armament manu-
facture that will be just the same as one
In automobile manufacture, which was so
specialized that you had one machine
to bore 1s-inch holes, another to bore
1I6-inch holes. one machine to bore
two holes at once, another to bore four
holes at once. 1t takes four times as
many operations to make an airplane
engine connecting rod as 1t does to make
an automobile connecting rod.
The scope of training million people
may be compared with the problem that
first draft year ago.
But YOU can't send industrial workers
10 training camps, and there isn't year
to do it in; General Motors alone is TAX
ing people back into the new war work
ut the rate of 1000 week.
How are you going to do it?
The problem not only has been solved,
but the training is under way, turning
out workers as fast-except in the high
ly specialized tool-and-die bottleneck
field-.ao machines can be installed for
them to operate.
The Governments sponsored Vocational
Education Program for National De-
fense, started in July, 1910, to train
workers in a few weeks for one specific
type of work. "blitzkrieg education"-
has trained 10000 people in Detroit.
The General Motors Institute at Flint
turned out $4,000 last year. Henry Ford
has started an airplane engineering
school, in connection with his Pratt e.
Whitney engine manufacturing, that is
training several thousand men. and Is
establishing a school for 5000 at MS
Rising Willow Run bomber plant.
But all these projects make only
small dent in that envisioned 1,000, 900.
The bulk of them will be training prod
ucts of the very factories where they will
work.
The auto companies got going on this
program over year ago, when defense
orders first started coming through.
Evening star., 1942-03-01
TX Observation-Disclosures Chi

at random answer his questions. what
Is the most important thing on BIZ
cycle?" he may ask. The first child to
give the only correct answer, "the rider"
gets a prize. This may be an American
flag pin, donated by q local store, or a
pass to q movie
Though most children are notoriously
not fond of taking the trouble to write
letters, Mansfield gets hundreds from
admiring members of his juvenile audi
ence. These childish scrawls, frequently
illustrated, he prizes more than oficial
adult letters of commentator.
1t is impossible to estimate how many
Evening star., 1942-03-01

Once schools taught merely the three
Rs. And later. when other subjects
were added to this trio of fundamentals.
they were academic. But the coming
of the automobile with its menace to
young life and limb produced a new
subject for teachers. equally as impor-
tant and far more vital than the orig
inal three Rs.
That subject Is Safety"
The increasing loss Of life and
the spread Of tragic accidents on city
streets made it clear that safety had
to be taught. And the age-old sum that
two plus two equals four gave way to
the new equation that one careless mo-
ment plus one moving automobile may
equal one irreparable tragedy.
Never was the lesson more important
than today. And nowhere are lectures
on safety more needed and better lis
tened to than in wartime washington.
Realizing this, Cartoonist Dick Mans
field. assistant superintendent OF the
Metropolitan Police and long master
hand at teaching safety to the Capitals
school children, has made his chalk-talk
lectures an important part OF his job.
How he began them Is story IN
itself.
Too often lectures on this subject were
psychologically ill-adapted for juvenile
audiences. A child's mind-and many
an adults, for that matter-could not
be effectively reached by bald statements
that it is wise not to get hit by automo-
biles. The child knew that before the
lecture started. What was needed was
some one who could dramatize the talks
and make the lessons really stick.
Capt. Mansfield knew the trick.
In his youth he was in vaudeville, his
speciality being lightning chalk talk.
From the very nature of the act 1t re-
quired much patter to put 1t across as
he made his drawings, and in that way
he developed the art of showmanship to
a high degree He might yet be on the
stage had he not married out OF the
profession. Unwilling to ask his bride
to forego q permanent home and travel
with him, he left the stage for the
Washington police force. advancing with
the years to become captain of the ninth
precinct for nine years until promoted
Evening star., 1942-03-01

Or he may sing that grand old song
Of the Gay COS he knew so well; the
Bicycle Built for Two" and follow it
with verbal and chalk illustration
proving that the school childs bicycle is
not built for two, and any time 1t
carries two, death turks in the off1ng.
children themselves will drive, and
shows them what speed may mean, as
explained by his drawing. Drivers are
(w)reckless, with or without the W." he
tells the class. Don't Get Hit in AZ,
Get Hitler in 49," is his smash climax.
Then comes the quiz. Children picked
Evening star., 1942-03-01

lives and injuries his talks have saved.
Some notion may be obtained from this
rather startling figures furnished by
Capt. Mansfield taken from the book
Drive and Live" by James Fitzgerald.
Carl A. Hoffman and John r. Bayston,
wherein the authors claim that out of
every 100 children. IL will be killed or
seriously hurt and IS will suffer minor
injuries.
But not Mansfield's proteges. To bor-
row his own words, they will be extra
careful mot to get hit in AZ; they are
too anxious to be on hand to see America
get Hitler in 43."
Evening star., 1942-03-01

always ready to sell his property on
monthly installments, thereby aiding
persons Of limited means in securing
homes. At the time of his death he was
a director in the Columbia National
Bank, and interested In a majority Of
the local stock companies of this city.
During his illness his business affairs
were entirely in the hands Of Albert Fox.
who has been his agent for many years.
Mr.. Morrison was q widower and had
no children, but leaves one brother and
Evening star., 1942-03-01

Mrs. Raymond Fo10ler, presi-
dent of the Won,an's Army
and Nouy League, sponsors Of
the Soldiers, Sailors and Ma
rineS' Club.
six sisters. OF the latter. one lives in
Lexington, KY. and the others near the
place Of his birth. He leaves a large
estate, which he distributes by will. In
the early spring Mr.. Morrison connected
himself with the Luther Place Memorial
Church. Arrangements for the funeral
are not yet fully consummated. but the
time will probably be Tuesday, from his
late residence. the interment to take
place at Oak Hill"
At the funeral Of Mr.. Morrison. the
pastor of the Luther Place Memorial
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-15
SALUTE At TINES

Following their annual custom
the Old NewShoyN assembled at
10 a m. today and marched over
their traditional parade route, led
10y an escort of motorcycle and
mounted police and the Detroit
Federation OF Musicians band
They stopped at The Detroit
Times and other newspaper Offices
IN salute before going 10 their
usual corners.
Sales began at II 30 a. m. TO
continue for two hours.
Absent from the ranks of the
marchcrS was 1t. Col. Laurence
NcKenny OF the United States
Army. who on Through headed
last years parade and who a
month ago wrote his regrets from
his post in New Guinea.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-15
ID OSfWar
job PLAN
Studied

Mayor Edward J. Jcnries Jr
today Is studying "a list of $4,000.
600 worth of POSTWAR municipal
projects complied by his capita
Improvement program committee
Drawn up by Budget Director
David Y. Addy. NPA Co-ordinator
Max r Barton and City Plsnnel
George Emery chairman, the pro-
gram aims an having completed
plans ready Tor immediate action
should Work-yclicl program
such as the approximation WPA
be needed IN postwar unomploy.
mcnt period
THE impact of a work relief
program" the report reads. "or
IA pump priminG Improvement
program seldom allows time for
the proper development of de-
tails, and eNigcncieS OF the sit
uation ncCessitate immediate IL
not effective action"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-15
HENNING PRESIDENT

William Parrish. who sold on
the northeast corner Of Woodward
land Gratiot avenues. is one Of the
IGoodfellows who joined the phllan-
thropy IN its infancy
Following an annual custom, the
children OF the Protestant Chill
dren'S Home of Detroit bought a
paper from hum with the pennies
they had saved
GoOdfclIowS President John II.
Henning hawkcd ms papers in the
J. l. Hudson Company basement
store. where he Is an executive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-15
Police Drivers Mileage Hit

Common council today rejected
a request from Police Commits
sloner John H. Witherspoon TO pro-
vide S720 for members of the vice
squad who drive their own cars in
police work The commissioner
wanted 10 pay them ) cents a mile.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-15
ELEVATED HIGHWAYS

Among the types Of munlcipa
improvements planned are,
Airport facilities, elevated high
ways, garage and parking facili
ties hospitals, office buildings
public housing. recreation Stadi
umS, swimming pools. street car
bus barns and repair shops. watei
and sewage pumping stations
power houses AMI reservoirs. mar
ket buildings. sheds. civic Ccntcl
development and river front plan
ming.
The list is divided into The fol
lowing groups
Projects for which plans
are complete and ready TO let on
contract
2-ProjectS for which plans
will be completed under the
present budget appropriations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-15
PEDDLERS BIG HELP

Alec Schroeder president Of the
Associated TheatCrS received the
contribution of Film Exchange
Building workers at his post in
front Of the building.
An outstanding donation were
the proceeds OF the PcddlcrS' Club
party, turned over by Edward +.
Diehl, fund treasurer and newsle
on Campus MartIuS
Herman LiCbcrman only man 10
hold the GoodfelloWN presidency
two years. again served his rcgu-
lar customers at the Majestic
Building corner.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-15

4 buffet dinner VIII he given
l- by 81 BimCr publisher of
tra Pittsburgh Su0-Telccla ph.
VINE. cau. cted the Miss Victory
search MS section Then She
VII VISIT rho Dew ESQ Variety
CWH Cartocn after which she Will
appear uu the stage of the Stanley
Th-tcr Tor a war bond program
Next Stop-Detroit-her home
territory where she Will be well
Came8 as Miehigans own heroine
{. fre production front.
Nc,'Crday-the last day Of her
New York visit, Barbara finally
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-15

got together with the Statue Of
Liberty.
That meeting was the one thing
about which our 2l-year-old bride
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-15
SONIA HENIE

Of sailor was definitely firm. She
had announced that she simply
would not leave New York with
Oul seeing thai Statuc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-15
Old NewsboyS
Find Detroiters
Keep the Faith
CONTINUED from Page One)

q bHliuu'u lIolH rage OltD
has east i'm the role of the under.
privileged. often because OF illness
or broken homes or because theil
parents are permanent unemploy-
ablc>
Il is their stockings YOU are
helping the GoodtclloW> ill again
this Year.
approximately 90 per cent OF
the money YOU give goes for essen
.tIal clothing for these children.
CONTENTS OF PACKAGE
But the hcartwarming tin>el is
not forgotten
There are 1900 dolls for little
girls, IlOOO OF these dressed 10y
Dcuoiters, and for the boys and
older girls there are books and
games and toys.
Furthermore. each Goodfellows
box contains candy the annual
gift OF the Fred Sanders confcc-
tionctN
Chief item is n Gift certificate
for shoes for each child. Each
package also contains two pairs of
stockings. Two suits OF underwear
dresses for rhc gul>. sweaters for
The boys and occasionally mlttenS
an. brrpf~