text: A ill ■ O JI ® 11 ■ ■ WM lOklk *JO AJ |" I w wJI ;'w ''fc':<' STREET  Adjutant General Davis Cites ** Need for Preserving Papers Covering 100 Years The records of the regular army for the 100-year period from 1812 to 1912 are threatened with destruction, Adjutant General Davis declared today. A large additional force of clerks, he said, will be necessary to consolidate and preserve these records, which include 335,000 muster rolls and 1,500,000 Enlistment papers. Constantly Consulted. The records have to be constantly consulted and they now are badly dilapidated because of the “wear and tear” upon them. Adjutant General Davis declares that the preservation of these records is vital and that the Only practical method of keeping them is to compile a card index which will contain all the necessary information the War Department needs in its statistical work. “The cost of performing a piece of work of such magnitude would ’ necessarily be heavy,” he said, "and a large additional force of clerks Would be required for a period of, several years. The present urgent need for economy in Government administration, therefore, demands postponement for the time being. It is hoped, however, in the not distant future that it will be postponed. Sibley to provide the funds required for the purpose.” THREE FIREMEN SUE CAPITAL TRACTION CO. Lieutenant Charles G. Harper, attached to the fire engine house No. 7; William E. Mothershead and Sharon Hughes, members of the same company have filed suit in the District Supreme Court against the Capital Traction Company for $7,500 damages each for alleged personal injuries. Plaintiffs, represented by Attorneys Newmyer & King, allege that while responding to a fire alarm and riding on the hose engine No. 7 to the scene of the accident, May 16, last, a car of the defendant company at Rhode Island and New Jersey avenues northwest failed to stop to give the apparatus the right of way and that in plaintiffs' efforts to avoid a collision, their apparatus turned aside and skidded into a tree, throwing them violently to the ground and injuring them seriously. DR. WILFLEY WELCOMED BY NEWCOMERS CLUB The Reverend Earle Wilfley, pastor of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church, was welcomed back after an extended trip abroad, at a ladies' day luncheon of the Newcomers Club at the City Club yesterday. Doctor Wilfley briefly recounted conditions in the old world. Joseph A. Burkart presided, and announced that because of the success of such entertainments, ladies' day luncheons will be held monthly throughout the winter. The Newcomers have been members of the club. CITIZENS ASK WRECO FOR TRANSFER RENEWAL A special committee was appointed last night at the first autumn meeting of the Georgetown Citizens Association to confer with the Washington Railway and Electric Company. and the Public Utilities Commission in an effort to obtain re-instatement of 1 cent transfers at Wisconsin avenue and M street. The committee is composed of B. A. Bowles, Gorman, M. Hendricks, and Isaac B. Nordlinger. President Joseph A. Oliver announced the Washington Railway and Electric Company had agreed to renew its tracks and repave its right of way in Wisconsin avenue. He reported for the executive committee a recommendation that the association ask that P. Dumbarton and O streets be made one way thoroughfares. HENRY DAYE DENIES HE STRUCK WIFE DURING ROW Henry Daye, who filed suit for divorce yesterday against his wife, Mrs. Ruth Baffell Daye, beauty culturist, today asked The Washington Times to correct a statement which appeared in Washington newspapers that he struck his wife the night before. A wife's apartment was raided by the vice squad. Mr. Daye said, that the night of the raid had not hit his wife or sister-in-law, but did hit Loughran, the man who was found in the apartment with the wife. TIRE TRAINS FOR ALL POINTS. The fattest train on record is a train of thought. Everybody rides on it. It starts on an unknown journey when you awake and stops at Unconscious Terminal when you fall asleep. Everyone directs his own train and travels on an individual schedule, few starting points, stopovers or journey ends are alike. Your train of thought may take you around the world without your ever taking a step. At times it leaves the ground for flights to invisible air castles. Its main roadbed lies on Concentration OOenue, with numer ous switches to sidetrack you at In terruption Town, Roamingville and Weak Will Way station. Physical accidents are rare. Effort is the en gineer, and Sequence the con ductor, with Assimilation and As sociation as additional mem bers of the train crew. The line of travel if diagramed would look like a huge spider web. Sometimes you seem to run without the engineer. Your train never keeps a uniform speed. Your own system furnishes the fuel and it burns at all intensi ties. Worry sneaks along for a free ride, you generally have a jerky trip. Cupid helps to make the ride smooth, and Control manipulates the safety signals. Memory is the agent who plans trips back over the routes of other days. Sometimes tears grease the tracks. Whether you ride in a Pullman or on the rod*" depends a great deal on Old Man Environment,* who is ever around to lend his influence. Men tal Energy is your ticket and it never lapses while the train is in motion. The mechanism of your train is not fully revealed, but you /*!•* the * ame - Aa a matter of fact it is next to impossible to Keep from conscious traveling, a fellow named Psychology has most of the patent rights. Father Time ru gCttOn^°reman WkQ holes east Se works in V®** <n the morning of life, Clim^mn* ”‘ oc * near Mation Climaxville, at noon, and then Vriee Ut t DeuS f th9 n trflCk tov>ard * evening eau t A nd Death ’ •«»'» ana end earthly excursions. JONAH BRIGGS SAYS: "I see them angels have the street crossing peril now. A shower of white feathers fell out the sky here last week. MIKE HENRY. WESTWARD HO! Answers to the questions now and then. The first thing I've heard is that the man who has been in the city for four years now and I haven't missed heard and seen in all that time. It sure is a gloom chaser." THE LAST STRAW. Henry mutters that "the trouble with all these here straw votes is that when election day finally comes along a fellow's going to be too durned tired to cast a real vote." LEAVE THAT TO HUBBY. Having married a couple, a nervous young minister whispered aside: "Pardon me, is it because of the misister to cuss the bride!" OLD SOCKS. GOSH! THAT REMINISCENCES ME! THE WIFE-WANTS ME TO BRING HOME BISHOP FROM VISIT TO DETROIT BISHOP Thomas J. Shahan, rector of Catholic University, and the Reverend Doctor Bernard A. McKenna, director of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, returned yesterday from Detroit, where they were in conference with Mrs. Mary Chase Stratford, the artist who has charge of the ceramic work of the Nation Shrine which is now under construction at Brookland. Bishop Shahan and Doctor McKenna made two trips to the Pewable Potteries where the ceramics are being made. They will be more than 1,000 in number and will be placed in the ceiling of the crypt. There are thirty distinctive designs, representing various emblems of the early Christians in the catacombs of Rome. TUESDAY  kill all the fleas in town. Customer—That’s just it. Fido has them all. THE ANCIENT MARINER. I am a modern Mariner, Some bird—he stoppeth me; I says: “Say bloke—just what’s the joke— Fair warning—let me be. “The dance-hall doors are open wide. And I am next in line. If you would gab come on inside— Leave go that fin of mine. A, then he gives his eye a wink: — with this you’ll take no chance. This stuff is pre-war guarantee." (I never got to dance.) JOHN DODGE. A WASTED INSPIRATION. I had an inspiration, I had planned a new creation, A verse of leaves, and golden sheaves. But to my indignation, Although I hate to say it, There's no reason to display it, For wondrous fall, ain't here at least no signs betray it. I started in to writing, a verse, 'twas quite exciting, Autumnal flowers, bloomed in bowerg, The scene was most inviting, But flowers fair refused to bloom, And all the world seemed filled with gloom, Autumnal days, have fickle ways, My verse has met its doom. My verse has been destroyed; perchance. Tomorrow morning I will glance, Upon the land, and beauties grand, Of autumn may be seen. But flowers fair, which seem so rare, Will bring me nothing but despair, The verse I wrote, will be remote, My burden will be hard to bear. JOE H. HOLMAN. People used to go to Europe with a thirst for knowledge. Lots of them now go with a thirst for something else. ARKONA IKE. A STORY. Where are you going, my pretty maid? I’m going fishing, sir, she said But why the make-up, why the clothes? Oh, any fish will fall for those. FLORENCE N. HOAGLAND. WOMEN HELD IN $1,000 ON SHOPLIFTING CHARGE Helen Spencer and May Cooper, 1915 Sixteenth street northwest, waived the preliminary hearing in Police Court. Court today before Judge Schuldt in one grand larceny case and demanded a jury trial in eight cases of petit larceny. Bonds were given aggregating $1,500 each. When a continuance was asked by the defendants over a week ago, the reason given Assistant District Attorney Ralph Given was that Mrs. Spencer had taken poison. Detectives Howard and Bauer verified this at the time. Mrs. Spencer appeared in court today the picture of robust health. The two women are charged with having taken dresses from several large downtown department stores. Nearly a score of witnesses were on hand at court today to testify. WASHINGTON PEOPLE Present Rate for Power Is Unreasonably Low, William F. Ham Declares The Potomac Electric Power Company will oppose vigorously any reduction in electric rates, William F. Ham, president, declared today. “The present rates are unreasonably low,” Mr. Ham said, “and we will, of course, protest against lowering them.” Rearing On November 5. The Public Utilities Commission has set November 5, as the date for a public hearing to consider lower rates for the company. Mr. Ham says the commission’s statement as to the earnings of the electric company is erroneous. “Their figures are based on their own valuation which they have admitted is wrong,” Mr. Ham said. The company probably will ask the commission to postpone any change in rates until the District Supreme Court has finally decided on the valuation case now before it. Money Impounded. Electric consumers now pay ten cents per kilowatt hour, part of which money is impounded until the court decides on the valuation. Case. The present rate is 7.76 cents per kilowatt hour. The commission recently announced the company was earning a return of 8.99 per cent on its (the commission’s) valuation. The commission, having held 7 per cent as a fair return, ordered a rate hearing. CARD PARTY PLANNED FOR CHAPEL BENEFIT Arrangements are being made for a card party and dance to be given at the National Hotel for the benefit of the Catholic chapel at Piney Point, Md., October 24, according to announcement today. The object of the entertainment is to liquidate part of the remaining indebtedness on the church property. Residents of the Piney Point colony are active in plans for the card party. Those in charge of arrangements are: Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Keane, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Heister, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. D. Herron, Mr. and Mrs. James Roche, Doctor and Mrs. J. Rozier Biggs, Mr. and Mrs. William Summer colony are active in plans. Mr. and Mrs. Shea and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Johnson, Jr. MAJ. SULLIVAN TO GET REPORT IN GUNNELL CASE Inspector Charles A. Evans, assistant superintendent of police, will report tomorrow to Major Daniel Sullivan, superintendent of police, on his investigation of complaints by two citizens that Police Officer Fuller L. Arrington and Henry Rinke, detailed to enforce liquor laws, fired at them in a machine yesterday. Inspector Evans said today he was making thorough inquiry into charges that the officers have no reason to fire at the men. Seven men were arrested. Bullet holes appear in the body and top of the car. The complainants, who are represented by Attorney Harry J. Whalen, are Carl F. Gunnell, 708 Tenth street northwest, and Harry Tanner, 125 Eleventh street southeast. BAPTIST CONCLAVE OPENS AT MT. CARMEL CHURCH The General Baptists Convention of the District opened today at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Third and I streets northwest. Alice McNeil and officials of the Sunday School Union were speakers. William H. Chambers led a song service and the Rev. J. Z. Horton conducted devotional exercises. Addresses at tonight’s meeting will be delivered by Emma B. Hall, Lillian Robinson, James R. Moss and Mrs. M. G. Harris. W. E. Lindsay will direct devotions. A musical program will be given by Mrs. Blanche C. Jaynes, I. E. Conway and a quartet from the Third Baptist Church. State Group to Meet The Delaware State Society of Washington will meet tonight for the annual election of officers in Thomson school, Twelfth and O streets northwest. All Delawarians now in the city are invited to attend. The draw of the Anacostia bridge was in the position shown here for about an hour and a half this morning, blocking traffic into Washington when Government workers and others were on their way to their offices. The draw went up at 7:45 o'clock and electricians worked until 8:45 o'clock to dislodge it when the machinery would not function. MEMBERSHIP IS DISCUSSED BY SECRETARIES Chamber of Commerce Work Is Theme of Organization’s Meeting Here How shall a chamber of commerce get membership, and how hold it? This question was debated for an hour today at the tenth annual meeting of the National Association of Commercial Organization secretaries. It was variously stated in the discussion which followed a paper by H. W. Luethi, manager of the Canton, Ohio, chamber, that more care should be taken in soliciting memberships; that the number of active workers in some chambers ran as low as 6 percent; that the “annual resigner,” who is accustomed to being begged to retain membership, should be squelched, and that chambers in small towns are having troubles which the larger organizations don’t know a thing about. Comment Follows. Mr. Luethi's paper drew forth comment from every part of the United States Chamber of Commerce meeting hall. The speaker submitted that no member of any organization could be expected to take an active interest unless he were shown how to work. He outlined the problem of the Diet in Austria-Hungary, where nineteen languages are spoken and groups cannot understand each other. He paralleled this condition with the situation which threatens many chambers. Mr. Luethi told the delegates of the various methods employed to arouse and sustain interest in chamber affairs— forums, committee work, referendums, personal letters and personal calls. Mr. Luethi was praised by members of the committee which arranged the speeches of the convention as “the McNeely of the program,” coming to duty with a needed hit at a late hour in the preparations. Crowd Gathers Slowly. J. H. Hudson, secretary of the Association of Commerce, of Bloomington, Ill., opened the morning session with an address on “The Program—Its Fitness to the Community.” As the hall was slow in filling up today, no discussion was had on this talk. Daniel N. Casey, secretary of the chamber of Harrisburg, Pa., gave the closing speech of the morning, his subject being “Financing—Plans for Sustaining Chambers of Commerce.” The luncheon hour was given over to group meetings of secretaries from cities of populations ranging from under 10,000 to 80,000 and over. Announcement was made that the Women guests of the convention are invited to a tea at the home of Mrs. Eliot H. Goodwin, 3038 N street northwest, at 4 o’clock today. Members of the Washington chamber have furnished transportation for the guests. Arthur E. Seymour, secretary of the local chamber, reminded the visitor, to attend the monthly meeting of the Washington organization, tomorrow night, in the New Willard Hotel. Grant to Speak. President Richard F. Grant, of the United States Chamber, is scheduled as the guest of honor and principal “Big Train” Loses D. C. Auto Tag On Way To Kansas Home On his way to his home in Kansas, Walter Johnson, whose automobile bears District tag No. 100,000, lost one of his tags. Today Wade & H. Coombs, superintendent of licenses here, received the following letter: “Please give me the name and address of the owner of license No. 100,000, D.C., 1924. I found this license on the night of October 16 near the Missouri-Kansas line. Attached to it is an A.A.A. tag. Thanking you for the information, I am, “H.V. WHITE, “Sheldon, Mo." Superintendent Coombs forwarded to Mr. White the Kansas address of Johnson. ‘AVERAGE BE' RULE HADE BY M'CARL Employes Reallocated on Appeal Before July 1 Are Exempt Comptroller General McCarl today issued an important ruling with respect to the re-allocation of Federal workers under the classification act. Employees who have been reallocated on appeal made in advance of July 1, the decision says, are exempt from the provisions of the “average salary class” of the classification law and can receive the maximum salary of the grade to which they are allocated. The finding discriminates between the employees who are reallocated and those who are transferred or promoted. The latter employees are subject to the provisions of the “average clause” which in many instances works to prevent them from receiving as large a salary in a higher grade as they were receiving in the lower grade from which they were promoted. The decision affects thousands of Federal workers who have been reallocated in the past few months. The Personnel Classification Board has changed.” The allocation of these workers on appeal and the finding clears up any doubt as to their right to receive the maximum salary in the grade in which they are placed. Speaker Charles W. Darr, chairman of the committee on police and fire protection and public safety, is to present an important report. The tenth annual banquet of the association is to be held in the New Willard tonight, when the delegates will be addressed by President Grant and Bishop James E. Freeman, with J. David Larson presiding. At the banquet also diplomas are to be awarded to graduates of the National School for Commercial and Trade Executives. President Coolidge will address the assembly on Thursday night at a meeting of the Eastern division, to which all secretaries have been invited. The delegates were received by the President at the White House yesterday. HITCH IN DRAWN Home town page — Hitch in Draw Bridge Stops Traffic Traffic Delayed Hour and Half, When Anacostia Structure Jam. MOTHER GALLS ON GIRL TO RETURN Mrs. Jones Distraught by Prolonged Absence of Child “Dorothea, dear, please come home at once, your father and I are grieving to death. We have not slept since you left and you know I am not in good physical condition.” This is the message that Mrs. K. E. McCoy, Jones' mother of eighteen-year-old Dorothea Jones, comely young member of the St. Patrick Players, who has been missing since Saturday afternoon, when she was last seen in front of the District National Bank Building, today wishes conveyed to her daughter. Why Girl Left Home. The mother holds to the opinion that her daughter left to avoid being persuaded to marry by Her sister, James Me Lynn, 1111 P street northwest, who last saw the girl before she disappeared. Young McLynn, however, the view that his young fiancee left home because she had so many squabbles with her parents over her prospective marriage to him. The parents give the following description of their daughter, who worked with her father at the Suburban Realty Company, 410 District National Bank building: Height five feet four inches; weight about 110 pounds; complexion, extraordinarily fair; hair, very dark brown, not bobbed, and eyes, gray. OPPOSE PANTING OF TREES ON 13TH STREET A plea of the Thirteenth Street Business Men’s Association that no trees be planted on Thirteenth street from F to I streets were the roadway has been widened, was heard by the District Commissioners today. The committee comprised David B. Edmonston, George C. Altemus and George Emmons. The committee told the Commissioners that because of concealed vaults in front of many of the Thirteenth street buildings it would be impossible to place trees with any uniformity. “The street would soon look as if a hurricane had hit it if trees are put down in a hit or miss fashion,” Mr. Emmons said. The Commissioners reserved judgment on the plea. TWO GIRLS ARE HURT WHEN CARS COLLIDE Emma Walker, colored, 1629 Corcoran street northwest, and Lillian Glascoe, 1213 Q street northwest, also colored, were on their way to school this morning in a machine driven by Emma’s brother, Henry, when they collided at Ninth and Q streets northwest with a car. Driven by James C. Carroll, 301 Twenty-second street northwest. Both cars overturned and the two girls were slightly injured. They were treated at Emergency Hospital. Neither of the drivers were hurt seriously. INSPECTOR NEGLECTS TO WARN PUBLIC Pedestrians and Motorists Alike Are Puzzled and Send in Protests Wallington witnessed one of the worst traffic jams in recent months today when Inspector Albert J. Headley, chief of the traffic bureau, put into operation a new traffic system in the downtown section. The new system consists of permitting pedestrians thirty seconds to get across the street after the automobile traffic has been signaled to go. Warning Not Given. Very little. If any advance information had been given motorists or pedestrians of the change, and as a consequence neither motorists nor pedestrians knew what they were expected to do. Inspector Headley announced today that beginning tomorrow he would fly giving pedestrians fifteen seconds to pass after the traffic signal has been turned. Traffic policemen this morning turned the stop signs, allowed automobiles to pass, and then, before changing the sign again, blew a whistle. After 30 seconds, the stop sign was turned and traffic in the opposite direction allowed to pass. Each time the sign changed, pedestrians were given 30 seconds to cross. Brought Many Protests. The pedestrian regulation resulted in many protests to Inspector Headley. “This rule to allow pedestrians 30 seconds to cross is not new,” Inspector Headley said. “We are only enforcing it vigorously now.” Inspector Headley pointed out that the pedestrians do not follow the policeman’s whistle as closely as motorists. At Fourteenth and Pennsylvania avenue motorists, irritated at the delay, kept up a constant sounding of horns. estrians, unacquainted with the rule, remained on street corners, undecided whether to cross or not. Inspector Headley said that the traffic men have been instructed to protect the pedestrians. Most of the confusion resulted from the fact that many drivers did not understand the system, and when the signal was changed, started to cross immediately instead of waiting the designated thirty seconds. The system was put into effect at all of the downtown street intersections. If successful, traffic bureau officials say, it will be continued and regular apparatus will be installed to signal drivers when the thirty seconds start and stop. Woman in Postmaster Miss Charlotte V. Bevans, today was appointed acting postmaster, of Greenbackville, Va., by the postmaster general. 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