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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
LTHOUGH the event Itself
A is yet two years away,
preparations are going for-
ward rapidly for making
the two-hundredth aaniver-
sary celebration of Wash-
ington’s birthday the great-
est event of its kind ever
held in this country. Six
years ago President Cool-
idge appointed a distin-
guished group of citizens
ifrom every part of the United States,
Avith himself as ex officio chairman,
known as the United States Commis-
sion for the Celebration of the Birth
■of George Washington to prepare a
plan.
Since that time the commission has
been considering some forty different
Suggestions for the nation-wide cele-
bration but the only plan that has thus
ifar been definitely adopted is that for
the systematic publication of works by
jfind about Washington. This plan was
jflrawn up by Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart,
professor of history at Harvard uni-
ersity and historian of the commis-
ion.
i The plan In detail calls for the fol-
lowing publications:
> L George Washington (Reading
(With a Purpose), written by Doctor
Hart, and recently issued by the com-
mission, to be circulated by the com-
passion in quantities.
2. Select reading lists on George
Washington, a proposed search of
best books on Washington, intended
jto stimulate purchase of Washington
books by individuals and school and
pther libraries, such lists to be circu-
lated by the commission, especially to
Schools.
j 3. A George Washington map. A
Sizeable wall map on paper or cloth
'costing in quantities about 10 cents
jeach, to be sent free by the commis-
fclou to any school room asking for it,
fas a means of bringing the commission
fand its work home to hundreds of
thousands of school children and their
(elders.
4. Writings of George Washington.
!A definitive edition to be edited by J.
JC. Fitzpatrick, editor of Washington
Jdiarles. There are te be three edi-
tions, a Mount Vernon edition de luxe,
fa Capitol edition, exclusively for mem-
bers of congress and high executive
fand judicial officials in office in 1927,
fand a popular edition. Volumes to
be sold in complete sets of twenty vol-
umes or in chronological groups of
three to five volumes.
5. A George Washington series. It
will be made up of about fifteen vol-
jUmes of various sizes pertaining to
[George Washington, depicting Wash-
ington as a western man; Washing-
ton as a soldier; Washington as an
'engineer; the boy Washington, etc. To
be published in a complete limited edi-
tion and also in a regular edition, each
Volume purchaseable separately. To
be written by experts in the several
fields and edited by the historian.
w 6. A George Washington atlas. It
will include detailed maps of all re-
gions in which Washington lived and
traveled, and all his military cam-
paigns, making possible the location
of every place Washington is known
to have inhabited or visited; every
place or estate in England owned or
occupied by ancestors of George Wash-
ington ; every house that can now be
identified in which he stayed; all his
real estate and lands wherever situ-
ated.
It was early decided that the 1932
celebration was not to be a material
expression of the importance of the
event in the form of a “world’s fair”
or exposition of its physical resources
and the development of Its arts, sci-
ences and industries. However, the
commission of fine arts and the nation-
al park and planning commission,
which are co-operating with the bi-
centennial commission in planning the
principal observance of the event, to
be held in the city which bears Wash-
ington’s name, hopes that a number of
major projects, all of which are close-
ly linked with the bicentennial cele-
bration idea, will be completed by 1932.
Chief among these are the following:
The Arlington Memorial bridge, now
well along in construction and virtu-
ally certain to be completed by the
bicentennial year.
Completion of the monument gar-
dens at the base of the Washington
monument, originally proposed in the
1901 plan for Washington and urged
by city planners since.
Completion of the arboretum and
the national botanical garden.
Completion of the. proposed Mount
Vernon boulevard between the west
end of the Arlington bridge and the
home of George Washington.
Cutting through the mall of the
parallel roadways on each side of the
great central composition and advance-
ment of the public building program
to a point where the government tri-
angle becomes that in fact.
Completion of the scheme for mak-
ing Wakefield, the birthplace of George
Washington, a national shrine, and
construction of roadways and airplane
landing field and wharves for ships at
the shrine.
Outstanding among these projects
Is the Mount Vernon memorial boule-
vard. Construction has been com-
menced on this by the bureau of pub-
lic roads of the Department of Agri-
culture. It is to extend from the Vir-
ginia end of the new bridge connect-
ing the Lincoln memorial with the
Arlington National cemetery to Mount
Vernon along the Potomac river, a
distance of 15y2 miles.
This highway, which will be 200 feet
wide, will be one of the finest boule-
vards in the country and will offer
easy access to Mount Vernon, Wash-
ington’s home. Congress has appro-
priated funds for the boulevard, the
initial cost being $4,500,000. It has
been suggested that to each of the 13
colonies should be allowed a mile of
road for such state tablets and archi-
tectural treatment as may be desired
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by the state, with the approval of the
federal government. This idea, how-
ever, is tentative and may not mate-
rialize.
The plans for the monument gardens
at the base of the 555-foot obelisk re-
calls the fact that the monument as
conceived in 1S33 has never been com-
pleted. The building of the monument
in its present form underwent many
vicissitudes after the laying of the
original cornerstone lg 1848. The
Civil war interfered with the work
and It was not until 1876 that the
shaft reached a height of 150 feet.
In 1880 the second cornerstone was
laid and the work went rapidly ahead
until 1888, when the monument was
opened to the public.
From that time little was done un-
til the erection of the magnificent Lin-
coln memorial with the reflecting pool
in between. Now it is hoped that the
$50,000,000 federal building program
for the National Capital which Is un-
der way will carry forward the com-
pletion of the monument on the basic
plans for it and the development of
the- mall or monument gardens, ex-
tending from the Capitol to the monu-
ment, so that all will be In readiness
for the National Capital for the great
celebration two years hence.
The commission has also undertaken
to assist in the restoration of Wake-
field, Va., the birthplace of Washing-
ton. The Wakefield association pro-
' poses to add to the 70 acres which it
now owns 300 acres more which are
necessary to treat the home and Its
surroundings properly. John D. Rocke-
feller, Jr., has made a provisional gift
in this connection and congress will
be asked to appropriate $60,000 to com-
plete the restoration.
Although these are the principal
projects in which the bicentennial com-
mission is interested, they are not the
only memorials to Washington which
may be completed and may be the
scene of special observances of his
birthday in 1932. On a beautiful knoll
overlooking the historic city of Alex-
andria, Va., is rapidly rising the
George Washington Masonic National
memorial, a $4,000,000 structure, erect-
ed by the Masons of the country to
an honored fellow member, which is
virtually certain to be completed with-
in the next two years.
An effort is being made also to fin-
ish the George Washington Memorial
building in Washington so that it will
also be ready for the 1932 celebration.
The idea for this building came from
George Washington himself who pro-
vided in his will for a national univer-
sity and emphasized in his last mes-
sage to congress the importance of
“the general diffusion of knowledge”
through proper institutions.
A center such as the memorial will
provide is now lacking in Washington.
According to plans, the building wi.U
have not only a large auditorium with
a large organ, but several smaller
halls seating from 500 to 2,500 people.
The building would be made acces-
sible to conventions of every charac-
ter that may select Washington as a
place of assembly, whether the con-
ventions be international, state, inter-
state or territorial; or whether their
character be business, political, religi-
ous, patriotic or social. The memorial
will be a center, in fact, for “the dif-
fusion of knowledge.” It will be suit-
able for inaugural receptions and balls,
and especially for conferences between
nations, as congress intended it to be
when it gave the ground.
ALABAMA HUSBAND
WAS PERSISTENT
CRIME IS GROWING
IN SMALL CITIES
Follows Wife to Hospital and
Kills Her.
Birmingham, Ala. — Twelve hours
after his wife had been sent to a hos-
pital suffering from a knife wound he
inflicted, W. R. Keith broke into her
room and shot her three times. She
died an hour later. Keith fired a bul-
let into his arm after fatally wound-
ing his wife.
“S^he had been trifling with me,”
Keith told police after his arrest.
He ordered out of the hospital room
his wife’s sister and two nurses. “Get
out and get out quick,”, they said he
shouted, and as they backed out the
door he fired. One bullet went through
the woman’s body. Two lodged in her
back.
Mrs. Edward Feenker, sister of the
slain woman, told the following story:
“As he came into the room, Keith
pulled a flask from his pocket and
took a drink. Mrs. Keith raised up In
bed and asked for a drink and as she
did her husband pulled out his pistol,
and told us to get out.
“We got out and heard him shoot
her as she sat up in bed.”
Mrs. Keith was taken to the hos-
pital the day preceding by friends after
a disturbance in the yard of the Keith
home. They found her with her clothes
torn from her back and a stab wound
in her shoulder.
Clerk of Court Holds
Office for 60 Years
Baltimore.—After 60- years as dep-
uty clerk of the Superior court, Thom-
as A. Campbell, seventy-eight, was
spoken of by Chief Judge Dennis as
“the only living official, either in this
country or abroad, who has held office
so long.”
The occasion was a reception held
in Superior court, where Campbell
was presented with a purse of $1,200
in gold in recognition of his many
years of service. He also received a
bound volume of congratulatory mes-
sages from many persons, including
Governor Ritchie, Mayor Broening and
former Senator Bruce.
Acknowledging the congratulations
and good wishes of the bar associa-
tion, Campbell told of some of his
earlier experiences in the court.
“When I first entered the Superior
court,” he said, “court rooms were lit
by flickering oil lamps and all my
writing had to be done by hand. The
world has changed since then, how-
ever, and now one man can do as
much work as 20 men could do in the
old days."
Campbell told of being approached
i years ago by some people who wanted
to get a judgment against a circus.
| “I advised them to seize the tent,"
j he said. “Instead, they took the ele-
phant and pla'ced it in a downtown
j livery stable. The elephant ate too
j much, however, and they finally re-
turned it and let the judgment against
the circus rest.”
On another occasion a man obtained
a judgment for $1.87. The debtor died
j and the holder of the judgment want-
ed to seize his coffin, but was refused.
Horned Doe Is no Lady,
Michigan Official Rules
Lansing, Mich.—Women may smoke,
invade barber shops, or wear trousers
and get away with it, but the female
of the deer species is out of luck
if she oversteps the bounds of conven-
tionality to the extent of sprouting
horns. In fact, it may be fatal.
Witness the case of the hunter who
saw a deer in the woods near Mar-
quette. It had the horns which are
supposed to distinguish the buck from
the doe. The hunter shot with effect
and then discovered he had killed a
doe.
Find More Young Criminals,
Report Shows.
Washington.—A census report just
issued shows the ratio of young crim-
inals is increasing, smaller cities have
more crimes than larger ones, and the
lack of home ties tends to promote
law breakers.
Persons between fifteen and thirty-
four years of age made up J3.6 per
cent of the prison commitments in
1923, whereas citizens of these ages
constituted only 49.7 per cent of the
general population. In many cases
unsatisfactory home conditions were
indicated as causes.
Medium-Sized Best Behaved.
Cities of from 25,000 to 100,000 show
the highest commitment ratio, 28.6 per
100,000, but they are just slightly
above places with from 2,500 to 10,-
000. According to the census report
cities of 10,000 to 25,000 are the best
behaved.
Crime was found far more prevalent
in the city than in the country.
“Of the total number of prisoners
for whom the location of crime was
reported,” it is pointed out,"“77.8 per
cent were imprisoned for crimes com-
mitted in urban places, and rural sec-
tions were the scene of only 22.2 per
cent of the crimes. Urban places show
a commitment ratio per hundred thou-
sand of population of 25.1, as against
the rural ratio of 7.6.”
The census report added that the
“commitment ratios, according tp sex,
show a greater disparity for females
than for males between the urban and
rural commitment ratios.”
“For females,” it said, “the commit-
ment ratio was 3.7 for urban places,
as against a rural ratio of 0.5.”
Prisoners Migratory.
Census bureau agents found that
prisoners are migratory, moving from
community to community. Education,
it is stated, is a deterrent for crime.
The commitment ratio is about three
times as high for the illiterate as for
the college group.
“These figures,” declared the bureau
report, “afford no support to the sen-
sational statements frequently made
in recent years, to the effect that ed-
ucation, and especially college educa-
tion, tends to promote crime.”
But, it is said, “it is quite probable
that offenders having education are
more successful in avoiding arrest and
conviction for their crimes.
“At the same time it is to be noted
that the prisoners comprise an abnor-
mally high proportion in the younger
age groups, and these in the general
population have decidedly higher edu-
cational attainments than persons be-
longing to the older groups.”
French Soldier Escapes
Kitchen Police Duty
Paris.—Hereafter the French soldier
will confine his efforts entirely to the
manly art of fighting, with no time
out for “kitchen police.” Innovations
in the new army bill take cognizance
of the limited time the one year train-
ing law allows for learning soldiering,
and all the latest mechanical devices,
such as make housework a pleasure
instead of a drudgery, will be intro-
duced.
According to the 1930 war bill,
French mothers will not longer raise
their soldiers to be gentlemen spud
peelers, barrack cinderellas, kitchen
scullions, and mop wielders. In the
new bill housemaid’s knee will be en-
tirely eliminated from the army, for
Minister of War Maginot is going to
replace all these domestic jobs, usual-
ly given as penalties, by the latest
culinary and household inventions.
Chinese Palaces to Be
Ernest W. Libby, district conserva-
tion officer, ruled that a doe with
legal length horns has lost all her
maidenly or matronly privileges and
If she is mistaken for a buck it is
her own fault. The hunter was al-
lowed to keep the deer.
Russian Trusts Seeking
University Graduates
Moscow.—Competition among vari-
ous governmental enterprises here for
engineers and technical specialists of
all types is so keen that the services
of technical students are contracted
for years before their graduation.
Trusts, sometimes single factories,
frequently endow scholarships in uni-
versities on condition that the bene-
ficiaries of their money promise in ad-
vance to give their services to that
trust or factory.
The grain trust, for instance, has
just announced that it is paying tui-
tion and a certain stipend monthly as
living expenses for 735 students of
agronomy who upon graduation will
be obliged to work on the huge farms
organized by this trust.
Depositors “Forget”
Cash, Banks Reveal
San Francisco.—“Don’t forget about
the money you put in your bank.”
This warning sounds foolish, but it
isn’t. Depositors in California have
$845,236 that is unclaimed.
The Hibernia Savings and Loan so-
ciety of this city has the greatest
number of unclaimed accounts—total-
ing in excess of $S7,000.
The largest unclaimed deposit in
this bank is $8,893, credited to a sea-
man. He deposited $4,000 in 1908 and
since then it has earned interest
amGuntiuii to more than $4,000,
Made Hotels, Schools
Peiping.—The former presidential
palaces in the Three Lakes park, once
the pride of the new Chinese repub-
lic, are to be turned into a modern
hotel, a sanitorium, and a mass edu-
cational school, if plans by the board
of park commissioners are successful.
Since the capital was moved south,
the palaces have been of little use,
and the board feels that they should
not stand idle. They have obtained a
large portion of the necessary funds
by public contribution, and hope to
begin alterations upon the palaces in
the near future.
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Dozen Nations Ready
to Change Calendar
Geneva.—Eleven nations have
already followed the example of
the United States in forming
national committees for the re-
form of the calendar, the League
of Nations has just announced.
As in the case of the United
States, all of these committees
are composed of leading bank-
ers, industrials, astronomers,
scientists and men of the high-
est standing and authority' on
the subject.
The last committee formed is
in Holland under the presidency
of Prof. A. A. Nijland, profes-
sor of astronomy at the Univer-
sity of Utretch.
The countries that have al-
ready taken this necessary ini-
tiative are the United States,
Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecua-
dor, France, Hungary, Nicara-
gua, Panama, Holland, Peru and
Salvador.
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I LIGHTS * BESS :
i' of NEW YORK
-----------------
‘ Impressed
The colossal majesty of New York
impresses itself even upon the very
young. A small gentleman of pre-
kindergarten age was brought to the
big city from a New Jersey town for
a visit to his aunt. Auntie lives near
the roof of a skyscraper apartment
building. The young visitor planted
himself at a window sill, pressed his
nose against the glass, and gazed
dreamy-eyed at the panorama before
him. “I bet,” he said, solemnly,
“there’s millions.” '
* * *
’Twould Be Fun
One of the most exciting yet harm-
less pastimes is. the organization of
heirs to the estate of some one who
lived 200 years or so ago. Almost
every city has its band of crusaders
who claim the accrued billions of
good old John Fitz, who once, accord-
ing to specially manufactured legend,
owned most of the surrounding terri-
tory in America’s infant days. There
are, for example, many organizations
of “heirs” to the English estate of Sir
Francis Drake. And here in New
York, I am told, some genius has got
up a scheme to trace and organize the
descendants of the Indian gentlemen
who sold Manhattan to Peter Minuit
for the well-known $24 and a drink on
the house. What a lot of interesting
lawsuits could grow from this!
* * *
Modern Dumas
Alexandre Dumas is credited with
having done something unique in the
maintenance of his famous fiction fac-
tory, in which he kept a staff busy
writing for him. But there are many
such authors today. One, well kqown
for his travel books and articles,
maintains a luxurious country home
in a New York suburb. Here he has
a workroom 100 feet long, where five
secretaries are constantly employed.
His chief secretary is a woman who
is ready at a moment’s notice to
board a ship and go to Europe to in-
terview Prince Whoozit on the cur-
rent unrest in Siluria. As soon as
she has questioned the prince she
hurries home, writes the article—and
signs the name of the modern Dumas,
who then sells it, on the strength of
his name, for a high price.
* * *
Raspberry
Wherever there is a wedding or a
theatrical premiere, a crowd is sure to
gather. Usually the onlookers gaze
with respectful interest at the wed-
ding or theater guests, wondering who
they are and admiring their clothing.
But at a premiere the other night the
crowd was unsympathetic toward one
arrival. He was an elderly gentleman
—old enough to know better—who ar-
rived in a ratty raccoon coat, belted,
and a very formal top hat. They
laughed as he walked from a taxicab
to the lobby entrance.
* * *
Fast Traffic
Within the last three years traffic
has speeded up considerably. Taxi
chauffeurs are infinitely better and
faster drivers than they used to be.
I have often wondered what brought
about the change, and it wasn’t until
the other day that I learned. It ap-
pears that the companies operating
the big taxi fleets have more men
than machines, and drivers are re-
quired to bring in a certain amount
each day. If a chauffeur’s business
falls off during one period of duty, he
is laid off the next day. So they all
hurry to get as many fares as they
can.
* * * ^
Invented Pin
The present search of the Smith-
sonian institution for early sewing
machines brings to light indirectly the
story of the invention of the safety
pin by Walter Hunt, who lived In
New York in the early eighties. It
was Hunt, and not Elias Howe, who
made the first sewing machine. Hunt
was always inventing things—he de-
vised the breech-loading gun, for one
thing—and had considerable business
with one John Chapin, a patent law-
yer. One day Hunt called on Chapin,
to tell the lawyer he had no money
to pay a $15 bill. Hunt paced up and
down the lawyer’s office, and finally
cried: “I have it! I’ll pay you this
afternoon.” He hurried to his work-
shop, made the first safety pin out of
brass wire, immediately sold the rights
for $400 cash, and paid Chapin his $15
at 4 p. m.
(©, 1930, Bell Syndicate.)
Judge Nabbed on Hunting
Violation Fines Self $10
West Plains, Mo.—A judicial scram-
ble in which the prisoner, the prose-
cutor and the justice were the same
person occurred here when C. L. Eak-
er, justice of peace, was arrested by
F. D. Hequenborg, deputy game war-
den, for killing opossums out of sea-
son. Prosecutor Eaker questioned De-
fendant Eaker who was found guilty j
by Justice Eaker and fined $10 to the:
satisfaction of the prosecution and:
the game warden.
Perry County Mine Fire
Burns After 45 Year#
New Lexington, Ohio.—Perry coun-
ty’s 45-year-old mine fire has broken 1
qut anew in many places on the hills
adjoining New Straitsville, Ohio. The
latest damage caused by the fire came
as the result of burning coal under
the New Lexington-Logan road, caus-j
ing the highway to drop four feet into!
an old mine entry. j
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