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ENJOYABLE OCCASIONJunior German Club Gives Second

Series of Dances Yesterday After*noonu

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The Junior German Club held thesecond of their series of dances yesterday afternoon, in the auditoriumof the Elks' Home, under the directionof Mrs. Robert South Barrett,assisted by Miss Isobell Boswell,Miss Hilda Schneider, Miss Nina

' Fulton, Miss Sarah Ketmper, MissLucy Anderson, Mr. Laurence Fawcctt,Mr. Thomas L. Wattles, Mr.Tayloe Murphy, Mr. Waller Barrettand Mr. John M. Leadbeater.

-' The favors for the first german figurewere candies, and at five o'clock- the "Butterfly Bouyantes" was

danced by Miss Esther Lambert,Mjiss Edmonia Baker, Miss Jose,phine Gregg and Miss Regina Gorman.This dance was gracefully executedand the costumes of pastelshades of soft silks, that flutteredin true butterfly effect as they

\ danced, and tulle butterfly shapedbows in their hair added to thebeauty of the scene. Following thisdance the four young ladies led thegerman figure and dispensed thefavors, butterfly hats for the boysand cambric dolls and animals forthe girls.'

> Little Miss Elizabeth Edge, MasterWaller Smith and little MissMargaret Lynn were guests of theclub.The members present were Miss

> Mary Fauntleroy, Miss FrancesFauntleroy, Miss Lorrimer Fauntleroy,Miss Irva Kemper, Miss EdmoniaBaker, Miss Mildred Baker,Miss Dorothy Tazewell King, MissMargaret Reed French, Miss AnneEnglish, Miss Margaret Eggborn,Miss Regina Gorman, Miss VirginiaWilkins, Miss Inez Moore, Miss SusanSmoct Thomas, Miss Courtenay Coch

t> 4.4. r*ran, ivaisst' v iL»m jjaiiutt, lvnaa vjcucvvieve Peyton Shepperson, Miss JoseVpliine Gregg, Miss Marion Taylor

| J^nelt;.Miss Josephine Ramage, Miss;ElizabethRamage, Miss Polly

Maigne, Miss Charlotte Kemper,Miss Mildred Gerlacher, Miss EvelynPickett, Mrlss Rosella Burke, MissVElizabeth Bryant, Miss AugustaBode, Miss Elizabeth Schneider, MissLouise Finke, Miss Jeanette YatesCochran, .Miss Elizabeth Boothe, MissLouise Carlin, Miss Hilda Pulman,Miss Esther Lambert, Miss DorothyMorton, Miss Caroline Morton, an less than half of theireds are being occupied.

lyEMBER 18, 1916.1 TT r H. r=T;Suburbs

» Mount Vernon Council Daughter! of America held an interesting tneel

ing last night.Til Ml . if il_inure wm ue a meeting 01 in

Laymen's League tomorrow afternoon at 2:80 in the Westminste

' building. All laymen of the city 'irvitcj to attend.

The title to the building at thnortheast corner of Cameron amFairfax streets has been conveyeiby Leopold Ruben to Leopold RuberWilliam Desmond and Lorenzo Wo!ford, trustees for the Anne LeMemorial Home for the Aged.

1.5*$Judge Louis C. Barley of the Cor

poration court has appointed Captain Herbert Young and Miss RosMacDonald as probation officers fothe city. They are appointed undethe state law passed in March 15)1-3which invests them with all the powers and authority of a police officeor constable, although they servewithout pay, except when travelinjl y order of the court, when they anreimbursed for actual expenses onlyIncluded in their work will be timake such investigation of cases involving deliquent children under IIyears of age, as the court ma]direer and to represent the interest:of a child, where a case is taken ircourt and render such assistance a:the court may request.

LABOR ORGANIZER IXDICTEI

Man Active in Atlanta Street CarStrike Charged With Inciting

Insurrection and Riot

Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 18.W. M.Pollard, an organizer of the AmalgamatedAssociation of Street antElectrical Railway Employees ofAmerica, who has been active in thtlocal carmen's strike, was indictedhere yesterday, charged with "incitinginsurrection, riot and conspiracy'and "libeling" employees of thtGeorgia Railway and Power Com-pai:y, who took the places of thestrikers.The first indictment is Cor a felon}

arid the maximum penalty underGeorgia law is twenty years in tinpenitentiary.The second indictment, for libel

is for a misdemeanor.Samuel Gable, a former trolley

company employee, was fined $1,000or twelve months in jail to-davin Criminal Court for participator

j in recent rioting at East Point, s

|suburb.The strike on the Atlanta streelcar lines began September 30.

PRICES .MAY BE PROHIBITIVE.

Officers Want Aviation Station placeron Hamptan Roads if Suitable

Terms Can be Arranged.

Washington. Nov. 18..Althougha board of officers of the Coast Guarcservice has reported in favor of establishir.tr the first const guard aviationstation somewhere in HamptorRoads, prides on available sites have

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be decided; to place the station elsewhere.The station is planned as the nucleusof an extensive coast guan

aerial service. and while officialswould prefer to have it on Hampton Roads, it was said today the stationmight be. forced into anothcilocality by prohibitive land prices.

Judge Richard II. Cardwell retiredfrom the position of chief justice of the supreme court of appealsyesterday at 10:15, and at. the samttime Judge Robert R., Prentis, formerchairman of the state corporation commission, became a membcof that tribunal. Following this then

j was the election of Judge George M' " rooifn/l '1-ii

Harrison lo me pwMnwn * uvuwu

Judge Cardwell, and the work of th(court prrceeded without the leasliiteh or interruption in the dnccourse of tHe administration of justice Christopher B. Garnett was yesterday elected chairman of the stat,corporation (Commission, succeedingJudge R. R. Prentis, now on the su

i preme court bench. Judge Garnet[ thus succeeds literally to the position of Jud&e Prentis, being his suecessor as a member of the commission' and also as chairman.

Genuine Lynnhaven Bay Oyster?on half shell, steamed or in measureJacob Brill foot of King St. 24G-t

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. I-s Large Audience Greets W. E. Edgin,

At Young People's Building- Last!Night.

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r There was a large gathering ofAlexandrians at the Young People'sBuilding of the M. E. Church Southlast night to hear, W. E. Edgin. of j

I Washington Assistant Superintendent_l of the Ocoquan Ke-formftfory,^

who delivered an interesting and sugi'gesttive address from the theme,!ej"'Why Do Young Men Go Wrong?"! While listening with close atten-(

tiou to the speaker's words many of^ the audience doubtless had the case

of Jean Valjean or the hero in thee

old play, ''The Tickct-of-Leave Man,"r brought to their minds, as the speaker( proved conclusively that 'there is

something good in the most abandonedcriminals if we take the propermethods for ferreting it out. Mr.Edgin denounced the brutal methods

rso often followed in prisons and

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reformatories .where it is assumedby those in charge that a prisoner

;has no rights or feelings any one isbound to respect, but who look upon

g those committed to their care as wild jf and vicious animals who must hej;u regarded as enemies of their genus.1 The speaker gave many instancesj. where men, supposed to be beyond

redemption, had entered into a newlife, so to speak, after having been

j treated with proper consideration.There is an old saying, "A man's a J

. man," although unfortunately he may};t times be clothed in prison stripes, jTreat him well, accord to him, hisdues, and there is every reason to I]believe good results will follow.

V/e cannot repeat all Mr. Edgin J' said, nor can we reproduce his manyanecdotes and personal observations. JAmqng other thi;.gs he said that *'

when he first went to Occoquan henoticed that the prisoners were fedin a body with no improvement unop

: the procedures around the fleshpotsif Egypt in the days of the Pharaohs.The conditions Were suggestive of

.'if :l '"lOrr rum when slon is Dour-mcI through into a trough. Everythingpertaining to dining was suggestive of

! slop and unsanitary manners, as allwere served from o!ie kettle, and oneof his first acts was to bring abouta new departure. Instead of feedingall the prisoners from the same vessel,he ranged them in companies ofton and provided a bucket of soupfor each table, appointing a man tosuperintend this little company andserve each member. Hence the pro-

' redures were as orderly and cleanlyas one could have expected at his

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own private table. The effect wassoon manifest among the prisoners, jas they realized there was somebodyin the institution who took an inter- ^est in them.

The meeting was presided overby Henry K. Field, and James R.Caton introduced tht. speaker.

LECTURE TO BE GIVENi

At Theological Seminary on Tuesday.- Wednesday and Thursday Next.

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tures for the session of I!)l and1!)17 will take place at the TheologiIeal Seminary of the Episcopal Church

; near this city, on Tuesday, Wedncs.day and Thursday of next week.November 21, 22 and 23. The lectureswill be in the chapel at the followinghours: Tuesday, and Thursday at1 in the afternoon, and on Wednesdayat 12 o'clock noon.The lecturer is the Rev. Peter

( .Yinslic, D.D., of Baltimore, Md.,. a prominent'clergyman of the Disci-. pies of Christ. The subject is Church. Unity, of which Dr. Ainslie is ar strong advocate, both in his sermon> and addresses, as well as through the. press, and especially as editor of Thei Christian Union Quarterly. The; subject will he given under the foltlowing head; Lecture I. Church Unity;s It's Necessity; Lecture II, Church-| Unity, it's tirowtb; Lecture ui,- Church Unity. It's Outlook.2 From the reputation Dr. Ainslie

has attained, this course of Lectures- will be of great interest, and it ist hoped, a number of the clergy and

citizens of the city will bo able to- attend them.

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An alarm of fire shortly before 3(j o'clock this afternoon was sent from

Del Ray. and the Alexandria departfment responded.

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fr " =3Pair tonight aud tomorrow;

lettoct temperature toatgbtcfcccl 32 to 34 desrcor: not __inucU clinti;ve Jti temperature:Krntlr. moderate southivcxt andWfKt wind*. '

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BAPTISTS PROSPERING :

Statistics Presented at Meeting in

Norfolk This Week Are Very Encouraging.

7TThe meeting this week in Norfolk

of the Virginia Baptist General As.sociation has been one of the most interestingin the history of the BaptistChurch in the Old Dominion. Thereports presented this week showthat this denomination is in a prosperouscondition, and the many membersthroughout Virginia have much kto encourage them in their work.

Dr. J. T. Watts, this week spokeon the Sunday school and colportagework, lie reported 13S.000 membersin Sunday schools of Virginia; 0,000conversions, 2.022 normal diplomasgranted during the 8 years of work,and that 2,(5-19 persons have takenadvanced work.The report of the Foreign MissionBoard was made by Dr. R. B.

Garrett, of Portsmouth. The totalamount given to foreign missions in1915 was $0,210.55. This from all theBaptists of the United States. Theonly money given by Virginia was$250. This year Virginia Baptistsgave $137,000. to foreign missions.This was $-30,000 more than was givenby all the Baptists of the south 20years ago. During tile year thereImv,. been (',471 converts and 77 newuhurchcs on the foreign field. Nowin\*e 459 churches and 42.032members.Ninety-fiveare self-supporting.Four hundred and sixty-two Sundayschools with 10,490 students. Fourhundred and fifty-three missionichools with 13.531 students. Six ofihes(. are women's Bible trainingschools with 20f> students. Ten Theoogicalseminaries with U>1 students.Nineteen medical missionaries, 0 hospitalsand 10 medical dispensaries.Over shadowing all other notable

vents which have featured the ninety-thirdannual meeting of the associationwas an address- by Or.Robert Stuart McArthur, of NewYork, president of the Baptist WorldMlianco, who closed the program of.he meeting last night. He spoke on.lie "Baptists. Their Principles. TheirProgress and Their Prospects." andlis address was pronounced by Baptiststhe greatest intellectual, re!ignisstud inspirational address overlelivered in this city."There is nothing too good for

Baptists," he declared, and provedhat the great Te Deiim Laudanum,vas a Baptist hymn, chanted antinhoaallyat the baptism of the greatAugustine in the ancient cathedral»f Milan, as he was coming up out>f the water. And He further dedaredthat the Baptist who does notove his denomination must have ignoranceinstead of knowledge in his%! ! I M Miwl tnn U'uiui* InctMlti] l.lfH I.

in his veins."I do not denounce all creeds," said

Dr. MeAarthur. "for they have theirjsc's, hut creeds were made by manin one age and they can be changedby man in any other age." He beivailedthe fact that the law of Englandforces men to adopt a' creed {ivhich they do not believe, and would.tive praise that American Baptistshave written in the constitution theseparation of Church and State. "I:m a Baptist because by mother wastaught that the West/minster confessionwas not right. I thank Cod thatBaptists never rest on creeds madeby man.they go to God' as the ultimateauthority."The greatest'evil in Protestantism

today is the custom of infant baptism.All churches that practice thisare offshoots of Romanists. The timehas come when we ought to teachmen and women better regardingthis custom." the. speaker said, andtold a graphic personal story of anexperience with Incersoli told himupon inquiry into his life thai thiscustom of infant baptism and predestinationto eternal joy of eternaldamnation regardless of conduct andcharacter had driven him to believethat there was no God. And thespeaker said that if he believed thesame thine: himself he would have tohate God.

Card of Thanks

Mrs. J. J. Goodwin and childrenWish to thank their many friendsfor their expressions of sympathyand the floral tributes upon the occasionof the death of their husbandand father. 271-11.