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Letters to trie Editor The Times welcomes letters from Its readers. It merely Insists that personalities shall not be indulged in and that letters shall not be over 300 words in length. All letters must be signed. These will be withheld from publication if desired. VOCATIONAL TRAINING Editor, The Times: Through the courtesy of the ber of Commerce, we had the pleas ure of attending the meeting at The last evening wnere ur, Charles A.

Prosser. Minneapolis vo cational education expert, delivered a lecture on vocational training. This meeting was very timely to us, as vocational education is one of the factors of importance to the building industry and is one of the important topics discussed at our national convention. In fact, Mr. L.

H. Kothrauff, the present president of the Contractors' and Builders' Exchange, is also chairman of the national committee on vocational education. The exchange, through Mr. Roth rauff, both, as president of the local body and chairman of the national committee, desires to go on record as highly favoring a comprehensive pro gram of vocational education, where the youngster can be given such guidance that will enablet him to find himself and pick up a trade or line or wortc that is to his liking. The building industry is finding that marvelous Improvement is being made all through construction, the arts, science and exhaustive research work in the laboratories, are coming to the aid of industry but there is still one vital factor lacking; that is an amplesupply of thoroughly trained ana eliicient craftsmanship.

Today the painter can no longer fie thought of in the terms of a common, ordinary painter. He must be thought of in the terms ot a dec orator. He is called upon to blend pigments and colors that would otten times put an artist to shame. The plasterer no'longer mixes some sand, lime, mortar and hair and smears it on some wooden lath. His trade tdoay is nothing short of a science.

All manner of decorative designs are now skillfully worked in, in what years ago was just a common, ordinary blank wall. Today many of our show windows serve as a fitting example to illustrate the new calling of this profession. Ingenious tapestry effects and skiiitled brick work are several of the marks of skill that has entered the bricklayer's profession. One can go all the way through the crafts and point out a far greater degree of skill required today than in the past. Building today Is largely a matter of price.

Quality, material, design and craftsmanship is making itself felt more and more ever yday, and in a few years construction will be quite different from what it is today. The fellows who can pull themselves up from the demands of the past to the level of responsibilities these new professions place upon them will have no fear of competition. There lies the makings of the master craftsmen of tomorrow. Through a knowledge of Dr. Prosser's views and an understanding of the spirit prevailing between our school board and employer on our vocational needs, we feel that we can attend the Youngstown convention fitted to make suggestions on vocational training that will be vastly beneficial to our industry.

Among the Reading delegates who plan to attend the national convention of Builders' Exchanges at Youngstown are: Mr. and Mis. W. A. Sharp, Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel M. Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. Frank De Temple, 'Mr.

and Mrs. John C. Det hoff, Mr. and Mrs. L.

H. Rothrauff, Joseph Urban, Robert M. Muntz and Clarence L. Ebbert, secretary of the local exchange. CLARENCE L.

Exec. Sec'y Contractors' ana Builders' Exchange. FLAG RULES To the editor of Tho Times "Lest we forget." will you publish the rules and. regulations governing the use and the abuse of our flag, the Stars and Stripes. Every American should know them.

Every bov and girl should be taught them. We all forget so easily. Sincerely yours, Mrs. H. A.

The flag should be displayed only from sunrise to sunset, or between such hours as may be designated by proper authority. It should be displayed on national and state holidays and on historic and special occasions. When carried In a procession the flag of the United States should be either on the marching right, that is, the flag's own right, or when there is a line of other flags, the flag of the United States may be in front of the center of that line. When flags of two or more nations are displayed they should be flown from separate staffs of the Bame height and the flags should be of approximately equal size. When displayed over the middle of the street, as between buildings, the flag of the United States should be suspended vertically' with the union to the north In an east and west street or to the east in a north and south street.

When used on a speaker's platform, the flag should be displayed above and behind the speaker. When flown at half staff, the flag is hoisted to the peak for an instant, and then lowered to the half staff position, but before lowering the flag for the day It Is raised, again to the peak. By "half staff" Is meant hauling the flag down to one half the distance between the top andbottora of the siaff. On Memorial Day, May 30, the flag is displayed at half staff from sunrise until noon and at full staff, that is, at the peak, from noon until sunset. Petition of William M.

Marshall, sentenced last July to serve one to five years for burglary, for a parole was refused by Judge Schaeffer yesterday. Midnight Garbage Collections Resumed ON AND AFTER Monday, householders should put their jfarbage cans out before midnight, Councilman William Smith advised yesterday. The hour of collection has been changed, he said, from 5 a. m. to midnight.

Smith explained that garbage had been freezing In the cans as they stood on the street durln the cold early hours and that the midnight collection is an effort to get the cans emptied before the matter In them has solidified and becomes difficult to empty. TIMES PHONE 6101 WIN OGIVE LAST OF CONCERTS Will Play Beethoven's Eighth Symphony in Major In Program Beethoven's Eighth symphony in major, the "Good Friday Spell," from Wagner's "Parsifal," and "Death and Transfiguration," a tone poem by Richard Strauss, comprise the great program for the fourth and last concert to be given by the Reading Symphony orchestra tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, in Rajah theatre. Each number is in Itself a gem among orchestral pieces, and a general favorite among concert audiences. Seldom, however, is such an array of symphonic melody assembled for one performance and doubtless the patrons and students will receive the efforts of the orchestra and leader, Walter 'Pfeiffer, at tomorrow's event with utmost enjoyment. In addition there will be featured the solo work of Willem Durieux, Dutch American cellist, who will play the Lalo concerto In minor, with orchestral accompaniment.

The Eighth symphony was written in 1812, at Linz, where Beethoven was resting upon the advice of his physician. It was composed during a sad period of his life, for, besides his suffering from shattered health, he was engaged in an unpleasant lawsuit, forced upon him by his un worthy sister in law and undertaken in the interest of a graceless nephew. Notwithstanding these depressing events, the symphony is one of the brightest, most cheerful and most humorous worts tnat ne ever conceived. He srieaks of it himself in a letter to Calomon as the "Kleine Symphony in 'F," not that it was little, but to distinguish it from the "Grosse Symphonie in (the Seventh), composed in tne same year. In its four sections, the symphony comprises "Allegro vivace con brio," "Allegretto scherzando," "Tempo di minuetto," and "Allegro vivace." As a separate movement it is doubtful whether any one that he ever wrote is as popular as the "Allegretto" of the Eighth.

Tne meioay wnicn iorms its nrincinal motive was extemporized by Beethoven as a short vocal canon at a lareweu supper given to raaizei, inventor of the metronome, in the spring of 1812, and set to the words, "Ta, ta, ta, lieber Malzel, lebewold, lebewohl." ta, dear Malzel, tare It has also been claimed that the melody in its style as utilized In the symphony is a parody upon Ros sini's music, though there is the best evidence that Beethoven had never heard any of Rossini's operas when this symphony was written. Came In Hanny Mood While the symphony had occupied the composer's mind for a long time, its actual production came as the spontaneous expression of a very happy mood, when he felt inclined to banter jokes and give free play to humor. His letters show that these moods occasionally seized him in spite of his great misfortune. The joyous, happy spirit pervading the whole composition will not fail to impress any hearer. The pizzicato closing of the first movement; the airy opening or the "Allegretto," ana last, the peculiar buzzing character ot the double triplet tne final movements all these phrases seem to suggest the best samples of elfin music.

Sir George Grove, in his analysis oi the symphony, says: it may not touch the extreme heights and depths of the spirit as some of the nine do, but it has no less its own place in the circle which nothing but itself can fill; and if the outward result Is an index of the inward mind, it is pleasant to think that Beethoven, when he wrote it, must have been very happy and full of enjoyment." Parsifal "Parsifal," a "Festival Acting Drama," was completed in 1879, and was first produced at Bayreuth, in 1882, seven months before the com poser's death. The subject of the work is taken from the cycle of Holy Gran myths, to which "Lohengrin belongs, and concerns Parsifal, the king of the Grail and father of Lohengrin. Like Siegfried. Persifal represents free human nature, and Its impulsive spontaneous action. The Strauss tone poem, "Death and Transfiguration," dates from 1888 89, and is the third of an extraordinary series of tone poems, written by the modern German composer, "Macbeth" and "Don Juan" having preceded it several years earlier.

The music reveals the meditations of a poet brooding upon death in its dual aspects; as the King of Terrors, the "Gray Henchman of Destiny," and as the Great Deliverer, "just and mighty." Out of this dramatic conception issues music that, at the start, is full of the fear of death, and then triumphant and exulting. 1'he work was first performed in London, December 7, 1897. To capably present the numbers programmed, the orchestra will be augmented to 70 men, including more than two score musicians from the Philadelphia Symphony. Tickets may be obtained at the Reading Musical Foundation (Hangen's) 47 S. Sixth st.

HOSIERY WORKERS TO BANQUET TONIGHT Meeting of the national executive committee of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers In this city tomorrow, will be preceded by a banquet of the Reading branch of the organization at Whitner's, at 8 o'clock tonight. Councilman George W. Snyder will wield the gavel and open the speech making. Visitors from Lang horne. Puakertown, Philadelphia, Paterson, Washington, N.

and New York will attend. Augustus Geigan, president of the national organization, will be the principal speaker. The meeting will be broadcast over WRAW. Walt Kemmerer's orchestra will play for dancing following the dinner. The national committee's meeting will be held at the Knitters' club, 608 Court st.

Delegates from Milwaukee and Kenosha, New England, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia are to attend. NAMED CONSTABLE Frank L. Pilgert was appointed constable of District township yesterday by Judge Mays. THE AD IN TIM ES, READING, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRU A'RY 9 1 9 2 9 TIMES PEONS 6191 Seven Virgin Islands Lack Executioner for First Man Sentenced to Die ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands, Feb.

8 (P) The Virgin Islands of the United States, confronted for the first time in more than 100 years with a capital punishment sentence, faces a problem in finding an executioner. The sheriff, a native of St. Croix, announced today that he will decline to carry out the sentence imposed upon Joseph Braf ftth, a West Indian Negro, by Chief Justice Williams of Baltimore, who presides over the island's district court. The doomed man was con victed of stabbing to death Peter King, another Negro, in a quarrel over a ('Jinan. The execution is slated for March 29.

YOUTH JAILED FOR THEFT OF COAT Two Others on Probation; Court Warns Against Poolrooms Three youths who together stole an overcoat and dvided the $1.50 they received for It, came to the parting of their ways in the Berks court yesterday. Anthony Banana, 18, was sent to Jail lor not less tnan tnree months nor more than two years and ordered to pay a fine of $10 and costs. Stanley Witkowski and Stanley Bukowski, both la, were directed to pay similar fines and costs and were Dlaced on probation for two years. "Stay away from poolrooms and work steadily or you must go to Jail," Judge Schaeffer said to Witkowski and BukowsKi. Other sentences were Imposed as follows: Charles Whitman, 42, six months to a year, fine $10 and costs, for stealing shoes; John Miller, alias Ponte Roote, alias John Ruhf, 54, five to 10 years in the Eastern Penitentiary for a misdemeanor; Elwood Myers, 24, fine $10 and costs of $150 on a charge preferred by a girl; Clifford Stephens, 23, Allentown, six months, fine of $10 and costs, for forging a check for William Bowman, 52, line $10, costs, suspended sentence of 18 months and ordeied to pay for 13 bags of coal he admitted stealing from a coal yard.

Sentence was deferred in the cases of Stanley Zurich, 20, who pleaded guilty to stealing automobile license tags, and who is wanted by Tamaqua on charges of felonious entry and larceny, and Charles Runkel, 38, misdemeanor, who was held for further investigation. "We're going to try to do something for you boys," Judge Mays told Stanley Rollman, 16, and John Strasser, 17, charged with entering an apartment. They will be called later. MORE ON Rumor Spatz Continued from Page One. On Tuesday General Foulols, Major Spatz and the others will call upon Governor Fisher and will be guests of Col.

Edward J. Stackpole, jr. and Capt. Albert H. Stackpole at lunch at the Penn Harris hotel.

They will return to Washington by air In the afternoon. Upon their arrival at Olmstead Field of the Middletown Air depot, the party will be met by Capt. C. F. Christine, acting commandant of the Middletown station, and after a brief reception there will be taken to the state capitol under escort of four non commissioned officers of the state highway patrol.

REFUELING TEST BROUGHT GREAT DEVELOPMENT WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (P) MaJ. Carl Spatz, commander of the army airplane Question Mark, believes that the record making refueling flight of his plane demonstrated a revolutionary possibility for military aviation development. He told members of the Washington Aero club at a luncheon today that bombing planes would have a greatly increased effectiveness through refueling in the air after taking off from the ground with a maximum load of explosives and a minimum supply of fuel. At present they cannot carry more than 2,000 pounds of bombs if they are to take off with enough fuel for a six hour cruise.

Assistant Secretary Davison, In charge of army aeronautics, told the club that the Question Mark flight ranked next In history to the Lindbergh New York to Paris flight because it so greatly increased public confidence in air travel. 4 OVER 73 YEARS OF SUCCESS M. LUTHER HUYETT, M. D. FORMERLY OF 334 N.

5TH ST. Has Returned From the Pacific Coast, Where He "Took a Post Graduate Course in ELECTRONIC BLOOD TESTS, RAY DI ON THERAPY, PHYSIO MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENTS HAS OPENED HIS OFFICES AT 802 NORTH FIFTH STREET DIAL 3 6179 READING. CONVICTS TESTIFY OF JAIL BEATING Men Declare They Were Disciplined with Fists in Philadelphia Prison PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8 (JP). Charles Sorber, former assistant superintendent at the county jail in Holmesburg, heard two inmates testify today that they had been beaten severely during Sorber's regime.

He is charged with cruelty to prisoners and is at liberty under $5,000 bail. Samuel H. Fuhrman, serving time for a diamond robbery, was the first witness at the preliminary hearing. He identified Sorber as the man who was called "the assistant superintendent at 'Holmesburg, but who in reality was a czar." "On March 31, 1927," Fuhrman testified, "I was transferred to colored block which was known to the inmates as the place where white men were taken for 'indoor airplane By the time a white man got out of there he wasn't worth much. Six In Fist Party "The disciplinary squad came in and searched the cell.

In the squad were David Henry, chief assistant to Sorber, two guards named Morris and Otto and three colored men who were members of the 'black "They hit me with poles, stools, buckets, blackjacks and everything they could lay hands on. Henry kicked me several times in the ribs and Morris helped him out. Then they threw me into a dungeon and kept me in solitary confinement for 48 hours. I was given no medical attention despite the fact that for five months I bled externally and internally." Fuhrman said he had told some members of the board of prison inspectors of the beating, but they would not believe him. Fuhrman told of another beating administered, he said, some months after the first one, and then Amelio Torres, Mexican, was called.

Was Handcuffed "I first saw Sorber," he testified, "when I was led into the jail with my hands handcuffed behind my back and my wrists bleeding. After my hair had been cut I was taken by Sorber to the bathroom of colored block and ordered to take off my clothes. Three colored men were in i Santa Clous Appears In St. Paul for a Day To Get Court Relief ST. PAUL, Feb.

8 (P) I To those who wonder where Santa Claus spends the other 364 days of the year, the information is herewith vouchsafed that he spent one of these days yesterday suing Arthur Young for $7.50. Santa Claus (known to his intimates as John Schikert) complained that while he was spreading Christmas cheer in a St. Paul store last December Mr. Young sauntered by. Santa had placed his overcoat on a chair and Mrs.

Young dropped a cigaret thereon. The resultant conflagration burned a $7.50 hole in the garment, said Santa, and the court thought so, too. the room and Sorber closed the door behind me. "One struck me on the jaw so hard if; almost snapped my head off and another struck me on the other side. Then they hit me with a blackjack, knocking out two teeth.

They threw me. to the floor and kicked me until I was nearly unconscious. "Finally Sorber walked in again and pretended he didn't know what it was all about. 'If you breathe a word of this I'll put you in the Sorber said. 'I'm the undertaker MORE ON Hubby's Dinner Continued from Page One.

utility groups and women's clubs for nine years as a home economist. The' DeBoth Home Makers' school directed the former Times' schools and Miss Hamilton will use the best of equipment in demonstrating food preparation and food serving. As usual, the delicacies will be distributed among her "pupils." If you attend any of the preceding Times' Cooking and Homemaking schools, you'll want to come again. Bring your friends. If you were unable to attend before, be sure to obtain tickets from your grocer, who will distribute them next week.

All you need do is ask for them. Tomorrow we'll tell you more about the school and what Miss Hamilton will discuss and demonstrate. Next Week! Cooking and. II El It El MomemaKers sci mmmtf fk, imM mmm prMr mm I it fit I I I MISS FANNIE HAMILTON Lecturer and Demonstrator Miss Hamilton is one of the country's leading authorities on Do mestic Science and Home Economics. She has had academic training at Stout Institute, Menominee, Wisconsin, and special training on instruction at the University of Wisconsin.

She comes to Reading as lecturer and expert dietician of the De Doth Cooking and Homcmakers' School, and will conduct the classes next week, in Rajah Temple, under the auspices of The Reading Times. TROLLEY, RAILROAD BATTLE FOR BUS LINE HARRISBURG, Feb. 8 Whether the Reading Transportation company, subsidiary of the Reading railroad, or the Allentown Reading Traction company shall operate a bus service between Reading and Allentown rests with the Public Service commission. At a hearing here today, representatives of the two firms presented their claims to tne ngnt to run the proposed line. The matter arose during a hearing on the right of the Reading Transportation company to run busses from Allentown to Harrisburg, carrying passengers, mail, milk, newspapers and baggage.

The traction company declared it already has under way plans for a bus service paralleling its present electric railway tracks between Reading and Allentown. The Harrisburg Railways company, the Hershey Transit company and the Lebanon Autobus company also protested the proposed Harrlsburg Allentown line. CONTRACT AWARDED FOR NEW DEPOT Contract' for the new Franklin street railroad station was awarded yesterday by the Reading company to the George A. Fuller companyPhila delphia. The station is to cost $500, 000.

It will face Seventh street, with entrances on Crestnut and Franklin streets. Operations on the new struc STOP BAD BREATH People afflicted with bad breath find quick relief through Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets. The pleasant, sugar coated tablets are taken for bad breath by all who know them. Dr.

Edwards' Olive Tablets act gently but firmly on the bowels and liver, stimulating them to natural action; clearing the blood and gently purifying the entire system. They do that which dangerous calomel does without any of the bad after effects. Olive Tablets bring no griping, pain or any disagreeable effects. Dr. F.

M. Edwards discovered the formula after 20 years of practice among patients afficted with bowel and liver complaint, with the attendant bad breath. Olive Tablets are purely a vegetable compound mixed with olive oil; you will know them by their olive color. Take nightly for a week and note the effect. 15c, 30c, 60c.

All Druggists. Adv. And, of course, SQIOFERS' exclusive breads and rolls to accompany the entree. Fourth Annual To Be Conducted at ture will be started as soon as the old building is removed. The removal of the latter is expected to be started within a few weeks.

BUSINESS COLLEGE PARTY With a dinner and dance, students, faculty and alumni of McCann's Business college held their annual party at The Berkshire last night. About Don't bake this vcclicnd With so many week end duties and plans it's really unnecessary to worry yourself about your week end baking. With our convenient neighborhood stores and bakery to home service, let us do it for you. Layer Cake Yellow or chocolate, 60c Three4ayer mm Almond Ring, 30c CHOFER Quality A STORE NEAR DAILY SERVICE ItttM. 150 persons were present.

Dance music was provided by Earl Boyer's orchestra. Toasts were responded to by Helen Hoffman, A. W. Heinmiller, Mrs. Mabel Good, and L.

C. McCann. Miss Orsola Pucclarelli sang several soprano solos, accompanied on the piano by Miss Angela Haage. There nl.n 1 1 1 1 ft 1 I Gabriel. Angel Cake While'or yellow, 60c checker, $1.00 Pattie Shells 6 for 50c YOUR HOME or TO YOUR DOOR no 'wSf ajah Temple WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FEBRUARY THIRTEENTH THURSDAY AFTERNOON FEBRUARY FOURTEENTH FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FEBRUARY FIFTEENTH Of Intense Interest to Every Woman! Reading women who attend the Cookery and Domestic Science lectures conducted by The Reading Times will be given an opportunity to improve their skill and check up with the.

best modern practices in homemaking. The newest and most highly improved courses will be offered under the personal direction of a well known culinary expert and lecturer on domestic science, assisted by a capable staff. These lectures will be free and will be so arranged that all women of Reading and surrounding territory can conveniently attend them. ADMISSION TICKETS May Be Obtained At Your Grocer After Monday, February 1 1.