Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1923, Page 14

U.D.C. BBNVENTI[]N; T0 OPENTOMORROW Elaborate Program of Enter- tainment Prepared by Local Chaptgr. Trains from the south have been crowded yesterday and today Wwith southern women arriving here for the annual conventlon of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which opens offialally tomorrow evening. More than 1,200 delegates with about seventy-five young woman pages are expected to be here for the conven- tion, which s being held {n Wash- ington for the first time in eleven * year: Mrs. Walter E. Hutton, president of the District of Columbia Division, who is credited with bringiug the convention to this city, together with her assisting committees, has pre- pared an extensive and sultable pro- ram for the entertainment of the elegates while here. Tomorrow evening there will be held a banquet at the New Willard Hotel in honor of the state presidents and the president general. Tuesday afternoon, following a breakfast at 11 o'clock to the gen- eral officers by the District of Co- lumbia Division officers and com- mittees, the delegates will make a trip to Annapolis, where a portrait of Admiral Matthew Fontaine Maury, C. S N. be presented to the Naval Academy. Reception at Willard, Tuesday evening a reception will be & for the delegates at the Willard Hotel, following the wel- coming meeting, at which several prominent speakers will make ad- dresses. The business session will be opened Wednesday morning by the pres- ident gencral, Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler of New York. Mrs. Coolidge will hold a reception for the dele- gates at the White House at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, and that eve- ning the Southern Society will be hosts at a reception at the New Wil- lard Hotel. Thursday will be de- voted to a pligrimage to the grave of the unknown soldier at Aring- ton national cemetery and sightsee- ing tours around the city, and the convention will be brought to a close Friday night for the noon, from 5 to 7, at the home of the ident of the society, Theodore 3409 Mount Pleasant street north- Two Candidates Mentioned. Two candldates have been men- tloned for the post of president gen- P to succeed Mrs, Schuyler, the first woman from a northern state ever to hold that office, whose term as head of the national organization comes tc se with this conven- tion. Mr nk Howell of Atlanta and Mrs. Amos H. Norris of Florida both have been put forward by their friends for the highest post in the Daughters of the Confederacy, and each is understood to have a large back- in; The officers of the local division are Mrs. Walter E. Hutton, James Trimble, Mrs. Mary Harrold, esident; Mrs. A. Eugene ing secretary; Mrs. Vic- Houston, corresponding se: Miss Lillian Chenoweth, treas- Frances Weeks, registra h Kerr Maxwell, historian Lerine Eslin, parliamenta. re. Marle Graves Bonham ohaplain: Mrs. Jagper Marion Beall, auditor; Miss Virginia Hereford, cus todian, and Mrs. Gustavus Webber, recorder of crosses. The committee attending to the f the convention is composed . Victor M. Houston, finance Albion W. Clement Sheriff, invitations;: C. Ba excursions; Mrs. George Horn ng, headquarters; Lynham, transportatioi ¥. Taylor, decorations; Mre. C. Leon- . welcome; Mrs. Loretta Y, Burleigh Milton, Etta Louise Tag- : Miss Helen Griffith, nces Weeks, legisla- Ashton Todd, hospitality, Nalle, programs. GOLDEN RULE MEAL TO AID NEAR EAST The “golden rule dinner movement will be promoted fn Washington by the District Federation of Women's Clubs, it was announced last night. The plan is to appeal to Washing- tonians to forego a_bountiful dinner on December 2, the Sunday following Thanksgiving, and contribute the amount thus saved to the children of the near east. Many high officials of the govern- ment already have signed cards agreeing to ent a_“golden rule” din- ner on that day, it ls stated. The purpose of this. mowement, which {8 being fostered in fourteen nations, is to enable the Near East Rellef to continue its orphanage work overseas, where the children receive not only food and clothing, but me: fcal attention and schooling.: Announcement that the Federation of Women's Glubs will direct the campalen here was made by Mrs, ) committee of sent a communication to women's clubs, asking them to co-operate. It is hoped that the funds received from this plan will not only prevent the closing of existing orphanages, but make possible the admission «f more needy children. HEADS LOCAL U. D. C. FIRE PREVENTION CODE UNDER WAY Regulations Which Apply to This City Must Conform to Present Conditions. Revision of all existing regulations dealing with fire hazards to make them contorm to present-day condi- tions s under way in the office of Fire Chief George Watson. At present all laws enforced by the fire department are embodied In the book of police regulati It is Chief Watson's aim to hav them carried as a separate fire prevention code. Fire Marshal L. V. Seib, who directs the work of the fire prevention in- spectors, is now engaged in going over the rules and bringing them up to _date. When that s done they will be carefully gone over by the corpora- tion counsel's office to make sure they are in proper legal phr: ; Although onl a limited of firemen are available for inspection work, the department now endeavo to make regular rounds to apartment houses, schools and other large eatab- liskments to recommend the correc- tion of any conditions that mignt lesd to fire. The department, Marshal Sefb sald, has authority under the existing reg- ulations to direct the removal of any condition regarded as dangerous. DR iy Investigations have shown that the amount of pressure applied by planist to the keys in one minute of playing is often anything up to a ton and a half. And in that same minute the eye has to read about 1.500 signs and the fingers make about 2,000 movemen & houses will be laboratories and shope where children can do things with thelr own hands.” H The chlld's mind was crammed ®o full of so many things under the present syatem of education, Patri sald, that the wonder was that it learned as well as it did. Action is necessary, the speaker pointed st in co-ordinating and concentrating the mental procel Parents and te: were scored for falling to keep faith with their children. Such broken promises, he sald, were definite factors in destroy- | ing the faith of the child, whioch should be kept strong. “When o child lies to his parents or to his teacher,” the speaker said, “it is a signal for help—that some- thing is wrong and should be cor- rected.” Speed was declared to be a danger in the education of a child, meant, the speaker sald, * takes and half-baked notlon spend most of life trying to CRAMMING CHILD MIND GONDEMNED Angelo Patri Sees Necessity of “Doing Things” to Bal- ance Teaching Methods. Declaring that children needed more education through “doing things” than through “words." An- gelo Patrl, educator and lecturer of New York city, told an audience at Masonic auditorium yesterday after- noon that the day would come when “we are golng to do away with benches and desks and the school s coming more and more to be considered as the promise of the re, Dr. Patrl explained, | with thousands of persons attempting | to - “discover the child." Encourage. 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