Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1924, Page 45

NEWS OF THE CLUBS CONDUCTED BY NANNIE LANCASTE! Women's City Olub.—Mrs. James MacFarquhar wili be hostess at the tea to be given in the clubhouse this afterncon from 4:30 to 6 o'clock. As sisting Mrs. MacFarq1.har will be Mrs. Lotta Moran, Mrs. G. O. Dove, Mrs. Edgar Brown, Mrs. C. F. Finch and Mrs. Theodore Hoftettler. Mrs. Frank M-ck will preside at the tea table. fhe entertainment ccmmittee will mive a New Year eve dance Wednesday, beginning at 9:30 p.m. and continuing till 1 am. Supper will be served at 11 o'clock. There will be favors. Cards may be obtained at the club- house. There have been many requests for a continuation of the French table, 0 beginning January 6, and on every Tuesday thereafter, the diners wiil “meet in the grill from 6 to 7 o'clock at the special table provided for the members of the French section and for other club members who wish to profit by this hour of French con- versation while dining. Mme. Marle Bouley-Anderson, instructor of French at the Women's City Club, will direct the conversation. Those interestsed please communicate with Miss H. H. Arnold. chairman of the French sec- tion. The monthly business meeting ill be held Januar; 7, at 8 p.m. he dramatic section, Mrs. Marialyse Ross Manly, director, will give an evening of drama and music January S, at 8:30 p.m. The play will be the one-act comedy, “The Hiring Line” Miss Katherine Brooks will sing and Miss Mildred Kolb Schulze will play piano numbers. Cards may he obtained at the clubhouse. A luncheon will be given under the tuspices of the civic section January 10, 1 pm. The entertainment com- mittee announces an informal party of cards and mah-jong January 12, §:30 p.m. Daughters of Founders and Pa- ~The national president, Mrs. Ward of New Yors, presided 1&g of the executive com- society, held December at the residence of the national registrar, Mrs. Gaius Brumbaugh. Reports of national officers showed the society to be in an excellent con- dition, both financially and otherwise, as evidenced by an increasing mem- bership (31 members being added at meeting, besides m e membership in the hands of registrar, with new chapters to be formed in two of the states), by the near completion ished lineages of the pres- mbership. Volumes to com- sets of these books have been to the following libraries: Al- Library, Albany, N. Y.: Minne- Historical Soclety, St. Paul, i Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, nealogical Soclety, at Lin- and for membership in the Daunghters of Founders ts of America is founded nt from patriotic ancestry ken line through colonial s and the Revolutionary War; it eing required of an applicant for membership that she must be de- scended in the direct paternal line of either father mother from an settled in any of the now included in the United tes of America, from the settle- 1t of Jamestown, Va., May 13, 1607, May 13, 1687, and provided that during the Revolutionary War an an- cestor in said direct line, by personal service in a cvil or miltary capacity, assisted in establishing American in- dependence. to Twentieth Century Club Notes.—The lterature section will meet tomorrow at § p.m. with its leader, Mrs. George F. Bowerman, 2552 Ontario road. The members of the section will give a program of interest, consisting of original stories and poems, The archeological section will meet the residence of Mrs. Josephine % Woodley place, Tuesday 45 p.m. The subject will be cient Chinese Potteries,” and will = led by Mrs. Charles H. Merwin. The Columbia Heights Art Club met at 1300 Kenyon street Thursday, Mrs. C. R. Cranmer and Miss Cornelia Hill, hostesses; Mrs. C. G. Abbott, chair- man. “Modern Realists of the Slash- ing Stroke” was the subject of the paper presented by Mrs. John Boyle, jr. Mrs, s Logan gave a talk on “Famous A n Water Colorists.” Mrs. Charl, ranfield, Mrs. Arthur Seaton, Mrs. John Frizzell, Mrs. Ed- ward Hardy, Mrs. Dewitt Cro. M Augustus Knight and Rogers Tracy took part in the general discussion on local art exhibits. College Women’s Club.—The woman delegates to the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science will be the honor guests at a tea to be given by the club tomorrow, 4 to § p.m., at the clubhouse, 1822 I street. The club will be addressed by one or nore of the delegates. Miss Carrie M. Davis and the members of the education committee will be hostesses. Dr. . A. Reed will preside at the tea table and will be assisted by Mre. Amos A. Steele and Mrs. Frank E. Edgington The president and board of directors of the College Women's Club will be at home to the members of the club and their friends January 1, from 4 to 6 p.m., at the clubhouse, 1822 I street. International Association of Art and Letters—The at home held at the clubrooms, 1607 I street, Saturday, at which Mrs. Bilefeldt was hostess, was the final one for the year. The next will be held January 3. The guests of hotfor on this occasion were Mrs. Dona Gray and Mr. Ruynitz, both musiclans, who have recently come 1o Washington to reside. Prof. Schoedler of the Progressive School of Music played some of his own compositions. Mrs. Stoddard told an original Christmas story. The monthly literary salon was held Monday evening. Dr. Henneman in- troduced as the vocalist of the eve- ning Earl Carbaugh. His songs were greatly appreciated. Prof. Schoedler’s contribution to the evening's enjoy- ment was an original compositfon, “Maytime,” a trio, Prof. Schoedler, piano; M Garda Piazza, violinis Joseph Plazza, cellist. Little Sylvia Altman played a Beethoven concerta and recited “The Star Spangled Ban- ner.” Senator Sterling of South Dakota, sponsor for the bill providing for a Federal department of education, pre- sented the bill in brief, calling atten- tion to the need of our country for such a bill. Representative Upshaw, introduced by Dr. Clarence J. Owen, president of the assoclation, spoke in a lighter vein and also indorsed the necessity of a ministry of education. Dr. Owen called attention to the fact that the United States is the only country which has not a minis- try of education with @ secretary in the President’s cabinet. The Baby Lovers’ Circles, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, of the Florence Crittenton Home went in automobiles to the home on Conduit road Monday with jellies, fruits, baby clothes and presents for the girls, After a general inspection of the home ané a visit to the nursery to seo the Z7 babies a short Christmas greeting service was held. Mrs. A. B. McManus gave a talk and Mrs. Olea W. Coster told a story. Miss Jean Cole, superintendent, wel- comed the circles and thanked them for their gifts. Le Cercle Francais de Washington les Precieuses Ridicules was received ‘Wednesday by Mra. C. Augustus Simp- son in the studio-salon of John Philip Shaddick. The minutes were read by Mile. Therese O'Sullivan, and Mrs. ¥Emily Stow and Mme. Georges Poulin, formerly Mrs. Mildred Godwin, were elected to membership. The follow- ing program was enjoyed: *Contes de Lorraine,” by M. Edmond Becker; violin-cello solos by M. Dore Walten, accompanied by Mrs. Simpson, (a) “Gavotte” (Pepper), (b) ‘“Berceuse™ (Renard),.(c) “Adagio” (Corelll), (d) “Traumerle” (Schumann); recitation by Mile. Marle-Leontine Becker, Baiser Vole” (Henrl Allonge: tation by M. Georges Poulin, doyer Centre la Femme” (Pradels). An hour of French conversation and refreshments closed a delightful soiree. The National Fellowship Club—At its first dance, held in the ballroom of the Cairo Hotel Saturday night, the Washington Pastime Club dropped ‘pastime” out of its title and unani- mously adopted “fellowship” instead. Hereafter the club’'s name will be “The National Fellowship Club."” “In proposing this change,” Jean Monk, president and founder of the club, sald, “I feel that you will agree with me that ‘pastime’ literally means *killing time,’ while ‘fellowship’ car- ries a far different meaning. There are multitudes of men and women here far from home and without friends or acquaintances. This club stands ready to welcome them, to in- vite them to spend a pleasant and profitable evening, and to offer them our fellowship and assistance In meet- ing others who, like themselves. per- kaps, are strangers In a strange land.” he Natlonal Fellowship Club is the outgrowth of the Lonesome Club which meets every Thursday evening In the private baliroom of the Arcade and an invitation is always extended to strangers to attend. The success which has attended the Lonesome Club during the past three years is due, for the most part, to the efforts of Jean Monk, its founder and presi- dent, who also edits the club's month- ly periodical, the Lonesome Bug. The Newecomb Club held its final pre- holiday meeting at the home of Mrs. Walter Perry. In the absence of Mrs. Hane, the vice president presided. The business program consisted largely of reports of the various mc- tivities. The soclal service sale came up to expectations, the proceeds be- ing forwarded to the county league. Mrs. Walter Perry, member of county board of education, expressed her gratification in a visit made to the school taught by the club's first scholarship holder, and congratulated the club on its protege. The secretary was instructed to send a letter of sympathy and encourage- ment to Mrs. James Jones, former president of County Federation, in her continued illness. During the program -of entertain- ment Mrs. Emory gave a resume of outstanding current events. The chief speaker was Mrs. Whalen, member, who presented a paper on “Women a Bankers,” which contained some in- teresting facts regarding the success of women in this capacity. The Inter- est was further enhanced by the fact that another member who was pres- ent, being called upon, contributed some impressions of her own experi- ences in a bank which covered a period of six years, and particularly her observations while teller in the institution The club will mot January meet with Mrs. Wil- BRITISH PRINCE GEORGE IS SPECIALLY FAVORED Youngest Son of King Conceded Financial Privileges Tending to Lighten Human Burdens. Correspondence of The Star and New York World. LONDON, December 20 —Prince George, sublieutenant in the British navy, and youngest surviving son of King George V, need not starve for a vear or so, if his family are ever ejected from the British throne. Recently he was admitted to the “freedom” of the Mercers' Company of London, and can claim some pecu- liar privileges under the anclent charter of that institution. For instance, he can obtain a loan of $2,500 for five years without se- curity or interest from one of the be- quests of some long-forgotten mem- ber of the guild. And in “old age or misfortune” he can obtain practically indefinite relief from funds founded by the famous Lord Mayor Dick Whittington and other benefactors. The Mercers' Company of London is the senior of the ancient civic gullds, or “Livery Companies,” and numbers more than a dozen lord mayors among its members. Its antiquity may be imagined irom the fact that the father of Thomas a-Becket was a member of the guild. BUYS CHERISHED RELICS OF DEVONSHIRE HOUSE James Abercrombie Burden, Who Entertained Prince, Realizes Ambition of 30 Years. By the Associated Press, LONDON, December 27.—After walting for 30 yvears, James Aber- crombie Burden, who placed his Long Island home at the disposal of the Prince of Wales during the latter's American visit, has had the oppor- tunity of gratifying one of his great- est desires. He has become the owner of the stone work from the two porters’ lodges of Devonshire house, part of the coping and a set of urns and gateway posts which guarded the mansion for many years. It s recorded that Mr. and Mrs. Burden came to London 30 years ago and ‘took a suite in a hotel opposite Devonshire house in Picaddilly, which is the London home of the dukes of Devonshire. From their windows the visitors admired and came to desire the stone pillars of the gateways and the urns surmounting them. Year by year, it Is related, the Bur- dens came .to London and occupled the same suite of rooms so they might look at the prizes they hoped one day to possess. With announcement of the sale of Devonshire house for demoiition Mr. Burden was able to purchase the coveted articles. PINKERTONS BRING SUIT AGAINST MOBILE WOMAN By the Aseociated Press. NEW YORK, December 27.—An ap- plication for the appoirtment of a receiver of property in New York of Mrs. McKie Bennett Hopkins of Mo- bile, Ala., sald to be worth 320,000, was fled in the Subreme Court today by Willlam A. and Allan Pinkerton, con- ducting the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The application was made on a judgment for $10,945 obtained against her by the Pinkertons in 1918, which they have been unable to collect. Mrs. Hopkins obtained a divorce in 1914 from Dr. John R. Hopkins, a res. ident of Atlanta, Ga. Subsequently she brought suit against her son, Russell L. Hopkins, who died in 1919, to recover property she alleged he obtained from her, but she dropped the suit later. In applying for the re- ceeiver it was alleged by the Pinker- tons that sult was brought against her in Mobile, where she has made her home in recent vears, to recover on the six-year-old judgment. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON,. |1924 Is Best Year Since War, But 1925 Holds Many Dangers _ (Continued from First Page.) is directing its main attention to this problem, and perhaps the ulti- mate unity or disintegration of the most magnificent imperial edifice since the days of Rome may be settled in the decade which has just opened. In any event, looking no farther Into the future than the coming year, it is plain that for Britain there'is opening the supreme struggle to heal the _economic wounds of the war in the British in- dustrial system while seeking to dis- cover and develop that system which shall insure imperial unity. French Prosperity Returns. For France the new year opens no such supreme problem. French prosperity has already _returned, French trade has regained its pre- war level, the destroyed mines are once more producing at pre-war Tovels, even If there remaln separate houses to be reconstructed, the factories and the highways, the rafl- ways and the flelds are restored. Moreover, already by the operation of immigration, France has already drawn to herself more hands than were lost in the war; thus she has restored her productive machinery on the human side. Moreover, as the course of French statesmen at London and Geneva showed, France has abandoned not alone extreme pollcles, which in truth she never actually adopted, but the semblance of such policies, and has shown a moderate and a sincere devotion to the cause of peace which has greatly strengthened her position at home and abroad. Today her supreme problem is fiscal; where Britain is fiscally sound but industrially crippled France fs fiscally unsound but industrially and economlically perhaps _ as prosperous as ever in her his- tory. Her problem s mnot to re- store her markets and thus abolish unemployment, but to find ways and means for ralsing a revenue ade- quate to meet the costs of her colossal debts, domestic and forelgn, resulting from the fact that the World War was largely fought on her soll. Governmentally, France, like Bri- tain, has emerged from the war with unshaken institutions. The third re- public is no longer even a matter of debate and passing disturbances by relatively few Communist agitators have little larger importance than the familiar Hyde Park demonstrations in London. "For years to come France and Britain must struggle with their domestic problems, the former with debts, the latter with unemployment, but in neither is there any basis for apprehension so far as the perma- nence of institutions is concerned. Italy Faces Problem. In Italy, on the contrary, the prob- lem is more serious. Like Germany before the war, like Japan now, Italy finds herselt with a restricted area, | a growing population and to an un- paralleled extent lacking in all the essential raw materials, save as she has been able by intelligent use of water power partially to make good the loss of coal. In addition she lacks colonies which might supply raw ma- terial, absorb her manufactures or give homes to her increasing masses, particularly desirable now since the American immigration laws have shut them from this country. Moreover Italy finds herself shut off on all sides from following lines of natural expansion. To resume the pathway of Rome and establish her- self In North Africa is impossible, for there, from Tunis to the Atlantic, France stands long established and firm. To take up the pathway of Venice and go east is impossible, for there she encounters not alone a ren- ascent Greece, but British opposition and British and French bases. Even the Adriatic is not her exclusive sea, for there is rising a great Slav state across that narrow stretch of water, while all the good harbors are on the forelgn shore. Within, Mussolini endures; not im- possibly his position is less shaken than the news of recent months would suggest, but It is beyond question that the opposition is increasing, while the | conditions which existed before the arrival of the dictator suggest that| his fall might be attended by evil| consequences which for a moment might threaten the inner security of | the Italian state. | Rivalries a Menace. Like Britain and France, Italy is, then, faced with grave domestic | problems, but unlike her more fortu- nate ailies of the war, her problems are political as well as economic. In addition, unlike both the other states, she finds herself with unsatisfied ter- ritorial ambitions. For France and Britain the problem for the future is to consolidate and hold what is now possessed; for Italy there is the dan- gerous need, felt by millions, to ex- tend national possessions and insure for Italy the rank of a great power and the possibilities of a great eco- nomic unit. And the obvious rivalries of Britain, France and Italy in the Mediterranean constitute an immedi- ate danger, not to peace, for war be- tween these nations is well nigh un- thinkable, but of conflicting policies which may have disastrous conse- quences for all three, faced with na- tive unrest on all the Asiatic and African shores of the Mediterranean Some form of entente or alliance be- tween these nations, then, becomes the single conceivable outcome of existing conditions. Turning now to Germany, one finds oneself, as always, confronted by a riddle. German economic recovery in the relatively brief period since the adoption of the Dawes plan surpasses all expectation. Germany has not alone vindicated her essential unity, but after the terrible if futile exper! ment of the Ruhr resistance, has es- caped from a condition of misery and | despair and is already making herself | felt in all the markets where, before the war, she was England’s chief | competitor. | Peace Up to Germany. i But what of political Germany? The Spring election represented the tri- umph of the Nationallsts and the De- cember test showed only a moderate gain for the Republican parties, who still lack the necessary majority to | form a cabinet. From Berlin and | elsewhere there still come disturbing rumors of the preparation of a war of revenge, of the secret gathering of military stores, above all of the sur- vival of the spirit which, beyond all else, men of other nations regard as | responsible for the great catastrophe. Yet the peace of the world ulti- mately depends upon the arrival of a peaceful spirit in Germany. The fact | that German admission into the League of Nations seems assured, ad- mission as a great power, has been one of the most hopeful signs of the immediate past. The survival of the republic, also, holds out the promise that in the end its history will be ke that of the third French repub- e, that it will endure until it comes to be accepted. But Germany has not yet been able to throw up leaders, | such as rallied ‘to the French repub- lic in 1870-75, the tradition of and training in democracy which have made Britain ‘and the United States the substantial political structures which they are has been lacking in Germany and can only come with time. As to the smaljer states of Europe, it is clear that they have made ma- | terial progress in ecenomic directions without serious political disturbances. Poland has realized a gold standard and even begun the repayment of debts to Britain and the United States. Czecloslovakia continues un- der the load of Masyrye and Benes to give striking example of its strength. All things considered and despite disturbing reports from Budapest and RBelgrade, Balkanized Europe has made its fair contribu- tion to the restoration of peace and ordered prosperity in Europ American Ald Great. The best year since the outbreak of the war, then, 1924 has been not im- t, not only in the im. but In the immediate future, the year when Europe at last turned the corner. And it is the fact thet the corner has been turned, Wauch 18 the soundest basis for opti- mism for the near future when dis- turbing if not 'ming problems are forging themselves upon attention. In this recovery of Europe, too, the American contribution has been considerabls In point of fact one may say that the past year at L saw America return to Europe, lend- ing its capital, the single reservoir of capital in a war-shaken world—Ilend- ing it to the various states to make possible that ultimate reconstruction INQUIRE ABOUT OUR DEFERRED PAYMENT PLAN C, DECEMBER 28, 1924—PART 2. which was nec ry, but walted upon the arrival of measure of confildence hitherto lacking. At the beginning of the new year we do not have to consider the likellhood of wars in the next 12 months; on the contrary, there is the best promise of Immediate peace which any new year has brought since 1914. Nor does one have to fear the sudden explosion of Bol- shevism In any great nation; that peril, tdo, has been laid, if not per- manently, as I believe, at least for the present. Fears Returning Strength. No, the single danger within Europe today comes rather from the returning strength which must awaken old national aspirations and arouse traditional apprehensions. As- sured peace still walts upon some Franco-German adjustment; this may come through economlc assoclation in coal ‘and irom, which will be hastened as French and Belgian troops retire from the Ruhr, but can hardly come In substantial form until more years have passed since the war and the peace which ended the fighting. rather than terminated the conflict. It is when one compares the state- ment of each of the preceding years for the last decade with that of the last year, and estimates the im- mediate future in contrast to that which opened at all recent year ends, that one gets some notion of the real progress” of recent months and the sound ‘promise for the future, We are all immeasurably under the in- fluence of the war; still, we continue to think and calculate in terms of a conflict: which 1s vet a living memory. One remains to a degree afraid of optimism, yet under our eyes and within 12 mionths Europe has taken long steps toward order and adjus ment, the desire for peace hi X~ panded and the conditions of despe: tion which “could alone stir war-ex- hausted populations to new con- flicts have greatly improved. 1f Eu- rope: and the world have made little progress yet toward the discoyery of 2 method to make war impossible, they have done a tremendous deal to make war unlikely in any time now ca culable. And that, after all, measures the value of the year which is end- ing. Now, as at all times since the close of the World War, the primary con- dition for progress toward peace in Europe remains continuing Anglo- French co-operation. Because the past year saw the largest measure of such co-operation since the war, European progress was most con- siderable; moreover, such co-opera- tion is the single essential prereq- uisite of continued American con- W. B, Yoses Furniture Carpets Established 1861 F Street and Eleventh tribution in the shape of the neces- ary capital. Moreover, contradictory as it may seem, Anglo-French co- operation remains also the best prom- ise of German recovery, as Angle- French differenices led through much preliminary paralysis ineluctably to the occupation of the Ruhr. (Copyright, 1924.) —_— PLAN “SOCIETY CIRCUS.” National Council of Jewish Women Seek Benefit Fund, Under the auspices of the local chapter, National Council of Jewish Women, & “soclety circus” will be presented Thursday night, January 15, in the Arcade Auditorium, Four- teenth street and Park road. The proceeds of the entertainment are to be used In carrying on the beneficent work of the organization In.Wash- ington. Details of the “circus” are withheld, as the entire production is to be a “surprise,” It 1is announced. Mrs. Stanley Lansburgh and Mrs. L. B. 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Two Washington men will take part in the discusston at 2 round table conference on foreign servic training to be held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, Tuesday, in connec- tion with the annua) meeting of the American Economic Assoclation. Dr, E. L. Bogart of the University of Il- linois will preside. Speakers include Rufus 8. Tucker of the Bureau of Forelgn and Domestic Commerce; Ed- mund A. Walsh, regent of Georgetown University School of RForeign Service; Howard C. Kidd of the University of Pittsburgh and Robert J. Ray of Northwestern University. BRIDGE PLANS CHANGE. Secretary Weeks approved yesterduy the application of John L. Harrington for modification of original plans for a bridge to be constructed across the southern arm of San Francisco Bay at Dumbarton Straits, about three-quar- ters of a mile north of the present Southern Pacific Brid January Price, $6.50 ze 22x22, January Price, $6.25 Dozen 51 $10.00 Pair $8.00 Silver Bleached Pure Linen Napkins to match above damask,