Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1926, Page 5

WELFARE SERVICE PUTUPTO DISTRICT In Address to Monday Eve- ning Club Mr. Begg Fixes Responsibility. Divergent views on the responsi- bility of the citizens of the District in formulating a model social service avode for the National Capital—and all legislation for Washington in eral—were set forth by members f the House of Representatives last t before the Monday Evening ub, which celebrated its thirtieth birthday with a banquet at Rauscher's. Representative Begg of Ohio, de- laring a unified charity program & o be the only possible solution, placed directly on the shoulders of the vote- less residents of Washington respon- | sibility for lack of co‘ordinated efforts and the bewilderment of Congress in trying to decide what legislation the vity as a whole really desires. Representative Moore of Virgin however, speaking extemporaneously, defended the residents of the Capital and declawl that it would be impo sible for & eity of the size and com- ylex(t) of Washington to present a ‘united front" to Congress on public questions. The wishes of conflicting #roups form the great current of pub- lic opinion of the community, he gaid. “Serves Notice” on Citizenry. Representative Fish of New York #"served notice” on the local cltizenry that while Congress had no desire 1o interfere with the affairs of the District it would no longer tolerate the activities of “fly-by-night” charity anizations, conceived for the pur- pose of fraudulent deception of a gulli- ble public for selfish gains, “In spite of the fact that the Dis- trict does mot have national repre- sentation in Congress,” Mr. Begg de- clared, “the responsibility rests squarely on the shoulders of the citi- zens of the District. The Government we get in our Republic is a reflection of the ideals of the people participat- y ing in the life of the community.” Charging that “the present scat- tered methods” of public charity work here are wasteful, extravagant, Mr. 1vocated the need of a “ma- v" which would provide a| 1 authoritative body to admin- | ister to the public charity needs. Charity Unwisely Applied. Charity unwisely applied does more | harm than good and tends to develop | a race of “charity-tramps,” Mr. Begg He pointed to the need ut - investi of all asserted. s in order to eliminate ; fullest re- overlapping, to turn on the inv vent wronsful clearin, s Mr. Fish advocated I give the stment giving. {opposed to any che TH]‘]. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, CARNEGIE INSTITUTE HEAD ASSAILED BY DRY DIRECTOR (Continued from First Page.) murder was going on in Pittsburgh by representatives of the United States Government; that only recent- Iy a young man in Pittsburgh had been shot while Federal prohibition agents were shooting at an alleged bootlegger. As a matter of fact, Mr. Baird said, two of his men were chasing a ®hr supposed to contain liquor and fired at the tires of the car in an effort to stop it in an isolated street In the city. “The bullet ricocheted and passed within the hearing of the young man alleged to have been shot, but otherwise did not injure him,” said Mr. Baird. Mr. Baird sald that President Church had referred to the cass of a workman carrying a dinner pail Wwhom he said had been shot by pro- | hibition agents. Was Hunting Burglar. Mr. Baird safd that an extra pro- hibition agent, who had been on the force only a short time, had been aroused about 2 o'clock one morning and summoned to aid neighbors in the capture of a supposed burglar; that the agent had armed himself | with his own weapon; that when the archers had come upon a man with a dinner pail under his arm he had made a motion toward his hip, which the searchers thought menacing. The prohibition agent, he said, had shot with the intention of scaring the man, but had killed him. President Church, Mr. Baird said, had left the impression that the widow of this man was destitute. Mr. Baird said that $30,000 had been raised through the newspapers in Pittsburgh to be turned over to the widow. Mr. Baird also attacked the testi- niony given by President Church re- garding the raids made by prohibition agents on restaurants in Pittsburgh, declaring that they were made in an | orderly way and after search warrants had been obtained. and that guests in the restaurants had not been man- handled. Was Detailed to Pi!tslmrgh: Mr. Baird told the committee that the position of prohibition director in Pittsburgh had not been sought by him, but that he had really been de- tailed there by his superior officer in the United States Steel Corporation. He said that he had made an effort to built up an honest, intelligent and ef- | fective force of agents and that he| was proud of the force, which he said would compare favorably with any in the prohibition of the beverage lquor traffic. We do not think that the difficulties of the enforcement of the law constitute a sufficlent reason for the restoration of an evil like the liquor business, which has steadily disobeyed all laws passed for its re- striction. Many hard words have been sald here and elsewhere against the eighteenth amendment, against the Volstead act and against prohibi- tlon. No one has yet sald a good word for the old days, for the unre- strained or legalized liquor traffic, for the drunkenness that existed under the old order, or for the countless evils of the old order. Says Anarchy May Follow. “We firmly believe that liberty can only be secured under law, and that anarchy and the utter destruction of lawful government would follow the adoption of the principle that when- ever laws are found difficult to enforce they should be amended 8o as to per- mit milder forms of evil. It is our judgment that even under the circum- Stances that have existed the eighteenth amendment has been en- forced as fully in the United States as the laws oagainst .theft and murder and cther crimes. For these reasons we oppose ony amendment to the existing laws, except such amend- ments as will make them more effec- tive in expressing and enforcing the will of the law-ablding citizens of thie United States. “We do not trust the distillers, the brewers, the saloonkeepers or those who are hired by them to do their work. They have done nothing in all their long history from the. whisky rebellion in our carly days as a Nation until this hour of their violation of the Constitution and laws of the land | that any man or woman should trust them. Our recollections verify our convictions and stiffen our determina- tion that the privately owned lquor traffic, conducted for profit, shall never be legalized again. Our experi- ence with compromises is not forgot- ten. Therefore we are against the whole business in any form of it and in every degree of ft." Dr. Clarence True Wilson, general secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with a membership of 5,131,218 people and more than that number of Sunday school pupils and teachers, declared that the *“wets” in their testimony had slandered America when they said that the country was terrorized by criminals and that American girls and women are dranken and de- biuched because of conditions arising from the prohibition law. constabulary in the country. Referring_to the charge made by President Church that Mr. Baird w attempting to make spies out of the students of the universities, Mr. Baird | said that it was “an absurdity.” | Church Opposes Change. The Methodist copal Church, | Bishop William Fraser McDowell, res- | ident bishop in this city, is slrungl}'i ige in the Vol- ad enforceraent act unless the | changes are intended to strengthen | the law. for compulsory licensing of all public < and private charity institutions, and the keeping of accurate accounts of all receipts and expenditures, the | hool to be open to the blic at all ) times. Iie urged study leg- | islation for the District, but added: | am not prepared to say that such | a regulation is essential here. How- | ever, T do not place any great confl- dence in sporudic, volunteer organiza- tions.” | ( Attacks Fraud Organizations. | Mr. Fish then launched into an at tack on fraudulent i which in New York alone, collect annually several millions of | dollars. These ¢ tions, he sald, ; are made ap of st-war heroes,” | “draft dodgers” and sometimes women. They have greatly injured the worthy veterans’ organizations | through their deceptions, he i. The | 3 bled Soldiers’ League, | irter million dol- lars through its pencil scheme before it was put out of existence by a post ud or Pish sal | | | . but cent for impostors and he concluded. Dorsey W. Hyde, jr.. president of the Monday Lvening Clul ided. | und John Barton Payne was toast- | master. Right Rev. Philip M. Rhine- lander offs 1 an inve fon. Arrivals at _a § New Yorl ARRIVED YES San Torenzo. . Baracoa. Sl Puerto . DUE TODAY Majestic A ane ton, Hamburg iy Dullo nlea. April 10 Scythia .07 1 Traneylvania .. 10 BPOw v sosss 3 Cedrie ") r 10 Miupetonka " ;. don. April 10 American Trader...’. don. April 10 Siboney 2 avaua. Aoril 17 Ancon ) 12 Huro 15 ORROW ..... Havre, April 14 - Danzig! April 6 France . Lituania' ", «bicago Jort St. G Sixaola et Maracaibo. . | San Juan, April 18 Tergenst. Oslo; April 9 Oscar II.. Oslo. April 10 Yrueuaya uda. April 17 nargo a. 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He | said: - | “We come also to declare that peo- | ple who have freely violated the laws and Constitution of the United States, sworn to defend the laws and Constitution of the United States and have ‘violated these laws,” as was said here the other day, without compunction of conscience,’ no standing in this court. Law- kers are not in position to be makers or to be law menders. V - | come also to declare that laws should | not be made either by lawbreakers have flouted the laws which they seck to mend. The propositions to amend the existing law are made in behalf of bootleggers, booze dealers and booze consumers who have steadily broken the laws established by due process. are the agents of the traffic se principle was stated a few days ago by one of the great dailles of the country as being based upon two stimulation of trade and re- | to all restriction.” Statement Arouses Reed. atement roused Senator Reed souri, “wet” member of the com- wmittee “Do you know any one who has ap- peared before this committee who has | broken the law?" Senator Reed de. manded. “I mean just what T have said,” re- plled Bishop McDowell The imprint | of your paper, bishop,” said Senator Reed, “iIs that among those who have come here advising a change in the law is a lawbreaker who is engaged “I have not said that,” replied the | bishop. He would not, however, mod- ify his original statement. Reads Official Position. In his statement to the committee, Bishop McDowell read the official dec- laration of the General Conference of fethodist Episcopal Church as follow “The eighteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution was adopted by a larger majority than was given the original Constitution and was rati- fied by a larger number of States and a larger proportion of the States than that given any other amend- ment to our fundamental law. It is not a mere remedial statute or a bit | of police regulation. Itis a concrete statement, in terms of advancing civilization, of an enduring principle of human government. It volces a universal law, that only a sober peo- ple can make a growing, progressive ‘There can be no successful challenge of the pro- priety of incorporating in the hasic law of a nation the abiding underly- ing moral convictions of its people. “Though the traflic in intoxicating drinks has heen prohibited by the action of a great and sovereign peo- ple, the forces that fattened upon it are striving to reinstate thelr nefari- ous trade. Under the guise of a cam- paign for beer and light wines the attempt is belng made to restors the traffic in intoxlcating beverages. “Free Government at Stake.” “The real issue before the American people today is. whether the prohibi- tion amendment and the Federal pro- hibitory law are to be nullifled by a which insists upon flagrantly showing its contempt for the emphatically expressed and properly recorded will of the American people. That issue goes to the very heart of free government and will de- republic 1s to acquiesce in the will of the ority or whether such minor- ity is to be permitted successfully to the law of the Natlon and treat the Constitution of the United States of America as a scrap of paper. The decigion of the American people on this important issue involves the far more vital question as to whether after a century and a half of trial this overnment of, for, and by the people mandates and thus perpetuate itself. That for which we have stood and still stand before the world, the orderly rule of the majority, under a reign of law, must and shall be maintained re- gardless of all who oppose or of whatever its preservation may cost.” Bishop . McDowell continued: “In speaking for the Methodist Episcopal Church, we come to defend the eight- eenth amendment and the Volstead act with clean hands. We have stead- fly supported these acts since their adoption. We have not disobeyed or sought to discredit them. We believe in this eighteenth amendment and this Volstead law because we bellevs, ? [} Methodists are United. ie attitude of the Methodist Church on prohibition is historic and offictal,” said Dr. Wilson. “That atti- tude represents today the consensus of opinion of our ministers and people, beyond the shadow of a doubt. Meth- od! everywhere are pras Ny, if not quite, unanimous in their deter- mined support of this law as a ‘salu- tary’ law. Our ministers find in their visitations to the homes of the people that it has produced infinite benefits in the improved moral tone of young people. We deny emphati that the young people of this decade un der prohibition are consuming liquors in quantities or that they are being morally depraved by the operation of the prohibition law.” The young people of our church are certainly not drink- ing. So rare is any consumption of liquors by young Methodists that it | constitutes, when it does occur, a scandal and a shock to the home, the church and the communit tacular disgrace by no m vpical of general behavior. There is drink ing among young people, of course, but it s very much less frequent than when open saloons beckoned an invi- tation from every corner. “We find these better conditions not .only in the homes where fathers who onte drank are now worthily doing their duty, but in homes which have felt the stimulation directly traceable to increased production and consumption. General business con- ditions have benefited by the addition of bil of capital and the expendi- tures formerly lost in the till of the saloon, and this {mprovement in pr perity has raised the general level of the standard of living of all the people. “Our ministers are unanimous in reporting that the American home is a better equipped home than ever be- Our ministers tell us that they ob- ar less drinking among the people as n whole, in the homes, on the streets and in places of public regort. The passing of the saloon and of the brewery stimulation of trade in liquor has been nothing less than a redemption of the average Ameri- can community. Spent $2,438,000,000 for Liquor. “When the prohibition law went into effect the American people were spending $2,438,000,000 annually for intoxicating liquors. The addition of this expenditure to the channels of legitimate trade inevitably meant greater production and consumption of the necessities and true luxuries of life. The money that was not spent for beer was immediately spent for meat, vegetables, fruit, clothing and a thousand other useful things, or was accumulated in banks as capi- tal to erect more factories, employ more men, use more raw material and produce more goods, which were added to the wealth of the country and contributed to the happiness and welfare of the people. “Senator Bruce, in his address to the committee, presented certain figures in regard to drunkenness in American citles which show clearly how easily one may fall to grasp the significance of statistics. He present- ed figures of the flve prohibition-years, 1920 to 1924, iInclusive, showing that the arrests for drunkenness in 1924 were 275,469 in these cities, as com- pared with 115,062 in 1920, the first dry year. The totals from 1914 to 1924 were: 1914, 268,434; 1915, 271,626; 1916, 299,478; 1917, 285,681; 1918, 229, 9 1919, 167,487; 1920, 115,062; 1921, 163,117; 1922, 229,816; 1923, ,386; 275,469, We omit from Senator Bruce's table Newark and Knoxville, for which we do not have figures, and Chicago, which makes no arrests for drunkenness when not assoclated with disorderly conduct. Population Increased. “It will be noticed from this table that there was a sudden decline under wartime prohibition in 1919 and na- tional prohibition in 1920, and that the increase has been gradual since that time. Senator Bruce has failed to notice the fact that the population of these citles has increased from 13,- 941,940 in 1914 to 18,784,665 in 1925. ‘Taking these population increases into consideration, we find that there were 193 arrests per 10,000 of population for drunkenness in 1914 in these citles, 187 in 1915; 195 in 1916; 179 in 1917; 137 under wartime restrictions in 1918; 97 in 1919, six months of which were under wartime prohibition; 66 in 1920, and 147 in 1924, Put in another way, we find that there was one arrest for drunkenness for every G4 persons in 1914; one for every 56 in 1915; one for every 54 In 1916, and one for every 68 in 1924, If the 1916 ratio had pre- vailed during the five prohibition years of 1920 to 1924, instead of there having been 1,963,850 arrests for drunkenness, there would have been 1,759,210 arrests, or 750,369 more ar- rests than actually took place during this prohibition period. “The impression has undoubtedly been created throughout the country and in other countries that crime in America has enormously increased since prohibition came to the land. There are no general figures or studies of value in this connection, except two reports of the Census By reay of the Department of Commerca, | The Bureau of the Census, in order to supply information bearing upon the effect of prohibition completed an enumeration of prisoners in the penal Institutions of the United States as of July 1, 1917, and July 1, 1922, The ber of institutions reporting in 1922, was 137.4, as compared with 187.2 in 1917, and as there was a larger num- ber of institutions reporting in 1922 we are justified in believing that there was an actual decréase in the number of persons per 100,000 of population. “It is utterly unfalr, nothing less than a slander upon America, a slander which wet propagandists are sending around the world, to say that America i terrorized with criminals. Delinquency on Decline. ‘he Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor has just issued a statement effectually controverting the contention that juvenile crime In‘qthe country is in- creasing. ' The period covered is from 1910 to 1923 and lower delinquency rates are reported at the end of the pariod than at the beginning. In Chi- cago the rate has fluctuated around lower levels since 1920, the first year of prohibition. The decrease in New York has been marked. The bureau say: . “Contrary to the opinions which nave been expressed, there seems to have been no marked decrease in the age of commitments to prisons, re- formatorles, Jalls and . workholses. Between the ages of 35 and 44 arc contributing a slightly larger percent- age of the total commitments at pres- ent as compared with earlfer years “In 1910 there were 91.5 paupers in almshouses per 100,000 of populatfon. and in 1923 there were 71.! The death rate, which in 1910 was 15 per 1,000 and which in 1916 was 14 per 1,000, in 1923 was 12.3 per 1,000. The figures in regard ‘o deaths from alco- holism, which have been seriously misrepresented, deserve more com- plete_treatment, which will doubtle: be given them, but the bald fact re- mains that the deaths from alcohol- ism fn the registration area in 1910 were 5.4 per 100,000 of population, and in 1924 the rate was 3.2, the same figure as 1923, which was an increase over the remarkably low rate of one per 100,000 in 1920, the first prohibi- tion year, but which, ngvertheless, in- dicates clearly that the high point of reaction, reaction directly traceable to propaganda, was reached and Is past. “What do those wet bills propose? In brief, they propose to destroy the elghteenth amendment and restore the conditions which were changed as the result of 100 years of dissatis- fastion and effort, or so to modify the enforcement law as to bring bpck the so-called light liquors. Beer Would Aid Brewery. | _ Prohibition of wine in the United is constitutional and cannot anged by statutory. legislation. ifically, however, these bills pro- pose to restore the trade in beer of an alcohollc content identical with the beer sold at the time the prohibi- tion amendment was adopted. There need be no mincing of words in say- ing that this would defeat the pur- pose of the people in establishing that amendment. It would restore 92 per cent of the liquor trade, and in addl- tion would give a monopoly of that trade to th€ brewers. Do the bréwers deserva this monopoly? It is notorious that they owned approximately 85 per cent of the saloons, and what the saloon was the brewery made it. “The contention that we should per- mit the sale of beer is evidently based upon the belief that this would im- mediately stop the sale by bootleggers of so-called hard liquo There 1s no basis whatever for this belief. In 1916 the American people consumed pproximately 140,000,000 gallons of distilled spirits, despite the fact that they consumed that same year 1,818, 6,448 gallons of beer. An investl- gation by the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1914 revealed that there were in Michigan 3,204 Federal tax receipts in excess of the number of local liquor licenses and excises in other States. On behalf of our board and the people it represents, I urge a favor- \ble report upon the measures offered by the administration for the pur- pose of strengthening law enforce- ment, known as the Goff bill, and I protest against any of the bills offer- ed for repeal of the efghteenth amend- ment, or for the devitalizing of pro- hibition. by permitting any form of licensed liquor traffic or any form of the liquor traffic under Government control, o any permission for the sale of beer and with an alcoholic content in excess of one-half of 1 per cent, or any provision which by its nature is intended to permit such sale or to make it dificult to prosecute Viola- tions of the existing prohibition law.” Enforcement Held Possible. The Volstead act can be enforced relatively as well as other laws, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General in general charge of liquor prosecutions, told the Sen- ate committee yesterday. Mrs. Wille- brandt said that the enforcement of the law is increasingly effective each vear, depending in considerable part for effectiveness on the co-operation given by the States. 3 Mrs. Willebrandt urged that ‘“‘more teeth” be put in the enforcement act and that more judges be provided to try cases and heavier penalties for violators be provided. Her formula for law enforcement as: ) “iiStop talking about it. Let yoar work do the talking for you and make your best effort to obtain re- sults.” Opposes Buckner Plan. Mrs. Willebrandt did not agree to several suggestions made by United States Attorney Buckner of New York to the committee earlier in the hearings, among them a.system of minor courts to take the work of handling prohibition cases out of the Yederal courts, and also a suggestion that jury trials be done away with in case of minor offenders against the Volstead act. She did agree, how- ever, with Mr. . Buckner's recom- Tendation that the number of judges be_increased so 13 to bring about edy trials. T To Y Mrs. Willebrandt _said, there had been 22,000 convictions in the Federal courts for violations of the liquor law and fines imposed amounting to $4,000,000. In 1923 the oonvictions increased to 34,000, and the fines imposed to $5,800,000. In 1924 the convictions were 37,000 and the fines totaled $7,487,000; in 1925 the ‘convictions were 38,000 and the tgtal fines, $7,681,000. | Hotel Inn 604-610 9th St. N.W. 7_rooms. .| ), Sl* ‘with tollets shower ana 'mgd\h,.r! THE PAGODA 1720MH"St.re:t N.W. Brocaded Chinese $3.25 P Silk Crepe, 28 in,, per yard .. BY ALICE ROGERS HAGER. The brilllant meeting of the D. A. R. last night brought many famous folk of Washington onto the plat- form for the delectation of those who had traveled far to the congress. There was the President, of course, but, to the disappolntment of many, without Mrs. Coolidge. ‘There was M. Henr{ Berenger, the ¥French Am- bassador, There were &ll the na- tlonal officers of the soclety, most gayly and beautifully dressed, with the white silk-garbed pages flitting in and out. And in the frout row, Just beyond Mr. Coolidge, sat “Prin- cess” Alice Longworth, in a red shawl, and with the remembered family smile recording humorous passages in the speeches—particu- larly when Senator Reed of Penn- sylvania indulged in a whack at her husband and the House of Repre- sentatives., The friendly Mr. Long- worth had two laughs at his ex- pense, as the Girl Scouts in the hall unwittihgly tooted a horn just as he began to speak, and he remarked, rather plaintively, “I had hoped the band would stay on the stage.” The little drum major of the Girl Scouts Fife and Drum Corps almost bent backward yesterday every time she led her “band” in escorting Mrs. Cook. Her dignity, her skill, her swagger and her own size, as com- pared to that of the shiny baton she carried, would have put to shame many a veteran leader. &he could keep time, too, and the girls stepped out bravely after her, silencing the bigger band that had been playing at the site of Constitution Iall-to-be, when they came ruffiing down the street to the tune of “Gen. Plerson Holyoke, Mass, thelr home city, must be justly proud of them. Mrs. Beavers Conspicuous. Mrs. John Beavers, State regent for the District of Columbia, and a candl- dete for vice president general, was on the floor all day yvesterday. Mrs. Beavers has a long record of work in the society, beginning with offices in her own chapter, the Dolly Madison— next to the oldest here—and going on up through the grades of State cor- fespondtng secretary and State vice régent. She served during the war on the national liberty loan commit; tee of the Daughters, and Qater has been on the national auditorium com- mittee. Outside the soclety she is a member of the Committee on Law En- forcement, and she was head of the unit that worked for the American Hospital at Neuilly. She was born in Fairburg, Ill. and is a member of the P. E. O. Another candidate for vice president general is Mrs. Julius Talmadge of Athens, Ga., who has been national chairman of the student loan fund committee ever since its inception. She, too, has held the full roster of chapter and State offices, with chair- manship of various State committees. But her special interest has been in the student work, particularly in that at the University of Georgla, in her home city. Here her own small chapter gave $2,500 out of the $5,000 fund raised. Mrs. Talmadge is a member of the Colonial Dames, the Order of the Crown, the Daughters of the Barons of Runnymede, the Daugh- ters of the American Colonies, the Daughters of 1812, the United Daugh- ters of the Confederacy and the Aux- iliary to the American Legion! I think that deserves an exclamation point. Acting _as parllamentarian, al- though she is not a D. A. R, is Mrs. Lilllan Cole Bethel, national authority on rules and procedure. Mrs. Bethel comes from Ohlo, and has been a teacher of general natural sclence and parliamentary law in clubs, civic organizations and col- leges for many years. She has writ- ten two books, one on civil govern- ment and the other a compendium of procedure. She is parliamenta- rian for two other organizations as well as the Congress—the League of American Pen Women, and the Na- tional Council of Indians. Mrs. J. W. Marsh, president of the Women's City Club of Pitts- burgh, Pa., is stopping with her delegation at the Mayflower. She i3 past regent of the Plttsburgh chapter. Indiana delegates to the Congress will give a lunch at the Powhatan tomorrow, when Mrs. Ross, State regent, will be the guest of honor. M G F.-SMART SHOES FOR WOMEN~~ ¢ TUESDAY, APRIL PERSONALITIES AT THE D. A. CONGRESS 20, 1926. president general, gave a tea at the Willard on Sunday afternoon for Mrs. Ross. Other entertainments given were the tea of the Michigan chapter on Sunday and the dinner Minnesota gave at the Mayflower, under the personal direction of Mrs. Willlam D. Mitchell of Le Roy place. Ohio dines tonight, and West Vir- ginla is receiving at luncheon today, both at the same place. ‘Wednesday afternoon Mrs. George Wharton Pepper and Mrs. David Atken Reed, wives of the Senators from_Pennsylvania, are entertaining the Pennsylvania delegates at t Mrs. John Brown Heron, State re- gent, and their' candidate for vice president general, received them in- formally Sunday afternocon at the New Willard, while Mrs. Thomas W. Phillips of Butler is to be hostess this afternoon at 5 o'clock in honor of Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook and the Pennsylvania State officers. An important Sunday tea was given by Mrs. Lucius E. Holland, State re- gent of Michican and chairman of the auditorium committee there, at the Mayflower, in honer of Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau and Miss Alice Louise McDuffie, who are Michi- gan’s candidates: Mrs. Brosseau for president general and Miss McDuffle for a place on her ticket. Assisting Mrs. Holland were Mrs. Charles I Bathrick, State vice regent; Mrs. L. Victor Seydel, Mrs. Malinda Breband, and the Michigan pages—Misses Alice Helen Holland, Frances Loulse Seydel, Luctlle Whittier and Helen Hudson. The vive president general from Minnesota, Mrs. James T. Morris, will be the honor guest at dinner tonight, the hostesses belng Mrs. W. L. Jame- son and Mrs. W. S. Lindsley. Among the guests will be Mrs. Albert W. Strong, Mrs. Kenneth Harrison, Miss Frances Jordan, Mrs. Cyrus Wells, Mrs. Ldgar Henry Loyhed, State can- didate for vice president general, and M ‘Willlam Mitchell. Scholarship Proposed. To return from the lighter side of the congress to the more serious: An interesting announcement has been made By Mrs. Bertha Taylor Voor- horst, director of the National Soclety for Accredited Secretaries, to the ef- fect that her organization is present- ing @ permanent scholarship in its school to the Daughters in honor of Mrs. Alice Frye Briggs, retiring sec- retary general. From Albany, ) the Gansevoort, sentha Chapters of Albany County, as thelr candidate for the high office of president general to succeed M Cook, comes Mrs. Charles White Nash, a very courteous and gracious lad She has been in public life for man years, having done much non-profes- sional concert playing as a pianist: and having been active in committee work with the D. A. R. since 1913. She has held all the important chapter and State offices, and has been na- tional chairman of the Anne Rogers Minor prize committee in 1922-1923; and from 1923-1926, pational chair- man of the D. A. R. Magazine com- mittee. J¥or six years she has been a member of the tional Board of Management. She was born at Erfe, Pa.; daughter of the late Capt. James Tilton Tupper, and she can number Mayflower vovageurs and colonfal governors among her ancestry. She is a member of the Colonial Dames. Mrs. John Brown Heron of Pitt burgh, whose name Pennsylvania is offering for a vice president generalcy, has been prominent in patriotic, civic, and society work. Her activities in- clude charter membership in the Civic Club of Alleghany County and the first Wash House and Baths Assoct: Y., presented by the committee which opened the first public playgrounds there, and as one of the founders of its Eye and Ear Hospital. In the war, she was the organizer of the Pfeparedness Branch of the American Red Cross of her city: of its women's section of the Navy League, becoming its_president; chair- man of the Duryea War Relief com- mittee; on the executive committees for food conservation and thrift, the Pennsylvania _Council for national defense; and the General Council of War Camp Community Service. She as a member for Western Pennsyl- vania of the National,War Savings committee, chairman of the Booth committee for the sale of war savings stamps, and on the mayor's committee for welcoming home-coming troops. She is at present State regent of the Henry M. Beck, retiring vice | Daughters. OVE & SLIDING STRAP Fashions ~ You'll Paint for - 100% Protection —if your Spring brushing-up is done with SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINTS. They're standard the world over for Quality, Covering nency. Most all HOUSE PAINTS areé. .....:. 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