Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1929, Page 6

LIBRARIANS ELECT - NUARYLAND WONAN Miss Adelaide Pratt Heads Columbian Association. Other Officers Named. Miss Adeclaide Pratt, Maryland State director of public libraries; was elected president of the newly-formed Colum- bian Library Association, composed of lbrary groups in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, at the annual meeting at the Grace Dodge Hotel yesterday afternoon. Other of- ficers of the nominating committee’s slate who were unanimously elected were: Miss Eleanor Falley, librarian, Goucher College, Baltimore, and F. W Ashley, assistant librarian, Library of Congress, vice presidents: Miss Grace Barnes, librarian, University of Mary- land, secretary, and W. Taylor Purdum, chief, order department, Washington Public Library, treasurer. F. W. Ashiey, formerly president of | the District of Columbia Library Asso- ciation, which became a part of the Columbian Library Association yester- | day, acted as chairman and relinquished the chair upon the election of Miss Pratt, More than 200 delegates from the Maryland, Virginia and District library bodies attended the meeting. Green's Secretary Speaks. At the morning session, Miss F. C. Thorme of Philadelphia, secretary to William Green, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, was the prin- cipal speaker. Miss Thorne spoke on the campaigns of the trades union movement for public schools through= out. the Nation and of *he interest the American Federation ci Labor and its associated groups are taking-in edu- cational affairs. “The library is a necessary supplement to the boy or girl going to schol and it is the continua- tion of the education of the worker out of school,” she declared. “The -American Federation of Labor, and, in fact, the entire international trades union movement,” she added, “are built on the foundation of equality for all through education, and the library groups of the country can ex- pect the utmost co-operation from the American Federation of Labor and its affiliated organizations.” _In a comprehensive paper at this ses- sion, Dr. George F. Bowerman, Libra- rian, Washington Public Library, dis- tussed the new trend in biography. His paper dwelt with the newer blographers, such as Lytton Strachey, Andre Mau- rois and Gamaliel Bradford, who, he said, have lifted the biography from the old set formula of two or more bulky tomes full of exhaustive but poorly co-ordinated facts, and distorted iy hero worship, to the nighly readable, more novel-like works that have sprung up almost entirely since the ending of the World War. Visit Library Exhibits. Following the morning session lunch- eon was served at the hotel and then the delegates spent the afternoon visit- ing the various library exhibits about town, including the new library, with its manuscripts and rare books just brought from Italy, at Catholic Univer- sity; the Library of Congress and the American Library. Association’s exhibit at the Grace Dodge Hotel. Last night's meeting followed the an- pual dinner at the hotel. Dr. D. A. Rob- ertson, assistant director of the Ameri- can Council on Education, discussed re- .cent English poetry in a paper read be- fore thé evening meeting. The relations between the librarian and the Yesearch worker and how the former can better aid the latter were discussed in a paper also read before the meeting- by Dr. K. J. Gallagher, pro- fessor of history, Goucher College. CATHOLIC ALUMNAE TO MEET HERE SATURDAY Archbishop: Curley,’ Mgr.;Pace and 3l 5V 3rées Worton Will“Be” Prin- _cipal Speakers. " __The eighth annual conference of the " ‘Pistrict of Columbia Chapter, Interna. + tional Federation of Catholic Alumnae, + g} be held next Saturday, at the Wil- ddrd Hotel, with Most Rev. Mithael J. rley, Archbishop of Baltimore; Rt. “Rev, Edward A. Pace, director 6f the ration, and Mrs. Mary T. Nerton, . - Representative from New Jersey, head- { ing the speakers. " Miss Elizabeth J. Dolan, governor of "s.Ahe chapter, will preside and: make the ad of welcome. The work of ents will. be.presented by Mrs. McCarthy, chairman ofeducs arr, social service, . . Sullivan, literature. munion, and Miss Alice R. Lucas, hi torian ‘The committee chairmen arranging for the conference include Mrs. James F. Hartnett, reception committee; Mrs. | Charles W. Semmss, luncheon: Miss Edna. J. Sheehy, resolutions; Miss Cath- -erme Du Fief, rules of -order; Miss Cetherine Leahy, credentials and regis- wration, and Miss Margaret Kane, deco- ratoins, The alumnae associations forming the chapter will be represented by Miss Ella Lorain Dorsey, Georgetown Visita- | . George Haggept! Miss Sarah Polly, Immaculate Concep- tion;. Mfss Margery McAllister, Notre | Dap Anne Coughlan, 'Sacred | Heéa Miss Louise Gately. Heart of Mary; Miss Pauline Fling, St. Mrs. Lewis A. Payne, St.| Miss Ann C. St Helen C. Greenwald, St drs. T. D. McCarthy. Visitatio BV . and M . T. Sadler, Was] ington Circle. ZONING ACT REFERENCE TO WALLS CLARIFIED | Bection Interpreted to Apply to! Frouts of Buildings, Commis- | sion Decides. | | ‘The Zoning Commission at an ex-|§ ecutive meeting held cided that in future walls in paragraph 12 of scction 13 of the zoning act shall be held to refer to walls facing the street, and not to | rear walls, | The section in guestion yesterday de- | e reference to than 110 feet high allowed under cer- tain conditions in the 110-foot-height | distdict every foot of height above 110 feet are now required from all walls. Accord- ing to the new interpretation, they will | only be required from the walls facing | the ‘street. This is designed, accord- | ing to Maj. Donad A. Davison, execu- | tive officer of tF sion. to allow | Sacred ' ) | deals with ! K setbacks required for buildings more | i The setbacks of 6 inches for | | Weekly Raids Made By Chicken Thieves; 39 Taken This Time Some one has been making a practice. of visiting the houses along Reservoir road every Friday night and stealing chickens, sev- enth precinct police say, and it is thought that the fowls are taken to market on Saturdays and sold. Yesterday morning, as had hap- pened every week for more than a month, a report was received that a number of chickens were stolen last night. Thomas Brown of , 4600 Reservoir road came to the station house and told the officers that 39 chickens, valued at $90, were taken from a coop behind his house. Bank Fails to Open. SPOKANE, January 19 (#).—The Bank of Farmington, Wash, did not open its doors today but Harry C.| Johnson, State superintendent of bank- ing, said that it was in good condition, 1t is almost entirely owned by the offi- cers of the Exchange National Bank of Spokane, which closed yesterd: You are cordially invited to attend a series of COOKING CLASSES and DEMONSTRATIONS (73 .. MODERN KITCHEN of the New Business Department Washington Gas Light Company 419 Tenth Street N.W. four afternoons during the coming week— TUESDAY—WEDNESDAY—THURSDAY—FRIDAY space for pent h ther neces- sary structures back of the buildings. Fire Razes Mine Offices. EGU January neluding | . Honduras e destroyed $25 Cash’ STEWART IS SILENT ON PROXY SUPPORT Standard 0il Chairman Leaves New York Telling of “Assuranec of Backing.” Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, January 19.—Col. Rob- ert W. 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