Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1929, Page 54

BY CORINNE FRAZIER. EPRESENTATIVES of a large number of women's organiza- tions, including the National League of Women Voters, American Association of Uni- versity Women, National Council of Jewish Women, American Nurses’ As- sociation, American Home Economics ciation, National Women's Traqe Union League and Young Women's Chrsitian Association, joined with prom- | inent men’s organizations in making a strong plea before the House committee cn interstate and foreign commerce last Thursday for the Newton bill creating a child welfare extension service in the United States Children's Bureau. In addition to the women's organ- fzations, proponents of the measure who appeared with the group represent- ed child health, labor and farm organ- izations and the State public health administrative agencies. ~Mrs. Maud Wood Park of Portland, Me., former president of the National League of | ‘Women Voters, introduced the speak-| ers. | In urging passage of the bill, which sceks reduction of the infant and ma- ternal death rate, the speakers empha- sized the termination on June 30 of the Sheppard-Towner matcrnity and in- fancy act and the great need for con- tinuing legislation. While the Newton | bill differs in detail from the provisions of the present act, it is designed to carry on the educational program in behalf of maternal and infant hygiene. The five principal speakers before the committee were Dr. S. J. Crumbine of New York City, general executive, American Child Health Association; Dr. A. T. McCormack of Louisville, Ky., State health officer; Miss Hazel Corbin | of New York City, general director, Maternity Center Association; Miss Mary E. Murphy of Chicago, director Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund, and Mrs. Maud Wood Park of Portland, | Me., former president, National League of Women Voters. Among the other speakers represent- ing organizations were: Dr. Ennion G. Williams of Richmond, Va., State Health sCommissioner of Virginia for the Con- ference of State and Provincial Health Officers; Chester H. Gray, American Farm Bureau Federation; Mrs. Percy ‘Walden, New Haven, Conn., chairman of child welfare, National League of Women Voters; Edward McGrady, ‘Washington, D. C., American Federation of Labor; Miss Alice Edwards, American Home Economics Association; Mrs. Glen Levin Swiggett, American Association of University Women; Mrs. Arthur G. Watkins, National Congress of Parents and Teachers; Miss Ethel M. Smith, National Woman's Trade Union League: Mrs. E. E. Danley, national board, Young Woman's Christian Association: Mrs. Leonard Schloss, National Council of Jewish Women; Mrs. Florence Kelley, New York City, National Consumers’ League; Miss Elizabeth Noyes, American Nurses' Association; Miss Selma Bor- chardt, American Federation of Teach- ers; Mrs. Henry F. Baker, Baltimore, | Service Star Legion. . & NNOUNCEMENT si made that the annual meeting of the general council of the National League of Wom- en Voters is to be held in Washington, April 22 to 26, inclusive. Tentative plans for the meeting were formulated last week by national officers in confer- ence here at league headquarters. As the league is organized under a biennial convention system, the council meeting is the only mational gathering of the league in ‘the odd-numbered years. Attendance at the meeting will be limited to the members of the board of directors, chairmen of national commit- tees, presidents of affiliated State leagues and one officially-appointed State delegate. It is expected that the group will consist of approximately 125 such officials. . “The Paris Peace Pact—What It Is and How to Use It” will be the theme of the “Voters’ Service” program to be broadcast Tuesday, January 29, under the joint sponsorship of the National Broadcasting Co. and the National League of Women Voters. The program will be on the air from 7 to 7:30 p.m. 1t will be broadcast from Station WEAF, New, York City. §i BRI IGH tariff on products of the Philip- pine Islands is seen as.a menace to theé United States by Representative Henry 'T. Rainey, Democrat, of Illinois, who_discussed the tariff question with members of the Woman’s National Dembcratic Club last Monday at their weékly' forum luncheon held at the clubhouse. “A tariff on Philippine Island sugar would force the Philippine Islands to jellf elsewhere,” said Mr. Rainey, refer- 1ing to the bill now pending in Congress Jo stop the free importation of sugar fromx the islands. “Japan is ready to duy—+and to take the Philippine Islands domg with her sugar purchases. Then our troubles will begin.” Citing the fact that raises in tariff Efld been followed often in the past by usiness panic, Mr. Rainey declared that the Democratic tariff policy is as mueh a protective tariff as the Republi- can high tariff: that low tariff en- cog:ges and protects competitive manu: facture, while high tariff protects the monopolist. Representative Rainey was presented to the club by Mrs. George M. Eckels, chafrman of the entertainment commit- tee, who presided at the luncheon. Mrs. Eckels announced that tea will be served at the club to members and thefr friends every afternoon until fur- ther notice. She annourced also that Mrs. Frank B. Freyer, who gave an illustrated talk on Peru before the club recently, will be at home this afternoon to the Democratic women at her home, 1771 Massachusetts avenue. * &k FOR the second time since the first of January, 1929, Uncle Sam has named a woman as trade commissioner to a foreign port. Miss Gundrun Carlson, who has just been named United States trade com- missioner to Oslo, Norway, and is spending a month in Washington be- fore departing for her pcst, will be the speaker at the weekly forum luncheon of the Woman’s National Democratic Club_tomorrow afternoon. Last Tues- day Miss Carlson was the guest of the |equal rights amendment strikes. The | feminists propose by their blanket amendment to do away with all legis- lation which makes a distinction as to sex. £ Mrs. Edgar Stillman Kelley, a prom- inent Ohio clubwoman, has accepted the chairmanship of the Musicians’ Council of the National Woman's Party. Mrs. Kelley is the national president of | the National Federation of Music Clubs and is a member of the faculty of West- ern College, Oxford, Ohio. Her husband is a well known composer. k% MRS. JOHN F. SIPPEL, president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, has just returned to Washington from a brief speaking tour in Delaware | and Pennsylvania which called her away from headquarters immediately follow~ AROUND BY NANNIE gigantic rolls halted at a side entrance of The Star. Work- men began transferring each roll to an elevator that rose from the pavement, and lowering it to a vast place beneath. A man and his presumable wife, both middle-aged and chummy, were interested enough to watch the process and to wender, be- tween them, whether it took more than one roll to get out a day's issue. Then they surmised that the rolls must be clumsy to manage, and, by the time they had got to pitying the poor trees that had to be cut down, they were on their way to wherever they were going—which was a mistake. Knowledge always comes in handy, and if they had gone in the building and asked somebody they would have been interested to learn that each roll weighs 1,333 pounds, and that an is- sue, say, of 100,000 newspapers, of 32 pages each, would represent 596 miles of paper. As to a run of, say, 80 pages, which occurred a short time ago—well, you will have to go in a corner and figure it out for yourself! They were not of the investigating character of a couple of men who, quite a long time ago, as time flies in this section, stood by to watch a couple of colored porters lowering a roll into the elevator, and were so curious as to the weight of the paper as to ask—at least one of them asked: “Would that paper hurt if it hap- pened to roll against me?” They were busy porters, but each must have felt called upon to uphold the politeness of his race. The younger man, who looked as if he might have a college degree hanging up at home, al- lowed spokesman’s honors to his oldish fellow laborer, who, somehow, suggested open fields. “Can't say, suh. I heard of one gent'man who slipped against one these rolls an’ broke a laig or two, but I ain’t never heard of nair pusson bein’ killed, suh.” The' other porter, inspired, possibly, by a sudden desire to be hospitable, broke in with an offer: “If either of you gentlemen would like to try it you are perfectly wel- come.” But curiosity had subsided, and both men declined with hearty thanks before passing on. Lol 4 YOU may have noticed that this world has a blessed capacity for throwing left-over emotions into Time's waste basket—forgetting old joys and troubles in the new ones that are for- ever coming along. Just for one small evidence, look at the fresh calendar that carries in its 31 days the birth anniversaries of Ben- jamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, Rob- ert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Mc- Kinley. Each man lived to make his name immortal, and died on other calendar days—all of them forgotten by the general public—except, of course, groups organized to keep their memory green—all of which is a good, sensibie idea, seeing that if we kept on renew- and gone men, there would be no time | or heart left to give to the triumphs | and 'tragedies of those who are with us or who may be on the way. When we tear off the January leaf we will find more red-lettered symbols to mark the world entrance of Lincoln and Washington, but, apart from the Government holiday on the 22d, the only honest interest us average people will have in the February list of notables will be the ground hog and good old St. Valentine. For such, brethren and sistern, dears, is the way of human nature! * ok k¥ HERE are two sketches presented to the column—the first by a bril- lian® and beloved newspaper writer, Katherine Thomas, and the other by young George Waters of the staff, who is going to develop into that gifted be- ing, a “well known writer,” some day— soon. /*You have read and heard of the am- bition of newly arrived foreigners to so imitate in dress, action and speech the native born sons of Uncle Sam as to be mistaken for one. Here is an exactly opposite state of affairs right here in the National Capital—a distinctly un- usual case of imitative talent, and which has a substratum of self-preservation, to be seen in an uptown cafe: Somewhat less than two years ago the place was opened by a couple of en- terprising Greeks who, while registering No. 1 as cook and waiter, were dis- tinctly handicapped by the fotal eclipse of even a rudimentary knowledge of the English language. They were not. able to pay much out in wages to an assist- ant and so gladly availed themselves of the services of one of those flotsam and jetsam. bits of humanity known as a Women's National Press Club at its|,down and outer.” Anything more ut- ‘weekly luncheon. Miss Elizabeth Humes is the other new appointee to the highest post in the diplomatic service of this country held by a woman. She elevated from an assistant commissionership to that of United States commissioner to Rome early in January. Miss Viola Smith, who has served some time in tne same position at Shanghal, was the first woman to be appointed commis- sioner. 2, % NATIONAL WOMAN'S PARTY rep- resentatives will appear before the Senate subjudiciary committee on Fri- day morning of this week, at 9 o'clock, for a postponed hearing on the equai rights amendment. The hearing was scheduled originally for Wednesday of last week. Senator Waterman of Colorado, chair- man of the committee, will preside. The personnel of the delegation has not yet been announced, but it is expected that Miss Mabel Vernon, executive secre- tary; Miss Clarence Smith and Miss | Mary Murray, both of New York, will| be among the feminists to plead. Special interest will be attached to the hearing in view of the reports which have just been published by the ‘woman's bureau, favoring protective legislation for women, at which the terly forlorn in appearance, as contrast- ed with the neat, dapper, young pro- prietors, and more pitifully anxicus to please, or more utterly 100 per cent American of origin it would not be pos- sible to encounter in a day’s journey. This, bear in mind, was nearly two years ago. Enter the cafe today and you will find the original trio hard at work and scoring success almost as steadiiy as a rapid-fire gun in action. But asked to pick out the American, I doubt, even with the aid of a prize to the winner, if the average person could come out winner. | That truest flattery of imitation has so worked its wonders of change that not only in appearance, gestures, and, strangest of all, in his broken Englis] with its strongly foreign intonations, the former “down and outer” American (now moves, acts and speaks as true a |son of Greece as if born on the very steps of the Acropolis. { * K Kk % 'WENTY-FIVE years ago Anton Sawyer, 76 years old, watched shadowy silhouettes of dancers on the whitewashed walls of the old Navy ‘Yard Dance Hall, at the foot of Eighth street southeast, and prayed that some day he would learn to dance. Anton Sawyer was a wallflower, but he had plenty of company, for thers 'Y ing our regrets and rejoicing over great | ||| THE.. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 27, 1929—PART 3. CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION Clubwomen Urge Passage of Newton Bill — Representative Rainey Addresses Democratic Women—Feminists ‘Have Equal Rights—Mrs. Sippel Speaks. ing the adjournment of the Midwinter board meeting. Speaking before & number of clubs, Mrs. Sippel outlined the program dis- cussed at the meeting of the board members and discussed informally pertinent legislative questions which are absorbing the interest of the clubwomen {at this time. In remarking upon the passage of the Kellogg-Briand peace | treaty, she emphasized the large part | played by the women of the country in securing its passage and urged the clubwomen to lend their efforts with equal enthusiasm to securing passage of other measures indorsed by the gen- eral federation. ‘This week Mrs. Sippel will go to New York, where she will confer with vari- ous officials of the federation on or- ganization matters. She expects to leave Washington on January 29. THE CITY LANCASTER. | Dancing was serious business. One had to be much more clever with one’s feet than at the present time. There were much-too-long dresses to avoid tripping over, and one's chin must never acci- dentally bump into the Elizabethan collars around milady‘s neck. Anton watched the silhouettes glide like phantoms along the wall—all in perfect rhythm. He Isitened to the uniformed band at the further end of the hall and marveled at the brilliantly decorated dress of its leader., They were playing “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” now, and the silhouettes had faded away as tiny electric bulbs flooded the hall with light. The lights were always dimmed when the band played a waltz —it was more inspiring, and they gen- erally played “Blue Danube.” The waltzes lasted sometimes for nearly an hour, and they were billed on the pro- gram card as “marathons.” So you see we of the jazz age are not so modern. Anton began to wish he had never made that prayer for the gift of dance. So he became disgusted and went on home. He has never danced since. ‘Twenty-five years passed and the world gave birth to “Johnny Jazz.” Anton found himself at the door of a dancing establishment, surrounded by a group of jazz hounds with feet aching for the dance. The band had thrown away uniforms and were attired in tuxedos. Violins, cellos, a new brass in- strument that looked like a Chinese pipe to Anton, but was really a saxo- phone, and numerous string instru- ments had taken the place of the great collection of brasses. Everybody laughed a whole lot and yelled “but-dut-dut-de-do?” and Anton he got the grandest ears?” and Anton was bewildered. Anton’s feet beat time with the orchestra and he stepped within. “Come on and dance, grandpa,” the gang greeted him. Anton giggled and sat down in an armchair, saying he'd rather watch. He thought how diffi- cult it would be to step on a girlie’s dress now without receiving a good slap in return. Skirts had certainly taken a leap skyward. And the old black un- ! 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