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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 5, 1930—PART TWO. 5 NEWS OF THE CLUBS NOTICE. Club news intended for publi- cation in The Star on Sunday must be received by the Club News Editor not later than 10 a.m. on Thursday. District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs.—~Mrs. Ellls Logan, chairman, Department of Education, an- nounces & meeting at the Mount Pleas- ant Public Library, October 11, at 2 o'clock. Subject, *“Co-operation Church, School and Press.” Rev. Moses R. Lovell, pastor Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, will 8] on the value of education through t Life Adjustment Institute. Dr. Frank W. Ballou will talk on how the District of Columbia Federation of ‘Women's Clubs can be of help to the superintendent of public schools. A mes- sage from Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, editor in chief of the Washington Herald, on the educational relationship between the District of Columbia Federation of Wlon;:n'l Clubs and the press was re- ceived. ‘The District of Columbia Auxiliary of the Woman's National Sabbath Alliance was entertained September 25 by Mrs. Henry Fenno Sawtelle, 6200 Connecticut avenue. Summer reminiscences was the | general subject, followed by the social and reception to the new members. Officers elected are: President, Mrs. lis Logan; vice presidents, Mrs. John . Thompson, Mrs. Anson Rogers Tracy, Mrs. Colin Livingstone, Mrs. Willaim La Varre; treasurer, Mrs. Tamar Rorke; Te- cording secretary, Mrs. Eva Crisswell; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth Hesse; historian, Mrs. Henry Fenno Bawtelle; director to District of Colum- bia Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. Barah Nevins. New members, Mrs. W. W. Sioan, Mrs. Joseph Dawson, Mrs. Frederick ' W. Ashley and Miss Eliza- beth Sawtelle. Chevy, Chase Branch, L. A. P. W.— With | Mrs. Mary S. Parker will act as hostess | to the members of this branch at her home on Ingomar street, October 6, 4 pm., at their regular monthly meef . Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson will in the absence of the pi nt, Mrs. Richard Yates, who will be in Chicago until after the election. ‘The Clover Club met September 18 at the home of Mrs. Harry Schnabel, with George lans Pation. Sigma Kappa held a joint memorial service wufi Zeta Chapter of the same sorority in memory of its founder, Ida Fuller Pierce, who died September 27, Services were at 2024 G street, Thurs- day night. Free Lance Club.—Mrs. Herbert Pool, wife of Maj. Herbert Pool, recently come to Washington for station, has been elected corresponding secretary. Others elected at the last meeting at the Annapolis Hotel were Dr. Willilam Barron, president; Mrs., Ione Mooney, Vice dent; Evelyn Crane, recording secretary, and Felix Schwarz, treasurer. for National Soroptimist particl- The American Women's Towne Club will hold a meeting of its board Tues- day in the club house, 3125 P street, at 11:30 am. Luncheon will follow the meeting and will be held in the Colonial room. The board will make plans for the month’s entertainment and for the evening educational classes which will be held during the Winter season. Among these cl 'S will be for history, French and political study and public ing. The Monday afternoon tea will be held at 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. They are in- formal and there will be several of the executive board members in the receiving line. The tea talk will be at 5 o’clock. The District of Columbia League of American Pen Women will begin the study groups at the studio in Stone- lelgh Court on Tuesday evening with the short story. ‘Willard Howe, chairman, assisted by Miss Nellie R, Thomas, vice chairman, has arranged a_ program with speakers and critics who are authorities in all branches of fiction writing. They have planned also for suggestions as to the marketing of manuseripts. On Friday evening at 8 o'clock the drama group, Mrs. N. V. Armstrong, chairman, will begin study along lines of creative play writing. ‘These group meetings are open to al | the members of the club. National Capital Chapter of the Del- phian Society will meet Wednesday at the Carlton Hotel at 9:45 a.m. Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent, Danghters of Union Veterans, met Sep- tember 26 at Soldiers, Saflors and Ma- O. Gillingham as hostess. | rines Club with the president, Mrs. Anna “The chairman of program, Mrs. Schna- bel, discussed the program for the year. It was voted to invite Mrs. Northrop to k before the club November 18, on ver. A meeting was also held last Thursday at the home of Mrs. W. W. ‘Wheeler, with Mrs. David E. White as speaker for the evening. Asha Faison Colwell Williams Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, met at the home of the president, Miss Anita Schade, 1529 Rhode Island ave- nue, September 27. Mrs. Charles Fisher ‘Taylor was nominated as delegate to the General Convention at Asheville, N. C., November 16 to 22. A poem entitled or That Rules the Universe,” written by Virginia Carte: don, Va., was read by the president. ‘The John A. Logan Cha; r, Daugh- The Political Study Club will meet |to compiete the October 18 at the Washington Club. |during the three days of the Foire aux program for that mee ht be called “Navy day,” e head of the plans division, Bureau of Aecronautics of the Navy Department. His subject will be “Naval Aeronautics.” |:vening of song, with dances, in costume. cfficers for the year are Mrs. Bruce Baird, president; Mrs. Ernest H. Daniel, first vice president; Mrs. Proctor L. Dougherty, second vice president; Mrs. Merritt O. Chance, third vice Efldmt; Mrs. R. W. Howell, record- tary; ; M. Shortall, corresponding secretary; Mrs. William R. Mcr,’ze:nlnr; Mr; Elma R. Saul, Nelson P. Webster and Mrs, Frederick ‘T. F. Johnson are directors to the Dis- trict of Columbia Federation of Wom- en’s Clubs, with Mrs. Robert J. Bates, Miss Martha Fitzpatrick and Mrs. Peter John McGovern as alternates. ; hospitality, Mrs. William Laird Dunlap, jr.; publicity and print- ing, Mrs. George Oliver Gillingham; revision, Mrs. Wallace Streater, resolu- tions, Mrs. Richard Whiting; place of meeting, Mrs. Willlam J. McGee; music, Mrs. N.'J. Sinnott. The Takoma Park Women’s Club will feet at 1 o'clock on Tuesday at the Takoma Park Branch of the Public Li- brary. The honor guest will be J. Mit- nor Dorey, executive secretary of the Progressive Education tion, who will speak on “New Schools for the New | for many years president of the acade- Age.” The incoming officers are Mrs. | my department of University of Ilinois; James A. Robertson, president; Mrs. Prederick C. Lincoln, first vice presi- |0f the Sterling Silversmith Guild; Miss dent; Mrs. Wilbur H. Youngman, sec- 8 vice president; Mrs. Frederick 8. Pratt, recording secretary; Mrs. Albert | MATy Super, secretary of the National H. Parkam, assistant r?cordmg secre- Klng!mmh Association, Washington, | tary; Mrs. Byron M. Coon, correspond- ing secretary: Mrs. A. W. Miller, treas- urer; Mrs. Roy Y. A ist treasurer; directors, Mrs. Willing P. Hopper, Mrs. Lawrence V. Lampson and Mrs. G. Pranklin Wisner; rliamen- tarian, of Columbia Federation directors, Mrs. | Doran Platt, Mrs. Lloyd Briddle and | Peen visiting this Summer in Russia, an( Mrs. Ethel Lamond. Standing _committee chairmen— Budget, Mrs. Louis C. Vogt; hospitality, Mrs. Gilbert I. Jackson; membership, Mrs. Norman E. McIndoo; pi Mrs. W. Hayes Yeager; publicity, Mrs. Albert H. Parham; ways and means, Mrs. Prederick C. Lincoln; art chair- | man, Mrs. Frederic L. Pratt; music | chairman, Mrs. Waldo L. Schmitt; lit- | erature chairman, Mrs. Wilbur H. Youngman, ‘The art department will serve lunch- eon October 9, at 1 o'clock, in the Takoma Hall, Carroll and Denwood avenues. Mrs. Remington Kellogg wiil tell of her observations of art in the Louvre and other art galleries during her receent tour of Europe. Mesdames Pratt and Wisner are the hostesses. The club will celebrate its Fall party with a picnic October 10 at the Holi- day House on the Potomac. Members are requested to call Mrs. Gilbert I Jackson. The literature department will meet 8t 10 am., October 13, at the Takoma Park Branch of the Public Library. Mrs, Fraser and Mrs. Lincoln will re- view Martel's “Clemenceau.” The executive board will meet Oc- ftober 17, at 10 a.m, at the home of M: Louis C. Vogt, 118 Willow avenue, T koma Park, Md., after which luncheon will be served by the hostesses, Mrs. Vogt and Mrs. Hopper. The music department will meet at 10 aam., October 23, at the home of Mrs. G. Franklin Wisner, 7_Denwood avenue, Takoma Park, Md. The execu- tive board will receive October 31 mem- bers and their sponsors who have come into_the club since November, 1929, at the home of Mrs. Arthur M. Trivett, 808 Aspen street, Takoma Park, D. C. Soroptimist Club. — Frederick Vining Pisher, executive officer of District of Columbia in charge of the George Wash- ington Bicentennial Commission, ad- dressed a special meeting of the club at the La Fayette Hotel last Wednesday, explaining the bicentennial event. Mary Catherine Lewls, president, pre- A feature of the celebration of partic- ular interest to Soroptimists throughout America will be a pilgrimage to Wake- fleld. Soroptimist Clubs of America, under the direction of Mary Catherine of Washington, have contributed substantially to the restoration of Wake- fleld. Mrs. Harriett Hawley Locher and Miss Nora Huffman, members of the Wakefield Committee, visited there last Jeek in connection with furthering O | L. Ferguson, chairman of the Art Com- T Castleman of Hern- | Potter, vice chairman of the Music Com- when the guest | p.m., October 12, and the afternoons and speaker will be Comdr. R. K. Turner, |evenings of October 16, 17 and 18 will be Mrs, Homer C. Skeels: District | nesday by Prof. Kinsman of the Ameri. TORTEI, | from 4 to 6 o'clock C. Horn, presiding. Mrs. Margaret Brodt was appointed the president as first color bearer to fill the vacancy, and was installed by Miss Jennie Hamilton Chairman of Arlington services, Mrs. Bugbes, announced a service today at the Tomb of the Unknown Civil War Dead at Arlington, when a wreath would be placed by Burnside Relief Corps. Comdr, Wells stated he would present & framad copy of the American Creed to the tent. The Arts Club will have a tea this afternoon in honor of the artists of the Circulating Picture Club. Mrs. Alice L. mittee, will be the hostess. Edward C. mittce, speak Tuesday on “Music Critics and Music Criticism.” Miss Sade Styron, chairman of the Music Com- mittee, will be the hostess. Dr. Theo- dore Maynard, professor of English lit- erature at Georgetown University, will Miller will be the hosts. a A rally of members and their friends ition for service Croutes will be held between 4 and 8 given cver to this French Potboilers’ Fair. On October 23 there will be an ‘The participants _ will Clelia Fioravanti, Dorothy Neff and Marjorie Lowe, singers, and Miss Zalipsky as dancer. Mrs. Richard Dean will be the . On October 26 a chafing dish suj will be held, followed by poetic p.p:; dramatic readings by Mrs. Belle Bohn Smith. with the Hospitality Committee as E Misses ler 4 Association, will speak on “The Meaning and Purposes of Our Parks System,” on October 28. Comdr. Lewis P. Clephane, chairman of the Civic Committee, will be the Lost. ‘Woman’s Guild of American Univer- sity.—The Executive Committee met Tuesday at the club house of the Ameri- can Association of University Women as the guests of the new president, Mrs. Peter M. Anderson. Plans were dis- cussed for the year and arrangements made for & meeting October 21. The Zonta Club met Wednesday at the Raleigh Hotel, with Miss Gertrude Van Hoesen presiding. A talk was given by a member of the club, Miss Ruth Atwater, director of home eco- nomics of the National Canners’ Asso- clation. The guests present were: E. G. Howe, Mrs. Stuart Northrup, style consultant ladys Taylor, national student Y. W. A New York City; Miss , Miss Barnard, Mrs. William Kit- tle, Washington, D. C.; Mevrouw E. 8. Perk-Porter, Amsterdam, Holland; Miss Ellin Newton, fellow Zontiah from Car- vel Hall, Al’mfifolll. Md. ‘The club will be addressed next Wed- can University, economist, who has d will talk on the “Position of Women in Russia.” The Columblan Women of the George ‘Washington University met Tuesday in Corcoran Hall. The business meeting will be preceded by a social. Miss Elizabeth Cullen, president, will preside. Miss Cullen has announced the following chairmen: Program, Mrs. Daniel C. Chace; scholar- ships, Mrs. William Carl Ruediger; ways and means, Miss Virginia Diedel; alumni relations, Mrs. Joshua Evans,| jr.; vocational opportunity, Prof. Anna Pearl Cooper; house, Miss Frances C. ‘Wolff; newcomers, Mrs. James H. Tay- lor; 'emergency funds, Miss Alice Graham; membership, Miss Josephine | Elizabeth Hopkins; iife membership, | Mrs. Grace Ross Chamberlin, ‘The program for the meeting Tuesday will feature the reading of last year's history by Mrs. Nellie Cross Knappen, historiian. The meeting is under the joint charge of Mrs. James H. Taylor, chairman of the Newcomers' Commit- | tee, and Miss Frances C. Wolff, chair- man of the House Committee. Curley Club.—A program of activities will be given under the auspices of the club du the Fall and Winter months, which will include weekly card partles at the residence of members of the or- Committee, under the direction of Miss Pauline Donnelly, has completed ar- rangements for the series of events, the morrow evening at the residence of Harry Candee, 1800 Potomac avenue southe=ast. Members of the club, under the direc- tion of Eugene Moreland, chairman of the Athletic Committee, attended a hike through Rock Creek Park last Sunday der the direction of Hugh McGarvey, chairman of the Membership Committee, has been successful. ‘The next meeting will be held at the Gordon Hotel, October 9. The National League of American Pen Women will hold a breakfast ses- sion in November, when Mrs. Ida Don- nelly Peters, former national chairman of markets for the organization, will be the t of honor. Further announce- | essays. | volume he himself translated into Eng- ganization and monthly dances at one ! of the large hotels. The Entertainment | first of which will be & card party to-: afternoon. The membership drive, un- | (Continued From Third Page.) to us. His volume “Sadhana: alization of Life,” consists of a series of lectures delivered at Harvard University some eighteen years ago. He brought. son later to the universi- ty at Urbana, Ill, to study new meth- ods of agriculture. He himself has studled our institutions and our na- tional mind. He is trying in many ways to do for the world what Emer- son did for the American people—to awaken every one to a consciousness of their soul. In doing this he does not move on air; he treads the earth and takes cognizance of its institutions. He has not given idle words to India. He has gone forth rendering service in the way of educating his countrymen to better methods of living and livelihood, at the same time making them aware of their divinity, Sees Why World Advances. Through his efforts there has been established an agricultural school, where standards of living are measured in the light of the most advanced sclentific methods. Tagore is not blind to what advances civilization has made under the deterring hand of national develop- ment. But he does not wish to be blinded nor to have his people blinded by the tempting rewards of material success, He realizes the splendid achievement of physical conquest which gone on in the world. But he sounds the tocsin. Throughout all of his writings the spiritual fiber of the man is evident. Tagore is not an ascetic. He has gone through his passionately romantic period and has written some of the most appealing love poems. But what- ever approach he makes toward what- ever aspect of life, he never fails to exalt the subject. There are sugges- tions in his past life of a certain Byronic exuberance. It may be that all saints have to pass through such stages into the clear vision of life. The peaceful serenity of Tagore’s writiny would show that he found himself after testing life. But always in his formative years he had his father's wisdom before him. He had a hard, unylelding boyhood—one out of which a rebel might have come. Bll:e::ge' into understanding through "n by pantheistic response he gave nature, Tagore was born in Calcutta in 1861. i stranger The Lonely in Childhood. Many times he has confessed that loneliness was the chief feature of his childhood. His school experiences were saddened by the ill treatrhent of cruel masters, who were stern disciplinarians and hurt the lad's sensitiveness more than they harmed him physically, His father suddenly became aware of this and removed him, putting him in charge of tutors. His mind was active and reached out eagerly for the best of the Bengalese writings, and when at the 2ge of 11 he accompanied his father up into the Himalaya Mountains he had read most of the important native literature. i gu.zltoemly{ t’l‘: ‘1:1:10 ]llnfht be accounted T of the English language found little sympathy with it d\xn.gt these formative years, and there was always & struggle with his instructors when the English hour arrived. At the age of 17 he was sent to England, where in the years to follow he was not only tutored in preparatory schools, but re- ceived his university training in Eng- lish literature. His perception into the lpirilullblvl.luu of English writers is . remarkal Tagore was married when and his father put him in chl‘:;ueyolzgl' large estate, where he had & rich op- portunity to study first hand social and economic conditions of the working classes of . Whes after death removed his wife, his daughter and one of his sons he wrung & victory from this seeming spiritual defeat. For there was born in his mind the idea of a.akening the spirit of l.;?'l:'throu[hm:d\;le:‘t:o?d, and on his arcse - -y leas for San: Knighted by King. Bince that time Tagore has been both & political and an educational force in India. His power and influ- ence and value were recognized by the British crown when he was knighted. But Tagore would much rather lead a contemplative life. Public honor frightens him. When during 1913 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his “idealistic literature” he was heard to exc in the same breath with his acceptance (which he regarded more as a recognition of his own country than as a personal honor): “They have taken away my shelter.” The Nobel award went toward the further expan- son of his school. At his Santiniketon School the stu- dents are brought up in the same close communion with nature that he had| when as a youngster he went up into the mountains with his father and es- caped the severer hours of discipline. Tagore’s students have classes out of doors. If they hear the call of a strange bird while in class, they rise| from their seats and follow the call, | reciting their lessons as they go. They have hymns and processionals of thanksgiving for different tokens of life. They act plays in the forest.| School is not a prison, but a release. Which recalls not only the many plays which Tagore himself has written with delicacy and finesse of technique, but also that he was an actor himself as & young man, and might have won dis- | tinction on the stage had he chosen to| follow the bent. Life Is Call of School. Life, life, is the call in his school. It is the call also through the halls of | the Visva-Bharati, his Internstional| University. In both institutions the | teachers are made to realize that the| prime object of education is the ex- pansion of the mind of man into truth from the diverse angles of world ap- proach, Is there any hope for such a point of view in the Western world, where the cult of self-worship of the na- tion is paramount? It has been Ta- gore's hope for years that there is. It is time that the East and West should meet, should give to each other what is best in each. Every move he has made for years has been in the | desire to bridge the gap between civili- zations. He approaches America now with the same purpose. Tagore has been an artist since he was young; at 19 he had tried all the forms which later he was to bring to perfection; poetry, drama, story telling, His “Gitanjali” was the first lish. From then on came the stream of lyric passion, of calm modesty, of right- ness of form. From then to his latest volume, “Fireflies,” his songs have shown a concise, never-abating refresh- ment. We often wonder how he can main- | tain such an even tenor of spiritual | exaltation amid his many distractions. Wherever he goes he draws deep from the font of culture. The foreword to | “Fireflies” is revealing; “Fireflies had { their origin in China and Japan, where | thoughts were very often claimed from me in my handwriting on fans and pleces of silk.” Felicity of phrase is their excellence: it is always a domi- | nant quality in Tagore's writing. There is no artificial straining, no matter what the character of the song. He seems to have drunk deep of whatever source he selects. I have an autographed copy of his children’s poems, “Crescent Moon.” They show an exquisite fath- oming of childhood. The k book recalls one evening when tional president, Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton, who will be on her way to the Orient, where she will pass the Winter. ments concerning this breakfast will be made at the next board meeting of the national executive board, October 14, at 10 o'clock, at the Willard Hotel. Mrs. Prank Hodges Clark, first vice - the mmmmmmufl:fi Mrs. Jean Nelson Penfield, lawyer, of INtW York City, and a member of the| New York branch of the league, has accepted appointment as national par- liamentarian of the organization, an office she held under Mrs. Busch. | tofore attached to the Naval Air Sta- '!Tagore to Pay Visit to America At Crucial Time in World History I went with him to a reading he was to ilve in one of the suburbs of New York. He was to have a program en- urely drawn from Gitanjall” In the midst of his performance — standing there like a richly stained figure of wisdom—he suddenly shifted to the simpler poems of ‘“Crescent Moon.” I asked him later why he did so. “Did you not notice that the other poems palled? They did not like them. I gave them something they might un- derstand.” It is hard for the sensitive spirit to find deaf ears. Spiritually, I believe there has never been a time when America is more eager than now to fathom the mys- teries of life. sational message, though he may have pregnant remarks to utter on the state of Russia. But whether he talks on education, on the reconciliation of the cultures of the world, on the menace of nationalism, there will be uppermost the reflection of his own goodness of heart, his own loftiness of ide: his own modesty. Alone though he may move, there is no detachment from world events. But it is his nature to convert fact into spiritual meaning, to ask of events spiritual results. And when these are obtained he offers them up on the altar of a very devout faith in eternal law and order. What He Is Like. If you go to hear Tagore, you will discover in him what you find in these lines from “Gitanjali”: Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow, do- mestic walls; ‘Where words come out from the depths of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action— Into_that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake, This is my prayer to Tee, my Lord— strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love. fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knee before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to Thy will with love. This is the message of the East to the West as personified in Rabindra- nath Tagore—Nobel Prize winner—now on his way for probably his last visit to America. Spanish War Veterans He brings to us no sen-! Why I'm an American ____(Continued From First Page) Harte and Poe, Emerson and Longfel- low. When I set foot on the soil of the United States I had been an American for 15 years. I did not find the America I had come to. I looked in vain for the spirit of Jefferson and Lincoln and the senti- mental vigor of Whitman. No one talked of them. Some had never heard their names. I had pictured a repub- lic in which every individual felt self an integral part of it and was ani- mated by a passion to extend its vir- tues over the whole world. But no one I met seemed to be interested in any one else but himself; their own imme- diate welfare even at the expense of the rest of the po‘)ull."on. ‘When I spoke too passionately about my American ideals I was put down either as a fool or as a dangerous alien. People Were Disappointing. And so I, who had come here spe- cifically to become a citizen of my dream country, began to hesitate, to waver, unable to make up my mind and join the humdrum mass of the brain less multitude. A deep chasm separated us. They had come here for food and had found it. I had come here for a fulfillment and had not found it. I was selzed by a passion to con- tribute something of myself to the de- velopment of the country. It seemed to me that that was the only way to be- gin to understand and be understood. ‘We went to live on & small farm near New York. I insisted on producing the vegetables for our table, and taught my little boys to use a spade as soon as they were big enough to hold one in their hands. The first Summer over, I looked about for some work and was happy to find employment as a riveter's helper on the Manhattan Bridge in New York. Those four months of passionate work on that steel structure remain as one of my most cherished experiences in life. I was in love with that bridge. I was in love with the flowing river un- der my feet. Every rivet I helped drive into the rails gave me the voluptuous ecstasy of a religious rite. I was happy. I was building a bridge connecting two cities. There would be other bridges to connect two countries; two worlds. Spiritual bridges. And on them I should drive in rivets. * ‘Worked Against Strike. I drowned my first disillusionment about the people. The harder I worked the more I had to endure; because of the intense cold (from the poor pay I received I had not been able to buy adequate clothes), the more I liked it. Alas! This physical, religious ecstasy did not last long. I got into hot wa- ter with my fellow workers, who in- tended to strike for more pay. I fully recognized the justice of their claims; which also should have been mine. In my broken English I tried to explain to them that the construction of the bridge, the adding of that bridge to the country’s wealth, the building of some- thing permanent, should stand higher than the few more cents that they wanted. They howled me down. “Shut up.” “Who the hell pays you to say that?” ‘Stupid greenhorn.” To me it was a bridge. To them it Meetings This Week. Monday, Lawton Camp, Pythian ‘Temple, 1012 Ninth street; Astor Camp, Stanley Hall, U. 8. Sol- dlers’ Home. Friday, Dewey Camp, Northeast Temple, Eighth and F _streets northeast; Miles Camp, Pythian ‘Temple. Monday, Dewey Auxiliary, Ma- sonic Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast. Friday, Miles Auxiliary, Pythian ‘Temple. Camp Visitations. Monday, Harden Camp visits Lawton at Pythian Temple. Friday, Pettit Camp, No. 3, visits Dewey at Northeast Templie. The meeting of Pettit Camp was called to order September 23 by Comdr. Charles A. Strobel. Karl Sherer, Eli G. A. Gaffield, Harry Odell, Fred D. Plerce and Fred H. Seitz were obligated by Comdr. Strobel. Walter B. Richard- son, Co. C, 4th Va. Infantry, was mus- tered into the camp. Members of Astor Camp were visitorg, Senior Vice Comdr. Forsyth_was in Charge of the delega- tion. Department_Comdr. Benjamin F. Motley, Past Department Comdr. Arthur H. League and Charles P. Gal- pin, department chief of staff, made addresses. Miles Camp met September 26 at Pythian Temple with Comdr. A. T. Jenkins in the chair. A committee consisting of G. F. McGillicuddy, Jere A. Costello, Lorin C. Nelson, Nelson B. Durfee and Elvin M. Luskey was ap- pointed to make arrangements for an open meeting of the camp. Clarence A. Belknap, P. D. C.; Charles W. Mc- Caffrey, P. D. C., and Jere A. Costello, P. D. C, were named a committee to consider and report upon amending cer- tain sections of the by-laws of the camp. The officers and members of Urell Camp paid a visit, Comdr. Jenkins, of Miles Camp, turned the gavel over to Comdr. Eshelman of Urell Camp during the remarks for the good of the order. Senior Vice Department Comdr. Samuel J. McWilllams, Senior Vice Comdr. Freeland and Comdr. Charles A. Strobel of Pettit Camp made addresses. Gen. Nelson A. Miles Auxiliary met September 26 with President Sue Adams in the chair. The auxiliary will hold a masque dance and bazaar Oc- tober 29 at Pythian Temple. Past President Minnie V. Murdock is chair- man of the committee. The auxillary will hold a rummage sale at 2014 Georgia avenue November 13 and 14. Marine Corps Notes Maj. John Quincy Adams, 3d, scion of the famed Adams family of New England which gave to the White House two Presidents, innumerous minor offi- cials, as well as the present Secretary of the Navy, will shortly report to Quantico for duty. Capt. John W. Thomason, jr., will proceed to the Far East, where he is to report for duty with the Marine de- tachment of the American Legation Guard, Peiping, China. Pirst Lieut. Willlam G. Manley, here- { tion, Hampton Roads, Va. has been ordered to duty with the East Coast Expeditionary Force, Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va. Chief Quartermaster Clerk Burns D. Goodwin, heretofore attached to the West Coast Expeditionary Base, at San Diego, Calif., has been ordered to corps | headquarters, this city. ‘The Junior Marine Corps Examining Board, having found the following | named commissioned officers of corps fully qualified for promotion, ac- cordingly has recommended them to the grades indicated: Captain, Rees Skinner; first lieutenant, Albert L. Gardner and Harold D. Harris, and chief marine gunner, Horace Talcot. ‘The Senior Marine Corps Examining | Board will shortly convene at corps headquarters, this city, to examine com- missioned officers of the corps who are due for promotion to the grade of f‘nlwlnyel and leutenant colonel, respec- vely. | Woman Cuts New Teeth at 93. PITTSBURGH, Octobér 4 (NAN.A). —Feeling sharp pains under her false teeth, Mrs. Margaret Burns visited a dentist and was told a new the process of she feels was work. Hard word. They won the strike. I was discharged. “When you get another job keep your mouth shut,” the foreman advised ain't Europe. See. Bitterness against my fellow men en- gulfed my enthusiasm. They were un- worthy to live in the country that had fi!n birth to Lincoln and Jeflerson. ey were bad Americans. They had come for jobs only. But where were the good ones? I did not meet them, though I looked for them. I only met people of other countries who had come here because there was more bread and meat than in their home lands. I was a fool and did not understand the change that had taken place since the death of my heroes. Became Mill Laborer. ‘When the years required to acquire citizenship were up I hesitated again. I could not accept things as they were, and almost belleved that my America, the old America, had ceased to exist. T went to work in a worsted mill up- State as a laborer. I wanted to know whether the people of other cities were different from the ones in New York. The mill owner, a Mr. Doubleday, took a fancy to me when he discovered that I spoke French and played the piano, and he offered me a better position. He invited me to his home to make the acquaintance of his lovely daughter. ‘They received me warmly in that lux- urious home, but they looked at me with suspicious curlosity.- They could not | understand why I should prefer working | in the mill for $10 a week when I could | draw twice as much doing easler work in the office! I tried to explain this to Mr. Doubleday. I tried to make him understand my desire to become a con- crete part of the lives of the people of the country I lived in. I could not do that in the office, checking goods or figuring costs or typing letters. I re- member his shaking his.head benev- olently and telling me: “You don’t look like a fool, but you act like one.” Fired for His Ideas. A few days later he expressed himself | more freely. Standing beside me at the machine, he sald: “I have come to think that you have other ideas than the ones you express. I am afraid you will prove a dangerous element in this factory when you will talk about your ideas to other people. I like you. My daughter likes you, despite your queer fdeas . . . but"— That Saturday night there was a lit- tle note in my pay envelope. My serv- ices were no longer required. It was February. In Jamestown. The snow was knee high. I had $10 in my pocket. ‘The years that followed did not dl minish my passionate search for Amer- ica. Accidentally I discovered one day in a cafe Horace Traubel, Walt Whit- man's friend and biographer and the editor of the Conservator. I have frequently tried to recapture in spirit the hours we spent together across a table in that little cafe. He talked about “Walt” and I listened. The hours stretched themselves frequently till the following dawn. He used to live at the Brevoort Hotel when he was here. My home was in the heart of the sixties. While the street lamps were being ex- tinguished I would march him down to his hotel. After we had shaken hands at his door he would suddenly decide to see me home. He still had something to tell me. I felt obliged to see him home again when we arrived at my door. We would do that until breakfast time. ‘Then he would go home to sleep and I would go to work. Dear Horace! The childish blue eyes. The snow-white hair. The florid face. And that bell- like voice. I see you now. Persuaded to Write. It is chiefly due to Traubel that I turned to writing. I told him some stories. “Any damn fool can drive rivets in bridges,” Traubel said, “but we know nothing of the things you are telling me. Why don’t you put them down on paper if you want to contribute some- thing to thir ~ountry?” And it was in this spirit ti:at T wrote my first stories and my first essays to appear in the Conservator. ‘Writing about the people of my home- land awakened in me a terrible longing to return to it. Traubel smiled. “Go. Go. You will come back with more stories.” ¢ 1 sailed home. Perhaps I did have the intention to help realize in the country of my birth what had not been realized in the country I had wanted to adopt. I don't know. I became a much more tolerant American on my return. I be- gan to talk in terms of “we” whenever I spoke to Americans. I began to feel that in spite of the intolerance and bigotry of some Americans, in spite of racketeering, “we” were still nearer the ideal than my people across the sea. for the first time. My emotion, when I swore allegiance to the country, could on’R' be compared to the emotion with whidh I drove the rivets in the rails. If there were defects in the administra- tion of the country, I had now the right to see them corrected; the same ht as the others had. Instead of preac) against them I now had the right to fight the wrongs. No one had the right whers 1 belonged When & swoke me socie wl 1Ty 3 belonge spoke or wrote Road to Happiness. ‘When I applied for citizenship I felt that I had contributed enough’m my hosts to entitle me to a voice in the management of the house I lived in. I had given at least as much as I had taken. I had given more than 20 years of work and will and passion, wholly and unreservedly, for the bread I had eaten and the shelter I had had. I did not obtain citizenship because it was expedient, because it was a necessity. 1 have never believed in “ubi bene, ibi patria”—where you are well off, there is your fatherland. I believed this country to be on the road leading to freedom, to happiness. I was on the road myself as one of them. I live in Connecticut. I own a home and farm there. Like most old Con- necticut farms my land is squared out and surrounded by as many gray stone walls as there are acres. I have al- ways hated walls, I have decided a hundred times to tear some of them down. I would have done so had not a friend of mine, to whom I spoke about it, sald: “These lovely old walls are part of our Connecticut. I love them. Your walls are beautiful. I look at them every time I pass by your road. Don't you dare tear them down.” There is a wide lawn in front of the house. On it stand many beautiful old maple trees that spread their noble branches until the leaves of one tree touch the leaves of the other. But the | lawn doesn't do well. There is too much shade. 1 have tried different kinds of seeds and I have listened to the advice of specialists who sold me chemicals to help the grass grow in the shade made by the trees. The grass won't grow. I finally decided to cut 8 few trees down in order to get suf- ficlent sunshine on the ground. Couldn’t Cut Trees, The land belongs to me, I ¢an do, as I please. But when it came to actually cutting down the trees, I could not bring myself to do it. I was over- whelmed by the feeling that though I had contributed enough to entitle me to citizenship of the country, I had not contributed enough to entitle me to destroy what other people had pllnteg. Had these trees been on my father's lawn, in Rumania, had they stood there in the way of a beautiful lawn, I would have cut them down without hesitation. But I could not cut down the trees neither I nor my father had planted. And so they stand there. Beautiful. Magnificent. Pro- voking. Daring me. Undermining my fqlggéwmg:b:lnl Jny seAlbmurnnce. actions. as only trees ein be. B e taking down one of the walls I could not bear to look at the men who were taking the stones apart. It seemed to me I saw reproach in their eyes. When I paid them for their m;rk&e:dtgheduneny feeling of brib- o ques thin o questionable gs I suppose that my children, after I KANN'S THIRTY-SEVENTH am gone, will have no hesitancy about the walls and the trees. They will tear down and cut down whatever they like . . . pointing to a little mound somewhere. The other day I read a review of my last book which began, “The new book by Konrad Bercovicl, the Ru- manian writer.” . . . It upset me more than I can tell. So I am going back for a little while to my homeland to find out whether I am a Rumanian or an American. When I return I shall either cut down those trees or . . . Royal Family Ends Vacation. TIRANA, Albania, October 4 (#)— King Ahmed Zog and the royal family arrived here today from the Summer palace at Durazzo, ) a garment. piece in English, French, ® matching numbered notches— the simplest, surest way to assemble REACHES BAGDAD Destination of British Woman Aviator Remains Mystery. BAGDAD, Irak, October 4 (#).—The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, British woman aviator, on a mystery flight, arrived here yesterday. She now is believed bound for Ause tralia. 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