Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1931, Page 48

By KATHLEEN NORRIS A man who has just spent seven months in one of the great European capitals has been teiling every one wro would listen that Europe is on the eve of another great war. Four countries, according to this man, are arming, ready to mobilize. It seems a little soon; usually a generation has to pass before men are ready for war again. But things move fast in these days It has happened before; it may ..appen again We women look on in sorrowful surprise—and sometimes, if we are middle-aged, as 1 am, and remember s:veral wars, as I do—in bitter amusement. Life has handed its bést plums to the male sex, by all the blological laws. And the stupid male sex, plunging gayly into wars, and more wars, more than re-establishes the balance, and gives the women the best of it, in the long run. Nowadays women do gain something by wars. They hate and fear them, they protest against them—but just the same, when the machinery starts, it is the women who come out the best They gain jobs and independence. They gain self-confidence and freedom for self-expression. They run the world when the men are away. There are manifold positions for them as soon as a war starts; the dull round of housekeeping c:ds Perhaps in those earlier wars women did really sit at home and weep, and pack comfort kits, and praise the ncile men who were defending them and their homes and children. But nowadays women know that there is no glory and no reason in war; chauvinists make it, profiteers put up money for it, propagaiidists frighten nations into it. So trat the modern woman—after she has done her desperate best to dissuade her beloved son and husbind from this insanity—may feel herself justified in reaping whatever harvest war brings her. if war comes again. She, freed from housekeeping, from childbearing, will find herself & successful manager, writer, actress, buyer, seller. Well, let's watch this war situation. Let's unite—we American women —into one great, insatiable body asking “Why?” Wky are they mobilizing, what are they trying to do? A California the other day, and has been telling every one who would listen, even since, that Europe is real and angry, dear. I'm so sorry. Won't you let me telephone your mother, and e: plain how it all happened? Won't you forgive this little boy, Daddy, becaus he truly forgot—" and there is peace, there is harmony and understanding MAN who has just spent seve months in one of the great European capitals returned to THE SUNDAY S [Luncheon 1s Planied By Mr. and Mrs. Emery In Honor of Daughter | |Cards for Tea Tomorrow Afternoon Sent Out by Mrs. Bloedorn., Mr. and Mrs. James Augustine Emery, who are presenting - their daughter. i Miss Alice Suzanne Emery, at a tea to be given at their home, 101 East Melroce street, Chevy Chase, on December 8, will entertain at & lunchecn for her on November 19 in the palm court of the Mayflower. |cards for a tea at the Hay-Adams House tomorrow from 4 to 6 o'clock. | Assisting wili be Mrs, Wilillam D. West, Mrs. Richard LaGarde, Mrs. James M Kennedy, Mrs. Robert - M. Kennedy, | Mrs. George A. Lynch and Mrs. John V. White, who will alternate at the tea table. Mrs. hostess ot the dinner dance at the Shoreham last night. Her guests were Col. and Mrs. Edward Schulz, Col. and Mrs. Raymond Bamberger, Col. and Mrs. Garnett, Col. and Mrs. Walter R. Pick, Col. and Mrs. Brady G. Rutten- | cutter, Col. and Mrs. Francis B. Wilby, Maj. and Mrs. Cleveland C. Gee, Maj. and Mrs. Richard T. Coiner, Maj. Ed-| ward Roth, Capt. and Mrs. Hoops, Lieut. and Mrs. John B. Hughes, Miss Mary Fechet. Miss Caroline Schulz, _Miss Dorothy Gould Fowler, Miss Pansy Bloomer, Mr. Edgar Davis, Mr. Bollott | Dent, Mr. Gene Graham, Mr. Donald | Kilmore, Mr. Norman Kilmer. Mr. Wal- ter Pick and Mr. Rixey Smith. Gildersleeve luncheon yesterday at Gunsfon ®all in honor " of Mrs. Matthew Elting Miss entertained at AR, Mrs. Walter A. Bloedorn has sent out | | Miss Bessie Smith, Miss Helen | Beverly WASHINGTON, D. evening at the Club Chantecler sul dance in compliment to Miss Clara Lutz Bolling, whose marriage to Mr. Harry R. Fowler took place yesterday. Mrs. John M. Scott entertained a dinner party at Pierres on November 53, following the wedding of her sister, Miss Evelyn Mooney, and Mr. Danilo L Levandowsky. | _Miss Harriet Whitford and Miss Katharine Martin will entertain at the dinner dance at the Shoreham .tomor- |row evening in honor of Miss Sara | Worthington and Dr. Robert Lord Holt, | | whose marriage will take place Thurs- | day. > | Mr. John Donnelly was host to a group Friday evening at the supper dance at the Club Chantecler. " | Birtl’\da’v Anniversary Celebrated by Friends An enjoyable evening was spent at| the home of Mr. George B. Smith, 4553 | Conduit road, Wednesday, November 4, the occasion being the celebration of his 75th birthday anniversary. He was as- sisted in receiving by his daughter, Miss | Belle Smith. Miss Helen Fay Smith| entertained with her fancy dancing, | and Mr. Stephen J. Garrity rendered several piano - solos. | The spacious living room was dec- orated with pink chrysanthemums and | Hoover roses end yellow chrysanthe- mums were used in the dining rooms. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs, Harry Coffelt, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Garrity, Mr. and Mrs, Edward Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hartman, Mr. and Mrs. Gmrg‘ Smith, jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.| O'Brien, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wylle Smith, Miss Mary Rebecca Smith, Miss | Maigaret O'Brien, Miss Anna Smith, | Miss Carrie Smith, Miss Helen Smith, Fay Smith, Miss Catherine Smith, Miss George Smth, Mrs. Rose 8 Houchins, Mr. Everett Jeffries, Mr. Ed- ward O'Brien and Mr. Edwin Hartman. C, NOVEMBER 8, 1 Two Members Added To Gtoup slaonsorin( — ARl THREE. Engagement Interests Society Here and Abroad | - | Of ‘interest to soctety was the en-| Philharmonic Concerts{gagement recently announced of Helen, Mrs. Warren Delano Rob- bins and Mrs. James Dunn Join Committee. Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, wife of Rep-. resentative Bacon of New York, and} chairman of the committee of women who sponsor the New York Philhar- monic-Symphony Orchestra’s appear- ances in the National Capital, an- nounces two new members in her com= mittee for the current season. Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins, wife of the ceremonial officer of the White House and chief of protocal in the State Department, and ._James Dunn, wife of the chief of the Division of Interiationai Conferences, also of the State Department, are the new mem- bers of this committee. Other members, who have served on the committee previous in years and are continuing this season, ‘are: Mrs. Chester Bolton, Mrs. William Butter- worth, Mrs. Bayard Cutting, Mrs. Wal- lace Dempsey, Mrs. Charles Eaton, Mrs. John H. Gibbons, Mrs. Laura G. Harian, Miss Elizabeth Butler Howry, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Mrs. Adolph Cas- | par Miller, William D. Mitchell Mrs. Edwin B. Parker, Mrs. James S Parker, Mrs. Bertrand Snell, Mrs. Law- rence Townsend and Mrs. Frederick C. FURS Remodeled } | | on the eve of another greal war. Four countries, according to this man, are arming, ready to mobilize. He has all the details quite pat: what this country will do, what that who can depend upon whom as an ally It reminded me—his wild and fear- ful talk—of our panics of 1915, when every person with a trace of foreign pooent was a spy. every ripple upon the waters of Long Island Sound was made by an enemy submarine, and when Germany, cpposed by all her neighbors—France, Belgium, Russia Haly. England—was nevertheless some how going to come over here eand cap- ture us. oo, and put us all into bond- age. R sLKtle Switzerland, little Holland, microscopic Luxembourg, right in the smoke and the noise of battles, sat tight, and came out with currency un- impaired, and intornational integrity sound. But we—great and powerful and distant America, with an ocean be- tween us and the fighting—t-embled in our shoes. Ignorance and fear ruled us, as they always must, or there could be no wars. Now perhaps they are organizing again that form of ignorance and fear called “propaganda.” It seems a litile soon; usually a generation has to pass before men are ready for war again. But thints move fast in these days, and there really may be four Euro- pean nations already discussipg the new war. Sometimes demoralized cial conditions, “hard times” dr: countries into wi s kill off thou. sands of the unemployed, and creaie employment for thousands more. * % ok x ULERS who are embarrassed by the present painful after-war problems migh. v 1! hop~ t7 distact their peo. ples by frech bursis of martial music, Iresh inundations of flegs fresh material and wifely exi gleeping ba: it may happen again. . ‘We women look on in sorrowful sur- prise—and sometimes, if we are middlec- aged, as I am, and remember several wars, as I do—in bitter amusement. Life has handed its best plums to thz male sex, by all the Liological laws. And the stupid male sox, plunging | gayly into wars, and more wa.s, moie than re-establishes the balance, and | g.ves the women the best of it, in the long run. Because, nowadays, women do gain something by wars. They hate and fear them, they protest against them— but just the same, when the machinery sta:is, it is the women who come out the best, They gain jobs and independence. | They gain scli-confidence and freedom | for s2ii-expression. They run the world, when the men are away. Women are | no Jonger airaid of hunger, just because | a husband drops out of the scheme.| There are manifold positions for them, | as so0n as a war starts; the duil round | of housekeeping ends. There are al- ways other men, dances, war bazaars, excitements, possibilities. Thousands .of men perfectly capable of fighting al- ways stay home and make things | agreeable for the war-widows. Four men of my acquaintance were met at | the dock when they returned in 1919 from 18 months of cold, hunger, fear, pain, petty officialdom, privations, hu- miliations, and in two cases, gassing and wounds in the war zone, by cheer- | ful, well-fed women who promptly an- nounced a change of mate. They had not been entirely idle, during those months of widowhood and war. * VoL P ERHAPS it was different a few hun- dred yeers ago, when a King Louis tcok two provinces from Aust.ia, so that Napolcon could win them back France, so that William I could re win them to the new Germany, in 1870, 2nd France gain thcm still again, to the enormous delight of Monsizur Poin- care, in 1918. Scrhaps in thes: ecarlier wars women ¢id really sit at home and weep, and pzck comfort kits, and praise thz noble men who wcre defending them and their homes and children. But nowadays women know that there is no glory and no real reason in war; chauvinists make it, profiteers put up money for it, and propagandists frighten nations into it. Women know that the only winners of today's wars are the noncombatants; winner and loser alike are paying the cruel cost of the 1914-1918 madness. Property values in Alsace-Lorraine were not shaken by Louis Treize, by Napoleon, by Willlam I, by Field Marshal Foch, but marks and lire and francs all went down in the after-war crashes together. So that tho modern woman—after she has donc her desperate best to dis- suade her oeloved son and husband from this insanity—may fecl herself justified in reaping whatever harvest war brings her, if war comes again. 7The men who will enlist, who will not think nor reason nor wzit for exp.ana- ticns, will come back to her broken, sged, disillusion=d. or in those coffins that the flu epidemic piled like fire- wood in our camps. But she, freed from housckeeping, from childbearing, from constant loyal wifely care of, and help of. her mzn, will fird hersell a successful manager, writer, actress, buyer, sell-r. o FTHE last great war, according to an eminent English authority, =2d- vanced the cause of womer 400 years in 52 short months. ocusiness, from *%e —zale point of view, never has re- covered. Women are intrenched as money-earners; they have become all but completely independent where mar- riege and divorce are conccrned. What men got out of war, what permanent gain accrues even from the most “rightecus” war, women never can see. But what women gain is plainly to be seen on all sides. Churches ought to thunder denuncia- tions against war—not this or that one, but all wars. Moral leaders ought to dust off that long-ago command: “For- give your enemies; do good to them that hate you.” Love is an irresistible w n: we women know that. It works in the nursery, with the babies; 4t works with the tired, weary man of the house when he comes home cross. a,mld back at him, and the fat is in e fire. Bub say, “You have a right to be » . once wore. War breeds war. But love, apology, humility, kindness, as a return for hate have a more pitiless, a devastating force No nation will accept even the slightest affront to its pride without ictaliation But no nation could return an overture | of love, confidence, forgiveness with any. thing less. We're all afraid. We want to be n: afraid. We want to belive that tk other nations trust us, but. we're afraid to say so, and they are even more afraid —and no one will make the first move. >k ok % ELL, let’s watch this war situation. And when we see just what the nations are about, let’s unite—w> Ameri- can women—into one great, insatiabl bodv asking “Whj Why are they mobilizing, what are they trying to do? Ask your husband, your club, your news- aper, your Representative and Senator. There has never been an answer: the | may be. sothe day, but there never h: - For example: That an archduke and archduchess we never saw and didn't care a nickel abyit were assassinated |in an unknown place called Sarajevo | certainly wasn't any reason for us, a | gistant democracy, to sacrifice our boy |and our reason. | You won't get any answer, but the | war torrent may sweep on in spite of | you, and the whole sickening business | of bluff and bunk and lies and fear and ignorance be to do again | " In that case, let us réjoice that we are women. Life doesn't give us too many breaks. Let us be glad that when | we have talked, and cried, and prayed curselves hoarse, only to find the shop- | keepers, the banks, the men, the | churches, all against us—that then we can have milk toast for supper if we like it, forgive the children for coming late to meals, without a scene, organize 2 budget, that cigarcttes and bootlg liquor do not disrupt, and generally con- gratulate ourselves upon the new posi- tion of women in war. (Copyright, 1931) Mr. and Mrs. Altmann Have Anniversary Surprise Sunday_evaninz, November 1, Mr and Mrs. Lois Altmann were very pless- antly surprised al their homs, 211 Twelfth street southeast, by & party of friends, the occasion being their twent: fifth wedding arniversary. A moc wedding was staged, and Mr. and Alrs Altmann received the congratulaticns of their friends ir the same room in which they were married 25 years »go. They were the recipients of a beaut silver coffee urn. Covers were laid I 17, the guests be.ng Mr. and Mrs. L A.' 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