Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1933, Page 24

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. The inauguration of a new President nevitably recalls the history of the Post Office Department, that branch of the Government which is of par- ticular interest to philatelists. Among the ancients, according to II Samuel, xviii.19 ard Esther viil.10, news was conveyed by runners or by mounted posts. The earliest mention of carrier pigeons is that in the “Metamorphoses” of Ovid, where a pigeon, stained purple, is represented as bringing notice of the victory of Taurosthenes in the Olympic games. According to Xenophon, Cyrus the Elder of Persia, established the first recorded postal system, about 509 B.C. He caused couriers, with saddled horses, to stand ready at different stations throughout the empire, situated at on> day’s journey from each other, in order to receive reports from the provinces without delay. In Julius Caesar’s time the service of couriers in the portions of the Roman dominions under his control was so ‘well organized that of two letters which he wrote from Britain to Cicero in Rome, the one reached its destination in 26 and the other in 28 days. There certainly was an efficient postal system in the Rome of the Emperor Augustus, about 31 B.C. The Emperor Diocletian is credited with setting up the first Dostal system for the use of private persons, as distinct from public of- ficials, generals in the fleld and other officers. Theodoric the Great had a well ar- ranged postal system for communica- tion with his territories, and Charle- magne also had an effective arrange- ment of posts in his day. The first letter-post in Europe, how- ever, was that set up in the Hanseatic towns in the early thirteenth century. Near the close of the same hundred years the University of Paris maintained couriers who took charge of letters and | money for delivery throughout France and adjacent countries. Louis XI es- tablished for his own royal use & mounted post, and instituted post sta- tions on the chief roads of the realm, about 1464. During the reign of Louis XIII there was an officer known as eomptroller general of posts, and pre- sumably he presided over a compre- hensive system for the transmission of mails. It is said that post-paid enve- lopes were in common use in the time of Louis XIV. They were the invention of one De Valayer, who, under Royal suthority, developed a private penny- post in Paris. Boxes were placed at the corners of the main thoroughfares I:ho{nthde reception of letters to be trans- ed. Roger I, count of Thurn, Taxis, and Valsassina, in the second half of the Fifteenth century established a postal $ystem in the Tyrol between Germany nd Italy. His son set up another from russels to Vienna in 1516 at the re- ‘uest of the Emperor Maximillian I. here was a post between Vienna and Nuremberg in 1522, and Charles V, anxious to have news as speedily as pos- sible from distant portions of his states, ordered a permanent riding Eosc from the Netherlands through mmxe, k"l‘re‘;es."ipil;)e and Rheinhausen, rougl urttemburg, Augsbu T}TT‘:II o Il.ally. g gsburg and e postal history of Italy began at Pledmont. Until 1561 the transmission of letters was intrusted to the com- munes or private individuals, who were authorized by the state to charge for the service. In the year indicated the posts were farmed out to a post- master general, by Emmanuel Phili- bert, Duke of Savoy. This arrange- ment was continued until 1697, when Victor Amadeus II added the proceeds of the post office to the revenue of the crown. After 1710, the post office Was administered directly by the state. In England there were private posts In the reign of Edward III. Later the name of Sir Brian Tuke, designated “Magister Nunciorum Cursorum sive Postarum,” is_mentioned and those of €ir William Paget, John Mason and Thomas Randolph occur in connection vith postal business. The last of these ‘worthies was known, in 1581, as chief postmaster of England. The office of ciief postmaster for foreign parts was created by James I in 1619 and Matthew de Quester was appointed to the position. The first resurnor system of internal posts was proclaimed by Charles I in 1635. He commanded that there be “a running post or two, to run night and day betwen Edin- burgh and London, to go thither and come back again in six days.” In 1644, Edmund Prideaux, a member of the House of Commons, was appointed master of the posts, and first estab- lished a weekly conveyance of letters into all portions of the nation. A penny-post was organized in London end vicinity in 1681, by Robert Murray. Its revenues were annexed to the crown in 1690. A general post for the British colonies was in effect by 1710. Such was the background against which the postal system of the United States developed. The first ' date of importance in the story of the North American t office is 1639. In that year the General Court of Massachu- setts ordered ‘“that notice be given that Richard Fairbanks, his house in Boston, is the place appointed for all letters, which are brought from beyond the seas, or are sent thither, to be left with him gnd he is to take care ihat they are "to be delivered or eent, according to direction, and he is allowed for every letter a penny and he must answer all messages through his | neglect of this kind.” A postal system was established in Virginia in 1657. “The Colonial law required every planter to provide a messenger to con- vey the dispatches, as they arrived, to the next plantation, and so on, on pain of forfeiting a hogshead of to- bacco for default.” In 1672 the govern- ment of New York estabiished a mall to go monthly to Boston. The Gen- eral Court of Hartford enacted laws in 1674 to regulate the postal gervices in Connecticut. William Penn set up a post office at Philadelphia in July, 1683, and opened mail routes between that city and the larger towns of Penn- sylvania and Maryland. But the beginning of the American post proper dates from the signing of 8 patent vesting Thomas Neale with postal jurisdiction, February 17, 1691. On April 4, the same yeer, Neale and the royal postmaster general appointed Andrew Hamilton Postmaster General of America. He was required to establish an intercolonial post. He visited all the Colonies and secured from all except Virginia pledges of co-operation. The service began May 1, 1693, and consisted of weekly posts from Portsmouth, N. H, to n, Saybrook, New York, Philadelphia, Maryland and Virginia, five riders to cover each of the five stages twice each week. Hamilton +died in 1703 and was succeeded by his son, John Hamilton. From 1707 to the outbreak of the Revolution the general post office in London_controled the system in America. Mail moved _weekly between Boston and Maine in 1711 and between New York and wnumburg: Va., in 1717. There was a fortnightl service bnw;;% Philadelphia and An- napolis in 1727. .‘A” new chapter was opened with the eppointment of Benjamin Franklin as deputy ter in America, 1737. Sixteen years later he was named post- master general with Col. Willlam Hunter. The printer-philosopher made a tour of all the post offices in his jur- isdiction, omitting only Charleston. Difficulties with Gov. Hutchinson of Massachusetts in 1774 resulted in his STAMP DEALERS. STAMP ALBUMS Cloth Bound, $1.00, an: s ts, Packets, Ftc. MASON, 918 F N.W. Sets, HARRY B.MASO NW. " H. A. ROBINETTE Ing ir "-.g‘ bt N Free Prive List. | dismissal. But the system which he had developed survived him, and when the Continental post office department was created, with headquarters at Philadelphia, he was elected postmaster general and resumed charge, July 26, 1775, He was succeeded by his son-in- law, Richard Bache, November 7, 1776. In 1782 Ebenezer Hazard was named to the place. The Continental Congress authorized the establishment of a line of posts be- tween New Hampehire and Georgia “and to such other places as Congress might direct.” Rates of postage, fixed by law, were: Single letters, under 60 miles, 7.4 cents; 60 to 100 miles, 11.1 cents; 100 to 200 miles, 14.8 cents; and 3.4 cents additional for each 100 miles. ‘The revenues of the 10 principal post offices for the year 1790-1791 were: Baltimore, Richmond, Va., $1,472; Alexandria, ericksburg, Va., $1,059; $1,016; and Charleston, S. C., $810. The First Congress of the United States convened, March 4, 1789. On February 20, 1792, it passed an act to reorganize the post office system and to extend franking privileges to members of Congress. The Second Congress pro- vided that “letter carriers are to be employed at such post offices as the Postmaster General may direct, for de- livery of letters, who may collect on each letter 2 cents, unless persons lodge in the post office a request that their letters be not delivered.” The date was May 8, 1794, and the act was not re- pealed until 1872, On March 3, 1797, it was decided that “all letters to George Washington be received ana conveyed by post during his life free of charge.” The postal laws were revised in 1799, and flogging substituted for the death penalty for robbing the mails. The franking privi- lege was extended to John Adams in 1801. In 1802 an act was passed to the effect that “mail between Peters- burg, Va., and Louisville, Ga., (should) go in medl coaches instead of on horse- back” A general post office had been mflm in Washington May 29, | In President Madison’s time the postal rates were changed. Single let- | ters were carried for from 8 to 25 cents, | depending upon distance. Sunday de- {livery was arranged in 1810, and vari- | ous religious bodles continued to pre | test to Congress against the “sacrileg | during the ensuing 20 years. Mails were | first carried by steamboat in 1813. New rates were placed in effect in 1816— | letters, consisting of one plece of paper, |not going over 30 miles, 6 cents; not ! over 80 miles, 10 cents; not over 150 miles, 12! cents; not over 400 miles, 1183, "cents; for greater distances, 25 | cents. These prices remained in force | until 1845. The Postmaster General became a cabinet officer in 1829. Mails were first transported by rail in 1834. The frank- ing privilege was granted to Dolly Madi- son in 1836. Every railroad was de- clared a mail route in 1838. Envelopes were introduced in 1839. A revolutionary reform came in 1843, | when postage stamps were officially | adopted by the cantonal government at Zurich, Switzerland, the first philatelic issues of the Continent. On March 3, 1847, the United States Post Office De- partment secured congressional permis- sion to issue stamps. Two denomina- tions were placed on sale—5 and 10 cent values representing Franklin and Washington, respectively, now collee- tors’ prizes. A new series appeared in 1851, and stamped envelopes in 1852, A registration system for letters was in- troduced March 3, 1855. Meanwhile the Pacific Coast towns had been linked to the East by a postal arrangement August 14, 1848, rate 40 cents for each letter. The first over- land mail ran from St. Louis to San Francisco in September, 1858. About the same date iron letter boxes were placed at street corners in Boston. General postage rates were reduced to 3 cents per one-half ounce for less than 3,000 miles March 3, 1851; and merchandise was admitted to the mails February 27, 1861. City carriers in New York were authorized in the last named year. A money order system was into operation November 1, 1864. Free delivery by uniformed carriers was called for under an act of June 8, 1872. The same bill provided for 1 cent postal cards, and they were placed on sale in May, 1873. A further reduction of letter rates was ordered March 3, 1883, and a special delivery system was insti- tuted March 3, 1885. The parcel post was established in 1912. In the century from 1800 to 1900 the number of post offices increased from /903 to about 70,000; miles of mail routes from 20,817 to about 500,000; and revenue from $280,000 to about $80,000,000. T}meu roster s:( Pmtmnl Osgob:? general is as follows: Samuel , Mass., ap- pointed 1789; Timothy Pickering, Mass., 1791; Joseph Habersham, Ga., 1795; Gideon Granger, Conn., 1801; Return J. Meigs, jr., Ohio, 1814; John McLean, Ohio, 1823; Willlam T. Barry, Ky., 1829; Amos Kendsall, Ky., 1835; John M. Niles, Conn., 1840; Francis Granger, N. Y, 1841; Charles A. Wickliffe, Ky., 1841; Cave Johnson, Tenn., 1845; Jacob Collamer, Vt., 1849; Nathan K. Hall, N. Y., 1850; Samuel D. Hubbard, Conn., 1852; James Campbell, Pa., 1853; Aaron V. Brown, Tenn., 1857; Joseph Holt, Ky, 1859; Horatlo King, Me., 1861; Montgomery Blair, 1861; William Dennison, Ohio, 1864; Alex- ander W. Randall, Wis,, 1866; John A. J. Creswell, Md., 1869; James W. Mar- shall, Va., 1874; Marshall Jewell, Conn., 1874; James N. Tyner, Ind., 1876; David McK. Key, Tenn., 1877; Horace Maynard, Tenn., 1880; Thomas L. James, N. Y, 1881; Timothy O. Howe, Wis., 1881; Walter Q. Gresham, Ind., 1883; Frank Hatton, Iowa, 1884; Wil- liam F. Vilas, Wis,, 1885; Don M. Dick- inson, Mich., 1888; John Wanamaker, Pa., 1889; Wilson S. Bissel, N. Y., 1893; William L. Wilson, W. Va., 1895; James A. Gary, Md, 1897; Charles Emory Smith, Pa., 1898; Henry C. Payne, Wis., 1902; Robert J. Wynne, Pa, 4; George B. Cortelyou, 3 Ind., 1921; Hubert Work, Colo., 1922; Harry 8. New, Ind,, 1923, and Walter F. Brown, Ohio, 1929. James A. Farley, N. Y., has been named as Postmaster General in the cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The administrations of President Coolidge and President Hoover were friendly to philately. The Philatelic Agency, established in 1922, under the patronage of President Harding, has proved invaluable to collectors. Stamp collectors in general owe a debt of gratitude to Warren Irving Glover, Becond Assistant Postmaster General, and to Michael L. Eidsness, superin- tendent of the division of stamps. To them especially is due the vest in- crease in interest in philatelic science during the past decade. It is expected that the work they initiated will be carried forward. . HEREDITY TO BE TOPIC Carnegie Institution Official Starts Lecture Series Tuesday. Dr. Albert F. Blakeslee, assistant di- rector, department of genetics, Car- negia Institution, will deliver the first of a series of three illustrated lectures ‘Tuesday night based on the institute's studies in heredity. ‘The other lectures, which will be free to the public, are scheduled for the nights of March 14 and 21. Specialists will describe their experiments and tell this field of research. seating caj .| Hotel, wi TH Chapter G, P. E. 0.—Mrs. Redwood Vandergrift was the honor guest at a luncheon given by Mrs. Clyde Aitchison at her home, 1920 S street in celebra- tion of her birthday. Mrs. Elmer S. Frazier, presented a program. A feature was the reading of sonnets by Thomas Moore, containing sentiments suited to Mrs. Vandergrift. ‘This was followed by a travel on Sardinis - a. ‘Guests who gave greetings from their respective chapters were Mrs. Homer Hoch, Chapter D. B, Marion, Kans.; Mrs. O. B. Burtness, Chapter D, Grand Forks, N. D.; Mrs. d 3 Ch?ur K, Osceola, Towa, and Mrs. W. 8. Culbertson, Chapter C, District of Columbia. Capital City Club.—The eighth birth- day banquet and dance was held at the Lee House Hotel. President Mrs. Frieda Miller was toastmistress. Speeches were given by Past Presidents Mrs. Guinetta Brennan ahd Mrs. Helen Streits, Secre- tary Mrs. Ruth Warren and Treasurer Ray Bryast. Gifts were presented to Mrs. Brenpan and Mrs. Streitz. At the meeting Mrs. Ida Teeple, Miss Fran¢es Tancill and Mrs. Mildred Leuhrs entertain. Mrs. Helen Streitz, Mrs. Stella Lewis and Mrs. Ber- tha Lewis entertained Saturday eve- ggm& when two applications were re- Ve Chapter M, P. E. 0., was entertained at the home of Mrs. C. E. Nelson, 2901 Connecticut avenue, February 21. The program was given by Mrs. C. A. Cor- nelson, who read a paper on Sir Joshua Reynolds, English portraii painter. The Washington Colony of the Na- tional Sociely of New England Women held its February meeting with the cor- responding secretary, Mrs. F. E. Upton. The hostess served refreshments sug- gestive of St. Valentine's day. The March meeting will be at the of the registrar, Miss Antoinette Peterson, 815 Webster street northwest. Mrs. Gilbert Leslie Lewis of Roches- ter, N. Y., president general, has issued the call for the twentieth annual con- ess to held at Hotel Seneca, hester, N. Y., April 30 to May 3. The unopposed candidate for president general is Mrs. PFrederick Starr Pen- dleton, former president of Brooklyn Colony, an educator and lecturer. The Takema Park Women's Club will meet in the library March 7, at 1 o'clock. Luhcheon will be served to members apd guests. The hostess, Mrs. Ethel Lamond, will be assisted by Mrs. Quinn,] Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Phoebus, Mrs. Howaxd, Mrs. Siegler and Mrs. Lampson. iss Blanche Halbert, re- search director of Better Homes in America Association, will speak on “The Practical Significance of the President’s Housing Conference.” ‘The French department will meet Monday night in the library. A special meeting of the music de- partment will be held at the home of Mrs. Eugene Bond, 7222 Blair road, March 8. at 10 am. Guest artists, Richard Lorleberg, cellist; Grete von Bayer and Helen Grimes, planists, will give a program. Mrs. Norman McIndoo, chairman, will have the art department meet at her home, 7225 Blair road, for lunch- eon, March 9, at 1 o'clock. Mrs. Burr, Mrs. Proebus, Mrs. Colbert, Mrs. Smythe, Mss. Marshall, Miss Carleton, Mrs. W. H. Burk and Mrs. Kubach will be assistant hostesses. Mrs. Swiggert will be the speaker. The Writers' League of Washingion will meet in the Sears, Roebuck Art QGalleries, 1106 Connecticut avenue, Priday evening and will have as guest speaker Mis Myrta Ethel Cawood. Prizes were awarded in the poetry contest at the last meeting: Miss Anna M. Priestley, first; Miss Clara Mander- schied, secand: Miss Georgia Redway, third. Miss Priestley and Miss Redway read their prize poems. Mrs. L. W. Tilton and Miss Corinne Hay pead sto- ries and Miss Gladys Smith gave a one-act play. ‘The American Association of Univer- sity Women.—Dr. J. F. Schairer, super- viser of trails, Potomac-Appalachian Trail Club, will speak on “Mountain Trails and Mountain People of the Blue Ridge,” and will {llustrate his talk with colored and plain lantern slides, tomorrow _at 4 p.m. at the tea. Mrs. ‘Thomas D. Lewis will be the hostess, t | aasisted by members of the Southeast Central section: Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. The Education Committee will give a dinner Wednesday at 7 p.m. in honor | Mrs of the public schools of Washington. Dr. W. Carson Ryan, jr., of the Office of Indian Affairs, will speak. Miss Anne D. Halberg an Tuesday at 8 pm. will review “Pageant” and March 9 at 11 am. Mrs. Philip A. E. Stebbing. ers’ adviser in sociology at the Public Library, will speak on “Recent Social Trends in the United States,” with reference to the report of President Hoover's Research Council. The weekly “club night” will be held March 9, with Miss Margaret A. Mc- Mshon as hostess. A travel: lecture, sponsored by the Travel Grdup, will be given by Mrs. Mitchell Cprroll March 10, 8:15 pm. Mrs. Carral] will talk about “The Dalma- tlan Coast' and will iliustrate her lec- ture with lantern slides showing scenes on the Dalmatian coast. Vinton, chairman of the Travel Group, will be the hostess. Study group activities include Child Development Group Tuesday at 10 a.m. and the Contemporary Drama Group Friday at 11 am., with a discussion of dramatic current events by Mrs. John Deatherage, and & discussion of “Kindiing,” by Charles Kenyon, will be led by Mrs. Raymond Sanford. The Education Committce for the Drama Group will give a luncheon March 11 Bt 1:15 pm. Mrs. James Duane Livingston cf the faculty of the New York Bchool of the Theater will speak on “The Educational Use of the Dramatic Instinct.” Women's (Gulld of American Univer- sity.—The ual dinner will be held March 10 the Women's Residence erican University campus. vin Holt Hughes, acting . Mrs. Howard Nichols is At the meeting last week four new /members, Mrs. Henry M. Eakin, Mrs! Herman V. Schreiber, Mrs. A. C. Houghton and Mrs. Harlan Upde- graff, were! welcomed by the president, Mrs. P. M.|Anderson. Prof. Gewehr of sthe history department gave a talk on the crisis in the Far East. On Saturdhy a tea and food sale was held at the home cf Mrs. G. B. Woods by the Mps whose chairmen are Mrs. Arthur ht and Mrs. Wesley Gewehr. Chevy Chase Branch, National League of American Pen Women.—Mrs. Jennie Wright will entertain the members at her apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel March 7 at 3:30 pm. Miss Hester Walker Beall will have charge of the prog: k ‘The mel rs of the Nominating Com- mittee—Mrs. Jesse N. Nicholson, chair- man; Mrs, David McPherson and Mrs. Jennle Wright—will offer the slate of officers to be voted on. The election will take place in April. Alpha Zeta Chapter, Delphian So- ciety, met Priday at the Washington the president, Mrs. George N. Walker, in the chair. Mrs. A. C. Harden of San Francisco was wel- comed as & new member. The liter: ‘was under the leadershi| who spole on the varied character of Hebrew literature. Mrs. C. H. Curl gave a description of a trip through the Holy Land. “Hebrew Poetry” was dis- cussed byiMrs. Edwin L. Davis; “Wis- dom Literature,” by Mrs. R. Page Irv- ing; “The Song of Songs,” by Mrs.C.D. Backus, and the “Message of the Proph- ets,” by Mfs. George H. Milme. A mary of the lesson was given by E SUNDAY STAR Miss Ellen | S The Petworth Woman's Club will meet March 6, at 8 p.m., in the Pet. worth School. The literature section will have charge of the arrangements, Mrs. Ryan in charge of the program and Mrs. Waite, the refreshments. The Ben Murch Home and Schoel Association, of which Mrs. John Boyle, Jjr., is president, will meet Tuesday at 3 o‘zl«:‘:, in the Ben Murch School. Dr. Development of the Child. be served. All parents of the school are invited. Twentieth Century Club—The French section will meet tomorrow at 10:30 a.m., at the Y. W. C. A. The members will spend the morning writing letters in French. The international outlook section will meet tomorrow at 2:15 o'clock. Dr. Victor 8. Clark, consultant in econom- ics, the Library of Congress, will be the guest of honor, and will speak on “The Philippines—Old Phase and New.” Mrs. George Ricker, a member of the section, will report on recent events in Italy. ‘The music section will have a pro- gram Tuesday at 11 o'clock, at the Y. W. C. A. Mrs. Charles W. Fairfax will sing, and Mrs. Ralph Richards will play several selections on the ‘There- min,’ the ether wave instrument, later explaining the instrument. Mrs. Greta von Beyer will accompany Mrs. Rich- ards on the plano and will also give a group of piano numbers. All mem- :'r‘sd of the club and guests are in- ‘The nature section will have a trip about Chevy Chase and vicinity Wednesday. Meet at the lake at 10:30 a m. ‘The parliamentary law section will meet at the Y. W. C. A. Thursday at 11 o'clock. The civic section will meet Thuraday at 12:30 p.m. at the Y. W. C. A. Dr. Paul Everhardt, director of the Wash- ington Institute of Mental Hygiene, will speak on “The Child in the Home and School” For luncheon reserva- tions, telephone Mrs. McComas, Cleve- land 0733, or Mrs. Francis Goodwin, Columbia 5921, before Tuesday evening. Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, met February 24, at 808 I street northwest, the occasion being a | George Washington birthday party and reception to the commander of the De- partment of the Potomac, G. A. R, J. H. Shepard, and his staff; Mrs. Anna C. Horn, president of the department of the Potomac, Women's Rellef Corps, and her officers; Mrs. Charlotte M. Cary, natlonal junior vice president of the Women's Relief Corps, and James W. Lyons, national junior vice com- of the Civil War. Memorial exercises will be observed at the tomb of the Civil War unknown in Arlington National Cemetery today at 3 pm. The Cultus Club met February 28. Miss Karr was hostess. After luncheon the meenn: was called to order by the vice president, Mrs. Ralph Barnasl. Mrs. Willlam K. Ellis and Mrs. Amy Karr Benner were guests. A paper was fivenHI:{ Mrs. George W. Harris on “The 1 Towns of Italy.” The ?4“ will meet with Mrs. Clark, March The Alumnae Club will be hostesses at a tea today at the wom- en’s dormitory, No. 3, Howard Uni- versity, from 4 to 6 pm. ‘The first of a series of lectures. ar- ranged by the Adult Education Com- mittee, was February 20, for Garfleld School and Birney School groups at Birney School. _ Assistant Supt. of Schools H. H. Long discussed “The Anti-Social Child.” . F. Quan- der on February 27 discussed “Making the Home the Chief Interest of the Child,” at Francis Junior High School. ‘The same night at Military Road School, Dr. W. L. Washington discussed “Re- gonllflln of Father and Mother in e Training of the Child.” The next lecture is 8 at Randall Junior High 8chool. Dr. Alonso D. Smith of Howard University will discuss the “Mental Hyglene of Parenthood.” ‘The cast of the three-act comedy, “The Whiteheaded Boy,” annual achol- arship project, to be produced at Arm- strong Auditorium, March 11, includes: . Loulse C. Hill, Stewart Gee, F. Curle Montero, Mrs. Viola Smith, Miss Violetta Belden, Miss Helen Sparks, ‘William _Butcher, Prederick Phillips, Samuel Popel, Miss Lillian Washington, Mrs. Rose Clifford and Miss Audrey Moseley. The Ohio Girls’ Club invitations were canceled for a reception which was to have been held for Mrs. Willis, widow of the late Senator Frank B. Willls of Ohio, this afternoon at the Hotel Dodge. Mrs. Willis, who is the club’s sponsor, was called home suddenly last Thursday because of the very serious illness of her mother. The ninth annual banquet is March 11 at the Mayflower Hotel. Miss Leona Shields is chairman of the Ban- quet Committee, and Miss Grace E. Young, 2001 Sixteenth street, is in harge of reservations. Miss Anna Park is president of the club. ‘Lincoln Woman’s Relief Corps was Tepresented in the inaugural parade yesterday by Department President Mrs. Anna Homn, a past president of the corps; Patriotic Instructor Mrs. Cora L. Manoly; Color Bearers Mrs. Catherine Scott, Miss Ruth Scott, Mrs. Mary Mc- Keever and_Mrs. Josephine Grimsley; Mrs. Delia L. O'Brien and four other cars of the department staff. ‘The corps will meet tomorrow at ‘Woodmen’s Hall, 935 Grant place. The of the American Colonists held its February at the home of Mrs. J. Franklin Little, 1510 Varnum street, with the regent, Mrs. Willlam H. Wagner, presiding. Mrs. Charles Windle and Miss Inez Baldwin were received into the chap- ter. Mrs. Dowling, chairman of National Defense, made a report of the National Defense conference, recently held in w“hmrd n. The chap'&r‘ voted t?"lo on record as :Ypodn recognition of Soviet Russia. l&:.uen. nington, into the ealey M. | sisted pi to April 23, As the general assembly in- cluding the national board of the soci- ety will be in Washington at that time, the invitation will also be extended to Mrs, H. D. She of Hanover, Pa., made & special trip to Washington t‘? read papers on the early schools of Delega to the next convention were elected as follows: Mrs. Grace P. OQusler, Mrs. Pedro Capo-Rod- D. slu&hnd. Mrs. Alternate delegates: Brown, Mrs, W. Berryman and Mrs. ster. 1t was suggested by Mrs. Weeks that a club be formed to buy milk for an ary program d of Mrs. Louis A. Puckett, | ;o mander of the Sons of Union Veterans | ord | P. ts | “Can America Stay 1 . Tiffe; Trew; “Deeds of Augustus’ Ancestor” will be the subject presented by Mrs. Alex- der Bell. The summary will given by Mrs. J. K. Frelot. Election of officers will be March 22. Washington Readers’ Club. — Mrs. James F. Hartnett. hostess for the pro- March 7 in Plerce Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard streets, will present a one- act play, “The Last Rehearral.” Mrs. Mary Randolph Ruff, Mrs. }4ay Jame- son Bryant. Mrs. Callie C. Ison, Mrs. Helen B. Gordon, Willie O. Ison, Mrs. Maude Howell Smith, Miss Esther the | Marshman, Miss Rosemary Arnold, Mrs. Esther Waldron and Miss Townsend are in the cast. Louise The Washington Chapter of Daughters of the United States Army will meet at luncheon March 4 at the Madrillon Restaurant. The Receiving Committee will be Miss Isabel Cham- berlain, Mrs, J. M. Churchill, Mrs. B. G. Chynoweth, Mrs. Abram Claude, Mrs. Joseph Colquitt and Miss Marie Cook. Any daughter of a Regular Army offi- cer may call Mrs. L, M. Grant, 4831 Thirty-sixth street, for a reservation. The Zonta Club met Wednesday at the Y. W. C. A. Miss Evelyn Davis in- troduced the speaker, Watson Davis, director of Science Service. His sub- ject was “The Revolutionists in Indus- trial Science.” Miss Frances Chickering was the guest of Miss Hettle Anderson. Miss Jane Bartlett had as her guest Mrs. Burlinger, a lawyer in Washington. The Rainbow Club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Simpson, the meeting being opened by the president, Mrs. Ollie Montgomery. Plans were completed for a banquet, March 25, at Collier's Inn. The next meeting will be held March 13, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hixon, 825 Florida avenue northeast. Curley Club—A Mardl Gras costume dance was held Tuesday evening at the Continental Hotel. Frist prize, for the most beautiful costume, was won by Miss Slyviane Bernard; second, Miss Mary Zahn; Miss Margaret Pinn won first prize in a balloon-blowing contest. Miss Bernadine Nesline entertained the dramatic committee at her home, 620 Farragut street, February 24, when plans were outlined for a musical e tain members of the card club at her home, 937 Quincy street, tomorrow evening. At the last club meeting the Irish Players were guests, and gave an enter- tainment. Rev. Prancis J. Hurney, pas- tor of the Immaculate Conception Church, delivered the principal address. The club will meet next Thursday. Delta Sigma Chapter, Delphian So- clety, met Monday at the Shoreham Hotel, the president, Mrs. C. C. Cran- ston, presiding. The literary program on “Seventeenth Century Painters of Flanders and Holland” was lead by yes. Others on the pro- : “His Painting,” Mrs. eubens’ Qualities as Shown in His Masterpieces,” Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Braden ‘and Mrs. Snodgrass. Pictures by Rubens were exhibited and discuss- ed by Mrs. H. R. Hendricks. Puplls,” Mrs. P. J. Harmon; pictures by Van Dyck, discussed and exhibited by Mrs. David Bethune; “Dutch Painting of the Sixteenth Century,” Mrs. Ralph Smith; pictures by Hals, exhibited and | discussed by Mrs. William Ballinger. A summary of the lesson was given by Mrs. Cranston. ‘The next meeting will be March 20, with Mrs. H. R. Hendricks as leader. way Mail Association will hold a | Bakery, March 8 at 12:30 pm. A rum- | mage ‘sale is March 13 and 14. Call L. Marshall, so she can have rummage | collected. Catholic Daughters of America— Court D. C. 212 will meet at the Willard | Hotel Tuesday evening. In memory of the late James Car- dinal Gibbons, the court has accepted the invitation of the Curley Club to take part in the exercises March 19. Miss Kitty Ruppert, Mrs. Bess Costello and Miss Anna Murray have been ap- pointed to make arrangements. Mary C. Boland, grand regent, will present & wreath at the statue at Sixteenth and Park road. The annual retreat. from March 31 to April 2, with Right Rev. Willlam J. Hafey, bishop of Raleigh, Raleigh, N. C., and national chaplain of the Catholic Daughters of America, will be held at the Washington Retreat House. Miss Mary Ahern, chairman, announces reservations must be made on or be- fore March 7. An invitation has been extended to the members of other courts to take part in all the cere- monies of the retreat. The Drama Guild, under direction of Arthur White, will present “On the Third Day,” a religious drama, April 3, at Wardman Park under the patronage of the Catholic Daughters of America. Miss Grace Sprucebank, Miss Romona Raley and Miss Dorothy Bar- rett, all members of Court 212, are fea- tured players in this production. Beta Chapter, Phi Delta Gamma, National sorority of George Washington University, entertained Tuesday eve- ning at the home of Miss May Lee- snitzer, 1501 Webster street. The pro- | gram was as follows: Vocal selections, Misses Mary Pearce and Ellen Ander- son; recitation, Miss Nina Booth: tango number, Misses Dorothy Corson and Ellen Anderson; waltz number, Misses Dorothy Corson and Elise Wildman; guitar selections, Miss Christine Fas- sett; piano selections, Miss Janet Frost; novelty dance, Phi Delta Gamma cho- rus. District of Columbia League of Amer- ican Pen Women—Miss Elena de Sayn, chairman of music, will give & musicale in the studio, 1706 L street, March 9, at 8:30 o'clock. She will present Evelyn and Harlan Randall, both choral direc- tors and soloists; the American Univer- sity Male Quartet, including Emory Bucke, first tenor; Joseph Thomas, sec- ond tenor; Robert Parker, baritone, and Richard Tuve, basso, and Louise Bern- heimer, ‘cellist, of the Bernheimer Trio, and the Helen Ware String Quartet. ‘The exhibition of Mrs. Mary D. Daw- son’s water colors and pastels will open today in the studio. Mrs. Dawson's tea will be March 12th, from 4 to 6 o'clock. Those who -will assist her are Mrs. Louis A. Bauer, Mrs. W. T. Badge- ley and Miss Alma Winningham, The Social Club of Washington, Coun- cil Ladies of the U. C. C. of E.,, met with Mrs. Saul, with Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Pote assisting. The club will be enter- tained at the home of Mrs. Thomas Jones, Cherrydale, Va., March 8. The Sunshine and Community Society will meet with Mrs, Charles Bair, 1430 Holly street, March 6 at 1:30 p.m., with the following assistants: Mrs. H. A. Austin, Mrs. H. M. Hunter, Mrs. E. B, Merritt, Mrs, Suzanne Rauscher, Mrs. Parker Cook, Mrs. George Rose, Mrs. W. W. Taylor, Mrs. H. C. James and Mrs, Giles 8. Rafter. The speaker will Anna | be Mrs. John Otto Johnson and pianist Madame Louise Countinho, The card group will meet with Mrs. B. Littell, 3704 Porter street, Women’s City Club—open house is being observed today with a tea in honor of inaugural visitors and other distin- guished guests. Mrs. Robert E. Nelson will review at Home,” by TFrank Simonds, at the book hour Tues- day at 4:45. “Social Trends and the Family” will be discussed by Mrs. Basil Manly, Wed- nesday at 11 o'clock. An informal luncheon will follow. A meeting of the nominating com- ml_lt:: will be hcuwr"khwu at 7 pm. ‘meeting hour of the parlismentary 1aw section has been changed to evenings at 8 o'clock. The Helen WookCircle of the Flar- ence Crittenton Home was entertained presented following | Xtravaganza. Miss Bernadette O'Leary will enter- | “Rubens’ | The Women's Auxiliary to the Rail- | luncheon and card party at Corby's| Ways and Means Chairman, Mrs. W. /| Miss | and Mrs. WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 5, 1933—PART TW at luncheon by Mrs. A. H. Coster, | Ontario road, February 28. . Lan; y, reported ing at the home. Mrs. Frank W. Car- den presented a baby patch-work quilt to be given to the home by the circle. Columbian Women of George Wash- ington University.—Miss Clara W. Mc- Quown, ‘traveler and lecturer, will be the speaker at the meeting Tuesday afternoon, in Fellowship Hall of the Western Presbyterian Church. She will have as her topic, “Motoring Through Palestine and Syria. During the social from 4 to 4:30 Miss Elizabeth Peet, president, will receive with Miss McQuown. Mrs. Joseph W. Cox, chairman of the Hospitality Com- mittee, will be sassisted by Mrs. Edward H. Sehrt, Mrs. Earl Baldwin McKinley, Mrs. Willlam C. Van Vleck, Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, Prof. Anna Pearl Cooper and Miss Grace Viola Wright. At the tea table will be Mrs. Otto L. Veerhoff and Mrs. Paul Sperry. The literature section invited Colum- bian Women to join them March 14, at 4:30 at Lamble House, on the university campus, when Dr. Johr Donaldson of the university faculty, a political econ- omist of interrational reputation, will speak on “Technocracy.” The bridge section will be entertained by Mrs. George Cresswell and Mrs. Thomas C. Thompson at the home of Mrs. Cresswell, 1630 Jonquil street, March 29, at 1:30 r.m. Reservations may be made by calling Mrs. Cresswell at Georgia 2311. ‘The Nominating Committee, com- posed of Miss Margaret Malze, chair- man: Miss Alice Hutchins Drake, Miss Bertha Frances Wolfe and Miss Mar- garet Metzeroth, has issued nominat- ing ballots for the election of officers. Ballots are to be returned to the chair- man by March 20. The District Home Economics Asso- er Congress will hold a joint meeting in the Interior Department Auditorium tomorrow at 8 p.m. Miss Alice Sowers, parent education specialist and asso- clate chairman of parent education for the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, will discuss “Are Children | Pree and Equal?” Preceding the meet- | Ing the Executive Committees of the District Home Economics Association and the Parent-Teacher Congress will gather for dinner at the A. A. U. W. club house, 1634 I street. The clothing and textile section will meet March 30, 3:45 p.m., in the motion picture laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture in the old Bureau of Fisheries Building at Sixth and B streets southwest. Motion pic- tures on clothing topics will be shown and discussed. Gamma Chapter, Delphian Society, met at the Shoreham Hotel Monday evening. The president, Mrs. Esme Maybe Lackowicz, presided. The topic, “English Painting,” was under the di- rection of Miss Irene Westerman. The program was: “The Development of Art in England,” Mrs. J. LeRoy Elliot! “Hogarth's Work,” Mrs. Alice C. Elio “Cunningham’s Estimate of Hogarth, Miss Clara Dickerson; “Sir Joshua Reynolds,” Mrs. Pear] Priede; “Gains- borough and Lesser Portraitists,” Miss Ellen Bulger; “Landscape Painters Be- fore Turner,” Mrs. Mary Mathiot, and | “Turner,” Mrs. Bertram Moore. Studies | of the pictures of the above artists were | by Miss Lulu Adams, Mrs. Evelyn Hal- | ler, Miss Emma Hoffer. Miss Sophia Lunsford. Miss Mary Wolford and Miss | Evelyn Kay. ‘The next meeting will be March 13, when Russian art, under the direction | ;o{ Miss Olive Newbold, will be studied. | | The Housekeepers’ Alliance was the guest of Mrs. Ruth H. Snodgrass, 3706 Thirteenth street, February 21. The president. Mrs. Albert N. Baggs, pre- sided. The hostess presented an fllus- trated lecture on her trip the past Sum- | mer to London and Paris. | The Ladles’ Guild of Kenilworth had a lunchecn February 21. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs., Donaldson on Addison Chapel road | northeast. | National Capital Chapter, Delphians, met Wednesday at Jellefl's Little The- | ater for the discussion of the life and works of Ben Jonson, under the leader- ship of Mrs. R. M. Kelly. A general survey was made by the president, Mrs. | H. A. Latane. Others on the program were Mrs Grant S. Bernhart, Mrs. C. M. Godfrey, Mrs. Edward Stevens, Mrs. Arabelle H. Norton, Mrs. Retta Maybee | Mrs. H. N. Dorman. The guest, | W. L. Folk of Washington. | Mrs. Albert M. Day will be the leader | March 15. when Beaumont and Fletcher will be the subject of study. Those | contributing topics will be Mrs. Hugh | B. Callahan, Mrs. A, J. Maxwell and | | Mrs. C. F. Schoonmaker. Following | the morning’s study, the chapter plans | to visit Folger Library. The District of Columbia Association of Workers for the Blind met February | | 25 at 60 M street northeast. Melvin | | C. Creamer was chairman and master | of ceremonies. The program included songs, both instrumental and vocal, tap dancing and declaiming. Business and Professional Women’s | Club—Miss Ellen H. Edstrom. chairman of the Membership Committee, pre- | sented the following new members at the meeting at the Willard Hotel Mon- day evening: Miss Emma Chiera, Mrs. D. Priscilla Edgerton, Miss Lou zier and Miss Mabel C. Reed. Miss Chiera of the Italian Embassy and Mrs. Wil- liam D. Johnston, jr., acting secretary | of the Committee on International Re- laticns of the American Association of University Women, made addresses. Miss Ruth Hastings, chairman of the Research Committee, having left the city for an indefinite period, Miss ciation and the District Parent-Teach- | POi Adeline Taylor was appointed chair- RESORTS ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. The New (Continued From First Page.) of which will come under his jurisdic- tion and has & broad ethnological viewpoint. - * Henry A. Wallace the most colorful figure in | the Roosevelt cabinet is its youngest member—the new Secretary of Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace. . He is one of Paul De Kruif's “hunger fighters.” An intensely dramatic pic- ture of his life is unfolded. It may be only a partial picture. Wallace is a many-sided man with a vivid imagin: tion and a broad-based vision who has made deep inroads in other flelds than biology—but he is essentially a man who had the intelligence and the courage to flout tradition and go back to the fundamentals of genes and chromo- somes instead of solving the protlems of fiz: corn farmer with words and formu- ‘The new Sec: , as De Kruif re- lates, passed his boyhood in the heydey of Towa’s corn empire. Those were days of ease and plenty in Iowa, when the corn farmer could reasonably expect to retire in vigorous middle age. It was the time of county fairs and blue rib- bons for prize pigs and prize corn ears. There grew up a sort of pseudo- science, or pseudo-aesthetics, of corn which was taken very seriously by the farmers and the professors in the agri- cultural colleges. Ears of corn had their fine points, as mysterious to the uniniti- ated as the “fine points” on which blue ribbons are awarded at dog and cat shows. Ears which combined these fine ints were selected for seed. The validity of the fine points was taken for gran ‘The farmers took the word of the professors. The professors took the word of the professors who had pre- ceded them. * k% % De Krulf tells the story of a high- school boy watching one of the most celebrated of the “corn professors” mak- ing his judgment at a corn show. The expert’s eye caught minute variations from the aesthetic standards. Some of the heaviest ears he rejected ruthlessly | M favor of lighter ears of different shape, better arrangement of the ker- nels, etc. The explanations satisfied everybody but the school boy. He acknowledged the “fine points” but | couldn’t see what difference they made. ‘The professor patiently explained to his questioner—the boy happened to be | Henry A. Wallace—that it would be best to find out for himself why the prize ears were better than other ears. Let him take some of this seed home and | glu:nt it with just ordinary seed. Next | mmer he would see the difference. | Wallace did just that. And to his sur- | prise, for he had been duly influenced | by the universally acknowledzed au- thority of the fessor, he t01:3—no difference at all. It set him to think- | ing still more—but there wasn't much | use thinking about such things in those halcyon old days in the corn empire | hen corn was comn, prices were good and the land was rich enough to pro- | duce s bumper crop from almost any | kind of seed. The idea of bringing more corn to Jowa was as absurd as bringing more coal to Newcastle. | But, as De Kruif points out, to Wal- | lace there was something mystical about corn. The Indians had their corn gods. Something of the same idea floated through the mind of this man. He was | fascinated by the mystery of corn—by this great surging of the flood of life out of the unknown on the great Mid- west cornfield ocean in the sultry Sum- mer. He was a mystic with a very prac- tical side to his mysticism. He studied plant genetics and became an expert in the subject. He pondered over the laws of this mystical life surge which brought wealth and plenty. | * X x * Then, as he succeeded to the feader- ship of the Wallace family, times were | changing. The substantial old corn s. Corn grew | as well as ever. Pigs got just u\ fat. But there were far-reaching eco- | nomic factors at work which the farm- | ers—nor anybody else for that matter— could understand. Prices fell. Almost | imperceptibly the disaster w. The | golden corn would not cl ge into golden coin. Here and there supposedly substantial corn growers had to beg time of the bank for their note pay- ments. The disaster has grown and grown. Today corn is equivalent not to gold but to coal. The Iowans, instead of fleeing to Florida from the prairie inters, are keeping warm by burning corn in their furnaces. Far ahead, Wallace saw the disaster coming. He saw that the old careless methods of corn raising, selecting seed | on the pseudo-aesthetic points of the | ears, etc., must go. In order to survive | the Jowa farmer must raise every bit of | corn possible on every inch of his land. | His thoughts turned to his old school boy experiment with its disconcerting | results. Iowans were growing better | corn—much better co: than their an. man for the remainder of the club year, The Women's Club of Woodside held its regular meeting Wednesday after- noog at the home of Mrs. R. M, Os- borne on Oak Drive. A number of dra- ‘matic readings were given by Mrs. John C. Marsh. Following the readings, the regular business was transacted ana hospital work carried on by the club. The next meeting of the club will be held at the home of Mrs. J. G. Pratt, with Mrs. Ralph Bubb the speaker. RESORTS ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Ownership Management A bank holiday is the time to take a vacation and rest up, especially at the Marlborough-Blenheim, where your credit is good. ATLANTIC CITY Enjoy Spring in all its early health and beauty on the Boardwalk. Golf, riding, roller chairing, sun decks, indoor sea water pool—plus famous Ambassador features with delectable cuisine. ATTRACTIVE SPRING RATES FEATURING THE AMERICAN PAN * LaShelbarmne ATLANTIC CITY ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. nd park Josiah White & Sems Co. ALSO EUROPEAN MAN Phone: Atlantic City s-4141 WILLAM HAMILTON, Maneger Cabinet cestors had inherited from the Indians, but how or why they had it was more or less of a mystery. Meanwhile, in the experimental evolu- tion station of the Carnegle Institution of Washington, as De Kruif tells the story, some revolutionary experiments had been in progress. There Dr. George Shull, throwing aside all the pseudo- aesthetic clap-trap of the corn breeders, had gone back to fundamentals, by inbreeding has split up corn into some of its constituent blood strains, and dis- covered the laws of -orn inheritance. Shull wes a pure scieatist. He was in- terested in the laws of inheritance, not the economics of corn raising. * * X % But he furnished the clue to Wallace. The editor-scientist followed Shull's methods. He began experimenting with pure corn strains in Des Moines back- yards and finally throughout the State. He went back to the beginning in the manipulation of corn genes and corn chromosomes with the result that he produced a corn hybred that has in- creased the yield of Iowa from 3 to 8 bushels per acre. ‘Wallace also attacked the corn prob- lem on the economic side—perhaps even more complicated. That is another story. His theories, some believe, have tended toward extremism. They are theories—gropings in the dark like any other economic theories. But his corn is something substantial, tangible, in- disputable. There can be no two schoois of thought about it. Political parties cannot differ on it. It will be a new experience to the hard-working and self-sacrificing scien- tific personnel of the Department of Agriculture to work for such a man. He has accomplished more than most of them in their own fleld. No man whose training has been primarily in politics or business, most of them feel, can possibly understand them. The methods of politics and business and the methods of science are a world apart. The two worlds speak tongues incomprehensible to each other. Wal- lace is a fluent speaker in the tongue of the scientist. He may have some fluency in the language of the other world of Department of Agricultur> activities. * X X ¥ Daniel C. Roper CITIZEN of South Carolina, the District of Columbia has come to look upon the new Secretary of Commerce as one of its own, so long has he lived here and so long have his chief interests been centered here. He came to Washington in 1894 as clerk of the Senate Committee on In- terstate Commerce, after serving a term as a member of the South Carolina Legislature. Practically all his life he has been a Government worker. He served as special agent of the Bureau of the Census from 1900 to 1910 and as clerk of the House Ways and Means Committee from 1910 to 1913. At the start of the first Wilson administration he was made First Assistant Postmaster General. In 1917 he was appointed commissioner of Internal Revenue, serving until 1920. With the coming of a Republican administration Roper left the Government service for the private prectice of law. He has been a membe: of the District School Board, a trustee of American University and prominently identified with other local activities. He has hundreds of friends in Washing- ton who regard him affectionately as & fellow townsman. *ox % * Frances Perkins T last there is a woman in the cabinet. For the last four administra- tions there have been rumors of such an eppointment. President Roosevelt has had the courage to break with precedent, and in the face of deter: mined opposition from the America Federation of Labor. He knows the character and ability of Frances Per- kins because of her activities as Indus- trial Commissioner of New York State during his governorship. The new Secretary of Labor is an ex- pert _sociologist. Her approach to the problems of labor is from the stand- point of the expert with a thorough comprehension of fundamental princi- ples. She started her career as a teacher in a fashionable girls’ school near Chicago and while there became interested in social welfare work. She spent several months at Hull under the direction of Jane Addams. Resigning her teaching position, Miss Perkins became secretary of the Na. tional Consumer’s League in New York, from which post she was appointed by Gov. Alfred E. Smith as a member of his newly created industrial commis- sion. Later she succeeded to its chair- manship and was appointed industrial commissioner when Gov. Roosevelt took office. ‘The position was very similar to that of Secretary of Labor. She has been prominently identified with wel- fare legislation in New York State, es- pecially with the passage of laws better- ing the condition of women workers. She is married but retains her maiden name. Her husband, Paul Wilson, is & well known efficlercy engineer and statistician. She has a daughter who will enter college next year. RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Hotel BRIGHTON YLANTIC CI Indiane Avenve and Besrdwolk ‘Where the eomion, reRnement, rest and reeree- with the same standard of ew American and Euro) . TRAVEL AFAR BON VOYAGE, and more power to you! But if you ean’t spare the time (or money) don't ignore your need for a change of scene. A good time and a clean bill of health are wait- ing for you just yround the corner . . . at Chalfonte- Haddon Hall. There's golf. Riding. Health baths. Sunny Ocean Decks. Evenings filled with entertain- ment. The marvelous food, deep seaside sleep, and pleasant comfort that you'll find at Chalfonte-Haddon Hall assure success to your winter holiday, DAILY RATES Per persen (3 in @ room, with bath) In HADDO! IF YOU WILL «..AND CANI Ta CHAI Maintaining the same. high standard as always but with a decided revision of rates consistent with the trend of the times . .. $5 UP DAILY—$30 UP WEEKLY for large double rooms with bath (two persens), European plan. A like revision of charges in The Shelburne Restaurant and The Crystal Room. .. CHALFONTE: HADDON HALL ATLANTIC CITY Leeds end Lippincott Company