Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1934, Page 60

F—10 GROUP OF MASONS HONORS WETMORE Lodge of Perfection Notes Removal of Member to Florida. MEETINGS THIS WEEK. Blue Lodges. Monday—Dawson, Stansbury, busine: Tuesday—Federal, Acacia, visitation; social. Wednesday—Harmony, business; ‘Harding, business; Chevy Chase, M. M.: Justice, business. Priday—Mount Pleasant, special, and Barristers, visitation. Royal Arch. Monday—Mount Vernon, R. A.; Anacostia, P. M. Tuesday—Mount Horeb, business; Potomac, business; Woodridge, R. A Wednesday—Washington Naval, P. and M. E. Commanderies. Tuesday—DeMolay, business. Wednesday—Washington, busi- ness. visitation; oppa, E. A. visitation; Gompers, Mithras Lodge of Perfection, Scot- tish Rite Masons, held a business meeting last Tuesday evening at the Cathedral. James A. Wetmore, who is moving to Coral Gables, Fla., was ten- dered a reception and resolutions were adopted expressing regret. Robert de Bruce Council, Knights Kadosh, held a special meeting the same evening to confer the twenty- first degree. The council next Tues- day will confer the thirtieth degree. Junior Warden Harold S. Huggins, general chairman, announces plans have been completed for the ladies’ night by King David Lodge Thanks- giving night at the Masonic Temple, Twelfth and Monroe streets northeast. President Charles E. B. Holland an- nounces the next meeting of the Fel- lowcraft Club of King David Lodge will be held tomorrow at the lodge. Federal Lodge will hold its grand visitation Tuesday evening. The Fellowcraft Club invites all members of Pentalpha Lodge to be present December 3 for the annual election and installation of officers. After the close of its meeting on No- vember 26, members of Stansbury Lodge will visit Silver Spring (Md.) Lodge. Petworth Lodge will hold a Thanks- giving party and ladies’ night Novem- ber 29. The convocation of Mount Horeb Chapter, R. A. M., Tuesday evening will be of especial interest to past high priests. Several line officers of the Grand Chapter will be present. The members of Temple Chapter, O. E. S, will be the guests of Gompers Lodge at 9 p.m. November 27. Master Maurice A. Goldberg of BSamuel Gompers Lodge announces a stated communication Tuesday at Ma- sonic Temple at 7:30 p.m. After a short business meeting the members will retire to the banquet hall, when the lodge will entertain the members of Temple Chapter, O. E. S., with an entertainment and refreshments. The religious services at the Masonic and Eastern Star Home will be con- ducted today at 3 o'clock by William R. Singleton Lodge. Rev. William C. ‘White will preach the sermon. EASTERN STAR ' e The Past Matrons and Past Patrons’ Association of Areme Chapter held its annual banquet last Monday at Mrs. K's Toll House Tavern. A busi- ness meeting was held. Miss Irene Katherine Schmidt, president, pre- sided, Prizes were presented for high scores in games. The Thirty-two Troupers pre= sented & miscellaneous program in Martha Chapter at the close of its business session. The Tuesday Night Card Club of Chevy Chase Chapter will meet No- vember 27 at the home of Mrs. John Colb, 5432 Connecticut avenue. The Saturday Night Card Club will meet December 1 at the home of Mrs. James Tate, 111 W. Thornapple street. next, 'Friendship Chapter at its meeting Tuesday will have grand visi- : tation. | Matron Helen H. Hogan of Miriam Chapter announces at the meeting tomorrow night there will be initia- ticn, the degree work being performed by an advance line of officers. Matron Anne Parker of La Fayette Lodge announces the meeting Wed- nesday will be grand visitation. The officers of the chapter gave & dinner at Collier's Inn November 24 in honor of the matron and patron. Bethlehem Chapter will present at St. Stephen’s parish hall the Lebanon Players in a musical production, “A Governor Returns,” December 4 at 8:15 pm. Dancing will follow. There will be initiation November 27. Matron Minnie M. Neil announces at its meeting Wednesday night Brookland Chapter will be entertained by the men with its annual “men’s night.” Thanksgiving evening the chapter members will be the guests of King David Lodge at its “ladies’ night.” Brookland Chapter's Star Point So- clety met November 17 at Mrs, Agnes Miller’s home. Miriam Lewis, matron of Temple Chapter, has designated the meeting of November 26 as appointive officers’ night. The star points, marshals, chaplains, organist warders and sentinels of all chapters in the juris- ction have beer invited. Enter- tatnmenc and dancing. The Association of Matrons and Patrons of 1933 will hold a business and social meeting at Takoma eilsomc Temple December 1 at pm. Areme Chapter met Wednesday after which a program consisting of several numbers by the Jacobson trio, readings by Miss Bruer and piano se- lections by Miss Whitaker from In- diana was given. Refreshments and dancing followed. The Auxiliary Home Board met in Northeast Masonic Temple with its president, Mrs. Leila Cook, presiding. Distinguished guests were the grand matron, grand patron, Past Grand Matron Julia N. Streater, president of the home. Hope Chapter will meet Wednesday in the Masonic Temple at 8 pm. Due to the serious illness of Matron Ruth Baujan “men’s night” has been called off and there will be only the regular business meeting. Cathedral Chapter will hold its an- | tion about Maw—whom he couldn’t | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DAILY SHORT STORY HIS MOTHER Nate Determined He Never Would Tolerate Another Woman in His Dead Mother’s Place. BY MARGUERITE TINSLEY. ATE dug his bare brown toes into the leaf mold and squirmed uneasily in his sheltered lookout under the low boughs of the mountain pine. It was getting hot in here and the sun was fully three hours high in the bright blue sky. But curiosity—and some other emo- tion — seemed to keep him chained to the spot. He was watching a strange woman do strange things to the cabin which had always been “home” to Nate. Now — of course— it could be home no longer. Not with that woman Pop had brought home last night, living there! Nate's loyalty and boyish sense of the fitness of things had been terribly affronted yesterday, when Pop had come downstairs clad in the store suit he'd bought for Maw’'s funeral a year ago, and announced to Nate that he—Pop—was going to Valleyburg and marry Mattie Boone, the woman who kept the boarding house. True, Pop had explained hesitantly, he'd known Mattie ever since he and Maw and Mattie had gone to school together; she was a wonderful cook, said Pop—and he felt that he and Nate needed a woman around the place. Well, reflected Nate bitterly—Pop could have this woman around the place if he wanted her! Nate was going to be loyal to his own Maw— poor little Maw, who'd been sickly ever since Nate could remember, but gentle and kind and uncomplaining. Last night, when Pop and his bride had come from town, Nate had crouched in the loft and listening to their voices. Pop’s happy and excited as (under Mattie's direction) he car- ried in bundle after bundle from the wagon, two new mattresses and boxes and boxes of home-canned fruit and vegetables which Mattie had brought along. Nate knew what was in the bundles because Mattie had called out the contents of each box and bundle and suitcase as Pop brought them in. Nate had buried his head in the straw tick and ragged bed clothes which composed his bed in the loft to shut out the happy commotion be- | low. He'd thought with dogged devo- | remember without thinking “Poor Maw"—and determined that he, at least, wasn’t going to accept this new woman. Early in the morning, before Pop| and his bride wakened, Nate crept| from the loft, went to the barn and patted the horses “Good-by,” called | his mongrel dog and started off. In a knotted bandana he had a faded shirt, three marbles, a dried rose from Maw’s funeral flowers. All the things he owned in the world besides Rags, the dog! He had started out determinedly enough, but after a half-hour's walk down the trail he had circled back NOW . + + IT COULD BE HOME NO LONGER. to his old “lair,” under the scrub pine. Nate came back to see what “that| woman” would do on her first day in | Nate’s home. Bright and early Pop and she began carrying things out of the cabin. Mattie sorted them carefully. Maw's few piti- ful clothes she ei- ther washed or aired, handling them gently and (Nate felt) regret- fully. Nate swal- lowed convulsively and tried to keep on resenting Mat- tie’s presence. But his distrust and resentment were oozing away as his interest in Mattie's cleanup campaign mounted. She had Pop shut up the chickens and the pigs, after mending the barn- yard fence. She had him rake the dinner December 8 at one of the cafes. The matron will also entertain the Officers’ Society at the same place that evening. Mrs. Florence Berry- man and Karl Berryman will entertain their mother, Mrs. Fronie Berryman, December 10 at 8 p.m. at 1105 Six- teenth street with a going-away party. Mrs. Fronie Berryman will visit her son in Hollywood, Calif. Grand visitations this week are Co- lumbia Chapter, November 26, 8:30 p.m.; Friendship Chapter, November 27, 8:30 p.m.,; La Fayette Lodge Chap- ter, November 28, 8:30 p.m., and Joppa pm. UNCHARTERED SHOALS FOUND BY WIRE DRAGS SAN FRANCISCO (#).—More than a score of uncharted shoals, many of which constituted a danger to ship- the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey through the use of wire drags, now employed for the first time on the Pacific Coast. towed between two launches. At in- tervals of about 500 feet there are supporting buoys. Pinnacle rocks and Io!her obstructions to shipping to a depth of 90 feet are recorded by the tion of the wires. yard and spade up some beds for flowers and vegetables. Then she went in the cabin and came out with some sandwiches. She called, “Na- thaniel! . .. Nate?” And Pop laughed and said he guessed the boy was bash- ful, but would be in bye and bye. Nate dug his toes further into the dirt and resisted the urge to answer their summons. It really wasn't the call of food so much as the desire to help Pop plant those seeds and little plants he'd seen Mattie bring out from her seemingly inexhaustible dowry. Nate had always dreamed of having a garden by their cabin. All afternoon he watched the little slim figure of Mattie and the tall, lank figure of Pop performing Herculean tasks of cleaning up the cabin. By late afternoon the clothes were all gathered in, the windows washed and white curtains hung. Nate watched like a homesick prodigal from afar, but he was still determined that he wouldn't go back. He was going to be faithful to his own “poor little Maw.” He'd sleep here tonight, and in the morning he’'d be on his way, never to return. Where was Rags? . .. Why! there he was, down by the cabin door. The rascal had returned home after a day of scouting in the timber! Nate whistled softly, but for once Rags didn’t come. He just lay there and watched the cabin door, waiting for his supper. Nate had never felt so alone. There was something else tantalizing him, too. . . . Gradually he realized what it was. The odor of cocking from the cabin! Not cooking such as Nate had known, but savory smells of roast ham, fresh bread, pumpkin pie. Nate be- gan to cry into his folded arms. All his resentment and hatred were gone, in their place a great longing. When Pop and Mattie called him at supper time, Nate got up and ap- proached the cabin—on dragging feet at first and then with quickening step. He picked up an armload of wood as he passed the woodpile and took it to the wood box behind the freshly blackened cook stove, before he looked shyly at Mattie and said: “Hello—Ma!” (Copyright. 1934.) “Tribute.” by Everett Tomorrow. Is the destitution left in Schiinkert, rev the wake of trong-arm group. who demanded a weekly sum for protection and drove a poor tailor to robbery. nual dance, following a short business session, Wednesday evening. Gavel Chapter met Tuesday night | and paid honor to the past matrons of the chapter. Badges of service and | flowers were presented to each past matron. At the meeting December 4 will be | the annual election of officers. Mrs. Sophie R. Cahill, matron of ' Fidelity Chapter, announces at the | meeting December 6 officers will be elected. A banquet, for the members of the chapter only, will be given at 6:30 p.m. The luncheon served by Mrs. Sladen, Mrs. Totten and Mrs. Merritt December 4, at the home of Mrs. Sladen. 120 Elev- enth street southeast, at 12:30 p.m. The matron will entertain her offi- cers and committee chairmen with a Mothproofs and disinfects as it cleans! VAPOO For Upholstery! Rugs! Thank goodness! you'll feel about it. . even paints, too! We know that's just how A really effective cleanser that you can whisk on with a whisk or sponge and that actually cleans your rugs, furniture, draperies, lamps, mattresses <2 A small size can cleans a 9x12 rug thoroughly. Double Size Can.... Shades! Draperies! ] .......... .......81.50 SEE IT DEMONSTRATED—FIFTH FLOOR For Phone Orders Call DlIstrict 9400 THE HECHT CO. F Street at Seventh Home Board will meet at a| Lodge Chapter, November 30, 8:15 ping, have been found and platted by | Drags up to 10,000 feet in length are BEEF CANNERIES INSOUTH RUSHED Federal Processing of Fat- tened Drought Cattle in Full Sway. ATLANTA, Ga. (#)—A cow in the can is worth two on the hoof! That, in effect, is the view of the Federal Emergency Relief Administra- tion. And_so it has set up canneries throughout Southern States to pre- serve the meat of Western cattle saved from drought-parched ranges and fattened on Dixie's green pas- tures. There will be many hungry mouths to feed in the homes of the coun- try's destitute this Winter. This the administration knew when it started rounding up thousands of starving | cattle in the West last Summer. And now after three months of grazing, the cows, for the most part, are sleex and ready for dinner ta- bles. Pasture lands, which the Gov- ernment rented on a basis of 50 cents & month or more per cow, NOVEMBER 25, 1934—PART FOUR. have done their duty well. But now frost is in the air and soon the ver- dant meadows and hillsides will af- ford but meager grazing. And so with the first tinge of Fall a great round-up, the likes wg which the Southeast had never seen, was started in States extending from Virginia to Louisiana. As the cattle are driven in from the grasslands they are concentrated at central points, slaughtered in municipal abattoirs and shipped to the relief canneries. There they become stew beef or hamburger just about as expeditiously as the short order cook in your favorite restaurant fixes your “two eggs over light.” Experts employed by the relief ad- ministration have supervision over the canning, but the actual work is done by persons from the ranks of the unemployed. Thus the administra- tors feel they have served the dual purpose of giving work to idle hands and preparing Winter food for the needy. Georgla, typical of other Southern States in the relief canning projects, has nine plants which employ about 6,000 people. An average plant has the capacity for canning about 150 head of cattle daily. All told, Georgia has 103,000 relief cows—which means the canneries are running full blast to finish processing them by cold weather. The products of canneries in each State will be distributed exclusively | to the destitute in that particular | State. U. 5. RACE PLANE STARTLES BRITONS “Flying Hotel’s” Speed in Melbourne Contest Amazes England. LONDON (#).—The British public, painfully aware since wartime of the value of fleet, long-distance planes, greeted with astonishment the per- formance Jf the huge American-built Douglas ship in the recent Londton- to-Melbourne air race. The facu that the Dutch pilots, Parmentier and Moll, were able to win second place with their big “fly- ing hotel” in a race against the world’s aircraft, “fell like a bomb,” as one British observer put it, in the midst of the country’s everyday commercial and military aviation. It took some of the frosting off Eng- land’s jubilation over the victory scored by Scott and Black in their specially built Comet, which literally was burned out in its one glorio dash. That America or any other country was producing such machines had not been known to the English public. The fastest British commercial craft can develop only ubout half the speed that the Douglas attained for long atretches of the journey to Australia, and there is not a ship in the Royal Alr Force that could overhaul it at p speed. While the air marathon was in progress, British newspapers care- fully abstained from mentioning the fact that the intrepid “Flying Dutch- men” were using an American plane. It was called simply “the flying ho- tel.” But when the race had ended, the aviation editors came out in the open and really began “viewing with alarm.” U. §. Progress Noted. “It has suddenly and vividly been brought home that British standard | airpiane development, both commer- cial and military, has been standing still, while America has been going | ahead,” said one writer. “In view of what that beautiful and supremely efficient Douglas did, it perhaps is fortunate for the repu- tation of British lines that no stand- ard British commercial planes were entered,” echoed another. Failure of British designers to adopt the variable pitch propeller and other gadgets making for high flying | speed and low landing speed, has been | the object of much criticism since the Douglas blazed its path across the East. 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