Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1940, Page 22

Graduation Exercises Get Under Way in Virginia Colleges President Roosevelt Due to Address Class At Virginia U. By the Associated Press Into a world beset by war, Virginia colleges began this week end to launch their graduates. The first day of June started a busy round of commenecements in the larger colleges and univer- sities of the State. Programs which began with student and alumni gatherings were to reach their culmination with the conferring of diplomas tomorrow and Tuesday. Other finals will be held next week end. The commencement programs were under way this week end at William and Mary, Emory and Henry, Roanoke College, Lynchburg College, Randolph-Macon Woman'’s College at Lynchburg, Hampden- Sydney, Mary Baldwin, Farmville State Teachers’ College, Radford S. T. C. and Madison College at Harrisonburg. Roosevelt to Speak. Another commencement period, | extending roughly from June 8 through June 12, will terminate the | collegiate careers of hundreds of seniors at the University of Virginia, V. M. I, Virginia Tech, the Univer- sity of Richmond and Randolph- Macon College at Ashland. A high point will be the scheduled address of President Roosevelt to University of Virginia graduates Monday after- noon, June 10. The President’s ac- ceptance of that speaking engage- ment necessarily was made tenta- tive. At William and Mary, the oldest of all Virginia colleges, alumni yesterday heard Dudley R. Cowles, Boston publisher, suggest that the old school “should remain definitely a Southern institution” with a “sincere and belligerent belief in a free and classless society.” Sermon at W. and M. Today. The baccalaureate at William and Mary will be preached today by the Rev. Theodore Adams, Baptist min- ister of Richmond, and Charles E. ‘Wilson, president of the General Electric Co., will speak at gradu- ation exercises for the 265 candi- dates for degrees at 11 am. to- morrow. Southern Baptists fo Meet In Baltimore May 12 By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, June 1.—Walter M. Gilmore of Nashville, Tenn., an| official of the 94th Southern Baptist | Convention to be held here June 12-16, said today “it is certain that the convention * * * will present resolutions strongly protesting” the appointment by President Roosevelt of a representative to the Vatican. “This may set off the fireworks, since the age-old principle of Bap- tists, the absolute separation of church and state, seems to be seri- ously threatened,” Mr. Gilmore de- clared. He said more than 5,000 delegates and visitors would attend the ses- sions from 18 Southern States. The convention will discuss an | invitation to join the World Council | of Churches, but Mr. Gilmore said Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas, Tex., chairman of a special com- | mittee, “has already announced that it would recommend declining the invitation.” Hotel Week (Continued From Page B-1) coat behind a motorcycle escort with the demand that the manage- ment conceal her from the news- papers. Trembled With Fear. At the same time the photogra- phers arrived. Three elevators stood ! manned to whisk the publicity-shy creature out of range of the threat- ening cameras. However, she chose flight through the lobby, leaping over divans and crouching, trem- bling with fear, behind potted palms. Her great eyes were dark pools of terror and from time to time she screamed. Several male guests were about to pummel the brutes with the cameras. Another star insisted on a lobby guard to protect him from his pub- lic. It was pointed out that he could | use a private entrance. The star, | nevertheless, seemed to feel that since the management would pro- vide protection, the least he could do was use it. Hollywood celebrities can be headaches at times, but their drawing power is terrific. Many a room has been rented to fans with no greater ambition in life than to pull a button off some actor’s shirt. Convention delegates can be hair- shirts to other guests, but they, too, pay their freight. One of the most hilarious gatherings here was an assembly of cemetery lot salesmen and perhaps the quietest was a session of 1,200 rural mail carriers. The carriers went to bed promptly | any big hotel here. at 9 oclock, a few walking up 10 flights because they mistrusted elevators. They were up and aboutiwriter who never could persuade Kappa Delta sorority house. PATERNAL CONGRATULATIONS—Assistant Dean H. F. Cotter- man of the College of Agriculture at the University of Maryland, is shown congratulating his son, was graduated from the college yesterday. After receiving her diploma at the graduation exercises yesterday morning, Miss Mary Lee Ross, university May Queen, was married in the afternoon to Gustavus Warfield, editor of the U. of M. yearbook last year. THE SUNDAY STAR, VVASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 2, 1940—PART ONE. }Dmp Class Strife Harold F. Cotterman, jr., who —Star Staff Photo. The ceremony was in the —Star Staff Photo. at 5 in the morning. Not knowing | what else to do in Washington at | that time of day, they took long | walks. By the time the hotel coffee shop opened they were waiting in line three deep. Japanese Best Tippers. Ask hotel employes who are the best tippers and most will agree— the Japanese. Visitors from Nippon are sensitive, anxious to put their best foot forward. They tip liber- ally and almost never complain about the service.” Scotchmen hand out bigger tips than the British. Little tips in Washington often come from big shots, men whose high positions command service whether or not it is paid for. They reserve the same table and insist on the same waiter, and get them despite rush hours and accommoda- tions taxed to capacity. Head waiters carry a thousand names, faces and individual whims in their memories. They must know, for instance, that a certain Midwest Senator has honeydey melon for dinner in or out of season. Five or six melons are cut on occasion before one of the required perfection is found. The Senator’s steak is his | individual cut, done to just the de- gree he demands. A wealthy Washington merchant used to dine on vegetables each night at the same table and the same hour. In the great kitchen throughout the day the choicest products were laid aside and ear- marked for his table. Every vege- table, down to the tiniest radish, had to be. perfect. Well Versed in Dishes. The Kkitchen staffs in the big hotels include almost every nation- ality, all versed in the dishes of their native lands. * Thus an Abyssinian prince, a Jap- anese businessman or an Argentine diplomat can command the delica- cies of his native land in almost One of the severest critics of hotel cuisines is a great American NEW INSPECTOR SWORN IN—Inspector Arthur E. Miller, for- merly captain at No. 1 precinct, who will head the newly created Traffic Investigation Bureau of yesterday as he was inducted in W. Brown, superintendent of police. 4 the Police Department, shown to his new office by Maj. Ernest ~+L8tar Staft Photo. A i himself to go on a diet. He prefers | his vegetables, fruits and melons out | of season and immediately. s | the same with the other service. When he makes a telephone call he wants the connction at once. Little | reports like “the line is busy” or | “the gentleman is out” are as infuri- | ating to him as the absence of fresh figs in February. Hotel staffs must know what to do | when a great general demands a glass of whisky on Sunday or Presi- dent William Green of the A. F. of | L. chooses a luncheon table in an | alcove where John L. Lewis of the C. I O. already is enjoying a peace- ful repast. They have to discourage lobby moochers who monopolize the most comfortable chairs or filch station- | ery and try to establish a fashion- | able address. | Watch Out for Chiselers. They keep an eye out for the oc- casional chiseler or bad check artist. Professional crooks who prey on hotels have become few in number now that managers keep one an- other informed on the latest dodges of the fraternity. One survivor showed up here re- cently after a week’s build-up. For days the hotel kept receiving tele- phone calls, letters and telegrams— all with the same query: “When is Mr. Smith of San Fran- cisco arriving?” Mr. Smith finally arrived amid an | array of fancy luggage. He im- mediately employed the hotel's many eervices. Mr. Smith tele- phoned Los Angeles, he wired New York, he ordered room service, valet service and stenographic service. Callers hurried in to see him. It was apparent that a big shot had arrived. Mr. Smith called the cashier and put through a $1500 check “for collection.” Meanwhile, the man- ager had begun to wonder about him. Certain investigations were instituted. . Shortly afterward, Mr. Smith strolled by the cashier’s cage: Declined to Cash Check. “By the way,” he said, “I happen to be short of personal funds. Could you cash a $300 check for me?” The answer was “No.” The man- agement, in some mysterious man- ner, had learned that one of Mr. Smith’s suitcases contained an ap- paratus for reproducing signatures. “How could & manager learn what a guest had in his suitcase?” the hotelman was asked. “I can’t imagine,” he replied, “but if you are going to publish some- thing about National Hotel Week why not say the industry ranks seventh in the country and will en- tertain more than 10,000,000 con- vention delegates this year?” SWAT THEFLY Take advantage of an early start by an aggressive war on the fly qt the beginning of the season. The Star has for free dis- For United Defense, Parran Advocates Surgeon General Speaks As Mar,land U. Awards 720 Degrees Surgeon Gen, Thomas Parran, who graduated from the University of Maryland in 1911, told approxi- mately 6500 persons attending the university’s commencement exer- cises yesterday that the United States must look to its “parallel de- fenses” or its guns, battleships and airplanes will avail naught. He spoke in the Ritchie Coliseum after the Right Rev. William Mc- Clelland, bishop of Easton, had de- livered the invocation. By “parallel defenses” Dr. Parran sald he meant that which relies on a mentally sound, physically well people with a common objective, ready to submerge sectional and class controversy in favor of a united stand against “barbarians.” Physical strength can be had through good :health, good homes and a high standard of living in general, he said. Mental strength can be grounded on free speech and & free press plus, the ability of the public to sift the wheat of thé free- spoken and free-printed word from the chaff. ¥More than the fifth column in this country,” he said, “I fear on one hand unsteady, confused, not- quite-sure people whose only defense is to call anything unconventional ‘propaganda’ and whose only pro- tection, they think, is to abolish free speech. “On the ‘other hand,” he con- tinued, “I fear the great American tendency to admire success.” He said that “we shall be hearing before the war is over” from those who fall in line with the blitzkreig because it is successful. “We must unify this huge, bick- ering Nation of ours,” he went on. “Unless we, 130,000,000 of us, can attain a sense of national unity; unless we can weld ourselves into a Nation of common purpose, we shall fail in our efforts to build defenses in time. “Unless we revise the trend of past years toward individual, class and sectional struggle for advantage at the expense of the whole Nation, our potential power in this world crisis is sterilized. Everything de- pends on man power. Unless we are fit for a civilized peace, we will fall short of manning the guns. “A job which provides a living is & better argument against Commu- nism than 24 radio hours of politi- cal speeches. “We have made some gains in the last decade toward strengthen- ing our perallel defenses,” he said. “Let’s consolidate our gains.” A total of 720 degrees was given during the exercises, Gov. O’Conor of Maryland was present, but asked that he be excused from speaking as he had two othér speaking en- gagements during the day. He pre- sented the law school diplomas. The exercises were directed by President H. C.- Byrd of the uni- versity, who _awarded all other diplomas. ‘Two honorary degrees and four honorary certificates in agriculture were awarded. An honorary doctor of science de- gree was given Dr., Parran, and Herschel H. Allen of Baltimore re- ceived an honorary doctor of en- gineering degree. Honorary agriculture certificates went to Chester P. 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