The Washington times., 1914-04-07
City News Notes

Claude n. Bennett will deliver a lee
ture on the Panama canal before the
Connecticut Avenue Citizens Associa-
ton tomorrow night at the Army and
Navy Preparatory School assembly
hall.
Commissioner Newman will be the
honor guest tomorrow at a luncheon at
the Commercial Club. and will deliver
an address.
A debate on the canal tolls question is
announced for the Sunday night meet
ing of the Young Mems Hebrew Asso-
citation to be held at 1901 Eleventh street
northwest. A call has been issued for
candidates for a baseball team. To-
citation will hold dance.
Parents day is being observed by the
faculties of Central and Western High
Schools today. The members Of the
faculty are receiving the parents who
are calling.
Around the World in Eighty Min
ties was the subject of lecture given
b. oscar Phelps Austin before the
Mems Club of the Mt. Pleasant Con-
sregational Church last night.
The Washington Alumni Association
Of Michigan University has postponed
the alumni dinner planned for tomor-
row night at the New Ebbitt. until the
night of April Is, on account Of the
r8bility of Dean Mrya b. Jordan. of
Michigan 10 be in attendance.
Members of Columbia Chapter. Royal
Arch Nasons, are visiting Freeman
Chapter. of Philadelphia, today in COM
pany with the members of Druid Chap
ter. Of Baltimore. Both chapters are
depositing the Travelling Triangle"
with Philadelphia chapter.
DR.. NJ. G. Kyle. Is announced as
the lecturer tonight ar the Washington
Foreign Missionary Society. Takoma
Park. at o'clock. The subject of the
illustrated lecture is Hidden Treas
ures."
lecture on vocational guidance is
the Mothers Club to be he'd at the
Peabody School today at $50 p. IN.
Mount Nebo Encampment, ]. o. o. F.,
will celebrate the fifty years continuous
membership of Thomas W. Fowler to-
night in the auditorium of Odd Fellows
Temple. Mr.. Fowler has been Past
rama Representative ana PAST 'JTdnu
Patriarch. and is now scribe of the en-
campment.
DR.. Charles W. Eliot. president emeri-
tus Of Harvard University. will speak
on the effect Of Caucasian civilizations
on the Oriental nations before the Uni
tartan Club, at All Souls Church April
l. f. T. Williams, chief Of the division
Of Far Eastern affairs. will also speak.
Contrasts in Development of Ma
tIonality in Latin and Anglo-America"
5 the subject Of the lecture today at
the National Museum at 4 O'Clock, by
Federico Alfonso Pezet, minister from
Peru. before the Washington AnthrO-
biological Society.
At the annual meeting OF the Busi-
ness Woman's Suffrage Association
held last night, the following officers
we're elected: Miss Elizabeth Foiral.
president. Miss Minnie F.. BrOokes vice
president: Mrs. katherine NJ. Lewis.
seCretsry-treasurer. and Miss Ina +.
';ourtney. chairman % The executive
"ommittee.
On motion of the Attorney General
Yesterday. Joseph W. Folk. Solicitor
for the Interstate Commerce Commits
SION. was admitted to Lractice before
the Supreme Court
Mrs. Champ CLARK, n an address be-
rorc the Colonial DANES Society. spoke
on Minds. Morals and Manners-Past st
ard Present" Mrs. Clark read part
y. a journal kept by Senator McClay.
Washington was described
Congressman Guy T. HeIveriHg 4
Kansas and Mrs p P. Cl8xton will
peal before the Federal Suffrage AS
ISOLATION at the Chamber of Commerce
on Thursday night.
The cadet companies OF the Business
high School ami Mckinley Manual
Training School were reviewed by Su-
T'Iintendent f. L. Thurston and AS
sistant Superintendent Stephen l.. Kra-
mer yesterday. The cadets are prepar-
ing fer the annual competitive drill.
The political situation in China and
the Mexican question will be the TOPICS
of the next Monday morning talk to
be given by Miss Janet Richards in the
New Auditorium of the Woodward &
Lothrop store following yesterdays
lecture talk at which the Panama canal
tolls question and the home rule situa-
ton in Ireland was taken up.
The High School Teachers Associa-
ton committees appointed to formulate
plans for vocational guidance will meet
at the Business High School today
Eight teachers representing various
lines OF work have been merging their
interests in a report to be given in to-
day.
DR.. ". Simon. Of CltonsvilIe. Nd, will
give an illustrated talk On the apnIica-
ton of color photography in art and sci
ence before the Washington Society of
Engineers at a meeting at the Chesa-
Peakte and Potomac Telephone Company
kailding tonight