New-York tribune., 1919-01-12

The Government Club, Mrs. George
e. Owens, president. held It's regular
monthly meeting at the Hotel Aston
last Monday afternoon.
The audience approved the "Victory
Meeting' arranged by the president
The programme included an histori-
cal paper on the subject OF "a King
DOM By Mrs. Sara Foster. The Hon.
Christopher O. keenan,. Assistant APP
on "Patriotism." Mr.. English Cody, Of
the War Camp Community Service, led
in community singing. Mrs. Grace
! Humiston spoke on "Justice to the
Girl"
Following this the president an
nounced the death Of Colonel Roose-
velt Upon request of Mrs. Owens the
entire assembly arose. and the Govern
ment Club adjourned in respectful
memory of Theodore Roosevelt
The first lecture Of the 1919 series
given by the New York and New Jersey
National Civic Federation, will be held
tomorrow, January 49, at $3.50 p. m., at
the Cosmopolitan Club, 1875 East
/ Fortieth Street, New York.
d. Thomas Curtin. author OF the war
book, "The Land OF Deepening Shad-
ow," will be heard on "The Great Dam
ger" Mr. Curtin, whose articles in
"The London Times" and DAILY Mail'
made him known as The man who
dragged the truth out of Germany"
| spent the first three and half years
of the war on the various battle fronts,
during which time he was with Hin
treated from Antwerp with the Bel
OiaOc and wac with tho Auctvior cono =
paign.
Tickets for this lecture may be Sc
cured at the door of the Cosmopolitan
Club on the day Of the lecture, or
through the offices of the National
Civic Federation, 105 West Forteth
! Street, New York. Telephone, Bryant
$780,
The Pershing Club of the New York
War Camp Community Service, located
in the remodelled building Of st. Bar
and Fifty-Tourth Street, is attracting
the interest of an increasing nIer
of New York's best known women.
Among those who will serve are Mrs.
William Fellowes Morgan, Mrs. +. H.
Hartman, Mrs. Edward McVickar, Mrs.
Ernest r. Acee. Mrs. Robert Bacon,
Mrs. Lyttleton Fox and Nine. Fran
! ces Aida, of the Metropolitan Opera
Company.
The club affords United States Off
GERS and those of the Allied nations
the accommodations of a modern hotel
rs we'll as club facilities. Entertain
ments are given each evening. During
the past week, the Pershing Musical
Comedy Stock Company gave "The
Masqueraders" on Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday niuhtc
The Glib also aids officers who have
been mustered out in securing posi-
! tions in civilian life.
/, The furnishings of the club have
been largely donated. There is an cx-
cellent volunteer orchestra whose
members have been recruited from the
best orchastras Of the city.
A regular meeting of the New York
City Mothers Club, will be held to-
morrow at the Hotel Astor at $3.50
will be the subject of talk to be given
by Mrs. Thomas Slack, president of the
Legislative League.
a federation Of Brooklyn community
centres, which will take active part in
the work of reconstruction and will
cooperate in public health campaigns
and other matters of civic interest, has
| been perfected
Community centres in Bushwick.
Flatbush. Sunset Park, the Bedford
section, Navy Yard districts and other
localities, represented at recent
meeting called by the Peoples Institute
Of Brooklyn, at the United Nciehbor
hood Guild building, on Nassau Street.
agreed to enlarge their field OF useful
pess by organizing a federation to
meet regularly and discuss matters of
general interest.
The public school buildings arc be-
ing used by these centres to conduct