The Washington herald., 1919-04-11
THE TOWN CRIER

The question of whether the
United States should permanently
own and operate the railroads of the
country will be debated by George
Washington University and Lafay-
ette College in a double contest to-
night. One debate will be held in
the Y. NJ. c. A. 1886 G street north
west, at Sis o'clock, and the other
will be at Lafayette College at the
same hour. -.. ......- -...--
DIR. Frank r. Rutter. of the De-
partment of Commerce. former COM
mercial attache at Tokyo, will speak
on Social and Industrial Japan" at
the University Club before the local
Phi Beta Kappa Association on
April 21 at $40 p. m. All members
of the fraternity who are not mem
bers of the local association and de-
sire to attend are asked to communi-
cate with W. c. Carpenter, 1925
Newton street northwest.
Graduation exercises of the first
school in Washington for municipal
recreation. leaders will be held April
IT at Club No. 2 of the War Camp
Community Service at 1914 Massa-
chusetts avenue. The work of the
school has covered all phases of rec
reational activities in towns and
cities, and has been attended by a
large number of government depart
ment workers.
Col. f. NJ. Sanctuary, in charge of
the government dormitories of the
Union Station group, announces that
another of the buildings will be
opened April Is. Girls desiring
quarters in this building should
make application this week at Col
Sanctuary's office. room 255, War,
State and Navy Building.
The West Virginia Society will
meet tonight at o'clock at the
Thomson School, Twelfth and L
streets. A musical and literary
program is to be given, followed by
dancing.
Lieut.. Col. Lewis Fl. Brereton, who
commanded the Twelfth Aero Squad
ron during the advance at Chateau
Thierry, will lecture at George
Washington University chapel exer-
cises at 1915 o'clock today in the
assembly hall of the Arts and Sci
ences Building, 2023 G street north
west.
A meeting of the Mount Pleasant
Citizens Association will be held at
8 o'clock tomorrow night at the
Brown Betty Inn, Sixteenth street
and Park road northwest
William c. Hall and w. r.. Beattie.
both of the Department of Agricul-
ture, will speak at a meeting of
Anacostians interested in gardening
at meeting at st. Theresa's Hall,
at o'clock tonight.
A five-day drive to obtain 500 new
members will be begun tomorrow by
the Twelfth street branch of the Y.
NJ. C. A. DR.. J. H. johnson is the
chairman of the committee in charge
of the campaign. There will be two
divisions and twenty captains. The
captains met at o'clock Thursday
night to complete arrangements for
the drive.
"The Private Secretary will he
presented by the pupils Of the Busi-
ness High School at o'clock to-
night and tomorrow night in the
auditorium of the school. The cast
is made up of students at the school.
"What Is the Race Going to Do
About 1t" will be the subject of an
address by Plenyono Gbe wolo, of
Liberia, Africa, at John Wesley A.
NJ. E. Zion Church, Fourteenth and
Corcoran streets, tonight at s
o'clock.
Rabbi L. Grossman is to speak on
THE Ideal American Hebrew" be-
fore a meeting of the Young
Friends Club to be held at s o'clock
Sunday afternoon at Alliance House.
72S Four-and-a-half street south
west
There will be a community center
dance tonight at $40 o'clock at the
Western High School.
The lower floor of the building
devoted to natural history of the
United States National Museum will
be reopened to visitors today. For
nine months the exhibition halls of
this building have been closed and
the floor space. turned over to the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance. The