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Commander and Mrs. f. N NJ. King.
Miss Margaret Benson. who is Lady
Geddes' cousin and Is a member
OF the household at the embassy.
John Joyce Frederick and Capt. c.
II. Henry, Of the embassy STAFF, and
Admiral Packenham's aide, Flag
Lieutenant Curzon-Howe. The Sec
rotary of State and Mrs. Colby were
also box holders and had as guests
their cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
ander Sedgwick, Miss Christina
Sedgwick. and the Misses Colby.
Lady Geddes and Mrs. Colby. how
ever. wera in the receiving line
most OF the evening. remaining in
their places until the guests had
all arrived. And afterward Lady
Geddes Joined the dancers. She was
surrounded by a merry group all
evening. and the ambassador, who
did not dance. held a continuous
reception in his box. He was wear
ing his decorations. with a great
jeweled star blazing on his coat.
Lady Geddes, who had on a charm
ing gown Of blue and gold brocade,
looked the veriest girl. and the
fillet of gold leaves in her hair
contributed to the youthful effect.
Mrs. Colby's gown was of black
velvet. with a broad band Of brill
liants over one shoulder. AMI she
wore long string Of pearls.
Comdr. c. T. Jewell presented the
guests to Lady Geddes and Mrs.
Colby and with them in the receiv-
ing line were Nine. Hubrecht, wife
of the secretary OF the Netherlani Is
legation: Mrs. David Meade Lea
and Mrs. Watson Freeman Clark.
president and vice president of the
Board of Lady Managers OF the nos
pital.
Mrs. Lea wore a handsome Co.'S
tune OF white satin brocaded in
silver. with a necklace OF opal.
and carried a pink ostrich feather
fan. Mrs. Clark's gown was of
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Lady Geddes: the Attorney General.
the Secretary or the Interior. the SEQ
rotary OF Commerce. Senator Key
Pittmsn. Senator william II. King,
Gordon Woodbury.. Assistant Secretary
OF the Navy: Brig. Gen. Logon Fe-
land. Rear Admiral David W. Taylor.
Rear Admiral Griffin. Rear Admiral
Charles Mcvay, Kear Admiral Samuel
MCGOWAN. Rear Admiral badger. Re ar
Admiral George T.. Clark. Capt. .. T..
Jackson. who is serving on Admiral
Packenham's staff while he Is In this
country: the admirars aide. Flag Lieu
tenant Curzon-Howe Comdr. t. N. M
King. OF the British embassy staff.
and Comdr. Percy Foote, aide TO the
Secretary.
Yesterday Vice Admiral Packenham
visited Annapolis. where the superin-
tendent of the Naval Academy enter
tained at luncheon in his honor. The
admiral left town today for Ottawa
to pay his respects to the governor
~tContinued on Page Nine.)
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was occupied by Mrs. Morris Hac-
ker. Miss Lee and a party of their
friends. Mrs. Cromwell Brooks IN
tertained in her box Mr.. and Mrs.
Horace Westcott. Col. and Mrs.
Parker w. West. Col. and Mrs.
George c. Marshall, jr.. and Col.
John Quekemeyer.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Meade Lea
had as their guests Mrs. Alexander
l.. Pope, Lucien Jones and the Rev.
Meade Bolton MacBryde.
Since this was one of the first
parties at which they have appear
ed. interest centered in the debu-
tantes and most of them were pres
ent-Mss Ann Craven, with a party
of young people; Miss Edith Bacon,
Miss Anne Hight, Miss Marjorie
Gelm, Miss Wheeler and the rest.
One noted also Miss Louise Littauer,
Miss Delphine Heyl, Miss Rather
inc Robinson, Miss Olga Prison,
Miss Adrienne Lowe. Miss Mary
Needer, the Misses Helen and Mona
Blodgett, Miss Eleanor Hoover. and
Miss Olyve Graef.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Sussdorff. tr.
she was Miss Flores Howard and
was a great belle here wnen she
used to visit her aun>~ Mrs. Richard
Weightman--were present. just
back from Berne, where Mr.. Suss-
dorf is attached to the American
legation, and they were given
royal welcome. So was pretty little
Mrs. Robert James Malone. former
ly Miss Virginia Eckels, whom
had not seen since her marriage
some months ago. And so did Ralph
Totten, consul general at large IN
Europe. who had only reached Wash
ington that morning. He Is home
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on leave and crossed in the same
steamer with the Sussdorffs.
DINNERS BEFORE BALI.
Mr.. and Mrs. X r. GOWN had
dinner at the Cafe st. Marks last
evening, taking their guests later
to the ball Mrs. Delos BlodEett
also had company OF dinner
guests with her. Mrs. Eliphslet
Andrews had entertaine" before the
dance for Miss Mildred Williams
debutante daughter OF the Assist.
ant Secretary OF War. and Mr.. ana
Mrs. George Maurice Morris had
guests to meet Miss Rosamond starr
and her nance. John w. Belt. the
party going later to the lance.
The other guests were Miss jamie
Heron. Miss Ruth Larner; coun-
selor OF the Norwegian Legation.
Mr.. Arentz. and Wilbur Hubbard.
brother OF the hostess. who Is
spending the winter with his par
ents at Wardman Park Inn.
Others present at the ball were
the Minister OF Venezuela, Mr..
Ceccato. OF the Italian embassy
stan; Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Tucker
man. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles warren.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Kaufman. Cap
tain and Mrs. Goring Bliss and her
mother. Mrs. Saxton; Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin S. Fuller. DR.. and Mrs.
Daniel Borden. the Misses da Cana,
Brigadier General and Mrs. 7. ..
Donaldson. Mrs. Harry Williams. OF
Norfolk; Miss Dorothy Marsh. Miss
Ramspek. Miss Louise Lacey. DR..
and Mrs. w. T. Davis. y. u.
Lahovary, charge d'affaires OF
Rumania: Major George Oakley
Totten, jr., Herbert Hengstler, Ira
cey Lay, Frank Lee. Hazel Dick.
Ezra Gould, Douglas Bulloch. ]. II.
de Sibour. Robert w. Bell. Frederick
E. Chaplin. jr.. Robert Stead. DR..
Adam Kemble. Ralph Snowden Hill.
Gwynn Rust. and James II. Eller-
son. jr
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black velvet and jet, and little Nine.
Hubrecht wore gold colored satin.
The ballroom had a particularly
festive air. with long row OF
flags strung down the center. and
others yelling the walls between
the boxes. The orchestra played
almost continuously until the ball
broke up at late hour, and a
buffet supper was served through
out the evening in the small bali
room.
NOTABLE BOX PARTIES.
The box parties were notably in
teresting. The Rt. Rev. Alfred
Harding. bishop of Washington. had
one. and with him were Mrs. Rolfe
Creyke, Miss Hariette Douglas. Miss
Charlotte Harding and Paul Hard
ing. Mrs. Julian James had as
guests the Serbian Minister and
Nine. Grouitch. Mrs. stephen b. FL
kins and Mrs. Thomas +. Walsh.
The Minister OF Cuba and Nine. de
Cespedes. the Minister OF Ecuador
and Nine. Elizalde. Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Folk. Mrs. Ekphalet An
drews, Mrs. James Pryor Tarvin
and Mrs. Horace mcfarland were
guests in the box OF Mrs. +. Is.
Moran.
with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles V.
Wheeler were Mrs. Herbert Boyn-
ton. of Detroit; Mrs. Victor Kauff-
mann. Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Joerissen.
and Miss Elinor Wheeler. with
party of her young friends. Mrs.
George Ehle and william Phelps
Emo were in his box for a short time.
Mrs. Edward Stellwagen's box
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Society's Calendar

TODAY.
Wedding OF Miss Elizabeth
Buchanan Love and Capt. Ray
Harrison. u. S. A.
Ball ri the New willard for
the benefit OF the Navy Relief
society.
col. william Eric Fowler
dinner in honor OF the Secretary
~ War and Mrs. Baker
Mrs. Charles $. Cromwell, a
luncheon.
Mrs. John w. Thompson. a tea.
Mrs. Henry Clifford Stuart. a
tea.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert ii. Putney,
a tea.
FRIDAY.
Lady Geddes, wife OF the Brit
ish ambassador. at home for the
first time this season.
Mrs. Charles ii. Patterson, a
luncheon.
Major George Oakley Totten.
a musical tea.
SATURDAY.
Judge and Mrs. Charles r.
Howry, a dinner In honor OF the
British ambassador and Lady
Geddes.
MONDAY.
Bridge tournament at the
home OF Mrs, Edwin T. Meredith
for the beneft OF the Margaret
Dodge Sewing Circle.
TUESDAY.
Mrs. HenrN w. Reyes. a tea.
WEDNESDAY.
Capt. and Mrs. George T.. Geim.
tea. to present Miss Marjorie
Gelm.
Yuletide Fete at the New will
lard under the auspices OF Neigh
borhood House.
Mrs. John Thilman Hendrick.
tea for her sister, Miss Agnes
Gran.
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PRESIDENT VIEWS PARADE.

The President and Mrs. Wilson had
a little family parry with them lase
night on the east portico OF the White
House to view the spectacular torch
light parade which brought to close
Washington's contribution to the I'il-
grims' tercentenary celebration. the
guests were Mrs. William II. Boiling.
Miss Bertha Boiling. John Randolph
Boiling and Miss Lucy Maury. niece
of Mrs. Wilson, who came yesterday
TO stay at the White House over the
Thank sgiving holiday.
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The Secretary Of the Navy and
Mrs. Daniels had a dinner last night
in honor OF Vice Admiral Sir william
Packenham. r. N, commandment
chief Of the North Atlantic and West
Indies station, who Is staying at the
British embassy. The company asked
to meet him included the British am
bassador, Sir Auckland Geddes. and
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PILGRIM BALL
GAYESTEVENT
OF SEASON

THEY dubbed IL the Pilgrims
Ball this year--this annual
j ball for the benefit OF the
Episcopal Eye. Far and Throat Hos
pital. which took place at the New
willard last evening-because II
CHANGED to coincide with Washing
tons celebration OF the Pilgrims
tercentenary. So flags of Great
Britain and the Netherlands flank
ed the stars and Stripes at the end
OF the long ballroom and the two
nations which are helping US to
celebrate the anniversary were rep
resented In the receiving line.
But, for the rest. II was just such
a ball as Is given each year for this
appealing philanthropy--not too
crowded for comfort and attended
by an assemblage that might have
come together for a smart private
ball. The company was recruited
principally from the old resident
set-Aone was reminded forcibly OF
the Washington OF the good old
days before the war--but diplomats
and official folk were present in
happy proportion and the sombre
garb OF the numerous clergymen
present struck an unusual note.
Washington has frequently to
thank its charity balls for an OPP
portunity to meet visiting notabili-
ties 1t may be remembered that II
was at a charity ball that Admiral
Lord Jelicoe made his only appear
ance in general society during his
stay in Washington last winter.
Last night 1t was that genial
sailor. Vice Admiral Sir william
Packenham, commander-in-chi Oh
the North Atlantic and West Indies
station. who came on to the ball
with the British Ambassador and
Lady Goddess from the dinner given
in his honor by the Secretary Of the
Navy and Mrs. Daniels. And one
might say of him, as was said Of
the great Jellicoe, that the lion Of
the evening was a sea-lion."
BRITISH EMBASSY BOX.
Sir Auckland and Lady Geddes
had box and had with them. in
addition to Admiral Packenham.
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RAMOS TO ENTERTAIN.

The spanish Ambassador and Nine.
de Riano have invitations out for
dinner at the embassy on Friday
evening, December 3.
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Baroness Shidehara will be at home
on the first and third Fridays OF each
month through the season from 4 TO
9. beginning the first Friday In De-
cember.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

Lett-Come on in, the
waters fine! To-day
starts the National Boy
Scout Week, in which
400, 200 scouts all over
the United States are
taking part. Over a hun
dred thousand business
and professional men
will give their time for
this period and help
boost the membership
campaign, in which over
100000 New Workers
Will be asked to renew
associate memberships.
What will you do to help
the l6l, 900 scouts in
New York City?
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-20
UNDERSTANDING ROPE.

Germany is. industrialiy speaking,
sovietized from the bottom up to very
near the top of the social and economic
structure, writes Stephen Bonsal, staff
correspondent of The Sun.
81 do not fear Bolshevism in Germany"
says Walter keliner, an important Ger
man manufactures ard Privy Coun-
cllOr, III an interview in the New York
Times. "We are having very little labor
troubles, as employers and employees are
working together in harmony. ! do not
have to worry about whether | will be
able 10 carry out my contracts, as my
employees are contented The present
government is stable and in high favor
with the people
Those two quotations illustrate by no
means extremely the contradictory state
uents which are continually being made
not only about conditions in Germany
but about most other European coun-
tries. They illustrate also the difficulty
which even a great newspaper finds IN
trying TO discover and 70 tell the truth
about the European situation.
As Colonel Bonsal points out, 'the
stupid censorship still persists. and "the
poison OF propaganda Is still allper-
vading. 1t is impossible to realize what
that means unless one has had experience
in trying TO ascertain and write the facts
in Europe since the armistice. The most
sincere and shrewdest observers are likely
to be deceived or led astray
Another thing which makes the dis
patches from Europe so contradictory Is
the constantly changing situation Of
affairs. What may be the truth or near
it on one day may be made grotesquely
ridiculous by happenings overnight.
Never were such concerted and almost
universal attempts made to conceal, dis
tort or misrepresent the facts as those TO
which newsgatherers in Europe are st
present subjected. Never. perhaps WAS
there situation in itself SO Kaleidoscope
and swiftly contradictory.
1t may be that in trying TO reconcile
and digest the contradictory cables from
Europe the American reading public Is.
after all, getting fairly accurate under
standing of what is going on IN that pro-
foundly troubled and half hysterical
continent Baltimore Sun.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-20
PRESS COMMENTS
A CHALLENGE TO ILLINOIS.

Mayor Thompson of Chicago calls him
self a Republican. The kind OF Republi-
caism that he affects was formerly known
IN Chicago MS Harrisopsm. When the
Harrisons, father and son, were IN the
saddle they called themselves Democrats,
but, like Thompson today, they had bi-
partisan support and the party label was
meaningless. The system which the Harri-
sons built up killed the Democratic party
In Chicago. Thompsonism may prove
equally fatal to Republicanism in city and
State.
The Harrisons were not able to extend
their sway beyond municipal lines. At
every attempt the down-State vote
checked them Conditions are more favor
able for Thompson, because the State IS
heavily Republican and he is able To adj
dress the inhabitants of rural Illinois as
one duly anointed in their party faith.
How they will regard the new bosssm To
which they will presently be asked to sub
scribe is a question full of interest to the
people of the United States at large.
Government by party in any true sense
ceases when the aims and instrumentalities
of political organizations are centered
wholly in individuals and made sub
servient to their ambition. Thompsonism
III ,Hifabo pthiS ihtBubti'du
but it embraces ideas and practices that
would make the rank and file of the party
elsewhere stand aghast. II appeals to
every prejudice and depravity of race,
nationality, class and occupation. Its
demagogy is all-pcrvadirg. With vast pat
ronage and innumerable privileges at its
disposal, it cuts straight across whole
some party lines and enrolls in a mighty
rabble those who seek favors, those who
are filled with hatred and revenge, those
who are covetous and desperate, and all
those in every walk of life who have n
cynical disregard for the rights of Others.
The low plane of the national Republi-
can campaign this year is highly favorable
TO Thompson, who for once in his life finds
il possible to make common cause with
national leaders also pandering 10 the
basest passions. But we have faith that
the Illinois which put the Harrisons out of
business or confined them TO their own
bailiwick will eventually perform the same
service in his case.--New York World.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-20
INBORN AND INBRED.

Sane qualities and instincts are in the
very blood of US so that while we live
We cannot deny them OF act In a fashion
untrue TO them. We depend on certain
people, because we know that in their very
natures they are noble; their essence is
truth, and honor dwells at the core of their
beir IS. They will surrender life before they
will capitulate to any infamy.
There isa pride of life that is forever
pointing back at a distinguished ancestor
and that form of ancestor-worship is
worth very little, if it does not lead to
emulation of that which brought honor
to the bygore figure. Whatever trans
mitted characteristics there may be, if a
praiseworthy kind, they are obscured by
the coDceit that Is forever prating of the
mere descent. And sometimes the descent
from the high plane on which our fore
bears lived is to an abysmally low level of
thought and of feeling that shames all
the past.
Much may be done toward implanting
in a character what was not there by ma
ture. 1t is the teachers triumph to over
come heredity. Children of families de-
praved and debased have been redeemed
by loving patience that would not ac-
cept failure.
For letter 10 a younger brother the
Russian writer Chekhou lists the qualities
that are to be found in one who may
rightly be called person of culture. He
tells his brother that his chief fault is his
ignorance of the things that are beautiful
to do and good to know; and this is
fundamental shortcomlng.
The graces of character are not likely
to come by training TO one who neither
knows nor cares what they are.
Some boys with their way TO make In
the world have never learned the first and
the best of charms, which is that Of
gracious manners. Perhaps there is fear
of insincerity, because politeness has been
the armor of some who were false at heart.
But character never yet suffered from
courtesy. No boast of family can hold
candle to social urbanity. What you are
now to us means more than what your
ancestor did to the British In the Revohl-
ton. Ii you have acquired no manners,
who cares how many dollars you have
rolled up? Your oratlons about your wealth
and your consequence do not move us so
much as the gentleness, simpleness and
generosity of poor man who is not
proud.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-20
The Question Of Importance

Republican papers are laying much
stress on the plan Of Chairman Hays of the
Republican National Committee TO raise
a campaign fund by small amounts from
many, instead of large sums from the few.
But this is not the matter Of vital inn
portance, especially in view of the clearly
exposed plans of the committee to raise
fund of immense proportions.
The question of importance is: How IS 1T
proposed TO expend the money that will be
raised?
For instance, the committee sent s3s, 600
to Delaware on the eve of the election two
years ago. And we know, to our States
disgrace, how il was expended. 1t was
used for buying votes, to most outrage
Gus extent in Sussex county. II bought the
election of a United States Senator and
Representative in Congress.
Now, how much viii Chairman Hays
committee send to Delaware for use IN
this years election? This is what our
people would like to know
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-20
Just Folks
ABOUT MONEY AND THINGS.
BY Edgar A. Guest.

Can you think of money when the sun
is shining high
An the little fleecy sail boats race the
ocean of the sky2
Does money really matter when yo u'rc
out among the trees
An listenin' TO the song birds an
the dronin' Of the bees?
An lorg about October when the world
is lookin' fine
Are you blinded to it's beauty by the
sordid dollar sign?
There's heap more here than money
though a little gold is good,
An I'D like bigger fortune an would
get 1T if ] could;
There are times that / forget it--times
/ even cease to care
That my pocketbook is empty an
I've nothing fine to wear,
An let the race go by me while ! loaf
along the way
To glory in the splendor an the beauty
of the day.
1t may be, as some have told me, that
/ waste lot Of time,
But the fields are full o gladness an
the mir is full of rhyme,
An the trees are all so lovely that I've
got to stand an look,
An like 10 rest an listen TO the babblin
OF a brook;
Though / know IL costs me money an
the thing men call success,
/ Just take my compensation IN day
of happiness.
There are some who live for money,
and by gold they rise or fall,
But there's so much more TO live for
when you think about it all
That the most Of us, fancy, often wander
far astray
eekin' gladress an contentment in a
different sort o. way;
We go rompin' with the youngsters,
trampin' any trail we choose,
An we never stop to reckon UP the
money we NAV lose.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-20
Women Turn Oct Splcndidly.

Tho women Of Wilmington, and through
out the State. according to the trend al
reports, turned out splendidly for reeis-
tration, Saturday. In nearly all districts
the proportion of women rcgistrants TO
the total number Of women Of voting age
fear that all may not easily become quail
fed for voting on the final day of registra-
tion, Saturday. October 49,.
More than 10000 women were regis
tered in Wilmington, and reports from
State districts indicate general registra-
tion of more than so per cent of the total,
some districts showing as high as 10 per
cent. Contrary to expectation, there was
no noticeable rush of colored women, ex-
cept in the heavy Negro districts ofthe
Second Representative district in Will
mington. Here Negro is the Republican
candidate for Representative in the Cen
eral Assembly, and apparently he and his
friends worked vigorously for a large
registration of Negro women, as they lear
and rightfully from all reports-that
white Republicans will cut him savagely at
the election.
It is probable that with another day for
registration the total vote of Wilmington
at the election will exceed 10000, and in
the State will be at least 10000, probably
more. What time there will bceounting
this greatly enhanced vote on election
night.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-20
How About the Other Side?

The Sunday Star commentator on
'The Crime Of 1897 the work Of the
Constitutional Ccnventicn-is having its
over the injustice of our prevailing sys-
TENS of representation, in political con-
ventions, as well as in the General Assem-
blv. He showed evidences Of especially
severe shakes in his latest contribution
over the representation adopted by the
Democratic State Convention. last week,
by which Wilmington was gwen 80 dele
gates, twice its present number.
But this increase Is not satisfactory TO
this "criminologist?" He compares Will
mington' s 80 delegates with Kent countys
90, and raises cries Of horror.
But why should he not feel outraged
over the apportionment of Republican
State Conventions There Wilmington has
40 delegates. but rural New Castle county
has IS. Kent 40 and Sussex 42. By this
plan the city is merely placed almost on an
equality with the other sections. 1t is true,
New Castle county altogether has IS, but
Kent and Sussex combined have 81, so the
balance of power is placed in the hands OF
the two lower counties, despite the dis
crepancy in population.
So the ''crime of 1897 is not condoned
exclusively by Democratic "dastards.
The actual results show that both parties
are to blame, and almost equally.