Evening star., 1923-12-23

or the District branch ever since II
was organized
At the meeting of the organization
tuesday afternoon the chairman of
the Juvenile Court committee, Mrs.
EdWard kalmbach, presented a reso-
luton which was unanimously passed.
Thls resolution was to indorse the re-
appointment Of Judge Sellers as Judge
OF the juvenile Court. The organiZa-
ton not only heartily indorsed this
resolution, but they authorized the
chairman to circulate q petition
through every parent teacher associa-
tlon IN the city for the signatures Of
the parents of Washington supporting
this splendid and most just Judge Of
children.
The District Of Columbia Congress
OF Mothers and Parent-Teacher Asso-
Citations gave a Christmas dinner to
the children of the "atypical" schools
of the southeast and the northeast,
The turkeys were donated, but the
rest Of the dinner was given by mem
bers OF the organization. who helped
to serve IT. Those taking part were
Mrs: William Wolf Smith, Mrs. Frank
J. McMaugh, Mrs. West, Mrs E. Bren-
non, Mrs. G.. S. Fraser Mrs. Bartlett.
Mrs. Tolson and Mrs. J. N. Saunders
There were seventy-five children
served and each child was presented
Haycock and Capt. julius Peyser were
invited guests.
Mrs. G. s. Fraser, chairman of the
clothing conservation department, has
had many appeals for clothing. and
she has asked for donations to be
sent to the headquarters the Appeals
building, 426 9Th street northwest. A
member from one of the P. T. A.
VIII be found in the room every day
in the week from 10 till 4. Mrs
Joseph Randall, chairman of shoes
and rubbers. is also in need of con-
tributions for her work. She has had
many appeals for shoes from school
children, and has exhausted the sup
ply of shoes on hand.
Immediately after the Christmas
holidays the chairmen who had
charge of the different booths at the
rainbow fete will hold a meeting and
draft letter to be sent to all those
merchants and dealers who sent
donations to the bazaar.
There will be poster exhibit in
the Force School after Christmas. and
all those who made posters for the
| rainbow fete are urged to send their
posters to the Force.
Mrs. Patterson, whose address is
the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, has
a number OF hope cards for the hope
chest. These cards contain beauti-
purpose by Mrs. Minnegerode An
drews. who also designed the picture
| and they were painted by the schoo
| children in the junior high schools
The final disposition of chest will
| be made at the January meeting OF
! the organization.
| The domestic science class in East
! ern High gave three baskets to needy
| families at Thanksgiving. These
baskets contained enough food to last
each family for a week. The class
under the direction of their teacher
Miss Jonas, will have dressed dolls
and made scrap books for children
whom Santa claus would doubtless
forget otherwise.
Stephen Kramer. principal of Cen
trail High. ANNOUNCED that early in
association formed in that school
owing to the great number of pupils
! there will probably be more than one
association, in order to embrace all
the parents and teachers interested in
the school.
The Johnson-P Powell Mothers Club
will furnish baskets Of food and toys
to several families for Christmas.
The Park View Parent-Teacher As
sociatfon had a community Christina
tree and entertainment Friday night.
Mrs Mary Baker presided.
Mrs. L. D. Smoot. Juvenile Pro-
tective Association chairman, wants a
chairman from every school to serve
as her committee, and she is pre-
pairing a letter to be sent to every
president asking that such a chair
man be appointed early in January.
Miss Hutson spoke briefly at the
meeting Of the organization Tuesday
about a book recently published d
called Save America" and written by