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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-07

ket places until she sells the girl to some rich, old, blear-eyed rounder or ensnares some brainless, drunken, young millionaire into her matri- monial trap is one of the williams witt. whom we often meet in novels and at the movies.
 We seldom see her in real life, however, because such odium is at- tached to t h e
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steer clear of the role. They wash their hands of all responsibility of their daughters marriages and leave them to shift for themselves about getting husbands.
 Now, this is all wrong. Between you and the cold -blooded, scheming mother who disposes of her daugh- ter in marriage as if she were slave on the auction block, and the mother who leaves her daugh- ter's matrimonial fate entirely to chance and luck, there is a wide field in which it is not only the province, but the duty of a good mother to forward her child's hap piness and well-being.
 It is strange that mothers do not oftener realize this, for nearly all wom- en, even when they have not been hap oily married themselves, believe in mar riage. They recognize it as woman's predestined place in life, the career for which nature intended her, and in which she is most apt to find peace and contentment.
 Every woman wants her daugh- ters to marry. She never feels safe about them until they are married, and the first breath of re- lief that a mother ever draws from the time her girl baby is born is when she sees her walking out of the church door on the arm of her husband, with rice in her wedding veil.
 Thio fhav, hnin0 ho hu Ss getting her daughter married not a Why should not mother use all of tc secure for her beloved child a good husband, since the man she marries holds a woman's whole fate in his two pends whether she lives the balance of her life in heaven or hell?
 Of course, the supreme require ment in any marriage is congenial- ity between the high contracting parties, and that is a matter of ab- solute personal taste. That is be- yond any other human beings Jurisdiction, and it is a crime for a mother to overpersuade her daugh- ter to marry a man who does not appeal to her, or to keep her daugh- ter from marrying a man she pre- fers. The choice of the individual man is up ;o the girl. She is the one to be pleased, not mother.- She is the one who has to live with him, not her mother.
 No mother has a right to use her influence to make her daughter marry any narticular man inst he- cause he is good catch. But none
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-07
DIR. AND MRS. MAJORS HOSTS AT DINNER

Dr. and Mrs. Frank Majors enter. tained with dinner party last eve. ming at their home, having a group of visitors in Birmingham as their guests Following dinner theater party was given at Phillips auditorium to heaI Albert Spalding.
 Included in this hospitality were Mrs B.. B. Conner, Mrs. H. M. Conner of Sa. vannah, Mrs. Fletcher Conner, Midway Mrs. B. T. Conner of Savannah, Mrs Donald Conner, Mrs. B. B. Conner, Jr., of Sylacauga, and members of Mrs. Ma. bers' immediate family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-07
GENERAL SUMTER
 ID. A. R. MEETS

General Sumter chapter, D. A. R., met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. W. T. Johnson and the assistant host esses were Mrs. George Wofford, Mrs. W. c. Lloyd, Mrs. S. H. Pope, Mrs. N. l.. Newhenny, Mrs. W. $. Morton and Miss Lillie Bence.
 A delicious buffet luncheon was served at 1 o'clock. The table was GOV cred with a lace cloth over pink and pink roses in basket was used as dec oration. Mrs. Fred Sheppard served coffee and Miss Maude Mcclure Kelly tea.
 Besides the regular program talk on conservation and thrift was given by Mrs. l.. B. Hall, and Mrs. J. M. Neese told of girl homemakers. Mrs. w. D. Webster talked on Ellis Island.
 A report of the Kate Duncan school was given by Mrs. Watt T. Brown and reports on flags presented to the audi torium was given by Mrs. Hubert Scruggs.
 Mrs. J. F. Donahoo reported flags presented to D. A. R. schools and Cap tain Smith of Company NJ, National guards, asked that all display a flag on Armistice, Day in front of their homes.
 Miss Hattie Morton graciously pre- sented the chapter with a scholarship to the seminary.
 Several out-of-town guests were pres ent, including Mrs. J. J. Hightower of Sylacauga, Mrs. Mamie Williams of St. Louis.
 xI r. and Mrs. c. R. Crandall for taking charge of. the chapter flag at Five Points. The chapter will take part in the Armistice Day parade. JUDGE AND MRS. SAMUELS TO BE GIVEN LUNCHEON
 Judge and Mrs. David Samuels of Shreveport, La., will be entertained
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-07
Today's Thought By REV. KENNETH OWENS

"TO God only wise, be glory througI
 Jesus Christ for ever, Amen.''
 1-COrinthians-16-27. To God only wise
 In His golden skies, Let us bend the knees In humility Let us pray to Him
 Lest our courage grow dim, And stand at His knee
 Through eternity. Let us toll with a smile For after awhile He will say to thee;
 Come to Me, come to Mel"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-07
Listening ln Or Foe

A T THE first meeting of the Dix A Amies after the invitation to the
 Creenly- Preston wedding had come out, the girls were all talking about how difficult it would be to get to
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Glencoe by 8: 80 in the evening". at which time the ceremony was to be performed. Ursula Moore said it was perfectly simple for those who were
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the homecoming at Tuscaloosa this week. She will visit her daughter, Miss Mary Griffin Johns, who is a student at the university.
 Mir. John Lindsay Builder arrived Wednesday from V. M. I. to attend the Benners-Builder wedding last evening.
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the less, she should use her own matrimonial experience and her
 own knowledge of men to subtiy
 guide her girl in making the right choice of a husband. .....,.-.. .. Every woman knows that in affairs of the heart an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. There is no use in arguing with a girl in love. She is temporarily insane and incapable of seeing anything in its true light She is deaf to all reason. Blind to all facts. Every woman also knows that pro- pinquity is the great matchmaker and that girls marry the men with whom ttey are thrown in contact. Hence, it is the mothers duty to see that the men with whom her daughters asso- ciate are the kind whom she would vel come as her sons-in-law.
 The woman who is properly on
 her job as mother does not take
 into her family handsome young
 man relative and throw him into daily, intimate association with her
 pretty young daughter and then
 howl with horror when she finds
 that they have fallen in love with
 each other and want to get mar
 ried. Nor does she give the run of her house to some fascinating, dis sipated ne'er-do-well and then weep with despair when her daughter announces her intention of marry
 ing him despite all the warnings that are held up before her as to
 how such marriage is sure to
 turn out.
 The managing mother prevents these catastrophes. Not believing in the marriage of cousins, she does not in vite good-looking young kinsmen to make their home with her. She runs no free hotel for dead beats. She freezes out the undesirables, and, above all, without her daughters knowing it, she turns the spotlight of her common sense and humor on the girls beaux, so that daughter sees them as they are and not as her youthful inexperience paints them.
 The wise mother teaches her
 daughter that while love is the
 greatest thing in matrimony, it is not everything, and that woman
 does not long love a husband who
 has not the solid qualities that
 command her respect. She teaches
 her that there are lots of men with
 whom it is fun to play around, but
 who are not amusing as husbands.
 She teaches her that a man who
 can make his wife a comfortable
 living will hold her affections
 longer than one who starves her
 and repeats poetry to her. So
 when the girl selects her life mate
 she does it intelligently, instad of
 taking up the first attractive male
 creature that strikes her fancy.
 It is surely a mothers duty to help lner daughters get married. She can do this by making her home an attractive place for men to come; by giving her girls pretty clothes and, if they live in a place where there are no eligible men, by taking them where the hunting is good.
 Men help their sons start in
 business. Why should not mothers help their daughters marry? That's the average girls business in life DOROTHY DIX.
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Reflections of Dorothy Dix
Dad Helps Brother to Get Start i,s Business, Why Shouldn't Mother Use Her Wisdom, and Experience in Helping Daughter Get Start i1s Business of Matrinaony Asks Dorothy Di1?

THE matchmaking mother who hawks her beautiful and artless
 young daughter arOund the mar
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at luncheon Saturday afternoon at the Tntwiler hotel by the Sisterhood of Temple Emanu-El. Judge Samuels will bt the principal speaker next Sunday afternoon at the Buai B'rith meeting at the |. M, H. A,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-07

Men help their sons start in
 business. Why should not mothers help their daughters marry? That's the average girls business in life DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-07

JUDGE AND MRS. SAMUELS TO BE GIVEN LUNCHEON
 Judge and Mrs. David Samuels of Shreveport, La., will be entertained
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-07

matchmaking mother that most women steer clear of the role. They wash their hands of all responsibility of their daughters marriages and leave them to shift for themselves about getting husbands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-07

the less, she should use her own matrimonial experience and her own knowledge of men to subt,y guide her girl in making the right choice of a husband. .......
Evening star., 1924-02-10
MONTICELLO DRIVE
Progressing HERE
Fund Locally Now Stands at
$5,000-lIIinois Cam
paign Organized.

Five thousand dollar4 already has
been raised by the Washington COM
mittee Of the Thomas Jefferson Me-
mortal Foundation, headed by Mrs
Minnigerode Andrews, for establish
1nent OF Monticello. home of Thomas
Jefferson, as a permanent national
memorial.
Mrs. Andrews and Mrs. Rose
Gouveneur Hoes, a great-grand-
daughter of President Monroe, are the
members of the board of governors of
the foundation from Washington.
Organization of committee to
raise million dollars for the foun-
dation in Illinois has just been COM
pleted, with Charles j. Trainor Of
Chicago in the lead. Although JEFF
ferSon was the first great leader of
the democratic party-known in his
day as republican-fourteen repub-
Gcan governors have become members
of the national committee, which also
numbers such prominent republicans
As Fred w. Upham, treasurer of the
republican national committee; Char
les D. Hilles of New York;
tary Of the Navy; Will H. Hays, and
James r. Sheffield. former president
Of the National Republican club.
Many nationally known democrats
are also on the national committee,
among them being william Jennings
Bryan, Senator Copeland of New
York; John w. Davis, former am
bassador to Great Britain; James W.
Gerard and Judge Alton B. Parker.
Lady Astor. member of the British
House of Commons, Is also a mem
ber. Lady Astor was born in Vir-
ginia, only dozen miles from the
jefferson home.
Evening star., 1924-02-10
EDITORS AT BANQUET
BEFORE SEA JUNKET
Frank B. Noyes Expresses Ap-
probation for Denby's
Invitation.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S. c., February g.
A banquet tonight brought to a close
an all-day round Of entertainment for
more than a hundred editors and pub
fishers from thirty-two states, who
assembled here 20 embark on the
Edwin DENLY. Secretary of the Navy,
for 4 cruise in West Indian waters.
Secretary DENLY, VINO announced
at the last moment that his affairs in
Washington would not permit him
sented Sc by Fear Admiral Frank II.
Schofield. who was accompanied from
Washington by Maj Gen. John A.
Lejeune of the United States Marine
Corps and other officers.
The Henderson will sail tomorrow
morning for Culebra Island and is
due to reach there Friday. The news
paper men will inspect the marines
stationed there. The following week
they will be transferred to battle
ships and will visit San Juan. Porto
to inspect the aircraft carrier Lang
ley, submarine destroyers, cruisers
and auxiliaries.
In a message to his guests Secre-
tary DENLY expressed the belief that
the Navy's operations will be better
understood and the editors and pub
fishers in a stronger position to dis
cuss naval matters as q result of the
cruise.
Frank z. Noyes, president of the
Associated Press, spoke briefly at
the banquet expressing appreciation
for Charleston's hospitality and for
Secretary Denby's thoughtfulness in
arranging this excursion. Gen. Le-
jeune stressed the necessity for pre-
paredness in connection with national
defense.
Evening star., 1924-02-10
PARENTS OPPOSED
TO MENTAL TESTS
Mount Pleasant Citizens OBJ
iect to Feature Proposed
for Powell School.

Opposition to the Introduction of
was voted by the Mount Pleasant
Citizens Association at a meeting las
night. The organization decided to
report to the Fedora ton Of Citizens
Associations that it's most urgent
need was better artificial lighting for
the Powell School
A report from DR.. Lee Grande
Powers opposing - bond issue for
such regular expenses as that of pro-
viding an adequate school system, but
favoring a bond issue for such prof.
ects as Fairgrounds and parks, pro-
vided provisions for such looked
ahead for 100 years or more, was read.
Vote Fund TO Library.
The association voted $50 toward
building stacks in the Mount Pleas
ant Public Library. This action fol-
lowed the reading of the report of
Karl Langenbeck.
On motion of w. H White. the as
sociation passed a resolution re-
Association to give prompt conSid-
GRAFTON to and take prompt action
on the Senate committees traffic re-
port
Two resolutions presented in the
report of NJ W. Lewis of the zoning
committee We're adopted. One was a
request that the property north of
Ingleside Terrace and Mount Pleas
ant street bordering on the pro-
posed Piney branch parkway, be
zoned as A residential. 1t was point
ed out that this property was now
zoned as B residential and that this
is undesirable, as it permitted the
erection of row houses the back
yards Of which would be on the pro-
posed parkway.
The other resolution requested the
change of the property on the south
east corner of 10th and u streets
northwest as B residential instead of
first commercial. as at present.
Pass Park Resolution.
T.. G. Coldren presented a resolu-
ton, which was adopted, urging that
measure providing for the purchase
of land east of the 10th street bridge
for park purposes
A resolution of Miss S. Hyatt COM
mending julius /. Peyser and Ernest
Greenwood for their stand in seek
Board of Education public, was re-
ferred to the committee on schools.
The association also adopted a res
olution. presented by F. G. Coldren,
his service to the association and to
the public in preparing a paper on
the first battle between the Monitor
and the Merrimac, of which he WAS
an eyewitness. The association pub
lished the paper in pamphlet form
The following were elected to mem
bership: Charles III. Bauman, Henry
B. Armes, w. w. Delano, Mrs. r. J..
Stout and James H Grubbs.
Evening star., 1924-02-10
EPWORTH LEAGUERS
GIVE ANNUAL DINNER
William Allen Wilbur, Dean of Co.
lumbian College, Principal :.
Speaker at Function.
MUSICAL PROGRAM IS GIVEN
More Than 800 Attend Banquet in
Ebbitt Hotel.

More than three hundred persons at
tended the fifth annual banquet of
the Epworth League Union of Wash
ington and vicinity, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. South. held last
night at the Ebbitt Hotel.
William Allen Wilbur, dean Of CO.
lumbar College, George Washington
University, was the principal speak
er. He spoke on Beacon Fires of
Faith" Addresses were made by Phil
ip c. Dorr, president of the local Ep-
worth Union: Rev. Charles A. York,
BaIlston NJ. e. Church South, and
Paul McMurray, vice president Balti-
more Conference of the Epworth
League. Raymond l.. Murray was
toastmaster and the invocation was
pronounced by Rev. c. K. Ray, Mount
Pleasant M. L. Church South
A musical program was provided
by Cameron Burton, Misses Gemeny
and Smith, Miss Rose Mary Arnold,
Edwin Moore, Mrs. S. E. Moore, Mr..
and Mrs. A Guilford and H. Welch.
The officers of the organization are:
dent. John r. Smith. jr.: secretary,
Miss Beulah NJ. Griffith; treasurer, 1.
w. Smalley; spiritual work, Miss
Eileen Davidson; social service. Miss
Elizabeth Cole; recreation and cul-
ture. Miss Eva Gemeny; missions,
Maude OF1aherty; era agent, Ralph
Marks; field secretary, Orson N.
Eaton: junior league superintendent,
Miss Elizabeth Beale.
The banquet committee was COM
posed of Miss Eva Gemeny, chairman;
Miss Ruth Hall, j. NJ Stonnell. Miss
Bertha +. Cooke, S. c. Peacock, T. D.
FARRELL.
Evening star., 1924-02-10
HOWARD GRANTED
S865,o)D IN BILL
Medical School and Items
DeIeted in House Included
in Senate Measure.

Carrying a total appropriation of
$865,000 for Howard University, an
increase of s707.50O over the amount
Department appropriation bill was re-
ported favorably to the Senate yes
terday from the committee on appro-
priations.
The additions made in the bill for
Howard University cover the $207. 500
for maintenance and quipment
stricken from the bill in the House
on point of order and also $4,000
for additions to the medical school of
the university.
Senator Phipps of Colorado
member of the subcommittee which
handled the bill and also chairman of
the subcommittee which handles the
District appropriation bill, was large
ly instrumental in bringing about the
inclusion in the bill of the 100000
for medical school at Howard Uni
versity.
Item II Restored.
He also supported the restoration
to the bill of the $2o7.500 for the
maintenance and equipment of the
university, which had been stricken
out of the bill in House on a point
Of order raised by Representative
Byrnes of South Carolina because OF
an address made by Rev. Archibald
Grimke, one of the trustees of the
university.
During the consideration of the
bill in subcommittee the president OF
the university, DR.. J. Stanley Durkee
and DR.. Emmett ]. Scott secretary
treasurer, declared that the work OF
the university would be seriously
handicapped If these appropriation
were not allowed.
Howard University is one of two
universities for negroes which Civ
degrees in medicine. The great nee"
Of more and better trained colore
medical practioners was pointed ou'
to the committee as an argument fo.
the s500,000 to be used for addition.
to the medical school OF thi,
amount s370,0o0 is to be used for al
ditional buildings and $4,000 T..
equipment
The Senate committee also add.
| $1,000 to the items for Freedmer
| Hospital for salaries, etc.
| Interior Bill Has Increase.
| The Interior Department bill
reported to the Senate carries a tota,
of s263,4S4,756, or s1,737,291 NOR"
than the bill as Is passed the House
The bin is less than the estimattA
| submitted by the budget bureau by
$S,500.0O
! The report was made by Chairmar
| Smoot of the subcommittee, VIII"
| will seek action upon this, the frs
| of the annual appropriation bills |"
reach the Senate at the present ses-
| sion.
| Other increases provided by tn"
! Senate committee are as follows
Public land service, s66.5e0; Interior
| Department proper, s21.o00: bureau
of Indian affairs, s419.200: bureau of
reclamation, $4,000; geological sur
vey, s104,433; bureau of mines. $9,76S:
national parks, s11,S00; territories.
including s25O,Oo0 for the Alaskan
railroad, s27s,ooo.
The decreases made by the Senate
committee were: Reclamation serv-
lice. 100000, and national parks, $780,
600 for purchase of Bright Angel
! trail
Evening star., 1924-02-10
MRS. GAMBLER, 2 men
HELD IN PARTY RAID
Young Wife of Millionaire Admits
Identity After Arrest-Freed
on Bond.
SEES NO HARM IN AFFAIR
Says "There Are Others in Atlanta
Besides Gamblers.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga, February 9.-Atlan-
ta's social and business circles were
given q new sensation here today, when
Police Chief James L Beavers and
Police Capt A. J. Holcombe arrested
Mrs Mary Little Ragin Gambler, young
wife of Asa G. Gambler. sr.. millionaire
soft drink manufacturer, as she and w.
j. Stoddard and G. w. Keeling were
sitting around a table on which reposed
quart bottle containing liquor. They
were taken from an apartment house in
fashionable residence section Of the
city to the police station and released
on bonds Of 800 each for appearance
before the city recorder next Tuesday
morning.
Mrs. Gambler admitted her identity
to the police chief and said she and her
friends were having little party in
the apartment, which, she declared, be-
longed to a friend Of hers. The apart
ment owner, she told the chief, had gone
to nearby suburb for the afternoon.
Sees No Harm In Party.
I'VE are just having a little party.
l don't see any harm in that" Chief
Beavers said Mrs. Gambler told him.
He declared he told her he was a per-
sonal friend of her husbands S and that
its an outrage that you have to be
arrested under such circumstances as
these" to which Mrs. Gambler replied,
the chief said:
There are other people in Atlanta
beside members of the Gambler fam
lily and beside, we were just having
little party in which there was no
harm"
Mr.. Stoddard. who is president of
the National Association of DyerS and
Cleaners expressed concern over what
his wife might think of the incident,
officers reported Mr. t"e!ing had
nothing to say, they stated.
The prisoners Were hooked at
police headquarters for violation of
section 1868 of the city code, and
held under the part of which pro-
vides for the arrest of "any person,
who shall keep a place weber liquors
either alcohol. malt or vineous, are
kept and sold, and where men and
women come and drink. either in the
room where such liquors are kept
and sold, or IN a restaurant or other
place connected Herewith, or any
place not connected with such place
where the liquors are kept or sold,
where men and women drink"