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Evening star., 1924-10-23
SOCIETY
Mrs. Coolidge Attending Afternoon
| Concert With White House
Guest and Other Friends.

the air attache of the British En-
bassy. Group Capt M G. Christie.
Capt. Christie was host to a COM
pany of eight at dinner last evening
at the Shoreham.
Mrs. Elihu Root, jr, and Mrs. Nina
L. Duryea will arrive today from
New York to be the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman in their
home in Edgemoor until the first of
next week. They have come to Wash
ington to attend the Golden Rule din
ner tomorrow evening and will be
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Tuckerman.
Mrs. Root entertained at luncheon
yesterday in New York at the Lido
Venice, having among her guests Mrs.
Duryea, Mrs. Henry p. Loomis, Mrs.
Donald w. Brown and Mrs. Edward
Reeve Merritt.
The Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese
of Washington. the Rt. Rev. James
Z. Freeman and Mrs Freeman. will
attend the Golden Rule dinner to-
morrow evening at the New Willard
Hotel. Others who will attend will
include the Ambassador Of France and
Nine. Jusserand, Mrs. Ledyard Of New
York, Prof. Capps of Princeton Uni
versity, Col. and Mrs. Archibald Hop
kins, Dean and Mrs. Hoskins of
George Washington University, Mrs
William E. Chamberlain, and the new
rector of the Church Of the Epiphany
and Mrs. Ze Barney Phillips.
Members of the Junior League, the
National Cathedral School Alumnae,
the senior classes of George Wash
ington University and Gunston Hall
have offered their services as wait
reSses for the dinner.
Lord and Lady Fairfax have gone
to New York after spending few
days in Washington and are at the
Plaza Hotel.
en- at the New Willard Hotel Decem-
ber 5. Mrs. Newbold Noyes is chair
man of the committee on arrange
ments, and her committee includes
Mrs. c. c. Glover, jr.; Mrs. William
F. Flather, jr.; Mrs. Chauncey NJ
Parker. jr.; Mrs. Sylvanus Stokes. jr;
Mrs. Franklin Ellis. Mrs. Alan Kirk.
Miss Virginia Hunt, Mrs. Prentiss
Gilbert, Miss Nancy Hoyt and Miss
Cora Barry.
Mrs Jack Hayes will entertain at
luncheon tomorrow in compliment ito
Mrs. Edward Porches, sister of Mrs
Delos A. Blodgett.
MT. ana Mrs. F1cnard Porter
Davidson entertained company of
o at luncheon today at the Shoreham
in compliment to Miss Beatrice Beck
and Mr.. S. Pinkney Tuck, whose mar
rtage Will take place Saturday after
noon. Mrs. Davidson will be one of
Miss Recks attendants.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davidson leased their
house on Rhode Island avenue to Mr..
and Mrs. Chauncey G. Parker. and
are temporarily staying with Mr..
Davidsons parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
Bradley Davidson, but will take pos
session, the first of the month, of the
apartment at Wardman Park Hotel
where they will be through the Winter.
Mr. S. Pinkney Tuck, whose mar
riage to Miss Beatrice Beck will take
place Saturday, will give his bachelor
dinner this evening.
Col and Mrs. A. l. Conger are stay
ing at the Hotel Gordon, where they
Will remain until their departure for
Berlin. Germany, about the middle of
November.
Mrs. Robert S. Chew. jr, of Phila-
delphia, Is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Edwin Pollock, at the Naval Observa-
tory, having come to Washington to
be the matron OF honor at the we'd
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sso1 Connecticut avenue. A

1901 Connecticut avenue. Among the
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Topham, Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Leith,
Col. and Mrs. Connell, Mrs. Florence
Long, Mrs. A. v. Gambler, Mr.. and
Mrs. James McMenamin of Hampton,
Va; Maj. E. v. Smith, Maj. j. N.
Smith, Maj. Young. Maj. and Mrs.
Stockton, Capt. Biddle, Mr.. Victor
Cahill, Mrs. Honora Maury, Mrs.
David Hendrick and Mr.. William
Lockwood.
Miss Nancy Hoyt entertained a
party of 10 at the supper dance at lie
Paradis last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Belmont, who
were in Washington for few days
early in the week, are now in New
York and were among those enter
tanning at luncheon yesterday at the
Marquery, in New York.
Mrs. w. Henry Harrison of New
York Is spending the week at the
Hamilton Hotel
Miss Marguerite Evans was hostess
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ding of Miss Marjorfs Gelm to Mr.
George n. Eustathopulo of New York,
which will take place Saturday. Mrs.
Chew will return to her home after
the wedding.
The director general of the Veterans
Bureau, Gen. Frank T. Hines, is ex-
pected to go to Asheville, n. c.. for
the week end to join Mrs. Hines and
their daughter, Miss Viera Hines.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex B. Legare were
among the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Seiigman of New York. who
entertained at dinner last evening at
the Homestead. at Hot Springs, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Stewart have
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Dr. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff of the
German embassy, entertained infor-
mally at dinner last night at the New
Willard, where he had a small party.
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Mrs. Robert S. Chew, jr., of Phila-
delphia, Is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Edwin Pollock, at the Naval Observa-
tory, having come to Washington to
be the matron Of honor at the we'd
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Col and Mrs. A. l. Conger are stay
ing at the Hotel Gordon, where they
will remain until their departure for
Berlin, Germany, about the middle of
November.
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her house at 1925 Massachusetts, ave-
enue. Her son and daughter-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Vinton Pierce. are visit
ing her for q few days on their way
to Phoenix. Ariz, where they Will
pass the Winter.
Mrs James M. Green was hostess to
a company of 40 at luncheon today In
her home on Massa achusetts avenue.
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The assistant chief of the Army Air
Service, Brig. Gen. william Mitchell,
and Mrs. Mitchell will be the guests
of honor at dinner this evening of
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motored up from Point Centaur, their
place on the Eastern Shore, and are at
the Shoreham
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Mrs. U. Dahlgren Pierce has re-
turned to Washington after an abb
sence of several years and has opened
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Mr. S. Pinkney Tuck, whose mar
riage to Miss Beatrice Beck will take
place Saturday, will give his bachelor
dinner this evening.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
VITAL THEMES
: Giant Power for ALI the
People.
BY CLIFFORD PINCHOT,
Governor OF Pennsylvania and
Former Chief Of National
Conservation Work.

The greatest advance in the con-
servatien policy since Roosevelt lies
in giant power. We are leaving the
age of steam to enter that of cleo
tricity. What increases in the COM
fort, convenience, safety and happi-
ness of life 1T will bring no man can
yet foretell, but we know already
that these changes will make over
the conditions of human living.
The coming of steam gave men
standards of production and living
never imagined before. But steam
power had TO be used where IL was
produced. That Is why the workman
must go to the factory and why
steam concentrates people in the
towns.
Hereafter we shall bring the pow
er to the workman, instead of the
workman to the power. Unlike
steam, electric power can be delivered
easily and economically 10, 100. 900
miles from where it is produced.
The Pennsylvania giant power plan
proposes that the vast benefits of the
new electric age shall be controlled
and guided In the public interest. In
saying that / take no account of
public or private ownership. The
giant power plan deals with things
as they are. But 1t insists, and in
sists most strongly, that In the coun
ellis at which the new developments
will be planned the public shall sit
at the head of the table.
The giant power plan proposes to
pour all power produced in a given
region into what might be called IA
pool of power, out of which energy
for all purposes shall be taken by
all users. 1t plans for huge power
stations. not only at the falls of
rivers, but especially at the mouths
of coal mines, from which great trunk
transmission lines, carrying the pow
er to smaller lines, will combine the
many present systems of the State
into a single working unit, deliver
ing electricity far more oheaply than
at present for the innumerable uses
Of industry, transportation, the farm
and the modern home.
Giant power and super-power must
not bA confused. Giant power will
create for PoenEylvania the single
great pool of power l have described
and will do it under the watchful and
guiding eye of the public Super
power means merely the exchange of
small amounts of surplus power be-
tween companies as, and only as, the
commercial interests of the companies
shall dictate.
Giant power is a publicly controll-
ed project. with untold possibilities
in better conditions of life and work
for every human being in America.
Super power is a commercial project
with profit as its object and it's limit.
The giant power plan is too large
to be realized at once 1t is also too
sound to fail. 1t can and 1t viii
bring to our people a type of material
civilization higher, finer, healthier
and happier than the world has ever
known.
Copyright, 1924
Evening star., 1924-12-03
Suggestions to Chauffeurs.

The city postmaster has again put
before the chauffeurs and chauffeur
carriers of his office the need for
careful driving. He has told them he
hopes "the post office drivers will
realize their responsibility and the
very important part they play in the
Christmas season. He tells them 'the
eyes of the people are upon them
every minute of the day and night"
and he urges them to set a good ex-
think that any special privileges
should be accorded them because they
are carrying the insignia of the United
States mails. The postmaster calls at
tention Of the drivers to the difficulty
Of traffic conditions during the Mid
winter holiday season, and he reminds
them that there can be no extenuation
for violations of the speed laws.
About this time last year an ap-
peal, or an Injunction, to drivers for
the city post Office was made by the
postmaster, and notwithstanding the
crowded streets, the increased number
of postal vehicles, the greater number
of trips made by each vehicle. the urge
for haste and the law giving postal
vehicles right of way, law which
many motorists do not know or do not
heed. there was reduction In the
number Of accidents In which post
Office drivers figured.
There is something else to be gath
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cred from this. Merchants who have
one or two delivery autos, merchants
who have fleets of trucks and the
taxi companies, which have become
numerous and have several times the
number OF vehicles in the streets they
had year or two ago, might have
a heart-to-heart talk or some other
kind of a talk with their drivers, to
the end that they may be deeply inn
pressed with the safety idea. We are
entering the season when Washington
streets will be as crowded as they ever
have been, and perhaps more crowded
because of the growth of population
and the Christmas shopping habit and
the greater number of vehicles in the
streets.
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The New Water SunnlY.

Progress is being made on the ex-
tension of the Washington water sys-
tenn, which win add 100, 100000 gal
Ions a day to the Capitals water sup
ply, give second conduit from Great
Falls and materially increase our
reservoir and filtration capacity. The
chief of engineers, on recommends
tion of the engineer in charge of the
District water system, has approved
the award of a contract for construc-
mile long between the second high
reservoir at Forty-fourth and Upton
streets and the District distributing
system at Seventeenth street near
the Brightwood reservoir, on Six
teenth street. 1t is said that this is
the last large CONTRACT to be entered
into for the construction of works
having to do with the enlargement
of the water system. Maj. O'Connor
says that the new water-workS project
will be complete and ready for use
by January /, 1927, under the present
plans if the necessary funds are pro-
vided by Congress. 1t is agreeable
to note from time to time the course
of work on the new conduit and new
reservoirs. 1t is an Improvement
which the people of the District have
sought for many years. and 1t Is be-
lieved that Congress will be reason
able enough to authorize the use of
adequate funds to press the work with
celebrity and bring it to conclusion at
the earliest practicable time.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
THE PUBLIC
LIBRARY
3.-Biography

And would tell you of venturous men.
Sailing a chartless sea.
Last weeks article spoke of the
value of biography in furnishing the
reader with friends. This week at
tention is called to the possibility of
knowing q hero of the north, one of
whose most dramatic experiences is
described in "Adrift on an 1ce-Pan.
One would not expect a person to re-
tain his sense of humor while he
drifts out to sea on an ice-pan, facing
practically certain death. DIR. VIII
fred T. Grenfell writes, II could not
help feeling even then my ludicrous
position, and l thought IL ever | got
ashore again | should have TO laugh
at myself standing hour after hour
waving my shirt at those lofty clifrs,
which seemed to assume a kind of
sardonic grin, so that l could almost
imagine they we're laughing at me-"
Such is the caliber of the man of
whom has been said, His simple
faith has been the motive power of
HIS works, to whom pain and weari-
ness of flesh have called no stay since
there was encouragement never, to
whom personal danger has counted
as nothing since fear is incompre-
hensible."
How DR.. Trudeau triumphed over
the handicap OF tuberculosis and
bIazed the trail to the conquest OF the
disease Ia told In his autobiography.
He tells how he cared for his sick
brother, lived and slept in the room
with him, obeying the doctors in
junction to keep the window closed; {;
of his own bitter hours on learning
that the disease had fastened itself
on him; of his journey into the Adj
rondacks, with no hope of cure for
himself; of his growing belief in the
efficacy of fresh-air treatment; of
the experiments in his little labora-
tory, and of his sanitarium, which
furnished the model for so many
later similar institutions.
teur. The whole of his noble life is
laid open in Vailery-Radot's Life of
Pasteur" The scientific world in
which Pasteur lived is veraciously
and vividly portrayed and Pasteur's
great contribution to science de-
scribed. The book pictures as well
the simple, affectionate and kindly
man and honest idealist, whose life
was full of the most beautiful
thought Of others, and for the ad-
vance of science to the neglect of
himself and his private interests.
Another gallant friend is Clarence
with the loss of limb, became a dis
tinguished naturalist. and did those
things which call not only for the
keenest eyesight, but also for minute
observation. He writes, IF / had not
stored up myriads of priceless pic
lures of field and forest under all
the changing conditions of Spring,
Summer, Autumn and Winter. my life
would have been beggared, indeed"
A pioneer in many senses of the
word. DR.. Howard Anna Shaw is we'll
worth knowing. Straightforwardly
and with keen observation, humor
and a rich fund of snecdote, she tells
her picturesque experiences as a child
on an immigrant ship on stormy
sea, her hard-working girlhood in
Michigan and her brilliant career as
teacher, Methodist preacher, doctor,
lecturer and suffrage leader.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
World Politics. Dark Side
Revealed at Opium Parley

Possibilities for good to the moral
ity of the world are numerous and
excellent in the opium conference at
Geneva, but probabilities are some
thing else, in the opinion of many
American editors who express no
great amount of optimism in the final
outcome. due to the complications of
international politics, which many
believe looks first to the commercial
possibilities and afterward to the
morality.
"Just how closely humanitarian
motives will be affected by the prob
lens OF international politics will
probably be seen before the opium
conference at Geneva finishes its
work" says the Kalamazoo Gazette,
which adds: 1T is generally accepted
now that the drug evil constitutes
world problem and can be effectively
combated only by some kind of con-
certed action by all the civilized ma
tions. So far, every one of the gov
ernments represented at the Geneva
conference seems convinced that the
opium traffic must be drastically
curbed, but there is already evident
a. wide difference of opinion as to
what regulating measures should be
adopted"
American delegates to the confer
ence, headed by Representative
Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania,
have offered a sweeping program
which contemplates the restriction
of the growth of the drug-producing
plants and the eventual elimination
of the traffic entirely. This plan, in
the opinion of the Pittsburgh Gazette
Times, sis something to talk about.
Manifestations at Geneva, however,
are convincing that the dominating
Oriental country and some of the Oc-
cidentals are not vet ready to put an
end to the traffic. Japan is more con-
cerned for its right to maintain
profitable traffic than to outlaw an
injurious practice. The Chinese gov
ernment is not capable of fulfilling
any prohibition it might decree.
Other Asiatic peoples under Western
tutelage are indisposed to surrender
what seems to them a good thing and
their suzerains are reluctant to at
tempt forcible repression"
X X X
The economic side of the question
bears heavily against the moral side
in the opinion of the New York Times,
which observes: I'm some of the pro-
ducing countries the. revenues from
opium are large and the number of
laborers employed considerable. But
we have ourselves managed to solve
such problems at home and We
should be willing and able to give
helping hand TO others in getting rid
of what is incidentally a curse to
thousands in this country" In the
conference the Spokane Spokesman
Review sees "a startling reminder
that East is East and West is West,
and never the twain shall meet"
The discussions In the conference, ac-
cording to the Spokesman Review,
have revealed too plainly that the
profitable opium traffic has a power
full influence in high official circles"
TT should not escape observation"
declares the Providence Journal, that
the antagonisns aroused so far at the
conference relate not so much to
differences of opinion regarding the
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war ana careful study of all measures
proposed to attain this end.
Thus the message presents few def
mite proposals for action. 1t offers
encouragement for continued pros
toward the ideal, of universal peace.
1t is the expression of an optimism
tempered with practical common
sense. and based upon an unfaltering
belief in the soundness Of the constitu-
tional foundations of this Govern
ment.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Egocentricity.

EgOcentricity.
! often wonder as / tread
The mystic maze of life
Why other people should be led
Into such useless strife.
l marvel at the strange desire
To mar the peaceful way
To which men like myself aspire,
And force US to the fray.
/ often wonder why my views
Which seem SO sane and sound
Should chiefly function to amuse
The folks who gather round.
While trying hard to be polite
Unto the general throng,
I wonder why I'm always right,
While other folks are wrong!
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suppression of the opium. traffic Is
they do to charges that present ar
rangements for handling the business
yield greater profits to one nation
than they do to another In other
words, the question of the morality
of the nefarious traffic is being made
subsidiary to the question Of the
equitable distribution of the profits
A fair solution of the problem. in
the opinion of the Brooklyn Eagle,
Will be one that gives the recogni-
tion both to the Cauca sian and the
oriental conception of the nature Cf
opium, and the effects of its use. and
the two conceptions are very hard to
harmonize." The Milwaukee journal
sees hope of ultimate good from the
convention because 'it is significant
that for the first time in IL wears
Turkey and Persia, which between
them produce practically all the
opium used in the manufacture of
morphine and herton, are sitting in a
drug control conference" And the
Chicago Daily News believes III
adopted and enforced by the partici-
pating nations the agreement pro
posed by the United States would
constitute long step toward the
suppression of the world wide traffic
In habit-forming drugs While most
nations are unanimous In condemniuc
the evil they are divided between tho
moral and the commercial aspects of
actual suppression. The drug evil i.
condemned in principle, yet the drug
traffic continues"
X X X
The Pittsburgh Sun believes thc
nations that profit by the cxistin..
order are traditionally chiefly inter
ested in offering palliative to pro
test" and that the chief obstacle 10
speedy understanding lies In the
fact that when ii is proposed to
suppress the opium trade they draw
up high-sounding declarations con-
cluding with the promise to change
conditions as soon as practicable
The st. Paul Dispatch expresses
little hope for the successful out
come OF the conference because "The
preliminary conference which was to
have done much essential spade
work, has not only blown up with
nothing accomplished, but it has been
the scene of disgraceful brush be-
tween the Japanese and British dele
gates, and 1t has revived in a vio-
lent form all of the distrusts and
suspicious that seem to be inevitable
whenever the powers attack the drug
problem" The Cleveland Plain Deal
er also takes this view and re-
marks: What seems like a rather
petty squabble between Great Britain
and Japan has brought about the
failure of the preliminary conference
and leads to apprehension that the
main conference with the United
States participating will fall short
of substantially beneficial results"
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Traffic Suggestion
For Crowded Periods
To the Editor of The Star;

To the Editor of The Star:
The street railways of Washington
carry more passengers during the
period from TO am. than at any
other time of the day. and fewer pas
sengers from to II am. than at any
other time.
If the public schools should open
at $3.50 instead of 8, large part of
the street car traffic would be di-
verted from the most crowded period
to the least crowded period.
The schools would, of course, re
main open half an hour later in the
afternoon, but this would not put the
school traffic into the most crowded
afternoon period, which is from 4:30
to g. THOMAS w. GILMER
Evening star., 1924-12-03

An autobiography by Senator La
Toilette will not be expected to so as
far back as that of William Jennings
Bryan, who has included among his
intellectual Investigations IL research
into evolution.
Evening star., 1924-12-03

After a brilliant success in getting
his remarkable young clients into
prison. it remains to be seen whether
Lawyer Darrow will be equally sue
cessful in getting them out.
Evening star., 1924-12-03

There may be moments when mod
ern Egyptian statesman must wish
he were eligible to a quiet niche in
museum like old King Tut.
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There is little hope that the farmer
will ever arrive at a state of mind
which regards the price of wheat as
bearing the proper ratio to the cost
of a loaf of bread.
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A few young Americans appear to
be suffering a certain amount of en-
barrassment because Of an inclination
to take French farces seriously.
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Evening star., 1924-12-03

Several United States Senator's are
persistent in their determination to
distinguish Congress as one of the
greatest Grand Juries ever organized
Evening star., 1924-12-03

Naming a Zeppelin should not be
permitted to go too far in encourag-
ing the champions of ungramnlar who
persist in saying 1.-THE Los Angeles" /"
Evening star., 1924-12-03

A confession secured by third
degree" methods is subject to SO much
suspicion that it is likely to leave the
case pretty much where it was before.
Evening star., 1924-12-03

Occasionally a statesman asserts
himself who makes it clear that he
takes his politics more seriously than
he does his golf.
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After a man has been read out OF
the party he cannot be blamed if he
persistently indicates that he never
thought much of the old party in the
first place.