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Putting 1t Over On the Farmer

terested in faith" or patience" as
far as the farmer is concerned. They
are interested solely in cold cash. The
farmer is "help-up" at the pistol point
OF necessity by the financial pirates
and he is forced to deliver the goods.
This corn costs him an average OF
6S cents bushel, and nets him a re.
turn of IL cents per bushel. Having
lost cents on his oats and rs cents
on his wheat the farmer is still 15
cents behind on each bushel of grain
Gluten, on the other hand, has net
ted a profit more than 40 cents pc,
bushel. He has pocketed this sum
not as a result of superior patience
or faith but rather as a result of hi,
unlimited credit facilities. II is THU
powerful weapon in the hands OF tn,
grain gamblers, which is causing tn,
ruin Of many thousands of farmers
turnout the nation. This state OF af
fairs will continue, the farmer vii
continue to toll and fbe mulcted. only
so long as he continues to tolerate the
capitalist system Of exploitation under
which he groans in common with Ii
industrial worker.
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in the state.
ALABAMA: United States Senator
Oscar w. Underwood, the guiding hand
of the Alabama delegation, is one of
the largest owners of stock in the Gulf
States Steel Company. This corpora
ton is notoriously anti-union and
owns blast furnaces, rod wire and roll
ing mills, coal mines, and red ore
mines. 1t is closely linked up with
the Guarantee Trust Company of New
York.
NEW YORK: The big boss of the
New York delegation was Franklin d.
Roosevelt, who made the nomination
speech for AL Smith. When Mr.. Roose-
welt accepted the vice-presidential
nomination in 1920 he resigned several
of his financial and industrial Offices.
Today Mr.. Roosevelt is the vice-presi-
dent of the Fidelity and Deposit Com
pany of Maryland.
Labor Lieutenants Present.
The connection between the official
democratic machine and the labor
lieutenants of capital was evident in
the fact that there were represented at
the convention about thirty-five dele
gates who were trade union officials.
A roll call of these names would be
most instructive. We will cite only a
few of the outstanding characters in
this list.
Chief among the so-called labor dele
gates to the convention were: William
Green, treasurer of the United Mine
Workers from the state of Ohio; p. T.
Pagan, president of District Five of
the United Mine Workers of America,
from the state of Pennsylvania; ]. A.
Reardon, president of the Pacific
States Allied Printing Trades Council;
w. H. Young, secretary of the Denver
Printing Trades Council; Mary E.
Meehan of the International Union of
Bookbinders, Massachusetts; George
Curran, Theatrical and Stage En-
ployees, Massachusetts; A. O'Keefe,
Machinists' Union, New Orleanss La. !;
VIM. H. Maloney, of the Garments
Union of Butte, Montana; Frank X.
McNulty, of the Brotherhood of Elec-
trio Workers, Newark, New Jersey;
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Who Owns The Democratic Party?

of the st. Louis Coffin Company. He
is known as "the millionaire Coffin
King of the West"
AdoIph Musser: Mr.. Musser has
been a member of the state committee
for the last ten years. He is the owner
of the biggest dry goods store in the
country.
MARYLAND: Emory L. Coblentz
of the Maryland delegation was one
of the wealthiest men at the conven-
ton. He is the president of two insur-
ance companies, one bank, three light
and power companies, and two rail-
roads.
FLORIDA: Mr.. Edward Lambright,
one of the leading spirits of the Flo
rida delegation, is the editor of the
Tampa Tribune, and the Pensacola
Journal. The last named paper is
one of chain of dailies owned by
John H. Perry, president of the Amer
lean Press Association.
KENTUCKY: Lieutenant Governor
H. H. Denhardt, came to the conven-
ton as the hero of one of the most
notorious strike breaking feats in the
country 1t was Mr.. Denhardt who
crushed the steel workers in their
brave struggle at Newport. Tank and
machine guns were employed freely
to break the strikers ranks.
TEXAS: One of the most active
members of the Texas delegation was
Frank Wilson Woozencraft of Dallas.
Mr.. Woozencraft is a director of the
American Life Insurance Company.
CALIFORNIA;: The leader of the
California delegation was former
United States Senator James d.
Phelan. The latter nominated VIM. G.
McAdoo for the presidency. Mr..
Phelan is the president and director
of four big western banks.
WEST VIRGINIA: In the delega-
ton from this state was found the
Observation-Disclosures Don Chain, sheriff
of Logan county. His fellow delegates
nicknamed him "gunman." Mr.. Chain,
it will be recalled, was the leader of
the military forces and the band of
gunner that broke up the famous
Iron March" of the striking miners
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M. ]. Walsh, Of the Garments Union of
Workers, New York; Thomas j. Duffy,
of the Brotherhood of Potters, Ohio;
o. A. Cargill, of the Building Trades
of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; A.
Dolan, and James Dunno, of the Brick
layers Union and the Brotherhood of
Carpenters, Rhode Island, respective.
ly; and George H. Slater, President of
the State Federation of Labor, Of
Texas.
The above mentioned labor officials
represent primarily the highest skilled
crafts.
Conclusion.
In a word, our examination of the
ownership and control of the demo-
cratic party affords an abundance of
evidence showing that the democratic
party is owned body and soul by the
big capitalist interests.
In the democratic party, unlike the
republican party, there is still a
sprinkling of small owning class in
terests. But the veto power, the abili-
ty to make decisions, the control of
the party machinery, and the formula
ton of party policies, are all securely
in the hands of capitalist interests
that are as big in size and influence
as those controlling the republican
party.
In the coming campaign the demo
Gratis will undoubtedly make every eff
fort to mislead the working and farm
ing masses, to confuse the latter into
the ridiculous and unfouned notion,
that it is the party of the downtrodden
masses. Nothing could be further
from the truth. The governing CON-
mittees, the leading spirits, the i'm
portant decisions, the platform and
program Of the democratic party will
betray the organic and hopeless con-
troll of its mechanism and functions by
the most powerful section of our bank
ing and manufacturing-ou capitalist
class. All the progressive gestures
and noise that the democratic polit-
icians will indulge in for the next
few months cannot change this i'm
mutable feature of the party whose
standard bearer is the Morgan and
Standard Oil attorney, John w. Davis.
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BY JAY LoVEsToNE
CONTINUED from yesterday

PART II.
Financing the New York Convention.
THE last democratic convention has
/ cost from two to three million
dollars. This sum is exclusive of the
money spent by the various presiden-
tial aspirants on organizing their pre-
convention campaigns and of the
funds expended for bribery, booze, and
women during the convention sessions.
An introduction to the personnel of
the democratic finance committee
charged with the task of raising the
necessary funds for the holding of the
convention sheds Illuminating facts
on the character of the whole party,
on the supremacy of the big business
interests in the organization.
Among the financial wizards. in
charge of putting over the convention
were the mining, banking, aircraft
and motor king Thomas L. Chad
bourne; the prominent banker and
department store owner, Michael
Friedsan; the United States Chamber
of Commerce and the American Manu-
facturers Export Association director,
Lewis e. Pierson; the millionaire
newspaper publisher, Ralph Pulitzer,
and the multi-millionaire fountain pen
manufacturer, Frank d. Waterman.
The treasurer of the National Con-
vention Committee was Mr.. Alvin w.
Krech, president of the Equitable
Trust Company of New York and a
directing officer of twenty-seven coal,
railway, sugar. light and power, com
mercial chemical and lumber corpora
tions.
On the Executive Committee of the
forces preparing the convention were
the multi-millionaire theatrical mag
nate, Edward F. Albee; the millionaire
pencil manufacturer, Philip Berolz-
himer; the powerful commercial pub
Usher, A. c. Pearson, and the type
writer manufacturer, exporter, banker
and director of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, George E.
Smith.
lSSHfN tIRtSat S0UNCUhtOn SaaeNcs
One need not burden the reader with
an analysis of the financial and indus
trial connections of the thousands of
delegates and alternates congregated
in the last convention to present an
accurate view of the ownership and
control Of the democratic party. We
need but examine the record of some
of the leading and representative dele
gates at the New York convention to
learn that the democratic party is
firmly in the grip of big business. The
following information substantiates
our contention:
VIRGINIA: Mr.. Harry Ford Byrd,
chairman of the delegation from this
state, is known as the apple King of
the South" His orchards yield about
sixty thousand barrels OF fruit annu-
ally.
Carter Glass: Senator Glass is the
owner of two newspapers, The Daily
News and The Daily Advance, pub
lished in Lynchburg, Va.
Henry c. Stuart: Former Governor
Stuart is the president OF the Stuart
Land and Cattle Co. He is the owner
Of the largest cattle ranch in the
south, with an acreage OF sixty thou
sand. He is also the president of the
Buckhorn Coal Company and the First
National Bank OF Lebanon, Va.
J MISSOURI: Ex-Governor Fred d
Gardner Of Missouri 10 the sole owRe
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Chicago Negro paper, The Whip, carries an
advertisement signed by the "Allied Economic AL
lance" which indicates the vicious forces divid-
ing the workers and delivering them, white and
black, to the mercies of the capitalists 1t is
open and frank than such an appeal could posi-
bly, be if addressed to white workers. and contains
threat to the labor movement that requires SER
ious attention. 1t says
"The safety and future of the colored workers
has always been on the side of the capitalists"
This fat statement is the eliminating point of
an argument against the unions, against the "bol-
sheviks," and in favor of the Negroes "Jim Crow
ing" themselves in the interests of the capitalist
class, hoping thereby to scrape few crumbs from
the capitalist table.
Nothing can overcome the baleful effects of such
propaganda, except the education of the Negro
workers by the more advanced of their own race
in cooperation with the cass-conscious white
workers. The Workers Party offers this coopera-
ton, is carrying out this work. and should have the
intensified assistance from all who would fight
against racial prejudices and discrimination.
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the world In Russia the sun Of the new so
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The Ne,o Republic, liberal weekly, is supposed
to be edited by alert and intelligent bourgeois
gentlemen. But it is so far behind the times that
il says in the current issue, that the Communists
are VIRTUALLY underground" and twill not appear
at all" on the November ballots Guess again,
brothers!
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The Poor Fish says: Debs Is a
fine fellow. Tho ! am a Republl
can, have the greatest respect for
a man who can see some good
even In an enemy. Instead Of being
sore. over tiilIquit taking on the
capitalist LaFollette as his new
God, instead Of the old God Debs
(they are both old In a sense),
Gene sweetIy said, "The party
could not have done otherwise"
Indeed the kingdom Of heaven ls
made up Of soch as he. " the
Communists would only take this
point Of view the class struggle
would not DO so severe.
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Send In that Subscription To-day.
Evening star., 1924-07-10
TABLE BOARD,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

1888 l. ST. S.W.-Boar wanted in private
home, meals good home cooking; reasonable
raj tes
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completely furnished coolest and choicest 10
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WANTED-ROOMS.

GESTTEMAN-Near Kpj1hIs ~ CoIn,nI.S
haH. or 9th and nv. with or withos,t .
meals: moderate rent; state terms Address
LADY would like nnYurnishea
room with refined people downtown; not over
sIz: reIerence Address Bo1 1S-E. Star office
Evening star., 1924-07-10
COUNTRY BOARD.

FORT STRONG VILLA, one mile Washington
on Lee Highway, Va: large rooms; excellent
meals milk, fresh eggs and large garden:
families taken. Take Cherrydale bus 3sth ,
and SITS. get of at Fort Strong villa l2A
GRAND YIEW-Ideal location in Blue Ridge
Mountains, miles east OF Harpers Ferry: an
convenlences; reasonable rates. VIM. Henkel
Knoxville. Nd 10s =
MAYFIELD COTTAGE. Braodock Heights;
81 per week Mrs. M. Smith. II +. D. No
5, Box So: Frederick, Nd. Telephone Brad
COUNTRY BoARD-ideal location: vacation
IN Blue Ridge Mts two miles above Bluement:
an conveniences. Reasonable rates John
Moreland Bluem0nt. Va. Phone l5-W "a ,E
CULTURED LADY will take several chiIdrpn,
ideal home. beautiful foothills Of southern
MARYLAND Box 1859. Cpper Marlboro. los -
" ILL give best hoard and care TO one or two
chiIdren IN nearby country home: rate, 81 per
week Address BOX lsl +, Star ofbce. IL --
lSGLESIDE-0n Rockville pike and electric
line, open July Is. management Of l822.25.
Phone Line. 1S2l-W for reservation.
LITTLE HAvES-Beautiful come. on sait
water; excellent bathing. boating. fishing;
Terms reasonable. Special rstes for Fourth"
NIs 7. Carro.. P:ics. Mcdaniel. Nc.
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/ 500 ST. N.W.-Three rooms bath and
hall: nicely furnished: will rent until Dec /
70 reliable couple for price We are paying unz =
furnis shed Ant. TO4 Main S426 liz -
Evening star., 1924-07-10

EXCLUSIVE DOWNTOWN SECTION. At
sacrifice: rooms. all outside; east south.
west exposure ideal for summer possession
Er :,Ih1 Rr Il
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RENT ROoMs-sUBURBAN,

WOODBRIDGE, 2s3O 18th st. ne: beautiful
surroundings: large room and kitchenette;
furnished or unfurnissed; sink: $50 IOs
FOUR OR FIVE ROOMS BUNGALOW: REA
sonable. within miles of Pension ONCE Ad-
dress Box lS3 f, Star office.
TWO rooms, Ink; price, $50 Particulars
phone Fals Church 2S-J-2 ne
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WILL RENT APT. To PARTY BUYING
furniture. Will sell furniture separately
rent. s45; r. K. and b. Lincoln sI33. or
Evening star., 1924-07-10

1909 KEN.YoS ST-HIGH-CLASS, DELIGHT-
fully clean. airy. 4-room. bath apartment:
IL windows: entire Ind floor: private house.
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THE PRESTON. l1i3 ST NW.-APART-
ment. r. h. and b, furnished. near Dupont
Circle. Apply CHAS :. SHREYE. 12.2 Conn.
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112B COLUMBIA RID = TWO ATTRACTIVE
large rooms. kitchenette. bath. pantry trunk o..
room. electricity. I5s
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144s ST. FIR. 5523. l ROOM kIHCN :
Davenport bed: semi-bath exceptional Tow
rent for summer: also rooms. kitcne=sttsi
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s:2,3 VA. AVE. Sc. APT 2-APARTMENr
to party bnying furniture Ins
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1870 EMERSON ST. NV ATTRACTIVE
communicating rooms. adjoining bath. in mod,
ern. detached house: sink, cont. h.w; sas
range. y large closets: SA5 Col aSsQ- u
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| 512 ST. N.W.--LARGE CORNER ROOM,
and sitchenette: ali modern Improvements:
| mining hot wafer 1cs
Evening star., 1924-07-10

WILL. TRANSFER LEASE OF 2RoeM.
kitchen and bath. rent. $50 per month 70
purchaser Of furniture dishes and cooking
utensils FOR slS'; rent paid 10 July 81: agent
will renew lease for next year 2012 st.
NV. Apartment 33. Phone North I2I2w
janitor Ios
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RADIO AND EQUIPMENT.

RADIoLA No. ?, viii sell cheap. 20iz st.
INV. W. 2e4a
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1872 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE dupont
Circle )-Frnnt three rooms, kitchenette hath:
walk. DIS. downtown: gas. eIec. furnished
Evening star., 1924-07-10

LADY TO SHARE APARTMENT on 18th
st. with young widow. For appointment phone
Potomac RQA
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WANTED-R00Ms AND BOARD.

YOUNG MAN. refined, desires room and 6o,1d
with private family, in northwest section.
state price. Address Box 124-E Star once
1Os =
WASTBD-Rooms and board for three neo
PIE beyond Sheridan Circle on Mass ave or
near there. Address Box 122-E, Star ofBce,
TWO ADULTS desire three or Four md aoor.
rooms with board; modern home; maid sery--
ice: vicinity Park road Address Box 14s-E >
Star Office sIs
YOUNG MAN, Catholic. desires room with Mi
yate family; board optional; reasonable Ad.
dress BOX zoe. Star office
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THE ROANOKE l34S EUCLID ST.-vBRY
desirable Groom and bath apt. Apply Apt y ?
NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE-APT. FOR RENT.
furnished: four rooms and BATH s65 month.
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NEWLY FURNISHED, TWO CHOICE ROOMS
kitchen, bath. porch Apartment 81 apart,
ment house 1922 18Th ST. NV. LEVI r. DA-
vID phone Main 3sa
, 1924-08-20
SPIRIT FAkIRS AT 1T AGAIN

Once more the great metropolitan daiies are wasting space and
newsprint to record the fantastic operations OF the woman MAR
gerry" whose psychic" powers r said to have bafled the inquiry
of trained investigators. She manipulates a window shade pole
with phosphorescent ends st that the ends can be seen while the
pole is not visible. The pole seemingly is passed through substance.
The actual manipulation is reported to be one Chester" whose
address is given as the other world. "Margery" is the medium of
manifestation and the willing candidate for the purse of s., 500 Of
fcred to any person who can produce proof of spiritual phenomena.
The history of spirituaism, so-called, has been long and amazing.
1t has been kept alive by whispered advertisement, the mouth-to
mouth message of mystery that has kept alive superstition in the
ignorant mind and exploited the natural desire of man to continue
as a n identity after death.
That there may be some manifestation of the supernatural to
which we are not yet attuned is far from the realm of imposSbIty,
but that sane men and women in this day Of enlightenment should
have their time wasted listening to mysterious" ukulele playing
and watching a strange light, astounded at the sounds of knockings,
rappings and other bunk, is almost incredible. The way to put an
end to this cheap swinde is to let all claimants to spiritual me
diumship to display their powers with the understanding that when
their fraud is exposed they spend a few months cooling their enthus-
iasm in the county Jail
, 1924-08-20
HATS are Wonderful!
He had saved Sll5 from

courses. He had saved s115 from
his meagre pay and with this he
rented a "hole in the wall" which
faced f. 'v..rd University on
Massachusetts avenue, Cambridge.
An attractive sign over his tiny
door read, "Eat Well-Think Bet
ter" His specialties consisted of
home-cooked meats, pies, icol cof-
fees, teas and lemonade. A widow
living across the street did the
cooking. He bought the food and
paid her ten per cent gross of his
earnings. Before winter of that
year he had sailed away $1,10O in
cash and all his bills were paid.
Before the winter was over he had
enlarged his place to accommodate
$50 persons, employed nine walters
-girls-and q French chef did the
cooking. Four years later his bank
, 1924-08-20

America, Japan, or any country on
the surface of the globe. But North,
South, East and West are a unit for
national defense.
There is not only before the Amer
lean people the lesson Of information
al disarmament and the struggle to
accomplish it, but there is the lesson
of Japan and its earthquake shock
revealing hidden naval oil reserves,
and the lesson of a way that has cost
us to date more than forty billions
and will cost us more than another
forty billions before the war debts
are fully settled.
President Wilson when in Paris
privately declared that he had not
come over to the war out of senti-
mentality, but because he felt that
should the Germans win, the turn Of
the United States would come in n
few years.
Had the United States possessed n
trained yeomanry with arms to which
they could spring, a word from the
United States in conjunction with
, 1924-08-20
pay, AUGUST 10th, 1924
MING O. M'LADY
re country are exhibiting grow

sexes makes it imperative for her to weld ferself into a political fact
or along lines entirely separate from those that govern the men.
Most of these women's clubs n in more or less embryo state,
dealing for the most part with the thousand and II sdeshows that
decorate the political arena, but as the politicians see it the greatest
present danger lies in their inclination to support candidates rather
than parties o r principles.
The general character of candidates has a marked bearing O N any
appeal to the feminine vote. The split tcket-often into the finest
splinters- is the final result Here and there the more experienced
women r. influenced by avowed principles and platforms and stand
ready to vote for men they do not approve, if the principles for which
they stand are considered sound. The younger sister, however, rea-
sons in her own peculiar way, Platforms may be all right, but quite
unsafe to step on unless the candidate is of a chracter that commands
implicit confidence.
Where the women n going to stand in the coming election MS a
question that is giving many a politician sleepess nights.
, 1924-08-20
WAGES COMING IN AND GOING OUT

Today the hourly earnings OF building labor are far the highest
in any industry in the United States. The hourly wages in seven
teen of the building crafts are 100 per cent higher than in 1914
The cost of building, of course, reflected the cost of homes and
the cost of living generally. This opens up the field of inquiry that
reveals almost startling facts. Washington figure sharks tell us
that SO per cent of the persons gainfuly employed in the United
States receive incomes of $1,000 a year or less-a great many of
them less. The same figure experts then point out that rents of
moderate priced accommodations such a S are used by the average
wage-earner, are IS per cent higher than they were in 1914.
Followed to its logical results this means more skimping on the
part of the housewife, more limitation to the comfort of children,
less pleasure, fewer clothes, and a general Tightening up all around
OF course, the shortage of lobor plays its part in this condition,
which in turn is aggravated by our immigration laws. On the sur
face the condition appears to be a splendid one for the American
worker, but even he is coming to learn that natural law is inexor-
able and that he must pay the piper.
, 1924-08-20
Coolidge is Real Issue
In This Campaign

The Boston News Bureau says that
more and more it develops that the
real issue in this campaign is to be
Calvin Coolidge. Higher and higher
he rises under every assault. His
Washington record is but tina repe-
tition of his Massachusetts, record.
The scandalmongers and ipvestigat-
srs assailed him and went down. The
Senate assailed him and went down.
Bryan, the tail Of the Democratic
ticket, assailed him on the issue OF
national defense, and before the peo-
pie Bryan went down; and Coolidge,
always for law, order and national
defense. rose higher. The head of
the Democratic ticket came to the
rescue of the tail. The result cannot
be otherwise than more votes for Cal
win Coolidge.
The people Of this country are not
aggressive toward Mexico, South
, 1924-08-20

Frank Manning was one of the
boys with no chance" He was
born a hunchback in a poor section
of Charlestown, Mass. His fnther
was a freight handler on the docks:
his mother took in washing. He
was the ninth child. Slow to de-
velop and weak of physique, his
only schooling was three terms in
: Bile school. When he was thir-
he was earning S1.O0 V as
'shwasher in an all-nig unch
y ton in Boston. He walked to
and from his job-a distance of
ove four r,'les-daily. In the
summer of 1901, when he WIS II
years old, he conceived the idea OF
offering tempting and wholesome
luncheons to Harvard students in
Cambridge. The students were
"specials" attending the summer