Evening star., 1925-11-25
STAR CLUB jESTS
AT ANNUAL FROL|C
Lifts Speech Ban, However
for Father Walsh, Who
Gives Lecture.

Members of The Evening Star
Club or family" threw all type intc
the hell box, showed all advertising
and news copy into desk draws
brushed their best working clothes
and hied to the Willard Hotel las,
evening for their annual Thanks
giving dinner and frolic. 1t was not
exclusively club function, as the
members had as their honored guests
the fair ladies whose sex bars them
from the confines of the clubroom but
whose labors and smiles aid in the
production of this newspaper.
Custom has written that speeches
are absolutely taboo at all club func-
tions, but the ban was lifted for Rev
Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., vice presi.
dent of Georgetown University and
regent of its School of Foreign Serv.
ice, who came to the dinner with a
vital and inspiring Thanksgiving
message. Entertainment, too. was
sprinkled freely between courses as
we'll as exotic jazz music, generated
by versatile Meyer Goldman and his
orchestra.
Father Walsh Speaks.
Father Walsh, whose engagement
before the microphone Of station
WRC promptly at S:15 o'clock kept
him watching his watch, drew a
sharp contrast between the philos-
ophies Of government behind the
United States and Soviet Russia, ex.
planning that the benefits Of living
in this country constituted one of
the real reasons for thanksgiving in
every American heart.
The theory from behind the Gov
ernment of the United States. Father
Walsh pointed out. has been an out
growth from the best thought of the
ages and had formulated itself into
fact on the basis that Government
was for the good of all. BY contrast
he said the Soviet was constituted
on the basis of government for a
single class-the workers-to the
detriment of all others. At first,
under the Soviet. he emphasized, one
who so much as employed another
20 work for him was diSenfra nchiSed
Within the past two months, how
ever, he explained that the Soviet
had been compelled to modify this
stringent application of suffrage re-
rUirements..
Outlining several Of his personal ex.
periences in Russia, Father Walsh de.
clared that he was neither "pro-bol.
shevik" nor bolshevik," but only
'pro-American," and he hoped that
the day would come when the Russian
people, living in a country comprising
one-siXth of the earth. would be able
TO assume their rightful place in the
family of nations.
Father Walsh quoted Big Bill
Haywood, the deported American
Communist, as having predicted in a
gathering in which the Georgetown
official was present that there is class
hatred in America which would flame
into revolution and result in the
overthrow of the classes by the
masses. The real spirit of America
he declared, was not represented by
Haywood. but by the Americans who
were risking death and dying in
Russia to bring food to their starving
people to save them from the dreadful
famine which devastated the popula.
tion.
One of the essential differences be
tween the United States and the
Soviet, according to Father Walsh
s their attitude toward the child. In
Soviet Russia, he explained, the child
is considered the creature of the
state, under its authority and of worth
only as it could serve the Communist
party; while the child in America
is part of the family, the home and
The Government exists for that family
nd home and not vice versa. as in
Russia.
After a course of sirloin steak with
potatoes au gratin and new string
beans, Col. c. Fred Cook, president
of the club, introduced the first enter
tainment feature-a group of songs
by Fred East, baritone, and Billy
Raymond. tenor. George Wilson was
the accompanist. George H. O'Con-
nor, baritone, sang several of his
Inimitable humorous songs, while his
inseparable accompanist, Matt Horn,
presided at the piano. Norman l..
Goldman rendered several violin solos,
assisted by Meyer with his "Strad"
Miss Gladys l.. Wood, one of The
Stars fair ladies, sang Il Love You -
The dinner over. some of the club
members and the fair ladies remained
to indulge in dancing, the night force
returned to work and the married re.
porters fastened home.
Col. Cook presented to each official
of The Evening Star Co., who viewed
the proceedings from the speakers
table, a daintily wrapped box which
he said contained a turkey The wait.
erS gave the others a box which did
contain a turkey Of the sweet choco.
late variety.