Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION
Chinese Womens Organizations Ask Support of American Club
in Struggle for Unity-Pen Women Decorate
Graves of Past acknowledgements Club News.

, setts: that Senator Nye of North
| Dakota won his denomination against
| several contenders with an eXpendi-
ture of $780,; that Senator Curtis of
Kansas. Republican floor leader, spent
only S110. and that in Nebraska it
| cost the IL successful candidates for
| Congress an aggregate of $2,194 for
their primary campaign expenses.
Tho study discloses that the first d.
rect primary act was an optional one
enacted for Lancaster County, Penn.
sylvania. in 1871. The first compre-
hensive Statewide mandatory law was
passed in Wisconsin In 1904. Today
only three States-Connecticut New
Mexico and Rhode ISland-retain the
convention system as the sole method
Of nominations.
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THE National League of American
- Pen Women, inaugurating what it
expects to make an annual custom,
paid honor on Decoration day to the
memory of three of it's past presidents
whose graves are in and near Wash
ington. Mrs. Rachel Tongate Beck,
president in the year 1910-1911; Mrs.
Anna Canborn Hamilton, who sue
ceeded Mrs. Beck in office, serving
from 1911 to 1912, and Mrs. Margaret
+. Pearson, who was president three
years, from 1917 to 1920 Both Mrs.
Beck and Mrs. Hamilton are buried at
Arlington National Cemetery, beside
the bodies of their officer husbands,
while the grave of Mrs. Pearson is in
Rock Creek Cemetery.
Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton, ma.
tional president Of the league, placed a
flag at the head of each grave and
paid appropriate tribute to the men,
DRY OF the deceased. Flowers were
strewn upon the graves by members
OF the league and Mrs. Blanche H.
Ray, national chaplain, gave an orig
inal poem followed by a brief prayer.
AT the graves in Arlington, taps was
sounded by Prvt. Raymond E. Nutter
Of Troop G, Bird Cavalry.
The flags which were placed at the
heads of the graves were given by
the chairman Of flags and chairman Of
the memorial service. Mrs Charles
Fisher Taylor, who was unable to be
present. Among those who attended
the service were Mrs. Seton, Mrs.
Ray, Mrs. Edward Nelson Dingley.
Mrs. Leetch, Mrs. Virginia King Frye.
Mrs. Theodore Tiller, Mrs. Florence
Willard Day and Master Detect Tiller.
one OF the interesting visitors to
national headquarters of the National
League of American Pen Women at
the Hotel Mayflower last week was
Miss Vingle Roe of the Sacramento
branch, whose home is Lost Valley
Ranch. near Napa. Miss Roe is a
novelist and short story writer and
has recently completed her fifth
novel. All were written within the
past eight years. Many Of her books
have found their way to the silver
sheet with the leading roles acted by
screen stars of prominence. "The
Splendid Road" which has Sacra.
mento and its surroundings as the
background. with the opening scenes
occurring in a year before the Civil
War-1S52--is one Of her successes.
Although born in Oxford, Kans.,
which lies near the border of Okla.
homa, Miss Roe has for some years
been resident of California.
AT present, accompanied by her
mother, Miss Roe is making a tour of
the United States and stopped in
Washington for few days, leaving
for New York last Tuesday.
In an interview given to Mrs. r. K.
Lawrence Of Sacramento, in March.
Miss Roe said: my contracts call
one for two novels and twelve stories
and another for two novels and six.
teen short stories. They demand my
time and my best effort" Her stories
are written in her tower room at Lost
Valley Ranch, where she holds her.
self to regular hours. writing from
D to IL In the morning and giving her
afternoons to outdoor life which she