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Evening star., 1928-12-23
NORTH SUBURBAN

| Griffith and Mr.. Charles Griffith will
be at home that same afternoon from
until Z.
Miss Catherine Dawson has arrived
from her studies at Mount Holyoke
and is with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Somerville Dawson. in Rockville.
Midshipman King Mallory arrived
yesterday from the Naval Academy to
spend the holidays with his parents.
Comdr. and Mrs. G. K. Mallory, in
Battery Park.
Ashworth, students at Washington and
Lee University, are spending the holi-
days with their parents In KenSington.
Miss Helen Louise Pratt, a student
at Sweet Briar College, has arrived to
be with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Scott Pratt, In Capitol View
during the holidays.
Maj. and Mrs Lewis Call and their
daughter, Miss Eleanor Call of Garrett
Park, have taken an apartment at
the Crescent for the remainder of the
Winter
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. England of
Rockville have announced the engage
ment of Mrs. England's sister, Mrs.
Annie Gordon Smith, to Mr.. Charles
Tilden Lohr, both of KenSington.
adelphia will be the Christmas guests
of the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
r. H. Gangwisch, in North Chevy
Chase
Guests at Valentine Home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis I. Valentine are
having with them through the holidays
their son. Mr.. Weston Valentine, a
student at Lehigh, and their nephews
Mr. Edwin Weston and Mr. Robert
Weston, students at ST. James Academy
Miss Louise Massey, who is spend
ing the Winter with her uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter e. Perry
in Bethesda. has gone TO her home in
Newport News. Va, for the holidays.
Miss Lillian Burke of New York ar
rived yesterday to be the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Lewis In Kensington
Miss Catherine Lewis, student at Hol-
Inns College, arrived wednesday tc
spend the holidays with her parents.
Mr.. Richard Drown and Mr. Jerry
Drown, students at st. James Academy
are spending the holidays with their
mother, Mrs. Oryille Drown, in Edge
moor.
Mr.. F. P. Waybright of Atlanta. Ga
will arrive today to spend Christmas
with his family in Kensington
Ensign and Mrs Paul Tyree are ex-
pected to arrive the first of January
for a visit with the latter's parents
DR.. and Mrs. II. B. Haddox Of Silver
Spring, who have taken an apartment
in Washington for the Winter
Miss Elizabeth Wanner student at
Hood College, arrived Wednesday to
spend the holidays with her parents in
Capitol View.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albin Knight of Mar
tinsburg; w. Va, will spend Christmas
with Mr. and Mrs. M. Donaldson
Knight, in Rockville
Miss Evelyn Keith Moffett of Fair
fax road, Edgemoor, will go to War
renton, Va, to spend Christmas with
relatives.
DR.. and Mrs. James Townsend OF
Kensington, who sailed several weeks
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Kentucky Society Lists
An Elaborate PROGRAM

It is announced by Mrs. Maurice H.
Thatcher, president. that the Kentucky
Society will meet Friday evening at $3.50
O'Clock, at the Willard Hotel.
Former Senator Augustus o. Stanley
of the Blue Grass State, will deliver an
address; Mrs. David H. Kincheloe, a
talented musician of Kentucky, will
give some whistling numbers, and will
accompany Mr.. John H. Marville, a
vocalist of Washington, who will sing.
The formal program will follow the
reception, and will be succeeded in
turn by dancing
Assisting Mrs Thatcher in receiving
the guests will be Representative and
Mrs. John w. Moore, Tenator and Mrs.
Augustus o. Stanley, Judge and Mrs.
Charles C. McChord Judge and Mrs.
Charles Kerr, Mr.. G. B. Likens,
treasurer, and Mrs Likens and Mr.
and Mrs. Francis M. Savage.
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Carols by Children
OF Neiehborhood House

The program of Christmas carols
which will be given by the children Of
Neighborhood House around the tree
at the Wardman Park Hotel on Christ
mas afternoon has enlisted the inter-
est of members of the diplomatic corps
in Washington. The chateiaineS of
these foreign households have for years
taken an active part In the Neighbor-
hood House fete, which is given an
nually at Twin Oaks, the estate of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles J. Bell. The Christ
mas program at Wardman Park Hotel
is given under the auspices of the board
Of trustees of Neighborhood House, the
officers Of which are: Mrs. Wilbur j.
Carr, president; Mrs. Charles j. Bell.
first vice president; Mrs. John Jay
O'Connor, second vice president: Mrs.
Porter H. Dale, third vice president
Mrs. John Neigh. secretary, and Mr..
George E. Fleming, treasurer.
Frau vcn Prittwitz und Gaffron. wife
of the Ambassador of Germany; Nine.
Debuchi, wife of the Ambassador of
Japan; Sonora de Tellez wife of the
Ambassador of Mexico Nine SEE, wife
of the Minister of China; Nine. Sim
opoulos, wife of the Minister Of Greece:
Nine. Samy Pasha. wife of the Minis
ter OF Egypt; Nine. LaiS, wife of the
naval attache of the Italian embassy,
and Nine. Lardy, wife of the counselor
Of the Swiss legation, are lending their
names as patronesses for the Christmas
program.
The Christmas carols around the
Wardman Park tree are only part of
the program that these young carol
sing ers. together with other groups from
Neighborhood House, will give during
the holiday season. Last year, as a
continuation of the carol singing, which
has been feature of the Christmas
season at Neighborhood House for the
past 26 years, these groups went out
over the city carrying their messages
of peace and good will to 30 celebra-
tions. This year, on Christmas day, a
group of so children will give a pro-
gram of carols at Walter Reed Hospital
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Mrs. H. S. Allies will have with her
at her home in Bethesda during the
holidays DR.. Olive Allies OF Charleston,
w. Va, and Miss Lula Allies of Scar
borough -on-th Hudson. She will also
have her granddaughter, Miss Elizabeth
Wilson, student at Wellesley, who
arrived yesterday.
Mrs. William T. Pratt and her
daughter. Miss Ethlyn Pratt, enter
tanned Thursday evening at their home
in Rockville with bridge party, when
their guests numbered 80. DR.. and
Mrs. Pratt and their daughter will
spend Christmas in Baltimore.
Capt. and Mrs. E. A. Farrell will
have with them during the holidays
at their home in Kensington their
daughter, Miss Dorothy Farrell, stu
dent at Virginia Intermont, and their
son, Mr. Justin Farrell, student at
Mr. Craig Bowman has arrived from
Tampa, Fla, and will be with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. j. Darby Bowman,
in Rockville for the holidays.
Col. and Mrs. Edgar T. Conley Will
have with them at their home, Green
Ridge. near Fairland. during the holi-
days their sons, Cadet Thomas Conley
of the Military Academy and Mr.. Regi-
High and Lieut.. and Mrs. 7. Morgan
Warrington, who have arrived from Fort
Hoyls j..
Midshipman Williston Dye arrived
yesterday to spend the holidays with
his mother, Mrs. l.. l.. Dye, in Garrett
Park He will have as his guest Mid
sfipman James Hardin of Texas.
Visitors From Pittsburgh.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Crutchfield for
merly of Edgemoor, now residing in
Pittsburgh, will arrive today to spend
Christmas with Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison
Halfway at their home on Fairfax road,
Edgemoor.
Mrs. S. C. Kemon and her daughter,
Miss Clara Kemon of Wilmington, DEL,
have arrived to be the holiday guests
of the formers son-in-law and daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Graham. In
Kensington. Miss Virginia Graham, a
student at Hood College, and Cadet
Chester Graham of the Shenandoah
Military Academy will also be at home
| for the holidays.
| Miss Anita Lamar, student at Ran
dolph- Macon College, arrived Wednes-
day to spend the holidays with her par
ents in Rockville. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Lamar are eAPSC1IiS UAlCA SoA 90 "
and daughter, Rev. and Mrs. holland
B. Hammond of Baltimore, to spend
Christmas with them.
Lieut. Walter F. Christmas has ar
rived from Bremerton, Wash, and
joined Mrs Christmas, who has been
the guest for some tir1e of her parents,
Col and Mrs Morris K. Barroll, at their
| home on Saul road.
Representative John M. Nelson and
| Mrs. Nelson will have with their at
their home in Seven Oaks their daugh-
ter, Miss Grace Nelson of New York,
who will come for the holidays
Mr.. Hubert Chappell of New York
arrived yesterday to be the guest of his
parents in Kensington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Griffith will be
at home New Year day, in Silver
Spring, from until 5. The Misses
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Yale Puppeteers Listed
For Two Performances


The Princess Bon Compagnie heads
the list of sponsors of the Yale Pup
pateers appearing in Washington at the
Y. w. c. A. auditorium the afternoon
and evening of December 81. The two
appearances of the famous little troupe
OF mannikins is being arranged for
Washington by the Montgomery County
League of Woman Voters. OF which Mrs.
B. Ashley Leavell Is chairman.
Assisting Mrs. Ieavell are Mrs. Gill
bert GroSvenor. Mrs. Eugene Stevens,
Mrs. A. B. Barber, Mrs. Paul Sleman,
Mrs. Charles r. Mann, Mrs. w. c. Men
denhall, Mrs. Walter Johnson. Mrs
Latane Lewis and Miss Lavinia Engle.
Among the children's parties sched-
uled for the revue are those of Mrs. B.
Ashley Leavell Mrs. ]. Ryan Devereux,
Mrs. j. Upshur Moorhead, Nine. RIM
sky Korsakoff. Mrs. Charles H. Wells
Mrs. E. Brooke Lee. Mrs. Alvin D1dd
and Mrs. A. B. Barber.
The program will include "Fyramus
and Thisbee," The Truth About JACK
Spratt." "Gogo and the Sleep" Lion"
The Three Wishes" and other favor
ties of childhood days.
The Puppeteers are graduates Of the
Yale University Theater, known as the
"47' Workshop. under Prof. George
Pierce Baker. The director is Harry
Burnett who began his marionette work
at the University of Michigan, assisted
by Forman Brown. After graduating at
Michigan, Burnett studied for two years
under Prof. Brown.
Mr. Burnett spent last Summer in
Italy, home of the original puppets. and
brought back to America with him a
valuable collection of hand puppets
made in the late eighteenth century for
the Goldoni plays.
With his company Mr.. Burnett tours
the country in a Ford truck, like the
vagabond players of the Elizabethan
era They carry complete stage light
ing and equipment and are equally able
to give a performance in barn or
ballroom.
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Pen Women Invited
To Attend Musical

All members of the League of Ameri-
can Pen Women are invited to attend a
musical at the residence of Mrs. Angela
McHugh Barr, 1915 Quincy street,
Brookland D. c., Friday evening, De-
cember %. at $50 o'clock, by the
hostesses of the hospitality group, Mrs.
Richard Yates. Mrs Wolf Smith, Mrs.
Dean Cherrier, Mrs. Edward Dingley,
Miss Willard Howe, Mrs. Florence
Barnes, Mrs. Clara Boone, Miss Pa
tricia Poe Bennett and Mrs. Mander-
sched. in honor of the officers of the
District branch.
The musical will be given by Miss
Glennen, assisted by members selected
from ST. Patrick's Choir.
Members only are invited.
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luncheon guest of Col. and Mrs. J. c.
Breckinridge.
Capt. B. H. Galley of Marine Corps
Headquarters in Washington will be the
Christmas guest of Capt. and Mrs. L. d
Hermle.
Maj. NJ A. Eastman, until recently
attached to the Marine Corps Schools.
was taken to the Naval Hospital in
Washington last week where he now is
recuperating from an illness Of several
weeks.
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ago for Europe, have arrived in Ham,
burg, Germany, where they will be for
a year.
Miss Martha Williams, a student at
Stuart Hall. and Miss Emily Bland
ford of st. Joseph's College are spend
ing the holidays in Rockville with their
parents.
Evening star., 1928-11-04
Manila Lawyers Diploma
Mill Leads to Scandal

In the Philippines everybody seems
TO wish to be a lawyer, an abogado.
and, whether he practices or not, to
be able to hang out his shingle. The
ambition seems to have been exploited
for years by the personnel of the Su-
preme Court, or rather by certain clerks
and employees there, where the exam
nations are given
An easy way to satisfy those willing
ana able to pay for what they could
not attain by scholarship has been to
raise the marks on the examination
papers. When, however, these papers
were better guarded this year, more in
genuity had to be shown; and this was
done by using acid to erase the names
OF successful candidates from the regis
ter and then writing in place of them
the names Of those who had failed but
VINO were paying handsomely to be
counted as having passed.
one such rogue was foolish enough
TO try to practice, and the judges sus-
piclons, reported to Manila, led to the
uncover1ng of widespread scandal,
and to detection and prosecution of
some Of the allegedly guilty employees.
newspapers surge with the news, as
some of those accused are scionS of
well known families and relatives of
members Of the court.
Evening star., 1928-11-04
Looking Ahead in China
of Past

men engaged in commerce in Yokohama
lost their positions, but the British en-
pire was, later on, the richer by a pow
erful diplomatic position in Asia.
Let us take the masterpiece of Brit
ish activity in China today-Shanghai
The budget of that settlement is based
on taxes, IS per cent of which are paid
by Chinese. Is it possible to continue
for any length of time to withhold the
vote from all the Chinese? To prevent
the Chinese, though they may come
out of years of study in great intel
lectual centerS like Columbia University
Il cite Columbia because of all the
great universities it has the largest
number of Chinese students) from be-
coming candidates to the Municipal
Council just as some Irish shopkeepers
have done? Chinese students are
eagerly sought by English schools. Do
they not find it risky in England to al
low them to attend elementary classes
in public law, in which every boy is
taught that ito have taxation 1t is
necessary to have representations"
The British situation in China is ag-
gravated by the way in which fitful
periods of violence and attempts at an
entente have succeeded each other with
out any logic. The results have been
as evident as they were unavoidable.
An impression of weakness in the mo-
ments of violence, such as the shooting
at students in Shanghai or the bonn
bardments at Whangsien and lack of
Evening star., 1928-11-04

that they are bloodthirsty, far from it.
They only wanted business, easy and
quick; they did not want to adapt
themselves to new atmosphere and
yield to the inevitable, as German busi-
ness men who returned to China after
the World War have done, to their
great profit.
Some 40 years ago the Far East Of
fered a case fairly analogous to that of
present-day China, but the conserva-
tive English statesmen, confronted with
the transformations then at work in
Japan, were then wiser than their sue
cesSors. They understood at once that
the interest of Great Britain was to
outline policy that would keep
abreast of future developments. 1t is
equally to their credit that, in apply
ing this policy, they ignored the attacks
of those who, under the cloak of
jealous patriotism, we're defending pri-
vate material interests. Today the
newspapers which seek to explain events
in China by the presence of a few Boil
shevik agents sententiously remark that
Japan was another story" Yet, if we
would take the trouble to reread the
papers of that period, we would find
the barbarity and imn' >turity of Japan
being thundered against in 1880 just as
the barbarity and immaturity of China
is being thundered against today.
The English government did not, in
those days, take fright of the Rother-
meres of the epoch, but went cour-
ageously on its way. Certain English
Evening star., 1928-11-04
MUST AMERICA FORCE
HER CITIZENS TO VOTE?
Millions in United States Always Are
lndifferent-Party Stirring Up Most
People Will Win Election.

| litical issues before all the people. But
| the expensive part of most campaigns
is to bring the people to the polls.
| Perhaps 1928 will be different"
But in 1920, for instance, for every
vote cast for President in Pennsyl-
vania there we're eligible 1873 residents
OF that State who stayed home or per-
haps went fishing on election day.
The same year, taking the country
as whole, there were 96 citizens pos
sibly qualified to vote for President who
abstained from voting to every 100
citizens who did cast ballots.
Less Than 10000, 900 in 1924.
Four years later there was a ire
mendous Nationwide non-partisan ef-
fort to get out every possible vote. APP
proXimately 57,000000 Americans were
didates for President-Coolidge Davis
and La Follette-represente prac-
tically all shades of political belief of
the mass of people. Yet less than
80, 0,000,000 votes actually were cast in
1924
The decline in voting percentage was
checked, however, and very slight in
crease recorded. Nevertheless, at least
100000 to 100000 people who
could have and should have voted for
President did not.
Other nations apparently have found
a way to solve the problem of indiffer-
ent citizens. England, Wales and Scot
land report three-fourths of the total
possible vote actually cast. In Australia
from 80 per cent to 80 per cent of the
voters actually vote. Throughout Eu-
rope, in fact. our half-and-half voting
Sc cI1YfNocc0d hU Haofinf1c fT14irA
do not claim to be- "the home of the
brave and the land of the free" In
Germany. for instance, 80 per cent of
the qualified citizens have voted. In
Belgium as many as 90 per cent. In
Switzerland and Denmark, rs per cent;
France, 10 per cent. Italy in 1928 had
a Ga per cent vote. In fact, even MeXi-
cor where voting may be decidedly un-
healthy, has so per cent voting rec
ord. practically equal to our own.
AS long ago as 1705 one of the
American Colonies forced its citizens to
vote under penalty of forfeiture of 200
pounds of tobacco. Since then several
States have discussed compulsory voting
constitution in 1918 to permit the en-
actment of such law, but it was not
enacted.
What Others Have Done.
The percentage of voting was in
creased from SO per cent to 80 per cent
in Queensland, Australia, by a compul-
sorry voting law Throughout Australia
similar laws increased the voting aver
age from so per cent to 81 per cent of
the total possible vote. Fines of from
$3.50 to $40 are imposed for failure to
vote or keep registered.
Similar good results have been OBJ
tained from compulsory voting laws in
Belgium, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia
and other countries. In some the pen
alty for failure to vote is not only a |
inc. but possible imprisonment. And
heir people do vote.
We may soon have to decide in
America whether it is better to have
voting laws or large So
called slush funds to bring out the vote.
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Evening star., 1928-11-04
Race Is Stronger, Better


sees some great obstacles in the way to
upward development, some of which
are comparatively new in the ex-
perience of the race
Among these are such diseases as
tuberculosis, cancer, diabetes and vari-
Gus forms of insanity Medicine, he
says, has been only partly successful
in combating these. He sees no reason
to believe that they will increase, how
ever, with the possible exception of
some lighter forms of insanity or that
new and uncomfortable scourgeS will
originate.
Great wars, DR.. Hrdlicka says, un-
questionably are bars to evolutionary
progress and he declares that the un-
derlying cause of these is increasing
density of population. UNLESS some,
as yet unknown, agency of nature de-
velops," he says, before long one of
the main problems of the world will be
to control its population.
"IdleneSs, luxury and decentralization, -
Dr. Hrdlicka continues, "are perhaps
even more deleterious than war. It is
truism that as soon as any being
or any group-be this a family or a
nation-ceases strenuous endeavor and
yields to comfort and Incidence, he or it
commences to retrograde and lose in
physical and mental standards"
Irregular Modern Life.
"Excesses and strains, due to the
very exacting and irregular modern
life, produce weaknesses that call for
stimulation by coffee, nicotine, alcohol
or drugs. They are growing more COM
mon and new ones are being added.
Repeated excesses lead to overstrains
and result not only in the diminished
potentiality of the individual in every
way, but also in poor progeny. The
child OF an overstrained or neuraSthen-
ic individual cannot be absolutely
healthy or fully efficient.
Then there Is mechanization. 1t is
estimated that approximately 100000
men, women and children in the coun-
try alone from seven to nine hours a
day are doing automatic work that calls
for little or no mental exercise. This
in the course of time can hardly fail
to have disgenic effect on the indi-
vidual and, in the long run, cannot
but be harmful to the race. The au-
tomato work of the day is often COM
pensated for by harmful excitement or
excess afterwards
Further speculation on the future of
the race in the direction of longer life
Is supplied in the same report by Prof.
Irving Fisher of Yale. Prof. Fisher
presents the thesis that there is no abb
solute limit to extension of human life.
Acturial tables, Prof Fisher shows.
reveal that between the ages of so and
IS the rate of mortality remains con-
stant-that Is, the same percentage of
the total in each age group dies each
year After IS the percentage of NOR
tally actually begins to decrease.
Evening star., 1928-11-04
BY MARY C. BARKER.

President, American Federation of Teachers.
Several problems of major importance
confront the common schools of the
country. The most urgent perhaps is
the overcroWding of buildings and class
rooms, which tends to mechanic the
process of education and weaken the
benefits derived from school attendance.
The educational process is one of
growth and development through the
exercise of the child's native powers
under the direction of a skillful guide.
When the number of pupils assigned
to the teacher is so great the teacher
cannot have knowledge concerning their
several abilities nor provide for their
progress, skillfull guidance becomes i'm
possible. The educative process ceases
or operates merely by chance.
The purpose of education is social
progress. We want our boys and girls
to become citizens who can and will
function intelligently, effectively and
courageously in the community life. To
plan for less is to waste the funds spent
for education. But we cannot expect
such results out of crowded schools and
classrooms.
Another problem continually con-
fronting the schools is the misguided
effort of special interests to predeter-
mine the product of the schools in
behalf of their particular opinions
Propaganda and censorship menace the
freedom of education.
We shall never get away from the
herd mind until the masses of people
learn to cultivate an intelligent back
ground for the formation of their own
opinions. It Is the duty of the teacher
to direct the activities of pupils in the
cultivation of such intelligence. This
cannot be done by limiting the exami-
nation of a subject to certain view
points
Youth, in his quest for truth, is COM
mitted by society to the teacher. The
Evening star., 1928-11-04

wooden shaeks, their existence
unsupported by the glittering
tenants underneath.
But these palaces are not
homes.
The turtle does not construct
a shell ten times larger than it
needs; the bird does not spread
her nest across a whole treetop
merely because materials happen
to be at hand. Only man COM
mits the foolish error of building
a house too large to be a home.
The ideal home is place of
rest.
One can rest in a room simply
furnished, but not in a depart
ment store or a museum. You
would not fill your home with
warning visitors; do not crowd
it with pictures, bric-a-brac and
souvenirs" that jar and clash.
And the home is a place of
peace.
A place where the soul is Gre
stored; where a few pictures
suggest the fragrance and heal.
ing Of the out Of doors; where
good books lift the tired mind
out of itself into the companion
ship Of the wise and great of all
ages; where love and sympathy
conquer care.
The cave man who first piled
stones together into a rude hut
did it to provide shelter for his
most precious possession, the
sacred fire.
There is a sacred fire that
burns in every real home--an
altar to restfulness and for.
bearance and love. The man who
can claim that altar, whether
the shelter built about it be a
mansion. or only a single room,
he it is who owns his own home.
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