Evening star., 1928-10-14
NEWS OF THE CLUBS
CONDUCTED BY MAMIE LANCASTER.

nesday and will meet at the Mount
Pennsylvania avenue) at $50 am for
a trip to Dyke, Va and vicinity. Mrs
| Leo D. Miner will lead
The section of education will meet at
the Y. w. C. A. Thursday at 1890
pm. with Luncheon preceding the meet
| ing. The speaker will be Mrs. William
Wolff Smith. on "An American Woman
| at the English Universities" Mrs.
Wolff Smith was at oxford University
! year ago and at Cambridge the past
Summer. Mrs Thomas Sidwell is leader
of the section.
The French section will meet We'd
| nesday at 3 pm. at the Y. w. c. A..
Building NJ BonSquet first secretary
of the French embassy, will speak. All
members of the club interested in tine
subject of French are invite . A leader
of the section will be announced.
The League of Republican Women
held a special meeting Monday at the
home of Mrs William Fitch Kelley. on
the Rockville Pike. Luncheon was
served on the lawns under direction Of
Mrs. Marion Butler. chairman of hos
pitality. and her committee.
A business meeting followed. at which
Mrs. E. A. Hartman president Of the
league, presided. in Mrs. Kelley's studio.
an old church remodeled. The record
ing secretary. Miss Alice E. Whitaker.
read the minutes of recent meetings.
No reports of officers were given. Mrs
Hartman told of having attended
luncheon AS the guest of the womens
district at the Union League Club in
Brooklyn. when the other honor guest
and speaker was Will Irwin Mr.. Irwin
was claSsmate of Herbert Hoover and
the accepted biographer of the Repub-
lican candidate. Mrs. John A. Holmes.
president. Federation of Republican
Clubs of Maryland, guest. told of the
Republican organization in the % coun-
ties of the State. She also said that
the Maryland delegation offered reso-
luton for District of Columbia suffrage
at the Kansas City convention. Mrs.
Virginia White Speel, national commit
teewoman for the District of Columbia.
urged assistance to the Hoover and
Curtis Club Mrs Edward E. Gam, sis
ter of Senator Curtis and his official
hostess. was guest on the platform.
Mrs William Clifford Reid, national
committeewoman for New Mexico. told
of conditions in her State She re-
minded her audience that the presi-
Dental candidate started his career AS
an engineer in New Mexico. and that
Senator Curtis had been stanch
friend in sponsoring necessary legisla-
ton.
Three more social meetings will be
held prior to election day On October
% Mrs. Sydney Cleman will entertain
for the league at tea. On October %
Mrs. Edward F. Colladay. wife of the
national committeeman for the District.
has invited the membership to be the
guests of herself and Mr. Colladay in
their new home. This meeting will be
their "houseWarming Mrs. E. A. Har-
riman will entertain the league at the
Washington Club November 5. Mem
bers are requested to present member
ship cards at each OF these functions.
Former Gov. Henry j. Allen of
Kansas. new national director of pub
licity for the campaign, was the princi-
pal speaker of the day. Gov Allen
told of a mass meeting held recently
in Brooklyn when 10000 women
marched 212 miles to the Academy of
Music to hear Nicholas Longworth
speak. The meeting concluded as an
open forum-the women asking queS-
tions and Gov. Allen answering them
Mrs. Kelley was assisted by Mrs
Hartman. Mrs. Marion Butler, Mrs
Samuel j. Prescott. Mrs. D. Percy Hick-
ling and Miss Edna Patton. Miss Mary
Perry Brown, as honorary member of
the league, was among the guests, who
numbered 200.
Susan b. Anthony Foundation. Inc
The Maryland Branch announces re-
newals and new membership contribu-
tions, as follows: United States Sena-
tor Millard E. Tydings, De Coursy w.
Thorn. chairman Maryland Historical
Society: William r. Broening. mayor of
Baltimore City; Mrs. Henry Open
heimer. Miss Maude Weeks, r. Ernest
Smith, county treasurer Prince Georges
County: Mrs. Charlotte D. Beers. M~.
S. D. Sonneborn and Marion G. Dins-
more. The American citizenship COM
mittee is getting into full swing and
vote in Maryland in November. at the
presidential election on the 9Th.
The committee on prison reform is in
receipt of two copies of the report Of
Col. Stuart S. Janney, director Of the
department of welfare. on conditions in
the Maryland Penitentiary. A copy has
been forwarded to Miss Maude Weeks
of Baltimore City, vice chairman. on
prison reform for the Maryland Branch,
with request that Miss Weeks give Col
Janney any suggestions for betterment
of conditions. Mrs. Parkhurst State
director. had asked Gov. Ritchie to
make an investigation of the conditions
and alleged abuses, and. under date
July 90. the governor wrote in reply
that he had requested Col. Janney to
make the investigation. These reports
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