Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-30
MEETING TO HONOR
WILSON MEMORY
Or. Charles K. Webster Will
Address Joint Celebration
Next Sunday.

Or. Charles Kingsley Webster, who
holds the Woodrow Wilson chair of
international relations at the University
Of Wales, and who is professor of his
tory at Harvard University, will be the
principal speaker at a joint celebration
of the Seventy-third anniversary of the
late President Wilson's birth, and the
tenth anniversary of the League of
Nations, to be held at $3.50 o'clock
Sunday afternoon in the National
Theater.
Arrangements are being made by the
woodrow Wilson Foundation Committee
Of Washington, recently formed with
Frederic A. Ealano as chairman. The
Joint celebra ~ will observe both the
birthday of Wilson. which was Deem
Der %, and the League anniversary,
which will be January 10.
Hamlin Will Preside.
Charles S. Hamlin, former governor
Of the Federal Reserve Board. will pre-
side, and the invocation will be pro-.
nounced by Dr. Robert Johnston,
rector OF ST. Johns Episcopal Church
The demand for boxes and seats
indicates. the committee in charge
announces, capacity attendance.
A charge will be made for most of the
orchestra an6 boxes, but all seats in the
balcony VIII De free.
Boxes have been taken by Mr. Del
ano, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
DR.. H. Barrett Learned and Frank S.
Bright. The resident and Mrs Hoo
yer have been asked to occupy one box,
another has been reserved for Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson and a third has been
set aside for members of the Supreme
Court.
Ambassadors and Ministers repre-
senting countries members of the
League Of Nations have been invited
and will occupy specially reserved
sections of the orchestra. The rest
OF the orchestra seats will be sold. the
money so realized to pay the exnenses
OF the meeting and any balance to con-
stitute fund for future memorial ac-
ttvitieS.
Dr. Webster. the speaker of the day.
Is an outstanding figure in the educa-
tional world. He is a graduate of
Kings College. Cambridge. England He
has been honored recently by his alma
mater with the degree of Lit D. Dur
ing the latter period of the war DR.
Webster was intimately associated with
the late Gen. Sir Henry Wilson. He
attended the Paris conference in 1913
1919. Since then he has been present
ct all the opening sessions of the League
Assembly at Geneva during the past
decade.
Membership of Committee.
The membership of the Woodrow Will
son Foundation committee of Washing
ton, which is to be enlarged to 100,
follows:
Executive eommittee-Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson, honorary chairman; Fredsric
A. Delano. chairman: Robert W. Wool
ley, vice chairman: Mrs Huston Thomp-
son, secretary; Admiral Cary T. Gray
son. treasurer; Mrs. Kate Trenholm
Abrams. Frank S. Bright. Mrs. H z. c.
Bryant, Mrs, Charles S. Hamlin, DR.. H
Barrett Learned and DR.. David Hunter
Miller.
General committee-Mrs Kate Tren-
holm Abrams, Gen. Henry T. Allen.
Mrs. Minregerode Andrews, Mrs. Blair
Banister, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont,
Gen. and Mrs. Tasker Bliss, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank S. Bright, Mr. and MRS. H.
=. C.. Bryant. Mr. and Mrs. John F.
Costello, Judge and Mrs j. Harry Cow
ington, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic A. Del
ano, Mrs. Alvin E. Dodd, Charles
4. Douglas. Bishop and Mrs. JAMES E.
Freeman, Judge and Mrs Samuel J.
Graham, Admiral and Mrs Cary T.