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also from the general public. Boxes
and tickets are In the hands of Mrs.
Rose Gouverneur Hoes In the Willard
Social Bureau, and the ball will take
place in the willard Hotel February
IL at 10 O'Clock.
Mrs. Robert C. Howard who has been
so successful in her series OF talks on
current events during the Winter at
the Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton, will continue her Tuesday evening
lectures for six weeks beginning Tues
day evening, February II, at o'clock,
in the main building at Seventeenth
and K streets. Mrs. Howard will also
give a second series this Spring at the
Y. w. c. A. Building, beginning We'd
neSday, February 10, and continuing
for 10 weeks. This second series will
be given Wednesday mornings and is
the result of great demand for day.
time lectures for home women, keep
ing them in touch with what is going
on in the world, and the last-minute
news culled from newspapers and maya
zines of today.
Mrs. Irving W. Ketchum, executive
secretary of the education department
of the Y. w. C. A., is in charge of
registrations for Mrs Towards talks,
both Tuesday evenings and Wednesday
mornings.
The New York State Society will give
a reception and dance at the Willard
Hotel, Friday evening, February Is, at
9 o'clock. An attractive short pro-
gram has been arranged.
Additional patronesses for the card
party to be given by the District of Co
lumbia League of Women Voters at the
Willard Thursday afternoon. February
%, are Mrs. William M. Jardine, Mrs.
Edward Everett Gam, Mrs. Sol Bloom,
Mrs. Cloyd Hech Marvin, Mrs. Albert
H. Putney, Mrs. Henry Grattan. Doyle,
Mrs. Peter A. Drury and Mrs. Edward
Heating.
The formal opening of the ice skat-
ing rink at the Annapolis Roads Clubs
yesterday was attended by brilliant
gathering of the club membership.
Among those who came to participate in
or watch the sport were Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Walter Mclean, Capt. and
Mrs. c. H. Dinger, Mrs. John Fl. Ma
gruder. Comdr. and Mrs. Scott MacFar-
land Mrs. John F. Meigs of Boston, Mr.,
Paul Patterson and Mr.. Joseph Blondell
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will be plenty Of time left for dancing
and cards Immediately after the pro-
gram.
The principal guest Of honor and
speaker will be Mr.. James w. Good of
Chicago, formerly OF Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.
Representative Clifton A. Woodrum
of Virginia will sing Mr.. Woodrum has
splendid reputation as a singer as well
as a statesman.
Miss Janet Coon, who won the Post
popularity contest and Is leaving shortly
to be a guest Of Mary Pickford, will
whistle for the Iowans. She was for
merly from Esterville, Iowa, and is pop
ular with all who know her.
Senator Smith w. Brookhart and
Senator Daniel F. Steck are expected
to be present. Other guests of honor
and members of the receiving line will
include all of the congressional delega-
ton, of which MFR. Good was formerly
a member. Besides Representative and
Mrs. Earl w. Vincent, the new Repre-
sentative from the ninth district, there
will be present Representative and Mrs.
w. F.. Kopp, Representative and Mrs
| F. Dickinson Let's, Representative and
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Elsa. and the United States, sponsored
by Mrs. Jardiae.

Much interest is being shown in the
February dinner of the Washington
business and professional women to be
held Wednesday night at z o'clock in
Barker Hall, Young Women's Christian
Association, at Seventeenth and K
streets, when the speakers will be Miss
Jessie Dell of the Civil Service Com
mission and DR.. Louise Stanley, chief
of the Bureau of Home Economics.
Miss Dell will take for her subject
THE American Woman In Civil Serv-
ice," and DR.. Stanley will speak on
THE American Business Woman in the
Home" Miss Mary Apple, one of the
city's well known young singers, Will
present a program of songs with Miss
L. Dawson at the piano.
Miss Bertha Pabst, who Is chairman
of the committee on dinner reServa-
tons, will close the dinner list Tues
day evening for this dinner. Prominent
Washington business and professional
women are serving on the advisory COM
Inittee of the business and professional
women's GROUP which has arranged this
series Oh monthly dinner meetings for
this season, including Mrs. William
Adams Slade, Miss Jessie La Sale, Mrs.
Sallie v. H. Pickett, Miss Mary Jane
Wintree. DR.. Elizabeth Kittredge and
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt.
Additional members of the commit
tee for the Red. White and Blue ball,
which is to be one of the gay events of
next week, and of which Mrs. Henry F.
Dimock is chairman, are Mrs. Swanson
wife of Senator Calude A. Swanson of
Virginia: Mrs Keyes, wife of Senator
Henry Wilder Keyes of New Hampshire;
Mrs. McNary. wife of Senator Charles
l.. McNary of Oregon: Baroness Won
Below Mrs Medorem Crawford. Mrs.
j. Ryan Devereux, Mrs. Frank BarrowS
Freyer Mrs. Louis Greene, Mrs. Mamie
Green Jobe, Mrs. Wilton Lambert, Mrs.
Henry Cook Macatee. Mrs. Edmund
Platt, Mrs. Rushmore Patterson, Mrs
William Mcclellan Ritter. Mrs. Richard
Knickerbocker Tyler. Mrs. Joseph E.
Washington. Mrs. Clarence c. Williams
and Mrs Joseph H. Wall.
Those in charge of the affair are
working with unusual zest for this col
orful diversion for the benefit of the
George Washington Memorial, which
society will attend practically en- masse
and which will receive valuable support
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of Baltimore. Comdr. Paul Dashiell.
Comdr and Mrs. L. D. Scott. Mai. and
Mrs. Ennalls Waggaman, Comdr. and
Mrs. McElduff, Miss Ruth Doyle, whose
guests were Miss Doris Champion, Mr.
Ben Dulaney, Mr.. Edward Ogle and Mr..
Robert Haywood. MFR. G.. Tinsley Her
zog. Mrs J. White, Mr.. and Mrs. Chris
topher II. Pope, Comdr. and Mrs. Ed
ridge, Comdr. and Mrs. Clark.
The rink has been so conditioned that
club members will be able to use it
throughout February and the first part
of March, except on unusually warm
days. It is reslrfaced with ice every
night.
A tea was given yesterday for the
members and "rushees" of Alpha Chap
ter, Chi Psi Sorority in the apartment
of Mrs. Ethel Parker Horn at 1880 r
street northwest, Mrs. Horns sister, Miss
Margaret Parker, acting as hostess.
The Iowa State Society will give a
reception and ball at the New Willard
Hotel this evening at $3.50 o'clock. An
interesting program with special enter
tainment has been arranged. to start
promptly at $50 o'clock. so that there
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man; Mrs. Lilly Belle Lockwood, Mrs.
p. p. Baldridge, Mr.. w. q. Ladd and
Mr.. Frank Garden.
Commissioner of immigration Mr..
Harry e. Hull Is president of the Iowa
Society, MIR. Karl S. Hoffman, first vice
president, and Miss Gertrude M. Louis
is secretary.
All former residents of Iowa and
their friends are invited to be present
to meet the prominent Iowans and Join
| with every one in what promises to be
an interesting and unusually happy
evening.
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Mrs. r. J. B. Robinson. Representative
and Mrs. Gilbert N. Haugen, Repre-
sentative Cyrenus Cole, Representative
and Mrs. G. william Ramseyer Repre-
sentative and Mrs. G. c. Dowell, Rep
resentative and Mrs. Lloyd Thurston,
Representative and Mrs. l.. j. Dickinson
and Representative and Mrs. william
Boies.
New officers for the current year will
be elected after report of the NOM
mating committee, composed of DR..
George E. MacIean, former president
of the State University of Iowa, chair
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-04

This guests Of honor will be DR.. L. O.
Howard. the distinguished cntomologist,
who will also be the speaker of the
evening His subject is entitled rs
This the Age of MANI"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Prather and Miss
Prather have gone to Ottawa for 10
days of Winter sports. returning to
their most attractive suite at the Hay
Adams House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26

q strip of zinc around the puzzle and turning
this down after the psrioraticns were made
this strip formed q rim, so that the board was
raised up and tn, metal nails have a clear
space underneath. The boards finally produced
have IS spaces each way, the standard number,
instead Of IL, as on the first invented board.
Within q week after the low-cost board was
evolved the Paris plant received an order for a
thousand from England And so now, through
the patient labor Of blind musician in France,
blind people throughout the world may enjoy
this most fascinating Of pastimes.
Equally interesting and really Of far greater
importance from an educational viewpoint, is
the invention completed almost simultaneously
with that Of the crossword puzzle board by
which algebra, simple mathematics and higher
mathematics, even logarithrss, can be worked
out by q blind person, using the ordinary char
acters and not the Braille characters
The tremendous importance Of this requires
some explanation. Educators working with
blind children have discovered that blind
child OF normal intelligence. studying with chill
dren possessed Of sight. makes much greater
progress than when studying alone. In the
past, however, the chief difsculty was that the
blind child worked with Br&iile print, which
the teacher could not understand. and there
fore could not dEmonstrate to the blind child
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some problem she was explaining to the other
children by ordinary writing on the blackboard.
Now, with the perfection Of this new invention
to teach algebra and other forms of mathe-
MATES, the blind child sit IN class of chill
dren who have their sight and by using the
same letters and symbols the other chill
dren on q special frame can receive the same
teaching.
RY curious coincidence the inventor of this
new method like the inventor Of the cross
word puzzle, was also a blind man and q mu-
stefan. His name Is Vlodzimierza rolanskiego,
8 native Of Lem5erg, Poland. Until q few years
ago he was piano player and q painter. Due
to an accident he lost his sight and his left
arm Thus at 80 he took up the study Of
mathematics. And now, after three years Of
work. he has brought his invention to compile
ton. 1t is simple effective and not very costly.
The letters and figures are made Of lead about
an inch high and At upon q wooden frame with
series Of grooved lines. The grooved frame
fts into the lid OF . small portable case. The
lower part Of this IL divided into compartments
to hold the letters and numbers and mathe-
matical signs In the most convenient manner.
The case and frame being Of the hghtest wood
and the numbers and figures of lead, the entire
apparatus can be put out very cheaply ut pres
ent for about IS. But when put out In large
quantities this cost can be very greatly less
ened.. Judged from the point OF utility and
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being considered by the municipal
council on the theory that the old style
transportation slows up modern trafic
and Is menace to safety. II the
resolution Is adopted merchants Of the
French metropolis who still utilize
these antiquated means of conveyance
win be compelled to operate before and
after the rush hours of motor car
trafic.
While at first blush this measure
would appear unreasonable and fan
tastic, it must be remembered that even
in Washington horse drawn trafic is
at present barred on certain streets.
Paris thoroughfares are not nearly as
wide on the average as are those here
and banning this type of traffic would
materially speed up travel. There can
be no controversy over the fact that
slow-moving vehicles of any type not
only impede traffic butt are breeders of
accidents. The world today moves fast
and the anachronism of horse drawn
vehicles in the traffic stream will
soon be at an end either through legis-
lation or the natural reduction in the
use of animals for job that can be
done much better by machinery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26
Housing Shortage
In Several Cities

from the Butte Daily Post
Several industrial cities are exueri-
enclng another housing shortage. Peal
estate men say it is impossible to and
enough houses and apartments for the
people who want to rent them, THE
situation is a reversal of that which
prevailed year ago. Population has
been increasing, and business has been
good, but these evidently are not the
main reasons for the change.
The lending situation" saws a real
estate writer, has been very bad
Financing of houses for the market has
been extremely difficult because of the
great flow of money to the stock mar
ket. Good builders have not been able
TO produce so many houses a wear,
They could have sold twice as MANY.
some builders say. if It had been pos
sible to arrange better financing terms
for buyers, and If the builders them
selves could have procured the money
for financing construction Of work"
Such situation has probably pre-
vailed rather widely. There is a strong
impression at present that 1t is going
to be remedied, as a result of the turn
of the stock market and the flow of
credit into normal channels. If this
happens, there may be resumption of
the building boom on a national scale,
not only improving housing conditions.
but providing new stimulus for general
prosperity.
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failing was returning to Mukden, his
capital, when he was killed.
His son, Chang Hsieuh-lang. has car
ried on since his fathers death with
shrewdness and ability. He is less than
thirty years of age and is rated as an
exceptionally astute politician and as
a capable military commander. Just
how far he Is responsible for the actions
which led to the breach with Russia is
not clear. 1t has been suspected that
he at least welcomed the break as af-
fording an opportunity for a definite
separation of the three eastern provinces
from China.
II is altogether futile to attempt to
predict events in China. The factors
of intrigue are entirely too mysteri-
Gus to warrant any Judgment regarding
the outcome of such complicated sit
uation as the present, with the Ma
tionalist government in actual control
of only five of the nineteen provinces,
with several aspiring war lords" each
WttAA GA al hAy az AAAo O1Nhg OENA atAAB nk
the central and western sections, and
with Manchuria in a most dubious state
as to loyalty.
Should Chang Kai-Shek effect q
truce in Central China to permit him
to present a united front" to Russia
in Manchuria, he must still reckon with
the leader of the three eastern prov
inces, who, as the dispatches state, is
now maneuvering for a compromise
with Russia. And meanwhile Japan,
a strong strategic position in
South Manchuria through ownership
of railway system flanked by zone
Of territory, is closely watching the
trouble that has arisen between her two
former enemies, China and Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26
Topsy-Turvy Pictures
Caused Manv Rows

From the st. Louis Eost-Dispatcb
OHhand we would say that anv ono
VINO paints picture that looks about
as well upside down or sidewise as ton.
SIDE up hardly deserves to win a prizer
assuming the work to be ANYTHING he.
yond mere pattern. The case of Ed
WIN e. Dickinson, however, is NOT WITH
out precedent of sort. Dickinsons
canvas, The Fossil Hunters" took a
500 award in the National ACADEMY
OF Design show in New York. though
nlng sidewise to puzzled public.
Sack IN 1877 whistler sued John Pms
KIN Tor libel. RuSkin, who ALWAYS was
as dogmatic as he was occasionslIv
lacking in perception, had written Of
WnlStier'S "Nocturne, Black and Gold !"
tnat he had never expected to hear of
"a coxcomb's asking 200 guineass for
nlnglng pot of paint in the face of
the public" At the trial all was going
Well. Whistlers barrister waxed eIoe
quent, waving the CHALLENGED art work
before the jury, when the artist screwed
nus monocle bit tighter and exploded
MY God, man, you've got it upside
The jury awarded nominal damages
one farthing.
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Move to Halt Frauds of Fake
Chinese Priests Is Under Way

as Buddhist monks with the right to
preach and to make pilgrimages.
However, there are always the para
sites, Just as there are quack doctors
who make capital out of the supersti-
tious populace. It is against these, the
parasites. that modern China is war;
ring, although 1t also intends to rid
the country of those superStitiouS prac-
tees which cling to most religions.
y X X
Meantime there Is considerable con-
sternation on the Buddhist Olympus.
The question which has to be decided
is which of the gods will have to be
unseated If the war on superstition is
to be 100 per cent effective, for not only
must the parasite" priest go, but many
Of the temple images win also have
to go.
This cleansing Of the temple process,
coming from without rather than from
within, Is doing much to line up the
Buddhist priests against the govern
ment leaders of modern China. This
conflict has only just commenced, and
few can say to what lengths it may 60.
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Shipowners Fight
8-HOur Dav at Sea
From the ST. Louis Daily olobe-Democrat.

From the st. Louis Daily Globe Democrat.
A maritime conference at Geneva de-
cided by vote of more than 4 to 1
(76 to I'D to recommend that the work
ing day for sailors on board ship shall
not exceed eight hours.
The decision was only advisory, for
the eight-hour day must be embodied
in the legislation of the countries repre-
sented to be effective, and, in fact,
another conference is to consider the
problem. It was, however, opposed vio-
lently by the shipownerS' delegates
present, who at one time bolted the
conference by way of protest. though
later they returned. The incident gave
rise to a curious criticism.
Although the British government is
Labor government, it was said that
its official representatives in the con-
ference gave less support to the eight
hour day at sea than did the repre-
sentatives of other governments that
profess no special concern for the inter-
ests of workers. In fact, the London
ministry's position was authoritatively
stated to be one of aloofneSs on the
question for. the present.
While the eight-hour day on ships,
like the eight-hour day on American
railroads, may tend to greater safety,
the only proposal looking directly to
protection for passengers was one con-
templating an international agreement
as to the minimum requirements in
practical navigation for masters of mer-
chant ships. This proposal was ap-
proved, as were likewise proposals
relative to sailors welfare in port and
to the care of sick or injured sailors at
sea.
At the time of its adoption in the
United States the La Toilette mariners
act, along with certain humane features,
imposed obligations far in advance of
the legislation of any other country. so
much so. in fact, that American vessel
owners handicap in greater costs as
compared with those of other countries
was much increased and the effects of
the act were even damaging on the
Great Lakes as well as the ocean. The
standards prescribed by that law, how
ever, are slowly being Appropriated by
those of other maritime nations and will
be given an enduring basis as the sub
ject of international treaties or agree
mentS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26
War in Manchuria.

After many weeks of smoldering, the
flames of war have developed in Man
churia and now Russian forces are ac-
lively engaged in offensive operations,
driving into Chinese territory and TAX
ing important strategic positions with
seeming ease. All the negotiations for
q settlement OF the trouble between
Moscow and Marking have broken
down, and the continuous sniping Of
small bodies of troops on both sides Of
the boundary has finally resulted IN
actual warfare.
Immediately upon the development
of serious hostilities comes word that
negotiations have been instituted by
Marshal Chang Hsieuh-liang, who as
military commander presides over the
three eastern provinces" which con-
stitute Manchuria, for a separate
peace" with Russia. At the same time
comes word that Chang Kai-Shek,
head of the Marking government. has
moved to effect truce in civil warfare
in China in order that united font
may be presented to the enemy in Man
churia.
The announcements Of these two
movements illustrate the sad division
of China. There is no real cohesion be-
tween the main body that Is called
China proper and the three provinces
In the northeastern corner of the former
empire. Indeed, for a considerable
period these provinces have been main
tanned as a virtually independent unit
though with the titular sovereignty
vested in the central government, sucf
as 1t has been and wherever located, a
Peiping-then Peking-or Marking.
| Under the marshalship Of the lat
/ Chang Tso-lin, who was slain by {
bomb explosion a year ago last June
Manchuria was regarded as quasi
independent territory. The "old mar
shall" as he was called, who had riser
from the role of mere bandit TO tn
head of a large army and commando
Of the three provinces, had aspiration
to become the chief Of all China an
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@. What are the real names OF the
Marx brothers?-A. M.
A. Chico's real name Is Leonard,
Harpo is Arthur, Groucho is julius, and
zeppo is Herbert. They call each other
by their stage names, and so does every
one else. In ages they are So, "a, 81
and 20.
@. Is the greater lift on the top of
an airplane wing or on the bottom?-
G. A.
A. The lift OF the top of wings of an
average plane t;.geraging biplanec and
monoplanes) is about 20 per cent. The
boost on the bottom of the wings equals
about the remaining 80 per cent OF the
lift.
@. Was the song 1.-The Little Brown
Church in the Vale" inspired by real
church?-S. K.
A. The same Little Brown Church
in the Vale about which the song was
written is still standing in Northeastern
Iowa in the valley of the Red Cedar.
DR.. w. S. Pitts, a physician and writer,
was inspired to write the song when the
little church was dedicated, in 1864
The revival Of the song has created
fresh interest in the church, and now
visitors from all over the country visit
the shrine.
@. Is neon lighter or heavier than
air? What voltage is used to cause it
to become incandescent?-E. o. S.
A. The Bureau of Standards says
that neon is lighter than air. Assum-
ing the specific gravity of air to be
1000, the specific gravity of neon Is
0.6964.' About 400 volts per foot plus
400 is required for this gas to become
incandescent, but this depends upon the
diameter Of the tube.
Q. why was the strawberry SO
named?-S. r.
A. The reason is not known def
nitely. It may have been because straw
was used to protect the plants, or more
probably the word is a corruption OF
strawberry, so named because of the
manner in which the plants throw out
runners.
@. How old was Edna Millay when
she wrote "Renascence"?--W. T., ~
A. She was 10.
@. In the early days of our Republic
who passed upon applications for pat
entS?-J. H. G.
A. The first act of Congress, passed
April 10, 1870, placed the granting OF
patents in the hands of the Secretary
Of State, Secretary Of War and Attorney
General. Thomas Jefferson as Secre-
tary Of State personally examined many
petitions for patents. ~
@. What is cascade drapery"?-
w. T. C.
A. This is type of drapery for win
dows or valanceS on beds, in which the
material is arranged in loops which give
the effect of q cascade. This is par