Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26
NEWS OF THE CLUBS

at the annual banquet browning the
seasons activities of the Business and
Professional Woman,s Club to be held
at the Hamilton Hotel.
The speakers for the evening will be
James j. Davis, Secretary of Labor;
Representatives Ruth Hanna McCor-
mick, Ruth Bryan owen. Florence
Hahn, Mary T. Norton and Katherine
Langley. Mrs. Sheppard Knapp Haynes,
president. will preside. She was past
president of the Stamford, Conn,
Business and Professional Womans
Club before coming to Washington.
Solos will be rendered by Miss Jane
Daniel, soprano, well known radio
artist, and heard often at the
Y. w. c.. A. Sunday afternoon teas.
Miss Pearl Griffith will accompany Miss
Daniel.
Among those who will attend the
banquet are DR.. Grace H. Beardsley,
president Baltimore club; Mrs. Albert
Cohen. president Clarendon club; Mrs.
Mary W. Troth, president Alexandria
club Miss Alice H. Whitton, ex-presi-
dent Alexandria club; Miss Mary An
derson. director Woman's Bureau. De-
partment of Labor; Miss Katherine
Lsnroot, assistant director Children's
Bureau, Department of Labor; Miss
Margaret Hanna. chief. coordination
and review. State Department Miss
Katharine Pike, chairman. business and
professional woman's section, Women's
City Club Miss Eleanor Gregg. super
intendent of nurses, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Department of Interior: Mrs.
Mary Hickey. United States Veterans
Bureau; Miss Bertha PabSt, secretary,
Business and Professional Woman'S
Club, Y. w. c. A.; DR.. Louise Stanley,
chief, Bureau of Home Economics, De-
partment of Agriculture; Mrs. H. H.
Locher, president, Soroptimist Club;
Miss Beatrice Bowman, superintendent,
Navy nurses. etc.
Variety Club.-Due to the illness of
President Black, Abe Shapiro presided
at the meeting this past week, assisted
by Acting Vice President I. Cohen, Act
ing Sergeant-at-Arms William Metro,
and Secretary /. Feldman. The meet
ing was held in the clubrooms. 1921
Fourteenth street and was opened with
an address from the chair asking that
the membership visit the sick. John
r. Thompson and Richard Jordan were
elected to membership. The new
members addressed the club and their
talk was one of inspiration for the
good of the organization.
The board of trustees rejected the
application of Les Amis Club for aff1li-
alton. Harry Berkowich, who had spent
two weeks touring in the South, was
among those present at this meeting.
Wednesday nights entertainment was
turned into a surprise birthday party
given in honor of the secretary treas
urer. A large gathering was on hand
and handsome gift was given by the
club.
The weeks debate: Should Women
Wear Long or Short Skirts, and Why?"
was won by the affirmative. This team
was led by Miss Bean and Albert Hecht.
The meeting adjourned at 10 O'Clock
and dancing followed.
The Annual Memorial Service of the
Daughters of America, in honor of those
members who have died since last
Memorial day, will be conducted in the
Ninth Street Christian Church, Ninth
and d streets northeast, this evening at
1880 o'clock. Rev. Benjamin H. Melton,
the pastor of the church, Is preaching
the sermon. Several changes have been
made on the program of exercises, as
follows: Selections by the quartet viii
take the place of the sounding of the
taps by the bugler; service with cleo
trio lights will replace the snufflng of
the mortuary lights. Families and
friends of the deceased members ana
members Of the local Junior y. U. A. M.
and their friends are invited.
Der Deutsche Literarische Verein.-
The last meeting of the season took
place at the home of the president, Miss
nue. northwest. Those taking part in
the program for the evening were Mrs.
Fred Adams Young, VINO recited
Goethe's Mailed" ('May Song'O; Miss
Schade, Miss Bischoff and MISS Anita
v. Mueller, who read extracts from THE
Tragedy Of Faust" by Goethe, followed
by amy G. Leavitt, who read the same
scenes In the English translation of
Frank Claudy, the first vice president
OF the club. A trio, by Mendelssohn,
was well rendered by Alice B. Harvey,
piano; Bernadette Berard, violin, and
Anna Ulke, cello. Miss Schade gave a
talk on Goethe in Music" An epilogue
In verses, read by Miss Emma M. Won
Seyfried, completed the program.
The District of Columbia Branch,
NeedlewOrk Guild Of America, Inc, held
its Spring meeting at the Women's City
Club, May II, at $3.50 pm. The presi-
dent, Mrs. 4. F. Hassan, presided. The
meeting was an informal 'get-together"
one. called to give the guild the bene-
Mt OF the cooperation between itself
and other agencies. Elwood Street, the
director OF the Washington Community
Chest, was introduced. He spoke brief
1y, praising the work of the guild, as
he had observed its workings both here
and in other cities. In spite of the
adoption of the Community Chest by
this city he urged the guild to continue
It's WORK, which is rendering service By
the collection and distribution Of new"
garments rather than collecting money,
thereby releasing funds which the chest
might otherwise have to seek.
Mrs. Hassan, Mrs. Dunlop and Mrs.
Grosner reported on the annual meet
ing, recently held in Philadelphia. They
spoke with enthusiasm of the addresses
by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, honorary
president Of the National Guild; Mrs
Thomas Preston, national president of
the guild. and others. Twelve hundred
delegates from the 600 branches in the
United States attended the meeting.
Miss Rosamond Bender, the national
secretary, reported the total number of
garments collected and distributed by
the guild during 1928 was 1,587,42l.
A list OF Al agencies receiving gar
ments from the District of Columbia
Branch was read, and several repre-
sentatives OF these agencies spoke of
the good the guild garments did for the
poor under their care. Mr.. Ufford of
the Associated Charities stressed espe-
cially the value of new" garments
Capt. st. John of the Salvation Army
spoke of the value of the guild layettes.
Mrs. Williams of the Wesley Home for
the Colored Aged said that the guild
garments were given in that institution
tor Christmas gifts.
In closing, Mrs. Hassan spoke of the
need OF larger junior membership and
Of further publicity concerning guild
activities.
Membership in the guild is open to
any one contributing two new gar
ments year. The collection and dis
tribution is usually made about Thanks