Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17

The Americanization committee viii
meet Tuesday afternoon at o'clock In
the library o. the Americanizatior
Glare Wilson will be the speaker OF
the afternoon. Interested members oil
the society are invited to attend these
| meetings. Mrs. Grattan Kerans, State
chairman, will preside.
| American Eagle Chapter met on Tues
| lay evening, February IL, at the home OF
Mrs. Harry w. Bowling, 1908 Four
tenth street northwest. Mrs. John Pen
nington Halstead and Mrs. Patterson
Bayne assisted the hostess. The regent,
! Mrs Edwin j. Ryan, presided.
After the usual opening exercises the
| minutes of the previous meeting, read
by the recording secretly, Mrs. j. H.
Fishback. were approved The treas
urer, Mrs. Emma Lovejoy Chaplin, re-
ported a substantial balance in the
treasury after the usual annual contri-
buttons were made. Interesting reports
of committees were approved. The
chapter learned with deep regret of
the death of Mrs. James M. Wiley,
former State regent, and it was voted to
send a letter of coincidence to Mr.
Wiley. Announcement was made of a
theater benefit to be given by the stu
dent loan committee at the National
Theater on February 10; also theater
benefit for the Chapter House Corpo-
ration to be given in May.
At the close of business the honor
guest of the evening, Mrs. w. W. Hus-
band, national chairman Americaniza-
ton committee, gave q talk on the
work Of the committee Education of
the ignorant within the United States as
well as adequate protection from enc
mics outside the United States consti-
tute the bulwark of our national de-
fense," said Mrs. Husband. las surely
as an adequate Army and Navy is essen
tial to our national security. so is the
teaching of true Americanism the best
possible method of combating danger
from within" The chapter then adj
journed to a social hour, when delicious
refreshments were served by the hostess.
Mrs. Albert S. Jones, State chairman
Juvenile Protective Association, has an
nounced great progress in the work of
the association during the past six
months. During this period cases have
been handled involving so families and
1862 children. Forty-one of these cases
were new cases and Is reopened.
The association has recently acquired
the services of Mis- Mildred Terrett as
executive secretary. Miss Terrett was
formerly director of the Delaware Chill
dren's Bureau. There are now four
full-time workers employed by the asso-
citation. Volunteer workers are urgently
needed and it is requested that those
desiring to render this service COM
municate with Miss Terrett at the as
sociation's new headquarters, 1920 K
street northwest.
The Juvenile Protective Association
has been included in the 81 charities
which will receive funds from the Com
munity Chest. However, the work of
the association is expanding so rapidly
and the need is SO great that the con-
tinued support of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, both moral and
financial, is earnestly desired.
The Susan Riviere Hetzel Chapter, at
its meeting on February 8, was en-
tertained by Mrs. Larz Anderson, the
regent, Mrs. Gertrude Mcpherson, pre-
siding. Reports of the various COM
mittees were read at the usual business