Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
BY CoRINNE FRAZIER.

who discussed his impressions of Rus
STA gained In a recent tour, speaking
before the Womans National Demo-
cratic Club at the weekly forum lunch
con this past week,
The people OF Russia are not for
hidden to worship, so far as l was
able to observe" said Mr.. Scott, "but
II they wish to belong to the Com
munist party, they must renounce God,
religion and the church The party Of
fers boons in the way of government
positions. ETC., to those who are anti
religious, and ostracizeS those who cling
to church aff1liations."
In addition to the religious situa-
ton in Russia, Mr.. Scott reviewed his
impressions of the marriage and divorce
laws, the general economic situation
and the status OF women.
While all wages are very low and
the woman Of ease is scorned through
out Russia, women are on an equal
footing with men in wage earning as
well as before the law" he declared.
In fact, they are favored to some ex-
tent I refer chiefly to the status
of married women who must work.
Special leave with full pay. is granted
all women with babies are allowed time
on during the day to care for them and
are supplied with place to leave them
during their working hours"
Mr.. Scott was introduced by Mrs.
Kate Trenholm Abrams.
Inaugurating a series of entertain
ments to be held during the Spring
months at the new headquarters Of the
National Woman's party on Capitol
HILL Mrs. Paul Myron LinebarEer, re-
Gently appointed chairman of social
activities. entertained at an informal
tea at the headquarters Thursday after
noon.
Members of the headquarters staff as
sisted in receiving the guests, who in
cluded the District. of Columbia branch
officers and members and other friends
Of the feminist group.
Mrs. Linebarger, who is q compare
lively recent arrival in local club circles,
has been associated with women's clubs
abroad for number Of years. She was
active in the American Women's Club
OF Shanghai when her husband was
stationed in China as legal adviser for
the Nationalist party. In India, South
ern France and Germany, she also has
taken an active part in club work,
especially child welfare.
The fourth school of politics, of which
Mrs Virginia White Speel, Republican
national committeewoman for the Dis
trict of Columbia. Is chairman, convenes
at the Willard Hotel April Z at 10 am.
The political school is under the aus
Women. of which Mrs. E. A. Hartman
is president and approved by the Re
publican State committee in and for the
Distf1ce.of Columbia.
An usual effort has been made to
cover every topic that is apt to arise IN
the coming campaign, including the
tariff, law enforcement, prohioltion, IN
land waterways, the World Court, the
London Naval Conference, our posses
sions in the Pacific, immigration, our
policy In Haiti, our abandoned farms
waste lands, our banking system, our
illiterateS, the menace. of government by.
blocs. dangers of Capitalization govern
Ynent, price maintenance, the Chino-
Russian situation and extraterritor
Assisting Mrs. Speel and Mrs. Harri-
rlau III making arrangements Tor. the
school are Mrs. James j. Davis, wife OF
the Secretary of Labor; MS. Charles
Deneen, wife of Senator DeTleen OF Hill
nois; Mrs. Louise Dodson, director Of
the woman's division of the Republic
can national committee: Mrs. Harry X.
Daugherty, director Of the school; Mrs.
Charles Alger, Mrs. Marcus BENJAMIN.
Mrs. j. H. Branson, Mrs. Marion But
Ter, Mrs. Henry D. Fry, Mrs. Lucia
Hanna Hadley, Mrs. Warren j. Haines,
Mrs. Percy Kicking, Mrs. Edward A.
Keys, Mrs. Burnita Shelton Matthews,
Miss M. Pearl Mccall, Assistant United
STATES Attorney LOT the DlSCrlCI OF 20
lumbia; Miss Clara McQuovn, Mrs.
Frank w. Mondell, Miss Edna Patton,
Mrs: Mary Logan Tucker and Miss Alice
Whitaker.
Mrs. Speel is anxious to have men as
we'll as women attend the school, she
said. Men need intelligent informa-
ton as well as women along political
lines"
Representatives Of women's organi-
cations, which in 1922 supported the
Gable act giving independent citizenship
TO married women, appeared Tuesday
before the House judiciary committee to
ask to have the remaining discrimina-
tons removed. The hearing was on
bill III r. 10208) recently introduced
by John L. Cable Of Ohio, the author
of the 1922 law, ito amend the law
relative to the citizenship and naturali-
cation of married women"
Miss Dorothy StrauS, a practicing at
torney of New York City, appearing for
the National League Of Women Voters,
introduced representatives of the other
organizations.
Miss Straus stated that the bill goes
long way toward removing discrimi-
nations and, therefore, 1t has the sup
port of the league. She objected to that
provision in the proposed law by which
a woman married to a foreigner would
lose her citizenship II she lived abroad
two years without returning to this
country.
1T has been dificult enough" she
said, for a woman to prove her 1nten-
ton to retain her citizenship II she lives
abroad under the 1922 law, but under
the new bill she would automatically
lose It,"
Miss Margaret Lambie Of the National
Federation of Business and Professional
Women objected to this same provision,
pointing out that it might often not
only be a financial handicap to her 10
have to return periodically to this coun-
try. but If she did not and lost her
United States citizenship, it might mean
loss of professional prestige.
other speakers were: Miss eczema
RaZovsky of New York, chairman OF the
department of service TO the foreign
born of the National Council OF jewish
Women: Miss Herlean James, american
Association of University Women; MISS
Alice Edwards of the American Home
Economies Association. Mrs. E. E. Danny
for the national board of the Y. w. G.
A.. Mrs. Clarence Fraem, the legislative
chairman of the General Feoeratlon Oh
Women's Clubs, and Mrs EDWARD NC
Grady Of the American Federation OF
Labor, all Of Washington.
Women's City CIub-Mrs. William
Lee Corbin. chairman OF hospitality:
will present a distinguished group OF
guests at the tea this afternoon from
4:30 to 8 o'clock.
Mrs. Mabel Cook Coale will give an
illustrated lecture on the native people
of the Philippines, among whom she
and DR.. Coale lived while engaged In
research work for the Field Museum
Tuesday afternoon at 4:50 o'clock at
a meeting of the current events sec
ton. Mrs. Grace Ross chamberlain