Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-31
CAPITAL TO GREET
1881 TONIGHT WITH
Joy AND PRAYERS
Many Churches Will Conduct
Watch Services Following
Early Social Programs.
LEVITY WILL REIGN
IN CLUBS AND HOTELS
Police to Wink at Fun, but Frown
On Rowdiness and Viola
items of Law.

The New Year will be welcome to-
night with the joyous acclaim of those
inclined to fete the infant stranger and
with the prayers of those invoking divine
guidance for the trek Of time.
The spirit Of gayety will reign in
thousands of homes and in scores of
night clubs and hotels, while the de-
votional observances will take the form
Of watch-night services in many of the
city's churches.
The levity is due to begin early in the
evening and ito continue well into the
early hours of the morning. Special
programs of entertainment have been
arranged IN most of the clubs and hos
telries, eliminating in a burst of fun
and noise at the stroke of midnight.
Police on Watch.
The police will wink at harmless
brands of festivities, but will keep close
watch to prevent rowdiness and viola
tons of the law-especially the prohibi-
ton law.
Montgomery County and other subur-
ban sections will be the host of hun
dreds of New Year eve jewellers from
Washington. Celebration will be staged
in all the country clubs.
In addition, numerous private parties
are being planned for almost every COM
munity.
Post Offices to Close.
Tomorrow is legal holiday in Mary
land. All banks will be closed and there
will be no rural delivery. Post offices
also will shut their doors.
In number of churches there will
be social affairs with entertainments in
the earlier part of the evening, followed
by refreshments, and later devotions,
conducted by the ministers.
Union services of the Protestant
churches of Bloomingdale will be held
at the Memorial United Brethren
Church, of which DR.. S. B. Daugherty
Is pastor.
Rev. Godfrey Chobot, pastor of the
Sixth Presbyterian Church, will con-
duct services, beginning at IL pm.
In the Christian Science churches
services will be held at 8 o'clock.
Lutheran Programs.
At ST. PauIs Lutheran Church DR..
Henry w. Snyder. the pastor, will con-
duct services, beginning at ll:15 o'clock.
A German service will be held at 10
o'clock tomorrow at Zion Lutheran
Church.
Rev. Charles Enders, pastor of Con-
cordia Lutheran Church, will conduct
exercises, beginning at $3.50 pm.
There will be exercises, beginning at
9 o'clock, tonight under the direction
Of Rev. Irving w. Ketchum, pastor of
Peck Memorial Chapel. Lunch will be
served from 10 to IL o'clock.
DR.. Mark Dspp, pastor Of Calvary M.
e. Church, has arranged fellowship
hour, beginning at $3.50 o'clock, fol-
lowed by holy communion and service
of light at 1890 o'clock.
At Foundry M. E. Church DR.. Fred
erick Brown Harris, the pastor, has
arranged for the presentation of more
than 100 pictures of Into All the
World" beginning at $3.50 O'Clock, fol-
lowed at 10 o'clock with social and
refreshments, and later a service Of
conservation and dedication.
Rev. Allan F. Poore, pastor Of Waugh
M. E. Church, has arranged for serv-
ices to begin at IL O'Clock, when the
subject of his sermon will be THE End
of the Year"
At Baptist Churches.
At the National Baptist Memorial
Cove G.. johnson, the pastor, from 10
to IL O'Clock.
DR.. John E. Briggs, pastor of Fifth
Baptist Church, has arranged services
to begin at 10 o'clock.
Rev. Henry j. Smith, pastor Of the
Petworth Baptist Church, has arranged
for an entertainment, followed by watch
night services.
In connection with the services at
Metropolitan Baptist Church, begin
ming at o'clock, DR.. John Compton
Ball, the minister, has arranged for q
debate on Resolved, That men are
greater slaves to fashion than wom-
en-" The debaters are Miss Helen
Tucker, Miss Alma Hickok, Flyde Freed
and Edward Warner.
Services will be held In the Vermont
Avenue Christian Church from $3.50
o'clock, with program under auspices
n NJ.