Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
BY CORINNE FRAZIER.

IoCOSS1Nd the validity of
American ideals, DR.. George
Schultz, Phi. D., professor of
political economy of the Uni
versity of Maryland, told mem
mers of the Womens National Demo-
cratic Club at the weekly forum lunch
con Monday that law enforcement and
the home we're the foundations of
American ideals; the basic principles
on which our forefathers founded the
democracy.
and these ideals are valid TODAY
thev are still basis, though changing
conditions have brought about a diff
ferent conception of home life and a
confusion of ideas concerning law OBJ
servance.
IT know of nothing which will con-
tribute more to good citizenship TODAY
than the opportunity to acquire home.
And while, at present, our ideas on law
enforcement are in what some choose
to call a deplorable state, there never
has prevailed in our business life a
higher standard of morals and ethics
than today-a part of the heritage of
our forefathers. American ideals are
still sound"
In conclusion, DR.. Schultz cited the
proposed five-day week as a probable
factor in the readjustment of our re-
| ligious and social life, which would
the church and the people and Slight
ly retarded tempo of living which. in
turn, might result in an adjustment of
the general Acknowledgement problem
now facing the country.
ut is not that we lack religion, to-
day" said the speaker, but that our life
| in this age of machinery and big indus
tries, is an indoor life, while that of
| our forefatherS was spent largely in the
1 Oman Naturally Mhila thew t11rf,ad IN
| the church as a retreat we seek out
| door retreats as a contrast from our
combining civilization. A flve-day week,
| in my opinion, would give the citizen
| time for recreation, time for church,
as well.
LAS for law enforcement, other condi-
! lions are Just as responsible for the
lack of law enforcement or observance
| today, as prohibition" he declared.
Crowded traffic is one of them, the
| high speed at which we work another.
| All of the minor misdemeanorS for
/ which one may be arrested, today, tend
| to rob the Jail of its stigma. We have
| magnif1ed obscure offenSeS until we
| have become so accustomed to tnfrac-
tons of the law that, after while we
| don't mind going to jail at all-or at
| least visiting the Judge. 1t takes time
to make any readjustments, however,
and, in time. America will solve this
problem as she has Others" he con-
| cluded.
Mrs. Rose Yates Forester, secretary
of the club, introduced DIR. Schultz. AT
the speakers table, in addition to Mrs.
! Forester, were Mrs. j. Borden Harri-
man. president of the club; Mrs. Charles
i Hamlin and Miss Caroline Riley.
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! Mrs. Jouett Shouse, wife of the chair
man of the Democratic national COM
/ mittee, inaugurated series of teas to
be held on the last Friday in each
month, the past week at the club house
of the Women's National Democratic
| Club on New Hampshire avenue.
A tea will be given at the club house
| on Thursday afternoon of this week by
| Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, vice chairman
of the Democratic national committee,
in honor of the wives of the Democratic
members of Congress.
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MRS. HARVEY w. WILEY, newly
AVA elected chairman of the national
council of the National Woman's Party,
was the guest of honor at a delightful
tea given Wednesday afternoon at the
national headquarters of the organiza-
ton, 144 B street northeast. Promi-
nent women representing nearly every
section of the globe gathered to pay
| their respects to Mrs. Wiley. In the
receiving line were Miss Alice Paul, Mrs.
Paul Linebarger Mrs. Dora Ogle, Miss
Maud Younger, Mrs. Burnita Shelton
Matthews and Miss Nina Allender.
Pouring tea were Mrs. Cloyd Marvin,
Miss Margaret Baxter of London, Eng
land; Mrs. Merritt o. Chance, Mrs.
Grace Reilly, dean of the Washington
College of Law; Miss Sarah Grogan,
Mrs. Jesse Nicholson, Mrs. John Mock
and Mrs. Virginia White Spiel
Among the distinguished women were
Mrs. Claude A. Swanson. Lady Philip of
Brisbane, Australia, and Mrs. Gardner
Phillip Orme.
Following the tea the guests listened
in over the Nationwide radio hook-up
to the address made by DR.. Emma Void
Of oregon on the nationality proposals
to be considered at the conference fol
codification of international law to be
held at The Hague in March.
Proposals on the subject of ma
tionality which Is the first to be con-
sidered. will be presented to the codifca-
ton conference by several groups OF
legal experts" DR.. Void said. "These
world law the existing determinations
against wives and mothers. Women
would present proposals providing that
there be no distinction based on sex in
the laws relating to nationality.
Women of the United States dis
covered the position they were in during
| the war, when many who had never
| been out OF this country found them
selves treated as enemies because their
husbands were alien enemies. Numbers
| of American-born women, resident in
this country. who played an important
part in winning womanS suffrage, found
themselves denied the right they worked
to gain because their husbands were cit
liens of other countries.
such grotesque situations finally re-
| suited in the passage of the Gable act
| in 1922, by which women were given the
| right to retain their nationality regard
| less of marriage. This act has in
| fluenced the laws of many countries.
| Practically every government that has
rewritten its nationality laws since the
! World War has recognized the altered
position of women. In the outstanding
! European countries which have not yet
remade their laws, demands for revi-
sion in behalf of independent nation
atty for women are so insistent that the
| governments are considering the requir-
| ed changes, notably the British Empire
and Germany.
1.-THE injustices resulting from the
/ lack Of uniformity in the nationality
laws of the various countries have
brought about the demand for an In
| ternational law. Women are deter
mined that old determinations shall
not be carried over into world law. The
International Alliance of Women for
Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, COM
posed OF member organizations from 43
countries (the League of Women Voters
IS the United States section of the al
liance) demands that married woman
shall have the same right as man TO
= retain mr. IN oh
| International Federation of University
Women takes the same stand The Ma