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Women's Ful-Fa shioned Sill
Hose, Reduced to 75c

200 pairs of Women's Silk Hose j
weight. Sizes 81 to 10.
n Pairs An-slik ingram % Pal
Chiffon Hose. Were $3.50. ID
NOW s.........s...... 1lswo 70
Hosiery, AISLE 10, FIRST FLOOR.
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Saturday night dinner dance at the

The District Of Columbia League of
American Pen Women will be at home
each afternoon this week at its studio
in Stoneleign Court from 8 to 5 o'clock
to the visiting delegates to the d. A. r.
Congress. HosteSses will be the new
branch president, Mrs. Estelle M. Moses,
also Mrs. Beth Heath OlmStead, first
vice president: Mrs. M. Armstrong, Mrs.
Angus McHugh Barr, Mrs. Irish, Mrs
Edison Briggs and Miss Evelyn Weems.
Mrs. James Pryor Tarvin Is entertain
ing for the week her niece, Miss Nancy
Brown of Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, who
is a page to the president general of
the National Society, D. A. r.
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attend a tendance given by the senior
division Of Capital society, Children Of
the American Revolution, tomorrow af-
ternoon, April is, from to o'clock at
the home of the president, Mrs. Henry
Fenno Sawtelle, 5000 Connecticut
avenue, Chevy Chase, Md. The Chevy
Chase Lake car passes door.
Former Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs. Truman H. Newberry, who have
been in Florida through the Winter are
at the Plaza in New York for a short
stay before returning to their home at
Crosse Point, Mich, for the late Spring.
Comdr. and Mrs. Ainsworth will have
IS guests at the Annapolis Road Club
for dinner and dancing tonight. They
also entertained a large party at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-14

Mr.. and Mrs. John Munce, jr., and
their children, Leila Anne, Mary Lock-
hart and John Munce. Sd, are occupy
Ing one of Mr.. Richard Cranes cottages
at Bird Neck Point, Virginia Be,ach, for
the Easter holidays.
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Social Activities Of ID. A. r.
Engage Many at LuncheOns.

SOCIAI ACTIVITIES OF ID. n. ~
Engage Many at LuncheOns.
Mrs. Samuel williams Earle of Chi
cago, former secretary general of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
who has returned to the Mayflower for
an indefinite stay, entertained at
luncheon there yesterday in compliment
to Mrs. Charles Webster Shippey, for
n1er regent of the Chicago chapter, who
has recently returned from a two-year
trip abroad.
Others at the luncheon were Mrs
William jackson Sweeney, former State
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-14

The Rev. DR.. and Mrs Frank S. Cook
man, who spent the Winter in Wash
mgton, have gone to New York and are
at the Gotham.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-14

Miss Katherine Pryor Strother, re-
gent of the Fincastle Chapter, d. A. r.,
Louisville KY, another niece, Is staying
at the Willard during the congress.
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SOCIETY
Continued From Second Page.)

Senate, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Tucker
man, Miss Bessie Kibbey, Mrs. Henry
Bacon and Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-14

regent of Illinois; Mrs. Harry Clay
Ransley, Miss Elizabeth A. Ransley, Mrs.
Charles Pratt Hubert, Mrs. Raymond
w. Stevens Mrs. Eugene Echobinger,
the former Miss Raymonde Shippey of
Chicago and Mrs. Thomas j. Dixon.
Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma
Fraternity who are visiting In Washing
ton or attending the D. A. r. conven-
ton this week are invited to join with
the Washington Association in its reg
ular meeting tomorrow evening. Sup
per will be served at o'clock at the
Burlington Hotel and reservations
should be made by telephone to Mrs.
William S. Stein, lit keland street,
Chevy Chase, Md. The feature of the
Continued on Fifth Page)
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Mr.. John Law Harris was host to a
party of young people at LIE Paradis
SATURDAY. evening in compliment to Miss
Harriet Hunt, daughter of Federal Trade
Commissioner c w. Hunt.
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Very attractive curtains
of Scrim, with neat figured
borders, in rose, blue and
green. Seven pieces to a
set. Sash curtains, upper
curtains, valance and tie
backs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-14

CONTINUED on Fifth Page.)
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Mrs. Swift, widow of DR.. Swift of
PittSf1eld, Mass, arrived today from
California, where she has been through
the Winter and will be the guest of
Mrs. George Ellery Crosby in her apart
ment in the Broadmoor for a few days
en- route to Pittsf1eld. Mrs. Swift was
formerly Miss Mary Catch of Des
MoineS, Iowa, where Mrs. Crosby, who
was before her marriage, Miss Daisy
Gordon Stewart lived before coming to
Washington.
The senior members of all local C..
A. r. societies and the visiting delegates
to c. A. r. Convention are invited to
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The sets at this price are
made of scrim with check
borders, and consist of q
pair of upper curtains. a
pair of sash curtains, two
tie-backs and a valance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard S. Jones,
formerly Of Washington, have returned
here from New York City for a brief
visit, and are staying at the Potomac
Park Apartments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-14

-Ten-piece sets of fire.
proof Pyrex oven glass.
Each set consisting of a
covered casserole, pie
plate, bread pan and six
custard cups.
Kann'S-Third Floor.
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Sheer marquisette cur
tains in dotted and figured
effects. Each set consisting
of a pair of sash curtains,
a pair of upper curtains,
tie-backS, draped or cornice
ValanceS,
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framed political pacts. They have start.
ed and ended wars. They have speeded
transportation. They have adopted uni
form physical measurements. They nave
even come to international agreements
ON the study of heavenly bodies.
These conferences seem superncialiy
to have changed the world great deal,
especially in the last century. Yet there
remains q haunting feeling that they
really have not changed 1t at al since
the instrument upon which all changes
human nature can't be changed" Is
nlatitude. And II human nature cannot
be changed then fundamentally nothing
else can be changed.
This Is the first world conference
which does not have 70 DO with the
environment. It Is concerned with the
mind itself-the other half OF creation
upon which rests the responsibility Ior
ali shame and all glory, all happiness
and all misery. all degeneration and all
exaltation.
This conference is only beginning
cerned with the abnormal. II must
take advantage of whatever foothold II
can find. Only through understanding
of the abnormal can come understand
ing of the normal.
But this beginning may mark very
important step indeed In human MS
tory. The potentialities are so ire
mendous that one hesitates to speak OF
them. But it may be, long time hence,
that there will be no need for any otner
sort of conferences and that all the
problems of mankind will be settled Dy
q cooperative study of the mind. IN
which those psoblenns arise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04

ern armies, It Is understood, have no
anti-aircraft guns.
A factor Of importance IN China's
new crisis Is the development Of
rampant Communist spirit in the
Southern provinces. recently manifested
in the area between Canton and shang-
hal and marked by some shocking man
nestations Of fanatical brutality. The
Nationalist government at Marking may
find itself between two fires, that of
the Northern revolt and that Of the
Communist uprising In the South.
Chang Kai-shek will have to act quick
ly and vigorously with his well armed,
German trained army, II he Is to save
his organization and retain its recog-
milton by the foreign powers as the
government of China.
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international Congress Is to
Deal With Matters of Thinking

Now, mankind has given almost its
whole attention to the manipulation Of
only one Of these elements-the envi-
ronment. The whole pageant of hu-
mainly, from beetle-browed pithecan-
thropus TO the present. has been con-
cerned with altering the environment.
Every step In the progress of ctviliza-
ton has been concerned with changing
the environment. This Is the purpose
OF engineering and surgery, of art and
statecraft. Even education and religion
have sought to do little more than in
troduce Intangible efforts into this en-
vironment.
All this time the mind itself has
been neglected. One-half the whole
and perhaps the most essential half
has been ignored as If 1t did not exist,
There has been no technique for manip-
ulating the mind itself, except as it was
accidental and incidental to other ac-
tivities. Only within recent years has
such possibility been recognized, The
application has been almost entirely to
the abnormal, so that it has become
somewhat tainted in the popular mind
by its association with insanity,
1t Is matter OF adjusting the mind
TO environment rather than environ
ment to the mind and of determining
the actual effects of any environmentaI
change. Until more Is known of this
complicated subject it Is purely guess
work whether any human change is
good or bad, progressive or degenerative.
X
The science Of the mind still Is In its
infancy. There are conflicting schools
Of thought. None Of them has made
more than the merest beginning. some
have presented hypothesis which seem
are so foreign to the concepts of a
world thinking additionally only In
terms Of externals.
For centuries there have been inter-
national conferences for the purpose of
altering the environment. They have
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"REMINDED OF COD
BY THE RIGHT REV JAMES T. FREEMAN, d. d, IL. D.
Bishop of Washington.

Every perception We have IN an
avenue through which God seeks to
enter our life. This world in which
we live is an open book that rehearses
daily before our vision the evidences
of His power and His love. THE
heavens declare the glory Of God and
the armament showeth His handiwork.'
Thus the shepherd poet in his lonely
night watches caught visions of the
Eternal Father. The capacity and
aptitude of mans mind to comprehend
and realize God Is one of the extraordi-
nary things of our nature. It Is inter-
esting to note in what strange ways
men and women of varying tempera-
merts come to have q consciousness OF
Gods presence in His world. The man
with q poetic and sensitive nature lit
orally feels Him in all that he sees and
hears in q world Of manifold creations.
He hears Him speaking in the rustling
winds; he sees His might In the crash
ing thunder; he feels His power in
the surging seas; he witnesses His glory
in the golden sunset and the starry
vault of night. The artist finds Him
revealed in every human face, in every
graceful and symmetrical form; he lifts
up his eyes to the towering hills and
from them he gets inspiration for his
genius. The student of the deep things
of human nature finds in the human
mind the marvels Of creative genius.
He discovers here elements and quail
ties so superior, so capable Of infinite
development and expansion that they
bewilder him. Those of US whose
minds are less penetrative and whose
sensibilities are less acute find In the
world through which we move intima-
lions Of the divine. 1t does not seem
reasonable, however simple our tastes
or unsusceptible our mental capacities,
that we should walk among men in the
world through which we. move without
receiving that which speaks Of God.
It Is little wonder that the poet cries
out in his bewilderment, When con-
slider the heavens, the work Of Thy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04
Gasoline vs.. Beautyf

To stimulate, rather than stihe, the
public's love Of touring is obviously one
Of the major objects Of the oil industry.
After all has been said, Lure-of-the-
Open Road-the really open roads
the greatest salesman Of that gigantic
industry.
How blind, how monstrous, how stu
pid, therefore, IL the 6pringtime COM
petition which leading oil concerns are
now entering upon to desecrate every
pleasant highway with their blatant
bilboards and to shut on every dainty
woodland with their crude and contra
dictory gasoline clairnsl
Is this the return motorists are to
get for the billions which they spend an
nually? Between them and Q glimpse Of
some green bit Of fresh-leafed fsiryland
must there always stand the huge high
hued blurb of some Oil company, forget
full Of the interests Of its customers? Is
this really o good wilf' campaign, or
has some ones nightmare been carried
over into daylight and made Q matter
OI ulOeOuS ECCOIu III btaS Bkcas Vuv-oA-
doorsa Is the man who buys gasoline
Everyman-made friendly by gasoline
advertisements that take away half Of
his pleasure In motoring7 Must he
remain content with the fash Of IN o.
easional tree between gasoline sislisa Il
It enough II, with outstretched neck, Ia
traversing long lanes OF advertising, he
occasionally glimpsss Q blue and va
grant cloud or sees the dance Of sun
light on some unhidden tree-top9
SO furious and foolish has this COM
petitive usliness become that along one
of the most beautiful roads out Of Wash
tngton, destined to be Q part Of the
magnificent national park system, gor-
geous, irreplaceable trees are being cut
down to give better reveal" to the
gasoline billboards.
File upon you, gentlemen Of the oil
businessl A truce in your warfare for
ugliness! Have you not already pun
ished your customers sufficiently? Is 1t
not enough to shut Of the trees? Must
you also cut down those few graceful
spirits that stand close to the road try
ing to mitigate somewhat the horrors
of your art?
The next forward step In the gasoline
industry will be the initiation by some
leading company Of g policy Of aiding
the motorist and nature to become
closer friends. There Is no more logical
friendship. and no interest stands to
benefit financially by It more than the
oil industry.
Such q policy Of selling gasoline by
making It's use more enjoyable would
win the approval Of everybody, whereas
the present policy Of competitive des-
ecration Is certain to react against the
industry by decreasing the delights Of
motoring and by increasing the public
resentment toward systematized and un-
necessary ugliness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

And Natures only blemish is the
mind"
"For there is nothing either good or
bad but thinking makes 1t So"
These two pearls of Shakespeare's
wisdom, the more obvious the more we
reflect upon them, might well be the
texts for the meetings Of the first inter-
national congress Of mental hygiene
here this week.
Crime, war, madness and all miserics
are matters Of thinking. Love, aspira-
ton, accomplishment and all happiness
are matters Of thinking. All human be-
havior Is a matter Of thinking, except
the birth that begins 1t and the death
that ends It, Without the mind there
could be no consciousness Of good or Ill,
pleasure or pain, in anything.
The billions Of nerve cells making
UP the corteX of the human brain are
the most fundamental entities in crea-
ton, so far as man Is concerned. With
out them he could not know even that
he existed. It is fruitless here to con-
slider whether this brain is something
superimposed upon the human organism
by Omnipotence or whether the mar
velously delicate mechanism was put
together bit by bit, through the long
centuries when life struggled in dark
ness, by the master hand of evolution.
We know only that it Is the sole ele-
ment of life Of any consequence what
soever. Without it life would be star
dust strewn by the winds through form
less nothingness.
v X y n
Two elements enter into all behavior
whether 1t be the behavior of embattled
nations or crawling infants. One is the
mind OF man. The other is the environ
ment that acts upon It, sending nerve
currents through 1t which result in &C
ton. Into these two elements the his
tory Of the race can be resolved. They
ere complimentary TO each other.
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area than existed &C the time IN any
other city In the world. Parks and
public building areas, increased by sue
cessive condemnations and purchases,
have 80 reduced the total available tax
able area Of the District that . warn
ing may well be sounded.
There Is sound foundation for the
Districts petition that, In financing the
great public improvement program IN
the Capital. Congress, representing the
Nation, should give careful considera.
ton TO the equity involved in appor-
tioning the share Of expense to be
borne by local taxpayers in their part
Of Capital maintenance and improve
ment, and should also recognize that
one Of the items to be considered In this
connection is the effect upon the Dis
trict's future and permanent tax-pro-
ducing capacity Of successive transfers
by the Federal Government Of tax-pro-
ducing land to the exempt list.
In this connection it Is to be re-
membered that the national tax ex-
penditures do not come exclusively from
contributions Of taxpayers outside the
District Of Columbia. District tax
payers participate In national tax con-
tributions on precisely the same basis
as the national taxpayers Of the States.
Their contributions are relatively heavy,
being greater in the fiscal year 1929
than those of any one of twenty-five
States and greater than those Of nine
States combined. The District taxpayers
contribute on both sides Of the account,
as national and as local taxpayers. Ap-
preparation Of national funds for Ma
tional Capital maintenance and de-
velopment is thus not q gift to the Dis
trict, but an expenditure by the Ma
ton upon the Nations Capital to which
the District taxpayer has contributed.
It is further to be considered, in
these extraordinary "mu-
nicipal" improvements that are 80
largely national in character and the
expenditures upon which are 20 much
greater than they would be In the case
of any other city than the National
Capital, whether the appropriation from
the national funds Of even the 20 per
cent required by substantive Law would
not be too little. and whether the con-
tribution Of only approximately ais Per
cent under the lump sum appropria-
ton practice Is not obviously and
grossly inadequate. It IL to be consid-
cred whether in the COMBINATIONS In
question the Washington taxpayers are
not paying heavily In national taxes
and too heavily In municipal taxes In
order to reduce forever the District
taxable areas and to increase perma-
nently the burden imposed upon the
areas that remain subject to taxation.
Washington taxpayers are In hearty
sympathy with the development Of
Washington as the Federal City. They
do not oppose the acquisition of taxable
land for Federal Government use. They
ask merely that such acquisitions be
considered as to their ultimate effect
upon the local tax burden, and not
painted in roseate hues to beguile the
local taxpayer into the belief that the
Government in these condemnations is
conferring Q benefit and not taking
something away.
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fingers, the sun and the moon which
Thou hast ordained, what Ia man that
Thou art mindful of him?" So vast
were the infinite spaces, so incompre-
hensible the glory of them, that In
comparison the life of man seems In
consequential and unworthy. When
Joyce Kilmer, the war poet, walked
through the woods he wrote:
Poems are made by men Ike me,
But only God can make tree.
The sheer beauty of the woodland
compelled his thoughts to God
A distinguished lawyer friend of mine,
a man of profound thought and I'M
usual literary genius, has written a
charming little book in which he dis
closes his highest thinking about Coo
and life as the result Of companionship
with his little grandehild. He tells
how each day the unfolding lie OF the
child gave him finer perceptions o.
q God who mad invested child Life with
30 much beauty and wisdom.
Maltbie Babcock, the poet preacher.
travelling on an ocean steamer, saw In
the infinite expanse Of the seas that
which provoked his deeper thinking and
gave him q larger conception OF the
vastness and immeasurableness OF GODS
power.
A distinguished scientist, DR.. michael
7. Pupin, tells us in his ripe maturity
of thought that all the disclosures OF
the laboratory and the deeper study OF
mighty and dynamic forces have been
as q mirror rejecting the omnipotence,
might and majesty Of their Creator.
Thus, men come to find wherever
they look the evidences Of Him whom
they come to worship. Not until the
Great Master came did the straying and
uniformed conceptions Of God find clear
er expression and definition. He alone
taught men the tenderness and solicit
tude Of the Great Father. He defined
Him as o God Of Love-" in whose COM
prehensive embrace all men may find
their satisfaction and the realization OF
their highest hopes. Here we have the
ultimate authority for ell that we have
learned of God as revealed In HIS world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04
Revolt in China.

Though there have been no military
operations In China apart from en-
counters between bandits and govern
ment troops, on Q small scale, q revo-
luton has actually taken place in that
country. according TO dispatch from
Pekins. Yen Hsi-shan, Governor Of
shansi Province and leader Of the
northern revolt. has called q peoples
congress" to meet In Picking during this
current month to establish o new gov
eminent, Of which Yen will be the head
and Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang will be
the commander Of the military forces.
This new regime Ia to take the name
Nationalist Government Of China" q
title which has heretofore been given
to the government at Marking headed
by Chang Kai-shek. an organization
which the northerners regard as illegal.
Incidentally. this announcement of
the holding of the peoples congress-"
which 1t is expected will represent four
teen Of the twenty provinces Of China
proper, is the statement that the cap
ital Of the new government will be
Peking, the restored name of the for
mer capital replacing "Peiping," which
was given to the city coincident with
the removal Of the government of
Chang Kai-shek to Marking. Despite
the removal of the administrative
organization to the Southern capital,
+La A{oInS, a III Aetn kIishrnnnt, L. rsktno
have remained In Picking, and this fact
may have an important bearing upon
the international status of the new
Northern government. Certainly 1t will
be an anomalous situation for the diplo-
mats at Peking, to be accredited to one
government and TO be situated within
the immediate Jurisdiction of another.
There ID no likelihood Of the removal
Of the legations to Marking simply be-
cause of the establishment Of q new
Nationalist government Of China"
with its headquarters just outside Of
the legation walls.
Chang Kai-shek can hardly afford
to permit Gov. Yen TO hold his con-
gress and establish his rival Nationalist
government without some measure Of
protest and opposition. Marshal Feng
has. 1t is estimated, about 100000 men,
well armed, with the exception Of aerial
equipment. The Marking government
has some bombing planes which are
likely to be Of high efficiency against
the Northern army, according to prew-
Gus happenings In the East Chinese
soldiers have no relish whatever for
attacks from the air. In Manchuria
during the short-lived Russo Chinese
war, Russian planes caused utter de-
moralization among the ground forces
of China, even by dropping bags of SCOT
and cabbaaes unon than. The North.