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Mrs. Mccormick Hostess
at Musicale Last Evening.

Mrs. Medill Mccormick entertained
at delightful al fresco supper party
last evening in the garden Of her home
in Georgetown. There were about rs
guests, including many colleagues of
the hostess in the House Of Representa-
tives, where she was q member from
Illinois.
The, garden is now at its height of
beauty and the many vari-colored cleo
trio lights and the playing fountain
gave setting seldom found for an
evening party in washington,
A charming program of music was
given during the evening, when the
artists were Miss Helen Howison,
soprano, and Mr.. Alden Finkle, celliSt.
Mr.. George II. Wilson accompanied
Miss Howison at the piano and Mrs.
F1nkle played for Mr.. Finkle.
Among the out-of-town guests was
Mrs. Tiffany Blake of Chicago, who Is
house guest of Mrs. Mccormick.
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Mrs. ]. Paul Yoder, formerly of WASH
tngton. now living at Bronxville. N. Y,
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Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Lubore will
entertain q company Of "A at dinner
this evening at the Shoreharn Hotel.
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SOCIETY
Mrs. Hoover Gives First Pre-Nuptial
Party for Former Secretary.
Miss Ruth Fesler.

ander M. Patch Saturday for the indoor
mrs. Hugh Drum. Mrs. William D.
Conner, Mrs. George g. Gibbs, Mrs.
Ralph PAYNE Craft and Mrs. Harry
Bishop will be in charge Of the out
door booths with their many assistants.
Mrs. st. John Greble wiz cntertain
eight at luncheon Wednesday and Mrs.
Ben H. Fuller, wife Of Mai Gen. Fuller,
commandant of the Marine Corps, viii
be hostess to large company ct lunch
con Thursday in the tea room at Brad
ley Farms.
Col. and Mrs. Matthew A. Delaney,
who have spent several months IN
Washington at the Hotel Martinique,
will leave early this week for Col. De-
laney's new station at Fort Hayes, OHIO
For the past four years he has been
the medical adviser to the Governor Of
the Philippine Islands.
Mai. and Mrs. Howard Davidson viii
move next month to Cremona, the old
st. Marys County, Md, estate which
rhsy recently purchased. Maj, and
70 JtS iormer srcnitsctu1si character.
Prior 10 the purcnRss OF the estate by
Mai. sna Mrs. Davidson TIE hcn1g h&o
been ia tine possession Of the Thomas
family for nearly 400 years.
Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs. A. c. Miles
entertained company at dinner at the
Shoreham Hotel Saturday evening, the
party remaining later for supper dan
cling. The guests included Comdr. and
Mrs. w. w. Webster, Mr.. and Mrs.
James A. Murray, Mr.. and Mrs. Temple
N. Joyce. Mrs. T. T. Patterson and Mr..
Carl Fenhagen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-11

Senior Mauro de FreitaS, flrst Secre-
tary Of the Brazilian embassy, enter
tanned a party at the supper dance at
the Club Chantecler Saturday evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-11

The wives Of the members Of the
little cabinet" which Is composed of
the assistant secretaries Of the vari-
Gus governmental departments, met for
Luncheon today At the Congressional
Country Club.
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daughter, Mrs. 3. A. Conkle Of Atlantic
City, N. j., Is passing q few days at
The Dodge Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. wallace w. Smith Of
Pittsburgh and their daughter, Miss
Adelaide Smith, are spending q few
days at the Shoreham.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-11

The commercial attache to the United
States legation in Prague and Mrs. Karl
L. Rankin are in Washington and win
he at the Mayfiower until Thursday.
Following . trip to Philadelphia and
New York and then through the West
where Mr.. Rankin viii conduct series
Of talks for the Department of Com
nqeree, they viii go to their home IN
South Bridgeton, Maine, for month
before returning to CzechoGloyakia.
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Mai. Gen. Dennis F.. Nolan, CON-
mander of the 5th Corps Area, spent
the week end in Washington at the
Hotel Martinique, accompanied by Mrs.
Nolan.
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Rear Admiral and MRS. Mark L. Bris-
tol have as their guest the latter's sis
ter, Mrs. Henry Goldthwaite, who VIII
be- with them until Monday, May ID.
Mrs. Goldthwaite came from Panama.
where Or. Goldthwaite is with the
Public Health Service.
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Mr.. =. L, Allen, accompanied by his
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Mrs. Alice sigworth Morse, who is
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American Diplomat Feted
At Chilean Embassy Tonight.

Mrs. Charles Francis Adams. wife of
the Secretary Of the Navy, will leave
the Capital Friday to visit her sister,
Mrs. Henry B. Coke, In her home in
philadeIphia.
The Washington times., 1931-01-19
Costof Changing Car Tracks
In Capitol Plaza Area

Congress is to build beautiful plaza between the Capitol
Union Station and the cost is properly to be paid from
the Federal Treasury Some of the work has been done and
much will have done in another year. by which time
thousands of Americans will be ockng here to take part in
the events commemoratng Washngtons 2OOth birthday
improvements will necesate extensive changes in the
tracks of the Capitol Traction and Washington Railway
and Electric companies They have been ordered to make these
changes which will almost certain loss in passenger
Because there appropriations to reimburse
them they do the job at their expense paying out
than $350000
The companies will make the changes and depend upon
Congress for reimbursement Congress should pay the bill
Anything else would be unjust and confscaon of property
in the eyes of the courts.
these changes made to suit the wishes and needs Of
the railways they should pay the COST They made
conform the plans and demands of the architect of the
Capitol
After ALL is not the treasures of the railway companies
that will be hit 1t is the pocketbooks of the riders of
Washington The people of this CITY, under the public utilities
law must pay reasonable returns the companies They
must pay in all the money needed by these companies for
operations and dividends
It will be plain picking of the pockets of Washington
people if they have to bear the heavy costs involved
The Washington times., 1931-01-19
Andree;s Tragic Story
Bu Archibald Henderson, Ph.D., D.C.L, LID,
Famous Scientific Authority

Perhaps the chief lesson to be
learned from Admiral Byrd's
Antarctic expedition is the
prime virtue of adequate ad-
vance preparation. No eXpedi-
ton into the far North or the
far South was ever so complete
ly, so richly equipped, for carry
ing out all the purposes Of the
expedition. Nothing of moment
seems to have been overlooked or
omitted.
An incompatible amount OF
knowledge yet remains to be
amassed about the Antarctic;
but so far as Byrd's expedition
is concerned, it is probably true
that he accomplished all that
he expected to accomplish, and
more even than he and his COM
panions had even dared to hope.
The Real Causes
The tragedy of Andree, which
takes on something of cosmic
character, since the eyes OF the
world were focused upon the
daring hazard, is summed up IN
two phrases: Lack of knowledge,
and lack of foresight. Andree
was unaware of the fact that
from his landing place, it was
impossible for him and his com.
panions to reach Franz JOSEF
Land. since the polar currents
ran in such way as to make ar
rival at his destination lmposSl-
BILE.
Furthermore, his pride and
almost heroic obStinacy would
not permit him to acknowledge
publicly the inadequacy OF MS
balloon for the purposes of the
expedition. After the abandon,
ment of the first projected
flight, DR.. Nils Eckholm, one OF
the party, publicly announced
that. in his judgment, the bal
loon would not remain in the air
long enough to reach its destina-
ton.
A Scientists View
He held a sound view that
the balloon should be looked
upon, not only as an instrument
for penetrating the far North,
but also as the means for et-
fecting a return flight. Regard
ing Andree's equipment for re-
turning over the ice as made
The Washington times., 1931-01-19
Working Conditions at
National Museum

Editor, Times:
Just a few lines for your
column regarding working con-
ditions on the guard force at
the National Museum.
Supposed to get one day off
in seven; for years they have
worked from two weeks to
three months without time off
unless taken in annual or sick
leave.
This applies to the privates
of the guard only; the officers
of the guard have an arrange
ment among themselves to get
one day off in each week, and
they never miss getting 1T,
while the privateS are deprived
of their day on the flimslest
pretext.
During the extreme heat OF
last summer when practically
every employe was dismissed at
noon, the guards remained on
duty all day Gas the buildings
we're not closed to the public,
compelled to wear heavy winter
wool uniforms.
They are allowed five days
added to their annual leave TO
make up TO- holidays on which
they work. This is unfair as
there are four months with
Saturday half-holidayS which
they do not get unless they
are on annual leave. In other
words. if they are on leave on
a Saturday which is a half
holiday, they are allowed the
halliday added to- their annual
leave, but if they are on duty
all day on half-holidays they
are allowed nothing.
The Museum is open to the
The Washington times., 1931-01-19

quate, he declined to go on the
second flight planned by Andree.
Another reason advanced by
Eckholm, which showed his
prophetic insight, was that the
balloon would not stay up long
enough. Both fears, regarding
the collapse of the balloon and
the inadequacy of the equip
ment for effecting the return
journey, were confirmed.
Andree was a man of great
force, vigor and energy. He was
proud and deeply sensitive; and
when he was forced to abandon
his first projected flight, he was
so stung by the criticism of pub
lie and press that he resolved,
at all hazards, to make the at
tempt.
Andree Was Determined
The balloon was known to
have defects, but Andree was
defiantly determined to carry
out his original plans and re-
fused money advanced by ad-
mirerS and supporters to enable
him to prepare better balloon.
He almost seems to have pre-
ferred failure with the old bal
loon to success with a new one!
1t is an interesting fact, that,
while serving as janitor of the
Swedish section at the Centen-
NAL Exhibition of 1875 in Phila-
delphia, Andree learned the fun
damentals of the aeronaut's art
and science from an experienced
air pilot named John Wise.
The Dirigible Idea
Andree'S own balloon, which
he later acquired, was named
the SVea; and it was during eX-
periments with this balloon that
he conceived the idea of making
a polar flight. He believed it
would be possible, by the use of
sails and of guide or drag ropes,
to direct the balloon-giVing it,
in measurable degree, the
quality of a dirigible.
Thirty-three years ago, An
dree and his two companions
vanished into the great North
the unknown ra ion of mystery,
of ice and snow. Recently the
records and skeletons were dis
covered. 1t is one of the most
moving and epic stories Of Arctic
exploration.
Copyright, 1881, International Feature
Service. Inc.(
The Washington times., 1931-01-19
BELLE LIvINGsTON-HERsELF

years ago. who would have thought that this beaut
fu charming young person (see pctur) could
pursued housop housetop like Eliza crossing the
ice-and pair of red silk pajamas with Uncle Sans
human bloodhounds baying at her heels?
Miss Livingston the heroine of this moving drama, is
perfect lady She admits herself She dispenes cheer in
her salon in New York at much cheer and like Burkes
Antoine adds to the gaety of nations Yet for this
only singled out by the minions of the law and
forced e while 10000 other speakeasy propreors in
New York nglng the keys the cash register or
passing drink to the cop in the alley.
Uncle Sam should buy copies of Emily Posts valuable hand
book on social and give them to his enforcement
squad They would learn there that youse must be kind to
and not them from parapet parapet and back
again at two clock the morning Not in paama anyway
It amt etiquette.
The Washington times., 1931-01-19
The Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen Rowland

From jazz singers and all
day radio-tuners-
From popular songs with only
one rhyme and no melody
From screen plays about col
lege cuties and college cut-ups,
now preserve us! For these
have become as innocuous as
Watered-milk and as stale as
yesterdays egg-nog.
From rumble-Seat romance,
beauty contests, companionate
marriages, airplane weddings
and the glorification of flam-
ing youth
From all rackets, big and lit
tie, and from all racketeers,
professional and amateur
From get-rich-quick promoters
and "easy-money" takers
From Paris Style-deSlgnerS,
who seek to pass off on us
new styles" that were passee
when we were born
From long hair, bare-leg fash
ions, nude stockings, spiked
heels, backleSS gowns, long eve
ming gloves and all the instru-
ments of torture, wherewith we
have afflicted ourselveS-Good
Lord deliver us!
For, verify, verify, We that
were foolish are now wise to
ourselves: and we that made
Big WHOOPEE have paid the
SaXophone-player. Let us cast
aside our follies, forget our
HEADACHE, and rejoice that
We are once more sane, if a
little Sadder! -SELAH.
Copyright, 1881 King Features
syndicate, lnc)
The Washington times., 1931-01-19
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

those numbered women never
knew.
Would they have become
numbered women if they had
known a place like that?
Would they have WalloWed in
ugliness if they had walked in
beauty?
So over in San Quentin to-
day the women are sitting
around in the afternoon, as
women will, embroidering cur
tains for their sad, unknown
sisters who have followed the
same grim trail. Pale faces,
pale hands, fading eyes, bend
ing over bird flight and rose
wreath and cluster of gentle
lilies
Perhaps in those bending
faces you would see only muir
deress and forger, thief and
drug addict, vagabond and
poor, drab skulker OF the
Streets
But if you could know them
as I know them, behind the
prison pallor of that pltltul
barred flesh, you would see
something else
You would see the House
Beautiful
In each poor, shamed body,
q House Beautiful
Some Hidden Hope
Some secret place that even
murder could not mar-Some
hidden hope that no robbery
could defile-
Bird flight, rose wreath and
lilv cluster, standing sweet,
serene, within the bloody rim
of some black dream.
More than a cottage, that
old farm house in the new
women's prison. A secret cream
built plain in wood and stone
that secret dream each
numbered woman holds In her
own heart. a..
Sob stuff? Perhaps. Better,
perhaps, to crush that secret
dream. Better to treat a muir
deress as though she were all
bloody hands
Yet, seeing Clara Philips sit
ting there-stitching rose gar
lands with a killers tortured
hands, wonder. To klll-as
they killed? Coop them in
ugIiness poison them with
hate
Or let them make and see
the beauty that is in their
hearts?
Copyright. 1891, King Features
Syndicate 1BO.)
The Washington times., 1931-01-19

public every day in the year
except Christmas and New Year
day.
BIames Minor Officials
These conditions must be
blamed on minor officials who
get what they want. care moth
ing for the rank and file, and
take advantage of little au-
thority to bully better men
than they are.
The real heads of the de-
partment know nothing about
the conditions or they prob
ably would be changed.
The guards have no one to
speak for them, and for them
to protest would only provide
The Washington times., 1931-01-19

A murdereSS.
Two words. I can see what
those two words do to you. I
can feel the Shudder that goes
through you. The sick horror
of that frantic, brutal mind. =.
A murderess.
You'd hate to meet one,
wouldn't you? You'd shrink
away from her, and feel that
no punishment was too bad for
a woman who could hammer
another woman to death
who could stab, shoot, poison
living flesh into fragments.
That's how you feel about
murdereSSeS. I know. I felt
that way about them once. 1
don't now. For now I know
many murderesses. And a muir
deresS is a surprising thing.
You wouldn't, for instance,
suspect that a murderess likes
to embroider curtains? Pale
coral roses on rough green
linen. Gentle white lilies on
soft blue scarves? They do!
They're doing it over in San
Quentin now sitting
around quietly of an afternoon
as women will-chatting, hum
ming, exchanging silk and
stitches-working on the hang
ing for the new House Beau
tiful.
A Strange House
The House Beautiful-a
strang thing to be built in a
prison! Yet that's where it's
being built-in the new wo-
mems prison of the Tehachepi
Mountains of California. A
women'S prison where thou
sands of acres of sunny
meadow and wind-swept ridge
will be opened for the healing
of sick souls where
hands that have touched only
filth and cruelty can clean
themselves with the planting
of flowers, the sowing of fruits,
the mothering of tiny chicks
and calves and rabbits. And in
the midst of all, the House
Beautiful
A little old farm house which
was once home-now a gen.
tie, peaceful haven for those
who have never known a home.
A little house, without bars
without hate-w ere there's
free peace and cheer and
bright new hope, waiting for
any one who enters it's kindly
door. The sort Ct q place
The Washington times., 1931-01-19
TIMES TEST

Do you know:
l. Who is the author Of
'Bleak House?
2. Who is the heroine OF
Thackeray's Henry Esmond"?
3. What name is now used
for Queenstown, Ireland?
4. Who said, Where ignor-
ance is bliss, it's folly to be
wise?
S. What is the meaning of
the term, lex libris"?
Fill each blank:
6. Larceny is a term used
7. A gnome is a kind of -
8. A Dutchman prominent in
colonial history was --
9. An invention that had Spe-
cial relation to the Civil War
was the -
10. An English translation Of
the Bible was made during the
reign of King --
Match correctly:
II. farthest
concord
IL. fleeting
verify
13. harmony
extreme
IA. Substantiate
cool
IS. poised
brief
tAnswers on Magazine Page.l.
The Washington times., 1931-01-19
Drunkenness In WASHINGTON

Texas statesman told the Maryland W. G. u that he has
not drunken the streets of Washington in
month Maryland Senator recently produced figures show
ing that of drunken boys this city have increased i'm
mensely under prohibition rule.
One strives prove prohibition benefacor of mankind
the other furnishes figures showing that its evils have extended
far into the ranks of youth.
One gives his opinion the other gives figures that
deniable.
There spots in this nation where prohibition may be
full but this city of them It's evils here appalling
cities.
The Washington times., 1931-01-19
ONCE-OVERS
On Grievance Nursers

On Grievance NuIS0lS
So you nurse grievances, do
you?
Proud of the fact that you
never forget or forgive an in
jury.
You still carry in your mind
many memories of things that
angered you and all these years
you have retained ill-feeling for
those responsible.
What have you gained by
keeping these unple S a n I
thoughts?
They must have ruined your
state of mind many a time.
Much unhappiness may be
traced to thinking about sore
spots of the past.
Tragic experiences when they
happened, perhaps, but not
vital.
You seem to have treasured
the unpleasant phases of GER
tain periods of your life and
ever so often revive the hap
penings in detail.
What do you get out of it?
Is it merely a good story to
you now or are you bitterly
conscious of the unhappy
things that robbed you of much
joy that might have been
yours?
If keeping disturbing things
in mind helps you to avoid
foolish experiences in the pres
ent you may think of this
reason as an excuse.
But thinking of old grieV-
ances harms you and you alone
more than it can help you.
There is enough to think
about to keep your affairs in
good running order at present.
The Washington times., 1931-01-19

shifting around, transfers and
undesirable assignments.
The National Museum is
also the only department that
forces it's guards to do duty
outside without protection from
the weather, no matter how
bitter it may be.
In practically every industry
employees are allowed one day
of rest in seven.
How can a man be at his
best, how can he maintain the
high efficiency rating de-
manded, if he must work prac-
tically seven days a week, and
receive no consideration in any
thing?
The above conditions and
The Washington times., 1931-01-19

Mrs. Solomon Says
A Litany of this Year Of
Grace, Nineteen-thirty-one.
From all pessimists, alarm
lists, and those who desire to
hang crepe upon our rosy hopes,
Good Lord deliver us!
From all Pollyannas, who
would jolly us with false proph-
ecies and empty promises, say
ing TOMORROW is the mil
lennium, when stocks will come
back styles will be more be-
coming and something will be
done about Prohibition" oh.
rescue u.s.! For they are as in
: fants that chatter of Santa
Claus.
From the II told-you-so's" of
all those who did not hang up
their ermine coats in Wall
Street, and can still meet their
payments on the radio, OH.
spare us! For they give us a
headache.
From all those who continue
to put on dog; from the ritZy
and the parvenu; from high
hatterS and playboy spenders:
year, from the vulgar necessity
for keeping up with the Joneses,
deliver us! For, we are DONE
with it!
From borrowers and grafterS,
and those who know twenty
ways of making a million, yet
cannot pay the dinner-check,
excuse us. For the world is
full of ANDY Browns"
From all those who tempt us
with poison-potions in colored
glasses, saying Just ONE won't
hurt you-for it is pre-war-"
The Washington times., 1931-01-19
Benefits" of Revival
Of Beer Drinking

Of Beer Drinking
Editor, Times:
I have just finished reading
an article on how many more
persons would be employed and
how things would boom If real
beer were to come back.
The author missed a lot OF
other things that would boom.
There would be a big increase
in drunken drivers, smash-ups,
sale of automobiles, new and
secondhand; increased work
for doctors and surgeons, in
crease in lawyers and lawsuits,
Judges and magistrates, drunken
loafers, misery of poor families;
increase in sale of hardwood
for bars and mirrors for back
of bars, for brass for foot-ralls,
sales of crackers, pretzels and
cheese; in voice culture, for
everyone would want to sing
Sweet Adaline," and a big in
crease in dead beats.
By all means, listen to the
articles author and give us
back real beer and the corner
saloon with all its viciousness'
JOHN A. WILHELM.
Williamsport, Pa.
The Washington times., 1931-01-19

Mexico now has a ilitary
force of, 1884 men. There are
382 generals, 1894 command
ing officers, and 6,462 lesser Of
ficers, in charge o. the army.
An inventor in Florida has
developed weatherproof statu-
ary, furniture for outdoor use
and other articles. by grinding
palmetto roots with a special
cement.
The Washington times., 1931-01-19
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Student amateur astronomers
of Carnegie Institute use a tele-
scope made from plumbers sup
plies. 1t has a 10-inch lens
and magnifieS 400 times.
A new type of bomb for air
planes, invented by an explo-
Sive expert of the Cuban army,
uses novel explosive COM
pound made up Of chlorate of
potash and suGZ.
The Washington times., 1931-01-19
Hearst Papers Advocate

Honest friendship nations entangItng alliances
tDith none."-George Washington
Proportional representation the United States Senate
State than Senator's Legislation to enforce
prompt constitutional reapporonment in the House OF
Representatives.
Separate departments the of the NGUy and OF the
Air oil united under Secretary OF National Defense
Federal action to the limit of Federal poUerS abolish
ilIerGcy under Secretary of Education.
Installation of the first of January toloD
ING the NoUember election.
SeLecve immigration to admit only those suited for Annert
citizenship and American needs
z Deportation of and extension OF citizen
ship period to 10 gears.
g. Complete publicity for to prevent big tar
dodgers from escaping taxation.
g. Modification of permit light Wines and
beers under Federal regulation