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The Washington times., 1931-05-04
Palmer
Is Engaged
To Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. Leigh Carlyle
Palmer, of New York, formerly
of Washington, have announced
the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Miss Laura Creighton Pal
mer, to George Purnell Mac
Gregor, of New York.
The Palmers are well known
in the Capital, where they lived
for many years. Mrs. Palmer'S
daughter, Mrs. Howard N.
Tucker, jr.. formerly Miss Bessie
McKeldin, still lives here, where
she was presented to society by
her mother before her marriage
to Mr.. Tucker, some five or
six years ago.
Held High Rank
Mr.. Palmer, during the World
War, was chief of the Bureau
of Navigation, having the rank
of admiral, and also served as
president of the United States
Fleet Corporation. Miss Palmer
attended the Brearley School
and was graduated from Spence
School a year ago.
Mr.. MacGregor is the son Of
Mr.. Charles Stephen Mac
Gregor, of New York and Nor
ristown, N. j. He attended the
Choate School,
Wedding Plans Made
The engagement was an
nounced informally on Satur-
day at a tea which Mr.. and
Mrs. Palmer gave at their Park
Avenue home. The marriage
will take place in the late
spring.
Col. Clarence M. Young went
to New York yesterday from
Washington and is the guest Of
Vincent Bendix at the Hotel
Pierre.
The Washington times., 1931-05-04
Go To Hot Springs

The Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury and Mrs. Arthur
Ballentine have taken a cottage
OF Hot Springs for several
months.
The Washington times., 1931-05-04

NEW YORK, May 4.-Once
the joke was all about the golf
widow, alone in her ruffles
and lace. Now there are golf
widowers, too. (Some Of 'em
widowers by choice, because
they don't like to be beaten by
their wiveS)
The lady who used to stay
home in ruffles and lace now
whacks out a good $50 yards
in comfortable, practical
tweed. or jersey or any other
of the fashionable golf cos
TUNES. And right now she's
getting golf excited again.
OF course clothes don't really
make the golfer. But the right
clothes certainly do help the
golf morale. knowledge that
she's wearing the wrong clothes
most surely presents one of
those mental hazards that are
fine alibis but good for nothing
on the score card.
Comfort and Simplicity
Right golf clothes are first Of
all comfortable clothes. And
The Washington times., 1931-05-04
Workers
Are Guests
At Dinner

Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Leighty
entertained company at din
ner at the Shoreham Hotel on
Saturday evening in compli-
ment to Col. and Mrs. Frank E.
Hopkins of New York, who are
now the house guests of their
daughter and Son-in-law. Major
and Mrs. James B. Mann, at
their home in Chevy Chase.
The guests included Gen. and
Mrs. Samuel T. AnSell. Judge
and Mrs. Rush LaMotte Hol-
land, Mr.. and Mrs. L. M. Jack
man, of GAINESVILLE, Wis; Major
and Mrs. Mann, Mr.. and Mrs.
William G. Wheeler and Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Williamson.
Will Close Town House
The Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court and Mrs. Owen
j. Roberts will close their at
tractive home in Georgetown at
Thirty-first and o Streets the
first of June and go to their
800-acre farm in Chester coun-
ty, Pa, where they conduct an
extensive stock and poultry
farm, famous not only for it's
live stock but for its fine flower
and truck gardens. Justice Rob-
ertS is a connoiSSeur Of chrySan-
themumS, dahlias and ferns.
His gardens bear his name 20.
j. Roberts, owner and cultiva-
tor" whereas many estates in
Chester county make exhibits
under the name of their garden
ers.
The Washington times., 1931-05-04
Receive
Colonial
Danes

Mrs. Charles Francis Adams,
wife of the Secretary of the
Navy, will entertain at recep-
ton at her home on Wedncs-
day in honor of the Colonial
Danes of America.
She will have assisting her
in receiving the guests Mrs.
Henry L. Stimson, wife of the
Secretary of State; Mrs. Charles
Evans Hughes, wife of the
Chief Justice of the United
States; Mrs. William Dewitt
Mitchell, wife of the Attorney
General; Mrs. Patrick j. Hur-
ley. wife of the Secretary of
War, and Mrs. Robert Patter-
son Lamont, wife of the Secre-
tary of Commerce. Pouring at
the tea table will be Mrs. Will
liam R. Castle, Mrs. Mark Bris-
tol and Mrs. William V. Pratt.
X y X
Envoy Lands Today
The United States ambassa-
dor to Chile, William S. Cul-
bertson, will arrive in New
York today on the Santa Clara.
Also arriving on the Grace
liner today will be Edward F.
Feely, the United States minis
ter to Bolivia.
Visit the Metropolis
William Phillips, former
United States Minister to Can
ada, and Mrs. Phillips are ex-
pected at the Savoy-PlaZa in
New York today from Wash
ington.
Lindley M. Garrison, the
former Secretary of War, who
has been at the Berkshire in
New York for the winter, will
go on Friday to Sea Bright, N.
j., to remain through the sum-
mer.
X \
Entertain Concert Singer
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Lee
Boatwright, jr.. will have Ar
thur Kraft, well-known New
York concert singer, as an over
night guest on Thursday at
their apartment in the West
chester. Mr.. Kraft is en- route
South.
Visit Parents in City
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Blake
Dewey, jr., of Chicago. and
Charles S. Dewey, of Chicago,
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Blake Dewey, sr., at the May
flower.
The Washington times., 1931-05-04
Betty w est
To Return
Home

Miss Betty West, daughter Of
Mrs. Millard F. West, will re-
turn tomorrow from Middle
burg. where she has been the
guest of Miss Dorothy Ran
dolph, who entertained a house
party over the week end for
the Virginia gold cup race.
X X
Mrs. Adolph D. Williams and
Mrs. I. Newton Vaughan are
at the St. Regis Hotel
The Washington times., 1931-05-04
JahnCkeS to
Sail For
France

The Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, was
Joined by Mrs. Jahncke and
their debutante daughter, Miss
Adele Townsend Jahncke, at his
apartment at the Mayflower for
the weekend, Mrs. Jahncke and
Miss Adele having come from
their home in New Orleans
where they spent the past sew
eral months.
Mrs. Jahncke and Miss
Jahncke left today for New York
where they will be a few days
before sailing for Europe where
they will visit for q month In
France with friends.
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white VioIets and the NtGIe
mountain Johnny-jump-up.
The general committee ar
ranging the pilgrimage is
headed by Mrs. Richard Fay
Jackson, chairman; Mrs. Whit
man Cross, Mrs. George T.
Dunlop, Mrs. r. M. Kaufman.
Mrs. G. P. McCabe, Mrs. Alfred
Fowler, Mrs. Hugh Southgate,
Mrs. Minor Jameson, Mrs.
Clarence Aspinwall. Mrs. Boyd
Carpenter, Mrs. Charles Nc
Roberts, Mrs. Frank Hood
Shultz and Mrs. Arthur Sturgis.
The Washington times., 1931-05-04
Visitors From Brussels

Mr.. and Mrs. Georges Theu-
mis-, of Brussels, are guests at
the Mayflower. while the former
is in Washington attending the
sessions of the International
Chamber of Commerce of which
he is president.
Baron E. Van Der Elst, of
Brussels, is also with the Bel
gian delegation at the May
flower.
The Washington times., 1931-05-04
Apple Fiesta
Lures d. G.
Society .
.WaShingtonians Will Go by
Bus to Winchester; Mrs.
Harry Flood Byrd to En-
tertain the Visitors

All CGICUEdIIOl "a GA16 OAlCA1oA-
doah Apple Blossom Festival,
which will be staged in Win
chester tomorrow and Wednes-
day, many private parties are
being given in the historic
town, among those entertain
ing on Wednesday, the big day
of the festival, being Mrs.
Harry Flood Byrd, wife Of the
former Governor of Virginia,
and Mrs. Thomas w. Harrison,
wife of the former Representa-.
tive from Virginia.
The bus trip to Winchester
on Wednesday, which is being
given under the auspices of the
Washington alumnae group of
Sweet Briar College, will also
carry many WaShingtonians to
the festival.
Heads The Committee
Miss Elizabeth Saunders, who
heads the committee on ar
rangements for the trip, an
nounceS that reservations must
be made by tomorrow, as only
a limited number of guests can
be accom- ID at d at Green
Gables, the old Hunter home in
Winchester which will be the
destination of the party.
There luncheon will be served
and the yard and porches Of
the old house will afford splen-
did points Of vantage from
which to view the parade.
Other PatrOneSSeS Named
Additional patronesses an
nounced for the trip include
Mrs. j. Fred Essary. whose
daughter, Miss Annabelle ES-
sary, is a student at the Vir-
ginia college; Mrs. Blair Banis-
ter, Mrs. Thomas R. Keith and
the Misses Moore, Of Fairfax,
sisters of former Representa-
tive Walton Moore; Mrs. Her
bert Boatwright, jr., daughter
of Governor John Garland Pol
lard, of Virginia: Mrs. Theo-
dore N. Gill, Mrs Bernard
Wyckoff, Mrs. Henry Shepherd
and Mrs. Monroe Warren.
Major Forward HOnOred
Miss Virginia Forward enter
tanned a company at dinner at
the Congressional Club on Sat
urday evening in honor of her
father, Major Alexander For
ward, director general Of the
American Gas Association, who
will shortly sail for Europe to
attend the international gas
conference in Breslau, Ger
many, this month.
The guests included DR.. and
Mrs. Paris Brengle, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Smith. Mrs. Alex
ander Forward, the mother of
Miss Forward; Miss Elizabeth
Langenbeck, Edward Bates and
Cyril Smith.
Attends Trade Farley
Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis,
of Chicago, is a guest at the
Mayflowe", while in Washing
ton for the meetings of the In
ternational Chamber Of Com.
merce.
Mrs. Jacob Baur. of Chicago,
Republican national committee
woman of Illinois, is also here
The Washington times., 1931-05-04
S AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Mary Stark
Becomes
Bride
Daughter Of Aide to SeCre-
tary Of the Navy Weds
Edwin Walker Semans at
WiIkeSbarre, Pa.

A Navy bride was Miss Mary
Stark, daughter of Capt. Harold
Raynesford Stark, U. s. N,
aide to the Secretary of the
Navy, Charles Francis Adams,
and Mrs. Stark, whose marriage
to Edwin Walker Semans, of
Philadelphia. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Breckenridge
Semans, of Uniontown, Pa,
took place at Wilkes-Barre on
Saturday evening.
The ceremony was performed
at st. Stephens Episcopal
Church and a reception fol-
lowed at the Westmoreland
Country Club. The Starks, who
now make their home at the
Wardman Park Hotel here. for
merly were of Wilkes-Barre.
Sister Attends Bride
The brides sister, Miss
Katharine Stark, was maid Of
honor, and Mrs. William S.
MacLean Sd matron of honor.
Other attendants we're Mrs. E.
B. Mulligan, jr., Mrs. William
Morse and the Misses Betty
Lloyd, katherine Roderick,
Dorothy Tonkin and Eloise Fer
guSon. Mr.. william s. Mac
Lean Sd was best man.
UsherS we're: E. C. Shipley
Highley, Robert SemanS, James
Semans. E. B. Mulligan, jr.,
Edward Roderick, William
Donahue, George Buckley, Will
liam Young and Paul Craw-
ford.
Went to School Here
The bride is a member of
one of the old Wyoming Valley
families. She attended Ma
tional Cathedral School in
Washington and is active in
social circles here.
Mr.. Semans was graduated
from Princeton University and
is practicing law in Phila-
delphia.
Captain Stark returned to
Washington last evening from
WilkeS-Barre and Mrs. Stark
and Miss Katherine Stark are
expected back the end of this
week.
Ambassador Due Here
The United States Ambas.
sador to Germany and Mrs.
Frederick M. Sackett, who are
at the St. Regis, New York.
will arrive this evening in
Washington.
Mr.. Morrow Goes Fishing
Former Governor Edwin P.
Morrow of Kentucky, now
member of the United States
Railway Mediation Board here,
has left Washington for a sal
mon fishing trip on the South
West Miramichi River, N. B.
He expects to be absent from
Washington for about two
weeks.
\
Mrs. Harlan Miller, of Paris,
is a guest at the Mayflower
with her daughter, Miss Bar
bara Bingham, who accom-
panied her to Washington to-
day from Foxcroft School, where
Mrs, Miller spent the weekend.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-06-01
MIRIAM CORY JACKSON

Mrs. Miriam Cory Jackson, wife OF
Frederick M. Jackson, died at her resi-
dence in Birmingham, Alabama, May 6.
The temperance cause and the Alabama
w. G. T. u. in particular has sustained
great loss in her death. She had been ac-
tive in the w. c. T. U. for nearly twenty
five years, having joined that organiza-
ton in 1907 during the first prohibition
campaign in Jefferson county. Her inter-
est in temperance dated back to a meet
ing of Good Templars or Sons of Temper
anee, one of the earlier temperance or
CARNATIONS, where her father, Thomas D.
Cory took her as a child In addition to
her work in the prohibition cause she was
vitality interested in the Alabama Boys
Industrial School.
In her temperance work Mrs. Jackson
specialized in sponsoring lunchroom
conducted under the auspices of the Gen.
trail Union. A total Of $500 recently was
placed in the treasury of the W. G. It. u.
from the income of the lunch room Plans
will be made at the convention in Selma
in the fall to increase this amount of $10,-
COO the fund to be known as the Miriam
jackson Organizing Fund"
In her temperance work Mrs. jackson
had the full sympathy and cooperation of
her husband, Hon. F. NJ. Jackson, who is
a member of the headquarters committee
of the Anti-Saloon League of Alabama.
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spent for whisky doesn't benefit the dairy
man.
Granting that moral and economic
conditions are far from ideal under ex-
listing laws and regulations, the fact re-
mains that they are UNNECESSARILY better
in your town and my town. We have some
bootlegging- use to deny that-but no
more than, if indeed as much as, we had
when the saloons were in full blast WITH
their attendant wine rooms and gambling
joints Pocket TASKS? Some, maybe. But,
believe me, if 1 must choose between an
occasional daredevil sip from flask in at
least comparatively decent associations
and the wine rooms as we had them here,
without hesitation I'd choose the former.
I'm my occasional trips from place to
place don't find whole lot OF COM
plant about conditions under prohibition.
Most persons 1 meet seem to be fairly
we'll satisfied Nobody with any Judgment
believed for moment that everybody was
going to reform overnight just because
new laws were enacted. Remember, this
drinking business has been going on for
long time. Even old Noah, saint that
he was, got three sheets in the wind and
kicked off some essential coverings of his
anatomy. Of course not everything is
going to be Sunday school picnic all at
once.
But here, Friend Muth, is the funny
thing! On my rambles talk with persons
in hotel Hobbies and on trains and buSSeS
and-believe it or mott have not yet en-
countered one person who wanted to see
the prohibition laws amended or repealed
that did not have to admit, when pinned
right down, that he was not or had not
been a total abstainer or that he eX-
pected to derive some direct benefit from
the reinstatement of the liquor traffic.
Business conditions are bad-there's
no denying that. Doctor or no doctor,
they'll be better some time. But never
by dividing honey money with booze
mongers.'
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NEBRASKA DRYs ADVANCE

The recent adjournment of the Nebras-
ka legislature found that states bone-dry
legislation still intact with several
strengthening measurer added to make
liquor law violation even less profitable in
Nebraska. Among the wet measures de-
feated were: a proposed amendment to
the state constitution repeating the pres
ent state prohibition laws, a proposal per-
mitting the use of liquor in certain foods
and bill to permit the manufacture OF
near beer by a Decentralization process.
Penalties for second and third offences in
regard to the prohibition law were in-
creased.
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The four nations listed are greatest
from the manufacturing standpoint.
AS consumption of alcohol increases per
capita, in the big industrial nations OF
the world, working mems wages go down,
hours of labor increase, more women are
forced to work, and there is less wealth
produced per capita.
The difference in wages in favor of the
working people of the United States is
greater under prohibition than it was in
1912.
BOOZE MONEY AND HONEY MONEY
The BeekeeperS' Item for March, 1881,
carries a signed article by Clifford F.
Muth which shows how far afield some of
the vets are going in their endorsement
of the modification plan urged by the
Federation of Labor. Mr.. Muth declares
that the brewers of the United States
employed in the neighborhood of 100000
men, that there are now 100000 idle
men and he concludes:
80 in figures the breweries only repre-
sent about 10 per cent of the unemployed.
But the people employed in the breweries
kept many other industries in profitable
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production For example: the glass man
ufacturerS, and manufacturers of boxes,
labels, caps, malt, sugar and many other
industries too numerous too mention in
Guiding the electricians, carpenters and
SO on It is carefully estimated that the
industry gave employment to no less than
100000 people throughout the allied
trade. This is a figure"
Tt certainly is figure; figure of
speech known as hyperbole.
E. w. Pierce, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio also in
the home industry, addressed a letter to
the BeekeepcrS' Item in reply to these
ridiculous statements of Mr.. Muth. We
quote from his letter some facts which he
emphasizes which are worthy careful con-
sideration by any who are inclined to be-
lieve that opening the breweries will solve
the unemployment problem. Mr.. Pierce
says:
"If someone were to show you kind
of slot machine into which you could slip
dime, turn crank and get penny out,
and try to get you to give it whirl you
would at once pronounce him fool. Yet
that is exactly what the liquor traffic was
doing for the country when the breweries,
distillerieS, saloons and blind tigers were
in full swing. For every dollar they took
out Of the community they paid back
paltry dime; and we had to turn around
and spend that-and more-in the at
tempt to undo the mischief they wrought.
when a man buys drink in saloon
or light beer and wine joint he gets his
drink. That's all If he drinks enough, and
the stuff is strong enough he may i'm
bibe little general hades and take some
of that home to his family and maybe
commit a pretty murder.
"The dollar expended for drink cannot
possibly buy anything else tangible at the
same time. It's gone, and the buyer has
nothing good to show for it.
con the other hand, when Smith stops
in Browns grocery and buys a jar of
Muth's honey, he gets value received in
tangible merchandise. His family gets
treat and Brown gets profit Brown
buys more honey from his wholesaler,
who, in turn. finds it necessary to give his
broker another order. The broker gets his
commission from Muth, who continues to
operate his bottling plant. The bees buzz
and the glass plant huns. And so, all the
way around the circle. The community at
large is benefited, everybody happy, and
there are no broken heads or hearts.
''The money that buys beer can't buy
honey at the same time, and the dollar
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WICKERSHAM SAYS EN-
FORCEMENT IMPROVING

Chairman Wickersham, of President
Hoover's law enforcement commission, ex-
presses the conviction that law enforce
ment is improving, and that hopes of pro-
hibition lies in the fundamental decency
of the great mass Of citizens" He added
that New York and Chicago are showing
us our faults
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The difference between the combined
amount that goes to labor and the far
mer or miner, goes for salaries, profit,
rent, interest, taxes, etc.
Is it any wonder, then that when mon
ey is spent for liquor the workingman
and farmer must suffer?
CAPITAL REQUIRED TO KEEP ONE PERSON En-
PLoYED IN THE FOLLOWING INDUSTRIES:
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BY WHAT MAGIC GAMBRINUS?

The Contention the Vets That the Ropeng
Put Hundreds of Thousands
the Light of Past Experience Official Records
Falay of Their Argument; Here Figures
Which Show Up the Brewers Employers
pared With Legitimate Industry
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other industries thereby aiding labor, we
submit the following table, found on page
25, Bulletin No. 81, Census of Manufac-
turers. These are before the war figures
applying to period when brewerieS and
distilleries were running full blast. These
figures show that money spent in support
of the liquor traffic is money wasted and
money wasted is what brings ruin to the
working classes.
Of hundred dollars spent for food,
clothing, iron, steel, lumber furniture and
liquor at manufacturers prices the follow
ing amount goes back to labor and for
material used:
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Tt is altogether likely that these wet
congressman put the figures high enough,
for of course, they were trying to show
that prohibition would throw hundreds
of thousands of men out of employment.
If we accept their figures as correct, what
do they indicate in the light of their ap-
peal for modification?
1t is emphatically emphasized by the
sponsors of this modification plan that
there is to be a great restriction in man
ufacture and sale according to their pro-
gram. For instance, there is to be no sa-
loon. Therefore it will be necessary in eS-
timating the number of idle men who will
be put to work if we use the 1914 figures
as basis, to eliminate at once 409,i65 OF
the almost half million employees OF
1914. OF course, there are to be no dis
tilleries and that will lop off another 7,217.
Thus, according to these figures of 1914,
less than 100000 men would find employ
ment in the breweries and allied indus
tries if the federation'S moderation pro-
gram is carried out, unless it is anticipated
that there will be a vast increase in the
production and consumption of beer over
that of the peak year of 1914.
HOW MUCH BREWERY MONEY GOES
TO LABOR
AS to the argument that the manufac-
ture and distribution of beer land it Is
not explained how this beer is to be dis
tributed) viii greatly increase activities in
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It would take SIT 900 of capital to keep
one hundred boot and shoe makers at
work. II that amount OF capital l0Gs
turned into manufacture OF liquor, it
lDould giOe employment to only eight per-
sons, throwing out of a0orE ninety-ta0
persons. II the capital required to keep
one hundred persons at l0ork IN the iron
and steel business aOdS turned into the
manufacture OF liquor, it aoouId giUe en-
pIoyBlent to only tt0enty-jour persons,
throwing SeOenty-SiT persons out OF lOork.
Furthermore it cuts both ways, for
money spent for liquor greatly reduces
the purchasing power of the drinker The
wage Garner cannot spend lavishly for
liquors without curtailing his purchases
of necessities. Therefore the liquor traffic
means less work for clothing, shoe and
furniture workers. Tt means less work for
producers and distributors of food sup
plies. It means less work for miners. It
means less work for people who build
houses and make and sell the material
for them. It means less work for railroad
people who transport material and sup
plies of every kind.
WEEKLY WAGES-A COMPARISON
The weekly wages here listed were COM
piled from reports of an inquiry by the
British board of trade in 1911. The fig
ures of the consumption of pure alcohol
for the United Kingdom, Germany and
France, were taken from the Brewers
Almanac for 1910. The amount for the
United States was not given. The Daily
Ne,Ds Almanac for 1921 gave the follow
ing figures for consumption of liquors in
the United States for 1910: Gallons per
capita, wines 65, malt liquors 1879, dis
titled spirits 1.43 Allowing so per cent
pure alcohol for distilled spirits, Is per
cent for wine and per cent for malt liq-
uor. it gives per capita consumption of
pure alcohol of 2.77 gallons in the United
States
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Boots and shoes ................ 5 ITO
Clothing NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. lob
Furniture NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $50
Brick and tile ................... 1,720
Printing and publishing ......... 1876
Strengthening and meat packing =. 1,481
Iron and steel ................... 1900
Liquor Observation-Disclosures. 1887