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Mr.. and Mrs. Akerson
Honored at Reception

The retiring secretary to the Presi-
dent and Mrs. George Akerson were
guests of honor at q farewell reception
and ball given by the Minnesota State
Society on Saturday evening, January
81, at the Willard Hotel.
Preceding the reception Miss Eva
Whitford Lovette, meZzo-soprano, &C
companied by Miss Elsie Cranmer, sang
a group of songs, and Miss Ida v,
Lovette gave several selections on a
piano accordion. Mrs. Hawley Locker
Of the Fox Theater told of her wofA
with reference to children's programs.
Following the short program, Miss Bede
Johnson president of the society, intro
duced Mr.. Akerson, who gave q resume
of his work as a newspaper correspond
ent in Minnesota and Washington and
later as secretary to the President.
Among those present were Mrs. Henrik
ShipStead, wife of Senator Shipstead |;
Representative and Mrs. Frank Clague,
Representative and Mrs. August Andre
sen, Representative and Mrs. William
Pittinger. Representative Melvin j..
Mas, Representative and Mrs. Paul
Conrad Selvig, Representative Victor
Christgau, Secretary to the President
and Mrs. Walter H. Newton, Federal
Trade Commissioner and Mrs. Charles
Hoyt March, Assistant Attorney General
and Mrs. G. Aaron Youngquist and
Miss Agnes Peterson, assistant in charge
of the Women's Bureau. Out-of-town
guests from Minnesota included Mr..
A. o. Moreau, member Of the Great
Lakes-St. Lawrence Deep Waterways
Commission: Mrs. A. G. Carlson, second
vice president of the National Legion
Auxiliary: Mrs. F. G. Barnes, president
of the Minnesota Legion Auxiliary, and
Mr.. Edward Lindel, state adjutant,
American Legion.
Arrangements are being made for the
reception in honor of the Minnesota
delegation in Congress, to be held Feb
ruary 81.
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Idaho State Banquet
ARRANGEMENTS Complete

With the selection of Mr.. Albert H.
Conner, special assistant to the At
torney General, for POSTMASTER, plans
for the Seventh Annual Banquet of
the Iowa State Society, at the Raleigh
Hotel, February IA, are virtually COM
plete.
OF no less significance, however, ac-
cording to the committee. is the consent
of Senator William e. Borah, Senator
John Thomas, Representative Burton L.
French and Representative Addison T.
Smith, each to make few brief and
informal remarks BETTING the back
home" celebration which the banquet
promises to be.
1t is q varied and we'll rounded
schedule of entertainment which the
General Committee, under the leader
ship of DR.. w. N. Johannessen, has
prepared with an eye to sustained
There will be community singing of
University of Idaho songs, under a
leader yet to be chosen, dancing and
card playing.
Earl Sande, Americas premier
jockey, Is making a special trip to
Washington from New York to appear
upon the program in an abbreviated
song recital. He is native 1oanoan,
and has been studying voice in Wash
ington under Miss Estelle Wentworth
who will accompany him at the piano.
Likewise Mrs. D. w. Davis, wife of
Idaho's war governor another
talented member of the local Idaho
Society, will be heard in a group Of
three songs.
Several crates of the famous Idaho
giant potatoes are expected to arrive in
Washington shortly for use at the
banquet. These and consignments Of
Idaho food products are offered for
use at the banquet table by commercial
associations in the Ashton Valley.
Scores of Idahoans, holding important
Government positions, in addition TO
Idaho's delegation in the Senate and
House of Representatives, have indi-
Gated their intention to attend the
banquet.
The General Committee in charge Of
all arrangements is headed by DR.. w.
N. Johannessen, the general chairman,
with Mrs. c. c. Moore, president Of the
society, and Past Presidents Mr..
Charles B. Jennings, Mr.. Walter s..
Smith, Mr.. Ezra p Monson, IT,, and
Mr.. G. Osmond Hyde.
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Areme Chapter to Hold
Dance and Card Party

Areme Chapter, No. 10, will hold its
annual dance and card party at the
Shoreham Hotel tomorrow, with cards
at $3.50 and dancing at ESQ o'clock.
Mrs. Anna Nalley is general chairman
and Mrs Anna SmitSkamp, vice chair
man.
Committees are: Reception, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward 8. Brashears; courtesy,
Mrs. Eelma Klein, worthy matron; Mr..
Richard Glib, worthy patron; prizes,
Mrs. z. s. Brashears and Mrs. Grace
Barr; cards, Mrs. Anna Smitskamp and
Miss Mary Jane Langley; publicity, Mrs.
Selma M. Foster; door, Mr.. william
Murray, Mr.. Maynard Twitchell, Mr..
william Nalley and Mr.. Matthew z.
O'Brien.
Members of the fraternity and their
friends are invited.
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Tea to Be Held Today
By Vivisection League

Mrs. Charles Edward Russell and Mrs
John Mock will pour at the tea being
given this afternoon by Miss Mabel
Orgelman at the headquarters of the
Vivisection Investigation League in
Stoneleigh Court.
Mr.. Thomas w. Pond of Baltimore,
president Of the Animal Protective Blu
reau of Maryland, will speak, and prizes
will be awarded the winners in the
essay contest for District high school
children conducted by the league. Mr..
George Arliss has sent the prizes from
his studio in California. Miss Orgel-
man is legislative secretary Of the
league.
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Short Story Writer
To Be Honored at Tea

Inez Haynes Irwin will be guest of
honor at q tea given by the National
Woman's party at their headquarters,
Alva Belmont House, Sunday afternoon,
February 9, from 4 to 8. Mrs Irwin is
member of the National Council of
the Woman's party, and author of 1.-THE
Story Of the Womans Party" as well
as many novels, including Gertrude
Haviland's Divorce" and Angel Island"
She is winner of the O. Henry
Memorial Prize for the best short story
of the year.
Mrs. Irwin. whose no less distin-
guished husband is Will Irwin, is in
Washington comforting with the officers
Of the Woman's Party regarding at
tempts to condemn the historic old
mansion recently dedicated as national
headquarters of the organization.
Hostesses for the tea will be Mrs.
Harvey w. Wiley, national chairman
of the Woman's party; Miss Maud
Younger. congressional chairman. and
the other national officers resident in
Washington.
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day. Monday. February 23, followed by
a dinner dance, when the patio will be
thrown open to premit the guests to
view the exhibit, of which Miss Mae
Vance will have charge. An interesting
program Of speakers is also being ar
ranged
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Art Promoters Club
To Exhibit Paintings

The Art Promoters Club, under the
direction of Mrs. Robert F. Beresford,
is planning an exhibition for February
% at the Carlton Hotel, when Miss
Margaret F. Robinson, q talented young
artist, will exhibit her oil paintings on
the mezzanine floor Of the hotel for
two weeks.
There will be general exhibition by
other members in the patio during the
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Food Consumption Affected but Little
By Depression, League Assembly Says

has been arrested, but monthly averages
indicate greater consumption than in
any year except 1929.
Austria Consumes More Wine.
Turnover or consumption taxes in
Fra nee in 1880 were per cent below
the collections of 1929, but the figures
for the early months of 1881 show no
pronounced downward trend.
Again, with hard-hit Austria more
exotic fruits. more wine and more sugar
were consumed per capita in 1880 than
in the previous year.
The situation in the major industrial
countries, from which examples have
been taken, is found to be different
from others depending upon a single or
few products There. more often than
not, consumption figures, based on i'm
ported foodstuffs, show declines of 80
to 10 per cent in the first quarter of
1881, as compared with the same pc
Rod in 1880.
The reason advanced in explanation
OF the European situation, which is OBJ
vious, is that the demand for food
stuffs has been maintained by the con-
Stitutional makeup of the human body,
which can postpone for a longer or
shorter time the demand for almost
everything except food A further eco
nomic aspect of the subject is that food
stufts are consumed Immediately and
lost at once, contrasting with clothing,
household utensils and furniture, which
naturally, along with luxury goods, were
bound to first feel the brunt of the de-
preston.
(Copyright. 1879
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Daughter Locked Up
For Attending Dances

ROME.-An effective, though some
what ld-fashioned, cure for dancing
daughters was recently reSorted to by
Hannibal Ghelfi, worried father living
in the village of Stradella. Hannibafs
daughter Pasqualina was very much OF
a social butterfly up to six months ago
when she suddenly disappeared from
local society circles. Her boy friends
we're greatly worried and, after think
ing over the matter for half a year,
finally decided to report PaSqualina S
disappearance to the carabinieri.
Investigation revealed that Hannibal
had decided to punish his daughter for
frequenting the local dance hall by
stripping her of her clothes, locking
her in an attic and feeding her on
bread and water for good measure. Now
Pasqualina is going to dances as much
as she likes and Hannibal is living on
bread and water.
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Return of Confidence
Ends Dollars Fight

PARIS, France.-The ease with which
gold has left the United States has
treasured other European countries, SO
that the fight from ne dollar has
ceased. Greece has transferred It's
dollars to Swiss francs, but this is for
economy in commercial exchanges and
gold importation, if found practical
The result of the German vote also
helped to restore confidence. If not
optimism. 1t is thought that the mod
crate rights will gain the upper hand
in Germany. Also the Germans are
convincing the rest of Europe that they
will come out of the present mora
forum. German bonds went up in
London and Paris. German cover is
just over the new legal rate of 80 per
cent and, due to the continued exodus
of German capital. it is thought a
10 or cover win have to be admitted
However, Germany's surplus exports
over imports at the rate of $500, Oo0, 900
annually must eventually correct the
situation.
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afterward wartime Britains first food
controller, she had unusual advantages.
Her father was also her constant COM
panion They walked, talked. worked,
travelled together He initiated her
into the esoteric mysteries of big bust
ness. He took her to board meetings.
She is very much her fathers
daughter
The late Lord Rhondda forsook poll
tics to develop the business principality
he had inherited into an industrial
empire. His outlook, his philosophy
the daughter took over, along with the
Rhondda title, directorships and bust
ness interests, when her father died,
exhausted by the strain of the public,
political and administrative work to
which he had returned at the call Of
his fellow countryman, Lloyd George,
in the war period.
First Thought of Politics.
Twenty years ago she was thinking
morer of politics than of business. She
was Lady Mackworth then, by virtue
of her marriage to Sir Humphrey
Mackworth, seventh baronet, her neigh
Dor in the Welsh county of Monmouth.
She was also an ardent suffragette
and secretary of the local branch OF
the movement
At that time Suffragettes were burn
ing letters in the mail boxes. The
idea was to bring pressure to bear
upon the public to force this obstinate
government to emancipate women.
Young Lady Mackworth had at first
been repulsed by this scheme. But
after time she justified it to her
self. Once convinced, she moved into
action
She went up to London. At suf-
fragette headquarters they gave the
young militant from Wales basket
containing incendiary bombs But
Whea she took them back home, the
local committee proved unenthusiastic,
SO their secretary conceived it to be her
duty to set an example.
She set forth, armed with brace
OF lncendiary tubes. But she over-eS-
timated her capacity for crime. Her
nerve failed. She walked back and
forth past mail box so many times
that she aroused the curiosity OF an
actress who CHANGED to be looking out
OF the window of a house opposite.
AT last she screwed up enough cour-
age to advance upon the box and drop
| in the tubes.
To start a fire these tubes had to
smash, allowing the chemicals they
contained to mix. But the postman
who eventually cleared the box found
not mass of charred paper. but one
broken tube and one unbroken one.
The amateur criminal had bungled the
job.
Arrested-the actress had tipped
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GENEVA.-Ttle 10 months or more
OF acute depression throughout the
world have affected food consumption
only little. This was revealed BY an
important side!ight thrown on the
screen of actuality by the twelfth As
sembly of the League of Nations
Animal foodstuffs have fallen much
less in price than those of the vegetable
kingdom For the greater fall in FIJI
roupe in 1930-1931. the mild Winter o.
the year before was responsible, the
abundant animal foods and the loE
price OF cereals having made it more
advantageous 10 feed live stock than
otherwise might Lave been the case.
Improvement, Sc far as it has lctu-
ally manifested itself in the individual
has not affected the retail trade in food
Stuffs to the extent observed in most
other lines. Physical wants were met
adequately until these very last days.
says the report. Wages have fallen less
rapidly than the prices of foodstuffs,
and all but the very poorest classes
have maintained their various standards
of nourishment. Even the habit OF
eating white bread acquired in recent
years in many parts of Eastern and
Central Europe, has resisted the depres-
I sion.
Maintenance of Consumption.
Lie HidlllIcIldLlCe OI consumption is
considered as being in part due to
the inability of the producer to sell
his output except at prices greatly
lower than he had expected. In some
cases prices of substitute foodstuffs
have fallen less than those for animal
products. Vegetable oils margarines,
etc, dropped much less in price than
butter. This in England has brought
about. In period of years, an in
crease in butter consumption from SO
pounds per head to 14.6 pounds, while
that OF margarine fell from 81 pounds
to 2.7 pounds. It is a noteworthy fact.
however, that the better quality grades
OF coffee and cocoa have fallen less
IN price than inferior grades.
Germany's Case Typical.
Germany's case is typical among the
major countries of Continental Europe.
Consumption of fish, eggs, groceries
In general, sugar, tea, coffee, and even
exotic fruits, was greater in 1880 than
IN 1929. Only in the first quarter of
1881 did the decline begin to manifest
itself and then chiefly with respect
to beer, wines, spirits and tobacco.
Cigarettes fell off 40 per cent and
cigars 40 per cent from the correspond
ing period in 1880.
Increased taxes on tobacco have low
cred consumption in many countries.
Sweden and Holland, by avoiding this,
have increased their consumption.
Italy. on the contrary, saw the demand
for tobacco fall IL per cent during the
first five months OF 1881.
In Belgium the rapid growth of i'm
rert5 OF exotic fruits, fresh and canned,
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this question, the discussions Of which
have been beclouded with unusual con-
troversy.
Is it wise, from the point Of view
of American industry with it's grow
ing dependence on export outlets, to
transfer its productive activities to
these very export markets? Does such
a move threaten our already sadly ha-
raised foreign trade? Does it presage
a further increase of that great prob
lem of our more active participation
in world political and social affairs? Is
our future experience in international
economics to be like that of England
a generation or so ago, when the
worldwide projection of her industrial
investments linked her whole future
with the vagaries Of those enterprises?
These are but a few of the many
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A SCULPTOR, cycling her for a
" characteristic pose, would find
~ himself compelled to choose
L a between challenge and medi-
tation.
A painter who saw her, beretted and
trousered. Looping with free and power
full movement over the snowy slopes
of Ostaodet, under the Springtime sky
of Norway, might capture her in a
vivid sweep of brown and black against
vast background of blue and white,
and label the picture Portrait of a
Vikings Daughter Gone Modern)."
In Summer he might come upon her
again, at the other end of Europe SUM-
ming on the red rocks of Agay or cleav-
ing the warm blue waters of the bay,
heading for the opposite point a clear
mile away: and in Autumn he might
cross France to the Pyrenees and meet
stride over the mountain path. ten
miles behind her and eight in front;
and each time he would still recog-
nize the strong -limbed Nordic woman.
Arranging. cool in Judgment. auda-
cious in action, remote from the &C
quiescent women of the Latin lands
l project these glimpses of Margaret
Haig Mackworth, Viscountess Rhondda,
Englands leading business woman
tand cousin of the Scottish Earl
Haig, BritainS wartime army COM
mander; her mother was a Haig), be-
cause they illuminate important angles
which you might. miss if you met and
talked with her for the first time In
the big room in Bloomsbury. London,
where she spends most of her wax
ing life.
She sits at big desk by big WIN
dow looking on an Old World garden
whose tall trees, soaring up from
earth patches encompassed by worn
flagstones, are sanctuary for BIRDS.
She is quiet. like the room, with a
sense of reserve.
Sense of Humor Profound.
If you have looked her up in Who's
Who" you know that she is 48 tshe
is one of the few women in Who's
Who" who give their age; a charac-
teristic gesture) But she looks far
younger. She is handsome. You get
the measure of her Astounding health
and vigor in the thick name OF
smooth hair, the large, luminous.
straight glancing eye; the measure OF
her will in her square jaw and reso-
lutte aspect. There is tolerance In ner
broad brow, the cut of the lip. Like
all women who know how to charm
she smiles often; but like few women
who know how to fight she chuckles
She chuckles infrequently. but you
only have to hear her once to realize
that her sense of humor, tacttully
concealed, is profound.
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Japanese Ships Lose
Cargoes in Boycott

SHANGHAI. China. Japanese steam
ship lines in China-Japan services are
curtailing their sailings in view of the
great slump in cargoes, most of which
are reported to be falling into British
hands.
Throughout China anti-Japanese
feeling is intensifying, with this week
end set apart for number of mass
meetings aiming to fan the flames.
In Shanghai the war scare reached
a high point recently when it was re-
ported that Chinese warship had
seized a Japanese vessel at the mouth
of the Yangtze. Later facts revealed
nothing more serious than japanese
act of courtesy japanese salvage YES
sci had discovered Chinese warship
aground and towed it off the mud and
thence TO a Shanghai drydock.
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THE THINKER.

questions now being brought sharply
to the fore by the increasing promi-
hence of this international industrial
issue. With more than eight millions
of unemployed distributed among the
leading foreign countries, with their
serious concern over declining revenues
and sadly distorted trade balances, it
is no wonder that every possible effort
is being made to encourage the de-
velopment of new industrial life within
their borders And now comes the
further accentuation of the problem by
the sharp depreciation Of many cur
rencies which to the more or less ha-
raised American industrialist seems to
suggest at least temporary advantage
of production costs abroad.
This problem is by no means a new
enc. There were various American
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fore the war. but where there were ten
of these at that time, there are now
hundred Indeed, In Canada alone
there are nearly 1000 such branch
factories, which represent about half
the total number throughout the world
More than 500 American companies,
great and small. are represented in the
ownership of these plants, and this
total does not include large numbers
of minority participants in foreign
activities.
Nearly $500 900 900 of American
capital is represented in the exclusively
manufacturing enterprises of this type
in foreign countries, and about half
of this sum is in plants completely
under American control This figure
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ting in the House of Lords She is or
has been a member or president or
chairman of a number of the most i'm
portant womens organizations, both
national and International; and she
finances and edits Time and Tide,
one of the three leading weekly re-
views in England and the only one of
them with woman editor.
The only child of d. A. Thomas,
afterward Viscount Rhondda. the in
dustrial organizer who rationalized the
welsh coal and iron industry and was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15

~ NE of the most perplexing
problems now confronting the
leaders of many of our indus
~ tries is the question Of the
prob able establishment of
branch factories abroad. New factors
have arisen in recent months bearing
directly on this vital issue--temporary
cuts in foreign production costs through
currency depreciation, revenue short
ages in foreign treasures and conse-
quent earnest consideration of new
tariffs and taxes and continued serious
unemployment in many industrial ma
tons. The general business anxieties
of recent months have undoubtedly ac-
counted for many hasty assumptions on
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1t would take too long to enumerate
all her activities and interests
Enough to say that she is director or
chairman of number of companies
connected with iron, steel, coal ship
ping and newspapers. She was one
OF the leaders OF the pre-war suffrage
movement; today she is in the van of
the fight to secure equal rights. condi-
lions and pay for women, and leads
the postwar campaign to break down
the sex barrier which still prevents
peeresses in their own right from sit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

"IFTEEN years ago. at about Thu
- time of the year, two men, one
private in an infantry regi-
i ment, the other lieutenant il
tho CorDC shared th1
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BY c. PATRICK THOMPSON.

A SCULPTOR, cycling her for
" characteristic pose. would find
a himself compelled to choose
L 4 between challenge and medi-
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1t may also be that the alleged war
like entfz .Asm of the Duce has been
somewhfA dampened by the fact that
Italy can no longer stand the terrific
burden of ornaments, naval and mill
tary
italy is reported today to have an
excellent army, an equally good navy
and one of the best military air forces
in Europe. All that has been built by
Mussolini within the last 10 years at a
great sacrifice to Italy. These senti-
mental and practical factors, combined
undoubtedly with some serious thinking.
have convinced the Italian leader that
the moment has come for the world to
begin reducing this futile expenditure.
italy thinks. however, that she can
not begin such disarmament move by
herself Her two close neighbors
France ana Jugoslavia. have SO fan
shown not the slightest inclination Il
disarm OF the two nei2hbors. ITALY
seems to be more concerned about