Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
BY sALLIE V. II. PICKETT.

Despite political feuds. hard times
and general dissatisfaction over the
country on prohibition and similar sub
jects, Washington will fall into its
Autumn social pace with unusual vim,
and from the White House through va
rious channels of society there will be
unwonted activity. The President and
Mrs. Hoover are making the most of
glorious Autumn days at their Rapidan
camp, but from now on their rural
visits will necessarily be interrupted by
arrivals on these shores of great men
from other lands and the incessant
public demand on their time.
The Lord Mayor of Manchester and
his charming lady and the imposing
mace bearer, who accompanies them to
this country, will create almost as much
Of a furore in Washington as will
Premier Pierre Laval of France when
he comes later in the month to pay
his respects. The winsome daughter OF
the premier, Mile. Jose Laval, is likely
to accompany her father, and, like the
charming Ishbellye Macdonald. who &C
companied her father, the great British
Commoner, to Washington a year or
two ago, her coming will a thousand
times add to the fervor of the welcome
for M. Laval.
Mrs. Tit, wife Of the Lord Mayor OF
Manchester, will be an inspiration to
women in politics in this country, as
she was for long leader in the Wom-
ems suffrage movement in England and
in 1909 joined the Women's Freedom
League. Before that she had been ap-
pointed an organizer for the Women's
Trade Union League, under the leader
ship of the great Mary Macarthur. AS
Alice MacLennan in the early part OF
the World War she became women's
trade organizer for Lancashire, Cheshire,
North Wales, and the Isle of Man, and
the organization increased in brief
time from 300 to 10000, and it was
when working in Manchester that she
met the lord mayor-19l9-and they
were married.
Just how formal will be the reception
for Lord Mayor Tit is not known, but
certain it is there will be a large social
movement for the Premier of France
and his daughter. But before their
arrival Mr.. Warren Delano Robbins will
have a brisk initiation into official So
x,F oil
through the usual cut and dried official
entertainments imposed upon every
President and his Lady, he Will nave
scintillating program set before him and
the knotty questions of how to enter
tain foreigners of exalted rank will come
as easy to him as making calls on the
congressional set. Perhaps Tar easier
than attempting to settle some of the
rather unseemly squabbles that arise IN
that august body.
Mrs. Hoc9oG has scarcely an empty
hour ahead of her in the next two
months and the weeks of october are
rife with calls upon her for social &C
ton. This week-Thursday- will
receive the League of Republican Wom-
en-. each of whom will bear a card OF
admission to the White House, and If
the weather is fair they will be enter
tanned on the south front grounds
October ID Mrs. Hoover will go to the
Girl Scouts conference in Buffalo and
October IL she will christen thu g.g-ntic
airship of the Pan-American Airway,
the ceremony to take place the last
day of the Pan-Amcrican Conference,
which opens here tomorrow.
Undoubtedly there will be a garden
party for the delegates to this confer
ence, and what with a garden party at
the home Of the Secretary Of State and