Evening star., 1932-11-20
INQU|RENDO OPENS
ITSFOURTH YEAR
Joseph C. Fehr Continues
Head of Young InteIIec-
tuaIS' Group.

The Inquirendo, Washington's pro-
eresSive group of young intellectuals,
has Just started on its fourth year and
is again delving deeply into history,
science, art and politics. The organiza-
tons aim is similar to that OF the
Forty Immortals' and the French
Academy in Paris and the noted Fa-
bian Society in London.
The name Inquirendo comes from a
writ in the civil law of Spain known
as the writ of inquirendo," meaning
to want to know" to Inquire into"
Carrying out this idea, the local group
consists in the main of young men in
their thirties and forties. all of whom
are playing important roles in the Gov
ernment and professional life of the
Capita.
III c-lb was organized three years
ago wi.n a charter membership Of 40.
It was the idea of Joseph Conrad Fehr,
q lawyer and author, and ever since
its organization meetings have been
held in the home of Mr.. and Mrs Fred
S. Schow, 2701 Chesapeake street, where
the nquirendo members and their
guests gather twice monthly. Since
It's foundation, Mr. Fehr has been the
club president and majordcmo.
The other officers are Judge c. Rog-
ers Arundel of the United States Board
of Tax Appeals, vice president; Warren
w. Grimes, attorney. secretary-treas-
urer, and j. O'C. Roberts. solicitor Of
the Veterans Administration, chairman
of the Membership Committee. These
gentlemen, together with Harold A La
fount. Federal radio commissioner, COM
prise the groups Executive Committee.
Senator King a Member.
The members Of the unioue organiZa-
ton include Senator William H. King
of Utah. w M. Jardine, American Min
lister to Egypt and former Secretary OF
Agriculture; Gen. Frank T Hines,
veterans administrator; E. B. Brossard
of the United States Tariff Comnis
sion, Logan Morris. chairman OF the
United States Board Of Tax Appeals;
Benjamin H. Bartholow, legislative
counsel OF the Treasury Department;
G. M Charest, general counsel of the
Bureau of Internal Revenue; Walter
wyatt general counsel of the Federal
Reserve Board; Rev. Peter V. Master
son of Georgetown University, A. HAM
ilton Wilson, Washington architect;
Lieut.. Comdr Mervin Bennion, E. H.
Martin and E. P Bowyer Of the Ameri-
can-German Claims Arbitration; Harry
C. Butcher of the Columbia Broadcast
ing System, E. E. Danny of the De-
partment Of Justice, Dr.. Leroy Sawyer,
A. F. Carbon Of the Federal Farm Loan
Board. Theodore P. Huntley, secretary
TO Senator David A. Reed of PennSyl-
vania; Milton S. Eisenhower, chief of
the Bureau of Information of the De-
partment Of Agriculture; Fernando E.
Piza, Costa Rican diplomat; Harry M.
S,eydel of the Veterans Administration,
Merlo j. Pusey, journalist; Prev Savoy,
Eldon P. King, James M. Williamson,
Warren F. Wattles and Charles j.
Valear, all of the Treasury Department
and Bureau Of Internal Revenue; and
Conway P. Coe, H. B. McCawley, Walter
G. Moyle, A. H. Paul, Fred S. Schow,
Robert T. Scott, Earl W. Shinn, S. M.
Stellwagon, all practicing attorneys;
and R. w. Rogers, landscape architect.
Distinguished Speakers Heard.
The members of this wide-awake
organization have heard many dis
tinguished speakers during the past
three years. Among those who have
addressed the Inquirendo are Newton
d. Baker, former Secretary of War;
Senator William H King, Sir Willmott
Lewis, Washington correspondent Of
the London Times: Rev. Edmund A.
Walsh of Georgetown University DR..
Otto H. F. Vollbehr, famous collector
of the Gutenberg Bible and other
incunabula; Senator Reed Smoot,
Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate
for President; Senator j. Hamilton
Lewis, Admiral Robert E. Coontz, re-
tired; DR.. George Barthelne Of the
Cologne Gazette, Wilson Mccarthy, d.
rector of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, and Dean Roscoe Pound
of the Harvard Law School.
To the president, Mr.. Fehr, the men,
bers give chief credit for the ever
growing prestige of the club. He drew
the membership partly from contacts
made while assistant counsel with the
German-American Mixed Claims Com
mission, and later in the Internal
Revenue Bureau and the Veterans
Bureau legal departments. Through
his indefatigable energy, the members
say, President Fehr has made it pos
sible for the club to hear notable
array Of writer's, statesmen and others
that shed new light on the leading
social, economic and political problems
of the day.
The guests often include cabinet
officers, members Of both Houses Of
Congress, other high Government
officials, celebrated authors, diplomats,
clergymen and scientists whose opinions
are not only intensely interesting but
most divergent. And 1t is these sharp
differences of opinion that make the
discussions after each address Of the
greatest possible value.