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Evening star., 1933-12-31
Younger Social Set
Entertained at Dance
At the White House
Mrs. Roosevelt Is Hostess
to 500 at Party for Chill
dren.

The famous east room Of the White
House, where Abigail Adams once hung
her washing" and where royalty has
been entertained, once again resounded
with music ever popular with the youth
Of this generation, when last night Mrs.
Roosevelt gave the first dancing party
for her children since going to the
mansion as its chatelaine. Character
istic of the present First Lady. SIM
plicity prevailed in the arrangements,
and when the orchestra played the last
selection 1t was with keen regret that
the interesting company Of young folk
left the Presidents house.
The state rooms Of the mansion were
decorated In keeping with the holiday
season and in the east room the great
Christmas tree, with trimmings all in
white, was lighted for the occasion.
Mrs. Roosevelt received the guests in
the east room, assisted by her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Curtis Dali, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Roosevelt, Mr.. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, jr., and Mr.. John Roose-
velt.
There were about 500 guests in the
company, including a number from out
Of town. Miss Barbara Cushing, sister
Of Mrs. James Roosevelt, came from
Boston for the party and is a guest
at the White House, as well as Mrs.
Donner Roosevelt, who arrived from
her home In Philadelphia. Among
others from out Of town at the gala
party were the house guests OF Miss Anne
Eustis, debutante daughter of Mrs. Will
liam Corcoran Eustis, including Miss
Mildred Carter. Mr.. Harry Sears and
Mr.. Augustus GriSwold Of Boston: Miss
Priscilla Poor, Mr.. Joseph H. Choate,
Sd: Mr.. and Mrs William Emmett and
Mr.. Robert Bishop, all Of New York.
Miss Beatrice Phillips, debutante
daughter of the Acting Secretary OF
State and Mrs. william Phillips, was
accompanied to the party by her house
guests, Miss Nina Phillips. Mr.. John
w. Hallowell and Mr.. John Lawrence,
all of Boston. Mr.. and Mrs. Aldace
Walker of New York also came for
the dance.
The music for the dancing was di-
rected BY Mr.. Meyer Davis, who came
from New York especially for the occa-
sion. His orchestra was composed Of
washington musicians. including David
McWilliams, Phil O'Brien, Charles Sc
bastian, Milton Davis, George Stein,
Allen Virts, John Powers, Paul Bailey,
William Olson, Dana Garrett, Herman
Berman, Harry Chercaskey. Ralph
Springman, Durward Bowersox and
Allan Glaser. On the program, which
included many of the orchestrations OF
Weston Snow, talented Washington
composer, were a number Of Venetian
waltzes and tangos.
At midnight a buffet supper was
served in the state dining room, after
which dancing continued in the east
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Senate Ladies Lunch Club
To Resume Meetings

1.-THE Ladies' of the Senate Lunch
Club" will resume its monthly meetings
Tuesday, January 9, in the Senate Office
Building, with Mrs. John N. Garner,
wife of the Vice President, who is presi-
dent Of the little organization, presiding.
This group was organized by Mrs.
Thomas Riley Marshall, while the late
Mr.. Marshall was Vice President, for
the purpose of doing Red Cross work
during the war. Composed Of wives of
Senators, the group did not disband
when the need for war work was over
and has continued to meet each Tues
day Auring the sessions of Congress.
having luncheon in the Senate Oftcs
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The Ambassador of Turkey, Mr.
Ahmet Muhtar, has with him for the
holidays Miss Leyla Sefa, who will re-
turn to her studies at Scidmore College
tomorrow or Tuesday.
The Ambassador Of Great Britain and
Lady Lindsay will entertain at dinner
this evening.
The Ambassador of Italy, Signor
Augusta Rosso, will entertain at dinner
Tuesday evening and will be host again
on Wednesday evening.
The Ambassador Of France and Nine.
de Laboulaye will entertain the men,
bers of the embassy staff at dinner to-
morrow.
The Ambassador and Nine. de
Laboulaye were hosts at luncheon
Thursday, entertaining a company of
18 in honor of Gen. John j. Pershing.
The Minister Of Switzerland and
Nine. Peter returned yesterday from
Boston, where they spent Christmas
with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Georges Peter.
The Minister of Austria and Nine
Prochnik will be hosts at dinner January
ard again on Saturday, January 13.
The Minister Of Albania, Mr.. Faik
York, where he went to spend the New
Year week end.
The Minister OF Lthuania, Mr.
Bronius KaSimir Balutis, will leave
Washington shortly, and will sail Friday
| aboard the Manhattan for Europe, er
route to his home in Lithuania.
The secretary of the legation, DR.
Mikas Bagdonas, will be charge
d'affaires during the Minister'S absence
The Minister Of Czechoslovakia and
Nine. Veverka will entertain at luncheon
! today.
The Minister of Ecuador, Senor
Captain Colon Eloy Alfaro, will sail
from Panama aboard the Santa Lucia
Tuesday and is expected to arrive in
Washington the first of next week. The
Minister also represents his government
at Panama and has been there for
short time en- route to Washington
after attending the Pan-American Con-
ference In Montevideo Sonora de Alfarc
and their children will not accompany
him to Washington, but will join him
here after he selects residence for the
legation.
The charge d'afaires of Japan and
Nine. Taketomi will entertain the
members of the embassy staff and theil
wives and the japanese residents oi
Washington and New York tomorrow
Immediately following the saluting o.
their majesties the Emperor and EN-.
press of Japan, which viii ltake place II
the embassy at 1880 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
The charge d'affaires Of Russia ant
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BY SALLIE v. II. PICKETT.

The Jingle of Christmas bells starting
et the White House week ago and
lasting all week gave out their loudest,
eheeriest tones last night until mid
night, when Sunday morning was
ushered In, with as gay scene as ever
Was witnessed there. A dance for the
sons and daughter and daughter-tn-
law Of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
was the gay climax and several hun
dred guests, married and single, tripped
In modern measure TO a popular jazz
orchestra, the music Of the sedate Ma
rine Band being heard only for short
time earlier In the evening.
This party and the children's party
earlier in the week were the happy
preludex OF the resumption Of the Of
ncial social program Thursday night
when the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
will hold the annual reception in honor
Of the Judiciary and always referred TO
~ the Supreme Court reception.
This is the fourth on the list
OF annual state functions and
Thursday night Of next week will be
held the diplomatic reception, the most
brilliant Of the Winters series. Far
more than usual interest will attend
that reception as many new diplomats
have arrived and this will be their first
attendance at such an affair.
The Wilson Foundation dinner Thurs
day night was nothing short Of an ova-
ton to the President and Mrs. Roose-
yelt. and gracing the board as few other
First Ladies of the White House have
done, sat Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, who
heard her late husband lauded and his
wisdom and greatness extoled. OFTEN
her smile was reminiscent of those days
when the war President went counting
and the whole world was thrilled with
the Presidents love affair. She is the
handsomest woman to reign In the
White House in many an administration
and commenting on her appearance
Thursday night many thought she had
scarcely grown year older since her
wedding day.
Awaiting the attendance of the Prel-
dent and his LADY, or at least that of
Mrs. Roosevelt, is the Presidents ball
the night of January 80, when of all the
balls of like nature and for like purpose
given in the cities of the country for the
Roosevelt Warm Springs Foundation,
and to celebrate his natal day, this will
be most notable. Famous for her sue
cess in planning and carrying to bril-
liant end such gigantic social ventures
Mrs. John Allan Dougherty will promote
this ball and will have associated with
her the leaders of social, political and
diplomatic life in the Capital. Looking
back over the lapse Of years there Is
scarce an event of large social signifi.
canoe which she has not managed, anc
the inausural ball Of 1893 was SO popu.
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lar with the citizenry Of the country
that 1t quite outgrew its boundaries.
A riot of entertainment besieged
Washington last week-ChriStmas week
with dances for the very young, the
juniors and those just blossoming out
into the social world predominating. In
the home Of Mrs. William Corcoran
Eustis was given the most brilliant of
for her debutante daughter, Miss Anne
Eustis. In the drawing rooms where
Mrs. Levi P. Morton. granddaugh-
ter of the bud, held the most bril-
liant sway of the Harrison administra-
ton, while her husband was Vice Presl-
dent, and where later the Secretary of
State, Elihu Root, and Mrs. Root were
hosts to the diplomats from the old
world and where Alice Roosevelt Long
worth romped through the great rooms
with Countess Cassini, the quandom
ward Of Count Cassini, Ambassador Of
Russia, while he represented his then
tranquil country as the imperial Am
bassador, and was resident there, a
scene typical of America took place.
Christmas flowers and foliage and gay
lights transformed the stately drawing
rooms into a veritable picture Of fairy
land. Guests from New York and other
cities joined with the cream Of Wash
ington society in the entertainment and
the White House was represented
there, too.
Standing out as Washington's most
brilliant feature ball of a 12-month is
the Arts Club ball, which this year will
be given on the night of February 13,
and will be termed the circus ball, tax
ing the place of the more conventional
balls of former years. No feature of the
great American pageant will be omitted.
Washington was regaled last week by
brief visit from the Hon. Audrey
Pauncefote, daughter of the late Sir
Julien Pauncefote, the first Ambassador
accredited to Washington, he having
come as Minister several years before
Perhaps the Hon. Audrey, who Is
the guest of Lady Fairhaven in New
York City, may return here for longer
stay, and it is quite certain she will re-
ceive the social ovation she always en-
joyed in the Capital. There must have
been some notes of sadness in her visit,
for besides the many old friends who
have passed over the Styx she found the
once imposing embassy, where her par
ents held sway for so many years. razed
and the plot covered with modern auto
mobiles of every type. The unicorn
and lion that once graced the gateway
was carried off to the new British en-
bassy, and the once-fashionable prone
made Connecticut avenue, turned into a
business mart.
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New York Man Is Guest
OverWeek End atHome
OF Attorney General
Secretary of Agriculture and
Mrs. Wallace Stay Here
Over the Holidays.

The Attorney General and Mrs Homer
Cummings have as their week end guest
Mr.. John Murphy Of New York. Mrs.
Barlow S. Weeks, who has been with
them for the holidays, will remain until
the middle Of January.
The Secretary Of Agriculture and Mrs.
Henry c. Wallace will spend the holi-
day with their family in their apart
ment at Wardman Park Hotel.
Miss Grace Roper, daughter Of the
Secretary Of Commerce and Mrs. Dan
lei C. Roper, will entertain a small COM
pany at tea this afternoon In honor OF
Maj. and Mrs Roland Walsh Of Phil
adelphia. Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs. Harry
Roper and their young son, Harry
Roper, jr., who have been with the for
mer's parents, Secretary and Mrs.
Roper, during the holidays, will return
to their home at West Point tomorrow,
Senator and Mrs. Augustine Lonergan
have taken the house at 3107 Macomb
street, having moved from 33l1 Cali
ornia street.
Senator Alben w. Barkley OF Ken
lucky will be joined the middle of next
week by Mrs. Barkley, who Is visiting
their daughter, Mrs. Truitt, In her St
Louis home for the holidays.
Senator William Gibbs McAdoo Is In
his apartment at the Shoreham for the
coming congressional session. He made
hurried airplane trip to New YORK
from his home in Los Angeles few
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
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MISS MARIANNE HARRISON,
Daughter of Senator and
Mrs. Patrick Harrison,
who announce her engage
ment to Mr.. James
william Cummings.
Underwood Photo.
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The charge d'afaires OF Russia an
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White House Observance
Of Holidays eliminates
In Dance for Young Set
Official Social Program VIII Be Resumed With
Annual Reception in Honor of Judiciary
Thursday Night

lar with the citizenry of the count
that 1t quite outgrew its boundaries.
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not receive tonorrow.
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Secretary and Mrs. Dern
Introducing Miss Dern

The Secretary Of War and Mrs.
George H. Dern will hold reception
tomorrow afternoon from 4 to o'clock
in their home, Highwood, when they
will present their daughter. Miss Betsy
Dern, to society.
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Mrs. Roosevelt will be the guest at
luncheon Tuesday. January 1e, Of Mrs.
James A. Farley, wife of the Post
master General, at the Sulgrave Club.
The Secretary Of War and Mrs.
Dern have issued invitations for dinner
Monday evening, January %.
Mrs. George H. Dern, wife OF the
Secretary of War; Mrs. Homer S. Cum
mings, wife Of the Attorney General;
Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife OF the
Secretary of Agriculture, and Mrs,
Daniel c. Roper, wife Of the Secretary
of the Interior, will alternate at the
tea table this afternoon at the recep-
ton to be given at the Mayfiower by
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley F. Reed.
Miss Marian Worthington, the guest
of honor, and her mother, Mrs. Ralph
Worthington, will receive with the hosts
and the sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Reed, MIR
John Reed and Mr.. Stanley F. Reed, IT,,
who are here for the holidays, also Will
be in the receiving line
Others pouring tea will be Mrs. Morris
Sheppard, Mrs. Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mrs. James Crawford Biggs, Mrs. Jesse
H. Jones, Mrs George Peek, Mrs. Ken
meth Simpson, Mrs. Ollie James. Mrs
Victor Kaufman, Mrs. Henry Alvah
Strong, Mrs. Joseph E. Washington
Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose, Mrs. Parker
w. West, Mrs. Clarence N. Goodwin,
Mrs. Malcolm Matheson and Miss
Elizabeth Howry. The reception will
be held in the palm court of the hotel
Pink roses and stevia will be used fol
decorations on the tea table.
The Attorney General and Mrs
Homer S. Cummings were guests OF
honor at a dinner given last evening al
the Maydower by Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
H. Jones.
The company included the Speaker
Of the House and Mrs. Henry T. Rainey
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Justice and Mrs. Hughes

Not Receiving Tomorrow
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court
and Mrs. Charles Evahs Hughes will
Milford chronicle., 1933-06-16
EFFECT OF ALCOHOL

Doctors and scientists and vets
and drys argue about the effects OF
alcohol on people. DR.. Emerson, OF
the Columbia University college OF
physicians and surgeons. is asking
that the American Medical Associa-
ton and the National Education As
sociation get out a textbook on the
effects of alcohol.
He says that both vets and drys
issue exaggerated talk about liquor.
He wants the actual scientific truth
about it conveyed to children. Vets,
he feels, fail to recognize the dan
gers of the use of such beverages,
while drys exaggerate the dangers
OF such use when it is very tenn
perate.
Considering all the harm that al
cohol does, school pupils should be
fully instructed about it. But if that
instruction is exaggerated and pre-
judiced. young people simply laugh
at it. -
Milford chronicle., 1933-06-16
GET RID OF FLYING GLASS

! Automobile safety is, often, mat
ter of little things things whicl
wouldn't occur to most of us whel
we thing of ways to cut the acci
dent record.
The state of New York recently
recognized this in the passage of g
law requiring the installation Of
stately glass in the windshields and
windows of all new passenger auto
mobiles constructed after January
l, 1885, and all buses built after Jan
uary l, 1884. New York is the third
state to demand safety gIass-Mas-
sachusetts and Michigan having pre-
ceded it.
You can pick up the paper almost
any day and read of an accident in
which this sentence or headline oc-
curs-"Cut by flying glass" Sur
veys indicate that between 80 and As
per cent of injuries resulting from
motor vehicle mishaps are due to
this cause. Tens of thousands of
men and women bear disfiguring
scars because of it.
Wesley NJ. Graf, of the National
Bureau of Casualty and Surety I'm
derwriters, in discussing the new
legislation, said: "This is by no
means a movement to give wide
spread propaganda or sales advant-
are to a certain type of glass
What we want is a way to prevent a
great number of serious and painful
injuries which are suffered every
year as a result of flying or smashed
glass. We would like to see such
glass not only in automobiles and
buses, but also in street cars, rail-
road trains, airplanes, mOtOrboats,
and in fact in almost everything from
a perambulator to a lighter-than-
air craft"
There is another side to the ques-
lion, aside from the humanitarian
phase. The high frequency of claims
arising from glass cuts is a costly |
burden on insurance companies.
This cost must be passed along to
he policyholders-either through
higher rates or by Withholding rate
'eductions that would otherwise be
possible. When every state legis-
ates against ordinary glass in au-
omobiles, it will mean fewer and
ess severe accidents-and cheaper
insurance.
Milford chronicle., 1933-06-16
DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH

There is one important danger, in
state or federal efforts to aid farmers
Through price control-that the farm
ers will expect too much.
1t is possible, for example, for a
state to decree that the price of all
cheese sold within its borders shall
be raised on a certain day by three
cents a pound. This is done and i'm
mediately a multitude of other prob
lens follow. The questions of ex-
port and import, the attitude of the
distributor and the buying public,
the situation in regard to demand
and productiOn-these are matters
no, regulatory authority can control
simply by edict.
Nor can legislators repeal the law
of supply and demand, pleasant as
that would be. In the long run, i'm
provement in the financial condition
of agriculture must come through
developing the farm producing and
selling structure in accordance with
inexorable economic laws. And in
this work, the farmers greatest ally
is not government, but his own CO.
operative organization. Made up of
himself and his neighbOrs and CO.
workers. his cooperative has his
own immediate interest at heart and
is, as well, building for sound and
permanently prosperous future. 1t
belongs to hint is responsive to
his will and his needs, and not to
political pressure.
The more active interest govern
ment takes in farming, the greater
will be the need for producer organ
ization. The stronger such organi
cations are, the more influential they |
will be-and the better their chance /
of protecting the farmer from un-
wise political action, and directing
government measures into really
worthwhile channels.
No, the farmer mustn't expect too
much from government. 1t will do
its best, but its best can be greatly
aided by strong co-operatives.
Milford chronicle., 1933-06-16
KEEPING PIONEER SPIRIT

The founders of our country per-
formed their wonders because they
were people of faith and vision, who
were willing to strike out in new
directions, build new communities,
and take some chances. They be-
lieved in their own powers, and had
faith that their efforts would be re-
warded.
There is always a danger, when
communities become settled and per-
manent, that people will lose this
fine pioneer and achieving spirit,
that they will settle down in some
rut of deadly routine, and make lit
tie effort to improve it. But if they
take that attitude, they can't keep
what they have, but will gradually
fall into decadenee. We must keep
the old pioneer spirit, in our bust
ness, our work, our community life.
We must be willing not merely to
work hard, but to strike out for new
things, and remove the obstacles to
Milford chronicle., 1933-06-16
HOT FOR KIDNAPPERS

In several kidnapping cases of
late, the abductors have not found
the game so simple as they thought.
Some of them appear to have perpe-
trated this cruel act with no concep-
tion of the deep trouble they were
creating for themselves. They have
not seemed to realize that our people
have been profoundly stirred by
these acts, and are determined to
stop them.
1t seems to some men of limited
intelligence a fairly simple thing to
garry someone off, and then extract
big ransom from the family. But
such ones ignore the enormous pub
licity given to such acts, which stirs
the whole nation, so that millions
of eyes and ears are watching for
the. guilty abductors.
Milford chronicle., 1933-06-16
RECHARGING HUMAN LIFE

William Muldoon, who died a few
days ago after an unusual career,
taught people things they needed to
know about life and health. This
gentleman was boxing commissioner
for New York State. he was a form
er wrestling champion, and he made
reputation through his famous
health farm. He was able to take
tired and exhausted capitalists, and
put them on their feet physically.
The strain of high finance. busi-
ness pressure, and modern ways of
living, leads many business leaders
to pay a terrific price for their sue
cess. 1t drains the vitality out of
countless successful men. Mr.. Null
doom was a kind of humman life bat
terry station, to which these exhaust
ed folks could repair for a recharge
of health, much as you take your
dead automobile battery to the bat
terry man to get a new stock of juice.
MuldOon told his noted patients
that they must have no tobacco. no
drinks. and must have plenty of ex-
ercise and sleep. There the COM
parison with the Techarged battery
breaks down, as they had to per-
form the recharge themselves for the
most part. by their own personal eff
fort and determination to avoid ex-
cess.
Opinions differ as to how far the
average person needs to avoid to-
baccO and liquor. But all sensible
people know that if such indul-
gences are enjoyed. it must be with
strict moderation and self control,
and that abundant sleep and exer-
rise are absolutely necessary.
Many automobile owners have dis
covered that if they allow their cars
o stand idle in a garage for a long J
period, their battery will go dead.
L needed constant operation to keep |
t charged. The human body is
much the same. You have to keep
t working and working fairly hard,
md using all its powers, in order to
Ieep it alive and well. You allow
many of its organs and muscles to
'emain unsued or partly used, and
he charging process stops, and all
It once you find that some vital pro-
ess is no longer working.