Evening star., 1933-06-04

The Political Study Club recently
elected officers, as follows: Mrs. Frank
M Shortall, president; Mrs. Edgar
Merritt, first vice president; Mrs. George
Oliver Gillingham, second vice presl-
dent; Mrs. w. A. Kinnan, third vice
president; Mrs. Charles Marvin Jones
recording secretary: Mrs. George E.
Anderson, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
M A. Markley, treasurer, and Mrs.
, William A. Boss, auditor; delegates
and alternates to the Federation OF
Women's Clubs, Mrs. E. H. Daniel, Mrs
Clyde B. Aitcheson, Mrs. Edgar Kay,
Mrs. William MCGEE, Mrs. Cabot
Stevens and Mrs. Lewis Battle.
Mrs. Ernest Humphrey Daniel, the
president, turned the gavel over to her
successor, Mrs. Shortall, at the annual
breakfast held recently in the May
| flower Hotel The event was preceded
, by musicale under the direction OF
Mrs Edgar B. Merritt, chairman OF mu-
sic, in which the artists were the Ma
tional Quartet, composed OF Norma
Simonson, Velma Snow, James de vase
Mann and w. Irving Cleveland, with
Dorothy Radde Em.Ty as accompanlst;
Lavinia Darve, operate star, accom-
panied by Winifred Howell Artaud, Vlo-
linist; Amelia Cont, harpist, accom-
panied by Gerald Bodinsky, viollnlst,
and Marie Deal, accompanied by Elsie
Harvey Weaver. The speaker at the
breakfast was Felix Morley, Rhodes
scholar. now on the staff of the Brook
ings Institution Mr.. Morley spoke on
THE World Economic Conference"
Among the guests of honor were Mrs.
Claude Swanson, wife of the Secre-
tary of the Navy; Mrs. Daniel Roper.
wife of the Secretary of Commerce; Mrs.
Wallace, wife of the Secretary of Agrt-
culture Miss Ruth Wallace, sister Of
the Secretary of Agriculture; Sonora
Aguilar, wife of Gen. Aguilar of the
Mexican legation: Mrs. Mcmillan, civil
service commissioner; Judge Annabel
Matthews, Mrs. Morley, the wife of the
speaker; Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, presi-
dent of the D. C. Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs; Mrs. Virginia White Speel,
who delivered the invocation; Mrs.
Hamblin, president of the Democratic.
Women's Club, and Mrs David Kinche-
loe. Flora McGill Keefer sang.
ID. c. Federation. - Mrs. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt has been invited to
attend the open forum in the audi
torium of the Department of Commerce
next Wednesday at 2:30 O'Clock, be-
tween the consumers, distributors and
producers CT mercnanQlSe. Inc meet
ing has been called by Mrs. Clarence
Fraim, chairman of the division of in
dustry of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs. The District Fedora
ton, under the leadership of its presi-
dent, Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley. and Mrs.
Albert Baggs, chairman of the depart
ment of the American home, will CO.
operate.
Roosevelt Delphian Chapter was or
ganized recently at the Hamilton Ho-
tel by Lillian A. Bernhardt, field sec
retary of the society.
The officers are: Mrs. LIE Verne
Beales, president; Mrs. Kingman Brew
ster, vice president; Mrs. I. L. Stonnout,
secretary; Mrs. William T. Gill, jr.,
treasurer; chairman Seminar Board,
Mrs. Thomas c. Thompson; first as
sistant, Mrs. j. Ward Mankin; second
assistant. Mrs. G. B. Middlemiss.
The chapter met May "a in the
Hamilton Hotel. The subject, Con
tribution to Our Civilization by Pre-
historic Man" was discussed, as fol-
lows: THE Three Epochs of Prehis-
toric Life" Mrs. Thompson; Discovery
of Fire" Mrs. Cockerill: Primitive
Homes" Mrs Kranz: Development of
Food Plants" Mrs. Killey; 'Domestica-
tion of Animals" Mrs. Philes; "Primi-