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Evening star., 1937-04-01
Residential Social News
Former Official and Family Visiting at
Resort.

TORMER Representative Frank
~ Murphy of Ohio. with Mrs.
Murphy and their son Billy.
are at the Traymore, Atlantic
City, N. j., for a week or 10 days.
They will then 90 to their home in
Steubenville, Ohio, for several days,
returning about April IS to their
home here in Rock Creek Park Estates
Mrs. Victor Kaufman has re-
turned to her home on TWenty-fourth
street after spending two months at
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Miss Gloria Grosvenor will return to
her home, Wild Acres, Bethesda, Md,
after a weeks visit with her cousin.
Mrs. Leonard Muller. in Cambridge,
Mass Mrs. Muller is a daughter of
DR.. and Mrs David Fairchild OF Coco
nut Grove, Fla.
Sonora de Alfaro, wife OF the for
mer Minister of Panama, entertained
at luncheon yesterday when her
guests were Mrs. William S. Culbert-
son, Mrs. Maurice Thatcher, Mrs F..
AroSemena and Mrs. J. A. Paredes Of
Panama, Mrs. Joseph S. Cecil, Mrs.
Emerson Howe. Mrs E. B. Meigs, Mrs.
j. w. Turrentine and Mrs. Burt New.
Mrs. Ernest Humphrey Daniel en-
tertained at luncheon Yesterday at
the Mayfower in compliment to Mrs.
George E. Stringfellow of Montclair,
N. j., who is now on a visit in Wash
ington. Luncheon was served in the
presidential dining room, after which
Mrs. Daniel and her guests played
cards in the Pan-American room.
Mrs. Anderson H. Walters, who
makes her home at the Shoreham,
entertained at a dinner party at the
hotel last evening in honor of Mrs.
Vestal, widow OF Representative Albert
H. Vestal of Indiana, who is in Wash
ington to visit her daughter Miss
Vivial Vestal. Mrs. Walters is the
widow of Representative Walters.
Former Representative Clarence J.
Mcleod Of Detroit, Mich, is in Wash
ington for few days, stopping at the
Carlton Hotel.
Miss Nancy Willis, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs, Thomas c. Willis. enter
Evening star., 1937-04-01
Distinguished Canadian Visitors Extensively During Stay
By the Way-
Beth Blaine

TINE Legation Folke Wenner-
berg announce the birth Of daughter
ptal yesterday afternoon Both Wennerberg
Wennerberg" be receiving"
The first born little Breghetta 10 months
American by BIRTH visiting Sweden for Spring
when her parents sail early in May
has been chosen for little sister, who gives being like
her mother lovely brunette However,
Beghetta started life brunette being baby
and perhaps having heard that gentlemen prefer
Wennerbergs first daughter like her father blond
WILL RYAN is back from his annual
Mrs Bert Ebrck attached Legation at
Having planned month"; he
spent in this from all accoun paradise exciting
such mountain climbing wadng through ducng
waterfalls, etc.
Mo erotic ta,epeu party staged by svera Haitian
an sgoa eo m ms m
uhlch the natlue or miles ground participate The constant
pants oho Dance sing and weird rites
aneient @ toyms Of uoedoo Famous for his parties
at vhtch all the ladies bottles PERFUME artistic
figures carved from "Hgnum Uitae:"
Among the many trips upon which Ebrcks took Will
the far Island of La Gonave Pullman
egned as King An incident involving types
OF goats and from what gather the Island
third generation will bless the improving their
olooded stock by importing goats from distant
IL those invited to Woody Walner Richard Gatewoods
sign the lobby read state Department room
we weren't sure what to expecperhaps
(Which our atoremnond nons hoss U
the @ Ss h M 5 a h those
selves. GO " 01 ioSs ''eh'-
cornelia Basel white nowered print looked
vacation in Florida ITO and Mrs Edward
sut2e The hsi a vere as s
pausng temporarily In the city Of the prior to flying
tfnHs the floor beside Elsie Eksngen whose was
re1resn1ng cocktails we passed the time Of day.
Evening star., 1937-04-01

ent at the luncheon and the honor
guest sat between Mrs Henry Morgen-
thau, wife of the Secretary OF the
Treasury and Mrs. Duncan. the club
president. At the table were Mrs.
Henry Wallace. Mrs. Biermann, Mrs.
Daniel A. Reed Of New York, Mrs
Michael K. Reilly of Wisconsin, Mrs.
Clarence W. Turner of Tennessee,
Mrs. Dow W. Harter of Ohio, Mrs.
Brooks Fletcher Mrs. Lawrence E.
Imhof1 Of Ohio, Mrs J. Buell. Snyder
of Pennsylvania, Mrs Frank L. Kloeb
of Ohio, Mrs Martin F. Smith Of
Washington State, Mrs Edward c.
Moran of Maine and Mrs Thomas
Strickler.
Mrs Monrad C. Wallgren, wife of
Representative Wallgren OF Washing
ton, had as her guests at the luncheon
Mrs. Homer T. Bone and Mrs. Lewis
B. SchWellenbach, wives Of the Sem
ators from Washington.
Evening star., 1937-04-01

A large number Of enthusiasts for
the local orchestra formed the audience
and enthusiastically applauded each
number. Mr.. and Mrs Walter R.
Tuckerman, who have been in Florida
Tor a few weeks entertained guests in
their box and among others ut the
concert were Miss Mabel Boardman,
Miss Eleanor Patterson and her niece,
Miss Harriet Winslow; Mrs. Walter
Bruce Howe, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl A.
Droop, Mrs, Edward Potter. Mrs. M. j.
Whittan, Mr.. Frederic A. Delano, the
economic advisor to the Securities Ex-
change Commission, Mr.. Kemper
Simpson; Mrs. Oliver Owen Kuhn,
Mrs. M Webster Dawley, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward H. Droop, Mrs. Estelle Thomas
Street, Mrs. Samuel A. Kimberly and
Mrs. w. H. Shirtliff.
Evening star., 1937-04-01
National Symphony
Gave Last Concert
OF Season YESTERDAY

MR.. JUSTICE AND MRS. HARLAN
FISKE STONE we're hosts in
their box at the last OF this seasons
concerts by the National Symphony
Orchestra, DR.. Hans Kinder, con-
ductor, yesterday afternoon in Consti-
tuition Hall. During most Of the Winter
Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Stone have been
missed from the audiences at concerts,
owing to the illness and recuperation
OF the justice and yesterday they were
warmly greeted by many friends dur
ing the intermission.
Evening star., 1937-04-01
Mrs. w. B. Ekholm to
Marry Mr.. Bateman

Mr. and Mrs. Crittenden Clarke
Hipkins Of Boyds. Montgomery Coun-
ty, Md, announce the engagement Of
their daughter. Mrs. Wendell Bowman
Ekholm, to Mr.. Lowry Johnston Bate
man, 3D. son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Henry Bateman of Philadelphia The
date for the wedding has not been set
Evening star., 1937-04-01

tanned 80 guests at luncheon today
at the Brooke Farm Tea House.
Mrs. Walter Gordon Merrill and
her niece, Miss Isabel Beecher Hooker,
are at the Shoreham while making a
weeks stay in the Capital. after
which Mrs Merrill will return to her
home in New York City and Miss
Hooker will return to Hartford, Conn.
Mrs. Frank w. Moore of Auburn,
N. Y, with her son, Mr. Edward o.
Moore, are at the Wardman Park
Hotel during their stay in Washington.
Mrs. L. Bruce Hord gave a bridge
luncheon at the Columbia Country
Club Monday.
Mrs Matte j. Logan entertained at
a shower Saturday evening in her
home in honor of Miss Eliza beth Lee
Lombard, whose marriage to Mr. Will
liam Leslie Robinson will take place
in June at West Point, N. Y.
MISS PnyllS grace BOylen OF Be-
thesda was hostess at birthday party
on Saturday when she entertained in
honor of four of her young friends
who were celebrating March birth.
days with her.
Those present were Miss Elsie Me
meyer, Miss Rosina Boucher and her
brother William, Master Robert w.
Barton and the hostess, Miss Phyllis
G. Boylen. who is the daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin T. Boylen of
Bethesda, Md
DR.. and Mrs Charles A. Richmond
have closed their home at 1904 r
street and will sail this week for
England. They will not return to
the Capital until Fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Millard Fillmore
Harrison and Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
FIGHTER are spending the Easter holi-
days in Atlantic City.
Evening star., 1937-04-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Millard Fillmore
Harrison and Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
FIGHTER are spending the Easter holi-
days in Atlantic City.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-13
TINE TO TOSS
BALLAST OYERBOARD

Behind the latest congressional ont
burst IS trend that should have +he
federal administration very worried II
was not just a thing of the moment
when the house of representatives refus-
ed to follow Administration wishes in
CCC and work relief legislation. 1t was
the most downright revolt of them all
against New Deal leadership.
Had the revolt been in the senate. it
would not nave been such glaring sign
post. New Deal opposition has had i+s
roots from the beginning in the npner
house. When opposition spreads. as if
did Tuesday, to the lower house. then
there is concrete evidence that congress
as a whole is beginning to resent the
rubber stamp" label that has been af-
liked to 1t for almost five years.
Growing revolt among legislators
against the New Deal can be traced di-
rectly back to the proposal for alteration
OF the United States Supreme Court It
rs apparent to anyone who looks that
national resentment against the court
plan-resentment, that it. among the
people hemselves-showed senator's and
representatives that the people will not
follow bllndly any program of the New
Deal merely because it is a New Deal
program. The demonstration removed
inhibitions which had made many legis-
lators support New Deal, even against
their own personal wishes.
Opponents of the supreme court plan
found encouragement when the lower
house voted to refuse the Administra-
TONS requests in two of its pet projects,
CCC and work relief. They saw in the
refusal definite hope that congress will
not feel bound to support the supreme
court plan merely because it is an Ad-
ministration plan.
From the welter of conflict now rag
ing in Washington, the Administration
should learn one lesson. If it wishes to
maintain the undisputed national leader
ship which has been its lot in recent
years, it will have to toss overheard
those theories and projects which do
not meet with public approval 1t will
have to trim its sails closer to the wind
of economic necessity.
Politics may reign for a while, but
when public and economic forces face
a decline because of politics, then the
crash of politicians is not far behind.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-13
News Behind the News
Supreme Court Compromise :. What
The TUO Camps Want 10 DO :. And
What VIII the President DO? :.

WASHINGTON-The field is vide open for
speculation to the ultimate compromise which
will end the controversy over the Presidents
Supreme Court plan.
Although no red-hot dope is available for an
accurate forecast it is possible TO outline the
area within which the game will be played. That
is TO say, there are certain compromises already
suggested from one side, and other compromises
likely to be suggested by the other.
From the opposition, the most liberal COM
promise proposal would permit Roosevelt to ap-
point two new justices to the court rather than
six. 1t is generally believed here that If RooSe-
vet would agree to an arrangement giving him
two, or even three appointments, his bill could
pass by a comfortable margin.
1t is also necessary to consider the comprom-
Use proposal of Senator Hatch of New Mexico,
especially since Senator Burke OF Nebraska
an outstanding opposition leader-sayS the Judi
cary Committee is favorably impressed by it.
Hatch would permit the President to appoint
a new justice each calendar year as long as
there were justices over 20 who failed to retire.
Although no whisper of compromise has come
from the administration. logic compels the de-
duction that it plans to bring out some proposal
of the sort
The administrations logical first step toward
compromise considering its present frame of
mind would be in the form of a proposal for a
sliding-scale Supreme Court whose membership
would in time dwndle back to nine.
The Roosevelt bill now provides for court
Der equal to the number of incumbent justices
over 10 years of age who do not resign before
the President makes appointments. Thus,
if the bill passed and no one resigned from the
court the President would be able to appoint
six justices and membership of the court, under
present provisions of the bill would be per-
manenty frozen at Is. Whereas if the six
justices over 10 resigned forthwith, Roosevelt
would have six appoiments to make and the
size of the court would be permanently frozen
at nine members.
If no justices resigned the President would
have not only six appointments to make i'm
:lediately, but possibility of six more vacan-
cies to fill by reason of resignation or death in
the next three years and eight months mas
much as five justices now past their 18th
birthday it is not fantastic to suppose that the
bill in its present form, if passed, might in
effect give Roosevelt the power to name II new
justices before his term expires.
Thus the administration is in a position to
compromise" by proposing that it be permitted
to name only six justices during the present
Roosevelt term that a new justice be appointed
for each one now over 70 who doesn't resign
and that the Septuagenarians subsequently do
resign there be filling of vacancies until
after the court gets back to its present member
ship of nine.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-13

HOLLYWOOD, May 13. UP)--
While 200 tourists and a traffic cop
admired, Eleanor Powell hoofed out
a lively routine in the middle of
Culver City's Washington boule-
ward.
Show lent impetus to the blond
tapdancer's growing screWball repu-
tation, but she explained it was
part Of the Powell system for keep
ing the public happy while making
10 O'Clock calls.
Powell was turning into the Metro
main gate with 10 minutes leeWay
when a fleet of rubberneck buses
rolled up. She killed her motor at
the psychological moment, and was
Immediately surrounded by tourists
demanding autographs.
Quickly estimating it as a 60
minute job, she protested she didn't
have time for penmanShip but did
have time to 90 into her dance.
Copper stopped traffic and tour
lists formed a circle while the Pow
ell toes did their stuff, after which
she scuttled through the gate still
two minutes to the good.
Sam GoldWyn and his assistant
geniuses are still hunting a Ter
angi" for Hurricane" while blithe-
ly ignoring the best possible bet for
the part.
Role is that of the South Sea
islander on whom the story hinges,
and the hunt has been on ever
since Joel McCrea turned it down
because his nose remains pure Irish
in any makeup.
Best bet is no other than Francis
Jederer, liquid-eyed Czech, who
turned in a swell job as an eskimo
in Man of Two Worlds one of
his first Hollywood ventures. Led
erer not only goes well in Kanaka
makeup but turns out a convincing
accent.
Lederer has been suggested sew
eral times, but the GoldWyn boys
are still testing unknoWnS.
John Trent. who thought nothing
of riding blizzardS as a TWA pilot
before he went into the heartthrob
business as a B. P. Schulberg lead
ing man, can't stand a draft about
the ankles.
On a sweltering day that left
thin-clad actresses gasping, Trent
persisted in sWathing his trilbies in
eight-ounce wooden socks
Lights do it" he explained. First
you fry under the arcs, then when
and a draft sweeps along the floor
the take is over doors are opened
If | wore light socks I'd catch pneu-
monia."
Mae West has called off her plar
TO be the first woman to ankle Sar
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-13

NEW YORK, May 13 - Those
bright bantering young men serV-
ing drinks in the open-fronted soft
drink stands are almost invariably
from Texas. ProprietorS have found
they are the most accomplished OF
all the counter. Rarely do they en-
ploy the native New Yorker.
City folk somehow get a kick out
of the familiar conversation in the
manner of the Texas panhandle.
These jobs offer a first toe hold in
the big city for the ambitious but
not many remain for more than
two of three weeks. Their aim is
higher.
incidentally, in proportion to
population, Texans in general are
the most frequent visitors to New
York from any state. There are two
hotels which depend almost entirely
for patronage on visitors from the
Lone Star. Revue shows are eSpeci-
ally patronized by them.
Too the Texas ladies, mostly wives
of rich ranchers and oil magnates,
are heavy spenders in the exclusive
dressmaking and millinery salons.
This is true also of their trade at
the luxury establishments, jewelers.,
perfume parlors and the like.
4: i
Don Clarke used to tell Of a
tWittery New York neWspaperman
on the old World who walked long
distances each evening toward his
home uptown, thinking the fatigue
might cure his insomnia. Some OF
his fellows would contrive to be
sauntering casually down the aven-
ue and pass him with indifferent
greeting. Then hurrying around to
the Ell, they'd scoot back up town
and pass the sufferer again little
further northward on his route with
the same casualneSs. What success
they had in making the victim
think he was seeing things is no
recorded A mean trick.
+ y =
In West 23rd street lives j. r
/ Shaver, who for so long sold hi
! fine drawings of children to New
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-13
ENGLAND'S KING NOT
MERELY A FIGUREHEAD

You hear all the time that the King
of England is merely a figurehead-
that he has no actual place in the gov
. ernment of his country. The belief is
wrong.
The English king, whether he be Ed
ward or George or another, is the ma
TONS most valuable business asset Whe-
ther or not his voice influences British
craftsmanship, the British government
would be lost without him in both busi-
ness and politics.
What the Constitution is to be the
United States, the king is to England.
Where the leaders in this country rely
on the constitution to instill government
tai respect in their people, the leaders
in England rely on the king for the same
reason.
Why else would any government go
to the trouble that England has been to
this week in its coronation ceremonies?
Why, if the king is not a powerful figure
(if only as a symboD, did all the coun-
tries of Europe-and the rest Of the
world, too-pay homage to him in Lon
don this week? Why else is the British
government afraid that the Windsor
Simpson romance will detract from the
popularity of George VI? Why is that
popularity so important?
No. the king of England is not mere
lv a useless figurehead. He is, perhaps
the most powerful figure in his nation
today-and just possibly the most pow
erful in the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-13
PUPILS HOLD
SCHOOL IN
SIT STRIKE

DEARY, Idaho, May 13. UP)-
Forty Deary high school students,
protesting against the discharge OF
their superintendent, r. w. Kel-
lom. held possession of the school
buildings and adjacent grounds here
today in a sitdown strike.
The "sit-doWners" declared they
would "hold the fort" until Kellom
was reinstated as school superin-
tendent.
Aroused when it was learned the
school board had discharged their
superintendent, the students en-
tered the school building and clos
ed and locked the doors against
those who refused to join them.
Teachers were allowed in the school
but were unable to hold classes.
John Maxey, athletic director, said,
I'VE just seem to be staying around
and trying to keep order"
Tuesday night was spent in the
school building. A majority of the
students Whiled away the hours by
sleeping or talking. They were wrap
ped in blankets, with the floor
serving as a community bed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-13
Bruce Cation SayS:>
SPELLING Bees Herald End of Nonsense Era

writer. nowadays; handwriting is an
extinct art if he knows how to
make block letters by hand, that
is good enough.
So the ultra-modernists put the
old arts of spelling and writing on
the back shelf and shouted hey-hey
for the streamlined system of ed
ucation.
This was all right until some of
the youngsters who grew up under
this kind of schooling emerged into
the cold world and sought jobs
Then appalled, business men be-
gan to discover that they were being
asked to hire, as stenographers and
filling clerks, bright young high
school graduates who could not
write literate letters to save their
immortal souls; youngsters who
couldn't operate filling systems be-
cause they actually didn't know
whether'r" came before or after
"h" lads and lassieS who couldn't
even sign their own names legibly
in ordinary script and they were
typewriter.
y
Against this sort of thing, the old
fashioned spelling bee is useful
antidote.
The youngster who toes a crack
and Wrestles with parallelgram,
hypothesis" benefited" and "em-
olument" may not be broadening
his mind very much, but he will at
least be able to write a business
letter, when he grows up, without
causing the recipient TO wonder
what unlettered mOuntaineer has
been playing with the typewriter
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-13

Among the signs that this country
is at last emerging from the era OF
wonderful nonsense, don't forget the
revival of the old-fashioned spelling
bee.
After many years in which 1t
looked as quaint and out-of-date
as the one-hoss shay, the spelling
bee again is coming into its own
The New York and Chicago fire
departments send picked teams
against each other; spell-downs are
broadcast over national radio net
works; even the schools are finding
a new place for this old-time diver
sion The lad who can spell "apoth-
ecary," 'lachrymoSe, and "desic-
cate" is in demand once more.
All this would hardly be worth
notice if it were not for the TACT
that some of our more aggressively
modern educators decided, a decade
or so ago that all this emphasis on
spelling was foolish and uncalled
for.
Some strange educational prac-
ticeS grew out of this delusion, and
stranger still were some of their
by-products
1t was held, for example, that the
old way of teaching children to
read and write was entirely wrong.
Why learn the alphabet at all?
Teach the child to recognize words
by their looks, instead; free him
from the soul-cramping drudgery of
the ABC's and he will learn to read
twice as fast And forget about PEN
manship. Everybody" uses a type
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-13
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

York and English papers. His vogue,
once enormous, has passed ana he
lives in DickenSian dust and Sha-
doWs with stacks of his favorlte
originals of the years gone by. This
eclipse comes to almost every pop
ular artist sooner of later. Ihe
Peter Arnos of today are often the
ShaVers of tomorrow.
Summer musing: We wonder
what a Dakota pioneer would have
thought on reading this winters
headline in the Times: 10000 in
City Fight Snow of 1.8 Inches"
Last night I read in Ray Longs
school history this query: DO great
epochs make great men or do great
men make epochs?" With the pond
erous idea as a neucleuS, began 10
wonder whether our occupations
fashion us or whether We come into
the world alreay equipped Tor our
occupations. In a minor Key-and
not particularly appropriate to the
large teXt-it occurs to me that
printers and telegraphers of my
acquaintance in the news shops
were quiet fellows with a placid re-
gard for the turmoil of the news
rooms and perhaps inward smiles
at their knowledge OF events, paS'
and present, that might have en-
brassed some of the noisier boys on
the editorial side. have found with
out exception that proof readers