The Washington times., 1937-04-02
zONTA GROUP
PLANS FETE
TOMORROW
BY MARY PADGETT

The annual intercity banquet
sponsored by, the Washington
Zonta Club will be held to-
morrow night in the Garden House
OF the Dodge Hotel, bringing to-
gether members from Annapolis,
Frederick and Hagerstown, Md,
and Philadelphia.
Miss Mabel Strider, president Of
the Washington Zonta Club, will
preside at the dinner. Miss L.
'Malinde Havey, chairman of the
committee arranging the event,
will act as toastmistresc.
Guests will include Mrs. Olga
Jones, president of the Altrusa
Club; Miss Ruth Robinson, presi-
dent of the Business and ProfeS-
Sional Women's Club Of Washing
ton; Mrs. Ruth Shipley, president
Of the Quota Club; Miss Daisy
Reed, president of the Soroptimist
Club; Gladys Bogue, chairman Of
District 3, Zonta International:
Mrs. Lillian Musterman. president
Of the Annapolis Zonta Club; Miss
Martha E. Flynn, president of the
Frederick Zonta Club; Miss Bertha
Negley, president of Hagerstown
Zonta Club, and Miss Anna Laws
Galley, president of the Philadel-
phia Zonta Club.
Ruth Linrud Thompson, harpist.
from Riverside, Calf, will enter
tain the guests at the dinner. The
program will also include a Skit
from each of the Zonts Clubs rep
resented.
At the recent meeting of the
Washington SoroptimiSt Club the
members voiced their belief that
minimum wage laws should apply
to men as well as to women and
children, and passed resolution
which read in part:
Resolved, that the SOrOpti-
mist Club of the District Of Co
lumbia requests the President
of the United States and the
leaders of the party in power In
Congress, if and when any &C.
ton is taken in the Supreme
Courts valuation of minimum
wage laws, TO bring about con-
greSSiOnal enactment to make
any minimum wage law for the
District of Columbia apply to
men as well as to women and
children"
The resolution was introduced
by Miss Ella C. Werner, immedi-
0te past president of the club.
Among the patronesses for the
1900" party under the auspices Of
the Ladies Of the Divan and
Nobility, to be held Monday at s
p. m. in Almas Temple, are the
following:
Mrs. Leonard p. Steuart, Mrs.
William Montgomery, Mrs. Rob-
ert P. Smith, Mrs. Edward S.
BrashearS, Mrs. Ara M. Daniels,
Mrs. Granville Guide, Mrs. Stanley
D. Willis, Mrs. Karl e. farrell.
Mrs. Earl w. Shinn, Mrs. Need
ham C. Turnage, Mrs. Howard P.
Foley, Mrs. Ernest Carlyn Guy,
Mrs. James A. Councillor, Mrs.
Ralph P. Barnard, Mrs. Allen H.
Potts, Mrs. William j. B. Orr, Mrs.
Warren w. Grimes, Mrs. Edwin c.
Dutton, Mrs. Frank e. Ghiselli.
Mrs. Ernest C. Lee, Mrs. r. Ly,
man Sexton, Mrs. Robert s.
Regar, Mrs. Roger J. Whiteford,
Mrs. Frederick Wilken, Mrs. I. M.
Lewenthal. Mrs. Roscoe L. Oatley,
Mrs. j. Edwin Reid. Mrs. Rose
Loehl, Mrs. Ralph W. Lee, Mrs.
Amos A. Fries, Mrs. Edward D.
Anderson, Mrs. Carl H.. Claudy,
Mrs. Vernon G. Owen, Mrs. John
O. Slye, Mrs. Dwight L. Brom-
well, Mrs. l.. E. Mandy, Mrs.
Harry Gardner, Mrs. Paul B.
Cromelin and Mrs. A. c. Wilkins.
A club institute will be con-
Quoted by the American Citizen
ship Department of the Prince
Georges County Federation OF
Women's Clubs, next Friday, April
o in the auditorium of the Blad-
ensburg (Md.) High School.
"The Merit System in National,
State and County Government" is
the subject of the address to be
given by Arthur Fleming. The
meeting is open to the public ana
after a panel discussion the audi
ence may participate in the dis
cuSSion.