The Washington times., 1937-03-19
BY NARY PADGETT

A highlight for all next week OF
the Washington Chapter, National
Council of Jewish Women, will be
open house at the Juanita K. Nye
Council House, 500 Sixth st. S. W.,
one Of the councils major projects
in child welfare work.
This will celebrate the tenth
anniversary of the Council House,
and the seventy-fifth birthday OF
D. j: Kaufman who, with Mrs. D.
.. kaufman, gave the building to
memorabilia their daughter, the
late Juanita Kaufman Nye.
Sunday afternoon, from 3 to 5
o'clock, there will be a reception.
In the receiving line at Council
House will be Mr.. and Mrs. Kauf-
man, Mrs. Louis Gutenberg, preSi-
dent of Washington Council; Mrs.
Ivan TaShof, chairman of the
Council House committee; Miss
Myrtle Cohen, director of the
house, and the board of directors.
During the week other groups
will celebrate there. The Boy
Scouts will entertain their fathers
at q "hot dog" party; the Girl
Scouts and the cooking club will
give a tea for their mothers: there
will be breakfast for the nursery
school children and their mothers,
and there will be a number of other
events.
DR.. James A. Nolan, director Of
the Criminal Justice Association,
will speak on "A Legislative Pro-
gram for Child Welfare" before
the legislative committee of this
Jewish group, Monday at noon in
the Y, w, C. A. headquarters. Mrs.
Laszlo Detre, chairman of the COM
mittee, will preside at the luncheon
which will be the last one the
group will hold this club year.
The National Council of Jewish
Women will hold a nation wide in
Stitute on membership and public
ity problems in New York city next
Monday. WaShingtonianS who will
attend include Mrs. Gutenberg,
Mrs. Edward Sonneborn, Mrs. Eu-
ward Heidingsfeld, Mrs. Arthur
Brode, Mrs. Carl Linker, Mrs. Jo-
Seph Kam1nsky, Mrs. Mark Lans-
burgh, Mrs. L. V. Lobred and Mrs.
Lew S. Berns.
Members Of the Potomac So
ciety, Children Of the American
Revolution, will be guests of
Mary Claire Ahern, 5245 Forty
second st. N. w., tomorrow at
1880 p. m.
The election of officers will
take place. during the business
session. "A program of entertain
nent will be held afterwards.
Albert BeWker will act as al.
ternate to the senior president,
Mrs. C. H. Giroux, to the annual
@. A. r. convention in April.
Ruth Wilt is the delegate and
Robert Mason De Shazo the alter
nate.
The Eugenia Washington Chap
ter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, win meet tomorrow
at 2 p. M. at the home of Mrs.
Augustus Kempton, at the West.
chester.
1t was in honor of Mrs. Kemp
toms neutrality-suspicious., Rob
ert Morris, that the first club of
Junior American Citizens was
named.
Miss Barbara Hoffman will be
q page from the chapter at the
D. A. r. Continental Congress.
Mrs. Samuel B. Woodbridge,
State librarian of the District of
Columbia, D. A. R., will discuss
the Daughters of the American
Revolution Library at the D. A. r.
Round Table hour over WRC to-
day at 2:15 p. m.
The 25,000-volume library is
open to the public for reference
work and contains an extensive
manuscript division of unpub-
lished vital records, official rosters
Of Revolutionary soldiers and
early historical data.
The bookplate collection now
ranks among the largest in the
country, numbering over 5000
and containing many examples Of
the engraver's art. Mrs. Clifford
K Bergman is directing the work
of classifying and mounting the
collection.
For the coming election Of Of
ficers Of the Junior Women's Club,
the following nominating commit
tee was appointed by the presi-
dent, Mrs. John T. Lucker, at
this weeks meeting:
Mrs. J. H. Vogel, Mrs. Thomas
B. Rhodes, Mrs. Jack Cory. Miss
Marian White, Miss Doris Ehr-