Evening star., 1938-01-26
w Y1TH 100000 signatures al
\A/ ready obtained to the
wv Peoples Mandate to End
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YIN Z,UUU,Uuu Signatures dl"
ready obtained to the
wv Peoples Mandate to End
w War, the Mandate Commit
tee, headed by Miss Mabel Vernon,
having completed the recent airplane
tour of the Latin American countries,
throughout the United States in an
effort to double the number of sigma
lures to the mandate prior to the Lima
Conference of December, 1888.
Speaking at the meeting of the
committee yesterday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Avery Coonley, 3501
Newark street NV, Miss Vernon, di-
rector, said the first move in this
campaign is cross country motor
tour by Mrs Cecil Ira McReynolds,
who will leave tomorrow and tour to
San Francisco. speaking in many cities
en- route in support of the mandate.
She will be followed by other speakers,
among them to be DR.. Mary Woolley,
president emeritus of Mount Holyoke
College, and Miss Vernon.
Mrs. McReynolds spoke about her
plans for the forthcoming coast-to-
coast tour. saying that her work will
be to strengthen the peace machinery
In the Western Hemisphere, and to
hold firm the sentiment against war.
She will also speak in support of the
reciprocal trade agreements on her
tour as a means of removing the
causes of international friction.
The Peoples Mandate to End War
calls for truce in armaments, the
use of peaceful means to settle con-
f1icts, international agreements, re-
duce armaments and to end the econ
nomic anarchy that breeds war.
Mrs. Thomas Burke, Latin Ameri-
can chairman to the Mandate; Mrs.
Gaeta Void Boyer, who travelled in
advance Of the Flying Caravan last
fall. and Mrs. Elizabeth Stradley
Howell, assistant to the director Of
the Mandate, also spoke.
DR.. Max Clauss OF the University of
Heidelberg and co-editor of the for
eign policies department of the Ber-
liner-Tageblatt was the speaker at the
meeting of the international relations
section of the Woman's Club of
Chevy Chase yesterday at the Presby-
terian Church.
Taking as his subject The Political
Situation in Europe in 1888" DR..
Clauss prophesied that this would be a
year of peace. AS contributing factors
he called attention that the Spanish
War had not spread beyond that coun-
try and stated that the weakening of
Russian influence had given rise to a
better feeling between nations. The
key to European peace" he said, lis
not to be found in Geneva, but
through a direct understanding of the
powers involved"
Asserting that the youth of France
and Germany understand that the
destiny of Europe is in the hands of
the nations composing it, he said,
Hundreds of thousands of French
veterans Of the World War are work.
ing with German veterans for a
Franco-German understanding"
The speaker was introduced by Mrs
Edgar F. Fowler, chairman of the sec
ton.
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Madame Cantacuzene will head the
list of patronesses for the card party
to be given by the League of Repub-
lican Women, January 81 at the Sui
grave Club. Mrs Chandler Hale is
chairman of the patronesses and Mrs.
George Madden Grimes, vice president
Of the league, is general chairman in
charge of the arrangements for the
event.
The following will serve as patron
esses: Mrs, Frank W. Mondell Mrs.
Warren j. Haines. Mrs. Charles M.
Lea, Mrs William Morten Grinnell,
Mrs. Hugh NJ Southgate, Mrs. James
r. Mann. Mrs. James G. Wentz, Mrs.
William Fitch Kelly. Mrs. Wallace H.
White. Mrs. w. S. Castle. Miss Mary
Sheridan. Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, Mrs.
Edward E. Gam. Mrs. Virginia White
Speel, Mrs Russell B. Harrison. Mrs.
Jacob L. Loose and Miss Ellen Corbett.
The speaker at the regular forum
meeting of the league, to be held
February II at the league headquar-
ters, 1901 Seventeenth street NV,
will be Richard H. Sanger, who will
speak on "A Personal View of Com
munism."
The bi-monthly dinner of the Wom-
ans National Democratic Club will be
held next Friday instead of tomorrow.
Representative T. Alan Goldsborough
of Maryland will speak on "Is Ever
lasting Peace Impossible?"
Miss Janet Richards was the speaker
at the luncheon meeting of the club on
Monday. She sketched gloomy word
picture of outstanding menaces to
peace in the world. She was intro
duced by Mrs. Edward Keating.
Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin, first vice
president of the League of Woman
Voters, will be the speaker at the
meeting of the Education Committee
tomorrow at II o'clock at the club
house. Her subject will be THE
Wages and Hours Bill"
A Joint dinner meeting of the A. A.
q. w. and the District of Columbia
League of Women Voters will be held
tomorrow at pm. at the A. A. U. w.
Clubhouse to discuss the "Reorganiza-
ton of the District Government"
David Cushman Coyle will be the
speaker.
George H. Blackwell of the Landon
School for Boys will address a meet
ing Of the Radcliffe College Club to-
night at o'clock at the home of Mrs.
Tyler Marshall, I'LL Nineteenth street
NV. His subject will be The Expert
ment in International Living" which
is an organization attempting to pro-
mote friendly relations between Amer
lean boys and girls and those of other
countries, by taking groups of school
and college students abroad each sum-
mer to live with foreign families. Mr..
Blackwell was the leader of a group