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Evening star., 1938-01-09
KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN
AUXILIARY

The st. Matthias Auxiliary meeting
was held last Sunday in the church
hall. Members were later entertained
at dinner as guests of the president,
Mrs. Eugene Hugin, in her home
Guests of honor were the Rev. John
J. Corbett. chaplain: Supreme Trustee
Mrs G. Steuart Bingham and Mrs.
r. Huerta.
Officers recently elected for St.
Matthias are: President, Mrs. Eugene
Hugin; past president. Isabelle Cha
ney; first vice president, Helen Rick;
second vice president, Nora OConnor;
recording secretary, Lucille Murphy;
financial secretary. Mildred Kunlo;
treasurer, Irma Hugin: messenger,
Carrie Beall; sentinel, Mary Murphy;
guard, j. Thompson; trustees. Alice
CLANCY, Sarah Robey, Gertrude STAN
ton
The quarterly meeting of district No.
will be held January 20, when the
president, Mrs Wilfred P. Ross, will
make appointments for 1898.
The Church of the Assumption
Auxiliary meeting has been changed to
the first Tuesday of each month to be
held in the church hall New officers
are: President, Miss Ruth Fowler;
past president, Miss Bernice Knott:
first vice president, Mrs. Eva Blum;
second vice president, Mrs NJ Ryce;
recording secretary, Mrs. Mary Shu-
grue; financial secretary, Miss Viola
Mcdonald; treasurer, Miss Alma
Knott; messenger. Miss B. Mcdonald: !:
sentinel. Miss Emma Tennyson; guard.
Miss Ella San Fellipo; trustees. Eva
Kenough, Catherine Lohr, Maude
Cooper.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
LOYAL ORDER MOOSE

Columbia Lodge will meet Tuesday
at 8 pm, at 14l4 street NV. to
make arrangements for a class initi-
alton and membership drive for the
next three months.
A meeting of the Entertainment
Committee will be held Thursday night
to arrange plans for the oyster roast on
January 30 at the Hayloft Inn, Forest
vile, Md, also the social meeting on
January IS for the lodge.
A dancing class for the children Of
the Junior Chapter and Columbia
Lodge has been formed with Miss nma
Baker of Columbia Chapter as in
structor.
The Board of Officers at q meeting
last Tuesday night appointed Milton
v. Hanson as editor Of the Moose
Booster, monthly bulletin Of the
Loyal Order Of Moose.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
W. c. T. u. NEWS

Central 1ota Sigma Union will meet
Tuesday at pm with Jessie Fadner,
1927 Kenyon street NV. The meet
ing will feature q bridge party and
a discussion Of membership by Mrs.
Florence Warner, corresponding sec
retary for the District Of Columbia.
Southeast Union will meet tomor-
row evening in the District of Colum-
bia headquarters, 522 Sixth street
NV, with Mrs. M. A. Bradburn pre-
siding. Lillian Stevens Day will be
observed.
North Capitol Union held a medal
contest at the United Brethren
Church December %. Four groups,
two from the Senior L. T. l.. and two
from the Junior L. T. L., contested.
Silver medals were awarded to Kath-
crime Bevans and Gordon Gemeny of
the United Brethren Church, and gold
were presented Emma Rhea Elliott and
Ruth Graham Of Bethany Baptist
Church. A short play, You Can't
Fool U.s." was given by Jesse Watt
and Frances Birge. Both of these
young people are possessors of dia-
mond medals which they have won in
w. G. T. U. contests. The remaining
characters in the play were members
Of the Junior L. T. L.
lexington Union was entertained at
the home Of Miss Lillian Carr, 2714
Military road NV, Tuesday after
noon. The president, Mrs. Franklin
L. Adams, presided. Mrs. Fred Ehrling
conducted the devotional service.
Communications were read by Mrs.
James Allen.
A report was given by Mrs. Julia
Burkitt on Americanization work. A
social followed.
Mrs. Ida w. Ramsey, president of
the District Union, entertained officers
and several of the directors of the
organization Wednesday at her home
in Jonquil street for luncheon.
The annual banquet will be held
January "a at 2400 Sixteenth street
NV. The speakers will be announced
Later.
The quarterly convention will be
held the afternoon and evening Of
February 7. A program will be given
by members Of the young peoples
groups.
A tea will be given January 20 at
522 Sixth street NV. In honor of
Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, president Of
the National Union, who will be in
the city attending the conference OF
the Committee on the Cause and Cure
Of War.
North Star Union was entertained
In the home of Mrs. w. c. Lowdermilk
on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Marie
M. Brinley, president, presided. Mrs.
Frances Brown led the devotionals
and Mrs. +. w. Law, assisted by Miss
Winfred Lowdermilk, led in the salute
to the nag. Funds were pledged for
two life memberships. Mrs. Ida w.
Ramsey, president Of the District
UnioA and Adrs. Lowdermilk spoke.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Rebekah Lodges.

The Department Association of L. A
p. M. Of the District Of Columbia VA
instituted by Department Comdr. Alex.
ander Hjortsberg on January 3. In.
stallation Of officers followed: Naomi
Cooper, president; Beatrice Lampe, VICE
president; Esther ANDERSEN, secre-
tary, and Downey Kelly, treasurer
Appointed Officers: Bessie Zepp, senti.
mel; Amy olossbrenner, aide, and
Margaret Hellmuth, chaplain.
The annual sessions Of the Rebekah
Assembly will b held January IL at
10 am, 2 and 3 pm, 1T 40 Seventh
street NV.
Esther Lodge will meet tomorrow
ct 3 pm. In the I. o. O. +. Temple
Dorcas Lodge win install the ofncerl
at this meeting.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
FORTY AND EIGHT

Grande Voiture No. 174 will meet
in the Portner Apartments Wednes-
day night. Grand Chef de Care John
E. McCabe will preside.
An oyster roast and barbecue will
be held at the Potomac Boat Club
next Sunday at 2 pm.
On January 81 the Grande Voiture
Will be hosts to Chef de Chemin de
Fer Fred G. Fraser, national head Of
the 40 and 8, at testimonial dinner
dance at the Mayhower Hotel.
Commanders of American Legion
posts of the Department of the Dis
trict OF Columbia desiring services Of
the 40 and 8 ritual team should notify
Grand Chef de Train G. Cassard
Schroth.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Jobs Daughters.

Bethel No. 2, on January IA, will
observe honor queens night. Here
after meetings will be on the second
and fourth Fridays.
At recent meeting the Mothers
Club elected the following officers:
Mrs. F1emming, president; Mrs. Man.
ming, vice president; Mrs. Davenport,
secretary; Mrs. Inman, treasurer. The
oext meeting Of the club will be held
January ls at 7500 Fourteenth street
NV.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS
OF AMERICA

More than 10 reservations have
been made for the bridge luncheon at
Wesley Hall, Seventeenth and X
streets NV, by the Ways and Means
Committee of Court District of Co.
lumbia, January IS, at 1:30 pm. Miss
Annie Boarman is chairman Of the
Committee on Arrangements.
The Junior Councillors will meet
with the chairman of Junior activities,
Miss Clare Green, 4400 Floral street
NV, next wednesday evening.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Plan Member Drive.

Plans for an intensive membership
drive to get as many new members
as possible will be made at 4 meet
ing Of the Stanton Park Citizens As
sociation tomorrow in the Peabody
School at pm, William M. Bartle,
secretary, stated yesterday. The pres
ent enrolment Is about $50.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Woodmen Circle,

Members Of Willow Grove attended
the reception In honor Of the golden
wedding anniversary Of Mr.. ana Mrs.
John M. Barrett, 1014 Independence
avenue s.W, ct the Kendall Baptist
Church on December 30.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

planned its program of activities for
the coming year.
The Executive Committee of Wash
ington Centennial Chapter met at the
home OF the matron, Miss Mary j.
Bean, 3506 Thirty-sixth street NV,
January 2, to discuss plans and pro-
cedure for the year.
The jolly Juniors Committee Will
meet at the home Of Miss Aurelia
Birmingham, 6204 Georgia avenue
NV, Tuesday.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
NOTICE.

Fraternal news, intended for
publication iR The Sunday Star,
must be received by the Fraternal
Editor not Later than noon on
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

DR.. William M. GeWehr of the fac
ulty of the American University will
address Hope Lodge next Friday. The
subject will probably be about China.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-09
A Thought for Today
Old Word Bobs Up

One of the interesting little by-products of the La Toilette party in Wisconsin is an apparent revival of the word, progress sive." Twenty years ago, or more, that word occupied much the same position that the word Liberal" has occupied in the past decade. It had no exact defini- tion, but in general it implied willing ness to go forward, to experiment, to take chances, coupled with desire to make the uncertain future better than the inn perfect present.
 But no word ever seems to stay put very long. AS the first Senator La Toilette used the term, progressive was man who stood for fairly well-defined pro- gram of political action; then Colonel Theodore Roosevelt took the word and used it to christen new political party in which the La Toilette program was rather substantially modified.
 And then, at last, the Roosevelt party went out of existence, and the war came along, and the reforms that had been fought for SO hard in the early part of the century began to look either unattain- able or illusory; presently we began to hear about tired progressives," and the former leaders in the movement began to write books about their disillusionment.
 So we stopped hearing about progress Cives, in the 1920's, and the social-politi- cal outlook which once had been called progressive became known as liberal; but that word, too, suffered many changes. You could find hardly anyone who would admit that he was not liberal. It got 50, finally, that any man who had ceased to believe in the divine right of kings could call himself liberal and as the word got diluted and watered down the men who had originally used the label got tired just as the progressives had done before them, and the liberalism of the early tWenties died out as the progress sivism of the preceding generations had done.
 So now we are back with the progress gives once more, or will be if the La Fol lette movement repopularizes the catch word. And the whole business inspires melancholy wonder about these liberal progressive swings that take hold every second decade or so. Why do they seem to follow that unWritten law of diffusion and slow death? What is there about them that sends them all down the path of disillusion, in the end?
 Tired progressives, tired liberals; why do they get tired? We don't hear of tired reactionaries, or tired revolutionaries either. The extremist always seems to keep his faith and his vigor. It is the middle-of-theroad man, the slightly-left- of-center person. who wears out. Why? Maybe the trouble is that the liberal, or progressive, tries to make the best of both worlds: The future and the past. It is Q L. .-I~ ..l-Y- yet it seems to be the way America pro- greSseS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-09
Road Inventory

One of the first things that Highway Commissioner William J. Cox plans to do this spring is to take an inventory of our Connecticut roads. That's a good idea for any man taking over new job. If you want to know what you're boss of, the best thing to do is to take inventory. Commissioner Cox has a general idea of what his domains are to be, but even his advanced knowledge of engineering and highway construction doesn't give him a closeup view of the State of Connecticut as represented by a criss-cross of roads of every description.
 Incidentally this information may be of value to others besides the new depart ment chief While it would be possible, of course, to trace down the work the department has been doing through rec ords, it would be such tremendous task that the department might be forced to do nothing else but become research bureau for some few months There is possible today use of federal funds for just such work as Commissioner Cox proposes. Since 1885 1t has been possible for state and federal governments to get together and make such research. State funds must match federal This will be done.
 After the inventory is complete the department will know how many miles of roadway it is, the type of surfacing on every mile of them, their width and their age. City streets won't be included in this, but most of the town roads will. After these figures are obtained survey will be conducted to find out how much these roads cost as applied to their life. The work will conclude with traffic survey. The task is not one of days, but of long months. Tn the meantime we hope that the paramount interest of the state won't be overlooked-opening the Mer- ritt Parkway.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-09
U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMES IN FOR HARD
 KNOCKS

Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 The nation in the throes of an- other industrial crisis. Fifteen mill lions unemployed. Production top- bling.
 This is the setting in which the U. s. Chamber of Commerce has gath cred in Washington supposedly to map out a program of recovery. An assemblage of tycoons who hold the industrial and banking system of the country in the palm of their hands.
 William s. Knudsen, president of General Motors; J. J. Policy, presi- dent of the Association of American Railroads; Winthrop w. Aldrich, head of the powerful Chase National bank-these are some of the men who addressed the chamber. A fair sampling of billions of concentrated wealth attending the convention.
 But they have not uttered one word that would take single man off the streets, put food on the table of a single unemployed family, start the machines going in single closed factory.
 What is their program? To block every move of the president and the progressive forces toward increasing mass purchasing power in order to ease the crisis.
 Where the New Deal and other democratic forces propose an en- larged work-relief program, these multi-millionaires want to see relief expenditures cut. This would mean
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-09
Recommended We'll

AS fine appointee to the Commissioner ship of Education the State Board of Education could probably not have picked a better man than Dr. Alonzo c. Grace of University of Rochester. He qualities in every respect, save perhaps those for which Connecticut's commis- sioner should qualify. And we make this latter statement simply as one which we would make no matter what man had been appointed to this important office. It is unfortunate that the Commissioner of Education must not only be school man, but also politician.
 AS schoolman Dr. Grace comes to us with the best of recommendations. But so did his immediate predecessor Ernest w. Butterworth. And certainly the qualifica- tions of Dr. Albert Meredith were also of the highest. But they became the victim of Connecticut's political circumstances which regularly take their toll in Educa- tion Commissioners. We hope that Dr. Grace was apprised of this fact when the opening was offered to him and he had decided to accept it.
 We certainly hope that the new con- missioner will have a successful reign here in Connecticut. We hope that dur ing his regime there won't be the inter- ference there has been in the past. We hope that, perhaps, Dr. Grace will be able to do something about the teachers col lege situation here in the state. A few years ago we had decided to give up our normal schools and center all activities in the Teachers College at New Britain Due to political pressure this forward movement frizzled away.
 IhlS ana many more problems, bring ing the General Assembly into the educa- tional picture, confront Connecticut's Commissioner of Education. Thus he must be not merely equipped intellectu- ally to handle all departmental problems, but he must be prepared to cope with legislators and politicians who care noth- ing for advanced methods of education, but are concerned primarily with politics and patronage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-09

The appointment of E. G. Woodward to succeed himself as State Dairy and Food Commissioner was announced late Friday by Governor Wilbur L. Cross. Commis- sioner Woodward is a hold-over appointed as his four-year term ended on May l. As no legislative approval is necessary MT. Woodward now is assured of four more years in office, save for one fact. His department could be abolished or it could be combined with some other department and the commissionership ended. And this is quite apt to happen. At least everyone thought it was apt to happen because all sorts of sources are proposing ways and means of combining number of closely-allied state departments. Last week we described one plan which creates a Department of Agriculture with five bureaus. The fact that Governor Cross saw fit to rename Commissioner Wood- ward would almost indicate that he doesn't think any change like this will take place in the next four years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-09
Meteoric Crash

Today, 30 years after the event, scien- lists are studying the effects of gigantic meteor that stuck the earth in Central Siberia on June 30, 1908. They have found that in circle 25 miles in diam- eter trees were knocked down and all exposed parts of trunks and limbs scared Violent air waves laid fences flat 25O miles away. At 375 miles distance men were thrown from rafts into river and at 435 miles horses were knocked down.
 It is estimated that the meteor weighed several thousand tons, but it broke into many pieces in the air and was further shattered as it entered the frozen ground This, say the astronomers, is the "heaviest blow" dealt the earth in historical times" It doesn't seem to have upset the earth very much. Blows dealt civilization by economic and social evils are more serious.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-09

still less purchasing power and therefore a deeper crisis.
 Where the New Deal and the en- tire labor movement propose a wages-hours bill at this session, the Chamber of Commerce boys shout that wages should be slashed. Again less purchasing power and again a deeper crisis.
 Their attack on the Wagner Labor Relations act is an indication of the terrible condition to which the coun- try will be reduced if these open shop monopolists are permitted to have their way.
 The Wagner act and It's admins tration by the present Labor Rela- tons Board, has promoted collective bargaining through peaceful meth ods.
 The loss of the Wagner act would mean a return to Tom Girdler's style of handling labor. It would mean bullets and blood for workers. It would mean return to the rule of the club, the blackjack and the company union. It would mean even more spies, thugs, stoolpigeons on which Big Business spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to start vio- lence and spread disorders. The Chamber of Commerce prefers that to peaceful, orderly elections of the Wagner law.
 In calling for the destruction of the Wagner act, these Big Business Anarchists look back wistfully to the Hoover days when they smashed un- ions and slashed wages, thereby driv- ing the crisis to new depths. They see in the Wagner act an obstacle to the new wage-cutting drive which they have already begun. With the Wagner act destroyed, conditions would be a hundred times more chaotic than they are now.
 The spectacle being now presented by the Wall Street monopolists at their convention in Washington, should be warning of what will happen to the welfare of the nation unless all democratic forces unitedly defend the Wagner act, and stand firmly behind the presidents job-re- covcry program and the rest of the New Deal legislative program for casing the blows of the crisis. MICHAEL RUSSO.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-09
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York May 9-Billy Rose, the infallible snowman, seems to have slipped up this~rime. He has brought back vaudeville to Broadway at his theater- cabaret, and a good vaude- vile show 1t is, too. But Billy has slipped up in offering the use of lie detector machine to his guests on the mezzanine floor.
 If course, the card says that Billy is not responsible for complications that may ensue among husbands and wives aftcrward. But some folk who have tested their truth facul- ties on the machine, when their marital partners were present. have come out with lingering headaches
 Who was that lady I saw you with last night?" is one question that on occasion has proved disas- trous. Billy did better when he of- fcred free suntan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-09
Selected Poem
DEER IN A WOOD

Eleanor Alletta Chaffee in the New York Times) shadow-hecked flank and eyes dark with despair He mounts the hill with hoofs that strike white fire Out of the flint His breath upon the air
 Hangs in thin silver but he must not tire
 Who hears the hounds behind his slowing feet The whispering glade cries with thousand leaves From out the trembling trees Be swift" O fleet And frenzied heart that pants and softly PieveS, Summon the strength that served your sirea best And lies unusued within your delicate bones For you there is no succor and no rest
 Within this place where blood will stain the stones Press to the deeper wood, where you will find Haven more sure and death left far behind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-09

It's marvellous the way small incident like horse-race can possess almost the entire nation. Take the Kentucky Derby, for example. For some 60 odd consecu- tive years it has been run as regular as clock-Work down there at Lexington, Kentucky, every May. Instead of losing interest the Derby has attracted more in- terest. Perhaps that may be due to the fact that more people arc interested in horse-racing today, understand something about 1t, and are more familiar with the horses eligible for the race This years classic was every bit as historic as others, save for the last-minute withdrawal of favorite.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-09
Current Comment

I always eat before I sing. It gives the voice something to depend on.
 Helen Jepson, opera star. The man who tries to be his own doctor has a fool for a patient and a fool for a doctor. -Dr. c. Ward Champion, before Women's Exposition in New York. York.
 Cfooners are more valuable to you than bank presidents. Bernard Lichenberg, New York publicity expert advising hotel men.
 I found I could write better in bed.
 Marjorie Hills, author. Cooking for breakfast seems to have disappeared from the Ameri- can home. except for coffee an6 toast. Walter c. Beckjord, New Yorb utilities executive.
 
 Detesting the Nazi policies a: I do. believe Germany should b' given back her colonies If that t the price of peace. Isaac r. Marcosson, noted author
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-09
IIOOch POOch


 A friend of mine went into one of those nondescript pubs on "L"-cov- cred Third Avenue the other day to quench his thirst. Accompanying him was a year-old fuzzy y-haired spaniel who slipped his leash while this fellow rested his elbow against the hardwood bar.
 A group of tough-looking hombres were sitting in the corner, enjoying tall steins of cool beer. Suddenly one of them turned about to dis cover the spaniel blithely licking the foamy brew out of his glass, after having climbed up on an empty chair. He let out believing i'm precation and my friend timorously advanced toward the able expecting the worst, or a black eye, at least.
 He came close enough to claim his dog and offer to recompense the beer drinker and was ready for a nasty retreat. The tough hombre beckoned him closer.
 Hey, dats darned nice pooch," he said. Hey, Archie" he yelled to- ward the bartender. "anudder beer for de nice little pooch."