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Evening star., 1938-05-11
From the Social Calendar Of Washington
BY the Way
Beth Blaine

THE patio tnklng fountain Bloom
fragrant with Certainly Mr. Mrs Sol Bloom
the smelling wiaa hanging through iced
party.
Mrs codel Hull Secretary State among
paused a
Portable chair Wallace wife Of the
looking bright blue
Maer wife of the Canadian Minister arrived with Villa Magee
costume brilliant
tdbs
exceency Polish Poock
de With Anthony
Balasy
fetching she greeted Wankowicz Polish Embassy
on speak with the Paten while McCeney Werlich
gathering would
ministers Minister
small diplomatic
and strawberries Chalkley British
Embassy petite Countess Embassy
Marquesa di santOrsola of the Italian Embassy.
We afa
for the exquisite set of French fgurnes which
this Mrs Bloom completed small Chinese
ladies the
cood feathers might be the beautiful
h while bodice glitter workmanship
Mr. AND MRS ERNEST WALKER yesterday
honor of 1t Holland U.
from Honolulu
stock asked friends
meet Mr. and Mrs Howard Gushing Mary Gushing
will with outing
Saturday night
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W YHEN Mrs. William P. Mac
Cracken entertains, no
wv matter how large the
gathering, every little thing
on the buffet is made in the home!
That's news, especially to those per-
sons who attended the tea yesterday
afternoon which she and Mr.. Mac
Cracken gave in honor of the retiring
president Of the American Bar As
sociation and Mrs. Arthur Vanderbilt
Of New York.
From S o'clock until after 7, the
MacCracken house on S street in
Georgetown was fairly stormed by
brilliant representatives of the Bar
Association, many of whom were &C
companied by their wives to the
annual meetings of the organization
Mr.. and Mrs. MacCracken received
with their honor guests in the living
room of their delightful house, the
hostess wearing a gay fowered print
dress and no hat upon her always
well coiffed head. while Mrs. Wander
bilt wore black ensemble trimmed
with white, and large black hat.
In the dining room tea could be
found, but it was in the garden that
the numerous guests congregated
where buffet was set up at either
end for more convenient and efficient
service. Large platters held delicious
sandwiches, cookies, and various horS
d'ouvres, which, as stated before. were
made right in the hostess own kitchen
by an excellent cook, long in her
employ.
Mrs. Merriam Curtis, put in an un-
expected appearance, for she is not
one for taking in cocktail parties; Sem
ator and Mrs. Warren Austin, Senator
and Mrs. Arthur H. Vandenberg, Ad-
miral and Mrs. George Pettengill,
Comdr. and Mrs. Hamilton Bryan,
Frau Scholz of the German Embassy;
the Australian Counselor, Mr.. Keith
Officer; Mrs. Walter White, Mr. and
Mrs. Metcalfe Walling Mr.. Ray Miller,
MIR. and Mrs. Snowden Fahnestock
accompanied by Miss Fontaine Fahne-
stock; Comdr. and Mrs. John Ma
gruder, Col. and Mrs. Sherman Miles,
Mrs. Royal S. Copeland, Mrs. Bennett
Champ Clark, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Sims of the British Embassy; Mr.
and Mrs. Jouett Shouse, Mrs. J. Ham
ilton Lewis and Mrs. Mark Bristol
were but few of the men and women
who enjoyed pleasant gathering yes
terday in one of the incest informal
gardens around town.
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Mrs. Erwin Hostess
At Garden Party
At ArbremOnt.

a RBREMONT, the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Parsons Erwin
was the scene of the annual garden
party of the Italy-America Society
yesterday afternoon. Guests were re-
ceived on the lawn by Mrs. Erwin
who wore pink f1owered chiffon
dress and a large blue garden hat
then they were taken on a tour of
the gardens.
Mrs. Erwin has visited Italy several
times when her aunt, the late Mrs
Harold E. TroWer, was living in Capri
where her husband was the British
Consul.
Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett, Mrs.
ErWin's mother, presided at the tea
table, wearing a flowered chiffon dress
and a'big garden hat with ribbons of
chiffon matching the gown.
Mr.. Erwin and DR.. William Nc
Clellan, president of the society,
greeted guests and helped guide them
around the gardens. Others acting
as informal guides were Mrs. Ervin's
cousin, Miss Katherine Porcher of
Florida. Miss Dorothy Tirrell and Mr..
and Mrs. Erwin's three children,
Eileen, Hope and Hal Erwin.
Among the guests were the Coun-
selor for Emigration's wife, Signora
Eugenio Bonardelli, and her mother,
Signora Desjardins; Signora Valeria
Casmelli, wife of the Counselor, and
Vittorio Bifulco, Assistant Counselor
for Emigration. Other guests were
DR.. and Mrs. William Davenport,
Baroness Won Below, Mr.. Walter
Davidge, the past president OF the
society; Miss Netah Evans, secretary
of the society; Miss Madeline Austin,
Miss Reay Mckay and Miss Janet
Richards.
Evening star., 1938-05-11

Yugoslavia reports that it is making
progress in rehabilitation of its bank
ing structure.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
Envoy of Finland
Guest at Dance.

The Minister of Finland and Nine.
Jarnefelt will be the honor guests at
the dance which the Washington
Committee of the Delaware tercen-
tenary will give Saturday evening at
9 O'Clock in the clubrooms of the
Washington Democratic Club at 1900
New Hampshire avenue.
The proceeds from the dance will
be given to the American Finnish
Delaware Tercentenary Committee to
defray costs of the celebration and
publications which will be permanent
records of the Finnish seventeenth
century contribution to the settlement
of the Delaware River Valley.
Senator Ernest Lundeen, member of
the United States of America Della
ware Tercentenary Committee, is ex-
pected to attend the dance and will
make a short address.
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Lamas. He is a nephew Of Senor
Carlos Saavedra Lamas, former Secre-
tary of State of Argentina and winner
of the Nobel peace prize in 1887
Senor Zuberbuhler, who for a time
was secretary to his uncle, attained
the gold medal for law at the Uni
versity of Buenos Aires. He is a
member of the Jockey Club of Buenos
Aires. Ocean Club, Mar del Plata and
of the Chevy Chase. 1925 F street and
University Clubs of Washington, Miss
Garrett is a member of the Junior
League.
The engagement, which is of much
interest both here and abroad, was
made known this afternoon at a tea
which Mr. and Mrs Garrett gave at
their residence. The wedding will
take place in Washington in the
autumn.
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Mrs. Plum Gives
Vocal Concert
At Sulgrave Club.
THE Danish, Swedish and Finnish

THE Danish, Swedish and Finnish
Legations were well represented
at Henriette Bagger Plum's delightful
concert at the Sulgrave Club last
night.
Displaying a beautiful voice, Mrs.
Plum completely charmed her audience
from start to finish. Her Skin I'd,
Du Klare Solskin" was 50 enthusias-
tically received she was forced to re-
peat it, much to every ones delight.
Mrs. Plum was ably assisted at the
piano by Mrs. Mildred Cobb Schulze.
While still very young woman, Mrs.
Plum has already made an enviable
place for herself in musical circles.
both here and in Europe. Her charm
and naturalness of manner, as well as
her intelligent understanding of her
art, have won her instant recognition
wherever she has appeared.
Preceding last nights concert, the
counselor of the Danish Legation, M
Wilhelm Eickhoff, entertained at din
ner, later taking his guests on to the
Sulgrave, and following the concert
Mr. and Mrs Plum were guests at
the Danish Club. The Danish Min
lister and Nine Wadsted, who were
patrons, unfortunately were unable to
be present at last nights performance,
due to- the Minister'S illness.
Additional patrons and patronesses
included: Mr.. Gutzon Borglum, Mrs.
Snowden Fahnestock, Miss Vera
Bloom, Miss Mary Louise Gildersleeve,
Mrs. Daniel Borden, Miss Elizabeth
Howry, Mrs. William Braithwaite. Miss
Mary Howry, Mrs. Frederick Brooke,
Mrs. Demarest Lloyd, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Crane. Mrs. Pendelton Mayo
Mrs. Walter Diehl. DR.. and Mrs. Raph-
ael H. Miller, Mrs. Walter Edge, Mrs.
Harold Sims, Mrs. Jack Story, Miss
Marion Trumbull, Mrs. Walter Tuck
erman and Mrs. H. E. Weihmiller.
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Swedish Art
on
Display
Hosts at Preview
Are Minister and
Nine. Bostrom.
BY PHYLLIS THOMPSON.

BY PHYLLIS THOMPSON.
w yITH opening Of the Swedish
M Tercentenary Art Exhibit at
v v the Corcoran Gallery of
Art yesterday, Washing
tonians were taken on quite a trip
back some 5000 years to the bone
age. and on up to the present CEN
tury. 1t seems most fitting that the
first settlement of Delaware should be
celebrated 300 years later with an
itinerant exhibition of Swedish dec
orative art, which was arranged with
the Swedish State by the Swedish
American Tercentenary Association,
the Scandinavian Foundation and a
committee representing the American
museums.
The Swedish Minister and his cor.
dial and popular wife, Nine Bostrom,
We're present yesterday as official hosts
to the many persons who flocked to
the gallery for the opening private
view. Also assisting in guiding the
guests through the three rooms on
the second floor were the Counselor
of Embassy, M. Folke Wennerberg,
brother of Nine. Bostrom, and his
very charming wife, Nine. Wenner-
berg. Proudly M. Wennerberg led
us to the portrait of his grandfather,
NJ Gunnar Wennerberg, great gen.
tleman, Swedish poet and minister
of education. painted by Oscar Bjorck.
The portrait ordinarily hangs in the
Wennerberg residence.
The exhibit includes all manner Of
objects, from mangling boards, scutch-
ing knives, beautifully carved and
painted sledge, harness bows, deco
rative wall hangings, exquisite bits
of lace, an arrowhead from the bone
age, about 5000 B. c., found at
Amossen in the Parish of Slagarp,
Skane, to many delightful paintings.
1t seemed that M. Bostrom's favorite
painting was Per Hillestroms oil
painting Of Conversation at Drott-
ningholm. Drottningholm Is the
present summer palace. Close by
hangs Wertmullers George Washing
ton, which has been loaned by Mr..
Nils B. Iohaneson of New York and
is indeed little gem.
Standing before Carl Larsson's por-
trait of his mother. an enhancing
piece. was Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, noted
patron of the arts, and not far away
Nine. Espil, wife Of the Argentine
Ambassador. was discussing the exhibit
with Mrs. George Angus Garrett, an
other ardent follower of art. Mrs.
Lawrence Townsend, in the very best
of health after her sojourn in Florida.
was among the guests, also Mrs. Bryce
Allan, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Carroll
Glover, Mrs. Dean Acheson, Mrs.
Theodore J. Pickett and her sister, Mrs.
R. c. " Milliken, Mrs. McCeney Wer-
Itch, Mrs. McCook Knox and her
daughter. Miss Kathleen Knox; Mrs.
Cabot Stevens, Mrs. Walter Tucker
man, Mrs. Emory Sands, and one of
the first to arrive was Mrs. Homer S.
Cummings, wife Of the Attorney Gen.
(See SWEDISH ART, Page B-4)
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Patrons Named
For Opera.

Under the patronage of group of
socially prominent people the Colum-
bia Light Opera Co. will present THE
Student Prince" Friday and Saturday
nights, May 13 and IA. at the Roose-
welt High School Auditorium. The
list of patrons includes Mrs. Daniel
Roper, Senator and Mrs Lansdale G.
Sasscer. Representative and Mrs.
Frank H. Buck. Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Ben Moreell, Capt. and. Mrs.
F. D. Karns, Col. and Mrs. J. T.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
Miss Garrett to Wed
Engagement Announced to
Senor Zuberbuhler.

a n r. AND MRS. GEORGE AN
M GUS GARRETT announce
VI the engagement of Mr. Gar
4 rett's daughter, Margot. to
Senor Don Luis Mariana Zuberbuhler,
Second Secretary Of the Argentine
Embassy.
Miss Garrett made her debut mere
in 1886 at tea given at Mr.. and
Mrs. CARROTS residence on New
Hampshire avenue and later in the
season at ball at the Sulgrave Club.
She attended North Foreland Lodge
School in Broadstairs, England, and
Miss Mays School in Florence, Italy.
Miss CARROTS mother, Mrs. George
Gordon. is now residing in Holland.
Senor Zuberbuhler is the son Of the
late Senor Don Luis E. ZuZerbuhler.
one time president of the Bank of
Argentina and of the Stock Exchange,
and the late Zulema Saavedrs
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(See SWEDISH ART, Page BAD
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MacCrackens
Are Hosts
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Arthur Vanderbilt
And Wife Guests
Of Honor at Tea.

W YHEN Mrs. William P Mac
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Bootes, Capt. and Mrs. Paul L. Reed,
Capt. and Mrs. Ralph Whitman, 1t.
Col. and Mrs. o. j. Cohee, DR.. and
Mrs. Edwin N. c. Barnes, DR.. and
Mrs. F. L. Benton, DR.. and Mrs. H. T.
Willis, Miss Virginia Willis, DR.. and
Mrs. Francis B. Lincoln. the Rev. and
Mrs. j. D. Rustin. Mr.. and Mrs. A. H.
Seidenspinner, Miss Cecil Lester
Jones, Mr. Ernest L. May and Mr..
Harry Boswell.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
Miss Holz Engaged
To Mr. Rerke1ev.

Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Henry Holz an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter Margaret Phyllis to Mr..
Paul Ellwood Berkeley, son of Mr..
and Mrs. James Platt Berkeley of
this citv
Evening star., 1938-04-17
Too Much Regulation,

In denying the application of Eastern
railroads to raise coach fares from 2 to
IN cents mile, the Interstate Com
merce Commissioner more accurately
the 6-5 majority by which the decision
was promulgated-came dangerously
close to exceeding the bounds of proper
regulation, If it did not actually cross
the line.
Bedeviled by mounting expenses and
falling revenues. the railroads sought
the increase on an experimental" basis,
believing it would produce something
less than $4,000, 900 annually, although
conceding some traffic would be diverted.
The Commission majority, however,
adhering to its own economic theories
as to the productivity of lowered charges
which guided the forced fare cut In the
East in 1885, took the stand that much"
of the increased travel which followed
was ascribable to that step, and that
5 the partial modification presently pro-
posed would net the railroads less and
at the same time impose an additional
burden on the public.
The sharp division Of opinion in the
Commission was accentuated by the
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vigorous written dissents Of Commits
sioner McManany, who consistently has
opposed the rate-fixing policies Of his
associates; Commissioner Mahaf1ie and
Commissioner Eastman, all of whom en-
phasize that the majority simply have
substituted their own views as to the
necessities Of the case for those Of man
agement.
On this point, even though he doubted
the advisability OF the increase, Mr.
Eastman enunciated the principle that
well could have been followed:
II feel that they management are
entitled to take the risk If that is what
they want to do," he said.
On an unbiased appraisal, it appears
that the Commission decision has served
only to give the railroads another argu-
ment in the wage-cut negotiations In
stituted with the brotherhoods.
Evening star., 1938-04-17
planners in Government is along that

planners in Government is along that
line.
The economists advising high Govern
ment of6cials see almost no limit to the
type Of self-liquidating public works
construction that the Government could
finance through the use of its flexible
credit.
Their concern is on another point.
Merely for the Government to lend or
spend money in an effort to achieve re-
covery does not solve the underlying
difficulties that now are baffling private
finance and private industry. And once
the Government gets started spending
and lending. experience shows that it
has the greatest difficulty in stopping.
The important thing is that, if the
country should make up its mind to go
ahead with a Government-m managed re-
covery, 1t possesses the resources and the
machinery for that purpose. But If the
country should make up it's mind to seek
once more to gain an old-fashioned re-
covery by shifting responsibility to pri-
vate initiative, then a great deal that
the New Deal has done must be undone.
In any case, there is no present basis
for concern over the Governments
credit. All financing activities to date
have been highly orthodox.
(Copyrtsht, 1889
Evening star., 1938-04-17
With Tons and Guns.

JapanS curt refusal two months ago
TO MT the veil on her naval building
plans, with particular regard to battle
ship displacement and armament-in
response to a joint inquiry by Great
Britain, France and the United States
has produced prompt reaction in this
country. 1t was forthcoming in the Senate
on Friday and took the form of a vote
by the Naval Affairs Committee to au-
thorize construction Of three 45,OOO-ton
capital ships, mounting l8-inch guns
Thus Senator Walsh and his fellow COM
mitteemen would revise the House au-
thorizatlon of three 35,0O0-ton vessels
armed with l6-lnch guns. Besides rails
Ing the building fund proposed in the
lower branch by s35,0oo,O0 to a total of
S1,156,5460Oo, the Senate committee rec
ommends two 20,oOo-ton aircraft car
rlers instead of the two l5,O00-ton ships
provided IN the House BILL and also in
creases the types and numbers of auxil-
iary craft. Another significant decision
OF the Senate naval group was to delete
from the building program the $3,5OO.0Oo
dlrigible proposed by the House to sup
plant the agelng and unused Los Angeles.
Senators believe that American expert
ence with lighter -than-air ships. as
proved by the tragic fates of the Shen-
andoah the Macon and the Akron, has
been unsuccessful and discouraging.
If Congress eventually approves As ,OO0-
ton, 18-inch-gun battleships, to cost be-
tween s90,000,00O and 100000, 900 apiece,
the United States will set brand-new
pace in naval construction, for the sea
has never been ridden by such monsters
before. Great ocean liners like Queen
Mary Normandie, Europa and Rex ex-
ceed the tonnage of the proposed Yankee
man-of-war behemoths, but to date
Britain's 42,o00-ton Hood represents the
peak Of size in naval craft.
Our colossi, if they are built, will be
lar and away the mightiest warships ever
foated. They will be laid down only if
the Navy thinks their construction desir-
able. Pending final decision on that
score. Japan may come to her senses by
showing her hand, evincing her readiness
not to exceed the 35,oeo-ton limit set by
the London treaty, which she destroyed,
and thus permit all OF the principal sea
powers to spare their overburdened tax
payers the unnecessary load OF excessive
naval armaments. Toxic, at any rate,
now knows that Uncle Sam, if need be,
is prepared to SAY it, not with flowers,
but with tons and guns.
Evening star., 1938-04-17
THE EASTER MESSAGE
BY THE RIGHT JAMES FREEMAN D, L. d, D. c. l..
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

Someone writes that, I'm his best
hours man feels within him the pulsings
OF the Eternal. He knows and feels he
was not made to die"
There is something in mans inmost
soul that cries out for the larger, fuller
life, the life that knows no ending,
hence the message Of Easter, the Oft
repeated story Of the Risen Christ.
strikes responsive chord in every heart.
1t Is the answer to mans persistent cry,
III man die shall he live AGAIN."
Whether in the fullness of health and
the vigor Of youth or where strength
fails and the spent years bring feeble
ness and waning vitality, man inevitably
projects himself into the future with
hopes and expectations of better days to
come.
This life whereof our souls are scant;
More life and fuller that we want"
All down through the ages men have
speculated concerning life beyond the
grave. The greatest thinkers and philos-
ophers have made it a central theme,
and poets have wrought it into matchless
verse, and fired the imagination by pre-
senting to men visions of a new and
fuller life that is to be.
No matter how Indifferent and unre-
sponsive we may be to the appeal Of
the Christian religion, the message of
Easter lays its claim upon our hearts
and opens to us door of hope that we
gladly enter. While we may not know
what the new life is that Easter affirms,
nevertheless, we readily accept it and
find peace and serenity in so doing. The
distinguished scientist Sir Oliver Lodge,
declares: Il am as convinced of con-
tinued existence on the other side of
death as am of existence here It may
be said, you cannot be as sure of it
as you are of sensory experience I say
can. believe that the call of Christ,
Himself. will be heard and attended to
by large part of humanity in the near
future. as never yet it has been heard or
attended to on earth"
Sir Oliver is but reaffirming what
Evening star., 1938-04-17
Shooting Stars.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.
Concerning CANNES.

Concerning CANNES.
He was watchdog, so they said,
That pup with spongy feet.
He'd let you pat him on the head
And dearly loved to eat.
He'd watch a rat-hole by the hour
And, with the rat in sight.
He'd keep on watching. but his power
To hypnotic was slight.
He watched the chicken coop with care
And when midnight guest
OF poultry filched liberal share
He watched with interest
He watched burglar who, one night
Appeared with nerve immense.
His silent wonder at the sight
Showed great intelligence.
He is watchdog and he gets
The best of care each day,
Nor needs the jeering and the threats
The neighbors toss his way.
A gentle egotism reigns
Throughout all human kind.
The thing that you possess remf ms
Apart and all refined.
So be you dull or be you wise,
As through this world you jog,
You're sure that any dogs a prize.
Provided he's YOUR dog.
Evening star., 1938-04-17
Incomplete Plans.

Elaborate arrangements are being
made 10 celebrate the twentieth ami
versary of the first regular airmail flight,
made between Washington and New York
May Is. 1918. Nowhere, however, does
1t appear there is to be commemora-
tion on an adequate scale of the part
played by the Army Air Service in pio.
neering. For the first airmail was dis
tlnctly an Army service. It was flown
by Army pilots in Army airplanes in CO.
operation with the postal service.
Although the airmail service today is
wholly civil enterprise there were no
airmail planes twenty years ago. There
were no airlines; no civil air service;
no pilots or airports capable Of UNDER
taking the new effort. So the job was
put up to the Army and the Army re-
sponded nobly. With nothing but pride
of service to hold them to their task, the
Army pilots jammed into weather con-
ditions heretofore considered suicidal;
they operated overloaded Army airplanes
from fields which today's pilots would
reject as impossible for even an emer-
gency forced landing; they made good
in the face of unknown difficulties at
time when failure undoubtedly would
have resulted in abandonment of the
service and a setback possibly of years
for air transportation.
The Army. to its everlasting credit.
stuck to the job and in August, 1918,
handed over to the Post Office Depart
ment going concern, with much OF the
pioneering completed and rich fund
Of experience gained. Growth since that
day has been sure and steady. No real
celebration of this eventful anniversary
could be complete without adequate re-
membrance Of an Army Air Service.