The Washington times., 1938-11-16
Proposal to Levy
Chain Store Tax
Is Opposed
By MARY PADGETT

ton of a Junior group was
made at a meeting of the House
keepers Alliance yesterday aft
ernoon at the home of Mrs. w.
W. Husband, 3400 block Ma
comb st. N. w.
Mrs. Frederic Newburgh,
president, declared that the
Junior houSekeepers would in
stall officers at the next meet
ing of the alliance on December
IA, to take place at the home of
Mrs. Maurice Collins, $500
block Nevada Ave. N. w.
The women enthusiastically
adopted a motion which vigor-
ouSly protested the removal of
the Japanese cherry trees for
the erection of the memorial to
Thomas jefferson. Mrs. Ernest
Humphrey Daniel, president of
the District of Columbia FEEDER
alton of Women's Clubs. was a
guest at the meeting. In her
address before the group she
also urged the club to do all it
can to protect the blossoms"
OPPOSE TAX
In adopting another motion
the club went on record as op-
posed to the punitive chain
store tax, to be proposed at the
next session of Congress. The
motion asked leach and every
member of the alliance to send
in a personal protest to Con-
greSS against the proposed bill"
Mrs. Lyman Kebler, chairman
Of the department of public well
fare of the Alliance, announced
the various chairmen of her
group, as follows: Mrs. Olive E.
Madden, vice chairman; Mrs.
Mary Harris Hoar, chairman Of
the committee on hospital bags;
Mrs. Samuel R. Smith, chair
man Of community service; Mrs.
William Hessick, jr., chairman
Of correction; Mrs. Morgan OF
tenback, chairman of child well
fare, and Miss Annie Lee CHS
holm, chairman of public safety.
Mrs. Kebler declared that q
meeting of her department
would take place Monday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Mad
den in the Stoneleigh Courts
Apartments.
REPORT ON LEGISLATION
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, chair
man of civics for the Alliance,
reported on the legislation &C.
complished for the District of
Columbia at the last session of
Congress. She also enumerated
pending legislative m a t tiers
which her committee will study,
including the reorganization Of
the District government, the
business privilege tax and pedes-
trian control.
The group will also study the
automobile parking situation in
the vicinity of Fairgrounds, and
it will work for a naturalization
Of the finances Of the District
of Columbia and for making
SITS per hundred dollars the
limit of real estate tax in the
District.
Mrs. Henry Van ArSdale, chair
man of the War Veterans COM
mittee of the District Fedora
ton, asked the Alliance to CO.
operate with her committee in
providing bedside bags, cigar
cites and cards to patients Elm
Walter Reed and Naval hos
pitfalls.
Guest speakers at the meeting
were Miss Janet Richards, we'll
known lecturer, and Donald T.
Sheehan, director of health edu-
cation of the D. C. Tubercu-
loSiS Association. Miss Richards
talked on the history of the
Monroe Doctrine and related
how the infringements made on
the Doctrine led to the forma-
ton of the Pan-American peace
conferences which began in
1907.
LAUDS HULL
Miss Richards paid tribute to
Secretary Hull for his splendid
diplomacy in recent matters of
state" Mr.. Sheehan outlined
the work of her organization in
combating tuberculosis in the
high schools.
Members who assisted Mrs.
Husband as hostesses were Mrs.
Kebler, who presided at the tea
table: Mrs. r. King Stone and
Mrs. Theodore Holdcamper. The
tea table was laid out beauti.
fully, with its lace cloth and
cleaning silver and lavendar
chrysanthemums set in a silver
bowl.