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Aliyah. The Washington chapter sup
ports is children in Palestine
Guests at the speakers table were
Mrs. Samuel Halprin, Mrs. Eugene
Meyer. Mrs. Herman Koppleman,
Mrs. Mark Lansburgh, Mrs. Morris
Cafritz, Mrs. Fred Gichner, Mrs. Milton
King and Mrs, E. /. Kaufman. Mrs.
Raphael Turover, president, presided.
Benjamin Rather played two piano
solos.
Tea at Congressional
TO Honor Mrs. Garner.
A tea in honor Of Mrs John Nance
Garner will be given Friday afternoon
at the Congressional Club. Mrs.
Daniel Reed, president. and the entire
board, will be in the receiving line
with Mrs. Garner. The following
members will pour tea-Mrs. Peter
Gerry and Mrs. James F. Byrnes, both
OF whom are past presidents of the
club. and Mrs. Edward r. Burke, Mrs,
George W. Norris, Mrs William H,
Dieterich. Mrs. John H. Overton, Mrs.
James r. Pope and Mrs. Sherman
MintOn.
The following members, most of
them wives of the Texas delegation in
Congress, will assist-Mrs. Clyde Gar
rett, Mrs. George H. Mahon, Mrs. Al
bert Thomas. Mrs. Ewing Thomason,
Mrs. Nat Patton. Mrs. Wright Patman
Mrs. Thomas Blanton, Mrs. Lyndon B.
Johnson and Mrs. Maury Maverick
The Hospitality Committee will be Mrs,
Bertrand H. Smell. Mrs. Allard H
Gasque and Mrs. Emmet ONeal.
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Miss Rae Robins, a member of the
Professional Writer'S Club will speak
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Military Night
To Be Observed.

The West Virginia Society Of Wash
ington will observe military night at
its regular entertainment and dance q,
the Raleigh to-1orrow evening. Mill
tary officers from West Virginia, now
residing in the District will be guests
of honor There will be dancing from
$50 to O'Clock. Among those who
will be guests Of honor are Gen. Mason
B. Patrick, Comdr. Felix B. Stump
Col. John w. Schulz, Col. John T.
Harris and 1t. Glenn A. Skies.
Receiving will be President David
S. Dawson and Mrs. Dawson, John w
Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Judson Find
ley, Mrs. j. c. Burchinal. Miss Mayme
Hamrick, Mr.. and Mrs. Elonzo T.
Morgan, Miss Bertha Duncan, Mr.. and
Mrs. E, H. Nunnally. Mr.. and Mrs
Lyman Van w. Knight, Mrs. Edith
Echols and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas W.
Cain
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viii compose the panel. Mrs. Louise
Lazell. chairman Of the forum. will
preside. The forum meeting will be
held next Friday night and the sub
ject of housing will be discussed.
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Miss Sarah Gertrude Knott, director
and Founder OF the National Folk
Festival which will give = three-day
performance At Constitution Hall, May
8. 7 and 3. will speak 1t the fellow
ship tea OF tho District OF Columbia
Branch Of the National League Of
American Pen Women today from 3
to 6 pm, In the studio at the Grafton
Hotel Miss Knott will be introduced
at 4:30 pm. by DR.. Mary Meek Alike
son Moore, registrar Of the District Of
Columbia Branch and author Of
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Social Notes
OF Nearby
Sections
Mrs. Werkin9
Entertains for
Mrs. Smith.

a II RS. STANLEY J. WERK1NG
nu entertained at a small lunch
w con yesterday at her home
4 on North washington boule-
ward in compliment to Mrs. Gerald
w. Smith of New York City. who Is
the guest of her brother and sister,
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. c. Weldon
Smith, at thek apartment in the
Buckingham Community.
Sunday afternoon Mrs. Smith was
the guest in whose honor q group Of
friends entertained at tea and
musicale. The delightful affair was
held at the studio home of Mrs,
Blanche Morgan Foote in Arlington.
where soft, ivory tones on the walls
blend with the long. blue draperies,
which accent the height of the
beamed ceiling At one end of the
room is a novel creation of Mrs.
Foote's called a color organ made
with modernistic glass to produce a
wonderful effect. At the opposite end
of the room is a huge mirror. above
which hangs silk batik done in
gorgeous blues.
Artists for the afternoon were Mrs
H c. Houghton, daughter of Mrs.
Foote, who has been visiting her
mother for the last few weeks. Mrs.
Houghton has spent considerable time
in South America, and she sang sew
eral South American folk songs. play
ing her own accompaniment on the
guitar. Mr.. Stanley Olmsted gave
piano selections. and Mr. Reginald
kassebaum entertained with violin
numbers.
Additional guests included Mrs.
Garland T. Ames. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Woodman Harris. Mr.. Hans
Trapp, Mr.. Charles Pacey. Mrs. Myrtle
o. MacMahon. Mr.. and Mrs. Regi-
maid Kassebaum, Mr. c. Woodman
Harris, jr., and Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
Foote.
Miss Grace Tabbutt. daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Tabbutt OF
Takoma Park. Md. whose marriage
to Mr.. Frank c. Babers will take place
May % at Trinity Episcopal Church
Takoma Park. D. c., was the guest
in whose honor surprise linen shower
was given by Miss Marion White al
her home in Woodside, Md, Sunday
night.
The shower was given at a supper
party, the guests being several of Miss
Tabbutt's colleagues at the Beltsville
tMd.) labortary Of the Department OF
Agriculture. A large wedding cake
surrounded by pink carnations and
pink tapers formed an attractive SET
ting for the dining table.
The guests were Mrs. Abby Casanges
Mrs. Sue Eilbacher, Mrs. Ruby
Sharples. Mrs. Esther Minocks, Mrs
Edward Phelps, Miss Ethel Coon, Miss
Aurelia Beck of Washington, Mrs
M. A. Shoemaker of Chevy Chase, Miss
That's Spencer and Miss Doris Ehrmen-
traut of Takoma Park.
Mrs. Allen H. Kirk entertained at
a bridge tea Monday afternoon in her
hons at Herndon, Va, when her
guests we're Mrs. George Ramsey
Bready, Mt Alice Blanford. Mrs.
Calvin Kidwell, Mrs. Arthur Hyde
Buell., Mrs. Walter C. Carter, Mrs.
Cassius M. Lawrence, Miss Matilda
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before the F1reside Discussion Group
of the National Council Of Jewish
Juniors tomorrow ut 8 pm. at the
Jewish Community Center. She will
review Last Flight" by Amelia Ear
hart Putnam. and read an original
paper Amelia Earhart-The Twen-
tieth Century Airwoman" Mrs. Sarah
Applestein, will present q paper on
"The Situation of the Jews In Mod
ern Poland"
The general reorganization plan for
the District of Columbia Government
will be discussed at the meeting of
the Civic Forum Of the Women's City
Club tomorrow night at the club
house. The speaker will be Alexander
F. Jones Of the Washington Post. Mrs.
H. L. Parkinson and Ellis Meredith
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numerous non-fction books and
magazine articles.
wisdom and Health" will be the
subject Of q broadcast On the "Cduca-
ton for Living" program of the Gen.
eral Federation Of Women's Clubs over
N. B. c. tomorrow from 4:3O to S pm.
DR.. Thomas Parran, jr, surgeon gen.
eral of the United States, and DR..
Joseph r. Sisoo. pastor Of the COL
legiate Church Of st. Nicholas in New
York, will be speakers. Mrs. La Fell
Dickinson Of Keene, N. H., treasurer
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Diamond Cutters Unemployed.
Decreased demand in America for
diamonds has caused several diamond
cutting factories In Johannesburs,
South Africa, to close and others to
operate on short time.
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Of the General Federation, viii speak
briefly representing that organisation.
Edwin Orlando Swain. baritone.
radio and concert artist Of New York
City, will b soloist,
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Decker, Mrs. Ruth Keyes, Mrs. Allan
Bradley. Mrs. Z. NJ. Armfield and Mrs.
Ralph Presgraves.
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Hadassah Luncheon Held
Mrs. Halprin Speaks on Palestine,
Describing Youth Movement.

NE Of the most tragic aspects
of European Jewry is that
hundreds of parents are
actually hoping that their
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NURSING IN WILDS
Frontier Service Has Given New Life to
Kentucky Mountaineers With Great
Skill and Loyalty.

Editors note-A full page OF
photographs by Marin Breckin-
ridge, telling the story OF frontier
nurses ptctortdlly. ,ciH appear In the
roto0vauure section OF The Star
nert Sunday, February n.
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American Battle Invoking
Legislation Appears
in Many Forms.

Editors note; Charles H. March,
Republican commissioner of the
Federal Trade Commission, tfrst
appointed by Coolidge and re-
appointed by President Roosepelt,
makes plea for straight thinking
on monopoly, and advances his own
uie,Ds ,oith respect to the present
national situation, in an intervte,D
NTH and
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For its alumni who have left the
campus for business and professional
life, Phi Beta Kappa strives to supply
an incentive for continuing educa-
ton through its publications and
through the organization Of its alumni
in graduate associations. In WASH
ington there are more than / 800 Phi
Beta Kappa alumni.
In this time of assaults upon edu-
cation. threats to the freedom of learn
ing and expression are resisted by
Phi Beta Kappas traditional policy
Of giving recognition to outstanding
intellectual capacity without consid-
Grafton of race. creed or politics. The
society is convinced as a national
officer puts it. that the future Is
safest in the hands of informed youth
who have been taught how, not what,
to think"
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Harvard, voted on December 4, l779,
and to Yale, voted five days later.
These charters were committed to the
care Of Elisha Parmele, the only one
of the founders not q Virginian. He
returned to New England the following
year and organized Alpha Of Connecti-
cut at Yale on Novembef Is, 1880, and
Alpha Of Massachusetts, on September
5. 1881. For more than a century and
half the Harvard chapter has had
an uninterrupted existence, and the
Yale chapter was inactive only from
1871 to 1884. These two chapters
largely determined the course Of Phi
Beta Kappa's development. both in It's
general character and In the establish
ment Of new chapters.
In 1882 annual Phi Beta Kappa Gel
ebrations were begun at Harvard which
have continued to this day. They have
been made memorable by the poems
and orations Of famous men, among
them John Quincy Adams and his son,
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where they remained In hiding until
1848. when they were placed in the
keeping Of the Virginia Historical So
ciety. They are preserved today at
the college. Phi Beta Kappa ceased its
activity at William and Mary, not to
resume until 1851. 1t was then reor-
ganized and continued until 1861,
when the college again was closed, this
time because Of the Civil War. The
chapter was reorganized again in 1893.
HAD it not been for the broad plan
of expansion developed by the
founders. Phi Beta Kappa might have
died with the descent upon Williams
burg of the soldiers Of George III. For
tunately the founders had prepared
charters with the expectation Of ex-
tending the society to each Of the
United States-numbering at that time
13. The first charters granted were to
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become an important medium for the
dissemination Of authoritative articles
for the educated layman. Dealing
with the fundamental issues of cur-
rent questions. 1t maintains the dis
interested and nonpartisan attitude Of
the true scholar and the freshness
and virility Of the good writer.
Phi Beta Kappa remains vigorous IN
the defense of its ideals and at the
same time. despite its 160 years OF
tradition, adaptable to changing con-
ditions. While insisting upon the inn
portance Of four-year liberal educa-
ton as . Foundation for specialized
scholarship and vocational prepara-
ton and for leadership in our de-
mocracy. the society nevertheless rec
oenizes that with new times come new
needs. It is now undertaking . study
Of the status Of the liberal arts and
sciences in the colleges of the country
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with view to determining Phi Beta
Kappa policies with respect to the
ideal curriculum to be required of
candidates for Phi Beta Kappa. and
with the object Of improving and
STRENGTHENING the cause Of liberal arts
throughout the country.
The society today is using other
criteria Of scholarship to supplement
grade marks and averages in selecting
students for membership, such as
honors work, comprehensive examina-
tions and the opinions of tutors and
teachers.
Recognizing that the effort toward
mass education in America, combined
with the effects Of the depression, has
resulted in the lowering Of scholar
ship in many colleges. the society now
is considering withdrawal Of chapters
from institutions which have de-
teriorated.
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paired of was saved a stone was laid
IN the foundation Of the great struc-
ture OF friendly service that now testi-
fies for itself After a local midwife
had worked, perhaps. for 20 hours with
no result except that of agony, pain
and weakness for the patient. and 4
qualified midwife stepped In to bring to
successful conclusion for both
mother and child the long. hard strug-
gle. belief was quickly established. And
so Mrs. Breckenridge and the group ef
busy women who we're her patient, EN-
cient aides built, through those early
years, a solid foundation of honesty,
hard work and sympathy.
The national depression has forced
so many Of the mountaineers who had
gone away for occupation back to the
hills with neither money nor work.
One Of the great difficulties which the
F. H. S. has faced and is facing Is to
try to give social and economic read
justment as well as to carry on the
fundamental work Of delivering and
nursing the sick. As one visitor TO
"Wendover" said:
When see those poor little raggedy
children coming up othe clinic want
to take my shirt of my back and
empty my pockets for them"
The nurse and secretaries who work
there all the time feel this even more
poignantly and give not only of time
and Of strength. but also Of personal
vNnScoeciNy1S "a hn Avratk -
their ability. There is always a CHEEKY
welcome and q hearty, well-cooked
meal awaiting any casual visitor who
may drop in. And each year at Christ
mas time there is basket for every
family living in the district. In 1t are
q few much needed garments, little
candy. and q toy for each child In the
household. Many Of the mountain chill
dren had never had Christmas gift
until the Frontier Nursing Service was
established. -,
THERE is another contribution which
Is one Of the greatest that the
Frontier Nursing Service has brought
to the mountains, II one service out
Va = BAC8t uuuAUCA VI Eel vtCC0 may DC
singled. A constant dread of these
people in summer was snake bite until
the anti-venim serum was brought to
the hills where 1t was responsible for
the saving Of lives
But this is only one fear that hAS
been allayed and one danger that has
been averted and destroyed through
the advent Of scientific medicine ana
nursing. 1t is dificult to describe
realistically the horror attendant on
the function Of giving birth which the
mountain mother faced, but perhsps
the mere statement that In the toi6
days the local midwife Charged o.
for delivering = woman and S2ftr6fa
delivering COW will clearly illustrAse
the complete primitiveness Of .t1kx
ordeal. nsasi
There are many tales, beautiful aMd
pitiful and proud, Of the splendid
courage Of these people Of su Sad
frontier. h'~ 1928 rttC
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industries passed into the hands of
powerful corporations.
with this ever-growing power Of
monopoly the Federal Government de-
manded the creation Of the Federal
Trade Commission to cope with the
arising problems. In wilson's first
term the Federal Trade Commission
was created for the administration and
enforcement Of the antitrust laws,
and the Clayton Act was passed, re-
visins and strengthening the Sherman
Act. For the first time in our national
history monopoly was compelled to lay
Its cards on the table and justify its
| actions before trained experts In law
and business. Ofice records. letters,
contracts, all the practices Of monop-
oily, were subpoenaed and brought be-
fore the commission.
What has happened between that
day and this that has caused monop-
oily to get such a hold upon our busi-
ness enterprises? will tell you. First,
however, I would like to make two
things clear. I believe that most busi-
ness men-big or little-are honest.
My second contention Is that there u
nothing the matter with our present
law; that, as 1t stands, II it were exc
cuted in its spirit and to the letter, 1t
would eliminate those evils 1t was de-
signed to wipe out"
~0AsAaraarONrp nApcrs hrck. ~
~ to inquire abruptly, Have you
ever read that law, designed to protect
you and your neighbors against private
monopoly. and to preserve individual
business enterprise. and safeguard the
unorganized masses Of labor, agricul-
ture and consumer from the unbal-
anced economy Of organized capital?
Every one who Is having anything to
say about this present question Of mo-
nopoly should certainly. read It, It
states In direct language Just what It
means: Every person who shall mo-
nopolise, or attempt to monopolise, or
combine or conspire with any other
person or persons to lnonopolixe any
part Of the trade Or commerce among
the several States, or with foreign
countries, shall be deemed guilty.
That's clear enough. It also states
Every contract, combination In the
form Of . trust or otherwise, or con-
spiracy, In restraint Of trade or com.
merce among the several States, or
with foreign nations, Il hereby declared
to be illegal
Similarly, the Federal Trade Gem
mission Act states the functions Of
the commission with equal clarity,
and there can be no question Of the
simplicity and directness of The Ian
guage used In section Z Of the Clay
ton Act Of 1914. But, just a. 1t Il
one thing to inveigh against mo-
nopoly In general and quite another
to attack 1t specifically, 70 have our
laws proved to. b one thing on the
statute books and another in the
courts. In now historic instances
the Supreme Court has refused to de-
cree dissolution Of ceetAin tzasts, hold.
ing that not mere siss and power but
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tunity for all who are fitted to i'm
prove their position by reason Of their
energy and initiative II there is still
to be anything distinctive about our
national character, we must preserve
forever the right Of every man and
woman to use his brains and energies
to the full, and to reap . fair reward
from this use. I fear we have taken
the sturdiness Of American individ-
ualism too much for granted. 1t Is
time We examined this American
characteristic again, to see whether
or not We are losing 1t. and to decide
whether or not we wish to lose 1t and
to replace 1t with reliance on the
Government or on Others"
OUCH dependence would lead us,
would it not, into the totalitarian
State, or Socialism,"
THE totalitarian State, Socialism,
Fascism, Communism. or any other
ism that has even lured man with
the hope of redressing his wrongs,
down through history. This problem
Of ~the concentration Of wealth into
the hands of a few has always been q
world problem. It underlies the civil
war In Spain, the Communist revolu-
ton In Russia and the death Of
democracy tn other countries. It has
toppled kings from their thrones. It
will drive to disaster dictators,
economic or political, who thwart the
masses in their efforts to achieve q
better standard of living and greater
economic security. It Is an ancient
question and, curiously. when it re-
ours, 1t has always been novel and
acute. This Is because self-seeking
enterprisers have been adept at con-
ceiving and adopting new monopoly
devices soon after society showed it.
self able to comprehend and control
the contemporary problem. Thus the
problem has always been 4 new one,
requiring q new concept and 4 new
analysis.
In the present recurring wave Of
interest and preoccupation with mo-
nopoly I read the natural result Of
legislation rendered inefficient in In
terpretation. Back in 1873, Henry
Ward Beecher declared that he
counted among the dangers OF those
times one which has developed out Of
the prodigious rapidity Of the accu-
mutation Of enormous and consolidated
wealth. He cited in particular the
railroads Of his day. I fear that the
time will come Beecher prophesied,
when the workingmAn viii rise up and
say that he has no appeal to the
courts, no appeal to Legislatures; that
he is bought and owned by consoli-
dated capital. And when that time
comes, unless 1t brings reformation,
It will bring revolution
WELL, it brought reformation some
years later In the Sherman
antitrust law, passed in 1890. And
between those 'o0s and the election Of
President Wilson in 1912 the Amer
lean industrial scene underwent q vast
change. Great and numerous national
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Charles Francis Adams; Edward Ev-
erett, Wendell Phillips, Longfellow
Emerson. Holmes. Stedman. Bret
Harte, Charles w. Eliot, Henry Cabot
Lodge, James Bryce and woodrow Will
son-a notable succession, many of
whose utterances have taken q place
in our literature and are regarded as
literary and scholarly masterpieces.
Perhaps the most widely known Of all
is that delivered by Ralph Waldo En-
erson before the Harvard chapter in
1887, The American Scholar" in
which the great American philosopher
and man of letters took Is his text ::
In the Right State the Scholar Il
Man Thinking"
WHEN in 1882 Phi Beta Kappa de-
cided upon the publication of
quarterly magazine the society
turned to Emerson's famous Phi Beta
Kappa grafton for q name. That
quarterly, The American Scholar, has
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TTOW0UuTS 6cCtIOU OF Inc SLQT
nert Sunday, February ~.
~ ACK in the hills of Kentucky
- those old, tired mountains
that are steep and inaccesi-
- bic. lies q forgotten frontier
The country is farming one. though
in locality which nature never in
tended for farming. The hills are
heavily wooded and tremendously
steep, the soil is thin and rocky and
the only natural resources are slate
filled coal and timber. Thirty years
ago the last game was killed of and
now there are only few squirrels, a
few rabbits and an abundance of
snakes, both Of the poisonous and
harmless varieties.
Here Mrs. Mary Breckinridge estab-
lished the Frontier Nursing Service.
Nine years ago, after her return
from war nursing in France, she heard
Of the ignorance, the poverty and the
disease that were rampant back in the
hills and went on horseback, which is
the only mode of travel except walk
ing, through 500 miles of country.
making survey to discover which dis
trict was most needy and least likely
to be aided by outside influence. She
lived in the cabins with the mountain
eers, ate their food, talked crops with
the men, babies with the women, and
played with the children, while she
noted with a keen and sympathetic
eye the hideous and almost impossible
odds against which these people were
playing IN their flght for daily exist
ence.
The women bloom early, are married
and are working in the fields when the
normal city girl is attending high
school and are old ut rs. Their hands
are worn from toll and they look at the
world-that narrow, beauty-nlled,
narrowing mountain world-with pa
tient, unexpectant eyes.
At first, naturally, they and their
husbands regarded with curiosity and
suspended approval the group Of women
who had come to ease their suffering
and supplement their barren exist
ence. They called them "quare
women" and received them with ex-
element and APPREHENSION. Among any
people, and especially an isolated group
Of people, the advent Of radical change
IS 80 looked upon. But gradually the
feeling Of the mountaipeers changed
to cooperation and active friendship.
A FTER the first few successful deliv-
cries, word passed from family to
family that these women had good
luck" and skill in their work. With
the instructive curiosity Of the shy
wild things, men and women began to
visit ''Wendover," and the simple, sim
cere welcome, the CHEEKY warmth and
sympathy that pervaded the service
encouraged them and placed them 1t
their ease. When . HE that was dis