Evening star., 1940-03-17
Friendship Is Theme
OF Judge Aliens
Talk 10 Women
Declares Liberty Must
Be Written Into Heurts
And Made Living Force

And Made Living Force
Taking as her theme the friend
ship displayed by seven organiza.
ttons of women gathered foEA. q
Friendship dinner" last night
Judge Florence Z. Allen, first wom-
IN jurist on the United States Court
of Appeals, went back to the Con-
stitution to show that only in de-
imocracy is friendship possible.
I The author Of '"This Constitution
of Ours" told more than 200 guests
that America is the only country re-
manning In the civilized world where
The rights Of the individual, grow
Ing out Of the Constitution, are pre-
served.
'Our forefathers," she said, saw
that where religious groups are per-
secuted . country is impoverished"
She gave as an example the con-
dition Of Spain after it banished the
Moors and the Jews and predicted
q similar fate for Europe's totau-
tartan states.
Liberty Not Ready Made.
The present challenge, she as
serted, was that Americans make
the faiths embodied in the Con-
stitution their faiths.
Liberty cannot be written ready
made into a charter" she declared.
ut must be written into our hearts
and sent on as living force to
the next generation. Here in Amer
lea we have the great and living
traditions but only by writing them
as articles of faith in the hearts
of the people can these traditions
function to the fullest"
Judge Aliens address was the
only serious note sounded at the
dinner, held in the Raleigh Hotel
with Altrusa Club hostess to six
other clubs - Soroptimist, Zonta,
Quota, Business and Professional
Women, Wornen's City Club and
Pilot Club.
Mrs. Betty Gilchrist, president Of
the Altrusa Club, who presided, ex-
planned that the theme of the din
ner was designing women" At
each place was a little doll made
by the Dennison Vocational School
and dressed in blue and white celo-
phane by members of the hostess
club.
Describes American Girl.
As Mrs. Gilchrist held up one of
the dolls, she declared: Here's the
typical American girl-vogue on the
outside, vague on the inside; over
exposed and under developed"
Speaking of the women who have
designed for themselves places in
the field of business" she referred
to Eve as "the first woman who
oversold an intelligent man on a
commodity for which he had no
use"
Men, however, were not entirely
forgotten by the women. Mrs. Gill
christ pointed to the gong loaned
for the occasion by the Rotary Club
and declared, I'VE appreciate the
little things men do for U.s."
The songs which punctuated the
dinner all had women for heroines
from "Oh, Susanna" to Sweet Gen.
evieve." Women'x names wers the
answers to 20 queltions printsde in
the program. The answers formed
the decoration,xnp the outside Of
the program and all the women had
to do was match the names, to the
questions.
The guests were asked to name four
women Nobel Prize winners, identi-
fy the present occupant, of Cleo
patra's throne, name "a columnist
who finds 1t hard to elude detec-
tives" mrs. Rooseyelt} and tell
which wellesley graduate ransomed
her kidnapped husband (Madame
Chang. Kai-shek) among other
things.
Mrs. johnson Sings.
Mrs. Germaine johnson, French
woman in the costume of Brittany
entertained with q group Of French
songs.
Presidents of participating organ
1zations who spoke briefly and in
troduced their members among the
guests were Mary Bourke, Sorop-
tomist: Mary Sigman, Zonta: Mary
Tancill, Quota; Judge Lucy Ho-
warth, Business and Professiona
Women; Marjorie Webster, Women's
City Club, and Louise Boynton, Pilot
Club. Olga Jones introduced Judge
Allen who knew her when the
judge was q newspaperwoman In