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Evening star., 1940-01-12
Arlington
Club Banquet
New Officers
Are. Installed
At Function

Installation Of new officers of the
Arlington County Soroptimist Club
took place at the clubs annual ban
quet last night at the Washington
Golf and Country Club, with q
number Of guests in attendance.
Mrs. Pearle w. Sharpe, the new
president, succeeds DR.. Verlin E.
Miles, who was presented with a
silver platter last night in recogni-
ton Of her service to the club.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, national
chairman of the Womans Party, the
guest speaker, made an address on
Democracy for Women" while the
installation was conducted by Miss
Viola K. Almony of Baltimore, di-
rector Of the South Atlantic region
Of the American Federation of So
roptimist Clubs. Guests participat-
ing in the program also included
Mrs. Jean Bennett. past president Of
the Washington Soroptimists, who
offered the invocation.
! Music included solos by Mrs. Vir-
ginia Pollard Working, accompanied
by Mrs. Grace Gaumnitz, and ac-
Gordon selections by Bernard Bury.
Mrs. Agnes j. Conrad led the club
members in Soroptimist songs. with
Miss Ethel Jackson playing the
piano accompaniments.
Other Officers
Installed.
In addition to Mrs. Sharpe, off,
GERS installed were Mrs. Frances C.
Bell, vice president; Miss Elizabeth
Hewston, recording secretary; Mrs.
Ethel Taylor Robinson, correspond
ing secretary: Mrs. Kathleen Clarke,
treasurer; Mrs. Meta H. Broaddus,
director.
Guests of honor included Miss
Lulu Feller of Baltimore, secretary
of the American Federation OF Sor-
optimist Clubs; Miss Mary Bourke,
president OF the Washington Sorop-
timist Club; Mrs. Pauline Gorham,
president, Alexandria Soroptimist
Club; Miss Elizabeth Betschler,
president, Prince Georges County
Soroptimist Club; Miss Anna Peck,
president, Montgomery County Sor-
optimist Club; Mrs. Agnes Newman,
past president of the Washington
Soroptimist Club; Frank Hanrahan
county manager, Arlington County;
Mrs. Elizabeth Magruder, chairman
Of the Arlington County Board;
Howard Sharpe of the Monarch
Club of Arlington County; George
Groves, president. Lions Club of
Arlington; Earl Kirby, president,
Rotary Club of Arlington: Miss
Margaret Troxell, representing the
Arlington County Sun; Mrs. Eva
Mae Jacobs, president, of the Busi-
ness and Professional Womens Club
of Arlington County; Mrs. Mary
Cullen and Mrs. Frances Perkins
Miller of Fairfax County, and Miss
Betty Brown, president, Venture
Club of Arlington County.
Mrs. Sharpe announced as the
chairmen for the coming year:
Membership and classification, DR..
Miles; auditing, Mrs. Rhea Chris
tenson; arbitration. Mrs. Bell;
finance. Mrs. Agnes j. Conrad;
program, Mrs. Katharine Winston;
publicity, Miss Vera A. Conard;
civics, Miss Nellie Spencer; social,
Miss Anna Mae Crews; attendance,
Miss Hewston; Venture Club, Mrs.
Clarke; legislation, Miss Gertrude
Crocker; extension, Mrs. Nan Mid
dleton; fellowship, Mrs. Broaddus;
music, Mrs. Working; peace, Mrs.
Sue Brown, and hospitality, Mrs.
Elizabeth Chambers.
Evening star., 1940-01-12
New Year.
Open House
Society for Hard
Of Hearing Will
Give Tea

A new year" open house will be
held for members and friends Of
the Washington Society for the
Hard of Hearing tomorrow from 3
to pm. in the attractive new
home Of the society's vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Elizabeth Owen, at 14l2
Geranium street NV. The tea will
be given in honor Of the executive
secretary, Miss Elizabeth Brand,
who will assist in receiving.
Also receiving will be Mrs. A.
Laura Stovel, president; the past
presidents, Mrs. Katherine Kipp
Madden, Miss Ada Morgan Hill,
George Ray Dickson and Miss An
nah M. Fletcher.
At the Tea Table.
Assisting at the tea table will be
Mrs. Frank Coburn and Miss Betty
G. Wright, who will pour; also Mrs.
A. r. Beatty and Mrs. Thornton
w. Owen, daughters Of the hostess;
Miss Minnie Hill, Miss Florence
Bergman, Miss Elsie Phelps, Miss
Rosalie Kaminsky, Miss Phyllis
Montgomery, Mrs. G. r. Dickson
and Master Owen Beatty.
AS the new season gets under way
the society is celebrating a number
OF accomplishments of the last year.
Among these are the beginning of
participation in the Community
Chest program, the employment of
an executive secretary. rs new
members, who will participate in
the open house; two gadget shows,
where helpful devices for the hard
of hearing were displayed and
which incidentally set the pace for
similar displays in other sections,
and increased newspaper and radio
publicity.
The society also is particularly
proud of the initiation by the young
peoples group of the Florence p.
Spoftord memorial scholarship in
memory of its first president. The
first college scholarship from this
fund will be awarded to some hard
OF hearing graduate of the public
or parochial high schools of the
District in June.
SOciety's Objective.
The society's principal objective
In 1910, as in past years. will be to
further publicize the need of help
for children with defective hearing
in the public school system who
receive no help. This objective is
nearer realization than ever before
as a result of the demonstration
class of children who have been
taught lip reading at the Curtis
School in Georgetown, it was said
In the near future earphones
also will be added for group hear
ing aid at the society's clubhouse at
11l6 Vermont avenue NV, where
cultural programs are given.
Increased interest in lip reading
classes at the clubhouse and at the
Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hos
pital also is reported.
Evening star., 1940-01-12
Vassar Alumnae
To Meet Tomorrow

Vassar alumnae will meet to-
morrow at lis pm. at the Y. w.
c. A. at special luncheon meet
ing called by Mrs. Waldron Faulk-
ner, chairman of the 18th Ami
versary Fund Committee. This will
be the first of a series of luncheons
and business meetings for local
workers on the $4,000, 1000 endow-
ment campaign lunched by the COL
lege January l.
Special gifts received from Wash
ingtonians will be announced and
Mrs. Faulkner will introduce her
committee chairmen, Miss Helen
hartman, Mrs. Roger Robb, Mrs.
Lionel Summers, Mrs. Fred Livesey,
Miss Theodore Malone, Mrs. WAL
lace Yater and Miss Margaret
Lambie. Following the luncheon
there will be a discussion of plans
for the ensuing campaign.
Evening star., 1940-01-12
Invitations Issued
For Sumner Dance

Senorita Erma Castillo Najera,
daughter of the Mexican AM
bassador and Sonora de Castillo
Najera, has issued invitations
for a buffet supper and dancing
in honor of Senorita Anita Venge.
The party will be held Saturday
evening at 8 o'clock.
Evening star., 1940-01-12

January o.. In Grace Lutheran
Church, Sixteenth and varnum
streets, in the presence Of members
of the immediate families. The
ceremony was followed by q we'd
ding breakfast. Mr.. Herbert Dieck-
mann of Akron, Ohio, and Miss
Katharine Umhau served as at
tendants. Later Mr.. and Mrs. DECK
Evening star., 1940-01-12
D. A. r. PARTY

Mrs. Floyd Reynolds will enter
tain the American Liberty Chap
ter, D. A, R., at the Admiral Club
today. Miss Helen Johnson, sec
retary Of the Continental Hall
Museum, will be the speaker on the
program.
Evening star., 1940-01-12

mann left for Florida, where they
will spend the remainder Of the
winter. On their return they will
make their home in Elm Grove.
Evening star., 1940-01-12
Miss Clara Umhau
Weds Mr.. Dieckmanr

Dr.. and Mrs. Gerhard Z. Lenski
announce the marriage Of Mrs.
Lenski's sister, Miss Clara G.
Umhau. to Mr.. John Dieckmann
Of Elm Grove, w. Va.
The wedding took place Tuesday,
Evening star., 1940-01-12

Edward Dmytryk is one of Holly
woods youngest directors, having
started at Paramount a an ONCE
boy 10 years ago.
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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-26
SUPREME COURT SAYS
TOOMEY LAW is VALID

In four-to-one decision, the state
supreme court has held that the 1887
law passed to prohibit elective state
officials from running for another
position without resigning, is con-
stitutional, but that it does not pre-
vent an elective state official from
running for city office.
The decision, with Chief Justice
Howard A. Johnson and Associate
Justices Albert H. Angstman,
Claude F. Morris and Ralph L. Ar
mold agreeing, reverses decision by
Judge George w. Padbury of Lewis
and Clark county district court, who
held that the act was unconstitu-
tional. Associate Justice Left Erick-
son dissented from the majority
opinion, contending the act was in
valid.
State Senator Mike Mulholland of
Silver Bow county brought the suit
against the act after he ran for post
of Mayor in Butte Mulholland was
defeated, and began the action to
retain his office as senator for the
remainder of his term, which will
end next December 81.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-26

religion, and the man at the head
of the state has become a new god
The clock has been turned back
centuries-those humanitarian, So
cial and cultural values men fought
for through the generations, have
been at least temporarily destroyed.
Few of us have realized that in
our country there are those, travel
ing under various DISCUSSES, whose
purpose is to elevate the state and
to subdue the individual. Few of us
have realized that dictatorship can
come slowly and insidiously as well
as swiftly and brutally-and that
basic rights may be destroyed before
we know we have lost them.
This is the greatest issue that any
nation can face. Either we are to
maintain democracy, and all that
democracy means-free enterprise,
free speech, the rights of free men
to act freely as their energies and
ambitions Dictator we are to let
democracy die. There can be no
compromise, no middle ground. No
American could do a finer thing
than to passionately resolve that in
this nation at least the state shall
continue to exist for the people
not the people for the state.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-26
The State of The Nation

The President has submitted a
budget for the coming fiscal year
showing substantial economies.
Nearly every major item, excepting
national defense, was cut. Total
savings, if the budget were adhered
to. would amount to 1875, 600, 600,
Everybody agrees that there is
drastic need for economy in govern.
ment. Undoubtedly editorial pages
from Maine to California will ring
with praise-and hope. Business
men and civic bodies galore will
laud the Presidents action. Won.
EMS clubs and chambers of COM
merce have been busy for years re-
solving that there should be econo.
my, and damning the spending
polititions. They, too, are quick
to praise even the faintest sign of
economy. We have all shouted
that economy is the only alterna.
tive to national visit to purgatory,
But what does it all add up to-?
Apparently nothing! Within a
few weeks the folks back home will
learn that real economy is not
just for the other fellow after all.
They will learn that the free mon
ey" they have been promised for
manifold local projects is not forth
coming. Then the stampede will
begin to get noses back in the pub.
lie trough. Tales of woe and hard
ship will descend On Washington
in an increasing avalanche. Mer-
chants. doctors. lawyers and thieves
will form committees. The com.
mittees will have their pictures prin-
ted in the local paper. They will
be off to Washington for more mon
ey. The rest of the folks stay at
home and cuss the spending politi-
tions. The slide to financial and
economic purgatory will continue,
Who will care if individual liberty
and savings are left behind?
This is not pretty picture. II
ID the state of nation.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-26
THE INDIVIDUAL
VERSUS THE STATE

The history of government is the
history of two conflicting principles:
is the supreme importance of the
state; the other is the supreme i'm
portance of the individual" said
Wendell L. Willkie recently. Either
the people have believed that the
state was merely voluntary creation
of individual citizens, responsible
to them and designed principally to
protect their liberties; or else they
have believed that the state was an
authority in its own right to which
individuals were subject and which
could demand of them the suppress
sion of their own desires and ta-
tents. The Individual versus the
state-that is the theme which more
than any other has determined the
course of civilization"
In the tangled years since the
World War this eternal struggle be.
tween the individual and the state
has become more intense. more bit
ter, more conclusive. The ancien,
rights and liberties of millions of
people, citizens of great nations
have been ruthlessly abrogated
Statism has been made into a new
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-26
The Low Down
From Hickory Grove

You do not pick up a paper. or
meet somebody on the street with
out the first thing you see or hear,
it is, what is wrong with the coun-
try? But you do not need a crys-
tai ball or be Sherlock Holmes to
deduct an answers.
In the early days when this coun-
try was growing up and getting its
feet on terra firma-and was going
to bed at 9 pm. versus q. m. -
and our eye was clear. we were a
pretty sensible outfit. And our
grandpas built up quite a U.S.A.
for us.
To get a railroad into a new coun.
try, or to get bank opened up 30
the folks would have a safe place
for their money, it was quite a
problem and when somebody could
be found to take the risk. the old
timers gave 'em a welcome.
But today it is open season on
anybody with more than two bucks.
So money has lit out for the tall
timber, and it won't be back till
the atmosphere clears up.
Brothers and Sisters, it is as
plain as the handwriting 10 Bal
shazzar's time, there in Babylon.
Yours with the lowdcwn,
Joe Sierra
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-26
RELAX RULES TO
AID AGED COUPLE
IN BORDER DRAMA
German Pair, Denied Entry
To u. S., Permitted to
Cross Line Daily.

MEXICALI, LOWER CALF
Early every morning an aged cou-
pie, he wizened and bent, she
white-haired and motherly, careful
ly pick their way through the crowd
ed streets of this Mexican border
town, apologetically approach the
massive wire-mesh fence that marks
the international boundary, receive
a nod Of approval from customs
guards and pass through into the
United States.
Each night at dusk they return.
A little slower, perhaps a bit more
tired. Again nod from officials,
and once more they enter Mexico.
He is man seeking country"
a once-prosperous merchant exiled
from Germany who, unable to gain
immediate entrance to the United
States, sought death because his
feet could not walk upon the land
that his eyes each day could see
through the wire fence.
She, his wife, became eligible un-
der the immigration quota to pass
through the customs gates that
barred him. But, ever faithful, she
stayed by him. hoping and waiting
for the day when they would be able
to walk side by side across the
boundary into America.
Their names and the strange story
behind these daily walks across the
border are known only to customs
officials who have withheld their
identity.
Speak Broken English.
Months ago they had arrived in
this dusty, hot capital of Lower Cali
fornia. Hope alone was their only
salvation. They spoke no Spanish
and only broken English.
Each day they set out for the
American consulate seeking that
priced envelope that would tell them
their names at last were included on
the immigration quota list of those
privileged to cross the border.
They had never given up hope, for
they had surmounted so many OBJ
stacles to get this far, surely their
way would not be barred for long
now that they were in sight of the
land they had Travelled so far to
reach. But always the answer was
Maybe tomorrow.
At last one day officials at the
consulate handed the wife her pre-
cious envelope. His? They were
very sorry, but he was not listed in
this quota; perhaps the next one.
Wife Declines Entry.
Although she was able to cross the
border under the new quota, she re-
fused to 60 until that time when he,
too, could accompany her. So each
day they continued their visits and
each day were met by the same re-
ply: mot today; maybe later"
At last the Illustration of his de-
sire to take that one step into the
country he had sought as a refuge
drove him to attempt suicide.
1t was his wife who saved him.
She found him dangling from chan
delier in their hotel room, bed
sheet tightly wrapped around his
neck. Aided by two hotel en-
ployees, she cut him down and man.
aged to revive him. 1t was then he
explained how, maddened by the
sight of the goal which he was un-
able to achieve. he had given up
hope and sought the only other es-
cape he knew-death.
When the immigration officials
learned of the suicide attempt and
the reasons for the attempt, they
broke precedent and granted the
couple request unusual in depart
ment history.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-26
LIBERTY AND LICENSE

Your greatest inheritance as an
American is freedom - freedom
from tyranny, freedom to live your
own life.
We in America must stand guard
continually to protect this birth
right. If we relax our watchfulness,
liberty may be abused and then put
to destructive purposes.
In every community, we have a
homely analogy to the destructive
power of dictators, of liberty gone
to license. Fire, with its tremendous
usefulness to man, is a good ele-
ment while kept in its role of SER
want But when miSuSed and per
mitted to break out of bounds, i,
becomes a raging demon of de-
struction, a tyrannical master-a
dictator!
America is not at war but it has
its heartrending casualty lists. Our
citizens need fortitude to face the
facts of fire losses. Each year 10000
persons lose their lives in fires, and
10000 more are seriously injured
The direct property loss amounts to
hundreds of millions of dollars an
nually.
Dictators maintain their power
by keeping their countrymen uni
formed. When the truth becomes
known, the dictator soon loses his
ability to sway the masses.
Again, an analogy can be drawn
to fire, for this element is best con-
trolled and kept in its place as a
servant through knowledge and
watchfulness. People who take the
trouble to inform themselves about
common fire hazards and safe build
ing methods, rarely suffer the ca
tastrophe of fire. For such people
there are number of sources of in
formation their local fire chief, the
state inspection bureau, their insur-
ance agent, and the National Board
of Fire Underwriters in New York
City.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-26
Garner, Leader Of Peace Bloc,
CrystaIIized Anti-War Sentiment
Throughout the United States

Marquis James. Pulitzer prize-winnine
author, in his new book. "Mr. Garner Of
Texas" tells how it happened:
His son. Tully. had gone to the fathers
office few days after the war resolu-
ton passed in 1917
SON." said Mr.. Garner, how do YOU
feel about going to WARP"
Il aim to 60. Dad" said the boy.
I'm glad to hear it-for you've got to
CO. couldn't have cast that vote to send
other fathers boys to war if | hadn't
known was sending my own. And lust
one more thing: your mother and will
want to hear from you every time you
get chance to write. bat promise you'll
never ask me favor. 1 might be In a
position to get it. and don't want TO be
exposed to temptation"
No member of Congress got a better
understanding Of war than Garner. Not
only was he member Of the Ways and
Means Committee active in the framing
Of laws for the four Liberty Loans ag-
gregating $4,000 900 900 and the s4.500.-
100000 Victory Loan and the emergency
lax Bills. but he was also President VIII
sons liaison man between the White
House and tho House Of Representatives.
Twice . week he went to the White
House for long private conferences with
President Wilson. The President sent
him to confer with the British. French
and Belgium missions which came to the
United States TO discuss methods Of wag-
ing the war. Garner had for many years
been q member Of the Foreign Affairs
Committee Of the House Of Representa-
tiyss and student Of foreign relations.
In the writing Of the new neutrality
Law Il was he who insisted on every
safeguard to prevent involvement Of the
Uaitsd States In war.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-26
Craftsmanship Above Politics

The present congress is faced
with great opportunity. That
opportunity is to put craftsmanship
above politics.
We have entered the new wear in
the midst of a strong upward trend
In business. Whether that trend
continues or not, is largely up to
Congress. 1t will, if Coneress
works with and for business, and
considers proposed legislation in
the light of Its effect on industries
which provide America with jobes
opportunities, and purchasing DOW
er. 1t will not, if we have another
Congress given to business batting.
We have had more than our share
OF Congresses Of the latter type,
and all you need to do to see the
havoc they have wrought is to look
at the record of the last nine traiRie
years.
The people will soon have an CD.
portunity to find out whether Con-
gress really wants orderly business
r'scovery-or whether it puts politi-
cal considerations above all else.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-26

Washington, D. c. Vice President
john Nance Garner more than any other
man changed the American attitude to-
ward the European war.
When MIR Garner returned to Wash
ington for the special session of Congress
on September 81. there was sort OF
fatalistic feeling that somehow or an
other the United States. sooner or later.
would get into war.
Travellers returning from Europe were
quoted in Eastern newspapers as report
ing that the most frequent question
asked Of Americans in England and
France was How soon will the United
States Join us?"
Garner never issues statements to the
press. therefore his part in creating the
new psychology may not be fully known
to the country. But more than forty sena-
tors visited the Vice President on the
first day he was in Washington.
Here is what he said to them:
THE United States Is not going into
this war. The people are determined
that we shall not get into 1t. We In cleo
tive Office have got to quit saying that
we hope this country can stay out. We
have got to start saying We are going
to stay out"
He expressed that same feeling at the
White House later in the day when DEM
ocratic and Republican leaders met with
President Roosevelt. He expressed It
again and again as Senators and Repre-
sentatives called on him later. And in .
few days the Garner sentiment was be-
ing echoed throughout Washington and
Il spread 70 the country.
Gafnsr votsd Tor war In 1917. He be-
usved there Wns no way to stay out and
b. sim bo1isves there was no way 70 stay
ct H insistsd that his enly son % 70
wne thea.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-26
Women

If you are interested in women
and who isn't-"The Women's Al
manac." published by Ga uaga Press.
Inc. New York, will give you some
unusual information. Male ego
will be somewhat chagrined to rea-
lie that wearing the pants in the
family is no great accomplishment.
women s spere of activity is now so
large that mere man, in despera-
ton, may turn to domestic science
for future opportunities.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-26

He was an alien and as such he
could not reside in the United States
but until such time when he would
be included in the quota, they al
lowed him to accompany his wife
into Calexico for the day, provided
he returns to Mexico by nightfall.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-26

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