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Evening star., 1941-03-30

bers of the younger set, many now
enjoying their spring holidays. Last
night Miss Patricia McKneW, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Donald H. Nc
Knew, was given a dinner by DR.
and Mrs. Samuel H. Green, and
among the guests was Miss Phyllis
White of st. Louis, who is visiting
Miss McKnew.
This afternoon Miss Mimi Worth
ington will entertain at a cocktail
party in honor of Miss Courtney
Owens, who is just back from visit
in North Carolina, and tonight Miss
Laura Blair will be hostess at dinner.
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Parties Set in Alexandria;
Bride>Elect to Be Feted
Miss Cruikshank to Be Guest Tomorrow;
Mrs. Marian Stewart to Give at Home;
Bundles for Britain Aides Entertained

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 29-Mrs
ing at an at home tomorrow from o'clock her home North
Asaph street Assisting the tea table will be Miss
Margaret Thomas Miss Eleanor Talbot
Harvey Henshaw of Alexandria, Miss Margaret
Davis Miss HardiSty
timore and Mrs Arlington
Miss Helen Crukhank bridge
Monday to be of and
Mrs. E1est Ramme The other will be Miss
lope Barton, mogene Sheppon Miss Cornea Afriend
Cochran
Alfriend Palmer Miss Hill
Miss Josephine Robinson Miss Weby Paskt and Miss Polly Stephen
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by the other officers: Mrs. Maurice
H. Thatcher. first vice president;
Mrs. Thomas Reynolds, second vice
president; Mrs. c. H. Severn, treas
urer; Mrs. H. M. Payne, secretary;
Mrs. Edward H. Davidson, CORE
spending secretary, and Mrs. H. E
Spangler, chairman of the board.
Other board members include Mrs.
c. R. Chisholm, Mrs. H Grimminitz,
Miss Nina Hansen, Mrs. John H.
Munroe, Mrs. F. D. Wilson and
Mrs. Ben Jenkins.
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wedding of Miss Cruikshank to Mr.
Seddon Bruce Sadtler.
Miss Jaquelin Cochran
Entertained at Shower.
Another bride-to-be who is now
being feted is Miss Jaquelin Coch-
ran. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas B. Cochran, for whom Mrs
Thomas z. Sebrell, Sd, entertained
Wednesday at a lingerie shower and
supper.
The largest social event of the
week was the tea OF Wednesday
afternoon for Bundles for Britain
workers, when the Misses Gertrude,
Jane and Lillian Crilly entertained
at their historic home. Mrs. A. K.
Helm, wife of the First Secretary
of the British Embassy, was the
guest of honor. Nearly 200 guests
were present.
Relief for the Greeks is also Of
local interest, with Mr.. and Mrs.
Will L. Lowrie actively engaged in
the campaign. Mr.. Lowrie is mem
ber of the national committee and
Mrs. Lowrie is on the committee for
this section. They lived in Greece
when Mr.. Lowrie was Consul Gen.
eral there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry P. Lewis were
dinner hosts last Sunday, when they
entertained DR.. and Mrs. William
P. Collins of Washington and Col,
Pedro Zanni, air and military
attache of the Argentine Embassy,
and Sencra de Zanni.
Miss Andrews Selected
As a Festival Princess.
Mrs. Howard Worth Smith, jr.,
spent this week in Elizabeth City,
N. c.. visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. w. Forman.
Mrs. Henry Ingersoll Brown, jr.,
and Miss Margaret Hitler of Phila-
delphia have been the guests this
week of Miss Anne Carter.
Miss Helen Tucker Andrews,
daughter of Mrs. Atherton Macon
dray, has been selected to serve as
princess in the annual Apple
Blossom Festival at Winchester.
Mrs. Arthur Herbert and Miss
Helen Henry sailed this week with
Mr.. C. S. Taylor Burke and his
daughter. Miss Landon Mason
Burke, for Rio de Janeiro, where
Mrs. Herbert will be the guest of
her son-in-law and daughter, Comdr.
Edward Graves and Mrs. Graves
Mrs. Charles w. Carneal, who re-
Gently returned from Florida, is
now moving into her newly acquired
home on North Washington street,
which was formerly occupied by the
late Representative Charles c. Carlin
and Mrs. Carlin.
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85 years and her grandmother 81.

IS years and her grandmother 81.
Thus there have always been
four generations in the family
and are now, there being three
children, seven grandchildren
and six great-grandchildren, all
living in Washington and Silver
Spring. For the past % years
she has been residing in Silver
Spring with two of her daugh-
tiers, Miss Emma D. McCauley
and Mrs. A. Wahlstrom.
Evening star., 1941-03-30
New JERSEY Dinner

The New Jersey State Society will
entertain Wednesday evening at
dinner for its members and friends
in club studios" at the Fairfax
Hotel. Other entertainment will
include cards, an intelligence quiz
and a spelling bee.
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ranging the dresses and dolls that
have been given for the sale.
Down the center of the Arcade
Mrs. James Forrestal has three
shelved tables on which will be dis
played the artificial flowers that
she has taught members of her
committee to make. So real do they
appear that they make the Arcade
look as though it were in full sum-
mer bloom.
Up one flight of stairs we found
four more shops laid out. In
triguing is the book and print shop
of Mrs. Charles Henderson with its
large collection of rare and modern
books, many of them autographed
by their authors. Among the ladies
helping Mrs. Henderson were Mrs.
Charles Dewey, Mrs. Francis Biddle,
Mrs. Walter Edge, Mrs. George
Moffett, Mrs. Edward H. Finken-
staedt, Mrs. Edgar Mowrer, Mrs.
Ethel Burnett Clark, Miss Elizabeth
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Houghton, Miss Anita Phipps, Miss
Ann Perrin, Mrs. McCook Knox and
Miss Grace Dunham Guest.
Much Activity
In the Dress Shop.
The dress shop with Its paper cut
outs had Mrs. Courtlandt Parker,
Mrs. Charles C. Glover and otho>-
busy hanging lovely dresses to be-
guile the eye.
The china and glass shop was be-
! ginning to look very festive under the
able hand of Mrs. Philip o. Coffin,
with the aid of Mrs. George A. Gar
rett, Mrs Dwight Davis, Mrs. David
Finley, Mrs. James Laurence Hough-
telling, Mrs. Charles Courtney, Prin-
cess Leonid Ourusof, Mrs. Frank c.
Let's, Mrs. Bertram Long, Mrs.
Roger Macken, Mrs. Henry Latrobe
Roosevelt and Mrs. Arthur Fowler.
Very fresh and inviting is the space
| for the Easter card shop, which at
the time of our visit was waiting for
Miss Harriet WinSlow and her COM
mittee to arrive with unusual Easter
egg baskets and variety OF cards
which will be on sale at the British
War Relief Shop on Connecticut
Avenue until the Arcade opens.
Down on the main floor again, we
found Mrs. Clifford Pinchot's antique
shop, the articles for which have
been gathered from all over Wash
ington by the very large committee
assisting in the work.
Mrs. Shaw Parker had not quite
finished her mems shop and Mrs.
Eliot Wadsworths shop for the hos
pital was being put up in prepara-
ton for the time of the arrival OF
Mrs. Wadsworth and her committee,
who will help swell the fund for a
hospital bed. On this committee is
Mrs. William Marbury, Mrs. John
Minor, Mrs. Charles Crawford, Mrs.
Eugene Roberts and Mrs. Arthur
Palmer vice chairman of the shop.
Miss Mary B. Cox and her COM
mittee were busy at their task of as
sorting the wide variety of articles
for the Caledonian market.
Lady Broderick is chairman OF the
British war relief shop and with Mrs.
H. r. Scudder, Mrs. Roger Makins,
Mrs. latham and Mrs. Newton Dunn
was hard at work making the shop
attractive.
Many Events Listed
For This Week.
A turn of the pages Of the weeks
calendar gives further proof that the
coming days will be very gay. To-
morrow, Mrs. Roosevelt will have
with her at the tea hour at the
White House members of the Society
of Sponsors of the United States
Navy, and the same evening there
will be a dinner at His Britannia
Majesty's Embassy. Earlier in the
day Mrs. Claude R. Wickard, wife of
the Secretary of Agriculture, will be
among the guests at the luncheon
Mrs. D. N. Swan, wife of Col. Swan,
will give at the Westchester. We'd
nesday, Mrs. Peyton March will be
luncheon hostess, with Nine.
Ertegun, wife of the Turkish Am
bassador, as her honor guest. The
following day Mrs. Parker w. West
will give luncheon for Mrs. Harlan
Fiske Stone, and also on that days
program is the reception the League
of Republican Women will give for
Mrs: ~Willkie.
The week end was merry for men,
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Canal Society Women
To Hold Dinner

The second annual dinner of the
Women's Auxiliary of the Panama
Canal Society will be given April 10
at $50 pm. at Hotel 2400.
Mrs. William D. Wrightson, presi-
dent, will receive the guests, assisted
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
Bread and Water Rationk

President George S, Benson of Harding College, Searcy Arkansas, recently ap- peared before a House Committee and presented a detailed report on how the Federal budget can be cut at least $2,0OO,0OO, ,OOO-and one of the cuts ad- vocated would in any way affect the defense drive. They would all be made in non-essential undertakings.
 Sometime ago, the Secretary of the Treasury, also testifying before Con- gressional Committee, said that non- defense expenditures could be reduced $1 1000, 100000 or more.
 Yet Congress, so far, has shown absol- utely no disposition to make any reduc- tions in spending It is simply piling the gigantic defense expense on top of our already distorted budget. Unless an awakened public forces change in that attitude, there will be but one end national bankruptcy national disaster, national collapse, and bread and water rations for every man, woman and child in the land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
Main spring

''For the first time in yearS," writes William R. Kuhns, in Banking, "the butcher, baker, and candlestick maker, their sisters, cousins and aunts are begin ming to discover what fine assortment of useful and unsuspected items their bank has for sale"
 Many of us used to think of banks as institutions which were only interested in "big money" operations, and which had little to offer the ordinary man. To- day the typictl bank is actively seeking accounts of all sizes - and it offers as cordial welcome to the legitimate bor- rover who needs few hundred dollars as it does to the borrower who needs tens of thousands. It finances the purchase of automobiles and homes.
 Today the banks are carrying on still another big job = the sale of defense loan securities. It sestimated that more than $1O0,0O0,0O0 worth of these bonds and stamps must be sold to the public each week if the Treasury is to avoid further inflationary sales of government securities to the banks. Private banking is again proving that it is one of the mainsprings that keep this country going.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
Labor and the St. Lawrence

The St. Lawrence waterWry and power project is direct and imminent menace to the interests of American labor. And a number of labor leaders have awakened to that fact. Testifying before the House Rivers and HarborS Committee on July 28, John L. Lewis estimated that the proj- ect would eventually displace as many as 50,000 workers from their jobs, by reduc- ing the market for coal. "What benefits can we hope for" he said, If the govern ment joins with us on the one hand to stabilize the coal industry, and then immediately sets about to displace coal for the generation of electricity and build a waterway as an inducement to foreign coalS?"
 In recent magazine article, D. B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and Enginemen, said that the project is without merit as a defense measure. "The rails of America" he went on, "provide the out standing transportation servce of the world. They are adequate now and po- tentially so in the future" He then called on American labor to protest against the project and concluded, Tt is not only dire threat to their standards of living and even their livelihood, it is an invasion of the American way. This unnecessary and stupendous expense will not provide the expected power benefits as an aid to national defense. Its transportation fa- cilities will only make the position of us all more precarious."
 What this country needs is power and transportation now - not power and transportation that, in the case of the St. Lawrence, will take four or more years to produce. The railroads have shown beyond question that they are capable of meeting our abnormal needs. The electric utilities are starting tremendous expan- sion program. The coal industry has proven itself fully aware Of the needs of the time and k producing at maximum pace Tho gt. Lawrence project, by dls.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
U. s. Influence for Peace

It is being freely said that in some mysterious manner President Roosevelt holds the peace of Europe and of the world in his hands; that word from him would stop the war. That is frightening power and responsibility to attribute to any one man. If it were literally true, it is hard to see how any man could fail inn mediately to exercise that power. To what extent is it true, and in what manner? Let us see.
 First, it is all too clear that the rest of the world would not stop fighting merely because the President of the United States told it to. We have long and bitter experience to prove that. We have the fact that the President, using only moral suaSion, asked most earnestly on August 25, 1889, that the war be avoided. In virtually identic notes to Herr Hitler, to President Moscicki of Po- land, and to King Victor Emmanuel of It. Sly, he asked, in the name of all humanity, that they refrain from hostilitieS for a period during which negotiations could Ae arranged. Poland replied favorably, and Roosevelt transfitted it's reply to Hitler, but in vain.
 There is no reason to believe that to- day an appeal on purely humanitarian grounds would have any effect at all. On what ground, then? Only on the ground of action, immediate or potential, by the United States. Even the peace appeal of former Ambassador Cudahy had an Cor else'. What action, then?
 One possible action would be to threaten the British with cutting off all material aid. Perhaps, seeing then that they could not win, the British would sue for peace, which, based on the existing military situation and the known German ambitions, could be little different from she ""peaee" "gof complete German victory. Another possible course would be to threaten the Germans that we would de- clare war if they refused peace based on the Eight Points. But that implies willingness to back up the offer with an ''or else" which is just the Possibility which those will not admit who are most jealous in suggesting peace.
 In short, any influence which the United States may now have in world affairs rests primarily on two things: the force at it's disposal, and it's apparent willingness to use that force to back up the kind of a peace it believes to be right The only realistic influence for peace that the United States has at the moment lies in building tremendous force and power, and committing that power only. to the support of such belligerents as give evil dence of being willing to create decent peace; retaining the right to shift that support to any power which at any time gives credible evidence of working toward such peace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28

Exchange of secondary school teachers between the United States and the other American Republics is limited at the pres ent time, John w. Stakeholder, U. S. Com missioner of Education, announced re- gently. He puts crimp in this idea of exchanging teachers. 'At the present time no general interchange of secondary school teachers between the United States and the other American Republics ap- pears to be feasible" he says, and eau tions that program of exchanges should and will take place in the future, but these exchanges will need to be worked out carefully beforehand by the proper authorities in the United States and in the other Republics" He adds: "Until such time as plan can be worked out and announced, teachers both in the United States and in the other Repub- lies should know that such opportlni- ties are quite limited"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
ood-hating, undeloused dictator.

God hating, undeloused dictator.
 Yeah-we hate Communists. Ws loathe Nazis. We deSpise those whe place the welfare of their country second to other nations. Like hra. burger, the three of them smell, and SO does Churchill especially when he tells iis that we must do, this and we must do that hecauss Ea jolly well good for England.
 Let's not kid ourselves. It's abdul time that peace loving ArneFicanI tied 6 can to the tail of tlile Copa' mittee to Help the Allies--a taaI tlla' is waggiag on our pretnlses. ht' whose head ig eating out of q trougI in London. N.t
 Not long ago. three Mexican hofs' thieves were hung for cattle steel l ifie on our side of the Internetio1& Border. Their last words were ringing shout. Viva Moxicol Hx4 thief can bo loyal to hig count and .hls lag. How about lt chas You who were born Of wealthy il elits. who lives ln tho gfsnteFt
 finest country in tho world. take E hat OF, and iip it i0 Inc Moth&
 American sons. Ue4 tie. tfe
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
FUMIGATION ONLY REMEDY FOR AFTER-EFFECTS OF AT TENDING DEFEND AMERICA MEETING, SAYS GEORGE
 AYOTTE

Aug. ~, 4S4A'
 Editor of the Democrat:
 Ye gods! After attending 8 meet ing of the Committee to Defend America by Helping the Allies there is only one thing left to do; and that is to have my clothes fumigat- ed. I always had my doubts about the sincerity of this organization, but recently while scanning a copy of the Congressional Record my doubts were verified. can easily understand and sym- pathize with those who attended this meeting, because of the embarrass- ing position they were placed in by the statements made by the various speakers, particularly in view of the fact that certain United States Sepa- tors Investigating the organization of the Committee to Defend Amer ica, reported to the Senate that it was. to be used as 8 propaganda ma chine to create war hySteria, to propa- gandize the United States into war in order to save British im- perialiSln, regardless of the conse- quence to the future welfare of the United States"
 A large number of representatives of both houses of Congress, anthng whom were several outstanding members from Connecticut, de- nounced in severe terms the work of this committee, as unpatriotic and un-American, hence my sympathy to those who attended the meeting. The meeting was greatly public ized, but the small attendance of one hundred shows that instead of 8 rally, 1t turned out to be flop. Old Sourpuss from Watertown act ed as chairman, and by the puzzled look on his face, he didn't know what it was all about. He thinks manual labor is a Spaniard. He tried, to smile several times during the meeting to show the audience he was awake. but it was pitiful at- tempt. His smile reminded the writer of the breaking up of a hard winter. I have no time to comment on pr. Agar's speech. The line of tripe he puts out is what makes the grass green m Texas. I got quite kick out of the other speaker, MT. MacAfee of the Free French committee, a group of rene- gades under sentence of death by the Vichy government. The speaker claimed to be Yankee Division vet eran. So what-the writer. is also a Yankee Division veteran, willing to place his service record along side of Mir. MacAfee,s and confident that 1t will not suffer in comparison.
 Mir. MacAfee stated that 'aThe French didn't quit. They were sold out. Of course, Q stranger has to come Into town and tell the Com. nittee to Defend the Allies soine- thing that the American people had been aware of for the last three years Of course they were sold out. Sold out by Leon Blum and hls Communist Front, the bame As Wo arc being g0ld out by 6 few var lnongers isl Washington today.
 Through the pFevialens ~ tho
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28

There is an old story in Washington about Lowell Mellett being told to answer the telephone = "the White House wants you right away!" Mellett refused to go to the phone, and said: Tell the boys to go back to their drinking and stop play ing jokes" But, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to ask Mellett to over- see all Government publicity. MT. Mel lett holds the office of Director of the Office of Government Reports, and while he remains at that post there will be no censorship of the press in the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28

opening of the door to larger liy- ing. Moody believed--and millions have shared his belief - that what men commonly call death is really the beginning of life.
 Just recently talked with a grand old Christian on his eighty. seventh birthday. and he told me with what delightful anticipation he viewed the future. thought of Hugh Maekail. youngest and bray. est of tho coventing preachers, who suffered niartyrdcm for his faith in ioee.
 His judges gave him four days to I've. "A he vas being led back to his cell. he caught a sllmp6o os ( friend among the crowd and cried, Good noWSl I am within four daye
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
In Today's Mail

Lend-LeaSe Bill, we are forwarding our finest armament to Europe. Ou1 Martin bombers, our Douglass-Lock- heed four motored planes, the fineSt in the world today, also our famous bomb-sighting device, all of these have been ferried across the Atlan- tic, leaving the United States with a lot of obsolete crates of 1917 vintage. It seems as though we haven't a plane good enough to take up a few representatives on an in- spection tour of army cantonmentS The press reports our own represen- tative from Connecticut was forced down three times in one day with engine trouble. Is that the kind of equipment that will make our nation impregnable?
 MT. Kirnball's enthusiasm for the New Deal policy of intervention, and many others throughout the na- tion cannot possibly share. Tn these critical times it is specially esSen- tial for American citizens to examine just what is meant when such phrases as "sanctity of treaties democracy, "aggressor nations are set before us to ensnare us in a bloody conflict to preserve the iniquitouS status quo.
 Most Americans care little that Josef aud Adolph have parted, ex- cept the Committee to Defend the Allies. They have decided which of the brutes they prefer. They frown upon the way Hitler parts his hair and grows his moustache. They applaud the union of England and Russia and would have we Ameri- cans assist and cheer the foul smell ing, washless, soap-hating. walrus- faced Bolshevik Josef Stalin.
 Why the Committee to Defend the Allies has made such a choice is their business. But when they try to sell 1t to the American people as part of the program to save the world for Democracy-I think 1t is time to call a halt to such vicious propaganda. Let us impress upon them that their sugar coated and honeyed words are recognized for what they are-APPLESAUCE.
 We know that Stalin murdered millions of Christians in the Ukraine. We know he closed the churches of Russia, changed the name of cities which bore the names of saints to those of Bolshevik mur- derers. We have not forgotten that priests were slain in the streets, nor that nuns were raped by soldiers of the Soviet as they prayed on pended knees for protection which never came. Where was this so-called hu. nanitarian committee3 Why didn't 1t raise Its voice?
 YeahIl This is the sort of democ- racy for which the Committee to Detend the Allies would have ug fight. This is what they would save the world for. And why? Because by 50 doing Hitler, the clown, might be destroyed and c certain empire permitted to remain intact. Tn other words the Committee to Defend the Allies are determined to give the fa- nous four freedoms to the woEld- yeAhr-even though the butcher Josef insists they Do served 6 Id Russian dreesing. Right iioW they gre llck- ing their chops and they don't care Q continental whether we Americana like it cF not They are deteFnlInatl Co git in on tho feAGs egen if shaif ylttlcs be nerved by q eoatieslegins,