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Evening star., 1941-01-26
Future Meetings of Wonen's Clubs Announced

Ellis Logan. The New Andrew
Mellon Art Gallery"
Women's Club of Chevy Chase, Md.
Tomorrow, $50 am. dancing
group: p M, music section. Tues
day. $50 am, rythmic exercise
class; 1890 am, international
relations section; 2 pm, art Sec
ton visit to Anderson House.
Wednesday, 10 am, music section
rehearsal. Thursday, $50 pm,
rhythmic exercise class; 1890 an,
music appreciation group; 12:45
pm, Spanish class. Friday, 9
pm, junior dance.
Bethesda Women's Club-Tomor-
row, IL m, social group, dessert
bridge. Tuesday. 1880 am, in
ternational relations group, 56O6
Moorland lane; 2 pm, motion
picture department tea meeting.
Marietta Park Women's Club
Tuesday. 8 pm. executive board
with Mrs. H. E. Cleaves, 1923
Fourth street NV.
Silver Spring Woman's Club-Tues-
day, 10 am, executive board
meeting with Mrs. c. Russell Shet-
terly, 1914 Cedar street. Wednes-
day, 1890 am, literature depart
ment, with Mrs. John w. Ayers,
641 Gist avenue; subject, Amer
ican Faces South" by Ybarra;
reviewer, Mrs. A. V. Amman;
1:30 pm, music department, with
Mrs. Donald Sabin, Midhurst
road; subject, peterborough
Colony"
Petworth Womsn's Club-Tomor-
row, 8 pm, annual winter social
with Mrs. H R. Norton, 1928 New
Hampshire avenue NV; Thurs
day, 10 am, Red Cross Group,
Petworth Library; Thursday, II
m, executive board, with Mrs. j.
K. Utley, 421 Shepherd street
NV, Friday, 8 pm, civic educa-
ton section, with Mrs. H. o.
Craver, 116 Varnum street NV;
speaker, Miss Thelma FRYER.
yosemite Valley" with motion
pictures.
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Federation to Meet
National and International Affairs
To Be Discussed Tomorrow

National and international affairs
will be discussed before the District
Federation of Women's Clubs at a
meeting tomorrow at II am. at
Hotel 2400
The morning speaker will be DR..
Ernest Griffith, former dean of
American University and legislative
reference chief of the Library of
Congress. who will talk on the world
crisis and the part religion and
patriotism must take in unifying the
Nation.
Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens will
relate personal experiences of a
Red Cross worker in the British
Isles during the afternoon program.
Efforts to establish a youth refer
ence center in the Library of Con-
greSs will be discussed by Miss Elaine
EXton. prominently identified with
the effort.
Essay Awards.
Presentation of awards to the VIM
ming members of the Police Boys
Clubs of Washington. who entered
the essay contest sponsored by the
federation's department of fine arts.
will be made Immediately after
luncheon by Mrs. George McCul-
Tough, chairman of literature, with
Mrs. G. Oliver Gillingham assisting.
A musical program will be pre-
sented in the morning by Mrs. Marie
c. Deal, Washington concert and
radio artist; George Harold Miller,
choir director and baritone soloist
of the Metropolitan Methodist
Church, and Elsie Harvey Weaver,
accompaniSt. Mrs. Hazel Brown
Piers is music chairman.
Plans for the British war relief
benefit card party to be given Feb
ruary IA at Hotel 240O will be pre-
sented by Mrs. John Lucker and
Mrs. LIE Verne Beales. chairman
and vice chairman of the fedora
tion's Co-ordinating Committee for
Emergency Work. Progress on work
for the party will be reported by
Mrs. Frederic Newburgh, chairman
of reservations, and Mrs. Charles P.
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avenue NV. Speakers. Lawson
J. Cantrell, Vocational Education
in the District of Columbia and
Mrs. Marion H. Britt, Legislation"
Miscellaneous Clubs
D. c. League of American Pen
Women-Tomorrow, 8 pm, busi-
ness meeting at studio, Grafton
Hotel. Tuesday. pm, drama
workshop meeting with Mrs Theo-
dore H. Tiller, Mount Pleasant
street NV. Wednesday, to 6
pm, annual fiction tea in studio,
Grafton Hotel. Speaker, Miss Bah
Lincoln. Life on a Newspaper. ="
Woman's National Farm and Gar
den observation-disclosures, l
pm, The Highlands. Speaker,
Louis Frank, What the Members
of the Capital Division of the
Women's National Farm and Gar
den Association Can Do in the
Defense Program"
Columbian Women of George Wash
ington University-TomorroW, 1:30
pm, bridge section, with Mrs. B..
B. Mulford. 3704 Huntington
street NV, dessert bridge.
Woman's National Democratic Club
Tomorrow, 1890 pm. luncheon.
Speaker, Mrs. Elizabeth Shirley
Enochs, THE Good Neighbor Pol
icy in It's Relations to the Welfare
of Women and Children" Thurs
day, II am, education section.
Speaker, Mrs. May Thompson
Evans, Defense Legislation to
Date in the Seventy-seventh Con-
greSs."
League of Republican Women
Tuesday, 4:30 pm, tea, club
house. Honor guests. Mrs. Robert
A. Taft and Mrs Karl Stefan.
Thursday, l pm, luncheon.
D. c. Federation of Women's Clubs
Tomorrow, II am, Hotel 2400
Speaker, DR.. Ernest Griffith, THE
Present World Crisis; l pm,
luncheon; 2 pm, unfinished busi-
ness. Speakers, Mrs. Leslie Clark
Stevens, Personal Experiences of
Red Cross Worker in the British
Isles" and Miss Elaine EXton,
Merits of Bill H. R. 9763'
Beta Sigma Phi-TomorroW, pm,
Lambda Chapter. the Evangeline,
1880 L street NV. Tuesday, 8
pm, Gamma Chapter, with Miss
Kathryn Mason, the McReynolds
Apartments; 8 pm, Zeta Mu
Chapter.
Kappa Beta Pi, Omicron Chapter
Today, S to Z pm, tea, D. A. r.
Chapter House Music program.
Washington Alumnae Alpha Omt-
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Petworth Woman's
Club to Meet

The annual winter social meet
ing of the PetWorth Woman's Club
will be held at s pm. tomorrow at
the home of Mrs. H. R. Norton, 1928
New Hampshire avenue NV. Mrs.
Frank MacMaugh is general chair
man of the party which will include
games, followed by refreshments.
Miss Thelma Fryer will give an
illustrated talk on the Yosemite
Valley before the civic education
section of the club at 8 pm. Friday
at the home of Mrs. H. o. Craver,
116 Varnum street NV.
The executive board will meet at
noon Thursday at the home of Mrs.
j. K. Utley, AL Shepherd street
NV.
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French Refugee
To Speak at Tea
At Belmont House

Nine. Matilde Dordet. a Fro~
refugee now residing in Baltir-~
which was formerly her home.
be the principal speaker at
today at the Alva Belmont FOu-
arranged by the Government WorE-
ers' Council Of the National Won
ans Party.
DR.. Margaret Sebree. counci,
chairman. said Nine Dordet vii.
discuss the place French women can
take in the new order OF their
country.
Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller will
speak on Democracy and Women S
Place in 1t" on the program. which
will be opened by Mrs. Harvey W.
Wiley. National Woman's Party
chairman.
Nine. Dordet whose major Inter
estS recently have been in politica.
and labor problems, studied voic0
and painting in Europe and marrleC,
a French engineer.
She Travelled extensively through
the Orient and North Africa. but
eventually returned to Paris. There
she resumed her study of painting
and added bookbinding TO her &C
complishments.
Officers and members of the coun-
Gil will assist at the tea table and
serve as ushers. The group includes
Mrs. Abbie Owens. Miss GLADYS
Whalley, Miss Bertha HUM, Miss
Grace Brewer, Miss Zylpha Stoner,
Miss Mabel Noe, Miss Edith For
rester. Miss Corrine Kyle, Miss Char
lotte Baillie. Miss Margaret Waters,
Miss May Gross. Miss Helen Forbes
and Miss Eula Ellis.
Mrs. Emile Newman is chairman
of hospitality.
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cron Pi-Today, to pm, art
photography exhibit and tea. STU
dio of Miss Lucille wilkinson, 804
Seventeenth street NV.
Women's Welsh Club-Tomorrow
1920 Webster street NV.
Hanita Club of the Pioneer Wom-
ems Organization of Palestine
Tuesday, with Mrs. Selma Good
man, 4536 Fifth street NV.
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Hebrew
Home for the Aged-Thursday 8
pm. 1925 Spring road NV. Pres
ident's birthday party celebration.
Y. w. C. Amount Pleasant Chap
ter, THURSDAY, 1:30 pm, card
party with Mrs. George U. Rose,
j.. 1913 Van Buren street NV.
National Society Daughters of
Founders and Patriots of America
Thursday. 1920 am, midwinter
meeting. National headquarters,
1923 I street NV.
University of Michigan Alumnae
observation-disclosures, pm,
annual dinner with University of
Michigan Alumni Association,
Taft House Inn. 1903 K street NV.
Speaker, Howard McClusky.
Phi Delta Delta Fraternity-Wash-
ington Alumnae Chapter-
Wednesday, 7 pm, dinner, Ken
nedy Warren. Speaker, Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Shirley Enochs.
Sigma Kappa Sorority-Washing-
ton Alumnae Chapter-Saturday,
benefit bridge luncheon, the High
lands.
Women's Association of the Univer-
salist National Memorial Church
Tuesday, l pm, at Smorgas-
bord, luncheon and book review.
Reviewer, Mrs Hazel Wilson.
Society Daughters of the American
Revolution-TomorroW, 8 pm,
Student Loan Fund Committee,
Chapter House. Speaker, DR..
Warren Reed West, Financial Aid
to College Students" Tuesday,
Capt. Weldell Wolfe Chapter.
with Mrs. Ada Mills Payne, 3701
Fourteenth street NV. Songs
and music program by Mrs.
Thelma Mills Rector; 2 pm, Liv-
ingston Manor Chapter, Chapter
House Speaker, Miss Lillian
Chenowith, "The Manuel; pm,
Our Flag Chapter, Chapter
House; 9 to IL pm, Columbia
Chapter, reception, Chapter House.
Friday, $3.50 pm, D. C. D. A. R.
Golden Jubilee Concert, Memorial
Continental Hall. Saturday, l
pm, Livingston Manor Chapter,
birthday luncheon, The Parrott
Tea Room. Speaker. Mrs. Clara
Trick Willison.
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charity after visiting home for the
blind in Baltimore.
Il thought" she explained, that
if could get others to help me we
could do so much good"
With that thought in mind, she
asked her friends if they would join
her in missions Of charity.
Sunshine Society Started
At Wesley Methodist Church.
There were many generous re-
sponses to her appeal, she said, and
soon group had assembled IN the
parish house Of the Wesley Meth
odist Episcopal Church near the
Pension Office. From this small
group developed the Sunshine and
Community Society. Among the
early members she recalled were
Ellen Spencer Mussey, Mary S.
Lockwood and Mary I. Wood.
I'VE didn't play cards very much
in those days" she smiled, "and
could not raise the funds which
they do now through parties. But
we managed in a number Of little
ways to collect money to help with
our work"
Mrs. knight recalled that she vas
very much annoyed when certain
members insisted the new sccierv
have bylaws. II felt that il wasn't
necessary to have bylaws 10 give
poor people bread and butter" she
said.
Years ago the kindly phiianthro-
pist adopted as her notices. y
sunshine act each day" and Sc
ter sunshine on your way VIII
her family and friends declare she
has practiced unfailingly.
/ Mrs. Knight believes that club
and organizations would accomplish
much more good if individual men,
bers would forget self" and think
more Of community and national
good They think too much abOu.
what am I going to get out Of it?'"
she remarked.
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meeting Tuesday at 2 pm. at the
D. A. R. Chapter House.
Columbia Chapter will hold a re-
ception from to IL pm. Tuesday
at the Chapter House, when the
honor guests will be Mrs. Oberholser,
Mrs. Haig, Mrs. Hodgkins and Miss
Phebe Ann Ross, State librarian
curator and past regent of the
chapter.
DR.. Warren Reed West, chairman
of student loans and scholarships at
George Washington University, will
discuss Financial Aid to College
Students" before the Student Loan
Fund Committee at 8 pm. tomor-
row at the Chapter House.
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Keyser, chairman Of the confection
table.
Report on Jubilee Work.
A report will be given by Mrs.
Edgar B. Merritt. Mrs. John Frizzell
and Mrs. Wintemute w. Sloan on
the General Federations golden
jubilee activities.
Among those who will attend the
meeting will be Mrs Griffith. wife
or the speaker: Mrs. Henry F.
Grady. wife of the former Assistant
Secretary of State; Mrs Albert G.
Vreeland, wife of the Representa-
tive from New Jersey: Mrs. Theo-
dore Morgan. the wife of one Of
Americas well-known artists and an
artist in her own right, and Mrs.
Ruth Williams. president of the
Woman's League of the Canal
Zone. who arrived last week to at
tend the board meeting of the Gen
eral Federation of Women'S Clubs.
Mrs. Williams came as the repre-
sentative of the five federation
clubs in the Canal Zone and will
discuss some of the clubs activities
in Panama.
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Phi Delta Delta
Dinner Wednesday

Mrs. Elizabeth Shirley Enochs Of
the Children's Bureau, Department
of Labor. will address members of
Phi Delta Delta International Legal
Fraternity at a dinner to be given
under the auspices of the Washing
ton Alumnae Chapter Wednesday at
7 pm. at the Kennedy-Warren, Mrs.
Enochs, a member of Zeta Chapter,
will speak on her observations while
visiting in South America.
Lennice de Booy is chairman of
the Committee on Arrangements,
assisted by Florence McLouth, Bea-
trice Offutt, Ellyne Strickland,
Lovice Craig and NJ. Pearl Mccall.
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Garden Association
Meets Tomorrow

Louis Frank of the National De-
fense Commission will address a
meeting of the Capital division of
the Woman's National Farm and
Garden Association tomorrow at /
pm. at the Highlands Apartments,
Connecticut avenue and California
street NV.
How members of the organization
can cooperate in the defense pro-
gram will be the subject of his ad-
dress, which will follow luncheon.
Mrs Francis King, honorary presi-
dent of the association. will be
guest and will talk on some phase
of the defense program. Mrs. James
Craig Peacock, II West Irving street
Chevy Chase, Md, is in charge of
reservations.
Evening star., 1941-01-26
D. A. R. Sets 5Oth Congress
For Week of April II;
Officers to Be Named
Historical Program and Pageant,
Depicting Development,
! Will Be Repeated
BY FRANCES LIDE,
Women's Club Editor.

50h Continental Of American
Revolution April 419 Mrs Henry M Robert
dent general announced yesterday.
Although national officially celebrated golden Jubilee
will directed
the 50h
program pageant which jubilee feature
repeated April thousands
unable Robert said The
scenes through together with
D. A.
jubilee will the sessions in order to give complete
iennial election of officers
o special Daughters
New York is the only candidate
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Civic and Study Clubs

Voteless D. C. League of Women
Voters-Tomorrow, 1:30 pm, So
cial welfare. Juvenile Court Build
ing: speaker, Judge Fay Bentley.
Wednesday, foreign policy group,
with Mrs. M. o. Lorenz, 35l0 Por-
ter street NV; conclude study of
Latin America. Friday, 1:30 pm,
social welfare group. 3216 Volta
place NV; subcommittee on pub
lie health nursing.
American Association of University
Women-Tomorrow, 3 pm, clas-
sical letter writer's; pm, club
: tea; speaker, DR.. Coils Stocking;
7:45 pm, applied art group; 7:45
pm, players group. Tuesday,
5000 am, Chinese art group; $50
pm, Spanish study group; 7:30
pm, book review. Thursday, II
am. poetry group; $50 pm,
Spanish study group: 8 pm, art
appreciation; speaker, Ruel Par
tdee Tolman. Friday, 7:45 pm,
duplicate bridge. Saturday, IL
moon, French conversation; 1880
pm, sketching group.
Twentieth Century Club-Tomor-
row, II am, literature section,
Y. w. C. A; reviewers, Mrs. Joseph
Fairbanks, The Earth Is the
Lords" and Miss Clara w. Her
fsbert, Growing Pains; Wendell
Phillips Stafford, author, will read
poems; pm, Red Cross Surgical
Dressings Unit. Walsh Mansion;
% pm, art section at w. & L.
aSloane's, 709 Twelfth street NV;
speaker, R. D. Guthridge, Win
&dow Treatment and Placement of
@Furniture. Wednesday, 10 am,
SRed Gross Surgical Dressings Unit.
S'Walsh Mansion. Thursday, 12:45
Fp.m., drama section luncheon
hrneeting at Y. w. c. A.; 1:30 pm,
sreading of play, Green Eyes From
gRomany'
Womens City Club-Today, 80 to
IS pm, tea, clubhouse; guest art
sist, Elena Crivella. Tuesday after
noon, review by Mrs. Alice Rogers
sHager, wings Over the Amer
Sicas";; 8 pm, board meeting.
The Argyle Study Club-Tuesday, l
sp.m, with Mrs. Paul Richmond,
s5208 Thirteenth street NV.
Washington Club-Tuesday, II a m
Sannual meeting.
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Business, Professional Clubs

Business Womens Council-Tues-
day, 8 pm, Covenant-First Pres
byterian Church. Speaker, Miss
Beatrice NeWhall.
Soroptimist Club-Wednesday, /
pm, Willard Hotel.
Womens National Press Club
Tuesday, l pm, Willard Hotel
Guest speaker, former President
Herbert Hoover.
Business and Professional Womens
Club-TomorroW $50 pm, Ad-
miral Club, 1640 Rhode Island
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PatriOts to Meet

The National Society. Daughters
of Founders and Patriots of Ameri-
ca, will hold its midWinter meeting
Thursday at 1890 am. at national
headquarters. 1923 I street NV.
Owing to the illness of the ma
tional president, Mrs. Eugene Dar-
rach, Mrs Charles l.. Jsckman, ma
tional vice president, will preside
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NeWSWOmen to Meet

A meeting Of the Board Of
Governors of the Newspaper Wom-
ems Club of Washington will be
held tomorrow at 7:30 pm. at the
Raleigh Hotel. The monthly meet
ing of the club will follow the board
session.
Evening star., 1941-01-26

END at the April meeting.
Candidates on Mrs. Pouch's ticket
include Mrs. Joseph G. Forney OF
lancaster, Pa for first vice presl-
dent general; Mrs. John Whittier
Howe Hodge of Los Angeles for Sec
ond vice president general and Mrs.
Floyd w. Bennison, Minneapolis,
for third vice president general.
State allotments for both House
Committee appointments and pages
for the congress again will be based
upon membership, as in previous
years, it was said. Every State,
however small the membership, is
given one appointment on the
House Committee and one page.
Details in connection with the
congress will be discussed by the
Board of Management of the So
cietv at its midwinter meeting here
on Friday.
Preliminary to the session board
members will meet informally
Thursday. attend a State regents
meeting in the afternoon and con-
clude the day with a Dutch treat
dinner.
Jubilee Concert
To Be Given Friday.
Many of the members also will
attend a golden jubilee concert at
$50 pm. Friday in Memorial Con-
tinental Hall, arranged by the Dis
trict State Committee for the Ad-
Nf
The Fireside Singers, chorus di-
rected by George Harold Miller will
be among the artists who will in
clude Irma Holden Crawmer. con-
cert pianist: Maxwell Galloway,
lyric soprano, who will be accom-
panied by Mary liant Couch, and
a violin quartet. Anne Pearson.
Norma D. Coombs, Phyllis Spathelf
and Iris P. Stout. with Frances
Barrett as accompanist.
An ensemble, composed of Evalyn
Richardson. Gertrude Kroto and
Sidney Willoughby, playing the
organ, novachord, celesta and
solovix, also will appear.
Lois Boyland will give reading
and the program also will include
dances by members of the Ivy Ran
dali School of Dance.
Mrs. Lois Marshall Hicks is di-
recting the program, assisted by
Mrs. George C. Ober. jr., State chair
man of entertainment, and Mrs.
Charles Plotner, State chairman of
the Correct Use of the Flag Com
nittee.
Livingston Manor Chapter
To Have Anniversary Event.
Among other events of the local
D. A. R. units this week will be an
anniversary luncheon of the Liv-
ingston Manor Chapter Saturday at
pm. at the Parrot Tea Room. Mrs.
Ford E Young, the regent, will pre-
sent Mrs. Clare Trick Wilson,
United States naturalization exam
iner, as speaker. The State regent,
Mrs. Harry c. Oberholser, will head
a group of State officers who will
be guests. Mrs. Charles Carroll
Haig, vice president general, and
Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, honorary
vice president general, also will be
present. Miss Lillian ChenoWeth
will address the chapters regular
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Benefit Bridge

A bridge luncheon for the benefit
of the Maine Seacoast Mission will
be given by the Washington Alumnae
chapter of Sigma Kappa sorority
Saturday at the Highlands. Mrs.
Barton w. RichWine is in charge
of reservations.
Evening star., 1941-01-26

"My mother was a very charita-
BILE woman" she explained, land
I can always remember her per-
forming some act of kindness"
Mrs. Knight recalled a winter
during the Civil War, when her
father had gone to the war" leav-
ing his wife and three little daugh-
ters to take care of the Indiana
farm.
I'VE always had plenty of every
thing" she said, "but mother real
lied there were others who we're not
so well off" When several neigh
bors were in need of fire wood. her
mother, she said, instructed their
helper to cut enough for all.
Did Boys Work
Delivering Wood.
"The man couldn't do everything" !"
she explained, "and as I had no
brothers, tried to do a boys work.
My mother would hitch up the team,
and lift me into the drivers seat,
and I would drive the team to de-
liver the wood"
Mother was always sending bas-
kets of food and bundles of clothing
| to those in need" she continued
land to my knowledge she never
turned away a single person who
came to her for help"
Her grandfather, who had a large
apple orchard on his farm near hel
home. also insisted on the golden
rule, she said.
when he would give us apples
from the barrels. which always stooc
on his back porch, he would ask us
Are you kind TO your neighbors?''
she recalled.
Mindful of the training and ex.
ample she received as a child. Mrs
Knight. when she came TO Wash
ington as a young married woman
Immediately became interested il
the problems of the poor. At frs
she worked alone but was convinced
of the effectiveness of organized
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Miss Singleton Speaks

Miss Anne Singleton was guest
speaker at the annual luncheon of
the Newcomb College Alumnae Club
yesterday at the A. A. U. w club
house. Her subject was Around the
World on a Lead Pencil"
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CLUBS.
Hauling Wood for Needy
Began Woman's Charities
Mrs. Ella S. Knight Recalls
Early Incidents of Her
88.Year Happy Life
By GRETCHEN SMITH.

Indiana transport
the beginning
Mrs Ella Knight of 1888 street NV
Sunshine Community Society
of Knight GaSch president of the National
celebrated her 88th birthday t
milestone what she declares has been
happy life"
remarkable this sUeefaed woman clearly
which moulded the actions
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Community Clubs

Park View Woman's Club-Tuesday,
N1:30 pm, Literature Committee,
t,with Mrs. A. H. o. Role, 1922
&Buchanan street NV; readers,
BMrs. Harry Howard, "Christmases
in the White House." and Mrs. G.
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Chapters A and B
Are Hostess Units.

IF it continues" she said, in
future years political philosophers
will marvel that a naive nation, by
a slavish regard for words. would
have allowed fundamental changes
to take place without being aware of
them Thev will marvel that Amer
leans of this generation have bar
tered freedom for security. liberty
for safety, extravapanre for frugal
itY and that no effective voice was
raised against it because il was all
labeled and performed in the name
of democracy.
Enlightened American women,
who have the greatest libraries in
the world, the greatest facilities for
gathering and analvzing facts and
current news and, at the same time,
a great tradition Of free discussion.
should be able to obtain clear un-
derstanding of the meaning of free
dom. liberty and democracy and
face the future with confidence,
however. she said.
All of the chapters of the P. E. O.
SiSterhood Joined in the meeting
last night for which Chapters A
and B were hostess units.