Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-17

publications, will speak on "Un-'
changing Truths" The bylaw re-
visions then will be acted on, with
Mrs. w. N. Streeter as chairman,
and the Nominating Committee will
report Parent-teacher scrolls will
be awarded by Mrs. c. c. Hines,
chairman of the Parent-Teacher
magazine, and the convention will
adjourn for luncheon.
Recovering at 1870 pm, DR..
Helen Mitchell of the staff OF Paul
v. McNutt, Federal Security admin
istrator, will speak on Nutrition as
1t Affects Health and Mental and
Physical Strength" A panel, "Prac-
teal Applications of Health Knowl-
edge as 1t Relates to the Home" will
follow and be led by Dr. N. P. Neil
son, executive secretary of the de-
partment of health, physical educa-
ton and recreation of the National
Education Association. Participate
ing will be Dr.. George H. Rutland,
District health officer; Mrs. Ola Day
Rush, head of the department OF
home economics, District public
schools; the Rev. c. E. Hawthorne,
pastor of Wallace Memorial PreSby-
terrain Church; DR.. Rex Buxton, di-
rector of the Washington Institute
of Mental Hygiene, and Miss A.
Grace Lind, supervising principal OF
the fifth school division.
Dinner Is Planned.
A 10 am. Wednesday the conven-
ton will open its final session with
musical selections by the Eliot Junior
High School choral group, follow
ing which Dr. Charles Schottland,
assistant to the chief of the Chill
drens' Bureau. will discuss Day
Care of Children" Capt. Rhoda
Milliken, head Of the Woman's Bu-
reau, Metropolitan Police Depart
ment. also will speak on What the
War Situation Is Doing to the Young
People of Our City
The convention will adjourn after
the Resolutions Committee has re-
ported and the results Of the cleo
ton has been disclosed. Mrs. Gard
ner will install the new officers.
At 7:30 pm, the annual fellow
ship dinner will be held at the Will
lard Hotel, with Mrs. Charles Sim
clair in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. H. Lyle Campbell, president OF
the National Story League, will en-
terrain the guests with several
stories, and the evening will con-
clude with the reading by Mrs.
Evelyn Bright Buckley Of Our
Flag" a poem written by Mrs. Ed
ward R. Seal.
The convention will be an infor-
national and instructive one, ana
friends of the, congress are invited
to any or all of the sessions. Mrs
l.. Alan Sharpe is general conven-
ton chairman and Mrs. B. M.
Eldred is chairman of registration.
At the meeting of the Board OF
Managers on Tuesday in the N. Z. A.
Building, motion was passed OPP
posing the proposal to lower selective
service induction age to 10, it being
the sense of the members present
that at the present time there is no
imperative need for induction OF boys
below the present age limit into our
armed services. The consensus was
that boys should be allowed to re-
main in school as long as possible
in order that they might be better
able to resume their places in civil
Ian life after the emergency Is past.
The board alos Endorsed without
qualification, the program of the
American Social Hygiene Society
to reduce and control venereal dis
ease throughout the whole of the
United States, and not concentrate
such efforts merely to areas adjacent
to the military camps.
Mrs. Bertha M. Eldred will be
+ hostess to the board on June 9, at
her home on Wheeler road Sc, Mrs.
r. 3. Alexander will act as chairman
of arrangements for the picnic din
ner.
Bunker Hill.
The annual spring luncheon has
been postponed due to the gas ra-
tioning and the regular association
meeting has been postponed from
May 10 to May 26.
The summer roundup chairman
reports that 18 children were exam
ined on May /.
Delegates and alternates to the
State convention aire: Mrs. C. H.
Whelden, jr., president; Mrs. Mabel
Brown, Mrs. Mozelle Duncan, Mrs.
Bernice Furniss. Mrs. Evelyn Gaines,
Mrs. Margaret Judkins, Mrs. Mildred
Loanhardt. Mrs. Edna Marks, Mrs.
Eleanor Miller, Mrs. Daisy Neuen-
hahan, Mrs Augusta Schombert,
Mrs Marjorie Wallace, Mrs. julie
Gleason; alternates, Mrs. Catherine
Allen, Mrs. Dorothy Jones, Mrs.
Jean LinkinS, Mrs. Catherine
Padgett, Mrs. Florence Seyfried,
Mrs. Geraldine Summers.
Bro0kland-NoyeS.
The final meeting of the year will
be held at the Noyes School tomor-
row at pm. Mrs Richard j. Pur-
cell, secretary of the District of Co.
luu,hia ConprpSs of Parents and