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least-that hunger is an unneces-
Sary, costly outgroWth of poor hus-
bandry, ignorance, and lack of de-
cision on the part of nations to take
up vigorously the job of correc-
ton"
Maintenance of the productivity
of the limited area of productive
land in the world, he continued, is
soon sure to be major factor in
national and international rela-
tionships. There might have been
better international relations in the
past, he said, had more attention
been given to keeping the land pro-
ductive.
Mcconnell discussed the outlook
for bringing more productive land
into use. There probably are several
hundred million acres that can be
brought under cultivation, he said,
but with considerable expense. In
cluded are some virgin tropical
jungle lands that could be used to
perate zone there are still some
areas that. could be brought into
food prediction by clearing, drain
age, irrigation or other means. But
these, he said, will not make up the
deficit.
THE United States must 60 for
ward in soil and water conseTVa-
tion," Mcconnell said, because ITO
million acres of the country's 400
million acres of cultivable land are
being damaged by erosion at a rapid
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rate, and l25 million acres more are
being damaged at a less rapid rate,
Montana l regret to say, has It's tulI
share of these eroding acres.
Mcconnell gave credit to the nu-
tritious diet for the hustle and en-
ergy that enabled the United States
to develop so rapidly. 1t is known,
he said, that there is a very close
relationship between the elements
of plant food in the topsoil and the
energy both men and beasts receive
from the products of the soil.
We are going at the conservation
Job, and by that l mean a complete
conservation program, IN a DIG
way" Mcconnell said. There are
Al soil conservation districts IN
Montana at present and we are CO.
operating with % grazing districts;
MAYBE each district doesn't feel
as if it is operating and moving fast
enough. But when you put the work
of all districts in the state together,
the total is great. And when we put
together the accomplishments OF
nearly 1000 soil conservation dis
tricts in the United States, in l941,
we will see a conservation program
on more than "a million acres for
this year"
Mcconnell emphasized that get
ting the conservation job done re-
ouires the cooperation of everyone
ranchers, business and
industry, federal and state agencies,
all doing their particular part. 1t
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whether the supervisors accept
their responsibilities is one of the
main keys to whether district
moves forward. Where the supervis-
ors have taken a firm hold on the
administration of a district, the
people are asking for assistance and
are ready to 60 on complete con-
servation plan. This situation al
lows the Soil Conservation Service
personnel to go to work immedi-
ately with the cooperators on writ
ing plans and establishing practices
on the land.
And we are finding that where
the SUPERVISORS accept their respon-
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sibilities there is not much question
as to whether there is cooperation
from all agencies and people"
Mcconnell touched briefly on the
organization of the Soil Conserva-
ton Service, which spends more
than SO per cent of the funds ap-
propriated to it by Congress to pay
and service the men that work di-
rectly with the farmers and ranch
ers on the land. The regional and
state offices were set up to help
the technicians serving the districts
do a better job. The Washington
office helps all to drive forward
with a national program.
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Evening star., 1948-03-14

involving the lives of the Baron
Alexander de Bodisco and Harriet
Beall Williams. He was the Russian
Minister to the United States; she,
the daughter Of Brooke Williams,
then chief clerk of the Adjutant
Generals Office and one Of the
handsomest girls in old Georgetown,
when the West End was separate
and John Cox was
Mayor. She was tall, probably had
sandy or reddish hair and an ador-
able complexion that powder and
rouge would have detracted from.
She was sweet 16; he was 50-plus-
just how many plus the writer CAN
not say. He was fond of young
company-especially Of Miss VIII
liams-and frequently found 1t
agreeable to escort her to school.
He proposed; she accepted. Mr.. and
Mrs. Williams did not approve of the
idea, and offered, as principal OBJ
jections, her youth, his looks and
his age. But love won out. and in
May, 1841, they were Joined in law
full wedlock at the home of the
brides father, amid splendor such as
never had been seen here before
and, perhaps, seldom since. The
bridesmaids were selected from the
younger set, to harmonic with the
age of the bride, and the same con-
sideration was given in selecting the
men who took prominent part at
the wedding.
Jessie Benton, aged IA, later Mrs.
John c. Fremont, who served as
bridesmaid, was paired off with Sem
ator James Buchanan, subsequently
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live beneath its roof little suspect
1t once sheltered so many repre-
sentative men. Included among
those already mentioned were Louis
Philippe, Count Volney, Baron
Humboldt, Fulton the inventory
Tallyrand, Washington Irving, Gen
st. Clair, Lorenzo Dow and Fran
els Scott Key.
Bonaparte Was a Guest
Jerome Bonaparte, the youngest
brother of Napoleon I and King OF
Westphalia, was also q guest at the
old Union at the period of his mar
riage to Miss Elizabeth Patterson
the Baltimore beauty, in 1903. We
marvel today at the scarcity OF
clothing worn by some women, but
I doubt if there is one who does
not wear more than did Miss Pat
terson at her wedding, which was
performed by the Most Rev. John
Carroll, Bishop of Baltimore. In
commenting on her wedding cos
tune the bride said: There was as
little as possible Of any gown at ALL >
Perhaps one of the most charming
romances that ever developed in
Georgetown or elsewhere was that
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Newell w. Banks. former checker
champion Of the United States, gave
mixed exhibition at the Govern
|ment Printing Office March S. He
played II boards of chess along with
20 of checkers and three Of blind
fold checkers. r. D. Chalfont,
present GPO chess champion, held
Banks to a draw.
Weaver w. Adams, at the Federal
Chess Club on March 9, overcame
the handicap of expounding his
plans to his opponents as well as
to the spectators and won both OF
his exhibition games against
Edmund Nash and George S.
Thomas. His instructive discourse
was greatly appreciated.
Speed chess in several gears was
in evidence at the Divan March s.
While two tournament sections OF
10-second chess were in progress,
M. c. Stark and D. H. Mugridge
ignored the bell as best they could
and contested an entire match of
16 five minute games. The upper
section was won by DR.. H. v. Klein.
with Mark Kurtz and George
Thomas tied for second.
Evening star., 1948-03-14
AMVETS Auxiliaries

The District of Columbia Depart
ment of the AMVETS Auxiliary was
organized Monday night at the Will
lard Hotel by Mrs. Ruth Patson,
national relations officer.
Officers elected were: President,
Mrs. Lillian Garnett; vice presi-
dents, Mrs. Helene Jones and Mrs.
Louise wilkins; secretary, Mrs.
Laura Ledger; treasurer, Mrs.
Jeanne Seitz; liaison officer, Mrs.
Catherine Halkins: national execu-
tive committeewoman, Mrs. Patsos;
sergeant at arms, Mrs. Helen Mitch
ell; parliamentarian, Mrs. Blanche
Van Poll, and color bearers, Mrs.
Emma Tower and Mrs. Eileen
Kennedy. The Office Of chaplain
was pit open.
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OES A CtivitieS
In Local CHAPTERS
chapter notices:

Special chapter notices:
Washington Centennial-Tuesday,
Temple Committee, with Mrs. Ha-
eel Werth Jones; Wednesday, Home
Board, with Mrs. Clyde Linton; Fri
day, honoring December. January,
February and March birthdays.
Esther-Monday, Temple Board,
with Corinne Biondi; Thursday,
mems night. Entertainment.
st. Johns Lodge-Monday. line
officers night. Entertainment.
Joppa Lodge-Wednesday. initia-
ton. Endowment night. Honoring
birthdays.
La Fayette Lodge-Friday, Card
Club, with Mrs. Margaret w. Har-
ris.
Trinity-Tuesday, card party, with
Eunice j. Gattings.
Federal - Tuesday, Friendship
Club, with Mrs. Thelma Clabaugh;
Wednesday, Home Board, with Mrs.
Helen Wheeler.
Chevy Chase-Thursday evening,
Home Board, with Mrs. c. r. Ma
kela.
East Gate-Monday, Home Board,
with Mrs. Ruth Gray; Friday, obli-
cation.
Matrons and Patrons of 1935-Fri-
day, with DR.. and Mrs. Ralph Bon
nett; election and installation of
officers.
Acacia-Tuesday, associate night.
Entertainment and refreshments.
Ruth-Monday, honoring birth
days. Initiation.
Loyalty-Monday, Home Board,
with Mrs. Betha Artz. Wednesday,
Associate night.
Martha-Tuesday, Home Board,
with Mrs. Annette Evans. Friday,
line officers honoring grand line Of
flcers.
Joseph H. Milans-Thursday, as
sociate night. Evening Bridge Club,
with Rose Gentner. April 6, chick
en- dinner, Northeast Masonic Tenn
pie.
Areme - Wednesday, honoring
March birthdays.
Betheny - Tuesday, Endowment
Committee, with the matron, Mrs.
Minnie Delaplane. Thursday. Sum-
shine Committee, with Mrs. Myrtle
Russell. Friday, honoring March
birthdays.
Brookland-Past matrons, 8 pm,
with Mrs. Virginia Carleton. Fri
day, Ways and Means, with Mrs.
Helen Patterson.
Bethlehem-Thursday, Home Board
with Mrs. Decide Thiele.
Mizpah-Thursday, turkey dinner,
1910 Wisconsin avenue NV. All in
vited.
Naomi-Tuesday. Education Com
mitteR with Mrs. Sarah Kals.
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President Of the United States. The
Chevalier de Martini, Minister from
The Hague, accompanied the lovely
16-year-old daughter Of Commodore
Morris, and the British Minister,
Henry Stephen Fox, another of the
groomsmen, was also in attendance,
resplendent in court suit of scar
let and gold. The brides dress was
made of white satin and silver lace,
fashioned after the costume of a
Russian bride, the low-cut dress
showing the perfection of her lovely
white shoulders and neck. A coro-
net Of red velvet, blazing with dia-
monds, rested upon her hair. The
bridegroom wore his court dress of
velvet and lace.
Indeed, this proved to be q won-
derful love affair, and he one OF
the most generous of husbands on
record, for. prior to. his death, he
urged his wife to remarry when he
had gone, that she might make some
other man just as happy as she had
made him. And did she comply with
his request? She did. But she
waited reasonable length of time
before doing so.
OF her second marriage an item
Of 1880 reads:
Marriage of Nine. Bodisco-I
have just returned from a spectacle
Of great interest, which has stirred
the memories and associations of
us old habitues of Washington more
than anything else that has oc-
CURED here for long time. Today
at noon, in st. Johns Church, La
fayette Square, the Countess Bo-
disco, widow Of the late distin-
guished and popular Minister from
Russia, was married to Capt. Doug
las Gordon Scott of Scotland.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. DR.. Norwood of George
town to whose congregation the
bride and her family belonged. The
bride was given away by President
Buchanan. There was a quiet SIM
plicity about the whole scene, which
impaired the character rather of a
religious than a festive occasion.
"A party from the Executive Man
sion. including Miss Macalister of
Philadelphia, Miss Buchanan and
James Buchanan, jr., next came;
and soon after, the appearance of
Miss Lane at the door indicated
she who was to be the observed of
all Observers must be near at hand.
Immediately the President entered
with the Countess Bodisco leaning
on his arm, while the whole con-
gregation arose. They passed down
the aisle to their places on the left
of the chancel, where they were met
by Capt. Scott, who shook hands
cordially with the President, and
the ceremony was begun at once by
the officiating clergyman. There
were neither bridesmaids nor
groomsmen, and the whole affair
had an air of unusual simplicity"
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Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
Paintings and sculpture by, great
masters. Booth gift OF PAINTINGS
M,sIsan.ees sy Isase anf from dsrans to
open Wednesday.
NATIONAL MUSEUM, National Col
lection Of Fine Arts, Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Ameri-
can paintings from private collec-
tons and oths1 sits or ana eub 0aas nsd
MaSmapssHM snnuaI and 18th 18th Miniature an
nual. through March 2s.
ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING.
Jefferson drive and Ninth street
Decorative arts collection. Section
of photosraphyw,pictorial photo
s5sG,,s, graphs hsr,S BY William Mortsn'en'
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING: Division
Of Graphic Art, independence ave-
nue. and Tenth street-Litho-
grssEpIhns By sy Jean Chariot through
FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive-Ori-
entail and Far Eastern arts. Paint.
other American artists; changing
exhibits.
CoRCoRAN GALLERY OF ART.
Seventeenth street between New
York avenue and E street-Ameri:
can painting. and sculpture and
exhibitions Of water colors by ar
fists of Washington and vicinity.
European master drawings through
April IL.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY,
1900 Twenty-flrst street-Paint-
mss and prints. Exhibition BY
kaafhs. kp4if :. Cross and Piper through
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. East Cap
itol and First streets-Division OF
Prints, Georgia Anniversary Exhi-
bition, through May IL.
ARTS CLUB. 2O17 I street NV
Work by Agnes Sims and Minor
UNITED NATIONS CLUE, 1901
Nineteenth street N:w..Exhibitionn
ss +, sS' N'reslla Comes March 10
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY. 127
% By James Porter, through March.
WATKINS GALLERY. American UNI
yersity campus - Contemporary
sculpture and Degas prints.
through today. Paintings BY Boris
Margo.
streets NW.-Exhibition BY Jack
Perlmutter. through March 81.
DUMBARTON OAKS COLLECTION,
1903 Thirty-second street NY
Byzantine art. Closed Mondays.
Open daily, Am. to pm: Sun
days, . to 5 pm.
RUSH A. WEEKS GALLERY, 2010 3
street N.W-Work By Tom bryce.
through April 8.
PAN AMERICAN UNION, Constitu-
tion avenue and Seventeenth street
N.w.-Haitian paintings. through
March
CoNNoIsSEURS' CORNER. zoos q
street NW.-Graphic arts.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY. Sixth street
and Howard place N.W.-Japanese
prints, through March.
WHYTE GALLERY. 1918 Connecticut
avenue N.W.-Exhibition by Ed
ward Rosenfeld through March.
ARTISTS COOPERATIVE, 1903 K
street nw.-Work by Jean Chariot
through March 20.
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Wednesday evening will be open
house at the Washington Chess
Divan, 2445 Fifteenth st., NV. The
author of these notes, who is pres
emily champion Of both the Divan
and the District, will play simulta-
neously against all comers up to
the number twenty-five-which is
the practical limit of the clubs
the chess players of
the District are cordially invited to
come and take a board or look on.
There will be no charge in either
case.
Club members will be accommo-
dated after all the non-members
who wish to play have been taken
care of. Play will begin promptly at
BIS. William Lichtenwanger, the
Library of Congress musicologist.
may participate. The writer was
due to play at the Maryland Chess
Evening star., 1948-03-14
Me,u Palestine Policy Urged

sian territorial aspirations" as CEN
tering south Of the national ter
ritory Of the Soviet Union In the
direction of the Indian Ocean" The
Russians wished this to be amended
to include specific recognition that
the area south of Batum and Baku
in the general direction of the Per-
sian Gulf is recognized as the center
of the aspirations of the Soviet
Union"
In view of what has been said
above, 1t does not seem the part Of
wisdom for the United States to
establish in the worlds eyes its sup
port Of that very policy which could
most easily be followed by Russia
in order properly to set the stage
for thus fulfilling these "aspira-
tons" ~
Nor does 1t seem wise, by the same
token, for the United States to
antagonize the Moslem world, which
alone would remain as . barrier
between such a drive and the sea,
be it Mediterranean or Persian.
Yet this is what the United States
has done in supporting the partition
of Palestine.
Russia Eyes Arabian Oil
IT, roo1 ha oro,,o6 tbot Drseie {s
counting similar unpopularity by Its
support of partition. If the posi-
bilities regarding Russian policy
which have just been mentioned
are valid, it would be obvious at
once that such unpopularity had
been discounted in advance as a
minor element in a more far r-reach-
ing Soviet policy. But even more
to the point is the fact that
sufficient undermining Of the Amer
lean position in the Arab world
would attain a Russian goal to be
priced far more by Russia than the
dubious blessing Of slight increase
in Soviet popularity, never likely to
be excessive in the strongly reli-
gious Arab world. This goal would
be the denial Of Arabian oil as
positive factor in the implementa-
ton of the Marshall Plan. The
Coninform has not been reticent in
expressing its intent to combat that
program by every means available.
The fact that Arabia Is counted
upon to supply almost all the oil
requirements of the Marshall Plan
has not been overlooked in Russia.
Neither has the fact been overlooked
by Russia that this. oil supply de-
pends upon American maintenance
not only Of production in Saudi
Arabia but of an extremely vulner-
able network of pipelines, storage
facilities and refineries in other
parts of the Arab world.
Small wonder is it that other
nations are beginning to doubt the
sanity of American foreign policy.
They cannot understand how a
nation can possibly support simul-
taneously two opposing courses of
action, tearing down with the left
hand what it is striving nightly
to accomplish with the right. Yet
this is what the United States is
doing by its support of partition and
of the Marshall Plan.
Evening star., 1948-03-14

end of the war, the masterpieces,
which will be returned to Germany
this spring, will probably be in
storage there for years, and the next
few weeks here may be the last op-
portunity to see these famous paint
ings together for long time to
come.
Miniature Annual
The Miniature Painters, Sculptors
and Gravers' Society's 18th annual
exhibition, which opened in the
foyer of the Natural History Build
ing, National Museum, simultane-
ously with the Water Color Clubs
annual, and adjoins it, is pleasing
show, as is nearly always the case.
This Washington organization, lin
tied to less than 20 resident men,
bers, opens its annual to miniature
lists throughout the country, and
draws work from all over. Sixty-f1ve
artists whose ITO works compose the
present display, represent l6 States.
Exhibits are In many mediums.
There are examples Of the tradi-
tional little portrait on ivory. which
the word miniature" still denotes
to most of us; and also paintings in
oil and water color, etchings, en-
cravings, aquatints. wax portraits,
sculptures in wood and metal,
ceramics, medals, Illuminated man
uscripts and book bindings, all of
them having smallness Of size as
common bond.
Among the traditional miniature
portraits on ivory are those Of two
young girls by Nellie NICK. Tolman,
and one by Edith Hill. Ruel Toll
man, director of the National Col
lection of Fine Arts, is represented
by several oil paintings, Moon
light" being especially charming.
Jack Grue's little oil paintings are
done in q beautiful technique of
minute perfection. Elizabeth Muhl-
hofer shows series Of her paint
ings of flower and still life arrange
ments, including colorful ceramics,
luster pictures and other objects
that will intrigue antique collectors.
Edith Mccartney has contributed
the only pastels in the show, de-
picting garden flowers as rich and
toneful as though done in oils, but
with the special bloom of her cho-
sen medium. Frances Campbell
shows an engaging little wash
drawing of an English street scene
Evening star., 1948-03-14

tonians, visitors can see for them.
selves how well the artist has de-
picted them. There should also be
considerable interest in such well.
known subjects as "Eudora Welty,"
Mississippi author, whose exquisitely
written stories have delighted many
readers, and John Rothensteir,"
distinguished director of the Tate
Gallery, London. Quite q number
Of the portraits are small in siSs
and hence well suited to todays
dwellings.
In addition to portraits Of people,
there are portraits OF some Of
Georgetown's beautiful old homes.
Fresh and colorful paintings Of
flowers and still life are high In
decorative quality; outstanding are
Constituent Elements" and South.
|ern Sunday" Many of the frames
have been made by artist-craftsmen,
and are admirable compliments to
the paintings, either rejecting or
harmonizing with some color note
in each.
Water Color Prints
The graphic arts section Of the
Washington Water Color Clubs
SD annual exhibition in the Ma
tural History Building. has high
level of quality and should not be
overlooked by those who visit the
show and naturally gravitate to
the larger, more colorful and more
numerous paintings.
The first graphic prize of $25
went to ]. Jay McVicker Of Still
water, Okla, for his aquatint,
"Pintos by the River" a nocturne
Of horses, dark and velvety in tone.
Three honorable mentions were
awarded to Eugene F. Glaman for
an etching of a mountain land
scape, to Ruth Haviland Sutton for
her lithograph. of Nantucket
street in winter, with early Amer
ican atmosphere, and to Minnie L.
Raul Of Washington, for her color
etching, Evening Primrose" Mrs.
Raul specializes in etchings OF flow-
ers and trees, and is showing five
others in the miniature annual.
It is good to see Chauncey r.
Ryder again represented, with two
landscape drypoints in his strongly
individual style. Roy Clark has cap
tured in an etching, the picturesque
ness Of "Old Houses, Quebec" Bertha
Dougherty's etching of Arch Hall"
Is characteristic of her sympathetic
interpretations of stately old archi-
lecture. Incidentally, she has just
had a solo exhibition at Alexandria
Library, comprising water colors Of
lakes and mountains of the North
west and Alaska. Sybilla Mittell
Weber has gotten considerable ac-
ton with an economy Of line, in her
drypoint, Polo"
Two Chariot Shows
Jean Chariot, one of Mexico'a
foremost artists (although he was
born in Paris and lived there his
first two decades, can be well
studied in Washington this month
Artists Cooperative is showing Is
oils, water colors and drawings, an6
the Division of Graphic Arts,
Smithsonian Building, has a grouF
of his Autographs. The former is
on view only through March 20, the
latter a week longer.
Evening star., 1948-03-14
Chess Notes
By Donald H. Muaridqe

Club at Baltimore over the week
end.
After four rounds of the quint-
angular tourney for the worlds
championship at The Hague, Mix
hail Botvinnik of Russia led with
two straight wins and no losses.
Keres had 81, Reshevsky 11a-11a,
Smyslov 1a-11a, and DR.. Euwe o..
Two adjourned games OF Smyslov,
with Botvinnik and Euwe, will have
an important effect upon the stand
ing. The United States Champion
has beaten Keres, drawn with Smys-
low, and lost to Botvinnik. He lost
by exceeding the time limit. but is
reported to have had a hopeless
position at the time. It Is much
too early in this protracted contest
to draw any conclusions, but ap-
parently the bad form which has
afflicted DR.. Euwe for over a year
is still in evidence.
All important tournament has be-
gun at Mar del Plata, Argentina, in
cluding not only the leading South
American masters, but Arnold
Denker of New York, United States
Champion in 1944-46, Szabo Of Hun
gary, O'Kelley de Galway of Bel
gium, and Medina of Spain. Den
ker is we'll known in Washington.
Last Sunday a return match was
played between Georgetown Uni
versity and Loyola College at Bal
timore. Georgetown, which lost by
1k-31z when visiting Baltimore,
was able to tie on it's home grounds.
The individual scores: