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Haussermann, Former Of ficial of Islands, Stresses Metal Wealth. Discovery of huge chromite de posits and shipment of $20,000,000 worth of gold will be high points in Philippine trade with the United 6tates this year, according to John W. Haussermann, former attorney general of the islands and a holder of extensive gold mining interests there, who w'as in Washington today on a business trip. The Philippines will produce at least $20,000,000 worth of gold this year, outranking Alaska as a source of the metal, but the coming industry is not gold, but chromite, Haussermann ex plained. A deposit of high grade ore. esti mated at 200,000 tons and a 10,000, 000-ton deposit of lower grade ore, the largest in the world, have been discovered, and American scientists believe the islands have almost limit less possibilities, he declared. IdlUdUIC IU IIIUU3H;. •‘Chromite is an important indus trial and war material, widely used for producing stainless steel, and the Philippines are the only territory under the American flag with large deposits. All our chromite will be shipped to the United States, which used 192.298 long tons, valued at $2, 277,787. The annual w'orld production Is only about 500,000 metric tons at present,” Haussermann said. The necessity for keeping control ever the deposits, as well as deposits of manganese and coal, was stressed by the former attorney general, who went to the Philippines during the insurrection as an officer in the Kansas volunteers. He is president of two mining companies, which produce two-thirds of the gold mined in the islands. Last year, gold shipments from the Philippines totaled $16, 072,925. Sees Congress Sympathetic. After renewing acquaintanceships formed when a group of Government officials, including Vice President Garner, attended the inauguration of President Quezon-last year, Haus termann said: "I believe Congress is sympathetic with the problems of the Philippines, and will not pass any drastic legis lation prejudicial to the interests of the islands. America functions as a stabilizing clement in the Pacific and serves as an object lesson for other peoples in the Orient.” Recreational Leader Lectures. Miss Margaret Hagan. Red Cross director at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital will give the second lecture in the course for colored volunteer recrea tional leaders at 7 o'clock tonight in Howard University. Her topic is “The Psychological Approach of the Group Leader to the Modern Youth.” Women Raise Eyebrows, Not Voices, Against A. P. T. 0. H. E. Feminine Washington Sees Nice Gesture Passing, But Remains Calm as Males Campaign to Ban Hat-Lifting in Lifts. BY FRANCES LIDE. The gentlemen f?> who are so con cerned about keeping their hats on in elevators might just as well keep their shirts on, too, a lot of local la dies are thinking. About the biggest rise the Asso ciation for the Prevention of Taking Off Hats in Elevators is getting out of feminine Washington is a lifted eye brow. Feminine lives may be consider ably blighted by the sudden with drawal of a time-honored gesture. But not many of the ladies are go ing to show it. To be perfectly frank, if the gentlemen (?) who are planning to debate the issue at an indignation meeting at the National Press Club Saturday but knew it, the ladies are not taking their campaign any too seriously. In fact. President Roosevelt was in formed yesterday that there is a Society for the Protection of Women Whose Eyes Have Been Blackened by Gentlemen taking off Hats in Ele vators. The President laughed and replied he would have to put all that under Government regulation. Representative Isabella Greenway, 1 for one, believes the A. P. T. O. H. E. i is going to miss the old custom as much as anybody else. Men Enjoy Custom, j “It's an instinctive gesture which men, I think, enjoy just as much as 1 women," she said. I The Arizona Congresswoman sighed ! a little—but only a little—over the : passing of another “picturesque and | delightful custom." “Why rob ourselves of these little pleasantries?” she asked. Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, promi j nent social leader, thinks the debate “an amusing stunt for a dull evening.” ! If you want to know her reaction to ! the association you'll have to read ! between the lines. A “nice gesture" is how Miss Mae R. Murray, president ol the District Business and Professional Women's Club, feels' about hat-lifting in ele vators. No Law, Just Manners. "But by no means—unless they want to," said Miss Mildred E. Reeves, an officer in the Women’s Bar Asso ciation. "Lifting hats In elevators has been a part of good manners, but certainly not required of those who’d rather not.” "Why not an association fo^ the prevention of removing hats out of doors in Winter?” countered Miss Helen Newman, librarian at George Washington University. “I’ve always felt terribly sorry for the men who subscribed to that custom." A little aghast at the collapse of 1.1. .. ,--.i Southern chivalry In the North, Miss Kitty Carpenter, South Carolina sec retarial student, opened her eyes wide. "The lazy bums,” she drawled. Debutante Indifferent. Prom the debutante point of view: “It doesn't make any difference” to Eleanor Flood of the Shoreham Hotel. Young business girls rather expect the gesture, in the opinion of Miss Mary Louise Earner of the Federal Housing Administration. A newspaper woman, however, is entirely in sympathy with the move ment. “For Washington elevators, any way,” she agreed. "There Just isn't enough elbow room here for too much hat-lifting.” Hat-tipping isn't gallantry, but a ‘‘survival of the vainest and most corrupt age in history—when knight hood was in flower,” Representative Maverick of Texas declared. “The custom came flown from the time when the knight lifted the visor of his helmet when he rode by the ladies," the Texan explained. "The gesture only satisfied his vanity, for he was just letting her know who he was, not paying her any respect.” Secretary Ickes has also been report ed as Indorsing the A. P. T. O. H. E. Hostess to Mothers’ Cluh. The Mothers’ Club of Kendall College will be entertained by Mrs. Charles Ely In the garden of her home at Eighth street and Florida avenue this afternooon. TJ. S. Films in Demand. Return of American films to Czechoslovakia has resulted in an increase in theater audiences. WRIGHT HEADS FIRM Election of MaJ. Burdette S. 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