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_ WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1937.PAGE B—1 ~
STUDENTS LINK ALL NATIONS
Hospitality Extended by Unique House in Washington, Which Is
Creating Understanding Among World’s People. Peace
Loving Quakers Have Taken Lead.
By Creston B. Mullins.
WHILE nations arm and
statesmen wrangle over
equality and non-aggres
sion pacts, a direct contri
bution to international peace is being
made in Washington, on the principle
that real peace will come from under
standing between peoples rather than
understanding between diplomats.
Washington's International Student
House is approaching its first birth
day this Summer with a record of dis
tinct achievement as the foundation
for future accomplishment in creating
greater fraternity and sympathy be
tween the representatives of all the
world’s races who make Washington
their educational Mecca. And, appro
priately, this work is being spon
sored by the traditionally peace-loving
Quakers.
The scene of this great service is
1708 New Hampshire avenue, the for
mer residence of Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Kauffmann, on the avenue which,
with its canopy of elms, was the favor
ite street of former Chief Justice Wil
liam Howard Taft. It is a residence
familiar to hundreds of Washington's
•ociety members.
The dominant note Is distinctly cos
mopolitan. The Nation's Capital has
more than 50 foreign embassies and
legations, besides numerous private
residences of the internationally fa
mous. but few of them blend the qual
ities of all peoples so thoroughly in an
International atmosphere as does this
Student House.
READERSHIP in the establishment
of the house as taken more than
two years ago by the local Society of
Friends, whose secretary is Miss Mar
garet E. Jones. In November. 1934,
the Friends’ Peace Committee invited
foreign students oi all four universi
ties of the Capital—Georgetown.
George Washington, Catholic and
American—to a Sunday night supper
at the Friends Meeting House on Flor
ida avenue and Twenty-first street,
which was erected while President
Hoover was in office, and where he
worshiped. About 100 students
attended.
George Washington University long
has had an international club devoted
to the interests of foreign students
a/nd those Americans studying for work
abroad, either in governmental service
or commerce. The late Dr. W. F. Notz,
dean of the Foreicn Service School of
Georgetown University, also had long
agitated for an international student
house, along the lines of those at New
York. Berkeley, Calif., and Chicago,
until his death last year cut short a
distinguished career in international
economics. It was to be expected, then,
that at such a meeting the idea of an
International student house should be
mentioned again, but without organi
zation or resources little could be done
toward this end. The students con
tented themselves for the present with
organizing the Washington Interna
tional Club and elected Earl Swisher
president, Dr. T. G. Ho vice president,
Miss Naomi Pekmezian recording sec
retary. Minerva Guysaiko correspond
ing secretary and Katsuro Miho treas
urer.
The idea for a permanent organiza
tion met with ready response from
me rrienos, ana lor me remamaer 01
the school year, from November, 1934,
through June, 1935, the newly formed
group met monthly at the Friends'
Meeting House for Sunday night sup
pers. which the students prepared for
themselves. Mrs. Arthur Hummel, wife
of the director of Orrintalia of the
Library of Congress, acted as liaison
between the Friends' Peace Committee
and the student group, through her
membership in both groups.
rpHE success of the first partial year
of existence of the club convinced
Its sponsors that it filled a vital need
In Washington student life, and It was
preserved under the auspices of the
Peace Committee. Supper meetings
continued during the school year
1935-6 at the Meeting House. Dr. Ho
had been elected president. Miss Pek
mezian vice president. Miss Marian
Lee recording secretary, Miss Marian
Glaeser corresponding secretary and
Mr. Miho treasurer, and a definite
program of cultural entertainment wax
worked out, subjects varying between
art, music, literature, politics and
economics. In January, 1936, the need
of more frequent meetings was felt,
and weekly Sunday informal teas were
Instituted as a regular part of the
Club's program.
The American Friends’ Service Com
mittee, whose activities cover a broad
social program here and abroad. Is a
national organization of Quakers, with
headquarters in Philadelphia. This
committee had been aware of the
work being done here among foreign
Students by the Peace Committee and
was the means through which the
hope of establishing an international
student house was finally realized.
A wealthy Washington woman, who
had heard of the need for a meeting
place for foreign students, came for
ward with an anonymous gift approxi
mating $30,000 to the Service Commit
tee for this specific purpose. The
money was given in February last
year, but it was not until May, at the
first installation banquet of the In
ternational Club, that the project was
definite enough for public announce
ment. Clarence E. Pickett, execu
tive secretary of the Service Commit
tee. brought the news to the Wash
ington club at the banquet, which was
attended by Mrs. Franklin D. Roose
velt. The former Kauflmann resi
dence was purchased in June, and
Mrs. Grace S. Lowry of Philadelphia
was named director of the house.
Mrs. Lowry possessed an interest
ing background of service abroad,
which fitted her for leadership of
uniting the interests of a diversified
group of foreign students. She had
spent nine years in Europe during
and after the war, engaged in war and
relief work with her husband, asso
ciated with the Service Committee.
They were in Germany in the early
part of the war. coming out with Am
bassador Gerard and going then to
Switzerland and later to France.
After a visit to the United States, she
returned to Europe and worked in
France and England.
IV/IRS. LOWRY took over her duties
1 as head of the house June 15.
and immediately furnished it with part
of the funds given anonymously. The
residence, which has five stories and
12 bed rooms, has accommodations for
20 students, which have been filled
mast of the time since its opening. A
roof terrace is available for tea in the
Summer. There are also a large, finely
decorated parlor used by the student
residents as a sitting room; a recreation
room containing a ping-pong table, two
kitchens—one for the regular dining
room and one for use of the students—
a large drawing room with fireplace
which is used by several international
societies which make the house their
headquarters, and a music room
j equipped with a piano.
The residents of the house them
\ selves speak for its wide international
, character. There are two Poles. Paul
Czechowicz of the International Labor
1 Office in Geneva, who is here on a
Rockefeller Foundation fellowship
studying financing of the administra
tion's recovery program, and Mr.
Zabko, a widely traveled student who
ts studying American immigration.
Orientals make up a considerable
share of the residents of the house.
Sadaski Abbe, a Japanese, Is studying
Americans and American business
methods and administration at the
Georgetown Foreign Service School.
He had studied at the Tokio University
of Commerce before coming here.
Tennyson Chang, a master of arts from
Columbia University, Is working for
his doctorate at the Foreign Service
School. Yoshiko Yamamuro, prom
inent Japanese teacher and magazine
writer, is studying American homes.
S. Sampath, a Hindu from Bombay, is
studying pharmacy at George Wash
ington University.
Italy is represented by Luigi Savelll.
an exchange student studying for a
master's degree in political science at
American University. He formerly
studied at Rome University. Gerald
von Minden of Germany is writing his
doctor's dissertation at American Uni
versify Graduate School. Lenworth
Jacobis of Jamaica is a medical student
at Howard University.
(1) The International Student House, formerly the
residence of Victor Kauffmann, is situated in a beautiful
setting along tree-lined New Hampshire avenue. (2) The
fireplace in the house’s sitting room is a great attraction
for students. Left to right are: Peter Lowry, Jeanne
Simmons, Elsie Fulboan, Peyton Moss, Luigi Savelli and
Jean Gates, enjoying its warmth after dinner. (3) Tea
is served each Sunday afternoon at the International
Student House. Here we see Mrs. Grace Lowry, director
of the house, serving tea to (left to right) Tennyson
Chang, Emily Hornblower, Paul Czechowicz, S. Sam
path and Lenworth Jacobs. (4) Norman Woodbury re
laxes in the sitting room of the house.
^MONG prominent foreigners who '
have been guests at the house \
in the past are A. Takahashi and S.
Nakamura, aspirants for the Japanese !
diplomatic service, who were sent to 1
the United States last Summer to be- j
gin their education in American uni
versities, and Madeleine Sylvain of
Haiti, daughter of the former Haitian 1
Minister to France, who is now at
Bryn Mawr.
The high esteem in which the house
is held by these strangers to America
is manifest in a letter addresed to Mrs. j
Lowry by one of the Oriental students !
last November. It read:
•‘I am a Japanese student who came
to Washington this September. Since
then I have been staying in this
Washington International House. No
where before have I enjoyed this kind
of amicable international atmosphere.
“This International House is really
like a home, where every member of
the community can find his comfort,
and, at the same time, by getting
familiar with friends of different na
tionalities, he can broaden his knowl
edge of International affairs.
“The aim of this kind of organiza
tion lies in helping the young people
representing various nations to under
stand better with one another, and
thus enhancing friendly international
relationship among nations.
“In this respect, the existence of this
Washington International House can
not be too exaggerated.’’
The purposes of the Service Com
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m it tee in sponsoring the house were
set forth in the invitations to the
house warming last October. It stated:
"The committee hopes that this house
will provide a home for some foreign
students and serve also as the friendly
meeting place for all those who may
desire to avail themselves of Its hos
pitality. It is here, too, that we hope
to draw those residents of Washington
who wish to become acquainted with
the students of other countries, thus
sharing in the building of a truly in
ternational house."
TN ACCORDANCE with this an
nounced objective, the house spon
sors a number of activities for outside
groups in order to provide greater
contact between its students and their
American friends. The Student Forum
of the Foreign Policy Association was
recently formed among a group of
graduate students from the four uni
versities here, and makes the house
its headquarters. The Washington In
ternational Club, which has fathered
the house, holds weekly Sunday night
suppers for its members and their
guests, at which speakers on varied
topics are heard.
Informal dancing groups also meet
there. Folk dancing is taught every
Friday night by members of the club,
and tap-dancing instruction is given
every Tuesday night. Dances are
held once a month. Open house, with
tea for members of the International
Club and their friends, is held each
Saturday afternoon from 4 to 6.
The nucleus of a library of refer
ence works is being built up with the
co-operation of the Women's Council
of Federation of Churches.
Miss Pekmezian Is president of the
International Club in this first year
of the house, and has as her assistants
Dr. Lin. Lin, vice president; Manuel
Argel, treasurer; Mr. Sam path, cor
responding secretary, and Mr. Jacobs,
recording secretary.
HUNTERS PROTECT LIVE STOCK MENACED BY BRUTE_KILLERSj
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Predatory Wanderers Cost Millions of Dol
lars Annually and Sure Shots of Biological
Survey Give Valuable Service in Re
ducing Losses.
By Lucy Salamanca.
KILLERS that stalk their prey
at night, or enter by day herds
of tranquil cattle or flocks of
quietly grazing sheep, to leave
a trail of blood and destruction and
cost to the farmers and range owners
of this country millions of dollars’ loss
annually by their depredations, form
a menace to the live stock industry
that it is the duty of one branch of
the Biological Survey of the Depart
ment of Agriculture to control.
Thrilling tales of tracking down and
finally wiping out pack leaders who
have terrorized certain districts of the
Northwest and the range areas of the
Southwest for years, stories of run
ning to earth some killer of hundreds
of cattle, and accounts of courageous
combats w’ith mountain lions, wolves
or coyotes, seep now and then into
the public press by reason of their
stark, appealing drama. But many
other tales, resulting from making
the live stock industry safe against
animal scavengers, are buried every
year in prosaic Government files with
no other notation than that old Three
Toes is dead or that on a certain day
! Government Trapper John Doe
1 brought to earth the last of an active
! marauding pack.
Yet in all parts of the United States,
particularly in the Northwest and
those areas of the Southwest where
range domestic live stock and large
game, bands of Government hunters
are constantly alert in their vigil of
protection in the interests of cattle
man and farmer. In the fiscal year
recently concluded, these Government
agents of the survey succeeded in rid
ding infested areas of 73,127 preda
tory animals. Of this number, 64.566
were the treacherous and relentless
coyotes, 6,984 were vicious bobcats or
lynx, 1,115 were marauding wolves, 287
were mountain lions and 173 were
stock-killing bears.
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The coyote. This killer causes thousands oj dollars' worth oj destruction annually and propor
tionate losses to the live stock industry. .
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TT IS roughly computed that each
1 wolf kills $1,000 worth of live stock
a year; the bear and mountain lion kill
approximately, per animal. $500 worth
of live stock annually, and the bobcat
and coyote are charged with destruc
tion. per animal, of $50 worth of dam
age among industrial herds of farm
yard stock. With each single animal
responsible for this amount of destruc
tion, it is not difficult to realize the
tremendous savings to the farmers of
, America the Government hunters
! bring about.
Stationed in strategic regions, they
are constantly active in their efforts
to wipe out these natural enemies of
deer, cattle, sheep, lambs, pigs, poultry,
colts, kids, antelope and ground-nest
ing birds.
So appreciative are the cattlemen
and farmers of the Nation that in
many regions they have banded to
gether to contribute In part to the ac
tive continuance of the effort. In
many States there are co-operative ar
rangements whereby the Biological
Survey, State Conservation Depart
ments and organizations of live stock
men share the expense of wiping out
the animal marauders. In the last
fiscal year, for example, expenditures
in co-operative predator and rodent
control operations included $599,482
from regular departmental appropria
tions, supplemented by $305,381 spent
by co-operattng States and $730,089 by
co-operating counties, live stock asso
ciations and others. In addition, about
$1,000,000 were expended in control of
injurious species in emergency funds
under Biological Survey supervision.
Such emergencies frequently arise.
For example, at present extraordinary
efforts are being made to exterminate
certain species of predators in Cali
fornia, Washington, Nevada and other
States of the Northwest region where
an epidemic of sylvanic plague has
been reported. The plague is carried
by ground squirrels and other rodents,
as well as coyotes, bob cats, wolves
and similar predators, and the present
outbreak is the first of widespread
consequence since 1900, when a wave
of bubonic plague that entered Cali
fornia was traced to ground squirrels
and •rodents that had become con
taminated by the germ carried on
rats brought into this country on
ships from China and India.
Throughout the year, however, vigi
lance is never relinquished, for It has
been found that even short periods
of economy in the number of hunters,
or expenditures in conJtction with
their work. Inevitably Rsult in an in
creased breed and subsequent infesta
tion, with proportionately higher losses
to the cattlemen and farmers.
TTHE range of these animal pests is
x far mor* extensive than gener
ally credited. Coyotes and wolves, for j
d
of the Mississippi River, dirft in from
northern States of Mexico, and have
even been found in the Bast, where
they have sometimes been transported
as pups by unthinking travelers or have
been shipped to stables for use In
cross-country hunts and turned loose
as baby “foxes." Areas most heavily
infested with wolves are now in
Alaska, Eastern Texas. Oklahoma.
Arkansas. Missouri, Wisconsin. Minne
sota and Michigan. Both coyotes and
wolves make serious inroads on the
stocks of sheep and lambs, cattle,
pigs, poultry, wild-game animals and
the ground-nesting and insectivorous
birds of the country.
The coyote is by far thfc most per
sistent predator of the Western range
country, and is a further menace, be
cause it is a carrier of rabies, or
hydrophobia. In 1916 and 1917 this
disease was prevalent in Nevada, Cali
fornia, Utah, Idaho and Eastern
Oregon and later in Southern Colo
rado and In the State of Washington,
and sporadic cases of rabid coyotes
have occurred each year in the West
ern States. Tularemia—a disease of
wild rabbits, fatal often times to hu
mans and transmissible—has also
been traced to the coyote as carrier.
Much of the country inhabited by
coyotes and wolves is purely agri
cultural, containing vast grazing
areas. A large percentage of the food
of maruding animals in these areas
is obtained from the herds of cattle
and stock of the farmer and the wild
.game that should be conserved. It is
of the greatest importance, for that
reason, to control the coyotes and
wolves that prey upon these industries.
Game protection and game propaga
tion, too, as a part of the extensive
activities of the Biological Survey,
cannot be carried on when packs of
these animal killers engage in whole
sale destruction.
Some Idea may be gained of the de
struction wrought by the fact that
most of the predators kill quite as
much for the sake of killing as they
do for food. For example, a single
mountain lion in one instance at
tacked a herd of ewes and killed 192
In one night, and one lone bobcat
has been known to destroy 38 lambs
at one kill, with a characteristic bite
on each lamb's neck.
rPHE American mountain lion is one
of the largest predatory animals
in the United States, sometimes weigh
ing more than 200 pounds. It is
recognized by game conservationists as
the greatest natural enemy of deer,
'and stockmen learn to their sorrow
that when game is scarce, the moun
tain lion attacks young domestic stock,
particularly colts, lambs and kids and
even full-grown horses and cattle. Ac
cording to Stanley P. Young, chief of
the Di Vinton of Predatory Animal and
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Famous Worker for Branch of Government
Called Champion in Mountain Lion Field
and Has Remarkable Record—Knows
Haunts and Habits.
I Rodent Control of the Biological
Survey, in some Western areas it
is practically impossible to raise
young colts or sheep on open stock
ranges in the rough, rocky and broken
| country that forms an ideal habitat
i for the mountain lion.
This killer is known also as the
cougar, panther, puma or catamount.
Its range includes at present the large
wilderness areas of the United States
west of the one hundredth meridian
and the heaviest infestation is in the
Rocky Mountain States and south
ward through the desert mountain
ranges of Arizona, Texas and New
; Mexico. They are abundant also in
j the coastal ranges of California, Ore
I gon and Washington, but are in few
other sections of the West. It is Mr.
Young's belief that, in spite of con
trol measures, these predators will
probably long continue to exist in the
United States, and that while there
are many areas where normal hunt
ing and the vicissitudes of wild life
can be depended upon to keep their
numbers within reasonable limits,
great stretches of wilderness areas will
probably never be touched by moun
tain-iion-control campaigns.
One of the most famous hunters
of the Survey, noted far and wide
for the number of mountain lions he
had bagged, was "Mountain Lion
Lilly”—otherwise Benjamin V. Lilly,
champion lion hunter of them all.
Lilly died not long ago with his record
untarnished. He was one of the most
picturesque characters in the Survey,
and had many stirring adventures to
his credit.
■DORN of a prosperous family, while
still in his 'teens Lilly responded
to the "call of the wild.” becoming
a free-lance hunter. Leaded with a
60-pound pack he broke his way
through the Louisiana canebrakes in
search of game, from bears to wild
cats. He was astonishingly adept with
firearms, and markedly courageous,
and he came to be known as a "sure
shot” in Louisiana, Texas, Arizona,
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New Mexico and Northern Mexico,
where he ranged for more than half
a century, wiping out animal pests.
He served as a guide to Teddy
Roosevelt, when that intrepid colonel
hunted through the Louisiana cane
brakes. Subsequently he collected
specimens of wild animals for the
Biological Survey, and at various times
was a professional hunter in the serv
ice of the Department of Agriculture.
To within a short time of his death
he was active, daring and as certain
in “drawing a bead" as any of his as
sociates young enough to be his grand
children. A giant for work, he was
know-n to tire out two or three sets of
dogs in rounding up the range scav
engers.
In his lifetime he saved the stock
men enormous sums of money. Within
one six-year period he killed 167
mountain lions and 65 stock-killing
bears.
Curiously enough, he followed a
fixed rule throughout his life of never
hunting on Sunday, and as a result,
the marauders who managed to elude
his sure shots were known as “Sab
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Mountain lion—predatory animal hunted by the Biological Survey because of its depreds*
Horn among cattle and sheep. •“
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