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National Session
Of PEO to Be
Skeletonized
States to Be Held
To 10 Per Cent of
Normal Delegates
Because of war conditions, the
Supreme Chapter of the PEO Sister
hood plans to hold a skeletonized
convention in Detroit in September,
with each State entitled to only
10 per cent of its normal number
of delegates, according to Mrs.
Blanche D. Walker, the supreme
president.
Mrs. Walker, who is in Washing
ton for the annual convention of
the District Chapter of the sister
hood, explained that the arrange
ment had been worked out after
consultation with the Office of De
fense Transportation.
She pointed out that the consti
tution of the sisterhood makes man
datory the holding of conventions
this year, as both the supreme and
State chapters have financial in
terests requiring convention action
from time to time.
Local Session Opens.
The District of Columbia Chapter
Of the PEO Sisterhood, which has
20 local chapters, will be entitled
to only one delegate at the national
convention under the plan this year.
The war also affected arrange
ments for the State convention of
the District organization which
opened this morning in the parlors
of the Mt. Pleasant Congregational
Church. Sessions usually are held
in a District hotel.
Mrs. Walker, who is from Helena,
Mont., arrived here yeserday for the
meeting and is scheduled for several
addresses. Tonight she will be the
guest of honor and special speaker
at a dinner at the Sulgrave Club.
Mrs- Fohrman to Speak.
Mrs. M. H. Fohrman, president of
the District Chapter, also will speak.
Greetings will be brought by presi
dents of the three hostess chapters:
Mrs. John P. Mutchler, Chapter O;
Mrs. D. C. Trafton. Chapter P, and
Mrs. R. E. Brewster, Chapter Q.
Miss Alma Barry, a State vice presi
dent. will be toastmastress.
A special musical program is be
ing arranged.
“The Hour of Remembrance,” a
memorial service, will be a feature
of the program this afternoon with
Mrs. T. A. Hutton, a past State pres
ident, in charge. Paul Robeson, or
ganist of the Mount Pleasant Con
gregational Church, will play several
selections, as well as the accompa
niments for songs by Mrs- J. F. Al
bert. soprano. Special tributes will j
be paid to Miss Grace Johnson, j
Mrs. Antionette Miller, Mrs. Anna j
Schoenert and to the seven found
ers of the organization.
Discussion Slated.
Other events on the procam to- !
day include an address by Mrs. j
Victoria Faber Stevenson, president
of the National League of American '
Pen Women; a panel discussion, led '
by Mrs. L. A. Wilkinson, retiring !
chairman of the “Presidents’ Round
’Table;” a discussion of PEG edu- \
cational projects by Mrs. Ward M.
Buckles and a resume of “Letters
of the 20 Chapter Presidents” by
M'ss Jar.e Mackay Anderson.
One of ihp most important reports !
to be made today will be presented I
by Mrs. Harold E. Mesch, State i
chairman of the Committee on War
Effort. Mrs. Mesch's records show
that during the past year members
have devoted a total of 21.076 hours
to Red Cross work -sewing, knitting
and making surgical dressing. The j
local chapters have contributed $2.- j
274 78 to the Fed Cross and to Chi- ;
nese, European and Russian relief, j
Sales of War bonds and stamps ,
have totaled $236,83625.
Members have served 1.106 hours
as bos: esses in selective service
work and in public sneaking.
Ct'.hcr Work Listed.
Fortv-six members have been
blood donors and 3.3R6 hours have
been given to work as fire wardens,
in victory gardens, on scrap collec
tions. cn rationing boards and as
first-aid instructors.
The war work of the supreme
chapter is under the direction of
Mrs. H. E. Simpson of South Da
kota.
Projects of the supreme organi
zation, which has 75.000 members,
include its educational fund, which
has reached nearly $1,000,000: Cot
ter College, an accredited junior
college for girls at Nevada. Mo.,
which is owned and operated by the
organisation and its Memorial Li
brary at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, es
tablished in memory of its seven
founders. Over 5.500 girls have
been helped bv the educational fund
to receive a higher education.
Coyotes Scvc Their Skins
Since Traps Are Scarce
SALT LAKE CITY UP).—When
the coyotes howl out on the lone
prairie these days, it's with glee.
There’s a good bounty on their
pelts hut they stand a better chance
of hanging onto them than at any
other time in years. Traps are hard
to get, ammunition is scarce and
most of the private, hunters have
gone into more lucrative war work
or into the armed services.
The force of hunters employed by
the Utah Federal animal and rodent
control division has dropped from a
high mark of 140 to the present 62.
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Some of the work done by the arts and crafts department
of the Silver Spring Woman’s Club was on display at the April
meeting of the organization this week. Shown admiring one of
the baskets made by the women are Mrs. Kohn C. Keele (left),
the art chairman, and Mrs. J. Roy Seidel. —Star Staff Photo.
20th Century Club Committee
Gives Annual Refuse Prizes
The annual presentation of
awards by the Clean City Commit
tee of the civic-education section of
the Twentieth Century Club to
members of the City Refuse Division
was held yesterday at the YWCA,
with a large attendance of the club
membership and of department su
perintendents of the City Refuse
Division.
As an innovation in the annual
event, which has been held by the
club for the past 20 years, the pres
entation was held in Barker Hall
following a luncheon session. Pre
viously the ceremony has been con
ducted at the Municipal Building
with only a group of members pres
ent.
Cash awards were made as fol
lows: First prize, trash service, Al
bert Barnes; second prize, Gordon
Judd; first prize, ash service, Leroy
Coleman; second prize. Lemuel O.
Hawkins; first prize, garbage service,
Wallace Hawkins: second prize,
Charles Barkley; first prize, street
cleaning service, Samuel McCul
lough Dooley; second prize, Con
gress Williams Long.
Xanten Speaks.
Presentation was made by Mrs.
C'oyri Heck Marvin, president of
the club.
A brief address was made by Wil
liam A. Xanten, superintendent of
the City Refuse Division, who was
introduced by Mrs. John W. Friz
zell, chairman of the Clean City
Committee. Mr. Xanten told of the
difficulty of keeping the city clean
with the recent large expansion in
population and with a constant loss
of workers in the past few months
due to the war
He reported there has been a
turnover of 600 men in the City
Refuse Department in the past
year with a loss of 100 men to the
armed forces. He called attention
to the new covered trucks of the
department which prevents the
blowing of paper and refuse, but he
added that the only sure wray to
keep the city clean was by the co
operation of the public.
Housewives Lauded.
Mr. Xanten declared that the
housewives of the District had done
an excellent job in the tin-can sal
vage campaign and had already sent
in 30 carloads of cans properly
Dressed and prepared for salvage.
He also told how the City Refuse
Division salvaged all garbage which
is converted into fats and fed to
pigs.
The Federal Government has in
creased the trash of the city by 150
per cent, Mr. Xanten said, due to
paper waste in office buildings.
The presentation climaxed the
final meeting this year of the Civ
ics-Education Committee. It fol
lowed the luncheon program at
which Mrs. Lydia Van Zandt, a new
member, spoke on “Our South
American Republics.” Several vo
cal selections were offered by Ethel
Pyne. Mrs. Edgar Briant Meritt,
chairman of the section, presided
at the meeting.
Homemakers Hear
Speaker Discuss
Wartime Child Care
“Wartime Child Care'' was dis
cussed by Miss Dorothy Pearce, di
rector of services for the children of
working mothers for the OCD be
fore the homemakers section of the
District Home Economics' Associa
tion at a meeting yesterday in the
auditorium of the Washington Gas
and Light Co.
Special guests included Mrs. Philip
Growlie. the “typical homemaker"
from the OPA and Mrs. Edwin
Wright, who has been working with
the after-school program for chil
dren of working mothers at Ban
croft School.
Mrs. Crowlie informally answered
a number of questions on her work
at the tea which followed the pro
gram.
Two Chairmen Report.
Mrs. William Brownrigg and Mrs.
Howard Oldham were among those
reporting during the afternoon.
Mrs. Brownrigg is chairman of
the committee in charge of equip
ping the recreation room for soldiers
at Bolling Field which has been in
use since November. The men as
sisted in decorating the room and
renovating furniture contributed by
members. Games, books, money and
suitable furniture are requested
from those interested in this work.
Mrs. Shelby Faulkner and Mrs. Fred
C. Janns are members of Mrs.
Brownrigg’s committee.
Publications Exhibited.
Mrs. Oldham is chairman of the
group study of Wartime Child Care,
which has actively participated in
the movement in Arlington County
to survey nursery schools established
in the county.
Mrs. V. Lorraine Phillips, the
president, presided at the meeting.
Mrs. Lester W. Buechler, the or
ganization's program chairman, as
sisted Mrs. T. J. Lynch who was in
charge of the program for the day.
During the afternoon there was
an exhibit of recent publications
concerning nursery schools and war
time problems of child care in the
Metropolitan areas.
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Washington Club
Hears Talk on
Postwar Planning
Senator Burton Says
U. S. Must Prepare
To Win the Peace
A call to Americans to prepare
the road to a lasting peace was
soupded last night by Senator Bur
ton, Republican, of Ohio, in an ad
dress before members of the Wash
ington Club.
Guest of honor at a dinner given
at the clubhouse. Senator Burton
cautioned against the danger of
America “losing through postwar
unpreparedness that for which we
fight.”
The speaker advised that now is
the time to give thoughful, orderly
and vigorous work to winning the
war, internal stability, regional sta
bility, immediate postwar emerg
encies, world-wide military stabil
ity and world-wide economic, social
and governmental stability.
Asks Victory First,
i "First, we must win the war,” he
| dared. “Dependable authorities es
i timate two to four years more of
hard fighting- There can be no
lasting peace without complete vic
tory for the United Nations in both
hemispheres. We should unite the
people of the United States with
one another, the people of the
Americas with one another and the
people of the world with one an
other in an orderly but flexible pro
gram to secure and maintain a just
and lasting peace.”
Declaring that the civilian
strength and spirit on the home
fronts must be maintained, the Sen
ator cautioned against discussions
among the Allies that might cause
division in their ranks.
“If we weaken in any way our
unity of military action we become
our owrn worst enemy,” he asserted.
Should Prepare Tsow.
A program of postwar internal,
regional and world-wide stability
must be prepared by the United
States now’, the speaker declared.
“We owe it to the world to do
so.” he said, “because the United
States will stand as the great ex
ample of how well or how ill self
government can meet the issues of
peace as well as of war.”
Senator Burton emphasized the
importance of Western Hemisphere
stability in the postwar plan.
“The Americas should show how
to maintain mutually helpful re
gional relationships without inter
fering with appropriate spheres of
national sovereignty,” he declared.
Reconstruction Important.
America should be prepared for
a postwar program twhich will in
clude “total disarmament of enemy
nations and demobilization of our
own and Allied forces to keep step
I with the absorption of returning
soldiers into productive civilian
life ” the Senator continued. “We
i should prepare now to help feed the
' needy in Allied and conquered ter
ritories and to preserve in them
! law and order.”
All people throughout the world
must be assisted in re-establishing
homes, farms and factories to pro
duce their own food and materials,
the speaker declared.
Air commerce, which will be an
important postwar problem, should
be shared by all. Senator Burton
asserted, and there should be de
velopment of international trad*
without destroying standards of
living.
“To win the war, but gain no
| lasting peace, would be a tragic and
| empty victory,” the speaker con
| eluded. “The issues of lasting peace
j rise far above partisanship. Re
| publican and Democrats alike must
i meet them constructively without
I seeking partisan advantage.”
Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin is presi
! dent of the club.
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MARGARET SPEAKS,
Concert and radio soprano,
who will sing tomorrow night
for members of the Walsh
Club for War Workers in a
program at the club.
Three Church Clubs
Plan Spring Rally
Tuesday Evening
Helen Sutton Booth, well-known
current events lecturer, will address
a spring rally of the women of the
First Congregational Church at 6:30
p.m. Tuesday at the church.
The rally is under the joint spon
sorship of three church groups: The
Women’s Society of which Mrs.
Mark Thatcher is president, the
Young Women’s Club of which Miss
Mary Margaret Leonhard is presi
dent, and the Fortnightly Club of
which Miss Margaret Carter is pres
ident.
Plans also are being made for the
spring rally of the Congregational
women of the Washington area un
der the chairmanship of Mrs. Paul
R. Hunter. The rally will be held
April 29 at the First Congregational
Church.
Representative Walter Judd of
Minnesota will be the speaker and
special music will be provided under
the direction of Mrs. William O.
Tufts.
Mrs- Howard Stone Anderson is |
general chairman of the event.
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Warworkers’ Club
To Hear Program by
Margaret Speaks
Margaret Speaks, well-known con
cert and radio singer, will sing at
the Walsh Club for Warworkers at
9:30 p.m. tomorrow, according to
an announcement.
The appearance has been ar
ranged by Mrs. Byron Price, wife
of the director of the Office of
Censorship, who handles publicity
for the Women’s Committee on
Clubs for Warworkers. Mrs. Price
and Miss Speaks are personal
friends. f
The guest artist, who also will
sing Sunday at the Stage Door
Canteen, is the daughter of Gen.
John C. Speaks, former Representa
tive from Ohio. Her husband and
two brothers are now in th% Army
on active duty.
The Walsh Club for Warworkers
is located in the old Walsh stables
at the rear of 1523 Twenty-second
street N.W., and is operated by the
District Board of Recreation. The
quarters were donated by Mrs.
Evalyn Walsh McLean.
For its Sunday evening program
the club will present Ben Sargon
who will discuss "India and Her
Peoples.” Mr. Sargon, a British
subject, was born in India and
spent many years there. He is a
member of the English bar and
currently is employed in Washing
ton by the British Ministry of
Supply.
Sheriff Solves Case
Of Double Trouble
DARLINGTON. S. C. (P).—Sheriff
C. A. Grinnell, with a complete de
scription. set out to get his man on
an assault and battery charge.
He found a person at a bus station
fitting the description perfectly and
he arrested him. The man vigorous
ly protested his innocence. Then up
popped another man, a double for
the first. He was arrested promptly
and confessed.
Both had the same name. They
were no kin.
Merger to Be Discussed
A public meeting at which ques
tions will be answered concerning
the proposed incorporation of
Springbrook, Wilson and Gretta
subdivisions with Riverdale will be
held at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the
Riverdale Elementary School.
I Illinois Alumni Club
To Entertain Dean
Miss Maria Leonard, dean of
women of the University of Illinois,
who is spending several days here,
is inviting alumnae of the univer
sity to call on her at the Hay Adams
House between 3 and 5 pjn. Sunday.
Officers of the local University
of Illinois Alumni Club plan to en
tertain for Miss Leonard at mid
day dinner Sunday. Ben Fisher
is the alumni president.
Miss Nelle Ingels, secretary of the
club, will take inquiries by tele
phone at her home.
Lecture Slated
Mrs. Clark Waldron Is handling
advance reservations for the lec
ture-luncheon to be sponsored by
the District branch of the Women’s
International League at noon to
morrow at the YWCA, Seventeenth
and K streets N.W. Tickets also
will be available at the door. The
speaker will be Dr. Egon Ranshofen
Wertheimer, visiting professor of
international affairs at American
| University and author of "Victory
! Is Not Enough.”
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