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MEN'S CLUB 1 DANCE IS BIC SUCCESS Valentine Costumes Brilliant. Sisterhood Playlet Recalls Grandmothers’ Days. By SYLVIA SEDGEWICK. The costume Valentine dance given by the entertainment com mittee ’of the Women’s City Club at the clubhouse last night was a suc cess. Mrs. May C. D. Johnson, chairman of the committee, attended in a Persian costume. Some of the guests present were Misses Lily and Emma Washburn, Dr. George Mr. and Mrs. William T. Bain, Ingham Mack, Miss Judith M. Barbaux, Mrs. Anna Lewis. Miss Mary Ladd. Miss Flor ence, Lees, Dr. and Mrs. U. S. G. Pierce, Mrs. Ella S. Limerick, Miss Mildred Hainsworth, Miss Lillian Hollingsworth. The decorations and refreshments were In the hands of the house committee of which Mrs. 8. Nickolaus is the chairman. A dance Was given last night by the Curley Club at the Lafayette Hotel. The guests enjoyed the novel favors appropriate to the season dis tributed during the evening. Miss • Helen B. Woods will be hostess at the Hurley Motor Com pany show room to the Soroptimist Club Wednesday evbning. Mrs. Herman Hollander brought back a spirit of the “old world” in her portrayal of a grandmother of shawl days in the playlet “A Woman of Today and Yesterday," given at the rally of the Sisterhood of the Eighth Street Temple, yes terday afternoon. This playlet, written by Mrs. Hol lander and directed by Mrs. Harold Birnbaum, contrasted the Jewish wife and mother of yesterday and the woman of today. The "modern” women .were por trayed by Mrs. Ralph Goldsmith, 1 Mrs. Muriel Gottlieb. Mrs. Herbert Simon, and Mrs. Jerome Saks. Miss Ruth Pack made a very dainty Japanese maid. The quips of these "moderns” afforded the audience many laughs. Other numbers on the program were: Selections by Rosey's orches tra, harp selections by Miss Abrams of the Metropolitan orchestra, and the distribution .and portrayal of Valentines. Living comics were por trayed by Miss Rieka Gans, Mrs. Flora Oppenheimer, Mrs. Sadie Saks and others. Mrs. Bertha Hochberg recited a poem. Mrs. Harry Hahn read and distributed original valen tines holding verses of club mem bers. Appropriate refreshments Were served. The rally was in charge of Mrs. Louis Kronheimer. Dr. Abram Simon gave the opening prayer. A guest of the afternoon was Mrs. Harriett K, Hertz of Glovers ville, N’. Y., a representative to the National Federation Os Women’s Clubs, and head of many organiza tions in her home town. Mrs. Chester Adair, organist of the Fourth Presbyterian Church . will give a fifteen minute recital at ' the Anthony League celebration of Susan B. Anthony’s 104th birthday at Central High 'HchotA tbnigWt. The Boy and Girl Scouts of America Will participate in the programi The National Woman’s Party will celebrate the 104th birthday of Susan B. Anthony at their head quarters on Capitol Hill. Gail Laugh lin, attorney from Portland, Me., Will speak. The meeting is in Charge, of Mrs. Mina. Allender. Miss Helen Parkhurst, of the University School of New York will address the American Association of University Women at their Club house 1634 I street this evening. The subject of the address will be "The Dalton Plan,” of which she is the author. Miss Parkhurst will leave for Japan in April to study the schools and introduce her plan. At Community Centers. At the Southeast Community Cen ter tonight there will be an enter w Tape’s Cold Compound" Breaks a Cold Right Up Pape’s A jjCbLDOJHMIHDj Take two' tablets every three hours until three doses are taken. The first dose always gives relief. The second and third doses com pletely break up the cold. .Pleasant and safe to take. Contains no quinine or opiates. Millions use "Pape’s Cold Compound.” Price, thirty-five cents. Druggists guar antee It. . ' ■ • A Special Offer 4 A Beautiful Picture "KdfiGUtA* Baby fl I ROUGELESS WEEK URGED BY PRESBYTERIAN BOARD ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Feb. 15. —All Presbyterians are urged to ab stain from movies, chewing gum, rouge, and other luxuries from Feb ruary 17 to 24, inclusive, and donate the money so saved to the church, in a resolution adopted by the general national council of the church here. Leaders, seeking means of raising 115,000,000 for the church’s program for the year, estimate the 1,800,000 members could by these sacrifices produce more than $1,000,000. The “sacrficial loyalty week" was sug gested by the Rev. William 8. Mar quis, director of new era move ment. tainment by the Friday Night Dra matic Club. The object is to raise funds to provide a grafonola for the Cranch-Tyler School. The teachers are co-operating. "Sara Crewe” will be presented by the dramatic class, and “Hansel and Gretel” by the rythmic dancing class. Among those taking part are Rosemary Dunnigan, Sarah Bergling, Grace Moran, Mary Leibold, Thelma Hart ley, Genevieve Bergling. “The Tin der Box” also will be presented. Those in the cast are Margaret Wil kinson, Bob Dunnigan, William Smith, Edward Fowler, Helen Jack son, Rita Dunnigan, Mildred Dunni gan, Elizabeth Bray, Joseph Kelley and others. "Hansel and Gretel” will be danced by Mae Smith and Florence Estes. The Cranch-Tyler pupils will provide group songs, music and posters. Miss Evelyn Davis has trained the children. ! In addition to the dramatic activities at the Southeast Center, the Winton Athletic Club will hold a business meeting and play a basketball game with a visiting team. At the Wilson-Normal Center, the Junior Club will give a dance, in charge of Martha Dunham and V. L. Kebler. This club is planning a cos tume dance on George Washington’s birthday. The Recreation Club, Co lumbian Midgets, Girl and Boy Scouts, and athletic groups, also will meet. There will be a visual in struction class at 7:30. Johnson-Powell Community Center will have classes in rythm and ex pression in the afternoon. Miss Marie Ready will hold a visualized sing in the evening, to which she has invited members of the com munity. Boy Scouts No. 40 will meet under George W. Wallace. Mrs. Cosgrove will lead dancing, dramatic and community singing groups for children at Thomson Cen ter tonight. Boy Scout Troop No. 2 will meet. Meetings of the Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Community Dramatic Club, and Avon Athletic Club will be held at Petworth Center tonight. Ths rhythm class and Social Dancing Club will meet at E. IV. Brown Cen ter tonight. Boy Scouts and Park View Athletic Club will meet at Park View Center tonight. A visual instruction program is on at West Washington Center tonight. Mohicans, Piedmonts, Young Wom en’s Art Club, Boy Scouts, Wonder Boys, and Quoit Club will meet. At Birney Center the Busy Bee Sewing Club, Whittling Club, Boy Scouts, Girls Athletic Group will meet. Adult and children’s activities will occupy Miner Normal Center this evening. The clubs meeting are: Girls Needlework, Boys Athletic and Basketball Clubs, Young P<‘iple's Dramatic Club, and Boy Scouts. Women's Needlework Club, Men's Current Events Club and Red Cross classes also meet. BRITISH WOMEN CAUSING STIR IN POLITICS Despite Political Policies They Will Unite on Social Campaign. By CHARLES A. SMITH, International News Service. , LONDON, Feb. 15.—Great Brit ain’s eight women members of the House of Commons, although of different parties and diametrically opposed to each other on most political questions, mean to unite in combating social evils and on ques-> tions vital to the home. This was decided upon by them at a dinner given to them by the Women’s Committee welcoming them to Parliament, at which they made speeches concerning their trials and tribulations as members of Parliament, and their hopes of what they will be able to do for the women of the country. Lady Astor, who nas now the nickname of “Mother of the House of Commons,” as the first woman member, told in a witty speech of her trials and warned her new “children" that above all the one thing they would need ' most was an unfailing sense of humor. Glad She Wore Hat. “Whether or not I should wear a hat was one of my first trials,” said Lady Astor. “I soon discovered, however, that I should have shocked most of the male members as much as if Lady Godiva herself had appeared.” The Duchess of Atholl, a new woman member, confessed that the question of .wearing a hat had been her great fear, and it was with a great sense of relief that she had found that the new Labor women members had settled the proMem for her by appearing without head gear.- "I do so like to work with my head uncovered,” she confessed. Lady Terrington admitted that, al though she knew “one’s hair does get awfully untidy,” she would like to dispense with a hat also. The speeches foreshadowed close co-operation between the women members regarding all matters vital to feminine Great Britain. Lady Astor, speaking for the Con servatives, Mrs. Wintringham for the Liberals, and Margaret Bond field for the Labor party, stated that they would endeavor to co-op erate, putting causes before cau cuses in the matter of housing and infant welfare. ' "Our Maggie*' Speaks. Miss Bondfield, affectionately known among the Laborites as “Oug Maggie,” stood on her chair to speak and showed all the fervor of an ardent social reformer. With flushed cheeks and blazing eyes, she declared that England could Show an example to the whole world.. THE WASHINGTON TIMES INDIANS KNEW ALL ABOUT JAZZ Research Shows Native Tribes Also Had Secreta of Happy Married Life. By WILLIAM PARKER, (Copyright, 1824, by Cosmopolitan News Service.) SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Feb. 15.—The noble red man solved the secret of how to be happy though married, and jazz music was old when the American nation was young. These interesting sidelights are phases of new and important dis coveries relating to the life and customs of the native tribes of the West coast, made by Prof. J. P. Harrington, research associate for the Heye Foundation of the Museum of the American Indian, in New York City. "Very early in their domestic ex perience various tribes which roamed the Pacific slope must have realized that when married couples see too much of each other, mar riage is apt to become a burden rather than a romance,” said Prof. Harrington to the Cosmopolitan News Service correspondent. "The result of this intuitive sense we find highly developed in such tribes as the Yurok, Karok, Hupa, Chihula and othgr tribes. AU of these tribes had a mating season of two months every year. When this mating season was over the men left the Indian village and did not see their wives again until the following mating season. Hence there were no divorces. Was Romantic Lover. “The Indian was a romantic lover, and he set the two most romantic months of the year for the mating season, namely April and* May. These were the months when the country was at its beet, birds were singing and nature was in a gay mood. The Indians did little courting or marrying in the melancholy months of the fall. "The homecoming of the Indian men was a notable event. It was a period of song and feasting. “In analyzing numerous Indian songs of these and other tribes I find an unmistakable syncopation running through them. When we Americans of this day and age talk about ‘modern jazz’ we are trying to take credit for a really ancient music. “The early Indians were very wise in natural science, too. They knew the earth was round, and records we have found indicate they had knowledge of a vast ocean to the east, the Atlantic Ocean. But they were a very superstitious people and had developed mental telepathy to a dangerous degree. They far surpassed the Kahunas, the Ha waiian priests, in their power to hate people to death. Old Indian chiefs have described to me the most dramatic of mental battles staged between two priests, with the tribes drawn up on either s’de as tense spectators. These priests would shriek incantations at eacn othfcr, grab imaginary thunderbolts from the air and hurl them, jit was only a matter of time whpn one or the other would fall writh ing to ground, and the old Indian chiefs told mqr that many times the defeated priest would die. Feared White Man ‘The coming of the white man filled the Indians with superstitious fear. The white man baffled them. When the religious teachers tried to convert our religious beliefs to them, the Indians could not com prehend what they were saying. First, because the Indian knew nothing about sin. he was unmoral in many ways, but not immoral, for there was no moral standard for him to* go by. So when the religious teachers told him about being punished for his sins, he shook his head in perplexity. And when Biblican chapters were trans lated into his native tongue it might as well have been recited to him in Greek. To see how utterly Illogical it was to the Indian mind, take for example the first verse of the twenty-third psalm, which reads: ' “ ‘The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.’ “Translated into the Indian lan guage it would be: “ ‘The Chief is my sheepherder, I shall not miss. “Is it any wonder that the Indian did not understand us?” U. D. C. FACTION TO APPEAL MRS. TUCK’S ELECTION A new appeal to Mrs. Frank Harrold, president general of the United Daughters of the Con federacy, asking her to recognize Mrs. Drury J. Ludlow as president of the Washington division,- was decided upon last night at a meet ing of the chapters who walked put of the district convention here December 6. Mrs. Albion W. Tuck, leader of the opposing faction, has been recognized by Mrs. Harrold as the president of the Washington di vision. The dissenting faction claims Mrs. Tuck’s election was illegal. Those taking part in the dis cussion last night were Mrs. Wal lace Streetqr, Mrs. G. L. Morgan, Mrs. Marie Bonham and Mrs. F. G. Oddenheimer. GRIPPE PREVENTION You know that grippe, influenza and other respiratory ailments are caused by germs taking hold of the weaken ed body, but do you realize how true is the old adage An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”? SCOTTS [MUMI .: OF PURE VITAMIN-RICH COD-UVER OIL owes its power to prevent weakness by its ability to nourish and strengthen the system and keep resistance normal. Do not let grippe-weakneee overtake you, take Scott e Emulsion and keep strung and vital! . . •«** a iMm, aiMMfeH. a. j, »-uj I WHAT’S DOING I I Today and Tomorrow I Today. Meeting—MacFarland Junior H'gh School Parent Teacher Association, school building, «p.m. „ / Meeting—William B. Cuehing Auxil iary. No. 4. Sons of Veterane, pythian Temple, 8 p. m. . Meeting—Bueineee Women e Council, Church of the Covenant, 4:48 p. m. Vaudeville Show Baetern High School Alumni Aeeociation, Baetecn Auditorium, 8 p. m. Dance—Auspicee of the Catholic Women’s Service Club, Catholic Com munity Houae, <Ol E etroet northwest, 9 Joint’ Mooting—Tale Club and the Junior Yale Club, University Club, 8 Mass Meeting—la honor of the Oze Hundred and Fourth Urtbday ofSuzan B. Anthony. Central High school. 8 P * Meeting—Society of Natives, Wash ington club. 8 p. m. .Dance—National Capital poet, Veter ans of Foreign Wars, Odd Fellows han, 410 Seventh street. 0 p. m. Maine memorial exercises. United States Spanish War Veterans, Riding hall. Fort Myer, 8:80 p. m. Gym claes—-City club, 5 to 6 p. m. Dance —Friday evening dance class Willard, 0:80 p. m. Lecture —“The Source of Power, pr. Henry Knight Miller. Playhouse. 1814 N street northwest. 7 p. m. Park View Community Center —Boy Scout meeting, 7:80; Park View A. C., 8 p. m. _ E. V. Brown Community Center- Rhythm class, 8:18, 4:18; social danc ing, 7:80 p. m. _ _ Thomson Community center Boy Scout Troop, No. 8, 7:80; dancing, dra matic and community singing groups for children. i Wilson Normal Community center junior club danoe, 8 p. m.; recreation club, 3:15 p. m.; visual instruction, p. m.; Columbia Midgets, 7 p. m.; ath letic groups, 8 p. m.; Girl Scouts, 3:30 p. m.: Boy Scouts, 7:30 p. m. Southeast Community center —Junior dramatic club) and rhythm class enter tainment. Burrville Community center —Com- munity chorus, 6 p. m.; visual instruc tion, 6 p. m.; Four Leaf Clover, young folks' social, mothers’ adult dramatic, men’s whist and women’s whist clubz, 8 to 10 p. m. Petworth Community center Girl Scouts. Boy Scouts, community dramatic club and Avan A. C.,'7:30 to 10:30 P. m. Birney Community center —Junior dramatic club, 3 p. m.; Busy Bee sew ing club, 8 p. m.; whltling club, Boy Scoute and girls' athletic group, 7:30 to 10:30 p. m. Johnson Powell Community center — Classes in rhythm and expression, 3:18 p. m.; Boy Scout Troop No. 40, 8 p. tn.; visualized sing, 8 p. m. West Washington. Community center —Mohicans. Piedmonts, Preps, Willing Workers. Young Women’s Art Club, Boy Scouts, Wonder Boys and Quoit club. 7:30 to 10:30 p. m. Miner Normal Community center — Girls’ needlework club, boys' athletic club, boys' basketball team, young- peo ples' dramatic team, Boy Scouts, wom en’s needlework club, men's current events club, Red Cross classes. Free Illustrated Lecture —“Bruges, the Nothern Venice," Senora de Castro Cervantes. Y. M. C. A., assembly hall. 8 p. m. Meeting—Nebraska Alumni Associa tion. Wilson Normal School. Eleventh and Harvard srteets northwest, evening. Card Party—Key Club. Masonic Tem ple, Eighth and F streeta northeast, 8:30 p. m. Tomorrow. I Midwinter Dinner—Membership com ■ mittee, Board of Trade. Willard. 7 p. m. Dance—Red Triangle Outing Club, Blue Triangle Recreation Center. Twen -1 tieth and B streets northwest, evening. Meeting—Biological Society of Wash ington. Cosmos Club, 8 p. m. Comedy—“ Honor Bright." Tech Dra matic Club, evening. Meeting—Society for Philosophical In quiry, Public Library, 4:45 p. m. Meeting—Federation of Citizens' As sociations, board room, Municipal Build ing, 8 p. m. Johnson-Powell Community Center— Boy Scouts, 8; Adult Saturday Night Club, dance, 8; Argyle A. C.. 8 p. m. Lovejoy Community Center —Com- munity singing. 8; Boy Scouts. Buffalo A. C.. Glrla' A. C. Bestyette Club, and Once-a-Week Club, 8:38; Whittling Club, 8 p. m. Wilson Normal Couthiunity Center- Campfire Girls, 10 a. m. , Petworth Community Center —Pet- worth Community Players will present three plays. ENGLANDURGEO TOGETARCTIG AIR BASES Proposed Junket of American Dirigible Shenandoah May Start Contest. By International News Service. LONDON, Feb. 15.—Great Britain is being urged to look forward to the establishment of Arctic air bases, as the result of the announce ment of Secretary of the Navy Denby that the United States hopes to claim the North Pole as Ameri can territory, if it is reached by the flight of the dirigible Shenandoah. Commander Burney, M. P., who is one of the backers of the British scheme for airship communication with the dominions, warns that it is only a question of years before the Arctic regions or a portion of them, will play an important part in the world’s schemes of aerial transport. Commander Burney sat in his of fice whirling a globe in front of him and ruminating. The globe stopped, and Command er Burney placed hia finger on a tiny speck. “That is Wrangel Island,” he re marked, “away out of the world, so to speak—a desolate spot that may very easily become in the fu ture tremendously Important. “Wrangel Island lies in a straight line from our country. Trud, the distance is between three and four thousand miles, but an airship can do that, and if we had it as a base we should be able to think of world travel from quite a new angle. x "We were the first people to se cure naval bases, and on that prin ciple our sea power has been de pendent. TJba National Daily ENGLAND FACES ‘SUB-RACE,’ IS WARNING “Breeding from the Bottom,” Say* Cleric, Lamenting Prolific Substrata. ißterMttoMl News Service. LONDON, Feb. 15.—England is in danger of “sub-men.” Dean Inge, sometimes called the "Gloomy Dean of St. Paul’s,” has sounded this solemn note of warn ing. “We are breeding from the bot tom and dying off at the top,” warns the Dean. "It is the slurmdweller, the sub man, the untaxed dole receiver, who is the father of the next generation, ' ’ V‘ ... i’ . •_ J ' ’ <■ • . ,• ■ r . . V.. |> | < 1516 p | 1 JVi 111 t—ft I iii III llj <«**»«<- *«»| ProVen Earning Power/ SEVEN months of signal success are now to the credit of the REAL ES TATE MORTGAGE & GUARANTY C6RPORATION. Time has witnessed the fulfillment of every promise held to its shareholders and proven beyond question a present and potential earning power which will appeal to the investor. The REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE & GUARANTY CORPORATION is engaged in one of the oldest and safest businesses, that of dealing in mortgages on improved income-producing real estate. There can be no doubt as to its need in Washington, while consideration of the directing personnel—well known local men whose names are synonymous with the success and growth of the National Capital—affords ample confidence with regard to the future. Resources I The Company began actual was paid to stockholders of rec- business operations about Au- ord, December 31, 1923. gust 1, 1923, and its resources are now $788,786.35. The dmdend paid was at the , j rate of 8% on the preferred The surplus, discounts and stock 2 o/ o O n the common earnings to January 31, 1924, Btoc k at par. amount to $101,095.52. Less Dividend Number 1, Leaving a net surplus of . amounting to $9,272.54, which $91,822.98. ft Management FRANK H. EDMONDS L. E. BREUNTNGER, Optician HAYDEN JOHNSON mW fiaurral Manager Director, Continental Trust Company Donaldson. Johnson & Fralley, Attor- _ " • , „ ” , ” 7 Director, Fidelity Savings Bank neys President, L. E. Breunlnger & Sons o>l . Director, Mount Vernon Savings Bank Construction Co. EDWARD C. ERNST Trust Officer, Commercial National Bank President, Citlsens Savings Bank Electrical Contractor I THOMAS SOMERVILLE, President, Samuel Miller & Company, Ine. ent President, Thoma. Somerville Co. m WILLIAM MUEHLEISEN President, Park Savings Bank ™eaident, A. Loffler Provision Co., Inc. President, Mount Vernon Savings Bank • • Director, Metropolitan National Bank Director, Lincoln National Bank . R. L. NEUHAUSER, Vice President HORACE G. SMITHY HENRY I- BREUNINGER v,c ® President, Citlsens Savings Bank Vice President and Treasurer, N. I* Architect and Builder Z MAJ. GEN. ANTON STEPHAN Bank Treasurer FRED DREW General Manager, Dulin & Martin Com- MICHAEL A. "WELLER President, Fred Drew Company, Inc. iJIImL,.* President, Weller' Construction Com- Director, Citizens Savings Bank President, Merchants and Manufactur- pany, Inc. Director. Second National Bank th. Mallnnal Director, National Capital Bank Commanding General of the National DiPArtnr Nntinmd r'anitni t. c. dulin ®! D «x w N s , a:us , s , &.ssr~ Secretary and Treasurer, Dulin & vislon of th ® National Guard DONALD WOODWARD Martin Company DONALDSON. JOHNSON & President, Woodward & Lothrop Director, Federal-American National ... cv Director, Washington Loan A Trust Bank FRAILBY Company Counsel ‘Real GstatejUort^eG'Guaranty Corp 26 Jackson Place N.W Washington. D. C. (West Side of Lafayette Square) Main 1403-1404 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1924. or of by far more than hie share of it. "The highest birth rate of all Is that of the feeble-minded, and the StatS does all in its power to in crease the evil by throwing on the Industrious the whole burden of maintaining in constantly increas ing numbers these wasteful prod ucts of the social machine whose ‘disappearance would simply aug ment .the prosperity of the country. The peril is a new one. : “The dysgenic effects of our present social and political order have not yet had time to manifest themselves fully, but there can be no doubt that the consequences will be, if they are not checked, the rapid decay of our nation in physique, intellect and character.” In each generation, according to the Dean, the cream of all classes is skimmed off, raised to a better social position and there sterilized. It is a foreboding symptom .that doctors, ministers of religion and the teaching profession have at present the lowest birth rate. "Decline In the birth rate,” con tinued the Dean, “has prevented a social revolution and the death of many millions by famine, but it has not gone far enough to remove the danger.” The Dean declared it was a no- torious fact that the present condi tions of labor do not satisfy those engaged in it. So acute is the dis content that many workmen wish to subvert the social order alto gether. 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