The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-25
"A JUNKETTNG WE
MUST COZ" RUNS
SOLONS' REFRAIN
Ten Trips Planned by
Senators and
Congressman.

Board, in connection with the com
pletion of the work Of recondition-
ing the giant steamer Leviathan,
at Norfolk. This work will be
completed some time in May or
June, and it has been npised
abroad during the past week that
Chairman Lasker and his asso-
ciates on the Shipping Board are
planning to commemorate the
placing in the international pas
senger- carrying service of the
finest ship afloat under the Amer
lean flag, by trial and demon
stration cruise, to which there
will be invited many Of the ma
tion's notables.
Owing to the unquestioned
excellence Of the accommodations
aboard the Leviathan, which was
used as a transport during the
war after she had been seized
from Germany, and the room for
q very large party, this promises
to be the junket de luxe.
And that is why in the heat Of
the debate during the final days
Of this fourth and last session Of
the Sixty-seventh Congress, the
nursery refrain runs through
Congressional minds, and Is set to
the words-
"a ju1seeting aDe must 20!
"A itt1tketing zoe must 90!
"Heigh 10, the deefse oh!
"A jgMketi9t0 ave mast go!
TNO you remember the handsome
young doctor who used to live
here in washington named Vincent
Hernandez Usera? He was the
SON OF the Chief Justice Of Porto
Rico. He went into the navy dur
ing the war and il now . heuten-
ant and has been stationed Tor some
time in Norfolk but was recently
assigned to the naval radio station
at San Juan, Porto Rico. He
married, you know. before the. war.
but forget right now whom he
n1arried-a New York girl. ]
think. His father recently re-
signed from the bench and has
gone to Madrid. Spain, to live.
Lieut.. Hernandez Usera has
double first cousin-their fathers
married sisters-who used to visit
here great deal but lived in New
York, Rafael Hernandez Psera.
He has also gone to Spain to live.
/ believe he has bought himself o
wonderful old place over there.
However, q book which he has
written has recently come to
Washington from Madrid and IL
causing much favorable comment
and considerable interest.
1t il DE America y de Espana;
a book composed Of a collection of
articles published originally, be-
tween 1920 and 1922, in several of
the most important Spanish maya
zines. The author. born in Porto
Rico in the late eighty's, IL q pro-
duct of that fusion Of two civiliza-
tons that 10 taking plac In his
native island, under our eyes and
flag, without our realizing its i'm
port and the attention 1t merits.
A judge-very young to be a
Judge too-in the Porto Rican
courts for several years, Mr..
Hernandez Usera fixed his resi-
dence In Spain four or five years
ago. A man Of independent means,
belonging on the Usera side to q
very old Spanish family that has
furnished chief Justices, court
physicians, bishops and soldiers to
tho old kingdoms Of Navarro and
Aragon first and to the unified
kingdom Of Spain later, he has
found time, while playing the
social game" in Madrid to study
thoroughly the problems Of the
two civilizations that divide the
New World. especially those aris-
ing from their proximity and re-
sultant communicated also re-
sultant conflicts of interests.
THE versatile Count de Roma
- nones-several times premier
Of Spain, miner and banker,
orator and man Of letters-in a