The Washington times., 1925-01-12
CONNECTICUT
YANKEE" is
WELCOME
Senator Hiram Bingham
Destined for
Popularity
By JEAN ELIOT.
senator IIiram ningham has

IF Senator Hiram Bingham has
taken Washington to his
heart, as evidenced by his
salutation Fellow Washing gtonians"
to the thousand guests assembled
at the Jusserand testimonial dinner
on Saturday evening, there is every
probability that the gesture VIII be
reciprocal.
He Is glamorous sort Of q
person, this governor-for.a-day, who
is now representing Connecticut in
the Senate. A scholar who has
also been an adventurer into the
far places Of the earth. A pedagogue
who could throw down his books
at the beginning Of the war and
take to the air, eventually becoming
commander OF the great flying
school of the Allies at Issoudun.
Moreover, he's exceptionally good
Iooking-certainly one Of the hand
soonest men on the Hill-and he
tells a story with suavity and
bubbIing numor. II he doesn't
watch out life in Washington will
be lust one after.dinner speech
after another!
Senator Bingham proved his
power over an audience in . rather
remarkable way on Saturday eve-
ming. There was true emotional
tension in the air that night, every
person in the great throng as
sembIed to do honor to NJ. and
Mime. Jusserand feeling a personal
sense Of loss at their approaching
departure. and every speech or
tribute to the ambassador having
worked upon their feelings. But
the new Senator from Connecticut
.1,a @Rxa@ Aaa64aR vxyfffa q g01M
Of laughter, paying the while q
really beautiful tribtue to NJ. JUS
serand as q scholar and managing
10 tell a number OF drolI stories
without any effect Of dragging them
in by the heels.
Connecticut Promises to Teach :.
France Meaning Of Thrift.
French thrift was under discus
sion. for example. Some people
might think that this virtue had
been exaggerated into a vice. but
not Connecticuters. They knew
something about thrift in Connecti
cut.
Take 81, whose wife Marthy, broke
q 'knittin' needle" and sent her
husband to the village store TO buy
another one-one Of those old.tine
pre-prohibition days the proprietor
was accustomed to s'set 'ern up
for those who traded. Asking the
price OF knitting needles 81 was
told Gent apiece" Whereupon he
produced an egg from somewhere
about his clothes, laid Il on the
counter and picked up the knitting
needle.
Then he hung round. Finally
John, the proprietor, asked what
more he wanted. "Aint you going
to set 'em up?'' was the reply. John
looked somewhat abashed, but
guessed he would and asked
"What'1l you have" well" said
81. 81 guess I'll take an egg fltp."
And that was that, until somebody
put in, why that eggs o double
yolker.' To which 81 drawied so
It is. Well, John. I guess you owe
me another knittin' needle"
Was Lieutenant Governor
General and Senator I'm day.
Senator and Mrs. Bingham were in
town over New Year Day and were
guests at Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Beale
McLean's New Year Eve ball, going
back to Connecticut. of course, for
the ceremonies incident to the in
gtallation of the Senator, who had
been lieutenant governor OF the State,
as governor, which had as much
pomp and ceremony as though he
we're not rsigning tWenty-four hours
later. The Senator and his wife arc
now staying at e. hotel, but are
house hunting and expect to estab-
lish a home here within few weeks.
Like the late Senator Brandegee,
his predecessor, Senator Bingham
calls New London his home, but it
Ia an adopted home and was the re-
suit Of his marriage, in 1900, to Miss
Alfredo Mitchell, who comes Of q
family long rooted in the soil Of that
lovely resort on Long Island Sound
IS much as the fact that he had been
q professor at Yale since 1915. His
family is robust Massachusetts, stock
and his mother, who was Minerva
ClariSsa Brewster, was a descendant
Of the mighty elder Of MayfloWcr
fame. His father, Reverend Hiram
Bingham, was among those who went
to what in those days was known az
the Sandwich Islands" in the early
7Os, when King Kalakaua was so ia
miliar a figure in this country.
1t was in Honolulu, in late No.
Vember. 1876, that Oonnecticut's
new Senator was born, and there
he lived until of an age to 80 to
college. when, following the family
tradition, he matriculated in Yale.
But he studied for two years in
the University Of California, and
also in Harvard, and then, feeling
himself prepared for what he had
chosen as a profession, he accepted
the chair Of history and politics in
Princeton. His career began Just
as Woodrow Wilson's in that seat
of learning was about to terminate.
But teaching was far too prosaic a
calling TO claim his undivided at
tention. and the next few years fini
Professor and Mrs. Bingham pene-
trating the equatorial lands and ex.
ploring the famous military route
followed by BOLIVIA when he planned