Evening star., 1926-09-26

intend to hide under bushel. but
systematic boosting goes forward
on every inch of the lake regions
and along the rock-bound coast.
Maine Is endeavoring to round up It's
citizens who have become factors of
importance in other States. that they
may return at least to the extent of
having a Summer home and lending
q. voice to the chorus pealing along
the PenobscOt and the sea coast and
| the ambition Is to have a. four
months pOpula tiOn which will make
the struggle TO find an abiding place
in Florida during the Winter look like
a child's game.
Miss Sarah Schuyler Butler, daugh.
ter OF the president of Columbia Uni.
versity and Mrs. Nicholas Murray
Butler has purchased the beautiful
estate of Mrs. Francis Burrell Hoff-
man, Eden Classic. near Southamp-
ton. She passed a busy Summer.
Eden Classic was for many years
identified with the social activities of
the late Mrs. Hoffman and for the
brilliant annual reception she gave
there for the Catholic colony of Long
Island and at which the late Cardinal
Gibbons was invariably the guest Of
honor. Miss Butler has gone in for
politics and has devoted much time
this Summer explaining what she
deems needed reforms in local gov
ernment. AS her parents have many
and pressing obligations in Europe
and as they find Summer the most
! convenient time TO attend to them,
they have established their talented
daughter under her own vine and fig
| tree and given her free reins to carve
| her own career. Miss Butler intends
| to run for a position on the board of
aldermen in New York City as she
| is already a member of the selectmen
of Southampton. She believes tre-
! mendousiy IN sartorial effect on the
lecture platform or even on the
stump and no woman is more care
fully garbed than she, when she ap-
pears before an audience. Possessing
| much of the wit of her father and his
! pithy way of proving a moot point,
! this young woman has apparently a
brilliant career before her in the pub
lie service of New York. If not in the
national sense.
DIR. Miguel Abadia MendeZ, who on
August Z was inaugurated as Presi-
| dent of Colombia, had been for sew
eral years minister of finance as well
as of foreign affairs, and he is well
known to those in public life Of this
country who have been concerned in
the paying of Colombian claims for
damages against this Republic grow
| ing out of the Panama Canal incl
dent The new President spent many
years as a teacher of international
| law in the Colegio del Rosario of
| Bogota and in the National Uniyer-
sity and he is considered one of Co
| lOmbia'S foremost scholars as well as
statesmen. Columbia inaugurates her
chief magistrate on August be-
| cause this day Is for the citizens of
what was formerly New Granada
what Yorktown was to the Colonists
| and their descendants. for it is the
anniversary of the Battle of the
| Bridge of Boyaca when she great lib
orator sealed forever the indepen-
dence by his decisive victory over
the Spanish forces. This battle oc-
Cured in 1919 and the 107th COM
| memoration was solemnly held in
conjunction with the inaugura ton
ceremonies. President Mendez will
serve for four years. He was elected
by the Conservative party by an
| overwhelming vote in which the op-
ponents, the Liberals, took but a, mi
nor role. He is a resident of Piedras,
in the department Of Tolima, and he
has scaled every height in official
service and has been in the 1egisla-
tive branches as member and sena-
tor and has held three cabinet posts
for varying terms, beginning in 1895
as minister of public instruction. He
was also in the diplomatic service and
was for three years minister to Chile.
Senior Manuel S. Pichardo, a noted
scholar of Havana, recently an
| nounced that the Royal Academy of
Madrid has created an affiliated
branch In the Cuban capital and that
20 of It's recognized men of letters
have been invited into the select cir
Gle This privilege has been ex-
tended to several other Latin Ameri-
can republics and 1t fs an honor long
sought by the Cuban government.
But despite the bitterness of the
struggle which ended in the indepen-
dence of the last of Spanish posses
sions in the New World, a. tie Of the
utmost affection binds the island to
the mother country. A vast proper
tion Of Havana's business houses are
branches of older ones in Spain and
there are as many youths from the
old country serving in them as there
are Cubans. The Royal Academy of
Madrid is as influential In It's way
as the famous Academy of the I'm
mortals in Paris and it exercises a
potent sway about the purity of the
language and the standard of ac-
cepted literature. Dialects have inev-
itably sprung up In each of the
Latin republics, as they have in va
rious districts of provinces of Spain
hut the Academy insists on the fine
old Castilian as the tongue of the
learned and takes great care to elimi-
nate all slang and colloQuialisms, both
from speech and from the written
word.
The Emerson Club In Great George
street. London. SO popular a. resort
for Americans In that city, was not
named as is generally supposed to
honor the eminent philosopher and
scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
though it has inscribed a phrase of
the Americans over the door, "Ad-
nit no man whose presence would
exclude any one else or the discus
sion Of any one topic. 1t requires
those who are not surprised or
shocked, who do and let do, who sink
trifles and know solid values and
who take much for granted to make
the right kind Of club" DR.. Stanley
Colt founded the club 20 years ago in
buckingham street, for purely social
and intellectual purposes and with
so small an annual assessment, less
than $40. that the humblest per-
son of literary proclivities could af-
ford TO mingle with his kind. The
Emerson proved so successful tina
recently the orga nization moved into
spacious quarters right under the
shadow Of the Parliament houses at
Westminster. Many Of the members
of the Commons. especially of the
Socialist party. belong to the club
and the president this year Is Miss
Margaret Bondfield and another fem
inine leader there Is Lady Cynthia
Moseley. who gives talks to the va
rious committees many times through
the year. DR.. Haden Guest. we'll
known in this country, is a leading
member of the Emerson Clnh and