The Washington times., 1928-09-18
NeW Journal TO Picture Activities
OF Washington With HunlOr and Truth

Ter OF DGt1alOE Glc1oc, ~
4 Edit Promising Publ
I cation
= Mrs. Blair Banister has a
I new brain hildand it's
! twins. Under the editorship
Of this distinguished and
charming sister Of Senator
! Carter Glass, the May
flower Log and Washington
ian will make its appear
ance in October, national
!. magazine published in Wash
ington and designed to steH
the world n in entertaining
fashion about the manifold
activities Of the Capital.
/ Twin Sister
The Mayflower Log, CON
] cerned principally with what
goes on in the big hosiery on
\ Connecticut Avenue, is already
well known and well liked,
although its clientele, Of course,
"a rather limited. But its twin
sister should have much wider
appeal. Not for years has there
been a publication presenting
life in Washington as 1t actually
Is rather than as some New
York editor thinks it ought
to be.
In Miniature
A miniature copy of the May
flower Log and Washingtonian,
giving lust a hint Of the interest
ing things promised, is already in
the hands of Mrs. Banisterss
friends and Of the friends she
hopes to make for her magazine.
1t has the most fetching Of gay
cover designs and its pages are
alive with clever modernlstic
sketches ''head pieces" for such
departments as society, sports,
fashions, theaters, politics, state
craft and diplomacy. A sugges-
ton of the slant Of the new pub
LEGATION may be gathered from the
caption beneath the amusing
sketch headed with the Diplo-
mats, This reads: Are you
having q great success In Wash
ington? Surely, Monsieur. The
world is, at my feet--in my eel
The magazine is heralded as
being ''brightly gossipy, and In
formal. human, colorful and inn
peccably truthful. There would
seem to be a tremendous field
here virtually untitled, for just
such a publication, for Washing
ton teens with stories Of the
great and the near great. which
are illuminating and vastly anus
mysteries which are not exac-
tIy griSt for the newspapers, prin-
cipaIiy because they don't get
around till they have ceased to be
news. and which yet do not be-
long in the scandal sheets.
Political Page
There's to be politics page, z
which one suspects may have g
Democratic slant since Mrs. BAN
lister is herself a devoted Demo-
crat. Indeed, she had her first
experience in magazine editing
with the Democratic national COM
mittee and for a long while
brought out the Bulletin of the
Woman's National Democratic
Club. She is even now an active
member OF the club and close
friend of most of its leaders,
among them the honorary presi-
dent, Mrs. woodrow Wilson.
For more than three years the
Mayflower Log has pictured the
social, political and diplomatic
happenings at the hotel. For a
long time its friends have in
infant garments and needed to
cut a brand-new pattern for
itself. They said that, having
gone so far, the magazine should
60, farther and present to Wash.
ington, and to those interested in
Washington, an intimate and
comprehensive picture OF life in
our Capital. This, then, Is what
Mrs. Banister proposes to DO in
the new publication. And she is
qualified by her native wit, her
editorial experience and her wide
social and political contacts, to do
1t well.
T. IT.