Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10

while she really en10pS this mode of
travel, she has never had the time to
learn flying and goes merely as a pas
senger. But Washington boasts among
its women with unique avocations, Miss
Marjorie Stinson, the only one Of her
sex who has ever taught flying. Miss
Stinson is sister of the famous dean
of flyers. Eddie Stinson, now the manu-
facturer of the Stinson-Detroit airplane
which carried Schlee and Brock half
way around the world. Miss Stinson
was the first woman in the District
of Columbia to whom the Depart
ment of Commerce gave a pilots license.
She studied aviation first in France
and then in the Wright School at Day.
ton, where she received her license. She
was invited to Canada where she spent
months preparing candidates for pilots
services in the World War. Miss Stin-
son Is proud of her first graduate,
tricks in a week and was qualified for
the Unitarian Air Corps in two weeks.
He made a splendid record overseak
The Secretary of Labor is the flyer of
the cabinet and Mrs. Davis, who often
accompanies him, is bordering the wis
dom of learning the tactics necessary
to become pilot.
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Mr. Walter j. Kohler, twenty-sixth
governor of Wisconsin, might be de-
scribed not only as a conspicuous ma
tional flyer but. in many aspects, Of
international Importance. Although he
has made an enviable record as gov
ernor of his State his chief achieve
ment was in the industrial world, and
as president of vast manufacturing
company and founder of the idyllic gar
den city which bears his name, where
the officials and employees of this COM
pany live. Gov. Kohler's experiment is
regarded as socialism in its highest and
most unSelfiSh aspect and scores of
students of his methods have come
from the old world. some openly seek
ing employment in order to become
familiar with details, others looking on
secretly as 1t were and checking up ON
conflicting statements about dividends.
ownership of stocks and Of the lovely
homes set in their own grounds with
abundant space for flowers, lawn,
kitchen garden and garage. The gov
ernor built his own home. Riverbend,
Just outside Of Kohler. and 1t is an
estate which affords every facility for
the gentleman of bucolic tastes. But
though the home is spacious, the gov
ernor has a large family and when
three generations gather under his roof
for gala days 1t becomes congeSted. At
other times 1t is simple and accessible
to all. He mtngleS on terms OF easy in
tercourSe with the denizenS OF Kohler
and only 10 years ago, when pressed
with responsibilities, did he cease to
play on the local base ball team made
up to a man of employees of the Kohler
plant. Mrs. Kohler, who was Miss
Charlotte Schroeder of KenoSha, has
been a gracious hostess of the executive
mansion in Madison and every Friday
afternoon she and her husband mount
their plane and wing their way to
Riverbend to pass Saturday and SUM-
day. There are four sons in the Kohler
family, all associated in their fathers
business.
Mr.. Wells M. Sawyer, we'll known
artist of Chicago, has returned to his
usual haunts after passing FIVE years
in Spain. His amusing adventures in
attempting to set up his canvas in quiet
corners to depict an unusually lovely
scene, is practically the experience of
all visitors to the Iberian Peninsula in
leaving the beaten track. Mr.. Sawyer
would wander about in courtyards ap-
parently deserted and finding an arch
way covered with moss and flower or
two in Granny, with a distant view
of a river and the ubiquitous lavendiera,
the soft name applied to washerwomen
pounding brightly colored clothes on the
banks, he would make ready to trans
fer the scene to canvas. This appar-
emily was the signal for every one in
the neighborhood to take holiday and
stand about him until he could hardly
move his arm. Visitors to many little
towns of Spain, of the tourist path,
found that to pause to admire a statue
in the parks meant to have all the chill
dren within sight and many adults
gather about and stand while you stood,
obviously lost in establishment that such
an object could attract interest.