Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Secretary Kellogg, Soon to Retire, May Point to
Important World Peace Achievements
During His Administration

| the plainest of men in daily life and
personal tastes and has a habit of
helping the wood choppers on his hand
some estate to fell the trees and get
/ them ready for delivery. After riding,
this is his favorite exercise, and he
takes of several days a month from
his present exacting duties to indulge it,
| Lord Thomson, who was the delegate
of the British government to the re-
cent International Air Congress, held in
Washington, is, according to rumor,
| about to issue his fifth book on aero
nautics and allied subjects of national
defense This will include historical
summary, not going back to the aca-
demic attempts to fly, dating from the
Middle Ages, but from the era OF the
| Wright brothers when flying became an
accepted achievement, and will present
aviation as it was Is years ago. Lord
Thomson, who is in his middle flfties. Is
the hero Of three wars and SWears deco
! rationS galore on his military uniform.
He was barely graduated from the Royal
| College at Cheltenham when he was
assigned to q part in the Mashonaland
campaign. He fought in the Boer War
from start to finish and the same in
| the World War, from which he retired
with the rank of brigadier general. He
has been during several political regimes
secretary of state for air and has
| proved a worthy chieftain. Soon after
assuming this responsibility he published
in 1924 study called "Air Facts and
Problems" book which forms part
of the text work of all ambitious AVA
tors. Previously he had written that
he
| inception of a whole library OF books
on variations of theme "Old Europe's
Suicide" and "Victors and VanQuished"
in the hight of postwar activities.
"Smarande" is more philosophical and,
like the other works, has a wide vogue
in all armies. Lord Thomson spent
some days in the Capital after his pill
grimage with the air delegates to the
shrine Of the science at Kitty Hawk,
N. C.
Mr.. Gerald Felix Warburg, who re-
Gently accepted q position as celliSt in
New York orchestra, is following
pronounced trait Of his family, for while
the name recalls only financial great
ness to many, to others 1t Is associated
with splendid musical accomplishments.
Young Gerald Warburg. as he is more
Familiarity known, is the son OF that
noted banker, Mr.. Paul M. Warburg, to
whom President Wilson offered place
on the Federal Reserve Board and who
reluctantly accepted the honor because
1t appeared that the Senate finance
committee before which he was hailed
plainly believed him the incarnation OF
the Money Demon which they were
fighting OF the five Warburg brothers,
Felix and Paul emigrated to this coun-
try from Hamburg in the early ninetieS
and have made financial history in this
country as their ancestors had in West
phalia since the sixteenth century, when
they founded counting house which
now is one of the solid financial estab-
lishments .of Germany. The Oldest of
the five. Max M. Warburg, Is president
of the House Of Warburg at Hamburg,
and associated with him Is the second
brother, Fritz. The youngest, Adolf Max,
is professor of art and musical
composer, a cellist and an excellent
musical critic.
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-Mr. Winston Churchill and his aids
the lords commissioners of his majesty's
treasury, are not gaining enthusiastic
praise for the new money about to be
issued, models of which have become
familiar to the public through photo
graphs in the press. Indeed. the wave
emanated from their American cousins
when the artistic Saint audenS silver
coins replaced the old type. But the
chief criticism of Britain's new money
seems to be that 1t Is too American
looking, being Of q vernal hue blended
with white, much criss-crosSed with
silk threads and generally resembling
the world-famous greenback of Uncle
Sam. But it Is conceded that the new
series is much more artistic than was
the previous currency OF the Britons,
just as the critics Of Saint Gaudens
would not now wish to have the former
coins restored in this republic. On the
whole, there is not in Britain the radi-
cal change which the eminent designer
wrought in the silver dollar, the SO, Is
and 10 cent pieces Of this land. George
v still reigns gloriouSly on one side
and st. George still Stays the dragon
on the reverse and after the old method.
A controversy has waged among the
esthetic and chivalrouS about st.
Georges attitude on the silver coins and
on the 81 paper note. He is represented
as spearing the savage beast from the
bac,: instead Of facing him in the open,
as saint and hero should. But de-
spite these suggestions no change was
made, and 1t is the youthful King
ward VII, instead of the monarch 20
years later.
| Mr.. John Wilson Townsend, author
of that new and much welcomed biog-
raphy Of James Lane Allen, Is con-
vert from journalism to fiction and
! serious regaarch The SAn of a well
known newspaper editor of Kentucky,
George w. Townsend, who served on
many dailies from Louisville to Lexing-
ton, he came to know the revered nov
elist Of the Blue Grass State, James
Lane Allen, through following his ped
| agogical footsteps from the Dudley
School to the State University. Mr..
Townsend, however, finished his college
course at Harvard and then settled into
newspaper work in Louisville. On the
advice of Mr., Allen he devoted his
leisure to special writing, and has been
successful. His life Of Kentucky's fore
most author is literally sprinkled with
letters written to him during his college
days, and many in the fine, delicate
writing Of the novelist have been photo
graphed. They are models in several
wayS-for careful diction, accurate and
neat transcribing, and for the ease
with which they can be understood
Aliens letters already have been pub
lished, and they form not an unim-
portant part of his literary output, but
those in Mr.. Townsend's book appear
for the first time:
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