Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06

before at primary which saw him roll
| up plurality of more than 100000
votes over two opponents the big VIC
tory being attributed mainly to his
stand against continuation of the pro-
hibition experiment in the United
| States.
In that announcement he advocated
repeal of the eighteenth amendment.
He also proposed that control of the
| liquor business should be intrusted to
the individual States. The popular re-
spouse to this platform had immediate
repercuSsions in all parts of the coun-
try, and was so overwhelming that it
aroused hopes abroad Of an early return
OF America to the worlds liquor market
list.
Won by 100000 Margin.
| Mr.. Morrow's election in November.
1880, entitled him to add the descrip-
| ton statesman" to the list of Lawyer,
banker. diplomat" which had epito-
mixed his earlier vocations. 1t came by
a majority of nearly 100000 in Demo-
cratic year and again focused atten-
| ton to him. Talk of him as probable
presidential timber, which had started
after his primary success, was revived.
Political expediency alone kept him
from becoming soldier. He had boy
hood ambition to enter West Point and
drove far enough toward that goal to
win competitive examination for the
appointment. But the Representative OF
his home district in West Virginia sud-
denly recollected that Dwight'S elder
brother, Jay, was already a cadet, and
| he thought it poor policy to have two
members of the same family holding
| these plurnS at the same time. That
elder brother later became Gen. Jay j.
Morrow, chief engineer of the list Army
and deputy chief engineer of the A. E.
F. in France.
Dwight Morrow might not have been
accepted by the West Point authorities
even If he had been given the appoint
ment. An arm broken in boyhood had
been improperly set, and his stature OF
only an inch or two above five feet
might also have counted against him.
Dwight graduated from high school
at IA. He was too young and too small
to go to college, so he got job at 81
a week, saved part of this money and
! a year later flunked the entrance ex-
aminations for jefferson College, his
fathers Alma Mater. He also funked
| most of the entrance quiZzes for Am
herst, but. through the intervention OF
a faculty member was permitted to en-
ter with an unorthodox number OF
conditions"
Gave Literally to School.
Amherst almost lost one of its most
valuable alumni at that time. Ult1-
mately he became trustee Of the COL
lege, was instrumental in raising an
endowment fund of 100000 for its
faculty and gave so literally to the
building program that a dormitory
was named for him.
Social life of the undergrads Of that
day revolved chiefly around the girl!
OF Smith College at Northampton
Mass, and at a party in his Sopho.
more year young Morrow was intro
duced by his campus cognonnen Of
kid Morrow to Smith freshman
Elizabeth Reeves Cutter of Cleveland
They were married more than IL years
later on July Is, 1908, the event being
put of until he had made start ir
law.
That start was none too auspicious
as ne was getting only $1,000 q year
Their budget allowed only $35 month
for rent and long search finally located
them In little brown house in Engle'
! Elisabeth. Anne and dwight Morrow
lr., were born in that little brown
house" Constance, the fourth chilg
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