Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15

close-packed wreckage and the people
drifted apart. Soon I was hundred
yards away from any one else. re-
member looked up at the sun. feeling
acutely miserable and cold, and wished
l might lose consciousness. And a lit
tie later did lose consciousness.
THE next thing remember Is ly-
ing naked between blankets on deck
in the dark. and a sailor coming now
and then to look at me and say:
That's better My body shook, my
teeth chartered. I had a pain in the
small of my back Il was, I discovered
later, in a tiny patrol steamer named
the Bluebell)
THE sailor presently came and said
he thought I had better go below.
We left you up here to begin with
because we thought you were dead
THE warmth below made one rather
delirious A woman told me she
thought her husband was drowned. He
was. she told me (there are no wells
after these things. all she had in the
world. Yet at that moment she was
full of cheerfulness and laughter. So
was I. although I did not then know
what had happened to my father. One
got drunk with the heat and the light
and the JOY OF knowing oneself to be
alive
But there were two exceptions I
remember. One was the captain of the
Lusitania I never heard him speak
The other was a woman who sat in
the outer cabin gently quietly in a
low, monotonous voice described how
she had lost her child when a raft
capsized.
Our little rescue boat got into
Queenstown harbor about eleven. At
the .other end of the gangway my
father was waiting"
Embarks on New Adventure.
1t was in 1920 that she embarked on
the new and hazardous adventure of
Time and Tide The financial as
pect of starting such a journal mat
tered less perhaps, than the risks to
pride and prestige of making an abb
jc-t failure. She and her friends were
were told they we're reckless. Weekly
reviews were finished. They had been
killed by the speeding up of life in
general and by the rapid development
OF Sunday newspapers in particular.
The review survived, but did not
make any big noise until Lady
Rhondda herself, four or five years
later, took over the active editorship.
She doubled the circulation in three
years. She achieved this feat largely
by broadening the scope. It had been
known as feminist review. The femi-
nism was dropped. 1t became a gen.
eral review interested more in the
world than in national affairs, aloof
from political party affiliations and
getting its editorial matter and contri-
buttons from the best writer's, ire
spective of sex. Time and Tide" is
the only review that can claim a pro-
greSstve increase in circulation every
year for the last five years. 1t is still
gaining
Viscountess Rhondda can be hard in
business. There have been occasions
when she has fought for her way on
board of directors and got 1t, when
she has insisted on efficiency before
sentiment, and when she has success
fully resisted the inclination toward
nepotism of powerful business coll
leagues.
Once over a lunch table I spoke of
Lord Beaverbrook, whose imperialistic
policy Lady Rhonda does not like. HE
has great charm but he can be ruth
less" / observed. II do not" replied
Lady Rhondda, detaching that one
word from my observations, object to
ruthlessneSS."
She is an internationalist who wants
to see all states federated into a
world order, without, however, any
state losing its patriotism or merging
its identity in the mass. She op-
poses tariffs because they are a sort
of economic war and tend to make bad
blood and lead to armed clashes She
wants to see the combative energy
that now finds its outlet mainly in
competition between man and man d.
verted to and concentrated upon the
nf
ural conditions which impede his
progress.
Believes World Is Awry.
All the same, she recognizes compe-
tition as healthy factor She be-
lieves that the world is all awry, and
that minds are awry, too, because of
the long suppression of the female of
the species, and that things will not
get Strengthened out until both sexes
have equal chances in life, without
prejudice.
She has ridiculed the idea Of an all
woman cabinet IF it were deliber-
ately selected on account of its sex it
would be the negation of the vital
principle for which women have
fought and still are fighting-the
fundamental principle of equality.
1T is often said by those who dis
like the idea Of women cabinet mini
sters that women can never level I'D
with men in the larger action of life,
because women are softer in fiber, too
compassionate. slipshod, made by the
maternal instinct overSentimental for
the rough business of holding their
own with men and in the battle of
life and affairs.
But this is chiefly matter of edu-
cation and experience owing to the
ways girls are usually brought up.
Character-forming in youth Is no less
effective with girls than boys"
She used to rise to speak with an
air of faint embarrassment, a percepti-
BILE shyness which sometimes made her
blush. That phase is over, thanks
chiefly to the invective of her friend,
Bernard Shaw.
She was speaking once on the same
platform as Shaw. Her enumeration
did not meet with the approval of that
master of platform oratory Che has
trained himself in athletic delivery un-
til he can extinguish a candle with
the force of his enunciation of "t"O
and he said as much in an eight
page letter of abuse. His victim re-
piled meekly asking what should be
done Shaw advised a course by q
noted voice trainer
For year she went regularly and
practiced. The other day she found
herself again on the same platform
with Shaw. She delivered her speech.
1t was huge success. Next day she
got a letter from Shaw. He told her
She was easily the best among the
dozen or so celebrated orators who
had spoken that day, and was moved
! to add that she was q woman built
in heroic mold