Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05

good will tours of Latin America, and
that "LHendy" came back by air to make
several visits with the Morrow family,
| appealed to the love for romance inher-
ent in Latin people.
| He left Mexico September IT, 1880.
| After brief rest, Mr.. Morrow plunged
! into the senatorial election campaign
| in New Jersey. He had been selected
for the Republican nomination months
before at primary which saw him roll
up a 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 1t
aroused hopes abroad of an early return
of America to the worlds liquor market
| list.
Mr.. Morrow's election in November
1890, entitled him to add the descrip-
ton statesman" to the list of lawyer
| banker. diplomat" which had epito-
mixed his earlier vacations 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 coming a soldier. He had boy
hood ambition to enter West Point and
drove far enough toward that goal to
win a competitive examination for the
| appointment. But the Congressman OF
| his home district in West Virginia sud-
denly recollected that Dwight's elder
| brother, Jay, was already a cadet, and
| he thought 1t poor policy to have two
members of the same family holding
these plums 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
week. saved part of this money and
! year later flunked the entrance ex-
aminations for jefferson College, his
fathers Alma Mater. He also flunked
most of the entrance QuiZzeS for Am
herst, but through the intervention of
faculty member was permitted to en-
I ter with an unorthodox number of
conditions"
/ Amherst almost lost one of its most
+ valuable alumni at that time. Ulti-
! hpHQnP a trustee
| 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 girls
of Smith College at Northampton,
Mass. and at a party in his sopho-
more year young Morrow was intro
duced by his campus cognomen of
kid Morrow" to a Smith freshman,
Elizabeth Reeves Cutter of Cleveland.
They were married more than IL years
later on July Is, 1908, the event being
put off until he had made start in
law.
| That start was none too suspicious,
as he was getting only $1,000 a year.
| Their budget allowed only $35 a month
for rent and long search finally located
NAASAit Al q AASSAe DLO"h AouSS IA GASAc-
wood.
| Elisabeth, Anne and Dwight Morrow,
| jr., were born in that little brown
house" Constance, the fourth child
of the rising young lawyer and his
wife, came into the world after the
| family had moved to more pretentious
| quarters.
The law continued to be his voca-
ton until 1914. In those years he
seldom appeared in court: in fact, he
disliked the open clashes that this
phase of practice involved. He worked
chiefly in reconciling interests which
conflicted with those of clients of the
firm.
He was a trustee of Amherst Col
lege, the Union Theological Seminary,
an interdenominational institution in
New York; the Russell Sage Founda-
ton, the Carnegie Foundation for In
tefnational Peace and the Smithsonian
Institution at Washington.
Besides the degrees which he earned
by study at Amherst and Columbia,
he received honorary doctorates in law
from the University of Rochester, 1920;
Princeton, 1925; Williams, 1926 Penn
sylvania, 1925, and Yale 1927. The
presentation of these brought lauda-
tory Summations of his career from
the heads of the various schools. But
Mr.. Morrow's intimates found keys to
his character in his own sayings,
among them this one:
II facts can be properly gathered
ana distributed, the presumption is
strong that men in different nations
Will understand each other. Men want
to understand each other. That is the
great quest in life"