Evening star., 1934-08-19
Tales OfWell Known Folk
: in Art, Literature, Politics
Senator Pat Harrison Takes Fling Southwark.
Ambassador Bullitt Sets Russians Pace for
Polo-Mills Has Portrait Painted
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.
Senator Pat Harrison of Gulfport,
Miss, has taken a little flyer into
smart society lately, and has been
visiting down at White Sulphur
Springs-known down South as just
"Old White" With an honorary title
in golf as a background, the Senator
was constantly in the spot light and
a much honored guest. He is one Of
the most clubable men in the Senate.
Since his fences need no looking
after until 1887, with party Of con-
genial spirits he journeyed down to
Mexico, as a guest of his old friend,
the American Ambassador, Mr..
Daniels.
In spite of the rains that fall daily
at this time of the year. it's charm
ing time to visit the wonderful old
capital city, whose old world atmos-
phere and buildings take one thou
sands of miles away from the States
instead of only few hundred. There
is no harassed feeling to get some
where and then somewhere else in
the shortest period of time, but
manana, pronounced as only the
Mexicans can, with a shrug of the
shoulders. gives one feeling Of peace
and contentment after the hectic life
up here.
While Mr.. Harrison is one of the
busiest men in the Senate and, as
chairman of the Finance Committee,
has to watch Uncle Sans pocketbook
because Senator David Reed of
Pennsylvania watches him, he doubt
less felt that he could travel bit
this Summer, for, according to
Western correspondent of New York
paper, Mississippi is on the up and
UP. This gentleman of the press says
the planters down in the Gulf State
are making plans to celebrate the
biggest cotton and corn crops they
have ever picked. And stop right
here. Have you ever seen a cotton
field in full bloom? Nothing describes
1t better than its resemblance to miles
of fleecy clouds, stretching away to
the horizon. The low chanting Of
spirituals by the darkies and the mel
low notes of the mocking birds--with
now and then a strident note that is
almost heathenish-the picture must
have gotten into the bones of that
Western correspondent.
Festivals for all the major crops
will begin soon." he writes. I'm these
pre-Thanksgiving celebrations, plant
ers, pickers and pickaninnies will pay
homage to cotton, corn, sweet pota-
toes, dairy products and tung oil in
various parts of the State. Happiness
is in the air in all homes, from
palaces to shacks, for there is cotton
in every county in the State. and cot
ton will bring millions Of extra dollars
this Fall and Winter" It's hoped Sen
ator Harrison appreciates such a
stranger within his gates-especially
If he belongs to the other party.
BY the way, visitor to the Sena-
tors Office the other day in the Senate
once Building-that elegant abode
of the Upper House-noticed DR..
Franklin Martins book, The Joy of
Living" on his desk The contents
of this book are not known, but the
title smacks a good deal of the gentle
man from Mississippi and must have
created wanderlust.
Gen. Hugh johnson maybe knows
all about it, but it certainly looks as
il Canada is trying 10 figure out an
N. r. A. for the Old Dominion. There
seems some opposition to 1t, but the
Fortnightly, for July, has an inter-
esting article on the subject by J. A.
Stevenson.
The Canadian prime minister. Mr..
Bennett, brother of Mrs. Herridge,
wife of the Hon. William Duncan
Herridge, Canadian Minister at
Washington, it appears, has more than
once explained publicly that Canada,
with her limited population and
wealth and her dependence upon ex-
port markets, could not afford any
such rash economic experiments as
the N. r. A. Now, however, by q
curious turn of the wheel his ministry
by his own actions has stirred up a
widespread popular demand for a
comprehensive program of industrial
business and social reform, adapted
from the N. r. A. model to suit the
special conditions of Canada" The
Bennett cabinet contains a minister
of trade and commerce, Mr.. H. H.
Stevens, who is quite well known to
official society at Washington.
Canadians are very clannish and
Mrs. Herridge is no exception, so with
her baby she is spending the Sum-
mer in delightful quiet spot in New
Brunswick, where outdoor life is the
daily round and teas and dinners are
packed away In moth balls until the
coming Winter. The Herridges are
not far from Prime Minister and Miss
Macdonald, who are also in search of
rest and quiet.
His excellency, the American Am
bassador to the Soviet Republics, has
started fair for polo over there and
has been showing the Russians a
thing or two about the game. Look
out, Mr. Bullitt, when those Cossacks
start riding down the field they are
no respecter of persons. It's not new
to them-the rules may have changed,
but the Persians in Russia in the
dawn of the early centuries knew
about the game The Mongols and