The Washington times., 1934-04-17
mention Of us. OVERTHROW
AND 'KERENSKY' CALLED
UNTRUE REPEATEDLY

to meet some friends, as I
wanted them to hear his educa-
tiOnal theories. He accepted
and said that he hoped Mr..
COyle would be there as he
wanted to meet him. There
were present Miss Mary Taylor,
Miss Hildegarde Kneeland, Mr..
Robert w. Bruere and Mr..
David CuShman COyle.
Later in the evening MIR.
Laurence Todd came in.
"As a dinner party It was not
q success, for DR.. Writ talked
practically all the time. During
the dinner he talked cOntinu-
Ously on education. After din
ner he started talking on the
monetary policy, and talked
steadily on that subject until
about IL o'clock, when he said
he was afraid he had rather
mOnOpOlized the conversation
and would have liked to have
heard more about what the
others thought.
KNEW HE TALKED
'He was evidently very con-
sciOus Of having done most Of
the talking, for the next morn
ing he said to me, Z am sorry
1 talked so much last evening.
am afraid that when 1 get
started 1 don't know when to
STOP"
Miss Barrows, in low but firm
voice, said she was a specialist in
school building problems in the
Bureau of Education and had been
so employed since 1919.
Chairman Bulwinkle began ques.
tioning her. She adhered closely
to a prepared statement, punctu-
ated by Bulwinkle's questions. OF
DR.. Writ, she said:
"He is known to have the Ca
pacity to talk for three or four
hours.
"At no time did hear the
name of Stain, KerenSky, Sec
retary Wallace or the President
mentioned"
did Miss HiIdegarde Knee
land make any Of the statements
DR.. Writ says she made?"
"She did not"
JUST KEPT ON
Gas a hostess, 1 was consider.
ably embarrassed and made sew
eral attempts to interrupt the
flow Of DIR. Wirt's speech, but
with no success. Mr.. Bruere
interrupted once or twice to
say that he wished DIR. Writ
would talk on education, but his
steady stream Of talk on the
monetary policy went on until
we were all nearly exhausted.
"NOne Of DR.. Wirt'S six lis
tenerS talked about or men,
TONED the names of Kerensky,
or Stain, or DIR. TugweIl, or Sec.
retary Wallace, or the President.
In fact, none of his auditors dis.
cussed any subject. Their re-
marks were confined to Occa.
SiOnal attempts to interrupt
which were unsuccessful.
Miss Kneeland gave no quota.
tiOnS from DIR. TugwelPs book,
In fact, she made absolutely
none Of the statements at.
tributed to her by DIR. Writ with
one exception.
ONE INTERRUPTION
II do remember that she man.
aged to break through DR.. Wirt's
flow Of talk long enough to OBJ
ject to his theory that we should
go back to the conditions of
1925, but it was only one sem
tence and did not interrupt the
steady stream of DIR. Wirt's
speech. The party broke up
ABOUT eleven o'clock"
Miss Barrows read a letter from
DR.. Writ dated April 4, in which
he abSolved Robert Bruere, Daniel
Cushman Coyle and Miss Barrows
from making any revolutionary
statements at the party.
Representative Lehlbach insisted
that if Miss Kneeland INTERRUPTED
DR.. Writ to object to a return to
conditions of 1925, he could not
have been discussing devaluation.
Miss BarrowS replied:
Honestly, don't know what
he was discusSing-I was 50 ex-
hauSted by that time"
She flatly denied that she held
any conversation with DR.. Writ
as he claimed in his statement.
Representative Lehlback asked:
when Miss KneeIand OBJ
jected to going back to cOndi-
tiOns Of 1926, what did she
Say?"
"Miss Kneeland only could
break in with one sentence.
She objected to theories that
we should go back to condi-
tiOnS Of 1926. MIR, Writ then
went on with his discussion"