Evening star., 1934-05-20
Tales of We'll Known Folk
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Last American Visit-Assistant Secretary
Moore 5 List of Virginia Places Visited.

| for an international center for brain
trusters of all kinds.
This center will be called the In
ternational City of Thought and the
Arts, and will include mems and
women's dormitories for single per-
sons as we'll as apartments for cou-
Piles with families. They are to have
such luxuries as clubs, concert halls,
swimming pools, gymnasiums, libra
ries, a special clinic and a medical
diSpenSary.
In speaking of the new Cite NJ
Jean Jose Frappa, president of the
Board of Administration. describes the
project as an effort Ito create in
Paris an intellectual and artistic CEN
ter of the world. special colony
where intellectual workers cannot
only find moderate priced and COM
Portable apartments. especially adapt
ed to their own professions, with their
own laboratories, studios, Offices and
workshops, but where they can also
find many community facilities to
aid them in their vocationS." Resi-
dence in the City will be open to
tionalities. 1t is not made plain just
how this brain center is to be financed.
The old saving that the sons OF
| distinguished men are either mediocre
or bask in the sunshine of their
| fathers greatness does not apply in
the case of Mayor Frank Couzens, the
youthful son of the senior Senator
from Michigan. for he early decided
to paddle his own canoe to usefulness,
if not greatness.
They say out in Detroit that young
| Franks first ambition was to show
| the 'old man that he was not the
only member of the family who could
| be mayor of that beautiful city, the
| fourth largest in the United States.
And although he did not begin in the
! humble role of a car checker, as his
| father did. he early evinced desire
to do things and do them thoroughly.
Senator Couzens, father of the
mayor, has money-and then some
more money; as matter of fact, he
is said to be the richest man in the
Senate-and there are some heavy
bank rolls there. Franks yardStick.
however, is not dollars. but city gov
ernment Of the progressive kind. and,
while some of the older business men
out in Detroit do not always agree
with the mayor, they say the boy
has way with him.
The present administration is rich
in sons of great men. as witness the
! Secretary of Agriculture Mr.. Wallace,
who one day is designated by the
/ newspapers as the key man of the
! administration: the next day. how
ever. the Secretary of the Treasury
| Mr. Morgenthau, jr., son of former
Ambassador is given the place of
| honor, and he in turn gives way to
some member of the brain trust
originally called the brains trust
and then there are several sons of
distinguished fathers who are not of
| the immediate official family of the
| President, but who are nearby, like
Mr.. Choate. 1t all goes to show that
old sayings are frequently trite and
unreliable.
The seniors of the New Jersey
! College for Women have voted Presi-
cent Roosevelt the greatest interna-
tional figure and also the policies OF
the Roosevelt administration are gen.
orally Endorsed. The Secretary of
Labor, Miss Perkins, was admired
most among women of contemporary
| prominence.
Miss Perkins did not seem so keen
about the celebration of a recent
birthday for with her it was just one
of those things that will happen.
There was nothing to be done about
it-and as it was not on her daily
calendar as an official duty, there
being no conference timed for it, she
just naturally forgot it until it was
mentioned to her
It's rare day in Washington when
at least one distinguished visitor of
world wide note is not entertained,
but it has been an age since as in
/ teresting and charming a visitor as
| Prof. Otto Y. Schmidt, the Soviet
Arctic explorer. has been wined and
dined here. Wined and dined is said
advisedly, for the embassy of the So
Wet Republics, has a cellar that car
ries one back to the gay 90s, when
the Imperial Russian embassy served
five and six different wines at din
ner
Ambassador and Nine. Troyanovsky
had a company largely of dis
tinguished scientists to meet Prof
Schmidt and his aide. Mr.. Ushakov,
also a noted Arctic explorer. Maj
Gen. Adolphus w. Greely, one of the
oldest North Pole explorers of this
country. also was guest.
This is apropos of nothing, but