Evening star., 1934-08-26
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

II was a great day Tor the mlooles
last week when President Roosevelt
paid a visit to the battleships Arkansas
and wyoming They cheered him
Justify and one midshipman Of just
about average height was heard to
remark, by gosh, but the Com
mander in Chief Is a whale. I didn't
know that he was that big"
The midshipmen aboard were re-
turning to Annapolis, after q
European training cruise, and the
future admirals of the United States
Navy felt quite spiffy to have the
President pay the visit, he elicits their
respect because he can speak their
Language and knows every little gadget
on the ship as well as being skipper
of recognized experience. The former
Secretary Of Navy, Mr.. Charles Francis
Adams, was another one OF their
favorites and they never forgot that
he sailed the Resolute to victory in
the 1920 series of the Americas Cup
races.
There was great homecoming OF
Marines last week. President RooSe-
welt was true to his promise MADE
when he visited Haiti that the Marines
would be withdrawn, after being sta
TONED there for almost two decades.
And were they glad 10 get home?
perhaps the average civilian does not
recall that the United States Marine
Corps was founded something IKE
eight months before the Declaration
of independence, and were the first
military or naval forces authorized Dy
the Continental Assembly. When nrst
authorized they comprised two battal-
ions of about 500 men; from that
small beginning the corps has grown
to almost 10000 men. They are not
the ''let George do it" chaps.
The battle of Belleau Wood and the
Chateau -Thierry sector are synony-
NOUS with the leather necks and since
the World War Harbord and LeJeune
are their second name. They were
with Gen. Washington at the battles
of Trenton and Princeton, and took
part in the naval war with France;
fought Mediterranean pirates at
Tripoli and the Barbary States, and
served in the Mexican War, the War
Between the States and the War OF
1912.
There was a hushed stiffness in the
chamber of the House of Representa-
tives after Speaker Rainey's death and
the spray of lilies ON the rostrum was a
mute appeal. They were placed there
by his ONCE staff, and the gavel with
which he had called the Seventy third
Congress to order was laid beside
them. The remark was made that be-
fore going to his long rest he had
realized his life's ambition after en-
tering Congress.
It is rumored that Mrs. Rainey may
succeed her husband. OF the seven
women in the House, six are widows.
Three of whom succeeded their hus-
bands who were members Of Congress.
Before leaving for his European
trip with Admiral Grayson and Mr..
Bernard NJ. Baruch, Senator Carter
Glass, with Senator Byrd, came up to
town and invited the President to
attend the Virginia Division OF the
American Legion tomorrow. Even
EOulQ 1bOOcCNCAS AA0NS eoAA~S e~~>
senior Senator from the Old Domln-
ion would not have been there to well
come him, for by that time he will
doubtless be In Hungary at Mr..
Baruch's lodge near Budapest. This
place is the last word in comfort, and
the beauty of the surrounding seem
cry and the quiet appeals to the
poetic side Of Mr.. Glass. He may be
q bit acrid in the Senate at times,
but there is another side to him which
his friends find so delightfully."- inter-
esting.
If all one hears is true the ticker
tape will tick in vain from now on
so far as Mr.. Baruch is concerned,
and the haunts of finance that knew
him so long will know him no more.
They say in New York that he Is
moving uptown - which means IN
stock broker language that he is re-
firing from active life in the finar1-
cial world.
Mrs. Roosevelt must have interested
him nightly in welfare, for he is 60
ing to turn his attention to public
baths and the homesteading projects
in which he is so much interested.
Then he intends to take a little spin
into the literary world-and what
untold things he can reveal-n ne
wishes.
AS a means of education, Mrs.
Roosevelt is very much interested in
the growth Of travelling libraries. She
recalls that many public men derived
their education from home reading
and study. The growth OF public
libraries in this country has been
prodigious in the past 80 years. Chill
drens rooms in public libraries have
been a great incentive to education
along the right lines.
DR.. Rosenbach of Philadelphia, the
noted collector of books and a famous
bibliophile, has a library of juvenile
literature of nearly 1000 volumes
dating from 1882 to l840. To COM
pare many Of these with the child lit
erature of today is not only instruc-
tive but amusing. He says they de-
pict the slow but determined growth
from the child Of Puritan New Eng
land, for instance, to that of the pres
ent day. The early books for the
young were gloomy, and precept upon
precept, as the following lines taken
from Verses for Little Children by a
Friend"-printed in Boston in 170s,
will show: Though am Young, Yet
] May Die, and Hasten to Eternity"
Tt was ar Glamis Castle that the