The Washington times., 1935-12-03
NOW
DR.. LudWig Fails
!" To Get Dollar
: HIS CONDUCT
BY HELEN EssARY

Woman, Spurned by secret loVet'
bumps out of window!
Soldier and three-year-old son
murdered by unknown villain!
Telephone girl shot down. !der'
Sity of recent stranger murderer
undiscovered!
Ex-Wife about to marry some
body'S ex-huSband.
Divorce and divorces-and
more divorces!
Dog fight in pet shop brings
out police and fire department!
And.
Star of Bethlehem discovered in
New York planetarium is-syn-
thetic!
The refusal of Emil Ludwig,
biographer and lecturer, recently
sxiled from Hitlers domain, "to
debate with AryanS" at the Town
Hall reminds me of an experience
this family had with DR.. Ludwig
when he was here on previous
visit.
One of DR.. Ludwig's washing
ton friends asked us to have the
visiting writer to dinner. We
didn't know DR.. Ludwig. But he
was a celebrity. 20 we hastily
got together little party.
One of the guests, a young col
Iege girl home on holiday, heSi
tatingly produced a copy of Lud'
wigs last volume, Napoleon" an9
gaid:
SI'm embarrassed to ask you
but it would make me so happy il
you would autograph this book. "
DR.. Ludwig paused dramatically.
Scowled and said:
II usually sell my autographs
At a dollar apiece"
i "I'n be glad to pay" said the
girl, blushing.
DR.. Ludwig caught the glances
Of the startled guests-among
them was Albert C. Ritchie, then
governor of Maryland - smiled
hastily and said condeScendingly
"I1l make an exception in your
case"
). After dinner we took DR.. Lud-
wig to Calvin Coolidge's dedication
Of the National Press Building.
We gave DR.. Ludwig a seat on the
front row where he talked and
laughed and made sport of Mr..
Coolidge, the President Of the
United States, during the entire
proceeding.
Perhaps I have always been
little sensitive over DR.. Ludwig'S
behaviour on this particular &C.
caSion, because after he had left
town I discovered why he had
been sent to us as a guest.
Everywhere I go in this coun-
try, 1 meet rich Americans.
am bored with them. Let me see
inside the home of some poor but
ambitious Americans"
He did see inside one poor but
ambitious home but it cost him
. dollar.
DR.. Ludwig may refuse to de-
bate with Aryans, but over in Balti-
more Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron, of
the Madison Avenue synagogue,
and DR.. Frederick Reynolds, Of the
Roland Park Methodist Episcopal
Church, are to have joint young
peoples dinner on December Is.
The guests will be so Jewish boys
and girls and so Methodist boys
and ills.
The rabbi and the Methodist
minister are trying to encourage
. friendship between Jews and
Gentiles.
About three years ago this
liberal religious movement was
begun in Baltimore as the Fed
Grafton of Church and Syna
Sogue. Two synagogues and
IL churches of varying de
nominations joined the exchange
or mutual appreciation. The
dinners as the organizers call
them, are. part Of the common
program.
This happy effort to spell re
ngion with small "r," and over
look recognized differences be
gan in Baltimore. 1t is spread
ing throughout the country.
And as for that difficulty be
tween Mr.. CHATTER Djalal, Min
lister of Iran and the traffic
policemen, why not refer it to
Geneva.
Ask the steering committee
the Big Five of the League OF
Nations-for a little of the in
s. ternational oil that they won't
permit Italy to buy. 1t could
be used in the troubled Elktor
waters.
Since Albert C. Ritchie has
stopped being the perennial Gov
erlaor Of Maryland, the beauty oi
the remaining governors of the
United States, excepting Governor
Paul v. McNutt Of Indiana, hasn't
been remarked on by experts.
Governor McNutt has been stay
ing at Woodlawn, near Mt. Yer
non, with Assistant Secretary o1
War and Mrs. Harry H. Woodring
Governor McNutt, who was profes
sor OF law at Indiana University
before he got to be Governor, il
q great tall fellow, extraordinarily
handsome. Though a mere 4C
years Of age, he has very white
hair. On his recent way East or
the train, he was vaguely shocked
to overhear a young girl saying
OF. him:
who in the world is that old