The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-25
NOW
Mclean Mendge
Taken by u. S.
LEE SHAFT
By HELEN ESSARY

pie, Is moving part OF MS o11lc'
force into the old John r. NC
Lean house at Fifteenth and
Streets next week.
The formidable looking mansion
has been taken over by the Gov
eminent. Not bought. But rented
for an indefinite period.
In the rooms where eXtravagen
parties were given several year
ago Alphabetical ladies a n
gentlemen and their secretarie
will work hard at the job which
the accumulation Of such wealth
as the McLeans once possessed
has apparently made necessary.
It's the Proletariat in the Palace
OF the Cars!
It is impossible to think Of
Jane Addan1s-dead.
For so long she has been liv.
ing force for the good of
humanity.
The last time I saw her she
was the most vivid person in a
room of 1900 people. It was at
the Willard Hotel on May 2, at
the dinner given in her honor
by the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom.
The dinner began well, then
dragged through an endless
number of speeches. The diners
~ VxYa~n fTVNrT1inr HryoorU
Suddenly, a clear, incredibly
magnetic voice was heard speak
ing from the head table. The
tone of the dinner changed i'm
mediately.
Guests sat on the edge OF
their chairs or stood up to see
this person, possessed obviously
Of humor and understanding.
A young person, surely. Her
voice was eager and gay.
It was Jane Adams. Shortly
before her seventy-fifth birth
day and less than three weeks
before her death.
Those excitable members OF
the Massachusetts Woman's Re-
lief Corps, who objected to a
statue of Robert E. Lee "or any
other traitor" at Arlington,
have caused Mr.. Robert Lincoln
O'Brien, chairman of the United
States Tariff Commission and a
citizen of Massachusetts,, to say:
81 am deeply Inundated that
any of our people should appear
as sponsors Of q protest against
q statue Of Robert E. Lee at
Arlington.
"The fact is that Massachu-
sets holds Lee in great admira-
ton. 1t regards him as one OF
the superb figures Of all history.
ut is always possible for .
small minority of narrow and
unimpOrtant people, speaking in
the name of some organization,
to get an undeserved publicity
and SO misrepresent their local
ity."
The Lowell Institute, which
maintains a famous lectureship
in Boston with the former presl'
dent of Harvard College as its
managing trustee, presented a
series of lectures few winters
ago, afterward compiled in book
form, on, lice, the Soldier" by
az eminent English military
critic.
Charles Francis Adams, Of
Massachusetts, proposed the
Lee statue.
I Mr.. O'Brien said:
: "These are the real voices Of
Massachusetts,. Did you ever
hear of the three tailOrs of
TooIey Street who spoke as the
peopIe of England? The ladies
who objected to the statue do
NOT speak for Massachusetts"
Mr.. OBrien was a member OF
the advisory board Of the Pullt-
ger School of Journalism, which
recently voted Douglas Free
mans Life of Lee" the best
biography Of the year.
Diaries are popular and prof
table diversions among Wash
ington's social intelligensia.
Madame Prochnik. wife Of
the Austrian Minister, and
Harold Sims, of the British EN-
bassy, keep daily journals.
They write no personal obser-
vations. Merely make a record
Of where they have been and
whom they have seen. And
sometimes they talk about the
weather "a condition which
everybody tries to remember
from year to year.
Madame Prochnik swears she
began her diary "a years ago. In
the nursery, no doubt.
NATURALLY a woman is a hui
man being, just like a man."
Such Is the biological diScov-
ery of a correspondent in the
Baltimore Evening Sun.
What kind of human being?
Knock kneed?
If you are fortunate enough
to dine at the Louis G. Cald-
wells, the dress suit that once
clothed the fine figure of a Re
publican Presidential prospect
1885,, may serve you soup.
Or again, the evening regal1a
that once adorned the hand
some editor of the nations big
pest business magazine, may
give you Iqueur from a silver
~ otIoay. u,ordS Senator Van.