The Washington times., 1935-12-16
NOW
Townsend NeW
'BOgey Man.
[ TOLD YOU so
BY HELEN ESSARY

A Monday morning Il told yoU
sol"
Last May after DR.. Old.Age Pen
sion) Townsend spoke before the
Woman'S National Press Club, this
columnist brashly wrote:
THE shoutings of Father Cough
lin and Huey Long will soon wear
themselves out. DR.. Townsend
will stand as the independent
Presidential candidate who will
cause both major parties most
alarm"
This opinion was laughed at
heartily here and there.
But today the papers are say,
ing:
"A definitely disturbing factor
has been introduced into the po,
litical campaign by DR.. F. E.
Townsend's determination TO head
Third Party"
IT see that out of $50 contest
ants, Miss Marguerite Moore has
just been chosen as the airline
hostess with the most perfect fig
ure," writes a correspondent who
signs himself Earthworln.
I'm for modern Improvements, -
continues the letter writer, but
If an airplane in which 1 were
riding were to suddenly run out
of gas and propellers, I'd be just
as pleased to crash with a lumpy
AZ as slim 34."
Leander Mccormack -Goodhart,
commercial secretary of the Bri-
tish Embassy, has recently pre-.
Sented the grateful Frick Art
Reference Library of New York
with a collection of forty early
American portraits and docu.
ments-a fine addition to the
library's history of the young Re
public. Supreme Court Justice
Harlan Fiske Stone is a Spe-
cialiSt on boXwood-and-itS-planting
He and Mrs. Stone may often be
seen inspecting the lockwood
borders in their Wyoming Ave
nue. garden. Justice Stone should
be appointed a grass specialist
for the Supreme Court gardens.
1t hurts to see weeds flourishing
in such hallowed soil ..
Thirty-nine times have I been
told that story about the gentle
woman who boxed the jaws of
the man in the elevator when it
was the little boy who had bit
her.
One more telling will be too
often. With each telling, the
story varies, according to whose
"best friend" saw it happen.
Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr., the only
woman trustee of George Wash
1ngton University, is my idea of
Q sporting character. When she
was told that an operation was
necessary, she quietly made an
appointment with a surgeon for
a week later. Went about her
affairs, to dinners and lectures
and meetings. Told not even the
members of her OWE family until
an hour before she was ready
to start for the hospital.
She is convalescing rapidly now.
Offerings of flowers and books
are being rushed to her room at
George Washington University
Hospital.
Champions and critics of Mod
ern Art would find in Mr.. NunZio
Vayana, recuperating in George
Washington University Hospital,
after a slight automobile accident
near BladenSburg, a man with
a sane attitude toward all art
forms.
Mr.. Vayana is director of the
Ogonquit Art Center. For 13
years this institution has given
contemporary artists a chance to
exhibit their paintsing. etchingS
and sculptures. Says Mr.. Vayana,
1--WE support no prejudice in favor
of or against any school Of tech
nique as long as the exhibitors
show the pursuit of sincere en-
deavorS."
Two fine paintings recently ex-
fibited at the Center were THE
King" an idealization of the Uni
versa1 Sovereignty of the Christ
Child, by Leama Lahr, and por-
trait study of the Washington
scholar, DR.. W. Boyd Carpenter,
by Wilford Conrow.
The Prince Of Wales is getting
one of Helen Bristol's Virginia
hams for Christmas?
How'd that happen? Well
Santa Claus sent it.