Evening star., 1935-03-31
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.
The tang of the salt was in his
nostrilS, and the blood of those sea
faring ancestors just would not down
SO President Roosevelt, after being
assured by the physicians in attend
ance that his beloved friend, Col
Louis McHenry Howe, was on the
mend, ordered his cherished old
sweater, pants and hat packed and
was away for a cruise in Southern
waters. The distinguished skipper was
in his glory.
The understanding friendship for
25 years between the President and
Col. Howe has been beautiful, each
being a compliment to the other. The
colonel calls himself "Franklin's no.
man" and enjoys telling how they
first met, and as he expresses it, when
they first started in politics. That
was when the President ran the first
time for the Assembly in New York.
When some one asked him whether
they called each other by the first
name, Col. Howe answered: "Yes,
and sometimes worse than that" and
then added: "Just the same as any
friends do"
Washington is always glad to well
come that delightfully."- interesting
Englishwoman, Dame Rachel Eleanor
Crowley, who was recently at the
White House for a cup of tea with
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
Lloyd's could safely take the wager
that the President and she talked
about boats, sails and other nauti-
cal gadgetS instead of the opium
traffic and the League of Nations
the two things which she combines
in her public activities She was in
the opium traffic section, League OF
Nations, from 1919 until 1881, and had
not long returned from an air trip
over China when she was here
On one occasion when Dame Crow
dey was asked what her favorite rec
reations were after a hard seasons
work she said. Sailing boat, plenty
of Far Eastern affairs and travelling
She is an aviation fan. During Or
shortly after the World War she
came to the States with Mrs Lloyd
George, and again in 1926 when she
was made honorary doctor of laws
at Smith College.
Dame Crowley was most enthusiastic
about her Chinese trip and especially
her flight over Jehol, that beautiful
city, once the Summer residence of
the Chinese emperors, and spoke of it
"as loveliness seen for the first time
In -.
country all around Jehol as below
cred with primroSes, harebells and
wild violetS in the Spring, and birds
of all kinds: Pheasants, partridges,
snipe and woodcock The singing
birds were a delight to her-especially
the Mongolian lark. English people
like larks-that is those "blithe spir-
its" the poet Shelley wrote so charm
1ngly about-skylarks.
That much-miSuSed metaphor, the
four horses of the Apocalypse and
wars and rumors of war, has been
working overtime of late, so England
takes her visiting cards and goes call
ing. Perhaps Capt. Anthony Eden,
British lord privy seal, clever, hand
some and brilliant and right-hanc
man of Sir John Simon, British for
eign secretary, would say they are
just seeing places in the "sun"-he
wrote an informing book about the
British dominions which he called
''Places in the Sun" En- route to
Germany Sir John and Capt. Eden
stopped to see Foreign Minister Pierre
Laval in Paris and then hurried on
to Berlin. where, upon arrival. Der
Fuehrer did not keep them waiting a
moment. After Berlin, Capt. Eden
was to go on to Moscow, Warsaw and
Praha.
To be more exact it's the Right
Hon. Robert Anthony Eden, who
has had a most distinguished and
active career for a man of SO; con-
servative member of Parliament since
his 26th year: parliamentary pri-
vate secretary to Sir Austen Cham
berlain when he was secretary of
state for foreign affairs, and from
1913 he was parliamentary under
secretary, foreign Office. Besides all
of this he took honors at Christ
Church College, Oxford, in Oriental
languages, distinguished himself in
the World War and was newspaper
correspondent-and what have you?
Capt. Eden wrote his book, places
in the Sum-" after attending the I'm
perial Press Conference in Melbourne
in 1925. He says of Canada: Its a
big country, generous country, a
country in which a man may stretch
his legs"-would 1t be polite to add,
without falling off into the North Sea
or the Atlantic Ocean?
Some one asked the other day if
they had heard Mr.. Herbert Hoover's
call to arms, and was it Senator Bark
ley of Kentucky or Senator Pat Har-
rison of Mississippi who asked Whose
arms?"
Mr.. Robert N. S. Whitelaw, director
Of Gibbes Gallery, Charleston, S. c.,
says the largest collection of minia-
lures ever assembled in America is
being shown by the Art Association of
that gallery.
Five hundred miniatures oil ,ol