The Washington times., 1935-04-16
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An EpitGph for
Bankers Wife
VITAL WOMEN
BY HELEN ESSARY

says:
American women are so
eager. So gay. You undertake
parties, politics, horse racing,
bridge, housekeeping, a career,
y husband, children and good
Causes-aIl in one day. You
seem so pleased with life. /
think you must be very healthy"
Miss West, who married
Henry Maxwell Andrews soon
after the financial crash, said
she wanted put on her tomb
stone this epitaph-as an indi-
cation of her bravery:
"She married a banker in
$780,"
Although Rebecca West has
made several trips to America,
this is her first visit to Wash
ington. The complete geograph-
ical detachment of the Capital
from the rest of the country
amazes her. Politically Wash
ington seems not to be part OF
the United States. It is merely
itself.
Senator George Radcliffe, of
MARYLAND who was listening to
Miss West, said:
washington may be an ex-
ample of political detachment,
but it's also an example Of the
concentration of politics. There's
nothing else in the town."
The junior Senator from
Maryland was given luncheon
Sunday by Senator Willard
Tydings at which all species of
Democrats from the Maryland
Free State were represented.
Old-timers, new-timers, anti
and pro-AdminiStration fellows
sat down happily with leading
figures in the New Deal.
The principal triumph of the
party was not political, how
ever. It was persuading Emer-
son Harrington, former cover.
nor of Maryland, to have a
cocktail.
The former governor is what
once was known as a "teeto-
taller" For years his friends
have been trying to break his
morale.
he actually had his first
drink"
Did he like it? Why, he was
just crazy about it. But he
stopped at one.
Many weary visitors, recover
ing from a busy weekend, were
jostled from sleep by this early
Monday morning message from
hotel room clerks:
"SOrry, sir. But you'll have
to leave your room. The d. A.
AS reserved it. And they are
ON their way"
Senators Gerald Nye and Ben
nett Clark, who are conducting
the munitions investigation, are
no wild romantics in their
crusade against war. They are
practical fellows who don't be-
lieve in people being shot at
for the profit of munitions
makers.
Senator Clark and John T.
Flynn, economic adviser Of the
investigating committee, were
discussing the Senate bill to
limit, during war in which this
country is involved, every salary
and personal income in the
United States to $4,000 a year.
All income in excess of $4,000
will be legally confiscated by the
Government.
Mr.. Flynn asked Senator
Clark if he didn't think perhaps
that limiting incomes that way
was a pretty serious step.
Senator Clark, who fought in
the last World War, smiled and
said:
cts not so serious a step as
the one that takes you where you
can be hit by an HI E shell.
Virginia w. Price sends me
this interesting information:
"There survives today but one
man who was a commissioned
officer on the famous Old Iron
sides-the u. S. S. Constitution
which won the victory in the
War of 1912 over the British
Guerrero.
"He is DR.. Ezra z. Derr, re-
tired naval surgeon, who as jun
iOr medical officer sailed with
the Constitution to the Paris
Exposition in 1878. He lives in
q fine old home Quilt by the
Derrs in 1889, surrounded by
the Blue Ridge Mountains, at
Ceresville, just above Frederick,
Md, on the road to Gettysburg.
"A Derr has always lived
there, and it is the hope Of the
retired naval surgeon that the
place will remain the home of a
Derr forever.
"The MOnOcacy River flows
through the estate, and some
times DR.. Derr strOllS down that
way with his Six-year-Old grand
son John who likes to take
with him his painted toy ships
and sail on the river. John
nearly always has one whose