Evening star., 1935-10-20
SOCIETY.
About Well-Known Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
Woman Politicians In Lively Joust-Spicy
Humor of Gen Johnson-Mustapha
Kennel and Suffrage.

American Minister to Austria, who
traded the glamour and champagne OF
the foreign service in the diplomatic
corps, for good old Pennsylvania home |
brew in politics. was the star speaker
several nights ago at the dinner al
the Women's National Democratic
Club, at the handsome club house In
New Hampshire avenue.
Mrs. Edward Keating, chairman OF
the entertainment committee and
clever politician in her own right, was
lust back from q vacation In Canada,
and saw that the premiere OF the Fall
and Winter season at the club went
off with a bang. The Pennsylvania
governor-by the way the first Demo-
cratic governor of the State in ~
years-was so pleased by the invita-
ton to speak for the ladies that ne
actually few to Washington. He
talked to them about the tariff,
lauded Secretary Hull's trade policy
and in speaking in defense OF the
Constitution, said the only part the
Democrats did not uphold was the
eighteenth mendment-not being set
a good example by the Republicans
who also did not uphold it. His speech
filled every one present with the ozone
of pure Jeffersonian democracy-a
real love feast with the front row
filled with Democrats, among them
Senator Guffey and his sisters, who
were introduced by Mrs. Edward G.
Of hn
mistress of the evening. as the Royal
Family of Pennsylvania" In turn
the Senator referred to Gov. Earle,
who comes from a long line Of Re-
publicans, as the Democratic presi-
Dental candidate for 1910. And what
would you?
Gen. Hugh S. johnson, is as coy
as prima donna in his farewell ap-
pearances in the w. P. A. The inn
mortal Patti and the divine Sara were
a fruitful subject for the funnies and
cartoonists for many years with their
numerous farewells, but they were not
a circumstance to the General. He
changes only for a time and period
ically returns to his early love-the
w. P. A. He has resigned as ad-
ministrator for New York City. with
a parting salute to "Old Bright Eyes
on the Hudson"-in true Johnsonian
style he has started out to tell the
public about the changes needed in
the New Deal-not new aims he says.
The Generals language may not be
as rhetorical or as elegant as the
great Samuel, who had to have big
vocabulary because he wrote die
tionary, but for perspicacity and volu-
bility in putting his remarks into
/ twentieth century vernacular, he is
doubtless without a rival.
His New York job he called "a
holy SHOW" with 100000 jobs to his
credit some things we are doing
IN w. P. A. are fantastical. but be-
/ tween saving a life or a catastrophe
situation fantastically and not saw
ing it at all, there is, to my mind, no
choice to make the New Deal
needs realignment but it doesn't need
aims
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
stately pleasure dome decree" and the
President of the Turkish Republic.
Mustapha Kemal, not to be behind
the times. has a public works admin
istration all his own and one of his
most successful projects just COM
pleted is a pleasure city which he
has built by the sea. sort of Coney
Island or midway pleasaunce; play
ground, bathing beach, casino and
amusements and sports of all kinds
where the people can go and enjoy
themselves. The place is called Flor
va" and is on the European side of
the Sea of Marmora, about 80 miles
from Istanbul.
President Kemal has done much