The Washington times., 1935-03-01
NOW
A Substitute For
First Lady
PLEA FOR FLAG
BY HELEN ESSARY

We respectfully submit Mrs.
Virginia Jenckes, of Indiana, as
o substitute for Mrs. Roosevelt.
We feel sure of Mrs. Jenckes'
sympathetic attitude on pa
triotism. We have just been
reading a report of her speech
on "The Star Spangled Ban
ner" before the House of Rep.
resentatives.
A year or so ago Mrs. Jenckes
saw in a Washington paper
that an architect thought flag
poles on the tops of modern
buildings were not decorative.
The paper in commenting on
this opinion added that few
American flags now fly across
The national skyline.
These observations astound-
ed Mrs. Jenckes. She said in
her address to the House:
Indeed, 1 was Mortified to
read that anyone would say
that the display of the Ameri-
can flag from a flagpOle on the
buildings owned by our Ameri.
can taxpayers was 'Old-faSh-
iOned.'
81 was stunned when I ascer-
tained and recognized that a
subtle and vicious propaganda
was responsible.
81 was amazed to read that
our great emblem, displayed
since this Republic was founded,
was on its way to Join the limbo
of forgotten things
"WaS there some mistake?"
Mrs. Jenckes determined to
Investigate whether this was
propaganda or accident. She
hasn't decided, definitely,
which. But she has her suspi"
cions.
Particularly does she note as
o horrible example of the de-
cadence of patriotism that flag
poles have been eliminated from
the new public buildings in
Washington. And that isn't
all:
"Over the main entrance of
the Supreme Court appear
these inspiring words: Equal
justice under law But on the
roof of the Supreme Court
Building, over these same
words, there is no flag.
"WithOut the flag the words
Equal justice under law are
hollow mockery. The flag is
the warrant to the people that
equal justice shall prevail un-
der the law.
II prayerfully appeal to the
learned justices of our highest
court to provide an American
flag flying over the roof.
II am making this appeal as
an American wOman-as an
American mother!
"Will those who keep awake
at night devising means of sub
verting the ideals of America
find through our inertia a way
to rip the flag from the top of
the White House, the Capitol,
the Senate and the House
Office Buildings?
awake, America, and become
informed Of this terrible propa-
ganda!"
That awfully nice Bill Mac.
Cracken, who is spending a
week in jail as reward for dis.
cretion, has many friends scat
tered around the place. Two
little boys, now grown conSid-
erably, whom he let fly with
Colonel Lindbergh, are among
those who adore the former
Assistant Secretary of Com
merce in charge of aeronautics.
The boys arrived at Boiling
Field one morning-two with
one pass-to go up with the
man who had just flown across
the Atlantic. Secretary Mac
Cracken smiled at their eager
faces, turned to Major Howard
c. Davidson, then in charge of
the field, and said:
'Maybe if these two are twins,
they would need only one pass" I"
Major Davidson nodded. And
the twins went up the very next
trip.
Nina McCully, the oldest of
the five Russian children Rear
Admiral Newton A. McCully
adopted, is now the most bril-
liant pupil at the King-Smith
School. Mrs. Philip Sidney
Smith, vice president of the
Board of Education, is particu-
larly interested in "The Talking
Book for the Blind" because of
her long friendship with Helen
Keller. Esther Caukin Bru-
nauer, research associate inter.
national education of the Ameri-
can Association of University
Women, has an A. B., an A. M,
a Phi. D., a husband, a 5-rnonth-
old son, a full-time job, and a
yearning to finish the book she
is writing on the revolution in
Germany. Likewise, she's pretty.
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