The Washington times., 1935-08-23
NOW
MOrgenthdu Has
A Close Call
MAJ. LEES mo-
By HELEN ESSARY

Va UAAN SAAASNN
States would have been badly
tolted recently had not two COM
mercial pilots used both skill
and judgment.
The Secretary Of the Treas.
ury and the then director Of
the NRA might have felt the
jolt more painfully than the
Government had not their plane
been safely landed.
It was when the NRA was
flourishing. Donald Richberg
and his wife and Secretary of
the Treasury Henry Morgen-
THAI, jr., were returning in a
specially chartered plane from
a speech-making trip. It was
late at night.
The distinguished group, feel
ing a little drowsy, were not i'm
mediately startled by the fact
that their plane kept flying
round and round Washington
and showed no inclination to
land.
When the city had been cir"
cled a dozen times, one of the
pilots walked up his passengers
and told them not to worry.
There was a little trouble with
the landing gear. It was
caught. But pretty soon they'd
fix it right.
For an hour and half, the
plane flew over the Capital. A
mechanic with hammer finally
climbed out on the wings, loos-
ened the gear. The landing was
safely made.
The prosperity of busting
Montgomery county, they tell
me, is largely the result of the
enterprise of E. Brooke Lee.
Brooke Lee is still young
man. But when he was still
younger, about 10 years ago. he
might have come to the United
States Senate.
At that time he was Secre-
tary of State in Maryland,
veteran of the World War, son
of a Senator. Had brains, popu-
larity and energy.
The seat of Senator o. E.
Weller was ready to be fought
for. At a meeting of the Mary
land State leaders in the office
of Frank E. Furst in Baltimore,
it was decided that a county
man" should be the next
United States Senator.
Willard Tydings was already
in the House, and doing we'll.
But in order to spread the re-
wards a little, E. Brooke Lee
was to be offered the Senator
ship.
Mr.. Lee said, no thank you.
He didn't want to run for the
Senate. He'd rather wait
around awhile and succeed his
friend, Albert c. Ritchie, as
Governor of Maryland.
Willard Tydings was picked
as the next Democratic candi-
date. And has done a remark
ably good job for himself and
the State.
Since the Edward L. Hillyer
house on Backbone Place out
by the East-West Highway, has
been written up as the perfect
small house in this months
House Beautiful, Mrs. Hillyer's
maid has had to sit behind the
front door practically all day
long, ready to answer the bell
for curious callers, who say:
"PleaSe, as special favor,
will you let me look through
your house."
Agatha 'Varela, young and
very smart, edits that intelli-
gent little magazine, The Peace
Action, for the National Coun-
Gil for Peace. It's true, so you'll
have to believe it-when some
body did a charade on Hitler,
one of the sweet young things
present twittered, who's Hit
ler?". When the road commits
sion has finished it's work and
the street car tracks will have
been replaced by trees and grass,
the torn terraces and flower
gardens on each side of the
street will have been replanted
Wisconsin Avenue will be as
handsome a boulevard as the
famous du Pont Highway in
Delaware. Mrs. Alan E. Rec.
side is almost the prettiest girl
we know. Tall, slender, with
black hair and a complexion
like a soap advertisement. The
John Hays Hammond mansion,
seen peeping through the trees
of a Rock Greek Park hillside,
looks like a French chateau on
the River Loire.
This Government is just about
running the summer time. When
picnicker crawls through a
fence and plugs a farmers
watermelon, the Department Of
Justice hears about it right
away. Now the AAA is trying
people for totin' melons across
the Georgia State line. Things
are pretty topsy-turvy every
where. The race track crowd
at Saratoga has given up auto
mobiles and taken to riding in
rickshaws. In Japan rickShaws
are practically out of date. jap