Evening star., 1935-06-23
nv ROBERT CRAWFORD.

June is the month Of roses, brides.
sweet girl grads and honorary college
degrees, and poor, indeed, is the man
or woman in public life who does
not get at least one Of the latter at
this time of year. The poor dutfer
who has toiled and struggled through
four years to get his degree looks on
with envy and admiration as the hon
orary ones are gayly handed out with
words-not of dry wisdom such as
he gets-but laudatory remarks and
polite speeches. Yale alone this June
gave out IL honorary degrees and
1922 sure enough ones.
President Roosevelt's unreconstruct-
ed rebel friend the senior Senator
from Virginia. went way up In Yankee
land to receive an honorary LID,
from Yale and Tufts College, and a
similar one from Princeton. He will
have to have new whole page in
the Congressional Directory, If he puts
in all the letters after his name,
which he is now entitled to. Not a
college bred man, Senator Glass has
been Signally honored as Statesman
and scholar. He is quite a purist
when it comes to the English language
and can turn pretty phrase in Latin.
An honorary Phi Beta Kappa OF old
William and Mary College, gives his
many degrees just that aristocratic
poise needed.
In his speech of acceptance at
Yale, he simply had to give the
wooden nutmeggers Just a bit Of a
dig, don't you know, and speaking OF
the prowess of the Old Dominion, her
courage and independence and service
to her country, he said he did not
think that Connecticut had exceeded
Virginia except on one occasion: That
was when it threatened secession from
the Union-being the first State to
do that.
The Senator reeled OF q good deal
about the New Deal both at Princeton
and Tufts. At the latter college he
told the boys: whether 1t be new
deal or old deal, it should always be
a square deal-not too many cards to
one and too few to the other" A
very clever sinlile for an elder In the
Methodist Church to make-but the
beloved Senator is courageous In his
convictions, and fearless always in
the stand he takes on any public
question.
These Southern gentlemen are going
far and wide this June month, and
the Secretary Of State, Mr.. Hull, OF
Tennessee, Travelled way out where the
graSS-rooters grow, to address the
graduating class Of the University OF
Michigan-the great coed institution
where the brave men speak to the
girls and take them out to dances.
The address Of the Secretary as
sumed q deal of the attitude Of the
gloomy dean" of st. Paul's, London
in his prophesies for the future If the
nations Of the world pursue q course
Of self-suficiency" some
thing about the tariff. Either we
60 forward to other greater achieve
ments Of material and spiritual cul-
ture, with a concomitant growth Of
every kind of material and spiritual
/ 1nterchange within each nation and
as between nations, or we must recog-
niZe that our culture has reached its
apex and is entering into definite de-
cline and decay" II Duce might say
"Cheer up, Mr.. Secretary, the worst
Is yet to come; then there is Repre-
sentative Hamilton Fish of New York
who gets excited when 1t even comes
to meditating on free trade, and after
Secretary Hull's speech he radioed
warning that the American laboring
man does not realize what 1t means
to have free trade and he-Mr. Fish
takes a gloomy attitude on the other
side. How about it. shades Of Richard
Z Golden? Meaning your friend, MIR.
Hull?
Some one returning from the Grass
Root Convention, said it was Just won
derfuIl Every one so in earnest, 30
outspoken-no censorship there. The
great West and Middle West assembly
of what purported to be the young
and growing men Of the Republican
party, was held at the feet Of the
shrine of the always lamented Lin
coin, the man of sorrow whom the
whole world has come to revere for
: his honesty, uprightness and fair
( ness. With a power and determina-
ton to look above and beyond the
sordid chickering's of everyday politics
and vision Just and liberal attitude
toward all mankind.
It is not perhaps generally known
or maybe remembered, that the last
lines of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
"" and that government Of the
people, by the people, for the people
shall not perish from the earth,
came from John Wycliff's Introduction
to his translation of the Bible, pub
lished in England in 1882 (abotIt 22e
years before the st. James version
now commonly used in all Protestant
communions), and in which these
words occur: THE Bible, is for che
government Of the people, by the peo.
pie and for the people"
Old George Town-capital "T," sc
old century-has simply been a veri-
table paradise of roses this early
Summer time and the air Is still
laden with the perfume Of the June
queen Of flowers. Orchards art
royal-not particularly graceful. They
pronounce to the world that thu
wearer can afford to buy them, fol
in the present depression the young
man cannot.
Walk along the rugged red brick
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