Evening star., 1935-05-12

man of the General Advisory Council
Of the Democratic National Commit
tee, Miss Mary Dewson-just Mollie
to her friends-conceived the IRE
porter plan" by which every county
organization of Democratic women
appoints women in every community
to serve as reporters of each Federal
agency. These reporters must be pre-
pared to speak before civic groups,
clubs and at local institutes Of gov
ernment. She is supposed to have all
available information-and of the la
test, relative to the recovery program
of the Government. She is required
to take advantage Of every reliable
source of information and must ac-
quaint herself with the particular
problems in the locality in which she
does her work.
This is not a call to arms-in the
vernacular of MI Herbert Hoover-as
Mrs Meigs says the tocsin was
sounded In 1890 and even before, and
the Democratic women point with
pride to the stride they made toward
preparedness and the recognition
which has come to them In the Fed
eral Government
A woman cabinet officer; woman
foreign minister: woman Assistant
Secretary of Treasury; an Assistant
Treasurer of the United States; di-
rector of the United States mint-who
was a former Governor of sovereign
State-and scores of other women
who are at the head of all kinds of
national and State activities. The
president of the Democratic club
makes 1t plain that they are not beg
ging for recognition-theyh have it and
President Roosevelt is going right
along with them. The Hypatias,
ASpasias and Portias in this admins
tration are a comely looking lot of
women and are on the job.
Mrs. Meigs (nee Wister) of Phila-
delphia is a cousin of Owen Wister,
author of that best seller of several
decades ago, Lady Baltimore Cake :"
and was spending the Winter in
Charleston. when he was there and
wrote the book. She laughingly says
she realizes how shocked the exclusive
Charlestonians were at her cousin TAX
ing the liberties he took with the old
aristocracy. Perhaps his pen ran
away with him-at any rate perfect
well-bred composure prevailed and
they enjoyed a charming hospitality
while there.
A life member of the Woman's
Democratic Club. that swanky club
house in New Hampshire avenue. Mrs.
Meigs has been a member of the
board of governors since its founding.
She Is active In the work of st. Johns
Church, Lafayette square, and par
ticularly devoted to the activities of
the Girls Frierdly Society. She has
two daughters-twinS-w are at
school in Switzerland. She says she
had to have the twins because the
names of two grandmothers had to
be perpetuated at one and the same
time: so one was christened Sarah
Tyler and the other Mary Roberts.
Two sons. one at Harvard and an
other at Princeton, took the Wister
ana MelgS Sloe, 700.
Mrs. Thomas Preston, the former
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, beloved mis-
tress of the White House during two
terms, has been very much interested
in the Woman's Democratic Club in
Princeton. and asked Mrs. Meigs to go
to the old college town and organize
q "reportar Dlar" cluh
The senior Senator from Colorado
Mr.. CoStigan, co-author of the CoSti-
gan-Wagner arti-lynching bill, was
born in King William County. Va
His brother Virginian. Senator Carter
Glass, is his fighting opponent.
Yesterday began a three-day cele-
bration of the Virginia court sea-
son." down at old Williamsburg. Its
the first of its kind since the restora-
ton of the ancient capital of the
State. Gov. Peery journeyed down by
coach with a mounted escort of Red
Coats" the first seen in those parts
since the 1905. Everything was to
be Colonial from the costumes of the
Reception Committee to the dancing
and refreshments-even bowl of ar
rick punch. Today the Governor and
his party will attend services in old
Bruton Parish Church, in whose
graveyard rest members of the dis
tinguished families of Colonial days
There will also be services in the
ancient historic church at jamestown
where the tomb of Ursula Byrd. wife
of Robert Beverley, was still visible
several years ago.