Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-29


ing colors according to some of the
great financiers OF the country. Very
early in the game he announced t. 1T
the whole motive of the act was to
make finance more responsible. He
made it clear that there were no
grudges to satisfactorily those who see
things crookedly would find the rules
hard. He said he thought that the
danger would be that the commission
would not interfere too often but
might act too late.
There was every reason why Mr.
Kennedy early in his Washington
career made friends right and left-a
straight forward wholesale manner,
nothing clustering or owlishly i'm
portant about him; frank. the Irish
Yankee from Boston had a merry
twinkle in his grey-blue eyes and he
wanted the country to know all about
his job from the beginning. Nothing
mysterious, nothing to be concealed
just walk right in. He fortunately
has President Roosevelt's happy faculty
of being able to put aside business
worries, relax and be ready to return
to his job with renewed vigor. He
took charming country place near
town; swimming pool, tennis courts,
kennels, an ideal place to entertain
and enjoy his friends and keep fit.
And now Mr.. Joseph H. Choate,
jr, although his distinguished father,
the great lawyer, diplomat and states
man, has been dead for many years,
still signs himself "junior"-a pretty
compliment. The former administrator
of the Federal Alcohol Control Admin
iStration now the Federal Alcohol Ad-
ministration, has returned to New
York, to resume his law practice,
which he relinquished for awhile to
come down to do his bit toward re-
covery and map out plan for the
enforcement of most difficult piece
of legislation. Accepting his resigQa-
ton. the President wrote Mr.. Choate
that your administration was. to
my qualification, fair. just: impartial,
and non-political," etc. etc.
The repeal OF the eighteenth
amendment, which was merrily re-
ceived by thousands of citizens who
simply regarded it as scrap Of paper
during its existence, was part of the
Constitution of the United States
which received sad treatment at the
hands OF loyal supporters of the great
bill Of rights.
1t may be poetic and retrospective
to speak of the Autumn days as the
| melancholy days, but, as a matter of
truth. Washington and its surround
ing country never looks more inviting
than 1t does in the Fall of the year.
There is something eXhilarating.
something enlivening about the reason
that gives one longing to take TO
the road as the gypsies do and wander
at will. It's the season of sport, shoot
ing, foot ball. horse shows and all those
kindred things which put zest into
ones being. The countryside is en-
ticing, the foliage is beginning to
turn and there is a gayety in the
atmosphere-and Senator Tydings of
Maryland must feel all this, for he
goes of and buys himself a superb
country place that he may enjoy the
delights of squiredom between sessions
of the Congress. In politics there is
nothing better than living on the land
part Of the year, whether ones con-
stituency is town or country bred.
There are frequent engagements and
rumors of engagements where the
bachelor Senator is concerned. but he
always CALAMITY allows the lady in
the case to first deny the rumors and
then he quietly goes about stating his
side. Georgetown is hoping that his
new country estate will not interfere
with his residence there, where he has
maintained most delightful bachelor
Establishments charming garden
and all the comforts of home.
The gardens of the old town with
their ivied walls and their borders of
gold and tawny brown asters and zin-
MAS. their splendid big beds of red.
yellow and pink dahlias are simply
beautiful. There are a few rock gar
denS where one sees the low grow
ing star of the veldt," or Jewel of
the veldt." which is something like
marigold in various shades of
orange, and the petals range to dark