Evening star., 1935-11-17
About Well Known Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
Mrs. Roosevelt's Ride in New York "Sub.' u
Mrs. Gam Takes Political Flight.
Secretary Wallace's Hot Potato.

senator Carter GLASS OF LyncnDCfg,
Va, still supports the Baconian theory
that the great philosopher and some
time lord chancellor of England
wrote Shakespeare, and seems to get
a big kick out Of going over to Eng
land every now and then and brows-
ing over old manuscripts and wander
ing through the Shakespeare country
around Stratford- on-Avon. Last year
Admiral Cary Grayson, one of his
chosen companions, went with him.
A few weeks ago q startling head
line to an Associated Press dispatch
from Lynchburg, Va, caused con-
Sternation and deep concern among
the friends of Senator Glass. It read:
Doctor Chews Up Glass to Discredit
$1,000 Damage Suit; knowing that
the Senator Is little peppery and
caustic at times. they wondered just
what he had said or done. Great re-
lief followed when it was found that
a witness to a suit, to support his tes-
timony that a small amount of glass
could be eaten without danger. chewed
and swallowed q fragment of plate
glass. to the astonishment Of the
jurors.
The G. o. P. might find consider
able amusement and entertainment
in that tricky book about elephants
written by Mr.. w. w. Robinson and
illustrated in the most original and
amusing manner by Irene B. Robin
son. 1t is positively the most fas-
cinating book for juveniles-as well
as their elders and betters-that has
left the presses in some time-even
the Democratic donkey would show
bad taste to Spurn it,
DR.. Robinson traces the pedigree Of
the elephant from the first trunkless
thick-lipped beast of Lake Moeris
down to the present time, and tells
about it in the humorous way that
appeals to children and delights the
grown-ups. What contrast this
bright, laughing story is to the SOM
ber, gruescme tales in the children's
books of the earlier centuries, now
being exhibited in the Library of
Congress. DR.. Robinson relates how
the royalty caparisoned elephants of
India, which take part in the religious
and the colorful Durbar professions,
take four hours for luncheon: the
elephant as a war asset, as late as the
World War, and those used in the
earliest times In the Orient. And
oh vxyhot foil fhoSn
magnificent quadrupeds, which strike
terror even to the hearts Of the
natives as they come charging
through the jungle. are now used
as penny banks to collect funds
for the next G. o. P. campaign &.
and by the air route, Mrs. Edward
Everett Gam. even now preparing
for the hustings, took herself last
week to Grand Rapids, Mich, to take
part in the celebration of the Tooth
anniversary Of the State of Michi-
gan as a guest of the State. This
is compliment worth while to Kan
sas. as well as to one of the most
telling woman campaigners in either
of the political parties. She did yeo-
man service in the last presidential
campaign and did not lose trick
when it came to rounding up big
audience. According to DR.. Archibald
Rutledge, the well-known naturalist,
the call of the turkey hen can work
wonders. At public dinner not long
ago the doctor pulled from his pocket
small brown box contraption and
sounded. to the amusement of the
diners, the fatal note" of the female
turkey which makes the gobbler COL
lapse emotionally, he says. and added
that "if President Roosevelt only had
this contraption he could lure even
the most rapid Republican"
President Roosevelt has not yet
started to mend his fences for the
1885 campaign. neither has he taken
to the tall timber, but he has had a
sawmill erected on his farm down at
Warm Springs, Ga. to cut and saw
up timber being cleared out to give
more select trees an opportunity for
growth. The lumber is to be used for
repairs on the place, and his overseer
says he has harvested the best crops
he has had in years. Only grapes were
raised for marketing, however, and no
cotton.
"Constitutionism. The Origin OF
Liberty Under the Constitution" is a
volume octave in size, bound in paper
board covers, with spiral binding which
allows the book to be opened fiat. 1t
Is by Mr.. James Mussatti, formerly a
member of the faculty in constitu-