The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
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Mr.. Roosevelt also got sort OF
q bunch q Franklin Field that
quite a crowd of citizens would like
to see him around washington
four years longer.
Regardless Of these unexpected
discoveries by the two candidates,
some citizens will see politics
through the eyes of the editors OF
the Gre Street News, published
In village in northern Maine.
These canny journalists, age 8
and 10, delivered themselves of the
following policy in a recent issue
Of their weekly:
Gone Of our customers sent
us AN iteEl from q paper where
. girl down in Mountain Lake,
: N. J., gets out paper called
the Star. She says she Is for
Lan1On and her paper Is Repub-
lican.
1--WE, are not going TO be for
anything until we see how the
election goes.
Remarkable, isn't it, how sud
denly some places become vio-
lently important in the news dis
patches?
Adds Ababa and Hyde Park
have had only recent signifi-
canoe.
Now for a while, Topeka is
the Town Of Towns.
FOR the next few months, new
qualities of mind and personality
viii prick the national conscious
ness.
T; kansas virtues will try to slide
TO first base ahead Of the virtues
Of Duchess county, New York.
Virtue and integrity frequently
take on different dress to suit
the climate and the necessities
Of the moment.
The morals Of the plains and
the mountains, the desert and
the high seas change only their
complexion when crowded into
Q city flat.
Personal integrity is the same
wherever you find it.
With this vague bit Of late July
moralizing pass to a domestic
note on the Carter Glasses.
The Senior Senator from Vir-
ginia may have q political temper
ament as reStflll as q skyrocket
In clothes boiler, but he also has
q charming Southern wife who
knows her "Cyarter."
AS an example Of Mrs. Glass
perception, there's that incident Of
the Democratic Convention.
Senator Glass was about tol
leave Philadelphia before the
meeting was over. He phoned his
wife that he was on his way home
to Lynchburg.
''But the convention is still
On, isn't it," replied Mrs. Glass:
Eyes it is. But I don't feel
we'll"
sGThat's q pity" answered
Mrs. Glass. 'sBut how will it
look to the country If you come
home ahead Of time?"
'But I'm sick, i tell you" pro
tested the Senator.
"Sick or nOt-yOu 90 right
back and stay there until the
convention is over"
The Senator went and stayed.
Mrs, Glass, who was a popular
figure in washington when her
children were growing up and Of
debuta1te age, now spends most
OF her time at Montview Farms,
the Glass home just outside
Lynchburg,
It is an enormous dairy farm
and, while MRS. Glass takes pride
In the records hung up by the
blooded stock on the place, her
real delight is in, the gardens.
both flower and vegetable.
The rose garden is the choicest
feature Of the beautiful grounds
and has taken prizes in all sorts
Of flower shows. Montview Farms
also produces fine vegetables, as
guests enjoying the hospitality
Of the Carter Glass table will
testify.
Mrs. Glass is tall, handsome
O parsonage Of dignity and intelli-
gence. She leaves politics en-
tirely to "Cyarter," as far as tax
ing an active and public part
therein is concerned. But words
OF advice here. and there are
usually needed by the Senator
who values her opinions highly.
The streaming shot and shell
that recently made high carnival
Of the memories Of bloodShed and
anguish on Manassas battlefield
remind me Of the passing Of the
old home Of Col. John w. Wright
whose father, Gen. Marcus Wright,
: was selected by Congress to as
semble Confederate war records.
Colonel Wright's house is being
razed to make way for the new
building now in course of conStruc-
ton as the social science hall
Of the George Washington Uni
versity.
AS the officer in command of
the United States troops on the
island Of San Juan, Puerto Rico,
Colonel Wright is at present &C.
cupying the oldest continuously
aived-in house on the Western
Hemisphere. casa Blanca" the
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