The Washington times., 1936-12-14
NOW
Who Will Fill
That Post?
EXPEDITIONS
BY HELEN EsSARY

S4dGlC NdJlu1dI NOI1I11lGICC 40
eagerly awaited by Democratic
women.
With the resignation Of Mrs.
James H. Wolfe this important
organization post became vacant.
1t is the general supposition that
Mrs. Wolfe's successor will be
shortly chosen from among the
active State chairmen.
West Virginia and Michigan
have been models of organization.
Therefore, Mrs. Douglas w.
Brown, vice chairman of the
Democratic National Committee
and National CommitteeWoman
from West Virginia, is likely
choice. Mrs. James H. Mcdonald
Of Michigan has been extremely
successful in her state and would
make an excellent Womans
Division Director.
Miss Mary w. DewSon, who did
such a distinguished job in the
last campaign, will probably con-
tinue as chairman Of the advisory
committee of the women's division.
Andrew Wylie, who, when ne
isn't off exploring, lives with his
mother, Mrs. Andrew Wylle, IN
that big red brick house on Thomas
Circle, is leaving on December 70
with a scientific expedition for
Rorneo, Java and New Guinea.
The expedition will hunt wild
animals in the modern manner
with photographs. Good color
photographs are its particular
hope. The expeditions official
godfather is the Harvard Museum
Of Comparative Zoology.
Mr.. Harold Jefferson Coolidge,
Harvard alumnus, will head the
expedition. Mr.. Wylie, who IS a
yale man, told me at that delight
FIJI tea Miss Elizabeth Howry gave
for Mrs. Frances wilkinson Bun
ker. that he is going along to
bring the Harvard fellows back
Mr., Wylie's stepmother was
Eleanor Wylie, who wrote The
Venetian Glass Nephew" and other
exquisite prose and poetry and who
died suddenly few years ago.
Mr.. Coolidge's father, continu-
ing family history, graduated
magma cum laude at Harvard. He
has a superb collection Of photo
graphs, books and pictures. Evi-
IDENTIFY the taste of his scientist
son is an inherited tendency.
On January 20, a month after
Mr.. Wylie leaves Washington, an.
other important expedition Will
start west and spend seven
months in about the same Pacltlc
Island territory as the Harvard
group. ,
am referring to the National
Geographic Society-Smlthsonlah
EXPEDITION, headed by DR.. William
Mann. Mrs. Mann will be her
husbands chief assistant ana COZ,
lector in this unladylike business
of gathering up wild animals aiive.
incidentally permission OF the
countries to be visited by both
the Harvard and the National
GEOGRAPHIC Expedition had to be
osked before the trips were
MANNED. Governments are re1us-
ing hospitality to hunters VINO
only kill.
0r Mann and his party will
.orrv in their kit boxes some eX'
cessivelv animated presents to the
%Soharaiah of India and the EN-
neror of Japan. The presents
Viii Iii be native animals OF tne
y1rited states for the ZOOS OF
Tokyo and Bombay. -
on receiving these offerings
not vet decided upon Ine No
horaiah and the Emperor will
how very politely I am sure
Newt they will present DR.. Mann
% Tyith a few animals indigenous 70
Tonan and India. am indebted
Ser this last highly scientltlc
1ahrssa ~, to that charming geogra-
1,her John oliver La Gorce; Gd
These indigenous animals - an 4
I.irdsLwill be brought to tne
~ shington Zoo side by side WIN
the animals found by Dr. ana
Mrs. Mann.
0r MAYNARD o. Williams VIII
no an important member OF me me
1Gonn NJ party. Dr. williams, IN tne
words words of an unscientific columnlSStt'
Is an expert on scientific expeol-
tions. ,;t,, +ha+ re.
variable Citroen-Hardt crowd, tne
t;rst | to cross the continent OF
Asia by automobile, They Travelled
from Syria to Peking by the
Marco polo route in II months
Dr. williams is one of the alert
staff men Of the Geographic So
cietv He has a home in Washing
ton hut for the past Is years mas
spent most of his life somewhere
else. oooo,o,,,,;c
Society appear to be always com
ing and going-somewhere else
Mr.. Robert Moore is just return
ING from Portugal.
other staff men are at present
IN Czechoslovakia. Poland and Aus
tria. However, this is lean sea-
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