The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-03
NOW
LnndOn AdmireS
Mr.. Roosevelt
GEN. KELLER
By HELEN ESSARY

JuTneQ lIOh EAnAAoosoS ASROA WV
that while in the company Of an
other correspondent who has
known President Roosevelt init
mately for many years, he had a
long talk with Republican Presi-
Dental candidate Landon.
Governor Landon asked num-
Der of questions about Mr.. Roose'
velt and concluded by saying he
thought Mr.. Roosevelt just the
sort of a man he would enjoy
knowing.
This was before Mr.. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Landon met to discuss
the drought, and take each others
measure.
The many sympathetic friends
of the late Secretary Dern are re-
calling the devotion and affection
in his own family. Mrs. Dern al
most lived at Walter Reed Hospl-
tai during the Secretary's long
illness. Her smile of greeting as
she passed in the halls was a
barometer of her husbands conol-
ton.
Speaking of Walter Reed. that
fine surgeon General Keller is In
active service again. Because Of
his devotion to Walter Reed, Gen
eral Keller refused opportunities
again and again to go with the
Mayo brothers.
General Keller's retirement now
is nominal. In his surgeons white
he is still to be met making the
rounds with the officers on active
duty, and working almost as many
hours as he ever did.
This is a none too happy col
umn today. I've seen other sad
news from Walter Reed, the des-
perate illness of Gen. Chauncey
Baker. General Baker owns that
delightful cottage at >hoboth.
occupied by the Brit Browns
and desolate since I Browns
recent death.
And now a completely frivol-
Gus note exemplifying the reward
of virtue.
A true story is this and it hap
pened to a friend who spent a
summer in New Hampshire.
The Worlds Worst Crouch was
in New Hampshire too, a queru-
lous old gentleman who found
fauIt with everything from the
shape of the birches to the sea-
Soning of the food.
One afternoon at the tea hour
my friend was pouring. She
asked the Old Crouch if he would
have another cup.
'Tll take half cup" he said,
peeviShly. She poured him ex-
actly half a cup.
A week ago the Grouchy One
died and left my friend all his
property because, he stated in his
will
'You are the first person who
ever paid enough attention to
the wishes of an old man to give
him just half a cup of tea when
he asked for it."
The moral points itself.
Washington is proud Of its miles
and miles of bride paths that
wind through Rock Creek Park
and circle the speedway. Although
the inhabitants try not to appear
too SNUG when discussing these
agreeable roads they do take on
a slightly superior air.
One bride path braggart had
a sharp shock yesterday when
she was talking about horses with
Marion Harron, who succeeded
Annabel Matthews on the U. S.
Board of Tax Appeals. Judge Har-
ron said she loved riding, but
washington is so flat and
uninteresting. I'm accustomed
to day-lOng hard rides in the
West. These pretty little .jaunts
on Washington bride paths are
so tame"
First cousin to the Raven-or
WhimSy in the Middle West.
"When we opened the print
ing office Monday morning to
build a fire for the printers"
says the AltamOnt Times, eve
found big yellOw-legged grass
hopper perched on a picture Of
Roosevelt that hung on the wall.
We grabbed a broom, intending
to drive the big fellow outside
but he lodged our stroke and
by several figure-eight move
mentS about the shop, lit on the
hell box. And then hoped back
to his first stand on top Of
ROOsevelt'S picture"
Cracking "Nevermore," prob
ably.
I've just escaped the bondage
Of "Gone With the Wind" The
fascinating bondage. For with
sorrow I've just finished its 1,037th
page.
A most enthralling story. It
absorbS ones thoughts, ones days
and half ones nights until the
tale is at last spun out. HuS:
band, wife, the marketing, the
house guests, the bridge game and
the hair wave are vague respon-
sibilities compared with the re.
atty of Gone With the Wind"
Critics have said it is a superb
picture of the South in the Civil
War and Reconstruction days. So
it is.
But Scarlet O'Hara is really
the book. The Civil War is her
background, the setting for the
development of her character.