The Washington times., 1936-04-13
NOW
LOUe, GaUantry
In Deep South
POOR MAYOR
BY HELEN ESSARY

0SSU w NC AulcI1Cdu Mn11SIcI W
Nicaragua, is in Washington now
saying How do you do to the
State Department before he sails
for his new post as Minister to
Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
While here Mr.. Lane, who Is
tremendously popular and influ-
entail, is hurrying along the build
ing Of a new legation in Managua
for the American Minister to Mica
ragua. -
The last earthquake destroyed
the legation. Since then the un-
fortunate American Representa-
tive and his family have had to
live in what is practically a hut.
The climate of Nicaragua is mostly
hot and rainy. American diplo-
macy and good humor have been
under a strain in such a setting.
The new American Minister to
Nicaragua will be Boaz Long who
had several diplomatic posts under
President Wilson and has been in
and out of Washington ever since.
Senator Pat Harrison, of Mis-
sisSippi, tells this story Of love
and eallantry in the deep South:
"It seems that q man COM
mitted q cOld-blOOded murder
and, in order to save him from
the gallOwS, his sweetheart
managed plausibly to implicate
herself with him in the crime
and pleaded guilty with the
man on the theory that no
Southern jury would hang .
woman and therefore neither
could be hanged, Both were
sent to prison for life. The
man Immediately escaped and
the woman has been in prison
for 10 years."
Moral (Mine, not the Sen
ator's): "You can't trust q
Southerner even when he's in
jail!'
I hope that Washington, &C
cuStomed to the speech of diplo-
matte foreigners, will be able to
pronounce Lucrezia Boris name
when she comes to town next
week for q visit.
Mayor Jackson Of Baltimore
had a fearful struggle when he
was presenting his city's gift Of
a silver Jewel box to the prima
donna :. on !. the Lyric stage re-
Gently. Each time the mayor
mentioned Miss Boris name he
said it differently. And never
once correctly!
The first time he said Miss
Bore-eye." The second time he
called her Miss Bore-oh." Again
miss Bore-ah." And finally Miss
Bore-um."
Said a Johns Hopkins student
In the audience:
"He's doing q little Latin con-
jugation."
Baltimoreans are intensely in
terested in the friendship of Miss
Bori and DR.. Hugh H. Young, of
the Johns Hopkins Hospital and
one of the most distinguished ply
Sicians in the world.
This letter came to me today.
I am trying to take it as a com.
pliment:
Dear Helen ESSary:
"'LaSt week for the first time
I read your column in an air
plane ON my way to Pittsburgh.
was then in no happy state Of
mind. I had never flown before
and was terrified at the thought
Of it. Having conceived the idea,
however, the week before when
i'm the thrOeS Of q high fever,
decided when / was better that
must be air minded If it killed
me.
'When the time came to 60 up
I entered the place with weak
ened and discouraged knee, and
took q seat in the middle so that
all / could see was the wing. In
o frenzy I accepted the chewing
gum and cotton which were
brought around. After unSuc-
cessfully having tried to put the
chewing gum in my ears and
chew the cotton, I turned in
desperation to The Washington
Times in hopes it would afford
me some last minute relief.
"YOur column was what I
picked out to buck me up, and
the impression it made on me
will be everlasting. I began to
read just as we left the ground
(hOrribIe experience) and I kept
reading it for the next Is or 20
minutes I dared stop. I
read it over I believe so times in
all!
"Why I didn't turn to some.
thing else after the twentieth
time / don't know, except that
1t didn't occur to me. And also
by that time it had become
something old and dear, and 1
chung to it, as one does to some