The Washington times., 1936-10-21

Tennessee.
AS State boss, he had it in his
power to select certain legislative
appointees. Cordell Hull, a
graduate of the law department
of Cumberland University at
Lebanon, Tenn, had just been
elected to the Tennessee Legisla-
ture.
The State chairman looked the
unknown over and said to him.
self:
Here's a likely young fellow.
1 believe he's calculated to
60 far"
So he suggested Legislator Hull
as chairman of a certain i'm
portant legislature committee
and gave him a brisk boost into
public life.
Cordell Hull has gone far. But
he remains the same simple, in
duStrious, clear-thinking, young
fellow he was back there in
Tennessee.
Both the Secretary and Mrs
Hull continue to live quietly and
happily. Mrs. Hull's principal
pleasure is looking after "the
Judge" as she calls Mr.. Hull. To
gether they present a pleasant
picture in a hectic Capital.
Walter Johnson, who some
folks say was the greatest pitcher
of all time, is now building up
an Al dairy herd on his nearby
Maryland farm.
Walter curved the meanest ball
that ever shot over plate. Now
he plans to put his mark on
score or two of milk wagons.
It isn't such a long step from
the baseball field to the COW shed,
Walter insists. He began life as
q farm boy in Idaho. Every morn
ing he was up before the birds
and MIXED his fathers COWS.
The cheering of the mobs on
football fields this time of year
doesn't excite Walter Johnson.
Baseball will continue to be the
national American game, he says.
Why? Because it's more individual
and so more uncertain than foot
ball.
Elizabeth Sibley, daughter of
the president of the National
Chamber of Commerce and Mrs.
Harper Sibley, has naturally curly
hair, dimples, a pride in her
parents present speech-making
tour for good causes, and is her
self interested in crippled Girl
Scouts.
And now the Straw Vote Poll
ers are saying, well, it looks
like Roosevelt and it might turn
out for Landon. But it's the
weather on November Sd that
will decide the election" How
even an election prognosticator
can decide whether Republicans
will go out in the rain or the
Democrats will sit by the tele-
phone is not clear to us.
While cambridge Colby, former
Democratic Secretary of State,
dashes about the country, attack
ing the New Deal, his former
wife, Natalie Sedgwick Colby, is
speaking out at meetings on
"Why I Am For Roosevelt"
Andre Geraud, the French
Journalist with the nom de plume
Pertinax, astonishes the reading
world sometimes with his written
and spoken observations on Euro
pean peace. However, Mr.. &C.
raud. who is coming to Washing
ton to open the Town Hall meet
ing on November Is, would rather
do a tango than crate.
Donald Richberg underwent a
minor operation at Washington
hospital yesterday.
Mrs. William Baxter, who is
married to a California yachts
man, was recently seen at Bal,
boa, the Newport of the Pacific
Mrs. Bakers father and mother,
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Thomas
C.. Hart. are at the Shoreham
Young Tommy Hart is a second
wear student at the Naval Acad
envy. where both his father and
his grandfather have served as
superintendents.
The Adams Memorial in Rock
Greek Cemetery is, so taxi drivers
say, seldom the goal of local OF
out-of-town fare.
This is unfortunate for the Me
mortal is regarded by artists as
the finest sculpture in America
The meaning of the hooded figure
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