Evening star., 1936-03-08
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.
President Roosevelt has hoped on
the bandwagon over in Maryland. and
that must have been his beloved, old
eray hat he sailed into the ring, be-
cause it's a good campaigner and a
good vote getter. When he takes 1t
of and waves it at the crowd as he
rides along they simply go Wild. It
has weathered the SHOWS Of Winter
and the suns of Summer but it's easy
going and fits we'll and after all it's
a good match for Senator Borah's
broad -brimmed black Western SOM
brero.
Spaaking to 1900 members of the
Young Democratic Clubs in Baltimore
last Thursday night. Senator Millard
Tydings paid beautiful tribute to the
late Albert Cabell Ritchie. who held
q place of deep affection in the hearts
of a majority of Marylanders.
A recent rumor that Mr.. and Mrs.
Tydings would go on North Cape
cruise this Summer with Mr.. Joseph
Davies and his bride evidently was a
mistake.
Gen. Jacques Adelbert de Chambrun
and his wife, Countess Clara Long
worth de Chambrun, are expected
in Washington within the next few
days The general is native Wash
ingtonian, and the countess almost
one, as she spent great deal OF time
here in former years Her book
THE Making Of Nicholas LongWorth,' u
was enthusiastically received here as
we'll as by Ohioans. who, regardless OF
political Affiliations, were sincerely at
tached to her brother, one-time
Speaker of the National House of Rep
resentatives and the boon companion
of Vice President Garner. They were
equally matched when it came to a
quick and ready answer.
Countess Clara thinks she has q
great find in the second edition OF a
COPY of Raphael Holinshed's "Chroni-
cles Of Britain" which has autograph
notations by Shakespeare-you know
the countess is an authority on Shakes
peareiana and has written charmingly
of some of the plays. Her identiflca-
ton of the Shakespeare markings has
been supported by French Shakes
perean scholars.
Holinshed died about 1880 when
Shakespeare was Is. and it was in
devourins the snappy chronicles that
the great dramatist must have re-
ceived many descriptions and ideas for
the costuming and the mise en- scene
Of his plays.
If Mr.. Robert A. Taft, son of the
late President William Howard Taft,
wins that SLOT, he is suing for in the
Court of Claims, he would be able to
start a campaign fund in case he
wishes to toss his hat into the presi-
dental ring for 1886
The United States has had but one
father and son in the presidency
John Adams and his son, John Quincy,
the precocious young man, who was
at the age of 27 United States Minister
to The Hague and at an earlier period
had had diplomatic experience in Eng
land and Russia.
The two Taft boys. Robert and
Charles. have been up and coming
for some time and have been doing
things in a big way for their State
and home town out there in Gin
cinnati. Charles. who attended the
public schools in Washington while
his father was President, seemed
just rollicking. fun-loving chap who
took no advantage of precedence be-
cause his father was in the White
House, but on leaving college and law
school he settled down to the prac-
tice of law and became interested in
civic affairs and has written and lee
tured on the subject.
Representative Kahn Wants
More Power for Women.
Representative Florence Kahn, the
first woman to occupy a seat on the
House Appropriations Committee, is
head and front of the campaign for
larger recognition and greater par
ticipation in the counsels of the Re-
publican party. Those active in the
new suffrage movement want women
active in the coming campaign as
speakers and organizers. President
Roosevelt's recognition of women as
cabinet ministers and diplomats has
set precedent that the women of the
entire country think it would be well
to emulate. England did it long be-
fore-why not Uncle Sam?
Mrs. Payne Whitney and Mrs
Dodge Sloane. two outstanding women
in the royal sport of horse racing,
have each named five entries for
Americas premier in sport, the Ken
lucky Derby. which will take place
May 2, scarcely two months off. The
Derby is earlier than in many years,
and Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit
ney says it comes too early for him
to put in his best colt. He has, how
ever, nominated Triumph and Bright
Plumage. The latter the Endurance
Handicap winner, has been training in
Florida
For this, the sixty-second running
Of the Derby, the old Blue Grass State