The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-07
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Noted Golfer
THE MAORIS
BY HELEN ESSARY

Tile SGa1I Oh MS embassy 1OE G1lSlI
annual meeting with a New York
association of Japanese mer
chants.
The meeting last two days. It's
most agreeable feature was golt
tournament played at a country
club in Clement N. j., not far
from Philadelphia. The financial
attache Of the embassy, Mr. Osaka
won with a score that he modestly
refused to mention.
The Japanese ambassador is a
famous golfer among the diplo.
mats. Every Sunday morning he
daSheS out to the Burning Tree
Club, that haunt of aristocratiC
and energetic prosperity, and be.
gins his athletic day at the sena-
torial breakfast.
This senatorial breakfast, by the
way, is one of the big events of
Washington life. When it was
inaugurated, only Senators were
eligible at the table.
But the envious looks of other
club members broke down Sena-
torial excluSiveness. Now all club
members and their guests are in
vited in to share the legislative
ham and eggs.
Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
president of the American Red
Cross, ought to know about two
Walter Reed soldiers who are "cut-
ting out the movies for two weeks, "
so that they can give a dollar
apiece to the Red Cross. The Red
Cross is the best friend enlisted
men have, so they say.
Mrs. w. w. Spaid, who is as
handsome as her husband is i'm
portant, gave a supper party the
other night and used the recipe
for Italian spaghetti that District
Supreme Court Justice Oscar R.
Luehring gave us for this column
last month. She says the spaghetti
was superb.
Col. Edwin A. Halsey, secretary
Of the United States Senate, has
got out pamphlet on "Presiden-
tial Electoral and Popular Votes"
that ought to make the first Tues
day in November clear to anybody.
Here's an erudite subject that
should be undertaken in the kinder
gartenS, maybe with colored
worsted balls. It's too involved for
the aged mind to take on all at
once.
Hearing two distinguished New
Zealand visitors mention Maori
Head Hunters" Fiji Islanders"
and Tasmania" as casually as we
speak of congressman" New
Dealers" and Pennsylvania Ave
nue." has made us realize how
small the washington world is. In
spite of it's pride in its cosmopoli-
tan ways.
DR.. Ernest Warrington head
master Of Knox College, Dunedin,
New Zealand, and his charming
wife, who are visiting Miss Grace
Turner in Cleveland Park gave
us this sharp insight into our local
dullness,
DR.. Warrington, a native OF
Australia, came from the other
side of the world for the Har-
ward Tercentenary. He was still
pleased that many years ago
Harvard had permitted him to
take his doctors degree in one
year, Gmagine-that a kind
ness.) In gratitude, he named
his first son Harvard after his
American alma mater.
DR.. Warrington was writing
efore-dinner entries in his Wash
ington diary when we barged in
with a hundred questions about
New Zealand. This remote coun-
try long ago got itself the repu-
tation for liberal thinking.
In it's last national election it
went radical in a big way. Elect
ed a complete Labor government.
And promised Utopia OF short
hours Of work, long hours of
play, increased wages and happi-
ness for one and all.
New Zealand handles it's race
problem judiciously. The Maoris
who owned the islands before the
white man turned covetous eyes
thereon, ara 8, proud and highly
Intelligent people, according to DR.,
Mer1i1gton. Between the white New
Iealanders and these natives, in
termaTiage is not infrequent. The
wife of one important government
official is part Maori.
Fijiians, although admitted to the
universities, and spoken to politely
are not permitted to marry white
New ZealanderS. While studying in
New Zealand they are in the GUS
tody of customs officials. And are
under bond to return to their tribes
when their education. generally in
medicine or some other practical
science, is completed.
Gently leading DR.. Warrington
to a little gossip on the old-time
pleasures of the Maoris and the
Fijiians we brought up the CHEEKY
subject o fcannibalism.
The Maori, we learned, when he
wanted to pay you compliment
ate you for dinner or even for tea
This, naturally, was before clVl
lization dulled his appetite.