Evening star., 1937-06-20

five hours. The Senator, who
before been over the Atlantic cea
; British boat, the Cavalier Of Great
Britain's Empire Fleet. which was
also making its trial trip, reaching
the island first, the Senator said there
was no race on and that besides the
Cavalier started 80 minutes ahead OF
the American ship.
Col. johnson Predicts Early
European Air Service.
There was delightful party aboard
the Sikorsky. including Mrs. McAdoo,
who is young, pretty and vivacious
and apparently ready to accompany
her husband at moments notice;
then the newly created counselor of the
Department of State, Mr.. R. Walton
Moore, was passenger and with him
Mr.. Richard Southgate, chief OF the
Protocol Division of the department
who must have gone along to see that
everything was CONNIE il faut, for
the party was to be entertained at q
public luncheon with the governor
general Of the island present. Col
j. Monroe johnson, Assistant Secre-
tary OF Commerce, who eats, sleeps
and dreams about a trans Atlantic
service, was host. He predicted that
the opening Of air service in the At
lantic would soon be followed by such
service through to Europe.
In speaking of the late tragic wreck
OF the giant Hindenburg, Mr. McAdoo
was asked what he thought about
America selling helium to foreign
countries. He replied that he saw no
reason why it should not be sold to
Germany-evidently having in mind
only the commercial aspect Of it's use.
He made the Pacific trip TO Hongkong
(by the way, he thought Hongkong
was simply ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at
Manila to take look in at Uncle
Sans insular possession. The horse
and buggy days of the steam cars are
evidently over for the Senator and
henceforth it's to be a speedy clipper.
Senator McAdoo Goes Ponce de Leon
One Better.
Senator McAdoo must have sue
ceeded where Ponce de Leon failed, as
he certainly has discovered the foun-
tain OF youth and taken large
draught Of its sparling waters, for in
both appearance and manner he be-
lies the date of birth given in his bi :
ography in the Congressional Direc-
tory. He comes Of Gaelic and High
land stock-with the latter in the
ascendancy betokened by his clear blue
eyes, beaked nose and tall spare figure.
A tennis figure such as one recalls
when he was Secretary OF Treasury in
the Wilson administration and when
he scored on tho White House
tennis courts, and was always the last
to leave the ball room floor. He has
not the constituent-bored look, but
the same ready and easy accessibility
remembered by many in those war
days when his duties were never end
ing-as Mary Synon says in her life of
him, The labors of William Gibbs Nc
Adoo. Secretary Of Treasury through
six Of the most portentious years in the
worlds drama"
"Gone With the Wind" An Old Story
to Mr.. McAdoo.
There Is nothing new to Mr.. McAdoo
in Gone With the Wind" for down
In Georgia where he was born and
where he lived as a little boy he was
rocked to sleep by eye-witnesses Of the
tragic events related in that best seller
and prize winner. If he did not be-
have properly there was an old nanny
to remind him that the "pater-rolls
and Ku-Klux" might come down the
road at any moment to get little boys
who refused to 60 to sleep-when
nanny wanted to get below stairs to
visit. He says in Crowded Years." his
book published in the early 1930s
which Is partly biography and largely
a comprehensive history of the finan-
cial and industrial preparation and
conditions with which the States were
hurried into the World War, that he
was brought up in Georgia in the path
OF Sherman's famous march to the
sea-" In his youth the family moved
to Eastern Tennessee. where he was
educated and where he got his first
taste Of local and national politics
he was just 81 when he attended his
first national presidential convention
as an alternate.
And what q coincidence. Speaking
Of the Senator's war days: As the
visitor was leaving there right in the
reception room door stood Mr.. Barney
Baruch, and the story in Crowded
Years" popped up. Where Mr.. Nc
Adoo, tells about those maddins days
during the World War when the Sec
retary of Treasury was put to it to
raise money for every conceivable use,
that he was pondering how he would
raise that last 100000 of the Cotton
Loan. He was almost beside himself
when Mr.. Baruch was announced and
was right at the door. Coming forward
Mr.. Baruch said that he had heard
about the cotton loan and he asked