The Washington times., 1937-02-17

Here's the let
ter Il promised
Senator Vandenberg not to use the
writer's name) which has brought
that new light into Mr.. Vanden
berg's eye:
"Dear Senator:
81 am preparing to bring to-
gether, in book form, the Opin-
ions of all the foremost people
today on love.
Thousands of readers, my
dear Senator, will be interested
in YOUR views on love.
"WilI you answer at once
please in a 5O0-wOrd essay and
tell us for publication in our
432 page, beautifully bound vol
ume-'What Love Means to Me-
every truly,
"X. Y. T."
When Senator Vandenberg re
ceived this sweet order, he was
studying in his lonely apartment
while Mrs. Vandenberg is in Ari
zona-the new Reciprocal Trade
Treaty. He was doing this with the
bitter, unloving hope of some day
shredding into bits the favorite
child of the Administration.
I asked him if he meant to apply
the theory of reciprocal trade to
his thesis on love. He replied that
the present reciprocal trade situa
ton was much like that famous
one,sided love in which it is "the
woman who pays and pays and
pays" He added:
"In the affair of the treaty, it
Is the United States that pays
and pays and pays"
I've been troubled somehow over
the significance of the Vandenber
gian retort. Work out his meaning
yourself.
He made the epigram on st. Val
entine's day and, as I said before
Mrs. Vandenberg is away. Maybe
these hints will help you make ur
your mind.
Many extraordinary letters are
received by people in important
public places.
The wife of one Cabinet member
had this request the other day
from a woman who lives in Wash
ington:
81 am writing to ask that you
use your influence to help along
my social position in the Capital.
I don't seem to be getting where
/ should. If you will arrange to
ask me to your house, SO that my
name can get in the paper as one
of your associates, I am sure that
will help me up the social lad.
der"
The Cabinet lady replied that
she had just had her last "at
home" for the season. Maybe an
other year,.
Fred Huber's private box at the
Lyric Theater, to which he invites
his particular friends whenever
the Metropolitan Opera comes tt
Baltimore, has mysterious power
It's probably under the influ
ence of Cupid. For it was there
that Rosa Ponselle, grand opera
prima donna, met Carle "A. Jack
son, son of Mayor jackson, OF Bal
timore. In the same box Senator
Robert j. Bulkley, of Ohio, me-
Mrs. Helen Graham Robbins, o.
New York.
Both meetings resulted in mar
riage.
Former Senator Harry B. Hawes
of Missouri, understands the way
of many animals.
He knows about fish. Did yol
ever read his my Friend, tn
Black Bass?"
And now I discover he know
about dogs, sympathetically ant
intelligently.
He has sent me a well printed
booklet, a copy of a speech h
made years ago in the House o
Representatives on "The Dog"
I should like to use all OF MI
Hawes' wisdom. But here is TIN
story with which he introduces hi
rules for the training and feeding
of dogs:
"T was on a fOur-day shoot
with a man who had a fine fe-
male setter. As we went from
farm to farm he was frequently
asked for a pup and just as often
he promised pups that hadn't
been asked for.
One evening said, do yol
know that already you have prom
ised % pups and you can't possibl,
deliver Them
He thought for while and said
"Hawes, it's a mighty poor
man who won't promise pup"
The full significance Of tina
famous statement that we haC
stepped back to the horse ant
buggy stage was not clear to M
until I read recent statistics OF
"VehicleS" from William L. Au
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