Evening star., 1938-06-26
MRS. WILEY ENDS
S|X-M0NTH TRIP
Plans to Tell Local Clubs
of Adventures on
World Cruise.
By JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

Washington civic leader and widow
OF Americas pure food pioneer, who
has just returned from a six.month's s
trip around the globe.
She will speak on her travel ex-
periences Tuesday before the BUSH
ness and Professional Women's Club
and later before the Women's City
Club.
YES" declared Mrs. Wiley, After
my experience in France, learned
to show my passport not only at FROM
tiers. hotels, tea rooms and banks,
but on every imaginable occasion"
Her most acute passport difficulty,
she went on to explain, was in France
and all because New York travel
agent had failed to note that her pass
port through that country might ex-
pire in advance OF her contemplated
visit.
Costs a Day Of Trouble.
The error cost Mrs. Wiley a whole
day In the office of the French Pre-
lecture of Police, six taxicab rides
across Paris, the price of an inter-
prefer, and a petition from the Con-
cierge at the Hotel Continental GER
tfying she was a guest there.
When this petition had been OBJ
tained Mrs. Wiley joined a group of
80 or 40 other indignant Americans
In the same fix and waited from / 80
to 4:30 pm. without lunch until her
case could be heard.
Asked by the assistant perfect when
she wanted to leave France, Mrs.
Wiley said she emphatically declared
Tonight" She got a visa for two
weeks, however, which she did not
use.
During her trip Mrs. Wiley spent
167 days in 13 countries.
Although crossing the frontiers of
Italy. Greece and Turkey, Mrs. Wiley
did not go into Germany. Tourists,
she said, were required to declare
every penny in their possession. in
cluding their letters of credit. Upon
their departure from these countries
they were also meticulously questioned
as to the exact amount they had spent
and required to make a statement as
to how much they were taking out
Impressed BY Turkey.
Mrs. Wiley expressed herself as
much impressed with what the presi-
dent OF Turkey is achieving through
bloodless revolution in bringing the
ideals and practices of western civil
ization into active operation in his
country. She also referred to the
delightful evening she had in Istan-
bul with DR.. Edward Scipio and his
family. DR.. Scipio for 25 years has
been the dean of Robert College, an
educational institution with an en-
dowment Of s4,000,0O0. The salaries
OF its instructors are paid by the
Turkish government.
1t so happened. Mrs. Wiley said.
that the arrival of her travel party
IN various countries was co-incident
with happenings of world import.
They arrived in Toxic, for instance.
on the day of the fall of Marking.
Everywhere they saw the flags Of
Japan, Germany and Italy flying to-
gether. In the stores neckties were
prominently displayed with the pat
terms OF these three flags intertwined.
Upon Tokio's Gizai, or FIFTH avenue.
there were all manner of professions
OF joyful japanese upon the one hand,
scattering confetti and crying Ban
zai!" as with bobbing lanterns they
celebrated the victory, while upon the
other dsconsolate widows, mothers
and sweethearts mourned for their
soldier dead. In the Japan Advertiser
appeared such statements as The
Chinese forces, no longer able to resist
the japanese, must suffer remorse."
This Is an instance of reckless re-
sistance to Japan" This destructive
character in the Chinese must be cor
rected by the japanese as their neigh
bors and for the co-existence and CO.
prosperity Of the races in East Asia"
Saw Extras Of the Panay.
Hong Kong was reached Just after
the bombing of the Panay, with extra
editions of the newspapers being
screamed in the streets, and the China
Mail saying boldly, TT was impossible
that the aviators could mistake the
ships nationality"
They were in the Dutch East Indies
Just prior to the birth of the heir to
the throne of the Netherlands, but
missed the champagne promised the
passengers by their Dutch captain
had the event occurred before the date
OF their embarkation at their first
Dutch East Indian port.
During her various hectic taxi rides
acros Paris in the effort to adjust her
French passport, Mrs. Wiley saw the
strike posters displayed everywhere
and sensed a general unrest.
A fellow guest at Shepherds. in
Cairo, was DR.. Frank Buckman, head
Of the Oxford Group Movement.
Their arrival in Athens, Greece, CO.
mcided with the Kings annual review
OF his realms most up-to-date Often
sives OF war. They watched the King
standing on his square of royal CARPET
as the caterpillar tanks, the machine
guns and other weapons of offense
and defense made their way past him.
Mrs. Wiley's greatest thrill in Greece,
however, came from a visit to the gov
ernment archaeological explorations,
where she beheld two ostraka, tablets
OF ostracism, one banishing Aristides
the Just and the other Alcibiades.
Preceded Hitler's Visit.
In Italy, prior to Hitler's visit, Mrs.
Wiley said, "One had the feeling, in
feminine housekeeping parlance, that
the very handle of the Italian front
door was being polished" in expecta-
ton Of the event.
1t was Mrs. Wiley's privilege to be q
guest in the ladies' gallery of the
House Of Commons. with approxi-
mately II other members of her sex,
when Sir John Simon was leading the
discussion and defending Englands
pay up and smile budget" which, as
subsequently enacted, increased the
British income tax on one-man COM
panies and foreign trusts $4,000, 900
per year.
Early in their journeyings the dis
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