Evening star., 1938-06-26

1SCPoOAN0u "OuCA, WAS AbACO LAAe
other day about the activities Of the
league during the summer and ex-
pressed the opinion that the women OF
the league had never been 20 thor
oughly organized for action in . con-
gressional campaign Is they are for
the coming fall elections. As IS pea
cent Of the members Of the league live
In the States where they have . vote
and part in party organizations she
feels that the club program will swing
from the Capital to the county and
State Republican Clubs.
She has long been . popular hostess
in Washington and has . large ac-
quaintance throughout the country
Having gone along with her husband
during his more active political life,
she has . keen insight into the pol
icies governing . minority party. She
impresses one As being constructive,
rather than destructive Of any plan
Of the opposition which would be for
the betterment Of the entire country.
During the past winter she presided
often at the tea table at the club
receptions here and between pourings
sometimes gave . few political quips
that drove home a point. She did not
speak Of going out to Wyoming this
summer-it might be well to watch
Senator O'Mahoney with the accent
on the Ma. please). who is going to
do q bit Of campaigning this year.
Nine Cantacuzene. president OF
the Republican League Of Women
Voters, who will make her annual
trip to Europe, will be back in time
to do her bit for the good of her
party. After her long residence in
Europe she came back to her native
land an enthusiastic American, in love
with its traditions and much that it
stands for. In her book, MY Life
Here and There" published some time
ago, she reveals much Of the constancy
and charm of strong patriot.
Miss Marion Martin, sometime State
Senator In Maine, and chief of the
Womens Republican National Com
mittee. is now in the Northwest or
ganizing a national federation Of Re-
publican women's clubs. Charming
to look at she speaks with conviction
and draws crowds. She has visited 30
States, So cities and made something
like hundred speeches since she took
office last October. She is out for the
bacon and the women of the party
seem to think she has stirred up en-
thusiasm that will bring telling re-
suits in the fall elections. The Re-
publican women have not had the
thorough and strong organizations out
OF season that the women of the
Democratic party have found welded
q power In their conventions.
Americans Participate
In Fitzgerald Memorial.
American as well as English and
Iranian admirers Of Edward Fitz-
gerald have contributed to the plaque
which has been recently placed at
Bredfield House, Woodbridge, Suffolk,
as q memorial to the author whose
paraphrase Of THE Rubaiyat" Of
Omar Khayyam, has become immor-
tai. Mr.. John Masefield, the poet
laureate Of England, headed the move
ment; the sponsors were Harvard, the
1ranian Minister at London and the
Royal Society Of Literature; also the
Omar Khayyam Club OF London, which
has from time to time brought out
wonderfully beautiful editions of The
Rubaiyat'
Edward Fitzgerald described his
birthplace in . poem which contains
these lines:
$50, an English mansion founded
In the elder James reign,
Quaint and stately and surrounded
With q pastoral domain"
Maybe you remember this verse Of
"The Rubaiyat"::
" 'Tis all chequer-board Of night
and days
Where destiny with men for pieces
plays;
Hither and thither moves, and mates,
and Stays.
And one by one back in the closet