Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-02


always consider the welfare of the '
service in social work and his studio!
learn a lot about the welfare of the
building now under his control. o.
- incog and eats luncheon in the big
ployes. And after hard days work
when the building is emptied of
clerks at 4:30 he has been seen walk
ing around the corridors, looking in
the Offices and acquaintlng himself
generally with conditions and loca-
! tons.
Mrs. Roosevelt Patronizes
Home Products.
With the unsettled situation
abroad, Secretary Hopkins believes
that no pains should be spared to
foster home industries and, while
for some time the shops have been
filled with displays of glass, china
and earthenware imported from
Czecho-Slovakia and Austria-we
are told there is none being imported
at present from those two coun-
tries-Mr. Hopkins is plainly en-
deavoring to acQualnt the pubic
with the fact that they can buy
beautiful glass, porcelain, china and
crockery right here at home which
compares favorably with any made
abroad. Mrs. Roosevelt has long
recognized this and is stickler for
home manufactures. At state dim
ners at the White House the table
is laid with lovely American hand
made glass and beautiful china.
Collectors of glass would be de-
lighted at the exhibition of American
handmade glass at the Department
of Commerce. 1t is most artiStically
arranged so that the exquisitely cut
facets of the different articles catch
the light in such way that the
display sparkles and shines like
precious stones. The etched and
chiseled pieces are beautiful and
some of them fairyike in design and
execution. We do not know whether
Mr.. H. B. Mccoy, chief of specialties
division in the department is re-
sponsible for the arrangement of
the fiat glass cases in which the
pieces are displayed-but it's charm
ing. They rest on a soft white
textile outlined with natural maiden
hair ferns which gives an elegant,
monumental impression.
It is learned from Mr.. Mccoy that
the annual production of hand
made glass in this country now
exceeds $4,000 600 and is made in
II States-principally West Virginia,
Pennsylvania. Ohio and New York,
the three Midwestern States pro-
ducing over half the total. 1t is
also interesting to hear about the
$4,000 persons-many of them artists
who are employed in making
handmade glass. Now that glass
ware is entering so prominently into
drawing room and table decoration
there are several most interesting
books on the subject and Mr.. Walter
Rendeu 4 Storey in writing about
elassmaking says for several CEN
turtles the methods have remained
unchanged He calls attention to
the fact that in modern Spanish
peasant glass, as we'll as 18th CEN
fury Venitian and Stiegal (PaD and
South Jersey types, for example,
the same decorative use may be
observed of the natural plastic form
of the material in handles and ap-
piled ornamentation.
Mr.. MacLeish's Books
Best Sellers.
Since the controversy over the
confirma ton of Mr.. Archibald Mac
Leish as librarian of the Congress
sional Lbrary-there has been
q rush for his books. specially his
poetry. If one has read "Conquis-
tabor" and did not follow, read it
over again. For If one has been in
Mexico-even in the present CEN
tury-he will become fascinated with
the spirit and atmosphere created
by the poem, which depicts scenes
and events of four centuries ago.
The country up from Vera Cruz to
Mexico City-Which we have trav-
eled-in many places must have
changed but little since Cortez'
march. Mr.. MacLeish relates in a
note or foreword how in the win
ter of 1929 he followed CorteZ'
march from the seacoast to the VAL
ley of Mexico. He went by foot and
muleback. He became saturated
with the traditions and coloring of