Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01
MONTGOMERY
M SIDELICHTS
By ELSIE WHITE HAINEs


shades, electric fan, cooling drinks
and little to eat, we caught up
with several months accumulation
of reading matter.
We made the acquaintance of a
most delightful Chinese writer
Lin Yutang who calls himself
an apostle of the philosophy OF
loafing and claims to be the
hardest working man in China, out
side of Mr.. and Mrs. Chang Kai-
Shek. He reads everything =
Greek, Chinese and contemporary
clean shaven, he avoids having
his picture taken for he says he
likes to think Of himself as a
grand old man of the East, with a
long flowing beard.
A reprint from a Shanghai news
paper first caught our eye a
humorous satire on women. He
says tho, that he is devoted to his
wife = because she lets him smoke
in bed = always the sign of sue
cessful marriage - according to
him. Just to let him know that
all the good wives are not in China
we are thinking of writing him
how we have gone to sleep at night
and wakened in the morning, in
clouds of smoke, for twenty-four
years, and without ever saying
"Now don't set the bed afire."
Then in the July issue of a small
magazine Raymond Clapper, the
radio commentator and columnist
comes out with the observation
that women are suckers for emo
tional crusading of all kinds. All
they need is a cause"
He mentions the emotional out
bursts of Dorothy Thompson, who
he says has the "lowest boiling
point of any writer of the day."
He indicated the women who chain
themselves to trees to prevent their
destruction - he even went back
to the World War and the woman
with the banner reading 81 was
born in '63 = the spirit of war
surrounded me - Now the war has
come again - 1 have son with
the fighting men,"
Says Mr.. Clapper, "Adoring
women go nutty over movie stars"
"Mrs. Roosevelt mothered the
American Youth Congress after
her husband had washed his hands
of them. "Women were the cru
sading force back of Thomas E.
Dewey's campaign and Mr.. Dew
ey's real campaign manager was a
woman.
Now Mr.. Clapper is best known
to us as the husband of Olive Clap
per (hope he sees this) with whom
we have worked in League of
Women Voters and social causes"
for number of years. The only
reason we did not rush to help her
put him in his place was the very
nice way he wrote "Until recent
years the only woman's organiza-
ton making an effort to appeal to
women thru a basis of facts and
research was the League of Women
Voters = they have always made
a speciality of appealing to the
mind rather than the emotions"
He got his "come uppance" in
the August issue, however, when
no less parsonage than the First
Lady came back with an answer
reminding him that "Men Have To
Be HUNDRED. She asked "who
does the swearing in every fam
ily?" "Who stirs up the house.
hold generality" She goes on to
inquire if he knows of any woman
who has put ON a better emotional
campaign than Mahatma Ghandhi.
Mrs. Roosevelt said the D. A. r,
was at fault in the Marian Ander-
son episode "tho they had followed
a man made rule. We were much
amused at the picture that illus
trated the incident - that OF Mr.
Ickes seated by Marian at the open
air concert! "How did he get there"
say we? ALI of this of course
was in the spirit of fun, for the
Clappers, who have a home on
Primrose street in Chevy Chase
are often entertained by the First
Lady.
Mr.. Clapper admitted that hi
had put his head on the bloch
"when he wrote his article and was
much interested to see what thu
answers would do to his hide.
"Girls," as Earline White woul'
say, "the moral of this story is
Don't let your heart rule you
head.
Ksu~ pu~adokkO