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(By S. J. WOOLF.)
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Max Eastman in London. Mr. Max Eastman, the biogra- pher and translator of Trotsky, who arrived in London from Prinkipo, frecently, is the only American not of Russian origin who has ever succeeded in mastering thoroughly the intricacies of the Russian language..
Before he made his first visit to the White House on March 4 there his quiet manner does not betray, When the Roosevelts move into disclose the nervous energy, which Soviet Russia in 1922 Mr. Eastman, will move in with them one who is whose father and mother were both related by no ties except twenty-sald, "unt!! today I feel that he well-known Evangelical ministers
"I have seen Franklin grow," he in the United States. spoke not a No relative, no other friend, holds held by any President up to now,
two years of the closet association.possesses several qualities never single word of Russian. Within few years he was able to write
the same position in the household "He sa interested in individuals poems in Russian which the Moss Louis McHenry Howe. No man as human beings, not as members cow Press did not disdain to
knows Franklin Roosevelt better, no of political parties. The result is publish, and also to translate one is closer to him than this small, that in the years that he has been Trotsky.
self-effacing man who has devoted in public life he has amassed an Mrs. Max Eastman, who is the almost a quarter of a century to amazing knowledge of what citizens sister of Krylenke, now Soviet making his friend President of the in every part of the country think Commissar for Justice and one-
United States. timo Commander of the Red Army,
and feol aboat our government. This Until a few weeks ago few people knowledge has been gained primari recently became # successful had heard of Louis Howe. painter in America, and while at was his doing. He preferred to re-dence which, to my knowledge. 'That ly through an enormous correspon Prinkipo with her husband she main in the background, quietly reaches back twenty years. Frank painted an excellent portrait, of working. His position in the house-ly, I believe that more people can Trotsky.
hold is somewhat like an eccentric claim to have personal touch with bachelor uncle. When the Roose-Governor Roosevelt than almost Your Daily Smile.
velt children were going away it any other man in the United States. was he who saw to it that their Up to the recent campaign com- He was building up a successful Roosevelt is puzzled about some-ever seen him, but at some time tickets were bought. When Mrs. paratively few of these men had practice, and then suddenly all his thing it is to Louis she goes for ad- or other they had written to him patients left him. In filling up vice. But the one absorbing pro-and received not a perfunctory re- death certificate he had absent-blem has been Franklin's future. mindedly signed his name in the
ply but a real letter. space headed "Cause of Death."
He is, in his own words, "Frank- į lin'a 'no'-man Every evening up remember distinctly a four-
Trapper's Letter. A bookseller had an "account ren-came Governor, Mr. Howe had. hard. It was an answer to a trap- to the time that Mr. Roosevelt be-page letter over which he worked dered" returned to him with this bedtime talk with him over the afper in Arizona and it went into the reply scrawled across it: "Dear fairs of the day. Since Mr. Roose question of what kind of a govern- Sir-I never ordered this beastly velt went to Albany, Mr. Howe has ment we ought to have. Believe
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ty and to the Hong Kong teer Defence Corps, one of the I got it, I paid for it. If I didn't,
If you sent it, I never got it. If week. 1933. most valuable of local institu- won't. Yours respectively-"
In New York he has made few
ica would be glad to have it. tions. Chief Inspector Grant's
friends, seldom visited, any one a farmer in lows discussing tho "I recall another one he wrote to Police medal has been well carn-
When the family is out of town he problem of the relief of agriculture. ed.
Smith met Brown in the street eats by himself and then goes to and asked for a match, Brown the Roosevelt town house and reads with any thought of political gain.
These letters Home Rule For Scotland? duced a bottle of aspirins from been done in the first chapter he Governor has a natural desire to went through six pockets and pro- detective stories. If no murder has They were written because the were not written A feature of the unusually long New Year Honours List
each. "Great Scott." said Smith. discards the book and takes up a know what people think and how In the northern part of the "are you becoming a drug fiend?" this year is that recognition is British Isles there has lately "No," said Brown. I've been try extended over the widest area to the movement for Scottish Homeling, and every time I go into a ured as the political manager of tion will discover what I have
been a new popular interest in ing to buy a body-belt all the morn
Aided Campaign,
they feel about things and he ie an- Since 1928 James Farley has fig-
xious for them to know his ideas. include men of all classes. Six Rule.
"I honestly believe that the na At present the support chemist's shop a girl comes new Peers are chosen from the given to the project is by no ward to serve me.".
for Mr. Roosevelt's campaign, but Louis known for some time-that is, that ranks of Art, Medicine, Com. means unanimous.
Howa has looked after the person he knows what the people as well Even in the merce, the Army and Diplomatic ranks of its more active ad-
al side of it. The two, mon have as the leaders are thinking and de- Facts You Did Not herents there is a strong conflict Corps, while the knighthoods of opinion as to what form their
worked together as harmonious siring to-day. Over and over again Know.
companiona striving for a single I hard seen State leaders call upon reward achievements in the projected self-government ought
goal. While Farley was touring him to tell him about conditions in Literary sphere, Education, to take, and to all appearances
English scientists have found Howe remained une mystery man to find that he know as much of the country and seeing politicians, their States and go away amazed Music, Art, Science, Engineering of the Tweed is thoroughly well square mile of London each year-vention opened in Chicago, he took a certain that this personal
the bulk of the population north that five tous of soot fall on each When the Democratic National Con-local problems as they did. and Invention. There are few satisfied with things as they are. surprises, most of the recipients But in spite of their divergent
For light work a California mana direct wire to Albany. He never lin first went to the State Senate a room in the Congress Hotel with contact which began when Frank having earned their awards views the malcontents
ver has developed a single cylinder one appeared on the floor of the con- will continue after he moves to to carry public service. Of the new Peers weight with the
a certain amount of ing only four and a half pounds.
Httle of his doings, yet he was deus purely routine and official duties, more impres- greatest interest attaches to Sir sionable of their fellow-Scots-
ex machina whose word was final.will keep him from maintaining his Movable concrete breakwater units Walter Runciman, one of the men, and the warnings which have been developed to protect dent-elect and his confidential ad- adding to his knowledge. Over and The paths of the present Presi interest in people as individuals and great, family of Runcimans who have been moved to utter will ses ports and to help extend them. Roosevelt was a young man, short portance of the individual, and I Lord Elibank and Sir Ian Malcolm bathing beaches at German Baltic viser originally crossed when Mr. over again he has stressed the im- have played a prominent part in command the sympathy of all English industrial and political who realize that the Act of Union
For use on farms a form of con-public office. At that time Charley any red tape of officialdom so ty ly out of college, holding his first
can never for one moment imagino life. He is father of Mr. Walter has proved for more than two centrated fertilizer that is dustless Murphy ruled Democratic State ing him up as to make him forget Runciman, President of the to Scotland as well as to the rest developed by an Alabama chemist. From Fourteenth Street that the
centuries of enormous advantage as it is spread over fields has been politics and the word had gone out that Board of Trade, and one of the of the Kingdom. There is little!
Legislature was to elect "Blue- "As you know, I have seen him in- stalwarts of the present Nation public support for the extreme make it al Cabinet which has performed bodies now agitating
extremely unlikely eyed Billy Sheeban as United timately for years, and often I have views of some of the smaller that they will gain strength by States Senator. Franklin Roose been with him when he has been such notable achievement during change.
for a joining forces. In the opinion velt refused to take orders and, going over his mail. The letters the past twelve months.
Their influence may be of the Duke of Montrose the heading a group of nineteen other he is most apt to pick up and read Few regarded as negligible. famous figures appear in the list two larger bodies concerned can contemplates a breach of the domination of Tammany.
But the manifesto of the Nationalists State Senators, held out against the from beginning to and are those Howe scrawled in pencil on a sheet of not quite so easily be dismissed. Union of 1707, to which he him-was a seasoned political reporter, paper borrowed from the country but one, the Rev. P. D. B. Clay-of these the more moderate, led self is strongly opposed. If he and he went to interview the young store. They are the letters from ton, Padre of Toe H, who is created a Companion of Honour, at the establishment of a sepa- their idea of a separate Parlin State's strongest political body is well liked and respected all rate Parliament which besides ment and be content with the Start of Friendship. z over the world. Three honours having the control of finance and devolution of certain powers for "I remember distinctly," he said, al views and troubles.”
taxation, would be the final the management
"the first time I met him. He was
When I asked Louis Howe who come to Hong Kong, and hearty legislative authority on all pure-domestic affairs to a Committee living in a rented house in Albany, ther he and the Governor called
of internal congratulations are due Sirly Scottish William Shenton, honoured with trade and agriculture. The they would certainly have a
affairs, including of Scottish local authorities, and as I entered the library I no each other by their first names in ticed that over the fireplace was a conversation he said, "Yes, and a well deserved knighthood. other body, describing itself as stronger case and command coat of arms with a hand holding sometimes worse than that, just the
the National Party of Scotland, larger following. But even that A There is little need to dwell on
a club. 1 immediately made some same as any friends do. Sir William's long and valuable urges the appointment of a reminds them by his apposite trine of the Big Stick
goes very much farther. It step as Sir Ian Malcolm Tecaasin who had preached the doc himself, or how he entered politics. remark comparing him with his He does not like to talk about record of public service as his presentative British Council quotation from the message sent widespread and energetic activi. which would submit for ratifica-by Mr. Isaac Butt to the Imperial We became friendly and I was MR. MACNAMARA LECTURES ties have extended over most the British (or English) Parlia would not be free from danger, first meeting I made up my mind English Association Meeting.
tion to a Scottish as well as to Parliament sixty years ago and earnestness. Almost at that at once impressed by his sincerity
ON LIGHT VERSE. phases of life in the Colony, ment all schemes involving and could only be taken with the that he was of Presidential timber
He has been over twenty years financial contributions from Eng-greatest caution. If a move and that only an accident could pre- "English Light Verse" was the in Hong Kong and apart from land of Scotland for Imperial ment starting with devolution vent him from attaining that office."arbject of an address given by Mr. his work in the Executive and purposes, any treaty or military should end, as it has done in an- Hunched in a chair, his baggy H. C. Macnamara to the English a or naval agreement concluded other part of the once United clothes wrinkled, his high imported Association yesterday afternoon. Legislative Councils he has play-with any other nation by the Kingdom, in ___ ed a prominent part in numerous joint Council, and all questions of separation, then Scotland at all peered over the high piles of papers ing discourse on the great writers an attempt at white collar glistening, Mr. Howe Mr. Macnamara gave an entertain- and varied activities. Lady Shen- peace and war. It also proposes events would be immeasurably on his desk. The papers, the desk, of light verse. ton, who is herself the daughter that so far as possible the de- worse off thari at present. It is the room Itself, all dwarfed him. The lecture was divided into two, of formed well-known residents tries (no longer one country) Travelyan says in his latest, and him. His face is thin and seamed; work of light versiers from the fence forces of the two coun-profoundly true, as Professor Dickens alone conid have described parts the first dealing with the in the Colony, is equally popular should be co-ordinated and plac most masterly survey of the his nose is large his mouth, small 17th century to the present day, and and the new distinction has caused under joint control. Apart Union, that though Scotland had in repose, suddenly across his face the second with the work of livingz ed deep satisfaction. It is grat Scottish Parliament, and the lost her personality as a nation, often. His eyes are brown and At the conclusion of the address,
from their common desire for a lost her Parliament, she had flot when he smiles, and this he, does authors. fying to note that the new unanimity with which their busi- Indeed her fall development was soft, his brows bubbly. His bars members of the audience contribut knighthood has been awarded to ness instincts prompt them to only rendered possible by the reare large and seem to grow out of ed to an entertaining Discussion. an unofficial resident of the repudiate the idea of a tariff bar-lease from poverty and Isolation his collar. His bands are as thin Among the speakers were the chair- Colony. The award of an O.B.E. land, the programmes of the train. The golden age of Scot hands. Whether they grasp the rier between England and Scot that the Union brought in its as his face They are expressive to Mr. E. J. R. Mitchell is a tri- two bodies are so dissimilar as to land was still in the future," telephone or hold a cigarette, they Simpson and Middleton Smith
(Sir William Hornell), the Father Byrne, Professors
the ecuntry, telling their person- chanics in out-of-the-way parts of