Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1929, Page 19

19 Reaction to New Dry Act Is Pictured as Opposite to New York’s. 0 see the vehicle,” says its driver, “but I would begin talking about Daughters of Renowned Po-f litical Enemies Have Gra- | cious Meeting in Capital. It is & daughters wo_ famous _political ad- versaries will take their seats in Con- gress simuitaneously. They are Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of Willlam Jen- nings Brsan. and Ruth Hanna McCor- mick. daughter of Brsan's political arch’ enemy. Mark Hanna. “the Presi- dent maker.” In the following story Miss Zoe Beckley tells of the gracio meeting of these two women on inaugu- ration “day. anc on to give an interview she had with Mrs. Owen. i | iking colncidence that fhe | | | | moner's faith or the Dayton trial and | |it would be warned from your lips | without your knowing how. | Sat With Dad in Congress. | 1 You could not fail to know, however, | | that Ruth Owen is a sound product of i | today. Whatever glances she throws over her shoulder are gentle, tolerant, | full of love. But they are only glances. | Her steady gaze is forward and upward. “My father and she says, “took | the path together when I was 5. I| | don't know whether accompanying your dad to the halls of Congress was ‘being done,’ but I know I did it. I have often smiled since at the figure we must | have cut sitting together listening to | the endless speeche “I simply loved it. I followed the parliamentary procedure avidly. Noth- ing bored me.that happened there all | RUTH BRYAN OWEN. Music is one of her passions and she sings for herself, her family, her | friends and her philanthropie: Fond of Playing Polo. When I say she rides I don't mean BY ZOE BECKLEY. Written exclusively for The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. | As the clocks of the Capital struck | | plain cantering on a park path, but noon on Monday, March 4, a tall, good- | | riding to hounds and playing polo. Yes, looking woman in smart black turned | to the woman next her, gripped her | s | 1 said polo! She is one of the few good hand and said: polo players in the country, with many “Representative Ruth, T want to be | games to her credit on regular men’s the first to congratulate you; good | teams in Jamaica, Colorado and else- Tuck!” : | where. It was Ruth Bryan Owen newly elect- % | Nor is this all. Would you believe ed Representative from Florida, greet- | the new Congresswoman is a prize win- ing her friend, Ruth Hanna Me- | ner many times over in the running Cormick, equally new member from | high jump? It is a fact, and speaks Illinois. Mrs. McCormick responded | | in her lithe figure and vigorous carriage. cordially, smiles were exchanged—and | Incidentally, her father was a holder the little drama was over. Or was it | |of the record for the running broad - ‘ - TII ‘A’ Tp IPI II mallet could subdue an embroidery | her recently at a meeting of the ‘ “You have no idea,” said Ruth Owen, | Henry announced his latest model than O WS S frame. | League for Political Education, in New | “how unresponsive an audience can | Ruth Owen decided to lay hold of one BH'CAGU flFFlBIA[S ‘RU BRYAN o EN F LLO FOO R T OF ER Many a soldier in the World War | York. look when concealed under the roofs of |and cash in (in votes) on its adver n England when hos les broke out, | she was an eye-filling figure; straight, | time I spoke literally ov e heads yammering for an al 3 . o AND ORATORY. in England when hostilities broke out, | sh filling fi traight, | time I _spoke literally over the head: ing f Elizabeth, too. Thi and became at once a nurse. Over there | tall, almost beautiful, and as perfectly | of my listeners! lady candidate heard of a dealer far IN DRAMATIC IFT ND pERSONAL CHARM she met the Hoovers, and they have | poised and motionless as a marble angel, | “I may add.” she continued, “that away who was to get a consignment been her close friends since. while the people tlapped and thudded | the rain beat into my elevated rostrum, | She zipped into her fastest car ana | “ Mrs. Owen is an Episcopalian, al-|tables with appreciative palms. But | and if you can imagine any member of | drove hell bent to see him. lived and worked. I want them to see | terians, her mother being a graduate | the lady from Florida is most articulate | form——" Laughter drowned the end [no one who knew Ruth Owen was suf- the Supreme Court, meet the President, | of the Nebraska Presbyterian Academy and warm of spirit, and her voice is as | of this one, too. prised when she got what she wanted A | 4 visit both Houses of Congress and those Little was publicly ' silver as ever was her father's campaign “But perhaps I'm In the position,” |She christened her car ' “Spirit of Fond of Singing, Polo || ¢ | great white office buildings that belong | known of the Commoner's wife. Act- | issue of 1896. |smiled Ruth, “of the insuppressibie 'Florida.” and hit out for the long road 3 | 4 ] o ually she was Bryan's other self. | She begged her hearers to be indul- | Slory-teller whose jokes were not 00 to election. The instant she and the d Fast Aut | ; “Father's desk,” says Mrs. Ruth, | gant'ir she spoke too readily or too long. and Fast Auto. of each Government department and to | “was always double-sided, and mother | &Ttor the said, was her besetting sin. | SHEhtly bungled by a typesetter. What lected—— i ; feel the historic mellowness ot the | worked opposite him. To be of greater | orh e e1 * of the fathers, you kno W ::‘1;“1;::'3‘1('?{ Sald n::sn;‘:g.:x: ll‘:nc;'a p-rl: ST ot e # # e E S 0se by S 1 2 ’ have made It thelr home. " to do wes azk a question and mother | iended to say about them. [ SRR AL R myself before any one realized the ca — {WON HIGH-JUMP MEDALS! | " “0ld things,” Mrs, Owen added, “have | had the answer ready, with references, | “'The listeners began {o move from| Touching on the classic tendency of was bait. I had been defeated in 102 hgl{l.llc'iggmn;” -n; lséiso ki d} Z i |a sub\lle chnrm.beA ffln}ei;mmthed‘blgi%ecbdcnm and reports to substantiate | ghoir table seats, to park themselves Women to ask favors because of SeX. anq learned things. I worked fast and A arc] E ed | s oA ears is more autiful an a new) . phistical Y mind's eve, seated face to face across | fning reminded Mrs. Owen of a time |she “never asked women to vote for her | somctizies with twe cOmPALI— o s Jliries 40 nodiiih Bocts tried [ touch of many hands tells you stories. | that desk. They worked together as one | during her campalgn for Congress when |because she was a_woman. but always | good driver. the other & good stemeg. e »m“ ;ones 5 :!Z:n: rie un:‘er | "'{hmuzh these x]igt:gs and fi:{vric}‘:w! mind from their marriage in 1884 t0 | che was to speak from a bandstand in asked men not to vote against her be- rapher. I answered letters, composed ] ct, but supposedly | want my young people to appreciate ho . " | ‘Talking with M Owen one saon | ¢ s k Flected last November, her vietory v wicked Chicago would like her juries to [ stréxs is lald on teaching the mature |icarns that lovalty to her father is | s anduSdreds’ o followed 10,000 miles of toring A % e, olted along. i | voter. T think his education should start | almost a fanaticism. Wild horses can- |, Where” Mrs Owen was asked|pord. “No ‘sooner had the immortal | ‘CPPYFINt: 1928 by Nerih American News- This city has had her fiing. While | | as_other education should, in early s e : “usually park wet in principle, she is | 3 | faintly hints at disagreement. Her love | P! : | ke i ol m';'.p'ms':;"’f'{ | "Reading those last paragraphs I feel | for him was of the sort that pas- | pnswered, tin the space behind the | bl o) il e nervous, for they sound colorless and | sionately understands and fiercely de- | PPOTSISCH o0 oo an rains came | stolid and not at all as Mrs, Owen said ‘ 3 agreement that the new penalty pro- | fundamentalism, under pain of being 436d For Vidation of mepepmhib:mm she fs serious and solemn, mine the | blasted by the lightnings of her eves, | UEIY inside his car. b | | fault, and I apologize. No one could |In all other things she is frank and | aws should be rigorously applied. They | | be serious and solemn who swims like a | consider a question about the Com- as they view it. | a streak and sings and sings and sings. New York lawyers announce that through their organization, the Vol- they hope fo help “nullity ‘the ' Jones | act” wi ve-year prison term and | i $10.000 fine, for violation of prohibition | Radic Sales Terms THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MARCH 17, 1929—PART T. knew that hand, for Ruth Owen was| When she rose from the sgbakers'table | its own motor cars! That was one tising value. But every one else was | 3 | | though both her parents were Presby- | there, the marble-angel simile ends, for | my family coming out on a wet plat- | It is not recorded what was said, bit [Florida Representative |Is for Young Women. “I want them to learn the working Iresh and whose campaign speech was “Spirit” entere® a town a crowd col- rhite House and the spirils | help she studied law, and all father had | u¢ Gpplause drowned whatever she in- | who have le eir home. That's how I always sce them in my | closer to the guests of honor. Some- |Florida’s Congresswoman insists that | gteadily. Sometimes I drove alons. New York may want to educate her cut | ong.; ‘Furniture jgloased ; by the | they can serve State and Nation. Much e iking wath | her home town, Feople: drove in by |canse she was & woman!” speeches and wrote for the newspapers turn to mass production of convictions. [ as ot not extract a syllable rom her that even | “SHAlL We stor U IR L ] t v | | ity Sftorney and Pederal ‘officlals Join “in eern: s feive (s B rainy (Bt | foatninalios: O aniot i | B s e ot s J ORD AN s and MAJ EST[C E | | warmly responsive. But so much as hope that juries will view the problem | fish and dives like & porpoise, rides like | untary Committee of Lawyers, Inc., laws, Chicago Reaction Different. | Chicago's reaction has been pretty | much the opposite. Conferences are | being held here to seek an early ap- plication of the rigorous penalties. The expectation is that through co-opera- tion with the Federal Government, the police can obtain sufficient evidence to send some of the city’s notorious gang- sters to Atlanta or Leavenworth. Nobody publicly is urging an open town for Chicago these days. The de- mand from nearly all quarters is for a tightening up of enforcement. The city OIL BURNER “Ofl Heating At Its Best” When the sun goes down and the evenings get cool, set your thermostat and your house is the desired tempera- ture in a few minutes. Also right now would prefer to be known as | J the driest big town in the country. Its difficulty is that this is the natural dis- tributing point for liquor and beer being shipped to the great politically dry areas of the Middle West. The busi- ness is highly profitable and so immense in scope sa that attacks on it make | little impression. The Jones act with 1ts heavy penalties might prove effec- tive enough to break up some of these | organizations. Their activities have | done much to give the city its bad name. Russell Takes Lead. William V. Russell, commissioner of | police, has taken the lead in calling for | strict enforcement. “There is a new deal, not only in Chicago but in every city of,the coun- try,” he told recruit policemen just entering the force. “Your job is to en- force the laws, and not to pick the ones which you This applies | to Federal, State or city. “If any of you drink in soft drink parlors or any other such place and l} can prove it. you will be dishonorably | discharged from the police force. The drink proposition is one of the most difficult we have had.” The local criminal courts are prepar- ing to clear up their dockets and all in all the criminals locally may expect a fough Summer. New York may take | its wide open town, but Chicago at the | moment is well satisfied to seek some | tight-shut conditions. i (Copyright, 1920.) — THOUSANDS CHEER ST. PATRICK PARADE | ——— | Ticker Tape Figures in Usual Hero’s Tribute as 15,000-Line Passes Up Fifth Avenue, Br the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, March 16.—The trib- | ute that is accorded transatiantic fiyers and Channel swimmers was paid | today to one who, so the legend runs, accomplished a feat even more spectac- ular than hopping over oceans or splashing from FPrance to En; B New York, in other words, gave iis traditional hero’s tribute of a paper snowstorm to St. Patrick. As the parade of more than 15,000 persons, gay with green, marched up Fifth avenue, long streamers of ticker tape crawled down through the air like & million paper likenesses of the snakes St. Patrick is reputed to have banishea | bedded in the sands of statesmanship. | | of those two fathers struck hands to- just beginning? ‘The thrill is not in their acquaintance- ship which covers some half-dozen social seasons in Florida, but in the | fact that their high-heeled feminine | slippers are about to be fitted into certain roomy footprints deeply im- | In Footsteps of Fathers. The footprints are their fathers'— William Jennings B: , “the peerless | one,” thrice defeated and his litical arch enemy, Mark Hanna, called “the President maker.” Can you picture the spirits of Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony jubilating together on high as these two daughters | gether at the outset of the climb that could lead (Oh, yes it could!) to a comfortable little chair in the White House? “Uncle Sam should have a wife,” said Mrs. Owens to me the other day. An impressive figure she is, this lady, as her father was before her—erect, energetic and finely muscled, above the average height of woman, with straight, | strong features and a head so beauti- | fully shaped and coiffed that it could| serve as a model in a beauty shop. She is 43, has shining, loosely waved gray hair, darkish eyes, not brown but a sort of olive-gray, with a droop to their outer corners generous mobile | mouth, firm nose and chin, and a white-flashing smile not only gracious but full of humor. | Still Wears Black. Widowed two years, she still wears | black. Not mourning; just black. I, saw no wedding ring, but on-her right hand was one with two big stones, A short necklace of pearls that looked | really real. No other adornments. She | needs noneé, for she possesses rare per- sonality—again a heritage from her father, I should say—the smoothest sort of poise, an agreeable voice which she sends without effort into the farthest reaches of a convention hall, a quick, winning wit ahd the gift for telling & e Owen home is at Cocoanut Grove, near Miami, and is what is called a show place. Its mistress has four children: Ruth, 2d., 24 years old, wife of ‘William Painter-Meeker of Bal- timore, and mother of Ruth, 3d, aged 4, and ' Helen Owen, who is 7 months old. John is 23, “a handsome blond kid, 6 feet tall” a scholar and some- poet. Bryan is 15 and still Helen Rudd (they call them by both names in the South, you know) is 8, and being trained, as her mother was, to known citizenship and states- manship, government and politics from A to Iszard. She loves it, is already a speaker, and knows every nail and from Emerald Isle. Thousands lined the street waving green flags and catching up the Irish | songs tossed into the air by bands. The | sun was hidden, but mnothing could | quench the gayety of marchers and | spectators and St. Patrick got a big | demonstration. good knothole it the Democratic™ platform. Englishman, taught her astronomy. A*college woman, Ruth Owen gets more sheer joy from her work with the young folk of Miami University than Maj. Reginald Owen, the daddy, an McCORMICK. | was founded four years ago Mrs. Owen | was asked to instruct in public speaking. “I told them I would,” she says, “on condition that my salary be taken out | in scholarships. There are already 18. It happens that my district in Florid: has 18 counties. Not long ago my pupils | formed a public speaking fraternity call- ing it by my initials, in Greek, Rho| Beta Omicron (R. B. O.). I can't tell| you how proud I am of that, for they're truly wonderful speakers! Plans Trips to Capital. “During my term in Washington I| plan to bring one boy and one girl free | each county of my district for a few | days’ entertainment and education here. It T have a hobby I guess it's practic education in citizenship and statesman. | . ] | jump In his day. Like dad, like daugh- ter! Athletics and oratory, ‘dranmatic gifts and personal charm, tireless en- ergy and a mind that hits on all twelve. Mrs. Owen walks and dances and drives a daredevil car. She doesn’t have to housekeep, but don’t you think she couldn’t if she needed to. She could cook, make lemon pies and beaten bis- cuit and omlet souffle if she had time and there were not more important things to do. And how she can organize and execute and get things done! She wouldn't even let me get away with it when ¥ bet she couldn't crochet, knit and tat. “I can do fine needlework,” she as- sured me with pride. “What do you mean, fine needle- work?"” “Well, when Maj. Owen was stationed at places where_I had no active part in things I hemstitched and embroid- ered. Once I transferred a whole de- sign of inlaid work from an antique chest to a satin screen. One can se and talk at the same time, you know! | ‘Who says I can't use my needle?" That silenced me. ship. I want these youngsters to see Mount Vernon and absorb the atmo- sphere in which George Washington —_— the aver- age feet have \\ stand, then, why unpro- tected feet develop manya grouch. Let the patented innersole in Dr. A. Reed Cushion Shoes relieve your feet of every shock. You'll get more out of life when you do. o City Club from any other one thing she does, and she does many. When the university 1318 G §t, s . ‘Smith Bhoe Co., Make: FOR MONDAY ¥z GREAT FIRE SALE %= Warehouse Fire Stock e Hub Furniture TRy PURCHASED BY NOW BEING SOLD AT DISHES 100-Piece Sets Over 200 sets all total. 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Neither of us | seemed to think it odd that I liked play- | |Ing Government better than plnylngl | dolls. “When he first ran for President, in | 1896, I was only 11, but I was able to | follow every point’ he made in ms‘ speeches and note every chink in the | armor of his opponents. When he madet | his second campaign I was keener still. During his third, eight vears later, I | | was his secretary, and when he was out, | on speaking tours I took entire charge | of his office, referring anything I | ?fiou]dn't answer to mother—who always | | kne: . | " “Of course, T just naturally lenmed‘ things. Politics -and public speaking | came as easily to me as breathing. One absorbs without effort what one loves.” | Along with her father’s gallant physique and charm of manner, politi- cal-mindedness and gift for the dra- matic, Congresswoman Owen inherits I might have' the rare gift of loving a cartoon, jibe or known that the hand that wields a polo joke, even at her own expense. 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