Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1930, Page 14

* A-14 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. FEBRUARY o 1930—PART ONE. EQUAL RIGHTS CRY 1S MEEK IN INDIA Miss Winifred Young of Eng- land, Visitor Here, De- scribes Customs. India is perhaps the only part of the “world where women in great numbers have not yet raised the cry for “equal Tights.” According to Miss Winifred Young of England, recently arrived in ‘Washington, who has spent many years in the Orient, Indian women still live secluded lives, venturing outside their homes only when heavily veiled, or rid- ing in cl vehicles known as “ton- ®2s,” in which they are concealed from the outside world by heavy venetian blinds. Their chief interests in life are their children and their main am- bition is to be the mother of many sons and some day chief “mother-in- v of the household. Miss Young's knowledge of India has hot been gained merely through personal experience, but through information handed down to her through a long | line of ancestors well acquainted with | the “East” and its problems, from the days when her great-grandfather went 1o the Orient as a member of the East India Trading Co. to the present gen- eration, when her own father served for many vears as judge of an Indian court. Miss Young spent most of her childhood in India, going to England as a young girl for her eduction. Return- g for a visit to her parents during the war, she was forced to stay “east of Suez” until after the cessation of Thostilities, due to the danger of travel- dng at that time. Glimpses Into Homes. Through her father’s contact as one «©f the important English officials of his province, Miss Young obtained many in- timate glimpses into the homes of high- «lass Brahmans and wealthy Indians, | ‘which are rarely granted to white women. “Prequuntly,” she remarked, “I have | been invited to call on the wives of | ‘high-class _Brahmans and Moham- inadans. They live in the closest se- «lusion and rarely ever leave their homes. When they do, they ride in tongas, with venetian biinds drawn so closely that it is a wonder they do not smother, They are often very pretty ‘women,” she replied to a question, “with galz‘ fair skins, classic features and cautiful brown eyes. Clothed in the Joveliest silks of gayest colors, they look | like exotic, hot-house flowers of rare beauty.” “What do they talk about?” she | laughed. “Really, very little, as they have nothing outside of their families that they can talk about. One always | asks about the children—particularly the sons. Sometimes they will play on the lit- tle three-stringed native instrument, ‘which doesn't make very pretty music, according to Western ideas. “One is always offered sweatmeats, the making of which seems to be a favorite pastime of the higher class Indian woman.” Primitive Customs Cling. Although the English government has a ceaseless and untiring war @against the dangerous superstitions and practices of the Hindus in particular, many of the primitive customs of the people still exist. “The book, ‘Mother India’ is absolutely true,” remarked Miss Young. “It stirred up bitter com- ment among educated Indians when it first appeared, and of course was stren- ‘wously denied. An answer to it, ‘Father India,’ was written by an Indian, but it was a very weak refutation to the charges in ‘Mother India’ Everything written in that book is true. The child marriages still exist, despite the fact that the English government tries 10 prevent them. But the natives “stick together’ in these matters and things go on without the English offi- cials knowing about them.” One of the saddest conditions which persists in India is the treatment of widows. Woe to the woman whose husband dies first! “No matter how young she may be, nor how beautiful,” said Miss Young, “the minute a woman Joses her husband she becomes ac- cursed. She must shave her head, wear colorless clothes, frequently sack-cloth, and is obliged to wait on all the mem- ‘bers of the household. She cannot eat with them, nor mingle with them in any way. Even her children look upon her as accursed. Very frequently these women drown themselves, rather than live the lives of widows. Of course, the custom is not as prevalent as it was a few years ago, but, nevertheless, it does continue. However, the custom of “suttee,’ or burning of widows, has been ! entirely stopped and it has been several years since there has been a known case of that.” Miss Young has written several ar- ticles for English newspapers and wil address the Twentieth Century Club | Monday at the Y. W. C. A. on condi- tions in India. She is the guest of Miss Myra Hendley of this city. where she | will remain until returning to London | in the early Spring. HOLDS 6. 0. P. WETS ELECTED WALSH United States Attorney Makes Charge in Address Before Boston Art Club. Br the Associated Press. BOSTON, February 1.— Brewers and “wet” Republicans were blamed by United States Attorney Frederick H. “Tarr in charges published yesterday for helping to raise $74,000, which he said was used to elect David I. Walsh, Dem- ocrat, to the office of United States Senator in 1926 over William M. Butler, ‘Republican. The $74,000, he said in an address at | the Boston Art Club yesterday, came | from a fund of $336,465 raised by the | Assocfation Against the Prohibition ! Amendment and was spent in Massa- | chusetts by the Constitutional Liberty League, the State branch of the asso- clation, and the Democratic State com- mittee and Democratic leaders. He also charges, after declaring his belief that the people of the State were not “wet” in their sympathies, that an- other fund would be raised to elect a Democratic “wet” Senator in the Fall. He asserted that a campaign against the policies of President Hoover and the national Republican platform was under way. BLIGH’I:-KILLED CHESTNUT TREES STAGE COMEBACK Epecial Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., February 1.—A survey made in the mountains in this section has resulted in the prediction by Dr. Joseph 8. Illick, Pennsylvania State forester, that chestnuts killed some years ago by the blight would eventually stage a comeback. Research just completed has shown that young chestnut trees are develop- ing stronger resistance to the blight, and new sprouts bearing well formed burs have been found on the trees, bearing out the statements recently of mountain residents of Western Mary- land that chestnuts were making a comeback. ShEm e More than 10,000 exhibits are entered for this year's Spring fair at Leipzig, | | Novelist Declares Critics Have Erroneous Impres- sion of His Efforts. “Cherry Tree” Story Branded as Myth—Author Lauds First President. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. ‘Those who claim he has attacked the character of Washington in his still un- completed biography have in many cases never read his book and have an erroneous conception of what he has written, Rupert Hughes, novelist, yes- terday declared on his arrival at the Mayflower Hotel, where he will remain for the next few days while engaged in further research work at the Library of Congress. Mr. Hughes. who is about to publish the third of his biographical series of five volumes and is now working on the fourth volume, has read hundreds of Washington's letters in his endeavor to give to the world a representation of the life of the “Father of His Country.” “There are between 25,000 and 40,000 of these documents,” he said. “To in- sure accuracy, I do not read the copies of Washington’s letters and papers, but read the originals themselves. To me, Washington is the greatest man who ever lived and I don’t know of any other character in history whose life can stand as much investigating as his. So many of the stories and traditions which have been told us as true of Washing- ton’s life are unfounded and no au- thority for them can be found. Take { | It is impossible to find any real foun- dation for that story. Blames Historians for “Errors.” “Other erroneous impressions of Washington have been created from the fact that historians have part of the writings which he has left. If you cut out some of the documents and accept others, you get a distorted view and not the entire story. I am here trying to dig up all I can about him and I want to say that I have never read a single document written by him that is not to his credit. It is foolish to say that I have attacked Washington's character. I have fre- quently found that, like people who vote dry and drink wet, there are many men who sing the praises of Washington in order to conceal their own shortcom- ings. These are the people who resent my saying that Washington used strong language. He did, but then, that was true of men of those times. Again, we know that Washington drank. But he | never got drunk. No evidence has ever appeared to that effect, although the men and the soldiers of the Revolu- tionary Army_were all hard drinkers. “Recently I received a most severe criticism from a Western rancher re- garding my ‘villification’ of Washing- ton. The man had never read what 1 had written and said he would not be- the story of the cherry tree, for instance. | only taken {HUGHES DEFENDS PORTRAYAL OF WASHINGTON AS ACCURATE | smirch himself by reading such stuff. He was finally persuaded to read what he had. so strongly attacked. He is now my friend, because we are both admirers of Washington, and he real- | izes that all that I have done is to | portray as truthfully as possible the | man’s’ character as it can be known from the documents written in his own writing.” Defends Modern Youth, Many interesting sidelights on Co- | lonial and Revolutionary days have been uncovered by Mr. Hughes in his research work. “We find that despite all the present- day talk regarding the disobedience of modern children and their disrespect for parents, even in 1675, or thereabout, the elders were having difficulty with | young people,” he said. “We find that at that time an old law was revived { which made disobedience of children | punishable by death. I never found | any record of the sentence being car- | ried into effect, but there are docu- ments which prove that incorrigible children were turned over to the town authorities for floggings. I don't think | the child of today is any worse or any better than he was 100 years ago. You will find that human nature is just about the same as it was at the be- ginning of history.” “I frequently read old books of ser- mons,” he continued, “and it is curious to see how much the same they are as the sermons preached today.” i Mr. Hughes was asked whether, with his many years of experience, writing was not easier for him than when he first started: “I have always had to work hard to write,” he replied, “and I still do. one has an idea, it means work to do something with it. If you have no ideas, then it means still harder work.” Mr. Hughes does all of his writing in long hand and generally works dur- ing‘ :he night hours when everything is quiet. “Although,” he concluded, “when I do work, nothing outside disturbs me. You see, I grew up in a large family.” NINE WIDOWS OF Five-Year Legal By the Assoclated Press. 1 NEW YORK, February 1—A London | dispatch to the New York Times yester- | day said that after a five-year legal | battle, nine surviving widows and thir- | teen children of Abdul Hamid, Sultan of | Turkey, who was deposed in 1909, have | obtained $50,000,000 from the ruler’s | $1,500,000,000 estate. | Greece, it was reported in London, | offered $50,000,000 to Abdul's former | harem favorites, now livink in poverty | TO BE GIVEN $50,000,000 OF ESTATE Battle Involving Abdul $1,500,000,000 Is Partly Settled. DEPOSED SULTAN Hamid’s in various capitals of Europe. ‘The Aegean Financial Trust, Ltd., of London, hopes to get for them $1,000,000,000 from Iraq. Abdul, who died in prison in 1918, was said by some to be the richest man in the world. A number of British and American financiers have backed the | contention of his heirs that confiscation of his properties during and after the World War was illegal. Greece's offer concerns properties acquired from Tur- key under post-war treaties. LOITERER SLAYS | GOTHAM POLIGEMAN Shooting Follows Officer’s Attempt to Disperse Group—Man Escapes in Taxicab. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, February 1.—A police- | man was shot and killed Thursday by one of a group of street corner loiterers whom he attempted to disperse. The assailant, after firing three bullets into the policeman’s body, commandeered a taxicab at the point of a gun and es- caj O'Brien, 24, was found lying on a side- walk in Harlem. William Goldman, taxicab driver, told police he heard shots near where the body was found and that immediately afterward a man leaped into his cab, compelled him to drive some distance away, then robbed him of $3, forced him out of the car found abandoned. PSSR, JUGOSLAVIA LEGATION STONED BY GREEK REDS Is Cry of Mob Causing Injury to Janitor. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, Greece, February 1.—A crowd of Communists stoned the Jugo- slavian legation Thursday, shouting “Down with Alexander’s legations!” The janitor at the legation was in- of Alexander N. Diomede, governor of the Bank of Greece, adjoining the legation, were broken. Communists of Saloniki attacked an automobile in which Gen. Gonatas, governor of Macedonia, was driving. Children of 14 and under in Spain are banned from bullfights and boxing matches. and be driven to from 2 p.m. to 10:30 p.m,, t ped. The body of the patrolman, Mnum:e‘ and drove away. 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