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I am not one of those who scoff at newspaper reports, especially if the news fails to coincide with their opin- lons or is insufficiently lauda in the “precedence countrovers; astonished at publication of rumor easy to disprove. ‘This is not & blanket | accusation. Many newspaper cor - | spondents are careful and accurate, and | ;r:mnl them I number some of my best | rien i The | Wis no war at ‘controversy” never reached propo NG STAR, WASHINGTON, i D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1933. over a meeting of Alice Longworth and | ington who has more charm, can say myself at a White House reception. The report that she said “Hello, Dolly.” and I responded “Hello, Alice.” was the text for an anncuncement that the “soclal war” scemed ended. And Such Excitement! teresting experiencess Through herl years at the White House she enjoyed | to the utmost what Washingion could | give a President's daughter, evading. as she does today, formalities not to her cleverer things, or his had more in- |Of too unusual to be spotled Tules meon!umlty. N (Tomorrow—Hostess for the Vice President.) 1931, by North Americy (Coprrient North Amge n Newse per Alliance, ann. insurance P I, 1 U —Au- o2 B Ll St Co. to transact e d in the Philip- by the insular A H?S. I??u.inGANN AND MRS. ALICE LONGWORTH. ! Soon after I visted the Senate gal- lery and got into_the same elevator with Alice, whom I asked to join me |in thc Vice President’s seats. As we | entered the gallery there was a fush of | | newspaper men, while the Senators looked up to see what was going on. ! The correspondents shot rapid-fire | questions, ‘How dil it happen?” “Why are you two together:” | " We laughed, &nd our inquisitors finally dispersed. This was the only | time any one ever mentioned the “con- | troversy” when Alice and I were to- | gether. She never spoke of it to me or ' 1 to her. | I have always admired Alice Long- | worth, since the time when we had | barely a bowing acquaintance. She does what she likes and cares not & snap of her finger what anybody thinks | about her. Long before smoking by | women became so usual she would light a cigaretie. I used to say to myself, “My, that girl's independent!™” It happens often that we envy or praise in others qualities which ‘would not_become ourselves and which, if we could acquire them, would not suit us. | 1 like people too much to disregard | their opinions or court their disfavor, yet I think I understand how a woman great pleasure” my presence in thel apacity of his hostess. But an effort was made to create the impression—at any rate, the im- pression was spread—that, despite the | diplomats’ action, secret- controversey still raged over where I should sit at | the table. A lot of fun was had. The more distant the scene from Wash- 5 Justifying the word. It was a tempest in a teapot. It was & nirage. One day I could See it in front of me, next day | it wasn't there. ‘Then the old story | would get & new start, and I would hear | all over again that I was raising a | merry row s to where I should march | in the line to a state dinner and where I should sit at the table. However, even an absurd rumor usu- | ally has & start in a fact. So it was in | this. The fact wis that I faced in- | creased duties when my brother became ice President. That he should have | n official hostess was important. The | Vice President represents the President in social amenities, which are neces- sary in official life, and the President | neither makes calls nor is entertained | outside the White House except when | he calls upon visiling dignitaries and attends the few dinners where his pres- m{:yt.; re&uh-«:1 bg traditios rother, with daily ol for | which he had to have a Wflnwl:ngn:l!l;r expected me to serve as hostess, as I had been doipg for years. He wis a widower. His two daughters were so oceuj With their families that they could not move to Washington. I was his mlf' helper on the soclial side, and certainly he had been too good to me, and I too devouted to him for me to | think of deserting him or for him to | m‘i‘nk of allowing me to desert. Vi e of my new duties wy - possible, If I had disliked th.:m"nlt‘ would have been outrageous for me to retreat; but I enjoyed my social activi- ties, and I was especially fitted for them through long experience. The criticism which Tht befall me for doing my wal of no consequence, but I Low-Cost Oil for Fuel Ordinary furnace oil used in the MW Water Heater means that automatic hot water can be produced at one-third the cost com- pared with gas or coal fuel, and at a tenth of the cost of electricity. Such amaz- ing economy of operation Is matched by a low initial investment. eater ‘Wheel Corponniien Michigen COLUMBIA SPECIALTY CO. 1636 Conn. Ave. NORTH 7861 Wa Product of Motor Lansiag, should have been truly distressed if, after falling in that duty, I should have found myself blamed for having shirked. Brother was asked casually by a corre- spondent just after the nauguration whether I was to be his hostess and replied: “Of course!” Brother wrote the State Department I was to repre- | sent him. This required no answer, so my brother was astonished when Secre- tary Kellogg wrote that I might sit at the head of our own uble—uflvusfie I certainly would grani it e . Curtis Makes Protest. A few days later the departmen in- formed the diplomatic corps that at| state social functions I should be seated | after the Ambessador’s wives, This was | not the result of any query or request from the Vice President. The depart- ment’s spokesman acted on initiative other than ours, and the statement was accompanied by an explanation that the ruling on seating arrangements ac- corded with iternational diplomatic usage. In the inaugural munhn I had ridden with my br: from Capitol to White House and, to cus- tom, we had opened ugural charity ball; also we had been the firat persons in the line at the reception. Brother demurred to Becretary Kel- logg's precedence ruling, writing that the place of the head of his houséhold | was not where the State Department | had indicated, but in_the front of the | line, so to speak. Before this letter | was answered Mr. Kellogg retired and was succeeded by Mr. Stimson. Drother wrote him asking that the Kellogg ruling be revised. Mr. Stimson was in something of a quandary. It was rare for a predecessor’s decision to be upset in the ‘State Department, yet the Secretary did not wish to offend the Vice President. The upshot was that Mr. Stimson proved himself & jolly good diplomat by referring the | puzzle to the diplomsatic corps on the | ground, apparently, that our foreign guests might properly pass upon a so- cial question In which they were pri- marily interested. ‘They decided the Vice President’s sister was entitled to the ranking place d that they would welcome “with e v STA This special ofier pre- sents you with the oppor- tunity to secure, fully in- stalled, our regular $375.00 model, beautifully finished in_red enamel and silver. Offer good only to May 1st, A small deposit now se- cures this bargain. Established 1925 Have Over 1,200 Satisfied Users of Oil Burners |i{ 1636 CONN. AVE. :{lg\«lll the more muddled the informa- ion. | I do not need many words to ex- in it. ‘The situation is simple. Ex- | pevience has established ‘in Washing- ton, as in oiher national capitals, that there must be an exact code govern- ing gatherings attended by official per- sons. | 1f rules were lacking or slovenly en- | forced, there would be confusion; no- | body ‘would know where he or she | venomous as two jungle women, we.e at claimed, apropos the rumored contro-| - of Alice's brilliancy might find it more troversy between the families became & | catisfying to ignore less scintillating cause celebre, and I found myself in the | humans than to endure them. limeiight, topic of innumcrable rumors, | There is nobody in or out of Wash- some not entirely complimentary, and | ss—s=—==———————————————————— the victim of the most ridiculous mis- | stalements, | “Two Jungle Women.” | Uninformed readers would have| thought Alice Longworth and myself, Every Home Should Have One Built-In Folding IRON BOARDS Specially Priced each other’s throats. We were pictured s saying the most astonishing things | to one another or behind each oiher's back. | A specialist in historical episodes ex- versy: “Did Alice rave?” So it went, whole period the t not even meet, burn? Did Dolly | and during the combatants did | liking. kept open house or gave the routine entertainments which ,;’ndmnm would have er. as I know, she did not do anything she | preferred not to do. worth. whom I am one, .have no wish for Bellinger. her to change. pa ST - Convicted of Murder. YREKA, Calif,, April 11 (#).—George adherence to| Hall, alias Manning, was convicted by imposed upon | a jury here yesterday of the murder of She did not make calls. So far| gieve Kent, California State highway patrolman, and Lester Quigley, Yreka | motor car salesman, while resisting ar- | | rest for the alleged kidnaping of E. L. Bellingham, Wash, cus- Real individuality is a ' toms inspector. | As wife of the Speaker she never A law unto herself is Alice Long- ‘Those who like her, among New Titles from our Lending Library 3c a Day and t’w_v'l‘l keep you entertained, informed! PLEASE, SIR, MAY | HAVE A ROOM, PLEASE? U-M-M...A ROOM? ILL HAVE TO SEE oo o This couldn’t happen at the NEW YORKER Man Named Luke March Cost Looking Forward Franklin D. Roosevelt Mulliner Nights P. G. Wodehouse The Pink House Louise Platt Hauck Marie Antoinette IHOUSANDS of guests stop at The New Yorker, Stefan Zweig but we’ll treat you as if you were the only one. | President’s hostess at social gatherings. TERMS, $28.00 CASH—$16.50 MONTH COLUMBIA SPECIALTY CO. There are few Wash-| ington entertainments where the Vice President and the Speaker both appear. | They are of such high rank that each | is guest of honor at almost every din- | ner he attends, | ‘The situation had its humorous side and gave me more laughs than annoy- ance. I went to an afternoon affair | wearing a drecs with a defective belt. I had to pin up the beclt otherwise it would slip down. The pin became un- | fastened, the belt slipped, and I was a | fright. But I did not discover the mis- hap in time. A photographer tock a snapshot, and the picture was repro- duced in a newspaper and caused this comment: | “Why should & woman who looks like | this care where she sits at the table?” It was a long while before my family | ceased to gibe at me, and I don't use pins in my belt any more. | In Sepiember, 1929, when if was an- | nounced that the British prime min- | ister, Ramsay MacDona d, was to visit the United States, it solemnly as- | serted that the principals in the “pre- | cedence war” would absent themsslves | from Washington. I w.s in Kansas. I hastened back to Washington. When | the President had his dinner for the | visitors I was seated on the left of Mr. Hoover and Lady Isabella Howard, wife of the British Ambassador, on his right. My brother, out of courtesy to the Brit- | ish guests, had waiived the question of precedence in favor of Lady Isabella, and Mr. Stimson described the Vice President's act as “most gracious and considerate.” Some weeks before I had been on th front pages again when I declined wine at the British embassy. The Ken-| tucky W. C. T, U. wrote asking if I had | done this, and I replied that I knew the Ambassador had a right under our | laws to serve wine, but that I hed not | taken any “out of consideration of my own country and my brother.” What fun the correspondents had belonged, and many would strive to| arfinr entitled to places not theirs by right. Order of Precedence. The order of precedence in Wash- ington follows: The President. The Vice President. (Ambassadors, the Chief Justice, associate justices, Ministers, disputed.) ‘The Speaker of the House, Cabinet members. Senators. Chief of staff of the Army. Chief of operations of the Navy. Representatives. Charges d'affaires. Major generals and rear admirals. Counselors, military and naval at- taches, Tha solicitor general. First foreign secretaries. Undersecretaries and First Assistant | Secretaries, Federal Reserve members, Interstate commerce commissioners. Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- et ? th irector of the Pan-American Union. Second and third foreign secretaries, Second and third American Assistant Secretaries. There seems s general impression the rules of precedence are snobbish. The opposite is true. “Rank” in Wash- ington entertaining is the rank of s democracy. Placing one person ahead of anather means that the preferred person has a higher post through elec- tion or appointment, never because of inherited prerogatives or wealth. Wh ever place I might hold was due to my ;te;x:‘?wnnnu socially the Vice Presi- A few days after the diplomats made their graceful gesture in response to Secretary Stimson’s suggestion, much ado was made when their dictum was observed at a dinner given by Senor Davila, Chilean Ambassador. "I pro- ceeded to my place on the Am| arm. Tremendous event! Newspapel recorded the climax of the “Battle of ‘Washington,” when, in fact, the geo- cedure was only what would have been | adopted if the question had not been raised at all. At no time before or after the dip- lomats’ decision was the question raised at the White House, where I always had full recognition as my brother’s hostess. But gossip would not down. Just how Alice Roosevelt Longworsh's name first appeared I don't know. If she ever sald anything about it I never heard of it. We had known each other for years. We know and like each other still—at least, I like her, and 1 she likes me. new phase was brought to view by Alice's husband, Nicholss Long- worth, though I never heard of his making any official complaint. His contention, it sppeared, was that the Speaker of the House outranked the Vice President, and therefore that the Speaker's wife should precede the Vice protection-eco ! Evidently Speaker Longworth had over- looked that the Vice President, elected by the people, is, under the Constitu- | tion, successor of the President upon | the President’s death or disability. We | paid no attention to the protest, if in deed one was ever formally made. ‘The gossips discoursed upon the new development. Correspondents put the | story on the wires. The slleged co NDARD | CARTER-KORTH OIL BURNER COMPLETE @ 270-GAL. 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