Evening star. [volume], July 26, 1937, Page A-5, Image 5

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DR. HIGH RESIGNS
AS LEAGUE HEAD
Good Neighbor Organization
Selects New Officials,
Plans Drive.
In » statement outlining ambitious
plans for the future, the Good Neigh
bor League, which was sponsored by
President Roosevelt, announced from
headquarters in New York today that
Dr. Stanley High had resigned as
executive director and that a new
official set-up has been created.
Walter A. Jones, industrialist of
Pittsburgh and Washington, has been
named president,
and Dr. Charles
Stelzle. clergyman
and sociologist of
New York, execu
tive director.
High, at one
time prominent in
White House
councils, is leav
ing the league to
devote more time
to writing, lectur
ing and other per
sonal matters, ac
cording to the
Dr. Hifh. announcement.
Several months
ftgo High was the target of rebuke
from the White House for writing an
article in a weekly publication pur
porting to disclose intended presi
dential policies.
The Good Neighbor League has local
branches in more than 100 cities and
towns in 25 States. Among its mem
Mrs are educators, social workers,
business men. industrialists, clergymen
of all faiths, labor men and other
groups.
The league defines as its purpose “to
break down racial, social, economic
and. general class prejudice and hatred
which separate men and women of
good will, through a better under
standing of their interdependence, and
to discover ways of mutual and neigh
borly helpfulness."
Dr. Stelzle said it is intended during
the coming year to extend operations
of the league through the organization
of additional local branches until
the entire country is covered. The
league also will further develop its
program for capital-labor conferences
for the purpose of creating a better
understanding between industry and
labor, and campaigns will be con
ducted in the interest of the foreign
speaking populations here and the
colored and to create a better under
standing between urban and rural
populations. Promotional campaigns
favoring the principles of democracy
as against subversive doctrines and
movements, will also be inaugurated,
Jones, now an oil operator, was
formerly a member of the Coal Code
Authority and aided in drafting the
Guffey coal control art.
.. Stelzle, who was ordained in
the Presbyterian Church, is known for
his work among the laboring class.
WONT QUIT SOON,
CORCORAN ASSERTS
He and Cohen Can't Stay Forever,
but Will for Some Time Any
way, He States.
By th* Associated Pr«s.
Thomas G. Corcoran said today
that he and Benjamin V. Cohen,
administration attorneys, ‘‘obviously
can’t stay in the Government all our
lives.”
The Coreoran-Cohen legal team has
been credited with formulating much
administration legislation. Corcoran
has an office in the Re®nstruction
Finance Corp. and Cohen is employed
in the Public Works Administration.
Asked whether they would resign
* soon. Corcoran said no.
"The end of our onerous duties is
not yet in sight,” he remarked laugh
ingly.
Corcoran added, however, that they
planned eventually to leave the Gov
ernment service.
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DR. HRDLICKA DISCOVERS
PREHISTROIC BARABARA
By tht Associated Press.
SEWARD, Alaska, July 26.—Discov
ery of the largest barabara (prehis
toric communal house) ever found
in Alaska was announced yesterday by
Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famous anthropolo
gist.
A mail boat brought word Hrdlicka
and his party uncovered the bara
bara—200 feet long and 100 feet
wide—4 feet underground at Chernof
tki, native village on Unalaska Island.
The structure was heavily timbered
• nd roofed with sod. It contained
many wood and bone artifacts and a
scrattering of human bones.
Prototype of Lord Fauntleroy
Dies a Hero in Rescuing Four
VIVIAN BURNETT.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Little Lord Faunt.leroy. much against
his will the model sissy for a whole
generation of American boys who took
him for an example of how real fel
lows ought not to behave, died a hero
yesterday of a heart attack suffered in
aiding the rescue of four persons from
the squally waters of Manhasset Bay,
N. Y.
In real life the little lord was
Vivian Burnett, a former Washing
tonian, son of Frances Hodgson Bur
nett, whose book about the American
child who became a British earl and
wore a hated large white collar be
came a best seller in 1883 and re
mained so for many years. Vivian
was 7 when the book appeared and
Mrs. Burnett had patterned her per
fect hero after her own son.
Saw Four Thrown Into Water.
Burnett, 61, was aboard his yawl
Delight. Ill yesterday with Mrs. Bur
nett. and a party of friends heading
under sail toward Long Island Sound
when those on board saw a small
knockabout capsize off Kings Point,
about a mile away. Two men and
two women were floundering in the
water.
Burnett ordered the engine started
and took the wheel himself to bring
his craft up to the distressed boat. No
sooner was the rescue accomplished
than Burnett collapsed. His condi
tion was so alarming that the Delight
III was put about and headed for the
Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, but he
was dead when the yawl reached the
club landing.
Burnett as a young man won recog
nition as a columnist for the Washing
ton Times and as a star investigator
reporter for McClure’s Magazine dur
ing the era of ’ muckraking." He also
edited a children's magazine, wrote
r——^
many lyrics and composed dance and
religious music.
The Burnetts came to Washington
in 1877, when Vivian was 1 year old,
and Mrs. Burnett was building a repu
tation as a writer of serious novels.
None of these books interested her
young children, Lionel and Vivian,
who suggested that she write some
thing about younger minds. The re
sult was “Little Lord," composed in
the house at 1219 [then 1215) I street.
The Fauntleroy Literary Society of
Washington dedicated a bronze mar
ker on the house March 14, 1936 This
plaque, which was donated by David
Selznick. producer of the talking pic
ture. “Little Lord Fauntleroy," star
| ring Freddie Bartholemew, reads:
“On this site 50 vears ago the death
less classic. Little Lord Fauntleroy,
was written by Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett.
“ 'To think he is not born to die or
to grow out of his beauty and infinite
charm like the poor little creatures of
flesh and blood all around us.' Oliver
Wendell Holmes."
The president of the Fauntleroy
Literary Society is Ernest Rick, 1335
Massachusetts avenue southeast, whose
mother knew Mrs. Burnett many years
ago. Rick, who visited Vivian Bur
nett at the latter's Long island estate
last Summer, always found the un
willing literary hero wholly reticent
about his feelings at being the model
for such a famous character.
Spoke of Mother's Intention.
Burnett, however, admired the lit
erary quality and the message of his
mother's most noted work, and in one
of the many letters he wrote to Rick
he refers to Mrs. Burnett's oesire
through her books to show that “love
is stronger than hate.”
The chief purpose of Ricks' society
is the collection of Burnett memora
bilia. Already it has the manuscript
of the novel "Haworth's,” a story of
Lancashire life, and a first edition of
that novel inscribed by Vivian Burnett.
Another rarity in the society’s col
lection Is a little blue-covered booklet
printed by Vivian Burnett on his own
hand press in the basement of the I
street house. It is the story of the
Drury Lane Boys’ Club, an organiza
tion financed by Mrs. Burnett for
London poor boys in memory of her
son Lionel.
Other officers of the Fauntleroy
Society are Mrs. Judith King, secre
tary; Rev. Waldo Manoly, chaplain,
and Mrs. Mabel Rick, treasurer. The
late Miss Marie de L. Kennedy, brother
of Will P. Kennedy of The Star, was
with Rick, the original promoter of
the organization.
Although the pictures of the
golden-haired, velvet-clad little Lord
Fauntleroy, who at heart really was
no sissy, are far better known to the
present generation than the book.
Burnett did not serve as the model
for them. Reginald Bathhurst Birch,
the artist who gained wide fame for
the illustrations, drew a boy he
thought fitted the character Mrs.
Burnett described.
Although Vivian Burnett, in the
minds of the book's readers, was linked
with the fictional child, picture and
all, he was a famous athlete at Har
vard and went from college to work
on the rough and ready Denver Post.
He das born in Paris, April 5. 1876,
son of Dr. Swann M. Burnett and
Mrs. Burnett. In 1914 he married
Constance C. Buel. He is survived by
his widow and two daughters. For
some years he had devoted most of his
time to administration of the literary
estate of his mother. Several of her
books were dramatized and all such
work was done under Burnett’s su
pervision.
WIFE FINDS MAN
HANGED IN CELLAR
Calls Son to Cut Clothesline Rope
Suspended From Iron
Beam.
Charles O Curtin, 54. hanged him
self with a piece of clothesline early
today in the basement of his home,
608 Kenyon street. He is believed to
have been despondent over ill health.
He was found by his wife, Mrs.
Anna M. Curtin, who summoned a
son, James, to cut the rope which was
suspended from an iron bean. Police
said Curtin apparently had jumped
from a chair found nearby.
Mrs. Curtin told police her husband
frequently had expressed a fear that
he would take his own life The rope,
she said, had been purchased only last
week end.
Mrs. May Buhrmeister, 36, 4701
Forty-ninth street, yesterday inhaled
illuminating gas from her kitchen
stove. She was found by her 12-year
old daughter, Charlotte, who told
police her mother had been In ill
health since an operation last year.
Coroner A Magruder MacDonald
issued certificates of suicide In
both deaths.
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