Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-12-17 | Page 15 | "Don't Quote Me-"

ru HI t ii Dont Quote Me Me- Me i By Dy United Press j These words arc are the ones one most frequently heard by Washington Washing Washing- I I ton correspondents correspondent Items which never appear In the regular dis db- dispatches I r pat patches hes and little intimate pictures of public characters chan will wUl S I appear In is this column from tune time to time WASHINGTON Dec Dee 17 UP UP-It UP It makes you think about aboul making this a better world this being a grandparent grandparent grand grand- parent says Grandma Florence Prag Kahn congresswoman from irom California Lots of times one says to himself him self seI says Mrs Kahn What do Icare I 1 Icare care about this being a better world Ill I'll be gone But if it you have grandchildren grandchildren grand grand- children you have to stop and think They'll be here I 1 Mrs Kahn became a grandmother this autumn with the birth of Julius Kahn III IU who carries on the name o ot of her husband the World war chairman chairman chair chair- man of ot the military affairs committee Mrs Mn Kahn Is now on that committee Mrs Airs Kahn had a birthday last month herself She is 63 although she ahe he doesn't list her age Rge in the CongressIonal Congressional Directory She Is active and congenially ch cheerful and notices all aU sorts orts of thing I One of her discoveries is that the congresswomen this session go by threes Three of the thc six arc are Republicans cans and three are arc arc Democrats Demo three are drys and three arc are three arc grandmothers and three are not The other two grandmothers Ruth Huth Baker Pratt of New York and Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida became grandmothers again in blessed events of the last summer which makes three calls by the stork In a single year The Thc three outspoken prohibitionists are two of the grandmothers Mrs Kahn and Mrs Pratt and Mary T. T Norton of New Jersey Effiegene Wingo o of ot Arkansas Mrs Norton and Mrs Owen are the thc three Democrats Mrs birs Kahn Mrs Pratt and Edith Nourse Rogers of Massas Massachusetts Massa arc are the thc Republicans But to return to Mrs Kahns Kahn's grand son Mrs Kahns Kahn's mother a member of the San Francisco board of ot education education tion remembers seeing hero her own great- great gr grandmother who was bo borne born In 1790 or before and she now sees her great great- grandson who if he lives to be 60 will live until a 1990 1990 a span of two centuries of life included in the acquaintances acquaintances ac ac- ac of that one person Mrs Kahns Kahn's friends say that in private private Private vate life Ute she is one of the thc most vigorous vigor vIgor- ous commentators on the doings of Capitol hill very realistic and having havinga a grand time always She always wears black but it doesn't dampen her spirit rit I Lawrence Tibbett opera and concert concert concert con con- I cert singer gave a concert here It was largely attended and he was roundly applauded I love I to sing in Washington said Tibbett always gracious Oh do you gushed a matron And Mr Tibbett do tell me mer where do you like to sing best OlIn In In the bathtub answered Tib Tib- belt bett