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' s' : i Section 1 Page 7 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday,. March 20, 1957 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Washington Notes . . . By Lillian Porter Say . . , . 1 J i 1 WASHINGTON, D. C, March 20, Crocuses are blooming on the White House lawns and tulip"trees are turning pink at the entrance to the old State Treasury building where Andrew Jackson put down his cane and said: "This is where it will be." But the real herald of spring is the Cherry Blossom festival which is scheduled from April 2 to April 7. Oregon's princess Is dark-eyed Madelaine Farah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Farah of Portland. Twenty-two year-old Madelaine is currently a government secretary. Her background reads like that of a real princess. At the age of two Madelaine and her family visited Europe. Her father, a de nartment store owner in Portland, returned to his business, but Mrs. Farah, Madelaine and her three brothers were caught up in the path of World War Two. They were detained in Beirut, Lebanon for 10 years. During this time Madelaine attended a private American school where she learned French and some Arabic. After the family returned to Portland, she was graduated from Franklin high school with top honors. Named "Girl of the Month" for highest average grades over a period of three years in a group of 1,100 girls, she re ceived two French medals and was offered scholarships from the Universities of Oregon and Miss ouri. She .attended the University of Oregon, and Portland State Col lege where she was on the honor roll. After a year in the Portland business world, Madelaine came to Washington to accept her pres ent government secretaryship. When we talked to her she said: "I'm so excited to be Oregon's Cherry Blossom princess that 1 can t think straight. Further complicating her think ing was a waiting date! Special Diadem Worn When the wheel of fortune stops before one of the 52 princesses this year, the chosen one will be crowned queen with a $10,000 dia dem donated by Voshltka Mlkl nioto, the "Pearl King of Japan." A circlet of pearl-centered gold flowers with petal-shaped points formed by wired pearls will be fitted on her pretty head. True, after the festival is over she will return her crown to the Cherry Blossom committee as a perma nent headpiece for future queens. But to compensate her for her loss, the Pearl King is sending along a pearl necklace for her very own. Since the cherry blossom trees were a gift of Japan sent to the United States, Ambassador Masa yukl Tanl Is going to present Her Highness, the Cherry Blossom Queen, with a Japanese doll, About a foot tall the doll will be a beauti fully drcsed Japanese maiden re plete with, embroidered kimono, obi (sash) and sandals. Mrs. Amos Fries, a former Mcd- fnrd ladv living in Washington, has her own special memory of the cherry blossoms that rim the Tidal Bas in at the foot of tne jci- ferson Memorial. The wife of Major General (ret.) Fries and her distinguished husband have been White House visitors over a long period of time. Mrs. Fries re calls Mrs. William Howard Taft and her disappointment when the first shipment of cherry trees from Japan were discovered to be cov ered with blight. "At a reception at the executive mansion, said Mrs. tries, l thought only of comforting the lady who is credited with having the idea of planting Japanese cherry blossoms in Washington." (At this time Mrs. Taft was not recovered from a paralytic stroke that had made speech almost impossible for her.) "As I went down the receiving line in the White House," recalled Mrs. Fries, "I remarked tt the First Lady that I was so sorry her plan was delayed by the con- Hitinn nf iha traoc Thn ...Be on almost eerie silence. . , .then a voice that seemed to come from i behind a velvet drape said: 'They j will bloom again . At that moment Mrs. Fries re alized that Mrs. Taft, a proud woman, had a stand-in who spoke for her. On St. Patrick's Day General Fries, the distinguished chemical officer for the American Expeditionary Force under Gener al Pershing, celebrated his 83rd birthday on St. Patrick's Day. Celebration of the natal day of the Irish saint was unique in Wash ington this year. For the first time shamrocks were laid on the grave of one of Ireland's national heroes who is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He is the American, George Washington Parke Curtis, adopted son of the first President and father-in-law of General Robert E. Lee, in 1826, Curtis led the fight against the mounting persecution of Irish im migrants as Catholics and foreign ers. He and other leading citizens were outraged by the wave of bigotry that was particularly strong in and around Washington in the early 19th century. Curtis formed the Washington Benevolent Society to "express sympathy for the people of Ireland and an earn est desire and hope of a speedy amelioration of their condition. Until his death in 1857, he presided over St. Patrick's Day banquets. Not long before he died he wrote that he hoped that "years after my mortal body shall have been laid in the bosom of our common mother, some honest Irish heart may come, and, dropping a sham rock on my grave, cry 'God bless him.' " A century has passed and the Virginia Irish just got around to the shamrocks this March 17th. Nobody knows why they delayed so long any more than we know why the graves of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis were so long neglected in the National Cemetery. When we visited them at the start of World War Two, they were in an un tended square a few steps from the Lee Mansion. Only during recent years have the graves been cared for and honored. In fact, manv visitors to the Lee mansion are unaware that the Curtis' built it that after the marriage of their dauehtcr thev moved into a smal Icr Dart of the mansion, leaving iu mora luxurious area to the Lees. In fact, so considerate were I these in-laws that it is said tnat their quarters, consisting of a bed room and sitting room, were ac tually sound-proofed by double walls the better to ensure the privacy of the celebrated Con federate and his lamiiy. M il LAMINA (Special) Mrs. Emma Kochis was hostess to the Pinochle flub at her home, wnen Mrs. Harriet Davis won high, Mrs. Lorraine Ashwell. consolation, and Mrs. Lila Ashwell and Mrs. Dor othy Houston, pinochle. It's Here! 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