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Albuquerque Journal
Washington Visitor and Son
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--Journal Staff Photo
Mrs. Biddle Randolph

Solicitor General's Wife Says
World Needs Arts of Peace, Not War

Mrs. Frances Biddle, Visiting Son Here,
Advocates U. S. Keep Out of European Conflict

Ten days in the West, far removed from the continual war talk that predominates in Washington circles today, has strengthened the resolve of Mrs. Francis Biddle, wife of the new solicitor general of the United States, to continue advocating keeping the United States out of any European conflict.
   
"Like most true Americans, I am against entering a European war," Mrs. Biddle said in Albuquerque during her spring visit with her son, Randolph, freshman student at the University of New Mexico.
   
"Not only because I have a son of military age," and Mrs. Biddle's bright brown eyes deepened to the sincerity in her voice, "but because the arts of peace are so much more necessary to the world than the destruction of war.

Preserve Peaceful Arts
   
"How terrible important that one-half the world strive to preserve the cultures and the arts acquired in peaceful living when the other half is spending itself in killing one another. Life is so much more important than death.
   
"America has a future. Europe's quarrel is not our own."

Poet of Distinction
   
Mrs. Biddle is a poet of distinction. Several works have been published under her pen name, Katherine Garrison Chapin.
   
Such titles as "Outside the World," "Plain Chant for America" and "Bright Mariner suggest her imaginative themes. Her symphonic poem, "Lament for the Stolen" was done in choric style by 200 voices with the Philadelphia Orchestra just before the pot came to New Mexico.

To Speak on Campus
   
The visitor has consented to address the English Club at the University of New Mexico informally Monday afternoon. It will be her only appearance while in Albuquerque since the trip here is somewhat a rest.
   
"In order to find time for myself, not to lose my personality in a busy social world, I have been forced to give up luncheon engagements," she said. "Thus I have time for writing in the morning, starting my social day in late afternoon."

In Artistic Circle
   
Mrs. Biddle knows many literary and artistic celebrities in Santa Fe, some of whom she visited Easter week-end. She visited Indian pueblos and witnessed dances. She is an old friend of Mrs. Albert G. Simms of Albuquerque.
   
It is not Mrs. Biddle's first visit to New Mexico.
   
Twenty-five years ago as a young woman she traveled to the Indian pueblos and watched their ceremonial dances. While in Albuquerque then she was a guest at the Alvarado Hotel, as she is now.
   
Her interest in Indian things was fostered by the late Natalie Curtis, author of "The Indian's Book." Miss Curtis came West some 35 or 40 years ago, antidating such students of Indian lore as Mary Austin.
   
Randolph Biddle, preparing for a medical course, returned to New Mexico for schooling after spending last summer in the mountains of this state while on a Government survey.

Transcription Notes:
I have retained the hyphenation breaking the word "suggest" only because it breaks across columns, and do not know how important it is to indicate where columnar breaks occur. ANSWER: Do not indicate column breaks. Should be transcribed as one continuous sentence. Also, do not indent paragraphs.