The Washington times., 1923-03-18
d. A: R.-LTNGS NOW
ION THE COME, !" AS
CONGRESS- LOOMS
Campaigning is Now
Favorite Indoor Pas
time I'm Capital.

naturally the headquarters Of
Congress, the legislative branch
thereof, but more and more 1t l.
getting to be the mecca Of con-
crosses, conferences and conven-
tions. which seem to be three
words meaning much the same
thing. When it isn't Congress,
It's congresses and no one on
earth can keep up with them.
The delegates to the annual Con-
tinental Congress Of the D. A. r.
n mid April are already ION the
come They are beginning to
clutter up the hotel corridors and
parlors and tea rooms. It's an
election year-and they take it
30 seriously, the I'D. Ar. Lingsr'
as Ambassador Geddes ecstatical-
ly called them in addressing their
formal opening meeting a year or
two ago. I wonder If the hotel
managers would echo that! OF
course. they are profitable, but
they must be good deal Of a
nuisance, the way they take pos
session Of the place. However.
they do add a good deal to the
gayety Of the Capital as regu-
larry as April comes around. and
individually they are entirely de-
lightful even IL collectively they
are q bit overpowering.
This last week the heads Of the
opposing tickets have been away
attending State meetings hop
ing to get the delegates to the
forthcoming congress instructed
to vote for them. or, failing that,
to get uninstructed delegations.
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, Of
Pennsylvania; who heads the OPP
position ticket, was up in Con-
necticut in the beginning Of the
week. and then hurried down to
Cincinnati for the Ohio State
meeting.
I'm not sure whether Mrs. Wal
lace Hanger, to whom the present
regime which Is q continuation
as to policies OF the Guernsey re-
gime, as that was Of Mrs. Matthew
SCOTS. which had been rudely in
terrUpted by two terms Of Mrs.
william Cumming Story would
like to hand the toga, or the scep-
ter, or whatever 1t-is. went up to
Hartford or not. But she wouldn't
have to, as Mrs. George Maynard
Minor, of Connecticut, the present
(retiring president general. would
be sure to use all her influence for
her. And presumably 1t is consid-
lrable in her home State. But I
am quite sure that Mrs. Hanger
and Mrs. Minor and Mrs. Guernsey
and some others Of the most infIp-
entail Of the present regime, were
In Cincinnati-and although l.
have not yet heard, the result Of
that State meeting, can imagine.
It may easily have been rather
bleak for poor little Mrs. Cook,
even though she does claim Ohio
as her native State.
MRS. COOK was down here
last week and renewed the
impression she had made in past
seasons Of being an attractive, re.
fined woman, very much of lady.
who would make dignified, grace
full presiding officer, and who SEEM
ed to be a woman Of good sense and
good feeling. OF Mrs. Hanger
don't seem to have any particular
recent impressions. One saw her
around the congresses rather con-
stantly in Mrs. SCOTS time, for
she was Mrs. SCOTS personal
page" standing always behind the
president generals chair, ready to
serve her In any way she could.
Since then do not recall that she
has been particularly prominent at
the annual congresses-the get.
together Of the national organiza-
ton. She has been chapter regent
In her state" organization here
in the District Of Columbia, and
she has been state vice regent. I
am told that she has been vice
president general for the District,
which only goes to prove that
haven't been watching the D. A.
r. very closely Of late.
8 q matter Of fact I am very
much on the fence. Both
tickets have such fine women on
them that II would seem q tragedy
20 have either defeated. Mrs.
Larz Anderson IL washington's
candidate for librarian general. and
while she has not been particularly
active recently, because her lines
were cast in other places and
among other interests, she has
really had a long apprenticeship
In the organization.
She was one Of the earliest mem.
bers OF the Warren and Prescott
Chapter-the first chapter formed
In Massachusetts,. Doesn't it
sound like Bunker Hin?) And
later she had herself transferred
90 the Susan Riviere Hetzel Chap.
ter Of the District Of Columbia. be.