The Washington times., 1934-12-10
Now
New Crop Of Codes
WashingtOnitis
Cosmopolitan Guests
\ By Helen ESSary

about the future of the NRA?
This mornings crop of codes
Of fair competition from the
late General Johnson's depart
ment shows a variety of interest
and humanity that is refreshing
Just at Christmas time.
Here are the codes:
The Mop Stick Industry.
The Warm-Air Furnace Pipe
Industry.
The Fresh oyster Industry.
The InSecticide and Disinfec.
tant Manufacturing Industry.
The Horse Hair Pressing In
dustry.
Could any Government de-
partment have better intentions?
Washington is disease as
fatal as whooping cough or writ
ing for a newspaper.
A person who has been in
fected with the Washington
germ never again feels quite
happy in other cities.
When, after living in the
Capital, he returns to his nome
town where the most important
person politically is the mayor
and the women he meets at din
ner knew him before his second
teeth came in, he is stricken
with a longing for washington
that is often fatal. He decides
to run for Congress again. Or
to practice law in the Capital"
Joyfully forsaking the crowd
he grew up with" he finds an
excuse to get back to the "atmo-
sphere" of Washington.
Naturally, the people in Wash.
ington create the atmosphere.
At a good" Washington party
and there are hundreds OF
them-is a variety of guests
found at few parties anywhere
in America.
To be specific-there was the
dinner party the other night OF
the Emil Hurjas. In the draw
ing room with it's gay chlntz
hangings and deep red chairs
against pale green walls were
people with experience IN ali
parts of the world.
There was the Minister from
Finland, Mr.. Astrom, with
whom I discussed Ibsen's "Peer
Gynt" (Peer Gynt was the man
who was destroyed by worship
of himselD. Mr.. AStrom is leaV-
ing Washington in a week or
so and returning to live in the
country. He has represented in
the United States for thirteen
years.
I persuaded him to tell me,
too, about the building OF the
Finnish railroad into the re-
mote Arctic region. 1t goes
farthest north of all railroads.
About the climate of Finland
like that of Minnesota. And
about his admiration for his
old friend, Mr.. Justice Stone,
who gave him a farewell
luncheon yesterday.
But something about the
other guests and their back
grounds: There were the War.
rem Persons, recently come
from California. Really charm
ing, with the happy character
istics of people from the West
Coast. She is tall. with the
long, graceful lines of figure
many California women have.
A fine violinist. she played to
Mrs. Hurja's accompaniment.
Mr.. Pierson is the counsel for
the Export Trade Bank and
quite young.
Sam Rayburn of Texas was
at the party. He was cheer
full and undisturbed about the
struggle for the Speakership of
the House of Representatives,
and told some good Texas
stories.
From New Mexico-from all
over the world. to be truthful
was Antoinette Funck. Mrs.
Funck in the not-so-far-off days
when women were anxious
about their rights was a suf"
fragist. Now she is Assistant
Commissioner of the Land
Office. One of her little duties
is to help with the control
of 80,00O,000 acres of grazing
lands. Before Western cattle
nibble the grass of certain
areas down to its roots (the
cause of last years dust storms,
incidentally, Mrs. Funck's de-
partment orders the herds
moved on to new. green pas"
lures.
A brilliant young journalist
who had seen wars in China and
revolutions in Spain was d part
of the mosaic of the evenings
personalities. Elizabeth Howry
of a rare Species-the native
Washingtonian also was a
guest.
Senator Lynn j. Frazier, of
Hoople, N. D., sends me a noble
treatise on:
"Brain-the Organ of Mind,
the Highest Function in Man"