Evening star., 1934-02-18

Mr.. Cordell Hull Of Tennessee, Sec
retary of State, has spent more than
o quarter of a century in public life,
much of that time in Washington.
He Is very punctiliouS when 1t comes
to ofhcial etiquette, but evidently be-
11eves that there is a time and season
for all things, so when down in Mon
tevideo he quietly reached for his
gray felt hat and started out to call
on some of his associate delegates to
the Pan-American Conference.
Ire routine procedure of the De-
partment of State would have been
for the Secretary to sit in solitary
state, attended by an aide, and await
the Wsite de ceremonie. Not so with
the courteous Southerner, for were
there not some misgivings, and a lit
tie nervousness among the delegates
to the conference, owing to grave
differences between several of the
Southern republics-family affairs
that had to be handled gingerly. Just
q pleasant, neighborly call was needed.
In Representative Virginia Ellis
Jenckes, an outstanding progressive
among the new dealers of the House,
the District has found a new friend
who has been untiring in her activi-
ties for the welfare of the voteless in
habitantS of Washington, since she
came to Congress in January
She is member of the Civil SerV-
Ice Committee and has been foremost
in the fight for the restoration of the
full pay for Federal and District en-
ployes. She has interested herself in
the personnel Of the Fire Department,
in matters affecting the metropolitan
police force and in housing problems.
The charming forceful widow from
Indiana came to the Capital ahead of
the session and looked things over.
She did not grab the situation, but,
sS In all her public activities, she
went over the ground, then proceeded
to the first move.
Mrs. Jenckes' pathway to her seat
N the House was not strewn with
roses, but was rocky way, as she had
to defeat Courtland c. Gillen, a
Democrat, in primary, and the popu-
lar Representative Fred Purnell, Re
publican, in office. She is the wonder
OF her six sister members in the
House for her untiring work. not only
here, but often in her own State, and
IN other parts of the country where
her help Is asked.
When leaders in civic and CONNER
e1al enterprises in every city in Amer
3ca are devoting much thought to de-
yelop1ng greater buying power among
all classes of people, she says it's il
logical, to say the least, that right
here in Washington, where practically
81 the buying power comes from the
Federal employees, little interest is dis
played in having the IS per cent pay
cut restored.
Mrs. Jenckes asked President Roose-
welt for a two-year embargo on i'm
ported dairy products, believing that
the importation of foreign dairy prod
acts while American surplus" pro-
duction is being arbitrarily reduced, is
Econsistent with the new deal
A meeting of the Mine Workers of
America asked her to go out to In
oianapolis and talk to them. because
they knew that she was familiar with
the mining situation. She believes
that the relief coal distributed in her
State should be confined to the prod
Ncts of the Indiana mines.
Mrs. Kahn of California runs Mrs.
jenckes close second when it comes
to getting things done. She has had
more experience and perhaps better
understands the genius of politics than
Mrs. Jenckes, and her wit and jntui-
ton go a long way in handling a
NV
al by itself when the President and
Mrs. Kahn get to exchanging witt
eisms. It's diamond cut diamond.
Mrs. Kahn helped to guide the S84,-
100000 State, Justice. Commerce and
Labor Departments supply bill to its
passage the other day 1t was a unique
victory for the woman member.
Perhaps there is nothing in a name
~-or something. Just a memory-an
atmosphere surrounding the past. Mr..
Ogden Mills. Mr.. Mariner S. Eccles
of Ogden, Utah, assistant to Sede-
tsrv Morgenthau of the Treasury. An
sstue financier; a fearless advocate of
feform in banking when reform is
needed. Mr. Eccles knows Scotch
af1rift, for his father, the late David
Eccles, was a poor immigrant from
Scotland, who became a powerful in
drstrial and financial leader in the
Far West.
Mr.. Frederic william Wile-by the
Eay, he is writing regularly for the
Daughters Of the American Revolu-
tion Magazine, which is so ably edited
BY Natalie Sumner Lincoln-says
there will be no three fight
down in Tennessee next Fall, for it's
. case Of all for one and one for all,
with Senator McKellar, Senator
$achman and Gov. McAlister holding
the stage.
Mr.. Vile says these gentlemen will
10 before the voters In rlusketeer
fashion, all of which sets one to spec
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