The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-02
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL

| CONGRESSIONAL women are passing busy
| ~ summer None Of them is in Washing
| ton. Some are very much in the limelight OF
publicity while others shrink from the glare
But they are busy engaged either in politics
or attending to personal affairs
Take for instance the glamOrouS Repre-
sentative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts
now working overtime with special committee
appointed to make an investigation of the guar
dianship of incapacitated World war veterans
Representative Rogers spends her days delv-
ing into facts and figures. Her co-Workers write
that she never relaXes. She is constantly on the
job, despite the heat, despite numerous inter-
ruptions. So anxious was she to begin work with
the committee that she made the trip to Indiana
by air
Witty, wise Representative Florence Kahn of
California has given up her apartment at the
MayAower in Washington and returned to her
native state. Therein the maelstrom of poll
tics which has temporarily turned California
into a madhouSe-elderly, dignifed Mrs. Kahn
claims to find real mental repose.
ParadoXiCally she is never so composed as
when she is in the midst of turmoil. 1t is worth
watching her pacidly during the turbulent ses-
Sions of the house.
NIVACIOUS, animated Representative Kath-
' ryn OLoughlin Mccarthy is back in the lit
tie town of Hays Kan. catching up on personal
business, correspondence, etc. She doesn't ex-
pect to go back to the capital before late autumn
From a social and political point of view,
none is more missed in Washington than the
ever charming Representative Isabella Green
way Of Arizona. Just now, she's in Chicago en-
route to Tucson. She expects to be away for
some time. 1t is highly possible that she may
see her close friend, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
before she returns. Mrs. Roosevelt is now on a
tour of the west.)
THE Grecan profile of Representative Vir-
Il GINA Jenckes is likewise missing from the
congressional picture.
Mrs. Jenckes is in Indiana studying the polit-
ical situation, and trying to rest. But she finds
it hard. The calls of constituents, constant
streams of kilograms and letters, and the in
sistent buzz of telephone keep her on the qui
vive
Once, Mrs. Jenckes threatened to have the
telephone removed, it was said, but finally re-
Tented.
Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkansas disap-
peared about the time of the wedding of her son,
Lieutenant Paul Caraway, and has not yet re-
turned to Washington. Friends say she is quiet
" engaged in a survey Of the political situation
in Arkansas and expects to return to Washing
ton about the middle of August.
INCIDENTALLY, considerable interest has been
Il aroused in G. o. P. circles at word that for
mer Representative Ruth silk Stocking Ruth
Baker Pratt Of New York is being opposed by
certain Republican leaders as delegate to the
gubernatorial convention in October
Ruth is a dynamic person and has many
friends, both Democrats and Republicans She
was one Of the few women in the house who was
known to have a genuine sense of humor Every
one liked her-even her political enemies
Hence, there is some bitterness expressed at
the attempt to bar Ruth from the convention
The Republican idea, it appears is to discipline
her for having supported the Mckee ticket in
New York'S last mayoralty contest