The Washington times., 1934-11-19

You see,
life and kid
napers and Helen Essary
train robbers and striking school
mothers being what it is and
they are, and the Department
Of Justice having, as yet, a
mere 20 miles of cases of finger
print files at the new building,
there is still left a golden op-
portunity-or many golden op-
portunities-to record GRIM
inal in embryo-so as to speak.
Not that you or I are poten-
TALLY anything but angels. It's
other people! You know how
untrustworthy other people are
with cars and bored husbands
and check books and pur-
chases-to-be-credited and the
fourth cocktail.
But I'm missing the point Of
my story. The idea is this.
The Department of Justice is
starting a campaign to ere
move the opprobrium" appeal
ing phrase), or maybe it is the
stigma or even the stigmata,
from having ones finger prints
made. The noble department
wants, somehow, to get fin
ger-print of everybody in the
United States. Heaven help
us. And store said finger-printS
away in it's honorable archives:
Most any morning now, you
may step into the best room
ct the department and say to
the tall gentleman behind the
unscarred desk:
"GoOd morning, Mr.. AttOr-
ney General. How well you
are lOOking!"
And the Attorney General
will smile, very brightly (this
is the beginning of the cam
paign, you see), and say:
"Ah! you've come to be fin"
ger-printed, no doubt. Let me
introduce you to my special
agent"
And there you are, my dear.
On record until the Great
American Republic is blown to
atoms.
A diary by way of Mr.. Pepys
for yesterday and the day be"
fore:
Stopped at Mrs. Cazenove
Lees for enthusiastic meeting
of Lee Memorial Foundation.
Heard Mrs. Louis S. Greene's
report of china, hams, holly,
etc. being sold at Stratford
stores for restoration Of Lee
birthplace. Talked with Mrs.
Cary T. Grayson on her Com
munity Chesting way. Bought
chance on case of champagne
from Mrs. Lawrence Groner for
benefit of Mountaineer Nursing
Service. Admired Mrs. E. Brooke
Lees hat. Paused later at
Woman's National Democratic
Club for hearty meeting OF
Mary Whiteman, stylist, Mrs.
Grimsley Anderson, Mrs. Emil
Hurja, Mrs. Lloyd Fletcher.
Mrs, Edgar Snow, and Nancy
Wooley on subject of style
show for Democratic Digestion
December S. Later had three
cups of tea with Mrs. George M.
Eckels, Mrs. Frank Bright, and
Miss Cornelia Basel. Admired
trays of cocktail and sherry
glasses for dinner to which I
was not invited. :. Phone con"
yersation with Mrs. j. Borden
Hartman. Grand to have her
back in town again. =. Long
distance talk to Baltimore with
new Maryland Senator. George
Radcliffe. He's off for weeks
visit to Oklahoma. Hurried
into gorgeous big room at 14O6
H St.-new home Of newspaper
women's club.
Katherine Brooks, Georgia
Knox Berry, Hazel Edgar, Ro-
berta Bradshaw. Mary McCrack'
en- Jones, Lillian Arthur, and
Marilyn Reeves-houSe and en-
tertainment committee-happy
over prospects of Donation Day
today. Easy room to furnish
High ceiling. Fine woodwork
Swell place for first ladies on
November 27. Rejoice at din
ner with Madame Prochnlk,
over coming visit of delightful
Walter Lairds of Wilmington
at Austrian Legation.
Sit at lecture beside General
Alfred T. Smith of Military In.
telligence-he knows everybody
in all the world.
Totter home to domestic fire
side. Temporarily abandoned
family demand simultaneously
that I see sixth-grade-play.