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NEXT WEEKS CLUB CALENDAR

Mrs. Ruth Pratt BobbS and Miss
Florence Pitch will be on the sup
per committee for the meeting OF
the Portfolio Club.
Mrs Chester Mckinney will re-
view Forgive Us Our Trespasses
at the meeting Of the Pierian Study
Club with Mrs. George Schumacher
and Mrs. Edwin Hurd, hostesses.
indianapolis Business and Pro-
fessional Club will hold a dinner
meeting and forum at 6:15 at the
Woman'S Department Club
FRIDAY
Olnosi Study Club will meet with
Mrs. Arthur Singleton, hostess. Mrs.
R. B. Williams will present the
program.
indianapolis Women's Club will
hear talks by Archer Sinclair and
Mrs. John r. Thrasher.
Miss Martha Cunningham will be
hostess for the covered dish lunch
con meeting of the Irvington Fort
nightly Club. Officers will be
elected
SATURDAY
Mrs. Roy Thurman, SO West
Thirty-third street, will entertain
members of the Magazine Club.
Mrs. Frank McCaslin will present
the musical program and Mrs. A.
M. O'Connell will present the pro-
gram.
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The Butler-Notre Dame basket
ball game tonight at the Butler
university fieldhouse has drawn stu
dents from Notre Dame, st. Mary
of-the-Woods and st. Mary-of the
Lake home for the weekend.
Miss Josephine Deery, student at
st. Mary Of the Woods, has re-
turned home to visit her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. James E. Deery. She
is expecting four classmates to ar
rive today from Chicago to attend
the game. They are Misses Vivian
Lukanitsch, Glad Rocheleau, Jane
Nietschmann and Marian Schultz.
Miss Mary Louise Reach came
Wednesday from st. Mary Of the
Lake to visit her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Leroy j. Reach. Miss Elinor
Kirby will arrive today to spend
the weekend with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Carrot Kirby.
Arriving with Miss Anna Margaret
Durkin tonight will be her cousin,
Miss Alice Durkin, Brazil. Miss
Anna Margaret Durkin, daughter of
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Mrs. E. G. McIlvain and Mrs.
Walter Metzler will give the dem
onStration.
Patriotic responses will be given
to roll call at the meeting of the
zetathea Club with Mrs. j. w.
Knipp, 2140 Central avenue, hostess.
The Elite Sewing Circle of the
Wednesday Afternoon Club will
meet at the home of Mrs. Charles
Trotter, 1886 West Michigan street.
The Rev. James w. Moore will
talk on the Identification and Can
nonization" at the meeting of the
Irvington Catholic Woman's Study
Club, with Mrs. George B. Ewell,
1854 Dewey avenue, entertaining.
"The American Negro" will be the
theme for the meeting Of the Inter
Nos Club, with Mrs. j. T. Vanzant,
hostess. Mrs. E. G. Rumpler and
Mrs. Harry E. Wood will present the
program.
THURSDAY
Miss Elizabeth Ohr will give an
14ACtoV1 cROCO vain Oll G4C14S1l Cdod41u
Costumes" at the meeting of the
Cornelia Cole Fairbanks chapter, D.
A. r. Hostesses will be Mrs. Charles
Mayer, Mrs. Arthur V. Brown, Mrs.
Henry R. Bliss and Miss Katherine
Layman.
North Side Study Club will elect
officers at a meeting with Mrs
George Reid, hostess.
Mrs. Charles F. Miller will con-
duct the round table discussion fol-
lowing the election at the meeting
of the Aftermath Club. Mrs. E. V.
Mitchell, PASS Park avenue, will be
hostess.
Mrs. Earl r. Gender, Is Meridian
place, will be hostess for the cleo
ton meeting of the Thursday Ly-
ceum Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert F. Daggett,
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CITY GROUPS WILL
GO TO CONVENTION

Mid-winter convention Of Omega
Phi Tau sorority is scheduled for
today and tomorrow in St. Louis.
Mo.
The following Will attend from
Alpha chapter:
Misses Evelyn Pinnick, Marie
Pinnick, Laurel Daugherty, Mabel
Garner, Merle Garner, Adeline
Phillips and Margaret Mitchell.
Mrs. Alice Craig, Mrs. Ruth Mad
duX and Mrs. Dorothy Mendenhall.
Attending from Beta chapter will
be Misses Mary Burroughs. Lew
Ella Hickman, Martha Spau. Fern
VanVorst and Maxine Hawn: Mrs.
Emmlind Gibson and Mrs. Eleanor
Dickinson. Misses Mary Bender
and Dorothy Overman will repre-
sent Lambda chapter
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Miss Cause
Will Wed in
Church Rite
Henry S. Bray to Take
Bride in Afternoon
Ceremony.

The marriage of Miss Katherine
Cause, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred c. Cause, and Henry S. Bray,
son of Mrs. Florence Bray, was to
be solemnized this afternoon at the
North NJ. E. church, the Rev. w. w.
Want officiating.
An altar rail, garlanded with
briarcliff roses, iris, freesias and
sweet peas was to lead to the smilax-
banked altar. Tall standards of roses
and blue-green urns of spring
flowers were to be arranged at the
sides Of the altar, to be lighted with
two seven-branch candelabra.
The bride was to be attended by
Mrs. Maurice Gronendyke and Miss
Betty Cring, cousin of the bride.
Their gowns are fashioned of
satin with drop shoulders and Slight
trains. Mrs. Gronendyke was to
wear blue satin and Miss Cring,
pink satin. They were to wear
tiaraS Of flowers and carry arm
bouquets of iris, forget me-notS
and Briarcliff roses and sweet peas.
Bride Chooses White Satin
The brides gown is of white satin
with high neck-line and slight train.
Her quarter length veil of
tulle falls from a, cap of tulle petals
and her bouquet designed of white
roses and lilies of the valley, CEN
tered with forget -nots and sweet
heart roses.
Walker Bray, Detroit, was to be
his brothers best man and ushers
were to be John Bray, another
brother, and DR.. Evanson B. carp.
Mrs. Cause was to wear a greer
velvet and lame gown with velvet
turban and a shoulder corsage Of
Johanna Hill roses and gardenias
Mrs. Bray was to wear a shoulder
corsage of sweetheart roses anc
gardeniaS with her black velvet
gown.
Blue for Trip
The couple was to leave on a we'd
ding trip the bride travelling in a
navy blue suit with three-quarter
length jacket with gray fox collar
to be worn with blue and gray &C
ceSSories. They will be at home
after March in Atlanta, Ga.
The bride attended Indiana uni
versity where she was member
of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority
and Mr.. Bray attended De Paw
university and is a member OF
Sigma Chi fraternity.
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FELLOWSHIP TEA
TO HONOR VISITOR

Miss Ruth Cowrey, Madras, India,
will be entertained at a tea, to be
given by the Y. w. c. A. world fell
lowShip committee at 3 Tuesday aft
ernoOn at the home of Mrs. Fermor
Cannon, 4235 North Pennsylvania
street. Miss Cowdrey, secretary of
the Y. w. G. A. in Madras, is visit
ing Mrs. c.. H. Shadinger, 302 Buck
ingham drive, While on furlough.
Assisting the hostess will be Mes
danes John E. Seybert. M. E. Co.'S
tin, Ernest N Evans, Grant K.
Lewis, S. NJ. Roes and I. H. Sedan.
Miss. Florence E. Lanham is world
fellowship secretary.
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Officers to Be
Chosen March3
byAlunlnaeClut

Kappa Alpha Theta Alumnae
Club will elect officers at a meeting
scheduled for 2:30 Saturday. March
3, at the home Of Mrs. Charles P
Binkley, 5445 North Pennsylvania
street.
Miss Genevive Brown. former re-
porter for the Indiana supreme and
appellate courts. will talk on From
Current Problems.
HosteSses for the meeting will be
Mrs. Henry E. Ostrom, chairman,
assisted by Mrs. Walter Greenough,
Mrs. George Witt, Mrs a. L. Lock
ridge, Mrs. Bertram G. Day and
Mrs. A. D. Hitz; Misses Louise Wills,
Ethel Mary Ostrom and Emma Gin
ton.
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JANET GIFFIN TO BE
WE'D MARCH 18

March Is has been set as the date
for the wedding of Miss Janet Gif-
fin, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
M. Giffin, to Frederick Maurice
Oliver. The wedding will take place
in the Tabernacle Presbyterian
church.
Mrs. George Pence will entertain
Monday night with a personal
shower for Miss Giffin. and Mrs.
Walter Spencer Jr. will give a
kitchen shower Wednesday night.
Mrs. Paul R. Browning and Mrs.
A. L. Sparks will give parties later.
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Equality of
Sexes True.
Man Admits
Left-handed Concession
Made by Leader
Of Nazis.
BY GRETTA PALMER
Times Special Writer

NEW YORK. Feb. 24.-"If women
~ were given equality in every
thing with men," said Dr. Joseph
Goebbels. Nazi minister Of propa-
ganda and public enlightenment, in
Berlin, man would naturally see in
her a dangerous competitor and
would fight such competition tooth
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Card Parties

District 5, Daughters of America,
will hold a card party at Monday
afternoon at the Banner-Whitehill
auditorium for the benefit of the
orphans fund.
Seventeenth Ward Democratic
Club will sponsor a card party and
dance tonight at Eagles hall, 43
West Vermont street, Gene Schuck
is chairman.
Center Council, Security Benefit
Association, will hold a card party
at 8 Monday night on the third
floor of Castle hall
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to run down the spine Of that self
appointed pinnacle Of human
progress-the Nordic, Nazi mans
a remarkable indication of humility
on the part of DR.. Goebbels.
So women might be dangerous
competitors TO men if their wings
were not clipped by the state, Ell?
So they might snatch some Of the
jobs and the glory and the salaries
away from men less competent than
they? Well. then, why shouldn't
they?
The Old-fashioned prejudic e
against WOmen's entrance into the
business and professional worlds
was based, in part at least, upon
the theory Of their incompetence.
You still hear echoes of this point
of view expressed in the United
States today You still find ex-
pOnents of the protective legisla
ton" laws mastering the arguments
that women need special assistance
from the state because they are I'M
able to win out in a free-fOr-all
fight between the sexes.
But now, it seems, women are to
be barred from competition with
men not because they are too weak
but because they are dangerously
strong.
Willing to Take Chance
Any fair minded woman who
holds a job in any country today
must be willing to take her chances
n competition with the men. She
can not, with a shadow of justif1ca-
ton, demand that her employer
show any signs of chivalry or Spe-
cial consideration which he would
not give her brother. And she is,
on the whole, quite ScrupulOUsly
fair in carrying out this philosophy
of equality.
But, surely, she has a right to de-
mand the same fair terms in return.
Surely, she need not pull her
punches in order that a man COM
petitor may surpaSs her achieve
mentS. Surely, man, after all these
centuries of superior opportunity
and training, is able to look after
himself.
Men, says DR.. Goebbels, will nat
urally fight such competition tooth
and nail" Perhaps. They fight
the competition of other men
in a manner which might loosely be
described in the phrase of the Nazi
leader. But they fight them as in
dividualS, and not because of any
eXtraneous quality which renders
them peculiarly susceptible to at
tack.
Let Them Exchange Jobs
Well, let them fight women on
the same terms. Let it be tooth
and nail, if it must.
But let it be understood, please,
DR.. GoebbelS, that they are fight
ing these women competitors as
competitors whose efficiency they
fear. They can not really, you know,
have the argument going and COM
ing.
They can not hound women out
of industry in order to protect their
jobs and pretend, at the same mo-
ment, that they are acting to keep
the fine bloom of womanhood.
The Nazi women are too efficient
to please the Nazi men? They
might win mems jobs away from
them? Very we'll then. If the Nazi
women have a spark of spirit or
gumption they will.
And the German man, confessed
" inferior to his wife, may take
over those negligible jobs associated
with kinder, kuche, kirChe, which he
has patronized for many years.
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and nail. Such a
situation must
be avoided"
T h a t / s,
certainly. one of
t h e Fl n e S t
tributes paid the
German WOm-
ans ability in
recent months,
during which, it
m u S { be ad-
mitted, the mis-
siles have eX-
C G @ q e d the
pOSies. To adj
NIT that any
woman is for
nidable enough
To caiIsa ShiUers
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Tri-PSi Meeting Set

Tri-Psi sorority will met Friday
afternoon at the Delta Delta Delta
house, 800 Hampton drive. Mrs.
S. j. Bolin is chairman. The regu-
lar bridge tournament of the or
ganization will be held at 1870 Tues
day at the chapter house.
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4Alunlnde Sponsor Party

y = VI u
Indianapolis Kappa Delta Alum
nae Association gave a benefit card
party last night at 1884 North Penn
sylvania street. Miss Dortha Butz
was chairman. Her assistants were
Mrs. Francis Fargher, Misses
Thelma Bingham and Mary K.
Mitchell.
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ReDOrt to Be Made

International relations depart
ment of the Women'S Christian
Temperance Union will meet at l
Monday at the Y. w. c. A. Mrs.
Robert Sinclair, delegate to the
cause and cure Of war conference
at Washington in January, will
make a report. Mrs. Bloomfield
Moore is department chairman.
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Red Cross MeetinQ Set

Red Cross unit of the Lambda
Chi Alpha Mothers Club will meet
at 10 Monday morning at the
chapter house, 4721 Sunset boule-
ward Mrs. J. P. Johnson will be
in charge.
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Fathers
banquet will
be given tonight
by Kappa
Kappa Gamma
sorority at the
chapter house,
S21 Hampton
drive. The
fathers will
be taken to the
Butler-Notre
Dame basketball
game following
the dinner.
Miss Virginia
Powell is
chairman.
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Style at O. Glance
Knee pocketS-luXurious dressing
swim suits.
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T0ddYs' Fashion Tip
Pay attention to your elbows and
your necklineS.
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War Mothers to Meet

Marion county chapter, American
War Mothers. will meet at 1890
at the Columbia Club.
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NORTH SIDE

StrattOrd F R0T1, eDa Psat45S
LILLY TURNER"
"THE FIGHTING CHAMP"
Sun. Katharine Hepburn-Joan Bennett
LITTLE WOMEN"
Noble at Mass.
M re a Double Feature
NA - ~ nv ID. Fairbanks Jr.
MARROW CORNER"
"GALLOPING ROMEO"
Sun. Double Feature-GIoria stuart
INVISIBLE MAN"
Ginger Rogers Norman Foster
PROFESSIONAL SWEETHEART
GARRICK D i ..,l :' F 6 ss:%
Bureau of Missing Persons"
"GIRL WITHOUT A ROOM"
Sun. Katharine Hepburn-Joan Bennett
LITTLE WOMEN"
~ goth a. Northwestern
X r Louise
Dresser
CRADLE SONG"
Sun. Double Feature-James Dunn
TAKE A CHANCE"
Wallace Beery-Jackie Cooper
THE BOWERY"
Illinois at 84th
X Double Feature
Buster Crabbe
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi"
INVISIBLE MAN"
Sun. Double eature-PauI NUM-
"THE WORLD CHANGES
Will Rogers-Zasu Pitts
MIR. SKITCH"
Double Feature
Zasu Pitts
"AGGIE APPLEBY"
SPEED WINGS"
Sun. Double Feature-Joan BIondell
HAVANA WIDOWS"
Buster Crabbe-NIary Carlisle
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi"
ST. CLAIR ns r5i T p55's,.
Lionel AtwiII
secrets of the Blue Room"
wild Boys of the Road"
Sun. Double Feature-Ruth Chatterton
"FEMALE"
Warner Baxter Helen VinsOn
CAS- HTTSRANDS co"
D R E A M P g3.s5: ETA T S"ss5:
"RAFTER ROMANCE"
FIGHTING CODE"
Sun. Double Feature-Warner Baxter
GAS HUSBANDS GO"
Bing Crosby Marion Davies
going HOLLYWOOD"
7 AIRING Joan Crawford
DANCING LADY"
Sun. Chas Laughton
PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII"
EAST SIDE
RIVOLI Df 1oaSlo r eat roth
Geo. Bancroft
BLOOD MONEY"
'WOMAN IN HIS LIFE"
Sun. Ginger ROgers-Delores Del Rio
flying DOWN TO RIO"
IRVING D Ss9i E. F %aih;
"ACE OF ACES"
CAPTURED"
sun. Double Feature-LioneI Barrymore
SHOULD LADIES BEHAVED"
Will Rogers-Marian Nixon
"DR. BULL"
Hamilton Double i Feature af'H
Spencer Tracy
mad GAME"
TORCH SINGER"
Sun. Double Feature-EI BrendeI
"OLSEN'S BIG MOMENT"
Lionel BarrymOre-Alice Brady
SHOULD LADIES BEHAVE"
cTn AIN 1859 E. Wash.
y MANU- Double Feature
Chas. Ruggles'
GOODBYE LOVE"
SHADOWS OF SING SING"
Sun. Double Feature-WiII Rogers
MIR. SKITCH"
Marian Davies-BIng Crosby
GOING HOLLYWOOD"
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recreation department, in the Gar
field park amphitheater on June 9.
Children from the gymnastic and
dancing classes, in presenting their
accomplishments of the past year,
will cavort as the three little pigs,
little Red Riding Hood and the big
bad wolf.
Singing and dancing and building
straw houses. Norma Jean HuSsey,
Rose Marie Strack and Rose Mary
Sullivan will play the part of the
diminutive pigs, while Betty Hoag-
land, as the wolf, will huff and puff
at them.
Twenty little Red Riding Hoods
will skip through the figurative
woods in the amphitheater as part
of the program. They are girls of
the intermediate dancing class.
To lend modern touch to the
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program, one of the hit numbers
from the movie, "Footlight Parade"
will show Rosemary Sullivan in
Looking for Shanghai Liz
She will be assisted by fifty girls
in sailor suits who will present for
nation dances.
In the cat dance, many of the
girls will impersonate felines in
Sitting on the Backyard Fence"
An annual event, the popular Tom
Thumb wedding, again will be held
with Norma Jean Hussey as the
bride, Marry Ann Ickhorn as the
groom, and Rose Mary Sullivan as
the preacher. Twenty-Five brides
maids from the beginning and in
termediate classes will assist.
The program is under the direc-
ton of Miss Alma Teifert, physical
director of the recreation depart
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indianapolis Tomorrow

Indiana Law School, Claypool, Z
p. m.
Royal Arcanum, washington, 8
p. m.
Exchange Club, luncheon, Wash
ington.
Indiana Bankers Association,
Claypool, all day.
United Lutheran church, Indiana
synod, st. Marks Lutheran church,
all day.
Optimist Club, luncheon, Colum-
bia Club.
Sahara Grotto, luncheon, Grotto
Club.
Phi Delta Theta, luncheon, Co.
lumbia Club.
Harvard Club, luncheon, Lincoln.
Reserve Officers Association.
luncheon, Board of Trade.
Federation of Community Civic
Clubs, Washington, 8 p. m.
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AIR LINE LOSS HUGE,
SAYS R|CKENBACKER
Mail Dispute Costs Firms
Million, KiWaniS Told.

Airship line operators suffered a
loss of more than million dollars
when the federal government cam
celed air mail contracts this spring,
Colonel E. v. Rickenbacker told
members of the Kiwanis club yes
terday.
While deploring the loss of the
lives of thirteen army pilots in fly
ing the mails, Colonel Rickenbacker
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For Baekache, Kidney
And Bladder Trouble

STOP GETTING UP NIGHTS
Here's one good way to flush
harmful waste from kidneys and
stop bladder irritation that often
causes irregular and painful elimi-
nation. Ask your druggist for a
35-cent box of Gold Medal HARLEM
Oil Capsules-a splendid diuretic
and stimulant for weak kidneys and
irritated bladder Besides getting
up nights, some symptoms of kidney
trouble are backaches, puffy eyes, leg
cramps. and moist palms, but he sure
to get GOLD MEDAL-it's the genuine
medicine for weak kidneys. Right from
Harlem in Holland.
NOTE: Gold Medal Harlem Oil Cap
sules assist the kidneys to expel from
the system that harmful excess uric
acid which is often the aggravation of
joint pains. sciatica. neuritis. neuralgia
and lumbagO .-Advertisement.
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BAPTIST CHURCH CLASS
TO HOLD ANNIVERSARY
Governor McNutt, Pritchard In
vited to Ceremony on June 10.

The 101 Mems class of the Broad
way Baptist church will celebrate
its fifth anniversary Sunday, June
10, with a street parade and a spe-
cial program in the class audi
torium.
The class, of which the Rev. R. M.
Dodrill is leader, has invited Gov
ernor Paul V. McNutt, Harry w.
White, Walter Pritchard, Delbert
Wilmeth, w. T. Carroll and DR.. H.
w. Evans as guests of honor.
Ray Higdon is president of the
class, which this year broke all
previous records, and Fay Langdon
is vice president. Mr.. Higdon ap-
pointed f1fty-nine of the members
as parade officers and members of
committees handling various details
Of the celebration.
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PAGE Is

declared that the catastrophes will
result in the betterment of the
United States air force.
In discussing the 500-mile Speed
way race, the speaker said that the
limitation on the amounts of gaSo-
line and oil for each car will bene-
fit the commercial automobile in
dustry.
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DIPLOMATS AT
CAPITAL. FACE
HARD SUMMER
Few Vacations in Prospect
as Wheels of New Deal
Spin Faster.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, May 24.-Wash-
ington's second Rooseveltian sum-
mer is piling up the burden of hard
working clerks and vacationless dip
lomats.
Gone are the days when the cap
ital's celebrated heat waves depopu-
lated embassy row on MaSSa chuSettS
avenue and slowed the wheels of
governmental machinery until they
barely turned.
Lights still blaze nightlong at the
agriculture department., the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation and
other new deal agencies. Many bu-
reauS operate like automobile fac
tories, with clerks working in three
eight-hour shifts.
The thermometer oozeS into the
ninetieS. The air becomes as humid
rs that in a greenhouse of tropical
flowers. But the capital carries on.
Few Vacations.
The diplomatic corps has given up
hope of a return to those long va
cations at the SeaShore, in the
mountains or in Europe, which once
featured the life of an ambassador
to Washington.
If congress passes the reciprocal
tariff act. giving President Roosevelt
the power to negotiate trade trea-
ties, most of the foreign govern
mental representatives will be
forced to stay here all summer,
with hardly a weekend even on
Chesapeake bay.
Perhaps the only ambassador who
doesn't particularly mind Washing
tons summer climate is Hirosi Sal
to of Japan, whose native Toxic
also suffers from heat and humidity.
Saito spends his spare moments
playing golf at the Burning Tree
and congressional country clubs.
The only embassy in Washington
with modern air conditioning sys-
tenn is that of the soviet union,
where Ambassador Alexander Troy
onovsky labors early and late. His
principal diversion is chess.
Lindsey Plays Tennis
The British embassy has an ap-
paratuS which circulates cold water
in the steam heating pipes. That
helps, but the English staff still
wishes for its native seashores. Sir
Ronald Lindsey, the ambassador,
plays tennis whenever he can, usu-
ally in his own back yard
Augusta RoSSo, the Italian ambas-
sador, likes to drive where the shade
is heaviest.
Thirteen of the ambassadors must
stay close to their offices until June
Is, war debt payment date. Then
they must wait until congress ad-
journs, if adjournment has not
come before then. The reciprocal
tariff act is the final "if." In any
event it looks like another tough
summer for the diplomats. Last year
most of them had to stay here all
summer because of the blue eagle
and developments pertaining there
to, all of which had to be reported
fully to the capitals of Europe.