The Washington times., 1934-12-11
NOW
Ickes May Have To
Ski Through Sky
MIMICS' PARTY
By Helen ESSary

By Helen ESSary
Seasonal note on the More
Abundant Life as prescribed by
DR.. Roosevelt:
A Baltimore coStumer has his
sewing machine girls working
at 1000 new Santa Claus suits
to supply his happy holiday Gus
toners.
One nice attempt to do the
right thing in the New Year is
going to be made by Mr.. Ickes
If my information is correct.
So when you hear a great
roaring in the air, and, looking
up anxiously, see two airplanes
zizzing close together and cut
ting didoes such as the lady who
wooed the young Aeneas never
dreamed of, you may say:
"Ah! the Secretary-Of.the-In.
terror Public Works. S-AdminiStra-
tor is Obeying the law-at last"
Sounds like an odd explana-
ton for peculiar aerial mani.
festations. And certainly un-
likely. But the situation is this:
Not very long ago the office
Of the Solicitor General in SOL
emn mandate parceled out the
Government airplaneS to the
Government officials. The Sec.
retary of the Interior must ride
in a Navy plane. The Public
Works Administrator must ride
in an Army plane.
Mr.. IckeS, being one and the
same, as we'll as both-the Inte-
rior Secretary and the Public
Works Administrator-has ig-
nored the Solicitor Generals
mandate. He preferred to re-
main intact. AS well he might.
Lately, however, the Solicitor
Generals office has been COM
planning about unauthorized
use of Government planes. 1t
is rumored that beginning Janu-
ary l, Mr.. Ickes may have to
change his ways-in the air.
He isn't certain how he will
manage to be in two places at
once. He may work out a
scheme for using the planes as
snow shoes-Army on the right
foot, Navy on the left. May
thus spring about from cloud
bank to cloud bank-you know
how skiiers do.
Some of the people who have
struggled for contracts from Mr..
Ickes think an Ajax-defylng-the'
lightning arrangement would be
more appropriate to Mr.. 1ckes
character.
The adaptability of women
has been their greatest asset
for thousands of years. There
fore it wasn't remarkable that
the Gridiron widows, whose IN
personation of the members OF
the Cabinet delighted the guests
at Mrs. Roosevelt's party, should
have gone feminine and dec
orative about IS hours later.
The large cocktail party
given Sunday afternoon by Mr..
and Mrs. Jay G. Hayden for
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lloyd
Wright and Mr.. and Mrs. Uric
Bell demonstrated this charac-
teristic delightfully."-. Mrs. Hay
den, when I saw her on Satu-
day night, except for a SLIM
ness about the waist line, was
Jim Farley himself in his best
clothes. The Mrs. Hayden OF
Sunday was both smart and
radiant in black crepe and
orchids.
The Secretary Ickes of Mrs.
Roosevelt's party, with quizzlcal
eyes accented neatly in grease
paint, on Sunday was Helen
Bell in black velvet. Marie
Wright, so successfully Secre"
tary Swanson that Mrs. Swan"
son called her Claudio" was
stunning the next afternoon in
gold and brown lame.
The Haydens' party was one
of the best of the early winter.
Three hundred distinguished
and amusing people (the adj
jectives are seldom easy to
group came and stayed-and
stayed! From S until 9, some
of them! I was surprised to
see Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Jones.
They seldom go to afternoon
parties. Attorney General and
Mrs. Cummings, Mr.. and Mrs.
Emil Hurja, the German Am.
bassador, DR.. Wilhelm Meyer,
and DR.. and Mrs. Rudolph
Leitner were a few of those
present from official life.
Mrs. Gene Buck Extremely
pretty) motored down from
New York just to hear the
Gridiron members put on their
skits which, toward the end of
the afternoon, they did most
agreeably,