The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-19
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL

rIER9 nuick-moving Mayor Fiorello La
4 Guardia of New York recently hustled about
town on one of his hasty and infrequent trips
TO washington, attended the opening session OF
the advisory council on economic security ana
Whizzed back to New York by airplane.
La Guardia moved so swiftly 1t was haro 10
follow him. At one moment he was chatting
animatedly with Labor Secretary Frances Per-
kins The next moment he was climbing into
an automobile. Ten minutes later he was soar
ing toward Manhattan.
In a brief, pungent talk concerning economic
needs, the New York executive characterized
charts and diagrams as worthless.
He wise-cracked:
i've seen the same charts used to prove that
unemployment insurance is no good and to de-
termine the amount of lipstick used in the
Polish corridor
Again, paraphrasing the oft-quoted remark
about the United States Constitution, he added
significantly:
You can't eat charts!"
Wearing rumpled blue suit, trimmed
glasses (Which he frequently wiped on his hand
kerchief), and a seldom fading grin, his honor
accomplished a prodigious amount of business
in short order He has been working hard and
seemed tired at the close of the session. He
slipped away from Washington as quietly as he
had slipped away from New York where he
temporarily abandoned the difficult problem OF
finding a tax program in order to attack eco
nomic problems here.
TINE white spat5-so long banished from state
Il department corridors-has again come into
its own, with the arrival Of the Panama treaty
commission.
Members of the commission are here to ne
gotate a treaty with the United States. and, in
cdentally, to revive the vogue of spats in the
Latin-A American diplomatic corps. Seldom has
so be-spatted a group Of international law ex-
perts arrived here.
Specialized, elegant DR.. Narciso Garay is the
best turned out Of the crowd. He wears faWn
colored overcoats snartly cut morning coats and
his spatS are pure shade which no one has
been able to equal.
Minister Alfaro of Panama, more conserva-
tive. wears pearl gray spats and gloves to match.
But the Hon. Carlos Lopezs white spats are
something 10 marvel at DR.. Leo Rowe. director
general of the Pan-American Union, has
searched his spat collection in vain to find any
like it. Unable TO compete, he initiated Legation
Juan Chevalier and appeared spatless,
in highly polished black exfords
DENJAMINO Cor, to be less ornate) Ben
ID Cohen has sailed from Santiago, Chile, and
will arrive here in several weeks to resume his
duties as counselor OF the Chilean embassy.
News of Bens imminent arrival delighted
friends here. who supposed he might never re-
turn. Since his departure he has been all over
South America and has had numerous ex-
periences.
Ben was in the thick Of the Paraguay Boliv-
ian war was robbed of important diplomatic
dispatches by an international pickpocket, con-
Quoted important private negotiations for Min
lister Of Foreign Affairs Conchago. and was re-
ported first in one capital then another-like
Sindbad the Sailor
During Bens absence the most important
things ACCOMPLISHED nv the Chilean embassy
here was presenting book to President Roose-
welt. Another thrilling bit of news-Chilean
Ambassador Trucco is just back from New York
where he saw the Chilean team capture fourth
place liz the horse show. France was first, the
United states second, and Canada, third.