Evening star., 1934-09-16
by ROBERT CRAWFORD.


I,frs. Roosevelt had heart-to-heart
tai. with the delegates to the Ameri-
cali Federation of Government En-
ployet, which met in convention in
New York last week. She has a friend
~ gay Of taking her audience into her
COZ fidence and talking to them, in
stead Of at them. She stressed the
dis ;arce between the heads of Gov
eiT mtnt departments and the en-
pIoye who carries on the work. She
seems to think that if they had even
soeaking acquaintance it would raise
O certain kind of morale-a comrade-
slio, a feeling that all were working
toward the same end.
The few crowned heads left in this
troubled world have grown very demo-
cratic since the World War. They are
little more clubbable where the gen.
era public is concerned. They shake
hands they have established sort of
linisor. which has been most kindly
rec,ived. The RooSeveltS and the
Ho}vers have been outstanding in
tier contacts with people of all
classes. Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Hoo
yer have carried on the public welfare
In which they had long been inter
eshd, not sighting official duties in
tie White House, but finding time for
botl.
L Mrs. Roosevelt protocolian? Yes
enc no was the answer that came
hscs from one who is an authority
or official etiquette at the National
CAY ital. To use a South Of Mason
ID xon-line expression, she is and she
sinC.
She is when it comes to strictly off,
Gill affairs connected with her posi-
ti0f as wife of the President of the
United States and the Nations official
hnstess. But when it comes to accept
ing an invitation from a civic, ma
tinial or international organization
otvoted to public order, welfare or
scuie movement for the benefit of
charity, she does not quibble at the
foam and wording of the invitation,
but when expedient she accepts it.
Not long ago she was invited "to
rleet" judge of one of the lesser
courts--which, of course, was not ac-
cor,iing to State Department protocol,
arc her attention was called to the
fo1n of invitation, when she Smilingly
answered, I'VE are all interested in
the same work" You see, the average
voter does not know that there is a
division of protocol and conferences in
t1e Department of State, and that all
o1it ial etiquette is cut and dried and
put away in lavender. Neither do they
know that there is that particularly
cha r1ning person, Mr.. Charles Lee
Cock, who is the arbiter elegantarium
OF NVashington's official you may and
you may not"
Now If one goes to see the Post
master General, and he asks the Wis
ior to sit-he knows that he is
going to get something. But, on the
otlnsr hand, if Mr.. Farley remains
ssrding-nothing doing. BY the way,
be likes that photograph of himself
which usually occupies place of
hono:' in his office. The main rea-
Sm III that it shows him with beau
tifu. full suit of hair. It was taken
when he was young working man in
the prime Of vigorous youth. OF
curse, he's only 46 now. Apropos of
that nirsute adornment, statistics re-
v,aleti that more hair tonic is sold
II, insn than women. 1t may be a
cise If vanity or too much hat.
Not, "Oh, that mine enemy had
written a book" but oh, that my
friends and associates had not written
s,lcll volumes of letters and been so
pssoial and conflding, Is the lament
OF Ia. Carse, president of the Elec-
tic IIoat Co., private armament con-
tractor extraordinary and plenipoten-
tiarT throughout the world. Master of
well chosen, delightfully."- exact English,
with. touch of sentiment now and
tlierl in his business dealings.
TIE ever effervescent debutante
would say MIR. Carse has a lovely
whiky voice; just the correct huSki-
ness; just the right light and shade
whea Senator Champ Bennett Clark
OF Missouri interrogates him-say
rattle severely; bit pryingly and it
mig II be audaciously. But Mr.. Carse
has quite the diplomatic manner and
tact lily answers with astounding
flar ness which sometimes puts the
Senate Investigating Committee on
Arm ments off its guard.
IF one has gone down in a subma-
rine up in a contact plane, ridden on
a hook and ladder truck or run off
with his neighbor's wife-he still has
one rlore thrill coming to him if he
has lot seen Senate investigating
comm ittee In action.
It's awfully interesting to watch the
stlons of the Senate getting ready to
sl,rhlt a question that they think
woule floor any witness. Senator
Clark. when he is about to offer an
especially exciting or revealing exhibit,
Sc stiles himself in his chair, takes one
lorg pull at his short black pipe, gives
the person to be interrogated a tri-
unphant look and begins. If the
question to be propounded or the let
tar to be read is somewhat incriminat-
irg, the Senator rolls off the sentences
ir rounded periods, sometimes accom-
panied by lift of the eyebrows and
sfrdoilic smile.
Mr. Spear, vice president of the
Electric Boat Co., is more business
ike in voice and tone and parties a
qlestlon more adroitly than Mr..
Carse And last week the commit
TIE came little too close to the
powder of Mr. Lammot and Mr..
Felix du Pont of the De Nemours Co.,
q I'D there was fare up.
The committee room where the