The Bismarck tribune., 1935-03-27
Dehind the Scenes
- in Washington
WITH RODNEY OUTCHER
(Trlbuns Washington CoFFesDonAent)

PwA Pictures Barred BY Madame Secretary Are in 0rsat
Demand ;. Mills u in Embarrassing Position with
His Farewell Watch Garner Prefers Ap9aejaek.
Washington, March 27.-The free civil works paint
ings which Secretary Perkins and mnions speaking Tor
her refused to allow in the new Department Of Labor
building have for the most part found happy homes.
1t even seems that the half dozen pictures which
Miss Perkins for various reasons turned back to Ad-
ministrator Harry Hopkins the donor. acquired .
tain added attraction by virtue Of the publicity they
received q the only PWAP products which anyone
here ever spurned as gift They were eagerly sought
Checking up on some Of them one finds they are now
Portrait Of steinmetz. the inventor, rejected "be
cause people would think it was Trotsky' office Of
Ful-length view Of a not-overdressed ballet dancer,
unfit for labor walls because 1t was too gay offics OF
Edwin s Smith. National Labor Relations Board. who
has named it Spirit of Collective Bargaining"
Painting Of nude lady hiding behind some flowers
sent back with explanation that Madame Secretary
assistant attorney general, who thinks it's swell
Picture Of Lincoln writing Gettysburg address. which
might offend people from the south: Lincoln College
jefferson City, Mo-, Negro institution whose president
wrote and asked for it.
TWO MAKE YOU THINK
Those PWAP pictures are hung in every govern
ment building in town, of course Many Of them are
celent painting Of unusually clown
in the office OF the NRA Advisory Council.
In secret office used BY investigators for the ssn-
ate munitions committee two striking arrangements
by one Lewis f. Rubinstein Of New York
One "Chlorine" depicts both the use Of that
article in laboratory by scientists apparently
bent humane purposes and its employment
rs war gas. with girls handling cans Of it In
factory and gssptng doughboys succumbfng TO
It on the battlefield
where nitrogen il used fertilizer then more battle
fields where huge guns booming forth munitions pre-.
sumaby containing it-with layer Of helmeted skee-
tons beneath.
HIS FACE Is SCARLET
One Of the most embarrassed men in town is DR..
Dr. Mills resigned few weeks ago. sore. The
boards staff Clipped in to buy him nice watch, in
scrtbing it with admiration and affection" He Va
deeply moved. He went back home to Chicago No
one expected to see him any more.
Then the administration persuaded Mills to return
kidding him about the watch. Did he pretend to leave
just to get watch? Is he going to quit every couple
Of weeks and eventually start jewelry store? Mills
comeback.
OTHER SOCIETY NOTES
Jim West, former White House correspondent, and
boss the Republicans in the les2 cam
paign superintended removal Of the Bethlehem Steal
Companys many boxes Of records from the munitions
man here for most Of the munitions concerns. Vice
President Jack Garner, partial to whisky foe many
long year, has come around - pto9oten0e f0e APPLE
jack Senator Royal 8. Copeland who he's On more
than one occasion been described bit Of bare.
has been making speeches to the Senate about what
he calls "Amurrcanism." -. Senator Matt Nicely a.
West Virginia was reading newspaper corie sectjons
during the last Huey Long speech. oenatee Wassoa
nsrbour Of New Jerssy not In quite ths physsaj
shape - when he was amateur heavyWoght ehamplon,
likes 70 pull two chairs together and 18Th dausne
ouaiy when he dts down. In case you wonder what
happened to John Curry, boas Of Tammany Hall until
Roosevelt and Farley annexed 1t, he's s "a the nsur-
businsss in New York Down here the ohas day 70
see his son, who attends Georgetown University he
found time for visit with Senator joo oufloy et the
Capitol.
fcoDyright. 1885 NIA Service. lne)
e those Kansas dust storms continue. anyone Who
wants 70 visit the state may have to organise
theological expedition.
Should the movie industry decide to move to Florida
number Of actresses viii undoubtedly put up kick.
would taks them longer 70 ct haek and forth IRON Rene
yoe oongrossmsn the god old days vere those wteu
they could answer their fan NAH with couple Of pack
ages q seeds.