The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-14
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Labor leaders refer to the
Secretary Of Labor as-Per'
kinS!
Precedent-b ound weaklhgs
may worry over the proper adj
dress for the first woman mem
Der Of the Cabinet. But not the
gentlemen Of the unions.
It's Hopkins" and "Ickes"
and wallace" So why not
"PerkinS"? No feminist could
ask for less discrimination.
Besides, what is fame? Our
manicurist's husband is an as
sistant supervisor at the Labor
Department. We asked her the
other day what he thought OF
Miss Perkins.
'tMiSS whO?"
'Miss Frances Perkins. She's
the Labor Secretary, isn't She?"
The eyes lifted from the nail
file were blank.
''Maybe she Is. Anyhow, my
husband wouldn't bother much
with her"
More seriously speaking, Fran
ces Perkins is a delightful per
son in her own home. Molly
Dewson, who helps run the
Democratic party, wrote this to
me of her visit at Frances
Perkins summer cottage IN
Maine:
81 was in Newcastle and
found Frances Perkins in her
ancestral home on tie River
Road. The fine old square
brick house, with its wander.
ing ell, the friendly trees, clip
ped grass and New England
flowers, spoke of harmony and
the beauty of life. And she
said, for years and years my
people have known how to
achieve and how to live"
I try to keep up with the
times, if it kills me. But the
air-cooling trick ought to be
unanimous or not at all.
During August shopping trip,
in and out of air-cooled and
Summer-heated stores, the un-
certain pulse leaps and col
lapses. The nerves spring and
flop. And the misguided body
is likely to fall prone on its
face on any F Street pavement.
The local paper at Rehoboth
Is almost as naive as this col
umn. Sometimes it too is con.
fused by names.
Its editorial about the direc.
tor Of the late NRA said prac'
tically this:
Donald Richberg is in Re.
hObOth. When Gen. Hugh john
son looked about for q success
sOr he saw Richberg. Richberg
is a smart man. He plays golf
at the Rehoboth Country Club
every day. Sometimes he plays
eighteen holes. Mrs. Richberg
is good, too"
Then this about the Minister
of Iran and Madame DALAI:
among the newcomers to the
beach are Iran and Madame
DALAI"
Mr.. Richberg, by the way.
Grapes himself on the Rehoboth
sands in a beach robe that
makes him look like Mark An
thony in a toga-come to bury
Huey, not to praise him.
The fact is. however, that
the book Mr.. Richberg is now
writing doesn't even mention
the General.
The irrepressible Agriculture
Department has discovered
that only dogs with a low I.
@. take a second bite at a
toad. Says the department:
"A dog may bite a toad once,
but if he does it a second time
it proves he has a low intel.
ligence quOtient. When the in.
experienced dog bites q toad,
q bitter taste is produced by
the poisonous fluid from the
glands behind the tOad's eyes.
Skunks, snakes and birds Of
prey don't mind the flavor.
They eat tOads, however they
taste.
Jimmy Sloan, one of the
smartest men the Secret Service
ever produced, is back in har'
ness. For years he was in pri'
vate misunderstanding his for
tune, so they say.
He ran a brokerage office
for a time, and did other ex-
citing things. But he never lost
his love for the service"
Back in the Theodore Roose-
velt-Taft era, Mr.. Sloan was
chief of the White House group
of bodyguardsmen. He stayed
on under Mr.. Wilson and was
a dashing figure in those in
teresting days.
Now he Is again on the firing
line. He no longer travels with
the President or takes crank
visitors to the White House into
camp.
Instead, he is keeping a very
sharp eye on Red" activities
throughout the country. And a
sharp eye it is. Malefactors
found that out long time ago.
The American University is
rejoicing this summer in the
Rockefeller Foundation grant
Of $4,000 for the training of
SPECIALISTS for rerSonnel service