The Washington times., 1935-01-30
NOW
QuintupLets Irk
Mr.. Wallace
COURT SPEEDY
BY HELEN ESSARY

OOON1 Ox ILO1
BY HELEN ESSARY
Taxi driver, is it awfuIIy slip
perry in the snow this morning."
"I'll say it is. This is the
worst day yet. Chains don't do
me any good. 1 can start al
right, but 1 can't stop. So 1
Just shut my eyes and keep on
gOing!"
Secretary Wallace is a gentle,
kindly person. He is Soft.voiced
and slow in anger. But
Secretary Wallace is about to
commit murder!
The first time he was told the
Joke he laughed brightly.
The tenth time he smiled.
The fiftieth time, he merely
parted his lips.
The succeeding 6,946 times,
Mr.. Wallace set his jaw and
ground his teeth.
But he's made up his mind.
One storytelling career will be
In S t a n tly and permanently
ended the seven thousandth
time somebody says:
"Have you heard this one, Mr..
Secretary? It's about the DiOnne
quintupletS. People say they'd
never been allowed to live if the
New Deal was working in
Canada. The Department of
Agriculture would have plOughed
under at least two"
The Supreme Court of the
. United States takes its lunch to
work.
Every day at 2 o'clock, on the
second, in the middle of a
whereas the plaintiff" (if neces-
Sary), the nine justices stop
short, put aside their robes of
dignity and honor and proceed
In the costume if not the deport-
ment of average citizens to their
lunch boxes.
At some time during the morn.
ing, uniformed chauffeurs have
conveyed appetizing sandwiches
with hot thermos bottle accom-
panimentS to a special cubby
hole near the Supreme Court
room of the Capitol. Here the
justices must eat and eat quietly.
The court recess is a mere 80
minutes-not long enough to
get to a lunch room and back.
in time for the next session of
the court.
In the Temple of Justice, the
new home of the Supreme Court,
will be proper restaurant.
ThereW be no necessity for
hasty shoe-box picnicking there.
More news about the judici-
ary!
One of the few Washington
gentlemen actually entitled to
the name Judge" is Hugh Tate,
recently made chairman of the
Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. Judge Tate is from Ten
neSSee, where the lawyers grow
long-legged and pretty smart.
(See Cordell Hull and Speaker
Byrns.O
Before he came to Washing
ton, Judge Tate was judge of
the Chancery Court in Knox
vile. Judge Tate lives on Ma
comb Street with the best-look-
ing family you ever saw-big,
handsome girls and boys and a
very pretty wife.
About another gentleman in
the Judgment Seat.
Justice Proctor, of Criminal
Court. Number 2. drinks dozens
Of glasses of water during his
= Gaily sessions ION the bench
A messenger carries in paper
cups of water every half hour
or so. The ladies among his
Jurors say that this Water-drink-
ing habit is undoubtedly the
cause of the Justices rosy
cheeks.
And so they are going to
take up the habit, too.
Protocol and the President
Department:
Nobody in this country out
ranks the President of the
United States. Therefore. &C.
cording to the State Depart
ment dictum, nobody may leave
q party until the President has
gone.
> Not that Mr.. Roosevelt goes
to many parties. But when he
does
At the famous dinner of the
Vice President and Mrs. Garner
the other night, the President
had such a marvellous time he
stayed until quarter to one
o'clock. No other guest could
b leave at the official 10:30 (even
If he wanted to-which h e
didn't.)
Nor would the excuse of
tomorrow will be a hard day"
hold. There was Mr.. Roosevelt,
whose job is running a country
of a hundred and twenty-five
million people, lingering blithely
on!"
Eds de Philippe, who sang
Violetta in La Traviata" at
Constitution Hall so gor-
geously last night, is longing
to publish a book of poetry.
For the last ten years Eds,