The Washington times., 1935-03-11
NOW
Mr.. Hoover NOW
A Nice FeILOW'
"WORK" RELIEF
By HELEN ESSARY


weeks of being charming, we'll
dressed, amusing, sophisticated,
zestful, blase, enthusiastic, ex-
travagant, and knowing with
the Right People at the Right
Time, it is cheering to read
"SAlt of Vermont"
Walter Hard wrote these
stories Of the Green Mountain
people and dedicated them to
Dorothy Garfield Fisher.
In Hospitality" one of the
best of the collection, a thrifty
old Vermonter kept in a paper
covered memorandum book a
record of everyone he had had
in for a meal. The entertain
ing of the Parson he charged
up against "The Lords Ac-
count"
At the end of a year the
Vermonter read the summary
of his own hospitality" sighed
deeply, and said:
"WeIl, figger we give away
durin' the year 16 meals and
victuaIS."
But as he tapped the floor
with his cane, he added brightly:
"But we got IA Of 'em back"
A man we know, who makes
q speciality of celebrities, sur"
prised us after a recent visit
to New York by saying:
'I've at last met Herbert
HOOver!"
"But you've known him for
years."
"Never met him before. I've
known President Hoover, and
Secretary of Commerce Hoover.
But this is my first acquaint-
ance with Herbert Hoover.
He's a nice fellow, too. Having
o swell time being natural and
out of office.
"For instance, when he wants
10 eat a hot dog in roll, from
q public lunch room table, he
eats it. Nobody remarks on his
lack of dignity.
"The joke of it is he could
have been spontaneous while
he was in the White House, if
he had only known. 1t would
have given him a great COM
mon appeal as it does the
ROOSeveltS."
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle,
wife of the dean of George
Washington University, and vice
president of the Board of Edu-
cation in her own right, has a
secret recipe for raisin bread,
is a graduate of Radcliffe Col
lege, a good mother and a first
class cook.
Rev. ZeBarney Phillips, chap
lain of the United States
Senate and rector of Epiphany
Church, is the son of singing
Methodist evangelist whose
voice rivaIed that of the ia"
NOUS Sankey.
ZeBarney, himself. is a fine
musician. AS a young man he
was organiSt in several Episco-
pal churches. The ritual of the
church so impressed him that
Immediately after his marriage
he went to oxford University
and studied for the ministry.
Choir boys coming to Epiph-
any for weekly rehearsals often
find the rector at the organ.
Apropos of Harry Hopkins
statement that some 20,500, 900
persons are on relief, a greater
number than ever before in the
history of the country, a lady
from Boston sent us this con-
tribution:
"The sign said Men Working
''It was one of those more
than chilly days in February.
The men working were in a
cheerful group around a brisk
fire built by the side of a much
ChOpped-up street. Spades and
ShOvelS rested at all angles on
WheelbarrOWS.
""The only difference be-
tween direct relief anG work re-
lief said my husband, taking in
the Scena with aStute New Eng
land eyes, is that work relief
gets them out in the fresh air. :"
We hate the way telephone
operators treat us sometimes.
We even think they tell the
teacher on us when we don't
dial our number properly.
Congressional rows and in.
vestigations are a joy to tele-
graph companies. So are SEN
ators like Huey Long, Robin
son of Arkansas, Wagner Of
New York, Glass of Virginia,
Borah of Idaho, Norris Of
Nebraska, and others who talk
Importantly on important mat
terS.
Other senators talk for
hours at a time and produce
no wires or cables. Some of
these gentlemen would interest
the treasurer of the telegraph
company only if they died.
This is not because they are
not intelligent, but because
they are comparatively un.
known. Or because they say
AlanA L. aSzniHinnnr