Evening star., 1935-07-21
About Well-Known Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
sartorial Perfection in the Congress
Kipling and Dictionary-The
Hammond Museum.
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.
It is rapidly developing that what
the world needs is not scent cigar,
but eonite, that cure-all Of Mr.. War
bucks. For if there were eonite the
Congress would not need to go dron-
ing on like a sleepy child-crosS, hot,
fuming and peevish-who will not go
to bed without fuss.
With just few grains of such a
cure-all injected into the august body
and the hare-the-wealth program
would 60 through in jiffy; the abund-
ant life would be teeming for all; SEN
ator Carter Glass would not have to
take up time arguing about birth
control for the queen bees and Sen
ator Tydings of Maryland would not
have to pick crabs off Secretary Ickes
in order to show him that he bears
him no Ill will and that he had not
hoped that the tenacious little crus-
tacean would give him nasty squeeze
or two before the Senator pried him
loose. All is fair in love and war,
whether it be in the Virgin Islands
or Senate investigating committee,
and history shows that even In war
there are those who practice human
ity.
The world seems to have nervous
prostration, and the weather last week
was just too intolerable for even the
men, women and little children sleep
ing cut in the parks, because you
know their houses are not air cooled
except in Winter-the abundant life
was a haZy utopian dream to them
and the heat irritating.
Handsome, aristocratic ex-Gov.
Ritchie of Maryland, the beloved and
pride of the old families Of the State,
looked cool and elegant, however, the
other day when he addressed the Ma
tional Convention of the Ancient Or
der of Hibernians, meeting at Balti-
more. Notwithstanding the torrid
heat-maybe because of it-he took
q fling at the New Deal, pledged him
self to faith in the infallibility of the
Supreme Court and said wealth, as
such, "is not an evil" that it may be
acquired by honest endeavor and skill
and may be used as an instrument for
vast good and, quote: " I" should
not be ruthleSSly torn to pieces or
confiscated, or divided up with those
who have not the ability or the genius
to produce it,"
There are many, especially these
campaigning for Community Chest
funds and for other charities, who
would agree with the distinguished
Ex-Governor, that the rich are not
to be sneezed at, for when it comes
to feeding and clothing the poor.
money cannot be collected from their
kind-but Representative Martin L.
Sweeney of Ohio, stout defender
Of the administration and former
president of the Hibernians took ex-
ception and got rothy at Mr.. Ritchie' s
attack on the New Deal, and said
the guest speaker was invited there
to make a historical and scholarly
address and not to express his opin-
ion on the Deal. These are parlous
times-and oh, the weather!
Senator Bob Reynolds of North
Carolina-the Beau Brummel of the
Upper Chamber and Senator McAdoo
of California, may have felt the heat
dreadfully during these sizzling days
last week, but they looked as cool as
the proverbial cucumber. Their linen
suits-a Swanky cut-were immacu-
late and were noticeable among the
w1lted seersuckers Of many of the
members. Dancing is Senator Nc
Adoo's favorite recreation even In hot
weather and whether dancing in the
open or in a crowded ball room ap-
pears unruf11ed.
If one did not feel that he just
had to go up to Congress now and
then to try to find out just what is
what. he certainly would not 60 dur
ing the heat. Oh, but those charm
ing ladies of the House and that lone
one in the Senate, who writes delec-
table limericks, are some compensa-
ton, and never looked snappier than
they have during those pre-dog days.
Representative Isabella Greenway, one
of the beauties of the House has
looked positively lovely in her cool
Summer frocks and those cute little
gadgets she puts on and so did Mrs.
Edith Nourse Rogers, she of the For
eign Relations Committee and friend
Of the gentlemen in spats and top
pers, who represent their country in
the drawing rooms abroad and who
suffered dreadfully during the de-
preston. Mrs. Rogers looks cool and
collected when she slips quietly into
the Lower Chamber and sits down by
Mrs. Kahn. Charming, dainty, well
dressed, but when she shuts her lips
tight together and shades her head,
even the lady from California, who
Is looked upon by the women repre-
sentatives as one who knows. just
says nothing more. No argument.
BY the way Mrs. Kahn says, women
have come of age politically and can
take the bit in their teeth. There is
Mrs. Norton of New Jersey-who long
since found that women could be