The Washington times., 1935-01-26
NOW
Robbers! So No
Kidneys!
CRABS VS.. CODES
By HELEN ESSARY

ms, OUT CneVy CnaSe way, Co1o
me this story. The Bulkley
Griffins are honorable people.
So the story must be true.
Grilled kidneys were to be the
breakfast menu at Mr.. and Mrs.
Griffin's yesterday morning.
The morning arrived but no kid
neys.
I Mrs. Griffin asked of Emma
who markets as well as cooks:
. , "Where are the kidneys?"
II didn't get the kidneys, Miz
Griffin"
Didn't get the kidneys? Why
Emma when we specially
wanted them!"
"'But I didn't get them.'
Gust why didn't you get the
kidneys?"
"Well, Miz Griffin, I was in
the store doing my morning
shopping. And 1 said / wanted
some kidneys. Right then, two
gentlemen came in with guns
in their hands. And they held
up the butcher. And took $48
from him. And II just match.
ely didn't get the kidneys"
The Women'S Division Of the
Democratic National Commit
tee is going to have a Feminine
Brain Trust.
The first lady Brain Truster
Cor is it Trustee)? ? is arriving in
Washington, February 4. She is
Miss Harriet Wiseman Elliott.
And she is a college professor.
DR.. Elliott has been teaching
political science at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina for 81
years. Her college has given
her leave of absence to work
with the Women's Division of
the Democratic National Com
mittee, to explain to some 400
groups Of women already Or
ganized (and many more to
Gomez about the workings of
the New Deal. Director of
Study Groups" will be hear Of
fical title.
DR.. Elliott, Washington will
discover, has a vivid personal.
1ty. She believes tremendously
in anything she undertakes.
Peace is one of her hobbies
and the science of government
her daily job.
She has fine speaking
voice, has lots of energy, is
handsome, witty and has slick
black hair.
And-well-she will probably
send the masculine Brain Trust
hurrying to dictionaries and
reference books.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Wood
Robert, jr., are giving THE Lit
tie Cabinet" a party with recep-
tion,- supper and dancing on
Saturday, February 9, at the
1925 F Street Club.
Mr.. Robert, affectionate1y
known as "Chip" Robert (said
in one breath), is himself one of
the particular stars of "The
Little Cabinet" And it takes
personality, I assure you, to
shine in this environment, with
New Dealers dashing about the
place and gobbling up the thun-
der. Even the Big Cabinet has
had to hold on to the spotlight
by both hands.
The rush and zip of the Great
Change has left the human soul
tranquil in some pleasant por-
tions of this great land of ours.
I present to philosophers and to
certain rugged individualiSts the
following idyllic picture.
The Blue Crab code of fair
competition was having an NRA
hearing. NRA officials Sug-
gested that hourly records be
kept of the crab pickers' work
ing days. Whereupon one South.
ern employer shook his head,
sighed and said:
"Our hands work when they
feel like it and stop whenever
anything amuseS them. When
there's a railroad or a boat ex-
cursiOn, half the pickers take
the day off. When a watermelon
wagon passes, they stop to eat
q big piece down to the rind. A
road show comes along and no
work is done for an hour.
Gentlemen, it would be neceS-
sary to hire a time clerk to stand
at each door Of the crab houses
to keep track of the pickerS
and even then we wouldn't be
able to keep them steadily at
work."
Have you an anthropometrist
at your own fireside? Do you
want one? If you do, I know
where there's an extremely
pretty young one. Likewise,
she's quite feminine.
Her name is Nancy Allen
Finch. Her speciality is the sci
ence which is "the art or prac-
tice of measuring the parts of
the human body" Nancy be-
gan her study of-say it slowly
now - anthropometry at the
University of Colorado. She
measured ba abies in orphan
ASylumS also.
Miss Finch is the daughter
Of John wellington Finch. in
ternationally famous geologiSt
and engineer, who has just
come from the deanship of the
Bureau of Mines at the Uni