The Washington times., 1936-06-20
NOW
Sen. BOrdh'S S Hat
A POrtent?
IT STAYS PUT
BY HELEN ESSARY

and Mrs. william E. Borah were
taking a walk together in Rock
Creek Park yesterday. That Is
they were together, comparatively
speaking. The Senator was about
twenty feet ahead of his wife
Little Borah" was Strolling
along. picking flowers here and
there, and looking quite happy
On the Senator's head was a
hat as big as the love OF a
movie cowboy. 1t was cooked
neither to the right or to the
left. A likely portent, perhaps,
that the Gentleman from Idaho'S
hat would be thrown into neither
the Landon nor the Roosevelt
ring. But would remain firmly on
the Borah brow.
Saturday ROund-Up-Setting up
exercises are part of the early
morning routine for guests and
crew on the Sea Cloud, the yacht
owned by Mrs. Joseph w. Davies.
Mrs. Davies never misses the GYM
naSticS. Her guests indulge or
not as they wish.
The signature of Jesse Jones
covers almost as much territory
as does the big Texan. 1t some.
times is six inches long and
three and a quarter inches deep.
On an RFC bank loan it's often
been worth ten or twenty mil
lions.
In order to have a garden at
her house on Massachusetts Ave
nue. and Eighteenth Street, Mrs.
Hugh Campbell Wallace bought
the house next door, tore it down,
and built high wall and set out
grass and flower beds and installed
a few gentle fountains.
Rear Admiral C. R. Train isn't
at all sure that he likes being an
admiral, Other naval officers
treat him with too much respect.
When Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross,
Director II the Mint, goes to the
Democratic national convention,
she's going to fight to end the
two-third5 rule-which at past
Democratic conventions has made
it necessary for a nominee to be
the choice of two-thirds of the
delegates before he can be party
candidate.
Capt. Allan G. Kirk has been
assigned TO the command Of the
Milwauke9 and is about to depart
for a threa-year cruise.
The grave of John Hanson,
First President of the United
States IN Congress Assembled" is
at Oxon Hill, the home of the
Assistant Secretary of State and
Mrs. Sumner WelleS. John Han
sons headstone has disappeared.
A dairyman who once lived at
Oxon Hill used it as a slab on
which to rest his milk crooks.
When interviewed on the ap-
pearance OF "gangster's molls," Mr..
Henry Suydam, Special Assistant
to the Attorney General, said he
was a little vague about the ladies
choice of clothes. But as to their
hair, all of them, when under Sus-
picion, wore bright red wigs. This
disguise made their Identification
simple for the Department Of
Justice officials.
When the small brother of Miss
Eliza Mitchell, who is marrying
Corcoran Thorn, jr., this afternoon
at Grasslands, looked at his
sisters great collection of wedding
presents, he said:
"NOw, when do we have the
sale?"
The office of Governor W. I.
Myers, of the Farm Credit Ad-
miniStration is receiving hundreds
of requests from veterans owning
new bonus checks. The eX-SerVice
men want to use their sudden for
tunes as down payments on farms.
Governor Myers has good advice
for the veterans. And tells them:
Don't buy farm unless you
know how to farm"
Mrs. o. w. McNeese, wife of
Colonel McNeese of the U. S.
Army, has made a fascinating COM
parison of life today and two thou
sand years ago. She calls her
study, "Are We Modern?" With
lined quotations of Pope's tranSla-
tion of Homer's Iliad, she shows
that there's little new in life to-
day. Leagues of Nations, sane
tions, physiotherapy, and hun
dreds of other complaints were
commonplace when Aeneas was
a lad.
Frances Parkinson Keyes a n d
Izetta Jewell Miller have never
met or dined together in the
United States. But they have at
tended the same parties in China,
Italy and Brazil.
If you have never marched in a
torchlight procession-the great
opportunity awaits you. Join the
Roosevelt NominatorS-not the De-
nominatorS. March with the Dis
trict's voteless patriots on the
night of June 27 to the Griffith
Stadium and cheer like mad, just
for the fun of making noise.