The Washington times., 1936-02-26
Now
Here's Proposal
For Congress
REAL PIANIST
BY HELEN ESSARY

SAAOuA0 SOLuS uhy W w A'S IA "A>
White House there'd be daughter
In the new presidential family WHIT
could play on that $22,50O golc
lacquer piano in the East Room
rs well as the famous artists WHIT
have been coming in for years al
winter musicales.
Miss Betty Vandenberg, the
1ovely daughter of Senator anc
Mrs. Vandenberg, is pianist oi
unusual gifts. Also she has enor
NOUS blue eyes, Is very gracetu
and looks well when she plays.
This last quality, so the PeruV
ian Ambassador, Senor Don Man
uel de Freyre, who sat next to me
while she dashed off little things
by Brahms, Bach and CHOPIN
said, seldom happened.
Miss Vandenberg came down
from New York to entertain her
fathers guests.
Young Arthur Vandenberg, by
the way, is so like his father that
the resemblance is absurd.
The correspondent who wrote so
politely about Germany under
Herr Hitler for this column not so
long ago, sends sprightly sug
gestion from his late February re
treat in the south Of France:
'May 1 offer an amendment
to the Constitution?
'Tt Is that Congress shall meet
every other term outside the
United States On the French
Riviera, for instance.
'HOw do you expect the poor
harasSed men to do good job
when they have to dine out every
night and throw their minds and
their digestiOnS into daily con-
fusion, when they must hunt
Jobs for pOStmaSterS. deliver
long speeches for the Record
distribute free turnip seed, take
visitors from back home to call
ON the Vice President and the
Tomb of the unknown Soldier.
and shove lobbyists out Of their
way when they walk down The
Hill?
''Why couldn't Congress just
stretch out on the sands at
Cannes and, in the manner Of
the ancient school Of Athens.
talk things over quietly in a we'll
hammered way, with benefit Of
perspective and good wine?"
ROUND ABOUT
The resemblance Of Royal NC
Kenna, Washington lawyer, to
Paul Patterson, publisher OF the
Baltimore Sun, continues to ere
ate many amusing situations. MOI
long ago a Washington New
Dealer hurried up to Mr.. NC
Kenna and said firmly:
81 can't understand why you,
publishing what most people
think is meant to be a Dem
Ocratic paper, could permit
Frank Kent to write the sort OF
stories he does"
Mrs. Summer WelleS has a
chinchilla evening cape worth a
kings ransom, that she wears
casually and becomingly.
Senator Daniel O. Hastings. Of
Delaware, was so delighted at the
way q certain distinguished cltl
zen's dress shirt rose up around
his neck that he practically broke
ND a recent dinner party.
The share cropper agitation
has its amusing side. A share
cropper, you know. is a tenant
farmer in the South.
He is generally misunderstood
nv the man who owns the land
or thinks he is. Anyhow, the
share cropping difficulty is dis
tinctly Southern.
The Yankees, however, once Sc
gallant in the matter Of freeing
The slaves of other people, art
now heroically springing to th'
rescue Of the Southern shar
cropper. =,
Perhaps some day the South viii
rush across the Mason and DixoI
line and clean up the Northern
cotton mills.
That gay party given day or 81
ago by DR.. Ernest Meyer was reall,
quite sad. It was farewell din
ner for the romantic looking Loui
Michel, Of the Swiss Legation
who is soon to depart for Rome
The delightful young Herber
Blankenhorns, newly arrived a
the German Embassy from Athens
helped make the dinner amusin
Secretary of State Corden HUI
rises every morning at o'clocl
sharp. He sometimes sings Will
he shaves Saw Ferry Heath las
night and realizing again what
devastating bachelor he Is, n
gretted violently that he was no
included in recent article on EXtr
Men in Washington.
Now that Walter johnson ha
pitched a dollar across the rive
living becomes a dreadful antl-cl
max.
with the music going round an
round, Congress in session an
dollars being hurled recklessl
about, it appears that we are o
our feet and off our heads agar
In other words, back to norma
You can't keep America down.