The Washington times., 1936-03-19
NOW
'GreGt Public
Face Seen
ABOUT SIDE
By HELEN ESSARY


Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote
beautiful story about 'The Great
Stone Face"
Somebody in Washington ought
to write a story, preferably a beau
tiful one, about THE Great Pub
lie Face"
The Great Public Face is
rampant in the Capital, and
whether it comes from Maine, Min
nesota. the Florida Swamps or the
corn belt, it settles into the Same
Face by the next cherry blossom
time.
I sat at a big official dinner
the other night-as befits per-
son of no rank-way down at the
end Of the party where they put
the extra piece on the table cloth
and the table legs run together.
This position of unimportance
gave me a chance to study the
profile Of every Cabinet member
except Mr.. Swanson, who was
i'll and not preSent-of the Speak
er of the House, the Chairman Of
three New Deal departments, two
Supreme Court Justices, six Sen.
ators and of two neWSpapermen
and three lobbyists.
I decided that with the eXcep.
ton of Mr.. Henry Wallace, Secre-
tary of Agriculture, and Mr.. Har'
old Ickes, Secretary of the In.
terror, all Distinguished Profiles
would have merged neatly into an
artists composite photograph OF
the American Public Face.
The Silhouettes were almost
identical-prominent noses, jut.
ting chins, wide, thin oratorical
mouths, detached impersonal eyes.
DR.. Harold G. Moulton, who, as
head of the Brookings Institution,
that organization of deep research
and high discrimination, meets
and knows the Big People in.three
hemiSphereS, says that the Really
Great are unaffected and easy to
know.
DIR. Moulton declares he has
never met a man who helped make
the world go round. who bothered
to put on dog or side" or take
himself hard"
These last phrases I must con-
fesS are columniSt words, not the
literary elegancies of DR.. Moulton
but you know what I mean.
Bits of the Washington World
Gentleman at last nights gath.
ing swore he was going to vote the
Republican ticket in November be-
cause he didn't like the way Mr..
Roosevelt managed the wild duck
preserves.
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
mostly arrives breathless and
apologize and-half an hour late
for dinner. Recent hostess, un-
derStanding this tendency, told
her cook to serve dinner half IN
hour later than announced time.
Mrs. Longworth, to CONSERVATION
Of hostess, arrived promptly (and
as usual breathleSs. She thought
she was late). Dinner guests
waited half hour for meal.
am going to the Lobby Inves-
tigation today. Expect to see on
the witness stand most of the
gentlemen who make Washington
parties so agreeable.
Mrs. Winthrop Chanler, met at
luncheon at Mrs. Hugh Campbell
Wallace's, said she had been rid.
ing horseback in the park ever
since the end of o'clock mass
at the Benedictine Monastery at
Catholic University. Mrs. Chan
Ter. who wrote that charming
"Roman Spring" is sister Of
the late E. Marion Crawford, the
novelist.
Mr.. Justice McReynolds, the
dissenting Tennessean, has a cook
who creates apple pie as poet
gives birth to Spring roundelay.
Mr.. Justice McReynolds has the
pie brought in whole, quarters it
neatly and serves it proudly.
Visitor from Richmond says the
town is in a state of pleasant de.
lirium at the prospect of enter
tanning one thousand Junior
League members in April.
Each one of the towns Best
Bachelors has been given the
happy responsibility of two dele.
gates, sight unseen.
Each Richmond Junior Lacquer
must open her house to the visit
ors and provide one meal in the
three-day convention. Enterpris.
ing delegates undoubtedly will be
able to rustic up the other prov
ender.
The Gold Standard has it's uses
and why not? From New York
comes this anecdote of a Park
Avenue cocktail party.
The Wall Street contingent
came Storming in at $50. Big.
strong men they were, knowing,
wise, looking very HarvardiSh
and Saville Rowish.
A little girl, just up from a
small town in the Deep South,
stood near one of the towering
mountains of finance. She was a
small ball of fluff, helpless, fragile
and lost.
''TeIl me-" she said, looking up
to his great height, "teII me