Evening star., 1936-01-12
About Well-KnOWn Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
Where Was Old Hickory Born? Life Not All
Beer and Skittles to Repre-
sentative Jenckes.
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

BY ROBERT CRAWFOhD.
Great day in the mawnin' Liza, Mr.
shylock's pound Of flesh was not q
pennyweight to the amount of beauti-
full pink and white flesh on parade at
the Jackson day dinner last Wednes-
Glay night. The amount of materia4 In
some of those gorgeous gowns-well,
Il was nobody's business. but it was
by large majority below the mahog-
any instead above Old Hickory would
surely have had an eyefull could he
have been present The only jack
sonian simplicity in evidence was the
dinner jackets and black ties of the
men. Mrs. Roosevelt, as usual, was
exquisitely gowned in square-neck
front and high back. She has a sixth
sense Of the eternal fitness of things.
There must be some prosperity
somewhere when so many people can
get together $50. for one dinner. and
too, no champagne, caviar or canvas
backs on the menu. The happy
warrior" was not Thereof tn Brute?-
but will be heard by thousands of radio
listeners when he addresses the Liberty
League dinner on the 18th. This will
doubtless be another yellow boy repast
for the league. hardly out of its
swaddiing clothes. during 1885 was
able to spend s3Ss,973 on salaries,
clerical hire. travelling and Office ex-
penses-this may have included the
ISL 900 paid to Mr.. Jouette Shouse, for
salary and travelling, also incidentals.
This salary is only short of $24 900 paid
the President of the United States
by 150,000,000 people.
Going back to the Jackson day din
ner: 1t is a curious fact that the
birthplace of Gen. Jackson has never
been settled to the satisfaction OF
many-especially to the people of the
South. In Union County, N. c., is q
monument which the citizens of the
old North State believe marks his
birthplace. while in Lancaster County.
S. c., is another monument which was
erected to mark the site of his nativity.
AS a matter Of note, Old Hickory goes
the immortal author Of the Iliad one
better, for eight places are given
some credence as the scene of his ad-
vent into the world. There is an old
rhyme which goes something like this:
Seven cities claimed Homer dead,
through which when living he begged
bread-that is just bit Of doggerel
recalled from childhood rhymes, not
o quotation.
Ireland. England. Yorke County,
Pa; Augusta County, Va: Berkeley
County, Va, now West Virginia; North
and South Carolina, and even the
high seas claim the hero of New
Orleans as their own,
Rep. Jenckes Wears Satin
Very Long and With q Train.
But all that is not this, but Repre-
sentative Jenckes+she too, had good
deal Of lovely satin on the f1oor-was
one of the Jacksonian Democrats at
the dinner. Right here. may it be
said whoever thinks the life of a
woman member of Congress is all beer
and skittles. pink teas and $50 din
ners, should look in now and then on
Mrs. Virginia Ellis Jenckes. who rep
resents the sixth Indiana district in
the House. Some of her colleagues
have wondered how she does so much
in a day and still keeps up her en-
thusiaSm and energy.
Maybe it's because between tele-
phone messages, consultations with
her Office staff and arranging her
daily calendar and attending commit
tee meetings, she will stop and dis
cuss, in her quick, intense manner, a
question of legislation or tell a bit
Of snappy gossip. She likes the touch
and so of political life and, like Abou
Ben Adhem, loves her fellow men.
When seen few days ago, she was
much delighted with recent success
in the culinary art. Her cook had
had rather nasty accident and was
hors de combat, so Representative
Jenckes rose early. cooked breakfast.
dressed turkey for roasting after
her old-fashioned recipe and pre-
pared the vegetables for dinner: It
being Sunday she attended services,
dined of that turkey, dictated some
letters. went to Miss Josephine Roche's
tea in the afternoon; to the town
hall at night to near Gov. Ely OF
Massachusetts, and DR.. Elliot of Har-
ward and Tennessee, debate on the
Constitution; then to a supper in DR..
Elliot's honor: Home and to bed and
up be-times next morning and to the
Capitol Could the immortal Pepys
have uone more?
The Representative belongs to the
progressive wing Of the Democratic
party approved Of the Presidents
message on the state of the Union
-. was much disappointed over the
Supreme Court decision on the
A. A. A. because it is her firm con-
viction that it gave the farmers the
biggest relief they have had In the
last IS years. She Is a practical
farmer herself-not one of those who
raises bushel of corn that costs its
weight in gold, or a pedigreed hog