The daily independent., 1937-07-28
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By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

Ito be shaved but once in two days
His beard grows pretty long IN
two days, but it's white and you
don't notice it so much
Glad-Hand Diplomat
When the State Departments
julius C. Holmes goes tripping
about to glad-hand the foreign
visitors as they arrive in U. S.
ports, he recalls the time when
he first arrived in Washington
and found top hats and military
band on the station platform.
That was dozen years ago,
and Holmes was fresh from the
wheat fields of Kansas. He had
passed an examination for the
foreign service and hurried to
washington for instructions.
Thrilled with the glamor OF
being a diplomat, Holmes stepped
off the train at the Union Station,
buttoned his double breasted coat,
and looked about to see who was
there to greet him.
He was pleasantly surprised.
On the platform was deputation
of protocol officers in spats and
top hats. And this was not all.
Suddenly there was a blare OF
trumpets. and an Army band broke
forth in a stirring salute OF well
come.
The color mounted to the
cheeks of the young recruit. Next
the military guard drawn up on
the platform presented arm with
a fine flourish.
Il shall write home about this, "
Holmes thought.
Suddenly he turned and beheld
a competitor. From another train
there stepped a SWarthy, heavy
set figure in a top hat. The band
played more Justify, and the pro-
tocol officers advanced to meet
not Holmes but Gerardo Machado,
President elect of Cuba. arriving
in Washington for a visit with
the President of the United States.
Calvin Coolidge.
Kansas Holmes retreated hastily
into the background and left the
stage to the Cuban. Thus was he
introduced to protocol parties, OF
which he is now maestro, ring
master, and impreSario rolled into
one.
Note-JuliuS Holmes is Son-in-
law of Henry Allan, former Gov
ernor of Kansas and Senator from
that State.
Merry -GO-ROund
The first polo shirt has made
| it's appearance on thu floor of
Congress. sported by Representa-
tive John J. Delaney of Brooklyn
Kent E. Keller of Illinois
broke the ground for Delaney by
coming into the chamber with a
polo shirt with necktie. Delaney
left off the necktie George
P. Darrow. defeated for reelection
to Congress by the swing to
Democracy in Philadelphia, is
back in cushioned seat in the
House of Representatives. Res
cued by old Republican cronles,
he has been given the $4,000 job
of minority clerk, a sinecure E.
ANNOYED by the noise of visitors
scrambling to and from seats in
Senate galleries, Key Pittman,
President pro tempore of the Sen
ate. is studying a new type or
chair for the galleries. It's seat
would spring up silently when the
occupant rose Among the
most constant Senate gallery fans
are two ladies of the official fam
ily: Mrs. John j. Dempsey
youthful wife of the Congressman
from New Mexico, and Dorothy
M. Rynders, blonde aide to Sen
ator Duffy of Wisconsin.
Wearing white stockings with a
white summer dress, Indiana
CongresSwCman Virginia E.
Jenckes looks like a trained nurse.
Outside the mahogany door
of the office of Secretary of State
Cordell Hull sits Hulls Negro
messenger, Clayborne Tenielle
engrosSed in the lyric passages OF
Omar Khayyam.