The Washington times., 1937-07-02
NOW
Ministers Pay
D. G. Visit
ON FINANCES
BY HELEN ESSARY

visiting Washington. The latest
to arrive, Hon. r. G. Casey, OF
Australia, came to Washington
on wednesday. With Mrs. Casey,
he is sightseeing about the town,
being entertained and observing
American flora and fauna.
The other two visiting finance
ministers, DR.. H. H. Kung, Chi
nese finance minister, and the
Brazilian minister of finance, Ar
turo Souza Costa, came to Wash
1ngton last week.
There could be no significant
unanimity of purpose in the 81
multaneous calls of the gentle
men of the balanced and unbal-
anced budgets. No three coun-
tries are more remote from each
other in the geography books and
in their habits than Australia,
Brazil and China.
Each finance minister, soon
after arriving in the Capital, called
on Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, jr.
can get no verbatim record
of their conversations. But Sus-
pect they followed the same pat
tern. -.
The strangers were enchanted
to see Mr.. Morgenthau. He was
enchanted to see them. He vel
coined them to Washington. They
admired his beautiful Capital and
his $50 gr-rr-eat President"
Then, polite preliminaries over,
they probably sat down to a eau
tious discussion Of financial con-
ditionS at home and abroad.
Spoke happily Of returning pros
perity. Smiled excessively and
said good-by.
At the reception given for the
Chinese Foreign Minister DR..
Kung by the Chinese Ambassador,
pretty Miss Yoeh Wang, her abb
sent mothers hostess at the EN-.
basSy, and the lovely An-fu Wang,
took time to suggest name for
Mrs. George Barnett'S new Pekin-
csc.
Mrs. Barnett, who lived in China
when her late husband was naval
attache, has delightful memories
of the Far East.
After much animated debate
BAL Lin PIE, meaning white Col
lar" was the name selected for
the puppy, because he has a def
mite white collar in his soft, brown
fur.
BAL Lin PIE is one of four new
Pekinese babies recently born to
Taishan beautiful mountain)
and Ting Hau (Number One)
Mrs. Barnett has another Pekin-
ese, Tai Tai. Seven in all.
It has been said before, IN de-
Scriptions of the Chinese AmbaSsa-
doris garden party, but I should
like to say it again. The Chinese
women there were as exquisite
as ivory miniatures. They wore
native costumes in colors more
glaring than the sunset-gcrgeous
roses, puppies, and blues.
I can't be sufficiently enthusi-
astic about the beauty Of these
Orientals. They had ravishing
figures Swathed in dresses that
managed somehow to emphasize
every graceful line; gardenia
skins, tiny well-shaped hands and
smiles, I adored them all. I
wish American women had their
charm.
Today is Dog Day in this
column. Runa Of Rannoch. a
big Scottish wolf hound, has
been made immortal.
Runa almost made that famous
biographer, DR.. Emil Ludwig. miss
his train out of the Capital. DR..
and Mrs. Ludwig dashed down to
see Runa at the home Of her
adopted parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Herrick, in Alexandria.
DR.. Ludwig, who understands the
lives Of the past and present cele-
brities, heard about Runa'S beauty
and intelligence from a mutual
friend in the Indian Bureau. The
biographer promptly cut short an
interview with Very DiStin-
guished Citizen who is helping
him with his life of Mr.. Roosevelt,
end hurried off to Virginia.
DR.. Ludwig found Runa and her
five children so charming that
he didn't mind having his smart
tie torn to shredS and his Eng.
lish tweeds muddied from their
too affectionate caress. The Lud-
wigs have many dogs and once
owned a famous Scottish wolf
hound-Abraham Lincoln.
When criticism of Secretary
Frances Perkins, now struggling
through labor's upheaval, is fly
ing sharply. I think of what Lady
Nancy AStor said recently:
NATURALLY Miss Perk ms
would be severely judged. She
Is q woman"
I agree with Lady Aston.
ANY woman member Of the
Cabinte. in this country. at any
rate, must be a hundred times as
clever as any man member to be
considered half as good as the
gentlemen.
To seem a success to skeptical
males and to none too loyal fe-
males-she must have the vir-
tues Of both sexes and vices Of
neither.
She must be as wise as Solo,