The Washington times., 1937-05-07
NOW
Spring InvadeS
Press PdrleyS.
FISHING TALES
By HELEN ESSARY

ny HELEN GOOEAASA
Pernicious spring broke into two
recent press conferences of Messrs.
Ickes and Hopkins. The two gen.
tlemen who in the past have often
talked out loud about each others
peculiar ways, had recently re-
turned hand in hand from a little
fishing trip with President Roose-
welt. Under Mr.. Roosevelt's ami
able example the late enemies had
fished off practically the same
line.
The first conference effected
was that of Secretary Ickes. After
a meant-to-befuddle croSsexamina'
ton on great fiscal policies, one
newspaperman asked:
"Mr. Secretary, who caught
the bigger fish, you or Harry
HOpkins?n
Harry Hopkins"
@HOw much did he weigh?"
Either 100 or 10 pounds, de-
pending on. which way you
looked at the scales"
Next the gentlemen of the press,
bent ON lignthearted tale bearing,
attended Mr.: Hopkins conference.
There someone promptly re-
marked: IT,.
t.Mr. Hopkins, Secretary Ickes
said that the fish you caught
with the President weighed 100
or ITO pounds, depending on the
way you looked at it,"
He said quickly:
at weighed ITO pounds
whichever way you looked at
It,"
Then, softening a little, he
he added:
"By the way, they fish by
moonlight down there"
Seems an awful waste of
moonlight" Frederick Morhart,
of the Indianapolis News, con.
tributed this.
Mr. Hopkins grew reminiscent:
II can remember, myself,
when moonlight was put to
ether uses"
TMeFrench Ambassador, Georges
Bonnet, may and does cast his
vot4 in the French Chamber Of
Deputies Of which he Is still a
member-by long distance te!e-
phone to Paris.
M. Bonnet has held office in IA
French ministries, certainly more
than any previous French Ambas.
sador to this country, and prob.
ably more than any living French
man.
The Ambassador and Madame
Bonnet will likelysreturn to France
IN August. Their original plans
for Washington included merely
six months stay here. Before
leaving, however, they mean to
have an al fresco dinner party in
the beautiful Embassy gardens.
President Roosevelt, when he
returns next week from his latest
fishing triumphs in Southern wa.
tiers. may be asked out to the big
artificial lake at Greenbelt to cast
for a big bass.
The Bureau of Fisheries stocked
the lake of this Gri1nm's fairy tale
village near HyattsvilIe. But the
big bass grew faster than the other
fish and are now eating their
smaller brethren and Sistern.
The Resettlement Administra
ton will have soon a field day for
big black bass" fishermen.
CaviAr-that fat grey kind
makes excellent breakfast food for
young children.
Mrs. Gregory Goldman, wife Of
the secretary of the Soviet EN-
baSsy, tells me that Soviet mothers
give it for the same vitamin-pro'
ducing results that causes hopeful
American mothers to feed their
unwilling young cod liver oil.
Miss Virginia Joyce Willis, who
teaches English at the Mckinley
High School, is remembering with
pleasure a recent fortnight at
Blowing Rock, N. c., where Mar
garet Mitchell was also a guest
You know, of course, THE Mar.
garet Mitchell who, after selling
millions or is it billions, of copies
Of "Gone With the Wind" just
topped her success with the
Pulitzer Prize.
While at Blowing Rock Mrs.
Mitchell received this abandoned
telegram from her husband:
SIT would seem as if the
movie rights to the book had
possibly been sold"
Miss Willis says Mrs. Mitchell
Is a charming, natural person.
Mrs. Mitchell confessed that she
wrote Gone With the Wind be.
cause her husband, bringing in
an srmful Of Civil War books to
her to cheer the last few weeks
Of her three years of invalidism,
said:
"TheSe are the last the L.
brary has. If you want to know
an more about the period, You
will have to write q book your.
self"
Miss Willis quotes Mrs. Mitchell
as saying that "Gone With the
Wind" was written in episodes as
the whim occurred. The episodes
were afterward collected and re-
arranged. The first chapter Mrs.
Mitchell rewrote 10 times.