The Washington times., 1937-02-25

ana Jnere, MS WnlCe TODe Is
waiting.
The reason for Mr.. Jones visits
to the hospital is that his family
and friends like to have him
around when they are sick. When
the grandchildren or the nieceS
or the brothers and sisters have
a tooth or an appendix or a tonSil
out, they, please get Uncle Jesse
Cor grandpa) to come down. I
want him in the operating room
when they're cutting me up"
So Mr.. Jones hangs up the tele-
phone Che has one at his ear all
the time), and goes off to cheer
the sick. It's probably the same
bedside manner Mr.. Jones used on
sick banks. Anyhow, it's success
full.
Mr.. Jones does a powerful lot of
business by telephone. Before he
came to Washington to run the
RF.C. he thought he couldn't leave
his Texas interests-newSpaperS,
banks anG hotels-for more than
three weeks. He's left them five
years and they are still flouriShing.
He keeps in intimate touch with
what is going on, however, by oc-
casional short visits and frequent
long telephone calls. Almost every
day he talks for at least an hour to
Houston. He gives the long dis
tance operator list of people to
get.
AS soon as one conversation is
finished, she says, Your next
party is waiting" Often with two
French phones, one to each ear, he
carries on a three-Sided converse
tion, between, maybe, Canada, New
Mexico and Washington. Just a
part Of the days work.
Sometime am going to persuade
Mr.. Jones to give me his maXimS
for comfortable living. Here, at
least, are three I present to you:
Don't get mad! You only upset
the other fellow and don't help
yourself.
Say yes or no! Don't hedge.
You will have to give a direct an
swer anyhow before you finish.
Better do it at the beginning. It
keeps things from getting con-
fused.
Stay out of other peoples af-
fairs. Run your own job the best
way you can. Don't give advice
where it hasn't been asked.
And now to a pretty lady who
knows what she's about. To
Mabel Walker Willebrandt who
combines a smart head and good
looks; who has had a Sensationally
successful career as a lawyer.
At a recent tea of Mr.. and Mrs.
Emil Hurja I discussed with Mrs.
Willebrandt the ways and means
of professional women. Mrs.
Willebrandt was looking at the
moment as chic as a Fifth Ave
nue. model. She had on tweed
suit, black skirt, black and grey
short jacket, grey blouse, black
hat and silver fox fur hung over
one arm.
Obviously Mrs. Willebrandt did
not prefer manniSh women.
No, she said, she did not.
It is a mistake for any woman
to borrow masculine ways in ap-
pearance and manner, she thinks.
To do so is to confess a
weakness and the necessity for
pretending a strength that she
has not. The Smartest thing for
a woman to do, Mrs. Willebrandt
said, is to struggle to be unself-
conscious and at ease.
81 was a thoroughly uncOm-
Portable lawyer" she declared,
until / learned to forget that
Twas /. I mean until / stopped
thinking about myself and
worrying about whether or not
I was behaving suitably"
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr., con-
tinues to show the same astute
political ways in the Senate that
won him the last election in Mas
Sachusetts.
He managed to introduce a spe-
cial tone into the reading of
George Washington farewell ad-
dress the other day. This is an
annual Senatorial custom on Feb
ruary %. Young Mr.. Lodge read,
not perfunctorily, but with care
full expression and emphasis, plus
gestures. Here was something new
in the oldest Senatorial memory.
Listeners thought Mr.. Lodge was
adroitly referring to the present
Supreme Court fight when he
quoted with a particular streSsing
these words of the First President:
'If in the opinion of the peO-
pie the distribution or mOdifi-
cation of the constitutional
powers be in any particular
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