The Washington times., 1937-01-22


ing with a lighthearted tale
He said he was at the Senate
recently and was told that the Re
publican Senators were in caucus.
This reminded him, he declared,
of the yarn about the rooster that
had strayed into a corral crowded
with horses.
The rooster flapped his wings,
crowed, and then said:
"NOw let's be careful, fellows,
that we don't step on each
other"
Molly DewsOn and Winged Victory
If even one Republican had put
his peaked nose into the Wash
ington Hotel yesterday, he would
have melted under the warmth
of the breakfast given Miss Mary
w. DeWSon, vice chairman OF the
Democratic national committee,
by about $50 of the top names
among women Democrats. It was
Miss DeWSon, you know, who
taught Democratic women under
her famous Reporter Plan to know
what ammunition to use on Re
pUblicanS.
Miss Lavinia Engle, who pre-
sided at the luncheon, introduced
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as "the
No. l reporter of the United
States" Mrs. Roosevelt made eX-
actly the right little compliment
tary speech. She looked as lively
as a lady who had just stepped
from a rest cure at some sleek
springs. She said that Molly
Dewson made people do things"
Moreover, she made them like
doing them when they had no in
tention of doing anything at all
when they started"
Mr.. Farley, avenging archangel
of the party, popped into this
strictly ladies' party and told
"some facts about Molly" He said
"she was a doggone persistent
woman. And hard to manage
If he said "yes" to one of her big
ideas, she ran off in a hurry for
fear he would change his mind.
If he said no." she stayed around
until he said "yes."
Many revealing things were said
about this brilliant woman, head
of her tribe. Miss Mary WarG,
Collector of the Port of Boston,
declared that Miss DeWson should
be investigated for disobeying
labor laws. She worked herself
and her helpers Is hours a day,
seven days a week. Once she sent
Miss Ward out on a speaking trip,
intended to last three days, that
ended only after three months. At
intervals, Miss Ward would wire
back:
II simply can't go on, Molly.
/ have only two blOuses and one
skirt"
"YOu don't need Clothes"
answered Miss DewsOn. Talk"
The luncheon ended with Miss
Dewson, "a practical idealist," in
the words of Representative Mary
T. Norton, telling her audience
that you and I have just one
thing to do. We must help the
President put his program over"
The final touch of the unanimous
afternoon was the sight of Miss
Dewson posing with her cast of
"The Winged Victory" presented
by the luncheon guests, in her
arms and two corsageS on ner
shoulder for a picture to be pub
lished in a violently Republican
paper.
P. S. Protocol did not break the
truly Democratic spirit of the
Molly Dewson luncheon. Madame
Perkins, the Secretary of Labor,
was listed on the place-card at q
side table as Miss F. Perkins"
Last Thoughts on the Inauguration
Although the Republicans didn't
know enough to keep out of the
November deluge, they did have
sense enough to come in out of the
January 20 rain.
AS a matter of fact, it WAS
Roosevelt weather. Local and
some out-of-toWn gentry will be
annoyed during the next week by
sniffleS and bills from the cleaners.
But the crowd out in the provinces
that sat warm and dry by radios
was thrilled to hear of the Presi-
dent smiling, bare-headed in the
rain. They are probably planning
his fourth term now.
Even though dramatic, PreSi-
dent RooSevelt's ride in an open
car during the downpour was not
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