The Washington times., 1937-06-18
NOW
Secretary IckeS
Is Improving
THAT FARLEY
By HELEN EssARY

~ BY HELEN ESSAkx
Secretary Of the Interior Ickes,
who has been taking time off for
reva1nping at the Naval Hospital,
is, I understand, recovering belli-
gerently. He is bored with the hos
pital, and wants to get back to
his several offices where he can
speak his mind freely.
The adnairals and doctors who
run the hospital are going to grad
uate the Secretary from their in
stitution as soon as possible. They
promise to tack onto his good
health certificate t'cun laude."
Mr.. Ickes is receiving each day
q few especially selected callers.
':Fifty-fifty Representation On
Party Committees" one Of the
dearest goals Of women political
organizers, Is shivering from the
chill Of its setback at the PreSi-
dents Incoming jefferson Island
love feast.
Not q single Democratic lady OF
any importance or unimportance
has been invited to the Chesa-
peake Bay hideaway. The party
will be definitely stag. The girls
can't come. faint genteel.
This noble sex discrimination
shuts Secretary of Labor Perkins
out from the big boys parley.
There Is no way labor can be omit
ted from the jefferson Island dis
cuSsions. Not at this stormy time.
Therefore the President and his
male cohorts cannot hear feminine
plans for the settlement OF strikes.
One able-bodied lady Senator
and four up-and-coming Congress
women will also be left out Of the
peace meeting.
Well. the girls will have to stay
home and knit. Or make straw
berry preserves. Probably bury.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. won't
be much fun anyhow.
This brutal Snub proves my
theory Of years-women have q
long way to 60 before they are
''the gals they think they are" in
public life.
I doubt If it's the Mook" Of .
mixed party that keeps the gov
ernmental gentlemen from mc!uo-
ing their lawmaking sisters. They
lust think they'd have more fun
without any women around"
The new Ambassador to Cuba,
]. Butler Wright, is hoping that
he will find his post more placid
than did his predecessor, Jefferson
Caffery.
Certain Cubans have such in
tense antiU 5S. feelings that Mr..
Caftefy was literally afraid Tor MS
life during his stay in Havana.
Once . plot to asSaSsinate MIN
was discovered a few hours be.
fore the time set for the firing Of
the bullet.
Mr.. Caffery never left his home
or the Embassy without q BODY
guard, If he went no further than
across the street to dine with q
friend the hodyguard went. too.
why such strong feeling should
exist against the United States
representatives when Cuba IS so
dependent on this country Is as
hard to understand as q five-syl-
liable cross word puzzle.
People who think they know the
answer tell me this. In the tenn
permental island the political
party out of power never ceases to
blot against the party in power.
The United States Ambassador
must necessarily do business with
the party in power, which Is the
government of the moment. The
outsiders turn some of their hatred
for the "ins" on the United States
representatives.
The rumor persists that when
Sir Ronald Lindsay leaves the
British Embassy for his holiday
in England he will not return to
washington as Ambassador at the
the end of the summer.
UnderSecretary of State Robert
Vansitter probably will come to
the United States as his Britannia
Majesty's representative.
NV blessings on j. Edgar Hoover,
the big Oman!
He delivered to the graduates
at the Kalamazoo College, Kala-
mazoo, Mich, an address as hair
raising as q detective thriller. His
theme was how to catch a crimi-
nal.
He disguised it-with the label
Adventures in Scientific Law En-
forcement." He tucked in few
noble thoughts about youths re-
sponsibility in making the world
q better place in which to live.
But he put pep in the advice
with detailed accounts Of the
adventures Of the Federal Blu
reau of Investigation in running
down gangSters, murderers, and
racketeers.
It is reported that the young
listening KalamazooanS sat on the
edge of their academic chairs.
That their eyes popped so that
their mortar boards almost fell
off while the vivid Mr.. Hoover
talked about life in the raw.
One of the instances related by
the director of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation took the graduates
on a mental journey to the murder
of a proSpector in Alaska. Investi-
-aforr arrived at the remote cabin