The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-17
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1--we cannot escape
recording that Hollywood's film actors and ac-
tresses do not glow so DANGEROUSLY in Wash.
ington as a party might first suppose.
Maybe it is just a matter Of local pride, but
we think your average congressman stacks up
pretty we'll beside Jimmy Cagney or Bad Man"
Bill Robinson. Seeing congressman and movie
actors in the mass, you get a feeling that Rep.
Joe Bimbo from Middleton is more nearly
worth his $4,000 a year than boyish Mickey
Rooney his $4,000 a week.
But We'll concede at once that Washington
gets a bigger kick out of a visiting movie &C.
tor than out of a whole house full of congress.
men. An average gallery in house or senate
will not exceed 200. When Dorothy Lamour
hove into town, 1000 doting Washingtonians
mobbed the theatre, broke through police lines
to scream:
"Lemme touch her, femme touch herr
Anybody who thinks this city is altogether
politically-minded is sarong he ought to set
himself right.
Political note: The hand that rocks the
cradle also casts some votes, so we hear Presi.
Dental Candidate Paul ". McNutt speaking:
I'm bad times, it is the men who do most Of
the complaining but the women who do the
economizing. If you will look around at your
neighbors-your OWL family always is an ex.
ception-you will find that during the lean
years the mans needs are the last to feel the
pinch. He'll smoke his cigars-and drop the
ashes on the carpet-long after his wife has
cut down on her beauty treatments. His coun-
try club dues will be paid even If her sewing
club cuts out the refreshments to save expense.
He continues his golf game long after she has
materially reduced the household expenses"
Next week: Baby-kissing.
Reporters can hardly wait for Associate Jus.
tice Frank Murphy to write his first opinion on
the supreme court. His press conferences as
attorney general were so sermonizing in tone
the reporters suspect he may cite a case from
Leviticus or Pauls epistles to the Corinthians
to help decide a railroad right-of-way case. And
perhaps it would be a good idea at that.
Culinary Item: Wise eaters at the Capitol
never order the senate's famous bean soup
early in the week. The bean soup cook seems
never to get the brew right until about Wednes-
day or Thursday.
Idahoans were not greatly surprised that
Borah had 100000 saved up as a nest egg.
although they thought it would be a trifle less.
He had in excess Of $4,000 when he came
to the senate in 1907, and his reelection has
been such a cinch ever since that campaign
expenses have been trifing. He probably never
had to hire a hall in Idaho in his life. Most
members of congress figure campaigning will
take 81, 1000 to 81, 900 a year out of their $40, 900
salaries.
Society Note: II have been a member Of the
foreign relations committee for a long time and
I never yet have been in a foreign embassy.
I take that back. One time I was in the Rus.
sian embassy to get some caviar. "-Senator
Harrison of Mississippi.
Note on the wing: Heading the Anglo-French
purchasing board are a pair of cryptic names
Hyde and Forget. 1t is G.. Miller Hyde for
the British and Andre Forget for the French.
He would pronounce it "Forgay' with a
soft G.. Senator Connally of Texas, even
when sick, has a telephone at his bedside where
where his office can reach him. Desks
supplied for senators in the senate office
building cost 5000 and chairs $3.50.