The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-02
Observations
Congressional
Stanley Talks
About Hats
NJ laIaa EaaarU
BY Helen Esssry

Saw Congresswoman Winifred
Stanley (thay all her Bo-Peep) in
the cloak room OF the House OF
representatives recently. It's New
York's congresswoman-at.large who
has all those trick postage stamp
hats.
Not on conye. sion nor on recon
version or whatever the national
mode of the momen. is, nor on en-
ployment compensation did | inter
view her. But on What effect do
you think those elaborate new
ostrich.tr'- .Aed hats will have on
the thinking and department Of
women"
Miss Stanley tilted her pretty
white head (prematurely white)
and said IF you wear plumes IN
your hat you've simply got to be
conservative. You can't swish
about with piles OF pastel feathers
on top OF your head and speak
rashly
You've got to be a lady, very
elegant lady. every second. A
Godey's Ladies Pook lady, really
just don't know whether women
will want TO be as correct as the
new hats demand. Imagine, just
imagine. getting into a bus with
ostrich pumes drooling down your
neck. And how could you denounce
the opposition from a soap box II
you were wearing a picture hat
faced with baby pink tulle?'
Congresswoman Stanley left me
and the earnest conversations to
return TO the floor for a vote. You
could hear the reading clerk
through the swinging doors to the
chamber shouting the names of
the congressman. He had got down
the alphabet as far as Sheppard, -
when NJ Po-Peep Stanley tripped
away.
HOW THE STATE DEPART
MENT and the military run this
war and keep on speaking terms is
interesting. The answer Is this:
The State Department tells the
Army and IA what 10 do in over
all planning ltions with for
eign governments, recognition OF
temporary governments and such.
The Army and Navy tell the
State Department what to do in
tactics-for example, in such
matter as when TO put the heat on
neutral Spain (recently doneJ. and
tell her to stop sending cinnobar
10 Germany from which mercury,
a valuable war material, is made.
NEXT, | FOUND MYSELF get
ting into a nest OF Oklahoma law
makers. And next, all of us were
talking about Indians. You always
talk about Indians, and with pride,
in Oklaho. | should say you al
ways talk ito" Indians in Oklaho-
ma or in the Oklahoma representa-
ton in Congress. There's much In
dian blood in the state that used
TO be called Indian Territory.
Congressman Wesley Disney,
who is retiring to private life In
Tulsa after seven terms ION the
Hill, looks part Cherokee. Disney
says he'd have liked TO make the
Senate in that recent try Of his but
he honestly thinks Pappy O'Daniel
is likely right when he says the
tenure OF Office for members OF
Congress should be limited. Look
ing back, Disney knows he got into
a deep rut in Washington.
Victor Wickersham Of Mangum,
Okla. born on a farm near Lone
Rock" che also looks part Chero-
keel, reported that while his wife
was away on a little vacation he
had put up 43 glass jars of peaches.
And was she surprised when she
came home and found them all
sitting on the fitchen floor in a
row"
Certainly she was surprised.
When most left.at-home husbands
take an interest in peaches, they
are not the kind GU put into glass
jars.
Congressman Jed Johnson said
he was sorry he did not have any
Indian blood in his veins but he
did have thousands OF Indians in
his district. They were good citi-
zens. Then we began talking OF
Will Re gers and how II you live
in Oklahoma you just have TO be
related somehow to Will Rogers.
It's as important as being kin to
Robert Z. Lee II you come from
Virginia.
Some people in Oklahoma count
on sending one OF Will Rogers rela-
tons. an almost full-blooded Indian
rejoicing in the name OF Dennis
Bushyhead. 10 Congress in Novem-
Der. Possibly there's a dash OF
wild Irish rose in Bushyhead's first
name. Anyhow, the Oklahomans
| met in the House cloak room said
he was a fine C-'y, smart lawyer
and so on.
Leaving the House ] trotted over
to the Senate 10 find that the upper
body had inadvertently announced
officially that the war was over
IL had ta'en down the blackopt
curtains Obv usly somebody
thinks the capitol won't be attack.
ed by bombs.
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