Show v 4 DREW ROBE R NA NAR W- W WJ J J V DIPLOMATIC lATIC TWIST Fate WASHINGTON Fate has a way of playing pranks with the most carefully laid plans of diplomacy and it has given two queer twists to Roosevelt's diplomatic appoint appoint- ments One was when he thought he was putting year old Wilbur J. J Carr Carron on the shelf by making him minister minister minister min min- ister to the then secluded country of Czecho Slovakia but found instead instead instead in in- stead that he had sent Carr to the hottest hot spot in Europe The other was when he sent Mrs J. J Borden Harriman to the peaceful peaceful peaceful peace peace- ful and obscure capital of Norway where a lady diplomat could make few mistakes but recent events rand find Daisy in the middle of the war zone zone zone- and enjoying it Furthermore and according to a state department which is definitely I riL w tr t J MRS J. J BORDEN HARRIMAN lAN A 1 quiet V post in Norway prejudiced against lady diplomats I Mrs 1 Harriman is doing an excellent job job job-in in fact a much better job than some of our other ministers plenipotentiary pleni pleni- Mrs 1 Harriman Hardman also is 70 years old though few people who have ever watched her tireless energy would ever guess it In those 70 years she has seen more riders come and go on the Washington mer mer- ry-go-round ry than almost any other dowager of capital society Scrambled Dinner Parties Daisy whose real name is Florence Florence Florence Flor Flor- ence Jaffray Harriman became famous famous famous fa fa- fa- fa during the Harding Coolidge and Hoover administrations as a alone alone alone lone Democrat who lived only for forthe forthe forthe the pleasure of baiting the reigning Republicans She made them like it Her deliciously scrambled dinner parties became legendary She invited invited invited in in- naive and unsuspecting Republicans Republicans Republicans placed them beside such rapier rapier rapier ra ra- ra- ra pier debaters as Sen Tom Walsh Sen Burton Wheeler and Charley Michelson 1 then after dinner pushed back the chairs and made them go goto goto goto to it She Fought Roosevelt It was a political paradox that having kept Democratic enthusiasm flaming during the lean and hungry years from Harding to Hoover Mrs I Harriman at first should have been by the Roosevelt ad ad- ministration tion I Ifor There was an interesting reason for this Daisy had been an ardent II opponent of Franklin D. D Roosevelt before the 1932 convention She had worked vigorously for Newton D. D Baker and led a faction of the District District District Dis Dis- of Columbia delegation in voting voting voting vot vot- ing against Roosevelt at Chicago So when Roosevelt adopted the policy of awarding his B C. C Before Before Before Be Be- fore Chicago friends Daisy was out of luck She remained out of luck for five years despite many efforts by powerful friends to win her an appointment in the Roosevelt fold Finally thanks to the persuasive influence of Sumner Welles Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt relented Daisy Harriman was appointed Envoy E Extraordinary and Minister 1 Plenipotentiary to Norway a a quiet and unimportant post to which it was considered safe to send senda a woman Will ViII Rogers Will Rogers has been demoted His statue no longer stands in the thero ro rotunda unda of the Capitol a aA A few days ago the statue was moved out of the rotunda and was not even given space in the adjacent adjacent adjacent adja adja- cent Statuary hall In this hall where only one figure is admitted from each state Rogers Rogers Rogers Rog Rog- ers was second comer to Oklahoma's Oklahoma's Oklahoma's Indian inventor inventor inventor in in- mas ma's famous Sequoia of the Cherokee alphabet Rogers was placed in a corner in inthe inthe inthe the narrow hallway leading to the house wing He has not lost his smile and his slouch but he has lost the center of the stage POLITICAL CHAFF New England New York and New Jersey G. G O. O P. P leaders are receiving receiving receiving ing letters from Midwestern colleagues col leagues warning that to win the farm vote the party platform must contain con conS taro tain a farm plank similar to that proposed in the recent Glenn Frank report The Iowa state central Republican Republican Re Re- publican committee thought so highly high high- ly of the Frank plank that it is circularizing circularizing circularizing cir cir- cir cir- a speech by A. A M. M Piper of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil lauding the suggestions ion i in it ft |