Azaleas

Last week spring had come to Washington, D. C. and Senators found it hard to keep their minds on the Big Navy Bill. Representatives went out on the Capitol lawn and played baseball, badly, with each other. Then both the Senate and the House recessed over the weekend so any legislators who wanted to could go to the annual Azalea Festival in Charleston, S. C.

Some 150 Senators and Representatives and their wives, led by Vice President Garner like a small Scoutmaster, trooped to the station and got on the Azalea Special. In Charleston, as the guests of the city, they visited the Navy yards, rubbered at beauty queens, went to a ball. At a luncheon given by Mayor Burnet Maybank, Mr. Garner made news by opening the closet and displaying the current Democratic family skeleton. Referring to a "misunderstanding between me and my boss" (by whom he meant President Roosevelt) he said: "I sometimes do not agree with my wife. You can understand. . . . But that does not take away my love and affection for this lady."

Thereupon the 150 Congressmen and their wives trooped to the Magnolia Gardens to see the azaleas. The azaleas were not out, however.*

*They had bloomed and gone, not waiting for the Congressmen.

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