Goober's Girl

Oldtimers at the opening of Congress were surprised to see a small brown-haired girl, handsome as a magazine cover, pert in plaid jacket, black skirt and yellow hair-ribbon, chasing down the aisles of the House, talking to distinguished members, having her picture taken, carrying messages. She was Gene Cox, 13, eye-apple youngest daughter of Georgia's cantankerous Representative Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Over the protests of Doorkeeper Joe Sinnott, who feared it would "get into the newspapers" and start a rush by other doting parents to have the same done for their girls, Father Cox had Gene sworn in as his House page, for that one day. She earned a U. S. Treasury check for $4 for her 2 hours, 33 minutes of "work." At Washington's Market School, where the girls envy her acquaintance with Speaker Bankhead's precocious daughter Tallulah, Gene Cox can now boast that she was the first girl ever to be a page in Congress.

At the suggestion that girl pages as a regular thing might brighten up Congress, Doorkeeper Sinnott, thinking of cloakroom conversations he has heard, threw up his hands, exclaimed, "It just wouldn't work out!"

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