Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-02
WHITE HOUSE WILL
BE A SOCIAL CENTER
Pomp and Ceremony Will BE Ban-
ishcd When Harding
Takes Olicc.
q HARD TERM on "RoyALTl"
I ssRcgal-Mnnnercd Servants AMI
Flunkies Will Have to Give Up
i<ordly Manners, as President
re2 Elect Is Democratic.
ny DAVID VI. CIIURCH,
international News Service stan

Correspondence.
80 WASHlNGTON. Jan lit looks
Hike n bad four years for the roy
atty" al the White House.
Regal hammered servants and fun
.ekies who have lordcd 1t to their
supreme delight for many years a,
~the White House are likely 10 find it
necessary 10 drop their royal micn
when President Elect Harding takes
up his abode IN the Pennsylvania
Avenue mansion.
< Next TO an outcast duke a White
House servant is quite tho most re-
gal person in The United states.
). The Ilardirgs are about as demo-
= United States.
- Either the Iiardlnss or the White
House royalty" must change their
ways. and the odds are in favor OF
the iIardinrs remaining democratic.
The White House gates arc Eoin.;
70 be open for the NEXT four years
Mrs. Harding promises it,
The White House is going 10 be
social center again and the t!ardincs
are going 10 entertain their friends.
The stately old mansion Is going TO
have new visitors in the next admin
istration.
=, larry NJ. Daueherty will probably
and he is not likely 10 tolerate the
royal Difference of the White House
servants Which has been paid Colonel
House and BERNARD Baruch. Instead
Daushcrty. who is Columbus. Ohio
lawyer az bluff Go"d-natured man
"'nerS. Will stalk into the White House
with as little ceremony as he has
staiked into tho Marion home OF the
Iardings for ne last twenty years
Daugherty Will probably hc Cabinet
'"mcmher. but this won't change his
manner or unassum.ng good nature.
IL Harry paurhcrty is frequent
White House visitor il is Il safe bet
that Jess W. smith OF Washington
,ffh nj 4 Nrf' L. Fa
Guent visitor 1T the presidential man
sion. Whatever naueher;y is there
Us Smith. and Jess is already pretty
close TO the President elect and con
sidercd part al the family.
/. MIR. and Mrs. Edward Bcale Mclean.
social leaders of Washington. arc
close friends Of the liar,lings and
they will be frequent guests at the
White House. Mrs. Mclean. who is a
motion picture fan ana who has made
reels and reels Of pictures Of the
President-el elect. Will probably talk"
over the management Of many of the
White House motion p.Ctarc shows.
The President usually has a physi-
elan from the army or naval mcdi-
Harding family physician. adv and
friend. lie is over sixty and probably
couldn't be made an admiral or
major general. but nr. and Mrs. Saw
yer are certain TO spend u good bit
OF their time about the Whit. House.
Senator Lodge and some ether Re
publican leaders Will probably lie fire.
gucnt visitors at the White House for
= business reasons. Int the Scnato
who viii sidlc into the White House
in the evening ON pleasure bent Will
probably be Senator Fred Hale, of
~. Maine: Senator FrclinGhuyscn, OF
New Jersey, and senator Davis I'll
Eins of West Virginia. These men
have long been piaymates of the
:" President and they know how
10 make a bridge game interesting
Tor either Senator or Mrs. Harding.
The chances arc ten to one that most
OF their evening calls at the White
House Will be sans evening clothes
too FOR they are aS ardent adNcca cs
of infOrmality as the President elect
, Necessity may make the White
House under the iiardings social
center. The habits OF the Hardinrs
(, vii! mike the White House "A home "a
typicn! American home without form.
pomp on ceremony.
80 So. altogether. IL looks like II hard
-four vcaHs for the White House roy
atty