Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05
Many Aspirants Always
Ready and Washington
GueseS BuSiIy Over List of
White House Possibilities
Ry CHARLES P. STEWART

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NEW YORK, July 2.-We elect
the president.
The FIRST lady's' is an appointive
lob. It's a choice even the senate
can't turn down. It's made by the
president in advance, long before he
knows he's going to be nominated
himself.
It's as important a job as the
presidents own. An administration
success or failure depends IS much
on the kind o. first LADY, VINO pre-
sides III the White HoGse as unon
the kind of executive who fills the
presidential chair.
It's no trick to guess whom the
"first lady" will be-or rather whom
she will continue to be-if the Re
publicans win next November.
Grace Goodhue was a teacher
when she married the present presi-
dent. Never in more than very mod
crate circumstances, the Coolidges
always were notable for their deter
mination to live well within their
means. Mrs. Coolidge was her own
maid for years. The Coolidge home
was a $32-a-month rented dwelling
when "Silent Cal'' was elected gov
ernor of Massachusetts. Yet Mrs.
Coolidge has made a perfect White
House mistress. And why not! She
hadn't the home keeping experience
that goes with great wealth but she
had everything else-brains, educa-
Ir,it wiz oil nh q n o.
atty. There was no reason why she
shouldn't have made a White House
success, and so she has.
Dozens of Them
OF the wives of Democratic posi-
bilities there's room for reference to
but a few of the most prominently
mentioned. The full list runs into
dozens.
Mrs. William G.. McAdoo, as a
presidents wife, would simply be
returning to the executive mansion.
Perhaps oddly, it is said she does
not care to return. 1t is her feeling
that the presidency killed her father.
Her mother died in the White House.
To her it's memories are of tragedy.
Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, born Gather
inc Dunn, was a child of New York's
East Side Should she come to reign
in the presidential mansion the ro-
nance of her rise in the world would
be as marvellous as AL Smiths own.
I'm not used to so big a house,
she said when moved into the gov
ernor's residence at Albany, "but as
long as we live here it's going to be
a home" If she moves to Wash
ington she will stick to the same
rule.
When Senator Oscar w. Under
wood launched his presidential cam
pain he told his wife. I'm going
to make this as easy for you as /
can. All [ ask you is to be ready
to entertain from two to eight peo-
pie at dinner every evening" Mrs.
Underwood has done it-delight-
fully. Is it necessary to say any
thing more of her qualifications for
the White House? Mrs. Underwood,
formerly Bertha Woodward, was
educated mainly abroad. With her
voice, had she chosen, famous mu
sicians say she could have been a
grand opera star.
Writes and Cooks
AS a housekeeper Mrs. Samuel NJ.
Ralston has been so enthusiastically
acclaimed that her other successes
have been lost sight of to some eX-
tent. College trained, she can write
as well as she can cook, which is
the highest possible praise. She is
an able public speaker. OF politics.
her husband, Senator Ralston, of
Indiana, gives her credit for know
ing as much as himself. Mrs. Raj
ston was Jennie Craven in her
youth.
No woman knows better how to
make a home magnificent than
Mrs. John w. Davis, wife of the ex-
ambassador to the court of St
James. Mrs. Davis has lived much
in Europe. She knows royalty at
first jhand. She was Ellen Basel
daughter of her husbands fathers
law partner, in the Davis home
town, ClarkSburg w. Va.