The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-22

Np2 Charles GDdWeS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-who
is going to be our next First Lady?
The Colonels Lady and Judy
O'Grady may be sisters under the
skin, but when one or the other
is to be First Lady, the surface
skin stuff begins to look rather
important.
There are six ladies who, because
of a recent famous sentence con-
tanning the verb choose" are billed
for stellar roles in that great quad
rennial comedy entitled "Our First
Lady"
Famous Quotations
We might introduce the sextet
with some of their famous lines.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth-
"It will take more than official
political life to keep me from be-
ing myself"
Mrs. Longworth, it may be re-
called. has been herself since the
DAYS she smoked the first icigaret
smoked by any woman in the
country, rode sacred elephant OF
Siam, and stood on her head at
State receptions.
Here comes Mrs. Herbert Hoover
I'm just a background for
BERTHE"
But she's been a rather ener-
getic, vital background" trans
lating books with him, inventing
war recipes, feeding starving ref
ugee children, and being director
in her own name of such huge
organizations as Girl Scouts Of
America.
Here's Mrs. Charles Dawes
r Charles bark is so much worse
than his bite"
And Mrs. Frank o. Lowden-
l"I am just a wife and mother.
I have taught all my daughters to
be good cooks and housewives"
And Mrs. William E. Borah-
"I can't keep up with the swim.
We must live within our income.
Besides, so much of this formal
social stuff is SO futile"
And Mrs. Hiram Johnson,
"My house is my universe"
Have Much in Common
These six women whose husbands
are all considered possible choices
for 1928 Republican nomination for
the Office of president Of the United
States, are as unlike as the colonel's
lady and the classic Judy, and yet,
in one respect, at least, have much
in common.
Their common bond is stunning
of the limelight of publicity and a
belief that their husbands jobs do
not make them, the wives, public
characters.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and Mrs.
Hirman johnson have given no in
terviews for twenty years. Mrs.
Dawes has graciously refused any
publicity since she became Second
Lady of the Land. Mrs. Hoover
will talk on only her pet child, the
Girl Scouts. Mrs. Lowden will dis
cuss home, motherhood and the job
: of being wife to a public official
!, and delightful little Mrs. Borah
who can refuse few people anything
will "help the newspaper girls out
}, because she always wanted to be
one herself"
She'd Give "Kick"
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth as First
, Lady would give romantic and
} thrill-loving America the kick" OF
: its life.
Here would be the return to the
White House as First Lady of the
| Princess Alice of T. RS regime
the adored, daring, fun-loving CIR
whose wedding day stopped the
very wheels of State and whose
wedding gifts from all the ruler;
of the earth represented such
wealth that her father, Theodore
Roosevelt, would not make the list
public.
With Alice Roosevelt Longwortt
as First Aedy of the Land the
White House would become a saloor
Of wit, intelligent conversation
political planning, with the soft.
pedal on inane social functions thai
> mean nothing.
: Either Mrs. Frank o. Lowder Of
!, Mrs. Hiram johnson as First Lady
! would mean quiet, unpretentious
u homelike White House with the
respective First Ladies evading a.
much public life as possible.
Mrs. Johnson has hardly accept.
I ed one social invitation in the year,
| her husband has been in the Senate
She is not well and admits thai
she is interested in little outside
| her home. The home, an old Colon.
ial estate outside Of Washington
has been refurnished and decorated
| by Mrs., Johnson to recapture the
charm of olden days.
| Mrs. Frank o. Lowden, wife @
the former Governor ffllinois. a.
the former Florence Pullman ant
half heiress to the $30,0000o0 Pull
map estate, is not at all unaccus
toned to society.
She was a beautiful girl wooet