Evening star., 1932-11-28
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

II children OF Waterloo, Nebr. The Pr
invited the Sumnicks to return the call
Special Dispatch to The Star.
WATERLOO, Nebr., Noven Der 28
(N.ANA When it's cherry blossom
time in Washington, Gus" Sumnick
and his wife and their II sons and
daughters, the whole lucky IS Of them,
will make that much-discussed visit
to President and Mrs. Roosevelt In the
White House.
How will we go?" said Mr.. Sum
nick. well, II our own four cars
won't hold Us. Wen buy o few more"
The Sumnick family, who entertain
ed Gov. Roosevelt when he was cam
paigning, and who were invited then to
visit the White HOUSE II the Gov
elnor were elected, live on farm 8
came within sight of the house, some
one exclaimed:
"Oh, it's wash day at Sumnick's!"
It was unnecessary to ask how he
knew. The washing Of family OF
l3, with half dozen or SO hired hands
thrown in, fills lot of clotheslines.
Hazel, the eldest daughter, Is boss
housekeeper and home manager and
she and three of her sisters were doing
the washing in the wash house, while
the mother and another daughter were
getting dinner.
Range From Is to 3S Years.
There are six boys and five girls, the
fred, is. Beginning with the Oldest,
they are: Leo, william, Gus, jr.; Hazel,
Rosie. John, Helen, Francis, Katherine,
Marie and Alfred.
Mr.. Sumnick was asked why none OF
his good-looking sons and daugnters
had married.
Before he answered he filled his pipe.
He smokes cigars by cutting OF a two
inch length and screwine 1t into his
old corncob pipe and smoking IL down
to the very end. As he lighted MS pipe
he observed, between puffs: Il DO the
smoking for the whole family. None OF
my IL boys and girls uses tobacco"
do they drink?"
"An, WE'LL" he answered, they mlgni
take a glass of beer or wine; that's all
right, that won't hurt nobody; but there
isn't black sleep in my family
He stopped talking to get the pipe
going we'll and then said:
Now the only reason can see why
none of my children married Is that
| none has 1Oullo cthb00AS A42NeS 49,
We're a happy family here, and my
children don't want to leave home and
scatter out All my IL children live
here with me. All work on the farm
except Rosie. She's the teacher In the
Ahite school house you saw across the
road"
Use Family Pocket Book.
DO YOU pay wages to your boys and
girls who work on the farm?"
Wages? No, everything goes INTO
one common pot. When my nrst chill
dren were old enough to want little
money to spend. put my purse on tne
sideboard and kept it there ana saio
to them: There's the family pocket
book. It's got the spending money IN
it. When you want money 1or any
thing, GO there and get 1t.
"But I taught them the value OF
money, thrift, and the wisdom OF saw
ing. People say I'm stingy, but my
family will tell you that am anything
by stingy. I am thrifty. And thr1lt is
one of the things the American peo-
ple need to learn and practice.
$50, now, since my children are all
about grown we still all work together
here to get ahead. I can't hire man
who will work as well as my children,
although I hire many hands.
But, as was saying, all the money
that comes in goes into one account at
the bank. 1t is banked in my name,
but the bankers and every business man
in town knows that any boy or grl OF
mine can check against 1t for any
amount. II one Of my boys wants a
suit. he goes and gets 1t and writes q
check. signing my name. and tnat cnecK
a.. IN "a NnhrQ SkQ
even in Omaha. My boys and girls have
good times. They 90 to the fairs and to
parties and the shows and wear Just as
good clothes as they need. have never
mad one of my children impose on me-"
German and Irish.
How did you keep all your children
on the farm?"
"You couldn't drive 'em of. II
you'd come here and live with us for
a while we couldn't drive you off either.
I am q good-naturad German My wife
is a good -natured Irish woman. We
have no bad tempers on this farm. We
never get irritated at anything or scold.
If there is dark side to life we never
see it,
Are you prospering at farming In
these times of depression?"
Yes. There has never been a year
that have lost money. I always make
a profit. no matter how hard times are.
"In the early days, as q renter. I
hauled my corn all the way to Omaha,
% miles, and sold it for 18 cents a
bushel. My second year on my own
farm made $1,000 clear money.
wrote mother In Germanys that this
was q marvellous country for In one
year I had made more than I could
make in Germany in six years"
Now he owns 1900 acres Of the best
land In Nebraska. Recently he went
to bank to borrow to buy steers, and
the bankers figured him, even at the
low prices of farm lands today, as
worth $185,000.
What is your remedy for the hard
times farmers are going through?"
Good times will return as they al
ways have The farmers are to blame
for lot Of it. They have been too
extravagant. They have bought motor
cars and machinery they did not need.
They have loafed too much. They are
too wasteful. Those very farmers are
the loudest shouters for farm relief"
Mrs Sumnick gave her impressions
Of the wife of the President
Mrs. Roosevelt Is not bit stuck
up" she said. while all those IL
women were at dinner here, Mrs.
Bryan, wife of the Governor Of Ne
braska, said to Mrs. Roosevelt: Your
hat is very becoming"
"I am glad you like It, said Mrs.
Roosevelt. I picked 1t up in New
Mexico and paid only $3.50 for it
$50, I guess I and the girls won't
have to dress up too expensively for
our trip to visit her IN the White
House."
tCopyrisht. 1892, by North American News.