Evening star., 1933-04-30
.GR|D|R0N SAT|R|zES
NEW DEAL IN NFETE.
Roosevelt Is Given Glimpse
of Own Administration
by Correspondents.

President Roosevelt was given a
glimpse OF his administration and poll
cies through the looking glass Of the
Gridiron Club at its annual Spring din
ner at the Willard Hotel last night.
While the theme song" Of the new
administration was declared to be
Sweet Adeline," the new deal" itself
was disclosed as a superior combina-
ton of the policies Of Hitler, Mussolini,
Stain and several other dictatorial rul-
ers of the day.
The President was the guest OF honor
and gathered about the board were
many other outstanding figures in
American life, including Vice President
Garner, Speaker Rainey, Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes, the Ambassa-
dors of Great Britain, Germany. Italy,
Spain, Poland and Cuba, the Cover
nors of Massachusetts,, Indiana and
Utah and Democratic and Republican
leaders in Congress.
The keynote of the dinner was
suonded in q brief speech by Charles
G. Ross, Washington correspondent Of
the st. Louis Post-Dispatch and Pulitzer
prize winner of 1892, who was inaugu-
rated new president of the Gridiron
Club.
"The new deal is upon U.S." he said.
and from the hand of the dealer the
cards fly with baffling speed. The hand
is quicker than the eye, gentlemen. but
it is not quicker than the ayes when
the roll is called in Congress. What
year! Wonderland is all around US,
and We shall show 1t to you tonight
a wonderland with q king and q king
fish, jack and some jokers-with
porters turning into a secretariat, and
everybody turning handsprings-a Won
derland, my countrymen, from which
the men who wear hair shirts have
been expelled by the men in asbestos
pants"
Inaugural Ritual.
In going through the ritual Of in
auguration," the chairman of the In
augural Committee declaimed:
And now, under our new President,
let us close the banks and go forward
unpaid"
whats that, what's that?' came
chorus
Pardon me. And now under our
new president let us close the ranks
and 60 forward unafraid."
How did you ever make such
mistaken" q member reproached him.
II got my inaugurations mixed, that's
ALL" responded the chairman.
The dinner was opened with the ira
ditional crash OF stage, whereupon q
member ran forth to answer an inquiry
about that terrible crash"
AN accident, Mr.. President" he re-
sponded excitedly. "A bank teller
dropped q package Of the new Federal
Reserve currency and it bounced up
The GridironerS had but two
speeches, one by President Roosevelt
and the other by Ogden L. Mills, for
mer Secretary of the Treasury in the
Hoover administration. Under the
rules of the club that reporters are
never present." their speeches are held
confidential.
The skit preceding President Roose-
velt's speech was the most elaborate and
colorful Of the dinner. It opened with
Thomas Jefferson and three Of his
friends, having sat up late In his Month
cello home, taking q "night-cap" before
retiring. Jefferson noted that the cup
from which he drank had belonged to
Louis XVI, "the last Of the dictators."
A colored servant rushed in, inform
men comm up the mountain. dressed
in clothes the like o. which never
done seen before"
Spectacular Entry.
With q loud fanfare of bugles, and to
appropriate distinctively national music
by the Marine Band, there entered
separately with their gorgeously COS
TUNED retinues Marshal PilSudSki, "lord
Of the Polish corridor and Of 10000, 900
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