The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30
TRADITION IS
CAST TO Wind
BY ROOSEVELT.
PreCedentS Are Shattered in
Rapid Succession by
President and Wife.
rs GONE IN rs DAYS
Executive Eats Lunch at
Desk, Sends Limousine
for Negro.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON. March 3O.-Prec-
edents big and little have been
smashed i'll wholesale quantities by
the RooSevelts.
In twenty-five days the President
and Mrs. Roosevelt between them
have tossed twenty-five of the ma
tional capitals hoary precedents
and traditions out of the White
House windows.
President Roosevelt has change
the traditional hours of his cabinet
meetings, eaten lunch at his desk.
and sent a White House limousine
to fetch an aged Negro to receive
congratulations on lifetime of
faithful government service.
In twenty days, according to a
United Press check today. the
President has chopped through the
stuffy sacred underbrush of WASH
lngtOn tradition.
Goes Against Formally
Mrs. Roosevelt also has done bor
share. In at least five WAYS She
has gone about trying to lead a
natural, personal life in disregard
OF stiff fOrmality.
Let it be from now on the task
OF our party to break foolish ira
dltlons, Mr.. Roosevelt said to the
Chlcago national convention. in re-
1errlng to his breaking
hight when he arrived to accept the
presidential nomination Iast sum-
mer.
How he has carried that resolve
INTO the White House is disclosed
in the following score Of actions
during his first twenty-five DAYS as
chief executive:
l. Appoints first woman 10 cab-
met.
2. Has cabinet sworn in and func-
tIoning on first day.
8. Shifts regular cabinet meet
lngS from forenoon to afternoon.
4. Declares nationwide bank hol-
day and gold embargo.
D. Eats luncheon at desk.
Writes 'Snappy' Messages
6. Permits direct oral questioning
by newspaper correspondents.
T. Dlscards traditional form Of
long, aI-inclusive presidential mos
sages and substitutes frequent, short,
ore-subject communications
3. Decorates severely plain walls
OF presidential office with old New
York and Hudson river prints.
9. Asks for greatest emergency
banking powers in peace time his
tory and obtains them.
10. Accepts offer of New York
News to contribute White House
swimming pool through popular sub
scriptions.
II. Asks for beer in message
Seventy-tWo words long.
II. Sends White House car to
bring Eddie Savoy, aged Negro mes
Senger, to receive congratulations on
his retirement.
Then Cuts Salaries
10. Asks and obtains power to
cut government salaries and veter-
ans costs.
IA. Makes personal birthday call
on Oliver Wendell Holmes. former
supreme court justice.
10. Sponsors novel work-relief
proposing civilian conservation CORPS
under jurisdiction Of army
16. Discards cold shoulder which
White House previously had given
protesting Communists and desip-
mates Colonel Louis Howe. his senior
secretary to hear everything thew
have to say if it takes until mid
night.
II. Sponsors revolutionary farm
relief plan, saying frankly he re-
CARDS it as an experiment which he
is prepared to abandon if it does
not work.
He Abandons Mister
10. Calls his secretaries Louie"
Mac . and Steve" abandoning
the formal mister Of two prede-
cessorS.
10. Lumps eight scattered over
tapping farm loan agencies into one
co-ordinated body
20 Holds up important confer
ence while two small grandchildren.
Slstie" and "Buzzie" Dali. inspect
his new office.
Mrs. Roosevelt is adding to her list
daily Five Of her most important
departures are:
l. Travelling by airplane
2. Holding regular press confer
ences.
3. Installing swings for her grand
children in the White House
grounds.
4. Knitting in the house gallery.
). Visiting slums Of Washington.