Evening star., 1933-03-05

WASHINGTON has given It's well
come to a new President OF
the United States with .
NA characteristic enthusiasm that
burst over the bounds Of digni-
fed ceremony and into the
realm Of lavish, colorful celebration
To Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the thirty
second President, the National Capital, host
to scores of thousands from all over the country,
gave vent to a spirit that has been repressed
for many years in opening wide its portals to
the man who promises a new dear' to
people sorely tried by the worst depression the
Nation has ever known.
Starting out as a simple, Jeffersonian cere-
mony" asked for by Mr.. Rooevelt shortly after
his election on November 8, the 1888 inaugural,
last of the maugurals to be held on the ira
ditional March 4, developed into monster
celebration, the like of which has attended
the induction Of no other Chief Executive.
Without meaning to disregard Mr. Roose-
velts wishes in the affair, WashngtOnians.
longing for the old-fashioned gayety that
accompanied haugurals Of other days. literally
lifted the lid" from the 1888 inaugural to let
out all the repressed celebration it has had In
its system since the style for the more formal
type of inaugural came into fashion with the
troublous days Of Woodrow Wilson and the
World War.
The powers that directed the inaugural,
headed by Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson. per-
sonal physician to Woodrow Wilson during that
Presidents eight years IN the White House.
realized long ago that washington would no
longer be repressed IN its welcome Of Presi-
dent, and the celebration grew with the weeks
of waiting from the thin, clarion call OF
trumpet back in the days when inaugural plans
were forming into the b}are Of q big brass band
that marked the climax Of the celebration with
the arrival Of Mr.. Roosevelt to take up resi-
dence in the White House yesterday.
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more have stopped Washington from having
this celebration than they could have stopped
the mighty tides Of the oceans, and no effort
was made BY those who had in charge the
planning. Instead, the spirit was fostered and
the jubilant Democrats IL years without
leader IN the White House, were encouraged
In their spirit Of celebration by the Inaugural
Committee in the hope that some Of that spirit
would carry far into the Roosevelt admins
xation and make the Chief Executives task
Of lifting the spirits Of the people out OF the
muck of depression and onto the dry. firm foot
ing of optimism and faith in the country an
easier one
DIG business methods were applied to the
y task of sustaining the enthusiasm with which
the country In the last election swept Roosevelt
and his running mate, John N. Garner. into
Office through the Inauguration which WASH
ington and thousands Of visitors witnessed yes
terday.
The country wanted to dance and sing and
forget the troubles that have beset it for the
past three and half years, and the Inaugural
Committee decided that the inauguration was
a time to do it, and that spirit was foetered
in the plans for the inaugural throughout by
Admiral Grayson and his committee.
When it was found that the inaugural ball.
which carried the inaugural gayety far into the
wee, small hours of this morning would accom-
handful nj the n1prrVTnakPrS
who would come to Washington for the IN
augural and who would want to dance, the
committee cast about and found the great
ceremonial avenue of the future, Constitution
avenue, where Washingtonians have held
Halloween revels before, available fer plenty
of overflow from the inaugural ball, and Wash
ington danced to welcome the new President
Thus all through, the preparations for the