Evening star., 1933-12-17
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Art, Literature, Politics
Christmas Spirit at White House-Roosevelt to
Hear Carols-Ambass Bingham Coming
for Visit-Rich Literary Finds.

The President and Mrs. Roosevelt
during their nine months in the White
House have done much to make the
people of the United States social
conscious" for the Presidents motto
is that economic and social recovery
must go hand in hand. emphasizing
the truth when he says. that our dis
tressed families need good deal more
than the things that merely keep them
alive but the kind of social service
which will maintain the unemployed
heads of families in proper condition
TO fill Jobs when jobs are opened y;
In other words man cannot live BY
bread alone and ones responsibilities
do not end with setting the Christmas
basket on the doorstep. The entire
country seems awake to the fact that
this is to be the happiest Christmas
of the past four years-tor the largest
number of persons, for many OF the
unemployed who have been walk lg
the streets will this holiday be able %
fill their own Christmas baskets, tn IS
raising self respect, and helping the
head of many a house to join in real
celebration-no matter how humble,
and with Tiny Tim say God bless us
every one"
It's to be a musical Christmas, too
since carols are to be sung IN the
streets and public squares as well as
in churches, and Washingtonians VIII
turn with affectionate memories 10
that popular and much beloved mis-
tress of the White House. Mrs. Calvin
Coolidge, who was the first to inaugu-
rate the singing of old Christmas carols
1nder the great white porte cochere
of the Executive Mansion. After
LIGHTING the Christmas tree in Sher-
man Square, Mr.. Coolidge and she
would return to the mansion and later
with guests 90 out on the front portlco
TO listen to the carols and their
favorite hymns sung by selected choir
from the First Congregational Church
Crowds always gathered to listen and
as the words of Lead Kindly Light,
and Fast Falls the Even Tide"
foated out over Lafayette Square,
there was hushed stiffness, mats
came of and the listeners felt that they
had had a real share in the White
House celebration.
Each year when Mrs. Coolidge visits
Mercersburg Academy, Pennsylvania,
where her sons attended school and
where the memorial cross to her young
son Calvin was erected, the car1lon
Of bells is played for her. Those chimes
which were given by the late Mr.. Henry
Butcher Swope of Philadelphia, is the
second largest carlton III America and
the third largest in the world. The bells
are played by famous carillonneurs
who were brought from abroad. Not
only at the holiday season but every
day at the noon hour the chimes OF
old Epiphany Church. G street, and
those of President Lincoln's church
New York Avenue, ring out. and there
is many a pause in the days work as
paSsers-by stop to listen.
Mr.. Francis BoweS Sayre, latest AS
sistant Secretary of State. must have
felt almost like Mac Gregor at re-
cent afternoon reception at the SIAM
ese Legal on, since his familiarity with
the SiameSe as a nation and a people
gave him the feeling of his native
heath. He has spent good deal OF
time in Siam and made his debut in
international diplomacy in 1925 when
the King of Siam. to whom he was an
advisor in foreign affairs. sent him to
Europe in an attempt to obtain abro-
CATION of old treaties which had given
several European powers a strangle
hold on the little, struggling Asiatic
kingdom. Mr.. Sayre'S mission was SO
successful that within a year these
powers had surrendered their claims
without compensation and the youthful
diplomat returned TO Bangkok to re-
ceive fresh honors. His early interest
in sociological problems was his first
introduction to his future wife, Jesse
Woodrow Wilson. second daughter OF
President WilSon-then Governor OF
New Jersey, who was engaged in So
oial settlement work in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Sayre died this year, leaving
three children.
Mr.. Sayre is perhaps one of the
most versatile men in the present ad-
ministration. He was graduated Win
high honors at the Harvard Law
school a year before his wedding and
spent the intervening time as as
assistant district attorney ofN New
York under Mr.. Whitman, later Gov
ernor of the State. His interest In
welfare work resulted in his being
made chief of the Bureau of Abandon
ment, the clearing house for domestic
problems. He later received much
publicity for his advocation OF uni
form divorce law throughout the
United States. As college student
Mr.. Sayre did hospital work along the
Labrador Coast with Sir Wliireo
Grenfell who was later to be the best
man at his wedding. In con lection
with some mining claims he explored
1900 miles of the Yukon River and
with a companion crossed to Siberia
IL, a 15-ton schooner and continued to
explore that country. He likes hiking,
is fond of horseback riding and toot
ball.
Early in Mr.. Sayre's married life he
silenced references to himself as tEe
Presidents son-in-law," just as Mrs
Curtis Dali put a quietus on the title
of princess Anna" after her fathers
election to the presidency Mrs. Dali
is to be congratulated on the sensible
way she has of keeping her children
out of the lime light and at the same
time not making them self conscious.
A young newspaper man OF Washing
ton said at dinner the other night
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