Evening star., 1934-10-28
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

EVERY one kIlOWS WllldM hllcL
White. Well, he was in New York
the other day to receive medal
from the Theodore Roosevelt Founda-
ton and among other things he did
and said was to describe the trials and
tribulations which beset a President
of the United States, and summed
up the whole thing by saying the
devil must have invented the presi-
dency.
What Mr. White says usually goes
so far as cleverness is concerned but
down in Williamsburg, Va, the con-
sensus of opinion was, if the devil
invented the Office the angels must
have invented Franklin Roosevelt's s
smile, for just as soon as DR.. John
Stuart Bryan referred to the living
President" and Mr.. Roosevelt, in
answering, said he was glad he was
live President, and smiled, the audi
ence was won.
There has been some criticism at
times to the effect that the number
of brain trusters-profesSor the
Government has been dispropor-
tionate to the practical needs of the
present emergencies. This led to a
bit of interesting research on the sub
ject and it was found that of the 80
Presidents of the United States 19
were either brain truSters or near
brain truSters
The second President of the United
States, and the first to live in the
White House, Mr. John Adams, taught
school in Worcester, Mass.-Mrs.
Edith NourSe Rogers home town;
Chester A. Arthur taught school at
Pownall, VT; James A. Garfield taught
Latin and Greek at what is now
Hiram College and was later lecturer
at Princeton University; William
Howard Taft was professor and dean
of the University of Cincinnati, law
department, and Kent professor at
Yale; Woodrow Wilson served several
colleges as professor before becoming
president of Princeton University.
Others brought to the presidency COL
lege training and methods of arriving
at the solution of problems in hand.
It's the hunting season and the
White House family is always in at
the killing. The way that Mrs. Roose-
velt can stretch her activities and
take in the occasions in which she
is interested is a wonder. Monday
afternoon she ''just ran" across La
fayette Square to the United States
Chamber of Commerce to look in on
the College Clubs, which had met to
listen to a radio address by Mrs.
Dwight w. Morrow, widow of the for
mer Ambassador to Mexico, and at
his death Senator r-elect from New
Jersey Mrs. Morrow broadcast from
New York on college Women and
the New Leisure"-there certainly is a
good deal of the latter.
She can speak with authority on
college women and her sex in general,
for her work and interests have been
wide among them. The Lady of the
White House looked charming in
powder blue frock with" chapeau and
shoes of a darker hue and said she
Just came over to listen awhile, and
among other things said, We value
most what we do not have, and
because I never went to college, l
have always missed the things college
can give person"
The Assistant Secretary of State,
Mr.. Francis BoWes Sayre, was there
with all those women and did not
seem a bit abashed, but spoke right
out on the subject, THE Need OF
Endowments for Womens Colleges"
which was the topic of the meeting.
Mr.. Sayre has just shortly returned
from a European trip of which he has
not spoken much. One does not hear
very much about in-trusters In the
Department of State, but Mr.. Sayre
is one. He was professor OF law at
Harvard, etc, etc.
There seems to be too much of the
politelv dubbed new leisure in many
places and the nlanikins of New York
and Chicago say if the debutantes do
not quit taking their jobs they will
starve to death. Fifteen dollars a
week may help out some with new
evening gowns and cocktail frocks Tor
the deb, but its poor living for three
meals a day and a place to sleep.
The professional manikin says, how
ever. she could make that much II
the lob were open to her-he might
even make $40 per.
The professionals are threatening
to go on the picket line. Many OF
the manikins have attended and paid
their little money at training school,
where the course was more or less
expensive and the hours long. Walk
ing with a book on their head,
sauntering, a swagger for sport togs,
many different kinds of steps for dill
ferent wear, all had to be learned
in order to get a job. There are
$500 of these professional models In
this country.
The Secretary of Commerce, Mr..
Roper of North Carolina, is having
little style show all his own in the
grand corridor of his gigantic build
ing in the Triangle. No debutante
manikins there to invite picketing.
It's a very real Alaskin Sealskin coat
display. Lovely garments made quite
a la mode-big sleeves, one with
modified Johnny collar-lovely skins,
dyed. one in the old-fashioned seal
brown. the other in a chic golden
brown. The Secretary must know
his public, for not long ago there
were at least a dozen women stand
inc before the glass case where the
coats and skins were displayed, and
the general opinion was that they
were smart creations.