The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-19

last to start anything of this Kind.
 Now, at lest, they have dis covered the source of the boom. It was invented by Charley Mi- cllaelson.
 The astute democratic pubii- cityichieG, credited with the 1889 campaign which helped discredit Herbert Hoover, now figures Hoover will be the easiest can- didaxe for Roosevelt to lick. His nomination by the republicans, Charley figures, would be . big asset to the democrats.
 So MichelsOn has been quiet- lya putting out the Hoover norn- ination story, wherever and whenever he could.
 Flower Dispenser
 Widely publicized are the White House housekeeper, the cooks, the Secret Service staff, the ushers, the secretaries, the chauffeurs. But there's one fig ure, tall, gansling, amiable, who seldom reaches the news.
 He is William s. Reeves, and since the days of the other Roosevelt incumbency of the White House, he has occupied a cubby hole office in the Colon- made between the executive of- fices and the west end of the honse.
 He runs the "bouquet roOm".
 a' This "bouquct room" is
 charged with handling all White House flowers and
 plants; keeping grounds in
 order; planting and tending
 fI0werbeds; keeping trees
 pfuned; all horticultural work.
 Tn every bedroom and in most of the other rooms, fresh flow CTS are placed every morning. There must also be a vase of roses or mixed cut flowers on each of the desks in the execu- tive offices, a dinner table cer1- terpiece, palms and ferns for receptions. At an evening dance, individual corsages of roses or sweetpeas usually are provided for all ladies, with but tonnieres for gentlemen. Numbers Countless
 How .. many blooms pass through that tiny room in a year even Reeves will not at- tempt to estimate. The flowers come from the White House greenhouses on the Mali-an extensive array of some eight large structures--and vary from few dozen to twenty or thirty dozen daily.
 t"When we've got lots of flowers, we put lots of flowers in the vases," says Reeves. When we only have few, we put only a few in. That's the simp- lest way know of working the thing out"
 Reeves is an old friend of X the present RoOseyelts. Years
 ago, during the Theodore
 Roosevelt administration, when
 Franklin Delano and Eleanor
 Roosevelt were newlyweds
 and lived in a modest little
 house at 1733 N Street, he did
 the gardening in their cramped
 little backyard.
 Mrs. Roosevelt, when she came into the White House as first lady, remembered 1t.
 "Reeves's material grandfather. William Saundners, was first superintendent of the agriculture department, and did the land scaping for Gettysburg National cemetery. Money Talked
 Behind Premier Lavals sud- den and emphatic support of Great Britain in the Ethiopian dispute were many important factors, but one escaped the news cables from Europe.
 Though 1t was a carefully guarded secret, Great Britain, at that moment, was in the pro- cegs of. negotiating a $300,000,- loan to Germany.
 Such . loan, aimed to b0l.
 ster certain German industries,
 already heavy producers of
 arms, was the last thing France wanted. So the British not only per- mitted the French to attach cer- tain conditions to the loan, but also gave them to understand that cooperation between Paris and London would be complete as far as future Anglo-German relations were concerned. WPA Administratrix < Ellen s. Woodward, once a Memphis belle, is now the only woman in Harry Hopkins su- preme council of five. At the tense council table, surrounded by male talk and stale tobacco smoke, she sits--a Titan haired beauty, with blue eyes and slen- der, figure.
 Under WPA she is i'm charge of wOmen's projects, but her real speciality is handling men. When irate mattress makers come to town to protest against Relief workers cutting in on | tuGhE InQubtTyS LuCy AEC bChb " Mrs. Woodward. She stands be- hind her desk in tailored blue serge with a cream colored shirtwaist and a polka-dot scarf at her neck. Then she steps out from behind her desk, ex- tends her hand, and smiles. After that the mattress | makers go home.
 | Her. first conquest over man that is in public affairs--was when she ran for the Missis- sippi legislature and trOunced her opponent on tine issue that wonan's place was in the home. That was in 1925. In 1929 she became executive manager of the Mississippi State Board of Development--all business men. Tn Washington \ she first devised ZEBRA projects for wo- men on Relief.
 we took women on Reiief," she says, put them on horse- back, sent them out through the