The Washington times., 1935-11-18
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A Little AdUice
To Presidents
ART MUSEUM
BY HELEN EssARY


committee on international Rela
tions of the Fishery Advisory
Committee.
Treaties are not usually cast ir
such honest sounding language
Diplomacy and international
relations call for softer words
I am enchanted with the
''White House for the Pacific
Movement"
Colonel Evans and the real
estate gentlemen who sent him
to Washington, have taken Their
idea from the Agricultural
Primer-rotate your crops for q
good harvest.
Naturally the scheme has
something of a program ahead
of it. That little matter OF
persuading Congress to pass 8
law telling each President tc
spend three months of the yeal
on the Pacific Coast, will be
something to think about now
and later. But the plan, even
in its present embryo state, ap
pealS to the imagination.
In the first place, if there il
to be a White House on the
Pacific, why not one for the Gull
of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains
the oregon Sequoias, and the
Kansas wheat fields?
In each place there should be
o government museum, not q
house. Keep the President on
view.
Let the populace see how he
is standing the strain of govern
ing 10000, 900 people.
Give them glimpses Of the
home life Of a Chief Executive
Here's a chance to tell people
what they really want to know
about government.
Adapting himself to various
parts of the country would be
an easy job for a man resource
full enough to get himself elected
President.
A smart President could &C
quire an accent to suit the neigh
borhood in which he is tenn
porarily living, and of course,
running the Government. TAX
ing on a little native color would
be good politics anywhere.
Down South the President
could say Good Mawnin'." And
win 10000 votes with slurring
of an "r." In the Green Noun.
tains he might chew strawS and
fish in a erik"
On the Pacific Coast he could
judge bathing beauty contests,
chew oregon apples in public and
sing "Oh Sole Mic" to Southern
California sunshine.
A knowing President would
wear in the Rocky Mountains
1O-gallon Coolidge hat and give
a rough rider yell like that other
Roosevelt. In Kansas, he might
let a harvesting machine rest
temporarily in his front yard.
Some Presidents might not
want to scuttle around the coun
try at 10 minutes notice. But the
Marines are always handy. Man
aging the Cabinet and the alpha
betical agencies would need 6
little doing.
However, they could be stacked
In trailers, hitched to the Presi
Dental car. This might prove &
method Of eliminating undesir
ables. BY the time an officia
got all the way across the cont
nent, his job might have beer
washed away-eroded, as it were
Or, whisking joyously about thu
country, telling his wife mean
while how much better off she
was al home with the children
might cause more or less volun
tary resignation.
These, of course, are minol
difficulties. They could be easily
adjusted by the Pacific promot
ers.
Mrs, John w. Garrett has de
cided not to continue with hel
plan of establishing an art mus
cum in Washington in January
Mrs. Garrett, whose husband
was American ambassador tt
Rome, is a beautiful woman anC
a dramatic personality. She Otter
visits her sister, Mrs. Henr!
Leonard, in Georgetown. Mr.. ant
Mrs. Garrett have a famous Bal
timore estate and a collection o.
modern art, including severa
Goyas.
Mrs. CARROTS original plar
was to convert the first two floors
of a centrally located apartment
into a gallery.
The Peruvian Ambassador
Senor de Freyre, speaks the purest
most unaccented English one
hears in Washington. And here's
another interesting sidelight on
the widowed diplomats person.
ality-no matter what his pos
sible engagements, Senor de
Freyre is at home every afternoon
at half past five for an hour OF
reading. having tea and family
conversation with his little chill
dren. DIR. William A. Morgan
went to North Carolina recently
to shoot bears. Did he shoot any?
Certainly, seven.
Dear Helen EsSary:
You have been writing about
traffic problems. Did it ever oc
cur to you that the real traffic