Evening star., 1935-08-04
b. ROBERT CRAWFORD.

President Roosevelt did not intend
to have the budget put anything over
on him when he went On his week end
cruise down Chesapeake Bay on the
9th, so he took the budget along
with him on q little fishing bout so
that he could see just what Control
Ter General McCarl was putting in
his bag. It's a poor kettle of fish
the controller has been giving the ad-
ministration of late. The distin-
guished skipper, who is commander in
chief of the Army and Navy, evidently
thought it good naval tactics to keep
the enemy in sight until he knew the
why and the wherefore.
Cousin Henry Roosevelt-is it the
fifth removed-AssiStant Secretary of
the Navy, went along, too perhaps to
learn why the controller general is
always picking on him and why he
was so adamant about not giving
travelling allowances for dependents of
naval officers ordered home for retire
ment. The President likes a scrap
and has delightful sense of humor
and must have sat back and chuckled
with glee while the Assistant Secre-
tary and the controller were having
it out. The party fished late Saturday
night and the President is reported
to have hooked so hardheads-he may
have wished to demonstrate that, after
all, it was not so difficult to make
hardhead bite.
Out at McCook, Nebr, where the
tall corn-or is it wheat-grows, they
think the controller general would
make good presidential timber and
that shows that prophet is not with
out honor in his own country, for
McCook is his home town. The Re-
publicans are blazing a good many
trees out through the West in hopes
that they can strike a popular trail.
If Gen. McCarl should be the choice
for the nomination in 1886, every one
knows his platform would consist of
three words-balance the budget.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who has spent
great many years of her life in active
social service work and in an effort
to make people happier and more
comfortable, and who is an ideal
hostess when it comes to arranging
for the comfort of her guests, whether
at a state function or for visitors
staying in the White House, is now
having the Quickest, trickiest little
kitchen made up on the third floor
so that the children, the family or
guests can have their meals prepared
and served up there without recourse
to the big kitchens below stairs, which
are always in more or less of a furry
preparing fod for the grownups.
Up on the third floor of the man.
sion where children are usually put.
there was not even any way of heating
kettle or pan of water in case it
was quickly needed or to prepare food
for very small children, without going
way downstairs. So this thoroughly
up-to-date kitchenette with all kinds
of new-faShioned gadgets, cute little
pots, pans, bowls and dishes was
thought out by Mrs Roosevelt, and
by the time snow flies, everything up
there will be set. In the meantime
the President will have to have his
food prepared there-light housekeep-
ing as it were-while the kitchens are
being completed.
You see the chatelaine of the White
House, has had five children of her
own and now has five grandchildren,
and knows from experience just how
handy it is to have things at ones
elbow when it comes to taking care
of little ones.
When the building fathers conceived
the plans for the Presidents house,
something like a century and a half
ago, they probably did not think much
about Presidents having small chill
dren, for they are not usually elected
to the exalted Office until any children
they may have are grown up. History
would doubtless show that the ma
jority of little children who have lived
in the White House. we're either
grandchildren or children belonging to
relatives.
The attaches who have been at
the mansion for many years are TAX
ing the liveliest interest in all the
new improvements below stairs. They
exhibit a keen interest, sort of
proprietorship in all that concerns the
present occupants. One old guard
said 1t seems just like big family, |
and this same one mentioned that |
there must be some prosperity out
through the country, for of the eleven
or twelve thousand people who go
through the White House daily, there |
Is seldom seen shabby looking per-
son. They are well dressed and COM
Portable looking.
Sometimes complaints are heard
from constituents that Washington
becomes so alluring to the families
of their Senators and Representatives
that they are ioath to leave the bright
lights of the Capital and return to
the quiet of their home town. This,
however, has never been heard said
of Mrs. Borah. wife of the senior Sen
ator from Idaho. She enjoys the So
ciety in the Winter and the interest
ing people who constantly surround