The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-25
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White House Toll
KnOUn June I
DIR. RAGATZ
By HELEN EssARY

kAoNO oOOPPON WV Avn SAAA NS@%O@~
during the past year.
The figures are expected to be
heavy enough to crack typewriters
and break down linotype machines.
Recently 1000 Pennsylvania Ave.
has been almost Neibhborhood
House. Thousands of citizens
with taxable and nontaxable In
comeS-have been welcomed with
friendly hospitality.
Under the Grecian pediment at
the front door, over the asphalt
steps of the Administration Of
ficeS and under the party awnings
of the East Entrance the throng
has come steadily.
On April /, when the figures for
White House callers during March
were given out, the number was
more than 200 per cent greater
than in March, 1885.
wSpaper correspondents
couldn't believe the increase. Many
of them quickly dialed National
1414 for verification.
June / is chosen as the date OF
announcement for the annual
calling figures, because that day
marks the end of this seasons
official White House handShak-
ing.
The visiting Farm Women, all
of whom will be received at the
White House, will increase
the June number by thousands.
When the Farm Women's Conven-
ton was first planned, about
1900 women were expected in
Washington.
On Saturday noon, $500 had
registered, and the number was
growing by the minute.
Horticultural Note
It takes more leaves to produce
an orange than it does a peach.
The number of leaves necessary
for an apple lies somewhere be-
tween the two.
About 40 or so leaves are re-
quired to produce enough tree
food for an apple. An orange re-
quires so leaves. A peach needs
only 80 leaves.
Yes, but how much does it take
to DRESS peach!
Margaret Sanger, who talks
about Birth Control even when
she is in jail, is terribly shy about
facing the photographers camera.
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Perhaps some of those students
who are graduating at George
Washington in June, magma cum
laude," have been encouraged by
DR.. Lowell Ragatz, G. w. profes-
sor. DR.. Ragatz, historian and
winner of awards for brilliant re-
search, has a nice habit of send
ing congratulatory notes to stu
dents doing good work.
Obviously, the Government feels
sorry for fat people. The De-
partment Of the Interior has an
nounced in recent specifications
for passenger vehicles that:
"The body (Of the autOmO-
bile-not the fat mani shall be
Of sufficient length and height
10 ACCOMMODATE occupants U
feet 2 inches in height comfort.
ably. The doors shall be of Suf-
ficient width and height to per-
init occupants weighing 230
pounds to ingreSs and egress
without striking the door franz
ing"
The Government also insists
that "the controls shall be de-
signed for the comfort and con-
venience of the driver" This
sounds reasonable.
The automobile regulations are
issued by the National Park Serv-
ice. which naturally doesn't want
cramped and squashed sightseers
riding sourly by its mountains
and geysers.
Ada Alden, mother of the Wash.
ington correspondent for a Nor
folk paper, was a poet of distinc-
ton. When Mrs. Alden was in
excellent health she wrote II Have
Lived Richly" The poem ap-
peared in the April Forum. Mrs.
Alden died suddenly from heart
attack on April IL.
Here are her prophetic verses:
I have lived richly, I have lived
long:
Furnished my hut with thoughts
and song,
With laughter and grieving, and
love without end,
The kiss of a lover, the clasp of a
friend.
Now I shall go with the winds in
their going;
Now I shall follow the rich waters
flowing.
Nothing is ready, nothing is done;
My days are not measured by sys-
tenn or sun.
With leisure to squander, and
and treasure to waste,
There is no need to labor, and no
need to haste;
Only the work that Is JOY to the
soul.
Only the freedom of boundless
control.
Life in its fullness is sweeping
me on,
Why should I wait with a life that
is gone?