The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-16
President Of the

naipn wear Mrs. Roosevelt
What four presidents, you ask:
Listen carefully In addition tt
Mr.. Roosevelt. there is President
Edwin w. Gableman of the Grid
iron Club and the able Washing
ton correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer.
Then there is President Fred
Storm, of the White House Cor.
respondents Association, and a
brilliant writer for the United
Press.
Finally, and by no means the
least illustrations, is Harry Lucas,
president of the Loyal Union OF
Pullman PorterS.
Lucas is not only Pullman Porter
No. IN the United States, but as
BELTS his high station, he is the
porter on the private car of the
President of the United States.
At this point our correspondent
inserts in his notes:
mo doubt the executives tlnd
that in the discharge of their
duties they have many prob
lens in common"
We wouldn't know exactly what
this cryptic paragraph means. Tn.
less it's to be tranSlated-Sweep.
ing out, busting off and polishing
up.
Pullman President Lucas, it
seems, without losing any of his
efficiency as a porter, has the
bearing of man of quality.
He has dignity and a keen intel,
ligence. He has fine politeuess
without obsequiousness. He lives
in Washington and the members
of his race are proud OF him. AS
they should be-
Continuing to speak Of Lucas
our letter writer is reminded Of
another circumstance in connec
ton with the Roosevelt tour. The
President and his party spent Sun
day in Cheyenne, Wyo., a town that
holds its old flavor of frontierism
Sunday happened to be Mrs
Roosevelt's fifty-second birthday
This event was appropriately cele
brated in the private car, anC
when the birthday dinner wa!
over, Lucas passed through thu
entire train, at Mrs. ROOSEVELT
bidding, bearing a tray with {
slice of birthday cake for each
member of the party.
Just about dark that evening
and after the presidential party
had returned from being enter
tanned at Fort Francis E. Warren
four colored people-two men anc
two women-appeared at the pc
lice line; five colored people il
fact, for one of the women wa
carrying small child.
They timidly asked the police
to pass them in order that the!
might Serenade Mrs. Roosevelt
They were admitted to thu
platform and for IS minute.
they sang. They were unan
nounced but they sang just thu
same. A perfect quartette il
ever one was heard.
Whereupon Mrs. sevelt
emerged from the private cal
and presented the group with {
huge bouquet of flowers and thu
child with a bright red apple.
One expects to hear of plains
men in Cheyenne, of cowmer
and COW women. Of indians
squatting about and perhaps {
few MexicanS. All these movie
characters greeted the Presiden
tial party, according to our cor
respondent.
But it was pleasant surprise
to find even a handful of South
ern Negroes in that Far Yves
prairie city. MinneSingers TO,
American citizens, no doubt.
VOTE AMERICAN
Dr.. Bethune to Talk
Dr.. Mary Mcleod Bethune
president of the Daytona- Goodman
Institute and director of the CO.
ored division of the National You'll
Administration, will address tn
Tuesday Evening Club of Socis
workers tonight at o'clock at tn
home of the National Federation
of Colored Women's Club, Twelfth
ard o Streets Northwest.
This meeting will open fal
&C ;ivitieS of the club, of which D.
Clara Taliferro Is president.
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