The Washington times., 1937-02-11

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ming of their
routs. Mrs. simpson
L'Affaire Simpson made Balti-
moreans temporarily less critical
of After-forty Sex Appeal and Gal
lantry.
But now that the Baltimore Belle
and her Future Husband are about
to be cut off by Parliament without
a Shilling the Town at the other
end of the Boulevard is beginning
to wonder if a woman is ever as
young as she thinks and feels. And
is a man the lad the ladies tell
him he is.
Washington has never been in
any of it's attitudes Young Town.
All of us here are as old as the
hills. Like the hills some of us are
suffering from soil erosion.
Youth has a horrid time in
Washington. Few jobs for the
boys, Few husbands for the girls.
In fact Washington is an un-
easy town. Take it where you will.
Nobody is sure. Nobody is re-
laxed.
The entire population is anxious.
Anxious about reappointment or
reelection to office.
Anxious about publicity.
Anxious about invitations.
Afraid of being forgotten.
Nor do think its a loyal town.
But I'd be bored to death liv-
ing any place else.
So would all of us who have a
touch of the Capital madness.
Mr.. Peter F'reuchen - six feet
four tall; with curly brown beard,
one foot long and nine inches wide;
explorer and Writer-thlnkS
seeing Washington is more of an
adventure than travelling through
the Arctic regions.
Mr.. Freuchen is stopping in
Washington for few days on his
way to Siberia. Figure that out
yourself. 1 gathered he was going
West and crossing over by Bering
Strait.
Of all the adventures Washing
ton offers, the Big Dane said the
Presidents press conference was
the most thrilling.
Mr.. Michael McDermott, of the
State Department, took him by
the hand and introduced him to
Mr.. Roosevelt when Mr. r. had
finished conversing fluently about
the drought and public works and
avoiding all questions about the
Supreme Court.
Mr.. r. jumped lightly from
these themes to talk about his
visitors own country.
It's one of Mr.. RS gifts-thls
interest in so many subjects and
places.
The first presidential question
was about Denmark's schools for
Esquimaux. How were they 60
ing.
"NOt so well as the schools
your Government conducts for
your ESquimaux in Alaska" an
SWered Mr.. Freuchen. "YOu
teach your Esquimaux your own
language first. Then you ex.
plain the modern world and its
way of living. But we insist
first that our teachers learn the
Esquimau language. Then we
try to translate modern life into
this almost dead tongue. But
We cannot. There were no words
in the Esquimau speech that ex-
plain the world today"
Mr.. Freuchen told the Presi-
dent that he lives in "the farth-
est North house. It's on tip of
Greenland. For days and days
never see more than one or two
people. We mostly eat reindeer
meat"
Inc HreS1QenC observed IildC peO-
pie in this country won't eat rein
deerS.
NO." laughed Mr.. Freuchen,
who can make epigrams in Eng
hsh, they think they're eating
Santa Claus"
Mr.. Freuchen remarked on his
way out of the White House of.
fices that if European countries
could somehow manage such press
conferences as the one he had just
witnessed, that much unhappy
misunderstanding and trouble be-
tween the ruling classes and the
people could be avoided.
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