The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-01-25
HOUSEKEEPER AT $500

. White House hOusekeeper, Mrs.
Nesbitf, checking the laundry.
amount allowed in the budget-de-
spite the fact that the budget was
increased by $4,000 two years ago.
The Roosevelts also entertain
much more than their predecessors,
and exceed their budget on this.
In both cases-travel and entertain
ment-the President and his wife
dip into their own pockets to make
up the deficit.
Wages of the White House staff
total about 100000. The housekeep-
er gets $4,000, the gardener $4,000,
the first cook 1920, plus a wide
assortment of other cooks, buffers,
kitchen helpers, housemen and
maids.
The bill for heat, light, and cleo
trio power Ito drive the elevator,
mechanical appliances in the kitch-
en-, etc. is $1,000. The laundry
bill is $4,000.
Knox Turns Cabinet Job Down.
Here is the inside story of Roose-
velt's secret offer of the navy Sec
retaryship to Col. Frank Knox:
The Chicago publisher and G. o.
P. candidate for vice president was
asked to come to Washington for
private talk with the President at
p. m. Sunday, December 10.
The President lost no time in get
ting down to brass tacks. He re-
minded Knox of the editorial he had
printed in his paper shortly after
the start of the European war, urg-
ing a coalition cabinet with sew
eral Republican members, in order
to meet the emergency in "na-
tionaP' rather than partisan man.
ner.
81 think that was good advice
then, and think it is equally sound
now" Roosevelt said in effect. GAS
you know, the navy secretaryship
is open and I'd like very much to
have you take it. It's very i'm
portant job and think you're just
the man, Frank, to fill the BILL"
'Thank you, Mr.. President" re-
piled Knox. 81 appreciate deeply
the honor you pay me. And if
there were a real emergency l
would be entirely at your service.
But don't think emergency condi-
tons exist any longer, and under
the circumstances feel I'll have to
decline your very kind Offer"
Merry GO-Round.
Pennsylvania Republicans are re-
ported to have held secret con-
clave and turned thumbs down on
ex-Sen. David Reed as the man to
run against Joe Guffey in 1910. Their
candidate will be Gilbert Mason Ow-
lett, Republican national committee
man from Wellsboro, Pa. Short
ly after Secretary Ickes issued his
blast against Paul McNutt, the two
men bumped into each other at a
cocktail party given in honor of
John and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger.
They shook hands cordially. There
were no icy chances.
Grover Whalen dropped in at the
state department the other day to
claim his passport. 1t was lifted by
immigration officials when Whalen
landed in New York recently, in
accordance with neutrality regula-
tions. Having crossed 80 frontiers,
Whalen prizes the passport as a
memento.
One of the few speeches Rep. Joe
Martin, astute Republican floor
leader, will make this winter will be
at the Kansas Day dinner in Tope-
ka, home of ALT Landon, January 90.
Martin is definitely a dark-horse
presidential possibility.
Mail Bag.
C. B., Port Royal, Va.-Further
investigation convinces us that there
is no truth to the report circulated
in some government circles that
Jimmy Roosevelt's salary is being
paid in part by movie moguls who
have tax cases with the govern
ment. He has kept scrupulously
aloof from these cases. p,
ON, Chicage-Justice Hugo Black
not only writes all his own deci-
sions and dissents, but is one of the
hardest working members of the Su-
preme court.