Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-25
RooseveIfs Entertain
Small Group Tonight
AT Turkey Dinner
Four Sons at Front
Unable to Get Home
For Christmas

President and Mrs. Roosevelt
opened their presents today after
a round of official engagements
yesterday, climaxed by the Presi-
dnt's annual address to the Ma
ton from the scene of the Ma
tional Community Christmas
tree on the White House lawn.
In private capacity as Episcopal
worshippers. President and MRS.
Roosevelt this morning attended the
union service conducted by the
Washington Federation of Churches
in the Church of the Epiphany.
Mrs. Roosevelt attended one official
engagement to greet war workers
eating dinner at the YWCA, but
quickly returned for the family's
Christmas package unwrapping
early in the afternoon.
The guests around the dinner
table tonight included only the
Roosevelts themselves; the Presi-
dents sister in-law from New York,
Mrs. J. R. Roosevelt: the wife and
children of 1t. Franklin D. Roose-
welt, jr.; the Harry Hopkins and
Harry Hooker of New York. None
of the four Roosevelt sons could get
home for Christmas from the fight
ing fronts to which all are assigned
Observe Coffee Rations.
The dinner at the White House
topiobt will bepip with OYSTER cock-
tail and will include roast turkey
respondent with the Presidents
favorite chestnut dressing, cram
berry jelly and deerfoot sausage.
The President himself is scheduled
to carve.
Beans, cauli1ower au gratin and
casserole sweet potatoes with orange
will complete the main course,
After a grapefruit and avocado
salad and plum pudding with hard
sauce, the Roosevelts will get the
after dinner demitasSe to which
they have limited themselves since
start of coffee rationing A half
cup of coffee with milk in the
morning completes their ration OF
a cup day.
In his Christmas address to the
Nation yesterday at the annual
community tree celebration, the
President declared that This is
a happier Christmas than last year
in the sense that the forces of dark
ness stand against us with less con-
fidence in the success of their evil
ways"
Mr.. Roosevelt emphasized his
greeting to servicemen of the
United Nations all over the world.
He especially reminded men sta
toned Gin remote islands and bases"
that I'VE have not forgotten them"
Remembers Home Front Toilers.
Some of these men will lin all
probability" never come into actual
combat, the President said, but their
effort is essential to victory just
the same. He also sent greetings
to those who toll "in industry and
in offices" for the common cause.
He concluded with the observa-
ton that only Christmas out of all
the usual holidays in the year Is
now being observed by shutdown Of
wartime industry and Government.
Il like to think" concluded Mr..
Roosevelt, that this is so because
Christmas is a holy day. May all it
stands for live and grow through
out the years"
There was silence from the
massed thousands on the White
House lawn during the Presidents
remarks. But as soon as Winfred
Kemp of the Marine Band began
to play his annual cornet solo,
"Cantique de Noel" howls broke
from the White House roof where
young Christopher Roosevelt was
sitting with his nurse.
Finally Is Quoted.
The baby's mother, Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt, jr., was standing with
her older boy, Franklin, III, and
Mrs. Roosevelt on the south portico
near the President. She looked
alarmed as the voice of her weep
ing child f1oated down to the off,
cial group. Those on the south
portico could not see Christopher
above them, but the crowd watched
fascinated as the nurse on the roof
FASTENED to pick up the boy in his
green suit and peaked wool hat.
Christopher stopped crying at once,
and Bandsman Kemp finished his
solo In the midst Of silence.
The other children who witnessed
the tree celebration from the White
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