The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-22
Observations
Change Made in
Place Taken by
United States
BY Helen Essary


David Copperfield" who felt
things more than anybody May
be all grades OF columnists are Ike
Mrs. Gummidge. They, too. are cas-
lily thrown into tears, rage, or won
der or dOubt-accOrding, OF course,
TO the number OF papers who print
their shining words.
Supposing all this is true What
WOULD Mrs. Gummidge have
thought and felt, il her chimney
corner had been in the United
States, and II every time she looked
at the paper or listened over a radio
during the last fortnight. she had
learned that the President OF the
United States had dropped in on
some peculiar faraway country?
Mrs. Gummidge, I'm positive
would have taken that extra nip
she always managed TO find on the
mantel piece. Hoping that with it's
inspiration she could rid her mind
of the confusion caused by such
travelin' round.
There was a time when ! went 10
school and you, too, for that mat.
Ter. Studying geography out Of
those big. square books that
wouldn't fit under your arm with
the other school books. We learned
that the United States of America
was bounded on the north by Can
ada, on the east by the Atlantic
Ocean, on the west by the Pacific
ocean, and on the south by the
Gulf OF Mexico and Mexico.
We learned that Washington, sit.
uated in the District OF Columbia.
was the capital Of the nation. The
President OF the United States
had his office in Washington at
the White House, and from that
location on Pennsylvania Avenue
he headed the executive branch OF
the government.
Well, times have changed.
Changed indeed. By what country
is the United States bounded now?
And from what spot does its presi-
dent direct the affairs of this ma
tion.
II it's President Roosevelt, head
OF the clan OF the Rowing Roose-
Velts. you're talking about he's
the Chief Executive who would have
given Mrs. Gummidge the urge for
still another nip. He runs this coun-
Try and takes a hand In other coun-''
tries not from Washington, D. C.,
alone. but also from Europe, Asia,
Africa and South America. There
first was that Roosevelt hop to Bra
gil few years ago. Then his trip
10 Casablanca in North Africa. Next
in Quebec where the French Gener-
sl Montcalm said as he died on
the battlefield which made Canada
English and not French, The pen
is mightier than the sword"
President Roosevelt's pen. plus
MIR. Churchilrs pen, did prove its
might in some sharp writing at
Quebec.
On the next Roosevelt hop to for.
eign parts. the President OF the
United States. who TRY to remem.
Der this) did once confine his office
work 10 Washington. vas doing
good international business at the
Nena House in Cairo which I de-
scribed for you more than a fort
night ago. A few days later he was
comforting in Teheran. Iran. with
that. until recently elusive fellow.
josef Stain. and the omnipresent
British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill.
There's been some natural criti-
cism OF President Roosevelts ten.
dency TO make these travel stories
family affairs with Col. Elliot Roos-
evelt. son-in-law Major Boettiger.
and Nephew n guess you can call
him a nephew Harry Hopkins on
view. The British prime minister's
daughter was also at the party.
When I asked a young soldier
what he thought OF this new kind
of treaty making family party. he
answered. Decent OF the old BOYS
10 let the young ones in on the
show"
After Teheran and Cairo again.
Messrs Roosevelt and Churchill
)eaped to Malta, a place hitherto
overlooked in the more elegant tray-
ell stories. After Malta-what next?
II does make me a little nervous,
all this skipping around. Perhaps
1t indicates that our new role is
that OF the UNITED States OF the
World"
This reminds me that my recent
suggestion that We had better get
a new name for this country
drew many letters. I'VE can't keep
on thinking we are the only AMER
1CANS." "Other people live on
this hemisphere" Wed better
make up our minds are we to be
United States-ers? Or Users? Or,