The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
Inside
Washington
By HELEN ESSARy

on his shoulder. He thought a..
best way to get himself straiab
tened out was to go to headouarta-.
with his story.
So when he landed in WASHING.
ton he hunted UP a drug storo
looked for a telephone book o..
a nickel in change ard dialed IN,
1414." Then AVA
Hello there! Is this tho VIZ.
House? Well I want to sneat
the president. What? Isn't be in 20
Didya say waltz S,re T I.n
wait. AS long as you saw, sistar
It's two hours till l pull out
Hey there. OPERATOR Must l..
something the matter with tb We
line e. . Oh, you're back ago;mI
Sure. I said I'd wait Yes. ~ a.
want to speak to the presidort
There's something about the Arn,r
I think he'd like to know I'm y
the drug store at Ninth and Dow
sylvania avenue, OK. III star
here till your man comes OTS
Meanwhile, the secret service
men whom the White House toIo
phone operator had told about tbo
soldiers call, were or their WOW
to Ninth and the avenue. Thew bsd
to find out about the guy. Wac ba
dangerous or just cuckoo?
They found the soldier sitfirr
calmly at a table reading funnS
sheet and drinking a coke H.
readily introduced himself answer
ed questions cheerfully and seem.
ed entirely rational if a shade i'm
pulsive. He said he wanted onIv
a minute with the president and
he knew he could make Mr. Roose
vedt see he ought to be transferred
to a different division.
The secret service men were 81
taken with the boy they bore him
off to the White House and intro.
duced him to Presidential Secre.
tary Steve Early. Early was like.
wise pleased with the boy. Maybe
just for the fun of the thing he
took him to the president
The president must have liked
the soldier, too. He said he would
do what he could to help him. He
must have done the right thing.
The soldier got his transfer.
Another story that could not even
be rumored except in the truly
democratic United States has 10
do with another White House tele-
phone call. A suburban wife got
annoyed with goat that kept wan
dering onto her lawn and nipping
her Victory garden sprouts. Again
and again she asked the police and
the owner of the goat to call off
said animal. But the goat kept
coming back.
The afternoon the goat ate four
tomato plants, a pumpkin vine and
a japanese BEETLE sprayer, she
called the White House. They will
know what to do with goats, she
reasoned.
They used to have sheep on the
White House lawn. Besides. the
White House knows what 10 do
about everything.
While she was holding the White
House phone waiting to be trans
ferred toilets say-the White
House Goat EXpe1t-an uneXpect.
ed voice sounded in her ear. 1t
was the voice that has launched
a thousand new enterprises in the
past II years. The same golden
voice. Good gracious, Mr. Presi-
dent" the matron said. T-El
certainly didn't think I'd get YOU
I mean, isn't this wonderful! /
er-er was only wanting 10 talk
to somebody about the goat that
keeps eating my Victory garden
And Ter please excuse me. mere
must have been some mistake
The president allowed there must
have been some mistake. Bu' de-
clared he was interested IN VIC
tory gardens and he'd always liked
goats even though they were a
little trouble now ana then he q
like to reconcile the goat and the
| garden, if he could Matter OF TACT
maybe he really could.
The end of the story-the nelen'
Dor locked up the goat. And the
suburban matron will always be,
lieve it was because TIE President
of the United States told her TO-
America is wonderful! Aren't you
glad you live here?
1t has seemed to me. as nave
sat for severcl delightful hours III
the gallery of the Senate llstenn7
to the debates on the Connally lol,
eign policy declaration that "ha'
Congress needs is a good ram
marian. Hours are wasted cecl9
ing on the meaning of certain WoIpS
such as IAN" and "the'-ln lfleAf
selves innocuous.
My opinion, if you would nav
me 60 further, is that if the MacA,
nae resolution done by the aIsI'
Republicans at their recent MlcA'
gan conclave, the Fullbright re'l
luton of the House Of RepreSer
tatives and the Connally resoluuO,,
were boiled down by some gov,
grammarian, skinned of the"
"whereases" and "heretotoIs
and ION the other hands me
would be just about nothing 10
but good intentions.
Still, those good intentions az
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