The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-11
Observations
Hostess Missed;
Employment Post
War Problem
BY Helen EsSsry

are pretty annoyed
Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean
won't com, home. She won't come
home and give party. A big par
ty. with dinner and everything.
Mrs. Mclean has been gone for
weeks now. was very inconsid'
crate OF her in the first place TO
take herself out OF Washington 10
Hollywood or wherever II is she
went. In the second place, it =
very inconsiderate OF her to stay
so LONE. For with the capital :
leading hostess away, how in the
world are you going TO see any
body, It's an awful nuisance to
give a party yourself Such trou-
BILE TO call people up. Nobody
ever home. And then rauoning
is a fearful bother. And servants
are difficult, excessively dificult.
II was much simpler and far pleas
auter last winter and spring TO let
Evalyn Mclean do your entertain
ing fo- you
She'd collect all the right peo'
pls at Friendship. her place IN
GEORGETOWN. at one Of her regular
dinners. You could find almost
everybody OF any importance there
n the most agreeable setting. out
doors. moon over the sunken gar
den Indoors. fat sofas and bright
llr&<, sood- food and MOVIES, mu,
sic and so on. You know. Tor d
annie, IL there was little matter
YOU wanted TO take up with
certain cabinet member or war ef-
fort prima donna you knew ahead
Of time that you needn't bother try
ing to find a big personality in his
ONCE. You'd be certain TO see
him At Evalyns' some SUNDAY
soon. Useful institution, Friend
ship.
But those were the happy days
before Mrs. Mclean decided to go
off 10 that dreadful West. Her
Washington friends said II was fine
for Evalyn TO be on the receiving
end instead OF the giving end for
a change. But there is no point
in OVERRIDING this vacation-from-
Washington idea.
The swimming pool at Friend
ship SIN is available TO friends %
Mrs. Mclean. Quite a crowd has
been going there on hot afternoons
10 splash about and gossip But
its been like going to call at
deserted mansion. Mrs. Mclean
should really come home. This
nonsense has last long enough
That's the consensus OF capital
opinion.
Certain cynics think II time We
changed our national symbol from
Uncle Sam to Don QuiXote.
Uncle Sam OF a generation or two
aEo was sharp trader. He :
lately grown into svashbuckllng
knight who charges at windmill lis.
reckless fellow who believes he
can turn the tide OF despotism with
his OWL lance. Swish swash. goes
Uncle Sam Quixots' Charging
along the hills and dales OF the en-
tire planet
The sentiment OF America. so the
second kind OF cynics declare, Is
as shire nd a trademark as the dol
lar sign Why squirm AZ the SUE
gestiou BE like the British-realls'
tic The United states has gone
right far on sentiment, hasn't ~?
It has most OF the money OF the
world in its vaults. and don't for
get those billions OF other nations
dollars on deposit in this country,
waiting the chance to be spent
here after the war.
Another thing. don't worry too
much bout how the United states
will get on with Europe, Asia and
Africa and the people thereof,
come the. postwar world Smart
Washington opinion predicts that
Russia. Britain. China. South
America and even the enemy coun-
tries will be too busy straighten.
ing gu, their own affairs once the
peace treaty is signed TO be OF any
immediate trouble TO each other or
US.
The dangerous postwar problem
OF the United states VIII re 10
mestic problem. That old DOGGY
unemployment. The war nome /
tarily has put the problem OF uu.
employ ment out OF mind. The war
training camp has sorted. fed and
trained millions of pre-var unem-
ployed War industry plants have
made other millions prosperous
After the war, however. in the
let-dovn of sudden peace, what
Is to be done with the hordes vno
will be looking for jobs in the cold
gray dawn OF the morning after?
Capital won't be able to handle
this Unemployment problem alone
Nor will the government. There
has to be a combination OF capital
and government to take up the