The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31
Observations
Enthusiasm Lacking
For Hundred Dollar
Democratic Dinner
BY Helen Essary

lar.a.Plate Jackson Day dinner the
Democrats dished up at the May.
flower the other night, we'll
In words OF one syllable-it did
not quite make the grade | hope
my old friend, Charlie Nicholson,
Democratic publicity chief and ono
OF the smartest men in anybody's
country, won't be too cross with
me for writing this. But Charlie
himself knows ! am speaking the
truth when / say there was some
thing missing in that costly cele-
bration. There was not any sea-.
soning The old-time Jacksoniau
flavor was missing. The show just
did not come of.
The whole thing was a sort OF
rehash-you understand what |
mean. You know how tasteless
food always is when it has been
standing around too long. 1t Is
flat and you sort OF choke II down.
You say, That was undoubtedly a
meal. There was meat and pota-
toes and spinach. know I've been
fed. But | didn't enjoy a mouth
full"
Too much relocating is hard on
causes and food. And IL a gallery
eyes view OF the Jackson banquet
is worth noting q sat upstairs in
the ball room and looked down on
the best New Deal heads in Roose.
yeltian captivity, the boys and
girls are not enjoying the Fourth
or Reheated Term.
There is no reason why they
should enjoy the Fourth and Re.
heated Term. And no reason to
apologize for having lost their
taste for the same menu. Sixteen
years is a long time for anybody
TO stay in the White House.
OF course, they are-the term
is political - going along. But
how they hate it!
You felt this attitude in the at
mosphere OF the banquet. Even
Senator Hattie Caraway's Riband-
in-the-Hair 1.-THE Lady from Ar
kansas looked very welD didn't
make the speakers table festive.
Nor the orchid corsages most OF
the top'notch ladies wore.
SO many people OF importance
were present that an extra speak
er's table had TO be run along the
side Of the room opposite the Ia.
hle from which Speaker Sam Ray.
burn. Vice President Henry A.
Wallace and War Correspondent
Quentin Reynolds told the audi
ence and the microphones that the
New Deal would have Jobs for
every fighting man when the war
is over.
| almost wrote vice President"
Rayburn instead Of Speaker"
Rayburn. Some folk keep saying
that Mr.. Sam" from Texas will
be the running mate OF Mr.. Roose-
welt in 1874. Other folks say Wal
lace will again be the presidential
choice. The choice OF Mr.. Sam
undoubtedly would please the
southern conservatives. The real
party men.
But, so hear, Mr.. Roosevelt may
soon have to make an extra effort
10 please the left wingers. Some
Of the left wingers are pretty mad
at the present. Maybe Wallace's
denomination would calm their
fears.
JUMPING QUICKLY TO AN
OTHER FIELD OF talk-have you
seen the new Lira with which TIA
ly hopes TO get its financial feet
on the ground? II is a spectacu-
lar looking bank note and straight
propaganda. I'm glad to report.
successful propaganda. On the
back OF the note are the Four
Freedoms-in full a notation
says the bill was issued by the
United Nations.
HEARD A REFRESHING;
STORY the other day about sever.
al soldiers who hate being back in
THE States" again. They sigh
for thote good, old days in the
Solomons when life was really
something. Gosh, what food they
had there. And what care. Some
thing going on every minute, day
and night.
Contrast this nostalgia for the
South Seas with the following QUO
tation from-no, can't tell you his
name-but this is the quotation:
Here | sit, south OF the equa-
tor, with the gooney birds on
God-forsaken, treeless, shrubless,
grassless, womanless, nativeless
coral atoll. Not Hollywood's YER
sion OF the South Seas by any
means No Dorothy Lamour, black
or white. Not even a black Fuzzy
Wuzzie-just insects and soldiers
live here. Even the mosquitoes
can't stand the place.
Some people say that three
months after they get here the
boys start talking TO the gooney
birds. In six months. the gooney
birds begin answering back. But
old IL L.