The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-03
THE -
CHERRY TREE
Where with our Little Hatchet We tell
the truth about many things, sometimes
profoundly, sometimes dippantly, some
times rscklessly.


with the salty SAVIOR of Anglo Saxon,
which often is not the most delicate
of languages 1t is: keep your nose
clean"
Never was there more appropri-
ate time for taking such advice.
Miami, Florida, has been held up to
more or less scolding and scorn be-
cause great many wealthy persons
are there to spend the winter, plus
lot of money Also because lot of
Northern automobiles are in Miami,
burning up gasoline which obviously
is in excess of the average persons
puny three gallons per week. That's
all true and the gasoline wastage is
shocking.
But it might be good idea to take
look at Washington, D. G.
1t would be difficult, in days walk,
to find city in which there is more
ostentatious and blatant spending
than the capital of the nation.
Two tremendously big parties have
been given recently, one of them hav-
ing guest list Of some 1000 persons.
Food of the most expensive type
was served. Drinks were plentiful.
Perhaps those two feasts were out
standing Probably so. But day in and
day out, the business of entertain
ing" goes on, with prices high and
food extravagantly used and misused.
Plainly, it looks like hell in time of
war!
Mostly the splurging in Miami is
done by persons who are on vacation.
Some of the men playing along the
beaches have been driving themselves
for year or two, until it's literally a
case of cut loose or bust. It's not that
way with all, by any means, but sure
| ly it is with some.
The Washington entertainment" is
not for relaxation, mostly.
Washington hotels are filled with
persons who are in Washington be-
cause they want something which they
hope to obtain in Washington. Many
of these wants are genuine and legiti-
mate. Frantic business and manufac-
turing men are in town in the hope
of getting materials or work to keep
going.
Some of these visiting firemen be-
lieve that blowout here and there
may help their chances. They may be
right, in part. So, they start with
cocktails at anywhere from A o'clock
on.
But that's not the evil thing, the
sinister thing.
Washington is unwilling host to a
lot of lobbyists who are in Washing
ton to promote plans and projects
which are wholly greedy and selfish.
Some are sinister. Some aim at Sc
curing legislation; others aim at the
enormous piles or orders for thou
sand things.
Back in depression New York had
crowd of more or less small town So
licitors called 'the Gimme Boys"
Washington has the Gimme Boys on
a grand scale. Some pretty filthy stuff
goes on.
If Mr.. Morganthau could sell $25
war bond for every $25 per capita
drink and dinner party given in Wash
ington he would have steady income
of nice, fat proportions.
1t isn't question of whether per-
son has the right to spend his own
money foolishly if he wants to. No.
But in grim war time it is downright
offensive and nauseating to see money
used in such gobs for night life,
some of which is pretty dirty and
messy, through some of it is just friv-
olous and under-age.
, Miami is getting some deserved
scolding even though most of it
ought to go to those who go from half
. the states in the nation down to the
moonlight paradise, taking to that
point the wealth produced over many
states for tour of the plush night
! clubs and the well populated race
tracks.
But Washington is no better, no
cleaner, no more deserving of clean
! bill of health. It is time for Ameri-
cans to keep their noses clean. Really
clean and wholesome. How many men
died today in Italy and in the Paci-
fic-CMW.