The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-17
Observations
Writer Discovers
Enjoyment After
Being in Capital
BY Helen Essary


them as average citizens. Daily
associates. Plain folks, really. I'm
Ill you get out OF this town OF dis
torted values and somebody says,
for example:
Have you ever met Senator
Barley? The one from Kentucky
who seems TO be sort OF close 20
the President? l think he ran for
vice president in Chicago-do you
know him.
Know Alben Barkley!" you
tack on the first name or Washing
ton method OF celebrity calling.
This always impresses the stran-
ger. Il should say do know Al
ben Barley! He lives in my
apartment house. often see him
at the door struggling for a cab.
He's sort of square architectural.
~ and in character, too. Has two
pretty daughters. One married
10 the nephew OF Gen. Douglas
Macarthur and the other Is the
wife OF Max Truitt, a smart young
Washington lawyer. Mrs. Bark
ley is an awfully nice woman. She
has not been too we'll lately"
who else do you know
Mercy, what an order. Let me
see. who've run into lately? oh,
yes, Frank Murphy. or the Unit
ed States Supreme Court. Saw
Frank lunching at the Mayflower
with a bevy OF beauties. The beyy
consisted OF two. Always a safe
number for a bachelor who is CIV
en- to shying at matrimony.
"Ot course, there's Arthur Van
denberg, senator from Michigan.
Arthur would have made a good
presidential candidate. Arthur
keeps on being a leader in his
party. Look like? Well, he's a
a big fellow with rather handsome,
bold features and a lot of almost
white hair. He has presence and
a sense OF humor. Everybody
doesn't know about the sense OF
humor.
"Vandenberg and his attractive
wife live in an apartment hotel.
Arthur won't make any engage
ments for Sunday. Prefers to loaf
about the home all day. Thinking
up new ways to do the New Deal
in"
II understand there are q lot OF
uniforms about" You are likely
20 have this mentioned by the out
oftowner.
Il should say so. But not half
as many young uniformed men as
you saw a month or so ago. Now
young ones are off taking beach
heads and islands. The older
ones here at home are thinking up
ways OF keeping the fighters go
ing"
Secretary OF Commerce Jones
seems to have a finger in every
other Washington pie. Ever run
into him?"
Running into Jesse"-first name
stuff again-"would be like run
ming into a stone wall. He Is az
big as the state OF Texas, where
he went after he migrated from
Tennessee. Jesse has a face like
q very knowing cherub. Pink and
round and dimply. Has a dry hui
NOR and never gives In.
Mrs. Jones Is small and a lit
tie serious. She Is keen bridge
player and a frequent partner OF
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, OF whom
she is a great friend. Mrs. Will
son had quite a time in Hollywood
when the movie about her husband
was being made. She keeps far
out OF sight in Washington. Even
has her secretary answer many
letters in the secretary's name"
Are the diplomats on view much
nowadays" Perhaps your ques-
uOner Will ask THIS.
The South American ones are
at many pleasant places. But the
Europeans are living rather quiet.
ly. You hardly ever see them any.
where. They are probably stick
ing close 10 their desks, plugging
away as the final steps OF the war
close in. Diplomatic parties used
to be the most elegant in Washing.
ton. Done with a flair for enter
tanning and a big expense account.
they made you feel awtully cos
mopolitan."
Does the President 20 out Of
tenn? Here is another popular
question.
III he does. few people ever
know It." You answer this Judi.
eiousiy, Certainly the sound OF
sirens and the rush OF secret ser.
vice cars and out riders is heard
on the streets far less than in
peace time. No wonder presidents
like 10 pop off TO strange countries
for some reason or other. They are
virtually prisoners in the White
House"
yet II does appear that many
people wouldn't mind being that
kind OF prisoner Your listener
is on the verge OF taking the floor
himself. So you stop the CONVEX.
sstion.