The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-01
Observations
Quiet, Peace
Seem TO Reign
in Washington
BY Helen Essary

mONtu NtAibSi ANY away hSh TO
doors.
The President has closed up 1900
Pennsylvania avenue. Congress
has been out lin the district"
sweeping off its front and back
steps and spreading out a welcome
mat to all we'll wishers.
The war activities are far away
and come to us only in headlines
and news reels. II is easy 10 feel
all washed up with nowhere 10 go,
IL you're simple citizen OF the
capital. The old-time rumpus starts
again as soon as Congress con-
venes early in August.
We shall be looking back then
with pleasant regret on this peace
full summer scene.
Washington, though, is a peace
full place when you compare II
with bustling metropolises. You
get more pushed around in New
York and Chicago in ordinary
times than you did in Washington
at the beginning OF the Washing
ton.is-a.madhouse era. There are
other towns in which hotel rooms
are not tidied up until the day af'
ter next; other towns in which
food is scarce and overpriced.
Also I've been q far duller
places than Washington. It's fun
to know well-advertised political
personalities. They get to be as
professional as movie stars and
cheer you with a casual smile or a
general remark. What difference
does 1t make il the smile and the
remark are synthetic? Both are
more encouraging than honest
scowls.
Senator Harry Truman, Demo
cratic vice presidential nominee.
isn't a bit of a back-slapper. He's
rather shy and keeps 10 himself.
His Congressional Record biog-
raphy takes up three and half
lines. He's been in the Senate
since 1884. long enough to know
the whole town. Few people know
him. however.
There may be a moral in all
this.
Keep away from social Wash
ington II you would do WE'LL" may
be the motto for vice presidential
aspirants. Yet | have seen the
senator and Mrs. Truman several
times at dinners OF Mrs. Evalyn
Walsh Mclean.
As soon as Senator Truman
knew that the Chicago nomina.
ton was his, he phoned his moth
er and father. Listeners.in report
they were reminded OF the manner
in which successful prize fighters
call over the microphone as their
opponents lay snoring on the floor
OF the boxing ring:
Hello Nom. Hello, Pop. This
Is your son. Harry"
Certain entertaining scoffers say
the vice presidential nomination
was dictated by the Sons Of Con-
federacy and the Ancient Order
of Hibernians. II this is true then
we have at last achieved unity az
nation. Back in the Al Smith
days. the A.O.O.H. and the soc.
were not too palsy walsy.
Ny last Democratic convention
item records truthfully what han
pened when a certain editor who,
on looking at the highball offered
him by waiter at that rip-roaring
midnight buffet supper OF Mayor
Kelly. said simply:
This glass is nothing but
Ecotch. | do like a dash of soda
with my liquor"
Sorry, sir" replied the waiter.
Its the best could do. We've
clean run out Of water" Each
place suffers from It's own short
ages. suppose.
UNRRA, the hope of the post
war world, is going to have a prob
lem. biological. to struggle with.
True love. or something, may
help settle the inter.racial hatreds
OF Europe. An excellent author
ity reports TO UNRRA that $4,000
children have been born Of Norwe-
gian mothers and German fathers
since the Nazi invasion. Half
German children are also being
born in amazing numbers in Pc
land. Czechoslvakia. Denmark and
in all the German occupied coun-
tries.
France has a different story TO
tell. Frenchmen sent TO Germany
10 work in German industry and
war plants are expected TO increase
the birth rate in Germany by a
million or so-Franco-German bab-
les.
This is the first encouraging
news that has come out OF the war.
Good old Mother Nature Is break.
Ing down race barriers and fears
more successfully than peace treat
les, educational campaigns. com.
mercial cooperation and religious
efforts ever could And isn't IN a