The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-14
Observations
Showers Fail to
Halt Plans For
Garden Parties
BY Helen ENssry

IN the capital of our nation. This is
also the season OF thunder showers
along the Potomac. OF thunder
showers that darken the sky, ma
chine gun the clouds, shoot flares
across the horizon and fall In hot
and hasty. splashes on the garden
partyites.
Still II you are a proper Wash.
ingtonian. you do not stay home
because OF heat or high weather.
For example. take that garden par
" the fascinating Madame Wei,
wife OF the Chinese ambassador,
gave th1 third tropical storm be-
fore last at Twin Oaks. a city
estate leased from the heirs OF
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
OF the telephone.
II began looking like rain" an
hour or two before the garden par
~ moment struck. But did that
Brighten those who were about 10
be guests? No. on the contrary
the ladies' and gentlemen who are
on the garden party list OF the
Chinese pulled on their lowered
chiffons and silly hats and new
uniforms and clean white shoes
and. vowing TO heat the storm, set
forth by the hundreds or thous'
ands
When the storm came, gentle
mems hats that had been checked
on racks placed under the trees
went flying off in the wind. Ladies
clutched their skirts Highland
higher-and rushed indoors IL they
could manage to jam in the al
ready crowded drawing rooms.
Taxicabs and car callers, diploma
tic motors and chautfeurs and help
full policemen got frightened up in
a traffic snarl that marooned half
the most excitin~ people IN Wash
ington on top OF Twin Oaks hill
for more than an hour.
But will this little confusion
mean the end OF other garden par
ties? On the contrary. My dear
you do not know your national
capital or you'd never ask that.
At least a dozen garden parties are
planned for this week. II you have
lived around these parts for more
than first term you have got
so accustomed to coping with pub
lie citizen gods that an outbreak
from Jupiter Pluyius comes all in
the days work.
ONE OF THE MOST ENTER
TANNING PHENOMENA OF this
our vacillating town Is the eager
ness with which political leaders
who have spent months openly
hating THAT Man in the White
House" rush down TO 1900 Penn
sylvania Ave. at the hrst sum.
mons from the President.
For months some OF the BOYS
may have shouted over the air.
from platforms. at the breakfast
table, into the Little Woman's
domestically confused ear, may
even have talked hate in their
sleep. But when the call from the
White House comes. these enrag-
ed gentlemen do not say, Sorry,
I'm busy"
They get out their new ties. shine
up their forgotten White House
manners and trot proudly up the
roadway to the executive mansion.
Once the call has been made, and
they themselves likely taken into
the fourth term or perhaps the
fifth term camp-the boys begin
all subsequent conversations OF
the next few weeks with: When
the President asked my advice
the day he suggested that drop by
for a little consultation - | told
him quite freely"
How amused Mr.. Roosevelt
must be at the ease with which
he can pull the strings should
think ne would have his tongue
in his cheek most OF the time.
Well-I've said so often. the ma
tional theme song OF the moment
might we'll be There Isn't Any
thing You Can Do About a Roose-
Welt"
HAVE INTIMATED THIS BE-
FORE-snd | mean to say IL again,
the Republicans are growing dali
ly more observation-disclosures afraid
that they will not get into power for
another four years. They are
disunited and apologize crowd.
They continue downcast even when
told something like this:
No man should be president OF
the United States for 70 or Is
years 1t is bad for the country.
for the individual and for the
world 10 give one human being so
much power. Why don't you get
yourself a candidate you can count
on. Your Tom Dewey was hrst.
class governor OF New York"
Yes. He was that" is the
answer But now you have 70
have a man in the White House
who can be more than. boss OF
New York. You've got 10 have
man who can be boss OF the world