The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-16
Observations
Washington Bell
Hops Political
Weather NaneS
By HELEN EssARY

Capital bell boys are weather
vanes Watch their ways with
hotel guests and you may gauge
which way governmental impor
ance is blowing.
At one hotel where many people
VINO help run the national machiu-
cry live, Paul McNutt was once the
lido, OF the uniformed messengers.
This was when his political star
was high In the Democratic sky.
The former governor OF Indiana
might become president OF the
United States, some people said,
He eventually became manpower
commissioner with not too much
power and his hands practically
tied behind him
The bell boys soon seused th'
change in McNutt's status. They
took to overlooking the heavy pack
ages Mrs. McNutt carried and didn't
hop too fast when McNutt wanted
an errand done.
Their idol now is Mr. Rooseyeits
War Mobilization chief, James "
Byrnes. Indeed they ere so atten
tive 10 both Mr.. and Mrs. Byrnes
that passage through the lobby for
theiI present fayorites sometimes
develops into running a gauntlet
Maud and Jimmy Byrnes feel like
movie stars at a birthday ball, and
have been known to come into the
hotel by a ground floor entrance TO
avoid the solicitious rush. Wash
ington is like that
WASHINGTON OVERCROWD-
Ed? 'Tain't So
Judge and Mrs. William Denman.
here from California, say the CAPT
tai Is as calm as a May MONDAY
compared with San Francisco. In
San Francisco there are SO many
war workers, so many sailors, the
streets downtown are like Broad
way at theater-time or Fifth Ave
OF Easter Sunday You have TO
fight your way through the iostling
crowds
Big Pacific transports come in
and leave the Golden Gate san
Franciscans feel very near the
war.
odd isn't II. that Washington,
center OF the wars direction.
should seem so far from the war
But then Washington is not near
anything or any place. Not really.
II is an isolated community. May
be II Is another phase of that ex-
cresceuce on American civilization
the President thinks OF when he
mentions columnists.
LABEL THESE NEXT PARA
GRAPHS LADIES'.
Two ladies' who were once the
center OF a feud as exciting as the
Henry Wallace-Jesse Jones feud
sat close at the same festive round
table when Mrs. Evalyn Walsh
Mclean gave one OF her famous
dinners. This dinner was In hon
or Of the women OF the press
The two ladies. prima donnas
both, we're Alice Roosevelt Long
worth and Dolly Gam. Not too
long ago when Calvin Coolidge was
president. Bachelor Vice President
Charles Curtis insisted on having
his hostess sister. Mrs. Dolly Gam,
.outrank Mrs. Longworth. wife OF
Nicholas Longworth. speaker Of the
House. You might have thought
that in this case wherever Mac
Gregor sat was the head OF the Ia
BILE" But not so. Hostesses had
nerves and tempers trying to de-
eide whether Mrs. Longworth
should sit above" Mrs Gam or
Contrariwise.
Sunday night there was no seem
ing thought OF who was closer 70
the salt. Mrs. Longworth and Mrs.
Gam were side by side. except for
Mrs. George Mesta, in between.
and talked as cheerfully as II they
were bosom friends Perhaps they
Bre-now
Mrs. Longworth confessed that
she was on the verge OF doing a
magazine article or two, she was
being well scolded for not using
her talent and opportunity. She
promised a complete reformation
What Washington book she could
do