The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-08
Observations
President Likes
to Mix His Own
Old FashionedS
By HELEN EssARY

President Roosevelt likes brown
sugar in his old fashioneds Brown.
not white.
The President also likes 10 mix
hi, own old fashioneds by MS own
sueclal recipe lie makes a rite
OF the mixing when there are
guests ABOUT.
A table is placed before him. On
me table are slices of orange siiv-
ers of pineapple, cherries suaNef
OF bitters, and the brown sugar.
And. OF cmourse, bourbon, glasses
stirring spoons and ice cubes.
r. d. K. carefully blends the var
ious ingredients as happy as
child connecting a sand toy, or
building new kind OF block house
when the small parts Of the dr.uA
are added together he presents
perfect whole, a presidential! old
fashioned. to each smiling guest
Great charm has the President
II only repeat what has been said
a million tlmes) II Invests every
thing he does with as pecial quality
OF his own
Perhaps the paragraph ! have
inst written sounds as II l were
getting on the Administration band
wagon. Well maybe am And
why not? Why should be in
class by myself in Washington =
Everybody else is getting on the
Administration band wagon Ola
line Democrats. Republican all
kinds OF ants Haven't YOU noticed
them jumping and running? The
rustling and hopping in some parts
Of our village remind me OF a mea
dow lust after a moving machine
has gone over IT, You know how
the kat!dids and frogs then pop
ND and dart hither and yon and
sometimes catch Up with the NOV
ing machine?
Washington is like that nov
Some OF the katydids and frogs
have lost a leg or claw or an eye
brow as sharp knives have gone
over their hiding places in the tall
grass. But here they are today
trying to right themselves and keep
in the wake of the mower
For the Washington or national
bandwagon has become the interna,
tional bandwagon. And you had
better hang on by teeth or toe nail
II you want 10 have a finger n
anybody's postwar pie This, nv
dears. is the new cry OF this var
table capital which loves nothing
Bs much as success
UNDOUBTEDLY I've got my me
taphors garbled | was really try
ing to lead up TO the bungling
Charles DeGaulle who snubbed
the President OF the country whose
people have fought and died for
France and way stations The gen
eral declined 10 meet Mr. Roose-
gvelt in Algiers.
Small wonder that Churchill
keeps the British empire alive He
is ready at any instant 10 dash
of by plane or boat through diplo.
] matte fog and gun fire to. confer
y with anybody who may be Of ser
Twice TO his country.
President Roosevelt also races
across hemispheres to confer with
irulers and fighters whose good viii
and understanding is important 10
his country No matter how jaunt-
lily Mr.. Roosevelt swings his old
cape about his shoulders for the
photographers camera, il can't b.
too ageeable for a man physically
handicapped as he is 70 make the
dangerous. uncomfortable journeys
he has made.
How stupid OF DeGaulle TO have
had his feelings hurt because he
was not invited TO Yalta The head
of a country in such peril as France
has no right to any private feelings.
/ myself thought the French gen
eral was an arrogant fellow when
/ saw him on his Washington visit.
But | did not think he would let
his sudden rise to power make him
! behave like a spoiled child.