The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-22
New President as Friends, Neighb0rs
View Him: Important Shifts Loom
BY IRA MCCARTHY
OF the Kansas City Star
[ Written for NEA SerNiCe(

ia lhA MCN AN
OF the Kansas City Star
written for NEA Service)
Two days after Harry 5 Tru-
man took over the rcinS of gov
Crnmcnt, Roy \ Roberts. man.
aging editor of the Kansas City
Star and long Washington cor
respondent, wrote of the change:
Primarily, the biggest thing
is that the seat of power shifts
from the Hudson River TO the
missouri river Through the
years OF Roosevelt, the cabinet
and most of the controlling de-
partmeUt- heads gradually be-
came New Workers or closely al
lied to New York and t h c
East
The late President probably
didn't recognize. himself, how
narrow the circle had become in
recent years. with the stress and
worry Of global war. But slowly
the West and South were out of
tho picture, and not only the So
called palace guard but nearly
all those i'm seats Of power were
eastern IN viewpoint. at least
Washington got a foretaSte of
the change when Truman 5
friends Of the middle west ar
rived i'm the nations capital for
the inauguration. At cocktail
parties and receptions the Hud-
son and Missouri rivers met.
Henry A BundSchu, federal ref
cree in bankruptcy at Kansas
City, was impressed by the con-
traSt. A Republican, Bundschu
had gone to Washington with the
group because he was a person
al friend Of Truman. In fact,
when the Bundschu family set
tied in independence, Mo. in
l849, they found the Truman
family already there. Casting
in the role of an impair
tial observer, Bundschu report
ed
MORE INDEPENDENT
Those friends of Truman's
were a class and type. intelli-
gent, Wcll-dreSSed and substan-
tial, the sort that couldn't be
pushed around, persons w h o
could take care Of themselves.
They were little different,
little more independent, than the
normal crowd that comes to
Truman, his wife and their
daughter. are part and parcel Of
t h a I crowd. They run their
homes without servants, not nee
esSarily because they can't af-
ford it, but because they prefer
the extra freedom It offers. Peo-
pie do for themselves.
Last Christmas the Trumans
were in independence and as has
long been the custom, the va
rious family groups got together.
Truman had received as a pres
ent a 30pound frozen turkey.
II was slated 10 be the center
OF the dinner. George Wallace.
Mrs. Truman brother. and his
wife, will long remember that
bird.
1t was a beautiful turkey"
Mr.. Wallace recalled recently,
but hard as a rock. We natu-
rally assumed il was all dressed.
Well, we all assembled in the
Kitchen trying 70 unfreeze the
bird so we could cook II. We
soaked 1t and finally poured
boiling water on il.
Then they discovered that it
drawn. Mrs. Wallace
chimed in. We'll there seemed
to be little prospect of uuthaw-
ing 1t completely. ! didn't know
what TO do and Bess (Mrs. Tru-
man didn't know what 10 do.
We were all stumped until Har-
ry came 10 the rescue. Why I'll
get the inSides out, he said, I've
seen mama do it many times
And sure enough he and my hus-
band spent the rest of the after
noon pouring boiling water on
the turkey and cleaning it. We
had fine dinner"
And all that was just few
weeks before Truman was TO be
sworn IN as vice president of the
United States.
Enlargng on his discussion of
the change that may come soon
in Washington, Bundschu said:
j think that the nation is in
good, strong hands and that the
stability and common sense Of
the middle west, from the heart
OIL America. has suddenly gotten
in control of the nation. | hone
the rest of the United States
learns 10 appreciate what that
means
Back in 1923, when Harry
Truman was presiding Judge of
the Jackson County court. the