The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-09
Observations
Sen. Vandenbergs
Favorite Dish is
Baked Beans
BY HELEN EssARY

What stun are great men made
Of No. not William Shakespeare
speaking. Just my own surmising.
What food do the famous fellows
deyour in order 10 keep The brain
working clearly and the footsteps
light?
don't know OF what caiories For
eign Commissar Niacheslav before
they went into those San Francis
co conference talks But do know
the favorite food OF Senator Ar
thur VandenberE when he is IN
Washington
Senator Vandenberg is being des-
cribed by knowing people as the
single most important person az
the security conference. And he
eats-baked beans,
Not long before Senator and Mrs.
Vandenberg left for the West Coast
a friend called one Sunday morn
ing with an impromptu invitation
for supper 81 the Chevy Chase
Club.
Wed SO much rather see you
qui stly.' Mrs. Nandenberg explain
ed. Let LIS come to supper with
you at your home, instead.
The prospective hostess said
she'd adore TO have the two the
way they liked best Then she
murmured something about food
shortage in her iceboK.
Don't give food a thought said
Mrs. Vandenberg. Well bring
our own and yours too. You fix
a salad and an old fashioned And
wen be there at $50"
At $50. Senator and Mrs. Van
denberg arrived bearing a bullying
wicker basket. Inside the basket
were many cans OF baked beans, a
special chilli. pickles, loaf OF but
tered brown bread and a jar OF
branded peaches.
The peaches and pickles. Mrs.
Vandenberg explained. had been
made at the family home at Grand
Rapids, Mich, TO suit the taste OF
her husband. The beans were his
taste anywhere. He'd rather have
them than any other food.
The beans were, indeed. 10 the
Senator's taste. He ate three man
sized servings, enough brown bread
to feed a kindergarten and IN
doubtedly his share Of the Acces-
SORES.
IAN TsID ISst pobulzi George
Allen. who used to be district com
missioner and Is nov very much
in evidence about the White House
as ghost writer and CHEEKY com
panion, is a nephew OF the almost
Legendary congressional figure.
Private Johr Allen.
Private John Alien was a gentle
man of the old school OF the very
deep South. Among his many en-
gaging qualities was a knack with
mint juleps.
Did | say knsck, | meant a tai
ent. A talent described in an in
tense Grafton by the late Senator
Tom Hefiin on the rare giftS Of
Private John Allen. The grafton
was delivered in 1890 before the
members of the Senate. Here Is
the julep eulogy:
As he made il, II was an amber
colored liquid that flowed over
the velvet folds OF the stomach
like a dewdrop sinking in the heart
of a rose"
The next paragraph in the Con-
gressional Record from which I
quote was as follows. Presiding
officer: The galleries will be in
order,'"
All ME, THOSE WERE THE
DAYS. Those Tom Helm days!
Tom seemed a violent fellow TO
many people But his RACES would
be milk and honey in this sicken-
ing evil world OF now.
II is hard TO rejoice heartily
about anything now. The group
with which | heard the false peace
flash tried to be jubilant over the =
wars END" But they could not
outwardly cheer. OF course. we
were thankful to Heaven that the
flghting in Europe seemed 10 De
over. But the knowledge OF the
fearful task still ahead deadened
the weight OF the news. We had
grown numb with months OF &C
ceptance OF killing destruction
Such had become almost our usual
tempo.
We have had a nauseating dose
OF mans inhumanity to man in
the last three or four years.
should like 10 return here in Wash
.ington to the cheerful RACES we
used to eniOy on the "Votaieaa
District" and why the Washing
ton ball team can't win pen
nAnt"