The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-07
Observations
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
REPORTED TO HAVE
BEEN EVERYWHERE
BY HELEN EssART

The way things are going In
Washington now. with the new
President popping up Unexpectedly
here and there-in the Pentagon
Building when the brass hats were
looking the other way; in his own
Offices before the cleaners had I'M
ished their morning work; in La
fayette Park on his stroll across
from Blair House somebody soon
"a going to revamp that famous
New Yorker cartoon about Mrs.
Roosevelt
Remember the one showing the
dark depths Of a mine, with two
coal diggers at work? And the
frightened caption. Heavens Here
comes Mrs. Roosevelt"
In the capital ana in the coun-
Try at large, before many months
are over, the slogan may be, "Heay-
ems, Here comes MT Truman
THE TRAGIC PHYSICAL DISA-
BILITY OF Mr.. Roosevelt made the
sight OF him in Washington or any
where else a rare event. Indeed Il
has been many years since the
capital has had a president who
walked in its midst. Not since the
DAYS OF Calvin Coolidge when he
and his secretary used 10 go win
dow shopping. have the residents
OF Washington seen their Chief
Executive except on a public plat
form or whizzing by in an automo-
bile. Warren Harding and Herbert
Hoover made few informal public
appearances.
Mr.. Truman would like to mean
der about the city. looking in here
and there in the old Independence.
no. way. He will manage as much
informally and visiting as he can
in his present exalted post. But
it is going TO be hard TO drop in "
on the neighbors or at the bail
game with the convoy OF IL Secret
Service men which always trails
his active footsteps.
No other president within the
memory OF the Society OF the Old
est Inhabitants of the District o.
Column ia has as deliberately turn
ed the limelight away from himself
and Washington As Mr.. Truman
has done. ~ keeping silent while
the San Francisco Conference was
coming TO life. Coming to too
much life. you might say.
When / listen TO the goings on
out there, over my radio. get 80
frightened and depressed that |
want to - and hide under the
side bosfa n the ainths roon5 6so
m cocker spaniel does when she
hears ugly voice..
OVER THE MANTEL IN THE
STATE DINING ROOM at the
White House. is the motto: Il pray
Heaven to bestov the best OF bless
ings on THIS HOUSE. And all
that shall thereafter inhsbit II.
May none but honest and wise
men ever enter UNDER THIS
ROOF"
From a letter OF John Adams,
November, 1910" ends the inscrip-
ton. The inscription or dedication
10 engraved ON 4 plaque under the
large portrait OF Abraham lincoln.
MAYBE ALBERT (HAPPD
CHANDLER. newlyappointed base
ball commissioner, will turn on
sweet music to smooth out tough
moments in baseball controversies.
my Old Kentucky Home. Happys
favorite tune. has charmed many a
gathering in Washington. II
wouldn't surprise me IL the new
boss tried II to soothe the savage
umpire.
The day Senator Chandler was
given the 35o,000-ayesr Job, Mrs.
Chandler trotted downtown at
breSkneck speed and bought a $50
hat. By quick wifely arithmetic,
she figured that the expenditure OF
one-tenth OF one per cent OF the
family income on spring millinery
was proper family brdseting
ONE VICE PRESIDENTIAL
MORNING. Harry Truman appear
ed in the Capitol wearing the
trousers OF one suit and the coat
OF another. A kind friend mention
ed the difference in shades OF the
garments.
That's what comes OF getting
up at $3.50 and dressing by electric
light" Mr.. Truman said Then
with 4 flash back 10 his days as
owner OF a haberdashery shop, he
added: "Oh. well. I'll keep them
on. I'll go stand behind the coun.
ter and nobody will notice"