The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-13
Months Mourning
 First Edict Made
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cabinet room, his family looking on.
 Last night the Trumans slept in their five-room Connecticut ave- nue apartment in northwest Wash ington. There they will remain a little while before moving to the White House. But everything. last night was beginning to change.
 The secret service guard which had been somewhat of formality and a bit of an innovation, too was imposed in earnest. The modest man from Missouri was discover ing himself one of the worlds great public figures with responsibilities to match. Great problems of strategy and state were piling up, not for another to determine, but for him.
 The richest nation in the world was adjusting itself to a new man. aging director. In the sharpest sense of the phrase, MT Truman was on the spot, confronted with as dif- ficult a job as this nation ever en- trusted to any man.
 His first decision after he took the oath was that the San Francisco world security conference should go on as scheduled April 25.
 MT. Roosevelt, at 63, had served 12 years, one month and eight days in the office whose cruel exactions killed him, but also stimulated his desire to stay on. No other man had served more than eight years.
 MT. Truman will be 61 on May 8.
 Twice elected to the senate after a career in Missouri politics, MT. Truman had been president only since noon of last Jan. 20. Then in the sequence of heartbeat yesterday. the unasSuming man from Missouri became the head of the greatest going concern on earth. The taking of an oath merely formalized fact. The White House has its common man.
 Mir. Roosevelt is coming home, but not to the White House. There will be brief pause there tomor- row after the Southern Railway funeral special arrives from Warm Springs. In the east room, where so often he had been an easy host. there will be a funeral service at 4 p. m Saturday. Then the late President will travel for the last time to his beloved Hyde Park.
 The Rt Rev. Angus Dunn, Epis- copal Bishop of Washington. the Rev. Howard s. Wilkinson of St. Thomas church, the Rev. John G. McGee of St. Johns church will conduct the White House services. Present will be the elect of official- dom, a choice of 200 persons of the thousands who would do Mir Roose- welt personal honor here If they but could attend.
 Burial Sunday
 The Rev w. George Anthony of ct. James church, will conduct the burial services in Hyde Park Sum- day afternoon. Simple as the White. House funeral will be. the Hyde Park services will be simplers Ttere on the banks of the Hudson his neighbors will come. not to bury the president, but to bury the country squire in his own garden.
 President Truman and his fam lily, quiet, gray-haired Mrs. Truman and slim, blonde daughter, Mary Margaret, will travel north On the Roosevelt funeral train. The cabi- net and the army and navy brass, great figures of congressional and Judicial life may go too. But the villagers and the farm folk of Duchess County will claim MT. Roosevelt for their own
 Our new president is 8 quiet, easy-going, smiling fellow like the man up the block. Like him, he can get tough, too. This political ly sensitive capital would put him down as somewhat more conServ- ative than MT. Roosevelt but in- clined toward to underdog. He's not SO left-of center, if at all. Tt will be my effort" Mir. Tru- man announced a few minutes aft- CT taking the oath, ito carry on as believe the president would have done and to that end have asked the cabinet to stay on with me-"
 Any vice president succeeding to the White House would say as much and mean 1t, too. The tests of objective and policy come later as events unfold.
 But the men who know him here are confident today that President Truman begins hls administration hoping to approach most protll ---., the way he believes MT. Roosevelt would have approached them. Above all there Is agreement that the new president is an humble man, profoundly impressed by the bigness of his new job and the necessity for surrounding himself with the most competent advisers obtainable.
 Almost inevitably there will be White House changes and perhaps An time some cabinet shifts. The late presidents closest advisers outside the membership of the Roosevelt family-were Harry L. Hopkins and Judge Samuel I. Ro- seaman, associates of his New York gubernatorial days. Their era of great influence probably is com- ing toward Q close.
 Hurrying to Washington today is James r. Byrnes, former associate justice of the supreme court and until few days ago director of the Office of War Mobilization. Byrnes resigned less devoted to Nr. Roose- welt thar ha had haAs. I1a Was