Show IF F WASH WASHINGTON WASHINGTO I SAT IN CAPITOL i WOULD RULE THE DANCE RevOr Revered levered d President Seen as asVery Very w ry Modern in ih His Tendencies By KAY HARMS If It Georgc George Washington Washing lon sat in the nations nation's White H House te today today- today Hed He'd probably fly his own plane wear spats and and a derby enjoy a whIsky and soda sit in on on- on onan an occasional occa- occa lonal Saturday night p poker ker session dance dancea ance a snappy nappy and and do a 3 arst first first class class job of running the govern govern- ment Rank heresy Not a a b bit t of ot it Jt George Washington was vas a moderno modern to o the finger tips tIp of his big red hands He was the revered patriot pats of the history book the great stat statesman th the military leader its it's but its but its it's also true h hW he W was a man who loved living who would have had one grand time of ot offe life fe today There is a certain f foundation in fact act for such pr prognostications of the n of toda today In his personal person l ll l letters now collected Into many bulky tomes is the revealing picture re of f the man mm then and hints as to what he ic might be could he but from the he hectic da days dYs rs of the country's birth country's birth birtho to o the more hectic ones o of its rebirth Curious Combination For Washington was a c curious rious com corn n of the outstanding qualities of f f four ur modern presidents presidents presidents-he he he had hadle the le political courage of Franklin D D. Roosevelt loosevelt the determination of Herbert Herert Her Her- bert ert Hoover the analytical mind of Calvin alvin Coolidge and the thc unashamed love ove of joyous living of ot Warren G. 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A Aw woul ld npr pr be his hrs program too forming a democracy was a pretty forward step in those days Not for Jor more than 1500 years had such a thing been attempted Public business must in some way or other go forward was his motto and his answer to the depression that followed in the wake of the Revolutionary Revolutionary war Boiled down its it's the essence of the N R RA A. A Hed He'd probably te tear r wh what t was left of his reddish hair no longer concealed concealed con can by that snow white wig at the involved procedure of congress to to- day For heavens heaven's sake dont don't talk so hed he'd thunder at al them Get busy bus and do something Talking's no good Could he but step from the Ithe gilded frame fiame that hangs beside the speakers speaker desk in the house of representatives if f his calm voice could participate in Cn congressional discussions of a stabilized sta ala dollar silver inflation deflation and the rest of i ithe it the country would know exa exactly where he stood and stood and why For Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington was first and last a a sound soun money money- man Hed He'd silver f for he champion r was a firm elie r in the toe s sa a a f value value gold and d. an-d. would fight inflation with his last breath Hed He'd insist on an immediate an and effective program of farm relief fo folis for his lis heart heart and and d soul were always with wit agriculture Pay Paying ing farmers not to t plant crops but to 10 plow them under would have seemed to l him m solution to to the hed he'd probably probably proba proba- bly aly build huge granaries granaries' granaries granaries' to store sto th the excess crops against a famine And Andas as for woman suffrage suffrage- Hed He'd be for it per per percent cent H He always liked biked to tople please c the l ladies dies l If George Washington sat in th the nations nation's White House today today- Would he be as great as as history paints paints paints-or or greater |