Show 0 0 in washington D 0 WHITE E HOUSE SPRING DAYS when the white house butler says dinner is served it mean what it used to mean most ot of the t time im e its nothing more than a simple three course meal for two or three persons served not in the sta state e dining room or even in the family famil dining room on the first floor but in the presidents study on the second floor except for the occasional visit ot of a south american president social activity at the white house has disappeared roosevelt dines with mr and mrs harry hopkins ins justice byrnes judge sam Ro senri or perhaps with grace tully fully his blue eyed white haired private secretary mrs R roosevelt oo sevelt is off again on araan as usual A friend of gen pa watson aide to the president sent him some drinan haddle the other day and watson passed it along to the president meat said watson ae or anything g that passes for meat is as precious as gold these days the president enjoyed the tree free finnan haddle if I grace tully Is there tor for dinner it means work after dinner on oil the average of two evenings a week I 1 the dictation finished in the i daytime and grace stays over for the war has not d decreased creased t the a presidents residents dictation jimmy byrnes remarked the other day 1 I dont see how he can ha handle adle so much paper work fact Is the Pies president ident is leaning heavily on letters and cutting down interviews his appointments run from rom 1030 to lunch with an occasional conference at two but afternoons a are re reserved for dictating to grace tully the only thing to throw this regimen out of gear is an afternoon press conference a talk with a man like anthony eden or the spring sunshine sometimes the president swings around from his desk tak takes e s a quick took look at the sunshine over the south grounds and says to his scottie lets go for a ride what do you say falla A ride in the country this means a quiet ebur into the country without motorcycle escort in a car which looks like anybody alses shiny limousine and stops at the traffic lights like the car of any ordinary citizen members Member ot the presidents intimate staff insist they see no change in him under the pressure of war the war altered his mood or his methods he still laughs heartily eats well and dictates methodically th with never a read that back to me grace tully fully explains it by saying the president Is a psychologist and be keeps a good temper lor for the sake of the people around him the slackened social activity shut out the house guests however any day mrs roosevelt Is likely to get a letter from old friends or relatives who are coming to town and she replies wont you stay with us they do they come for a day or two sometimes for a week but they go their ways and see little ot of the president he will dine with them once in the course of the visit but the rest of the time dinner is ser served i ved tor for two or three in the private study in short evenings are very quiet at the white house and except for the presidents own late hours fours at his desk the electric light bill is the lowest in years BOUND MERR GO ROUND C efficient governor holland of florida is not expected to run against e efficient claude pepper for the senate the last time claude ran he was vacationing in scotland shortly after his nomination when a voice called his hotel room senator I 1 am an american press representative senta tive in scotland and we have a cable that your ele election alon in florida has been contested ill be right down replied the alarmed pepper it wa was s jesse jones with stewart macdonald n old federal housing administrator playing a practical joke fl L nicest compliment rep warren lla magnuson nuson of washington received on his report for the naval affairs committee regarding shipbuilding phlp bullying bottlenecks came from the navy department part ment which magnuson criticized for delays in submitting shipbuilding plans and specifications as well as in furnishing materials undersecretary der james V forr forrestal estal wrote 1 I want to congratulate you both on the thoroughness with which your work was done and the restraint with which your criticism and suggestions were phrased C L supreme court justice roberts agrees with vice president wallace that the difficulties of the consal constitutional tut ional convention after the revolutionary lutio nary war were similar to the difficulties of establishing world government now but not insurmountable fl abolition of the austrian legion under crown prince otto as a U S army unit came as the result of violent protests from austrians Aust lans rians hun garlans ga rians slovaks inside the army who were glad to fight tor for the USA U S A but not tor for the return of the tha haps burgs |