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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1941)
i Thursday, March 27, 1941 Vr.t Cepifal Journal, Salens Oregon 3 frtnceM l(ice oCongivorlli lfol (J3iue Capital . By SlgT-ld Arno ap Feature Service Writer Washington "Princess Alice" will always be "Princess Alice" to ft oertain number of people who ar rive here to ogle celebrities. . She was the White House "deb" when her father, "T. R.", was pres ident. She is credited with a bas ketful of amusing political cracks. Bhe had a color named for her, "Alice blue." There was a rumor he smoked. Very daring, 30 years go. . But you can circulate here for months without ever seeing Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Then sudden ly you see her. X did at the White House. I was Just standing watching the dancers in the East Room, when I heard a slightly husky voice say, "But do you really think he can carry. New York?" (There are women who talk poll Itlcs here, but few who talk it like Mrs. Longworth, right down to the number, of delegates. - So I turned around, and it was Alice. (Everyone calls her "Alice" although not always to her face.) Her dark, blue eyes were flashing with excitement over politics. Her uncurled, graying hair was pulled softly into a knot. She wore a con servatlve dress of gold brocade. Under her arm she carried the un gainly arm-bag she always carries. h She was whispering dramatically, like a small girl delighted at hear ing secrets. She finished that eve ning by taking a half hour of the President's time. People were wait big to greet him. But there sat Alice with her "fifth cousin," as he called him, whispering to him.! Be chuckled several times. I Strength of Convictions I j She has an amusing way of saying things. But she says she's not witty,,- and that many of the cracks credited to her were made by other people. Like the one about fCoolidge looks as though he had been weaned on a pickle." ' Mrs, longworth says she heard it in a dentist's office. '? In the last campaign she was in there hitting for all she was worth. Hoped to defeat her "fifth cousin" twith Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. ' V' V? - ' ' 1 ' , in' - no rf f ij liii. Mrs. Longworth An outsider despite a "fifth cousin" In the White House Republican contender. She said, "Under the New Deal Miss Colum bia has become the girl friend of the whirling dervish." Old politlcos chuckled at Alice and Bob Taft in the same camp. They remembered the enmity between their fathers. But Alice and the Tafts are neighbors back home In Cincinnati. Old politlcos also chuckled at her In the Taft camp, and Ruth Han nah McCormlck Simms running the Tom Dewey camp. Alice and Ruth are friends of many decades so Al ice checked it off with, "Oh, Ruth and 1 always disagree once every four years." Wit of Gold She Is supposed to have uttered the funniest post mortem sentence after Wlllkle was nominated. "The trouble with Bob Taft," goes the line, "is that when he puts a foot in his mouth he always forgets to take the horse off." In Washington Mis. Longworth has always been swimming up the social stream. When her husband, the dashing Nicholas Longworth, was speaker, she refused to go through all the social calling ex pected of the wife of the speaker. She simply said that Nick had agreed she'd be more a liability than an asset. The trouble is, she gives only small dinner parties. Us ually foe Republicans who look at politics the way she does although she still thinks of herself as a lib eral. The old "Bull Moose" Influ ence. She doesn't drink cocktails. So she never gives the big cocktail parties that are common here. She DOES like tea. So she often has friends in for tea. She also likes walking. So she's often seen tramping rap- Idly around Washington's gold coast, to -wind up at a friend's for tea. A Senate Fan She automatically grabs the pa pers In the morning. Scans the Senate blll-of-fare. And if there's good argument on, she's in the Senate gallery on the tick of noon. Often stays right through even if the debate ends at 2 a.m. -Runs downstairs for coffee. 'Afterward shell corral whatever Republicans still have strength to talk, take them home, and order up scrambled eggs. She has often been asked by one senator to sound out another sen ator on a bill. But actually she hasn't been In the inside crowd since her father was President. The winner's crowd, that is. She has even written quite badly, "It is odd to have seen so much of 'people I never liked as I saw of the Hard-lngs." Anyway, she says she likes to be in the minority because It's more exciting. But her relatives, now. In the White House, remember to invite her periodically to dinner. And she arrives, bag under arm. Once, it got around Washing ton's drawing rooms that Alice was doing an extremely funny Imita tion of the President's wife making a speech. So at a particular dinner party afterward, Eleanor Roosevelt said everyone had heard the Imi tation except her. So Alice did It. Mrs. Roosevelt enjoyed It tremendously. But Mrs. Longworth has the Roosevelt's ability to laugh at her self. Her own daughter, 11-year-old Paulina, of whom she's very proud, produced one quip she never tires of telling. Mrs. Longworth had been in the Senate galleries every afternoon for a week. Then one day she came home to find Paulina Immersed In funny papers. "Paulina, stop reading that trash," protested Mama Alice. buy you good books. Why don't you read them?" Paulina looked up owllshly and remarked, "Well, I notice you spend a lot of time at the Senate." Mill City A family reunion was held here Sunday at the home of Mrs Chance, the occasion being a visit from her sister, Mary J. Shanks of Post Falls, Idaho, whom she had not seen for 13 years. Those registering during the day included Donella Matlock, Isabelle K. Matlock and Mary Jane Matlock, all of Cheney, Wash., Ida Robinson and R. O. Robinson of Holley, Min nie O. Chance. Frank Chance and Carol Steele, all of Albany, R. N Matlock. Nina Matlock, Maud Mat lock and J. M. Splawn, all of Brownsville, Ted Huntley and Grace Huntley of Corvallls, Jane A. Chance, Eunamae Chance of Ly ons, Doris- Harold, Jessie M. Har old, Clifford Harold, Effa Splawn ICnuntries Are Vnlinnt Ahprp u ltiome Is of Most Importance i, 1 The Scotch legions in their plaid skirts are making a .brave record f fin this war as they have in every conflict. We like to think of those wry I 'J fellows and their courage in battle. But even more we like to think of $ k them at home in the Scotland that bred into them those forthright qufll- j, '' 'r ities that all the world admires. Curious Indeed is a coincidence that j ,. ! we've observed the world over. In ri 1:1 o : J every country where we have, a tourist, wandered about hunting in vain for gay places to eat, look ing for glitter and casual fellow shipand having a hard time find ing them in every country lacking delights along the highroad and in the town, there are bred the staunchest people. England and Scotland and Wales, Sweden and Holland . . . these are countries where the home is the center of national pleasures. And so the stranger will feel more lonely In such places, but at the same time deeply moved by the eagerness of the peope there to be home and stirred by the hold their homes have upon them. Different Breeds In countries where the street life is more exciting to be shared by every wanderer the breed is dif ferent. In France, Germany, Italy, Russia, China, for instance, the pleasures of the people are reflect ed In the cafe line or the gaiety of the parks or the street fairs. We mean no criticism of the people of the lands it's just that they are different and inclined to have less Inclination to "take it" than auch races as the British. General ities like this are dangerous, of course, but yet interesting to think about. We recall days In Edinburgh as well as In the villagesofScot land, when we'd have to search wearily for a place to drop In for refreshment ... It was almost as bad in London as far as tempting places to eat were concerned. Es pecially when we were just fresh from France where almost every block 6eemed to have .an Inviting cafe or rendezvous to rest and rum inate over a cup of chocolate or a glass of wine. Or by contrast to Germany where we would rarely be out of earshot of a beer garden with its brass band. Yet the fortitude of the British can-be read In -this very lack of street life; it has come out of their devotion to home, the In fluence of the home on each mem-. ber of the family group, their love for 6imple homely pleasures. Inev itably such a circumstance would create just that character -we as sociate with the British. Most espe cially would It be true of the Scotch whose national character has been less tempered by contacts with the larger world. Kelzer Miss Bettle Irvine Is spending the spring vacation at the home of her parents;-Mr; and Mrs H, w. Irvine. Miss Irvine is a sen ior at the University of Washing r. I DO. YOU WANT A MATTRESS? ... IF SO, COME TO MILLER'S THIRD FLOOR . . . and compare the mattress we have on sale with any mattress you have seen up to $24.95. And, think . . . this mattress will be on sale for only 4 days at $14.95. Fully Guaranteed Construction. Comes in twin or full size, while they last. 4 3j Bold color Is one of the key notes of the 1941 Spring fash ion trend. This suit 'Is a light gray, loosely woven tweed with over-squares in faint greca I 0SSBL I 14 25 OFF ON ALL MODERN Bed Room Suites From 59.95 to 79.95 ... Six suites in all and in perfect shape. 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