i Thursday, March 27, 1941
Vr.t Cepifal Journal, Salens Oregon
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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.
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, 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
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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
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Mill City Scene
Of Family Party
and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Chance, all
of Salem, Vesta Carter and Lyle
Carter of Albany, Arthur Steele of
Albany, Olive Robinett of Eugene.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Chance of
Mill City, Frank Splawn of Mill
City and Erma Glunz of Stayton-
Box Social at
Liberty Friday
Liberty The Liberty Girl Scout
trooo is sponsoring an old fashioned
box social at the Liberty hall Fri
day night. The program promises to
be a very Interesting one with dra
matic skits and musical numbers
Verita Burnette and DeLoiis Law
rence are committee chairmen ' for
the program and decorations. All
women and girls are asked to bring
box lunches.
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field flowers, Sailors,
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17 c
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Regular 25c value cleansing tissue in this
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