The Roosevelt Week

Some newspaper editors who feel that their newshawks assigned to cover the White House are altogether too pliable in the dexterous hands of Franklin Roosevelt last week had a taste of the President's professional hospitality. Mr. Roosevelt set aside an evening for a heart-to-heart with the American Society of Newspaper Editors. With high hopes of getting "inside dope" from an evening's interview, the editors marched in. The President greeted them cordially, talked to them at length, hardly allowed them to get a question in edgewise. Coming out by the same door wherein they went, one editor summarized their off-the-record interview in an off-the-record description: "That's what I call a one-man filibuster to silence the American Press."

P:A limousine containing a white-whiskered gentleman drove up to the White House, and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes went in to share a tray lunch on the desk of President Roosevelt. While they gravely munched their meal, they gave their attention to fulfilling the last wishes of a man they both admired: the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who left half of his $550,000 estate as a gift to the U. S. Question was whether the gift should merely be dumped into the General Fund of the Treasury or set aside for some special purpose. Music lovers were suggesting a partial endowment for the National Symphony Orchestra. Justice Holmes preferred burlesque shows to concerts.

P: Taking a large retinue, including his military and naval aides, his physician, his Secretaries Mclntyre and Early and his Postmaster General, the President drove forth, formally opened Washington's baseball season, ate peanuts.

P:"For our own leader of the American Revolution, the greatest of Americans, and for him alone, have we as a people set apart one day each year." So said the President last week in vetoing a resolution to make Oct. 11 a national memorial day to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski.

P:As tart and determined as ever, Senator Carter Glass of Virginia marched into the White House to demand an answer to one question: Did the President, contrary to the assurances he had given Mr. Glass in January and in March, intend to insist on the passage of that section of the Administration's Banking Bill which would give the Federal Reserve System in fief to the Treasury Department? Mr. Roosevelt's closest friends in Congress had said the President would so insist. In the face of Mr. Glass's demand for an unequivocal answer, the President said he would not insist. Mr. Glass emerged grinning owlishly. Had the President expressed any opinion about the banking bill? Newshawks demanded. "The President," said Senator Glass succinctly, "has not read it. Therefore I cannot discuss it with any one who has not read it."

P: In his top hat and cutaway ("the old suit I go to funerals in"), the President accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, her sister-in-law Mrs. Gracie Hall Roosevelt, and Bodyguardsman Gus Gennerich wearing a new spotted necktie, celebrated Easter by attending services at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church.

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