The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 10, No. 24, Ed. 1, Friday, February 20, 1948 Page: 3
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nBMPniLIi COUNTY treWS CANADIAN TEXAS
TwiceTold White House Tale Retold
John Adams Hung Clothes
On Limb Swam in Potomac
By BAUKIIAGE
Newt Anahft and Commentator
WASHINGTON At a recent press and radio conference
one of the reporters ribbed the President about the balcony
he was building on the White House which the Washington
fine arts commission objects to as destroying the architec-
tural beauty of the building
Someone suggested he might conduct a back porch political cam
palgn from It Mr Truman came right back with the remark that it wa
a front porch That In a sense is correct for the southern facado of the
White House originally was Intended as the front of the building
Of late the President has beenQ
given to historical anecdotes hes
DAUKHAGC
great student
of American his-
tory andthis
time be told ui a
story which I
have heard be-
fore from presi-
dential lips anent
the White House
front yard of
other days In
the time of Presi-
dent Adams the
story goes a ca-
nal skirted the
lowered edge of
the grounds and
that gentleman
was fond of slipping down to Its
banks for a swim au naturel in the
early morning hours
There was In those days said
Mr Truman a certain female jour-
nalist who had been unable to get
on interview with the President So
she slipped down to the canal bank
at dawn waited until he was im-
mersed then sat on his clothes and
stayed there until he answered her
questions decently draped in the
waters
I repeated the story on the air as
Mr Truman told It and in the next
days mail received a letter from
Mr Daniel J Kelly Jr of South
Bend Ind who is a collector of
early historical newspapers
Wrote Mr Kelly
I enjoyed your reference in a
recent broadcast to the newspaper-
woman who sat on President
Adams clothes until he agreed to
give her an interview
The President Adams was John
Quincy Adams and the woman
newspaper reporter was Anne Roy
all However the stpry does not con
form to the tacts and you might
mention this to President Truman
the nexttime the story Is brought
up
John Quincy Adams was an ar-
dent and accomplished swimmer
end he enjoyed a dally plunge into
the Potomac even while President
He was also an ardent diarist and
his diary contains many a mention
of his dips in the river
Anne Royal was Adams Wash-
ington contemporary a vicious
writer and a malevolent journalist
In 1829 she was convicted of being
a common scold Her first con-
tact with Adams was in 1024 when
she called at the White House to de-
mand a pension as a Revolutionary
war widow Adams mentioned her
in a very uncomplimentary manner
in bis diary
parture affectspolltlcal futures
Pondering this 1 came upon a
dispatch In the London Daily Herald
from Romney Marsh Kent It re
counted bow In the lamplit sitting
room of a slxcenturyold farm a
72yearold farmer Archibald Ed
win Waddell complained to a re-
porter that he was about to be
thrown into bankruptcy because he
refused to pay 75 pounds and 3
shillings some 300 In tithes
1 shall probably die mutter-
ing Waddell said against
this wicked antisocial cus-
tom
For previous refusals to pay
tithes there had been four seizures
from his farm bullocks sheep
pigs farm Implements furniture
his clothing and his cart horse
My father the old man con-
cluded who farmed for 70 years
in Kent paid 1400 pounds in tithes
and two of my brothers were forced
to emigrate I am fighting against a
rope that has tightened around my
neck and around the necks of so
many others who love the soil
Few people realize that tith-
ing payment of onetenth of the
product of the land a custom
which cornea down from feudal
days when It waa collected by
tho parish priests and later the
Church of England Is so mod-
ern and that Us effect wlU be
felt until the year 1093
Originally tho tithe was paid In
produce but In 1838 It became a
fixed rent still paid to the church
In 1925 the law waa changed to
make the tithe payable into what
waa called Queen Annes Bounty
b fund used for general church cur
According to Adams diary
She continues to make her-
self noxious to many persons
olerated by some and feared
by others by bcr deportmant
and her books treating all with
a familiarity which often passes
for impudence Insulting those
who treat her with incivility
and then lampooning them in
her books Stripped of all her
sexs delicacy but unable to for-
feit Its privilege of gentle treat-
ment to others she goes about
like a viragocrrant In enchanted
armour and redeems herself
from the cravings of Indulgence
by the notoriety of her eccen-
tricities and the forced currency
they give her publications
Although Adams chronicled all
unusual Incidents while swimming
and had referred to Mrs Royall in
his diary he makes no mention of
the supposed meeting of this woman
while swimming
While Adams lived in the White
House Mrs Royall was a resident
of Washington but travelled about
most of the time She was known as
an author at that time but not as a
newspaper woman Her journalistic
career began two years after
Adams retired as President In 1831
she established a newspaper aptly
named Paul Pry and later she
founded another small newspaper
the Huntress It does not seem pos-
sible that Anne Royall could have
interviewed President Adams at
least In her capacity as a journalist
Adams was mentioned In
Taul Pry just once on July 28
1832 There are references to
him In the August 1 1840 Au-
gust 201842 December 141844
February 6 1847 and the March
4 1848 Issues of the Iluntrcss
Mrs Royall also mentioned
Adams In her Sketches p 167
and In her Black Book p 128
But nowhere did the woman
who was supposed to have been
Involved In the Potomao shore
Incident ever refer to any Inter-
view with John Quincy Adams
The supposed Incident still
makes a good story and especially
I suppose when newspaper men art
Interviewing the President and
when news Is somewhat dull How-
ever I cannot believe that any of
the known facts can Justify the truth
of this old story
But I insist Its a good story and
I for one will not disillusion any
President as to Its authenticity
The Tithe That Binds
Coming away from a debate on
taxr < I couldnt help feeling that the
discussion scholarly as it bad ap-
peared at points and ringing with
altruism at others had offered a-
political potion only slightly fla-
vored with any essence of eco-
nomics How willing Is congress to
depart from the past If such a de
poses In 1936 tithing Itself was abol-
ished but the law provided that over
a period of 60 years a sum should be
paid yearly until the amount con-
sidered the tithe redemption fund to
be the capital of the tithe on a given
piece of property bad been
reached
That Is what Farmer Waddell ob
jects to But hell pay or get out
and be will never live to see the day
when he doesnt have to supporf the
church against his wilt
Romania chose to change Us royal
purple to pure red when It bounced
King Michael But how nice nobody
can tell him he cant have the
woman I love
A dentist now reports that he has
successfully transplanted wisdom
teeth in cavities left by missing
molars But did he transplant the
wisdom
FRIEND IN NEED Kathleen Brandl 11 of Washington D C won
herself a staunch and feathered friend In this wild pigeon after un-
freezing It when she found the bird frozen In a snowbank near her
home Now her constant companion It sits on her shoulder takes
food from her mouth
NEWS REVIEW
South Threatens Split
Self Rationing Proposed
President Truman who seems to >
run to 10point programs tossed an-
other one to congress concerning
the preservation and protection of
civil rights and then stood aside to
await the explosion
It came quickly Southern Demo
crats hopping mad over at least
four of the 10 controversial points
began to talk seriously of calling a
Dixie convention to split away from
Mr Truman on the civil rights
issue
Focus of the current disunity was
a bill up for approval by the senate
labor committee to create a na
tional commission against job dis-
crimination on grounds of race
creed or color
Sen Allen J Ellender Dem
La predicted that U the bill wcre <
approved in Its present form the
party would erupt into open war
fare Both foes and backers of the
measure agreed that It would be a
close thing
The four proposals that most in
flamed the southerners were the
ones calling for 1 a federal antl
lynchlng law 2 a permanent fair
employment practice commission
3 an end to Jim Crow rules in
transportation and 4 outlawing of
state poll taxes
Remainder of the points advo
cated by the President were A
permanent commission on civil
rights a joint congressional com-
mittee on civil rights a civil rights
division In the justice department
tightening of civil rights statutes
home rule for the District of Colum-
bia statehood for Alaska and Ha-
waii equalization of naturalization
opportunities and settlement of
evacuation claims of Japanese
Americans
Because 1048 is an election year
and a presidential election year at
that the program which otherwise
might be ignored was certain to
get hot partisan debate
In answer to Mr Trumans firm
statement that something must be
done about the civil rights issue
southern Democrats replied that
they were thinking of calling an all
southern convention to pick Its own
presidential candidate
Some thought that too drastic a
step but at Jackson Miss Walter
Sillers speaker of the Mississippi
house of representative said he
flatly favored such a course in order
to withhold at least part of the
Souths electoral votes from Mr
Truman
SELF RATIONING
Second Best
Manifestly stymied In Its efforts
to get congress to pass rationing
and price control legislation the ad-
ministration tried a new approach
In the form of an appeal for nation-
wide selfrationing
Greater public support of an In-
tensified drive for voluntary food
conservation would have to be de-
veloped U living costs are to be
curbed the administration decided
As an initial step representatives
of 18 consumer producer and dis-
tributor groups met with Clinton
Anderson secretary of agriculture
to map details of the nationwide
program
JOURNEY TO THE MOON
Charles F Brannan assistant
secretary of agriculture heads the
new food saving setup Originally
started by the citizens food com
mlttce last fall It has been carried
on until now under the direct lead
ershlp of the cabinet food com
mittee
Major emphasis It was under
stood would be placed on meat as
the pivotal Item in the cost ol
living merrygoround however
other foods also would be covered
in the voluntary program Based on
specific recommendations of the
food industry and public representa-
tives It is theoretically designed to
meet the twin problem of scarce
food supplies and high prices
Biggest talking point the admin
istratlon had in its attempts to
solicit public support was the de
partment of agricultures somber
prediction that the nation Is heading
for a serious meat shortage in the
spring And by way of emphasis
Brannan added that meat rationing
by price already Is In effect be
cause many people cannot afford to
buy
FOR SALE
Some Eggs
U S government has hung nut a
for sale sign on 48 8 million dozen
eggs that It bought last spring to
support domestic prices
There Is one stipulation however
Only foreign users will be allowed
to buy them
For the comfort of U S house-
wives the agriculture department
was swift to point out that these
eggs are not the kind that can be
used readily for home consumption
They were shelled dumped into
hugo containers and frozen before
the government bought them In the
first place
Agriculture department decided
to sell the eggs to foreign buyers
when It was unable to sell them to
bakers and confectioners in this
country because egg production has
been going up and egg prices down
HEADLINERS
IN WASHINGTON Miss Nora
Martins above daughter of Bra
zilian ambassador Carlos Martins
was declared Miss United Nations
of 1948 proving that all diplomats
are not necessarily old fuddle
duddles
IN NEW YORK Sam Yachter
a landlord got tired of complaints
about Inadequate heat and hot
water from his tenants offered to
give them bis building got no
takers
Get Your Rockets Tuned Up
Science has advanced to the point
where when you talk abqut taking
a trip to the moon people no longer
look sorrowfully upon you as one
who has been aiTected by the fabled
light from that lunar orb
An actual Journey to the moon
may become a reality sooner than
one would have expected Ave years
ago Ttlght now In several parts of
the world there are small groups of
earnest experts who are quite seri-
ous about the prospects of travel
between the planets
One of those organizations Is the
British Interplanetary society a
group of about 490 members nearly
onethird of whom sre rocket and
supersonlo research dentists An-
other third 1 made up of mechani-
cal and electrical engineers radio
and radar technicians
Many researchers working on
military rocketpowered weapons
believe that their work on rockets
can be just as Important for a
peaceful future as It might be for
war From the aspect of motive
power they know that by the time
they can send a rocket halfway
around the world they are likely to
be within easy reach of the next
phase Interplanetary travel
That time may not be very far
distant Present velocity of a V3
type rocket la about two miles a
second The velocity required to
send one io the most distant spot
on this globe Is about five miles a
second and the estlinated velocity
needed to get a rocket out of the
earth gravitational pull Is seven
rnllea a second
But actual travel In space Is still
a secondary consideration After
man has succeeded In shaking oil
earths gravity pull with his rock-
ets the first thing he will do is to
shoot a load of scientific Instru-
ments Into space
The visionary scientist ta him-
self sending Instruments to the
moon or to Mars Or arranging It id
that part of his rocket would be-
come a satellite to one of the plan
ets Thus through a development
of television he might see such
things as the secrets of the dark
aide of the moon
A wealth of research literally
out of this world would be opened
up long before an attempt could be
made to begin human Interplanet
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Miller, Othello Ontje. The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 10, No. 24, Ed. 1, Friday, February 20, 1948, newspaper, February 20, 1948; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth47542/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.