THE PRESIDENCY: Peanut Man

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¶ In Augusta. Ga., Archbishop Athenagoras. hierarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Western Hemisphere: "President Roosevelt is a man sent by God to help His people, as near divinity as a temporal ruler can possibly be." ¶ In San Francisco, Joseph P. Whitwell. president of the National Spiritualist Association, declared that, although the President did not know it, spirits were guiding his acts: "Maybe it is George Washington who is his chief guide. More likely it is Abraham Lincoln. It might even be Theodore Roosevelt, but I think not. In any event they are spirits who are thoroughly informed on national affairs." ¶ Macmillan Co., publishers, announced on their spring list of forthcoming books: "Scamper: The White House Bunny by Anna Roosevelt Dall. . . . Suppose you were a bunny, living in a New England backyard, and one day your owner gave you a suit of clothes and sent you by mail to the White House. . . . After some exciting adventures, Scamper decided that the White House was a real home after all." ¶ William Green of the American Federation of Labor took up with the President a resolution adopted by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters asking for a New Deal. Their chief complaints: low wages; tips almost at "the vanishing point''; the high cost of uniforms and shoe blacking; lack of sleep. C. The President admitted to newshawks that he was thinking about a rest—next spring when Congress is ready to adjourn. His tentative plan: a voyage to Puerto Rico. Virgin Islands, Panama Canal, Hawaii, California. ¶ William H. Egan, 67, veteran stationmaster of Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, ill at home with pneumonia, received a large box containing four dozen roses picked out with occasional carnations, all cut from the White House conservatory and sent with a message from the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Stationmaster Egan planned to have the parcel's wrapper, bearing 48¢ in stamps, framed. ¶ The President took a two-hour automobile drive in an open car, under sunny skies, across the Potomac into Virginia. En route he stopped at the Naval Hospital to visit Secretary Swanson laid up there for a month with coryza. ¶ By an oversight the President neither visited nor sent flowers to Ahmet Muhtar, 67. Turkish Ambassador and dean of the diplomatic corps, who had his tonsils out.