"The fact is that nobody can live in the White House to-day...and live a "usual American life'. We are generally speaking a silly, sentimental folk with a preconceived notion of what democratic simplicity ought to be...Here we have outgrown most of Europe in soope in our international contact, and we still refuse to surround high officials and their families with not only protection from outside but what is more important, protection from themselves and their own understandable lack of official common sense."

The above quotations are taken from a communication to a New York Metropolitan Daily, and they bring up a very interesting point. If we do not allow our high American officials and their families to lead a "usual American life", I wonder how long we would have a really representative type of American in official life? We surround out Presidents now with what protection has been deemed necessary from the outside and most of the Presidents have found it irksome, and at times very harmful, in that it cuts them off from the ability to keep in touch with people in the way they have been accustomed to do all through their lives.

Perhaps the elected official himself might be so busy with his duties that he could forget for the most part a strictly supervised mode of life. But for his family what would the results be? An American boy or girl having to go out to live a "usual American life" after four or eight years of seclusion, would find themselves handicapped for life, and what man, having a family, would willingly subject them to this kind of an existence, suitable for hereditary princelings no doubt whose lives must follow along the same way as long as they life unless they abdicate in favor of a "usual life" in whatever country they may happen to be. I have a feeling that the gentleman who wrote this communication knows our "international contacts" even better than he knows his own country. I still believe the people in this country want their representatives to be average American citizens leading "usual American lives."