Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-29
DAVIS PAYS HONOR
. TO WORKERS. WIFE.
Introduces Her as Worlds
e.
Greatest Business Manager
in Radio Address.

gram oil the National Radio Forum, ar
ranged by The Evening Star and
sponsored by the Columbia Broadcast
ing System.
In announcing the topic of his speech,
the Labor Secretary Withholding the
81 identity of the subject of his discussion,
had said that he proposed to surprise
his audience by his designation. and in
launching into the address he said
that he would wager that none had
guessed to whom he was about to refer.
Describes "IO1" Daily Tasks.
Helped to his present eminence, a
cabinet officer under three Presidents
Of the United States. by the devotion of
his wife. and the father of six children.
Secretary Davis. who started work as
boy in Welsh colliery, told of wash day,
ironing day, mending day. marketing.
cleaning and all of the hundred and
one daily tasks of the housewife. He
painted a word picture of her untirinp
devotion to her never-completed labors,
saving and sparing of her few extra
pennies to take care of the many
emergencies that come up in a big
family but never grudging an ounce of
her strength or energy
The Secretary of Labor urged the
workingman to give thanks for the BUSH
ness manager of his home and not to
take her for granted, but to try and
help tighten her burden by carrying a
few on his own broad shoulders.
Urges Vacation for Executive.
He suggested that the workingman
try next Summer to give this busiest
OF executives two-week vacation.
The speech was broadcast from sta
ton WMAL, beginning at 1890 o'clock
last night. 1t was the second appear
ance of the Secretary of Labor on
radio forum program. Secretary Davis
spoke the first time in a Labor day
program.
His speech follows:
:. This is Thanksgiving day and 1 feel
1T is good to give thanks for the bless
.lngs We. have received during the year
and feef sure you will agree with me
that 1t is also good day to give thanks
to the greatest, busiest business ex-
ecutive in the world
Who is the greatest, busiest BUSH
ness executive in the world? If I could
collect all the clever and well-thought-
GUT answers which you are ready to
furnish, 1 would probably find in the
list the name of every great American
business magnate and many foreign
ones, but am willing to wager that
none OF you has put the saddle on the
right horse. Because I'm going to sur
prise you by producing a dark horse"
TO carry of the blue ribbon
In seeking to solve the problem of
who Is the busiest business executive
IN the world you have doubtless looked
70 the seats of the mighty, to those in
the limelight of publicity and the glow
OF prosperity, whereas my answer ex-
ats those Of low degree, those who are
behind the scenes, who are too busy
and to humble to seek the spotlight,
and who are therefore overlooked in
this great modern bustling world. Who
Is this great business executive?" Here
y the ansWer-the greatest, busiest
business executive in the world is the
wife Of the working man.
Backbone Of Civilization.
There are thousands and thousands
OF this type of business manager in this
great country, and they are truly the
backbone of our civilization. They are
the producers and !conservers of future
citizens; they are~ the producers and
conservers of economic goods. carving
on their labors not in the factories and
workshops. but in the homes They
build patiently, increasingly for the
present and future. They hold the
home and family together with the
mortar of love and devotion They keep
the home fires burning. the wheels of
family life turning They play an i'm
portant behind-the-scene role in the
whole industrial life of the Nation.
Let US take a careful look at this
wonderful executive as she goes about
her humble. tasks in the home. She is
just an everyday human being She
may be everyday. just as is the sun
shine, but she is not ordinary. On the
contrary she is extraordinary. There
Is no more wonderful person in the
world. I maintain, than this same wife
OF the working man. who willingly sac
rtfces her youth and personality for
the work of her life-the bringing up
Of her family in cooperation with her
breadwinning husband
You have only to look at her healthy
family of boys and girls to grant that
they are worth any sacrif1ce-from IA
year-old Thomas. jr.. just beginning to
show promises of fine type Of man.
hood. to Nellie. a winsome little tot
Of three Summers. AS you look at these
human stair steps-each so interested
and so eager. each representing a set
Of problems in the individuals unfold
ing and development in life
To see her bustling about, managing
all the family affairs-the home, the
food. the clothes. the finances, the
manners. morals. health, religion. edu-
cation, and happiness of her family,
machine to attend to it all SATISFACTORY
IL. She works with mechanical eficien-
cy when tasks demand it. but she is
never too busy or preoccupied for a
?. Jest or a word Of sympathy. She is al
ways ready to laugh over all the funny
little things of life, to exchange bit
OF gossip with her next-door neighbor.
She never fails to turn a sympathetic
ear to her husbands tales Of shop
troubles.
Attends Varied Duties.
She is Johnny on-the spot whsn it is
necessary for some one to help her boy
out Of a scrape with the corner police
man for smashing the grocer's window
with his base ball. She can always
snatch few nom nts from her routine
of chores TO inspect Tom Juniors new
Beroplane model; or to plan birthday
party for Elizabeth with white-frosted
cake. candles and everything, or to
administer to Georges knses after his
fall on his roller skates; or to answer
Jimmy's searching question as to wheth-
er God will mind If he changes his
prayer for billy goat into a petition
for twins like the new babies of his
huddys mother.
OF course, there's real rock-ribbed
hide-bound working schedule under. the
surface of the weskly household activ-
.Ities. Each day has its own special
tasks, which must be performed with
clock-like regularity. Rain or shine
Monday is washday. and it's some job
to get all the soiled clothes of this
family, sheets and tablecloths, rub
bed, boiled, blued. Starched.. and hung
on the line before the children come
trooping from school and cfamoring fol-
bread and jelly to fill their aching
voids until suppertime
Tuesday is ironing day The work
does go more swiftly now with her new
electric iron than it used to with tho