Evening star., 1932-08-12
MRS. ROOSEVELT
PROMINENT GUEST
Widow of President Out
standing Figure at Notifl-
cation Ceremonies.

Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt, widow Of
the President, returned to Washington
and TIE White House yesterday as per-
haps the most prominent guest for the
Hoover notification ceremonies. Tie
centes of much political and social dis
cussioa, Mrs. Roosevelt vigorously ind1-
Gated her support of the Republican
party against the candidacy OF the
Democratic Roosevelt.
She sn1ilingly greeted all the guests
at President HooVer'S notification day
luncheon party. She chatted with cab
met members and party leaders. She
appeared as head of a Roosevelt clan
which also included two of the younger
generation, Ethel Roosevelt Derby and
Alice Roosevelt Longworth. And she
sat, in friendliest fashion, at the same
lawn table with Mrs. Dolly Gam!
Ready for Fight.
Lets roll up our sleeves and re-elect
our PRESIDENT" Mrs. Roosevelt had ex-
claimed to Republican women in New
York, home State Of the Democratic
candidate. Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Rolled-up sleeves were as far as pos
sible from her correct, and character
istically beautiful, attire. But she did
lay aside the heavy black widows veil
in which she few from New York to
Washington to don an all-white cos
tune for the garden party.
Fbst, she made clear, dramatically,
once and for all, the distinction between
the Republican Roosevelts and the Dem
ocratic RooseVeltS, and settled any argu-
ment as to how her own clan stands.
Though Candidate Roosevelt is but n
distant cousin to the late President
Theodore Roosevelt's family, his wife, a
Roosevelt before her marriage, was Ted
dy's niece, and Alice Roosevelt Long
worth served as her bridesmaid. But
this close consanguinity will not mean
any Republican Roosevelt votes for the
Democratic Roosevelt.
Alice, animated as always in smart
sports dress of black and white print,
was the center of a keynote" group, in
cluding Secretary and Mrs. Ogden Mills,
with whom she's going yachting. She
votes in Cincinnati, never fails to ex-
erciSe her franchise, and her ballot goes
Republican, this year as always!
And Ethel, in green and white, said
her plans were not made yet, but she
expected to campaign for the Hoover
ticket. She is president OF the Wom-
ans Republican Club named for her
mother.
Sits With Mrs. Gam.
Mrs. RooSevelt's second major stroke
of stragety was in sitting at the came
table with Mrs Gam, sister of Vice
President Curtis. For that was inter-
preteu by the onlookers as showing
Rooseveltism amity toward the entire
ticket, in spite of all the talk there was
in Chicago about Teddy Roosevelt, jr.,
wanting the vice presidency, and his
sister Alice. being there 70 get it for
him if possible against the full fighting
forces of Dolly Gam.
This talk, of course, was accom-
panied with a complete rehash of the
so-called Gann-Longworth social con-
troversy."
But with complete poise and serenity,
Mrs. Roosevelt added her full strength
to the Republican stronghold. A bit
more frail at IL, but still as stately as
when mistress of the White House, she
might have stepped from her own por-
trait in the corridor through which the
guests passed to the garden.
In that painting she also was seated
in the garden, with the curved south
portico and its stately white columns as
the background. Then a picture nat,
black plumed, was on her proudly-hel
head. Yesterday the hat was white,
with white flowers against the band