The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-03
Mrs. Roosevelt Warns Revolution
May Not Continue Bloodless' If
Certain Types Get Public Office
For Next Few Years Office Holders Must Have "New
Conceptions Of Public Service;" Thinks Sex
a. of President Not Material
B.. RUBY BLACK
United Press Staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. (UP).
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt be-
lieves that if the highest type of
persons with new conceptions of
public service" are not in public
office during the next few years,
"our revolution may not con-
tinue to be bloodless."
She makes this statement in
her new book, "1t's Up to the
Women" published yesterday by
Frederick A. Stokes company.
The volume is made up of q
varied collection Of comments,
covering fields ranging from
menus and household budgets to
politics and labor conditions. 1t
is both penetrating and artless,
with platitudes and revolution
airy statements mixed Intimately
Speaking Of NRA codes, Mrs
Roosevelt writes:
'In a number of industries the
heads of the industry under
these codes have had it intimateC
to them that they will not be able
in the future to receive as largt
salary or enjoy as many
bonuses as they have in the past.
at is really unimportant OF
what sex a president may be,
she writes in another chapter
eve certainly will not have g
woman president until some wo,
man worthy Of being president
appears on the horizon. In the
meantime, men both worthy and
unworthy will probably fill that
office"
She regards a living as the
right of human beings, and scorns
the idea that it is charity to pro
vide people with food and clothes
and shelter when they are unable
to earn them.
She thinks women should have
equal pay for equal work, equal
working hours and conditions,
and equal opportunity, but she
believes in protective labor legls-
lation for women and she ere
bells" she writes against the idea
that married women should not
be allowed to work for pay. She
suggests, however, that it might
be generous for people with other
sources of income to give OF
share their jobs with the jobless
in the emergency"
Children should be given more
rather than less freedom, she
says, and "it is better for them
to get their feet wet than to be
told at the age of Is to put on
their rubbers." :,
On divorce, Mrs. Roosevelt
seems slightly obscure. She re-
grets the necessity for it, ever,
but adds that nothing can be
worse for children than to grow
up in a home where the atmos-
phere is one of unhappy and con-
slant bickeling." She thinks that
possibly it would be better II
marriage were made "far moro
difficult"
If divorce is inevitable, she
thinks one parent should be given
jurisdiction over the children
with the other having the right
to see them and have their COM
panionship occasionally.
She is sure that no matter
what women can afford to buy,
they cannot afford to buy things
made in sweatshops "at the eX.
pense of the health and strength
of our fellow human beings"
She spends more, proportionate'
w, on her underwear than on hei
top clothes because she has 6
weakness for handmade under
things.
Society means to Mrs. Roose
welt the contact with agreeable
and interesting people.
ut is becoming increasingly!
evident that what one has mat
tiers little; what one is means
that one can gather around one
self those who wish to see rea
people without regard to any
thing except enjoyable relation
ships and real personality" SIT
writes.