Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-27
FIRST LADY LAUDS
HOME IN ADDRESS
Woman Voters Hear Plea for
Chiidren-MiSS Perkins
Also at Dinner.

The home Is the place where young
people get their interest in citizenship
and politics. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
told the general council of the League
of Women Voters, last night at dinner
at the Washington Hotel attended by
about 400 men and women prominent
in both major political parties.
Mrs. Roosevelt also declared she has
found that public schools turn out more
to take part in them than co private
schools.
She admitted there Is a marked
apathy in this country on the part OF
young people toward politics and she
urged the gathering to find some issue
or development close to the everyday
life of young people. emphasize it and
awaken the young people to a new in
terest in it.
Mrs. Roosevelt stayed at the dinner
for only few minutes, hurrying back
to the White House for the dinner for
Edouard Herriot, former premier of
France. Miss Frances Perkins, Secre-
tary Of Labor, also a guest of the
Women Voters. likewise hurried away
for the White House dinner.
Bryn Mawr Head Speaks.
The principal addresses were deliv-
cred by Miss Marion Edwards Park,
president of Bryn Mawr College, and
Prof Raymond Moley, Assistant Secre-
tary of State. Miss Belle Sherwin,
president of the league, was toastmis-
treSs.
Miss Park declared that it has been
her observation. through her work. that
the girls Of today are extremely apa-
thetic on political and economic ques-
tons, even in the face of such condi-
tons as exist today She said there is a
marked contrast between the young
women of America and the young
women of Continental Europe, the lat
ter taking an interest in national affairs
from childhood
only subject of current interest in
which the young people take a contro-
versial interest.
Young Americans" she declared,
don't enjoy abstract discussions of
political theory. They are not inter-
ested in community politics and the
majority Of their teachers likewise do
not show any interest in the affairs Of
the day."
She suggested that probably the best
way to interest young people in politics
and economics Is to appeal to the
emotional side.
Emergency rations Of politics." she
declared, might give them a taste
which would lead to a greater interest"
When the Democratic strategists of
the. last campaign were making their
plans, 1t was suggested in some quarters
that Mr. Roosevelt make a special ap-
peal to women voters. This was vetoed,
Prof Moley declared, and the Demo-
cratic candidate appealed to women
and men alike in his campaign speeches.
Treatment as Voters.
This, he declared, is the way women
voters want to be treated, not as mem
bers of sex, but as voters, voting
with men, or against them, on the is
sues of the day.
These changes, he said, "are solid,
definite parts of a whole structure. The
President Is looking for national Sc
curity that is larger than the dominance
of one group. He Is seeking to work
out security on the basis of a national
conception of what the Nation needs. "
Mrs. Alvin B. Barber and Mrs. Edwin
G. Nourse were co-chairmen OF the
Committee of Arrangements. The as
sisting hostesses who presided at tables
were Mrs. Edward P. Costigan, Mrs.
Emily Newell Blair, Mrs. Alvin T. Hert,
Mrs. Francis Parkinson Reyes, Mrs.
Herbert Feis, Mrs. Harold c. Moulton,
Miss Mary Anderson, Miss Ruth Nor
gan, Miss Grace Abbott, Mrs John Jay
O'Connor, Miss Lavinia Engle, Dr.
Louise Stanley. Mrs. Eliot O'Hara, Mrs.
John w. Cooper. Mrs. Harris T. Bald
win, Miss Grace Freysinger, Mrs Ernest
L. Lewis, Mrs. Basil Manly, Mrs. Edward
Heating, Miss Elizabeth Eastman, Mrs.
Luke Wilson, Mrs. Joshua Evans, Mrs.
Henry Alvah Strong, Mrs. Elwood Street,
Mrs. A. ]. McKelway, Mrs David l..
Wing, Miss Katherine Frederic, Mrs.
Louis Gutenberg.
In the company Of guests. besides the
leagues national officers and council
delegates from 80 States. were the Sec
rotary of War and Mrs George H. Dern,
Postmaster General James A. Farley,
Senator and Mrs. Edward D. Costigan,
Senator and Mrs. Augustine Lonergan
and Mrs. w. w. Howes, wife Of the As
distant Secretary Of Agriculture.