Evening star., 1933-02-09
MRS. ROOSEVELT
FETED AT DINNER
Pledges Self to Creed of Ac-
complishments for
Women.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 9.-Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt last night dedi-
Gated herself to creed
"I will make prayer and ask for
power to see what women may accom-
plish, and for courage to follow the
light as it is given to me-"
Mrs. Roosevelt was the feted guest
at q dinner of almost 1000 persons in
the ball room of the Waldorf Astoria,
rendered her by the Altrusa Club Of
New York, an organization Of business
and professional women whose mem
bership is limited to one representative
from each line Of endeavor.
On the program with her were six
almost equally prominent personages,
Fannie Hurst, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen,
DR.. Mary E. Woolley. James w. Gerard.
Claude Bowers and Dr.. Henry Goddard
Leach.
Speakers Pay Compliments.
All the speakers paid their compli-
ments to the wife Of the President
elect, and when Mrs. Roosevelt finally
began speaking she said she had lis
tened with growing humility because
she realized that the honors were in
tended, not so much for her personally
as for "an ideal which you feel I may
be able to aid in carrying out"
1--WE want" she said, Constructive
philanthropy; we want to do away with
charity Of the kind that hurts.
I'VE want to look back at tradition
and preserve that which is best.
I'VE want this shifting world to have
proper leadership to make the shifting
worth while.
"We want education for leisure and
to prepare US for the shifts that are
coming and to develop our resources to
meet them.
1--WE want women in politics to stand
for the things we feel are important,
and I believe we are going to need
women in politics to accomplish the
things we believe they have much at
heart"
Tells Of Letter to Husband.
Laughingly, she told of letter re-
ceived by her husband In which the
writer deplored reports that he would
name q woman to his cabinet and in
formed the President-elect that "his
reading convinced him the woman was
the root Of all evil, that her place was
In the home and that she should not
speak without first obtaining her hus-
bands permission"
$50, you sse," she continued, Women
In politics have to live down little
prejudice among few persons"
Prior to the dinner, Miss Emma D.
Partridge, chairman of arrangements,
had said the dinner was planned "long
before there was any criticism of Mrs.
Roosevelt for any Of her varied actiyi-
ties" but that the dinner was ito be a
tribute to Mrs. Roosevelt, and each
speaker viii discuss the things In which
she has been so actively interested"
Mrs. Owen Speaks.
Mrs. Owen, introduced as "a lame
duck who isn't the least bit disabled"
made q brief speech which Mr.. Bowers
later described as reminiscent Of her
silver-tongued father, William Jen-
nings Bryan. She said modern life no
longer confined the home to four walls
and 1T would be useless to make our
homes safe If the communities in which
we live are unsafe for our children" :
Modern youths, she said, are limited
only by the speed Of the automobile
and "home has been well described as
. place to refill and retire.
MRS. Frank A. Vanderlip was chair
man of the General Committee and
Jsmes q. Mcdonald was POSTMASTER.