The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-16
MANY IDEAS OF
FIRSTLADY ARE
NOW in VOGUE
Mrs. Roosevelt's First
Year in White House
Proved Busy One

WASHINGTON, Mar. Is CUP
A wear ago Mrs. Franklin d.
Roosevelt entered the w h tie
House, expressed the hope that she
would find some time to read, ana
indicated that she would relin-
uuish her public activities, al
though she might find some mot
strictly political things to do anu
say.
During that year she has seen
many of her dreams come true
but not the one about time for
reading. .
She has travelled from coast to
coast in airplanes and now she Is
in Puerto Rico to learn about 9TH
or spots where the Stars and
Stripes fly. She made a 4,OOO-mlle
motor trip through New England
and Canada, and visited the south.
the middle west, the far west, and
"down east" Maine.
From all these trips she has re-
turned and told government ottl-
Gals, from the president down,
pertinent facts about the country
and the people. Many of these
facts have guided government ac-
ton.
She can, she has carefully said,
merely cooperate with govern
ment officials. Since, however,
they seek her information and sug-
gestions. many of her ideas have
been translated into action.
DISCLAIMS CREDIT
Here are some of the dreams
she has seen come true in the last
year:
Child labor has been almost
abolished. (She won't admit she
had anything to do with it,
Women are guaranteed equal
pay for equal work in NRA codes,
because she discussed the ques-
ton with Recovery Administrator
Hugh S. Johnson.
Undernourished children in the
District of Columbia are being fed
milk and fresh vegetables at lunch
because she suspected that a spe-
cial show was put on when she
visited the lunch rooms, and later
made an unannounced visit which
revealed the truth.
All over the country, subsist-
ence homesteads are being devel-
oped with government loans be-
cause she and Mr.. Roosevelt had
long dreamed Of decentralizing in
dustry, aiding people in living in
sunshine and fresh air where they
"a grow their vegetables and OBJ
tan their cash income from fac
targ work. Mrs. Roosevelt has
larxe part in all these projects,
r<fticularly in the first, at Reeds
fi}<e, w. Va, which she has visit
ed I've times and which was start
60 frSt because she took time to
90 and inspect the groundwork,
naeady laid by other agencies. and
s1xlst that as soon as possible these
landed unemployed miners be
gwen an opportunity to make
their ivings again.
- The homes being built on these
ftrm-factory projects are to have
plumbing and electricity.
{sJobless women were given equi-
table consideration in CWA prof
ects because Mrs. Roosevelt was
interested.
Unemployed artists - painters,
sculptors, actors, musicians-got
CWA jobs because she called at.
tention to the fact that something
had been done for nearly every
other group of workers except
them.
TAKES ACTIVE PART
She has humanized the White
House. More people - ordinary
people - have seen the second
floor than ever saw it before. She
has made it the Roosevelt family
home, and yet has admitted the
people to it. She has made even
the formal functions seem as if
they were parties she was inter
ested in giving. She invites many
people to lunch and dinner with
her. She gives informal parties.
DECIDES LIQUOR PROBLEM
An issue Mrs. Roosevelt had to
confront which has not bothered
hrst ladies" for many admins
trations was that of serving legal
alcoholic beverages in the White
House. When beer was legalized
Mrs. Roosevelt issued a formal
statement that beer would not be
barred from the White House, al
though she herself did not drink
alcoholic beverages. When other
liquor was legalized. she issued a
statement that no distilled LIQUORS
would be served in the White
House, and that wine, when