Evening star., 1934-06-03

made by the Puerto Rican Spanish
League, to the effect that her public
statement about the high tLber-
culosiS rate among the island inhabi-
tants would keep them from getting
jobs IN this country. While speaking
at a dinner of the Puerto Rican
Committee of the Welfare Councils
of New York City, she said:
The Puerto Rican Spanish League
should face the fact that one never
finds the solution to anything until
one has truly faced conditions. Not
facing the truth won't make these
conditions any better"
The third and most spirited of her
counter attacks came on April % of
this Spring. Senator Schall OF
Minnesota, deeply embedded in a
violent Republican spirit of defense,
accused Mrs. Roosevelt of making a
big profit out of her Waikiki furni-
ture shop at Hyde Park. This was
meat to the bone. Mrs. Roosevelt
made an engagement with him for
$50 the morning of the 23d Her
weekly press conference was due at
II. Senator Schall broke the date.
so. when Mrs Roosevelt met the press
women she explained carefully that
while she had planned to tell the
following facts first to Senator Schall,
he had made it impossible for her
to do so by not appearing.
Answers Senator SchaH.
Beginning with the words, Il am
not on the floor of the Senate and
do not have senatorial immunity" she
answered Senator Schall's every ac-
cusation, point by point.
Mrs. Roosevelt is not a woman with
a cause, but a woman with many
causes. She is willing to take it on
the chin personally for any and all
of them. Her most recent effort,
which she herself admits will bring
upon her head plenty of adverse pub
licity. was her decision to broadcast
on the air for commercial products.
This she is doing only because she
wants to raise money for the Reeds
vile and other similar projects. The
checks she has received have been
sent not to her, but direct to the
American Friends Association in
Philadelphia, which in turn is using
them for the proposed community
school at Reedsville
She is a restless woman, finding
relaxation in motion. In the Winter
she travels mainly by air and rail,
but in the Summer she loves to climb
into the well known blue roadster
(Which she recently sold because it had
became so we'll known and motor
through the country If it is a good
day, she likes to have the top down
and her hat off. On these trips she
is usually accompanied by either Mrs.
Henry Morgenthau, jr., wife of the
Secretary of the Treasury or Miss
Nancy Cook, or Miss Lorena Hickock,
or Miss Marian Dickerman, or Mrs.
June Hamilton Rhodes, all of New
York.
Travels IncognitO.
On these motor trips she enjoys
travelling incognito if possible. Last
July, on returning from an extended
trip through the State of New York,
she told her press conference that
SIiC Ild0 1oullO bliC
grand" She described stopping at
various times to talk informally with
people in small places and by the
roadside.
"A new national point of view is
being developed" she said. People
realize that the buying power of the
Western farmer must return before
the buying power Of the East, and
every one seems willing to help"
Society, per Sc, with its intricacies
and ramif1cations, frankly does not
interest her, and whenever possible
she eliminates protocol.
Nothing gives as clear a picture Of
the untiring vitality of this lady as a
chronological monthly description of
her life since she has been in the
White House.
March, 1893. Mrs. Roosevelt settled
into the White House, started cutting
down the household expenses bV one.