Evening star., 1934-10-08
~ RS. ROOSEVELT will speak at
M the meeting of the District
IVt Housing Commission which
4 4 will be held in the auditorium
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N N the meeting of the District
V Housing Commission which
4 i will be held in the auditorium
of the Chamber of Commerce
! as part of the drive for better homes
President and Mrs. Roosevelt will
receive the delegates to the congress
/ of the Federation Aeronautique inter
rationale and the ladies who accom-
panied them tomorrow afternoon. at
o'clock. The party will be held on
the south lawn, weather permitting.
Completion of the White House
Office building will greatly relieve the
crowding and congestion of Offices in
the basement of the White House,
where the Social Bureau has occupied
rooms for some years. This part of
the White House staff will be given
rooms in the enlarged Office building
which is now nearing completion.
Mrs. Roosevelt said at her weekly con-
ference this morning that the staff
numbered about 27 employees during
the MidWinter, when the social sea-
son is at its height. This staff in
cludes those who send out the invita-
tionS to the official functions as well
as those more personal to the Chief
Executive and First Lady. After the
completion of the new offices, Mrs
Ssheider will retain her desk in the
White House and the others will be
established in Fountain Court" which
the new Office building is familiarly
known. In speaking of the new build
ing, Mrs. Roosevelt commented that
she has seen the plans, has looked
over" the exterior, but no rooms have
been allocated for the Social Bureau.
Mrs. Roosevelt has invited Miss
Hilda Smith to attend her conference
Monday morning, October 16, at IL
O'Clock, to tell Of the camps estab-
lished for unattached and unemployed
women, Miss Smith having completed
survey of these camps throughout
the country. The First Lady spoke
of the aid being given to the un-
attached women in this country which
led to the subject of the married wom-
an in business and professional work
and the tendency in other countries to
the return to the home of married
women. She cited statements made
recently by Miss Dorothy Thompson
as to the conditions in European
countries and through government or
church influence, the failure to employ
married women. This back to the
home" trend of married women in 9TH
er countries is aided as much by tee
women as the men, according to Mrs.
Roosevelt'S understanding of Miss
Thompson's report. This condition
will probably never appear in this
country is Mrs. RooSevelt's belief, as
men in this country have a different
attitude and that the move against
married women in employment in
this country was limited to small
groups, or circles, such as teachers
in schools. In the opinion of the
First Lady the legislation by Congress
prohibiting the employment of two
in family by the Government was
an emergency need and except for
the emergency would not have passed
the Congress.
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge will be
the guest of honor at a dinner
and dramatic symphony which
will be given by the Young Women's
Christian Association in the bail room
of the Waldorf-Astoria. in New York,
Tuesday evening, october 80. Mrs.
Jonathan Bailey is chairman of the
Committee on Arrangements and Mrs
William Henry Hayes, president of
the New York Y. w. C. A., will receive
with Mrs. Coolidge preceding the din
ner and during the dinner. Mr..
Archie Gibson will give program of
organ music. The masque was Gre
ated and the lines written by Miss
Marie Whiffen, director of activities
of the Y. w. C. A, and Miss Eleanor
Weddell Roberts wrote the music.
The dances are under the direction
of Mr.. John Bovington.
Many of those on the committee
assisting Mrs. Bulkley are well known
in Washington and include Mrs.
Dwight Whitney Morrow, widow of
Senator Morrow of New Jersey and
former United States Ambassador to
Mexico; Mrs. Walter Ewing Hope, wife
of former Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, and Mrs. Henry P. Dawson,
widow of the wartime director of the