Evening star., 1934-03-04

Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
today completes her first year as
chatelaine of the White House.
She and the little blue roadster,
which is the hall mark of her active
life, are known far and wide, and
there is scarcely part of the coun-
try that has not seen them Whirring
along on some mission of help and
support to worthy cause.
AS mistress of the Peoples House,
its doors have been thrown open to
all classes sincerely interested in the
social, economic and industrial well
fare of the country. With a rare
sense of the eternal fitness of things,
Mrs. Roosevelt has demonstrated the
ability to execute as well as plan a
normally useful life, combined with
official duties.
She is usually logical convincing
speaker on reforms in which she is
interested, but she evidently could
not convince her eldest son, James,
that the child labor amendment to
the Federal Constitution was thing
to be desired.
With courteous Difference to his
mothers stand on the question, he
discussed the subject pro and con,
and then with true Rooseveltian
courage went back to Boston and
supported the opposition
The Massachusetts, Legislature re-
fused to ratify the proposed ame.d-
ment.
Americas first Ambassador to the
Soviet Republics, Mr.. William C. Bull
Gtt, will not need much additional
exercise when he moves into the 40
room American embassy in Moscow.
This palatial residence was once the
home of Russia'S sugar king, M
Tverkov, and is one of the most
luxurious houses in that city of beau
tiful buildings
II one is able to think in those
dimensions, bath room Is feet square
and bed chamber large as baronial
hall and done up in baby blue is to
be part of the Ambassadors private
suite. His young daughter is to have
an equally commodious apartment
overlooking a small garden.
The Soviet government has been at
great pains to make Mr.. Bullitt COM
Portable and. among other nice things.
has torn down small wooden house
which obstructed the street view from
the magnificent front portico of the
embassy and is extending wing of
the mansion to make dining salon
which will seat 300 The Department
of State has not been consulted, but
1t is thought that the embassy will
also house the chancellery and some
of the staff a
Perhaps Ambassador Bullitt, in his
big house in Moscow, will after all
feel as Mr. Owen D. Young does
about the Three Room House"
The Ambassador at Large says,
There are only three rooms in a
house. No big house has more than
three, no matter what the numerical
count may be. No small house has
less than three-a kitchen, a sitting
room and a bed room. These are
the heart of the house. Less We can
not have and more We cannot use.
mo citizen in this land should be
so poor as to have less and no citi-
zen in this land can ever be so rich
as to buy more"
A new book on the Russia of to-
day which seems very just and in
formative as we'll, is Trina Skaria-
tina's, First to Go Back" which
takes one into the intimate life of
the republic-not by the official route,
but by mingling and talking with the
people. The great mass of workers
She speaks to them in their own
native tongue, she wishes to under
stand them and writes from tie view
point of one who returned to her
beloved country to learn ana not to
criticize.
She was the first member Of the
former titled aristocracy to re-enter
the Soviet Union, where she was i'm
prisoned by the BolshevikS after the