Evening star., 1936-06-02
New President Asks Men,
bers to "Shed That In
feriority Complex"
DECLARES WORLD OWES
MORE TO FARM WOMEN
Contends They Are Well Able to
Think Out Standards and
Outline Program.


en- of the World, today urged country
women to shed that inferiority COM
plex," in a session at Constitution
Hall.
Making her presidential address
Mrs. Watt said the house mother
should be. the one to decide what
she wanted in foodstuffs and cloth
ing for the good of her family.
we must reverse the present sys-
tem," she said. The cook is now SER
want of the gardener. Make the
gardener the servant Of the cook
Mrs. Watt contended that country
women were well able to think out
Nation wide standards for production
and consumption.
The world owes more to country
women, proportionately, than to any
other single group, Mrs. Watt said.
Suggests Program.
Suggesting program by which this
obligation might be paid, Mrs. Watt
declared:
I'VE might be willing to pay fair
prices for what the country woman
offers for sale when she takes the
trouble to make it cleaner and better
I'VE might see that fair proper
ton of the money spent on national
education goes into the education she
wants for her children.
I'VE might see that adequate ad-
ic
given to the rural organizations
through which the country woman is
educating herself and her commun-
ity."
Mrs. Watt declared that through
the influence of rural women's or
ganizations, farm wives have been
educated to a place of real partner
ship with their farm husbands.
Foreign delegates to the conference
today we're shown through the White
House by Mrs. Roosevelt at the con-
clusion of the morning sessions.
Convention Is Launched.
An exciting formal opening-cli-
NAKED by gigantic garden party at
ll4C "lll A1OIASC anu d o1AOl
by President Roosevelt - yesterday
launched the conference.
Presentation of long-awaited
volume concluding a three-year survey
of national customs in selecting, pre-
serving and cooking food in rural
kitchens all over the world, Under
the title, Food in the Country
Home" was also to be presented dur
ing the day. Containing 500 recipes
of housewives in 80 countries. the
volume is available to all members
with a curiosity to compare temale
pie from California with curd buns
from Estonia, Ceylon pancakes made
from rice flour and coconut milk.
with "Haselnususchnitten," or hazel
nut cakes, from Austria.
Costumed Dances Tonight.
A colorful program is in store for
tonight. when folk songs and folk
dances-given in costume-will be
presented at 8:15 in Constitution Hall,
the last meeting to be held in the
large auditorium. Earlier, official del
egates were to meet in the United
States Government auditorium for
business.
Yesterdays garden party, which
virtually all the $500 registered del
egates attended, was not only the
largest meeting of the conference-it
was the largest party given at the
White House during this adininistra-
tion.
While hundreds of women con-
tinued to press into the White House
gates, the President appeared at the
south portico to promise American
farm women:
I'VE are trying many new things
most of them we believe will sue
ceed. Some Of them may not sue
ceed, and in such cases we shall seek
Smiling with Mrs. Roosevelt and
the cabinet wives at his side, he ad-
dressed the throngs of farm wives,
gayly dressed for the occasion in
cool Summer gowns.
I'VE are coming more and more to
realize that the city dwellers cannot
be prosperous, cannot work in their
factories and their stores unless the
agricultural population and those de-
pendent on them have a greater pur-
chasing power throughout the years"
With a word for those still outside
the grounds, the President concluded:
TELL them am sorry couldn't
see and speak to them-but ] had to
CO."
Mrs. Roosevelt, with three White
House aides to protect her from the
crowd, was forced to raise her hand
and plead with her guests to remain
still as she went through the grounds
shaking hands.
With Fru Marie Michelet of Norway,
presiding, last nights session was
given over to reports of country
women's work from IL foreign leagues
and film showing activities of coun-
try women's organizations.
Frau Liselotte KueSsner- Garhard of
Germany, told of the agricultural work
accomplished in Germany through the
Reichsnahrstand since the last con-
ference at Stockholm. Describing the
as joining all men and
women in any way linked with agri-
culture, she discussed the benefit
'eceived by boys and girls through
'ural occupational schools. of the in
.reaSe of annrenticinp and the re-