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Evening star., 1937-11-13

@HE President has his fireside
chats-Mrs. Roosevelt has her
fireside forums.
Il The President talks to the
people of this and that-Mrs. Roose-
velt let the people talk to her, knits
as she listens, sorts as she knits and
ends up with pattern of high lights
and humor, statistical substance and
political significance frequently for
presentation to the President. Also,
she asks questions.
The last such question answer
session we attended was in Eleanor
Roosevelt's own Waikiki cottage, new
ly remodeled from the famous furni-
ture factory which has moved on up
the road. Its theme was all the wOr-
ries of the National Youth Admins
tration and Aubrey Williams, admin
istrator, was the co-conductor who sat
with Mrs. Roosevelt in front of the
fireplace, In the White House DUR
ing the past five years similar gath
erings have run the gamut from girls
camps to the plight Of women too old
for industry; from private charities
to public housing. If Mrs. Roosevelt
were asked to define her role on these
occasions-as she has been asked
many times in the past-her answer
probably would follow along a con-
sistent channel of her thinking, that
she represents Any Citizen in this de-
mocracy, and that she asks for in
formation on which to base the ex-
ercise of her citizenship.
The buses roll up to Waikiki at
about II o'clock of a bright fall day,
bringing the 48 Youth Administrators
of the 48 States, with two exceptions,
and enough regional directors to more
than make up the deficit. Practical
minded Malvina Thompson Schneider,
Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary, wonders
where so people will sit in that SEEM
ingly small front room, where all
their wraps will go, how they can
to seat six. Over at the first Waikiki
cottage, where the newspaper picnics
have always been held, handling big
crowds in small space has been re-
duced to science. But this is initiation
for this place marked Guest House"
on the winding drive, rambling
structure of pleasant porches.
MRS. ROOSEVELT smiles serenely,
for she knows her planned econ
omy Of erstwhile factory space will
work. There's no quicker way to
care for the wraps of so than to let
the so pile them on guest beds. There's
no more compact and speedy method
of seating half hundred than to let
each carry his own collapsible chair.
In Is minutes or less, nreside forum
is under way.
I'D like to hear some Of you peo-
PIES pfoblemA." says Mrs.. Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
Problems From Parts oil
Country Presented in
Informal Group.

More conference. Illinois and Maine
and Oklahoma speaking. A story of
share-croppers' children who came to
school in Saltwater. Okla, and a full
time dentist who was employed to fill
the 1,500 cavities found in their teeth.
A story of survey in Illinois to find
out what vocations weren't too over
crowded to absorb young workers.
/, And suddenly a complete confusion
the President has come and now is
outside in his auto waiting to meet
the conferees.
COATLESS they all dash out into
the sunshine that can't quite COM
pete with chill breezes. Singly they
file. past the hand-shaking President,
then all gather around. Mrs. Roose-
velt reports: They almost universally
say they have full support of their
communities and more work to do
than they can stretch the money
over"
She asks Oklahoma to tell that story
about the 1,500 cavities, at which the
President quips: "I've had more than
that myself" And one conferee whis-
pers to another Hes greater kidder,
isn't he?" Prompted by Mrs. Roose-
welt, New Mexico tells how its boys
build mudhouses, and and the Presi-
dent says, Il wish we had adobe in
every State" Illinois reports its
studies showed crafts so crowded "you
have to be brother or son to get in"
"Nepotism!" laughs the President,
then. sobering, tells how he kept New
York State from building two new
normal schools when it already had
5000 unemployed teachers. South
Carolina, a bit worried about the old
argument over Government projects
competing with private industry, tells
again about the boys who make school
desks.
81 personally think there is no
need to fuss over this question" says
Mrs. Roosevelt. Remember the mat
tresses9 Things of this type stimulate
desires" Jokes the President, "Once
on a mattress, always on a mattress!"
With running comment he looks
at photographs brought in from the
field" He tells some funny stories;
asks some discerning questions; gets
down to brass tacks, directing Admin
istrator Williams to have a job-pos-
sibility survey made-"Try to give
every boy and girl some kind of in
formation about tho bind ~ life uyOrk
they want to get into and the oppor-
tunities."
Waving with one hand as he drives
his car across the rough grass with
the other. the President is OF, leaving
Mrs. Roosevelt with a dozen con-
ferees clustered around her, trying to
get an extra word in edgewise before
the buses leave with the Lady OF the
Eireside Forum.
Evening star., 1937-11-13

Kansas tells how difficult it is to
gather the boys and girls in rural dis
tricts into such youth projects as
flourish in the towns. New York City
says the most capable youth goes into
private industry, leaving residuum
hard to place. New Mexico reports
high percentage of Spanish Amer
leans whose racial aptitudes respond
best to such projects as the revival
of old handicrafts-and that means
money for materials. New York State
remarks that people would be aston
ished to know that Eastern locality
still has an Indian problem. Mrs
Roosevelt was not astonished
II am very much interested in that
Indian problem in New York State, -
she said. There is lady who makes
my life picturesque on account of
those Indians"
Kentucky brings up the question OF
mountain youth who have never
learned to read and write, never
known a home table of varied foods.
South Carolina describes work CEN
ters made by country boys, where
school desks are turned out for dis
tricts too poor to buy any.
Mrs. Roosevelt sits and knits, and
there is time to study her in a back
ground she herself has made. If ever
individuality were expressed in every
item before the eye, it is here. The
walls are of knotted wood, natural
background for the early Colonial rep
lica furniture, every piece, with the
exception of two carved Chinese
chests, of Waikiki make. The cur
tains and the couches and the corner
seat are artistic in glazed chintz, blue
figured on tan in comradeship with
the bright blue of the fireplace tiles.
One end of the room is library, three
walls of an ell lined from floor to
ceiling with volumes. There's baby
grand piano with a batik above it and
a photo of the President, in the hand
soonest of silver frames, standing un-
der it. On a cabinet is small but
choice collection of modernistic white
gazelle sort of things Of which dec
orators today are so fond. A hanging
wall bracket is devoted to carvings
Of fine old jade.
MRS. ROOSEVELT herself was 4
" composition in soft off-white
with splash of rose made by the
sweater she was knitting and by the
bold design on the matching pitchers
precisely placed at either end of the
early American hard-maple mantel.
She wore white silk blouse with her
suit of wooled white homespun, woven
on the Waikiki acres by her protege,
Nellie Johanssen. About her head
was a white band tied in q bow in
the back, sure sign that this was an
informal occasion. Her feet, in white
walking shoes, fine white Isle stock
ings, rested quietly on a white fur rug,
brought by Ruth Bryan Rohde from
Greenland. She knits with white
needles, pausing now and then As in
terest intensifies, resuming as talk
goes back to even tenor.
Some Of the myriad questions Mrs.
Roosevelt aAkA about the boys and
girls: u II moro dimcult to Hflnd 20
Evening star., 1937-11-13

is every reason to suppose will con-
tinue in this policy.
Lending color to the extra session
this year will be two women Sem
ators, Mrs. Hattie Caraway Of Ar
kansas and Mrs. Bibb Graves Of Ala
bama. This session. Mrs. Caraway
will serve as senior Senator, her COL
league being Senator John E. Miller,
recently elected to succeed Senator
Robinson. Senator Miller, incident
ally, will be the only new Senator in
the picture when the extra session
opens. 1t was this same Senator
Miller who, when asked if he would
Evening star., 1937-11-13

sitions for girls than for boys? Have
you tried to train and place them in
the field of practical nursing? Would
you say girl should have q high
school education-does it enhance
her chance for job? Do you find
your girls going into unskilled things
or into things which require skill? Do
you find generally that both high
schools and colleges are not giving
young people the proper kind of edu-
cation to fit them for life? In my
trips over the country I have heard
the criticism the Youth Administra-
ton is sending people on to college
not fitted to go to college; is that true?
"a chorus of voices offered to prove
to her that boys and girls being helped
to education by the Government get
exceptionally good grades.) Do you
think you should bring untaught
youths Of remote mountain districts
into the towns or send people to them?
Do they revert quickly when they go
back? Do you get publicity enough
are your projects we'll enough known?
Granted you get the young people and
train them, what happens then? Do
they get a chance to work at differ
ent jobs? If they don't work we'll in
one, can they try another? If youths
can seek placement in private in
dustry through Federal employment
ofi1ces in SO centers Of IS States, why
rant II hn dny,a
Mrs. Schneider appears in the door,
way of the crowded room. Does Mrs.
Roosevelt realize it is 1880? She ex-
plains she at the moment is supposed
to be meeting a foreign minister who
is lunching with the President. Would
the conference care to proceed to pic
mic lunch without her or to wander
about Waikiki grounds till she gets
back? The conference votes to wait
and wander.
A ND, turning to two of the "ladies
OF the press"-would we like to
dosh over to the big house with her?
We would. Down the long lane of the
low stone wall to Nellie Johanssen's
f1lling station, where the stock in trade
for the autoing public is homespun,
jams and jellies, and Waikiki pewter
and woodenware. On to trooper
guarded "Crum Elbow" As the Roose-
velt estate is historically listed in the
w. P. A. guide book, despite claims to
the name by neighbor across the
Hudson. Glimpses of its gardens, its
great trees, the Hudson across its
tableland lawn, while Mrs. Roosevelt is
indoors. A hurried peek at the family
portraits in its library. Then back to a
conference turned picnic with Mrs.
Roosevelt in the cottage dining room,
piling up the food on the paper picnic
plates. The speediest way to serve so
is for each to take his own filled plate
and find, indoors or out, pleasant
place and pleasant people to lunch
with. Here, In the dining room, too,
the background bespeaks Eleanor
Roosevelt-the rows of shining hand
wrought pewter and the shelves on
which they stand, the table, much OF
its service, the wooden salad bowls
with their great wooden mixing fork
And spoon.
Evening star., 1937-11-13

Senate term beginning March 4, 1918,
and for the unexpired term Of Sen
ator Joseph w. Bailey. who had re-
signed and had not been a candidate
in the primaries. Senator Sheppard
was reelected to the Senate in 1918,
1924. 1880 and 1885 and on October
IL, 1887, had completed IS continu-
GUS years of service in both Houses
Of Congress.
The congressional service of Sena-
tor Borah, who is dean of the Sem
ate, has been entirely in the Senate.
his service there having begun on
See CONGRESS Page Ri
Evening star., 1937-11-13

be seated as an independent, on which
ticket he was elected, made the IA
nous remark, Il am a Democrat"
And he will be seated as a Democrat
during the extra session.
One of the most colorful and con-
sistent of all United States Senators
will be present when the session
opens, just as he has been present
for IS years, all told, at meetings of
Congress-Senator Morris Sheppard
OF Texas, Dean Of the United States
Congress. who has served nearly IL
years in the House and "a years in the
Senate.
Evening star., 1937-11-13

CENIOR Senator from Texas, Mr..
Sheppard has had longer contin-
uous service than any other living
member. His service dates from Oc-
tober IL, 1902, the date of the death
OF his father, John L. Sheppard. who
was at that time a Member Of the
House and whom he was elected to
succeed in the 57th Congress. Re-
elected to the House for the five sue
ceeding Congresses. Mr. Sheppard was
nominated in the Democratic pri-
maries in the summer of 1912 and
elected by the Texas Legislature on
January 20, 1918. both for the full
Evening star., 1937-11-13
By Lucy Salamanca.

w yHEN, in response to the call
M of the President, Senators
v v and Representatives troop
back this week tn tho bo1le
Evening star., 1937-10-01

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Evening star., 1937-10-01

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Evening star., 1937-03-02
AMELIA EARHART'S
SHIP ABOUT READY
Radio Equipment Will Be
Installed in Electra
Plane Today.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


BURBANK, Calf, March "A
fortnight before the date tentatively
scheduled, weather permitting, for its
flight across the Pacific, work on
Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra
plane Is today in the final stages Of
completion
A dozen technicians and mechanics
have swarmed over the big ship during
the week end, busy night and day.
Paul Mantz, Miss Earhart's technical
adviser, announced that micrometer
examination Of cylinders pulled from
the two wasp motors shows there Is
no sign Of wear whatever from the
flying thus far done with the ship.
which means saving q couple Of days
in the shop.
Last Thursday Curl Rommelein Of
the Bendix Radio Corp. few here from
Washington, bringing equipment for
the latest direction finder. Under the
supervision of Lockheed engineers its
installation will be completed today.
Then will follow further tests IN fight,
involving both this uncanny naviga-
tional instrument, the diversified radio
communication system installed by
Western Electric and the Sperry gyro-
pilot.
Stripes Of bright orange are being
placed on the metal wings and tail
surfaces of the Electra. They will
increase its visibility in the event Of
a forced landing on water or desert
or in jungle. Every vital gasoline and
oil line has been covered with rubber
as a precaution against leaks or
breaks.
Navigator Manning Is in Oakland
comforting with Pan-American COM
munication and navigation experts.
He will return tomorrow to join Miss
Earhart, Mantz and technicians for
several night and day shake down
flights over land and water, testing
instruments and navigational practice
in the flying laboratorys" improvised
chart room.
Evening star., 1937-03-02
MRS. ROOSEVELT
TALKS0NHOUS|
Naval Academy Women's
Club Told SIum Areas
Are Costly.

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, March Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt told the Naval
Academy Womens Club yesterday that
slum areas cost much in taxes to care
for the insane, crippled and diseased
human beings they produce.
She declared that in many rural
districts a mother has become beast
Of burden, Of little use to her children
beyond mere physical care, because
she Is worn out from household
chores"
She asserted there is a startling SINH
larity between conditions in upstate
New York, on Illinois farms. in rural
Virginia and in the tenements OF New
York City.
conditions in the city slurns are
rather worse than in the country" she
continued because in the country a
certain outward decency develops from
the distance between crowded dwell
ings.
When you study the young criminal
of today, 60 back to the home, and in
variably that home was crowded
tenement where privacy Is i'm
possible and living conditions are very
had ="
Mrs. Roosevelt said it is impossible
TO have good housing if the cost Is
far above the income of the wage
Garner. She declared that the whole
question narrowed down to whether
1t paid taxpayers to subsidize a cer-
tain kind Of housing-to assure decent
living conditions-or pay for it in
other ways.
Evening star., 1937-03-02
GEORGETOWN CITIZENS
ASK TRAFFIC LIGHT
Hold Signal at Thirty-frst and M
Streets Would Relieve
Congestion.

The Georgetown Progressive Citi-
zens' Association, meeting last night.
urged installation Of trafflc light at
the intersection of Thirty-first and M
streets. Henry w. Draper pointed
out that with a light at this inter-
section it would relieve somewhat the
congestion at Wisconsin avenue and
M street, just one block away.
Charles NJ Fife, instructor of the
Boys Club, spoke to the group, reveal
ing the activity Of the club as a ma
tional organization. Boys clubs were
organized 40 years ago with the intent
Of providing activity for the under
privileged boys. who otherwise would
play in the streets and form gangs
with mischievous objectives, Fife said.
Fife told the group that although the
clubs were not entirely complete in
facilities, they nevertheless served the
purpose and cited individual cases OF
youths who in making the best OF
what they had later became out
standing in character development:
The association voted to have two
members of the Junior Bar Associa-
ton debate the Supreme Court issue
at the April meeting.
Evening star., 1937-03-02
Miss Dorothy Kenyon
To Be Guest Speaker

Miss Dorothy Kenyon, noted New
York lawyer, will be one Of the SIX
guest speakers at dinner and panel
sponsored by the Committee on Eco
nomic and Legal Status OF Women
at the American Association of Uni
versity Women club house tomorrow
evening at 7 o'clock. Other prominent
speakers who will discuss ''Woman's
Place Under the New Economic Order"
will be Senator Joseph O'Mahoney,
Representative Emanuel Celler, Miss
Ann Youngman of the Washington
Post, Mr.. Raymond Clapper, journal
ist, and Miss Marie Obenauer, econo-
mist
Mrs. Richard Hogue, president Of
the Washington branch Of the Ameri-
can Association of University Women,
will preside at the dinner. Miss Bertha
Nienburg, assistant director of the
Women's Bureau and committee chair
man. is in charge of the program and
arrangements.
Evening star., 1937-03-02
TAk0MA PARK BUS
HEARING Is ASKED
Manor Park Citizens Also Oppose
Change in zoning
Regulation.

A further hearing on the Third
street. -Takoma Park bus service in
respect to the proposed Ninth street
route was requested of the Public
Utilities Commission in a resolution
submitted by George A. Corbin at the
meeting of the Manor Park Citizens
Association last night. 1t was sug-
gested that the commission make such
orders in the proceedings "as it
deemed reasonable and just in the
premises"
Opposition to change in zoning reg
ulations which would permit the
building of community-group houses
in the residential "A" semi-restricted
areas was made and cited as unjust
to adjacent property owners, who pur-
chased land in good faith, believing
that present zoning would be main
tanned and their rights protected by
the Zoning Commission.
The association disapproved pro-
posal before the Budget Bureau to
change the name of Concord avenue
to Missouri avenue and objected to
legalization of horse racing in the
District. Esta tablishment of a new CEN
tral library received the Endorsement
of the organization.
Evening star., 1937-03-02
South CarOlinianS'
Party Friday Night

The South Carolina Society will en-
tertain many distinguished guests,
residents of the District, formerly Of
that State, as well as several coming
from South Carolina on Friday eve
ming. The Secretary Of Commerce and
Mrs Roper will be guests Of honor,
sharing those honors with other mem.
bers of the cabinet and their wives.
Secretary Roper is the first member
Of the cabinet from South Carolina
since the time of John c. Calhoun.
Mr.. Hugh Phillips, president Of the
society, has appointed committees to
complete arrangements for the party.
Among these are Mr.. ]. Austin. Lati-
mer, chairman Of Reception Commit
tee, assisted by Mr.. r. j. Cheatham,
Mr.. Charles M. Galloway, Mr.. Fam
ming Heron, Mr.. James A. Hoyt, Col.
o. A. Hydrick, Capt. F. j. Jervey.
Mr.. Mendel Rivers and Mr.. Thomas
M. Ross. Mr.. Charles E. Jackson is
chairman of the Floor Committee and
has assisting him Mr. Ed Hodges, Mr..
James A. Kennedy, Mr.. w. r. Ken
nedy. Mr.. Eugene Parler, Mr.. Whit
ney Tharin and Mr.. Ben Scott Whaley.
Miss Mary Louise Sistare is chair
man of the Young Ladies' Committee
and has serving with her Miss Eliza
beth Owens. Miss Elizabeth Mahon,
Miss Claudia McSwain, Miss Agnes
Latimer, Miss Frances Mcmillan, Miss
Theo Wiles and Mrs Frances Hoff-
helms. The Young Mems Committee
is headed by Mr.. j. William Bradford,
chairman, and includes Mr.. William
H. Coker, Mr.. Thomas Whiteside. Mr..
Beverly SimmS, Mr.. Alfred Owens and
Mr.. Edgar Morris, jr.
Evening star., 1937-03-02
PARKINSON SPEAKS
TO PENN ALUMNI
Tells Washington Graduates
University Needs $12,50O,.
600 for improvements.

The real mission Of a university lies
in the research we have to thank for
our present civilization and in inter-
preting it to practical men who will
convert it to popular use," Thomas I.
Parkinson. president Of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society Of New York
and trustee Of the University of Penn
sylvania, declared last night at the
annual dinner Of Washington alumni
Of the university at the Shoreham
Hotel.
1.-THE professors are the searchers
and the interpreters, and the students
are the practical men," he asserted.
"A certain university has gained
renown for brain trusters,'" Parkin-
son said, but they are teachers who
have looked over the fence into the
field Of public activity and sought
to enter 1t as participants.
IN order to realize this mission,
q university must have ample funds.
Pennsylvania needs $12,500,000 for
improvement. Likewise, it must be
made public that good teachers and
good students are present in an in
stitution Of learning. We must not
hide our light under q bushel"
Hailing the Penn bicentennial, in
1910, Parkinson declared the univer-
sity had done its share" and had q
200-year record of service to the coun-
try second to none.
Those of prominence attending the
banquet besides Parkinson were DR..
William McClellen, trustee: George
F. Snyder, trustee; Luther Martin.
president of the General Alumni So
ciety; Horace Lippincott, editor Of the
Pennsylvania Gazette and the General
Alumni Magazine; Wallace Chadwick,
president of the Associated Penn
Clubs; Dean George S. Koyl of the
department of fine arts. Wistar Wood,
president of the General Alumni So
ciety; Rev. Albert H. Lucas, preSi-
dent of the Washington Penn Club
and headmaSter Of St. Albans School.
and Wilson B. Nairn. first vice presi-
dent of the Washington club and
chairman of the Banquet Committee.
Evening star., 1937-03-02
20 CAPITAL WOMEN
TO ATTEND CONVENTION

Twenty-nine Washington women
will attend the tenth national con-
vention of the American Association
of University Women in Savannah,
Ga, March is to Is. Seven will be
from the organizations national head
quarters, with the remainder as dele
gates.
Principal speakers among the
Washington women will be DR.. Kath-
ryn McHale, general director of the
association; DR.. Esther Brunauer, ma
tional headquarters staff; Miss La
vinia Engle, education division, So
cial Security Board, and Miss Caro-
line S. Ware of American University.
Evening star., 1937-03-02
MAN KILLED IN BLAST

CHICAGO, March 2 R-One man
was reported to have been killed and
five others injured today by a boiler
explosion in the South side Carnegie
Illinois Steel Corp. plant.
Firemen removed the victims to the
plants dispensary. Handicapped by
gas fumes, the flremen searched fol
four or five men they believed were
still in the building, possibly trapped
by the wreckage.