Evening star., 1940-06-09

wont to wear With Congress in
session she says she does not know
Just how much time she can give to
war work, but if the necessity arises
she will allow nothing to interfere
with visits to hospitals; and as she
has never ceased her work among
the disabled men of the World War
she can readily keep in touch with
activities
Interested in Government
Attitude Toward Business.
Representing as she does the
greatest manufacturing section OF
the United States for shoes and
textiles, Mrs. Rogers is naturally
interested in the attitude of the
Government toward private indus
try. particularly as it concerns the
manufactures of her State. She
has worked gallantly for the pro-
lection of the fisheries and for the
smaller industries upon which the
daily existence of many of the peo-
pie of Massachusetts, depend. Her
joint resolution for Cancer Control
Month, and a voluntary national
program for the control of that
dread disease which for so long
has baffled the great specialists of
the world. received the immediate
support of President Roosevelt and
he issued a proclamation setting
apart the month of April of each
year as Cancer Control Month.
During her life she has been i'm
menselv interested in helping man.
kind. Believe it or not Mrs. Rogers,
as the woman member of the For
eign Affairs Committee of the House.
on one occasion presented to the
members of the committee such a
pitiful picture of the plight of under
paid American diplomats abroad
that she actually brought tears to
the eyes of that very blase company
of gentlemen. And may we say
here she believes absolutely in career
diplomats. and she also believes
that, come weather fair of foul, they
should remain at their posts of
service while the country is neutral.
Ambassador Bullitt's
Escape From Death.
The escape of Mr. William C.
Bullitt, American Ambassador to
France, from German bombs seems
almost providential when one thinks
of his having left the American
Embassy building scarcely less than
an hour before the bombing began
and rode through the streets of Paris
wholly unprotected. The beautiful
four-story white stone Embassy and
consulate building on the Place de
la Concorde, close to the Presiden-
tial Palace, has so far escaped,
though it is in most exposed
situation. 1t is one of the most
imposing and largest embassy
buildings on the continent. From
the windows of the chancery one
can look out across the Place de la
Concorde, generally acknowledged to
be the most harmonious archi-
tectural assemblage in the world, to
the splendid old Garde Meuble of
Louis XIV, the Louvre in the dis
tance. the Pont de la Concorde
across the River Seine, and to the
Chamber of Deputies.
While there are no living quar-
ters for the members of the staff. a
kitchen. dining room, pantry, shower
baths and other facilities are ar
ranged for them, and now are very
necessary owing to the long hours
required there.
While the Ambassador has a pri-
vate residence, the chancery of en-
bassy, consul generals office, the
passport bureau, safes for confiden-
tial files, offices for representatives
of the Department of Commerce,
Labor, Justice, War and Navy are
provided for in that beautiful build
ing which is now in direct line of
danger.