The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-08-08
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Eleanor Roosevelt
NUTRITION INFORMATION

llCLle aILer uVe ore .dlLerHOOus
on our picnic grounds at Hyde Park,
representatives of various organi-
cations in the county gathered to
discuss with state representatives
what had been accomplished in
spreading nutrition information.
Miss Ruth Wheeler of Vassar col
lege, who had been made chairman
by the Cornell university group,
which is in charge of this work in
the state, has been i'll, and SO the
work is not completely organized.
/ felt a good deal was accom-
plished for they named radio and
publicity chairman and talked over
methods of getting information to
the people of our county. A home
demonstration agent is being sent
by the Emergency Home Demon
stration committee to a group of
counties, including Duchess, and
our county agent, Mr.. Shepherd,
called a meeting at which women
were named to take charge of the
arrangements for the agents work:
This seems to me very impor-
complish things which are now be-
ing asked of the women of the
United States of America. First we
may see that our schools are
used as demonstration centers for
child feeding. That means that ev-
cry available source of supply must
be tapped for food to be used daily.
BACK IN WASHINGTON
We reached Washington, D. c.,
from Hyde Park in time for lunch
the next day and the visitors began
to arrive at once. did have little
time to talk over one or two impor-
tant family things with the Presi-
dent before he was again engulfed
in government affairs.
At 4:40, l went to the airport with
Jimmie and Rommie, who were
starting for the West coast and wait
ed to meet my daughter, who was
coming in from Seattle, WASH, to
attend Mayor LaGuardia's meeting
on civilian volunteer participation
in defense.
late, which meant that a gentleman
who was waiting to hand me gift
for the President sent by the mayor
of an English city, had to wait for
nearly twenty minutes. However,
he was very kind about it. After
wards, DR.. Frederick Douglas Pat
terson, the president of Tuskegee
institute, came to tell me how well
the training of the flying cadets is
progressing there, and that Tuske-
gee is being named as recreation
al area for Negro men on leave from
Fort Benning.
The crown princess of Norway and
her party left to return to Massa-
chusetts on an evening train. Our
only other dinner guests were DR..
Floyd Reeves of the American
Youth commission, and DR.. James
Meader of Russell Sage college.
PRESIDENTS MEMORY
Four of us sat on the south portico
of the White House one night
having dinner; the President, our
daughter, Anna; our cousin, Mon
roe D. Robinson; and /. Mr.. Rob-
inson had just returned from Peru
and was telling the President of his
impressions. He thinks Peru is one
of the most interesting countries he
has ever visited and cannot wait
to return. Mr.. Robinson has made
some real friends and feels that
they like him just as much as he
likes them.
In the midst of his talk, my hus-
band, in a very quiet way, said:
''Have you ever happened to see an
old book which has an illustration
of a Peruvian Indian playing golf?
They played golf in Peru years be-
fore they played it in Scotland. To
all intents and purposes it was the
same game except that instead of
having to end up in a little tin cup,
they had to hit very small stick"
Monroe's face was study. He
had hardly expected to be told
something about Peru, especially
something which he felt might even
be news to some of his Peruvian
lIlGIluS! 1HCl lily idoDalA0 iWCAtt Oii
to explain that in college, he had
bought the books every year for the
Fly Club and Pudding Club Ii
braries. For the Fly club, he had
concentrated on books of old travel,
and among them had found this
particular book, which he consid-
cred the most interesting and which
furnished the basis of some of his
knowledge of Peru.
What wouldn't give to have as
retentive a memory as the Presi-
dent has, and at the same time al
ways to be able to reach back into
my mind and pick out the par
ticular thing applicable to the con-
versation of the moment. Hours
afterwards / can sometimes re-
member something which would
have been very valuable, if it had
only come to me when was actu-
ally talking.