The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23

Eleanor Roosevelt
A Happy Family

and then her two eldest children pre-
scented her with the incest possible
gift. With the aid of their music
teacher, they had each made re-
cordings wishing her happy birth
day and playing two complete pieces
on the piano for her.
At noon, to everybody's joy, we
went off on the boat for a picnic
lunch. 81 was told with great enthu-
siasm, that the cooking would be
done by the gentlemen Of the fam
lily, who would give us fried egg
sandwiches. They proved excellent
and the sun shone and we had a
marvellous time. We returned
early enough to play while with
Johnny, so he would not be disap-
pointed. Then we had a birthday
dinner with the necessary cake and
candles. Thus ended a happy day.
The evening before my son-in-law
showed Miss Thompson and me
some of the movies taken of the
Inauguration in January and at
various times when we have been
out here. They will be a wonderful
record for the children when they
are grown.
MILITARY AIRCRAFT
The next morning we went down
to the Boeing Aircraft factory
This was my first view of four
motored bombers. They also make
smaller two-motored military air
craft, but I did not see any of them
finished. One order of bombers was
just completed, and the machines on
the floor were there for moderniza-
ton.
That seems to be one trouble with
building military aircraft when a
war is going on. In actual use,
weaknesses of design or of arma-
ment are discovered and inventors
try to find new ways of correcting
them. This means that machines
that have been out for a year, or
even less, have to return for drastic
changes.
This is a tremendous plant, COW
ering an area which seemed at least
a mile long as we walked around it.
. was interested to find some women
sewing in one section. They still do
it better than men.
l never leave my family in Seattle
without real regret, but had to go.
This was rather longer visit than
usual and we did more things which
were not purely part of family
reunion.
Before leaving, went to see some
of the National Youth administra-
ton work. Their resident project
here is not as yet finished, but they
have some defense training similar
to that going on in various places.
/ had some difficulty getting clear
in my mind the various types of
training which ! had seen. That
which is being done under the APP
premiership Council and in collabo-
ration with the Edison Vocational
School, is under the Smith-Hughes
act and has nothing to do with de-
tense training. III
Defense training is being carried
on in three other vocational high
schools. AS in other places, they
must take so per cent of the people
to be retrained from the WPA pro-
gram. l was told there had been
some difficulty here because so
many of their WPA people never
had a skill. The other so per cent
in this defense training program are
either employed and coming in for
refresher courses, or young people
from NYA who can qualify, or from
some other qualified source.
WPA CUTS
I think it is safe to say that cuts
in WPA everywhere in the country
are affecting adversely the mar
ried or single woman who is the
breadwinner for her family. In
many cases a really serious condi-
ton is being brought about. The
whole question of WPA cuts should
have some careful revision and con-
sideration. People removed from
WPA and who still cannot find work,
go on relief, with an increased bur-
/ den on the locality and a loss of
self-respect to the individual
In addition to this just now,
think there is on the part of many
of the women great sense of in
justice. In the case of NYA, the
quota everywhere continues to be
filed, because all eligible young
people were never on NYA in the
past.
Now I want to talk to you for
little while on the subject which has
long been on my mind, namely: the
improvement in our schools of
physical education, instruction and
guidance in healthful living, a wider
recreational use of school facilities
and the development of school
camps. All these purposes are gath
cred together in a bill sponsored by
Mr.. Plus l.. Schwert, a member of
congress from the Forty-second dis
trict from New York state.
He suggests the appropriation of
certain sums of money to be dis
tributed to the various states for
these purposes. I hope that in New
York state this summer there will