The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-06-12

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Eleanor Roosevelt
VALUABLE RECORDINGS

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A group who lunched with me one
day had the pleasure after lunch Of
hearing recordings made by Mr..
Robert Vincent. These recordings,
which Yale university is preserving
for the future, will be most inter-
esting historical documents.
With the cooperation of USO, Mr..
Vincent has visited many of our
army camps. He has recorded let
tiers for many Of our boys and sent
the records home so the recipients
may hear the voices Of the boys
they love, even though they are
separated from them for many
months. / can well imagine that let
ter will be played over and over
again.
Mr.. Vincent has also recorded
songs and pieces of music written
by the servicemen; some dedicated
to the President, some to the outfit
with which they are serving He also
played for me Earl Robinson's can
tata, as sung over the air by Paul
Robson and the NBC chorus. He
told us that he had begun to do
these recordings at the age Of IL,
and from the early discs, has found
a way of transferring some of the
voices which most of us had thought
were lost to posterity
He has something said by every
President since Grover Cleveland,
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very much interested to hear a
speech by my uncle, President
Theodore Roosevelt. It sounded alb
solutely natural. Another record
made by my aunt, Mrs. Douglas
Robinson, was equally good.
There is one boy in the service who
does limitations of people and Mr..
Vincent had several of these, among
them an imitation of speech by
my own husband. Some of the tones
were perfectly wonderful but on the
whole I think the boy had not prac-
ticed long enough, so that great
deal of it did not sound entirely
natural
MILE. CURIE VISIT
I returned to Washington one day
in time to welcome Mademoiselle
Curie and to receive several people
in the afternoon. Among them was
Miss Terese Bonney, who brought
some very remarkable photographs
as a gift to my husband for his Ii
brary at Hyde Park. They were
taken in various war-torn countries
in Europe. I am keeping these pho
tographs here for time to show
to various people, because some of
them are really great contributions
to the realization of what war brings
in its wake.
1t is always a joy to have Mile.
Curie here and it was extremely
interesting to CLEAN from her some
of her impressions of the various
countries she has visited on her
extraordinary trip. She has a map
on which she has traced her jour-
neys, and some one at lunch yes
terday, on looking over it, remarked
to me: "She has outdistanced you
many times
Mile. Curie certainly has both in
mileage and in the variety and in
terest of her travels. One looks at
this chic, weu-groomed, delicate
French woman and marvels at the
calm with which she must have
faced many dangerous moments.
WAR WORKERS PLANNING
The next afternoon ! went to a
tea given by the Democratic Wom-
ems council, to which they had in
vited groups of war workers from
the different agencies. They are
planning a series of such teas in
the hope that they will bring to-
gether women who might not other
wise meet, and in this way make life
a little pleasanter for the newcom-
ers in Washington.
That evening we had some young
people dine with us, because Miss
Patricia Mountbatten came to spend
the night. She will 60 back to Eng
land when she graduates from
school this spring, to join the army
of women workers of her own coun-
try.
After dinner, number Of govern
ment officials came in to see the
moving pictures which Mr.. Charles
Palmer brought back from his trip
to England. He went to study de-
Tense housing as It is over there
today. The most interesting devel-
opments are in houses which, when
peace comes, can be enlarged and
changed SO that they viii look more
like the traditional English work
mems homes.
Mr.. Palmer says that in England
the war effort has had to be SO
great, people have not had time to
develop substitutes and are, there
fore pOing without a great manu-