Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-07
FAIR
ENOUGH :
BY Westbrook
PeeIer
BY wEsTBROoK PEGLER

these dispatches, Mrs. Roosevelt
writes in her department in the
Ladies' Home Journal, that he
has been my guest twice, once
at the White House and once at
Hyde Park but / had very little
opportunity to talk TO HIM"
Well, if we are going into So
cial matters, there were two
other occasions--the picnic at
Haywood Broun's and the one
at George Bye's in New Canaan
but l agree that the opportu-
mites for serious exchange OF
views were negligible because
people do flutter around Mrs.
Roosevelt and do not speak
freely or frankly.
There are always some who
talk bsby-talk. Others post
themselves in the position OF
protectors and would gang YOU
to death with political clinches.
and moreover, etiquet holds
that if Mrs. Roosevelt herself
desires 10 speak, as she not in
frequently does. every one else
either listens in silence or tlp-
toes off 10 the bar-table which
is what | did AT the Brouns
and the Bye's, although not at
the White House or AT Hyde
Park. where | didn't know my
way around and there may have
been no bar.
DUT this is silly question,
- anyway. II makes no dif-
ference what Mrs. Roosevelt
thinks OF me or vice versa, be-
cause there YOU get into person
alties which are not issues az
all.
| have never understood why
some individuals have thought l
was rude or hostile 10 Mrs.
Roosevelt personally. because IN
my view she is a powerful ana
slippery politician and / have
always treated her as such.
If she had not chosen 10 be A
politician | probably would not
have mentioned her name more
than half a dozen times IN all
these years. But inaSmuch as
She made that choice and has
worked early and late Al poll
tics ! have reckoned that she
was fair topic for discussion
opposition and criticism.
Very early in the game Mrs.
Roosevelt accepted honorary
membership IN The Newspaper
Guild. of which ! also was
member. She was not eligible.
as would undertake 70 prove N
Mrs. Roosevelt would ever face
that question. which she has
consistently refused 10 do.
But nevertheless. she took an
active part in the Guild and on
the side Of the Communist adj
mlniStration AT that. and TINS
naturally made great many
newspaper workers feel that she
was against them.
4 GAIN Mrs, Roosevelt pub
~ hcly refused 10 cross
nickel line which was nothing
but a racket, placed in front OF
New York theater by the
Musicians Union which is. itself.
a great greedy racket and the
very model Of a union DICTATOR
ship.
She said that fair or unfair"
she would not cross picket
line. / said and still MAINTAIN
that there she took her stand on
the side of the racketeers IN
unionism whom am against.
Again. Mrs. Roosevelt pro
posed that all of US, men and
women. be drafted for war
work. which would mean that
mothers should be taken out OF
the homes and the kids taken
over by some kind of public
mothering authority.
Considering that broken
homes are the man causes OF
juvenile delinquency and crime
| am altogether against this pro-
poSal and l am suspicious Of the
probability that by this means
all those so drafted for labor.
men and women. both. would
have 10 join the unions which
use their taxing power 10 main
tain her party in power. So /
am against her there, too.
CTILL again. Mrs. Roosevelt
- proposed an income limita-
ton lifted out Of the old Com
munist platform. When Congress
refused to approve it, her hus-
band tried 10 Jam II through by
executive order. He then was
rebuked and thwarted by Con-
gresS.
| Just say that. Mrs. Roosevelt
has no right 10 make laws for
us passing on suggestions at
breakfast and | insist that there
is no personal impolitenesS in
opposition 10 such prcSumptu-
Gus conduct.
| say Mrs Roosevelt had no
right 10 fly TO England or 10 the
South Pacific. And / contend
tbat sho has pxnloited tho office