Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1940, Page 9

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Experienced Advertisers Prefer The Star| L ha Condemns Conditions on Relief Contrasts' were featured deliber ately last night at the farewell din- ner piven some 200 delegates to the National Women's Conference on Unemploymen t—subtitled the [ bers of Daughters of the American Depres- sion—at the National Press Club auditorium, Delegates, hailing from 20 scat- tered States, paid 75 cents—if they had the price—for a big meal. If they couldn’t pay, they dined any- way. Mrs. Roosevelt and more than 200 other guests paid $1.25 a plate for a B8-cent meal—a “typical relief family’s ration.” What They Ate. The delegates had ample helpings of roast beef, potatoes, bread, coffee, dessert and incidentals. The guests had & menu worked out by the Bu- reau of Home Economics, Agricul- ture Department. It consisted of.a stew that included 2 ounces of beef, a quarter of a carrot, a quarter of an onion and half a potato; a half slice of bread, one pat of olemar- gargine, & cup of coffee with one spoonful of sugar and canned milk and one canned prune. This repast was based on the budget of the average woman W, P. A, worker with § |8 monthly wage of $44 and an aver- age family, computed by W. P. A. at 3.7 persons. If there was an occasional slipup and a delegate got the 5-cent dinner and a guest the 75-cent meal, it was not the fault of the caterers, but of the seating arrangements, since delegates and guests were inter- f | mingled. Later the audience saw a relief fashion show in which a young woman appeared clothed from shoulders to boots for $1 and an- other came on the stage in an outfit that cost $349.40. A guest admitted her layout had cost $475.24. The average cost of clothing several W. P. A. workers and women on relief who took the stage was reported by them at around $235 each, in sev- eral instances less. And contrasts in the two strata of American society represented at the tables were stressed by the speakers, who included Mrs. Roose- velt, Senator Pepper, Democrat, of Florida; Representative Marcan- tonio, American Labor, of New York; Representative O'Day, Demo- crat, of New York; Oscar Chapman, Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Josephine Roche, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Miss Hildegarde Kneeland of the Agri- culture Department; Mrs. Eugene Poulnot of Tampa, Fla., a delegate to the conference, and Helen Ga- hagan, the screen actress. Mrs. Henry F Grady, wife of the As- sistant Secretary of State, presided. Jury Condemns Conditions. Mrs. Roosevelt alluded to the ver- dict which a jury of eminent Wash- ington women on which she sat for a time had returned shortly be- fore the dinner, after hearing evi- dence from many of the delegates. The verdict condemned living con- ditions among W. P. A. workers and families on relief and called for an adequate program of protection for the unemployed and underprivileged. The President’s wife did not at- tend the final conference, at which the verdict was drafted. “The jury has practically agreed with the witnesses,” said Mrs. Roosevelt, “and that shows that when people know each other they can agree.” She added that she was not sure the most important thing was what Congress or the administration could do to relieve distress, but “perhaps it is more important to bring about a fundamental change in some people’s psychology.” Mrs. Roosevelt also said: “We ought to know everything there is to know about our own communi- ties. This thing has to begin down in the grass roots by the education of the whole community.” She said the fact that these peo- ple who had undergone such hard- ship had not lost faith in democ- racy should inspire others to see that they “are never let down.” Hungry Children Pictured, Mrs. Poulnot, the relief worker, said she had seen the time when the 5-cent dinner served there would have seemed sumptuous. Often, she said, there had been so little to eat in the house that her children would beg for “just another bite.” Senator Pepper said: “We are hoping we can raise W. P. A. rolls Genealogical Society Will Dine Saturday The National Genealogical So- clety will hold its annual dinner and exhibit at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Y. W, 'C. A The exhibit of work of members will include charts, manuscripts, coats of arms, photostats of in- teresting papers connected with genealogical research and the pub- lications of the society. The ex- hibit is under the supervision of Mrs. James A. Munro, Miss Cora Curry and Mrs. Andrew J. San- ford. Miss Emily U. Dingley and Miss Fanny E. Buck are in charge of the program. Officers of the soclety, who were elected recently, are Max E. Hoyt, president; Mahlon H. Janney, first vice president; Mrs. Sanford, sec- ond vice president; Miss Isabel E. Myrth, third vice president; Miss Roberta P. Wakefield, recording secretary; Milton Rubincam, corre- sponding secretaty; Mrs. Alice B. Prigg, treasurer; Miss Mary C. Ours- ler, registrar; Miss Curry, librar- ian; Mrs. Eugene L. Culver, herald, and Dr. Gaius M. Brumbaugh, ed- itor. Lt. Col. Calvin I. Kephart and Miss Lida B. Earhart were elected members of the council. Washington Booked Heavily at Genoa By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 15—Heavy ad- vance bookings on the United States liner Washington, scheduled to leave Genoa, Italy, next Saturday, were announced last night. The United States Lines said ap- proximately 900 passengers had been booked and many more were ex- pected. The line said it would in- stall cots in public rooms as was done during the general exodus last fall when the ship returned 1535 in un&tflp than 200 prospecti lore ve pas- Paris; to at least 3,000,000 for the next fiscal year, and that’s far from enough.” “Surely,” he added, “if the mem- Congress could see things 88 you see them a few more mil- lions could be found somewhere to remove darkness from your hori- zons.” He predicted that in the next four years “Franklin D. Roosevelt is go- ing to make things right.” Representative Marcantonio brought cheers when he said he did not believe “the problem is going to be solved by giving the Ameri- can unemployed the job of stopping shrapnel and bullets at the front.” “You are sometimes called a pres- sure group,” said Mr. Chapman. “God bless you, I hope you'll keep up the pressure.” Sophia Delza gave satiric dances depicting “a debutante who begins to have thoughts.” The jury’s verdict declared condi- tions among the 11,000,000 unem- ployed “so deplorable as to consti- tute a crisis in the health and morale of our Nation.” Recommendations were that W. P. A. be enlarged enough to provide “a job for every willing and able- bodied unemployed man or woman who cannot find a job in private industry.” Would Restore Laid-off Workers. For the immediate future, no less than 3,000000 W. P. 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