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10 A THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Eleanor Roosevelt One of Host Admired, Most Minified of Women By United Preit International Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the world's most intluential women of the 20th Century. She typified the realization of the dreams of M ZL if mt.-'viyiu) mtptmtv nmmm I J: ' ' , 1 i 7 ' 1 it . v jL - 4 t . BABE TO BRIDE - Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, ill for more thun a month with a lung infection and anemia, died Wednesday at the age of 78 at her New York apart ment. These photos which appeared in her auto b io g raphy, "This Is My Story," in 1937, were made at age 6, being held by her father, top, and on her wedding day, March 17, 1905, bottom. (UPI) Airs. Roosevelt t Had the Answers For TV Interview New York -UP1U Labor Scc rcary W. Willard Wirtz re called today how he and an aide set out to "prompt Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt for a tele vision appearance and wound tip drinking coffee when she had all the answers. Wirtz said he went to Mrs. Roosevelt's apartment in 11)58 during the presidential cam paign of Adlai E. Stevenson and former President Dwigiit D. Eisenhower. He and the aide were to prepare her for questions she might be asked in a forthcoming television news show. "We pretended she was on the program and gave her a question," Wirtz recalled. ''Her answer was so complete ly right Hint we could add nothing. "We fired another question at her and again her answer had wonderful perception -With things in it we didn't know. Finally, after the fourth question, we all leaned hack and laughed. We couldn't help her. We just sat and drank coffee." 1 .4 f.. . IT! f A) By Debbie Reynolds This popular Hollywood star, who lias had her tips and downs and made her phnro of mistakes, gives Borne sprighl I y advice liased on her personal experience. Don't miss this special article next, weekend! NOVEMBER 11TH ISSUE YWeelcly-A WITH YOUR Medford Mail Tribune the female crusaders of the 19th Century who threw off the restrictions of the Vie torian age. "Eleanor Roosevelt re. deems the hope America placed in woman when the nation enfranchised her," said the late architect Frank Lloyd Wright in a glowing tribute. She was one of the most ad mired but also one of the most villificd of women. But the "where's Eleanor now" jokes of her White House years and the whispers that she really was "Pinko" faded as she grew increasingly in stature as a delegate to the United Nations and an elder states man whose advice was sought by the great and near-great of many nations. Her clothes, her homes recently a succession of New York apartments and her possessions were never very important to her. But people were. Until the end, she wel corned an endless string of visitors to her two-floor Manhattan apartment and her Val Kill cottage at Hyde Park many of them with only the barest pretense at a for mal introduction. Very Active She was elevated to the spotlight by her marriage to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd and longest-t e r m e d President of the United States, but she remained in public affairs through her own efforts and abilities. She was a globe-trotter, lecturer, newspaper columnist, maga zine writer, book author, chairman of the UN Commis sion on Human Rights and U.S. delegate to the UN Gen eral Assembly among many other activities. One of her children sug gested in her 72nd year that perhaps she might begin cutting down her flying trips to everywhere. "But my feet don't hurt," she Is reported to have re plied. "I haven't any aches or pains. I enjoy what I am doing, and I am happy." She knew many different kinds of shelters in her travels-tents, barracks, some very crudely built huts. She spoke of dank dirt floors, of rats, bugs and mosquitos encoun tered on some of her trips. In her first interview alter entering the White House in 1933, Mrs. Roosevelt had re marked rather wistfully: "1 hate the idea that I might ever lose touch with people. I don't ever want to be shut in." She never was. Broke Precedents As First Lady of the nation she calmly broke one prece dent after another. She held press conferences, joined a union (the American Ncwspa ner fiuild). drove her own car and refused the protection of Secret Service men. She re signed from the Daughters of the American Revolution be cause the organization refused to let Negro Marian Anderson sing in Constitution Hall. She resigned from the New York's fashionable Colony Club be cause it refused to consider a Jewish friend for member ship. She served hot dogs to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. During World War II she travelled to remote military bases and dangerous areas. Mrs. Roosevelt always shed criticism and even outrigm libel like the proverbial duck shed water. She ignored vici ous attacks on her character and motives in the Russian press in the 1950s to take her campaign for belter interna tional understanding to t no Kremlin. She visited Soviet Premier NiUita S. Khrushchev j in Russia in 1957 and enter- ! tained hint at tea in her New York apartment during his hell-raising attendance at the HlliO UN General Assembly. "She was pleasant but firm with him." said on' of her close friends. "She told me she j gave mm a piece oi tier mum. The Common People The problems and hopes of the common people occupied a major portion of the time ind seemingly boundless en ergy of this woman who was born Into the sheltered life of wealthy aristocracy. She believed government should take on more and more responsibility for the welfare of the public and that citizens should participate more fully in government and be vigilant In forcing it to function prop erly. When the Koosevclls moved into the White House on March 4. 1933. at the depth of the depression, she beauti seeking seditions to problems of livelihood harassing so many Americans. She criss crossed the continent, visiting mines, migrant camps, slum anas, breadlines. She report ed to government officials what she saw, then prodded (or alleviation of distress. Her effort:, on behalf of the advancement of Negroes and other racial minority groups were construed by many as an attempt to bring about social equality. "Unless we learn to live in harmony with people of dif ferent races. ( different re ligions and different color, we will never have the kind of peace we hope fur," she ni,l In opening a fund drive for I Negro orphan asylum. .A . 'X' ' . jA ,Tx. MRS. ROOSEVELT IN MEDFORD - Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt spoke in Medford in April, 1958, at the sixth annual Roosevelt Memorial dinner held at Hedrick Junior High school. Some 1,200 persons attended the event. 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(UPI) At the time of her social debut she acquired "a lasting distaste for formal society" and she turned to settlement work in New York City. Then came her marriage and the birth of six children within 10 years. When her husband was stricken with in fantile paralysis, his care was her primary concern. When Roosevelt's condition improved, she became active in the women's division of the Democratic State Commit tee "I who had never real ly had any convictions at all when woman suffrage was an issue" and developed an in terest in politics. At the time her husband was elected President, she held two salaried positions -editor of a magazine about babies and teacher in a pri vate school for girls. After the death of her hus band she intended to lead "an inconspicuous existence, but she soon was devoting her tremendous energy working with and for the UN. The greatest satisfaction of her life, she said, was working as a UN delegate, an appoint ment she received from Pres ident Harry S. Truman. Mrs. Roosevelt tackled dip lomacy with a personal grace and modesty bordering on shyness. But the graciousness had a stiff backbone, and her bitterest adversaries were un grudging in their admiration. In the spring of 1901 she stepped down, at her own re quest, from the chairmanship of the UN Commission on Human Rights, which she had headed from its formation five years previously. Her explanation was that she did not feel "such an im portant commission should re main under the chairmanship of a representative of one country, especially one of the larger countries, for so long." lhe United Nations, in her words, wa3 "the best hope we have for peace." The Roosevelts first child, Anna Eleanor, was born in 1906. Eighteen months later a son, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., died eight months after birth. Three more sons - Elli ott, another Franklin D., Jr., and John - were born later. Received High Praise The late Dag Hammar skjold, UN secretary-general, praised her work with the world organization, but said she deserved thanks also fur "simply being herself." The Women's National Press Club chose her as the "Woman of the Year" in 1949; that same year she was among those proposed for the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize; in 1950 she received the "Four Free doms" award for her work as chairman of the UN Human Rights Commission; In a poll of 272 women journalists con ducted by Pageant magazine that year she was named "America's most influential woman." Those were only a few of the honors bestowed on her. In recent years she was a power behind the scenes in New York City and state poli tics. She was a member of a triumvirate of elder states men, including former Gov. Herbert H. Lehman and for mer Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter, who sparked the reform movement in New York county which unhorsed Tammany Hall chieftain Carmine G. DeSapio in 1961. 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