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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
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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."
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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!
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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.
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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. Here Mrs. Roosevelt is shown
during the dinner with then State Sen. Rob
ert D. Holmes, who was Democratic candi
date for governor. Holmes introduced Mrs.
Roosevelt who spoke on the United Nations.
(Brainerd photo)
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WITH HUSBAND Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is shown here
at Hyde Park, N.Y., with her late husband, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, on Nov. 5, 1940. (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.
She also figured prominent
ly in an unsuccessful attempt
to supply the Fidel Castro
regime in Cuba with 500
tractors as ransom for the
1,214 Cuban war prisoners
captured in the 1961 Bay of
Pigs invasion.
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