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Mrs. Roosevelt Speaks at
Dinner—Message From
President Read.
Addressing the silver jubilee dinner
of the Federal Children’s Bureau at
the Mayflower Hotel last night, Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt declared “chil
dren have a right to demand of gov
ernment that they shall start life
without being conditioned to failure
before they are born.”
More than 500 guests attended the
celebration, which heard also a mes
sage from President Roosevelt, who
praised the bureau and described it
as “an instrument for us all to use in
our efforts to advance the day when
all children will have their fair
chance in the world.”
The dinner was tendered the bureau
staff by 73 co-operating organiza
tions.
The President's message was read
by Secretary of Labor Perkins, under
whose department the bureau comes.
Speaking for herself, the Secretary
said “the child is a symbol, focusing
attention on the promotion of a good
life for all.” She also promised the
13-year-old campaign for ratification
of the child labor amendment would
be pushed.
President’s Message Read.
"At a time when so many of the
Nation’s mothers lack the care neces
sary to insure their own health during
the period of maternity and the health
of their riew-born infants," the Presi
dent's message, read after the dinner,
declared, "when so many of the Na
tion’s children are ill-fed. ill-clothed
and ill-housed, 1 am grateful for the
vision and the statesmanship of Julia
Lathrop and Grace Abbot, who with
their co-workers and their successors
now responsible for the administration
of the Children’s Bureau, have de
veloped so fine an instrument for us all
to use in our efforts to advance the day
when all children will have their fair
chance in the world.”
Introduced by the toast mistress, Mrs.
La Rue Brown, one of the first em
ployes of the bureau, as "the best
social agency in herself that the
United States has known in many a
decade,” Mrs. Roosevelt told a story
on herself:
“After that introduction." she said,
I want to read you part of a letter
I received today:
“ 'You may think it is useful to
poke your nose into so many things,
but you really are America's first
nuisance.’ ” She did not name the
writer.
Established After Eight.
The talks after dinner were devoted
for the most part to reminiscences on
the fight for the establishment of the
bureau, the early days of the bureau
and personality of Miss Julia Lath
rop. who was the bureau's first chief,
succeeded by Miss Grace Abbot and
Miss Katherine Lenroot, the present
head.
I! was recalled that the indignation
of Miss Lillian Wald of New York,
head of the Henry Street Settle
ment, at the Federal Government's
spending money to investigate the
causes of morbidity in plant life
and ignoring the causes of death
among children inspired her 35 years'
ago to suggest such a bureau, which
became operative in 1912, when Taft
was President.
From her sick-bed In Connecticut,
Miss Wald sent a message to the din
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X-Ray Makes It a Closed Case
Five-year-old Clarie Oles of Minneapolis held an opened safety pin in her mouth while
arranging her favorite doll clothes. Suddenly the pin was gone. Rushed to a hospital, surgeons
bared the stomach wall by a long incision, felt the pin through the stomach tissues and by deft
movement of the fingers closed it. At the left Clarie holds a pin similar to the one she swal
loived. (Top, right) X-ray showing pin opened and (lower right) shoivs the pin closed.
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ner guests, remarking that*he bureau
has become a “great factor in the
development of public awareness” of
social needs and rejoicing that through
the bureau “the idea dreamed of, poet
ized and painted has become a teal
thing.”
Other speakers of the evening
included Senator Borah of Idaho,
author of the bill creating the Chil
dren's Bureau, April 9, 1912; James
J. Davis, Secretary of Labor under
Presidents Harding, Coolidge and
Hoover; Miss Lenroot, Miss Abbot,
William L. Chenery, editor of Collier's
Magazine, and Dr. Kenneth D. Black
fan of Harvard University.
1.000 FIGHTING PLANES
TO BE MASSED BY ARMY
Gigantic Test of Air Corps'
Strength Will Be Made
May 5.
Jby tde Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 9 —The
Army will mass more than 1,000
fighting planes in Southern California
May 5 in a gigantic test of the Air
Corps’ strength, military sources dis
closed today.
The sky drills will be under the di
rection of Brig. Gen. Frank M. An
drews, chief of the General Head
quarters Air Force.
Bombing squadrons, headed‘by two
of the four-motored Boeing “flying
fortresses,” will be assigned to de
molish targets laid out on the desert
waste of Muroc Dry Lake.
SOLDIERS’HOME INMATE
IS ROBBED BY 5 BOYS
Watch and $15 Taken, J. C. Smith
Tells Police—$50 and Bus
Passes Stolen. *
Five boys, all about 17, last night
seized John C, Smith, a Soldiers'
Home inmate, as he walked along
Ninth street near Constitution avenue
and robbed him of $15 and his watch,
he told police.
David E. Jones, Capital Transit Co.
bus driver, reported theft of about $50
and passes from his bus, parked at
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