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Women's Archives
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Mrs. Roosevelt
President's Wife
Praises Objective of
New World Center
The World Center for Women’s
Archives received its first document
from Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as
well as her praise at a meeting yes
terday at the Mayflower Hotel
launching a Washington branch of
the organization, which has head
quarters in New York.
Mrs. Roosevelt's contribution,
Which was among several papers
relating to women, received yester
day, was presented by Miss Irene
Wright of the State Department.
A recent document, Miss Wright
explained, the paper discusses the
youth problem, social security, the
problems of the old, and the attitude
of the Government as well as the
people over current issues.
The meeting, which had been
hastily arranged in order to have
the President's wife as guest speaker,
was attended by several hundred
women, among them Secretary of
Labor Frances Perkins, who con
tributed to the archives. Mrs. Emily
Newell Blair, temporary chairman,
also introduced as speakers, Inez
Haynes Irwin, writer and chairman
of the board of directors of the
center, and Dr. Mary R. Beard, his
torian and a member of the board.
Mrs. Roosevelt told of the experi
ence of a friend seeking informa
tion on an interesting woman and
reported: "She had to read through
volume after volume about gentle
men who were connected with some
thing the woman had done.
Need Facts and Papers.
"You can't have history until you
have facts and papers to authenti
cate what you say, and it seems to
me that is what we are trying to do
now for women as well as men,”
she continued.
Mrs. Roosevelt also spoke of some
notes kept by Thomas Jefferson on
the running of the White House
which included recipes for punch
and other things he enjoyed. There
also was a reference to an "elegant
suite” which had been purchased
for the White House, she said, add
ing. however, that she has been
unable to identify such a suite.
"If we had kept in the same way
and with the same care things that
belonged to women wed have a
great deal to add to history,” she
declared.
Dr. Beard, who recalled that she
had first presented her idea for an ]
archives for women at Mrs. Roose- !
velfs press conference, declared
that ‘‘men know' who they are be- j
cause they have great legends about
themselves and because they have
always been so interested in them
selves,” She stated, however, that
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AMONG NOTABLES AT LUNCHEON—Among those participating
in the luncheon meeting yesterday of the World Center for
Women’s Archives were (left to right) Inez Haynes Irwin, writer
and chairman of tire Board of Directors of the center; Secretary
of Labor Perkins and Julia Peterkin, the writer.
—Star Staff Photo.
part women have played in educa
tion, politics, war, science or other
fields.
Our forefathers, she said, did not
have a narrow view about the con
tribution of women to history, and
Webster, she declared, freely ad
mitted that women played a major
part in deciding what steps should
be taken in a crisis.
In their fight for suffrage women
obliterated the past and shut them
selves away from their whole his
torical experience, she said, explain
ing that the women's archives move
ment is also an attempt to “re
pair the ravages of the suffrage
battle."
Mrs. Beard referred to the
Daughters of the American Revo
lution as an organization which
knows something about women in
the 18th century. “But the Daugh
ters remember nothing this side of
the 18th century,” she added.
"This is not purely a women's
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enterprise,” she continued. "Men
will come into the picture far more
than we have come into theirs.”
Mrs. Irwin illustrated the point
that women's archives so far have
largely been preserved through the
■history of men with a reference to
the connection of her husband's
family with Gen. Nathaniel Greene.
There is a family story that his wife,
Catharine Greene, was the inventor
of the cotton gin, she said, adding,
that interesting letters on Catharine
Greene, among them poems written
in her praise by George Washington,
have been Dreserved.
“But with the death of her hus
band all documents of Catharine
Greene faded,” she pointed out as
the moTal to her story.
Miss Perkins spoke briefly, after
one of her addresses, discussing the
depression and unempolyment had
been presented by Mrs. Ruth Wilson
Tyron of the American Association
of University Women staff.
Declaring that the idea of the
archives is a “temptation,” Miss Per
kins smilingly described it as “post
humous self-Justification for that
last word we’ve always wanted.”
Other speakers included Chari
Williams, Dorothy Detzer and Fola
La Follette.
Among the archives received were
papers from Miss Kate T. Abrams
on her work with the League of
Nations; a relief survey made last
year by the Voteless D. C. League of
Women Voters, which was presented
by Mrs. Louis Ottenberg, league
president; letters of Dorothea Lynde
Dix, pioneer in work among the
insane and in prisons, presented by
Mrs. Emil Hurja, and the will of a
Pennsylvania women freeing her
slaves, which was presented by Mrs.
P. W. Chappell.
Guests at the speakers’ table in
cluded Representative Caroline
ODay and Julia Peterkin.
Named on Honor List
Miss Shirley Seidenman of 4700
Connecticut avenue N.W. has been
named to the dean’s honor list at
Beaver College. Jenkintown, Pa. i
F. T. C. Issues Order
Against Charles Atlas
Ej the Associated Press.
The Federal Trade Commission
has ordered Charles Atlas, Ltd.,
New York, to discontinue mislead
ing representations in the sale of
correspondence courses in physical
culture.
The corporation was told to stop
"representing that users of its
courses could acquire or that the
respondent in seven days or any
other speciSed time could prove to
any one that he could have a mus
cular development like that of
(Charles) Atlas or any other person
of similar physique and appear
ance.”
Mr. Atlas, treasurer or the cor
poration, was advertised as the re
cipient of the title, “America's Most
Perfectly Developed Man.”
The commission said its findings
were that while the correspondence
courses may be generally beneficial
to users, they will not accomplish
the results claimed.
Work of Washington
Artists on Exhibition
In a "black and white” show con
sisting of prints, etchings, pen and
ink, tempera and wash drawings,
the works of prominent Washing
ton artists ore on exhibit at the
gallery of the Bookshop, 916 Seven
teenth street N.W,
The exhibit, which opened last
Monday and will continue until
March 15, Includes the works of
Richard Lahey, Nicolai Cikovsky,
Paul Arlt, Prentiss Taylor and
members of the Artists’ Union.
Eno Paintings to Be Shown
Seven paintings of tropical birds
and Connecticut landscapes by Mrs.
William Phelps Eno of Washing
ton, now on exhibition at the Stu
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special exhibiton at the New York
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