even truer where it concerns women who are going into public life either as elective or appointive officials. They have learned that they must be themselves. They cannot assume an attitude or qualities which other people may think becoming to their positions. They must stand or fall on their own ability, on their own character as persons. A good motto is âBe Yourself,â and your associates and the public in general will render the verdict as to whether that self meets with approval. Insincerity and sham, whether in men or in women, always fails in the end in public life.
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âA Day in the White Houseâ
The Simmons Program
Tuesday, September 25, 1934
ER: We cannot help being deeply sorry for Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh that they have again to be harrowed by details which must be very agonizing to them. However, it is extremely valuable to have criminals realize that when the United States government undertakes to bring people to justice, they keep right on until this has been accomplished. I am told that men have been apprehended at the end of ten and twelve years. I feel this phase of this case should be stressed, for it cannot help but serve as a deterrent to other people who are tempted by greed to commit some similar atrocity.
Everyone must be happy that the textile strike has been settled and that the board appointed by the president has succeeded in gaining the confidence of both sides. The stretch-out system is one which really needs study and it is to he hoped that, since a settlement has been reached, the mill owners will take back all their employees.
The papers state that [United Textile Workers official] Mr. [Francis] Gorman has received certain protests from mill employees where mills have not as yet opened. There may of course be reasons why this is inevitable, but if that is so, the tone of Mr. Gormanâs statement is so temperate and the Wynant Board seems to be working so well, I think we are justified in feeling hopeful of a better understanding and a final settlement of these difficulties between the mill owners and their employees.
The final result of the International Boat Races is still in doubt, both yachts having flown protest flags in todayâs race. We all of us hope that there will be general satisfaction with the decision of the committee and that the British sense of fair play will be matched by our own.
From Watertown, Massachusetts, comes a story of an amusing hobby. Frederick Gleason Richardson saves postmarks from all over the United States and he has unearthed some curiously named places in this country of ours. He has Coffee and Toast from Georgia and North Carolina; he has OK from Kentucky; So-So from Mississippi, and he has found towns for each of his own three names in the states of Illinois and Tennessee.
From Geneva comes a plea from James G. McDonald [League of Nations], high commissioner for refugees from Germany, telling the sad story of the exodus from Germany not only of Jews but of non-Jewish people as well. He appeals for help in rehabilitating these people in the countries in which they are now settling.
Ireland is a small country and a very serious condition exists there. A government survey just made on unemployment indicates that they have reached a peak and have 107,411 people without work. The situation in Liberia has become so acute that the United States has decided to make a fresh effort to bring order into that country. The movement to improve sanitary, sociological, and economic conditions has been at a standstill there since the League of Nations withdrew their offer of assistance last January. Mr. [Harry] McBride, who was once financialadviser to the Liberian government, was sent out by our Secretary of State, Mr. [Cordell] Hull, to inquire into the situation and is now on his way home. The reason why we have stepped in is that most of the other countries, after the League of Nations investigation, seemed to agree that Liberia was our