FIASCO IN AMERICA.
SOCIAL UPLIFT PLAN FLOPS. VANCOUVER, June 22. President Roosevelt's control over Congress' legislative activities may be complete, but his wife's plans for the "social uplift" of. some members of her own sex are all but a complete "flop." When the new Administration appointed a woman as head of the Department of Labour, Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Perkins, the Minister, got together to establish a relief camp for out-of-luck women. All "daughters of the depression" of New York City were specially invited to install themselves in the first sylvan lake-side refuge. Huge quarters were erected to accommodate several thousands, but they just did not come. Mrs. Roosevelt visited the premises and confessed herself "terribly disappointed" as she surveyed the empty places at the tables, where chicken was being served. Only 30 women arrived, and, so far, they are hopelessly divided amongst themselves into three cliques, according to the range of their previous social status. The nation-wide chain of such women's hostels will probably be abandoned.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 148, 26 June 1933, Page 7
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