"BEST MAN IN WORLD"

Evening Post, Issue 67, 17 September 1934, Page 10

"BEST MAN IN WORLD"

A WOMAN'S TRIBUTE TO

ROOSEVELT

" What do you think of President Ro"osovelt"" was a question put by a "Post" representative to Miss Mary McMahon, formerly of Christchurch, and now of • Mobile, Alabama, United States, who arrived today by the Maunganui from San Francisco on a visit to relations in the South Island. Tho, answer,, coming from an ex-New Zealander,..was illuminating as showing, the intense admiration which the vast majority of people in America have for Mr. Roosevelt.

"He is the best man in the world," Miss McMahon asserted with enthusiasm, her voice betraying the influence of long association with the jieople of the southern States.

"Yes, and he is the whitest man who ever sat in tho White House," interjected- another woman passenger.

"Ydu know, he really, is a marvellous man," Miss. McMahon proceeded. _■' "'Why? Because he is so sincere and for the people, and it is so easy at any time to get into touch with him. There is nothing high and mighty about' him, and you don't havo to have a thousand letters before you can reach him."

"Have you ever met him?" Miss McMahon was asked.

"No," she admitted, "but I wish 1 had. Would you believe it that when he went through the' West on a. recent trip, people travelled hundreds of miles just to be at tho station to see him pass through, even if he was asleep. Imagine how they love him when they will go to all that trouble just to see his train and perhaps not catch a glimpse of him. Mrs. Boosevelt? She's fine, too." Miss McMahon made the surprising statement that although sho had been thirty years in the United States she had not formally become an American citizen. "I am still a British subject, but I really ought to bo an American," she said.

"You would prefer to be an American citizen?"

"Well, I have never had any occasion to make the change,' 1 Miss McMahon replied. "It really is too much trouble, but I believe in everything connected, with the United States and with the present Government, at any rate. I think one should become a citizen of any place in which one makes one's home, don't youj"

Notwithstanding her enthusiasm for things American, Miss McMahon confessed that she was looking forward to seeing New Zealand again, her last visit having been twelve years ago. She expects to remain in. the Dominion some months, . 4

MENINGITIS OUTBREAK

NO DANGER OF SPREADING

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) GISBOBNE, This Day

There it now no danger of the cere-bro-spinal meningitis outbreak in the Tolaga Bay district spreading. The isolation of the two households affected has been lifted, and it is hoped that the same course will be taken with the third by tomorrow. It is expected that the three patients who are in hospital will recover.

These points were mentioned by Dr. IT. B. Turbott, Medical Officer of Health, who returned from the coast during the weekend. Swabs taken from the contacts were negative, M'ith the exception of two which wore doubtful. Tt is fortunate, Dr. Turbott milled, that the outbreak occurred in an isolated country district, for the disease appeared in a virulent form which might r-asily have turned to a serious epidemic had cases occurred;in a thickly popuJatecl area.