Individuals

Most newspapers did not print a story that Mrs. Roosevelt told in Washington one night last week. Addressing a banquet of Community Chest leaders at the Mayflower Hotel she declared: "I thought of a woman I had seen just after her child died. The child had died because it slept in a cold, wet bed. It had had to sleep in that bed because the family had been evicted from its home. The mother told the sheriff that her child was sick. He said to her: "I'm not here to nurse your god-damned kids.' " That morning on the White House lawn the President had addressed the same conference, convened to launch the drive for next winter's private relief. He told no stories. His eyes blinking in the dazzling sunlight, he said: "We have had a great many examples of late of areas in this country which have not done their share and are coming, hat in hand, to the Federal Government and saying, 'We want Federal relief.' There have been States which have not done their share--States where the problem of relief has got mixed up with politics. . . . There will be a tendency this year in obtaining the wherewithal for local relief for people to say, 'We can't do it.' I believe they can do it. ... The whole period we are going through will come back in the end to individual citizens, to individual responsibility, to private organization. . . . Community chests are going to keep on just as long as any of us are alive--and a mighty good thing they are too."

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