Woman President for U.S. Predicted by Mrs. Roosevelt

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 18

Woman President for U.S. Predicted by Mrs. Roosevelt

NEW YOEK. — Mrs Franklin D. Eoosevelt has expressed a convietion that "there will be a woman president some day, but that « day is not yet here.33 Mrs Eoosevelt, in response to a question by a young woman high schooi graduate, said, "we women have still to prove ourselves33 and at present she did not believe the eountry . as • a wholo would have enougb confidence in a woman president. "And witbout tbat confidence and co-operation sbe could not do a good 30b/ 3 sbe added. , In reply to otber questions asked by Miss Constanee Eberbardt, 17, during a broadcast addressed to graduating classr es tbroughout tbe eountry, Mrs Eoosevelt said- she believed* tbere would be inoreased ppportunities for women in tbe diplomatie service and expressed tbe opinion that a college education could be "very helpful33 to the housewife. "There comes a time wben your job as bousewife and motber is not entire ly sufiicient lo "occupy you,33 sbe said."Tben, if you3ve bad some Lraining, you can tUrrnit into some cohstructive work.'"3 ...... Mrs Eoosevelt agreed tbat charm and personality were -important in obtaining a'job, but said ability was "all import--tant 33- in bolding it. ."So. many girls. make tbe mistake of Ihinking tbey can get tbrougb on cbarm,33 sbo said. "That's wbat men resent. In business, women sbould be considered as individuals. Tbey have to make their own reputations, and they cannot expect men to treat thcm ihe same way on the job as they might socialiv. They should be courteous, but tho women should hold up their end of the job. 33 She .voiced approval of hygiene cours- j es that teaeh higli schooi girls how to dress prdperly and how to use cosmetics, adding: . "In my day, of eourso, no girl used cosmetics, but to-day it isn3t taboo, and f think it is much moro sensxble to know how to use cosmetics correctly and becomingly, if. you are

going to use thcm at all.33 Iu urging studeuts t0 devote as much time to extra-curriculum activities as possible, without slighting their regular ! xvork, Mrs Eoosevelt expressed f ear the young. people of to-day were not reading as much for diversion and entertaiument as hcr gencration did. She said she was "very much surpriscd33 reccntly to discover that not one of the boys or girls present at -a Whitc Hou-e party had "rcad-auy liipling.33 .