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, Education and weirdre lady, he says, @ harsh, said that she has a cal- Nficials, as well as many cted a bill to provide free of 19. Mrs. Hobby had a ostly for the government shé jonal Education Association, made n appointment to talk about money for new public schools. @aVvhen the group of educators ap- Bbecared at her office, the were i onfronted by a regretful aide. Mrs. fobby had left before their ar- ival.... “She didn’t know the pur- ose of the visit when she made the ppointment. She thought it was Mimust a social call...” they weré Mold. But she has ever since balked Mt every request for Federal aid to chooks. * MRS. HOBBY is also a demo- rat (with both the small and large ID") according to the public rela- ions office of her department. tabinet, she let it be known that the wished to be called “Mrs. Sec- etary,” rather than Madam Secre- ary. The former title, she felt, was more in keeping with American tra- tion. For her ideas of American demo- ratic tradition are quite fixed. She demonstrated her views publicly hen as Major Oveta Culp Hobby, ater Colonel Hobby, she had charge of recruiting the first wo- men's army in 19-42. There was. some concern express- ed that as a Southern colonel, there night be discrimination against Ne- Bro women. Majoc Hobby promptly mswered the question by saying mhat Negroes would be recruited in sroportion to their number in the Soulution. Out of 450 officer can- lidates in the first group of train- res, 40 were Negroes. * h. but Mrs. Hobby, hen she entered the Eisenhower . Not the Value Knows the Price, around long enough to know his p wih as ee oy borrowing from Oscar Wilde, the Secretary of Health, Education and Wel- ad te , Seamen in the ILGWU’s Justice politicians, has an apt phrase ‘ “Hobby Horse” aa “knows the price of, a It couldn't have been for luck rary of her lawyer father in Killeen of ideas on the subject, or any) Texas, reading the Congressional dy other for that matter. Her history) Record, and tening te political shows that she is a Jady who vig-| discussions. prously pursues many differeut She attended college and law kinds of occupations at a time—|‘school, and at 20 had an unprece-, and manages to be a chief execu-;dented job for a young tive of a dozen different enterpris- es at once. She: is, for instance, of the American Society of News- gicl—the post of parliamentarian for -the Texas House of Representatives. In a director|an atmosphere that must have formed her liter sympathies—or paper Editors and of the National’ lack of them—she became a legul Publishers Association. A director of the Texas Medical Center, Co- editor and publisher of the Houston Post. Directur of a Texas radia station. A member of the Hauston Committee for Education in Alco- holism, the American Heait Asso- ciation, the Houston Junior League -and so on, for another dozen as- sociations. ‘aide to the Texas State Banking Department, later boasting that she had recoditied these laws almost single-handedly. OF MARRIAGEABLE age, she lost no*time in idle dreaming, but ran for the Texas State Legis- lature iy 19380 when she was 24, while being courted by former Texas Governor _ William Pettus wes . a (so) wand