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aneet ou 4 wh gh te Manes oar] ate tele ebb eo eo4 S fad eerie _ 18 (Rev, $-27-63) —_ oN A VICTOR RIESEL: INSIDE LABOR A On Friday, October 11, the United tates will issue a new. five-cent_posiage tamp. €[Pwill bear the hame and face of ‘weanor Roowesslt That day would have sen her 79th birthday. This marks a unique recognition. Not since :attha Washington has there becn a First ELEANOR ° ROOSEVELT U GE. nd ady on a postage slamp. Bui Eleanor Roose- «lt was a unique person. She earned the ex- vtaive tithe of “First Lady of the World.” When ber heshand died in 1045, there were nany Americans for whom the werd Rags 1e @jd nat evale the fendeal thoughia. And usrhape Eivaner bed managed ie gei mere ple mad at ber than had her husband, It alt the more remarkable then, that when « tee bene 17 years lafer she wen endenleay ter ment widely reapected, deeply weman ant anly bere in the U.S., bul threngheul the werld. Year afier yrar ihe Geitup Fell preved i. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT did things because hey needed doing, not because she needed the teshiicity oc always wanted ta de them, Sonn s.--a She died, her clove fitend and sxsoriate, \hal Stevenson, said eloquetth: “She would ether Ughi o fendie thaw curse the darkness, +4 her glow has warmed the world.” is wemerally sacomed thal Bieanor Racer: (ot, o predect of high suriely, became laier- wted tm fabar ond serial welfare matiers be- ahve of ber huckand’s New Deal. Bat many 2 gerller eves before ahe wae to merrr ‘e folere President, che was mretiag regularly chi ander-privileged girls in a seitionent -oune tecated desp in a New York sium. She - em Newer et A Stamp for the, THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT COMMEMORATIVE eluding labor Igeders, artists, businessmen, — Az Fiest Lady, she was not sontent to be hostess of olficia) parties, As her husband's es and ears, she Visited coal mines, toured rmy camps, and spoke to people everywhere, And in her own quict, dignified way, she took dirret actlon in behalf of civil righis before it war atylish to do so. Once when she was told that ahe could not sit with a Negro friend at a segregate! meeting. she caimty placed her chair conspicuoutly in the middle of the cenicr aisle ancl sat alanc, When Marian Anderson was pot permilied to sing In Conutitulion Hall. Kicanor Ruooseveli srranged for a larger hali-—the steps ef the Tincnin Mensrial. On the eighth Moor of the Empire State Bullding today there is an office jerked “Eleanor Hoscevelt Memorlat Foundation.” 1{ is the result of another unique honor a Foundation chartered by the Congress of the United Statex, chaired by Adilat Stevenson and with a blue ribhon Board of Trustees in- statesmen. Directing the work of a dedicated staff | Hyman Bookbinder whose former bosses range from George Meany and Jack Potofsky to Luther Hodges. binder told Book r me: ar ee oer ee yine right track the second week 1 staried. A contribution for $5.50 came in. The note with it sald that the sender's cleaning woman insisted upon adding her ewn fifty cents.” The Foundation, which must raise all [ts resources frem the public, is committed to crusading In the image oI Mra. Kooseveit s major interests. . da the Ton fiorany ot yas Parks oe pete at My . wil cancern nell with human rights. Wendy 4 hus slaried o program of 4, fescarsnip ond wis! fe make cure that today's *revelulion” is not dlunipated. Ever since she dict last November, people have expressed the hope that the former First Lady's name could continue Sorever in aseocia- then with important causes. ‘The Eleanor Rancevelt Memorial Foundation was created primarily for this purpose. Con. tributions, which can be sent to the Empire State Buliding, 350 Fifth Ave, are tax-exempt. + . een ee ee, 1 Tolson Belmont —... Mohr Casper Callahen .____. ‘7 DeLoach Evans Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy a nm, ! Mel / - +; r C f. - fo ° os #F -_~ NOT PETA 194. 0cT 8 1%" ——— e* The Washington Pest and .......— Times Hereld The Washingies Daily Mewes .,..._ The Feantan Star Mew York Hereld Tribvse ........_._{. New York jeutaci- OE te New York Mirror a New York Daily Mews .......--. New Yor Pest ........ The New York Times The Werker ‘The New Leeder TE TEED The Wall Sires: fewest ___—-_— The Netiensl Observer Peepie's World —_—_— Bete ‘ { Son ome ge een