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you ask me ‘BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT « {e} Were you ever alarmed at the danger- ous structure! daterioration of the White House when you were living there? 1} am afraid we were anaware of any danger. We did know, as we renovated the plumbing nad the kitchen, that many ef the pipes bad deteriorated and we were lucky that sobody hed typhoid. Every time a board bad to be taken up we marreied at the intricacies of the pipes running under the old house. The main- (enance men were exirsordiusry, we re- murked, to be able to keep everything in order os they usually did. The structural troubles were pever broughi to our attention. What did your secretary, Mizz Malvina Thompson, do before she became a3- sociated with you? Miss Thompson worked for the American Red Crore during and after World War I, and then came to work in the women’s division of the Democratic State Cocumitioe when ] first be- gan to work there. Why do the census people ask us about our incomes and what we do for a te- dug? Do they give shiz information 90 the tome-tax people f . 1 haven’: the remotest ides, but 7 sapere fe all supposed to be kept confidential. It ie primarily to help the government get a picture ef the economic condition of the country aad the people. I doubt if it would be nocessery for the census-tekers to give any information to the income-tzx people, since we do that our- elves every year when we file our income-tax returns, and we do it in greater detail than js required by the census. What can be done to get It ie» very complicated thing that you ere making, Beconse E reaeires action By 2 Sool y govermment Food wur- placa ore is the hands of the Departonene of Agriculture, bat the decision as to whare they thould be distributed would be im the hands of the State 1 imagine, in con- how these food surpluses are to be paid for would be a question to be decided by a namber Gon ef transportation, and the cost of that would come under another department. You would have to have the consent of Congress, se Congress would bave to appropriate the money. The answer to this question is mot as simple as it would appeer to be. For a fong time I have had one dream that repeats tract] over end over again. Does this ever happen to pout No. ¥ am afraid I dream very rarely. f am wsually 20 tired when I go to bed that } go to cleep immediately, and if } have a dream 1 rarely recollect it when ] wake up. Since the Post Office has cutdown mail deliveries, wor: ‘ft til: in- crease unemployment by many thousands? dt seems to me that the saving made by this tut in service w@ be largely counteracted by unemployment insurance and relie] meas ures that may become necessary. I cannot answer your question because I am not familiar with the budgets of the post of- fices throughout the country, but I cannot be- teve that the Postmaster General would have ordered these cuts unless they were going to icing about rea) sevings and not fictitious enes such as you suggest. With any kind af Seorganization ef the government there is bound to be a certain amount of snemploy- woent, hut I think it will be found that those who have a certain amount of training are [e) Bo 20u stint exrthing of importance was accomplished by the Mosiure, Wisconsin, “Red Day,"* when the Amarican Legion sponsored a mock Soviet invasion? Unlortunstely two desths were caused that, J think, might have occurred ender other cir- cumstances, since both of them were heart petients. I doubt, however, if anyone learned anything about communism by this mock in- wasion which they could not have learned in ether ways just as succenfully. I have read in “If You Ask Me°* that vou and Br. - Ropers rare fret cous dus five tines removed. Wiil you please en- plein how shat could be and of the sume generesiont My husband and I were wot of the same gee eration. My husband was enc generstice elder than I was. My father end my hushand were of the same generation.