Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-23 | Page 3 | First Lady Urges South Study Group

FIRST LADY URGES SOUTH STUDY GROUP BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHA Ala Nov 23 UP A A permanent organization to study the south's social and economic economic economic eco eco- ills and recommend steps to cure them is the aim of the southern south south- i ern conference for human welfare leaders said today I Delegates to the conference heard Mrs Franklin D. D Roosevelt urge i last night that they consider themselves themselves themselves them them- selves a a part of a nation rather than a section The presidents president's wife said she did not believe major problems of this country could be settled on a sectional basis She spoke before persons including an estimated 2000 negroes oes who were segregated from the whites Mrs Roosevelt would not comment comment comment com com- ment on the segregation question saying I do not believe that is a question for me to answer