Show cy New Style Fi First Lady 1 Eleanor Roosevelt Has Broken Traditions To Too By SIGRID ARNE WASHINGTON Since the gray morning in March 1933 when Eleanor Roosevelt entered the he White House she has shattered shattered shat- shat ered the traditional pattern followed followed fol- fol lowed owed by American First Ladies Ladles Before the inauguration she had held her first press conference conference conference confer confer- ence and announced it would be bea bea bea a weekly event No other presidents president's presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's wife had done that It started conjectures but no conjecture conjecture conjecture con con- jecture came within shouting distance of the Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt the country was to Know know- The odd 50 women writers at that first conference were a little ittle awed but their awe quickly quick quick- ly melted at Mrs Roosevelt's Roosevelt s Good morning She shook hands with each then opened a box of candied candled orange peel Will you please pass this around Its It's near lunch time and you must be hungry She Goes Her Own Way Vay WayA VayA A few days later she made It clear she did not need a police pollee guard She drove up to the Women's Trade Union League offices in New Y York rk My word she said to four policemen she found there What are you doing here When she found they were detailed to guard her she telephoned Police Commissioner The guard left and she finished the day happily walking alone down Fifth avenue avenue avenue ave ave- nue to buy a tea strainer for forthe forthe forthe the White House That was news in those days But now no gas station at attendant attendant attendant at- at is greatly surprised if he sees Mrs Roosevelt in her little roadster She even has been scolded by a traffic cop who found her doing 60 The children children children chil chil- dren have always wanted this to happen to me she said chuckling Unafraid of Gridiron Two weeks after she arrived in Washington people living inthe in inthe inthe the city's slums saw her picking her way around garbage cans with some housing experts Some of those slums are gone goner She attended a Gridiron din din- ner given by the Women's National N Nai Na Press club the first dents dent's wife to thus expose h her hgr r self She pulled off the best witticism herself I a aShe She was the first presidents president lady to fly The most ular trip was in 34 to the gin islands where she gathered information for her husband on on n schools Illness and poverty i 1 Once she startled Washington Washing Washing- ton airport by turning up at 4 a. a m. m after a cross-country cross flight to be home for Christmas Her sudden appearances were wei best pointed up p perhaps by by-a by a cartoon that showed two coal miners looking up f from om their digging Said one For gosh sakes sales there comes Mrs Roos Roose velt volt J She lectured spoke on t the th radio wrote for magazines a and d turned out a daily dally newspaper r column a Autobiography Unprecedented i I Her lIer lectures could have been beena a political boomerang to a a woman less sure of herself She was heckled at the Americ American n Youth conference this year when wh n na a youngster shouted We want jobs not theories Mrs Roo Roosvelt Roos- Roos velt eyed the gallery You may boo me if you like but while I speak please hear me The Th heckler was hushed I j She wrote an amazingly frank fran autobiography No other Firs First Lady had done so while the White House In 38 there was a mild tempest when Mrs Airs Roosevelt became a director the Boston insurance firm of her herson herson herson son James She made a c defense of the right of a pre presidents presidents president's sl- sl dents dent's family to live its own life She opened the White Ho Sl to groups that might never seen the mansions mansion's interior a an r invited them to tea tear Once h he l guests were from a girls girl's re reform form school a aHer I Her own definition of suc c cis is this The cultivation of on olie own talents and powers to o th tho utmost of their capacity a ausing an an using those powers for the v wel welfare J fare of the community in l lones ones lives so that each pers J Jwill will live a happy life h hr r vf Y t tr r r t y is u f Jr I j- j w. w It wasn't so long after a cartoonist pictured her visiting a min That Mrs Roosevelt did explore one at Bellaire Ohio |