Show eleanor makes As much as F D but charity gets most of mrs Roosevelt sPay 8 pay by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN not many people realize it but mrs roosevelt makes about as much money as her husband and gives most ot of it away her last income tax statement contained a list three and a hall half pages long of the individuals and organizations to whom she made donations T topping 0 paini the list was the american friends service committee to which she has given over the past seven years ia a total of and she now plans plans t to 0 g give ive T them more P principal r I 1 n e I 1 p a I 1 source of her revenue A enuel past ast and present ent Is radio when she broadcast for her latest underprivileged sponsor she was 3 year old joan paid for one of mrs roose each program belts adopted she never saw c hildren children the money howver however it being paid directly to th the friends organization each week ham fish objects on a new radio program mrs roosevelt declined to reveal the exact amount of this revenue but she plans to pay oft off a friends service deficit of in this case however the friends service committee will not get all the revenue congressman ham fish has seen to that Roosevel ts good neighbor fish lives near hyde park howled on the floor ot of the house two years ago that mrs roosevelt was evading payment of income tax he insisted that she sho should uld lis list t all income whether she received it or not and pay tax on it so mrs Roosevel ts present practice is to list all income pay tax on it and donate the balance this cuts heavily headily into her donations since internal revenue exempts only 15 per cent of charitable donations few made public undisclosed except to the internal revenue bureau are hundreds of small organizations and individuals who get from 10 to 1000 from mrs roosevelt she has even expanded her secretarial staff to take care of ct requests from the thousands of people who think she is the foun tain head of private charity only occasionally are these gifts made public as when the foster parents plan tor for war children revealed that she had pledged to care for a young polish girl janina dubowska in a french refugee camp at a cost of 9 a month able to make in a single week more than most men earn cam in a year mrs roosevelt is not growing wealthy she lia balances lances her budget by giving away practically every dollar she makes when the war began mrs roosevelt told the red cross to put her down for a regular contribution of 50 a month for relief in europe she made the saine same commitment to the american friends service committee this being over and above the weekly thousands which it gets from her new radio program and for years mrs roosevelt has poured thousands into the homestead project at arthurdale Aithur Arthu dale W va where the school depends almost entirely on her support meetings of the school board are held as a her guests in the whitehouse white Whito house |