Show mrs roosevelt makes as much as president but charity receives most of her radio 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 of it away avay her last income tax statement contained a list three and a half pages long of the individuals and organizations to whom she made donations topping the list was the american friends service committee to which she has given over the V past seven years a total of and she now tz plans to give I 1 them more P principal r i n c i p a I 1 i source of her revenue past and i present is radio rt when W she broad A cast tor her latest underprivileged sponsor she was 3 year old joan paid for one of mrs roose each program belts adopted she never saw children the money however it being paid directly to the friends organization te each week on a new radio program mrs roosevelt declined to reveal the exact amount of this revenue but she plans to pay 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 of the house two years ago that mrs roosevelt was evading payment of income tax he insisted that she should list 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 into her donations since internal r revenue evenue exempts only 15 per cent of charitable donations few made alade 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 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 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 in a year mrs roosevelt is not growing wealthy she balances 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 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 Arthu W va where the school depends almost almos i entirely on her support meetings of the school board are held as her guests in the white house the friends service committee has been able to double its work both in U S and abroad from mrs Roosevel ts support but clarence pickett says income from smaller donors has been cut because they suppose the committee with the first ladys thousands needs no other support |