From
Eleanor Roosevelt’s “My Day” column, published in various newspapers on March
15, 1945. She wrote about Dr. Harriet Elliot, who had been “lent” by the
University of North Carolina to the U.S. Treasury Department to assist with a
campaign to sell War Bonds and Stamps. Dr. Elliot would not make it back to
Chapel Hill. She would die in office in August, 1947.
NEW YORK,
Friday—Yesterday morning, Miss Alice Nichols, who is in charge of the
Victory Food Campaign for the Department of Agriculture, attended my press
conference. I was much interested to find that we have had such a splendid
response to the appeal made by the Department for more food production. Now
they are going to be able to tell us at certain periods what foods we ought to
buy and eat fresh, because they are so plentiful on the market.
Dame Nature has had a
hand in this, and from now on we should be eating as many Georgia peaches as
possible. Young chicken should form a large part of our diet, and even if
Englishmen can only get one egg in every three weeks, we may have as many as we
want every day and feel patriotic.
Someone brought up
the cost of some of these products, which in spite of being plentiful still are
fairly expensive. Miss Nichols told us that a number of the chain stores are
planning to get together and sell these Victory Food Specials at cost as they
are announced month by month.
If peaches are
plentiful, there is no reason why even a woman in the city could not buy an
additional amount and preserve them, if she has space enough for shelves where
her fruit can stand ready for use in the winter months.
On the train to New York
City yesterday afternoon, I managed to go through a considerable amount of
mail. The evening meeting of the executive committee of the International
Student Service was of particular interest, for it covered the plans for the
Student Assembly in Washington in September, which promises to be of real
interest.
Today the city is gray
and cool. I am doing one or two errands, and then attending a luncheon given by
Mrs. Lytle Hull for Miss Harriet Elliott and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau,
Jr. I am delighted that Miss Elliott has been lent by the University of North
Carolina to help the Treasury Department organize the women of the country in
the campaign for a wider sale of War Bonds and Stamps. She is not only very
able, but one of the best people to work with that I have ever met.
Today is American Heroes
Day, and cities throughout the nation will do honor to their war heroes by
trying to break their record for War Savings Bonds and Stamps. One million
retailers throughout the nation are trying to meet their billion dollar quota,
as set by the Treasury Department, before July, and so 750 cities will stage
drives today.
In some cities they are
carrying on their celebrations for several days. Des Moines, Iowa, for
instance, on Saturday will hold a patriotic rally in the Drake University
stadium and admissions will be paid in War Bonds and Stamps. The roll of honor
will be unveiled, and on Sunday there will be a sunrise religious service to
pray for the Des Moines boys. There is no lack of enthusiasm, so this drive
will certainly be successful.
E.R.
COPYRIGHT, 1942, BY UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE,
INC.
Eleanor Roosevelt, "My Day, July 18, 1942," The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Digital
Edition (2017), accessed 10/21/2017,
https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1942&_f=md056241.
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