RELIEF: Promised Land

Favorite relief project of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt is the Subsistence Homestead (house & garden) for jobless miners at Reedsville, W.Va. There one day last week she arrived to inspect the first "Federal laboratory" and chat behind closed doors with the 50 families who compose the pioneer Homesteaders. Prevented by last-minute contract technicalities from moving into their new homes, the Homesteaders were nevertheless so grateful for their Promised Land that they appeared possessed of an almost religious fervor.

Because the newspaperwomen who accompanied Mrs. Roosevelt were excluded from the conference,...

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