State

She’s Doing’ a Mighty Good Jol» ★ Rtf .Alice hui/iier hriincs IF asked to iiiiim* l In North I’aruliiiii woman wlm is carrying llic heaviest loml during these Irving 'lavs, witli- oill a moment's hesitation I woiihl say, Mrs. Thomas O' Horry, Stale Adminis- iralor iif llm ЕКЛ. Sim works early ami late. Tim assist aula in her Raleigh office* have hours from nine I о live. Inn Mrs. O' Kerry is in Imr office by eight o'clock in llm morning, anil six o'clock in llm «'Veiling fimli* Imr at her ih>sk. ami light is often seen in Imr office window* after Fayette - ville Stris't has iNS'ome almost deserted. All tlies.' hours are lillml to overflow- ing with mailers of the lit most ini |»ortanee the illinmiliale earrying of relief to tens of thousand* of needy pen I»le throughout the length ami hrea.lt h of North Carolina. A *tu|N>u<Ioas task. Of course she has able assistants, hut the finality is hors. Having been horn on her grand father's broad acres in Kdgccninl-' ( '"Hilly she has hail intimate toiteh with the soil ami tlm |m<o|iIc a ml things of llm anil. Halifax Comity ami b>noir Coun¬ ty "I** knew her as Annie La ml in her youth. This know ledge of farm life ami living anil small town life anil living ii<l«l to her efficiency. The KKA as now organi/e.l, has a county ailiniuistrator in each of the mm hiinilrcil counties of the slate. Them eonnlms are apportioned to ten .list riel*, each with its representatives. The four eilie... (JreensUiro, High Point, Win stun Salem, anil A-hevillo are separate units, ami in Raleigh there is a director. Thpsi', together with tlm liehl supervisors, the liehl auditors, the liehl engineers ami other liehl workers, re- |Hirt to their respective ili visions in the state ofliee in Haleigli over wliieh Mrs. <>' Horry presides, Sirs. O' Kerry semi her reports to Mr. Hopkins, the heml of F KKA in Washington. There arc anuillll twenty of tlm>.' re|«»rts every month, ami instruelions route to her from Mr. Hopkins* ofliee several limes «luring eimli week. She also holds daily eoiiferciiees with her staff, eonnfy ad ministrators, field supervisors, ete., -.o one s.«es that Imr private secretary and her two stenographers s|»md few iille hours. Mrs. O’ Kerry's office is large ami rut her hare, the feminine touch is eon- tered in one hooked mg in front of her ★ Anti-rim. throughout Kiiru|»'. ami has taken a dip into Africa, to see the sands of Sahara. Something of a s|sirlswoman too, for 'he к an excellent horsewoman, and swimming has I won Imr delight for years. MRS. THOMAS O’BERRY, in charge of relief work in North Carolina. desk. A row of unrelated chairs sur¬ round llm room, for a delegation often iiiiiiiIwi- man\ members. Four like¬ nesses looked down from . . ppnsitc wall I ’resident Roosevelt two of Mr. Harry Hopkins, the head of all Fnmr- goimv Relief work, ami Mr. Nathan O' I terry— her faille r-in law. Mrs. O" Retry is most unusually trav¬ eled in Imr own state, for Imr Social Noi-viee work in connection with Imr work in tlm Federation of North Caro¬ lina Woman'* Chile, and Imr political work as Stale Vico Chairman have car¬ ried her into every county in the stale. She is broadly traveled throughout ABOUT MRS. O’BERRY Front the standpoint of per¬ sonal efficiency, there's no fed¬ eral or state employee in North Carolina who outranks Mrs. O’Berry. And yet, despite this fact, there will lie individuals reading the accompanying article who will sneer at it. They don’t like Mrs. O’Berry. They don’t like her because she won’t cater to them or show them special fa¬ vors and privileges. Perhaps equally interesting would he an article giving their names and repeating what they have to say on the subject. We may do it, at that.— C. G. Every request. every complaint com¬ ing into her ..flier i. given personal at¬ tention. Most of . . munuiiic.utioiM rcccivod I У her ofliee lire pathetic. Hill U rally. Ill . time recently . . W. -i ern Carolina mother whose child wti* a helpless paralytic infantile paralysis. A photograph of tlm child w ith it* liny, drawn arms and leg* was enclosed. Tlm mother wanted a wheeled chair to make the child more comfortable. N.. -dit ¬ to sn\ llm wheeled chair wn* forlheom ing and in addition, a small porch win* screened so that tlm helpless, little. I i f. time invalid could enjoy the outside air without molestation. I «otters arc received from children ns well as grown-up«. A young high school Ih.v wrote saying Mint lie had neither father nor mother, . . t«. depend tt|Hin. and asked Mrs. O' Kerry to lm|p him lind a job so that lie might put him self through school. Work was found for hint and lm is imw doing this work well and gives pmmi-o of making a 4ICCCSH of his I if*'. A Carolina man wrote to Washington to express his ardent admiration for Mr. Roosevelt, and to dcserilic a light in which he had reretilly engaged with a non-supporter of Mr. Roosevelt in which tin* writer had lost two front teeth. He suggested that И would In¬ appropriate for tile I ’resident lo pay for their replacement. This letter was referred t» Mr*. O' Kerry's ..llic. but no teeth have been hand'd out ns yet. I ‘a tin-tie appeals ollmr than financial find llo'ii- way into Mr- O' Kerry's dnilv mail. Recently a request . . from a I run hied woman. She wanted something done lo prevent another woman from enticing her husband away from home. Something done lo keep llm womnn away from her litisl.aud and there wa* no word of reproach in 1 1 . tilin' letter about llm husband. Another interesting request . . ling to Mrs. O' Kerry tlm other day. * a woman, ask.-d that Mrs. O'Kerry pa-- a law lo raiso llm price of «-gg*. Tie- writer had a plan all Worked out when by she could make a comfortable living (Vonliniied on /»/«/*' Iwcnl y-lwo)