affairs. Such neighborly activities were worth doing on their own. She had developed her own views with such a flair for apt statement that magazines asked her for paid pieces. One such article in 1927 had been written for Success magine. Her willingness to write for a journal with that title suggested, as did the subject itself, "What I Most Want Out of Life," that she was not indifferent to achievement. The article stressed the usefulness of political acitvity as a safeguard agains the emptiness of women's lives, especially after their children were grown. "Home comes first. But-in second and third and last place there is room for countless other concerns. ... And so if anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say - the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happpiness be attained." "I never wanted to be a President's wife, and don't want it now" Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 A month before Roosevelt's election, a month as black as any as the depression approached its nadir, she had done a magazine article on the meaning of relition, writing: "The worst thing that has come to us from the depression is fear. Fear of an uncertain future, fear of not being abel to meet our problems, fear of not being equipped to cope with life as we live it today." She had her antidote, and rooted in it was the basis of her democratic faith: "The fundamental vital thing which must be alive in each human consciousness is the religious teaching that we cannot live for ourselves alone and that as long as we are here on this earth we are all of us brothers, regardless of race, creed or color." In the dept...
