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Eleanor Roosevelt Day
Ecclesiastes 3:1
Brochures available to library patrons at Raymond Branch of Timberland Regional Library during the month of August 2004. Further, a posted copy of Chase's Events Calendar 2004 was highlighted with the Eleanor Roosevelt day listing. The Raymond Library has continued a display each year since.
In October 1993, Opal Kraft read one of my newspaper columns suggesting a day honoring Eleanor Roosevelt and said to me, You should write a resolution, and with her help I did. It was sent on by our Subordinate Grange, passed at the Washington State Grange convention in June, 1994 and in November, at the National. Since then Grangers--in 2003 with over 23,000 resident in the state of Washington (more than one in five) and 212,914 nationwide--have supported Eleanor Roosevelt Day, the Second Monday of each August.
See also Committment to join in support of this most deserving woman,
representing over half the country population.
Among other good ideas Eleanor Roosevelt had for supporting legislation thwarted by her president husband, was universal health care through Social Security. Harry Hopkins had returned from Europe in 1934 with the blueprint for Social Security, but in our country it was stripped of benefits available in Europe and Latin America. In the depths of the Great Depression no provision was made for the impoverished when the unemployed exhausted benefits. But, more important to us all these decades later, the Health Insurance plan was withdrawn, due to medical group pressure. We can begin to rectify that by following guidelines of Enough! to attain her purpose.
By August 2003 the time had come for all of us to use the World Wide Web as can, via the Internet. Online access had steadied (for a couple of years) at 71% across the country. Just as similarly high numbers of those living in other countries around the world are online. Our Internet Service Provider, the Webmaster said, was holding at about the same number of users as a year earlier. Not so many as have television, telephones and refrigerators ... but enough.
In the June 2003 issue of the Washington State Grange News on page 15 was an article, Guide available that promotes farm direct marketing on the Web. It presented some interesting statistics. An estimated 168 million users, of the 71% of people who were online as stated above, roughly 56% age 16 and older, reported shopping online. That's a little over 94 million potential customers for those who have Web sites, but even more who may be influenced by what they see there.
With the Internet, we are as close to a self determined government of, for and by the people as our distant ancestors were in the smallest communities of tribal times. Except, that what we say and do is not under such direct control of Chief, Priest, or Shaman. Banding together, we can overcome the more arrogant edicts of those we have elected, so governing becomes their employment and duty. Not a mandate to do as they wish.
November 2007 would mark thirteen years since the Eleanor Roosevelt Day resolution was passed at the national level. Her name is known worldwide. Our annual observations in August could be multiplied by others held many places during the years to come. Willapa Chapter DAWN and Eleanor can tie together for searches ... reaching the government Small Business Administration business card pages, the Internet listings and more. What we do with this, can be used to good effect ... and we of Willapa Chapter DAWN, will be glad to have input from any direction.
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