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meeenor heal, Education and werrare . ' Lady Knows the Price, Not the Value is politicians, has an apt phrase around long enough to know his politicians, p who has hewn says, borrowing from Oscar Wilde, knows the price of, e narsh, ‘but Mrs. Hobby, the Secretary of Health, Education and Wel- said that she has a cal- a . at . t . . “Hobby Horse’ ficials, as well as man cted a bill to provide free of 19. Mrs. Hobby had a lostly for the government she jonal Education Association, made Mn appointment to talk about noney for new public schools. Vhen the group of educators ap- peared at Ter office, they were ‘anfronted by a regretful aide. Mrs. fobby had left before their ar- “She didn’t know the pur- the visit when she made the . She thought it was lust a social call. , .” they weré old. But she has ever since balked t every request for Federal aid to ichools. * MRS. HOBBY is also a demo- rat (with both the small and large 1D”) according to the public rela- ions office of her department. hen she entered the Eisenhower ‘abinet, she let it be known that fhe wished to be called “Mrs, Sec- etary,” rather than Madam Secre-; It couldn't have been for lack) rary of her lawyer futher in Killeen ary. ‘The former title, she felt, was|of ideas on the subject, or any) Texas, reading the Congressional nore in keeping with American tra-| other for that matter. Her history Record, and Jistening to political ition. shows that she is a Jady who vig-| discussions. For her ideas of American demo-|orously pursues _ many different| She attended college and law ratic tradition are quite fixed. She| kinds of occupations at a time—school, and at 20 had an unprece-_ lemonstrated her views publicly| and manages to be a chief execu-/dented job for 4 young irl—the hen as Major Oveta Culp Hobby, | tive of a dozen different enterpris- post of parliamentarian for the ater Colonel Hobby, she had] es at once. . Texas House of Representatives. In barge of recruiting the first wo-| She: is, for instance, a director] 3" atmosphere that must have men’s army in 1942. of the Ainerican Society of News-|formed her Liter sympathies—or "There was some concern express-| naner Editors and of the National, lack of them—she became a legal bd that as a Southern colonel, there! PePlishers Association, -A director’ aide to the Texus State Banking night be discrimination against Ne-/ of the Texas Medical Center, Co-| Department, later boasting hat she 10 women. Major Hobby promptly | editor and publisher of the Houston had recodified these laws almost abuswered the question by saying! Post. Director of a Texas radia! single-handedly. Bhat Negroes would be recruited in) station, A member of the Houston! OF MARRIAGEABLE age, sho vroportion to their number in the) Committee for Education in Alco-|lost no "time in idle dreaming, Bpopulation. Out of 450 officer can-| holism, the American Heait Asso-| but ran for the Texas State Legis- lidates in the first group of train-’ ciation, the Houston Junior League lature in 1930 when she was 24, es, 40 were Negroes. | and so on, for another dozen as- while being courted by former * sociations. . Texas Governor William Pettus Seamen in the ILGWU’s Justice