The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-12
WOMEN TO PLAY
 AT STATESMANSHIP
Newly Formed Good Gov ernment Club Has Cabinet Officers, Senators and Representatives in Silks and LaceS.

New York, Aug. 12.-Nearest ap-
 preaching ideal plans for femininity ot Government control, of which anti
 suffragists are constantly warning, is
 the organization of the Good Govern
 ment Club, the proposed work of which
 was made known yesterday. With a
 full-fledged cabinet, a perfectly work
 ing congress. judges of the Supreme
 court, officers of the army and navy,
 and heads for other departmental
 Government business, this extraordin- ary club will go into session for trial
 term early this fall.
 Its mission, as announced, is purely to educate the feminine mind concern ing affairs of State.
 However" said an enthusiastic member. i've cannot say yet to what lengths we may go before the season is over. Our study and investigation may eventually lead to some line of active reform work
 The chief object of the club is to makS thorough, study of: the various forms of Government since the world began, and the many evils that assail them. Trust busting, threatened mo- nopoly of the dressmaking business by a rapidly increasing number of men, ownership of millinery emporiumS and beauty parlors from the same threat ened quarter, and the tariff, affecting all articles of womanIy interest from hairpins to shoes. will be carefully looked into and considered during the progress of the club work.
 Mrs. Belle de Rivera, president of the City Federation of Women's Clubs, has been chosen by the members of the new club to head the Good Govern ment organization. The members of the rev club will include many of the most prominent club women, who, while not all avowed suffragists, favor the ballot with sufficient interest to desire to use it with postgraduate in telligence. Incidentally the organizers say, the work of the new. organization will effectually dispose of the -old-time charge against universal suffrage. that women do not understand the workings of National, States, and municipal po- litical machinery. as broad as the constitution of a Dem-i ocratic Government can make it, after which model the new clubs will be fashioned. The House and Senate will comprising Republicans. Democrats. members of the Socialist, Prohibition, Populist,0 and any other party that may for reasons of the widest study there will be a Speaker of the House of Representatives. As this is re- garded by the organizers of the club as the most important office to be filled from the point of parliamentary experience, the appointment will be de- layed until the choice can be made from selected few whom the mem bers now have in mind.
 The idea of the club originated with Mrs. A. s. Wilson of 651 West 179th street, and Mrs. J.. L. Rood. both well known in important women's club work in the city.
 The club will differ in one particular from many other women's organiza- tions, in that it will give every mem Der some work to do. In fact, mem bership in the new club means active in studying the problems of Government as they will be worked out by the new society.
 During the session of this feminine congress, from time to time, it is plan ned to have eminent statesmen who sit in the real Congress at washing ton address the members from the floor of the house. The National cap ital of the new congress has not been decided upon. but it will meet in one of the largest halls to be had, owing to the big membership.
 Among we'll known women who will be actively identified with the new congress are Sarah Dickinson Lewis, Mrs. Augustine Wilson, Mrs. Gerard Barker, Mrs. Lillian Wright Hester, and Mrs. gJeSln Crosby, now president of the Women'S Democratic Club. -t