The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-17

l MaiD-East of the city of MIssoula half hours walk from the bust. ness section, great remnant of rock looms consplculously. It is called Jumbo Mountain. so closely does 1t resemble the head and shoulders of an elephant and the color of his hide
 Miss Jeanette Rankin. the first woman to be elected to Congress, lives almost in the shadow of the elephant. This is the reason, she save laughlngly, that she became a Republican. Environment has its ef- feet in the determination of once politics as it has upon character
 Miss Rankin was elected in the face of a Democratic landslide in Montana. The state cast it's elec- toral vote for Wilson and chose a Democratic governor. senator and a representative in Congress. Miss Rankin went before the entire state electorate. as the commonwealth has no congressional districts, electing it's representatives at large.
 How She Entered Politics
 Perhaps if it had not been for an illness which caused Miss Renkin's physician to send her to California to convalesce. after her work in the preparatory school in Missoula, she might never have entered poli- ties. On the road to recovery, Miss Rankin read a great deal lt was in the period so glibly termed the "era of undertaking" Contemporary lit- erature was full of the struggle against corruption. interruptions bis business. the scheming politician, and the social exploiter Miss Rankin became interested. She resolved to see for herself if these things were true. When she became well and strong again she entered social work in San Francisco and her tiold as signment was the famous Telegraph hiu
 After the election, at her home on the North side-the old families live there-she traced the steps that led her into social work. then into the suffrage movement and finally into the arena of politics
 Residence We'll Known
 Any Missoula man can point out the Rankin residence. It is a two- story brick structure set few paces back from the sidewalk in a yard of fruit trees. It is sober, almost son. 6re. in appearance and maintains an authentic air of age and dignity But inside, in Miss Rankin's study there is brightness and modernity
 Books range themselves on two walls. In Q corner stands a business likelooking desk. with a telephone near. Letters and papers are piled high on the desk top. Wicker furni- ure. rugs that please the eye and numerous framed pictures of real persons (no Horse Fair or "Monna Lisa" or Whistler's "Mother'O com plete the interior.
 Books, life friends, ere hallmark5 of character If this be true, then the volumes ranged in such orderly fashion on the study shelves are iad.cies Of Miss Rankin's interest. There are many on political and so- cial science and economies. Ely, Ross. Taussig- these are names toI couture with. Then there is a work of Tom L Johnson and Henry Georges Progress and Poverty
 Plano in the Making
 Don't quote me" said Miss Ran kin definitely, "on political subjects. Unless there is an extra session, it ! win be some months before the rep ! reseutatyes in Congress convene. It ! is too early to say what l shall do and how ! shall vote"
 Miss Rankin indicates, however ev- en now. that she will take great deal of interest in the Susan B. An thony amendment for suffrage. It is not letting the eat out of the bag Co say that this is one of her su- preme interests. See her record in the advancement Of the suffrage 
 She campaigned in California and when the suffrage amendments were before the people. She organized Montana for the suf- rage cause and won a brilliant vic .ory in that state. She was the first woman to lobby for suffrage through put the session of the assembly in New York. She has been success vely field secretary for the National Suffrage Association and of the Congressional Union at Washington. For five years ihe worked tirelessly in the inter ,sts of votes for women. Needing vacation. she went for an ocean -oyage in New Zealand. Miss Ran 1 ,in had not become interested in he study of political and social con- itions and was a visitor in Ackland or several months When she re- urned to Missoula candidates were the state primary race. friends urged her to be a candidate { nd she cast the die. F
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