The sun., 1918-09-01
Olive Stott Gabriel
Wholly Familiar
With Conditions in
New York's Most
Varied District
By EILEEN o'coNNoR.
THEY call her the best woman poll

months than any man he knows ever
learned in six years Politics is one part
applied knowledge of conditions and one
part general knowledge of your fellow
man and how to manage him.
Mrs. Olive Stott Gabriel knows condi
tions in that part Of New York lying be-
tween Third and Fifty-fifth streets, be-
tween Third and Seventh avenues as the
public school boy knows his alphabet or
good housewife her pots and pans. And
no one is more prominently fitted to put
you in high good humor with yourself,
preparing the ground for any ideas she
desires to sprout.
Her genius is needed in a district that
offers such variety. The old Tenth Is the
voting place of J. Pierpont Morgan. 1t
embraces an important part of Million
ame Row on Fifth avenue. 1t includes
that land of alleged free souls and gar
ret dining rooms. Greenwich Village. 1t
includes the Great White Way and
the Tenderloin. which shifts its base but
never wanders far beyond the confines OF
the Tenth. Old Knickerbocker mansions
of faded brownstone or dull red brick fur
nish it voters, and prizefighters who con
pregate in saloons in lower Seventh ave
nue. seek its polling stations or are sought
for them.
Slices Layer Cake of Humanity.
Through this layer cake of humanity
nuL Il Gpl of
trained mentality, dividing it into neat
and even slices for political consideration
and CONSUMPTION.
She is the coleader Of the Tenth. To
her work of massing and directing the
women voters of that district, trying to
assemble them in the fold which she thinks
the right one, she brings the experience
of teacher, lawyer, a social worker
and a elubwoman. Also stamina from
heredity and environment. She Is from
the Northwest, from Oregon, where men
and women say what they think without
thought of social consequences. Yet her
Western oandor and courage are Overland
by a cream of tact. -s .t...,.
.."What should every woman know OF
polticsi' l asked
Mrs Gabriel looked long at me. 1t is
a habit of hers. When she has finished
her. piercing survey the one who is under
inspection feels that he is catalogued,
labelled and placed in a separate compart-
ment of her memory for the term Of her
life. Yet Mrs. Gabriel smiles so engag-
insly that the subject of the inspection. is
eOmplimented. y.-.:.. - 81.
While in the Forum of the Church of
the Ascension she met prisoners returning
from Blackwells Island and 50 QUILTED
them with clothes and heartened them
with kindness that she won the name
;"Anps Gabriel.n ClubwomeH whose fac
:tious she reunited Endorsed it. The poor
whose affairs she adjusted and for whom
she pleaded justice gave it when she said:
az want no money. There is so much
trouble IN the world that prefer to prac
tise without fee
Voice a Rest Cure for Nerves.
But this fall woman, with the prema-
tnrely gray hair and the soothing voice
that is a rest cure for tired nerves, is
speaking: ....-
: "Eyery woman should know that to ex
ercise her full franchise it is necessary to
affiliate herself with political party. The
party is an instrument through which she
works her political will. If a woman is
e not sure TO which party she wishes to be-
long, If she has no knowledge of party
principles and no inherited tendencies to
guide her, she should get a good book on
party platforms and principles and study
the question for herself. The public Ii
brary will supply it. TO all women l
would say, Don't be afraid to seek in
formation. This Government is as much
yours as anybody's. Now that you have
" the vote You are equally responsible for
Its quality with the men,
"To be good politician YOU must be a