The sun., 1919-11-02
TIP TO a certain populous corner
of Broadway dashes an AUTO


- mobile and a tall, slender.
Ausinesslike young woman jumps out
Other women and likewise men swarm
out after her., a brass band appears
from somewhere and along comes
dark eyed chap whom the initiated
recognize and cheer as Fiorella H. La
Guardia Republican candidate for the
offlce Of President of the Board OF
Aldermen.
The tall young woman, who is Miss
charlotte Delafield, daughter of Lewis
1. Delafleld, and who knows all about
meetings from having carried the FIJI
tenth Assembly district through the
suffrage referendum campaign, mounts
the familiar soap box and in no time at
all has a crowd around to listen to the !
candidate The band blares, oratory |
Aows and Miss Delafield, leader Of the |
La Guardia noon day meetings. has
another successful open air rally to
her credit.
It is not much more than a year
ago that this same young woman was
driving a supply car in France, carry
ing food and clothing and bandages
and medicines for the soldiers as a
worker of the American Fund for
French Wounded, under the French
military Notwithstanding to the
wheel, by night and by day. IN the
devastated regions around Cambria,
her car literally bounding like a rub
Der ball from ragged edge to ragged
edge of the holes made by the German
shells.
And her experience-this transfer
- the lr ~
liz finished to the politics that Is al
ways with us-is typical Of many
women.
Turn to Electioneerine.
Not all are as strenuous az she.
tut hundreds of gently bred New
York women who astonished their IA
Tiers and brothers and husbands and
sweethearts by doing things nobody
ever supposed they could do at the
call of patriotism are now turning that
same crusading spirit to the election
of good men to public office. They
don't all agree as to the good men.
Irwin Untermyer and Joseph e. New
burger both have their large and de-
voted committees of women. But
they're all saving the country, Just asI
they were two years ago.
A list of committees for any of the
various candidates reads almost like
a former list of war workers. Take
La Guardia-since we are on him. One
Of his supporters is Mrs. James 8.
Cushman, who as chairman of the
War Work of the National Young
Women's Christian Association spent
months in Europe establishing recre-
alton centres for French munition
women and doing innumerable other
things. Mrs. Joseph Griswold Deane,
who is operating voiceless speeches
for La Guardia all around town, was
the original and only founder and
manager of the Metal Market, where
for many months on Fifth avenue she
gathered in tons of old jewelry. plate,
ornaments. relics, tooth filings. every
thing that contained metal that could
be useful to the Government, paying
for the same with war savings stamps.
Mrs. Deane was active too. in the va
rious drives for war funds and helped
TO take the State census. When the
suffrage-for which she had worked
hard-arrived she had considerable
difficulty to decide which party to en-
roll with. In fact she didn't make up
iiNi ii4Ilu Nlll duOul live HllnuteS UeIOTe
the registration booths closed when
she threw on a long cloak over the
nightgown she had donned with view
to retiring and rushed out and en-
rolled with the G.. o. P. She has
since confessed that she was swayed
partly by dread of having to tell Mrs.
Charles S. Whitman that she wasn't
going to vote for Mr.. Whitman-this
was last year-but now she is sticking
70 her guns and is out to beat Tam
many.
Mrs. slade for La Guardia.
Mrs. f. Louis Slade, who did a heap
OF war work with the Woman Suf-
rage Partyof New York City-now the
League of Women Voters-and who
LED the drive to recruit women volun-
teers to go overseas for the Young
Mems Christian Association, is also on
The La Guardia committee. Another
VINO Is active on this committee is Mrs.
douglas Robinson, and everybody
knows what she, Theodore Roosevelt's
tister, did in standing behind the men
VINO went TO conquer the German. Mrs.
william J. Schieffelin, Mrs. James
Russell Parsons, Mrs. Frederick
Nathan Mrs. James A. Riis, Mrs
Wiuiam c. Wilcox of Richmond
sars' Charles H. Sabin, Mrs. Norman
lJlke' Mrs. Paul Morton, all members
the La Guardia non-partisan group
women supporters, were all wal
workers too, But what worth while
"oman was not war worker? And
nat worth while woman can stay out
politics now even though it is what
Polucans call an "off year.?
f course it came natural to Mrs
,harles s. Whitman to go into what
yer public duty called, living in the
atmosphere she did and does And she
ot her training working for the vote
Ffhch Is also true OF most of the other
omen mentioned. Mrs. Slade, Mrs
.eane, Mrs. Wilcox. Mrs. Nathan, &C
ifs. Whitman put on the uniform Of
ne National League for Women's Ser.
I'e and managed their reformation
mop, where used clothes contributed
the kindhearted were patched ant
e1asd and sold TO demobilized soldisr