The Washington herald., 1920-07-11

methods of meeting them must be
explained in the main by women to
women.
II woman is to take her right
ful place in public life she must
meet men as men without becoming
masculine. Ny effort in public Of
nee has been to make the men feel
as much at home in my ONCE as
they would feel If i was a man.
You Will find no signs prohibiting
smoking In my ONCE. even have
brass cuspidors there. Save for on.
girl stenographer, every assistant
that i have is q man
when / was appointed there was
opposition to me among some men
or Utah. but I am happy to think
that some of it has been swept
away. l hope that soon there will
be no opposition to me. And. II
good service will prevent 1t. there
will not be-"
The opinion of a prominent Titan
man of Mrs. Collier seems to sum
up the situation.
She never. in the world. would
publicly place her arm around an
other woman and call her 'Dearie,' 8"
he said.
Already political leaders Of both
parties are striving to line up ac
tive suffrage workers Mrs. Abby
Scott Baker. for instance. has been
, onered $4,000 year to affiliate
| herself with a certain organization
, She just smiled when the offer was
made her and said that her Job first
was to get suffrage through.
III women get the vote, political
circles probably will lose Alice
Paul. who has been prominently
Identified with militant suffrage
work. Having put White House pick
ieing and other outdoor sports IN
behalf of suffrage behind her. Miss
Paul will retire to the farm and
! raise mushrooms, possibly. At
least that is what she has told
! friends. But her friends doubt il
such militant soul can be content
to listen to the corn grow. when
there are political corns to be tram
pied on.
After equal suffrage comes-if II
does-it would not be Surprising TO
see some of the militants even up
old scores with the bitter enders
who have opposed them.
Now that William Jennings Bry-
ans mastery effort at the Demo-
cratic convention is history, II is
violating no confidence to say that
Bryan's most intimate friends gath
cred from conversations they had
with him thought that he believed
| h 90 nfRr - @AN
| tion.
On the day Of his speech in behalf
Of prohibition enforcement, he look
ed the crowd over with a smile of
great satisfaction.
| "It is my kind of a crowd" he
said. II will speak twenty minutes
and stop proceedings for the next
| thirty-fve. And then"
Bryan was not far from right. He
i stopped the convention for twenty
| three minutes. but the reception that
| he got was a God bless you, Bill''
affair that seemed a tribute to the
departed. 1t was the same old story
for Bryan: many cheers and few
votes. The crowd loved him for a
few moments. but when IL had
dropped its coin in his cup and
beamed upon him, it passed on to
play fox and geese with the other
bows.
A close friend of Senator Hard
ling told me the other day that when
the news was broken to him that
he was to be the fair-haired bow az
the Republican convention, II was
necessary to get the smelling salts
or something equally as restoring
for him.
The Senator got the news in
| George Harvey's room. Then the
salts were applied several times and
the senator took of his coat and
vest and Vent out in the hall to tax :
| the air. When he reached Senator
| Johnson's room, to which he went
] from Harvey's, he had one side OF
his suspenders down. as he used to
wear them when he worked in his
print shop. Thus attired. he an
| nounced to the Senator that he was
| TO be named on the morrow. The
| shock to johnson was about as
great as 1t had been to Harding