Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-07-19
IC0x SAYS women ARE
FITTED FOR HIGH OFFICES
Does Not Believe Any Department.
OF Government Should BE Closed
to Them.
MUST SHARE IN NATIONAL LIFE
Democratic Nominee Declares World
Needs the Humanizing Influences
of Women In Offices in Closest
Touch With the People.
ny ANNADELLE LEE.

WASHINGTON, July lS..-Women
have proved themselves so capable
and efficient that they must be given
their share in the national life.
This was the BELIEF enunciated by
Governor James VI. Cox. Democratic
presidential nominee. in an exclusive
Interview today.
II don't mind saying" declared the
Governor. emphaticaliy. that If We
res0gnize efficiency in government TO
an essential factor OF successful
bsfislation, then women must be APP
pointed to such Offices when their
efficiency qualihes them for such
recognition
''womans efficiency is no longer a
matter of theory. She has demon
strated It in every walk of life; she
knows women and how to govern
them better than men do; she knows
men better than they know them
selves.
Employs Her Sixth Sense.
Perhaps she does this by employ
ing her sixth sense. At any rate,
by intuition or otherwise. women are
able to arrive at truths in more
direct way than men can. and have
made themselves invaluable wher-
ever they have been placed in au-
thorlty.
Could any one be better qualified
TO look after the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, for instance. than woman?
Couldn't women do great service as
Assistant PostmastcrGencral Who
are better qualified than women TO
take charge Of the Child Labor Blu
reau, or serve as commercial at
taches."
The problems ahead. Governor Cox
continued, ARE complex, and many
OF them Immediately touch the well
fare of women and children. Women
know how TO humanize industry and
feel instinctively something of the
urge of the crusader spirit.
Our war has demonstrated
woman's humanizing influence: she is
interested In Americanization and
the education OF the alien; she is in
terested in the protection Of women
in industry and the conservation of
child life. and to prove our faith in
what woman can do for child well
fare. we have placed Miss Julia
Lathrop in charge Of this bureau.
The appointment Of Mrs. Helen
Gardner to the Civil Service Com
mission is another I}roof of what
womans efficiency will command.
This attitude Is pcrmeatins the whole
country and illustrates the trend OF
the woman motive in our awakened
national life"
wOmnn's Work In Ohio.
In Ohio. Governor Cox said I'VE
have always selected women for OIL
3 cial authority whenever it was pos
: sIble to do so. Mrs. Maud Murray
Miller was made chief OF the board
of censors. At the Mansfield Reforma-
tory, and wherever the State requires
careful investigation of children's
welfare. women are always chosen
to direct the investigation. In the
industrial commission. safety depart
iment and board OF charities women
have absolute charge. and the reason
for this recognition lies in their ell
cheney. The world is more human
lied today than 1t was nifty years
ago. and we need this humanizing
influence to aid US.
women are working out problems
in agriculture, finance, education and
: sanitation. They have studied forms
of State. municipal and national gov
eminent and their relations to each
other. Why. then, are they not en-
( titled TO assist in the administra-
tion of Federal nctivities?"