The Washington herald., 1920-07-19
WOMAN'SPLACE
WON, SAYS COX
Proved Efficiency Entities
Them to Share in Ma
tional Life.
THEIR VISION IS KEEN
Presidential Nominee Points
To Work Done in
Ohio.
THEIR VISION Is KEEN
By ANNABEL LEE.

ny ANNhDSL LESEs
(Uniyersal Service stan Correspondent.)
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
Gov. James NJ Cox. Democratic
Presidential nominee. yesterday.
Il think il will be one of the
logical possibilities of this cleo
tion that women will be appointed
to Federal Offices" said Gov. Cox
in an interview at the home Of his
friend. Tim" Ansberry. where he
stopped in Washington for the con-
ference with President Wilson.
Emciency Demands Women.
II don't lind saying" asserted
the governor emphatically. that II
we recognize efficiency in govern
ment to be an essential factor of
successful legislation, then women
must be appointed to such Offices
when their efficiency qualities them
for such recognition"
Gov. Cox had undergone the or
deal of several hours conference
with political friends and leaders
in an informal garden party at the
home of his host, and after wav-
ing the last visitor good-by he sat
down on a garden seat and said
earnestly:
''Women's efficiency is no longer
a matter of theory; she has DEM
onstrated it in every walk of life;
she knows women and how to gov
ern them better than men do; she
knows men better than they know
themselves
Perhaps she does this by en-
ploying her sixth sense. At any
rate. by intuition or otherwise, wom-
en- are able to arrive at truths in
a more direct way than can men,
and have made themselves invalua-
BILE wherever they have been placed
in authority.
Mother n Prophet
We have often heard OF the can
NY Scotch sense. My mother was
an Andrews. and possessed the gift
OF prophecy of great events, such
as the world war. She saw this
catastrophe a year before it began.
and l believe that women in a gen.
eraI way have a remarkable gift
OF foresight. Why, then, should they
not be placed in positions if they
are qualified to hold them?
Gould anyone be better qualified
to look after the Bureau of Indian
Affairs. for instance, than woman?
Couldn't women do great service as
assistant Postmaster Generals? Who
are better qualified than women to
take charge of the Child Labor Bu-
reau, or serve as commercial at
taches?
THE problems ahead" Gov. Cox
continued. ARE complex and many
of them Immediately touch the vel
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 wom-
ans humanizipg 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 Lathrop
in charge of this bureau.
Ohio an Example.
THE appointment of Mrs. Helen
Gardner on the ClNll service Com-
mission Is another proof of what
woman's efficiency will command.
This attitude is permeating the
whole country and illustrates the
trend of the woman motive in our
awakened national life.
I'm Ohio" Gov. Cox continued,
we have always selected women for
official authority whenever il was
possible to do so. Mrs. Maud Muir
raw Miller was made chief of the
hoard of censors. At the Mansfield
Reformatory, and wherever the
state requires careful investigat alton
of chffdren's welfare, women are al
WAYS chosen to direct the investiga-
tion. In the industrial commission
safety department and board OF
charities, women have absolute
charge and the reason for this rec
Z. ognition lies in their efficiency. The
world is more humanized today than
At was -sifty years ago and we need
the humanizinS influence of women.
Women are working out prob
lens in agriculture, finance, educa-
tion and sanitation. They have
studied forms of State, municipal
and national government, and their
relations to each other. Why, then,
are they not entitled to assist in the.
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