The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-11

Washington; D. C., March 1---Sev- enteen women vii work with the 'sev- enteen men on the executive commit tee of the Democratic National Com mittee. These women will be actual members of the committee and not merely associates. They will share all responsibilities and all duties In other words, the executive committee during the presidential campaign will have a membership of 34 instead of IT.
 Homer $. Cummings, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has appointed Il of the F women. They are: Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Raleigh, N. e., Mrs Kellogg Fair bank, Chicago, H.; Mrs. Helen Gren- tlernan, Louisville, Ky; Mrs. Pattie xoUffner Jacobs, Birmingham, Ala; Mrs. Stiles W. Burr, St. Paul. Minn.; Mrs. John K. Ottley,. Atlanta, Ga; Miss Elisabeth Marbury, New York City; Mrs. Beverley B. Munford, Rich mond, Va; Mrs. Overton G. Ellis, Ia coma, Wash, and Miss Caroline Ruuts- Rees, Greenwich, Conn.
 Mrs. Josephus Daniels, as wife of the Secretary of the Navy, is one of the favorites of the social circle formed by the Presidents Cabinet. She is a native of North Carolina. Broadly educated and progressive in her views she was interested in the suffrage movement and in many pub- lie affairs before she became a factor in the official life of the Capital the Daniels home in Raleigh being the center of many activities that contrib uted to the public welfare.
 Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank is one of the leaders among the women of Chicago, her native city. The daughter of Ben jamin F. Aver, a New Hampshire Democrat who became one of the foremost attorneys of the West, she has inherited a predilection for the political party with which she has re- gently become prominently identified. Ms F'airFban1z was educated at the Chicago University, and early became interested in suffrage activities. Dur ing the war she was a member of the National Woman's Liberty Loan Com- mittee and of the executive commit tee, Illinois Council of National De- fense She is interested in many lines of philanthropic work. Her husband is Kellogg Fairbank, an attorney.
 Mrs. Helen Loring Grenfell, who is widely known as an educator, has been prominent in Colorado politics ever since women obtained the fran chise in the State. She served three terms as state superintendent of pub lie instruction, having been previously
  tendent She has been commissions CT of the state penitentiary and reforma- tory a member of the Colorado State Forestry Association, and a trustee of the gChildren's Hospital of Denver. Mrs. Grenfell is the wife of Edwin l. Grenfel1, who is a railway official.
 Mrs. John B. Castleman bears a name closely associated with Ken tucky's finest traditions. With her husband, General Castleman, she has had a far-reaching influence in Louis vile and the whole State, for both have been leaders in all public and soical affairs. General Castleman, who as a youth had fought in the Civil War, enlisted with the Kentucky Vol unteer Infantry in the Spanish-Amer- ican War. He commanded the Ken lucky troops during the troubles fol- lowing the assassination of Governor -GoeGbeI He has been a delegate to / two Democratic national conventions and has served as chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, Like General Castleman, Mrs. Castle man has served her State in many ca pacities and has been always in the forefront of philanthropic and char itaibie movements
 Mrs. -Pattie Ruffner Jacobs has been in active political work in Alabama since her appointment as associate na- tionaI committeewoman. She became a member of the National Woman Liberty Loan Committee to fill the vacancy created by the death of Mrs ElIa Flagg Young, of Illinois, and previously had been connected with Liberty Loan work ill Alabama Mrs Jacobs served as an officer of the Ma tional American Woman Suffrage As sociation As one of the three aSso- ciate committeewomen chosen for the executive committee, she will carry z double responsibility.
 Mrs Stiles w. Burr is a native O, Maryland, but since carly girlhood ha: been a resident of Minnesota. Hel husband is a distin nguished lawyer O St Paul She became interested II suffrage work and for 9. time was ; member of the board of the Ramse! County Suffrage Association, becom ing the first president of the Count. League of Women Voters. She is