The Washington herald., 1921-02-13

zines for exclusive rights to her in
teryiews and statements.
IF 1 didn't make good, they'd find
some way to break my contracts,
she observed, "and II make good
and am worth anything l won't need
any contracts with anyone. am
not going to tie up to anyone. l
don't want the newspapers and the
reporters to find me all tied up to
some one person. Don't believe in
partiality."
Miss Robertson cares more about
the American Indians, with whom
she has worked for many years, and
little side remarks in her talk be-
trayed her affection for the dark
eyed people with whom she has been
raised.
Miss Robertson was asked why
she had chosen a man secretary.
Men have women secretaries.
Why cant l have a man? And l
need one A woman isn't as safe
as she used to be since We have
been put on our own so much. l
need a man. This boy, Benjamin
Edwards Cook, is giving up a good
job in the oil business to go to
Washington with me. He will get
enough good out of the experience
to repay him. His father was my
lawyer, his brother my assistant
postmaster"
STAUNCH REPUBLICANS;
TALKS LITTLE POLITICS.
n HISS ROBERTSON is a RepubIi-
MI can. This she makes very
VI clear. And that is the end of
the political statements. She will
tell all about her grandfather and
his work among the Indians, of her
own work and of her love of the old
Territory. She will talk of the
American Legion men who sent her
to Congress. but she will not dis
cuss any ideas that she is going to
put across.
They say that Congress is one
place where you are not asked to
not have to talk. 1 shall sit still
before l venture anything in Con-
gress. or course I am glad to go,
but I don't think 1 am going up
Il am not a professional reform
er and I never expect to be-" I'm
told she has said Il believe in do
ing what I think is right and not
telling other people what they ought
to think is right. ! can't clean up
the whole world and I have no de-
sire to. But can clean up one lit
tie spot. If all women would do
this the pressing problems of today
would be solved. The way to re-
form people is not through law. The
way is through the mothers OF the
nation OF course, old maids can
say that.
Il am a great lover of the SOL
diers boys who fought for us in the
war. Many of them feel that an
unfair advantage was taken when
the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
anne ndments were passed while thC
were abroad and unable to express
their opinions. I had no part in
putting woman suffrage or prohibi-
tion on them. don't drink myself.
SAYS DRESS OF TODAY
IS VERY SENSIBLE
IF women would take things
more as they fnd them the world
would, be happier. Miss Lucy Page
CASTOR may think that she is TAX
ing the right way to make the world
better place. Her way is not my
way. 1 was head of a canteen in
Muskogee and at the beginning
of the war the canteen did not buy
cigarettes for the boys. But when
I saw how badly they wanted them
I said They shall have them and
thaV Ala hnnOhf oil ha Hipa
my conscience and my pocketbook
would allow during the war and
then some more. I glory in every
one. Now that the war is over 1 do
not say You boys quit smoking
cigarettesP but I do say Boys, You
might smoke less That is my
stand on the cigarette question.
What do I think of the abbre-
Waited skirts and filmy blouses Of
today? The dress of today is very
sensible and rejoice that mankind
and womankind has come to accept
1t. Not SO many years ago the dress
of woman was absolutely ridiculous.
Women wore long trains and dres-
ses that swept the floor. They
could not go out on wet or snowy
day without bedraggling the skirts.
A woman crossing a muddy corner
was much more immodest than the
modern woman in her trim short
skirt The men congregated on the
wet or windy corners to see the
women crossing the streets in their
ridiculous attire. The dress of to-
day has done away with these cor
ner loafers out to see what they
could see and I am glad of it.
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kt A S FOR the young girls
N wearing ridiculous outfits
n well. When I see girls
out on a cold and snowy day all
muffled up in a fur coat but wear
ing knee length skirts, pumps and
silk hose, /. think of little Indian
l saw in Muskogee one bitter cold
day. This little Indian was clad
only in a cotton skirt. although the
ground was covered with snow. He
was barearmed, barelegged and
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