The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
STIRS HORNET NEST ON WOMAN'S SEAT AT PACIFIC BOARD

Washfngton Aug. 20 - Miss Alice Robertson, lone woman member or Congress. has stirred up hornets nest.
 Feminine claims ana counterclaims, protests and counter protests, are crossing and mingling between the White House and the Capitol.
 Presid ent Harding started this bat mansion was heard all around the worlds chancelleries that a daughter of Eve might be in the Eden Of dis arInament-a thing without parallel in the diplomatic annals of the big powers
 .rWho is it to be?" was the question that Immediately began to whizz back and forth among such fair asp1rants to distinction as have been gathering here since the Suffrage movement got ifs innpetus. whether in the camps of the mf1itants, the moderates or the 'tantis."
 Parry Miss Robertson's Thrust
 Representative Robertson. by right of her position, had the first word yesterday. It was to give her opinion tha+ one woman there is certainly in the United States qualified to take her seat at the disarmament board
 Today her critics, not in Congress have been quick to parry and In tneir turn-thruSt
 Witness Mrs. Richard Edwards of Peru, Ind, vice president of the League of Women Voters
 '"The newspaper prominence being given a woman of Miss Robertson type," Mrs. Edwards regrets. F'or- tunately,'' she adds, Miss Robertson in no way represents women. though she sits as the only woman in Con gresS.'
 who has appealed, to President Hard ing ''to safeguard the American dis armamen delegation from control hy feminist leaders and i1iternatfonal1sI women without a country Miss Kildreth is president Of the National Association Opposed 10 Woman Suffrage
 Officers of the National Ieagu-a of Women Voters bore down upon eie White House today, urging the Presl- dent to appoint an American woman delegate to the conference and they quote MT. Harding thus;
 "I am very anxious to nave the III fuence and munitions of women u'li. ized in this great conference ana II is hop=ed such an arrangement Will De worked out satisfactorily.
 Mrs. Richard Edwards sald she oio not believe the President had put in the phrase .sit is hoped" and save out the sentence with the unqualified statement that "such an arrangement will be worked out satisfactorily Mrs Maud Wood Park. president ol | used the phrase, and she amended the | sentence to the effect, although Mrs | Edwards appeared unconv1nced | President Harding at least did no' l Drornise a place for a woman on the l coTr,noission and the impression aftel | tbA interview was that he contem- plated organization of an advisory | rro11D of women who could keep IT
 fouch with the problems of the con
 ference and reflect the attitude oi their sex.
 | Mrs Edwards says l Here is Mrs. Edwards veroatlm: 1 "As a Republican woman, regre the newspaper prominence being glV' en 2 woman of Miss Robertson's type | Herself a political accident. in hel | contempt of women and their ability her total ignorance of women anC 1 women's affairs, she fortunately in nc way represents women through sh' sits as the only woman in Congress Actually what Miss Robertson say! or thinks is negligible. The wome1 in my part Of the country know tha che never responded to the demand
 of women. nor concerned herself witt
 the things women's organization
 were developing throughout the coun
 try"
 l The women did not carry their at l lack on Miss Robertson up to th-
 President They refrained from dis l cussing her attitude during their con Il ference with him. Asked to sug