The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-13
WOMEN SEEKING
 PUBLIC JOBS IN OHIO
Cleveland Launches Cam paign to Land One of Ma tlonal Conventions in 1924.
By WILLIAM J. HJTSKE international News Service Staff
 Correspondent.

Cleveland, Oct 13-Won1en in 1area Bum 6I1noerJ t5f are seeking political office in alto has baen snls , year % Cleveland, which thinking in the state since the days of the late Tom L. Johnson, furnishes the principal candidates, however.
 baI. MISS @ T @6Iorence E. Allen, now serving f nef second year as the only woman common Pleas judge in the JJnjted states, is seeking elevation to the supreme Court as an independent, and Vii VII win. Mrs Virginia Green, a member of the board of education. IS q candidate for United States Sen ator as an independent but indica- 4ons do not point to any probability mat she will seriously affect the fight between Senator Atlee Pomerene and congressman Simeon D. Fess for the toga now worn by the former
 Mrs Bernice D. PyFe, of Lakewood. a member of the Democratic National committee, and widely known in connection with the political activi- ! 1leS Of women both before and since the ballot was given them, and has good chances for election. Three other Women-one a Democrat and two Republtcans-are also seeking places in the Upper House of the State Legislature from Cuyahoga County, so it is reasonably certain that the sex will have at least a fair representation in the next Senate
 Many for State,' County Offices.
 ?Several women are candidates for the Assembly here and in other Ohio counties, although none offered for Congress in the primaries of either of the old parties.
 Other women are candidates for practically every office to be filled in the counties this Fall. In Hooking County a woman, Mrs. Mary Davey, is seeking reelection as County Prose cutor, while there are more than a score of women seeking either the au- ditorship, recordership or clerkship of the courts.
 Cleveland Wants Big Convention.
 Plans are under way here looking to securing either the Democratic or Republican national convention in 1924. Cleveland's new public hall. re- gently completed at a cost of more than $6,000,00o, will comfortably seat more than IS 900 persons, and is said by officials to be the largest and finest structure of its kind in the United States The kindly interest of Presi- dent Harding. former Governor Jas. M. Cox, Senator Atlee Pomerene and other leaders of the parties in Ohio will be sought. T. H. Moore, of Youngstown, who managed the cam ocratic nomination, will be asked to take charge of the campaign. The Chamber of Commerce plans to raise a fund of at least s100,0OO which will be offered to either party voting to hold it's convention here.
 City Club Has Public Debates.
 The Cleveland City club has a membership of more than 5000, in cluding such outstanding citizens as former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker and former Justice John H Clarke, of the United States Supreme Court. The club was organized dur ing the regime of the late Tom l. Johnson and the underlying idea was to give to everyone with ideas an op- portunity to express them untram- meled in a public forum. Every speaker-and most of the invited guests are of national and interna- tionaI repute-may say what he has in his mind-but must also be pre- , pared for merciless and searching "heckIing." Dean w C.. I1eutner, Of Western Reserve University, is president of the organization. and in Introducing former Governor James M Cox to an audience said that ~'rnany of us voted for him three times when he ran for the Governor ship. and I suppose one or two might be found who voted for him the fourth time" when he was candl- date for the Presidency.
 London is quite excited about new threats of white slave traffic. An