New-York tribune., 1922-04-25
Let's Work for
Political Jobs.
Says Miss Hay
Ought to Have One u. S. Sen.
ator at Lea> !, New York
Chairman Tells League of
Women Voters Delegates
Wants Welfare Shelved
Preliminary Meeting to Pre-.
sent Proposed Policy in
Resolution to Convention
By Emma Bugbce


ohass on the policies and less on wei
fsre bills was advocated at meeting
Of the League OF Women Voters dele
gates this morning preliminary TO The
opening Of their convention tomorrow.
Welfare bills, It was said. have
eswamped The league" The only wav
20 achieve an influential position in
ire NATIONS policies is TO "slow dow.
on welfare ard concentrate on ce.tinr
women .n political POSITIONS" Miss
Mary Garrett Hay, chairman OF the
New Yor6 City League Of Women
Vo.ers, declared to-day The surgos-
ton caused q mild sensation at tn,
morning meeting. and is Hke'v "a
arouse more opposition than anything
connected with the present convention
: It comes to discussion on tfa
Aoor
The league IS organized under six
departments, each with chairman and
permanent committee. Many women
feel that the function of the women
yotcrs is to push measures which thcv
believe are for the public good, but
not TO duplicate the work Of politi
cal organizations by pushing canli
dates Tor office. Others feel that un
less they do take a part in active poll
tics the scague wastes its potential
power.
Mss Hays suggestion was an entire
surprise TO the fifteen women who are
s:tendiuG the joint meetings Of the
Par-American conference and the third
annual convention Of the League OF
MOrrcu Nof0rs No l.,o,,. +l ,-,o.4
:ng was to be held But it happened
that this morning some Of the dele
gates were idle
"Come and we will have a meeting of
our own, then said Mss Hay. SO
saa called all the unemployed aud led
them TO an unoccupied parlor.
NOW. then, lets talk about tho
league she said. rs any one satis-
fed With the way It works? Wouldn't
you Ike to sec it put more women into
Office
The women responded with enthusi-
aSm to this feeler. and soon Miss Hay
had meeting going which promises
TO be the height of the convention.
We 'ught TO cut out the welfare
a0d hygere bills, or at least lessen our
eforts for them she said. Nov,
believe IN child welfare and all that
just as much as anybody docs, but |
don't think that is the job of the
League Of Women Voters There are
plenty Of people to do that. We ought
70 so in for women in political posi-
tons and 30 in hard. We ought to
have more women in Congress. Aud
We ought to have one woman at least
IN the United States Senate and lots
OF them in the state legislatures"
The Oklahoma delegation stroled
into the room just as Miss Hay took Il
snot at "the woman now in Congress,
Miss Alice Robertson, of Oklahoma"
I'VE want to say that Oklahoma
women are not supporters Of the Okla
homa Representative, declared their
spokesman, amid cheers.
Miss Robertson was an anti-suf-
fragist before she was elected to Con-
eress and has never forgotten her
ancient opposition to the suffraGists
who compose the League of Women
Voters
The league members are lined up
against Miss Robertson on account Of
her stand against the Sheppard Towner
bills and other measures in which they
ara interested.
The women demanded that their
views on the subject of aggressive po-
lticat work be laid before the convcn-
tion and Miss Hay appointed a COM
Ailt'c tndt Will draw up resolutions
aud present them to the conventions
Mrs. Bass was appointed on this com
mttee along with Mrs. Halsey Wilson,
Mrs. Eugene Riley, OF North Carolina,
and Mrs. George Tilson of Georgia
The delegates took the afternoon off
and iourneved to Annapolis, where
they admired the Naval Academy and
the cadets at drill. The return to Bal
timore was delayed by the vagaries Of
the "man-run railroad" SO that it was
almost 9 o'clock before the majority Of
the delegation struggled into the eve
rlng meeting.
This was on the subject Of the "high
eost Of living" and was addressed by
Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agricul
ture; Huston Thompson. nember Of the
Federal Trade Commission, and Arthur
Capper, Senator from Kansas.
The convention will formally open
Tomorrow with delegates represent
ing three million women in attendance.