Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-01
Early Leader in
= Suffrage Cause
Talks Politics
Wishes BeUeridge Named by
q. D. p. and Marshall or
RaIStOR by Democrats.
By JULIA O. HENDERSON.

BY JULIA @. HENDERSON.
To have known Mrs. Antoinette Funk
in suffrage days is to hunt her up when1
ever she comes to the city. It was the
pleasure therefore Of some OF her suffrage
friends 20 greet her and have q renewal
OF old acquaintanceship for a short
period yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Funk
had just been entertained at q luncheon
by the wives OF the officers and Of the
executive committee Of the American
Electric Railway Association, at whose
dinner she spoke last night and which
occasion brought her to the city.
She was alive and alert to know what
was taking place politically in Indiana
and stated that the one thing she missed
most in her residence in Washington was
the political viewpoint one gets "a the
States. However. she seemed 10 be more
keenly alive to the political situation in
Indiana than are most of its women citi-
zens. She very frankly said. Il feel, for
the honor OF the Republican party, Mr..
Beverage should be nominated and re-
turned TO the United States Senate. Sen
atOr New does not represent the great
progressive element OF Indiana"
Mrs. Funk smiled and further said,
being g Democrat l hope that if Mr..
Beveridge is nominated that the Demo-
cratic party wiz nominate ex-Vice Presi-
dent Marshall or your former Governor
Ralston and defeat Mr. Beveridge."
PRONOUNCED IN
POLITICAL VIEWS.
She was quite pronouncedtn her view
that Mr.. Beveridge was the logical Candi-
date for the Republican party TO advance.
Mrs Funk has had a broader ex-
perience with members Of Congress, and
what they have done, than most women
OF the country, having served on the
congressional committee Of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association
for a long period and had dealings with
the members Of that body almost daily.
At the midwinter dinner Of the Ameri-
can Electric Railway dinner last night
Mrs. Funk was the only woman speaker
and was at her very best. Her subject,
as announced on the program. was a
Woman's Viewpoint but Robert I.
Todd, toastmaster, facetiously stated
that while she was to have talked on the
given subject it had been changed to
DO Women Get OF the Street Cars
Backward 2" IN this connection Mrs.
Funk said:
1T is as ridiculous to say that women
are looking backward when they get OF
street cars as it is to say they are look
ing backward generally. Indeed, they are
looking forward and making progress
Just the same as men.
why say women get Of street cars
backward or DO anything else as a unit9
They do and think things as individuals
the same as men, AMI until this fact is
realized the so-called problem Of dealing
with women never viii be solved. II
you would sell your ideas to women, d.
versify your appeal; don't try to herd
all women your way by a single method.
WOMEN INTERESTED
IN INVESTMENTS.
Business generally does not recognise
the vast possibilities OF interesting women
in Investments. Apparently, il is-nOt
realized that one-third Of all women In
the United States today are wage earn
ers and that most Of them may be in
terested IN safe Investments. During the
war when the Women's Liberty Loan Or
ganizaticn OF the Treasury Department
was instrumental In selling apprOxiTna- .
tely Sj000-OO0.00O worth Of Liberty Bonds.
Women in the past have been mer- {
cilessly exploited IN business. They have
been led up on the heights and shown
rubber plantations In Mexico and other
'bOnanzas' which existed only in the
mind Of the promoter. But that day is
rapidly passing. Women have learned
their lesson and today they are looking
for safe investments.
Proper cultivation Of women By pub
lie utilities, especially electric railways,
,; seems to me, would go far toward
solving present problems Of the utilities.
II Is fortunate, indeed, for public utilities
that their rehabilitation, necessitated -
war problems. is coiRcident with the
emancipation OF women Women are tax
ing their proper place in the world and
the honest public utility mana cement
with safe securities not only can obtain
financial backing from women, but thus
they also can interest them IN the general
welfare OF utilities When women own q
part OF their local utilities, they win I'M
derstand their problems and no longer
will be swayed by the demagogues who
seek personal success through assailing
public service corporations"
Mrs. Funk admOnished the men that
the women OF the United States are into
everything and are in to stay, that they
have arrived. and the proposition has to
be faced whether all the men like it OF
not She closed her talk by saying, RE
member that all women are like the ones
In your own home, and treat them like
straight-out human beings"