The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-24

are beginning to analyze and study them
further.
Passing on Individual.
The first and most decided characters
tic which has yet appeared IS the Judg-
ment of the individual-his mental and
moral value to the community. The
women have shown remarkable inclina-
ton toward the candidate whose personal
reputation is devoid of the faint of pro-
playing politics. all his life and is part
and parcel of the old political organlza-
ton has much less chance nowadays as
opposed to new blood.
Second, the feeling against party or
CARNATIONS and previous methods OF
party canvass is growing more intense
every day The solicitation of votes
through the hiring of professional ward
workers may have worked all right In
the past but from what little can be gath
cred from close observation of the woman
vote the custom is bound to hurt the
political candidates who use it rather
than help them. In short, the women
are inclined to be rather resentful at at
tempt to influence their vote-they want
to be left free to make up their own
minds
Third the women are anxious to quiz
the candidates and get them on record
on definite queries of interest to them and
the community. This is getting to be
more noticeable in state and local cleo
tons where women have organized and
the candidates are showing much more
regard for these questionnaires than ever
before And what's more, the women are
beginning to check up after election and
see whether the candidates have sincerely
kept their promises.
Women Support Workers.
Is the woman voter a radical? Far
from it. Candidates of proved worth to
the congress and state legislatures who
are conservative IN their polcles but
work hard at their jobs and attend to
business have received the support of
woman voters 1t is not so much the
particular trend of a candidates thought
on public questions as his sincerity and
earnestness of purpose which wins the
woman vote. The tendency is to vote for
men who are believed to be honest. cour-
ageous and to depend upon them to
vote for the best interests of the COM
munity, national and state.
I've seen women in three states, said
Mrs Maud Wood Park. president of the
National League of Women Voters, on
her return from conventions of state
leagues in Ohio, Indiana, and New Jer-
sey, "and many of these women were
not in sympathy with the suffrage move
ment in the earlier days but they show a
I growing interest in our creed of educa-
| ton for efficient citizenship and | am
| deeply impressed with their earnestness.
/ It's going to mean a tremendous thing
when every mother can give her child
/ the foundations of his or her political
I education and it is because women feel
| this so strongly they are attending our
| league schools of citizenship. Its odd
| that we should ever have expected boys
\ to grow up regarding the intelligence of
| the vote as a credulity when the mothers
reply to questions about local govern
ment and politics was usually, Ask ia
| Their when he comes home The psychol-
\ ogy of il was wrong. The child doesn't
4 have to wait to ask father If the ques-
tiOns concern matters of right and wrong,
mothers of tomorrow will answer. Duties
of citizenship should be taught in the
/ home"
/ ''Progressivism'' is still a nebuIous
4 phrase even with the woman voter They
mean TO be progressive in the dictionary
/ sense of the term without its early polit-
! zeal meaning. But every sign points to
! a development of progressivism with q
/ capital letter in both POLITICAL parties in
| identifying with it doctrines of better
| appreciation of the moral value of those
4 who seek public Office