Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-17
CONGRESS GIVES
EAR TO VOICE OF
WOMEN VOTERS
Explains Lack of Rush of
NeU Voters TO Get in
LGI0 Body.
BY CoNsTANCE DRExEL.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE PFesi-
dent may have hard work in getting
Congress to pay attention. to the ship
subsidy bin, but Congress is listening to
the woman voter.
That Is the reason you don't see any
great rush Of women for Congress, but
more significant still, you don't see the
women's organizations wanting women in
particular nor making any effort to back
women candidates.
What. happened recently is the reason
for this. The House immigration Com
mittee reported favorably the Gable bill
granting Independent citizenship to mar
RE dwomen, already described in these
dispatches.
There is no sex war in America. All
women want is to have men pay more
attention to the woman's view Of life,
which emphasizes human aspects ahead
Of property or commercial or purely
material phases.
As the men in Congress are listening
sympathetically to this plea and APP
parently ready to transform their words
into action, women are perfectly satisfied
to be represented by men. All thag want
is men who understand"
That they are beginning to understand
was proved. After only one hearing on
the Cable bill, the committee reported 1t
out, and according to Miss Marian Park
hurst, congressional secretary of the
League Voters. a vote Is practically as
sured In the House next week Action
in the Senate viii follow soon and the
independent citizenship bill will pass thu
session. 1t is predicted. A
What with having passed the ShepW
pard Towner bill for the protection of
maternity and infancy last session, this
Congress viii have at least two good
cards to display to the women OF the
country.
Should all the forty-eight States have
one and the same date for their pri-
mary elections.
Viewing the situation. from a national
point Of view from here, 1t is possible
lots Of time and effort might be saved
thereby.
But when the question was put by the
writer to the heads of the Republican
and Democratic party's women's activi-
ties, both thought no.
Both Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton. vice
chairman of the Republican national
executive committee, and Mrs. Emily
Newell Blair of Joplin, No, resident ma
tional committeewoman, thought it might
be good thing for the country as a
whole, but that at present, at least,
States would not see it that way
Each State has it's own conditions,
climatic, industrial and agricultural in
terests to meet. What is convenient in
some States would not be convenient in
others"
Especially, Mrs. Upton, however,
thought the early primaries desirable.
IT'S much better to have them in the
spring or early summer than along in
the fall toward election day. Why? Be-
cause women don't enjoy calling a man
4 BLACKBOARD and a horse thief for sew
eral months and then having to turn
around and say what an angel he is If
the primary chooses him to run against
the opposite party.
Besides, with early primaries you get
the local issues out of the way and more
attention concentrated on issues between
the parties"
SIS for issues between the parties, Mrs.
Blair, after her trip through the Middle
West. declares the women Of the Demo-
cratic party are deeply interested In the
intricacies OF the tariff. Heretofore max
ing the tariff has been a mans job
alone. Indications point to women
studying up and having something to
say on the subject.