The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-21
By CAROLYN VANCE Special Correspondent of Tho Axe.HeraId (CopyrIght, I922, by Tho Age-HeraIdl

Copyright, 1929. by The Age-HeraId)
 Washington, May 20.-wives of statesmen, both the frivolous social butterflies and the timid, shrinking, domestic drudges, are warned that unless they get out and actively aid III ID their husbands political campaigns they are quite apt to become the wives of lame ducks.
 They are still blinking over the spectacular manner in which Mrs. Clifford Pinchot helped her husband achleVe a most astounding triumph oyer a powerful ring. only the wife or politician can truly understand Just what it was the Pinchots were ur against in Pennsylvania. Mrs. finchot stumped the state asking women to make her husband the re- publican nominee for governor. And what's more they did Even the ring politicians conceded that Pin ehots victory was a "personaI tri- umph' and that he was able to cap ttalize the enthusiasm of the newly enfranchised voters"
 Women political workers in every
 state are pointing to the Pinchot vic tery as an example of what the wife 1 of a politician can accomplish when she decides to overcome her timidity,
 inertia or in some cases her snob- btshness and disinclination to mingle With the proletariat.
 You can't expect women to get out and work for your husband, if you are not willing to work for him your self is the point that women politi- 1 cal workers are seeking tactfully to Impress upon the wives of politicians
 Refuses to Speak
 Women workers are particularly
 miffed with the attitude of a wife of senator who is up for re-elec- ton In one of the eastern states Be- fore her recent marriage to the sen ator in question, the wife was a mem- her of the cave-dweller clan, the very conservative, very exclusive old resi-
 dential set of the capital made fam ons by Mark Twain in one of his es-
 says. 1nheritantly opposed to par tlc1pation of women in public life or any form, this senator's wife has con- sistently refused to have anything to do with her husbands campaign. Though his political life is at stalk ke she goes the social round apparently oblivious to his danger and refuses all invitations to speak at women's clubs or anything of that sort.
 On the other hand at the last week ly luncheon of senators wives in the marble room of the capital one of them announced that she was going to undertake the management of her husbands campaign for reelection this summer. The other senator's wives were aghast at the idea and flutteringly piled her with hows and why's and whats. Up until the present 1t was thought that the proper way to make" a husband was to engage
 in social intrigue and angle about for invitations that would advance ones social position. Now it is realized that social position has precious iit- tie influence where politics are con- cerned. They are all eager to help their husbands but are scared stiff at tne prospect of actually participant ing in the moil and broil of a politi- cal campaign.
 Need Gift of Gab
 | The budding statesmen of the fu-
 ture. no doubt. will seek a wife who
 has the gift of gab that can be utiliz- ed to advantage in a political cam paign. Courses in public speaking will be as necessary as household economies and drawing room man
 ners in the finishing" of the fu- ture wife of a statesman. At any rate women ought to be good at kissing babies and can at least take the bur den off the shoulders of their cleo tioneering husbands.
 Since the time of the Duchess of Oueensbury who kissed a butcher in