The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-19
QUESTION Of WHAT
 WOMEN WILL DO IS
 STIRRING POLITICS
Expert Women Organizers Working for Both Parties
 to Solve Mystery of Latest Sphinx
BY CARoLYN VINCE
Special Correspondent of The Age-Hera Copyright, 1929, by The Age-Heraldl


 Copyright, 1929. by The Age-Heraldl
 Washington, March 1S.-Brooding about the skyline in Washington is an inscrutable nx/scurrying about it's base, men and women are dashing about in circles pumping into each other, scraping their shins. clamber- ing up its steep sides In anxious ef- fort to peer more closely into its in- scrutable eyes to investigate It's in- scrutable mouth and poke at its highly inscrutable nose, ct al.
 The sphinx Is that great mass of newly emancipated American woman hood for the most part inert politi- cally, but possessed of untold poten tial political power. The riddle of the sphinx is responsible for that cor rugated effect in republican and democratic brows one sees emerging from the Munsey and Bond buildings the respective headquarters of the two parties.
 And the riddle of the sphinx re- mains unsolved in both camps, though dates for the spring primaries are crowding upon them. For the solving of that riddle expert women organ izers have been sent for and installed in both headquarters at large sal aries.
 But" wall these women, they sent for us because of our knowledge of women and instead of listening to our suggestions they tell us what to do"
 Poor things" meaning the men, "all these years they have been hay ing their own way and 1t is simply impossible for them to let us tell them anything even about women" Questionnaires By Bale
 During the week bales of question naires have been broadcast by the democrats in an effort to get line on the feminine. This is an eleventh hour attempt to find out how to in- terest women in politics before the congressional campaign actually be- gins. Chairman of state democratic committees have been asked what they know about the mysterious sex. A lot of bumptious replies will no doubt be received from men who are sure they know all about women.
 Mrs. Emily Newell Blair. a little brown wren of woman, found in terviewing procession of stately Junoesque stenographers gorgeously arrayed in quest of jobs in the new spacious headquarters of the demo- crats in the Bond building She Is the democratic committeewoman from Missouri who was seen for to aid in the congressional campaign, to give the men the women's viewpoint and to "get women into the party she does- not believe in democratic women's clubs
 1T do not believe in segregating women iu clubs. That Is not getting them into politics. club is in reality mere ladies' aid society The problem Is to reach women and see that they have an equal opportunity with men in the actual workings of the party"
 Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton, head ing the feminine forces within the republican party has been highly in- terested in the selection of Mrs. Blair to lead the democratic women. It happens that Mrs. Blair was a close friend and co-worker with Mrs. Up- ton in the suffrage fight. It also hap pens that Mrs. Upton loves a joke at her own expense. From the platform upon which she appeared with Mrs. Blair this week at a womsn's mass meeting she said:
 Gold Dust Twins Act
 From now until November there will be center show going on at dif- ferent places all over the country, an act entitled the Gold Dust Twins. You know we politicians, Mrs. Blair and l. go wherever we are invited and often where we are not I think 1t Is unfair of the democrats to put so young and pretty and so little a woman against me"
 But" she added, resignedly, q suppose I represent the elephant Whereupon the petite Mrs. Blair arose and said she supposed Mrs. Upton included her in the donkey class.
 Democrats and republicans agree on one subject and that is that women should belong to some party. Mrs. Blair tells this story in an eff, fort to induce women to join a party and vote in the coming primaries. "I have two married sisters who have always declared that they did not marry because all the nice men appeared to be already married. l have often advised them to marry some man and make him nice, for it is a home and matrmony that really so that none will leave empty handed while the more alert and thrifty will have a nice little nest egg''i with