The Washington herald., 1922-06-19
WOMEN OF VARIED
ROLES SUGGESTED
! FOR Il GREATEST
Leaders of Divergent
Fields of Activity Re
ceive Votes.
PICK WOMAN OF 72
Plans to Select Chosen Dozen
Will Be Announced
Within Few Days.

" men MEs. MAUI "oO X,
president Of the National League Of
Women Voters. asked the people OF
the United States, who are the
greatest dozen living American
women?" she anticipated a keen
controversy, but she did not calcu-
late on the avalanche of names
which has almost overwhelmed the
leagues headquarters here.
Hundreds of candidates have been
suggested. either in groups OF
twelve or singly. Meantime, Seno-
rita Graciala Mandujsna, the Chi
lean newspaperwoman, for whom
Mrs. Park asked the question. waits
patiently while the Women's Joint
Congressional committee passes the
buck" to a special committee of FIVE
prominent men and fve prominent
W women to extract the desired dozen
This. however, is an unofficial
committee, and the league expects
to announce final plans for select
ing the twelve greatest within the
next few days.
Na"ts NepeattuIy hehtIOnfu.
Mrs. Park has permitted an In.
spection OF the hundreds of names
suggested by men and women all
over the country. and though sew
eral women OF national prominence
are included therein. several incon-
spicuous names are also repeatedly
mentioned.
There were of course many votes
cast for women generally recc e.
nized as prominent. such as Mrs
Warren, G. Harding. Mrs Woodrow
Wilson. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
Miss Jeanette Rankin. nrst woman
ever to be elected to Congress: Miss
Jane Adams Of Hull House. Chi
cago: Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Garden. and Miss NJ Carey
Thomas OF Bryn Mawr College
Also. Helen Keller. the famous blind
and deaf student. received several
votes. but strangely. her teacher,
Mrs. Macy. was omitted from all
choices
Choosing at random. guided only
by the large number of votes re-
ceived through letters OF suggestion
to the league. list OF twelve
women representing extremely d.
verEent helds OF activity in the
country. is herewith presented:
Many Mime Maud Adams.
/. Maud Adams. because of her
talent as an actress and particularly
prominent because of her portrayal
of Peter Pan"
2. Mary Anderson, director OF the
women's Bureau OF the Department
Of Labor. because of her official posi-
tion and work in behalf OF women
in industry.
3. s. Inez Entwistle. now head OF
a large New York importing COM
pany. formerly head of the sales
distribution department of the
a member of the executive commit
pany.
4. Florence Kelley. president OF
the National Consumers League and
prominent in connection with the
welfare work in behalf of women In
Industry.
5. Julia Lathrop, founder and
former director of the Children's
Bureau of the Department of Labor,
now retired and living in Rock
ford. Ill.
g. Cassity f. Mason. founder and
president of the Castle School at
Tarrytown. n. Y. and for the last
ten years president general Of the
Pan American Round Table of New
York
Hawaiian Woman HonOred.
/. Rebecca Okama. of Hawaii, now
president of the Hawaiian Women's
Clubs, a trained nurse of Influence
and said to he the leading woman in
Hawaiian hospital work and poi-
itics.
s. Mrs Henry Parsons. who at ~
is still actively directing the NUM-
ciple Gardens for Children in New
York and has been doing thSs work
for the last twenty years.
9. Mary Brooks Picken. vice pres
ident and director of instruction of
the Women's Institute of Scranton,
Pa, prominent correspondence
school for women.
10. Or. Valeria Parker, of the
United States Interdepartmental So
Cial Hygiene Board and advocate of
sex hygiene instruction in public
schools.
II. Cora Wilson Stewart, OF Ken
lucky. founder of the Moonligh,
Schools for fighting illiteracy among
the Kentucky mounta ineers.
IL. Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler, OF
Chicago. eminent pianist and chosen
by Illinois men and women as the
leading woman musician in Amer
lea.
This list or any other of the scores
of lists that might be made up from
the names sent to league headquar-
ters. Mrs. Park suggested, indicates
clearly how difficult II is to deter
mine what makes for greatness
One of the official committees frs,
jobs, 1t is said. will be the setting
up of a standard of greatness for
the dozen greatest women.