The Washington times., 1922-05-20
MRS. HEARST IS
HOST To WOMEN
PARTYLEADERS
Hundreds of oorgeously Gown
ed Patrons Attend Reception
to Democratic Club.
By wINIFRED VAN DUZER.
Universal Service.


ems Democratic Club, Oldest and
largest feminine political organiza'
ton in the State, was entertained
yesterday afternoon by Mrs. William
Randolph Hearst at her home on
Riverside Drive.
The reception, with the trimmings
of pink gladioli and it's hundreds OF
gorgeously gowned women, was held
in honor of the newly elected officers
of the club, and in lieu Of the first
re gular meeting following election:
Many of the guests are nationally
prominent; all are active in parry
politics, and over tea cups the b-gIn-
ming of plans were discussed whicE
may build history during the coming
year.
Mrs. John f. Hylan. wife Of the
mayor; her daughter, Mrs. John +.
Sinnott; Mrs. Grover Whalen, Mrs.
Royal S. Copeland and her mother,
Mrs. M. Friedstadt, Of Chicago, stood
In the receiving line.
With them were Mrs. John Enos
Quinn, president OF the club; Mrs.
Edward c. Hackney, Mrs. Ella
O'Gorman stanton, Mrs. NJ. O'Con.
nell, Mrs. John Dumphy, and Mrs.
Emmett Digney, vice presidents: Mrs.
p. ]. Garrett, historian; Mrs John
e. Thompson, treasurer; Mrs. John
Robert Miller, chairman of the pub
licity committee; Miss Alice G. krdr, /,
corresponding secretary. and Nus.
, Martha Burns, recording secretary.
While the orchestra supplemented
the program OF folksongs, charming
ly rendered by Nine. Crochets, or the
Russian Grand Opera Company,
number OF the club members were
asked for opinions concerning the
thing most needed now by women
! for political success.
| Mrs. Hearst stated that such pPrty
| LOYALTY as precludes all thought OF
q separate woman's organization Is
most necessary for the good OF the
| country as a whole.
The Spirit of Progress.
Clad in a gown of mauchiffon. with
tracings of silver and fleckings OF
ostrich feather trimming, the whole
cnveloping her slender person like a
| whirl OF mist, she looked very much
the figure OF concentric femininism
with feet set upon the long. Ions
trail of progress leading to the outer
edge OF a world hitherto all mans.
She thoughtfully answered the
question:
Women must have a part In poll
| tics, but not a part removed from
that which men have.
Men and women working together
are best able to work for the coun'
try's good. The masculine brain sup
elements the feminine brain: mans
Judgment balances woman's heart.
| II is so in managing n home, and the
country is a collection of homes.
There must be no separate wom-
ans party for the good OF the whole.
But we women must keep up our In
terest, which ! believe TO be deeper
than the interest of men. because II
is with us always-not only round
voting time.
I'VE are learning to take advan
tage OF our vote. The intelligence
we, show in using 1t is remarkahlC
when you consider how short has
been our time for learning.
I'VE must remember that the in
dependent vote IL the woman's vote.
Miss Elizabeth Marbury declared
the great need OF women in politics
to be experience. She continued:
"A physician doesn't learn to be a
good physician in n day or a week.
Neither does a lawyer learn on the
| Jump nor any other human being
become expert overnight.
Years OF study for them; years
for us. We are making our mis-
takes. but we are learning. We are
serious; we are going TO see 1t
through"
Mrs. Louis Reed weizmiller,
deputy commissioner OF markets,
and the only woman food commits
sioner in the United States, gave as
her opinion that women must learn
to harness politics so they will work
for the good OF the home.
The Task Ahead.
THE homemaker's task is the su-
preme test of human ingenuity. Our
homemakers are grading the ma
tion-to-be: with them rests RESPONSE
bility Of all the years to be.
| "They must learn to use the vote
to control the first necessity-food.
The food situation is acute. but few
women realize it. Not municipal
ownership of markets. but municipal
women obtain this and they shall
have brought about the thing most
needed by themselves and by their
country"
Mrs. Sadita F.. Wilson, the only
woman deputy sheriff in the county
of New York. had another idea con-
cerning the greatest need Of women
In politics:
"They must get out and work
whether they feel like II or not.
They must stop thinking about the
big, important jobs they'd like to
have, the jobs at Washington and in
the State legislature. and be satisfied
TO take on ward duties and the more
! lowly of the city positions"