Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-21
POLITICIANS AFTER
VOTE Of WOMEN
BY CAROLYN VANCE
Ieased Wire Service to The Journal.)
downright, 1927

WASt1lNSIOINS n1eAL VII 40
Brooding above the skyline in Wash
ington is an inscrutable sphinx.
Sc11rrying about its base, men and
women are dashing about in circles
humping into each other, scraping
their shins clambering up its steep
sides in an anxious effort to peer
more closely into it's inscrutable
ewes. to investigate it's inscrutable
mouth, and poke at its highly In
scrutable nose, ct al.
The sphinx is that great mass oil
newly emancipated American wom'
anhood for the most part inert po'
litically, but possessed Of untold po'
tential political power. The riddle
of the sphinx is responsible for that
-rrugated effect in Republican and
Democratic brows one sees emerging
from the Munsey and Bond build
ings. the respective headquarters OF
the two parties.
And the riddle of the sphinx re;
though dates for the spring prl'
maries are crowding upon them. For
the solving of that riddle expert
women organizers have been sent
for and installed in both headquar'
tiers at large salaries. nm,
"But," wall these women, "they
sent for us because of our knoWl'
edge of women and instead OF listen
ing to our suggestions they tell us
what to do.
poor things"-meaning the men
"all these years they have been
having their own way and it is sim
ply impossible for them to let us
tell them anything even about
women"
Questionnaires BrOadcasted
During the week bales OF ques'
tionnaires have been broadcast by
the Democrats in an effort to get a
line on the eternal feminine.
This is an eleventh-hour attempt
to find out how to interest women
in politics before the congressional
campaign actually begins. Chair
men of state Democratic commit
tees 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 a woman, I found
interviewing a procession OF stately
junoesque stenographers gorgeously
arrayed in quest of jobs, in the new
spacious headquarters of the Demo-
Gratis in the Bond building. She is
the Democratic committee woman
from Missouri who was sent for to
aid in the congressional campaign,
to give the men the woman's view
point and to "get women into the
party" She does not believe in Dem
ocratic Women's clubs.
II do not believe in segregating
women in clubs. That is not getting
them into politics. A club becomes
in reality an auxiliary, mere ladies
aid society. My problem is to reach
women and see that they have an
equal opportunity with men in the
actual workings of the party"
Enjoys Joke
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, head
ing the feminine forces within the
Republican party, has been highly
interested in the selection of Mrs
Blair to lead the Democratic WON.
en-. 1t happens that Mrs. Blair was
close friend and co-worker with
Mrs. Upton in the suffrage fight. 1t
also happens that Mrs. Upton loves
joke at her own expense. From
tho platform upon which she an.
peared with Mrs. Blair this week at
Woman's mass meeting she said
From now until November there
will be center show going on at
different places all over the coun.
try, 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. think it is unfair Of the Dem.
ocrats to put SO young and pretty
and so little a woman against me-
But" she added, rsignedly, 81
suppose I represent the elephant. u
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 pri-
maries:
II have two unmarried sisters who
have always declared that they did
not marry because all the nice men
appeared to be already married. |
have often advised them to marry
some man and make him nice for
1t is a home and matrimony that
really work this change in men. ]
advise women for the same reason
to join one of the parties, even if it
is not just to their liking, and help
make it nice There is no doubt
that participation by women in the
atFalrs of a party will improve it,
though it is just as doubtful an ex.
pertinent for women to reform a
party as to reform man by marry,
ing him."
1t is to be inferred that the party
In the mind of Mrs. Blair in need
OF reforming is the Republican party.
Vote of Confidence
Eor Rome C,o1,oynn,on4