Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-14

W Tue TWO women VINO Cln1meu the Onpy.
The real mother preferred the other woman
should have the baby rather than that 1t
should be cut in two. The pretend mother
was Indifferent to everything, even the
child's death, II she could not possess II:
suppose some persons are born game,
that Is, plucky under defeat, but most Of us
acquire gameness by. hard experience when
we are playing with either children from
five years old up. I hear children in the
square learning II today. They whimper.
II won't play" and the other. children
jeer back, well, who cares! Don't play
0NE Of the enlightening results Of this
Ospring election was the way the women
who had run for loyalty for a variety OF
small or large political positions took their
defeat They made plucky up-to-t the last.
minute campaigns and when some man got
1t. they were most Of them game and prin.
-cipally interested in the general success OF
the women's fight for better. candidates, so
that one got the impression from them that
the success they most wanted was theirs
after all.
No one was pluclAcr over her own loss
or more triumphant over the results for
women in general than woman l watched
all that election week. Mrs. Elmer Melick.
She had run for the State Legislature in
Delaware County. and l am told made the
best speeches of any candidate for any
Office In that county. II she thought about
her defeat on the Wednesday after that
strenuous Tuesday, you would never have
guessed it,
MRS. MELICK is the organizing secre-
AVA tary under Mrs. Warburton for the
women Of the State She knows more than
about the general conditions-politicnlly
spcaking-of organized and unorgnnlzed
women in the State.
read n report of hers today on that
very subject with keen interest. Apart from
everything else it wns nn able report tech
ncaly, but 1t had what few reports possess
nowadays--a human. personal interest. IL
has kind OF urge in It, DO something!
is the keynote of it's rhythm.
One will feel curious to learn just what
the State vice chairman will do. nr Is doing,
after reading it. Her responsibility to the
stop with filling the requirements OF the
machine.
TNOO many womci throughout the State
L look to her for initiative md for CO.
operation who nrr not and never can be
members Of the State Republican machine.
Indeed the chief reason why she was the
unanimous choice Of the marhn, leaders
for n second term of Office ms vice chairman
was. I take It. that she had wider in
flucnce outside the organization than any
one else inside could command. The point
Is. what will she do TO organize the women
politically along the lines upon which they
wish to be organized-the lines Of efficiency
and Of loyal patriotism and OF common
sense?
It was very plain. to Judge by the last
election, that the women voters ns n whole
do not wish to be organized ns handy
tool to be used by one political person.
They never run their clubs TINT way and
they never will be persuaded tt take politi-
cal orders that way.
AND yet women voters do understand
n team play. But it has got, to be
'cause" team plny. 1t is vastly to the
interests of the Republican Party to give
them the organization for cause team
play. The machine or organization part
Of the Republican Party has chiefly been
effective in big cities. because 1t was iavented
and has been kept up with care and money
and brains-in cities. 1t is not unbentably
strong as n country 0rgani: Ntlon ana III
many rural districts 1t has never counted
for much Of anything for the men voters
and has not made any favG--se*s impression
among the new voters, who yet nre Kcpub-
lcan md perfectly ready for organization.
Now, the late elections proved ii they
proved anything, that the country votes can
be made to count. | see ais by Mrs.
Mcrks report rs state organizer that IN
her opinion they can be made to count
politically far more than they do Mt present.
II seems to be question Of which state
organization proves the hest organizer. that
is. the most comprehcndMg OF the situation
and the best able to meet and utilize the
opportunity.
QUOTE from the report MS follows:
l "Since the admission Of women to the
Stote Republican Committee by election,
versus appointment, twenty four OF the
sixty seven counties are officially repre-
sented by women on the State Committee.
a.. mt
twenty two counties have made provision
for the admission OF women on the basis
of one woman for each voting precinct,
which will provide for from fourteen women
representatives in the smallest to III
women In the largest counties. At most
therefore, 45IO women could be on the State
Republican Committee at the present time
The question is: What about the other
women!
TNIIERE are twenty three counties in the
i State where no provision is made to
| recognize women politically in the organi-
| zati0n committees. In tnese counties the
semi official Republican women who were
| first APPOINTED on the Republican Commit
tees professionally until they could be elected
| nre 'holding the fort, as key women
politically speaking. for us to communicate
Nth. In some Instances however, these
| have no organization Of women back Of
! them There are women in all these local
tiles who are the natural women for politi-
| cal leaders. Some are easy to discover, some
must be found and interested.
The fall campaign is' coming. 1t will not
| he nm easy one, we need the co operation
of every good Republican woman in Penn
sylvania The local needs will interest each
group Of women first, but they can be
Organized to work as whole for the general
needs. They can be informed and educated
70 fll local and State Offices credtably. so
as to be proposed as candidates when the
occasion arises.
IINLESS steps are taken for this end,
u temporary groups will be formed for
campaign purposes only, whereas we want
in this State what they have In other
| States-permanent club organizations to
promote good candidates year after year
not Just this year-and clubs without per-
sonai or local prejudice.
| All counties will eventually admit women
to membership on the Republican commit =
tees, but unless we train and try out the
women in the various localities, we cannot
be assured Of the quality Of the women who
will serve on these committees through our
| recommendation or bnCking,