The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
SHARP DIVISION IN
RANKS OVER SUBJECT
CONTROVERSY BREAKS OUT
OVER WHICH IS MOST Eff
FECTIVE ON MALES.
CITE INSTANCES PRO AND CON
Matter Remains Unsettled and Each
Crusader Can Use Her Own Meth
cd in Attacking Recalcitrant Leg
islators to Any Particular Cause.

Crusader Can Use Her Own Meth
cd in Attacking Recalcitrant Leg
islators to Any Particular Cause.
| WASHINGTON, D. C.-Feminine
wiles or the "big stick" (which is
woman's best weapon in politics?
The controversy has broken out all
afresh with the naming of Mrs.
Thornton Lee Brown, of Missouri, as
national organizer of the democratic
women.
Women" opines Mrs. Brown,
manage in politics as they have learn
ed to manage their husbands. A good
dinner, specially nice dessert, nice
cigar in the husbandly mouth and
a seat on his llnee-and then, the sub
ject of frocks. That is the way a sue
cessful wife gets things from her hus-
band. 1t is the principles of that
method that women are now applying
most successfully in politics. Wheth-
er it's new hats or new appropria-
tions she is after and whether it is
husband or politician she is dealing
with, woman's best method is diplo-
macy and fnesse."
"Obsolete" IS the contemptuous an
swer of Maud Wood Park, of the
League of Women Voters.
Militants in Opposition.
"Slave tactics" thunders Alice
Paul, of the Militant National Wo-
mans party.
Women in politics today" says
Hrc D1p1y H. -
ARE above board in everything they
do. The notorious women of France
included affairs of state But | know
that the women of today do not go
about things in that way. They state
what they want-politely, of course,
and then use the influence of their
ballot to get those things"
And says Miss Paul:
eve state the situation plainly to
congressman. They either agree with
prohibitionist into an anti-prohibition-
ist nor a league of nations advocate
into bitter-ender No more can you
make feminist out of congressman
who has always been opposed to wo-
to do so. We merely go to his con-
ollLdNHAy anu CilQGdNOI " HAVE that
man defeated at the polls"
Uses Methods on Husband
But listen further to Mrs. Brown:
"Of course, have had only one
husband, but the methods / use on
him | find to be very successful in
politics. You have got to fatter men.
But you have got to use common
sense in doing it. Don't praise them
for something they are not. You can
always find good points to fatter that
they actually possess if you look for
them. The successful married woman
knows this. She knwos that fault-hnd-
ing is of no avail"
At the risk of betraying to the enc
my valuable political secrets, Mrs
Brown related an incident in her ca
reer which serves to give point to her
argument.
Cites Western Instances.
"While organizing in the far west
ern states | was ordered by national
headquarters to go to a certain small
mining town in Nevada The town
was run politically by one man. Nat
urally called on him for help. | sent
him five kilograms and received no
answer Finally | went there and in
terviewed him personally. / got
gruff mo- So | arranged, without his
help, a meeting which turned out to
be quite successful.
Then, summoning my most friend
1y manner, | visited him again.
commented on a political victory
which he had scored some time be-
fore and declared it to be marvellous.
His manner began to thaw With
little more along the same line he
capitulated entirely Before left he
had conceded me great political sagac
ity and did everything he could to
help me organize the women of his
town.
Wiles in North Carolina.
Another amusing incident that IL
illustrates the wiles of women in poll
tics occurred in North Carolina. The
North Carolina League of Women
Voters sent form letter to all mem
bers of fte state legislature advising
them that hereafter there would be
no more lobbying by women, as the
women were confident that the good
men of the North Carolina legislature
would do all they could to help wo-
men and children without being coerc-
ed.
1.-THE good men of North Caro-
Ina are reported to have felt such a
glow of satisfaction upon reading these
honeyed words that they didn't no
tice the barb in the next paragraph.
This announced that instead of lob
bying' the women would merely stand
around the corridors of the capitol
| wearing white badges, and that any
legislator who had any doubts about
pending bills affecting women and
children could learn the women's at
titude from them"
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