The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13

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 HARRISBURG, "a, May 7.--'N, om- en prohibition officers should not be expected to go into saloons and buy drinks, as has been suggested. but theirs should be positions of trust and responsibility in the great bus mess of enforcing the prohibition law. Women should be placed in administrative departments where licenses are issued and where graft lies"
 Mrs. Clifford Pinchot, whose hus- band is governor of Pennsylvania. expressed these opinions in an inter view at the executive mansion in Harrisburg. She recently laid before President Harding her plan for woman -officerlng an entire area for the enforcement of the prohibition law.
 q do not say that women are any more moral or unbribable than men, said Mrs. Pinchot (they pronounce 1t "Pinsho"), but 1 do contend that they are more alive to the fact that pro- hibition is moral issue and that they are able to make their commu- mites realize what this whole break dcwn in prohibition means. They are not cynical in their attitude tow ards this law or any other law.
 Laws Not n Joke To Women.
 "They do not jest about laws be- ing made to be broken.
 q outlined all this to President Harding and suggested that rural section be chosen for the experiment of having an all-woman corps, to enforce the law.
 T do not believe prohibition is or ever was question of sex and have always been glad that the Eighteenth amendment was passed before women were given the vote"
 Mrs. Pinchot's political position was earned long before her hus- bands election as Pennsylvania's governor, for she has been a member of the executive committee of the state republican committee and was a political guide for the National League of Women Voters in the first years after woman suffrage was es- tablished. In the capitol there was introduced legislation known as Mrs. Pinchot's bills."
 "A prohibition officer has stated that the average woman candidate for this work is of the neurotic typo ard a good many of them are grass widows. That is very superficial obiection." she continued. Tt Is probably true that self-selected can didates are from such types of indi- ylduals. but l can see no reason why choice of selection is limited to them"
 Suggestion Brings Letters.
 "Where would you go for good material?" asked.
 "To the churches, womens organi- zations, clubs And I am referring not solely to the Womens Chrlstlan Temperance union, as the source or a list of names tf proper women who would be willing Co give their serV- ices, not because they want Jop but from sense of civic duty.
 "I receive many letters each day from women all over the country in sympathy with my suggestlon' WHO feel it is the true solution. some are from women whC think l can get them jobs as prohibition agents. want to see women in places Of au- thority and responsibility where, after all. the biggest forms of graft must be contended with.
 During this interview o,,,ce M ptna ao chot to be the key unlocking the sitt box. kept interrupting.
 "I tell them I'm sorry, but that can do nothing" she said after one such interlude as she resumed ner knitting in the combination oiiise l second floor front tf the executive mansion. She sticks to Her Knitting
 Do you know that in all the years used to come to Harrisburg Tn the old suffrage days never once ulu leave the beaten path from railroad station to hLtel to capitol to rallroau station again? The knitting? l stick to the wartime habit. It keeps my hands busy, my child's legs warm and reporter duerying.
 ..Sneaking of prohibition, l never worked for or against it, but when if became a law l cleared out the wine cellar and nothing alcoholic has been served on my table since that time potor
 A great granddaughter Of Peter Cooper. whose benefactions made New Yorks famous Cooper unlon nossible. she was brought up Tn Washington Square, the New York or Henry James. Electric Ill person ality, striking in appearance Corne- lia Bryce pinchot is a pohtical power on her own-being wife to governor is an incidental state. While cam pajyning last year in her husbands interests she discovered that the man who raises new issues is always dis- ta asteful to the politicians. She Thinks for Herself
 "He musses up what has been tidily arranged" she says, but we cannot expect to meet our problems with few inherited ideas, uncritical as sumptions. foggy NtcaDulary anu routine philosophy. This failure to meet issues. this tendency to gloss over and explain away differences or oninion. to dwell upon series or uia atitudes acceptable to all and offen- sive to none, to appear to be moving forward and yet be standing stili' IS due to a desire to preserve an out ward appearance Of serenity ana l'h perturbabilty" .,.
 "'Do you and the Governor thlhh alike on everything?'
 "Indeed not. Clifford anc l are separate persons. out the problems of the world are created by the pas sions and the needs of both men ana women with mutual interests ana occupations that cut ..cro@s all mere sex lines. It is obvious that these nroblyms can only be solved Dy men and women working together, slae by side. Women see life from al, ferent angle and they necessarily represent a somewhat different point of view. in some essentials their political contribution will be quite different One of their contributions can be challenges to party formulas They can give themselves over to re- establishing definite meanings Tn party platforms.'
 Governor Gives His Views.
 How significant is this stand pennsylvania has taken in lacking up Drohibition?" Governor Pinchot was asked upon return rom the capitol to sit for newspaper photo- grapher.