Evening star., 1923-12-17
TALKS and TALES
With and About
CAPITALS GUESTS

ousy woman is fearful nuisance" he
certainly must have lacked vision Of
1873 conditions, for few present day
political economists will deny that
the more occupied is milady the
greater are the chances of her worth
being appreciated
In fact. SO gigantic have been the
STRIDES taken by fair woman along all
lines Of endeavor during the past
twenty years that a nervous world
mas long since stopped to marvel at
her accomplishments per-
laps IL be some unusual achievement
therefore. under such classification.
listen to the story of how an Indiana
schoolmarm, tired of routine life in
the classroom, laid aside her ruler,
chalk and text book. took flyer into
the realm of mans domain and within
ten years not only advanced to the
head of one of the best known road
construction companies in her section
put proved herself such reg lar fell
ier' that the grand old republican
party. of the Hoosier state chose her
associate member of it's national COM
mittee, where today she is consulted
on all vital political matters.
In 1913 Miss Dorothy Cunningham
was living quietly with her two
brothers at Martinsville. Ind, their
Old home, about thirty miles from In
tianapolis. The boys We're moving
apirits in the Cunningham Construc-
zion Company and the girl taught in
the village school.
Overtaxed with contracts, one day
The brothers asked their sister to
supervise a small piece of road-bui
ing near their home. Not only did
the girl accomplish the task. but did
1t with such thoroughness that re-
peated requests of the same nature
became very frequent. until one
1fTff rhN s,.,, 1,a1Y.
baked in her traces, and patiently
waiting for the stronger members of
the Cunningham family to appear at
breakfast. she greeted them with
This:
Boys. you know I'm no shirker,
but l can't play two games. From
now on it's either teaching or road
building. Now, which shall 1t be-,
Road building snapped back the
two in unison, and from that moment
Dorothy Cunningham's rise in the
construction business has been mar
Nelous
When seen at the New Willard
Hotel where she remained for sew
eral days after adjournment of the re-
publican national committee. Miss
Cunningham. who had just returned
from visit to President Coolidge:
SPOKE in most optimistic terms of
general road Improvement in In
diana. and said she would hurry home
20 finish a long stretch of the Dixie
Highway. for which she held the con-
tract incidentally she added that her
business allowed her wonderful op-
Dortunity to slip over telling propa-
Ganda for the party of her choice.
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Ard while on. the subject Of advan-
tages enjoyed by the twentieth CEN
fury girl. let it be said that the public
school system Of Philadelphia in
cludes in its curriculum a feature that
would probably have Courted the
whipping post back in the dark days
when the sweet young thing craving
a college education was looked upon
generally as a forward little mink.
According to rules and regulations
of free institutions of learning in the
City OF Brotherly Love, all young
women in the last year Of high school
are entitled to a two-day visit 10
Washington month before thelr
graduation They are accompanied by
a teacher in charge. and the object of
the trip is to acquaint them with the
many points OF historical interest in
and around the great heart OF the ma
tion.
Entering the Hotel La Fayette Sat
urdav afternoon the -uninformed
would have gambled all they expected
TO receive Christmas that another
beauty show was being staged in the
lobby OF the house. so crowded was
the foyer with clusters Of loveliness
Investiga ton proved. however, that
the fifty-three beauteous maidens
We're last-term girls from the Ken
gathering their baggage for a return
trip to their homes. after two dee
lightful'' days spent in the nation
great Capital.
"Yes, it is part of the course"
smiled charming Miss B. A. Fenimore.
principal in charge. when questioned
about the party. "All of our nigh
schools send those girls. about to
graduate to Washington few weeks
before they finish. You have so much
Of interest here. and then, too. II is
really a wonderful aid to the young
mind to see first hand the many gov
crnmental institutions about which
they have studied. I always-but
just then the porter beloved All
aboard" and in another second SIX or
seven taxis were speeding to Union
station jammed to their halyards with
Philadelphia's fairest. Did you ever
notice taxis are always on time when
least wanted?
Nothing tickled the funny spot of
an old-line, stand-pat, southern re-
than the reported claims of Senator
Hiram Johnson's managers that the
action taken at the recent republican
national committee meeting, relative
to the apportionment of southern
delegates to the G. o. P. convention,
was thrasted out and put over by ad-
ninistration leaders.
"Bosh," exclaimed Col. III. l.. Rem
mel of Little Rock. Ark, president of
the Bankers Trust Company of that
. city and republican leader in Arkan-
sas for-well, never mind how long
as he threw down his newspaper IN
the Washington Hotel.
Such talk is absurd. President
Coolidge and his hackers had no more
10 do with it than any other leaders
in particular. In fact: we OF the
south, Tolbert of South Carolina, my
self and others. who are familiar with
the situation and know how Gov. Al
Smith and Mayor Hylan of New York
and other northern democrats are ca
tering to the colored vote. were most
ly responsible for the action taken
by the committee. We fought the re-
duction to the last ditch. and / am
glad that our arguments were finally
respected"
Col. Remmel reported conditions in
his home state as most encouraging.
Our rice farmers-and you know
Arkansas is the third largest rice
growing state in the Union-are pros
porous. while our apple growers are
looking for big year. said the
banker as he fumbled for some sta
tistics.
"Ah. here it is,' he continued, as he
laid out a paper. Let me show what
spring rains did to our cotton. OF
the 1,o40, 900 bales of cotton raised in
1922, on November IA, that year, we
had ginned 925.324 bales. while the
same date this year shows that only
471,972 bales have been ginned. In
other words, loss of so per cent.
OF course, the advance in price will
help materially, but our cotton rails
ers suffered greatly earlier in the
year. Next to Texas we raise more
cotton than any other state"
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