Evening star., 1925-01-25

A great national organization OF
women has placed itself on record as
urging the appointment OF women TO
such positions as assistant secretaries
of the various Government depart
ments and President Coolidge may
shortly be memorialized to that end.
| The next step will be, according TO
well informed leaders, to secure a
cabinet post for a woman, and after
that the beneficiaries of the nine
teenth amendment will have only to
achieve the vice presidency and presi-
dency to make their conquest OF
politics complete.
Some man politicians are asking
where the women will stop, and
others, where they can be stopped, II
at ALL The women themselves say
there is no reason why they should
stop with any office short of the high
est, although no one who speaks au-
| thoritatively for them will suggest
the likelihood OF a woman being a
candidate for President within the
next few years.
They insist, however. that a woman
President of the United States is
| within the bounds of possibility, and
| that there is no question of woman 8
| ability to discharge the duties OF that
high Office There have been woman
rulers of great countries, they point
out. who made records quite as credit
able as those of men, and the Amer
| lean woman has the intellect, the
courage, the executive ability, and
| the moral stamina to rank her with
distinguished leaders of the sex In
other lands. in this age or any other,
Since suffrage was made nation
wide in the United states women
have held almost every kind of cleo
tive or appointive public office. In
the executive field they have had
everything from mayor and city man
| aeer to the governorship of a State
| in the legislative realm they have
| served on town and city councils and
| boards of aldermen, in State legisla-
| lures and in the lower branch of the
| Congress of the United States. One
| woman even reached the Senate by
appointment, but only for an interval
| so brief that 1t cannot be said she
| served as Senator.
| In the judicial division of our gov
ernmental system they have held city
and county judgeships and one woman
| has attained membership in the
| Supreme Court Of State.
Two Woman Governors.
| Texas and Wyoming now boast
woman governors, Mrs. Miriam A
Ferguson having been elected to a
| full term in Texas, thus attaining the
| office her husband once held and re-
| signed, and Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross
having been elected to serve the un-
| expired term of her husband, who
| died in office.
| New Mexico has had a woman lieu
| tenant governor and woman secre-
| tary of state, and at the recent cleo
ton Mrs Florence E. S. Knapp was
chosen Secretary of State OF New
| York, the first woman to win an I'M
| portant state office in the East. -Four
| years ago a. woman candidate Tor the
| same offce in New York and this
year woman candidates for Secretary
| of State in Rhode Island, West Vir-
| einia and Missouri were defeated.
| Indiana elected a woman to State
| office for the first time last Novem'
ber. Mrs. Emma Eaton White being
chosen reporter of the Supreme Court
| and women were elected state super
intendents of public instruction II
Colorado, North Dakota and Wash
inrton. The latter position has beer
| held by women in Idaho, Iowa, Mon
tana. New Mexico and Wyoming.
Mrs. Mary IT. Horton of New Jer-
sew is the first woman to break int
Congress from an Eastern State, anc
she was also the only woman elected
to the House OF Representatives III
1924, although there We're number
of woman nominees Mrs. JULIUS
| Kahn is now q candidate for the sea
long held by her husband, the late
ch hairman of the House committee OF
military affairs, and is said to hav'
| a. fair chance of success.
Miss Jeanette Rankin Of Montana
earned the distinction of being tn,
first woman elected to Congress, bu
twhen she refused to vote on thu
declaration of war she made herself {
one-termer Miss Alice Robertson
of oklahoma, the next woman to b,
elected to the House, also served bu
one term. Mrs. Winifred Huck o
Hin ois served the unexpired term o
her fathers matter OF but tw'