The Washington times., 1925-08-03
NEW NE MBER
OF CONGRESS
IN TOWN
{ Mrs. Rogers Laying Plans
For Veterans
Legislation

1sR FRS. JOHN JACOB ROGERS,
--lW of Massachusetts, the newest
cxN1 addition to the Congress OF
.. the United States, is back In Wash
bsington for the first time since her
reelection, on June 80, to succeed her
S husband as Representative from the
Fifth district of the Bay state.
- Mrs. Rogers spends some nours
y. In her office on Capitol H1ll-tne
same office occupied by her husband
-z-getting things into shape for the
= opening of Congress, in December'
A. She plans to introduce a Dill, or
bills, that will have to do with the
.s.bettermenf of the world war veterans
- but she is not saying now Just
= what this legislation viii be.
Her work with and Tor the vet
: Grams Mrs. Rogers believes is
largely responsible for her election
veto Congress. In this work Ger,
- taiply she never seems to weary
-sof well-doiug.
g She VIII continue in the veterans
= hospital inspection work until she
has to get down to- labor in Con-
gressiOnal halls IN December. To
this work she was appointed by
President Harding and later by
= president Coolidge Moreover 1t is
-,at President Ceolidge's request that
.rshe will continue sier inspection OF
Hospitals until she must assume her
-yother duties.
81 During the remainder OF the sum-
nler and autumn she viii try to
ssTisft as many veterans hospitals
built since the war as possible.
Consequently, she VIII be out OF
flown much Of the time.
Mrs. Rogers refuses to let herself
be classed with women who have
been elected merely because they
were their husbands widow.
SO "In my campaign, she says,
Mound definite antagonism by men
ato women holding high office.
b MY husbands district loved him
HAND felt / would carry on his work,
llsbut even that would not have saved
lime from defeat If / had done notn-
Ting except be my husbands wife. :
Be The new Congresswoman says she
lliisn't taking office as a feminist, a
liswoman or q pacifist. She isn't a
..spacifist or feminist, and she viii try
I.not to consider questions as wo-
Imam first and a CongresswOman
Nafterwards. She wants 20 be a
kMember OF Congress first and a Con-
gresswoman afterwards.
l.
;iFATHER OF DAUGHTER
WashiExton society is much In
!. terested in the news that daugh-
..stsr has been born to Colonel VIII
:; liam Mitchell, formerly Brigadief
q Gtneral Mitchell. and Mrs. Mitchell
1.-THE child was born yesterday IN
ssDefroif where Mrs. Mitchell has
8 been staying with her mother. Mrs
q sydney Miller Colonel Mitchell Is
3 now stationed at Fort Sam Houstoa
.f News of the arrival Of the child.
who has been named Lucy Trum.
=. buil Mitchell. did not come as a
I surprise here. Indeed its impending
birth has been the subject of mucn
whispered conversation between
.;sthosc who knew and those who
y wished to know.
n Mrs. Mitchell was Miss Elizabeth
II ME.ler before her marriage about
~ tMo wears ago to General BILLY
g Mitchell-soon after he had obtained
e a divorce from his first wife who
4. makes her home in Washington.
sh The American minister to
Sweden. Robert Woods Bliss, who
was in Washington a few days last
week, viii sail the later part OF
! this week to Join Mrs. Bliss in
ss.Stockholm. Mr.. Bliss was sum-
s.5moned to this. country by the
.serious illness Of his. father. VIII
s.liamfH. Bliss, in his home in Cali
Norma. Mr.. Bliss, ST., is now con-
fil'.valescing.
The acting Secretary of the navy,
ssssZ7rheodore Douglas Robinson. re-
syturned to Washington today from
r. Herkimer, n. Y, where he spent
a few days with Mrs. Robinson
and their children.