Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-19

Angeles. department directors will
make detailed reports OF their &C,
tivities during the past year and
outline programs for 1927. In addi-
ton to the routine convention busi-
ness. a notable group of speakers
have been invited TO appear before
the delegates, headed by William
Gibbs McAdoo. former Secretary OF
the Treasury. and one or the most
prominent political speakers in
America.
DOUBTLESS with the idea that
- he would get rise" out OF her
which might produce some not
copy, a correspondent recently put
half serious query to Mrs. John -.
Sherman, president Of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs. which
brought forth, not an indignant de
NAL he may have expected, but a
suave and cleverly turned reply.
which showed an unexpected clarity
of vision among these club women
whom many men have not yet learned
to take seriously!
The uuery-"Whether the club
woman Of today is to become the
ward heller of tomorrow might
have been construed as very uncom-
plimentary. But not by Mrs. Sherman.
She took it at it's face value and re-
sponded accordingly.
Her, answer revealed her never
falling sense of humor. While she
could not picture women just yet in
the role of ward heelers. she declared,
still she could not say that 1t would
be amiss to have them there. They
could not possibly add anything to
the degradation Of the position, and
they might by chance lift the occu-
patton into public respect she said
Continuing, Mrs. Sherman stated
that there is an ever-increasing mum =
Der of women who think politically
and in the course of time undoubtedly
some sort of unity would be evolved
for political purposes.
Since women have begun to think
seriously of politics. mean now the
conservative home woman who con-
Atitutes the nearly 100000 member
ship of our General Federation" said
Mrs. Sherman, they have come to
realize how disastrous it is to neglect
organization. The teamwork they
will develop eventually. however. Will
be something new in the political
world. AS organized clubwomen they
have had long experience in working
for civic interests. The basis of their
success rests in their ability TO create
public opinion. They have been able
TO meet irrational propaganda with
verified statements of fact and, con-
trary to the well established belief
have been ruled by logic and not by
sentiment.
There will be a large increase in
the woman vote in the Fall elections
but possibly not large enough To
change conditions perceptibly. Wom
en- are studying quietly and earnestly
how to take the first step. Natural
economists that they are. they do not
wish to make a single false move or
to have a single step to retrace.
The modern. efficient, studious
clubwoman Is not easily fooled. She
knows too much. She may have
gained this knowledge by using some
one else's outline or photography
but to her her club work has been A
serious thing and the trained men
tally of millions of women directed
toward better laws and better enforce
ment of those laws, backed by the
power Of the vote, will be a thing to
reckon with.
when women do become ward
heelers. | think that / can promise
a very interesting time in the wards
in which they operate. Tenacity and
tirelessness. being two chief feminine
qualities, added to long experience in
organizations. should have some effect
upon a neighborhood."
In discussing the popular theory
that women would use sentiment to
promote their political campaigns. and
by the same token would he Swayed