Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09
BY CORINNE FRAZIER.


" HE attitude of the two jor
presidential candidates toward
the equal rights amendment will
4 be the basis of decision as TO
the election policy of the Ma.
tional Woman's Party. to be determined
at the special conference of national
and State officers of the feminist or
ganization at its headquarters on Capt.
tel Hill, Tuesday.
Following reports of various State
and national officers as to the attitudes
indicated or expressed by the respective
political party candidates on the issue
paramount in the Woman's Party pro-
gram, open discussion will be held at
the conference session and vote taken
to determine in which direction tn"
party shall throw its support, according
10 officials at headquarters.
Preceding the conference the national
council of the Woman's Party will meet
tomorrow for it's monthly business con-
clave. Current business will be con-
sidered and reports prepared in any
matters which the council might wish
to bring before the conference on Tues
day.
Anita Pollitzer of South Carolina
vice chairman of the Woman's National
Party, already has arrived for the two
meetings, and is staying at headquarters
Miss Pollitzer is devoting her time. at
present. to obtaining civic. State and
Federal legislation giving equal indus
trial opportunities to men and women.
believing ito use her own words that
women are safe only when the economic
field is open to them on tfe same terms
as to men. and when natural selection
rather than the arbitrary decision Of
legislators and officials determines the
fields women shall enter"
Mabel Vernon of Wilmington, Del,
national executive secretary of the Ma
tional Womans Party. returned to
Washington yesterday after a brief va
cation. and will attend the council
meeting and the conference.
REPRESENTATIVE FRANKLIN w.
N FORT of New Jersey and Huston
Thompson, former member of the Fed
eral Trade Commission, will discuss at
length What the Presidential Candi-
dates Say on Farm Relief" as the major
features Of the program of the League
of Women Voters Radio Voters Service
Tuesday evening. each speaker present.
ing his version of the relative merits of
the farm relief solutions offered by Mr..
Hoover and Gov. Smith In their recent
acceptance speeches.
The program will be broadcast from
Station WRC. Washington. at O'Clock
eastern daylight saving time), through
the courtesy of the National Broadcast
ing Co.
Representative Fort has been a stu
dent of the farm problem for several
years and was the leading spokesman
for the Republican administration in
the farm debates in the last session of
Congress The radio audience will re-
call that Mr.. Fort presented the ma
tority opinion in the farm relief discus
sion incident to the adoption of the Re-
publican platform by the Kansas City
convention. He has been member Of
Congress since 1925. During the war
period he was member of the United
States Food Administration.
Huston Thompson has for long time
maintained leading position in Demo-
cratic party circles and is particularly
interested in his party's remedial plan
for the farm problem. He was an As
eistant United States Attorney General
from 1917 to 1918, and then was APP
pointed by President Wilson as men,
Der of the Federal Trade Commission.
He served on the commission for eight
years.
MRS. ELIZABETH L. CLARK, Re-
As1 publican national committeewo-
man of Ohio, was one of the first COM
mitteewomen to reach washington In
answer to the call to conference issued
last week by Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, ma
tional vice chairman. She arrived Tues
day at national headquarters, where she
outlined to Mrs Hert plans for getting
out the woman vote In Ohio, and will
return home Thursday for meeting OF
State leaders, with which the organized
Hoover-Curtis campaign will be inaugu-
rated
Mrs. Clark told Mrs. Hert that the
women of Ohio are strong Hoover sup
porters. His humanitarian activities
touch their hearts," she said, land his
deeds and achievements appeal to their
intellects"
st is unusual to find a man who Is
rs great a business man as Herbsr.
Hoover has proved himself to be who
vet finds time to be actively concerned
In the welfare of the children OF our
country" Mrs. Clark said. "As president
of the American Child Health Associ-
alton, he gives impetus to the work OF
that organization and is indirectly re-
sponsible for improving the health OF
our juvenile population. In every one
of his public addresses he stresses the
importance of giving children an oppor-
tunity for health, education and happi-
ness.
THAT alone is enough to win the ad-