New Britain herald., 1928-10-16

dates. Lett TO f1Rnt: Nrs. NactIlA nj
Pratt, of New York.
Editors Note: The following
sketch OF three unusual women is
written by Mrs. Newell Dwight Hill
is, feminist and author. Her political
observations and personal acquain-
lance with the three candidates
make her particularly we'll qualified
to depict their careers and person
alities.
New York, Oct. 16.-The out
come of the congressional candida
cies of the three Ruths" - Mrs.
Ruth Hanna Mccormick, Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Owen and Mrs. Ruth Sears
Baker Pratt-will be watched with
interest next month.
All three unquestionably are bril-
liant women. Two of them, Mrs. Nc
Cormick and Mrs. Owen, came very
naturally by political careers, for
their fathers were Mark Hanna and
William j. Bryan respectively. From
less unusual family familiarity with
politics, the third, Mrs. Pratt, seems
to have suffered not at all.
1t is interesting to sketch the ca
reers and personalities of the three
Ruths."
Not only did Mrs. Mccormick
have as her father Mark Hanna, the
"Kingmaker." Her husband, Mediil
Mccormick, was United States
senator, so large part of her life
has been spent in Washington in the
midst Of political planning and po-
litical society.
May BE Aiming at Senate
II illinois elects her to the House
of Representatives, it is expected
that at the end of her term she will
be a candidate for the Senate to sue
coed Senator Dcneen, who was her
husbands opponent and was elected
to his place.
She has been a member OF the
National Committee Women's Re-
publican Club; Of the Republican
National Committee; OF the Wo-
mans Trade Union League; of the
Illinois Consumers League: of the
American Association for Labor
Legislation; and Of the Girl Scouts.
Practically every person of wide
interests and responsibility has some
hobby" which gives relaxation.
Mrs. McCormick's fad is Holstein
cattle. She owns one of the finest
herds in the country, which she
keeps and personally superintends
at her summer place at Byron,
Illinois.
Besides the dairy farm at Byron,
which is her home for the greater
part of the year, she maintains an
office in Chicago and a beautiful
home In Washington. She has two
children, son and a daughter, in
their early teens.
An editorial in one of our periodi-
calls says of her with justice, Mrs.
Mccormick has a brilliant record as
suffragist, feminist. and politician of
the new type which demands clean
politics based on public service"
Ruth Owen-a Power in Herself
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen needed no
inherited prestige; she is power m
herself. She is hard worker as her
campaign witnesses. She can boast
a record of 5000 miles covered in
her automobile, to say nothing of
railroad travel. Her territory, the
Fourth District OF Florida, is the
largest in miles of any IN the United
States.
Mrs. Owen is fine and convinc-
ing speaker. Her thinking is her
own and her planning is her own
and she is her own political cam
paign manager. The organization
back of her is the result of her fore
sight. She is accustomed to appear
ing before large audiences as she
has lectured at Chautuaquas and on
other platforms many times in the
last nine years, and has been pop
ular speaker.
She was a war worker. and the
World War cost her not only indie
fatigable effort on her own part as
Red Cross nurse with General Allen
by in Egypt, out eventually 1t cost
the life of her husband. Ma jor
Owen, who died last December,
after ten years suffering from ex-
posure in Egypt.
She was one of the fifteen women
who raised money in America and
organized and carried on the Amer
lean War Hospital in Devonshire. In
this hospital 5000 men were cared
for
END TAKE ONE
She Believes in Florida
Mrs. Owen has become a thorough
Floridian. She believes in the future
of her adopted state and expects tc
live and die there. Someone has
called her ian unofficial emissary
OF good will for Florida"
Her view of women's taking pc.
litical position is illustrated by a
remark she made concerning womer
who go into politics:
To-day. with modern life sc
complicated as it is and the safety
OF children and families dependent
upon politics. there is no sense ir
the phrase Going into politics.
Politics is in the midst of the
home and is an intimate part Of
every familly's existence. Sooner OF
later. all women will realize this
and they and their viewpoint viii
be welcomed into the lawmakine
bodies
I'VE have at last woman from
] the Upper Ten in political office.