Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-11
WOMEN GET FEW
JOBSFROM HOOVER
But President Is Expected to
Recognize Sex Adequately
in Due Course.

Prominence of women in this weeks
Republican national committee meeting
in Washington was accompanied by ami
mated discussion-unoficia and in
formally-about the why and where
fore of the conspicuous absence of the
sex in the makeup of the Hoover adj
ministration.
The c.. o. P. sisters are not in critical
mood. except in one or two cases, but it
was matter of general remark that to
date President Hoover has named but
one woman to a place Of distinction.
She is DR.. Ada L. Constock, president
of Radcliffe College, who is the woman
member of the Wickersham law En-
forcement Commission.
Other women have received appoint
ments to less important commissions,
such as tip ones dealing with education
and child health. In the administra-
ton proper. no daughter Of Eve has so
far found placement Considering that
the "women's vote figured heavily
in Mr.. Hoover's bumper majority last
November. eyebrows on certain feminine
political foreheads are beginning to be
raised little in wonder. tinctured here
and there with disappointment and
Impotence.
Women to Get Recognition.
It can be stated on pretty first-hand
Hoover will draft a woman or women
for conspicuous service in his admin
istration. A Republican leader who has
access to the inner Sanctum OF the
White House defines Mr.. Hoover's pro-
gram in this connection In terse and
logical terms. The President" ne says,
ais looking for the right jobs for woni-
en-, and, when he has found them, he
will seek out the right women for the
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this will happen. 1t may not be until
the Hoover plan for reorganization of
Government departments is worked out
and in operation.
Another explanation of delay in
manning" high Federal posts with
women is that members of that sex
who have demonstrated capacity for adj
miniStrative or executive jobs are al
ready firmly intrenched in sucn posi-
tionS all over the country-heads of
schools and colleges, directors of well
fare work, presidents of Women's fed
erations or patriotic bodies and other
posts to which feminine talents are par
ticularly adapted.
Opinion is expressed in Washington
that the moment some women diStin-
guish themselves in lines suggesting
their special availability for Govern
ment service they are not likely to have
TO wall long De1Ore receiving summons
from the White House. But the Hoover
yardstick calls for something more than
sex claims and party regularity.
Mrs. Withdrawals Successor:
Nearly everybody, in and out of the
Republican party. expected that Presi-
dent Hoover's first woman appointment
would be a successor to Mabel Walker
Willebrandt as Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral. That expectation was the stronger
because of the fact that Mrs. WILLIE
brandt's predecessor, appointed by Pres
ident Wilson, was a woman. Mrs. An
nette Abbott Adams of California. The
present indication is that Mrs. Willie
brandt's successor will be a man. The
one slated for the post is Hugh M. Al
corn. States attorney of Connecticut
During the nine or ten years of wom-
ems enfranchisement. the various PreSi-
dents have not been overgenerous in the
bestowal of official plums upon them.
President Wilson, in addition to the ap-
pointment of Mrs. Adams to the De-
partment of Justice, named the late