Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-10
WOMEN TO LNEN
SPECIAL SESSION
More Are Members of Con-
ureSS and Interest in Affairs
Is Shown Keener.
BY MARTHA DALRYMPLE,
Associated Press Staff Writer.

When the gavels fall next Monday
and bring the Seventy-first Congress
formally into being there will be plen-
ty of evidence that the interest OF
sSomen in the things that go on IN and
round the Capitol has increased to the
highest pitch in history.
There are more woman members OF
Congress than ever before, there are
more woman executives of organiza-
lions that are interested in various
legislative proposals and there are more
women throughout the country who
are taking more or less private, but,
nevertheless. eager interest in the con-
gresSional procedure.
The special session, called for the
purpose Of revising the tariff law and
elected more interest in feminine
circles than the same problems would
have aroused even five years ago.
Opinions Formed From Study.
Through their local organizations,
affiliated with national declarations, the
women have learned about national af-
fairs, they have studied the tariff and
its effect upon all industries, and have
formulated their own ideas about farm
relief, based On their association with
farm women and with organizations
devoted to the interest of agriculture.
The General Federation of Women's
Clubs, representing more than $780,
900 women, who are members of local
clubs. has not placed itself on record
on either tariff or farm relief, but it
has been instrumental in organizing
study groups. Through its rural COM
m1ttee work 1t has also endeavored to
1NfnFnCt faV f~a
ton and sought to bring about concert
e0 action by the rural women on their
problem.
The National League of Women
voters Is planning to disseminate infor-
nation on both sides of the two ques-
lions, and its congressional workers
nope to get action started on some
legislation that will continue the pro-
visions of the Sheppard-Towner mater
nifty act providing Federal aid in mater
nal and infant welfare efforts.
Special Session Action Sought.
The National WomanS party, which
has as its objective the addition of an
equal rights amendment to the Consti-
tuition, will seek action on it during the
special session, basing its hope of sue
cess on the fact that the Woman'S Suf-
frage amendment was adopted during a
special session 10 years ogo.
OF the eight woman members of the
Seventy-first Congress, the five who
were members of the preceding Con-
greSS have taken the forthcoming seS-
sion much more easily than have their
new sisters. The old-timerS have gone
about the preparatory cleaning up of
their Offices much more calmly and
they have not attempted to do every
thing that everybody has asked.
The three new ones, Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Owen, Florida; Mrs. Ruth Hanna
Mccormick, Illinois, and Mrs. Ruth
Baker Pratt, New York, have felt it
necessary, however, to put up just the
proper pictures, and arrange the I'M
compromising four walls of their new
offices in a more endurable fashion than
they found them. They have not, how
ever, allowed this task to interfere with
appointments and busy preparations to
take over their legislative duties on and
of the floor Of the House.