Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-22
WOMAN MEMBERS
OF HOUSE ACTIVE
Jump at Chance to Get Away
From "Woman's Angle"
' in Congress.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Another opportunity for women to
forget the "woman's angle" in ap~
proceeding national problems has been
offered by tariff and farm relief-and
women in Congress have seized 1T with
alacrity.
Representative Ruth Baker Pratt Of
New York, who made her second speech
on the floor of the House Monday in
opposition to the proposed increase in
the tariff on sugar, later declined to
state her position for quotation among
the group of Congresswomen.
Wants Record to Stand.
whatever 1 have to say on any
problem" she explained. must be
Judged on its merit as coming simply
from a Representative-and not from a
woman Representative"
She added that she desired that her
record stand in comparison with that OF
the full membership Of the House,
rather than with that of other feminine
legislators
Other Congresswomen, while they
have not definitely asserted their IN
clinations. have attacked their problems
apparently from the same standpoint.
Their activities have ranged from
speeches on the floor to extended
appearance before committees and con-
ferences with the President.
Works for Farmers.
Representative Ruth Bryan Owen,
who has directed her movements ener-
getically in the interest Of farmers OF
her own Florida district tailed another
score bv going to President Hoover with
Representative Swing OF California, 10
ask that if any change Is made IN the
reciprocal treaty with Cuba. protection
whose competition, she said, comes
principally from Cuba.
Already she had scored In connection
with the special appropriation for con-
troll of the Mediterranean fruit ny, a
menace to agriculture in her State, and
an increase in the allowance per acre to
farmers for seeds.
Mrs. Rogers Active.
In another field formerly held by
men-that of commerce and manufac-
acknowledgements Edith Nourse
Rogers of Massachusetts has been
prominent. She has appeared repeat
edly before the ways and means COM
mittee. vigorously urging removal OF
boots and shoes from the free list In
the tariff bill She has been active
also in conferences Of her delegation
and last week urged on the floor OF the
free list.
Writes Members.
Early in the tariff revision discussions
she made a step toward grasping the
attitude of the House as whole by
writing to each member separately and
asking for his opinion on manufactur-
ing schedules. Responses were many
and in some cases lengthy, she said,
from Democrats as well as Republicans.
She has held extended conferences with
manufacturers also.
Having sponsored supplemental ap-
preparations obtained for trade COM
missioners while President Hoover was
Secretary of Commerce, she plans to
seek a similar fund at the regular ses-
sion of Congress. Extension OF the
trade commissioners work, she believes,
10 essential to development Of COM
merce.
Representative Florence p. Kahn of
California counts the present proposed
duty on cement at least partly her VIC
tory She has been working for 1t for
more than a year. She also has ap-
peared repeatedly before the ways and
means committee In discussions OF
many schedules, her district being af-
fected through its shipping interests by
virtually every section OF the tarih bill.