New Britain herald., 1929-05-15
Jenny Lee Is Too Young To Vote,.
 ~.~~@ But They Sent Her To Parliament

*s~o SANV &A$~seN her as weel either."
 Wander around the mining dis tricts of North IAnark, not very far away from the great Scotch metro politAn city of GiasSow. with your American accent and your horn horn glasses and that is what the Scotch ceal miners say to you. They are proud of the recent by election. They are proud Of its results. And they are exceedingly proud of Jenny Lee, tho pretty. slender 2l-year-old school marm whom they have elect ed to tho House of Common Jen- ny Leo has broken any number of records:
 Ehe "redeemed" North I.anark from the Tories and won it for the labor pafty.
 >She is the younEest member who ever sat in the Mother of Parlia- ments.
 Romance Of Hard Work
 she presents the anomaly that, although under British law, she her. self may not have | vote until the next general election, she was, never theleaa, herself eligible for election to pA Arliament and was duly elected.
 Hers is A romance of hard work and achievement that we like to call American. but that the people north of the English border like to call typicAlly Scotch. Jenny Lee was not born with ! silver spoon in her mouth. Her origins were as humble as Lincoln'a. Her ITS ndfAther has been a worker all his life. Also for over 70 years he has been . leader in the lnde- pendent Labor party of this re- zion. Her father, James Lee, is coal miner whose average wage has been about SIS a week. On this he reared his family.
 Ana now comes the Scotch Of 1t. These proud, independent people have a perfect passion for educa- ton. scotlands public school sys- tenn is far superior to EnSlund'" and has been for generations. It is the rule in every Scotch family. whether they be coal miners or tillers of poor little farm, to give the most bookish child all tho education he or she can get. It Ia the ambition of every Scotch family to send a child 10 the tni- versity to train to be a lawyer. doctor, an engineer, preacher. a journaliat or a teacher. To thH end all the other members of ths family turn in and pool their saw inss, meager though their re- sources may be. In this way Jen- nie Lee, the daughter of the poor miner, was sent to Edinburgh tni- yersity, which has always been noted for plain living. but very hard study. Miss Lee obtained de- grees in the arts and law.
 She was president of the Edin- burgh University Labor Club. where she quickly found out that she had talents for public speak, ins and debates. She promptly got joh as school teacher at Qlencraig School in Fifeshire. For the past two years she has been busy as propagandist for the Independent Labor party-the Y. L. F." as it is universally known.
 Then came this matter of an election to fill vacancy in North lanark. At the last election the figures had been 13,SS0 for the Tory and 1l.sb. for the Labor candidate. The thoughts of the Labor leaders turned to pretty. vii vacious Jenny Lee. who had prov en herself 50 effective on the stump. Would she undertake the hard job. She would. She did. She set the heather afire. She co mpaigned night and day.
 The Tory candidate was young Lord Scone. the courtesy title of the son and heir of the Earl Of Mansfield. great Scotch land owner. The .yOung mans name tickled the Scotch miners. Though scone happens to he the Scotch version Of our biscuit Only it is always eaten cold. It became il l JUNt HTVuuu IsAHAIN. AAV usA AH- derdone scone. When Jenny Ice gets through wi him he'll be weel done"
 S6rMe Gets Dtnse
 He was. Miss Jenny boiled 16,711 votes. Lord Scone got only s,13:. The Liberal candidate got so few votes that she forfeited her election ! lepOeit.
 | And the other day packed House 0: Commons witnessed her debut. There were storms of cheers from the Labor benches and even staid Tories and 1.ib- erals applauded the good looking girl with the mass of dark chest- nut hair. who was so becomingly clad in brown and who took her new hon0rs 70 modestly and yet without embarrassment.
 AS she walked down the aisle to shake hands with the speaker of the Mouse. she was sponsored by Robert emillie, a veteran lA- Dor member who has been . life- long member of her father and grandfather. and by James Max ton, one of the young members from Glasgow. conspicuous for his brilliance as . speaker and be- cause he is one of I.abor's wild