Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-28
BY CoRINNE FRAZIER.

ureS IN the Seventy-f1rSt Con.
gress was pledged and two reso-
~ lutions were passed, one pro-
viding for a study program oil
the reorganization of the Fedora
Government as suggested by President
Hoover and the other concerning q
delegation to be sent to the Interna-
tional Alliance for Woman Suffrage in
Berlin this Summer, as the principal
business Of the four-day session OF
the general council of the league
which closed Friday at the Hotel
Washington
The three measures to be supported
by the league are a Federal program
of maternity and infancy welfare as
embodied in the bill introduced last
week by Senator Jones. of Washington
and Representative Cooper of Ohio, a
constitutional amendment to end lame
DUCK sessions OF Congress, and the
Pan-American. arbitration treaty.
League branches will be urged to plan
study programs designed to familiarize
the woman voters with the details of
Mr.: Hoovers reorganization plans for
tederal Government operation as these
are outlined by the Executive, in &C.
cordance with the resolution passed bv
the council in this connection. From
headquarters, also, will be made I'D in
formative programs of study, so that
the woman voters all over the country
may keep abreast of the administration
and may know what its aims are and
what its accomplishments have been
when called upon to exercise again
their voting prerogative.
In accordance with the leagues long
established rule, however, the topic will
De on the study program of the organi-
zation alone and no legislative action
Will be taken on any REORGANIZATION
problems until league members, by ma
tlonal vote, determine they have studied
the subject sufficiently.
1t was voted to send a delegation
OF "a women to the conference of the
international Alliance at Berlin, the
group to be headed by Miss Belle Sher-
win. president of the league.
"A silver loving cup was awarded the
missouri League OF Women Voters for
gettlng out the largest percentage vote
IN the leagues get-out- tfe-vote cam
palgn last November Mrs. George
Hoxle, chairman of the Missouri get
out-the-vote committee, received the
trophy. Her group was instrumental
IN getting to the polls 1896 per cent
OF the registered vote in the 1928 cleo
ton, an exceptionally high average.
brilliant group of political speakers
addressed the council at the only open
session, a dinner held Thursday eve
nlng on the Washington roof, their
general subject being THE Future of
the Political Parties" which was viewed
from different angles. Julian T. Mason
editor OF the New York Evening Post,
discussed the differences between the
Republican and Democratic parties.
prophesying that both. like the poor ;;
would always be with u.s."
Raymond Robins pointed cut the
fundamental changes in the Republican
party which have come about with the
election OF Herbert Hoover-"marking
the passing Of the old political-social
control and the arriving Of economic
control, declaring that the future of
the Republican party, under such lead
ership as marks this administration. is
as large and as long as the develop
ment and maintenance of the Ameri-
can economic system.
Langdon w. Post, q member of the
New York Assembly, outlined the fu
ture OF the Democratic party as he
sees its possibilities, with a new plat
form. tentative suggestions for which
ne proposed, embodying combined prir-
ciples OF idealisn and practical COM
mon sense which would form a sound
iounoation upon which to build an
DR.. j. G. de Roulhac Hamilton of
the University Of North Carolina fol-
lowed Mr.. Post, with a discussion of the
future OF the Democratic party In the
south In relation to the cleavage during
the last election, declaring that, no mat
ter what the effect might be upon the
national organization, so far as State
sections are concerned 1.-The whole ma
cnlnery OF State governments in the
South is in the hands Of regular Demo-
Gratis and in all probability is to remain
there"
Parry lines have been crossed. he
said, However, and. once having been
crossed would more easily be crossed
again: Never again, perhaps, will these
ooundafies be what they have been, he
In an address which sparkled with
wit. taking the cutting edge of some
otherwise plain talk" Donald r. Rich
berg concluded the discussion of party
futures by asserting that before we
can have futures" We must have par
ties, and, to his mind, there were no
political parties today--but rather a
'Democratic-Republican consolidation,
both wings Of which claim to stand
for everything and, therefore, stand
for nothing"
He predicted, eventually, the rise once
more Of two real political parties. ION
the one hand party founded on the
principle that the purpose of govern
ment Is to help men make money,
wherefore, II those who make the most
money are permitted to run the Govern
nlent the country viii be most prosper
GUS. On the other hand q party founded
on the principle that the test OF fitness
for social leadership Is not the capac-
ity to enrich ones self but the capaci-
ty TO enrich the lives Of others" Both
Of these parties, ne declared, are need
ed for the full and free development OF
cur national life.
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M FARMER MURPHY, Washington
AVE- correspondent Of the Baltimore
Sun, will speak on The English Elec-