Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-15
WOMEN ADD COLOR
: TO JERSEY BATTLE
Mrs. Morrow, Miss Fort and
Miss Frelinghuysen Have
Individual Traits.
BY LoRENA A. HICKoK.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j., June 14.-Out oil
her most colorful Republican senatorial
primary contest now approaching its
climax. New Jersey smilingly arises to
present three astute and picturesque
campaigners.
Mrs. Dwight w. Morrow, Americas
most famous mother-in-law, who has
told the women of New Jersey not to
wish her luck, because as the wife OF
Candidate Morrow she already has it.
Miss Margretta Fort, sister of Can
oidate Franklin W. Fort, daughter of
one Governor of New Jersey, grand
niece of another and herself former
ASSemolywoman, who likes to be called
Just hard-boiled politician"
Emily Frelinghuysen, daughter of
Candidate Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, Just
20 and college junior. who goes about
industrial centers making campaign
speeches in Italian.
Each has her own way Of helping her
candidate, and they are not in the
least alike.
Does Not Talk Politics.
Mrs. Morrow has not made a single
speech about politics Instead she has
told the women about her home and
her children and what fine man her
husband is.
Miss Fort has made speeches-good,
sound talks, born of a skill acquired by
= politically minded daughter of a fam
ly that has been prominently identified
with New Jersey politics for nearly 100
years. But the job Miss Fort likes best
Is organizing her brothers campaign.
Ard Miss Emily" as she is called
around Frelinghuysen headquarters, be-
NdeS making speeches both in Italian
ana In English, has done all sorts of
things in this compaign.
The newspapers" she said today
seem 10 be so interested in Mr.. Nor
row becoming grandfather. Well, my
GAGS going to be grandfather. too
gay sister Victoria-Mrs. j. Granville
july"
Lived Within Budget.
Mrs. Morrow's campaign is UNIQUE
She is not the kind of Candidates
wife who has her picture taken bak-
ing apple pies. She has let it be known
that in all the 81 years of her married
lie she never baked any pies of any
kind. Even when Dwight w. Morrow
and his bride were paying only S35 a
month rent for little house in Engle-
wood and could not afford to have
telephone. They had a maid.
we had a budget, too" said Mrs.
Morrow. And we lived within it,
Mrs. Morrow's speeches have been
frank and at times quite intimate. She
has talked mostly about her home, de-
scribed little incidents in her family
life and told the women of her flights
over Mexico City with her noted son-in-
law.
The most superb speech about
Dwight w. Morrow will never be made"
she told one group of women, for the
cruel campaign managers forbid me to
talk. But I have known him for 81
years, and for 81 years I have been his
wife. I know more of his merits than
any one else, perhaps"
Refers to His Wife.
Ambassador Morrow has frequently
said in his speeches:
Don't judge me by myself, but by
my wife"
Miss Fort was. as she puts it herself,
sin rather a tight squeeze" at the
beginning of this campaign. She was
member of the Morrow committee and
rode in the parade on the day Am
bassador Morrow declared over the
radio his views on the eighteenth
amendment.
Miss Fort resigned from the Morrow
committee and went to work on her
brothers behalf
She was brought UP on politics, and
the world. She used to write politics
for New Jersey paper, but she gave
1t up after her brother got into Con-
gress and became a close friend of
President Hoover.
The public, not knowing that the
Fort family do not always agree on
political matters, might have assumed
that I was voicing his opinions" she
said, and that would embarrass him"
Emily Frelinghuysen was q little girl
when her father was in the United
States Senate and a friend of President
Harding.
"AwfuIly Nice to Dog"
Mr.. Harding came up to visit us
once at Far Hills" she said. But I
don't remember much about it, except
that he was awfully nice to my dog"
She is now q student at Barnard
College, tall and willow, with red gold
hair and deep blue eyes.
Miss Emily" has made two speeches
b italian. one in Jersey City and one
In South Orange.
IT talked longest In South Orange"
she said. "Once, when I got excited
and started stumbling all over the words
and going pretty fast, an old man sit
ting down in the front row called out in
italian:
calm down. missy, calm DOWN.
III bldI speech talked mostly ABOUT
how dad would try TO do something
about the unemployment situation, but
did tell them that, If they sent him
TO the Senate, he would try to give
back to them their glass Of wine.
THE papers all used that, and moth
ing at all Of course, about the unem-
ploy1nent part So then dad said he
guessed Id better tell him what 1 was
going to talk about before made any
more speeches"
Career Not Planned.
Except that she isn't going in for a
political career, Miss Emily has no
particular plans for herself after she
leaves college.
Perhaps you'll just settle down and
get married. it was suggested.
Now you're talking" she grinned
ANY particular candidate in mind?"
you can't pin me down that way!"