Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
WOMAN LEADERS HELD FITTED
TO DIRECT COMING BATTLE
Are More Qualified to Get
Along With AdherentS
Than Men Leaders.
Mrs. YoSt and Mrs. Ross
Agree That Liquor Is
Bad.
BY WILLIAM HARD.

The women at the heads of the
women's divisions of the national organ
izations of our two major political
parties seem at this time to be perhaps
much more qualified to get along with
each other amicably than their re-
Spective men leaders.
1t might be difficult for Prof. Simeon
D. FeSs, chairman of the Republican
National Committee, to follow Mr..
Jouett Shouse. chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, with en-
thusiasn on the subject of Mr.. Shouse's
race horses: and it might be difficult
for Mr.. Shouse to follow Prof. Fess in
a wide-awake manner on the subject
of his treatise on American political
theory" MFR. Shouse being more inter-
ested in practice. Mrs. Nellie Tayloe
Ross, however, who marshals the women
of the Democratic party in support of
the principles of Thomas jefferson and
Mr.. Shouse, and Mrs. LeIlna Lowe Yost,
who has just been selected to galvanize
the women of the Republican party into
organized formation in favor of the
principles of Alexander Hamilton and
Prof. FeSs, could converse with mutually
increasing interest and esteem on at
least one basic feminine topic. They
agree that liquor is bad for the men
folks.
MRS. Ross late husband, William
Bradford Ross, is said thoroughly to
have agreed with her on this point and
to have administered wyoming accord
ingly while he was governor of 1t. Mrs.
Ross, succeeding him as governor
through the admiration of the people
of Wyoming for her human as we'll as
her womanly qualities, administered the
State in the same spirit. She used her
gubernatorial power to cause the GUST
{V,n Of WI m
earnest and arduouS prohibition en-
forcerS.
In the meantime Mrs. Yost was rising
to rapid prominence in the circles OF
the Womens Christian Temperance
Union and also in the rather compli-
Gated Spirals of the Republican party
in West Virginia. She presumably in
her temperance activities had the APP
prevail of her husband, Ellis A.
YoSt; for he Is now, by appointment
of the Hoover administration, coun-
selor at law for the Federal Radio
Commission and presumptively a be-
lever in experimental novelties of noble
purpose. Mrs. Yost soon manifested
NEST astonishing power Of combining
propagandist endeayorS with regular
party Affiliations and services. Propa-
gandiSts are usually on one side of the
door Of legislation and politicians on
the OCner. MIS-. 1OSC mace lt re-
volving door and got or both sides of
1t and became both president of West
Virginia's Wcmens Christian Temper
ance Union and chairman of West Vir-
ginia's Republican Woman's State
Executive Committee and even chair
man Of West Virginias Republican
State Convention in 1921.
It is thus manifest since not all West
Virginian Republican males are eter-
nally sure that liquor is bad for man
folks. that Mrs. Yost must be able to
conciliate vets as we'll as to counsel
drys. The same penetrating remark is
applicable to Mrs Ross. Mrs. Ross was
able to tolerate Alfred Emanuel
Smith of New York in the presidential
campaign of 1928 and perhaps hoped
only that If he got into the White House
by his own views he might thereafter
be possibly improved by hers At any
rate, being good woman, and femi-
nine, she did not abandon him in his
moment of crisis, but remained entirely
loyal to him throughout 1t and is now
faithful patch of Western desert in the
midst Of the political moisture of the