The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-09
At The National Capit0I DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By RODNEY DUTCHER
NEA Service Writer
DAILY WASHINGTON LETT

Washington-Wom are still cx- captions in the best government jobS oppoIntivc and elective, but there has been marked increase during tho past few years in the number who have received appointments to administrative and executive posi- tions.
 The federal government employs 89, ,000 women, reports the National League of Women Voters after survey of women in public office, and many of them serve as depart- mcnt division chiefs, supervisors of special department activities, lIbrar- ians, business specialists, legal as- sistants. scientists. statisticihns and naturalization officers.
 Some of the more important jobs held by women nrc those which more or less obviously ought to be held by women, There's Chief Grace Abbott of the ChiIdrcn's bu- reau: Chief Mary Anderson Of the Womcn's bureau; Chief Dr Louise stanley of the Bureau of Home Economies. and four women wh, arc in charge of the nurses of the War department. Navy department, U. S. Public Htaith service and the yetcrans Bureau.
 Woman On Tax Board.
 But there is also n female mcm- Der of the Board Of Tax Appeals, the U. 5. Customs Court nd the Civil Service commission. And there's Mrs Bessie Brueggmn, chair man of the U. $. Employes' Com pensation commission. Mrs Anna migration at Boston and there arc | tUA m customs in North Carolina, Iowa, Hawaii. Tennessee and the Utah. Nevada district.
 Mary O'Rcilly is assistant direc-l tor of the mint and Is the most important person in that bureau. The Justice department, deprived of Assistant Attorney General Mabel Willcbrandt. still bonsts Il woman on the parole board as well as m female superintendent of the wo- mems prison at Anderson, w. Va.
 The Interior department reports q woman serving as assistant com missioner of education and the state department seems to have more women officials than my other department: the chief of the pass port division, chief of the office of co-ordination and review, two as- sistant solicitors and four vice con- suis serving at Valparaiso. Beirut, Geneva and Ottawa.
 There are women trade commis- sioners at Shanghai, Oslo and Home and assistant trade commissioners at Bogota, Barcelona, Madrid, Santia- go (Chiie), and Havana.
 13 Women Sent tO Congress. 7
 The League Of Women Voters also notes that i3 women have been sent to congrcss, including Mrs Re-a becca Latimer TeIton, who served in the senate for one day, to wit, Nov 21, 1922. Ex-congressw0men in the order of there election are Pcanette Rankin of Montana, Alice fred Huck of Illinois. Msr Katherine Langley of Kentucky, Mrs Ruth Hanna McCarmick of Illinois and Mrs Pearl Oidheid of Arkansas. congresswomen of the present 72d congress are Mary Norton of New Jersey, Florence F. Kahn of CaIi- fornla. Edith Noursc Rogers of Massdchusetts, Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, Ruth Pratt of New York and Fsffiegene Wingo of Arkanaas, all widowed except Mrs Norton. There are 146 women legislators in SC states. four fewer than n 1DZD leR1elatlve season, They IT, clude 88 republicans, 61 democrats. four -pArtisans. one socialist and two elected by both democrats and republicans. Torty-six were re- elected and 13 are state senators. Connecticut has 2t women in It's legislature, New Hampshire IS and Vermont 10. Legislatures without women in 193f are Alabama. Kens lucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada. Oklahoma. South Dakota, Tennessee and West Virginia.
 Only Two Were Governors. Only two women have been gov- ernors--Ma Ferguson of Texas and Nellie Ross of Wyoming.
 No woman was ever elected q lieutenant governor nor has any sfate ever experienced ono as m attorney general but at the first Of this year women were serving as secretaries of state in Kentucky, | IIyouIsianna, New Mexico. South Ua- hOta and Texas. North Dakota has Mrs Bertha Baker serving as atafe treasurer for her Gefond term and Arizana has . woman uglatate a',dir it0f.
 Several women. especially in New \ York, servo on kfnfe i01j0f, indus | ItFiaf NweIfAre and industFiHi boards, the OtIfstnu1IuH ono btinf MIee Frances FefIins, hcfd of New