The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-23
Poll Shoes
Work Tops
All Issues

Women voters throughout the
country will cast their votes in the
next election mainly on basis of
the attitudes which the two rival
parties take on the problem of un-
employment, according to a ma
tional symposium OF opinion
gathered from women leaders by
Anna Steese Richardson, political
editor of the Womans Home Com
panion. Women consulted in this
survey mostly are heads of ma
tional organizations or declarations,
and thus speak for membership
Of 12,650,000 American women.
Unemployment comes first in the
list of outstanding issues with 30
per cent of the members OF this
representative jury. Several Of the
iuryWomen refused to consider any
other issue as worth mentioning.
Those that suggested secondary
issues indicated their relative i'm
portance, after unemployment, as
follows: World peace, tariffs, for
eign debts, prohibition and child
health.
Ida Tarben differed from most
of her colleagues on the political
Jury. in giving first place to the
tariff question: rather than to I'M
employment. Il limit myself" she
replied, ito the issue which, in my
Judgment. stands high above all
others at the present moment.
Trade Channels CIOgged
It is: Cutting down trade bar
riers between the nations of the
world. AS 1 look at it, the chan
nels of world trade are clogged by
tariffs. It is idle to talk about gen.
uine prosperity until trade can flow
freely according to the needs ana
desires of men,"
Lena Madison Phillips, president
of the National Council OF Women,
supported Miss Tarbell, declaring;
The outstanding campaign issues
will be those in which our relations
with other nations are involved
the tariff and the World court.
Upon them depend the future OF
civilization and the welfare OF the
American family pocketbook.
But all the other members OF the
iurv regarded unemployment as the
principal issue.
Ruth Bryan owen, for instance,
suggested. TO have men anxious
10 work and yet be without employ
ment. while on the other hand
money which should be in circu-
lation is being boarded, is s1tua-
ton which is wrong"
CONGRESSMAN Ruth Pratt agreed
with her in the following emphatic
words: Unemployment is a problem
Of vital national interest. 1T Is
subject to be worked out through
some permanent policy. 1t requires
the cooperation of capital and
labor. employer and employe, TO
preclude the possibility of such a
distressing situation as that WIN
which we are confronted today
Even More OutspOken
Mary Anderson, director of the
woman's bureau in the department
of labor, was even more outspoKen'
ITO me" she said, "the great issue
in the coming election must be the
remedies for unemployment. There
is nothing so important, and the
platform of the contesting parties
should contain real remedies for the
situation as it exists today"
Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, director of the
women's division OF the Republican
party, suggested three important
Observation-Disclosures, world peace,
and child welfare. Belle Sherwln,
president of the National League of
Women Voters, gave first place to
unemployment and insisted on the
Importance of women studying
economics before they decide how to
vote
"The problems of unemployment
and worldwide depression she
said, create an obligation on the
part of women voters to share more
constructively in well-considered
forward-looking legislation and to
seek persistently an understanding
of the economic ills that all the
world"
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait places
unemployment first among the i'm
portant campaign issues, but thinks
it is largely a matter for local and
state governments. She gives second
place to prohibition, and third place
to international questions.