The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
Government
Interesting
to Women

Head of National Club
Cites Increase of
Study Groups.
BY MARY MARGARET MBRIDE
MA service stan Correspondent
NEW YORK. Sept. The past
y few years viii 90 down IN his
tory As the period during which
woman for the first time began as
se,-.nE the action OF government III
terms Of the effect upon her family
and the future OF her children
That is the prediction Of Mrs.
George A. Wyeth. president OF the
Womens National Republican CLUB,
VINO with other members Of the cluo'
is sponsoring a nationwide Observ-
ance Of Constitution day on Sept. IT..
The date viii mark the l47th an
niyersary Of the adoption Of the
Constitution.
1t seems almost ike a miracle, ."
saws Nrs Wvetn that men az the
end Of the eighteenth century could
make such sound discoveries Of laws
so fundamental that they could
frame a Constitution that has en-
dured to this day.
Terms Document Flexible
Or course the secret is that the
trainers Of this al-impOrtant dOcu-
ment were both students and prac-
teal men. They knew that laws of
government and sound economies
are like the laws Of the physical
universe-they exist, whether We
know II or not and our job Is 10 dis
cover and state them.
The reason the Constitution is
adequate today Is that 1t has been
flexible enough so that il could be
changed without too much trouble
10 meet our enormously increased
population and our greatly COmpn-
Gated industrial organization.
Expert on Constitutions
Mrs. Wyeth. incidentally, is an ex-
pert on constitutions. She has cared
Tor government ever since she was
a little girl and has travelled abroad
to study the laws Of other countries
in order 10 compare them with our
own.
She feels no other constitution
approaches ours IN the opportunity
IT allows 10 the mass Of citizens.
Under our Constitution. each
human being has a richer life than
Is possible anywhere else in the
world" she points out. One rea-
son for our pre-eminence in every
thing is the political freedom and
education of the masses which We
are guaranteed by that important
paper. drawn up and signed so long
ego by those far-Sighted men who
we're influenced BY no political mo-
tives. but only humanitarian ones.
Harmony in Living
L talked 10 an American the
other day who has lived abroad for
the past decade He is back now
with his English wife and his
FrCnCh-bOrn son. and he was saving
that he can not help noticing how
much more harmonious are all the
details of daily living here than
anywhere else.
What IL takes. though. to keep
things as they have always been
is a government prevented by law
from interfering with the rights of
the citizen. That Is Americas unique
contribution TO civilization. And it
Is what the women of the country
VIII fight forever to maintain.
Everybody knows that a miracle
Is necessary for a boy of the hum
bier classes IN Europe to get any
where. But only look at the self
made men success stories that this
country has to offerl"
More Interest Shown
Mrs. WyethS belief that women
are taking a new and stirred inter-
est in government is not based upon
wIShful thinking but upon actual
solid statistics.
The club of which she is president
was dedicated TO the service of po-
ltiCal education for women nearly
fifteen years ago. and never in its
history. she declares. have members
shown such enthusiasm for learning
The facts about how the nation is
run as now.
Every Monday the club holds
school Of politics devoted to study
Of the structure OF the govern
ment. and once a week there is a
. current events class. The classes
usually recess for the summer. but
this year members voted to continue
through the hot weeks because they
we're too much interested to stop.
Women at last have made the
connection between government and
their everyday lives. Mrs Wyerh
thinks. She tells Of a womans
study meeting in one state where
s 900 persons met and a thirty
acre field was needed to take care
a meeting Of 1.4O0 in another state.
And at all study meetings she says
the numbers have increased this
year to three and four times as
many as ever before.
In short. Mrs Wyeth believes that
her sex has learned that If the
home fires are 70 be kept burning. It
must go into politics.
One feature Of the observance Of
Constitution day here Will be the
performance of pageant. The
Epic OF America" written by
naturalized American citizen, Mrs
Suzanne Silvercruys Farnam
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