The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-22
Miss Roche
Won Place
on Ability
New Treasury Official
Known for Getting.
Things Done.
BY EVELYN SEELEY
Times Special Writer

NEW YORK. Nov. &2-Feminlsts
- Will cheer and see in the nam
ing of josephine Roche as assstan.
secretary q the treasury a victory
Tor thei- eex. Well undoubtedly
Pres ccut Roosevelt has high regard
Cor women brains and feminine
PSYCHOLOGY and vrat they may Do
20 put 0ver tho New Deal But
think he chose josephine Roche not
because she's n woman or IN spite Of
70. but because she mas shown a
sympathy with labor and made il
work
In Colorado they speak proudly II
"Miss josephine" The miners
strongly unl0n.zed AZ her insistence
and well paid throughout the de-
preston. shovel heartily on the slo-
gan. One for me and one for Jose
Prime" Yet the man in the street
did not vote for her as Governor IN
the recent election.
He voted against her on the old
fashioned and mistakenly protective
theory that that Office was no place
Tor a lady
Coming out % the beautiful CT
maT0n Canyon into the little city
~ Trinidad Col. We asked the serv-
ice station operator If Miss Roche
was likely 10 win the gubernatorial
election.
Nope. said hc. ITS no place for
lady. That's how most Of us feel
Shes okch and we're strong for her.
But why wish her all that bad
luck27
"Sort Of Pretty"
The service station man waxed
eloquent until the gas ran over and
down the hood. He told us how she
came in. Just a woman and sort Of
pretty" 10 run the Rocky Mountain
Fuel Company IN 1927 At her faith
crs death. He aid she muStve
been scared a. first. for the Colo
RADIO mines we're torn by a vicious
labor war IN which six miners we're
killed and thirty-five injured by dep
uties az one mine.
She got busy and told her men to
unIonize the whole mine. saying.
This IS our lob and we've got TO Go
3D. together" And throughout the de-
precision she has paid higher wages.
provided better working and living
conditions and charged more for
coal than any other employer in the
state.
You may ride through dismal min
ing towns and see gray coal dust
thick on rows Of identical miners
shaCks. You see workers who arc
haggard and discouraged. But these
are not the mining towns where
Miss Roche is boss and the union is
strong. The "shOvelng one
for me and one for Josephine has
achieved conditions better than
Colorado miners ever had before.
Ability Governed
All the ColoradOans know this
story and like TO tell It. But they
voted against her as Governor be
cause she Is a woman" She has
gone down into the black mines with
the men. but somehow they do not
want her Smeared with politics.
President Roosevelt has no such
Old-faShioned idea. Miss Roche is
n very feminine person. she does not
wear buSineSSlike clothes, she does
not talk feminiSm. but when the
President picked the first woman to
be an assistant cabinet officer he
probably was not thinking whether
or not 10 was a good place for a
lady" He was thinking of whether
or not she could do the lob we'll.
She is cut from pretty much the
same fabric as her old friend Fran
CeS Perkins. or as Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt. o. Mrs. Daniel ODay. or
Lillian Wild. She has the same sort
~ college and social service back
ground. But she Is the only one Of
all these women who has really got
down TO business. having the Op-
portunity. and put her prO-labOr
ideas into practice.
7 wonder what the man in the
service station thinks now of the
josephine Roche who missed being
Governor because ITS no place for
a lady"