Evening star., 1935-12-07
ORGANIZE IS CRY
!. OF c. 0. ?. WOMEN
District League Meeting Is
Attended by Prominent
Feminine Leaders.

Republican women were told yes
terday there would be no more ma
tional elections if their party fails to
win the next one.
Mrs. william Fitch Kelley, president
OF the District League of Republican
Women, addressing Save the Re
public" luncheon conference called by
hee in the Mayflower Hotel, drew mur-
murs from an audience of 800 women
with the declaration:
IF we don't win this election,
thereu not be any more"
The spirit of meeting was not one
Of pessimism, however. The New Deal
drew severe criticism, directed particu-
larly at President Roosevelt. person.
ally, and the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration.
Republican women were advised to
Organize, organize. organize" before
drafting any plan for specific action.
Speakers also declared women must
have a strong voice in party councils
If victory is to be attained.
Would Enlist Farm Women.
Mrs. Kelley attacked the colossal
spending and activities of the reds
sponsored by this administration, and
urged women to unite for q houSe-to-
house canvass to spread their doc
trineS. Nothing has been done, she
said, to combat the propaganda" of
the A. A. A. She recommended spe-
cial attention to farm women.
THE only experiment not yet tried"
said Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Re-
publican national committeewoman
for the District, lis entirely Soviet
izing the people Of the United States"
Tossing aside her prepared speech and
announcing she was going to SAY
what think" Mrs. Speel said forma-
ton Of a definite plan at this time
was impossible because conditions
change so rapidly that Eve don't
know when we wake up in the morn
ing what viii happen to us before
night"
The Republican party must win
next year "if the republic is to sur
vive," Mrs. Speel said.
Mrs. LOrimer Speaks.
Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife
of the editor Of the Saturday Evening
Post, and president Of the Republican
Women of Pennsylvania, said the re-
cent Republican victory in Phila-
delphia shows the tide Is turning"
and people feel safer in Republican
hands"
1--WE are now living under a So
cialistic State" according to Mrs. Muir
ray Boocock, Republican National
Committeewoman for Virginia. She
said the Nation should beware of
further promises from President
Roosevelt because "he never meant to
do the things he so 1oyously prom
ised."
Mrs. r. G. Tallman, Republican Ma
tional Committeewoman for Delaware,
lashed the New Deals spending pro-
gram, declaring the Republican party
had never gone out of power without
leaving a lower national debt than it
inherited, while Democrats always left
behind larger national debt.
Mrs. Gam Is Heard.
In an unscheduled address, Mrs. Ed
ward Everett Gam, sister of former
Vice President Charles Curtis, said
thinking people" were convinced that
"fear of the future cannot be allayed
as long as the present administration
is in power"
Republicans must think up q
sound" plan to give employment and
fight the $4,000, 900, 900 Campaign
fund.-" Mrs. Calvin Gabriel, Repubh-
can national committeewoman for
Maryland, said.
Mrs. Elmer o. Leatherwood, widow
of Representative from Utah, reported
"the West is waking up to what 1t did
to itself in 1882"
Among the prominent Republican
women present at the rally were Mrs.
william Howard Taft, widow of the
former President and Supreme Court
justice; Mrs. Frank Knox, wife Of the
publisher of the Chicago Daily News,
prominently mentioned among possi-
BILE Republican candidates; Mrs. Pat
rick ]. Hurley, wife of the former
Secretary Of War, and, Mrs. Henry p.
Fletcher, wife of the chairman of the
Republican National Committee.