Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-11-15
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

VOulCu occiH W IlhFc COInc 10 stay III
public life-but they seem to be shifting
to executive and administrative positions
of high authority rather than the legis-
lative grind. The Senate lost one Of its
two women members through the re-
fusal of Mrs. Rose Mcconnell Long to
seek reelection, thus leaving Mrs. Hattie
w. Carraway to continue for another two
years, at least, as the sole representative
OF her sex IN the United States Senate
Two women members are leaving the
House. one by the votes of her con-
stituents. Mrs. Florence Kahn of Cali
fornia, after IL years service. and the
other. Mrs. Isabella Greenaway OF
Arizona. by her voluntary retirement to
spend more time with her young son,
after four years in the House. But an
other woman comes Inland a grand
mother at that, the daughter of a
famous author-Mrs Nanny Wood
Honeyman. who defeated the big. blond
Norseman," Representative William A.
Ekwall, from Oregon.
During the recent campaign women
took a decidedly more prominent and
active part than ever before and they
boast that they have come of age
politically under President Roosevelt
Miss (only she is really Mrs. and
mother) Frances Perkins is the first
woman ever to serve as full-fedged
cabinet member and Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Owen was the first of her sex in the
diplomatic corps Mrs. Nellie Tayloe
Ross was the first woman director of
the mint, just as she was the first woman
to serve as Governor of a State
wyoming. Miss Jane Hoey. honor
graduate of Trinity College. this city,
only few years ago, but internationally
recognized as a leader in sociological
work. has been made director Of the
Board of Public Assistance for the new
Social Security Board.
President Wilson set a precedent by
being the first President to appoint a
woman-Mrs. Helen H. Gardner-as a
member of the United States Civil
Service Commission, and Mrs. Lucille
2. McAfillin was similarly honored by
President Roosevelt in a service where
the women outnumber the men almost
seven to four. Mrs. Marion Glass
Banister is Assistant Treasurer of the
United States. Miss Josephine Roche
is assistant secretary in charge of public
health and also chairman Of the Execu-
tive Committee of the National Youth
Administration. Miss Grace E. Fake is
executive assistant in the Resettlement
Administration. Mrs. Palmer Jerman OF
North Carolina is the first of her sex
tn he named assistant collector OF in
ternal revenue, while women have held
nositions as collector Of customs IN
Minnesota Ohio, Iowa and Utah.
President Wilson appointed the first
woman to serve as Assistant Attorney
General-Mrs. Annett Abbott Adams
and since then successive administra-
tions have held women in that once
Under the present administration MISS
stella Akin has been a special assistant
Miss Lucy S. Howorth has served on the
Board of Appeals Of the Veterans Ad-
ministration.
In the worlds largest printing estab-
lishment-the Government Printing Of
| fice-Miss 10 Coffin is assistant to the
| nublic printer and directs the personnel
Ellen S. woodward is assistant admin
istrator of the Federal Emergency Relief
| Administration.
Representative Mary T. Norton is the
| first woman ever to be chairman OF
| major committee in Congress and is
member of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
| The special assistant to the controller
| general is Frances r. Montgomery. Mrs
Jewell w. Swofford is chairman OF the
| United States Employees Compensation
| Commission. Miss Mary Anderson Is
| chief of the Women's Bureau and MISS
katharine F. Lenroot, chief Of the Wom-
ems Bureau in the Department oil
| Labor.
There are many other women holding
important administrative positions in the
| Government service.
"Kicked In and Out of the Presidents
Little Cabinet" is the contribution tc
| critical campaign literature OF Ewing
Young Mitchell, former Assistant Secre-
tary Of Commerce. book OF 37l pages
| Mitchell is q lawyer. active in politics 1or
| more than Is years. He served eight years
as a page on the floor Of the United
states Senate. He has attended the last
| Is Democratic National Conventions and
was President Roosevelt's pre-conventior
manager in Missouri and president OF the
Roosevelt Business and Professional
| League in the campaign of 1892. He wa
| three times offered the post of Assistant
| Secretary Of Commerce, but declined
until told by Secretary Roper that he wa.
being drafted and would be considered
stacker. II he did not serve. He hele
| the ONCE for two stormy years and wa,
| removed from Office In June, 1885. Hi
! book tells his INSIDE story"