Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-06-22
WOMEN PLANNING
PLATFORM PLANKS
Feminine Delegates Also Ar
ranging Series of Work
Breakfasts.
By a stafr Correspondent of The Star.

have broken all records and TRADITIONS
at this convention. Out of the HOO
delegates, there are PIG women dele
gates and 302 alternates, with more
than 200 votes in the convention.
There were &c woman delegates, with
b8i2 votes, in the Republican Con-
vention in Cleveland. The Iowa dele
CATION is divided $3.50 between men
and women, while Iowa did not have
single woman delegate in Cleve-
land.
The women'S division of the ma
tional Democratic campaign organ
ization, while it has had headquarters
at several national conventions, never
went out for publicity and organlza-
ton work in the whole-hearted way
1t is doing this year. Its headquarters
is even more active than FarleyS.
This also is the first time that so
many women holding responsible po-
sitions in the Government and off,
cial life have taken such an active
part in the campaign.
Ready to Suggest Planks.
The women have two main objec-
tiyes-a series of regional work break
fasts and a woman's platform COM
mittee to make suggestions regard
ing plankS.
The Women's division chairman Is
Mrs. Mary w. Dewson of New York
and Maine, and its director is Mrs.
James H. Wolfe of Salt Lake City,
Utah. mother of five children. Her
husband is State Supreme Court
justice.
Outstanding women at the con-
vention are Miss Frances Perkins, Sec
rotary of Labor; Mrs. Nellie Tayloe
Ross, first woman director of the
mint; Miss Josephine Roche, first
woman to be Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury; Mrs. Blair Bannlster,
Assistant Treasurer Of the United
States and sister Of Senator Carter
Glass, Secretary of the Treasury un-
der Woodrow Wilson; Senator Hattie
w. Caraway, first woman elected 10
the United States Senate; RepreSen-
tative Mary T. Norton of New Jersey,
first Democratic woman elected to
Congress and first to be chairman
OF a standing committee OF the
House: Representative Caroline
O'Day, at large from New York Mrs.
Annie Dickie Olesen, Minnesota
State director of the National Emer-
gency Council: Mrs. J. Borden Harrl-
man, national committeewoman from
the District of Columbia and official
hostess of the convention.
Iowa's Secretary of State Present.
Mrs. Alex Miller, Secretary of State
of Iowa and one of the two women
who are Secretaries of State; Mrs.
Emma Guffey Miller, national COM
mitteeWoman from Pennsylvania and
member of the State Committee Of ar
rangements for the convention; Mrs.
Casper Whitney regional adviser Tor
the womens division; Mrs. Henry
Goddard Leach, State chairman of the
reporter plan for the Democratic
National Committee and former pres
ident of the New York State League
of Women Voters; Mrs. Edith B. De-
witt. State vice chairman and dele
gate from Pennsylvania: Mrs. Mamie
Hunevman, who is running for Con-
gress in Oregon and who arrived yes
terday by airplane; Mrs. Barton
Muzzer, State Senator for Utah; Mrs.
George H. Earle, the wife OF the Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. June Finkel, State vice chair
man of Iowa and assistant director OF
the Women's division; Miss Marie A.
Proctor. commissioner of immigration
of Seattle. Wash; Mrs. Anthony
j. Drexel- Biddle, wife of the Min
lister to Norway; Mrs. George Civ
ems, newly elected national committee
woman from Milwaukee, Wise; Mrs.
Charles w. Tillett, jr.. vice chairman
of the North Carolina State Commit
tee, and Mrs. D. A. McDougal, ma
tional committeeWoman from Okla
homa; Mrs Bennett Champ Clark OF
Missouri, wife of the chairman OF the
Rules Committee; Miss Harriet FL
lott. North Carolina; Mrs. Dorothy
McAllister, Michigan; Miss Helen
Hanson, national committeeWoman
from Maine; Mrs. Coe Howard, ma
tional committeeman from Texas.
Four Work Breakfasts"
Four regional work breakfasts"
have been scheduled under the direc-
ton of Miss DewSon and Mrs. Wolfe.
These breakfasts are an innovation
and are expected to give big i'm
petus to local organization work.
These work breakfasts" to be at
tended by women leaders in all States,
will discuss and draw up the lines
of the women's campaign in the
States. Brief reports on progress Of
organization activities will be made
by the vice chairmen from each State.
Miss Perkins will open the regional
service Wednesday morning with a
talk on the New Deal and the Work.
ing Women" before the women Of
the Northeastern States-Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Delaware
and Maryland. Miss Dewson will out
line campaign plans, as she will also
do at the other three regional break
fasts.
Mrs Norton, chairman Of the House
District of Columbia Committee, will
talk Thursday morning to the women
of the Central States-Illinois, Ohio,
sl1AHASduS A1idAuAoS NNAoNOAAoAAAs Wv
Virginia, Minnesota, Iowa and Mis-
kouri-on What the New Deal Means
to Woman Investors" Miss Harriet
W. Elliott, dean of women in the
University of North Carolina, will
speak on Youth and the New Deal"
To Talk Of Farm Women.
Mrs. Olesen, who, in addition to her
Emergency Council post, is a noted
farm woman, will discuss Farm Wom-
en- and the New Deal" and break
fast Friday morning for the Western
States-WaShington, oregon, North
Dakota, Alaska, the Philippines, Ha-
wall, California, Arizona, Nevada,
Idaho, Utah. Montana, Wyoming.
Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Ne
braska and South Dakota.
Senator Caraway of Arkansas will
address the Southern delegation at