The Washington times., 1937-05-13

The Lady ScribeS
Vote Minded
TWOSLATES
BY HELEN ESsARY

Congressional elections Will
soon begin to shatter the land
scape. And already the ladies OF
the press are in a state OF mind
about the election Of officers to
two Of their own organizations,
the Women's National Press Club
and the Newspaper Women's Club
of Washington.
Both clubs will hold annual
elections during the same week
in June within two days Of each
other-June / and 8 to be exact.
The Newspaper Women's Club
has one complete ticket. It's 9
slate-one yard wide. Guaranteed
not to run or fade.
But the temreramental Wom-
ems National Press Club is IN the
throes of big decisions. 1t has
several candidates for several
offices and its members are dong
a bit of suffering.
For president the W. N. P. c.
has nominated: Jackie Martin. OF
the Washington Herald; Doris
Fleeson, of the New York Daily
News, and Elizabeth Shirley
Enochs, associate editor OF the
Children's Bureau. Three choice
candidates. Nice, smart girls, all
Of them. Any Of the three would
make a first-rate president and
represent her organization credit
But it's perfectly obvious that
even with the Australian (or Sc
cret ballot) the most ardent ideal
ist cannot vote for three can
didates. So in choosing their
president the members Of the w.
N. P. C. are going to try to re-
member certain things about their
ticket.
Jackie Martin is a clever young
person. She has done some excel
lent reporting in many newspaper
departments, and has had remark"
able success as a photographer.
You see her everywhere taking
really good pictures. She wears
tailored clothes, has an interesting
face, short hair that reveals a well
shaped head, is slim, dances well
almost as well as Fred Astalre.
She's a pretty fine child generally.
Then there is Doris Fleeson, one
of the best newspaperWomen IN
the United States. Her husband
is that Journalistic Rock OF Gil
braltar-John O'Donnell. AS a
team, Doris and John are the
Washington Bureau Of the New
York Daily News. Doris recently
won an award which said she had
done the best newspaper work OF
any woman during the past year.
She reports conventions. Goes on
presidential campaigns and speak
ing trips. She is small, good look.
ing. Says what she thinks and
writes what she knows. And LIE
is never dull around her.
Elizabeth Shirley Enochs, the
third candidate, has hundreds Of
friends who know that she's a
completely top drawer person.
She is a newspaperwoman Of abil-
ity, particularly in reporting deli
cate international events. In her
present office doing publicity for.
the Children's Bureau she has
made herself a new record. Be
vond all of this she is graceful.
lovely looking person who would
preside at club meetings with
poise and wit.
For the office Of first vice
president Of the Women's Ma
tional Press Club there are two
candidates, Helen Atwater, ter
ribly clever-she's editor Of the
Journal Of Home Economics-ar1d
Ada Rainey, an art critic with
many other varieties of writing
and dramatic experience and at
present q special writer for the
National Park Service. It's Ada
Rainey that the W. N. p. c. keeps
for decoration. She often acts
as the elegant mistress Of cere.
monies at its stunt parties.
Other candidates for offices in
this club are, second vice presi-
dent: "Yours Truly" treasurer:
Dorothy Fletcher Howerth, special
writer; corresponding secretary:
Hope Ridings Miller Of the Wash
ington Post; recording secretary:
Catherine Redmond Of the Quater-
master Review and Virgila
Stevens Of the washington
Herald; the board Of governors:
Mary Hornaday of the Christian
Science Monitor, Katherine Macy
Wilson Of the DeS Moines Register
and Tribune, Frances Parkinson
Keyes, special writer, Roberta
bradshaw Of MANA and Betty Gar
nett Of the Washington Daily
News.
The Newspaper Women's Club,
about to celebrate its fifth birth
day, includes in its membership
many who belong to the Women's
National Press Club. It's roster Is
not limited to active newspaper
women or to publicity writers with
three years of accredited news
paper work behind them. It has
: as associate members women dis
tinglIished for their accomplish
ments in literature, art, music,
science or who hold positions Of
Importance, socially or officially.
It has q clubhouse and holds big,
swanky meetings.
Tho Women's National Press
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