The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-01-18
Responsive Group
AppIauds Annual
B.p.W.C. Banquet
Affair Held Last Night In
Meth odist Church
Unique Happenings

The serious ana J1le IuIIlOlUuS III
the question of equal rights between
men and women drew equal atten-
ton from the group of guest speak
ers at the Business and Profess
sional Women's Club legislative ban
quet last night, with more than 70
members and friends attending the
annual club event.
Charles d. Beale, President of the
Juneau Rotary Club, was the honor
honored guest.
Gathering in the parlors of the
Methodist Church for the occasion,
the group assembled about banquet
tables appropriately following out
the Equal Rights theme in deco
rations. Miniature dolls bound in
red tape were tied upon law books,
and on the walls posters pointed
out the unfairneSs of discrimina-
ton.
Mrs Crystal Snow Jenne was pre-
sented as toastmistress for the eve
ming following an informal welcome
made by the club president, Miss
Caroline Todd
First to be presented on the pro-
gram was Mrs. Oscar Olson, intro
duced as Eileen Olson in keeping
with the theme of the evening. Mrs.
Olson spoke on the homage due
Amelia Earhart in broadening the
scope of women's activity. Her talk
was followed by a humorous dis
cussion of the equal rights problem
given by Mrs Sally Shafer.
Not content to leave her audience
amused with an account Of pleas
ant evenings at work with the boss,
Mrs. Shafer, who escorted Regional
Forester Wellman Holbrook for the
evening, continued to propose bill
whereby men should claim the pri-
vilege of work IN order to allow
women the luxury of leisure
Women Should Work
Wamly applauded, the speech OF
Mrs. Shafer was followed by a talk
by Mrs. Charles Fox pointing out
that 1.-The hand that rocks the era
rle rules the world by remote con-
troll" and as if to point out the OPP
posite view to Mrs. Skaters discus
sion, Mrs. Fox added, Gould any
thing be more deadening for wo-
man than merely to sit around all
day as an inspirations"
Mrs. Jenne presented the more
serious view of the equal rights dis
cussion in a brief message in which
she pointed out that Alaska, in
comparison with the United States
as a whole, is relatively free from
discrimination again women-ie., in
working conditions, salaries, hours
of work, etc.
But, she added, there is one dis
elimination and that is in politics.
Women running for offices, al
though they may be admittedly as
capable as their masculine oppo-
nents, are being Disseminated
against By the outmoded prejudice
against feminine leadership in gov
ernmentai affairs.
Several songs were warbled during
the evening with Mrs. G. E. Krause
at the piano. Honor guests at the
banquet were Mr., and Mrs. Ray G..
Day, Mrs. r. r. Hermann, Mr.
Charles Beale, Mrs Mike Pusich and
the speakers, Mrs. Olson, Mrs Shat
er and Mrs Fox
Egualriters
Present at the affair were: Mrs.
Oscar Olson, Mrs. r. r. Hermann,
Mrs. Sally Shafer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wellman Holbrook, Mr.. and Mrs.
Felix Gray, Mrs. Charles Fox, Mrs.
Florence Sabey, Mrs. p M. Ham
mer, Mrs. M d. Giovanetti, Fred
w. Tiedt, Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice
READER, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Sta
bier, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Day, Ellen
McKiechnie, Mrs Alice Coughlin,
Hanna Edman. Elina Rantakari,
Edith Bonesteel, Mrs. Rose Davis,
Ed Garnick, Anita Garnick, Mr.. and
Mrs Frank Garnick, Mrs. K. K
Kyler, Mrs. Ellen Shaffer, Mrs
Pearl Burford, Lcttie Spickett. Mics
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