The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-09


 .---------------- -------------------------------- to the study of the training, edu- cation, and personal qualities de- sirable for the various types of work.
 She carries on many activities, not only in the cultural field, but also in the practical problems of unemployment, manifesting therein her deep and sincere interest in the welfare of all groups of people.
 Mrs. Woodhouse always has in- sisted on putting good theories into practices, so, in firm belief that individuals must be prepared for jobs, for four years, on a purely volunteer basis, she supervised a series of WPA projects for white collar women, raised the money for the necessary supplies and for supervisors who could teach and thus prepare the women on these projects to take jobs in private em- ployment. At present, again as a volunteer, without salary or other compensation, she has under her supervision group of "A National Youth Administration girls, who are being taught typing, use of office machines, and good work habits and attitudes
 In her courses in Economies at the college, Mrs. Woodhouse teaches labor problems,--but not just out Of bookl She knows many of the labor leaders, and is in close con- tact with actual labor problems, and brings labor representatives to New London, so that her students have opportunities to know and talk with labor" personified.
 Mrs. Woodhouse was the chair man of the Minimum Wage Board of the state of Connecticut, appoint ed to consider wages paid to workers in beauty parlors and hairdressing salons, and she is at present a member of the Governors Com mission on Negro Employment.
 Her most valuable experience, up to the time of Ter nomination for Secretary of the State, was her work as arbitrator of a strike in a textile mill, where she was agreed upon by the strikers and the em- ployer, and her findings were ap- proved by both sides. and were put into effect.
 Mrs. Woodhouse believes that teachers of a social science should be alert and active in the commun- ity, since the vital goal of all edu- cation is to prepare young people to be intelligent citizens, who under stand that the price of successful democracy is active, interested, we'll informed voters. She is the president of the Connecticut Federation of Democratic Women's Clubs. and has been president of the New London Democratic Women's Club, and organizer for New London county.
 She is active in the Connecticut League of Women Voters, and re- signed as State Chairman of Ec- onomic Welfare when she became a candidate for office on the Demo- cratic ticket, in accordance with the Leagues non- partisan attitude. She also held state offices in the Con- necticut branch of the American Association of University Women.
 Along with these activities, which might be regarded as two careers, the career which she considers to be her first and principal one, that of a wife and other, is maintained in a model family way.
 Her daughter, Margaret, is a senior at Williams Memorial h. stitute, the high school in New Lon don, and plans to enter Connecticut College in September, 194l. Her son, Noel, is a senior at the University of North Carolina, and plans to go on to law school, and hopes to take an active part in community and political affairs.
 Her husband. resident of Con- necticut, despite his Virginia birth and his professorship at the Univer- sity of North Carolina, spoke at campaign meetings around his home state, in behalf of his wife's can didacy for Secretary of State, up to the time that the opening of classes called him back to Chapel Hill.
 In fact, all the WoodhouSes helped in the campaign to elect & Demo- cratic ticket in Connecticut, and put Mrs. Woodhouse into an important state office, where she can still fur ther practice what she has been teaching in government and politics.
 Noel and his father, in the early weeks of the campaign, drove Mrs, Woodhouse on her trips around the state, which have t0talled now more than 10000 miles since she was nom- mated on August 24th. and she has made speeches in more than 50 towns,
 Margaret Woodhouse does the typ- ing and secretarial work for her mother, and counts as one Of the greatest experiences of her life, her attendance ct the Democratic nae tional convention in Chicago, last July, with her mother. She has worked in her mothers 0fiice since she was old enough to fold paper and seal envelopes, and now takes pride in typlng her mothers talks and articles, and keeping the files in first-claRs condition.
 Margaret wants a husband -jusi like Dad" and she 'has no use for husbands who insist, 4 won't let my wife work She lhlnks fnofhnlsz