The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-20
Observations
Democratic Women
in Congress Have
Good Chances
By HELEN ESSARY

.lJOuSlak, Emily 1hIL douglas anu
Mrs. Chase Going WoQdhouse-
going to be smart. useful members
Of the House? Or are they going
10 stick too closely TO party lines
and to the tradition that new mem
bers Of Congress should be seldom
seen and never heard?
! hope not Each of these women
has ability and courage. Each has
q superb chance in her first term
to show that women belong IN high
legislative office. They should be
stirrerS-up in the Luce manner
Not rubber stamps for committee
chairmen.
be two Douglas congreSswomen
quite opposite in type they are,
too. Helen is tall and dominating.
Wears slick tailored clothes cut ON
rather daring lines.
Emily Douglas IS small and coy
Very feminine, too, and looks as if
she might cover her brains with a
delicate and useful helplessness
when coping with the opposite or
stronger sex. An engaging pair.
the Douglas girls. A sister act
maybe.
Mrs. Woodhouse is an elegant
intellectual. A New England blue
stocking with. something of the look
of Carrie Chapman Gait, the suf-
frage crusader Of the last genera.
tion. Mrs. WoodhouSe has soft
voice. 1t falls soothingly on the ear
when you ring her office at the
Capitol. To date Mrs. Woodhouse
answers the phone herslf.
I called to be sure about her
name Was her husbands name
"Chase Going?"
My husbands name Is Edward
James Woodhouse." she said. 1T
is my name that Is Chase Going
Ny husband and my daughter. who
Is student at the University Of
North Carolina. will join me for
b occasional week-endS. They are
much too busy to bother with me
often Mrs. Woodhouse is looking
for Il small apartment in Washing
ton.
All Of the three new congress.
women are married. The Douglas
girls have husbands abroad.
Well, If men are not alarmed at
the way women are stepping out it
is because they are not seeing clear
~ or hearing too we'll.
You need TO get away from Wash.
iugton To learn what many OF it,
constituents are thinking. In New
York several industrialists and
professional men, gathered from
distant parts Of the country, were
discussing the next president Of the
United States.
1T is time for a Republican, of
course" said a Republican lawyer
from Chicago. But l do not be-
lieve the Republican party has the
brains and the strength to use the
advantage four more years Of the
New Deal will give it."
THAT is not ALL" added a Dem.
ocratic manufacturer from Detroit,
"the country is bored with the Re
publican party. Too bored to try to
pep up the G. o. p. The country
Is also bored with the Democratic
party. 1t is sick of their politics
There Will have to be a new line
up
To this suggestion the rest Of
the takers agreed promptly. The
new lineup" they said, would be
, military. 1t would bring TO the
White House some man who had
seen service in the war. For the
way 10 learn about the world and
what Americans are up against is
10 get out and fight for your life.
Not sit in the government feeding
trough and live on its payrolls."
] sympathize deeply with the
new members Of Congress who can
not find apartments or houses in
which to settle themselves and their
families. But II seems 10 me the
complaining gentlemen are babes
in the Washington woods. Didn't
they know there was a housing
shortage here?
There is housing shortage
everywhere else In the country. Did
they expect 70 get charmius
home at rock bottom prices merely
by sitting on the Capitol steps AMI
Grooming! The rent control board
and its administrator, Robert Cogs-
well, have done a difficult job
fairly. Are they expected to pro
duce dwelling places by magic:
JACKSON, Mich-AP-A theory
that State Senator Warren G