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Evening star., 1946-11-03

l6 hours day. gradually acquired devoted
staff. Today, the Washington office is efficient
and closely knit
Every morning at $50 she walks mile and
half from her two-room Georgetown apart
ment to her unadorned, bookish Office near
the White House. She is seldom seen at
the fright places" In fact she is hardly
ever seen save on a lecture platform or
at a Congressional hearing.
On these latter occasions, her Quaker self
control stands her in good stead. The League,
like any organization whose effectiveness is
growing, has its noisy opposition. Miss Strauss
has been heckled numerically at hearings,
but has never once lost her temper.
They Influence Husbands, Too
lHERE is no doubt that Miss Strauss has
vastly increased the number of informed
voters. Contributions have doubled since her
election in 1914, publications have tripled.
Membership is up Is per cent and discussion
groups, which have completely replaced the
solemn, cloistered study groups of pre-Anna
days, are going great guns all over the
country. Roughly 1900 more women and
their husbands (the League admits that it
has great influence on husbands, although it
would hate to have them know it) have joined
the ranks of Americans who think and do
something about government.
Any woman can be League member.
The League operates in $50 communities
and dues range from one to three dollars a
year, just as League sizes, budgets and local
Evening star., 1946-11-03

slender, 46-year old, prematurely gray woman
with an outdoors look.
Except on one count, Miss Strauss is indeed
the prototype of League leader: Most of her
colleagues are college graduates, but she is not
and her total lack of high-hat Intellectual
ism is point people chalk up in her favor
She is the friendly boss of group which
generates power far out of proportion to its
membership of 62,OOO
This power stems from the fact that League
members are well-informed purposeful indi-
viduals When they take stand they take
it because they know their stuff, not for
reasons of partisanship. This is because the
League was founded by Suffrage Leader
Carrie Chapman Gait and her co-workers in
1920 to help women equip themselves to
use their newly won vote effectively.
The League never endorses or opposes any
aspirant to public Office. But its factual
reports on voting records. together with
candidates biographies and answers to
questionnaires available to anyone), have
swept some men into seats on Capitol Hill
and made political corpses of others.
Sometimes, the Leagues milestone never
does get wrapped around the necks of ques-
tionable candidates. This happens when
offceholders keep their mouths shut on mat
tiers of League concern or when, like Bilbo
and Rankin. they hail from one of the II
states where there are no local Leagues.
Nonetheless, while the League grinds in a
limited groove, it grinds thoroughly - and
any candidate who tangles with it on issues
Evening star., 1946-11-03

flavor range from Excelsior, Minnesota -
whose 80 members spent $54 last year - to
New York City, where 5000 members are
currently operating on $4,000.
Through its publications, the National
League posts members and their neighbors
Evening star., 1946-11-03

such as decent local government, isolationism
or price control stands very good chance of
getting pulverized.
A dramatic demonstration of this occurred
last summer when Senator LANCER, one of the
two lawmakers who voted against the United
Nations, won in the North Dakota primaries.
North Dakota has no League. In contrast,
Senator Smpstead, the other anti-UN legis-
lator, was defeated in the Minnesota prima-
ries Minnesota has one of the strongest
Leagues in the country
Then, too, there is the case of Mchigan's
Senator Vandenberg. His conversion to an
international point of view will always rate
as an important turn in the development of
our foreign policy While the Senator is a
man who makes up his own mind, for several
years prior to his shift he carried on a long
correspondence on international cooperation
with Michigan League leaders who were
urging him to give up isolationism.
Drafted From the Yloor
KNOWN and respected in political circles,
the woman who sparks this impersonal pres
sure group has managed to remain almost
anonymous everywhere else
She first became national figure. at the
1914 League convention when, during a
stormy battle over nominations, she was sud-
Evening star., 1946-11-03

denly drafted from the floor as
a candidate for the Leagues
Presidency. She won the post
- but along with it, bitter
opposition. Amongother things,
the National Headquarters
staff resigned in protest.
When Miss Strauss got to
Washington, she found herself
alone in the city - alone in the
Office, alone in a new job whose
magnitude was staggering. She
kept her mouth shut, worked
Evening star., 1946-11-03

on Congressional domgs. Broadsides are dis
tributed door r-to-door, at meetings or along
with League grocery and department store
window displays. They are simple, real
istic, never-sentimental short summaries,
Continued on page IL
Evening star., 1946-11-03

A frown from Anna Strauss
is bad news for Congressman.
They'll watch her League of
Women Voters next Tuesday
ATE one evening when the Congressional
IL Conference Committee was wrestling with
the momentous OPA Bill, Anna Lord Strauss's
telephone rang.
This is Ralph Gamble" said the weary
voice at the other end. I'm just going back
to the committee room and l want you to
know, Miss Strauss. that will vote against
any amendment which takes price controls
off meat poultry and dairy products
Congressman Gamble of Westchester
County, New York. hopes that when election
day rolls around next Tuesday his call will
help earn him the blessings of the lady he
telephoned. There are other legislators who
have surely spent some uneasy prediction
weeks. They are aware that Anna Lord
Strauss and her League of Women Voters
have let the folks back home know how
they've voted on big issues. From ward
heelers to presidential possibilities,
candidates pay plenty of heed to what
Miss Strauss's League says about their
political ambitions.
The usual reaction to female organizations
Evening star., 1946-11-03

of this type is Those women!"
referring to the Carrie Nation
hatchet-waving type or to full
busted tea-drinkers from fash
ionable suburbs.
They're Different
l HE average League woman
is neither of these. She is youth
fultomiddle we'll dressed,
good fun, not in the least pub
lic-spirited" looking. Anna
Strauss herself is typical: a
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-31

"Now is the time for all good men
to come to the aid of their country ,
says the old line used in learning to
use the typewriter-and right now it
has lot of sense. Whoever it was
that tagged the Latins volatile
hadn't yet met the Americans.
We are so volatile the we contra
dict ourselves over night. We build
up a hero today and tear him down
tomorrow.
We are all ideals and determina-
ton today and we walk over the same
ideals tomorrow.
Somebody starts crazy idea and
in no time at all the whole nation can
go nuts.
And the whole nation hasn't been
far from being nuts in these recent
days and weeks.
The whole crazy mess about demo-
bilization is more mass hysteria then
anything else.
1t didn't make, sense from the start;
it makes less now Somebody starts
war cry and everybody else says
"come on, let's 60"
The Ku Klux Klan was matter of
mass hysteria - and it can happen
again. Clever, more or less unscrupu-
lous schemers think up corny idea
and often the cornier the better-and
with clever promotion the wave starts
rolling. "And where she stops nobody
knows"
Lynch law gets under way in just
about the same way.
When mass hysteria gets well under
way, the man who holds up hand of
caution and pleads for sound judgment
is likely to be rolled over-more like
ly to be than not to be. -..--...
Mass hysteria is an emotional dis
ease. 1t is accompanied by an absence
of thinking. The individual person
ceases to have a functioning brain.
He really ceases to be an individual.
He gets melted into the mass. After
wards, when some shock restores in
dividual judgment, he probably be-
comes very much ashamed of himself.
Usually, by then, it's too late!
Every halfway good psychologist
and every apprentice psychiatrist
knows all about mass hysteria and
mob action.
These learned and semi-learned gen
tlemen probably are today doing some
very fancy studying of the mass mind,
as distinguished from the individual
mind.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-31
THE CHERRY TREE

They are trying to figure out just
what spark set off some of our mass
hysteria movements and they are try
ing to foresee the shock that will stop
them.
They are having themselves time,
no doubt.
Of course the time to stop mass
hysteria is before it starts. And the
way to stop it is TO educate men and
women to thing things through for
themselves.
We have had lot of mass hysteria
waves in the history of our country.
There was "54-40 or bust" "Tippe-
canoe and Tyler, too; chang the Kai-
SER; the A. P. A. and many others.
On a smaller scale we had the Molly
McGuires and Shay's Whisky rebel
lion; also and many others.
The whole thing can be made very
complicated, or very simple. From the
complicated approach it can be OBJ
served that individuals, in great num-
bers, either have no definite set Of
principles, or in the heat of excitement
misapply them; that they have no
sound, reasoned philosophy of life, or
in the heat of excitement, under the
pressure of propaganda, misapply it..
But however you approach the mat
ter, it all comes down to this: Do your
own thinking; be sure of your own
facts; don't follow blindly when some
red hot orator yells, "let's go".
Ask yourself Why. Ask yourself
about the results to be obtained. Ask
yourself plenty of questions and ask
plenty of questions of the fellow who
yells, "let's CO."
Mass hysteria can be dangerous
thing to the whole nation. You have
all seen pictures of masses of men and
women waving their arms and shout
ing in unison with Hitler-and look
at them nowl
Leadership is good only when it
can answer the reasoned questions OF
those who are asked to follow.
A citizenry is sound and stable only
when it insists upon individual think
ing and intelligent decision. Mass hys-
terra can ruin US, if we don't watch
out!-CMW.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-31
Luce Has Ided To
End Labor Strife

Washington - (FP). - The we'll
groOmed congresSwoman from Con-
nectcut, Clare Boothe Luce, proposed
Jan. IA to repeal the law of supply
and demand so as to give labor a
wage rate adequate to human needs,
and pile atop that system of profit
sharing for employees of industry and
business.
Mrs. Luce offered simply an idea
and not a completed bill. She asked
that the House set up study of all
"cxisting profit-sharing systems now
operative in the u. S." to find how
they work, and whether the U. S.
should grant tax rewards to firms
that set up such systems voluntarily.
Back of the proposal, she said, was
the proposition that "the way to make
man conservative is to give him
something to conserve. The way to
save the capitalistic system is to in
crease to a clear majority the number
of Americans who can honestly call
themselves capitalists. Profit-sharing
plans tend to do precisely this"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-31
Gredtest Steel Strike In
History On; 100000 Workers
In Thirty States Are Out

ing in return that the stay-in crews
necessary to maintain equipment be
composed entirely Of union men. Stay
in men were warned to keep an eye
out for activities of supervisors who,
according to company propaganda,
will be the core of any back-to-work
moves.
But at midnight tour of the Pitts
burgh strike front Jan. 81 showed
back-to-work sentiment as absent as
smokestacks atop the steel works that
the black whirls of smoke which only
a few days before billowed from
sprawl all through the key industrial
area.
Pittsburgh was a strangely dark
city as the strike broke, its blast fur
mace fires that pierce the sky at night
quenched, the steady hum of its ma
chimes and mills silenced for the first
time in natives memory. But inside
many of the union halls that serve
some 100000 steelworkers in this area
rang the high-spirited sound of laugh
ter and conversation as workers, many
dressed in their Sunday best, gathered
for last-minute strike instructions.
Were down and we're going to
stay down until we get that 1870"
was typical sentiment expressed by
workers who crowded into the meeting
hall of Homestead Local 1897, 500
strong and the biggest steelworker
local in the country. Throughout the
day workers streamed into the union
office on the hill overlooking the g.
mile long Carnegie Illinois works on
the Monongahela river, overflowing
into the street by night when the
rally began.
"Why can't picket more than four
hours?" called one disappointed men,
ber. "You can," he was assured. "Only
unionists who are sick or dead are ex-
empt from picket duty, the penalty
for absence being SIS to $40 fine
officials went on. Unionists insisted
on stiffening the penalty by forbid
ding picket delinquents from holding
union office for two years.
Stormiest applause came for a
fighting speech by Strike Committee
Chairman Elmer Kish, who said: "The
whole American people are behind US,
all except big capital which pushed
us into this strike. 1t wants to keep
from us the full employment and de-
cent wages we've talked and dreamed
of. And not it's about time that big
capital be told where to get off,"
Carnegie Steel did get told off. Two
hours ahead of time sturdy bands of
pickets were circling the main gates
of the works, unmindful of a heavy
snowfall that frosted the hard smoke
blackened earth. And there they'll stay
"for as long as it takes us to win this
fight"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-31
LAM Chief
(Confinued From Page OnsJ

AFL, but not as Mr.. Green advises,
because Of jurisdictional fight with
the Carpenters Union. The leaving
Of the AFL by the Machinists' Union
at that time resulted from the AFL
executive councils not permitting
President Green to issue official con-
firmation Of the Machinists' Unions
jurisdiction. The differences were with
the AFL council, not with the Car
penters' Union, although the councils
gag Of Mr.. Green had been applied
because of a threat by the Carpenters
Union to withhold its percapita tax if
Mr.. Green did not ignore instructions
given to him by the 1914 convention
to issue confirmation of the Machin-
lists Union jurisdiction, when called
upon by any employer of union to do
so.
"The Machinists' Union returned to
the AFL at the 1913 Boston conven-
ton on promise Of the officers Of
the AFL that, if the LAM returned,
the AFL would do everything in its
power to help the Machinists' Union
in handling jurisdiction disputes
"The AFL officers broke this
promise to the Machinists' Union. In
stead of assisting the lam they con-
tinued to aid and encourage such
unions as the Operating Engineers,
the Carpenters, and the Street Car
Men, to continue raiding the Machin-
lists membership and trespassing on
the jurisdiction of the Machinists'
Union.
"Thus, the reason why the Machin-
lists Union has deferred payments of
its per capita tax to the AFL is the
broken promises of the officers of the
AFL," Brown asserted. "This is the
issue the members are voting on"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-31
Says Oil Boards
Report Absurd

Fort Worth, Tex.-(FP).-Pres. O.
A. Knight of Oil Workers Init. Union
said here he couldn't understand "the
statistical magic" by which an oil
fact-finding board in Washington ar
rived at its recommendation of an
18%6 wage increase in the petroleum
industry.
"By an odd coincidence Knight
pointed out, "the oil panel in its
laborious calculations on the just wage
to be paid in our industry arrived at
the same figure that OWIU and sey-
eral major oil companies have already
agreed upon.
'"This union, when it negotiated set
Elements for an 1870 wage increase,
had it's arms pinioned behind it by
Pres. Truman's seizure order and was
denied the freedom to use its economic
power Appearing before the oil
panel in its final sessions, / told it's
members that we had in the interests
of expediency and the public welfare
settled with several companies at the
1870 figure. | appealed to them not
to penalize the union by establishing
1871 as the figure which the industry
could pay.
"The findings of the oil panel re-
duce the entire fact-finding approach
in industrial disputes to an absurdity.
Obviously the panel accepted the fig
ure reached by the union and several
companies as an easy way out of it's
job, then supplied the necessary Stats
tics to justify its conclusions.
''If this is to be typical of Pres.
Truman's proposal that Congress en-
act a law built on socalled fact-find-
ing boards, then OWIU mus again
express its opposition to such efforts
to bypass legitimate collective bar
gaining"