Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1925, Page 3

HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO % GOV. FERGUSON DEPLORES AID WOMEN HAVE GIVEN HER FOES Her Own Sex Have Shown No Loyalty, Executive De- clares—Cites Three Aromalies in Fight on Her Administration. 11 ON STAGE HURT INSGENERY CRASH “Song of the Flame,” Here Next Week, Forced to Close by Near-Tragedy. By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del., December 12. —Near-tragedy last night closed the second performance of “The Song of the Flame,” a musical play produced by Arthur Hammerstein at the play- house here, when an eight-inch chan- nel fron supporting a number of drops buckled, allowing the scenery to sag and showering the stage and performers with brick, mortar and plaster torn from the walls, The accident occurred iwhile the Russian Art Choir, numbering about 60 persons, was on the stage. While many of the players were in- jured, receiving sprains, cuts and bruises, only 11 required medical at- tention, and but one—Mme. Chereko— was in physicians’ care this morning. Mme. Chereko suffered a slight con- cussion of the brain when struck by falling debris, but was sald at the Delaware Hospital to be in no danger. Damage to_ the theater and stage Properties, at first estimated at $60,0 will not reach that amount, it W believed. As the plaster and other debris began to fall from the rigging loft the performers: realizing their danger, dashed for safety. Some raced for the wings, others leaped into the ~rchestra pit, while members of the rast hack- stage sought shelter beneath the plat- form Jack Haskell, a director, realizing the danger of a panic among the audi- ence, quickly ordered the asbestos cur- tain lowered, and brought Dorothy MacKaye of the- American ballet co the footlights. Miss MacKaye, al- though somewhat unnerved, began a #ong, the orchestra conductor signaled his musicians in and the audience sat quietly until Mr. Hammerstein an. nounced that the performance could ot be completed. The production, Mr. Hammerstein said, will open in Washington next Monday as scheduled. Elks' Memorial Service. Morning Star Lodge, No. 40, I B. P. 0. Elks, will hold annual memorial services for members who have died during the year, tomorrow at 7:30 pm., in the auditorlum of Dunbar High School. The eulogy wiil be de- Jivered by M. Alphonzo Morrell, past exalted ruler of Willlams Lodge, No, 11, of Richmond, Va. A special mu- sical program has been arranged. John T. Rhines is chairman of the committee in charge. econd . D. C.. for the election for the ensiing year and for ction 0f such other business as perly brought before the meeting 1'at the bank at 12 o'clock noon: Tuesday. January 12. 1926, ~Polls wiii onen between the hours of 12 noon and “VICTOR B. A NOT BFE RESPONSIDLE FOR ANY antracted by any “one other than Wilmer Basil Beall. Caitol Heighta 1 Wil debta mys Md. THE ANNCAL M holders of The R: Compan the pu. of the co be ) 12, 1924 onéned ut 2 o'clock and closed pm. 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Gov. Ferguson Points out the pitfalls in the path o the ‘woman ' in politics,’ charging lac of toyalty on' the part of the voters of her own ser.) BY MIRIAM A. FERGUSO! Governor of Texas. ARTICLE VI The Opposition of Women in Politics. AUSTIN, Tex., December 12.—There are three strange anomalies in Texas— the opposition of the preachers to pardoning convicts, the opposition of Atticus Webb, president of the Anti- Saloon League, to my offer to stop rich bootleggers and rich violators of the llquor laws; the opposition af the big-club women of this State to the first woman Governor of Texas. When I faced the generml election last Fall against the combination Re- publican-Ku Klux opponent, the club women of the State went over to the Republican banner. They sald it was because my opponent was a university professor. They backed him, they voted for him, they sorrowed with their Ku Klux colleagues when he was not elected. That s just one instance of their opposition to me, an opposition which has in some degree lessened in the 11 months I have been in office. I think, as time goes on, the club women will understand me better, as I am beginning to understand the club women better. Have Demanded Much. It has been quite apparent that these women, despite the fact that they did not support me, have de: manded more of me than they ever demanded of any other governor. They have expected me, in 11 _months, to accomplish more than had been done in_the past 11 years. There have been notable exceptions, of course; there are prominent women in the State who have come to me with problems dear to their hearts, and as a woman and as a_governor I confess my gratification that I have been able to do something for them. That has only made the more marked the attitude of those club women, the ones who have been preaching about woman'’s rights and woman's suffrage, who have held aloof from the first woman governor. = And so 1 have come to recognize thelr attitude as part of the organized opposition against me. Texas granted the vote to women in 1919, vet the big politiclans of the State have never been very graclous to the women. They have used the women's vote, used it without con- sclence, and without reward. Once in a while they have thrown some sop of small office to women—a county clerkship or some such place— but they have been almighty jealous of glving any woman an outstand- ing chance. Scores Methods of Foes. When a woman announced for the governor's office, they met the an- nouncement with jeers. They were 8o amazed at my victory in the first primary, against a big field of men, that they couldn’t do so very much it. They were so desperate at my victory in the second primary that they welcomed the opposition the club women were willing to offer against me, and since I have been in office, they have been very busy keeping the women stirred up against me wherever they could. They have sed every argument they could de- vise to keep antagonism alive. They have talked about the iniquity of my husband aiding me. They have held up their righteous hands in holy horror that I freed a few poor con- victs. They have charged my ap- pointees were grafters and incompe- tents. They have fought my declara- tion that rich men have no more right to get drunk than poor men have. All these things have been cleverly told and retold until the women have gotten so they Loelieve them. Which is exactly what the politicians want them to do. It was planned with animus; it has worked against me to perfection. Finds No Chivalry. No woman who enters 3 Texas need expect any chiv ause she is a woman 1 can tell her right now she won't get it. The politicians of this State have held close to their hearts and their big offices of th State. They fear, as thev fear a deadiy poison, the hold of any woman, with the innate honesty of a woman, an office. They will fight her, as they fought woman suffrage, with every weapon at their disposal, and they have many weapons, as well as experience in using them. There is no white plume of chivalry, and there is no chivalrous intent among them. They are out for blood, and woe to the poor woman who dares fight back. If they can arouse other women against her, so much the better for thelr purpose, which, in this instance, is the immediate discrediting of a woman governor, and which in the ul- timate, is the discouragement of other women seeking high office. I am not afraid of such opposition, and I do not think that any woman who is a fighter will be afraid of it. But it cannot be disregarded, for or- ganized opposition is something always to be considered. Gives Offices to Women. It would seem that the club women of Texas would have rallied to the support of a woman, would have used all the influence they had to make her administration a banner success for all the world to gaze upon. As part of my desire to help them, in my inaugural address I said that many women would be called to places of responsibility, and at once I ap- pointed a woman as my secretary of state. I have continued to give out- standing women as much considera- tion as possible. During the session of the Legisla- ture last Winter and Spring, I was Just about as busy as a governor could be. I was far too busy to be having any receptions at the manslon. Yet, the first thing I knew, the women at- she can and will accomplish great re- forms and do much good. Women have done great things In business and in the various professions. The fight those pioneers have had has died down, for women have proven their ability and men have been forced to recognize it. Lists Forces of Opponents. I belleve such a change will come to the women in politics, too. I be- leve that a part of the determined opposition that I have met in Texas, from men and women alike, has been the opposition due any pioneer. I think a great deal of it has come to me personally because I have never been an ardent club worker. I think most of it has come from my political enemies in Texas, who happen to be enemies of the Ferguson family and the things the Ferguson family has stood for in Texas. These, then, are the things I am up against in Texas; the opposition of my husband’s political enemles, the determination of the Ku Klux Klan to beat us because we beat them, the opposition to a husband serving as chief advisor and councilor to his wife, the objection to a pardon record because it has considered each convict as an individual, the opposi- tion of a set of rich men who want the balance of power back In their hands, and the personal animus of club women kept alive by the poli- ticlans As I sald in the beginning of this series of articles, 1 am forearmed against my enemies, because I am forewarned. I do not disregard their power, but I am strong because of my knowledge that 1 have done right, that I have worked hard and, above all things, because there are hundreds of thousands of honest men and women in Texas who know the records of the men oppdsing me and who believe in me. (Copyright. 1925.) 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Here- after ‘it is to cost more than pre- viously to get married in Ghent. Under a decree of the communal administration the fees to be paid for marriage will be 300, 160 and 76 francs, according to whether the ceremony is to be first, sec- ond or third class. Heretofore 100, 50 and 25 francs were the sums donated to the commune. “Those requiring a service de luxe,” says the decree, “must pay 600 francs. A service de luxe includes a small orchestra in addition to the organ. COL. REYNOLDS DIES. Veteran of Two Wars Succumbs in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., December 12 P).—Col. Alfred Reynolds, United States Army, retired, died at the Let- terman General Hospital yesterday, aged 76. He retired at his own re- quest in 1912, after’ more than 40 vears of service. In 1874 Col. Rey- nolds was graduated from West Point and later served In the Spanish-Amer- tcan War and the Philippine insurrec- tion. 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