Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1931, Page 19

7 WOMEN SERVE INLEGSLATURE 43 of 48 States Have Chosen Feminine Law Makers Now in Office. This is the first of a series of two By the Associated Pre NEW YORK, 'y Iadies, too, lay down the law. One hundred and forty-seven of them today are lawmakers. Only five States are without their influence. In each of the 43 Legislatures in whic’. they sit they constitute very small minorities. Statute making is not a big business with them—yet; but it is & business none the less. Most of the women serving in State eapitols this month reached there after ‘well fought victories over male com- petition. ~ Some won election despite membership in minority parties. A very few were elected in gallant ges- tures by their communities as widows of legislators who died in office. Some are young. Indiana’s only lawmaker, Miss Tella C. Haines, is barely a year out of the State univer- sity. Oregon has a Representative, Dorothy McCullough Lee, who is not yet 30. Average Age Near 50. For the most part, however, these feminine State Senators and Repre- sentatives are middle-aged. The aver- age age of the 147 probably would figure only slightly under 50 years. Some are nearing the evening of their lives. Miss Alice Coe is serving in the Connecticut Legislature at the age of L. New England, staid and conservative, has pointed the way to the rest of the eountry in the matter of electing women to State legislative office. Connecticut has 21 women taking part in lawmak- ing. New Hampshire, 17; Vermont, 16. ‘The 11 States that classify geographi- eally as “the South” have 10 women lawmakers among them, and four of the number—Alabama, Louisiana, Ten- nessee and Kentucky—still have their statutes written entirely by men. ‘The Par West, with its seven States, as 19 women helping in the making of w. Nevada is the only one which has Done this year. The North, Middle and Southwest have shown a friendly but not a nu- merically enthusiastic attitude toward sending women to their State capitols. Many Vote “Regular.” From a perty viewpoint the women legislators line up about half-and-half Democrat and Republican. Party poli- tics is not always a consideration of their candidacy. They not infrequently base their appeal for election on a prin- ciple or principles, rather than party platforms. Many, however, are thor- ough-going partisans who vote “regular.” A husband's politics is not always that of his legislator-wife. Mrs. W. W. Hamilton of the Montana House of Representatives is a native of Virginia and, therefore, she says, “a Democrat.” She has twice been elected in a strongly Republican county. Her husband is a Republican ‘Wisconsin's only Assembly woman is Mrs. Agnes Charbonneau, who sur- prised politicians by winning as a con- servative Republican when virtually the entire State was swept by progressive Republicans under the La Follette ban- ner. Her oratorical excellence is con- ceded, and her opponents cdnfess she is “good at lambasting.” Married women predominate. Most of them are mothers of sizeable fami- lies. and law making shares with home making. In the Western States sev- eral women legislators are also the op- erators of large ranches or other enter- prises generally presumed to be a “man’s Job. 12 Women Senators. Even blindness is an affliction that could not keep Dr. Claire E.*Owens out of Nebraska politics. Sightless since she was a child, Miss Owens became a doctor of osteopathy, a supervisor of public school music and now a rep- resentative in the Legislature from Fil- more County. In only 12 States have women thus ! far won election to their Senates. At present there is no more than one ‘woman in the Upper House of any Leg- islature. ‘The tendency has been 1ult4 gen- erally adapted by the controlling male majorities to assign women to such eommittees as are non-political, espeg eially education and public welfare Although talking is supposed to be one of woman's greatest activities, it is significant that by far the greatest number of woman law makers thus far in * American legislative affairs have sdopted a policy of “sit quiet, listen and (Copyright, 1931, by Associated Press.) YOUTH FATALLY SHOT ON HUNT WITH FATHER Gun Accidentally Discharged ‘While Seeking to Dislodge Squir- rel From Tree Near Danville. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star DANVILLE, Va. January 17.—Wil- lard Pickerel, 16-year-cld son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pickerel of Casweil County, N. C.. was almost instantly killed yesterday while hunting squirrels with his father, the tragedy occurring four miles south of Danville, near the | State line. The elder Pickerel had shot at a squirrel in a tree. The animal, while not struck, came tumbling down, but ran back up the small tree a short dis- tance. Young Pickerel, using the butt end of his .22-caliber rifle, was trying to disengage the animal when the gun accidentally went off, the bullet striking him i the abdomen. He died just as his father reached his side. CRASH IGNITES TRUCK; DRIVER BURNS TO DEATH Motorman and Passenger Injured | When Vehicle Collides Head-on | With Street Car. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, January 17.—An uniden- tifled man was burned to death at the wheel of a motor truck loaded with steel bars today after a head-on col- lision with a street car crowded with factory workers. The motormam and ome passenger on the car were injured The impact was so great that the truck driver floor of his cab, down against the en- gine The front of the truck crashed through the motorman’s compartment of the street car. The wrenched trolley line broke, fall- ing onto the truck. Since the gasoline tank had been ripped open by the im- was_driven through the | Erudite Taxi Driver' Astounds Maurois, French Biographer Talks of Philosophers as He Pilots Cab Through Gotham Traffic. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 17.—Andre home today with the memory of a nameless taxicab driver who knew his philosophers as well as his traffic. nue on his way to the liner Paris, Maurois, was astounded to have the as_German and Italian and English. They talked art, literature and phi- | losophy while the chauffeur threaded | his way among countless vehicles. Stop- ped by a read light, the driver turned in h seat. Take Schopenhauer,” he sald Yes, take Schopenhauer,” Maurois. “They do not really live what they preach,” said the driver, “Schopenhauer talking pessimism when he lived life with the best or worst of us; Nietzsche preaching the superman; Tolstoi pre- tending he was not an aristocrat.” A policeman blew his whistle and the driver moved. As he weaved among clevated pillars, he resumed the discus- sion. And he sighed as he brought his cab to a grinding stop. leaving a bewildered writer in the midst of his bags. MEDICAL ASSISTANT IS SHOT AND KILLED| Father of Girl Murdered in Decem- ber Surrenders to Port Arthur Officers. By the Associated Press. PORT ARTHUR, Tex., January 17.— O. L. Adams, 23, a medical assistant, was shot and killed here tonight. A. B. Johnson, father of Elizabeth Johnson, 17, found December 27 by her former swegtheart shot to death in the latter's automobile, surrendered to officers. Robert L. Williams, 18, Texas Uni- versity sophomore, the girl's former fiance, was charged with her murder, but released when a jury refused to re- turn an indictment. He said he found the girl's body in his parked automobile He left her in the car, he said, while he entered a nearby church to ask the pastor to intercede in an effort to effect a reconciliation with the girl. Williams charged Miss Johnson had ended their engagement after accept- ing attentions from a young married man. Adams was married, but he and his wife had been living apart. OBSERVANCE PLANNED FOR BIRTHDAY OF LEE South to Unite Also to Honor Memory of Stonewall Jackson This Week. By the Associated Press RICHMOND, Va., January 17.—Gen. Robert E. Lee, hero of the Confederacy in war and a leader among those who rebuilt the South in the dark days that followed, will be honored Monday throughout the vast area once under the Stars and Bars. In most parts of the South January 19 will be observed as Lee-Jackson day, since the birthday anniversary of Gen. T. J. “Stonewall’ Jackson comes only two days later. Schools, banks and public offices will be closed in a number of States and memorial services will be conducted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and other Southern or- ganizations. Memorial services for Gen. Lee will be held tomorrow in old St. Paul's Church, Richmond, where the Confed- erate commander-in-chief worshipped during the war. All Confederate organ- izations of the city co-operated in ar- ranging the services. Tomorrow, also, are memorial serv- ices to be held at Stratford-on-the-Po- tomac. the ancestral home of the Lees in Westmoreland County, Va. Maj Giles B. Cook, last surviving member of Gen. Lee’s stafl. will be present Banks will close in Alabama, where on Monday, in Montgomery, first cap- ital of the Confederacy. B. M. Miller | will be inaugurated Governor in_the same building where Jefferson Davis took the oath of office as President of the Confederacy. Georgia's Legislature will be in ad- journment in respect for the memory of Gen. Lee, and in cities and towns from the Potomac to the Rio Grande the day will be observed. 1t is the 124th birthday anniversary of Gen. Lee, while Wednesday is the 107th anniversary of Gen. Jackson. TECUMSEH BONES FOUND Canadians Believe Discovery Re- lates to Indian Chief. SARNIA, Ontario, January 17 (#).— Discovery on Walpole Island of what are believed to be the bones of Tecum- | seh, famous Indian chief and ally of the' British forces in the War of 1812, was reported yesterday by members of the Walpole Island Soldiers' Club, The find was made a week ago at the residence of Sarah White, 85-year- old widow of a former chief, but the in- formation was withheld pending partial authentication, which the members of | the club now believe they have. Firemen's Dances Success. BRANCHVILLE, Md., January 17 (Special). —The _dances held ‘every | Wednesday and Saturday nights in the | | recently completed hall adjoining the headquarters of the Branchville Volun- teer Fire Department, are being liberally patronized. The proceeds go to the fire department fund. Announcement is made that on the night of February 4, a special benefit dance is to be given in the Branchville Hall, and 50 per cent | of the proceeds will go to the Prince | Georges County Rescue Squad. . Worried as to whether he was feed- ing a pony correctly, W. B. Saunders shot himself to death at Portsmouth, England, recent] 2001 16th Street Two Rooms, Kitchen | and Bath Electrical Refrigeration Reasonable Rentals Maurois, French biographer, sailed for || Entering the cab on upper Fifth ave- || driver recognize his nationality and to || say that he too spoke French—as well i replied || THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 18, 1931—PART ONE. 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