New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1926, Page 9

NEW YORK'S FIRST the Tammany Organiza- tion Characterizes Mrs. Pratt, Recently Elected. New York, April 7 (P —Mrs. John T. Pratt, New York's first “alder- woman." has been three months rid. {ng the Tammany Tiger. £he doesn't vet In the least resemble the well known — young lady from Niger, Who went for a ride on a tiger They came back from the ride With the lady inside And a smile on the face of the tiger Although she and two male re. publicans ave the only representa- tives of that party In an overwheim- y democratic house, Mrs. Pratt hy no means has been swallowed The smile indicates the tiger has ac- capted with pleasure the frst woman rider in his aldermanio ring. Works of Prafse “She's a vogular fellow,” eald Charles MeMauus, he mafority whip, at whose érack the 62 regular democrats full into line. "And she's got brains ténds to business, “You can say from all of us: 's a perfect lady."” 6's no obstructionist,” added nk Cunningham, chairman of finances, dean of the assembly after !7 years in Tammany. “She hasn't een abit of trouble.” She at. & jough her logical fate was that of belng swallowed u gisla- Iy epe g, Mrs. Pratt has stood out on many counts. The first lay in office she intr ced eImergency measure for a appropriation for the appo of an adequate number of t ingpectors, a measure backed Tammany tenement commis She later proposed twa local laws One, to provide for the rewriting of New Yor) redunidant charter; the other to amend it in regard to par management All t are now in committee. $16 a member of the local laws com niittee Mrs. Pratt has many ti aced herselt on record ! pertinent question, such as he arrassing “Wh an emergs; or a re- quest for a long roll call, or an ex planation of her minority vote Mrs. Pratt, who has gray hair quick-moving dark eyes and a win- ning suiile, is wife of John Tesi Pratt, one of the wealthiest men in 2w York, and the mother of five ehildren, now all grown up, or v 80. Hir home in East 61st st has seen distinguished politicia both parties. She friends s of ounts among her ersonal Herbert Hoover, John W. Davis and Franklin D. Roosevelt. She has been delezate to national conventions electer. and national She Stepped Down “Her running for alderman etepping down from the top of the tom,"” said Judge Ir: A. Cola- an leader of her dis- trist, the 15th—the Stocking District." $he had nothing to gain from s low!ly offte littls power “Everybody recognized what Mrs. Pratt's going into the municipal sembly would mean in the aw ing of the civic conscience, “No one except myself exy her assoclation with the other al- derman to be such a success Mrs. Pratt herself said today ehe hag enjoyed it all; the | in the political resear regular Tuesday meeti with no dignity and rs of study i, the ALDERWOMAN IS | BRAINY, CLEVER AND A GOOD FELLOW | At Least This Is the Way formal “sitting around and chinning with the boys." 1 think there is every opportuni- ty for women who will go into poli- ties in a practical way," Mrs. Pratt replied to a question. “I do not belleve in women go- | Ing Into anything as ‘women.' “I don't think there is any future for a woman's party, | “We have got to face that fact that this country is party governed. Instead of crying out that all politics | Is rotten, we should realize that the | better politicians we make of our- he better government we | Encrgetic Campaigner As an energetic campaigner, Mrs Pratt canvassed every part of her district, spending wholn evenings in the tenement kitchns of the Ghetto, among Negro families and those of on." | poiyglot sections voted in st alderwoman far ahead of Mrs. Fratt, who wears -carat diamonds as | other women wear overshoes, polled an abnormally large soclalist vote, The a ly has fololwed suit. The tiger capitulated to the charm of a woman who brought human | understanding into the smallest task | in the government of the largest | city. HODERNIST WINS VILAGE FLECTION Findamentalist Candidate De- Mo, April 7 (P — This | county village was | ctioning normally today | of the most exciting elec s history | of votes cast in yes- ¥'s election showed J. C. Mau- modernist candidate for mayor, orious over his opponent, L. J. fundament by a ot 110 votes. The final 1 3685 to 255 1stead of the usual political is. sues which domina lection ampalgn, the mayoralty election icveloped into a religlous contro. | in which the views of the popilace toward modernism and entalism were be t with medernism aired. Tf the 8 an indicator jority, sympa- It all came about after Maupin preacher and local anno r Baptist s man ced that he te for the A few days after hi t was disclosed that » of students at | in 1922 rd of con- n of Dr. A had been 100l faculty for xpression of what was termed too heral 1 etation of ok, “What Jesus him as ctior their h candidates re ms from points entire country. denied the both A Grejat Home- Furnishing Store EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1926, election had developed Into a n-‘J-: In explaining his religlous |.‘ Maupin sald, “As we look at ft, | 1lef rist is a mystical character Par Peterman sald was “exactly the same better understood | expr A by Willlam Wglous controversy and steadfastly|and means more to us when the Hrvan at th Dayton evolution trial Cannes. 1m.1ln'ulnod that thelr purpose in ¥ 18 stripped of those things and I belfe every word of the -— cking the office was “to give|which do not appeal to our practi- ible Signor Amendola was besleged in — | Clarence good government and | cal common sepse and study and 2 hotel at Montecatini last July, a make this city a better place iIn|is worshipped as a real man rather AMENDOLA 1S DEAD which to live.” when later he made April 7 (P —Th was selzed and badly us be- that Giovanni Amendola that the Aventine opposition in the Matin says leader of Ital. his religi s escape he twenty unknown persons report from Rome said the deputy Jennings 'fan chamber of deputles, 1s dead at | had left for France to recover his =S | strevgth, The Fascist newspapers in | the Dime Bavings bank here | Rome expessed the belief !time of the attack that it was to the attitude of his party against | jate the government. beaten by A recent HEADS WALLINGFORD BANK Wallingford, April 7 (®) — At a|tendent of the R. 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