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2 Monday, Dece 1918 mber 23, “Politics the Only Occupation Outside Stage Where Women’s Talents Are Given Full Play,’ Says Helen Ring Robinson Colorado's Pioneer Woman State Senator Helieves Next Step After Getting Vote Is Entering Con- structive Politics and Describes Type pest Suited for Holding Public Offices. Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) HERE do we go from here? In other words, now that many of us have won citizenship, what shall we do with it? When the American woman politician gets down to work in earnest, what of Women By Zoe Beckley will she be like? How will she dress, think, behave? What faults must she overcome, what virtues cultivate? And how, Ob how, will she be treated by the wary, even it admiring, male? It is fairly easy for Helen Ring Robinson to answer these questions, Those three pioncer sessions of hers | im the Colorado State Senate give the weight of ex- perience to her words. Then she has the two-fold gift of @ brilliant mind and a highly “feminine nature”—a | nature that believes in love and husvand and children, | Sy “Then thero was Catherine of © the male diplomats. They hated her © shrewdness and she left her mark. | © * Queen Elizabeth was heard from too ** any of us Americans be to-day? 4 >) Tat eeentey and goodness. She “Gerstaud babies. for Citizenship.” Her qualifications and home and market basket, and clothes and charm And she has just written a book understands women women un- Preparing Women being granted, we will ask her our! questions as she touches New York on her way to visit a twenty-two-year old daughter in Washington and meet a perfectly good and devoted hus- dand in Florida. "We go from here,” replies the Lady from Denver, “straight into constructive polities. The vote is merely a condition for getting other things that are moro essential. The feason women can get them best is ‘Mat the political platform 1s really ‘@ stage and women are better por- trayers of emotion, truer dramatic artists than men. “Polities is the only occupation outside of the stage where women's talents and power are given full play. Look how queens shine out tn history. I will pit that supreme old warhorse, the late Dowager Empress of China, against any wale politician of the ‘ages. “Bbe may have been a naughty lady, & cruel one (ethics are largely hieal), but no one ever ac- used her of being inefficient. Russta, who always got the better of cordially for it, of course, and dubbed her ‘Kitty of Russia” Possibly Queen Victoria was a little ctuffy- minded, but she had personality and fm no uncertain tones, And if it had ®° mot been for the insight and vision ef the Spanish Isabella, where would “IT want to rouse women to the @ramatic values of politics. As to the moral values—well, my definition of polities is the relations of people Justly one to another—and when a woman can live amicably with her) sister-in-law sbe ts fit to be a public adjuster of the people to thelr living conditions.” “The ideal woman for politics ts the mature woman of ietsure. If the leis- ure woman would only stop thinking of being a Congressman as a sort of @isease, we could have practically any eocial, industrial and political reform we want. One-half of all the State officials would be women—clerks, treasurers, heads of street cleaning departinent, chairmen of highway doards and factory commissions, “Fully three-quarters of all wel- fare commtmittees—social engineers, I call them—should be drawn from this class of women. Four-fifths of pub- Ne service commissions should be feminine, A! food boards not actu- ally concerned with production and transportation should be of the sex whose feebleness of muscle disquall- fies them as coal heavers, deep-sea divers, railway engineers and sol diers. “They would make idea) Secretar- fes of State, Lieutenant Governors, Vice Presidents, Their native talent for getting after dirt and disorder, and keeping after things till they aie done, makes them the logically per- ~. fect politician. The only thing they cannot do as well as men is sitting *. Pound political clubs!" A The Honorable Helen agrees with you and me that the woman who seeks public office must wear good va Clothes, wear them well and be as Comely @s possible, since the Ameri- @ap man has not yet learned to take woman seriously on intellect alone. Colorado people will talk of the pre- Possessing and sultable frocks of the, ‘woman Senator, but only as a follow. Up compliment to the vital one touch- tng her pewer as statesman and pa: Mamentarian, Her famous “purple gown and bunch of violets” alone ould not account for the mass of legislation that stands recorded to her * eredit, “But clothes are important,” she admits. “The mistake ts in letting Gress become an extravagance and then a tyranny. You would not de- ® pend on your clothes to win you a * ote in the Senate. But you could sheets votes by what she says, not by how the looks—though sho must look well. I would counsel woman, then, to learn to think, to formulate her ideas and express them clearly and with exact meaning. The faults #if must vercome in learning to be a politician | are not faults of mind or character, | but of education. “Tirst she must get md of her timidity. She must learn to gather her skirts firmly and ‘climb down the ladder.” She must abolish her habit of deferring to men, and learn that men, politically, are about the most stupid of all domestic animals. “Her second realization that her greatest power Hes in centing her (emaleness—her woman's point of view, the protective point of view, the humane point of view. She | must not fecl she should do things | men’s way, but her own way. Only by playing up her sex value doos she | make her most distinguished con- ld lesson ts to be a good She must not take def al way, She must n ust keep her em must tribution to the “Her third fellow. 1. The more emotion able of, the better politi~ clan will she be, but she must know and wh t actre when to set it fr: tle it—like the ¢ to bot- \\ ; it i h\ N Husbands Monday, mber 23, 1918 and Wives Wars of the World for Three Thousand Years Have Been Fought by Young Men Nations Have Been Built by Them Washington, Hamilton, Burr and Many Other Young Men in War and Statesinanship Were Builders of Our Own Country. Alexander, Caesar, Chariemagne and Napoleon Were Conquerors in Their Youth or Young Manhood. : +H : By Albert Payson Terhune Coprright, Wi, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The Now York Krening World) ‘ ‘O"s MEN make wars for young men to fight! cynically wrote 8t. John Drvine when the wise counsels of British statesmen sent England's youth to the red fields of Flanders to stem the German avalanche. Like most cynicism, that ts more clever than true. The wars of the world for three thousand years have not only been fought by young men, but “made” by them, too. A few years ago some one made the astounding discovery that “the twentieth century is the age of young men"— wholly forgetting that we owed our freedom, more than @ century earlier, to a group of men who were under forty and many of whom were in the twenties. From the beginning of the world—where wars were concerned—It has almost always been an “age of young men.” And it has been the same in nation-building. Take America, for example: George Washington while he was still fn the early twenties won fame as a diplomat and a soldier. He was in the mid-twenties when, a8 a Colonel, he rescued Gen. Braddock’s expedition from ruin. At thirty-seven he was speaking and writing in behalf of our liberty, and at forty three he was Commander-in-Chief of all the American forces In the Revolution, Alexander Hamilton, a boy of seventeen, made recruit- ing speeches for the Revolution. He a Lieutenant Colonel on Washington's staff at twenty; signed Lis name to the Constitution of the United States at thirty and was Secretary or the Treasury at thirty-two, At thirty- two he lifted our country out of virtual bankruptcy and established our national credit. While still in the twen- ties he wrote his famous papers on the proposed Consti- tution and on Federalism. He was but forty-seven when he died. Aaron Burr was a Revolutionary Colonel at twenty one; a United States Senator at thirty-three; Attorney General of New York at thirty-one. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence when he was but thirty-three. James Madieon was a leader in Congress when yot In the twenties. James Monroe was a Revolutionary Major at eighteer.; a staff officer at nineteen; a United States Senator at thirty-two and Minister to France at thirty-four. John Jay at thirty-one drafted the Constitution of New York State; was Chief Justice of New York at the same age; was “President of Congress” at thirty-four; Minister to Spain at thirty-five and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States at forty-three. was | Paul Jones at twenty-nine was the most illustrious naval officer in America, At thirty he raised the first United States flag on a United States ship. At thirty- two he won immortal fame by his victory over the Serapis. Other naval heroes blossomed into greatness quite as early in life, For instance, Perry at twenty-eight won the Battle of Lake Erie and despatched the gloriously boyish message, “We have met the enemy and they are oure!” An older man might well have hesitated at the risks taken by Perry and by. Jones to win their deathless victories. Winfield Scott was but twenty-eight when he fought his way to the rank of General and won the Battle of | Lundy's Lane. Lafayette was @ lad of nineteen when he cast in his lot with the American patriots. He won war- fame at an age when most boys are scarce out of high school, Benedict Arnold fought in the French and Indian Waravben he was barely fifteen. , On the further side of the gray Atlantic there are un- numbered instances of men who have swayed ware and the destinies of nations while they were incredibly young. nder the Great was a King at nineteen; set out at twenty-two to conquer Persia (a country about fifty times as powerful as his own); had made himsei master | of practically the whole world at twenty-nine and died at thirty-two. Julius Caesar was a “priest” at thirteen; a General in the early thirties, and at thirty-nine was one of the tri- umvirate which ruled Rome and which, indirectly, ruled | the world. Charlemagne had thrashed the Germang before le was thirty and was master of most of Europe before his | fortieth birthday. Louis XIV. had made France the fore- most kingdom on earth before he was thirty. Within the ten following years his conquests and his statesmanship gave him chief rank among the monarchs of the earth. Napoleon at twenty-seven conquered Italy. By the (ime he was thirty he had clashed with nearly every European power and had been victorious in the clashes. He had risen from a down-at-heel and penniless ad- venturer to the exalted rank of Emperer of the French by the time he was thirty-four. Caesar and Napoleon and Alexander, as well as a score | of famous Americans, have offered living proof that young ' men know how to “make wars” as well as to “fight” them. On the battlefield, no more than in the General's counci! tent, the man under forty has shown his superiority in a thousand ways. Xmas Round the World ; and Suburbs Just a Few “Baer” Facts Which the Author Thinks Well Worth Mentioning Before Wednesday When We'll All Be Busy Putting the “Ex” in “Xmas” and —$<$—$—$—————s Young Men Have Made World’s History ton Jones,” my hoste: Coprrian: We Know By Nixola Greeley-Smith |, by The Pres Publishing Ca, (The New York Evening World) THE CLIMBERS.—No. XI. said effusively, and I looked into the cold, Lee, y WANT you to meet Mrs. J, Wellington Jones—THD Mrs, Welling- hard, big, brown eyes of a little, well-dressed woman in the late thirties, a woman who gave the singular impression of belag plump and ; angular at the same time, perhaps because her soul was bony. | She said she was “yleased to meet me,” for as yet she had not learned to let that amiable detail go tor granted—and she asked graciously, as though about to offer me the freedom of the city—she left Milwaukee six years ago, so why not—“How long have you been in New York?” I answered with meekness that I was born here, and I wondered, of course, internally, how many more years it would take to get that alphabetical outlaw, the letter R, out of her voice. When I met her the next time it was gone and | “Noxtamneroum grew really Interested and thereafter watched with alert, if aynical interest, the social ascent of Mrs. J. Wellington Jones. marrows to be able to discuss with women of obvious rectitude matters A defeated rival for te presidency of a woman's club has walled it “the fakes’ progress.” At first Mrs. Wel. lington Jones went in for the ar When she came to dwell among us | she had thought Botticellf was a form |of noodle, TI shall never forget my jown still, incredulous delight when she told me she preferred macaront }herself, But a year latcr found her speaking the current patter of the studios and lecturing on Browning. Art was long and time was fleeting and Mrs, Wellington Jones soon dis- | covered that art was not getting her anywhere. Sho was ten years too |Iate with it. Sociology had come in. It was not till the white slave furore was at its height that she found her real mission. In the hectic days of the poisoned needle and the drugged | glass of wine, when little Evelyn had | Succeeded little Eva as the darling | of the gallery gods, Mrs, Jones began | to give sensational interviews on “the dreadful traffic in women's souls” and became famous from Bangor to Se- jattle as a “rescuer of fallen girls.” Practically everybody “fell for” Mrs. Jones tn this role—everybody, that is. except the fallen girls, who exhibited a singular reserve in the matter of being rescued. But what difference éid that make? Mrs. Jones lectured, spoke, organized pligrimages of wom- en to Albany and Washington to plead with legislators to abolish “this |frightful evil.” And the legislators who had been dozing over waterways, franchises, forestry, fisheries and other boresome routine problems, woke up and were thrilled to their | Dere Mable Love Letters of a Rookie By LIEUT. EDWARD STREETER (Illustrated by Corpl. G. William Breck) Thirteenth of @ Series of “DERE MABLE” Lettera Which The Evening World Is Publishing on This Page (Copyright, 1918, by Fredorick A, Stokes Compeny,) OM DE MON OIE You say that like oie yoy in Yiddish, some French custom. It means apple of my eye. I never saw an apple in nobody's eye, Mable, but I guess thats , |utmost caution and cor which previously had been hinted in barrooms or whispered in clubs. Even Mrs. Jones, a person of the ctness in hor Personal habits, found a certain un- familiar savor in her new life work. Meantime, periiaps the reader won- ders what had become of J. Wel- Ungton Jones? 1 wondered myself for several years. Finally, 1 met him And he was not. as I lad assumed his to be, always a negligible non- entity, but a big, amiable, adort American husband who bored other successful business men like himself with tales of his wife's triumphs and exploits. Weill, one day we read in our morm- ing papers th a certain rich o@ gentleman had died, leaving his entire fortune to Mrs. Wellington Jone t& be devoted to the great work of ree cuing the fallen, ‘t developed soon after that the testator had cut off his only daughter to do so, A suit wee threatened, settled. There was @ b+ tle flurry of gossip and the Welling- ton Joncses collected the money, teak a larger suite in a more expensive apartment house, and Mrs, Welling ton Jones dropped forthwith the ittle group of married couples that bad composed her circle of intimates and began the collection of new and more desirable friends. JT did not see her again for several years. When we met 1 noticed that der manner toward Wellington Jones {had become distinctly executive, It had rather the impatient kindness of a busy employer toward a once valu- able employee, who has survived his usefulness, but not his need of u job. | Wellington Jones too had changed. He was visibly less adoring, still naively proud of his wife Men, oreover, had mude him feel more | than women had ever been able to im- | press on the thickened epidermis of | the head of the family, and he was | thrown more and more upon her tri, | amphs because they cost him so much, Just 2 raised eycbrow now | and then, Just a whisper among fellow club members that stopped when he approached sometimes; just the clumsy overcordiality which men use to make up to a friend for something he has lost, They may not have known even what he had lost. Oh, lin they were trying to hang a lead pipe loaded sock on the Clown Prince's chin. LL quiet along the Bosporus tonight. All | A the Sultan's wives have their sox dangling off of the royal mantelpiece, It looks like a centipede, Tough luck! Santa can't buzz Turkish. | If a Turk’'s feet fit those curly shoes the only thing you can put in his sock ts @ corkscre [ was the night before Xmag and all through Ber- AR'S over in Siam. The Siamese Ariny took \/ off its trench boots and demobilized. The | Kink will hang up a complete set of ele- phant sox for Xmas, Even if he doesn't get any present in ‘em, he ought to trap a few prairte dogs or | catfish, | OT much of a Xmas on the wrong side of the N Rhine, Who guards the Rhine, who guards the Rhine, who guards the Rhine? Why, a lot of rough birds from Connecticut, Alabama and North Dakota. Von Hindy saw a plece of mistletoe | pinned on Unc Sam's fist and didn’t care for that kind of a kiss. Kalser looped it for Holland, leaving France Lends Money which her wounded soldiers, under certain liberal conditions may borrow money at one for 25 years, to finance fi ment fund, Terms of the loan r cent, cetving pensions from the state for in- | juries or infirmities due # easily lose the critical vote by having ©" your blouse divorced from your skirt- Ddand. “The woman politican must win to the war Widows of such m whose hus- | bands died in service. unpaid, provided Dependents of soldiers, provided or annuities and are eligible to ingur- jese than $69.48, Won't Have Time to Think of "Em! BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Yrening World) Pe wnen has provided @ way by) «ance in laborers’ and peasants’ retire- that the association making It can- ining or|not suffer any loss by reason of the tract with the national insurance | nominal fund for payment of the unpaid bal- anco in case of his death before pay- gardening projects death of the borrowe These persons may borrow, under the new plan, from rea) estate mort- ga sociations and agricultural Joan associations ments are completed by him, Former soldiers and marines re-| ‘ ne lending association is protect- ed against nonpayment ments, as it ts authorized to attach one-fifth of the annuity or pension such joes not reduce the pension or an- | °Peration, they are eligible to certain pensions |nuity by more than half, or to a sum | °F Widows of soldi his subjects holding the bag. The fingle of Iron Krosses 1s bum Xmas music. MAS again in New Jersey. Munition factories b.4 have gone back again to making cream pulls : and folding beds. Explosions will resume on regular peace schedule. PERRY XMAS tn Hog Island. ‘There ts $34,- M 000,000 in the old sock, but nobody knows where the sock 18. Jingle, jingle ULETIDE in Holland. Kaiser may bang up both his sox for Xmas. And he is liable to be inside ‘em when they're hanging. Jingle, Jingle OOR fun out in Milwaukee, Brewers are rats P ing fancy Japanese fan-tailed goldfish in the vats where once the merry brew purled and gurgled. There ain't no Santy Claus. Ts Weusded Poilus are so arranged|the agency of the ready established, to be repaid in in He must con-,and the cost to the pensioned soldiers. pnch government's off encouraged to marry and ri Mies, The property on wh money {8 borrowed may be & homestead, The French w and 1 of tnatal- attachment | alrendy t9 wounded me ing ad ar ‘vantage of it to mak wD the world, Great news, Mable, A fello whats got a fricud in the Audience Department in Washington just told me the wars | goin to end about the 15th of Feb. Dont say nothin to no- body about it. It might look as if I was gettin mixed up in politiks, I put in for a furlo on the bth tho. Then I wont have to come back, eh Mable? Ill bet your glad. Its great to think of gettin tnto a place where you cant see In short, the government lends the money to the small farmer through associations al- |stalments over a period of 26 years, borrower a Nobody is inconvenienced, and the repayment of th sums is sure The widowed, nts Who take advantage of | place declared | through the walls and there aint three inches of mud on the floor. An think of not havin to tle the doors together when you come in or crawl underneath em on your hans /and nees and not havin to put every- thing you own in the world under {the bed. But I guess you dont care }as much about these things as I will. This would be @ good trainin camp |for artik explorers. I bet the fello |that picks out the camps ether owns |a cold storage plant in civil life or jelse they do tt by mail order, It got #0 cold the other night the silver in the thermometer disappeared. It aint been seen since. We got a comical guy in the tent. | Bill Huggins. Me and bims a pair, Keep everybody laffin all the time. Bill likes things hot about as well as me, Every nite he fills the Sibly jatove ¢o ful of wood that he has to hammer the last plece in, It gets so ‘hot that 1t jumps up and down lke a |mad monkey. Thats the way Stblys |do when they get awful hot, Were not bothered by that much though. We got another guy thats a fresh lotr feend. His name 1s Angus Mac Kenzte, Hes Scotch. Hes so close himself that he has to have lots of air or hed smother. Every nite he borrowed | pulls up the eide of the tent by his No ono kes fresh alr in its better than me, Mable, but *|when its as fresh as this alr is its ybed place 1s outside. 1 wake up in the nite rolled into a ball Hke a porkypine. Theys things in the middle of my back Ike \nis stickers, If I dont move I get ; U1 do, I freee, AU around the place where Im lyin is as warm as 4 park bench in winter. Sometimes I forget and push my feet down. That's awful One night I thought I heard the horn and etuck my head out of the blankets. It was Angus with his head and one arm outside snorin. Can you beat that. I bet he swims in the ice all winter home and has his pictur fn the Sunday paper. I froze my ear before I could get my | head back, Thats the kind of a fello he ts, Its awful cold in the mornin. They | blow three calls. The first is just foe the slow guys. I can make it nice from the march if I dont take too many close off. Thats no temtashun. One guy jumps off just before as- sembly and makes a lot of fuss like hes gettin dressed. He dont fool no- body. The only thing he takes off at nite is his hat. Some say that falle off when he gets into bed. Bill Huggins cleaned the stove with his towel last week sos every- thing would be neet for inspecshun. Angus got hold of it fn the dark next mornin. Gee, youd heft laft, Mable. I got the little tin mirror you sent, Mable. Its unbreakable al] right. Bill Huggins got so mad at it he tried to break it and couldnt. The first time I looked in it I got an awful start. I thought I was starvin. I looked Uke one of them pictura sf plate. ‘The complete series of Dare Mahle Laitem ix witaled fe bet tay “WHEN | LOOKED MIRROR | THOUGHT | WAS hungry Indiens that the mishunaries show you just before they pags the Bill Huggins swiped it later and says why didnt somebody him he was gettin 60 fat cause he |Jones's friends reinarked facetiously couldnt go home on a furlo like that He didnt eat nothin for three meals and then he looked at hisself with | the mirror turned the other way, Its like one of those Coney Island places where a fello can go in and laff at hisself for a dime. me one that will break. | Boing to do about it? I got to quit now and buy a couple yes, Wellington Jones liad paid! Not 80 much as he was going te pay, however, When a man has a euperannaated employee he may fret sometimes having to keep him on the payrell drawing money which might de de- voted to hiring a “live wire,” @ hus- tler, or whatever he happens to want. But tf he ts much of a man—aad men are awfully kind in big ways—ho keeps him just the same, Women do not. At least not when the old em- ployee is a man, ‘Women have learned to be kind to other women. Women, so long as they love, have the pity of angels. the tenderness of doves, But when the American woman ceases to love she seas no reason why she should not call up the 8. P. C. A. and ask the society to send somebody around to take the old pet to the lethal chamber and put him out of his mls- ery. J. Wellington Jones all hts life had been the servant of his wife® success, But he could not serve her success any longer, Indeed, he tn gf peded it, So she kissed him goodby one morn- ing and started West—he thought on tell|a lecture tour, But of Mra, pal IN THE TIN STARVIN.” one jthat she had gone to be Reno-vated, The friend was right. She divorced J. Wellington, She 1s married again |Row—to millions, of course! Poor Jones wanders about his clubs Ike a lost dog, and men try ponderously to be kinder than ever to him, “What do you think women ere one of ther men asked me the other day, : Next time send of ples before 1 go to bed. I don't| Sing to get away with 117" ok, sleep good less f have a little some |, crrtainly she ts" I answered, thin on my stummick. Dont say| than pps 4 seen and ae nothin about what I told you In the! ‘fatien girl BY EY 98 Nera beginnin. . herent. ate Until the 15th Feb. then TO STUDY MOTOR Bikes Yours faithfully A fund has been furnished the Uni. BILL, | versity of Birmingham, > England, the proinotion of scientific Teosana tm retation te motorcycics,