The evening world. Newspaper, May 5, 1921, Page 25

“IF WOMEN WERE ELECTED _ TO RUN NEW YORK.” Three Leaders Say :— Keep Streets Cleaner nh A Improve the Schools D Be More Conscientious Some Day They Will Be Fitted to Be Mayors, Goy- ernors or Even Presidents—At Present They Lack / Experience to Handle Affairs of Big Cities. By Fay Stevenson. Uoprright, L081, uy the Prem Publishing Co, (Dae Now York Rvening World.) ] FP WOMPN ran New York, if we had a woman Mayor, woman Police Commissioner and Councilwomen or Alderwomen the way they do now in Thayer, Kan., wouki we have clean streets, clean subway sta- tions, more schools and a perfect, model city? + We WOULD! But the women of New York are decidedly modest and, while they admit they could do all these things, they all say, “Eventually—not NOW!” “It Is oll very well to have seven women from the Mayor down to tun Thayer, Kan.,” say three prominent New York women. “It is all very well for St. James, Mo., and Goodhue, Minn., to elect women Mayors, tut running New York would be a very different matter.” HELEN P. M'CORMICK—ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY, “Of course I believe women are capable of running New York,” said Miss Belen P. McCormick, Assistant District Attorney of Kings County, as her big brown eyes snapped earnestness and belief in own sex, but a smile played about quickiy added, “in the far, far future.” “L was educated in a co-educational college con tinued Miss McCormick, “and nobody realizes better than I that, after all, there is little, very little, difference be- tween the sexes, and that brain her her lips as she 8 4 matter of individual rather than ‘man’ or ‘woman.’ But the time for women to hold high political positions has not yet arrived. Women are still infants in the political world, and it will take sev- eral years, perhaps as many as ten, to break them Into the big jobs of the city.” “But women have read the newspapers and maga alnes and been pretty wel! posted during the last few years.” I began to protest “Women are weil informed both on national and internativual questions,” aaid Miss McCormick. “It is not that, but simply that newt more expert €nce, more opportunities. No doubt women would keep the streets cleaner, ne doubt they would see that our subways are walk in, and they would thoroughly understand the school and child welfare conditions because of al] their past home experience, but we need just a little more training “Many women wh Iding some sinaller city positions and oMice positio getting that training now y are learning to cope with the world, te the petty annoyit are almost like babie rning to face fini defeat and grin Many women and not think too much about nolined to be tende are still , some which hurts their and when somebody says somet! feelings, or when things don't go just the way they willed they should, it is Bard to face defeat. Women who are out in the world are getting hardened to what others sey “There ure s men and women and smart men and women, just as there are stupid and smart voters,” concluded Miss MeCurmiek, “and £ heartily believe that there are many women in this ¢ who 4 mentally able to do big things for their New York, but they lack opportunity and experience, Lat those women hold down a few minor positions, let them work a few years longer, and we will have a Mayor—either ‘Mrs, Mayor! or Mise Mayor'—who will have brains and force enough to make New York a wecond Utop CLARICE M. BARIGHT—LAWYER. “Women are too young politically to attempt ot New York City,” said Clarice M. Baright, the well@xnown lawyer with offices at No. 170 Broadway. “Retr Mayor in a smal! town or elty is a very different thing from Mayor of New York with all its national and Internationa) questions. Be @ides, since the war we have had some very vital questions to decide, questions which have even stumped the world, wise men.” “But after we get back “then perhaps"’-—— “Without a doubt,” snapped Mrs. Raright “A few years tyetning and opportunity and there js no reason in the why women should not be Mayors and perhaps Gov- @rnera or President.” “De you think women wil ever vole for cach other?” € euloed, “Could Greater New York get enough women votes to ect each other? “Indeed they could,” exclaimed Mra Banight. “Women are fast losing fell the ‘cattinems’ and becoming as broad and big minded as their hushands @md fathers and brothers. I can imagine a woman absolutely detesting famother but voting for her because she felt that that woman was capable end understanding and would do the right thing by her city “But we are not ready to be Mayors or Governors yet,” concluded Mra ‘Barieht; “you can’t ft round pegs into square holes, It may be ten or even @fteen years before womem hold down the big executive positiona It isn't Jest a matter of brains, clear heads and good judgment; it's a matter of experience, and women are all too young politically to have had this Pationce and shuffle the cards!" PRB. CLARENCE BURNS—PRES, LITTLE MOTHERS AID ASSOCIATION “1 have no doubt that New York will have a woman Mayor,” said Mrs. Clarence Burns, President of the Little Mothers’ Aid Association, “but not tm the next election, nor the next’ New York has many level-headed, wise women, but I doubt if any of them feel that they have yet had enough experience to hold auch an tmportant place. We haye had some splendid Mayors, despite what the public has said about them, and al- though I am a Republican I greatly admire Mayor Hylan. “It seems to me,” continued Mrs. Burns, “that women have educated themselves as far as reading and keeping up on present-day conditions |s concerned almost as well ag the men, but they lack opportunity and training, The war bas brought many women out in the world but it has not broadened them enough We must go through several more stages before we are able to go in for the bug executive positions.” “Probably there are many feminine points of view women can give to wen.” I suggested. “After alt, it's the man and the woman who make the ome, so why not the man and the woman who make the State or city? “That is what it 1s coming to,” declared Mrs. Burns; “but while women hold these executive positions in smaller places [| think the women wes feel that they need more training before aitempting large city ° “Women are going to be more conscientious than men,” continued Mrs. “They are going into detaiis and find out all the ‘whys and where- * but for that reason woman needs more training before she takes the esponsibility of governing a city. She must learn to decide what iy impor- feant and what |s not worthy of her consideration and strength,” “No doubt many women Mayors would have nervous prostration and wwe to take long rests in eanitariums at the close of their administrations,” Tastes. “School teachers and housewives frequently do after too much . ny suc bas Mayor to ‘normaicy,'” 1 1 "No doubt they would,” agreed Mrs. Burns, “and no doubt we should fmave to eliminate the woman who could be tempted or bribed just as some gen. Probably there are just as many corrupt women in the world as men. ‘a good, level-headed woman, a woman who has had plenty of training te able to cast aside details and grasp the big issues, could certainly do great decal as Mayor of New York. The time is coming when women will fko places beside men, when both will run the city—but we are not fall » ne mf Pee mss T HE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1921. 25 | Can You Beat It! niutns, ee Baseball, Swimmin’, Boxin’ an’ Everythin’ a Kid Likes- Gramercy Boys’ Club Gives It to Him—Even Boy Scout Troops. By Marguerite Dean. Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishiag Co (The New York ercine World} HE lucky boys in and around Gramercy Park are not little Theodore and Reginald, whose prosperous, aristocratic fathers are entrusted with big iron keys to the locked gates of the sacred park itself. The really fortunate Grumercy Park boys are Mike and Pietro and their chums over on Third Avenue, all members in good and regular stand- ing of the Gramercy Boys’ Club, But since the club is now In the process of becoming a real neighbor- hood affair, to which all Gramercy Park dwellers are being invited to lend a hand, the chances are that iteg- tnald and Theodore before long will be boxing, swimming and playing baseball with Mike and Pietro. And 0 democracy as well a» youth will be served, This being Boys’ Week, suppose you hear a bit about the lively do- ings of the Gramercy Boys’ Club, a “regular club" for al! “regolar fel- lows" in the district between Fifth Avenue and Enst River and between 14th and 23d Streets. Its headquar- ters are at No, 320 Past 20th Btreet, juet beyond Second Avenue, whieh ja Public School No. 40, the only pirblie school in New York that turns school rooms into clubrooms after school hours. In the first year and a half of the club's existenoe the total at- tendance was 2.000 bows — which shows how much “club privileges” are appreciated by the youngsters in this district who have no outdoor play spaces, There are now 645 enrolled members, This ts baseball season. AN chrough the winter the members of the Gram- ercy Bovs’ Clb have kept tn Practice with Indoor baseball. Now they have formed “leagues which play regu- lar “dates” over on a vacant lot cally christened “The Farm," at Street and Bast River. Also, they pay visits to parks for more ball. The club leaders are organizing summor outings for club members, and all through the hot weather they will en- joy nightly shower baths, Swimming lessons and practien come once a week at the pmblic baths, Club headquarters are open every evening from 7 to 10 and all day Sat urday. Kleven self-governing proup clubs, arranged according to age and mutual interests, meet every week, ‘Twe troops of Boy ase the wl TYVEICAL BOY OF Whe © Soe eaeY rare} PARK BOY club-as a rallying ground. Jazz orchestras play for club me Fridays, Saturda day evenings. story hour Many entertainments are given by and for the Gramercy Boys’ Club— BOXING IN THE Gram — MERCY PARK Bove clos: Three youngsters to address them from the nbers platform on the ever-interesting toplo afternoons, Satire of “How to Succeed here is @ weesly Byery boy in the neighborhood be- tween eight and twenty ts eligitde for membership in the Gramercy Boys’ Club. Olub dues vary, according to glee club concerts, minstrel shows, age, from 16 to 50 cents a year. The motion pictures, dramatics, even oc- Rotary Club and the People's Instl- ‘asional dances. Every night hasket- tute originally financed the elub, ball, billlards and other ganivs are Whioh, besides the director, F. Vv going on among club members, They Thomson, has five other etaff work- put on the gloves and take part in @P8: Miss M.D. Siodier, Financial boxing matches before a wildly ap- Secretary; John Byrnes, supervinor for sports; Frank Fitzst nt supervisor for & mons, assist~ plaudipg audience of club members. rts and group For those who want them there a trade shop classes three nights 4 we libs; Joseph Gormley, in charge of under competent supervision” ‘To the €4Mea, and R ‘Trubenbach, shop in- mructor, The club is nbw being or- intense pride of the whole club, one of its classes won the ganized on a basis of netyhborhood first prize and the silver shield for a carpentry ex- jon and support, and those hibit at last y AnMUAl conference ed hope it will be but the first if the Koys’ Ci deration—which series of such clubs all over New overs both od es and York. Canada. The Gramercy Boys’ Club | For when you have @ constructive also has a depurtment for the p ment of working boys, and thelr fel- low club momibers often invite theso boys’ club in a public school you don't eon & destructive boys’ gang on the iy By Betty Vincent. Copyright, 1981, by the Pres Publishing 0: \Tho New York Evening World.) URLS, how do you t widower? I do not mean the gray-baired, splendid social position. young man who Ia still in the tw: ties and still “has to make his way After all, you know, he is really just as eligible as the gay young bachelur, und in many cases he is a staid, home: joving man. I am printing a letter sig: Regular Fellow," written by one these young widowers, which will let of this r than you see the heart and mind lonely young man much be anything I could write ‘Lam a man twenty-eight > “and happily pal. I have age” he writes, to years ago I Then I lost my ii ehildren and have b up was 1 know ever since to bring them up she’ would I'ke it the way 1 think 1 suppose should be home, read the paper and “a try to butt in on the people’ Hut young Jo like a@ Nttle fun once in and so I have any one in my py a wh social guthering or dance. Although the young girls are always polite Pleabant there seems to be & cert air of restraint as if they we “sometunes 1 like ww Ko theatre and 1 hate to go alone happen to ask one of these go with me, I can see rig that she ts racking her brain for # excuse to give without burung feelin “The to 8. genera] attitude is ‘He rather nice, but then be is & widower For the ben- efit of other fellows in a like position, Miss Vincent, won't you tell the girls that we are human? We do not size and has two children.’ up every girl we meet as a prospec tive housekeeper—we really like them and admire them as much as bachel “AL HA" writes: Dear Miss Vincent—4 am at present going out with a young man whom | like very much This young man ght years my senior and has declared his love for me, but says he cannot get married while his mother is alive, as she is dependent upon him. His mother is a widow and # school teacher, and as far as | ean seo Is not dependent upon him. Now, this young man wante F MODERN S$ Op nme * BY MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL « Only a Woman With an Artificial Complexion, a Subtle Mind and the Most Expensive Clothes Can Satisfy Completely the Average Man’s Conception of ‘‘a Sweet, Simple Little Girl.” Comrise, 192, By he Trews! Pulled Co Pie Now’ York Brening Workt.) F a woman makes herself disagreeable a man forgets her through his mental habit of shying away from all unpleasantness; if she makes her self agreeable he forgets her as one forgets an old shoe—for its unex- if she He forgets her ANYHOW! NOW THE ‘INITIAL GARTER’ ,* "2! magnanimous man may IS HERE FROM EUROPE ‘yarn nimprovided whe eso AS LATEST NOVELTY supplied with ornamental eyes, eurly hair and dimples, citing comfor oh, well, what's the use! charms Dr. Eliot objects to such telephone exchanges between the young as: “Hello, Jack!" “Hello, Bess!” But would he prefer the English variant: “Are you there, old dear? In love's geometry, all the proposi tions used to be triangles, but now adays our little scholars are taking up quadrangles—to judge from the cross suits in the divorce courts. Just as the oyster coats with pear the irritating grain of sand in his shell, so a witty woman comforts her self with epigrams on those mascu- line traits and habits which bore her. Definition of a modern husband (stolen from one of 'em): “An un satisfactory servant and an unsatis- fying purse.” The ideal friend, from a woman's point of view, is the man who lets her know-—without ever saying {t- that, except for her simple friendli ness and his own tron self-control, there might be another abduction of Helen. 4 HEN Mrs, William Merritt Posner of New York Gity re- turned on the Aquitania afte: a three months’ visit in Europe, she brought with her the newest novelty —an initial garter, which she displays in the above photograph. : . BY ROY L. MSCARDELIL * Some women, out of the kindness of their hearts, will try to polish « “rough diamond,” but — frankly most of us prefer to “cut” him, the established wid- ower who has plenty of money and a I mean the ml “A of ra of three married en doing the bes tion perfectly satisfied to cous and go to bed young ido wor found myself at a lit‘le and “in fright ened to death for fear | might usk one of them to permit me to call on them. the ut iris to t away me my the Copyright, 1021, by the Prees Publishing Co, (The Now York Brenig World) 66] ET. nave to have some more “Well, I'm not going to take ney,” remarked Mrs. Jarr, boardems: replied Mee: “Jarr, “Aad with asieh, *Youdon't have to you Weedn't comphigsabgut nothing pay bilix; you dof't know | to eat fn (He house. Thire’s plenty to "You tWk like my Unele eat in this house. If 1 @fdn't set suclt waid Mr. Jarr. “When he was out of 4 good table J might beve more money work for three months, and his wife »plained there was nothing to eat in the house, he said he guessed Chey’ havesto take In boarder © Courtship and Marriage © to me every week, but does not expect to b rious until something ha: 0 mother. Shall | give him up is self-supporting 8 if he wer When his mothe | think it rather looks jollying you along. Ll do not believe I should waste the best years of my life with him “3. W. AL” writes: Dear Miss Vincent—I am a young man of nineteen and am considered anything but lazy. | also earn a salary itable for two, Recently | have proposed to a girl eighteen and although she claims she cares for me here is the hitch. She h: two sisters older than sl is who are not married. Does this really make any difference in her marrying first? No, don't young custom, But little too Why not that is you for an old think nineteen a a boy to marry? ast until y before taking ons in life? up ate bligat “PUZZLED PATRICIA” writes Dear Miss Vincont—I met a young man about four years ago and have loved him ever since 1 do not know whether he likes me and as | care so much for him | wish to know his thoughts concerning me. How can | find out? Don't play the Paundera act and spol! everything, Patricia Many let ters from restless girls la om a]! wanting to know | loves them, But it ls much better not te be too anxious and reat assured that if he DORS care about you he will let you know in due tima, “WAITING” writes: Dear Miss Vincent—Just re cently | had a quarrel with a boy whom | like very much. He was very nice while he knew me, but after the quarrel he left me alone. Now he scems to want to make up but will not do it. | am afraid to make any advances, What shall 1 do? Keep emiling and watt “BLUSHING” writes: Dear Mi Vincent—1 am « young man of eighteen. Am con- sidered good looking and seem to mal a hit with the lad However, when | am in the company | blush like a gitts Could you, suggest a remedy ‘Try not to be t-consoious, Per haps the ve fact that you knw you are making hit™ makes you blush. On the other hand, that may be why they like you! By the time you are twenty-one or 80 you will find you wit outgrow this habit to spend on clothes and things I need.” “There you go," said Mr. Jerr, “You are Nike all the rest of the womer taking everything suid as personal,” “This ts & personal matter,” replied Mrs. Jarr; “and if you hadn't made me put Chat money to the saving» bank, In one of your fits of economy by whioh I always suffer, T'@ have plenty of money.” “AM right” said Mr. Jaer. “ dewntown and take it out. I don care,” So Mrs, Jarr went to the bank a took her place in Hine, and in ¢ tame reached the interest window. “I want my interest,” @he said a1 presented her book. There's no interest on thie” sa the clerk, “It's only $20 and there won't be any interest payable tll ic has been in six months. This bus only been In three weeks.” “How imuch interest will there be iu months?" asked Mrs, Jarr, said the clerk cents,” “Forty cents?" repeated Mrs. Jarr ‘I'd like lo see myself. Give me my money back." “Take your place in dine at the next windew and turn in your bool,” sax! the clerk. “Nex Mrs. Jarr was in @ rage by this tume, but she took her place ip Une behind an extremely guricus aot of peuple, und finally rémched the win dow. "I want my money," ehe said. "Go mit down on the bench ove: Urere and wait ull your name i called,” said the clerk at the window "Well, did you ever?” remarked Mra. Jarr “Why should I have to wait; why should I have to stand jo line; why” Please sit down on the bench,” said the clerk. Mrs. Jarr sat down, tappipg her paravol and regurding the people who caine and went. Various names were called, Finally one was repeated seven times, "I think §hat's your name, lady,” said the ynsfommed man. coming over. ‘Clara Jarr!" called @ votes loudty Mrs, Jarr was going to expostuiate, but she was ted to the window behind a stout, middle-aged woman, “Please sign hore,” said the clerk “Oh, I can write all right" re marked the stout lady, “Only J have the lumhago in my back so tarribky that for three weeks”—— ‘tand aside!” said the clerk amd Mrs. Jarr edged in. Here she bad to give her mame, her husband's name, ber maiden name, her age, her whole pedigree. Then she signed and was hand @ 820 bill, “Well, this teaches me a lesson, said Mrs. Jarr, as she walked out “I'll put my money In Mra. Stryver's bank after saw her get a hun. dred dollars (7\th po trouble et ail” =