Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-19 | Page 27 | Three Women Added to Rank among Solons

E WOMEN ADDED m TO RANK AMONG MONG SOLONS Trio fio of Midwest States in Which Male Sex Has Reigned Supreme Give I Toga oga to Women WomenGO I GO Deo 19 By my A. A P. P P.- P. men mn n will make their debut as asle le In three additional Mid Mid- liest pt rn states where here the male sex ses for y ars has reigned supreme i tr hen en state lawmakers begin their theirs s scions shortly shorty after arter the first of year par para paro Iowa o owa a Kentucky and Texas of fH- fH fifth th en states in this region alone reaiD re re- re aiD in the column of common common- commonwealths will not have female Representation In their legislatures although Texas had one in the last session who failed for r In n in the primary Kentucky did didat Got of at elect legislative members but butth th there ro are 1 no women in Its present ers t P. P onset ansa ai and Minnesota lost two omen members of the low lower r house I ald Missouri one although each tate tats retained representation In InI h he other states th the existing ratio seas Evas w s maintained or a substantial in increase increase increase in- in crease m In n number was obtained SUCCEED TO SENATE t lace Inee women were given the balot balf balot bal- bal ot f most of the the- legislative recognition tion on attained in tb ese states by them has beet been in the house side body However three women wom- wom e en bad had succeeded in reaching the thelI senate lI two In Ohio and one in Oklahoma and another was added adde in iq Illinois in the November elec- elec tion She Is Mrs Irs Florence Fifer Bohrer daughter of a former Illinois Illi- Illi n nois s governor who Joins Mrs Net- Net Nettie U tie B B. Loughead and Mrs i Maude senators in Ohio and Mrs Lamar Ulmar Loon Looney y dean of women senators sen- sen rs m III the country and Oklahoma Okla Okla- h homa man ma n Wisconsin Nebraska and an women entered the lists p as as lawmakers Nebraska and Wisconsin Wis- Wis c each elected three members the house and Michigan also sent sent ent one to the lower branch Helen HelenM M d I. I Brooks of Coloma Mildred Barber Barber Bar- Bar ber her of Wausau and Helen M. M F. F Thompson of Park Falls all aU Wisconsin Wisconsin Wis Wis- Republicans will be the women members to first grace the legislative halls at Madison Mrs Maude Gillespie of Gretna Miss Sarah T T. Muir of Lincoln ana and Mrs Clara C. C Humprhey of Mullen Mullen Mullen Mul Mul- len are the first Nebraska women to sit in the assembly rooms at Lincoln The woman upon whom will fall the inauguration of feminine activity In the Michigan legislature is Mrs Irs Cora Reynolds Renolds Anderson who has been a a. leader in farm organisations MORE IN ILLINOIS Where Illinois had one member of the house it now will have three and one senator Ohio had four women representatives tives and two senators and the former have been increased to seven South Dakota which had one woman member will have hae three Inthe in inthe inthe the house Oklahoma had three women representatiVes representatives representatives rep rep- in the last session and andone andone andone I one senator and will have the same representation in the 1925 1025 ass assem- assem bly bb Indiana has been represented by byone byone byone one woman member in the last two legislatures which next year ear will eb b increased to two North Dakota had two women members in the last legislature and again will have the same Minnesota will have two women representatives In the 1925 legislature legislature legislature legis legis- I lature instead of four as In the thelast last session I