Show lAUDS WOMEN AS OFFICIALS Understand Needs of Pub Pub- Public Public lic lie Better Than Men MenIs Is Claim By Br JANE J CO SpecIal Correspondent of ot St Standard Standard- StandardS Standard Examiner S ExamIner Copyright 1925 by Consolidated Press Association RICHMOND D Va Ya April En 18 It En Enter ter the honest to goodness woman official Clear clear lear headed confident forceful capable of making men and women do her bidding bidding-a a new antI sure sura proof that the day of women has come corn She Is here her In force torce at this sixth con convention VI nil on of th the National League of Women Voters showing all alt the th courage that men officials official ever had Int Ing encouragement to the hundreds of other women who would be b pub pub- public public lic lie officers but who cant can't quito quite screw up the courage or who have ha tried and tailed failed at the th polls poll The Th only difference between the woman and the th man mOon who has for years held solitary sway way In affairs of government Is her talk of ide Ideal Idealism tl- tl ism lam In political affairs attain her earnest ness ness her sureness that every de- de decent de decent cent man will cooperate WOMEN WOES JUDGES There Is Jud Judge Judeo e Florence Florence e C Al of th the supreme court o ot of Ohio Is ll Mary A Cooper Justice of the peace of North Carolina I Is Grace Grae Abbott chief thief of the childrens children's bureau and Miss Mary Anderson of the women's women bureau of he United States State department of labor th there ther ro are arc state tale representatives representatives tives Mrs Mr Sarah Lee Fain of Vir- Vir Virginia Vir-tinia Vir ginia and Mrs Mr Martha Thomas oC o Pennsylvania there are State Senator Maud C Waitt of Ohio Judge Luella North of the th chil- chil chil children's dens drens dt ns court of Clinton county New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Mrs Mr Irs George W VT ke collector of ot Internal revenue at Chi Cu- Chicago cago and a ft good number more WOMAN X MAYOR aLvron l YOn Mrs Mra Mr James Cowan mayor of Wilmington N C which Is la said laid t td be the th largest city In America boasting a woman chief executive tells the th story atory Why should n ft a woman not step Into the th heroic places In the coun country try It Its offices Mrs lire Cowan asks by way of Introduction The day has long Ion since sine passed when when every everyone one believed a 11 womans woman's s 's place was exclusively In hl the th home Many women have hav given up home horn mak- mak makIng making Inc mak-Inc Ing to enter business Others are successfully combining the tho two Now women are arc going fo Into govern govern- government lovern ment I dont don't mean that there will be boon one or two women governors or orone orone orone one or two city mayors mayor and I dont don't mean that lots lot ot women will run for office and be b defeated I mean that within ft a very tow few years year ears there will vili be b as ft many women as IlS men of- of officers officers of officers and a woman will wilt be b stand stand- standIng Inc tand-Inc Ing as good a chance chanc of beIng president aa IlS a man The whole thing wilt will be b equal It HAVE E ABILITY Women omen have hav natural business ability They know tho the laws law and how to administer them as well as ae ah ho he men And now that a few fe pion pion- pioneers pion- pion pioneer cers eer among us u have hav broken down the prejudice that pOlitics politic was for men to cudgel their brains about tho the way Is clear for more women In government and cori- cori con con- constantly cori Improving type of women In government Many Many of the th women omen who ho have come to the front are ar the th leaders leader of the old suffrage ge movement who are defeat willing to run and chance chanc de de- de teat feat for the tho sake uke aak of convincinG the world that women omen are ar In J politics permanently and must be b serious serious- ly seriously ly reckoned with Others Others are are worn wom wom-en wom n forced by economic necessity to tomake tomake make a living who have legal minds and have hav chosen the govern govern- government ment ment a as their most natural tural outlet FEAR WOMEN My Iy personal experience Is that there Is I nothing In the talk about women being too emotional too lightly appealed to and too easily browbeaten by rough shod rhod hod clans clane Women In office are arc just IlS as posItive as men I really believe the men of my ray police force torce fore Are armor more frightened of me m and my wrath It If they tall fall to do their duty than they were of my husband whom I succeeded That's That because use lye Ie speedily removed all from office I There are arc two big why In ta fa vor von of women In government They can enforce the th law better than men because they thy are ar not law lawbreaker breakers breaker themselves and the they Understand un un Un- Un far tar better the th needs need of women and children Do 73 they th y have to give up P home me and family to be b y good officials Welt Well i have hav I six children between the age ages of ot 19 l and 3 Ask them If their mother Is ii I so busy she sh cant can't properly care car for fr them And th then ask anyone any any one In Wilmington If It the mayor is II I too busy with family at- at Affairs tair at-tair fairs lo to look after atter the th city |