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Show ioraAi n lewios j TO GAIN THEIR POLIIit ENDS Tea Parties for Female Voters Take Place of Smokers for Men; Lobbying Done While Dancing Fox Trot BY i A run IN VANCE spcrini Corrcep odenl ol th- Stand-ard Stand-ard -Ezaai inci . ) (Copyright, 1922, by the Standard-Examiner. Standard-Examiner. ) WASHINGTON. March :'u Dis-dainlng Dis-dainlng the scented gauntlet thrown down by the Republican women, the Democratic women rofuscd to fight out the coming congressional campaign cam-paign on social lines. Th'-y have even retreated hotore thi well thought out plans of their Republican sisters toy social warfare that h.i-c l . n put )r-to )r-to operation. It is a strategic retrc.it on tho part of Democratic contingent, however, for thk-y have deep laid plana for hitting their enemy upon the flank. "We realize our deficiencies, said Mrs. Kmuiiline Weils Blair, leader of the Democratic forces today, "in trying to. combat tho Republicans socially so-cially They have cornered th supply sup-ply of millionairesses upon whom they depend to attract women to the elaborate parties planner for the Republican Re-publican wouuens cluls throughout the country.' Mrc Prank Dbdson, Republican organizer or-ganizer was found mailing the social so-cial calendars arranged at her headquarters head-quarters to the G O. P women's clubs. The calendars give dates for three parties a month. On the cover of the calendar Is the picture of an elephant cutting capers. Mrs. Dodmon laughed when told of the Democratic objectlona to tho Republican Re-publican plans for a social campaign. "Well climbers have votes, haven't they," she queried. Inferring that nil wan fair In love and war and politics. poli-tics. 'But, seriously,"' she continued, "ar-r;inguiK "ar-r;inguiK social affairs is the b-st method of getting women together That Is the way they have always come together in all classes. A party par-ty need not necesoarlly take place in the highest social Mrata. any group of women may have a party. The tci - j party takes tho place of smokers in men's political affaire." M V PAIVTIES GIVES I The league of women voters give many Bdclul affairs in the various State capitols where they ure lobbying lobby-ing for bills They have found that : legislators like to dance and the more 'gangling or stout and generally gracc-I gracc-I less they are. the more they like it. I Lobbyists -have discovered that- it is I not a waste of time to dance with them for Instead of whlsperln sweet nothing while dancing they engage In the art of lobbying for the bills they want to pass tho legislature. ( Mrs Harriot Taylor-Upton, alone after one of the political dances, was sitting upon the side lines, a grandmotherly grand-motherly wallflower. She asked the name of a man who was dancing with a prominent Republican women worker. ' Why, that's tho national com-! mltteeman from her state.'' she replied. re-plied. "Do you have to dance with them, then 1 tdiall have to take dancing It aeons, and at my age. too " Mrs. Frank Dodson, now Installed organizer In the Republican headquarters head-quarters Is the product of a perfect feminine political muchlne in Iowa and is proud of it. M VCIFTNF, OF WOMI Her Job Is to induce women of other states to construct a similar smooth running machine. She wus th state chairman of Iowa's Republican Repub-lican women's division. Responding perfectly to the gentlest Republican purposes, this hue- efficient machine of women politicians hius complete sots of congressional district chalr-1 chalr-1 women, coutiiy chairwomen, precinct chairwomen and ten heelers in each precinct who heed the slightest wish of Republican leaders. Altogether Mrs. Dodson says there are 30 00U women In Iowa who may be depended upon to work for th-i Republican cause. "It Is not strange that women take so readily to organisation work. They have had yoars of training In their club life before enfranchisement. There Is nothing in th- man world that correponds to the dub woman." And the Democrats have discovered that women aro more adept at raising money than the men Major Newman of the Democratic headquarters, announced an-nounced thai on th- aes financial advisory ad-visory committee one woman and one mon from each state would be appointed ap-pointed . Were !t not for offertdln rhe vanity of the rn.il sex they iroutd not be nfrsld to have women alone on that committee. |