Democracy's Distaff

In 1928 President Hoover received mighty support from the nation's women. But so much help had come to the Roosevelt cause this year from the distaff side of the Electorate that there was talk of putting a woman in the Roosevelt cabinet. Candidates:

Mrs. Isabella Greenway. She operates large copper interests in Arizona left her by her late husband. Longtime intimate of the Roosevelts. she was a bridesmaid when they were married in Manhattan on St. Patrick's Day 1905 in the presence of T. R. and to the accompaniment of a roaring Tammany parade outside. After attending fashionable Miss Spence's and Miss Chapin's Schools in Manhattan, she married aged 19. Four years later she found herself widowed, with two children, and on her way to homestead in New Mexico's Burro Mountains. When Copperman Greenway married her she was a full-fledged ranch operator. At Chicago, Mrs. Greenway. who shuns rouge & lipstick, seconded" the Roosevelt nomination, said that mention of her for the Vice-Presidency was "a purely honorary candidacy."

Frances Perkins, chairman of the New York State Industrial Board. An expert on labor and social problems, she corrected the U. S. Public Employment Service's low unemployment estimate last August. She has a 15-year-old daughter. She is a Mount Holyoke graduate; always wears a brown, high-crowned, three-cornered hat. She went into social service work after witnessing Manhattan's tragic Triangle Shirtwaist fire in 1911, in which 146 girl workers were killed.

Grace Abbott of Grand Island, Neb. is head of the Federal Children's Bureau.

For the first time. Kansas and Indiana returned female representatives to Congress :

Kathryn O'Laughlin, 38. of Hays, Kans. had to lick eight male rivals for the nomination before she could run against the Republican incumbent, Charles I. Sparks, whom she defeated handily. Miss O'Laughlin, brunette, bobbed-haired, slightly over average height, was graduated from the University of Chicago's law school, practiced in Chicago in 1921 after serving as a clerk in the Kansas House. Now she has a thriving law office at Hays, where her father, local Democratic boss, has an automobile agency. She likes to golf, violin, sew.

Mrs. Virginia C. Jenckes of Terre Haute, Ind. had ten Counties, the new Sixth District, to cover. This she did in an automobile driven by her daughter Virginia, 19. They drove 15.000 mi. Mrs. Jenckes, a widow, is the great-granddaughter of the first judge of the Northwest Territory, belongs to one of Terre Haute's oldest families. She owns and runs a 1,160-acre farm.

In Philadelphia two rival suitors of Miss Anne Brancato set out to make her the first Democratic woman Legislator from that city. One suitor sent his chauffeur campaigning. The other rang doorbells. Miss Brancato was elected.

As a joke, three girl friends of Stenographer Mildred Vanecek, 21, wrote her name in on the ballot for Justice of the Peace at Council Bluffs, Iowa. There was no other candidate. Stenographer Vanecek became the first woman justice in County history.

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