WOMEN TAKE LEADING ROLE AT GATHERING
Women Take Leading Role at Gathering Mrs. Vena Rice Beckons Them to Political Activities HIGH interest in women's activities in politics was demonstrated at Wisconsin Rapids this week-end as...
...Here 1s the story: "The annual meeting of the assessors of Grant county, which is really a school of instruction for the purpose of getting the men holding these jobs started on the work of assessing in the right manner, was scheduled for last Wednesday morning...
...Active for the past 12 years as a speaker, organizer and writer...
...Milwaukee...
...Vena Rice Beckons Them to Political Activities HIGH interest in women's activities in politics was demonstrated at Wisconsin Rapids this week-end as Progressve women from ail parts of the state met in connection with the Progressive birthday celebration...
...We have six children...
...a monthly paper devoted to arousing interest of women in better government, and women's activities in local communities...
...Today, Mrs...
...My husband is a Democrat...
...Vena Rice, Sparta...
...In informal conferences Saturday and Sunday morning in the Hotel Witter, Progressive women discussed effective distribution of "The Progressive Woman...
...They will vote the Progressive ticket...
...Oscar Nebel, Milwaukee...
...Herbert Mount Milwaukee...
...Referring to the old saying, "The hand that rocks the cradie rules the wrorld," Mrs...
...La Follette recounted the story of an old gentleman who years ago told Belle Case La Follette after a speech of hers on suffrage, "Women's place is behind the kitchen stove...
...This fundamental economic concern, she said, has helped to arouse the interest and activity of women in politics...
...Glenn Roberts, Madison...
...I am a Progressive...
...Leo Ties, Brodhead...
...Robert M. La Follette, Jr., paid a generous tribute to the increased activity of Progressive women in his address Sunday when he said, "The men will have to keep busy from now on until next fall to catch up with the fine work Progressive women have been doing...
...Eleanor 3arby, Eau Claire...
...Elsie E. Loos...
...Audrey Hobbins, Madison...
...Milwaukee...
...Rice began her address by saying...
...Miss Nancy Hart, Madison...
...The assessors arrived on time but Walter Dick, deputy supervisors of assessors, was tardy because of his getting his dates mixed...
...Norris Maloney, Madison...
...This fall two of those children will be old enough to vote...
...Miss Olga E. Meckenhauser, Milwaukee...
...Too many women do not vote at all or vote as their husbands dictate...
...Never in my experience has there been so much interest among women in politics...
...Laurie E. Carlson, Bayfield...
...Russell Rowley, Bayfield...
...Miss Mabel E. Griswolci, Madison...
...G. J. Grosskreuz, Milwaukee...
...Sparta, represented Progressive women on the Sunday afternoon program...
...Dominic Olejniczak, Green Bay...
...George Hampel, Milwaukee...
...Called on for an impromtu talk Saturday night at the conference of county chairmen and state leaders in the Elks club, Mrs...
...Edward J. Roethe, who was one of the Republican leaders In the 1939 session of the legislature which authorized the "Republican-ization" of the tax commission...
...Sen...
...La Follette said, "along with asknowledging the old responsibility of caring for their families, women are vitally interested in seeing that there is something on that stove to cook...
...Lennie M. Ross, Milwaukee...
...He was scheduled for Darlington at 2 o'clock the same day so his time here was...
...She urged the large number of women present to read "The Progresive Woman...
...Miss June Courtney, Madison...
...Its publication in the Fennimore Times is all the more interesting because one of the publishers of that paper Is Sen...
...She then added, laughing, "The score is 2 to nothing in my favor...
...Among those who attended the women's conferences Saturday and Sunday were Mrs...
...Amanda Bema, Milwaukee...
...Mabel Nelson, Eleva...
...Amanda Willott, Antigo...
...Mabel C. Man-hardt...
...La Follette told the group...
...Efficiency'' of New Procedure Exposed Atriking example of the "effi-'iency'' resulting from the Republican administration's "reorganization'' of the state tax department appeared recently in the Fennlmore Times...
...And that interest is growing all the time...
...John Campbell, Dodgeville, Mrs...
...Isabel B. La Follette, wife of Phil La Follette, led the informal discussion at women's headquarters at the Hotel Witter...
...We must arouse their interest and make them realize that politics reaches down into the roots of our daily lives and our pocketbooks," she said...
...J. S. Johnson, Black River Falls: Mrs...
...Louis Maloney, Stevens Point...
...Women must learn to appreciate the power of the ballot...
...Rice said that Progres-'sive women are working with the aim of "educating the mind of the hand that rocks the cradle...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 21
