PAUPERS' WAGES DESTROY MAN'S FINER IMPULSES
Women and the Law By SUSAN BRANDEIS This Is the third of a series of four short articles contributed to The Progressive hy a leading woman attorney on the present status of Women In PuWIo...
...C. L. i ->Women as Executives: Two states have elected women as governors, Mrs...
...We have other women holding judicial office In children's courts and domestic relation courts, and jn the city of New York our Interior criminal court has two women city magistrates...
...Ruth Bryan Owen is the daughter of William Jennings Bryan...
...Women and the Law By SUSAN BRANDEIS This Is the third of a series of four short articles contributed to The Progressive hy a leading woman attorney on the present status of Women In PuWIo Service.—B...
...Nellie Ross in Wyoming...
...Let us also not forget Jeannette Rankin, the first woman member of the house of representatives, who felt it to be her duty to vote for our entry into the World war, and, mindful of the misery and anguish that such a declaration inevitably brings forth, wept as she did so...
...They are sometimes referred to as the three Ruths—Ruth Bryan Owen, Ruth Hanna Mccormick, and Ruth Pratt...
...Her most vehement critics have never challenged her honesty In the difficult field of prohibition enforcement, which in itself is an outstanding achievement...
...These women have come Into public life with widely differing backgrounds...
...In addition, she inaugurated many reforms in our federal prisons, and when she recently retired from public office to engage in the private practice of the law, the executive arm of our government suffered a great loss...
...Both discharged the duties of the office solely with a view to serving the best Interests of the people In their respective states...
...McCorml'ck has already made a notable contribution as a member of the farm bloc of the house of representatives...
...Miriam Ferguson in Texas and Mrs...
...Mc-Cormlck is a daughter of Mark Hanna...
...We can, therefore, feel that as members of the house of representatives they will render a service helpful to the country...
...Many perhaps will recall that Mrs...
...My friend, Mabel Walker Wlllebrandt, former assistant attorney general in charge of the enforcement of our prohibition laws, taxation laws and federal prisons, discharged the difficult duties of her office efficiently and conscientiously with no other thought but to serve the people of the United States to the utmost degree possible...
...Yet coming into public life with such widely varying contacts, these women are disclosing unusual ability...
...In the Legislative Field: Three women are at present conspicuous in the public eye...
...Pratt has the unique experience of having served with distinction as a member of the board of aldermen of the city of New York...
...In the Judicial Field: We have as an outstanding figure, Florence Allen, who, as Judge of the highest appellate court of the state of Ohio, has demonstrated In an exceptional degree that, women are capable of interpreting our law as nfembers of the highest appellate courts of our states...
...Pratt is a woman of great wealth who brings into public service ft type of woman of whom we have quite a few now interested In publlo affairs...
...In the field of taxation law and prohibition law, she has made many notable contributions through the cases involving these taws which were admirably preeented by her to the supreme court of the United States...
...Ferguson did so under highly antagonistic and disturbing conditions...
Vol. 1 • February 1930 • No. 9
