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growth nnrt progress of women in many fields of activity. Women arc milling more and more what can ho done by strength of numbers and cohesion in their ranks. Their increasing enthusiasm and new vigor arc emphasized and heightened by the success of women on ft national and international level. For instance, they point with pride to the 9 women in the House of Representatives, one in the Sennto, 218 in State Legislatures. 300 In important federal positions. ISO in diplomatic service. Most familiar to all. contemporarily spooking, are Margaret Chase Smith. Senator; Frances Perkins. Civil Service Commissioner; Mrs. Georgia Ncesc Clark, U. S. Treasurer; Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, U. S. Mint Director; Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, Ambassador to Denmark: and Mrs. Perlc Mesta, Min-later to Luxembourg.There is still plenty of room for Improvement when one stops to consider that at the present time the women outnumber men voters by more than a million. Compared to the western nations, this country has the smallest percentage of women on elected posts in the federal government. More and more women must be .sponsored and supported for public office.One of the main objectives of women's service organizations is the securing of properly qualified men and women to run for public office and to improve and raise the standards of stewardship amoiig the successful candidates. This objective is not of recent vintage.Tn 1915 the Women’s Citizens' Club was formed in Reno. In no time at all they were active in such undertakings as proper city planning, the Putman Land Bill, election laws and their clarification. duties.of the county commissioners, the? Farm Loan Bill. We find the names of such standard-bearers as Mrs. W. H Bray, Miss t/iuHe Brown, Mrs. J. G. Wentz, Mrs. O. IT Mack (mother of our Dr. Fffie Mona Mack), Sadie D. iCurat, Anne H. Martin (who was president in 1916 of the Nevada Women’s Civic League), Mrs. 0. M. Weldon, Mrs. R. D. Eichelbcrg-or, Mrs. Charles Burke, Mrs. W. II. flood, Mrs. F. MacDiarmid, Mrs. Mary Franzmnn, Mrs. J. Feemster, Dell Boyd, Rita Millar, Mrs. Anna Warren. Felice Cohn, Mrs. George S. Brown, Mrs. Maud Gass aw ay, Mr*, Jessie Bromley, Mrs. F, G. Patrick, Mis. George Taylor, Josephine Williams. Mrs \V T. Nelson, Mrs. Scott I fa i ring ton. Mrs, Florence Church. Mis. Catharine Flott. Minnie Flanagan, Sarah George of Sparks, Mrs. H H. Seheelme. Mrs. J. R. Meskimmons,In three years, this organization wftK able lo announce that Miss Anne Martin would be candidate for Senator to succeed the late Sen. F. G. Ncwtands—the first woman so named for the upper house. A year later, Mrs. Minnie I.. Bray of Carson was named Registrar of Land Offices, by President Wilson; Felice Cohn was flourishing as a woman attorney in the face of strong male opposition among the legal piofossion withsome attorneys going so far as to refuse to practice in the same courtroom with a woman lawyer*Later, tins club merged with the Nevada League of Women Voters and the combined group worked harmoniously in civic and political activities. Here again, we find the names of many women who put forth their best efforts in the interest of promoting the advancement of women, and, vicariously, the advancement of all mankind: Mrs. William E. Steinbach, Mrs. Harry S. Palmer, Mrs. S. W. Bel-ford, Fannie McKenzie, Mrs. Walter Shockley, Carlotta H. Wright, Mrs. Sallie R. Blackwell, Mrs. E.K. Smith, Mrs. J. Henderson, Mrs. Winfield Smith. Mrs. Jennie Curi-ja eux, Mrs. Charles P. Squires. Mrs. Edna C. Plummer, Mrs. William Palmer Lucas. Mrs. Hugh Brown, Mrs. Fred J. Siebert, Mrs. Robert Lewers, Dr. Alice Thompson, Ev-alyn Gregory. Julia Campigiia, Mrs. Mark Walser, Mi's. J. E. Gelder.Besides working for better government and for acceptance of women in fields hitherto banned to them, they were active in raising girls’ age of consent from 16 to 18, in an eight-hour law for women; changes in community property laws—giving equal right and protection to women; appointment of women on state boards where women and children were concerned, stabilization and tightening of divorce laws, introduction of modern humanitarian methods of prison management, dealings with the prisoners and construction of the new penitentiary at Carson.These women forged ahead, fullyafvtfetat\•rItIfT91Ic1Gc* your record blank at Club Col-Neva for permanent record of your jockpoti.★Doily winners will be potted at 12 midnight. Winners must claim their bonus within 24 hours after posting!
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Nevada State Journal
Reno, Nevada, US
Sun, Oct 15, 1950
Page 17
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