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WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. Mrs. Medill
McCormick, daughter of the late
Mark Hanna, United States Sen
etorator from Ohio, and in his day one
of the wheelhorses of the Republican
party, and wife of Kepresentative
Medill McCormick, prospective Senator
from Illinois, has been, picked by Will
Hays, chairman of the National Repub
lican Committee, to round up into
the straight and narrow path of Re-!
publicanism the ever Increasing num
ber of women voters. He has named
her chairman of the Republican wom
en's National executive committee, and
she has opened headquarters in Wash
ington at 1623 H street and has started
In enthusiastically on the work laid
out for her.
On the face of It her position In the
Republican party is analogous to that
of Mrs. George Bass with the Demo
crats. But it differs in the one im
portant particular that, whereas Mrs.
Bass' position is purely advisory, Mrs.
McCormick's is to be cc-operative. It
Is not a mere empty honor, given with
a view to "jollying the women along"
and making them feel that they cut
ome ice, so that they will be willing to
work for the party in campaign times.
"The Republican party has opened
wide its doors and has granted us wom
en full participation in party affairs,"
cays Mrs. McCormick, "and now that
the long-hoped-for opportunity ha's
come, we women are eager to Justify
the confidence shown. I want to em
phasize that we do not propose to or
ganize the women eeparately; our plan
ae a National committee is to co-operate
with the Republican National chair
man in each state, and to aid him in
perfecting his organization to include
women, so that in meeting the recon
struction problems and formulating Its
policies, the party will have the bene
fit of the women's advice and counsel
as well as the men's."
Her Important Role.
At the meeting of the National Re
publican executive committee in Wash
ington this month Mrs. McCormick Is
to sit in with it, take part in its de
liberations and help formulate its poli
cies. In February she expects to call
a conference of Republican women of
the country, which will last about a
week and at which the issues and plana
of the Republican party will be set be
fore the women. They will be urged
to express themselves, to suggest
things that are going to need doing
and ways and means for doing them.
It is the first time in the history of
this country, and probably of the world,
Mrs. McCormick holds, that women
Jiave been asked to help pick the planks
of a party platform, to hel
Its policies and will' be asked to select
tne candidates, for which policies and
candidates they will ultimately be
asked to campaign. And so she is ask
ing me co-operation of far-seeing wo
en all over the country to help work '
out a programme for social and In
dustrial reconstruction in the wake of
the war.
Her theory is that most of the wom
n or at any rate many of the wom
n who recently have been or shortly
will be given the vote have no par
ticularly partisan ideas as to how they
will use it. In the main they are not
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claiming. If the Republican oartv run t. '
convince them that it stands for. the
things that they believe in, they are
poing to be Republicans; if the Demo
cratic party is the more convincing,
they will join that. Mr. Hays agrees
with her, and that is why he has asked
the women to take an active part, not
merely in electing Republican candi
dates, but in choosing them and in
building the platform on which they
will stand.
"We are asking Republican women
everywhere to confer with one another
and to send in requests, suggestions or
demands as to how best to carry out
our plans for National reconstruction.
There are at present six members of
the Republican women's National ex
ecutive committee and the plan is to
add three more."
The present members are Mrs. Flor
ence Collins Porter, of California; Miss
Mary Garrett Hay, of New York; Mrs.
Margaret Hill McCarter, of Kansas;
jvirs. josepnine uorliss Preston, of
Washington; Mrs. Raymond Robins and
jirs. Aieaiii Mccormick, chiarman. An
Easterner would naturally criticise its
makeup as being overwhelmingly West
ern. But the incongruity of putting
nonvoting women on such a commit
tee is self-evident, and it is the Western
etates that have been foremost in giv
ing their women the vote. Mrs. Ray
mond Robins is on the committee as
member-at-large, not as representing
eny section of the country, but for her
knowledge of industrial conditions as
they affect women. She is not on the
committee as of Chicago, or of New
Tork. but as of the Women's Trade
Union League.
In establishing national headquar
ters in Washington Mrs. McCormick
expresses her purpose of making it a
Republican center that will serve as a
clearing-house for the. Republican
women of the country. An Important
feature will be a bureau of informa
tion, to which women may refer party
questions. She wants also to make It
a sort of a club for Republican women
of the congressional delegations, plac
ing the headquarters rooms at their
disposal as a meeting place with
friends. But her cardinal principle is
that there shall be no division in the
ranks of Republican men and women.
No separate women's organization Is
contemplated, but an organization
which shall encourage the women and
assure them that they are to be wel
comed to work side by side with the
men and to have their part in direct
ing the party destinies. She regards
the conference of leading Republican
women from all over the country,
which she proposes to hold here In
February, as epochal in the party's af
fairs. Time will be given for the
women to thoroughly thresh out the
reconstruction problems, affecting the
status of women, it being the first time
that women have met together to con
sider ways and means of advancing
the party's interests.
She Opens Headqaarte4
Mrs. McCormick opened her head
quarters about the middle of December
with "tea and talk." There was nothing
dry or official about the programme.
In a pleasant, berugged room, with the
sunshine streaming in upon the ferns
and growing things in the bay window
of what had been the drawing-room
of one of the most fashionable and
hospitable residences of Washington a
generation ago, -a couple of hundred
women gathered to meet Mrs. Me
mick and her friends Mrs. Arthur Ry
erson, just back from six months' over
seas service with the American fund
for French wounded, and Mrs. Ray
mond Robins. They didn't, either of
them, talk partisan politics. Mrs.
Robins was full of the difficulties of
readjustment of women who had
thrown themselves Into the breach
when the nation's industries needed
them and seemed now likely to be
thrown out without ceremony and with
ecant regard to right or justice. Mrs.
Ryerson was full of the things she
had seen in France.
There were rows of little red-cushioned
gilt chairs, as for any parlor
gathering. There was nothing partic
ularly political in the atmosphere be
yond Mrs. McCormick's little prelimi
nary eetting forth of the purpose and
plans of her committee. After the
formal-informal talk the rows of little
gilt chairs broke their formation and
gathered into little groups for dis
cussion and gossip and tea and de
licious little sandwiches.
It was an interesting afternoon, and
perhaps the most significant feature
was the rallying of the clans of the old
time Republican families. As they ar
rived the women were asked to regls-
ter in the "guest book." The first
name inscribed thereon is "Alice Long'
worth, Cincinnati." Others are Mrs.
Charles R. Davis, Minnesota; Mrs. Miles
Poindexter, of Washington State; Mrs.
P. H. B. Frelinghuysen, Mrs. James B.
Reynolds, Mrs. John Hays Hammond,
Mrs. William Hard, Mrs. Frederick
Gillett, Mrs. Truxton Beale, Mrs. Rob
ert Chew, Mrs. Fred Britten, Mrs. Irving
sentative lot of Republican women, by
no means all of them from suffrage
states, not even all of the women who
have been active in suffrage, but wom
en who in their own circles nave names
to conjure with
And where could Mr. Hays have found
a woman better suited to organize the
women and lead them into the Repub
lican fold than Mrs. McCormick? She
was Ruth Hanna, the daughter of one
of the most astute politicians that even
Ohio ever produced, the man who was
generally regarded as having made
McKinley President. Not only was she
her father s daughter, but she was, ac
cording to those who knew the old
Senator, very close to him, and though
scarcely more than a schoolgirl hi
confidante in many of his political
fights.
Since her marriage she has been con
stantly associated with one of the most
aggressive of the younger politicians, a
public-spirited young uplifter who has
gone in headfirst for a political career,
and seems to be making a "go" of it.
Converted to suffrage by her husband
as he himself puts it, "at the cost of
considerable time and money and ar
gument," she has been a leader in every
fight the National Women's Suffrage
Association has waged even its rather
bitter fight against the National Worn
an's party.
If heredity and environment, com
bined with what should be a most illum
inating experience, count for anything,
certainly Ruth Hanna McCormick
ought to know how to play the political
game.
Moreover, she is a splendid refutation
of the bromide that a woman cannot
take an intelligent interest even a
, voting interest in public affairs with-
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out necessarily neglecting her house
hold and her children. Every one who
knows her at all knows that her two
children are the biggest fact on earth
to her, and the biggest factor in her
life. With both Mr. and Mrs. McCor
mick the children are a paasion. The
moment he bits the front door in the
evening, Mr. McCormick makes a bee
line for the nursery, and there is one
high old time with the youngsters. And
neither' politics nor parties, neither
sociology nor society, in both of which.
being a woman of catholic tastes, Mrs.
McCormick takes an intelligent inter
eat, is allowed to interfere with the
hours set aside for the kiddles. While
the kiddies, should occasion arise, in
terfere with any engagement their
mother may have.
Rons Her Ovrn House.
No home in Washington runs on more
smoothly oiled machinery than that
rather complicated home of the young
Senator-elect from Illinois. Yet it is
one of the few important official resi
dences where no housekeeper is on
duty. On the contrary, Mrs. McCormick
has always insisted on running the
house herself. And it is certainly an
indication of rather unusual executive
ability that, although she gives up sev
eral hours daily to her desk at Re
publican women's headquarters, she re-
Rev. Lockhart Meets Orego
nians on Way to England.
Fanner Portland Pastor Writes
"World Gets Smaller livery Day."
THE fame of Oregon and Oregon cltl
xens is by no means restricted to
the borders of the United States, finds
the Rev. E. B. Lockhart, former pastor
of the Lincoln Methodist Church, who
recently entered Y. M. C. A. work and
sailed for England. He writes of meet
ing and hearing of several former Port
land residents in New York.
It waa as his boat was heading in for
Liverpool along the coast of Ireland
that this incident occurred, as related
in his letter:
"A young woman turned to me and
asked: 'Did I hear you say you come
from distant Oregoa? Look at this.'
And she tflrned the edge of her steamer
shawl so I could see the label, which
read "Made in Oregon City.'"
In New York Rev. Mr. Lockhart
learned of the success of Miss Kathleen
Lawlor, former soloist of the First Bap
tist Church In Portland, now singing In
the Rutgers Memorial Church in New
York, and of the triumphs of Hartridge
Whipp. former Portland singer, who
has died since Rev. Mr. Lockhart
wrote.
"Did- you ay you were from Ore
gon?" inquired a woman who lives in
the East. On receiving an affirma
tive answer, she asked all about Dr.
W. W. Youngson, and then she said she
was Mrs. Margaret McKelvie, a cousin
of Dr. Youngson and a frequent visitor
in Portland.
Rev. Mr. Lockhardt met persons who
Inquired about Bishop Walter T.
Sumner, Judge Henry McGinn, Mayor
Baker and other Portlanders Mostf
these were encountered on the voyage
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tains personal clrection oi nur uoine,
and of every smallest detail that af
fects her two children, Katrlna. aged (.
and Medill, generally known to inti
mates of the family as "Johnnie," aged
"2, goin' on 3."
Last Winter the McCormicks had a
delightful home out on New Hampshire
avenue, where, while they did no enter
taining that she considered worthy of
the name certainly no formal enter
taining they acheteved a reputation as
about the most delightful hosts in
town. They had Sunday night suppers
which everybody was quite crazy about,
informal perhaps, but most enjoyable,
where one was sure to meet the most
interesting people that ever came to
Washington, not as lions particularly,
but simply as human beings.
She insisted strenuously that she was
having no functions because she dis
tinctly disapproved of functions when
the nation was at war. Even when she
and her husband gave a dinner for
Lord and Lady Reading, very soon
after their arrival, it must not 'for a
moment be regarded as a function.
They simply had the Readings people
whom they had met In London, and
really liked a whole lot in to dln-
to England. In a postscript to his let
ter he says:
"I have Just met Lieutenant Carle
Abrams. high in military influence
at Winchester, England, a Salem man.
well-known newspaper man and leg
islator. At officers' mess table I turned
to the man next me and found ha was
Lieutenant Francis Trouchet. of Port
land. He was wounded In Franca, but
was well and happy. His wlfa lives
on Hall street. Portland. This world
gets smaller every day."
Auction Bridge.
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revoke and perhaps prevent the Inad
vertent play of a spade when a club is
Intended, or a heart when a diamond
is Intended, or vice versa. I repeatedly
Impress upon pupils the value of sys
tem If they would become good and ef
ficient players, and that If their cards
are systematically arranged and there
fore easy of reterence, any card can be
drawn from the hand without taking
the attention from the table where the
play Is going on. and developments are
constantly unfolding.
But to go back to my original propo
sition the subject of bidding: Not
long ago I dropped in a club where auc
tion was being played, and at one
table, during the play of four deals,
after which time progression was made,
neither side had scored below the line.
It was quite as If they had been play
ing nullo, where the object Is to lose,
and the side which loses the most
heavily Is the victorious side. What is
the moral to be drawn from this? Slm
Dlv that the nlavers had svstematlcall v
(overbid their hands. This Is but one
instance; countless numbers could be
given.
There are three essentials to a first
round suit bid: Five or mors cards of
the suit, ace or king at the top, and a
quick outside trick. One's object In
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nrr. which gave rise to the question
how one was to entertain art exalted
functionary without making a function
of the entertainment, or "When is a
function not a function?" Answer:
When It's at the McCormicks.
,Kow the war Is over and there may
be "functions" at the houe down on
Jackson's Place, where they are living
this season, about opposite the old
Cameron house, which was the Wash
ington home of Ruth Hanna's girlhood:
though her present home was on of
which she knew every nook and cor
ner, and where she danced away many
a happy evening of her girlhood, hav
ing been at that time the residence of
Mrs. Richard Townsend. Mrs. Peter
Gerry's mother, and as notable as the
scene of brilliant entertaining as Mrs.
Townsend's present Massachusetts ave
nue mansion is now. There will not.
however, be the delightful Sunday
night suppers. Mrs. McCormick decided
to give those up when. In deference to
the request of the authorities that men
be dispensed with as household serv
ants, she organized her household with
only women servants, all of whom, ln-
making a bid Is not always necessarily
to get the bid and play the hand, but
to give one's partner such inferences
as will enable him. In connection with
his own holding, so to act as to secure
the greatest co-operation possible be
tween the two. If. therefore, you make
a first-round bid lacking any one of
thesa essentials to the bid. and your
partner, crediting you with a holding
you do not possess, makes a bid or
adopts a policy he would not otherwise
have done, you alone are responsible
for any disaster that may follow. And
not only this, but having once deceived
him as Miss Irwin puts It having
once lied to him you have caused him
to lose all confidence in you, and there
after in deciding his policy he will be
guided by his own hand alone.
Now as to the first condition to the
bid. the holding of five or mora cards:
A four-card suit, while, strictly speak
ing, a long suit. Is the shortest long
suit that you can hold, and If you bid
on this number only, another player
the chances being two to one that
It Is an adversary can easily hold the
same number and cause confusion to
your plans. Moreover. It Is of the
greatest importance that you hold a
sufficient number of trumps as that
you may exhaust the adversaries and
still remain with one or more to be
able to bring In your own or your part
ner's (the dummy's) suit. If you have
four trumps only, this Is generally dif
ficult of accomplishment, and particu
larly so If. before exhausting the ad
versaries, you are forced and your
trump strength is thus broken. Do not
forget that the adversary Is going to
force you, and as often and whenever
possible, as soon as he discovers your
vulnerable point.
Now as to the second condition, the
necessity of holding ace or king of the
suit,: A second honor Is also much to be
desired, though not necessary to the
bid unless the suit contains five card
i only. Then it is absolutely essential.
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her Illinois home.
Mr. McCormick has been consplcu
ously Identified with the class of young
college men who have entered Into the
political life of the country zealously,
and concerned themselves intimately
with the public welfare. He Is not old
enough or radical enoush to be called
an Iconoclast. But he has always done
his own thinking. Mrs. McCormick is
his feminine prototype. Not even h
husband does her thinking. Nor does he
want to. She is not at all a "pretty
pretty" type. She Is dark-skinned,
dark-eyed, with heavy dark hair,
straight and slender, not very robust,
but tremendously energetic, rather of
the George Eliot type, "interesting,"
but of no set style of beauty.
Of course, she and Mr. McCormick
have wealth a good deal of It but
they are young and sincere and gen
uine, and their wealth does not scremn
or stare at the passerby. It fits in with
natural grace and is quite overlooked
In the realization that their purpose in
life Is the real thing, and their Ideals
are honest and fine.
Manages a Farm.
Mrs. McCormick Is an accomplished
horsewoman, probably the bet in the
official crowd In Washington. All her
life she has had horses and loved them;
In fact, as a girl, she was so devoted
to them that her father used to display
mock terror lest when she grew up
nd came to choosing a career she
unless perhaps there are two outside
tricks rather than one.
No matter how long the suit, never
make a first-round bid on a queen or
jack suit. Reserve all bids of this na
ture until the second round of bidding,
if such develops. It is not claimed
that a queen or jack suit. If sufficiently
long, will not at times result in a good
score, but the Importance of a uniform
system for a first-round bid that your
partner may definitely infer as to your
holding and be guided accordingly
fully outwelghas a rule any loss that
may occasionaly accrue from your fail
ure to announce such suit when you
had the opportunity. A first-round bid
cannot mean one thing at one time and
another tlilnt at another. Your first
bid, 'therefore, must proclaim ace or
king.
Now as to the third stipulation, the
necessity for a quick outside trick: A
quick trick means a trick on the first
or second round of a suit, so the card
held must be ace or guarded king. A
king, to be sure. Is not thoroughly de
pendable unless It be guarded by
queen, and the more conservative bid
ders insist upon this being the condi
tion. The majority of players, how
ever, look upon the king as a trick
when It Is guarded by any card what
ever. While the king-queen combina
tion Is an Ideal one. too many good
bids could easily be passed up while
one is waiting tor it.
Before bringing this to a close. I
would explain that the longer and
strqjrfcer the trump suit, the less the
necessity for the outside trick. With
seven trumps to the ace or king, for
Instance, few players will hesitate to
bid. though there be no outside trick.
With eight trumps, provided ac or
king be included, only the ultra-conservatives
would refuse to bid, though
the rest of the hand could be entirely
worthless.
I will continue this subject In my
next paper.
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would Insist on belnir a Jockey. Which
in perhaps why, when she began to
look around for a little diversion "from
the serious affairs of life." she chose
for her plaything Rock River Farm,
the estate on the ltock River which
thee two energetic young people now
call home. Her chief Interest in the
way of relaxation is the management
of those lai'O acres, where she is de
veloping a wonderful dairy, not as a
commercial proposition, but for the
sake of the sick babies of Chicago.
thousands of whom have been nursed
back to health on the pure certified
milk produced there. There is no finer
herd of purebred Hol.teins In the coun
try than those of which the Mccor
mick farm boasts.
During the summer the family luxu
riates there. 1 he children love it, and
learned to ride almost at the same time
that they learned to walk. Hut even the
best of riders sometimes come a crop
per. And In the height of the campaign
last fall Mr. McCormick's advisers d-d
not know whether to smile or swecr
when he failed to show up at an im
portant politii-al meeting, and later fl
plained that his little Ctrl rind nail
fall from her horse, and of course, he
could not bother about poltics until h
had taken her to the hospital, and as
sured himself that she was not seri
ously damaged.
The farm, while the McCormicks are
on It. during the summer, which befiins
early with them and ends late, is th
"social center" In every sense of the
word of the surrounding country. Mrs.1
McCorinl-k attends the sewing circles
and the women's clubs in thai section.
She helped the young people last sum
mer organize garden clubs. She turned
over a good part of the farm to the
land army for intensive cultivation and
the training of women farm hands, and
33 women learned modern scientific
dairy methods under Mrs. McCormick's
personal direction. "As a girl." she
says. "I spent much of my tune on my
grandfather's farm In Ohio, and now
I am able to put to good use the
knowledge I acquired at that time. I
have always liked the country and my I
interst In agricultural problems Is on
of the big things of my life.
Her tiperlal Training.
Also as a girl she spent much tlm
with her father, learning the political
game from a very shrewd teacher. And
she grew up In official society in
Washington, taking her place quits as
a matter of course among the belles of
the capital, meeting notables and no
bodies with the courtesy that her po
sition required. In fact, she has had
n wonderful training for the Job that
Mr. Hays has asked her to undertake.
and not merely Washington, but the
whole country will watch with interest
the functioning of the Republican
Women's National Executive Commit
tee under her leadership. It looks as If
she was going to effect a truly allur
ing combination of pink teas and poll-
tics.
of memorial trees for the soldier heroes
of the areat war will be planted by
the states of the Union during 1919.
Alkali Makes Soap
Bad for Washing Hair
Most soaps and prepared shampoos
contain too much alkali, which Is very
Injurious, as It dries the scalp and
makes the hair brittle.
The best thing to use Is Just plain
mulslfled cocoanut oil, for this is pur
and entirely greaseless. It's very chap.
and beats the most expensive soap or
anything else all to pieces. You can fcet
this at any drug store, and a few
ounces will last the, whole family for
months.
Simply moisten the hair with water
and rub It In. about a teaspoonful is lUl
that Is required. It makes an abundance
of rich, creamy lather, cleanses thor
oughly and rinses out easily. The hvr
dries quickly and evenly, and Is soft.
fresh looking, bright, fluffy, wavy and
easy to handle. Besides, it loosens and
takes out every particle of dust, dirt
and dandruff. Adv.
To Quickly Remove
Ugly Hairs From Face
(Beauty Notes)
Beauty-destroying hslrs are soon ban
ished from the skin with th aid of a
delatone paste, made by mixing some
water with a little plain powdered del-
atone. This Is spread upon the hatry
surface for z or 3 minutes, then niblred
off and the skin washed to remove the
remaining delatone. This simple treat
ment banishes every trace of hair and
leaves the skin without a blemish. Cau
tion should be used to be certain that it
Is delatone you buy. Adv.