' I I - - ' ' ' it
TRST MOTHER TO TAKE SEAT IN CONGRESS,
" TLL tCW Y TO UGH OF DAINTY FEMININITY
Mrs. Winifred Huck In
tends te Sit in Natien
Councils as Represen
tative of Womankind
wvi
elation ever the outcome of the elec
tion. She merely says:
"I Reserved 'the office.' It was my
father's. office, and when he died I
was the proper person, te put in
it.
"I've been through dozens of cam
paigns with my father, and neither
victory nor failure is new te me,"
she adds. She always reverts te 'the
question of world peace.
"The foundation ei world peace
PRESENT WORRY
IS "WHAT TO WEAR"
Matronly Grace, Developed
Through Years of Bliss
ful Heme Life, Her ,
Outstanding Asset .
"tONGRESS will convene in a month and I haven't a thing te wear!"
v Is it the wife of some Senater who expects te go te Washington,
lunge into the social whirl there, the center of society? Is it the wife
f tome lobbyist who is going te be present tit the opening of Congress
s woman who will make her dress and appearance an aid te furthering
hr husband's projects?
Ne. It is a very pretty, unaffected woman, a housekeeper, the mother
'tf four children Mrs. Winifred Masen Huck, elected last weefc as Cen-gresiman-at-largc
te All the vacancy left by the death of her father, Con
gressman William E. Masen, of Illinois. m
She is the first mother te go te
Congress. She is the first woman
tst of the Mississippi te win such
in efflcce, and she wen it without
party support or organization. She
made her own organization, turned
her living room into a campaign
headquarters and sent out her let
ters at night after supper.
Like any ether woman who would
go te Washington, she first thinks
of her clothes. Mrs. Huck insists en
being a woman a woman's woman.
Nothing mannish about her. She
Till net wear men's cellars, men's
cut coats and straight-brimmed se
rere hats.
"I am the representative of
women. I am going te Washington
te further the woman's cause. I will
go as n woman, and, of course, I
Bust think of something te wear."
As the caller talks Mrs. Huck is
busy in her apartment at 421 North
Central Park avenue, Chicago, at
tempting te convert her campaign
headquarters back into the family
tiring room.
"Yeu might write something like
this," she says, "'The hand that
rocks tiic cradle will, for the first
time in the history of the United
States, be raised in affirmation of
aatienal politics in the historic walls
tf Congress.' I like that part of it
'The hand that rocks the cradle.'
Teu see then under what banner I
go te Congress."
This pretty woman, who leeks
thirty, sweeps the political files off
the ntentel and puts back the clock
and the candlesticks. She is attired
in a white apron, and her hair is
covered with a towel. A broom
stands in the corner.
When it came te putting the
Oriental rug back en the fleer it
hidsbcen taken up while all the
people filed into the "campaign
headquarters" Mrs. Huck had te
call en her husband, Rebert Wardlow
Suck.
"He is glad te have a home once
mere, I knew," she said. "This was
Mi favorite room."
tier Vet& Astonished
Veteran Politicians
The rug laid, this amazing woman,
he easily ran up a vote for herself
that astonished veteran politicians,
started te outline the policies which
"ill mark her congressional career.
one apeke intelligently and concisely
f issues and aims,
This is net se unusual when it is
eniidered that she had been virtu
ally reared in Washington and dur
ing her entire life had been thrown
nh the great lawmakers of the
nation.
"I knew all of the outstanding
ntures in the capital," she said.
TMy were continually coming te
7 house. I heard a great deal of
en hew nations should be run
na en politics. I became interested
m my younger days, and I have al-
..mkept UP with such things.
. fn l 8 te Washington it will
wwthe thorough understanding of
nt I have te de. And I go with
- uuuei m my mind as te what I
nt te de,
.. !the main thinK l am e
un i !' for is a WM referendum
"HI. 1 de nnf K1U.. a.! r
'nOUld be nllnu,,l t- .ii.
w matter should be put up te the
f.;T" ine women the8e who suf
w the greatest during a war, should
EhV " f exnre88lnK the,r
m?S father ftlwyB impressed en
need of a war referendum,
67r "V Bnu "ht or thta,
w ceurae, I am going te fight fei
r- winars I heii.,,..
TOT rrw' ''ilgggg GkJI
r - yCv:K'ggggg
SS'-'?, SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSgflK'',,iiteT','
i ;' ,:': -,:'k S -ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg vUvv
' . ;jiigggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggW
' -W' 4 'sssssssssssssssMPyk'igiaL '' , '-, gSPgggggPtTBF '- - vf-yA'"- !
i 'MgflgflgflgflHlilipwnP ' :: , "SgflgVi?"' : '" ':
II : . ' lBBBBBBBBBBBgflgflgflgflr?. ', - '' ' ' ,&' ' nSBSWBgflgflgflgr ( ; : i ! ' ' " i ,
I i, . -v f i.'i;.Ji, r. &jmim. sailgflgflgflgflgflgflgflgflgflgflgflgflgflgflgflgfllgK.. 'S. ' v - --- .JhtJi mm .-.' vl.n ,w -, -. ,-'.. ... : '.' . -,;t1 1
;i:$ h r-'A "illigrgsgsgsgsgsggsgsBgls' ' - .'XJM8tai r: 'i'4Sh,t', & $rM
:;;v igsgsgsgsgsgsgsgsgsHBgsgsgsgsgsgsBgsgsgsV M&S&mfM I
I Vi rf'W! 'IsYirBgSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTS
t Vv' ?kvMll,'Sgsgsgsgsgs 7;-fSHmM I
V:-C:;' '7f::lilgiglgl
' .;;-Ci:, -tij'kj MKBBmGmMmm?:,: ";-h -h i jgsgsgsgsgsgsgsgsm' 'eslrSkgsT
V',' J jgfgfgfgfgfgfgfgfgfgfgfga1gfgfgfgfKMINBHgtpSB' ,! &.'' ,W i.SSgfgfgfgfgfgfgfgfgfgfgfML-'lMSjMgflBW I
it' -... vgflgflgflgflgflgflgflgflgflgmgflgfl1gflKv ''t'";; 'gsgsgsgsgsgsgsgssgsai gSglg?
V - vigggggggggggfBVi' ; ' ggggggggg
i!a ?dal'gsggggggggggg,TO.; ivi: i -gflgggggggggggagggg
lafKWiJMSSSSSMlJJJJJJBSSSSMy vN :;-'-:'':: ?;v:v,:":i;.-v'j'' . -' Ktxm I
cKKKKnns
k ... .iiuiuin HIHIH .K
g:gggggggiMggMgggggigggggggggggggggggggggg , i1
' iTV'ggggV ''.igggggHggitW'' jlF?Dfc ' '"tfgT " ' 'if ggggfgfggggggggggSuttagggggggg ''.ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggga tgffffffffffffffttBl gffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff "" ggffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
' - , v ViiglglglBL, ; v VXZ&r:1KK!m3SUKKKK-'- flgflsjl , k rggK ggggggggfil , - y Tgflgflgflgggflpg4 '-Ag
''V'f''W lirO' ''i::'; "r-isiget , .---ilgffffffffffffftLC--'VjgffflB,g
iT MggUggPv PPPPPPPPPPPPflr x KjyLilgffffffffB y " vHHggV s-i T ?rv ' gffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff tfgHgffffffffffffffgr7gggffffffffffffffffffffffffff
( 'V 4 v .isgffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffBF ' '' 'gffffffffmgffflNMgffffffffM'V CJPIiSK'iPBW gCjgKkuJgUgfffffft x isgffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffftKvA gffffffffffffffffffgffffffffffffffgtJtrgfffffffffffffffffffffffffftgffffffffffffffffff kglffffffffffffffffs s JgaflgffffffffffHkgffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffr ggKbgffffffff
rcMi:m;.-v1F;:iiiMiiii ' tr Bil '-- :-i.iiiBLJgffBgigfffffffffF vflgfiil4gfffffH
i--frgga i''fHlgffffffffffffffffffvfllQgK JmWU"'" i: li'sgfffffffl . N f'- Hgfffffffffffffffffftffffgffsgfffff KgfffffffM'Agflgffffffffffffffffffiigfff
gggfffffffffffSggffffffffffffffffifi ''. .ggffffffffffffffKgffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffH "f5fW gffffffffffffffftgffBgffffffffffffffgarv'OkA ' isH " -LdsV. gfffftgffffffffffffffffffffffffffl gffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff JggffffffffffgffffCgffr VgffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffVTTgffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
iiiiggggggggggnggggtean ,5Pr ' ;sii vv jgKgfffffffffii gffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffi
':''. gffffffffffffffffffffffilgffB ''Sp' 'tgfffifffffffffl gffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffi
! Vh1- "JgfffffffffffffffffffffsiavNrJgflffff lsK!aj1gfft,B'gffffffffffl gfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffii1
ggffffggfffffffffFgfffffffff ' 'gfVgfflgfffffaS:gffffffffVi gffgfffffffffffffffP'llVPR
' PgffffffffKiJulSlgfffffffffff ' 'vtgfffffffffffffffyV:gffffffH sgfffffffffffffErBgfffffffffff
c rlfligBcJHHrl gfffffffffffffffffH'u,4 rlggfffffffffgfiggfffffff
mmSSTmm ' Kn - v: tlifftfgfflgfffffffffffffffffffffgigfff
rgfffffffffffrgfff..gfffffffffff fgggggHL-l IHHgfffffffffffffHgffffffigffffligff
- WtgffffffffffffffftMgffffffff ' gfffffffffffffffffffffffffl lisgffffffffffffffffffffeTflHgfffH
gffffffffffffffffMgfiffffffffffff - gffffffffffffffffffffffVgfffffigfVi HgffffffffffffffffffffffffHsgfgfif
Btlf, ' gHgggggggggggH 'IgfffffffffffffffffffffP'ngH
i 21gffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff gffffffffffffffffffHiBgffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff gift!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! r'S!iPiilgfffflgigigffffffffffffffffffffffffff s'ggM
Llgffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ggffffffffHiggffffffffffffffffffffff gffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff e?3BlgffffffffllsgffffffHliigfffffffffftlDsgffffff JHfigffffffffffffffV ng tBgffffffffffffffB
gfffffffffffffffffffffffsVVgfffffff ' gfffffffffffgfffffffffffffffffffffffffff gfffffffffffffffffffff- ' Sgff1
ggggggggggggggggrggggggglllsgggg .asggggggggggggfggggggggggggggggggg iggggggggggggggggB':
jv:'Vi . BgBgBgBggBgBgBgBi0-L-BigigV H m WMsaEmBgM imkMMM
T1"--' :'''t-K' ' 'ilggggggggggggggtSlggggggggggggggggggggIP--- " 'Slsggggy'' SyPBgggggggggggggggggsCgggggggggggggggflk
s 'LiNgggggggggRK
t say'Vr'--'' "V ' sasMstM-jN?gr!'"
fr. ? . gggggggggggggggggggggggtvrgsWX. . . ...
yTvs sigggggggMlSiike
Ct? 'm gggggggpMgM Vv Ct)
gggSHlgfW BP ' -'' 'gggggfi'-
; ggggggggggPEINfe:,;3l':. , I ' Tf
if gggggggggggggggggggggggggwS ' tjejShP?S r
? i.ggggggggggggggggggVi Sls E
!., .gggggggggggggggggggggggggP-- ' FiSw lki j.v '
1 s gggggggggggggggggggggggggBrr w.MJKisy " KJB 'V MitrM'iiMHysfciy,l
m gggggggggggggggggggSPP sJagp , . ..-J.J-.l,x' "m ' jiiKBwaHggMggsVtBV
JL i$ IggggggggggggHP- fSMjtMggMsiggggH4tf HsBB
ggggF-::v" jflgggggggggggggggggggK ' nH
aMgiV,, - MggRslggggggggggggggggKCc V&'sTdggt'slij'sTsm
aggggggggggggggggggsK ' JPgggggggggggggggggggnAw?' eFggggnl9gggggl
sggggggggggggggggggggsV " ' -' i&igggggggggggggggggggggfmT 'PisSHHiggggl
ggggggggggggggHiV Jvr.HgggggggggggggggW'' BHm
gggggggggggggggggP,'f''--V ;i ifsgggggggggggggggggggggggggggsn,' IgBggHggsl I
ggggggggggggggg ;wv'utLji'PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPJfiaR rt'slliiHSiggggggggggggggl I
gT ' V -rgggggggggggggggggggggggggggK -'lsISgSilBggsll
lm -.: v'-'ggggggggggggggggggggWggggg! vggggHglgggH
sggggggggggggggs. HBgfgggggggggggggggggggggKcggSgggl jL'''''tV!ggggggggggggggtHgggggggfl
g - iiggggggggggggggggggHwiggglggggggggggggggl
ggggggggggggggggggfW't: ' QgtggggggggggggggggggKfligsBKI?M
gflagflSgflagflagflagK.''.' - '' .iisHPssssssssssg3s9SgflaJtmjSgflagflagflrl' 'gflagflfgH
gggggggggggggggggggggggggggm f'V -'""''' "V, Iilggg9gflgggggggggggggggf
XggggggggggggggggggillBtf "' "i i ii ' ' 'v .'' sTggg)ggfliggggggggggf
gggP,,"SwsMgWpgjayJfc5- , ..rvT""". iiMSRgggiigsgggggggggsBW
yf ''w.J'isJL; ' 'BgggggggSgiT ' ' X)ESBBkw
Would Accomplish in
Fight te Ease Bur
dens Frem Masses
WOULD SOFTEN WAR
SPIRIT BY EDUCATION
Insists Hand That Rocks the
Cradle Can Alse Reck
the Forces Retarding
Humanity 's Progress
Mrs. Winifred Masen
Huck, Congressman
at-large from Illinois
grtMworean. tee, because my two
brothers and my sister and I knew she j
is a crackin' geed mother!" j
His mother took up the thread of
tlie conversation.
"I don't permit even elections te
upset the routine of my daily life," she
said. "I was giving the children their
hxeakfast, and watching the ten-t te
see that it didn't burn, when the in- !
turns, wbich showed that T had wen,
came in. I was pretty sure that I
would be elected, se I "a net greatly
excited about the matter."
She smiled ngnin, and It vm Ob
vious that if. when women campaign,
they give away smiles Instead of cigars,
she must have garnered many votes
se winning wnn hers
That mother's going te Congress will
break up the family orchestra h one
of the rcgret9 of the family. Mr. Huck
herself plays the violin, while Wallace
plnys the piano, Donald the drums,
occur. William Tyler Page, clerk of
the Heuse, stated, after Iter nppcal
had been made te the (Soverner.
Demanded Seat After
the Primary Election
Mr. Huck filed her candidacy In the
primary of April, 1022, and wen the
nomination. In August she forwarded
te 'ensre&sinnn-nt-lntRp Itlchard
Yatec. at Washington, n rcqueHt that
she be given n seet in J'eiisress pend
ing the outcome of the November elec
tion. Her argument was that the April
primary wai nn election within the
meaning of the Ftdernl ConMltutlen :
thnt Mie received mere ve-es tlmn all
her opponents combined ; ihnt Congress
is e judge, of its own membership;
that Illinois should have its full vote
In Congress en Important pending bill.
Mrs. Huck believes the politicians
"left her alone te see '. would
de."
"Metrl
er" Huck and her family. Mrs. Huck is the first mother te
be elected te Congress
fight for
will help
should be laid new," she says.
"World peace cannot be legislated.
It can be accomplished only by edu
cational means. I think it is the duty
of this generation te the next gener
ation; te make a world peace in the
future possible.
Doubts World Peace
Through Legislation
"l have studied this subject. I
have gene te libraries and read
many books en it. I have alie writ
ten many articles."
The universal divorce law, the pro
posed constitutional amendment te
permit the making of child labor
laws, the soldiers' bonus are 'some
of the main issues included in her
program.
Although she considers the victory
rightfully hers, she says:
"I am glad that I received a big
plurality. I will need it, se they
won't try te wrap me up in red tape
and lay me aside. I couldn't de
much fighting without n big plu
rality.
"I had the disadvantage of net
being a club woman in this cam
paign. That was a real dlsadvan
tage se far as getting votes was con
cerned, but- it is net a mental handi
cap for me. Yeu see, I spent years
at Washington and knew all aitua aitua
tiens thoroughly and almost every
body." Mrs. Huck is small and slender,
with frank blue eyes, delicate fea
tures and a charming smiie. ane ts
jt.U.Hir feminine in spite of htr
Huck does net exyrtu much political iojhiaticatien and prom
it by announcing that her husband
is "the boss."
"He always has been head of the
house, and always will be I guess,"
she declares. "He is happy ever my
election.
"My husband is a civil engineer,
you knew, but he is also something
of an author, though he is se modest
about it that he never speaks of it
Dees Net Yet Knew
Husband's Pen Name
"He has had many stories printed
under a pen name. Yeu may think
it unusual, but even I de net knew
his pen name, He is a grand-nephew
of Themas Carlyle's, and I am quite
proud of that."
There are four Huck children Wal
lace, seventeen; Donald, fifteen; Edith
Carlyle, twelve, and Rebert, nlnt. The
two younger children will go te Wash
ington with their mother, but the fam
ily residence en North Central Park
boulevard, Chicago, will net be broken
up because of the shortness of Mrs,
Huck'a term,
"Fer that very reason, because my
time is se hhert, I will bare te work
very hard te accomplish mjr program,"
she nld.
Wallace, the eldest son, Is nn en
thusiastic supporter of his mother.
"Sure I wanted mother te be a Con Cen Con
gresswemnn, because I' knew she will
be a geed one," he wild loyally,
"I hoped she would gat appointed
when fche went down te ask the Gov Gov
ereor te appoint her in my dead grand
father's place,
"But he couldn't, and new nhe's get
elected, Dad and I were mere ex
cited ever the election returns than
she was I couldn't go te bed until she
finally saade.ua. .
eagat te nave a goea eea
illy
'Ike
The Huck family orchestra is a close corporation organized along
union lines, but doesn't keep union hours. Only dnd in missing,
for hia talent runs te literature net music
Mrs. Huck and her husband, Rebert W. Huck, who haa a "home" once mere, new that the elec
tion is ever. Mr. Huck la a writer and he allows Mrs. Huck te attend te her own political
V campaigns v
I Edith Carlyle the banjo and Rebert
the guitar. Tnmlly concerts ere one
of the evening diversions of the Hucks.
Mrs. Huck u'-cd te refer te her musi
cal family nR "my political band."
! Mystical Seven Runs
Streng in Her Family
An interesting sidelight en the new
Congresuweninn is that nhe was one of
seven children and that her f.ither was
n fourteenth child, born the seventh day
'of the seventh month, and thnt the
campaigned seven mouths for election.
' "I am net superstitious." she
, laugh!i, "but the predominance of the
numeral seven In my family matters le
rnther Interesting."
Mrs. Huck wsh alrendy an experi
enced campaigner in lOlrt when her
father, "Rilly" Masen, the former
I'nlted Stntes Senater, was running for
Congressman -at -large.
Uy actual count In thnt campaign she
Itifscd 711) babies In ten dnys, in Iro
quois nnd Kankakee Counties, or an
average of mere than seventy babies n
day.
Sle also Interrupted the harvesting
en severn! dozen farms by hailing farm
hands te the fence corners and talking
politics te them. Frem the running
heard of her automobile she "stumped"
heth counties, reminding the mothers
f (h tmtiicM that her father would mge
1 national suffrage, and telling the men
folks that he would advocate geed (Jey
'eminent contributions for geed toads
and 'i 1 per cent pestugv Inn Wil-
' Ham 12. Masen was Tlecled Cengress-nuin-at-lnrge.
When his term was ended by his
death, his daughter sought te be ap
pointed nn his successor. Federal Ihuh
provide thut vacancies In the Heuso
shall be filled at sections, te be called
by the Btalte tn-feratek the vacancies
"My father wns in politics forty-five
jrnrs." Mn snld "Ills followers in
Washinsten asked me te run. 1 did
se without the support of any orenniza erenniza orenniza
tien. I s-ent out .1000 letters 'te commit
teemen mid received !ii)() indorse inderse
ment. I s,.nt letters te 10.000 tchoel
teachers. My vote represented the vote
of the individual net the votes of a
pelitlcul machine. I vns net indorsed
by the newspapers, nor backed by the
large women's organizations), which
worked se energetically for ether wom
en candidates for ellice. However, be
fore I am through these organization
will be with me, 1 nm sure."
Nailed Rumors That
She Would Net Hun
Shortly after she had filed her candi
dacy, there were reports current that
Mrs. Huck did net intend te run after
nil. In deliance of the theory that
women nm prone te elmnge their mind,
Mrs. Huck came out with flat and in
dignant statements te the rffect that
her bonnet was in the political ring te
stay.
"My oppeiifits have circulated re re
eorts1 tendlrif crente a doubt n te
whether or it -euld run," she said.
"I v.i"h te reiterate that I am a candi
date for the office, of CeiigresHinaii-at-large
fiem UlinelH, and have no inten
tion of withdrawing fiem the race."
Although Mrs. Huck is n Chlengean,
It was1 her ilewii-Stnte wile that put
her In the lend. Her closest competitor
was Stephen A. Day, of Kiaimten, who
had never been conceded a chance, in
stead of Jehn J Mrewn, of Vniidnllft.
who was looked upon ns her xtrnugest
opponent.
The prognostication weie thnt (he
race would lie between Ilrewu, with a
strong down-State vote, and Mrs, Huck
with u strong Cook County vet. The
complete reversal hi th rin..... .....
one of the remarkable feature f tSss
election.
ft
A
4
L
'i
si
VV'lJlJ
Jr
'. ?,!:
..!
iTHE MaVj
.V . .. . .tfL'TTVl