WOMEN: Fifth in Sight

By virtue of two male voices upraised last week, it was virtually assured that another woman will enter Congress soon. At present there are four U. S. Congresswomen—Mrs. Florence Prag Kahn of California, Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, Mrs. John W. Langley of Kentucky, Mrs. Mary P. Norton of New Jersey. The new & likely candidate is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter and widow of politicians, who wittily copied President Coolidge and "chose" to run for Republican Congresswoman-at-large from Illinois. The male voices which last week boomed Mrs. McCormick's nomination...

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