You just spent twelve thous<>11d doiiC>ts so she could join the typing pool. You've got this daughter and sh:r:. smart. Why nof? sr.e·s yours She's heard yoo talk about your work all her life_ She had the same education as her brother God krows she's bnghter thor those toys who oome around Pity. When she goes jOb hunting s1"1e'll hear two questiOns over ard over What's your tyQing o,pee ' Con y_ou toke dictatiOn? -A;xj tro5e tivs'~ Thev·u start at higher soicries. go into execut1ve training. get raises and promotions faster. have rnore jOb freedom. and better expecta hens. They con make r-.early twice the money for ex octty the some JOb as your daughter It's not fair. But more important. it's tust not sensible When there·s never eroough latent to go around. why block half of 11 right at the beg1nning? Support the Notional Ofganization for Women 'IT DOESt-;'T HURT TO TRY" State whether or not I hod qualified, short time left before the election(a little continued from page 2 Mrs. Landis, with the League of Women out in his own way, and started becoming more than a week) prevented them from Voters, called me to see if I would fi\ I taking the case. I called Mrs. Landis 'JC::ka~~r: 1~ =~;:ii~o~~:sr~~~i~~ a1~e~~~t~nd out o questionnaire which hod been given to the other candidates and I agreed. os a lost resort, and she very kindly agreed get him to understand what I wonted to do. to write to Wade Martin and ask him She was very kind and went out of her way whether or not I hod qualified. He did This consideration was very important in to help me and encourage me. She also respond to her letter and informed her our relationship. said for me to call W'#l.... radio to arrange that I was not qualified os a candidate The children adjusted very well. They o 10 minute slot for me os a candidate and that he and the attorney general were went with me on the few speaking engage- which the league was sponsering in con- in the process of drafting o letter to that ments I was allowed to make and got o junction with VNYL. I was not allowed to effect, to be sent to me. It was now kick out of seeing me on stoge.My son speak, because they could not verify my November 28, 1972. Johnston has now told me after the election, "President candidacy. She hod received my nome been sworn in as senator. I still hove not Nixon won but you must've lost cause I from the Clerk of Court, when she hod received that letter. didn't hear your nome on TV." I don't called to see if there were any write-in Running for office is by no means a think the children ever quite understood candidates, so I concluded that I hod simple molter, m I found out all too well the importance of what I was doing, but qualified and merely hod not been notified. There were rumors going around that I hod they benefited from seeing me toke part Then I began a series of calls trying to been put up by one of the better K 1own - public life. I also took a lighter load get o definite answer from Wade 0. Martin, candidates, so that people would be dis- school to be able to core for my family Secretory of State, or William Guste, as couraged from signing my nomination and continue the campaign. to my status so that I would know how to papers. A lot of blocks were holding out Because I started late ond was working proceed. After many unsuccessful attempts, to see if Dorothy Moe Taylor, Stale on my awn and hod been totally ignored I sent telegrams to each of them and Representative, would run. Her decision by all of the newspapers when senatorial Wade Martin rep I ied that the responsibi Ii- to stay out of the race later helped gain candidates were mentioned until ofter the ty was no longer his, since he hod for- signatures for me, but it wostoo late, rally in City Pork in October, I was un- warded the papers to the attorney general's And I certainly didn't get any considera- able to get the necessary signatures. Still office. In spite of the telegram, and tion from the other candidates; one ~I determined to hove o forum to speak out on repeated attempts to contact William them stated outright in my presence that the issues, I filed as o write-in candidate. Guste, he ignored me completely, although ''women aren't equal to the cholleng1 of I was given conflicting opinions by two public office" I hod left messages about the nature of different assistant attorneys in the state the call. attorney general's office about which I contacted Furnell Chatman tore- McKeithen Went ,A.round Singmg "'jerks of court I hod to file the statement quest equal lime on his 12:00 show os the .Jecloring my willingness to be voted for other candidates hod been given and was The worst thing was that the media with. So I filed two weeks before the given on appointment to see him only to refused to toke me seriously. INhen I deadline and along with the affidavit and find, after arriving, that since I hod not called a news conference, few reporters stotment that I sent to the Secretory of been definitely declared a candidate, l come, and the coverage they gave me Stot~'s office, I included a request that could not be granted this time. quoted statements out of context and he obtain on official opinion from the Mr. Chapman assured me that he would didn't give me a fair chance for rebuttal state attorney general about the courts try to contact Mr. Guste foro definite Channel 4, for example, showed me in which I hod to file and also about the appraisal of my status as a candidate. saying 1 was a mother and that I cooked $500 fee that a write-in is supposed to He was very sure that he would be able for my family myself, because I couldn't poy. (The U.S. Supreme Court hod to contact him. Needless to soy (or is it afford o maid, but they didn't give one already ruled thot nomination fees hod unbelievable?) he could NOT get in second of time to air my views on the to be reasonable ond that one obviously touch with Guste important political issues that the cam- was not, because there was on amend- They really hod me over o barrel As paign was about ment on the ballot in the lost election to long as I was not notified that I was not McKeithen went around singing redvce the amount to that paid by candi- qualified, I could not appeal the de- "Help Me Make it Through the Night", dates for office in primary elections so cision because no decision hod been Johnston sot on c log in the woods talk- tL,ot it would be in accord with the rendered. I asked the ACLI.J if it wOJid ing about mok ing this a real sportsmen's ,.Jpreme Court ruling. be possible for them to file ~mething to paradise, while Toledono held on to The deadline for qualifying passed and force the issue of o decision, but 1 was Nixon's coattails like linus with his 1 wo~ never notified by the Secretory of told that thci1 heavy case load and the to page 4 ~Patronize Professional Women~