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November 15, 1927
An open meeting of the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club
was held in the Unitarian Parish House November
fifteenth, the President presiding.
Attention of the members of the Club was called by
Mrs. Rees to the pictures and postcards of the Loring
Greenough House which are for sale.
Mrs. George Derby appealed to the members to
join the Red Cross. We should renew our membership
as we must not fall below the five million dollar
memberships.
Mrs. Russell S. Hyde, Chairman of the Social
Service and Legislative Department, introduced Mrs.
Alice Pattison Merritt, the speaker, whose subject
was "Pioneering in Politics."
Mrs. Merritt, as the first woman senator of
Connecticut, has found that men are not superior
in politics but that they have had more experience,
that women are not interested in politics and that
they must change their practices, that they should
be interested in their neighbors and they must
think of the generations to come. The problem is
to choose men and women of character who are
to be our executives. The speaker gave us as
the keynote of good womanhood that we cannot
have a good home unless we attend to the