 It's time for the Lawn Jean Chronoscope, a television journal of the important issues of the hour brought to you every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. A presentation of the Lawn Jean Wittner Watch Company, maker of Lawn Jean, the world's most honored watch, and Wittner, distinguished companion to the world-honored Lawn Jean. Good evening. This is Frank Knight. May I introduce our co-editors for this edition of the Lawn Jean Chronoscope? Edward P. Morgan and Don Hollenbeck, both of the CBS television news staff. Our distinguished guest for this evening is the Honorable Francis P. Bolton, congressman from Ohio. Mrs. Bolton, Mr. Knight has just introduced you as congressman Bolton instead of congresswoman Bolton. Is that by any chance a concession to the male side of the house? No, you see, as a matter of fact, I'm a woman congressman. That's what I really am, you see. Well, what do the gentlemen feel about being a woman congressman? Oh, well, you see, when the speaker recognizes me, he says that he recognizes the gentlewoman from Ohio. And I always feel as though someone had just crowned me. Are you always gentle? Well, now, you've been in Congress for 13 years, Mrs. Bolton. Have any of your male colleagues hinted diplomatically, of course, that perhaps they thought that women's place was even so in the home? Well, you know, when you get to be a grandmother, maybe you have a right to enlarge the, well, extend the walls of your home into something a little larger. I think they feel that we, we have every right in the Congress. They're glad to have us. Well, you certainly have extended your walls. I mean, you've gone beyond the Congress to the United Nations and just thanks to the President. Maybe you would have some comment, perhaps, on women's wider place in the world. Can women, can women run things better than men, Mrs. Bolton, do you think, speaking of government as a whole? Well, I think we need a lot of training, but I think we could do pretty well in some places where you haven't done so well, don't you? Now, nothing personal, please. We're supposed to be asking the questions. Oh, you, sir, gentlemen. You're quite wonderful. Speaking of the United Nations, Mrs. Bolton, and President Eisenhower has appointed you a member of the American delegation. What is your impressions of the operation of the United Nations in these first few days of the 8th December? Well, it's been very interesting. Of course, it's very different from Congress. When we once vote, we can't explain our vote after it's done. We have to do all our explaining to begin with. They have a lot of odd things like that from the, from the parliamentary standpoint. But it's, it's a very wonderful place to be. One has so much of the world to realize so, so vividly all the time that one's just one little piece of the world. Do you think most of us Americans realize that? Oh, no, but we've got to, Mr. Hollenbeck. Yes, that's what I was wondering. We must realize that. If we, if we do understand that. What strikes you, Mrs. Bolton, as you work in it and as you observe it, as the most realistic part about the United Nations? Most realistic what you mean? Well, I mean by that. What are the instruments of it? What are the pieces of machinery in it, if I may say so? That would be most likely to continue to work for what we all hope for, which I suppose is peace. I suppose it is. I think, well, I'm on the trusteeship committee, committee number four. And we have to do with so many of the little countries that haven't gotten any place yet, the people who haven't done the education, who live out in the backwoods. And it's a very, it's a very moving place to be. The efforts that are made by the metropolitan areas, as they call the, the administrating countries, their efforts to give opportunity to these countries. Do you think everybody's doing what they should? Would we and the others do all we should? Well, of course they aren't doing all they should. But it's very impressive how much the countries are trying to do. I'm very much impressed with it. But one wonders, Mrs. Bolton, really, with all of the frustration that all of us are peaked up with after the war, if you can really cut through the ponderousness of red tape and even diplomacy and get things actually done, how do you feel about that after a long time in Congress and in the United Nations? Of course, it's a very frustrating thing because I think all Americans are very impatient. We want immediate results. We forget that it took us quite a while to become a nation. Even Rhode Island didn't sign up, you know, until after we were all done. And we're impatient with everything. It's going to be a very long while. Why do you think Americans are impatient, Mrs. Bolton? Well, they want everything to happen overnight. Look at the, look at NATO, look at the, the European thing. The, the, uh, that's a very exciting thing that happened in 1949 when they went to Strasbourg. And they tried 12 nations who were fighting for centuries, couldn't speak the same language, and yet they met at Strasbourg to try to form some kind of union, to try to understand each other. You think that's going to work? Eventually, yes, it has to. It must, and the men I speak to, that I talk with about it, the foreigners, they're, they're very eager to have it happen. They, they know it's going to be a little slower than they wish it might be. The composition of the American delegation to this session of the United Nations is, uh, varied, to say the least. What is your feeling of the atmosphere among those men and women that you're working with? Governor Burns and the others on the delegation. Well, it's a very mixed delegation, as you say. Um, uh, Mr. Carey is very constructive. He's very, uh... Mr. Carey is with the CIO. Uh, he's, uh, well, he, he's from Chicago. He's a pastor of a church. He's a lawyer. Oh, yes, I've, I've made a mistake in identity. He's very keen, very alert. And, uh, young Henry Ford is amazing. He's a hard worker. Yes, what about Mr. Ford's speech today? That was his maiden effort. I understand it was really, really something. And that he delivered it very well. And everybody felt his, his sincerity and his earnestness. That's the thing I think that one feels most of all in this, in this new delegation. In this, in these contacts that you make with people in the United Nations, Mrs. Bolton, how do you feel, uh, about communicating with other people from other lands in the trusteeship thing, for instance, itself? Do you feel that basically we're talking the same language or is there a great barrier of misunderstanding? And I think there's, there's a barrier of misunderstanding. But I think we're all so eager to reach the goal of understanding that there's great effort being made. I've, I've taken a great deal of pains to meet the members of the trusteeship council or the, of the, of the committee. And, uh, I find them very approachable and very human and very eager to know me. Where do you find the most eagerness, uh, Mrs. Bolton? Well, uh, I don't know. Of course I've known the Near East very well and the African group, because that's my subcommittee on the Foreign Affairs Committee. And, uh, they're very anxious to talk. They're very anxious to sit down with us, just as Prince Wan of, uh, of Thailand. I'd sat next to him at dinner tonight at the Netherlands dinner. And, uh, they're all very eager to understand us and to have us get their point of view. They feel we don't have it. Mrs. Bolton, you mentioned the House Foreign Affairs Committee of which you're a veteran member. Do you feel that the other members of the committee share your basic enthusiasm, uh, for the United Nations? Well, we have a few arguments about it, because we, we, you know, we're kind of economy-minded. But, uh, I don't know whether you noticed that Mr. Richards made quite a point of that in his speech in the, in the United Nations a day or two ago. And everybody seemed to agree that a lot of money could be saved in many ways. But I think our, our Foreign Affairs Committee is quite convinced that there must be a United, a United Nations. If we don't have that, what have we? And there's no place for us to meet. That's the second question she's asked us, Don, which we can't answer. Oh, I'm sorry. I don't want to take the, uh, I don't want to take- We women are apt to get outside the rules, you know? I don't want to take the discussion off the general, shall we say, human level. But your son, Oliver, and you, I believe, are the only mother and son team in Congress. Do you ever have any divergent views on world politics? I don't think so. None of them are world politics. Does he have a committee membership? He's voted right along. He has a, he's on the, the Post Office Committee. Oh, yes. Well, where do you feel that women can be most valuable in government? Either inter, and I'm speaking either internationally or in a, an individual domestic government. Where can they best make themselves felt? Well, I've always thought that we women have a very special work to do with other women, with everything that has to do with children, which of course is health, education, housing, everything of that kind. And then general understanding. I think we have a, a, a, well, we get a lot of hunches, you know, about how things should be. And I think we have a, a desire that is a little different from yours. Why shouldn't it be? I do believe so strongly that when we, the two of us, work together, that's when we're going to build a world. Tell me just a, a, a matter of curiosity. How many women do have executive and administrative and, and council jobs in the United Nations? Do you, could you? Well, there are 20, there are 20, uh, alternates and delegates. Or delegates and alternates, I should say. Then there are good many on the staffs. In other words, they do play a very intelligent places and very responsible jobs. Oh, yes. Mrs. Bolden, as a final question, we had Madam Pandit, the president, president of the assembly on Chronoscope the other night, and asked her what her constituents thought about her being at the United Nations. And she said to our astonishment that they wish she would come home and tend to them. What is the reaction of your constituents in Cleveland? And what do you tell them? Well, it's been very interesting to me that they have been very enthusiastic about my appointment to the United Nations. I've had some perfectly marvelous expressions of pleasure that I was to be here, uh, a sort of a steadying force, apparently, in their minds. Very, very eager to, to do everything that, uh, I should do to further their interest. They're not feeling that, that, uh, I'm away from them. They feel I'm very close to them and that everything that matters in the United States has to do with foreign policy. Therefore, if I'm in here, it's a good place for me to be. Thank you, Mrs. Bolden, very much. The opinions that you've heard our speakers express tonight have been entirely their own. The editorial board for this edition of the launch in Chronoscope was Edward P. Morgan and Don Hollenbeck, both of the CBS television news staff. Our distinguished guest was the Honorable Francis P. Bolden, Congressman from Ohio. It's World Series time, the best days of the year for baseball fans. And this year again, the World Series is launching time. Yes, all umpires of both American and National Leagues use launching watches exclusively for timing all games, including the World Series. 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