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Tracy Mygatt in 1932.

Of Sturdy Whig Stock Is Woman Socialist Miss Tracy Mygatt Expects to Sit in Assembly •When People Wake Up'-Two of Her Ancestors Lieutenant Governors By MARY "I'd really like to sit in part of it would bore me to gatt, candidate for assemblyman the Gowanus Canal. Being the Socialist candidate, Miss Mygatt knows that there is no danger of the Democratic-minded electorate of her adopted district (she lives in the 1st A. D. at 52 Garden Place) giving her the opportunity to be bored to death. Defeat at the polls will be no new experience, however, for Miss Mygatt. With the gallant devotion of a loyal Socialist, she has run twice in Manhattan for Assemblyman with the same result she expects this year. Her Goal If Elected But if she were elected - Sitting Garden Place apartment, which in its comfortable old-fashioned furnishings conveys no sense of the radical, Miss Mygatt enthusiastically discoursed on what she would work for if the fates and the voters sent her to Albany. She fully expects to be sent there some day "if the people ever wake up." Unemployment insurance, birth control, child welfare, education and clean, honest, intelligent government are some of the things for which Miss Mygatt would work. They are that part of the legislature's proceedings that wouldn't bore her to death. She knows, though, they would not only have bored but annoyed her great-greatgrandfather, D. S. Dickinson of Binghamton, dyed-in-the-w001 Whig, who served twice as United States Senator and who was offered the Presidential nomination " 1853. Ancestors Sturdy Whigs And they would not have been regarded with any favor or enthusiasm by another great-greatgrandfather, John Tracy, and & great-grandfather, Henry R. Mygatt, both Lieutenant, Governors of New York staid and sturdy Whig banner. Miss Mygatt is the first of her family to go politically radical. The family gave her a good start towards conservatism by sending her to Bryn Mawr, stronghold of tradition, and when she came out surprisingly eager for social work, suffragism and socialism they were "awfully decent and understanding," Miss Mygatt insists most conservative college the She took her degree, from, "the country" in 1909 and immediately started a day nursery in the Chelsea district. In 1911 she was down in Pennsylvania as a suffrage party organizer, soon realizing that reforms went even deeper than suffrage. She became a socialist in 1913, O'FLAHERTY the legislature at Albany, though death," admits Miss Tracy Myin the 8th A. D., down by EAGER TO HELP Miss Tracy Mygatt an active pacifist during the war and has had the time to write several books, poems and numerous plays. "The Glorious Company" is her most recent book. She is not the only woman of conservative heritage who is campaigning in the Socialist ranks in the borough. Another is Miss Jane Lathrop, daughter of the Rev. Dr. John H. Lathrop, running for Assemblyman in the 1st A. D. Of Religious Bent Miss Mygatt is religious. Her books, written in conjunction with Miss Frances Witherspoon, are religious topics and her mind, alert, sharp and analytical, sees an aspect | of religion reflected in Socialismthe Golden Rule, "Take people like my great-| grandfathers, for instance, who belonged to a privileged class, after all. They were God-fearing, but not God-loving men. If they had been God-loving they would have heard about on Sunday into written down some he of the love they laws of our country, and child labor, unemployment and other social evils might have been abolished by now." This country and its politics would be a great deal better off, Miss Mygatt believes, if the SO• called professional politicians were discarded and their places filled by artists, writers, housewives and other so-called political amateurs. Right now, she thinks, the country is in for a stiff time because "we won't put our house in order." he He of to a of dispelled a
Article from 03 Nov 1932Brooklyn Eagle(Brooklyn, NY)
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