More than once the deep-laid plans of the most powerful politicians in Salt Lake City have been completely frustrated by a silent warning from the women.

The city council has not dared to pass grafting measures with a roomful of women looking on.
[Illustration: HELEN HOY GREELEY] Even the non-voting woman has discovered the power which attaches to her presence, in certain circumstances.

In San Francisco during the second Ruef trial, when the decent element of the city was fighting to down one of the worst bosses that ever cursed a community, the women, under the leadership of Mrs.Elizabeth Gerberding, performed this new kind of picket duty.

The courtroom where the trial was held was, by order of the boss's attorney, packed with hired toughs whose duty it was to make a mockery of the prosecution.

Every point against the Ruef side was received by these toughs with jeers and hootings.