Judge — December 20, 1913 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL With bagies and with banner rage coborts go, And I, a watcher on the curb, look out for weal or woe, ‘And note what word the gaping world in passing may bestow. Poor Dad! GRANDMA'S a Prohibitionist, A Socialist is Nan, Mother's Progressive throughand through, Sue's a Republican. So the antis’ talk makes father mad. ’Twould be rather hard on poor old dad To express these views with one ballot small, Since he’s Democrat and hates them all. Women Stockholders EARLY one-half of the stockholders of the United States Steel Corpora- tionare women. There are more women own- ers on the Pennsylva- nia than men. There are more women stock- holders of the Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph Company than men. The same is true of the New Ha- ven system. There are as many women as men shareholders in the American Sugar Refining Company. The corporations do not disfranchise wom- en. When will the great political corpo- rations of the various States learn to be as just to their feminine citizens, who are stockholders in the State quite as much as men? Extract from “‘ The Antiquary” A weekly journal edited and published by teal la and op- posed to female enfranchisement Editorial—We see that a congressman from California has lightly referred to the momentous question of who shall take care of the baby while mother goes to vote by affirming that he’s seen father doing it. We presume he thinks he’s settled the problem forever; but what a vision of horrors his statement induces! Aman, either on the street or in the home, holding a baby? How demoralizing for both if instituted as a national custom! Association, contact with the weak and the ignorant are known to cause a human being to deteriorate. What, then, will become of our men, with their scintillat- ing intellects, their masterful wills, their forceful personalities, if they are rele- gated to the company of the bald-pated, THE MODERN WOMAN the toothless, the speechless and the un- learned? Will we not lose much of the superior intelligence that flashes from the masculine eye? Alas, we fear so! Nor is that all. Dignity will be bruised—that noble dignity that makes the male stride ahead in conscious strength, while his diminutive wife trails in the rear, acting as baggage bearer to a lusty infant. Let us beware how we reduce manly virility to a pulp and humble the proud head of the average man in the dust. And to conclude—what about the baby? It would be all right if father knew how to hold it; but what, my sisters, would happen—and we ask it in a ghastly and sobbing whis- per—what would be the result if he held it upside down? RULED BY THE OTHER MAN'S WIFE Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER AST YEAR in New York 24,226 men were brought before the Night Court and 6,495 womet Of these, 4,440 were “street walke Aside from this one crime—for which the men largely re- sponsible are not arrested—the number of women was 2,055, a little over one- twelfth the numberof men. Women form about one-twentieth of the convicted crim- inals in the prisons from year to year. These figures are suggested to those who say the enfranchisement of women would double the criminal vote. In Missouri there are 141 unmarried men to 100 unmarried women. It seems as if every woman there ought to be able to get a husband, but perhaps some of them are particular. Sir Almoth Wright says that women ask for the suffrage because they ‘‘have not been taught the defects and limita- tions of the feminine mind.’’ This is not because Sir A. W. and men of his stripe haven't wasted a good deal of more or less valuable time pointing them out; but in another chapter he says, ‘‘Failure to recognize that man is the master lies at the root of the suffrage movement,"’ and to this the women plead guilty when they can stop laughing. The National Women's Trade Unions’ League and its various State auxiliaries and all kinds of working women’s organi- zations are continually passing resolutions for woman suffrage. On the other hand, Dr. Katharine Bement Davis, superin- tendent of the Bedford Reformatory for Women, says that her charges, almost to a woman, are opposed to it. If a person is to be judged by the company she keeps, one hardly feels like getting acquainted with the members of the Anti-Suffrage As- sociation. The Parliament of Iceland has conferred the full suffrage on women, and it has also passed a rigid prohi- bition law. Fortu- nately, the ‘‘antis’’ cannot say the women did it; but doubtless they will do their full share toward having it enforced, which is quite as important as getting the law. The United States Senate has asked for an appropriation to erect a splendid me- morial in Washington in recognition of the service rendered by women during the Civil War. By all means; and then don’t deny the franchise to women because they cannot serve their country in time of war. } A booth was built in New York City in a district where only three men voted, yet members of the Legislature object to giving suffrage to women because it would require more voting booths. Who helps to pay for those the men use? o Of the 2,827 babies in care of the New York Diet Kitchen only 16 died during the very hot summer. This is a preven- tion of race suicide that has more to rec- ommend it than some other kinds. Mrs. Pankhurst and $20,000 left this country together. Some help. comicbooks.com