Judge — January 31, 1914 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER RKANSAS has now been added to the list of ‘‘dry’’ States by action of its Legislature, and Wisconsin requires a health certificate from would-be bride- grooms. No woman suffrage in either State. Really, the men are getting so good nowadays there will be Curbside Comment By OREOLA W. HASKELL A Prominent Convert MBS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN, the first woman member of the Indus- trial Relations Commission and said to be the first woman ever appointed by the President as a member of a Federal com- mission, is a recent convert to the prin- The Mother Habit in Politics By LOU ROGERS «6 ARE YOUR hands clean, son?”” “‘Did you dig out the corners?” “Have you scrubbed behind your ears?” That’s the mother habit, the habit of personal cleanliness, that has put more moral fiber into the manhood of the na- tion than any other single mother con- tribution. nobody for women to reform when they obtain the ballot. c Harvard University has taken off the ban and allowed a speech on woman suffrage within its sacred walls. If the ban had remained on a little longer, it would not have been necessary to take it off. Grand opera was sung to four- teen lions at the zoo in Berlin, and they didn’t do any violence to the singers. Audiences in many countries have been just as forbearing. The High Court of Great Britain has decided that a wom- an cannot practice law, because she is not a ‘person’; but she can be a Queen, because a Queen does not have to be a person— at least, that is all anybody can make out of the decision. The men of Toronto, by a large majority, have just voted to extend to married women Why? Because, in terms of moral force, a right physical habit becomes right thinking. “‘Are your hands clean, son?” Dinger-ly-ding, before break- fast, before dinner, before sup- per, before bed and several times besides- you know how it is! until the phrase is seared across a boy’s brain pan in letters that glow. The grown man may pour what Ellis Island pleases to call “moral turpitude’’ into every crease in his soul; still that phrase, ‘‘Are your hands clean, son?’’ will burn up through the mess and be a conscience. Because this is so, organized evils of the nation are solidly aggressive against women in politics. They are afraid of the mother habit. The make-up of every wom- an, sons or no sons, is fifty per cent. mother. The mother habit is a woman habit, too funda- mental to be ever grubbed out. Organized evil knows this truth too well. It doesn’t want the municipal franchise, which widows and spinsters have long possessed—a step toward en- couraging matrimony which certain school boards in the United States might follow with profit. They say that a stenographer is the only woman to whom a man can dictate these days, Is that the reason so many men marry their stenographers? Ex-Speaker Cannon says that as women can now vote in Illinois, it is a good time for handsome men to run for office. Alas! this doesn’t hold out any hope for the re- turn of Uncle Joe! . TRANSFERRING THE MOTHER HABIT TO POLITICS Woman voter—Are your hands clean, son? ciples of equal suffrage, on the ground that ‘‘any one interested in the industrial classes cannot help seeing how necessary the vote is for them,’’ and because in her opinion ‘‘the question of women and chil- dren in industry cannot be divorced from the suffrage question.”’ There isa strange absence of ‘‘me’’ and ‘‘mine’’ in Mrs. Harriman’s views, for, of course, the truly womanly woman concentrates on herself and her family, and what doesn’t affect them directly is of no concern to her dear, unselfish soul. the mothers of the nation to learn how to see political dirt on their sons’ hands. They know, with the kind of empha- sis the case called for, that mothers would say, as they are saying in ten States now, ‘‘Are your hands clean, son?"’ Of Another Generation Mrs. Story, president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, gives her pledge that the question of woman suffrage shall not enter into that organization. No, indeed! It was only their ancestors who fought for the right of representation; the descendants don’t want it. comicbooks.com