Judge — February 28, 1914 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER WHEN the women of a certain church in Brooklyn ask for a voice in its affairs, they are told that St. Paul com- manded women to keep silent in the churches; but when they take up the cal- endar Sunday morning, they find a request from the deacons to take off their hats. They are now insisting that Paul and the deacons come to an understanding. fe) The president of the Pennsylvania Anti- Suffrage Society asks its members to “write to all the United States Senators, except those from the suf- frage States, and tell them that the great, silent majority of women do not want the vote.’ She was very kind to omit those gentlemen—they might laugh themselves to death. The new electoral reform bill of Galicia, Poland, is to include wom- an suffrage. Men there haven’t many political rights, but are will- ing to share what they have with women. It reminds one of the United States—it’s so different. ia) The older suffragists administered asound scolding to the goslings in their ranks who hissed at an anti- suffrage meeting in New York, when a member of the Massachusetts Legislature said, ‘‘A man never behaves toward women as women behave toward each other; you’re meaner, nastier, more contempti- ble in your conduct than men can ever be.’ The pioneers wouldn’t have thought a little thing like that worth noticing, and, besides, the meeting be- longed to the ‘‘an! and they applauded the sentiment. Suffragists should stick to their own meetings, where they never hear women abused. o When women wanted to be customs in- spectors, the authorities said they could never, never climb the ladder on the side of aship. Strange to say, the two women who demonstrated that it could easily be done were both daughters of Presidents. It is odd how many obstacles can be placed in the way when a woman wants a job with a salary attached! Two Political Mummies By LOU ROGERS HE MEN of '76 told the world to its face that indirect government for men was a political mummy. With an intense conviction and a loud noise, they buried the pitiable thing! No generation of American men since has been caught digging it up to drape flags on. It is the pet crack of Evolution’s joke- book that one group of humans freed of a false standard seldom sees the need of freeing a dependent group from the same false standard. DEFINITION OF THE MODERN BABY A cherab completely surrounded by thistles, And so to-day it is the painful duty of the women descendants of these dauntless world heroes, both of flesh and of spirit, to tell their men folks to their faces that indirect government for women is as dend as a doornail. With supreme conviction and complete self-sacrifice, they are shov- ing inch by inch this battered political relic into the same deep grave that holds the men’s mummy of '76. They say women have no sense of hu- mor. Does it never occur to you that the thinking, comprehending womanhood of this men’s republic carries about in its inner soul a gigantic chuckle, a huge and soundless enjoyment of the most fantastic joke in all political history? Think of it! A mighty Uncle Sam standing on the august pinnacle of indi- vidual liberty, vaunting himself above all the nations of the earth as the inspired figurehead of a government by all the people, while one-half that same people sink millions of money and priceless hu- man capacities to make him understand and really believe in the very principles he boasts of embodying! “ Is it not comical? Humor is the par- ent of the revolutionist’s patience. We suffragists understand our men folk well. As women have done always, so we are doing now—chuckling at them lov- ingly, indulgently, in secret, while we work with boundless ingenuity to educate their logical faculty. Be- cause American women know how to laugh better than any other wom- en in the world, our campaigns for suffrage are always characterized by womanly dignity. From the beginning we knew Un- cle Sam would presently see himself as his sincere women folk see him, get off his bombastic perch, and soberly, seriously, help us shovel civilized dirt on a national mummy that has long shrieked aloud for burial. Curbside Comment By OREOLA W. HASKELL ‘Unromantic Workers NSTEAD of spending much time simpering at the politicians and raving over the beauty of male can- didates for office, all of which is ex- pected of newly enfranchised women, our unpoetic Chicago sisters have fallen from the heights of romance to an intense con- sideration of garbage cans, sunless and filthy jails, and women jurors for insanity cases. Now they are attacking the sys- tem of police promotion, brandishing the facts that out of 84,000 arrests made in their city last year, 42,000 were mistakes, and yet that the police were promoted ac- cording to the number of arrests made, and so became a menace to citizens, es- pecially to young women out alone at night. We fear that this practicality of women will have a bad effect on the race, for in future common sense may rage unbridled through the community. comicbooks.com