Judge — May 16, 1914 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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ow cH Sa HE PRESIDENT of the Woman's Club at Boise, Idaho, where they have had equal suffrage for nearly twenty years, says that ‘‘nothing puts the fear of God into the hearts of men like the ballot in the hands of women." Yes, a certain class of men feel much more comfortable to know that women are using the beautiful, indirect influence of prayers and tears. “The cause of equal suffrage is so one with civilization and humanity that I wonder any civilized man can be against ' is the latest utterance of William Dean Howells on the question. He was careful not to say ‘‘civilized woman,"’ be- cause he did not want to hurt the feel- ings of the Anti-Suffrage Association. Secretary Daniels is quoted as saying that ‘‘bachelors are encumberers of the earth’’ and offering the use of the United States navy to scatter their ranks. As the most of them are land animals, the services of the War Department would be more effective. Meanwhile it is safe to say that few bachelors pass the age of fifty without the inner consciousness that they ought to be blown up or sent to the bottom of the sea. Thanks to Mrs. Forbes - Robertson Hale for declaring a boycott on the word “feminism’’ before it gains such head- way that it cannot be boycotted. Send it back to France, which sets the exam- _ ple to the world of exploiting sex. This is one of the Paris fashions that self- respecting American women should de- cline to allow entry as a handicap on the suffrage movement. The Anti-Suffrage Association claims the credit for defeating the appointment of a Woman Suffrage Committee in the lower House of Congress. The only ques- tion voted on in the Democratic caucus was that ‘‘woman suffrage is a State and not a Federal question,"’ but this will not disturb the complacency of the antis. They will simply claim that they orig- inated the doctrine of State's rights. Nearly all the present administration of Greater New York openly advocate woman suffrage. This means a good deal when the women are powerless to Suffragette Snapshots offer any reward except appreciation and “gratitude, which mean very little to the average politician. But New York’s present government is not composed of average politicians. For the fourth year in succession a woman has won the prize of $1,250 of- fered by an English publishing house for the best first nov. It is bad enough that there are a m in more women than men over there, without having them add to the offense by such performances as this. They'll never get the vote. “There is no reform legislation in any suffrage State which is not duplicated in those where women cannot vote,"’ say the ELECTION NOTES antis. If that is so, they will have to find some other excuse for beating the suffragists to the polls as soon as they get a chance. Sir Almoth Wright says the advocates of equal pay for women do not know the commercial value of having the employe work shoulder to shoulder with the em- ployer. Yes? No? What about the good-looking stenographer? A young ‘‘efficiency expert’’ in Chi- cago tells his audiences that, because a woman's heart is in matrimony, she is and always will be a failure in business. Give her a chance, son! Business is a matter of the head. Dy Ina Husted Hatper There have been but four “‘champion”’ typewriters, and three of these were women. ¢ As soon as the machine was invented, women were at the keyboard, and yet you hear men operators com- plaining that women have ‘‘usurped’’ their positions! President John Adams is said to have declared that ‘‘politics are the devil's own,” but that was when ‘‘they’’ be- longed entirely to the masculine half of the population. The egg crop is said to be worth as much to the country financially as the cotton crop, and far more than the wheat crop, and women to be responsible for nine-tenths of the poultry crop. It might also be said that the hens are re- sponsible for all of it, but they don’t belong to the sex that does the crow- ing. Professor Hugo Minsterberg, of Har- vard University, after years of careful research, has decided that women form their opinions and judgments just as rapidly and accurately as men. Thanks for that small concession, kind sir! It i$ SO unexpected ! Women are constantly admonished not to think that all that is necessary to bring about a reform is to pass a law. They are quite aware that it is also necessary to enforce the law, and they want to get behind the alleged ‘‘en- forcers’’ with a ballot. One of those gifted male lecturers who know everything says, ‘‘We have new models of automobiles every year; we should work out new models of the anti- quated family machine.’"’ Go ahead; women have no objection, as long as they are permitted to sit at the steering wheel. c A woman office-holder who is getting a $4,500 salary says: “No, Iam not a suffragist. Why should I want to vote? Men have always been mighty good to me.¥ Pros- perity sometimes does affect people that way—makes them so nearsighted they can’t see what is happening to their neighbors. comicbooks.com