Judge — June 13, 1914 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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AT THE spring?™4 sion in Greater Nev’ + each vote cost the city, . 3. At the first election’ ”'™s An- geles after woman suffrage ited, women themselves took chai the registering and voting of about 85,000 women, at a cost of 15 cents apiece. Of course it would be an awful thing for women in New York to take away the men’s jobs at election time, but a saving of $3.30 a vote would pile up a lot of money to be used for some other kind of graft. o The first Anti-Suffrage Association in the United States or any other country was organized in Massachusetts in 1884. It has labored diligently ever since, with the excellent result that both houses of the Legislature have voted by immense majorities to submit the question to the voters. If the antis keep on with their good work, the next Legislature will give the necessary indorsement, and then, if they will do their level best, it may pull through at the polls. is) A new Chicago policewoman has quali- fied as one of the best shots on the force, 92 out of 100. Does she vote because she is such a good shot or can she shoot so well because she is a voter? What is the connection between shooting and vot- ing, anyway? a Why are there so many more widows than widowers? Because a man finds marriage such a nice institution that he gets right back into it, while a woman— well, she doesn’t. But why is the death rate higher among husbands than wives, and among widowers than widows? Seems as if it must be because man is a poor, weak critter, without much stamina, a There was an increase of fifteen per cent. in marriages in Chicago the first six months after the Legislature granted woman suffrage. That may not have been the cause, but if the figures had gone the other way, there would have had to be a special session to repeal it. fa} Richard le Gallienne has gone Omar Khayyam’s ‘‘a loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou, singing in the wilderness underneath a bough,’’ one better. He will be perfectly satisfied “if only she and I can go, walking forever through the snow.’’ Maybe he would, but we think the lady would want something warmer even than Richard’s poetry. ie} Congress is considering a bill to give the suffrage to the men of Porto Rico. Can it be that there are any males under the jurisdiction of the United States without a vote? Shelve all other meas- ures before Congress until this terrible wrong has been righted! The Denver police records show that married men are far more law-abiding IP YOU WANT A THING DONE WELL, DO IT YOURSELP than unmarried, and the New York City superintendent of schools says the mar- ried women teachers are much more amen- able to discipline than the spinsters. There seems to be no doubt that marriage is the best known means of saving grace for the unregenerate. is) A society has been organized in New York to arouse in fathers more interest in their children. Perhaps they have already sufficient interest, but in many cases it has to be spread out over such a large surface. is] According to the Denver chief of po- lice, juvenile crime, in proportion to the school population in that city, has greatly declined in the last ten years. The Los An- Woman By Ina Husted Harper geles chief of police announces that crime has considerably lessened in the entire State { in the last two years, since women were enfranchised. Perhaps wom- an suffrage has nothing to do with these statistics; but if they told an opposite story, it would have to bear the whole responsibility. a The State of Washington has the low- est death rate of any in the country; New Hampshire the highest. Moral- Go West, where women vote. Why should the advocates of woman suffrage be criticised for trying to defeat members of Congress who are opposed to it, when all of the parties do their best to prev.nt the election of their oppo- nents? If the suffragists did not try to keep their enemies oyt of Congress, they wouldn't have political sense enough to vote. . a The women of Nebraska having tramped several thousand miles to secure 45,000 names to their petition for the suffrage, those of Ohio have now started on a longer journey for the 136,000 their init- iative law requires. By the way, what have the men of those States ever done to earn their right to vote? ia) The doctors are now admonishing the women that if they keep on with the pres- ent style of tight-fitting hats and head- bands, nothing can save them from bald- ness. Women have been listening to this kind of prophecy for several generations, and yet have kept their hairon; but when they look about, they observe that nearly all the men are baldheaded. Oo The State of Washington has a “‘lazy husbands’ law,”’ by which a man who will not support his family, instead of being sent to jail to live in idleness, is put to work on the roads and his wages paid to the family. It seems as if those States where women vote are doing all they can to prevent the men of other States from giving the suffrage to their women. a The New York Tribune says, ‘‘Another ten years, and the clinging vine will be only a moist and tender memory.” What a fortunate thing for the oak! comicbooks.com