Judge — July 18, 1914 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL ‘With burtes and with banners, the suffrage coborts £0, ‘And 1, a watcber on the curb, look out for weal or woe, ‘And note what word the gaping world in passing may bestow. Insurgents THE WOMEN of Garfield, New Jersey, have recently called upon the borough council and renounced the passive, waiting role assigned to them by society since the flood. They declare that they want civic improvements, and since the men seeth to be asleep on the job, they are going to get busy themselves. They want the tracks in the Erie short cut re- moved, the use of soft coal discontinued, and better street-lighting condi- tions. The fact that their chil- dren may be run over, that they themselves may be robbed in dark corners, and that the family washes are frequently smudged with smoke is, of course, none of their business; but who in these degenerate days will have nerve enough to convince them that it isn’t? Remembrance O4 WHEN you con the world’s great pages o’er, Rich with its dreams, its his- ‘ tories, its lore, Where sages reign and heroes + wield their power— Oh, daughter mine, transcendent hour, Do not forget that long-dead women wrought That you might‘know the treas- ure-house of thought. . Oh, when about the busy marts in that you go, Toiling at tasks that keep your heart aglow, With mind serene and confident and free, Winged with ambition’s blessed buoyancy, In memory praise the women souls anew, Who blazed the trail with fear and pain for you. ‘Oh, when you hold the ballot in your hand, And rise at last empowered by your land ‘To strong defend the rights all freedmen prize, Let gratitude bedim your shining eyes, ‘That women lived who braved both scorn and hate, ‘To ope to you the great gates of the State. On Exhibition ‘C)BLIVIOUS of the fact that the two euphonious words, kids and kitchens, should cover all woman's activities, two la- 3-Se imecenes dies of Ghent, in Pelgium, having organ- ized a society to ameloriate the condition of women and to open up for them the ad- vantageous disposal of the products of their handiwork, managed to arrange a fine exhibition of women’s work. Merchants were inveigled into displaying all kinds of articles of interest to femininity, andeven the government was not above contribut- ing a telephone exhibit. Since philoso- phers tell us that lack of incentive explains woman’s backwardness in flooding the markets with her original ideas expressed in material objects, her upward strivings are apt to be given quite a boost by such marks of appreciation as this exhibition. UNFIT FOR SELF _- GOVERNMENT — SS Trill III i" WHY THE MAN NEEDS THE WOMAN'S VOTE that the Sons of the Nation May Have a Decent Classi- fication for their Mothers. Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER F THE forty-seven votes against a decent appropriation for the Na- tional Children’s Bureau in the lower House of Congress, thirty-eight were from Southern members, The reason was that they did not have to face a hornets’ nest of women suffragists when they went home. Southern women should make a note of this for future action. When American women marched to the Capitol of the nation with their petitions for the suffrage, they were carefully es- corted by hundreds of policemen, greeted at the door by scores of Senators and Rep. resentatives, and given the freedom of the spacious portico and steps for their pub- lic meeting. When the women of Great Britain approached the House of Parlia- ment with their petitions, long before any of the present-day ‘‘militancy’’ had taken place, and only in small groups of ten, they were clubbed by policemen, dragged by the hair, and thrown into prison vans, while members of the House of Commons looked on and smiled. There was no dif- ference at all in the women of the two countries; it was only the difference be- tween American and English men, and therein lies the whole explana. tion of the militant movement. o The latest government report from New Zealand, where women have voted twenty-one years, shows that, while the population has doubled in thirty years, the number of men in prison has in- creased only from 631 to 853, and the number of women prisoners has decreased from 94 to 64. It seems from these figures that woman suffrage in New Zealand did not double the criminal vote and did not produce a reign of anarchy and crime. Perhaps it is only in the United States, and in those of the States where it never has been tried, that it will have this effect. Still, the antis should bolster up their charge with a statistic or two. [a] The women of Alaska, at the first election since they were en- franchised, elected an entire non- partisan ticket. It is no wonder that all the old party machines put on speed and try to run over a woman- suffrage amendment. ia] School inspectors in Russia have issued an order that no married woman teacher can have more than two children. They have heard about the New York board of education and gone them two better. All the chief art galleries and museums of London are closed to the public, be- cause of a handful of militant suffragettes. Since tourists have due notice, they can go in another direction; but John Bull would find it money in his pocket to give votes to women. comicbooks.com