Judge — September 5, 1914 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL ‘With bugles and with banners, the sufrage cohons €0, And 1, a watcher on the curb, look out for weal of wor. And pote what word the gaping world in passing may bestow, The Horrors of War WHILE we all know what unpleasant things war does to men, few realize how it affects women other than to de- prive them of the duty of getting meals for the absentees and to streak their com- plexions with tears. But now France gives us an object lesson, showing that war can do the most awful thing possible to woman—can make her jump out of her sphere, not individually, but en masse. For, behold, the French Premier, in an appeal to the women of his country, says, “I ask you to maintain the life of our fields, to complete the work of gathering the crops unfinished by the men who have been called to arms, to finish this year’s harvest and to pre- pare for that of next year. You cannot render a greater service to your country.’’ This sweep- ing from the feminine heart ab- sorbed allegiance to the kitchen stove may well be labeled as one of the devastations of war; for now that sphere jumping is al- lowed to masquerade under the name of patriotism, will it not seize some equally elevated title when peace again smiles upon the world? The Long Range DaAvip STARR JORDAN has said that men have ‘‘the long range of vision,’’ that they are more interested in great national and international issues than in things near at hand, while women have ‘‘the short range,’’ and in consequence are intent upon what goes on in their own backyards, streets and city. Remember- ing this, women are whispering together and saying that if they had had the power, the millions raised by the nations for war would have been expended for the anni- hilation of s!: xs, for helping the unem- ployed and for the making of better citi- zens. Although they sadly lack the sense of honor that makes a ruler cheerfully sacrifice other peorle’s fathers and broth- ers upon the battiefield, there will be many persons who, aghast at the damage done by the long-range visioners on a rampage, will begin to wonder whether it wouldn’t be better to supplement their power in public life by the restraining influence of the short-range sex. THE MODERN WOMAN Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HAKPER VERY good, Mr. Secretary Bryan, al- though it would have looked better if you had declared for woman suffrage before the big initiative petition had shown which way the wind is blowing in Nebraska. _ However, you can make up for it by sounding a few of your clarion notes before election day in favor of the amendment in that State. You can’t convince the anti-suffragists that the thermometer is soaring among the nineties; these are the coldest days they have ever experienced. o Leaders of the woman-suffrage move- ment have tried very hard to keep it non- partisan, and it is a pity the Mlinois Su- GOVERNMENT or BRAINS preme Court divided on political lines-- all the Republicans in favor, all the Democrats opposed; but the suffragists can stand it if the Democrats can. fi When that International Congress of Women Voters meets in San Francisco next summer, there will be a fine chance to observe how the suffrage has unsexed women and destroyed the feminine in- stincts in at least nine countries. He In Denmark the men police are going on a strike, because the new women po- lice are to have a higher salary than men get when they begin. There is nothing strange about this news, except that Den- mark should pay women such salaries. The antis in the General Federation of Women’s Clubs prevented the adoption of Ge mocsas a woman-suffrage resolution for years, on the plea that it would drive out the Southern societies; but at last the women of the South declined to appear any longer in the role of a scarecrow. o “On one side, ’’ says a Pennsylvania off. cial in the Anti-Suffrage Association, “are the mother and the home; on the other the woman seeking the place man occupies as the framer of constitutions and the administrator of civil govern. ment.’’ Seems as if we know of several men who don’t frame constitutions or ad- minister any kind of government, anda good many women who can’t stay on the side of the home because they have to go out and earn the money to have a home. Men and women can’t be divided like goats and sheep, and if they could, there is no valid reason why the voting booths should all be on one side of the line. Anti-suffragists are protesting against having that vote for suf- frage at the biennial called unani- mous. All right; say that twenty-one hundred votes were east, and seventy of them were negative—thirty in favor to one opposed—and that is just about the way the vote would stand throughout the country. ~ “Suffrage is not a question of right or justice, but of policy and expediency,’’ says Mrs. Grace Duffield Goodwin, a leading anti. This is as high ground as one TWO WORLD IDEALS_WHICH HALF SHOULD BEVOTELESS? on that side is capable of taking; but now that politicians are see- ing that it is both politic and expedient, what have the antis left in the way of argument? Miss Ida Tarbell says, ‘‘I don’t take much interest in magazines for women only, as I am incapable of differentiating women from the human race.’’ It isonly when it comes to having the right of in- dividual representation that Miss Tarbell would differentiate women from the rest of the human race. - Speaker Champ Clark can advocate woman suffrage without any fear of do- mestic complications, and since he be- lieves it should be obtained through the States, it is now up to him to go out to Missouri and show the voters there why they should vote for the amendment in November. comicbooks.com