Judge — November 4, 1916 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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e Facts and Fancies {NNA CADOGAN ETZ Offers No Job to Women 1 IS not true that men have ever tried to keep women out of industry. From barbarian days in which man was wont to kill big game and leave it on the ground for the woman to drag home and convert into food and clothing and shelter, man has encouraged industry in woman. The sociologist tells you that in the beginning the only sex division was that of work; that “to drudge” was female, and ‘to hunt and fight,” that was male. It is not because she is working that man scowls at woman in industry, it is at the kind of work she does. She is perfectly free, as far as he is concerned, to work away from sun to sun and then some—at any of the jobs he docs not want or hasn't the time for. This being so, we can understand just why women in England are rushing easily through indust doors that were erstwhile locked and barred to them. ‘The men are gone and the job lies about for anyone to do who can, and woman is proving, in a most disconcerting way, that “she can.”” But there is a place where the scampering of women’s fect is halted right on the threshold. The Established Church of England refuses to lie down and Iet the woman invasion roll over it. Whether or no the preachers have left the pr ing job lying about while they fight in distant lands for the flag, we do not know. All we know is that when, the other day, a Church Mission was planned which among other things was to teach “the equality of men and women in the sight of God,” the High Church Wing arose as one man and denounced it as a “pestilential heresy calculated to make the Church a laugh- ing stock throughout Christendom.” Quoting St. Paul as authority the bishops refused to let the women speak in the churches under any circumstances. The job of preaching was not marked for women “vacant and to let.” Let the women confine themselves to agriculture and munition making; the preachers, if they had gone soldiering, should not return to find théir pulpits languishing under the blight of femin- ism; their jobs should not be found pre- empted by women. “But,” you say, “how do you know that the preachers were protecting their craft and were not in fact moved by pure religious zeal to obey the behest of Paul? Becau: Paul, so eminent divines who are not averse to feminism assert, denounced equally the talking of women in the churches and the cating of chicken by the ministers. Yet through long cen- turies ministers have placidly munched away at the fowl even as they denounced all exercise of the vocal chords of the “sisters” within the sacred portals of the House of God. We'll believe it when the Press reports that the English clergy are equally devoted to vegetable diet and the woman who sits mute in the church pew. THE RISING TIDE Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER HE BARof Georgia have risen as one man to protest against the slur cast on the fair name of their State in saying that its women may not practice law. ‘Two months ago,” they declare, “the Legislature gave them this right and now many members of our bar are women.” That’s what they got for watchful waiting, and Georgia has no longer the proud distinc- tion of being the only State to bar women from the bar. t As the price of baker's bread ascends the cry goes forth that the housewives must make their own bread, but it is declared at once that they could not possibly compete with the bakeries in price. Perhaps not, but who stole the work in this instance? Whose domain “invaded” when men took the baking out of the home? 2 The women of Great Britain believe that their enfranchise- ment is very near at hand and that they will come into the kingdom with the soldiers and sailors, who are not now allowed to vote. It is remarkable that any body could struggle with politicians as long as those women and still have a particle of faith in them. If it proves to be well placed, American women will begin to polish up what little they have left. 2 nounces that since its organization it has paid out $2, Just think of women bothering their pretty little he that money when there are so many men who would have been willing, even glad, to handle it for them. 2 A Colorado Judge the other day climbed down from the bench, gave an insulting witness a sound thrashing and fined himself $25. It looks as if twenty- three years of woman suffrage had not entirely feminized the men in that State. s Last year in California one thousand men and fifty-four women were inmates of the jail in Sacramento. Voting for five years doesn’t seem to have developed criminal instincts among the women, but they have to pay taxes to keep the jails going for the benefit of the men. @. A hen-laying contest has been in progress in Storrs, Conn., for forty-seven weeks h an output of 152,804 eggs. The roosters are very much exhausted from having had to crow continuously, for almost a year! ‘The people of Abyssinia have deposed their Emperor and put his aunt on the throne. Lucky she didn’t live in the United States where the very thought of a woman ruler would be fatal. comicbooks.com