Judge — May 26, 1917 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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THE MODERN. WOMAN Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ A Financial Handicap in Arkansas Arkansas is like other states the credit system is in domestic vogue and a cash store rides a hard road to a certain fall. Pay as you go: financial principle more honored in the breach n the observance. With mounting prices the problem is not when to ay but how to pay at all. “Into a financial system like this enters the adult women of the state holding tickets that entitle them to vote at the primaries after duly registering and making a cash deposit of a poll tax. But when? Are they to pay after being given the worth of their money, that is, after they have voted? — Are they to pay when they vote or just before? one of these things. They must pay this year in order to vote next year. Perhaps they haven't the money. Perhaps they have it and have several other immediate s for it. Perhaps, being of the financially servative sex, they are asking why they should pay for the privi- lege of doing something next year when perhaps they may be dead or per- haps they may have moved out of the s or perhaps they may not want to vote for any of the candidates that happen to be up. — Perhaps Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones may be of such equal merit that it may not be worth the price of the poll tax to choose between them. And so it may easily happen that next November the antisuf- fragists of Arkansas will hold a clambake in celebration of the fact that the women of the state have proved that women don’t want to vote when in fact they will have proved merely that they couldn’t pay the price. Towa Makes a Slight Concession 'N IOWA the crops that men raise have been duly counted and recorded and used to advertise the state to the world as a successful common- wealth. But while in Iowa, as elsewhere, women have been exhorted to fertilit the most bumper crop of babics has gone unnoted and uncounted. he women pleaded that if they were willing to endure the risk and hardship incident to a crop so essential to the state’s existence, the state might at least register the product. All in vain. The women wanted also to be counted themselves at the polls. In fact America’s peerless suffrage leader served her apprenticeship to the cause trying to convince Iowa men that women ought to be counted. Also all in vain. But as constant dripping will wear away a stone, so the opposition in Iowa to the idea of giving to women or their chief article of production | any room in the state ledger is showing signs of disintegration. In fact Iowa has compromised with women. _ It has virtually said to them: You cannot be counted at the polls. | We told you so firmly last June, and if you don’t believe it we will have another election and tell you again. But we will make one concession. We won't count you, but we will count your babi And forthwith on the statute book was written for the first time a law making the record of births as well as deaths compulsory. Paul Revere’s Best Tribute THE spirit of Paul Revere brooded over the land on the week of Apri 19. It showed itself in divers ways. In many towns half the people marched in commemoration of his thrilling call to democracy, while the | other half looked a bit sheepish because it did not also march. The spirit of Paul Revere must have been touched by the music of marching. In these days of rough pavements and dear shoe leather to march for democracy is no cheap tribute. 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