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This June 1917 *Judge* article satirizes arguments *against* women's suffrage by listing absurd counterexamples. The author (Anna Cadogan Etz) presents "facts" showing women's competence: a woman dental graduate outperforming male classmates; Arkansas and Nova Scotia granting women voting AND legal practice rights simultaneously; and a soldier defending female delegates despite clergy opposition. The piece mocks the "logic" requiring women voters to be morally flawless while men face no such scrutiny—yet denying them votes because men "do the fighting." It highlights the contradiction: married men are exempt from the new draft, yet women are called to patriotic sacrifice without representation. The final section ridicules a government official shaming housewives about food waste while assuming women cannot understand large numbers—infantilizing them as incapable of financial reasoning, then patronizingly reassuring them the waste is "only" one cent per meal. The satire's point: suffrage opponents' arguments collapse under examination.

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une 2, 1917 THE MODERN. WOMAN Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ Be It Noted it noted: The dental fraternity to which all would-be dentists B aspire to membership, and the name of which I would give if I could spell it, anc to which no mere female has ever been admitted: Be it noted, this revered association is listed now as but one more bailiwick erstwhile masculine into which women have thrust themselves by the sheer force of irresistible merit The leading lady emerged from the portals of the dental school of Ohio niversity. She not only bore the torch for women into new territory but trailed ahead in her professional attainments of every member of her class. Lost OST: In the big fact that women in Arkansas were given the right to pte at primary elections by the legislature, the fact that they were ako given by the same legislature the right to practise law and equal prop- ety rights with men. Lost: In the overwhelming fact that the Nova Scotia Legislature voted asone man to give full suffrage to women, that it also voted to let woman do what she was not allowed to do before: practise law Due to a Sobless Sob ye because carly press reports indicated that Jeannette Rankin sobbed asob, that later reports admitted she never sobbed, as she voted against var, clergymen at a recent Episcopal convention voted to exclude women delegates. To his credit be it noted that one soldier enrolled under the banner of the Prince of Peace exclaimed, * Better one woman whose heart failed her than twenty men whose brains failed them,” but it availed the would-be women delegates nothing he woman office-holder must be like sar’s wife, above reproach in the eye of the twenty million and more men voters. She must satisfy not only the moral scruples but the most finicky taste of every blooming one ofthem. Of all masculine habits, the most deep-seated is the one of asking alot of women. It is to Rise for Information OYATHY can’t I vote?” asked the wife from everywhere “Because,” answered people from all around, “it is the husband who does the fighting for the family and he it is who should do the voting.” Under the first draft of the new conscription law it is reported that married men are to be exempt. ‘The women of the nation are being called upon to be as heroic and seli-sacrificing as any exempt class can be. Women must not whimper. They must do their bit “Why can’t Lery if fam little. If Lam big why can’t I whittle?” asks the inquiring boy in a jingle all children love. “Just so,” echoes the wife from everywhere. All Hail to the American Housewife MERICAN housewives shivered and curled up spiritually like a cur- rant worm that is blighted when a certain high government official looked them sternly in the eye, newspaperly speaking, and told them that they were wasting food at the rate of $700,000,000 worth a year. It was a bit mean in him. For anyone knows who knows anything about women and finance that any figure with more than three ciphers attached to it puts them in a panic and their minds refuse to act, either to add or subtract, to multiply or divide. It is not humanly possible to keep an entire sex away from the money till for thousands of years and then in a few short decades to expect them to take off their hats and feel at home in the world of finance cheered women up mightily by announcing that, even if the sum total of food waste did reach a staggering sum, yet after all it only amounted to less than one cent per meal per capita. In spite of a cold, late, and dark spring, sunshine permeated the hearts Pr eeeeencrennnen jevennreennin There's an all-out-doors freshness to the flavor of Coca-Cola. It treats one's palate and one’s person to the refresh- ment that brings thoughts of open spaces, fresh breezes and big, cool distances. Demand the genuine by full e— nicknames encourage substitution. THE COCA-COLA CO., ATLANTA, GA. MELLOW AS = MOONLIGHT WHILE, skill plays its part in the 2 distilling, and care plays its part in grain selection and in purification, time plays a lone part in the aging of Cascade: Hence its wholesome mellowness. Original Bottling has Old Gold Label GEO. A, DICKEL & COMPANY, Distillers NASHVILLE, TENN. LOUISVILLE, KY. so comicbooks.com