Judge — June 23, 1917 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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MODER SUFFRAGE FACTS AND FANCIES by Anna Cadogan Etz Why But One Woman Coroner? HE only woman coroner is reported as a find in progressive California. But while making good herself asa combination undertaker and coroner, she refuses to advise youthful females in search of vocations to follow in her gloomy footsteps. But why gloomy? The most cheerful person in the community is apt to be the undertaker. Physicians and surgeons have been known to crack jokes while life hung in the balance. If women are bent ‘on proving themselves equal to emergen- cies hitherto grappled with by men, they must prepare to go blithely about the business of coroner; to attack even a sob industry with laughter and kind faces. Men have succeeded eminently in arranging their lives in water-tight com- partments, why not women? If women fail in this, the enemy will proceed to insinuate that man is a more specialized human creature than woman and there- fore the proper custodian for political power. Do Women Want to Vote? O the women want to vote and will they register? All around the state of Indiana that question buzzed and circled like a swallow on the win, “Ask us,” answered the registration clerks of Evansville, Fort Wayne, and South Bend. For in each city when the hour struck for the registration to begin it was a woman who was found waiting at the door. Not Yet “OF course the delegates will vote in woman suffrage. They can’t resist the world sweep of the movement toward democracy,” said the suffragists as they gaily hied to a diocesan conven- tion. And they hovered about holding their gloved hands ready to cheer when the vote came off. But their gloves remained as good as new as far as being split by clapping was concerned and they went home with banners drooping. For the delegates opined that this votes for woman movement needed some- one to put a brake on it, which they forthwith did by laying it on the table to cool off for at least a year. Once Again, the Double Standard VER in Japan the Tokio press is be- wailing the fact that the men who can vote don’t “step lively” up to the polls and do it. And what is the sug- gested cure for this apathy? Why, to let more men have the right to vote. Here in America when women fail to respond to their voting privileges the press also wails. And what is the sug- gested cure for this apathy? Why, not to let any women vote for anybody any- where because women have shown that they don’t want to vote. So here we are again, aren’t we? Face to face with our old friend, the enemy, the double standard in life for men and women. Colorado to the Good 'OLORADO is cited as a_ horrible example of what a commonwealth can come to in the line of lawlessness under the baleful influence of votes for women. But it was Colorado of which the Kansas City Star said the other day that the convicts earned for the state $150,000 more than they cost the state. It also added that this money was but a by- product of a system which takes con- C4 A DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT victed criminals and makes them into such good men that 80 per cent of the prisoners reformed by the honor system are in demand by employers. Ho! Ho! In the East men go to church to be made into good men and get high rating in the labor market. But in Colorado they are made good wherever they happen to be—even in the penitentiary. What a Government Bulletin Says About the Housewife F a long life is a successful life then let woman choose not the typewriter, or the selling of garments, rather than the mending basket, or any occupation listed with clerks and office workers. For, if she does, the undertaker will get her on an average twenty-seven years sooner than he will if she knows that a woman’s place is in the home and forthwith stays there. The message comes ia a govern- ment bulletin on “Causes of Death by Occupation.” But hold! Is the longest life the most successful life? Why live on merely to be miserable? The bulletin also tells that it is the housewife who, to a greater extent than members of any other class, male or female, dies because her heart fails her. The bulletin will doubtless be used by the anti-feminist to reinforce his claim’ that a woman who competes with man in industry outside the home is flying in the face of both reason and statistics; that she should work in the home where male competition is notably absent. It may be true that it is well for so- ciety that women should stay in the home. But doesn’t the bulletin indicate that something should be done to make their lot a happy one as well as a long- drawn-out one? And since, after a lapse of ages, men have never been able or willing to spend the time to think the thing out, isn’t the real lesson of the bulletin the idea that it would be a sen- sible thing to give the housewives self- government and let them work out for themselves some plan whereby their days may be happy as well as long in the land. comicbooks.com