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

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When the Pot Called the Kettle Black OU talk about patriotism and using women as conductors in one breath, so ran the gist of resolutions adopted by the street carmen’s union in an cast- er city in which it was pro- posed to substitute women for men as a part of pre- paredness, but your real motive is to spike the car- men's union. so lustily ran the text, “would protect women against themselves. There are enough men in the country to keep the machinery of civilization going.” Obviously then, in the eyes of the dis- gruntled carmen, the home is not a part of the machinery of civilization. For, when the meeting was adjourned, they all went back to homes made possible by weary hours of low paid or unpaid work of women against which organized labor is not wont to officially protest. So when we get down to brass tacks, wasn’t the patriotism of the employers as simon pure as the chivalry of the car- men? Would the carmen have been so keen to protect women against them- ion of women? Wasn't by the compe! the pot just calling the kettle black? The Last Straw EN have meekly eaten tons of in- digestible food served out to them by women, but the worm turns when asked to eat his own words. x Rom c is SUFFRAGE FACTS AND FANCIES by.Anna Cadogan Etz Right there lies the gall and wormwood of the picket certain radical suffragists maintained for months at the White House gates. These dauntless sec after the vote held aloft banners i scribed with the glowing phrases of President. Wilses ascut democracy, and his chariot could not glide past rapidly enough for him to avoid the thrust. It is a heartless acid test to ask any man to square up his conduct and his speeches, but to ask it of a chief executive in war time: that is the last stra a long suffering patience, the weary way- worn police demolished the banners and led the ladies to the cooler. It’s All a Point of View NCLE SAM asked both Utah and Vermont for something over 700 volunteers. At the end of May the press reported Utah with 900 and Vermont with but 52. “There,” said the sufiragists, “behold how woman suffrage makes men brave and patriotic!” “Huh,” acidly retorted the anti- suffragists, “behold how in equal suffrage states men prefer the trenches in France to the discord that votes for women has introduced into the home.” A Reason Which Is no Reason “TJ WILL NOT vote for a Woman Suf- frage Committee for the House of Representatives,” said a certain congress- man, “because I do not approve of the suffragists who are picketing the White House.” The antics of numberless Indians must have merited the dgep disapproval of congressmen, yet who ever heard of a motion being made to abolish the Com- mittee on Indian Affairs because each and every Indian did not behave to suit each and every congressman? More and not Less “(30 HOME and get married and you won’t want to vote,” said a Georgia congressman to a suffrage lob- byist. “Go home and remember that in this state a wife’s earnings belong to her hus- band,” said a Georgia judge to a woman who tried to get out of paying fifty dollars for a mesh bag that her husband had bought for his affinity and charged to her. From which one would infer that in Georgia the possession of a husband would be more likely to open the eyes of a woman to the need of the vote than to make her forget it. Oh, So Gingerly INGERLY, very gingerly, do men admit women to political equality —even when they do. “Wait” is the magic slogan for men when women come asking something backed by logic, yet involving consequences hard for’ men to face. “Would you vote?” said the noble statesmen of the fifties to Susan B. Anthony. “Just you wait till we free the negro, and we will see about it.” But when she waited and came round later they said, “Just you wait until we reconstruct the South.” And women in the East have been waiting ever since. In Europe, astute statesmen know that the hour has struck. and millions of women have been given the right to vote. Yet it is extended with a gingerly gesture. “Here it is. Take it,” said the statesmen of various countries, “but wait until you are thirty or even forty before you use it.” And yet any biology emphasizes the early maturing female and the late ma- turing male, and any observer knows that a girl of 21 is less immature than a boy who at thdt age, is legally a full-fledged adult.