Judge — November 17, 1917 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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Subscribe to the % Red Cross # Do you wish to be an optimist? Next week's JUDGE will help a bit Watch for it! A wonderfully-effective and timely cover by JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG ENTITLED “No Visibility” ORSON LOWELL RODNEY THOMSON HY MAYER C. BERTRAM HARTMAN J. CONACHER POWER OMALLEY W. KAHLES EMIL FLOHRI HARVEY PEAKE L. FELLOWS F. L. FITHIAN and others Where will Jou find another list like this? The Text is humorous, satirical, hoppy, by WALT MASON CHESTERTON TODD ALBERT _E. HOYT STRICKLAND GILLILAN DOUGLAS MALLOCH BENJAMIN De CASSERES TOM P. MORGAN EUGENE C. DOLSON EE J. A. WALDRON ard others who make His Honor “The Happy Medium” H. W. DI JUDG THE MODERN WOMAN Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ A Reason that is Not a Reason [' AGINE, if you ca bor union going to the legislature asking for things and being met by the patronizing refusal: “No, you can’t have that law you want, for it would be bad for you and bad for the country if it were passed.” The facts might be as they might be, but the result would “bad for” the legislators, and they know it—and that is why you n imagine it. The other a peerless statesman, choicest gem in fact in the diadem of off anti-suffragedom, rose on a public platform and said that he was now, as he had been since the last century, opposed to woman suffrage, and he would tell the audience why. ‘*I am opposed to votes for women,” he said, “for I belicve that it would be bad for women and bad for the country.” Like the raven he said just that and nothing more, “Well, can you beat that?” said one reporter to another as they left the hall, at is just what ma used to say to me when I asked why I couldn't drown myself in the candy box. She did not bother to explain the action of sugar on my young digestion. She hadn’t the time, and she knew my young brain couldn’t grapple with reasons why. Evidently friend- statesman thinks that women are still kids in intellect, and that definite facts would be wasted on them. To be obliged to swallow unprotestingly a mere generality in place of a definite fact is the fate of children, and tramps, and voteless women: in short of the disinherited of the Earth. And that a wise could offer a n place of an argument against woman suffrage only shows how desperately women need the backing of the vote. Democracy Perches Low WHILE the lawyers’ union, as exemplified by a certain eastern univer sity, refuses to hob-nob with women lawyers; while medical schools gingerly extend facilities to women after explaining that war and not justice opened the door of opportunity, the men who clean cars are reported as having reached out the hand of fellowship to their women competitors. If war forces women into our occupation, they say, let us give them al] the protection that we can get for ourselve Which shows, doesn’t it? that the spirit of democracy perches low and sits by choice and well at ease along humble by-ways? What matters it, then, that the Manly Report lists but two per cent. of the people in this country as rich and over 60 per cent. as poor? So much the better for liberty, quality, and fraternity if a bit hard on the extent of really good golf links. And Yet Another Reason Why MONG the tragic assortment that war has always handed out to women has run a little gleam of easement, as one might say. At home woman wrestled with the pots and kettles alone, and it has not been written in the code of chivalry that man need acquire any information about serving food or patching clothes, or cleaning up the débris of living. But when man went to war he left not only woman behind, but her services as well. War thrust upon him detailed information about cooking, and mending, and cleaning-up and this information often stuck by him to the end of his life. Men there are who have been heard to say: “I learned to sew on buttons in the Civil War, and I have sewed on my buttons ever since.” But the present war is of unmitigated gloom for woman, a cloud with no ver lining. Listen to this editorial comment on English war conditions: ything that women can do at home they can do behind the firing lint. s taken the world a thousand years to discover this, but England having made the discovery, t her worsen in a matter of fact way to the war and said no more about it.” But more, much more, should be said about it. If women are to follow their menfolk right up to the firing line, doling out the usual house- wifely service; if war returns menfolk to women not only minus their former earnihg capacity, but plus no added capacity to help about the house, then the vote looms up as the only possible compensation the state can give to women in return for all their sacrifices. And since this is 50, wouldn’t it be jolly if men generally recognized this? comicbooks.com