Judge, 1917-12-29 · page 25 of 29
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This page satirizes women's suffrage through two distinct sections: **Left Column ("The Modern Woman"):** The author (Anna Cadogan Etz) uses **ironic logic** to expose suffrage opponents' hypocrisy. She notes that wealthy young women in New York can vote despite doing nothing of social value, while female laborers on the Pennsylvania Railway—demonstrating actual strength and capability—are deemed "unfit" to vote. The joke: voting ability supposedly requires a "man-size job," yet it's granted to idle socialites. Additional examples from Australia and Canada show women receiving war medals merely for *being related to* soldiers, further mocking the notion that women lack independent value. **Right Column (Advertisement):** A book titled "Men Who Are Making America" claims to answer "vital questions" through interviews with wealthy industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, etc.). This is satirical juxtaposition—while women are debated as unfit for citizenship, male captains of industry are treated as philosophical authorities on success and morality, exposing the gendered double standard in whose wisdom society trusts. The page's irony: women's competence is questioned despite evidence, while men's authority goes unquestioned.
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cember 29, 1917 THE MODERN WOMAN Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ Politics Makes Strange Distinctions N New York State any one of the [rnc of tossic girls seen on the streets with champagne-colored bootics topped with visible inches of champagne qoored stockings and surmounted by head swathed in a sea of fur and over shich twenty-one summers. have rolled— ach as she can vote at any election on equal terms with men. But women by the hundred working with pick, and shovel, and crowbar on the roadbed of the Pennsylvania Railway in the State of Pennsylvania can’t vote, Oh, no! Forsooth, women are not strong nough to vote. In Iennsylvania voting is -size job. Something That the Vote Hasn't Done HAT the vote will not put woman “on her own” to stand or fall is shown in Australia, where votes for women harks back to the end of the previous century. In Australia women may be seen wearing medals granted them for distinguished stvice. They themselves may be slackers of the worst type, but they have the medals because they happen to be related to brave men—a circumstance which surely is but an accident of fate. In Canada, it is also a government proposition to give votes to certain women, And is it because any virtue inheres in these women? Not at all. It is because they happen to be related to soldiers in service. Which again is but an accident of fate. Wouldn't men feel funny going about dangling medals which upon inspection would tell the passer-by that they had female teatives who had performed distinguished service! Suffrage Snapshots VIDA HUSTED HARPER Na state-wide “spelling bee” in New York, in which ten thousand schools took part, over seventy per cent, of the winners were girls. But this doesn’t prove that they are entitled to vote. Voters don’t have to spell out the names on the ballot, but just have intelligence enough to know which picture to put the cross under. *s HE doctors have now discovered that the craze for beautiful shoes is ruining the feet of the women. Is that the cause of the “tat feet” which are keeping so many men out of the army? 2 A” SRICAN men think the war taxes are hard on them, but just. consider the men of the Congo, who are taxed forty cents on every additional wife after the first. Luxuries must be made to bear the burden of taxation. ° THE MOST VITAL QUESTIONS you can ask—now answered for you by MEN WHO ARE MAKING AMERICA WHAT IS THE MOST VALUABLE? Do big men gambl. Elbert H. Gary Boldness in business William A. Gaston Value of tact and tenacity ‘Guggenheim of success August ‘Samuel Insull How to be solid with the boss . Suavity The Importance of “thinking Otte H Rake Cheerfulness ss. . Darwin P. Kingsley The square deal poii : foe Darwin P. Kingsley The money back policy . | Cyrus H. McCormick The future of profit McCormick Sharpne: in business 'H. Nichols The four principles of su wae M. Reyneide John D. Rockefell John D. Rockefe! John D. Rockefeller Julius Rosenwald ent of emplo: Julius Rosenwald ight course John G. Shedd oe E. C. Simmons E. C. Simmons Vanderlip Wanderlip + + Frank W. Woolworth John D. Archbold J. Ogden Armour Ogden Armour Stick-toit-ivences Value of education What is the most entiment a place in bu: the one most impor ‘organization? J. Ogden Armour A. C. Bedford A. C. Bedford + Andrew Carnegie +H. P. Davison . H. P. Davison 2H. P. Davison « H. P. Davison How to get a job The best way to betcer one’s job What is the very best job in the world? What salary should a man ask? What to doina panic . Robert Doll The use of bluff in busin: Does it pay to be a The value of advert What is genius? The use of concent How to build the memory James A. Farrell Is study necessary? James A. Farrell A recipe for money making | Henry Ford How to save the first $1,000. James B. Forgan What shapes men’s lives? James B. Forgan The value of work... Henry C. Fric Written by B. C. FORBES Mr. Forbes can get closer to big men than any other writer in America, and knows how to make these men tell us the real reasons back of their success, and how we can profit by their experience. Examine This Great Book FREE SEND NO MONEY “Men Who Are Making America” is handsomely bound in blue cloth covers, with gold decorations. The book is six inches so7 Suite 424, 120 8 by nine inches and contains 500 pages—450 pages of text are eas send and 50 full-page illustrations. The price is $3.00. Thecouponentitles you toexamineMen Who Are 7 edyeillsend you $3.00; otherwise 1 will Making Ameri with greater convenience than if you came to our office personally. Fill it in or FZ Name write on your business letterhead and mail A? Sir0ct Address promptly. Send nomoney.Wetaketherisk. Ate James A. Farrell