Judge — November 20, 1920 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Revnes P. Sterewer, President Grorcr: I. Suetcuen, Secretary Pererron Maxwett, Editor James S. Metcatre, Dr HE evolution of woman proceeds not in the leisurely fashion which took thousands of years to make a man out of a monkey but at a rag-time gait and speed which puts Mother Nature in the class of also- rans. As things are going it may not be long before in the human race the difference in sex will become only a physical one and that very slightly marked It seems only yesterday that woman was made ma ical equal in the United States and already we have her fully equipped with man's directness and emphasis of speech. It is marvelous how quickly it has taken the place of the reticence. indirection and softness which through the centuries have been the mark of femininity. You can do your damnedest,” exclaims the new lady in "s polit HE utterance may not be genteel or strictly parliamentary but it is certainly expressive. Could mere man, with all his generations of uncurbed free speech, more tersely and unmis takably have framed a defiance? In the Declaration of Inde- pendence the best of masculine minds consumed hundreds of words to express what one lately emancipated woman effectively sums up in one brief sentence. And to emphasize the advance of the advanced woman we have by contrast the rejoinder of the lady chairman of the poli- tical meeting where this now historic utterance was delivered. “Mrs. Crosby, be a lady.” This is equally typical of the sex as it was, but seems a harking back to the dark ages when lovely woman was nothing more than the toy and plaything of the oppressor, ‘nan It is not for Jupce to draw a preference from the contrast It would be wasted effort. We have the new sex with us as an established and inevitable fact—as constitutionally established and inevitable as Prohibition itself The great truth the incident points out is that the new man in petticoats is going to add an element of amusement to the rather dull and depressing trade of politics. ROM the obscurity into which it was thrust by its more strenuous rival, The Anti-Saloon League, now emerges our good old friend the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It has found a new and congenial task into which it proposes to inject a large amount of prying, spying and snooping energy. This is the suppression of the new and active industry known as home-brewing Mere. practical man, even of the Prohibitionist stripe, might have been willing to wink at a practice both harm- less and soothing. Not so the fussy, inquisitive and irritating ladies of the W. C. T. U JUDGE \. E. Rottaver, Treasurer Grant E. Hamivtos, Art Editor Editor J. A. Watonos, Associate E. ERE is another phase of the change in American life which is not so slowly coming about by the extension of govern- nt power to intrude into the priveie affairs of the citizen. Burrato, Oct. 25.—Protests against the wholesale searching of automobiles by prohibition enforcement officers near here have caused the District Attorney to investigate the legality of stopping and searching cars without warrants.—Press dispa‘ch Until recently the American has had a pretty easy time of it so far as his government was concerned. Mindful of the old principle that that country is best governed which is governed the least, he had been chary of allowing the adoption of laws which should extend the powers of officials. The enormously increased activities of theorists and reform- ers in the last few years have not been met by much opposition from a citizenry nowadays too busy or too negligent to put up any organized resistance to invasions of personal rights. As those activities and their purposes were usually susceptible of being turned to advantage by the professional politician, they have been helped rather than opposed by that gentry. HE income tax, one of the earlier excuses for the intrusion of official stupidity into individual enterprise, was op- posed by Americans of the old stripe. but they could not avail against the theorists who in it promised us an absolutely equit- able and simply working system of tax collection. In practice its injustices, its complications and the expensive army of office- holders required for its enforcement have made the people almost ready for a return to the iniquities of the protective iff as the less evil The host of inquisitive laws passed as war measures and still on the statute books are not so general in their application, but they still exist as instruments of possible official oppression They point to a large and sweeping job of repealing by the new Congress. The Prohibition tyranny referred to in the Buffalo dispatch is too firmly entrenched now to allow of any hope that its per- secutions will not go on for some time to come. The pussy- footing of Congressional candidates when effort was made before election to find out their individual opinions of a modifi- ion of the Volstead law shows that the old bugaboo of the Prohibition vote is still terror-inspiring. A Congressman with a real spine could make quite a reputation as a patriot by a fear- less course in this matter. It will be interesting to observe the activities of the Buffalo District Attorney and other authorities in curbing the violations of personal rights by the strange creatures chosen to enforce Prohibition. “