The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-02-27
LAUGHING AT THE OBSERVER.
Mrs. Virginia D. Young Pokes Fun at
the Newberry Editor. Over the
Shoulders of an Alleged
young Reporter.
Fairfax Enterprlse.

NeWDoTIy OUSe1 V cA -O1io VI W.
Wallace's young reporters slipped in
while our friend was out in the coun-
trv attending somebody's golden we'd
ding and got in mighty funny edito-
rial on the great woman leader, "Su-
san B. Anthony" It was all the fun
nier because he took up the sacred
space devoted to the serious and III
structive fulminitions Of the great ed
itor himself in the Observer.
The young reporter was not we'll
up on his general reading, so he flip
pantlv declared that all that had been
accomplished in the fifty years since
Miss Anthony was young chad been
the extension Of suffrage to women
in two States and in few other States
thew can vote for a school trustee.
The fact is women have the, same
political rights possessed by men in
the four great States Of Colorado,
Wyoming, Idaho and Utah, and some
form Of suffrage in twenty-five States
Of the Union. So he was " fussAA"
with his fgures-2 where he should
have written ana few for o..
And the young mans assumption
that the "women don't want the bal
lot because they haven't got it," is
as puerile as to suppose that they take
second place, OF better say a tenth
rate place, in any function because
they want to.
No, Mr.. Reporter, women are not
anv more wanting to be "subordl-
nate,'' and "ruled' and "treated
like, servents." They hate and resent
the tyranny Of unequal rights, exer-
cised by husbands, sons or brothers
whether they say so or not.)
Bit this poor young man pokes fun
at Miss Anthony about not being
married! If he would run away from
the Observer office and travel he
would find that the greatest women
in the world to-day are not marrled.
and even in South Carolina they are
not "setting caps' at men any more,
lust working out their own salvation
without a tremor What a pity this
Young man and Mr. Zach McGhee
mightn't both have been at the
Franklin Square Baptist Church, IN
Baltimore, on last Thursday night
when there was great crowd OF men
and women, presidents from such col
leees as Johns Hopkins, Wellesley,
Vassar, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr and
others, who had travelled from their
various institutions to voice what has
been accomplished for the higher
education Of women by Miss Susan
B. Anthony and other suffraglsts.
It is an interesting fact that as
Young teacher, Miss Anthony encoun-
tered as much persecution Ill her ell
forts to open the doors OF colleges
to women as in her efforts to secure
them ballots.
Then the young Observer gentle
man winds up by intimating that all
women who want to vote have "sllort
hair" and all men who want them
to vote have "long hair
Now, nature is not a fool IN her
determinations, and women who have
brains are just as apt to have good
heads Of hair as anybody. It is no.
ticable, however, that men who burn
hair on the tops of their heads, and
this falling out Of the hair is often
caused by the heat of the lamps they
read by, or else by the strong flow
of blood to those brain cells which are
active in the making Of thonsht. But
theea are the men who champion the