Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-08-11
WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE.

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country 1t is true that most of her
successes are in the west, but they
are gradually working into eastern
politics as well. Women have been
voting in several states in the vest
for a long time. Colorado has fOGr
women members of the state legis-
lature and a woman is ambitious t.
go to congress from that state. One
town in Kansas has a woman MAJ &C
who has appointed a woman chief
of police, and so on.
New Jersey has jumped to the
front in regard to women holding
public Office by the passage of the
new school law. This provides that
school boards shall be appointed by
the mayor and permits the appoint
ment of women to serve on the
board. We already have women
serving on playground commissions
in different cities of the state and
wherever they serve they are MAX
ing good. The experiment, if 1t may
be called one, of having women in
office, especially in such offices as
school boards and playground ON
missions is a decided success. We
believe 1t will be extended further.
In the west, it seems, women have
men with great success as health Of
fcers. The Fargo, N. D., Sunday
Courier-News comments as follows
on women in this position:
THE newspapers in the state of
Washington are teeming with stor-
les of women who have been elected
to office since the suffrage bill be-
came a law. One of the best of these
appears in the Seattle P~ost-Intelli-
gencer, and it runs as follows:
Evidently the city council of
Kennewick made no mistake when
it decided to put women on the city
board of health and give them a
free hand in cleaning up the COM
munity.
1.-The two women put on the
board, Mrs. l.. E. Johnson and Mrs.
NJ. o. Kitten, went about the work
in such a systematic and thorough
manner that Kennewick is now prac-
tically free of disease. Back yards
and alleys have been cleaned up. A
vigorous campaign has been waged
against the housefy, Men who mar
ket foodstuffs have been forced to
use screens. What has been the re !
There hasn't been a e2ge Of tvo
Dhoid in Kennewiel< dnrinp the sum-
e ana ,9a'further announcement
Is m3pg Fiat there is not now a s'n-
gle case of a contagious disease OF
any character.
"Kennewick's experience with wo-
men health officers shows what wo-
men a do when they really make
effort.
Because women must bear most
of the burdens of the home in case
of sickness or death in the family,
the question Of health is one of the
most vital concern to women more
and more the women are coming to
realize the Importance of taking a
more active interest in all matters
relating to the public health and it
is not easy to estimate the amount
of good that will result from such
increased activity
There is reason to believe that any
city would be far better taken care
Of if women had a prominent part
in enforcing the health regulations.
In Perth Amboy we have had a wo-
man connected with poor and char
table department of the city for
some time and she has done the work
far better than any man could do
it.
All these examples tend to prove
that woman is more and more enter
ing into public life here and she is
finding a great sphere of usefulness
therein,
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