The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-17
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

Realization is sometimes a great
thing.
If you've lived in Indiana all your
life, say, and then move out to Califor,
MIA and vote twice in one year its apt
to be a bit heady.
That is, if you're a woman. you are
delighted with the new experience.
This is the universal feminine die
tum.
And SO says Mrs. H. e. Ayres, OF
Modesto, California, formerly Miss Ina
Clawson, of this city, well known in
the social and educational circles OF
the county.
Mrs. Ayres was a former Instructor
III the Richmond public schools.
i've lived in California year.
said Mrs. Ayres, land I've voted twice
once on the wet and dry proposition
and once on a school question. They
vote out there every other time or
something or other-bond issues and
matters of that sort-and nothing rev
ciutionary in the way of domestic cri
ses has happened because women go te
the polls as well as men.
"Tll cast my first presidential vote
this fall" said Mrs. Ayres, "and I'm
delighted with the opportunity.
"Who will vote for?
"Why who do you suppose-there's
only one man to vote for-that's
Roosevelt.
Everybody is for Roosevelt in Cali
fornia
"You don't hear anybody else men
toned.
Were crazy about him." laughed
Mrs. Ayres.
And Hiram Johnson" she contin
ued referring to the Progressive vice
presidential candidate and present
Governor of California, els an idol
People fairly worship him. The frs
time l heard him l went down and sal
on the front row and drank in every
word he said. And believed it, too,
added Mrs. Ayres.
He's a convincing speaker and PEG
pie respect him because they believe
he's honest.
There are mighty few women il
the state who won't vote for Roosevelt
and Johnson" said Mrs. Ayres
"The social atmosphere out there
is invigorating. Women think and talk
and, just now, you hear nothing bu
politics. We eat it alive at our home,
she laughed, land l honestly find life {
thousand times more interesting be
cause l can take some intelligent par
in the real life of the day
II can't un- erstand all this fus.
about women voting.
Things there, outwardly, are very
much the same as they are here in In
diana. All you do is to go to the vot
ing place, make your little mark ant
go back home, or stop on the wa.
down town if you happen to be goins
some place else.
ut doesn't take half as much tim.
as shopping.
And it is the truth that since WON
en- have had the privilege of voting
that the polling places are about thu
incest places in the precinct.
"They have women clerks and othe
women attaches and there is no loaf
ing, profanity or unpleasantness o
any character.
And the men seem to like it a
we'll as the women" said Mrs. Ayres
you don't find men abusing the WON
en- for lack of femininity or complain
ing because their. entrance into civil
| rights-as l notice you call it-ha
complicated matters or saying tina
women are 'neglecting the home o
any of those silly things you hear her
predicted as the consequence of won
en- voting.
at is the simplest thing in the worlG
Nothing unwomanly or revolution
airy or weird or unpleasant or anything
other than what it is-just going dow
to nice, clean place and making you
little mark-which takes a few mir