Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-27

cause that in my heart I knew to be
right than be owned by other people.
Another thing that the Civics league
/ OF Atlanta is working for is equal pay
/ for men and women in the schools.
/ Why should a man and a woman take
/ the same examination and be required
/ to teach exactly the same things If
! there is to be a discrimination in the
amount Of salary? Georgia is sorely
| tried every year by the good teachers,
/ women OF brains and culture, dropping
out OF the school work TO enter bust
ness because in school work there is
that discrimination. In business she
gets more per month and has steady
position as long as she is efficient. In
l school work she has months of enforced
\ fdleness that eat up the little she
might have put away for the rainy day
/ that surely comes into every teachers
life: and instead of one or two to look
mn to everybody in the community has
7 the chance 10 criticise her work, no
matter how well il Is in reality done.
4 There are states that pay equally anu
after twenty years Of service they are
pensioned. / know one woman VINO
4 will be pensioned next ear. She Will be
/ thirty.nine years old and you can't I'M
agine the good she Is going TO exert In
q neE nome city .MAAch AiAN 49, 80 49,
/ earned is hers. No man or woman
who has worked that long will think OF
being idle: the fact that a living is
assured will allow him or her to do the
/ thing that all the years has been walt
/ ing for time and opportunity
But 1 am not answering the ques-
ten: Do I think suffrage for won
en- is proving a success in the states
/ already trying it? Most assuredly.
. who
went to India and when he came back
/ spent his time abusing the mission
arfes2 Finally he met a man who hao
given a goodly number Of years to mis-
sion werk there.
what we're you doing in India?" the
missionary asked.
Lion hunting" was the reply.
did you spend any time with lhe
missionaries
wen was the reply, IN all the
Years / was there I did not see non.
\ wasn't hunting lions. We fino What
we are looking for. 49,
The men and women who go 70 Sal-
ifornia and the other states granting
equal suffrage, get what they are iooN-
ing for; but when men ana women, a.
tive. workers in the uplift or humall'y
In those states, say 1t has proved
Messing. accept their WORD Tor II
~ no Won suppose that the schools cI
son,e communities would be burdened
u-itb the analogy for teachers they now
have If the mothers OF those chilufen
had any voice in the natter A goou
woman is behind every good moVe .1,:..
tbat Is started. The men are VIKING
- 1,eIn me they have TO be pushed.
THAT there is more in the movement
.han the men who downed their legls-
lators for voting for equal Suffrage
last wear and in 1907 can imagine see
what the candidates for the presidency
are doing. Every one has put women on
their campaign programs. Miss PoWeh'
a Georgian that has made name TOT
herself In New York, has the honor
OF being the first woman to speak Tor
president in Georgia. She addressed
the women in Governor WILSON'S behalI'
ana Won know that the versatile Teddy
IS making quite an effort along equal
suffrage lines
The time is not far of when there
win be no question Of sex, the man or
woman best fitted will get the place,
and a hundred years from now this
question Of equal suffrage will seem
as absurd as burning witches or man
claiming his wifes inheritance.
This is an age of education and prog
US. and IL the ballot were granted us
right now there would be much to call
down the ridicule of the ''antis," but
don't YOU think they are quite as ready
for Il as the alien who has been here
Eve years and came for money only!
True, you say we have the ALIENS wife
and the negro woman to reckon with.
In my opinion. they are quite as well
qualified as the men OF those races.
England. I think II Is. has a property
hoIders clause and that would be a fine
thing here The educational qualification
y going to be a spoke in the negro's
wheel unless a compulsory law comes
in. Their children go to school even il
they are hungry. Some one says the.
women wouldn't vote If they had the
chance Some women would not. but I
ask you to tell me truly, do all men
vote There is plenty. more that could
be said on this line. but I leave you
to think II out for yourselves.
Faithfully yours,
e H LIZZIE q THOMAS