The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-30
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN NORTH
CAROLINA

WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN NORTH
CAROLINA
Editor Wade Harris, of the Char
lotte Chronicle, commenting on the
bill introduced in the house by Hon.
D. M. Clark, of Pitt county, to
amend section 6. article 1, of the
constitution by striking out the
word ''male'-in short, giving the
right of suffrage to women, has this
to say:
Woman suffrage is question to
be handled with lot of consider
alton. The cause is spreading. 1t
has come and come to stay in many
: states, and when the women of
North Carolina begin to talk suffrage
and work to secure it they're going
to oct it. They get everything they
90 after in these parts and there's
no denying the fact, but what in
the name of common sense a man
can be thinking about to introduce
a bill to bring woman suffrage into
North Carolina now is more than
we can figure out.
1t will be some years yet before
any of the really Southern States
will have the question to consider
in earnest, and when woman suffrage
comes, as it surely will, votes for
women will be one of the minor
incidents to be considered. There
will be complications that will stir
up matters that will take some tall
scheming to handle successfully,
Why should this be stirred up now?"
At the meeting of the North Caro-
lima Teachers Assembly held in
Greensboro in November, Mr.:
Zebulon Judd, superintendent of
public instruction in Wake county,
after reading his report as chair
man of a committee to ascertain
the legal status of women teachers
in North Carolina" said to this
writer that he hoped the intelligent
women of North Carolina would
never feel called upon to become
militant suffragettes, but that he
wanted to see the thinking men
awaken to realization of the tre-
mendous power for good that was
going to waste under the present
Limitations in regard to women, and
invite them and appeal to them to
help the sane and sober men save
the state as they had been asked to
assist in solving other knotty pro-
blems which could not be handled
by the men alone.
The bill introduced by the mem
Der from Pitt comes as a surprise
to the women themselves, for the
reason that, as Editor Harris con-
tends, there has not been even the
semblance of an organization with
a view to woman suffrage in North
Carolina. And it is not quite certain
that a majority of the women would
ask, for it if given the opportunity.
What women in this state do want,
however, and what they are work.
ing for, and are willing to fight for.
is the privilege of having voice in
the management of the schools to
which they are expected to send
their children, both as to the ef-
fciency of the teacher and the sani-
tary conditions of the building A
bill is being prepared and will be
presented to the general assembly
asking that the constitution be 80
that women can serve as
school committeeman, on boards of
as trustees of chartered
schools and on text book COM
mites.
This they should have in all seri-
BUSINESS and in all justice, and the
legislator who is narrow enough to
vote against it, will simply write
himself back number an1 out of
tune with the progressive policy of
an enlightened and advancing civil
ization.