Arizona republican., 1913-01-25
Women who Will Get the Ballott

Gnterview with John Drew in Woman's Home)
 To the alarmist the present day agitation for the so-called individuality of woman the elimination of marriage the destruction of the family and the home.
 Nonsense When the American has sifted the of theories offered by agtators and discovered just what she wants. whether that be economic independence the ballot, she will proceed to round off it's unsightly. rough corners, polish it into presentable and pleasing shape and inject it into national and family life. What is more. men will accept it and like it. At the present moment they standing back, watching her make up her mind, and watching the operation with smile on their lips. not with fear in their hearts. Any delay in reaching crisis is due the apathy of the mass of fairly well contented women. not to the opposition of men. The feminist is dstrusted by her own sex, not by men, for American American women to work out their salvation in way that will be best only for themselves but for their menfOk and the entire nation.
 The masses of American women unusual. Neither can they be termed uninteresting. But. thank God they not spectacular. They resemble the silent the presidential election-un- picturesque but effective in securing results. They form the balance wheel of the nation these hundreds of thousands of women whose never seen in print outside the society pages, who never ad- dress meetings formulate protests, but who go right on making good men, and lot unworthy ones, no doubt happy; bringing little children the world and training them O be honest citizens filling homes with the sunlight love; finding con tentment in simple duties yes and in gladly giving d helping hand to their less fortunate sisters
 These the who, when the right mo- meht comes. will ask for the ballot and get it. and then proceed to do good with it. they accom- plshed all other good things the race not inde- pendently not Individuality but with and through 
 Every thinking or woman knows that i'm dlVduaty for either in marriage is an impossbilitv when man and woman united in the holy bonds of matrimony both must lay down on the altar part of that precious possession, individuality the sep arate entity; but they gain in compensation some ullng bigger, finer. sweeter. a common life in which separate interests will blend into a har- monious community of interests Self abnegation IS then ot stern duty; but the connecting link between two well mated souls
 Admitting that sacrifice more readily more easily, more gracefully than men, acknowledge that, all things being equal, more selfish personally than WOmen-stil, when it comes to what We call individuality, the independent ego the man must sacrifice of it the marriage altar
 one hears a great deal of talk about right or the married man to lead his own life to think ms own thoughts. to be quite independent of the woman whose identity and individuality he absorbs and whose life he dictates but lot this talk is ruppish A wife is not like business partner who IS thrust into the background close of puslnesS hours. She is part of the mans life t"ehty-four hours in each day for when he is not with her he is working for her. when she is not ms actual companion she is his inspiration moreover the married man who continues to lead the so-called independent life is not happy in marriage. He knows that with him marriage is merely an incident. just the who insists upon economic freedom and individual freedom in marriage must learn that she misses real fine ness of love and marriage-unity harmony mutual dependence