The Washington herald., 1914-12-13

Pennsylvania ASSOCIATION, entitled:
.'Woman's Power Is In the Home; NIL
ltia Killed Women; Why Have colorado's
suTragists Voted for OficiaIs who Or
Fighting windmilIs would be serious
task compared to attempting an answer.
II Ills over two columns and every one
OF its twenty or more paragraphs could
be refuted by another paragraph but TO
what good end. Woman suffrage Is now
a national issue; II Is making gradual
tut sure progress; IL Ia as inevitable
throughout the United States as tomor-
rows sunrise. Why take up time to
thresh out fantastic theories and answer
calamity howls about something that Is
going to happen when women vote that
never has happened where they are al
ready voting whenever they get a chance ?
We must even steel our hearts against
the grief OF Mrs. Dodge because the re-
cent national suffrage convention held
a meeting on Sunday when people want
ed to go to church and deny ourselves
the pleasure OF telling her II took place
at o'clock in the afternoon.
The public is more interested In hear
ing about those l24.0oo women who went
to the polls in Chicago the other day
although they could vote only for a few
minor officials. II was unkind In the
special writer for the New York Times
to censure them for not supporting the
women candidates for county commits
sioners. when the Supreme Court had
just decided that they could not vote for
that office, but all the papers agreed that
they saved the day for the reform candi-
date for the board of sanitary trustees.
But Just wait until next April, when a
mayor and thirty-six councilmen are to
be elected. and the doubters will see
whether women want to vote. II is be-
lieved that about 10000 voted in Kansas
--one-third the number OF men-who are
in excess of women by 7O.0oO. They voted
very generally in Arizona and Mrs.
Francis W. Munds, president OF the suf-
frage association, was elected State SEN
ator by a large majority. A woman was
elected representative there and in
Southern California. Utah has had n
woman senator. and Colorado now has
one. Most OF the equal suffrage States
have had women members OF the lower
house of the legislature.
Grand Jurors I'm West.
Women continue to be summoned on
grand juries In California. Tacoma has
a woman police judge. Whatcom Coun-
", Wash. has q woman clerk. treasurer
and superintendent Of schools. There
are women town and county officers with
out numDer IN all Inc CAuAl suffrage
States and in several the State supeTin-
tendent Of instruction is a woman. De-
troit has a woman judge presiding over
the Juvenile court. The American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers, with
5000 members, at its convention in New
York last week, elected a woman to
membership. The Kansas State Teach
ers' Association, for the first time in
its ffty-two years history, has elected
a woman president. These are merely
straws showing which way the wind
blows In all parts OF the country. Women
voting, women holding ONCE. women on
juries. already have ceased to be a nov
city. People have learned that the every
day affairs OF life go on Just the same
only a little better. The States where
women are enfranchised wonder In a few
years why there ever was any argument
over IL. Each new State that grants the
suffrage adjoins one where women al
ready exercise II. In the West 1t has
almost ceased to be matter Of pro-
paganda and is simply one OF practical
politics. 1t could be obtained in any
State II il could be considered on its
merits and these could be settled between
the women and the men free from out
side influences, and every year more men
will come forward to help women in
what has been a lonely contest.