The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1915-10-09
AMBITION OF SARAH MAYS.
Young Disciple Of Woman Suffrage
Aspirss to Legal Profession.

Lue dCllVILleS VI MISS SdTdu mays dS
student of political science, woman
suffrage leader and representative
young woman Of our race is given in
the New York Evening Post. A recent
issue Of the Post says:
A colOred woman who can go into the
italian districts of the east side as well
as non-Italian districts of Fifth and
Madison avenues and convert the peo-
pie there to woman suffrage on the
strength of the arguments that woman
suffrage will mean for the people of
New York city better conditions for
working people is showing real abil-
ity. i.
A colored woman who does this very
thing is Sarah Mays, twenty-three
years old, Of Washington square south.
And her summers work Is preparing
her for the law course which she is to
begin this fall at the New York uni
versity as well as showing that she has
the sort of ability which she needs to
begin such course.
She has no idea Of taking the full
three years for 1t either. She got
through her college courses at Oberlin
and the University of Wilberforce be-
fore she was twenty and with the ele.
mentary law lessons which she has had
now hopes to be through law school in
year or two and at her serious job of
looking after the interests Of any and
all women, black or white. or whatso-
ever color, who may need her help.
II want to be a lawyer because every
person has vocation which belongs to
him" she says, "and mine is to argue
points with people and convince them
and to try to help better the conditions
Of working men and women and to do
everything ] possibly can for unfortu,
nate women. When first got out of
college I thought would be teacher,
for love children. But that is not my
vocation. My vocation is to argue
points. 81. E..:..
There are 8776,772 women and chill.
dren," she says, "who are drudging In
this country from 8 in the morning
until 6 at night. OF these, 2,S6O, GAG
are little girls between the ages of
nine and twelve and 35O,14O from
twelve to fifteen. They are the wo-
men Of tomorrow. They will be un-
educated, unskilled laborers, unfit to
be mothers, and will bear the sort of
children for whom the state win have
to care. II women had the vote such
conditions of woman and child labor
would not exist Men cannot pass laws
for women. No man can pass a law
for me. viii pass my own law.
There are 1,288,117 women from
forty-f1ve to seventy-five years old who
are working every day and supporting
others. Shouldn't they have voter
They should"
As Miss Mays pounds out her sta.
tistics into her open left hand with the
closed fist Of her right hand, as her
voice rings clear and convincing, no
one can longer wonder how 1t is that
the Italian districts Of the east side
have become so completely convinced
by her arguments. Also she is against
the money Of the country going to-
ward what she calls militarism. the
keeping Of large navy or army.
"The money should 60 toward edu-
eating the people and making them
skilled laborers," she says. peace
would come II women had the vote,
for they would not allow SO much
money to 60 toward ornaments. do
not want absolute disarmament, but /
want no more army and navy than we
have now. II we are ready for war
we shall have war. The money rs
needed for educating the people to do
their work well Our own people must
be skilled. and we must stop drawing
our skilled laborers from the other
countries entirely"
Fast and Slow.
Tho Father--l learn with sorrow,
my SON. that you are getting to BE-
what they term quite fast
The Son You shouldn't believe al
you hear. dad. I'll introduce you to Q
man who win tell you another story.
The Father-And who h he1
The Son-My tailor. He says I'm the
sl0west chap he's got on his books.
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