Arizona republican., 1915-03-28
EQUAL SUFFRAGE AND CIViCS
 (Bv Mrs. Kate Younqer)

EQUAL SUFFRAGE AND CIvicS
 (By Mrs. Kate Younger)
 am interested in Equal Suffrage and Civics because of the good, wo- man can do, the field is unlimited. First of all when woman is granted the right to vote her first thought is for the betterment of her own sex and the child
 one has only to look at the splen- did playgrounds in the city park or Denver with all the contrivances dear a childish hearts to prove this.
 Child labor, the minimum wage, ard shorter working hours for wo- men are some of the vital questions that women arc studying and know ing the conditions of in their own states.
 Women's clubs should definitely in- terest themselves in the children of the city and country. The value of play grounds and gardens in the city, cannot be over estimated.
 The modern tendency is to. plan everywhere clean wholesome amuse- ments for old and young. And the club women can cooperate with the mayor, school trustees and intelligent men and women to carry out their plans.
 When a woman is granted the right to vote, she takes a keener interest in the things that heretofore she thought very little about. That she ,,..t- af hD al l. gently has been demonstrated time and again. Rodger $. Green who some years ago was chief justice of the supreme court of Washington is or record as saying that he never saw the law better enforced or political conditions more healthful then they were in 1887 and 1888 when the wo- men had the vote. The race track bill in California was defeated bS over 5000 votes in San Francisco alone. And it is a well known fact that the Liquor Interests fear tho womans vote. That is one of tho reasons why our sisters of the east crn states are having such an up- hill fight for it. The city and county iails are a source of interest to tho wide awake woman. She wonders il they are kept in sanitary condition mad if the women and girls commit ted to them are protected in tho manner they should be. Having any and if the women and girls commit tee and finds out. Realizing thai women and girls should be cared fol by one of their own sex while con fined in the jails. she is very ofter instrumental in having a police wo man or matron appointed wherever ii is possible to do so. The success O the pclicewoman or matron has beer firmly established She is not con tent with a superficial knowledge q things as she sees. them. but by he tact and sympathy very often win' the confidence of women and girl committed to her care and thereb, saves many of them from a life 0 shame.
 Club women everywhere are discus sing d single standard of morals fo men and women. And they are try ing to help find adequate remedy fo the suppression of vice. That thc, are rushing in where angelic visitor may fear to tread has been said O them Yet they work steadily or overcoming many obstacles.
 In fact mortality is another one O the vital subjects that has alway appealed to thinking women. It is O tremendous importance that the mil supply should be pure. Just as it of the greatest importance that tn food supply should be pure also Realizing this some of the club wo men here have been active in findin out the conditions under which tn milk supply is handled. The com mittee appointed after careful in vestiGaton reported conditions just q they found them. But this avail nothing without the cooperation ( the sanitary officer who should dul inspect the milk supply at regula intervals.
 The women of a large eastern cit