Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10

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New York The following story Of
- activities Of Miss sarah Mays a. !
seudent Of Political science, woman
\ s19raes header ana Representative
ysung woman OF our race is given n
- New York Evening Post. A recen,
issue q the Post says:
u col6red woman who can 20 into th.
italian districts or the east side as vel
a non-Italian districts Of Fifth and
MADISON avenues and convert the PEG
pae there to woman suffrage on the
efrength Of the arguments that woman
eu6rage viii mean for the people OF
Nov York city better conditions fol
working people y showing real abil.
~.
= colored woman who does this very
thing = Sarah Mays, twenty-thr
yean old, Of Warrington square south.
Ana her summers work is preparing
- Tor the law course which she is to
I oegin this fall at the New York uni
\ versity - well % showing that she has
the sort Of ability which she needs to
Oc8ln Uuc0 y course. H.. g..
She has no idea Of taking the full
tAroe years for 1t either. She got
through her college courses at Oberlin
ana the University OF Wilberforce be-
tore 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
al women. black or white or whatso-
ever color. who may need her help.
~ want TO be 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-
mate women. When ! first got out Of
college I thought / would be teacher,
Tor ! love children. But that is not my
vocation. My vocation is to argue
Roints. ~
There are 8.775, ITO women and chill
dTen," she says, 'who are drudging in
this country from s In the morning
until 8 at night. OF these, 2,S6O,946
arc little girls between the ages of
nine and twelve and $50, 14O from
twelve to fifteen. They are the wo-
men OF tomorrow. They will be IN
educated, unskilled laborers, unfit to
be mothers, and will bear the sort Of
children for whom the state will 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 law
Tor me- I will pass my own law.
Il There are 1,28s,117 women from
forty-dve to seventy-fve years old who
are working every day and supporting
Others. Shouldn't they have vote?
They ahould.''
A. 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 20 completely convinced
BY her arguments. Also she Is against !
the money OF the country going to- |
ward what she calls militarism, the !
keeping Of q 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. I do
not want absolute disarmament, but |
wasn't no more army and navy than we |
have now. II we are ready for war
We shall have war. The money IS
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"