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

the act1V1CleS OF MISS Saran mays as
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: ~-'r,.
A colored woman who can go into the
italian districts of the east side as well
az 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. -
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. .".,s.. =.
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
q year or two and at her serious job OF
looking after the interests Of any and
n ank xxh 70. nvs1 VxyhQ n m.
ever color, who may need her help.
II want to be a lawyer because every
person has a vocation which belongs to
| him." she says, land mine Is to argue
p0intss with people and convince them
and to try to help better the conditions
everything possibly can for unfort,l
nate women. When 1 first got out OF
college thought would be teacher
for l love children. But that Is not, my
vocation. My vocation Is to argue
points. -. T.. ".s.
There are 877b,772 women and chill.
dren," she says, "who are drudging In
this country from In, the morning
until 9 ut night. OF these, 2,S60,94t
are little girls between the ages OF
nine and, twelve and 350, 140 from
! twelve to fifteen. They are the wo
men Of tomorrow. They will be IN
educated, unskilled aborers, unfit t.
be mothers, and will bear the sort Of
| children for whom the state viii have
to care. II women had the vote sucf
j conditions of woman and child labol
would not exist. Men cannot pass law.
for women. No man can pass Law
for me. will pass my own law.
There are 1,2SS,117 women from
forty-flve to seventy Ave years old wht
are working every day and supporting
others. Shouldn't they have a vote
They should
As Miss Mays pounds out her sta
tistics into her open left hand with tn,
closed fist Of her right hand, as he
voice rings clear and convincing, m
one can longer wonder how It Is tina
the Italian districts Of the east sid
have become so completely convince'
by her arguments. Also she Is agains
the money Of the country going to
ward what she calls militarism, tn
! keeping Of a large navy or army,
4 1.-THE money should go toward edu
eating the people and making then
skilled laborers," she says. "Peac
would come II women had the vote
for they would not allow so niue
money to 60 toward ornaments. l d
not want absolute disarmament, but
want no more army and navy than W
have now. II we are ready for wa
i we shall have war. The money
needed for educating the people to
their work well. Our own people mus
be skilled, and we must stop DRAWN
our skilled laborers from the othe
countries entirely"
j Fast and Slow.
The Father learn with sorrov
my son. that you are getting to b
what they term quite fast
The Som You shouldn't believe Q
you hear. dad I'll introduce You to
man who win tell you another story.
The Father-And who IL he1
The Son-My tailor. He says I'm th
slowest chap he's got on his books.
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