The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-06-11
EIGHTEENTH COMMENCEMENT MARKS
OPENING OF REBUILT HIGH SCHOOL

IT,. re, sHd ,. ess 90 ~hlss ysry much "a
upon 20 naaEs ~ 90 miad absut. one
Nsy or another, and the girl who grad
. e.sss from high school sud B. bf6ugnt
ia problems. decides as best she MAJ
from her inrEperi-nce-
To me. a school Eiri. u seems that
tsenty one shs a. entitled 70 the same
-, gu 700 Tor inteiiissnoe and dis
not know enough 70 vote. that we coult
~ - eEpectec g decide anything for
the hctterment OF government. yet one
1htfl more gifls Than boys attend high
Politics Rot . Dirty Game.
~ seems that man would wish 90
keep ~ confined within the four walls
OF our homes. or rather HE. whera he
Noutd preserve ~ Immaculate and uu-
suited from the dirty game Of politics.
itself. bat ~ has been made 80 b. public
enemies. thieves and traitors who 20
protect themselves point warning and
lmploring fingers at their own CRIME
when honest folks APPROACH. And tue
amazing thing r. that the great majority
OF tue honest are warned away. and per
petuat- their own despair b. refusing 10
take any aprt In the administration OF
tbs peoples business. II SCOT we're
sp ,,, On inc parlor floor would you
or became dishonest. would you refuse
20 interfere on the ground that AZ Was a
oirty Eariei The cases. II seems 10 me.
The mechanical details Of living
which used 50 10 fill a Woman's time 10
ovtrflo~ing. have been greatly simpn-
fled by modern ingenuity. Factori,s
weave the clothing ana assist in prepar-
Ing the food. and "a thousand Inventions
make housework easy and pleasant Why
than formerly; and. why. since she IL A
naltrsl house-keepcr. shouldn't she take
the national housekeeping higher uug
Needless 20 say national housecleaninx
would not come amizs
other things being equal a. a man Is
al his work all day long. OF course ne
knows what r. best for II and when vot-
Ing time comes he cotes as best suits his
home only a short time during the day
he does not know the standing OF his
boy In school. the kind Of training .he
boy receives. whether IL Is efficient or
whether tho food which he buys is pure
and the milk clean. But his wife comes
hourly In contact with the questions and
m " she Is a ,.t trpe woman and loving
as they should be she should see that
they are made so. and how can such
things be regulated except by laws
san hut one Voice.
Some say that this would make two
voices IN the household aud that the
woman might vote against the thing her
husband needed. The only answer to
that Is that there can be no division
OF interest In "A true home. m they can
not agree on candidate they probably
can't agree on parlOr carpet and one
or Two quarrels more or less won
matter much.
An apparently convincing argument
OF the man IL, tr you vote you must OF
course hold ofrice. and do military ana
ponce DUTY. The woman says; No. We
viii not do these thing. Then the man
wisely shakes his head and says. see
she wants TO vote. but she does not
want to take up the responsibilities
which voting entails The woman saws
she will not because II IL not necessa- =,
Does every man go 90 war? Have ali
them served as policemen?
Nhen "A country has been at war
have the women eyer been found lack
ingF Take the CASE OF Europe at pres
emit. the women are at home doing their
own work and that Of the men besides
What would happen ~ they didn't 10
IT. In Turkey and the Balkan states
the women have even taken their places
In the ranks.
As for police duty. a woman Goes
not have TO do that unless she wants 10