Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-08
E.. j. Roberts, d. d. 5.
DENTISTRY
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Extracts From
"Why Man Needs
WOnan'S Ballot"
(By Clifford Howard)

nv NOIldil VIII tOudS IeIIldlDS quiet
| ly and passively within her own house
hold, contenting herself with the assur-
| ;.nce that she is doing what her
grandmother and her mother did be-
' fore her, IS grossly deceiving herself.
| She is not doing what her grandmother
! did; she is not attending to the duties
and the cares and the responsibilities
that fell to the lot of the women of
/ two generations ago. She is not fully
! serving her home, because so many of
her duties are no longer to be found
within the home.
| Would she serve the individual fam
| lily, she must serve at the same time
the bigger family, of which her own
is today but a part.
The very character of the modern
city. with its multifarious and com
pick duties, calls for assistance of the
feminine mind the mind accustomed to
detail and variety of work and to a
sense of responsibility for the comfort
and the welfare of others. And we will
ma that such success as our men
governed cities have met with is due
entirely to the fact that the women
have come to the help of the men. and
have given them of their knowledge
and training and judgment. In truth,
as time goes on the women are becorn-
ing more and more interested in civic
and public matters and despite their
political nonentity are exercising a 20
tent influence in the administration of
our social and political affairs.
The -suffragists are Selling upon
this fact as evidence that the women
do not need the ballot 1t is pointed
out that women are now serving on
public commissions, that their advice
is sought in the solving of domestic
and industrial problems and that thew
have been responsible for many of orr
best reforms and institutions and laws
relative to the child and the public
health
mat this is so none of us will for a
moment deny. In truth, it may be
questioned whether any of us, even
among the women themselves, realize
now much women have done and how
much they are doing in behalf of the
city and the state. Through local or
CARNATIONS, through confederated state
organizations and through the big ma
uonal organizations, they are TODAY
performing wonderful work in the
interest Of social and political better
ment. There are today fully a million
women in the United States who ara
interested in civic affairs and who are
devoting themselves to the cause If e.,
better and purer nation. And what
these progressive, earnest. active in
teillgent women have already accom-
plished is beyond calculation in meas
ure Of gold.
Fully nine tenths Of the laws ana ~
situations and reforms Of the present-
gay relative to the welfare of the child
ana OF the woman, and of public health
anu morals nave been inspired and Sc
euieu ny women. Our juvenile courts.
our puohc Fairgrounds, our vacation
schools our homes for delinquents. our
cililu- apor laws, the laws forbidding
the sale OF liquor and tobacco to min
ors' the laws requiring the physical
examination or school children and
many others of like character must al,
De credited to the work of women. It
- they VINO initiated them and secured
their adoption.
ana THIS is equally true Of the laws
ana reforms relative to health and
morals ana sanitation. The cleaning
OF city streets and alleys, the collection
anu dlsposal of refuse, the filterinp OF
city drinking water, the inspection of
milk the pure food laws, the laws
apoilshing lotteries and prize fighting
ana morse racing, the laws forbidding
expectorating in public places. pre-
cautions against disease, the sanitary
inspection of stores and factories and
school houses-all Of these are now
ours by reason of woman's interest and
work IN behalf of the public veal
FOLLOW back any one Of these import