The Washington herald., 1917-01-13
Interesting Chats
From Hotel Lobbies

when you have Travelled ali owed Eu-
rope and have seen the degrading and
inconsequental position of woman. II
makes you wonder why the TINTED States
Is so exasperatingly slow to give woman
what rightfuily belongs TO her." said
James Z, Halier. of Berkeley, Calf, who
Is stopping at the willard and who was
once mayor Of Berkeley. TT women are
good enough to be our mothers and good
enough to be our wives, sisters. and
sweethearts, they are certainly good
enough to have something to say about
laws that concern her.
have seen women hooked up TO
carts In Europe alongside Of q dog or
donkey, and sometimes their husbands
| or sons would be riding on the cart
Wouldn't that look fine in the U, ST.
And yet some OF the women In this coun-
try have as little TO say about themselves
as the Austrian or Italian housewives
who are the family beasts OF burden.
Ideas that were in vogue in Charlie
magne's time do not At In today; neither
do political expressions of former Presi-
dents ht today's conditions. We may
really claim to be at the height Of ciyili-
zation, but there are in force today some
laws that the old Roman gemperors would
laugh at. We are the most inconsistent
people in the world today, and we ought
10 have sufficient backbone TO admit that
| our failure to pass an amendment to
the Constitution permitting women to
vote is really mark and trace of whole
sale Ignorance.
There is enough good gray matter in
the heads of some Of our women to make
up many times the deficiency OF some of
the male pinheads that now hold Office
surely no woman would ever get up In
congress during grave national crisis
| and recite a fool piece of poetry about
the green fields OF Kentucky when the
rest Of tbe country was bresthIessly
watching the outcome"
| THE automobile business has gone
ahead like a house afre and the design
ers have, until the last few months, ig-
| nored some very important ideas" said
Ellis e. Gorton, a mechanical engineer
| connected with big Detroit firm and
stopping at the New Ebbitt I'VE are
gradually getting back he said, ito
some designs that we turned our noses
| up at few years ago.
| I'VE thought we would never get back
to steam as a propelling power for auto
| mobiles, but from my twenty-five years
| monkeying with self-propeled vehicles,
| | say Give me steam every time II IL
more flexible than either gasoline or cleo
| tricity, and IL is a dead sure source of
power. Fpr out-of-the-way travel, where
the supply OF gasoline is question: BILE,
steam has to be relied on. i think that
| In ten years we will see more steam vehi-
| cles than either gasoline or electric autos.
Nowadays II 10 not necessary to wait for
steam to get on the job. It is q matter of
a minute or more and you have a boiler
| full.
Still we will have to overcome the old
prejudice against hot water. But when
| the public finds out Just how reliable and
| how simple is the modern steam car.
| then the gas car will be obsolete except
| where gasoline is q contributing power
| and generates electricity to be used i'm
mediately. There are some cars that
operate on both gas and electricity, and
| they will be here longer than the old
chugging. hot, ill-smelling. oversize gsso-
| line engines OF today. with steam, II is
a matter OF a few gallons OF kerosene and
some water and you have a never-failing g
| source OF power. a power that hauls
more freight and passengers than any
other device, because you have It when
you want II and not when the car repair
| men choose to give 1t to you"