Arizona republican., 1918-01-27

endorsed by the federation is allowed to be quietly pigeon-holed-a. practice conveniently resorted to in some states-and on the other hand, at the first sign of an undesirable bill the committee immediately sounds the alarm throughout the state, from whence presently will come hundreds of belligerent telegramS directed to the erring legislators.
 Under this system, which is practi- cally the same in every equal-suf- frage state, the women have passed many ''womens laws" There is Colo rado, for instance. In this state since 1893, the women secured a state home for dependent children; d state industrial school for girls i; a child labor law limiting the hours of labor for children; minimum wage board to fix the wages of women and minors; law raising l the age of consent to eighteen; O law providing for the inspection of all maternity and lying-in hospitals; law establishing juvenile courts | detention homes and probation of ficers, and a law providing for the recall of officials, with special ref erence to the judiciary.
 In Arizona the women have voted only since 1912, but they have man. aged to make their influence felt In 1914, one woman became a state senator; two were representative: and seven were county school SUD- erintendents. The prohibition amend. ment was annexed to the state con- stitution largely by force of tn, women's vote; an eight hour law fol women has been enacted; red ligh abatement law; a law exempting tn, property of widows up to two thou sand dollars when their total prop erty is less than 5000, an old ag' and mothers pension laws wer carried by popular vote, but after wards were declared unconstitu tional.
 Kansas also has had equal suffrag on all questions since 1912, but wom en were allowed to vote on muni cipal affairs for 15 years befor that. Some laws attributed to tn voting power of Kansas women are a law providing for free. public Ii braries, reading rooms, rest rooms parks and hospitals in each munici pality: a mothers pension law; provision for boards of public wei fare for the supervision of dane halls and amusement places, and al act making the owner of a plac where liquor was sold responsible fo any damage resulting thereforn Needless to say, the last law had no been in force very long before Kansa went dry.
 The women of California have ac complished so much for their sex b, the use of the ballot that many anti suffragists have been converted t woman suffrage on the California evi dence alone There is, for instanc the woman's court of San Francisco established by the woman's vot against a vigorous male opposition A certain judge in San Francisc had for years called down the indig nation of women by demanding onl small bail from men charged wit unspeakable crimes against childrer The men always forfeited the bal left the state for awhile, and whe they returned found the matter care fully forgotten.
 The women, armed with their righ to the ballot, went to see this judg and requested him to raise the ba in these cases. He refused, explain ing that he had political friends wh would back him up in his stand upo the question. The women then wer forth and staged a campaign an inside of a month the judge was re called by popular election.
 Conditions were still bad in Sa Francisco, however. Women an children were tried in a police coul which even the men acknowledge needed reforming, and so the wome began to work for separate won ans court. On December 1, 191 this court was established, and wa an instant success. Under it's juris diction, fathers have been made support their children; young chi dren have been taken away frol work and put in school, and employ ment has been found for hundred of women, many of whom have bee taken from the night life of Sa Francisco and given profitable en ployment at which they have mao good.
 San Francisco is not the only tow that has undergone a reform at tt direction of the womens ballot. Man women's laws have passed the stat legislature in California, the enac ment of which has proved a benef to the whole state.
 It is plain, then, that women excl else their right of franchise. It also plain that they use their powt very effectively in bettering the COT dition of their own sex and of chi dren, and that in the western stat' at least, their participation has tent ed to improve the moral tone of sta politics.