Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-01-09
WAR WORK WINS
PLACE FOR WOMEN
Great Britain Recognizes Part
They Played in Saving
Nation.
may SIT IN LORDS" SOON
VIII Have Big Role In Reconstruction
Work-.War Brings Right to Vote
and Sit In House Of
Commons,

LOndOn.-The women of Great Brit
ain are going to play big role In re.
construction.
They have won the right to be heard
by saving the natiUn--and the nation
recognizes it.
The war has brought British women
the vote aud the right to sit In the
house OF COmmOnS-Sacred to the
stronger sex" throughout the history
of the British empire.
1t IS probable womens right to sit
in the house of lords will be establish
ed shortly, as we'll as the Qdmittauce
Of women To the professions on ar
equal footing with men.
The question of equal pay for equal
work" has been met In instances, but
largely 1t remains to be fought out af'
ter the industrial change-over.
Want Age Limit Lowered.
Only women over thirty may vote,
but there Is already demand that this
age limit be reduced.
Women have also invaded the
strangers gallery" of the commons
as the public gallery is called. The
first woman to take advantage of this
newly won privilege was Mrs. Walker
Kerr of Kensington, who formerly liv.
ed In New Zealand, where she had
the vote for 20 years.
English papers predict that women
Will add dignity to the commons, dig
nitied as 1t Is, and prevent ''antl" mem
bers from hiding behind pillars and
doors when a count" is demanded.
Already number of women have an.
nounced they will be candidates in the
coming elections-many of them on
planks dealing with reconstruction
tasks.
Mrs. Dacre Fox, one of the leaders of
the Intern 'em all' agitation, made the
following statement in connection with
her intention to oppose Sir George
Cave, the home secretary:
II will oppose him because his de-
partment placed every obstacle In the
way Of the internment of all enemy
aliens
Here are views expressed by promi-
hent women of England upon the new
order:
Mrs. Pankhurst: "The decision of
the house in granting women the right
to sit as members was the logical out
come of getting the vote, but | think
the vote is much the more important
thing. | shall vote to get the right
type of men into parliament rather
than to get women into parliament. |
am very anxious that the strength of
the woman voters-6000,0 600 strong
shall be given to help combat the very
real danger of international bolshc-
vism."
"Sex Makes No Difference"
Lady Frances Bafour: 'Srhe sooner
the nation forgets the sex of its enfran-
chised citizens or it's members in pub
lie work, the better for all concerned.
Sex must make no difference in the
binding obligations of those who form
that great aSsemblage, the faithful
commons, in the mother of parla-
mcnts."
Baroness Rhondda (who as peer
ess in her own right Is expected to
claim, as test case, the right of wom-
en- to sit in the house of lords): 81
think it IS just as desirable that WON.
en- should be in the house of lords az
1t is that they should sit in the COM
mons. The way for women in the lords
will be made easier by the admission
Of women to the commons"
There nro people who have reached
the conclusion that taking Qunipe
might as well be an Incarnation.