South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-22
4 Daily Heart
To Heart Talk
On the Pc IitiCaI
Status and Moral
Responsibility Of
Ne1OLy EntranchiSed
Women Voters.
By JOHN HENRY ZUVER
Editor NcNs-Tlncs

E0stOr news ItsnCS
In a recent address by a Chi
cago university professor. pre-
Stunning 10 analyze feminine char
actcr. the statement was made
that women are by nature against
something, seldom for anything,
and that in the line of PERSONAL
ties, against somebody rather than
for them. Opponents OF the
League Of Nations seem 10 be
proceeding upon that theory.
Maybe IL is the reason that Sen.
Harding is so careful not 70 have
a definite constructive idea" as
ne admits. for his much mooted
association Of nations, -assum-
ing perhaps that feminine char
aclcr" would by nature be
against" H. he prefers 10 have the
women arrayed against the pres
ent League OF Nations instead.
Are you. q legitimate voter. go
ing TO allow yourself TO be man
ipulatcd after such fashion For
one, the writer refuses 20 believe
it-and today just a word on one,
and the most dispicable. per
haps Of the attempts made In that
direction.
Mrs RAYMOND Robins sprung
il here in south Bend not 80 very
long ago at the citizenship school
conducted by the League Of Wo-
men Voters. but the idea run 70
earth seems to have sprouted in
the fertile brain Of @. @. Z. Natl
Chairman VIII Hays being thence
passed along to women speakers
against the League-and 10: the
republican party,-by Mrs. Arthur
L. Livermore, chairman of the
New York state republican wo-
man. committee.
The cOntemptibllity of IL lies in
the low-minded appeal 10 tho sex
ual instincts: an unWarranted ap-
peal 10 womanS moral sensibili-
ties horn OF such impulses
dulEing in the scurrilous.
The reference is 70 paragraph
G., Art. XIII OF the League
covenant. which reads
Members Of the League will
entrust the League with general
supervision over the execution
OF agreements with regard TO
the traffic In women and chill
dren, and the traffic in opium
and other dangerous drugs."
Now get the lowminded inter
probation. INDUCED by Mrs. Rob
ms, Mrs. Livermore and others,
as tutored by the &. o. p. chair
man
The United States is asked
10 attach its signature 10 a con-
tract which not only recoEnizes.
but legalizes traffic in women
and children
can YOU conceive OF women, or
even men. indulging IN such an
attempt 10 SCurriliZc a perfectly
legitimate and highly moral un-
dertaking intent upon misleading
either men or women; just 20 get
under their sensitive hide and pre-
JUDGE them into being against
something
Don't take our word for an In
depreciation Of that paragraph
from the covenant. Mrs Carrie
Chapman Gait, long president Of
tho National Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION. and an acknowledged
leader Of women, answers II
this way;
1T is amazing how any wo-
man could get so false an i'm
preston of a paragraph in such
straight English. The League
OF Nations has already taken
hold Of that evil and whether
the United States enters the
League or not we may look for
the elimination OF the traf1c In
women and children for decided
steps have been taken 10 stop
&c. The facts are Just the OPP
posite from the Interpretation
put upon them by Mrs. Liver
more"
The Social Hygiene association.