The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-29
WOMEN'S NEW POLITICAL LIB
ERTIES.
Where Are They? Can Anyone Tell
as Yet?

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twenty-five states have ratified
the Federal amendment granting
full suffrage to women. Seven
other states have extra sessions call
ed or in immediate prospect. Ten
states have defeated ratification and
fourteen are on the. waiting list,
Oregon has ratified, a special ses-
sion has been called in Indiana
preparatory to taking action. In
Albany, New York, they have a
State League for women voters,
but as yet they will not recognize
us as equals. One woman of Colo
RADIO, was sent to congress to
weeping willow variety and the
rest of us are judged by her. One of
the first laws passed by Colorado
was the woman's compensation act.
They wanted $1,000 to carry it
through. but they could not see it
that way, having already provided
$1,000 to take care Of =. the dogs
bill is up before the house now in
Colorado. Of course they already
have Juvenile Court to care for
the young unmarried mothers who
come before it. They were not real
ly bad girls, the bad ones know how
to avoid motherhood, they were
just mere girls who had been be,
had not properly been warned of
danger. A bill was presented to the
legislature and is still pending. pro-
viding that any woman about to be-
come a mother might make appli-
cation to the court and receive a
sufficient maintenance for her to |
fert S Set when It n Was dseovered
that the bill included unmarried
mothers all argument was useless.
Now see the inconsistency of such
judgment when the poor man was
to blame and full partner in the
game. The bill was damned in
silence. England has recently
passed this bill and since y. s she ~ ma mas
the poor unfortunates may get full
justice at last. In Great Britain
alone the last two years 100000
children we're born. II
this is true they needed to pass the
maternity and child welfare Dill.
What will be the future of those
children who were s born IN ah snri m;51
be sending some of the motherless
ones over here to seek husbands,
and if not a husband another father,
so you plainly see we have got to
get busy and try to save the future
generation and down trodden
and it must. be by the
ballot Man .S can AN and dod does got MAKE ene
force only the ones that suit him,
but if ever we do get political libert-
les We will enforce them if they
suit us. One thing you cannot en-
panel a jury that will convict a
beautiful woman. Their ATTRACTIVE
appearance always appeals to their
sympathy in some manner. l know
show no Partially between hand
some woman and a homely sister
One thing a homely woman never
gets into trouble, over jealousy,
and / hope she at least will get her
rights. But do you suppose when
we get more in power we could
fore the + Legislature and have it
nassed unless we were in the major
jtv? I think not. One city in
oklahoma last week empanelled
Jury composed of women but the
judge objected, the women stepped
down and out. and twelve sturdy
men took their places, and the man
was acquitted. Wasn't ne wise
that we'll? The acquit-
ted man was born OF woman ao+ put
10 try him, and now for us not to
20 forward is to go sback. Years
ago when Susan B. Anthony advocat-
ed the right to woman suffrage
every man thought her crazy: but
She was not so crazy after all, for
she never married one. She was
simply ridiculed on all sides. One
vent and manufacture bedstead
and cali it the Suse Anthony bed.
Just large enough for one person to
sleep in. 1t might have hurt her
hnt never her enthusiasm.
He never knew what GOdsend his
invention was to the human race.
They fiji all the hospital wards to-