The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-25
women WILL NOT
TIRE OF BALLOT,
SAYS Stuff LEADER
History of Movement, De-
ClareS Miss Mary Ogden
White, Refutes Charge Vote
Will Soon Lose Interest.
Written for the international News
Service.
BY MARGERY REX

Written for the international News
Service.
BY MARGERY REX.
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-Women have
the vote!
For years their struggles 10 secure
the ballot have brought theem both
honor. and derision, glory and opposi-
ton, friends and foes.
But now every woman over Fl in
every state of the United States may
vote.
And like an antiollmax TO tho cui-
mination Of the great suffrage victory
can be heard through the tumult of
thanksgiving the voices OF the few
who declare woman win exercise her
new-found prerogative once, twice
perhaps and then throw II away. She
win. so her critics say. grasp the bal
lot greediy at first, pleased with the
novelty Of IT, Just as child clasps TO
its heart n new. shiny toy, plays with it
till the gloss and glamour have lett II.
and then forgets II for something fresh =
er and more fascinating so Madame, MI
lot once In the voting machine and
the next time in her dainty enameled
wastehasket.
Her critics, perhaps not Intentionally
unkind have yet much 10 say that Is
unflattering Of woman. But to accuse
her OF forgetting and foregoing the
ballot is TO deem her unFrateful to the
pioneers OF her sex, Indifferent TO the
struggles OF the late Susan II. Anthony
and the efforts OF the present suffrage
leader. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
Woman is therefore accused Of being
q senseless migrate, silly purchaser OF
piaythlngs, person who, though she
may be trusted to bring crildren into
the world, and care for them until they
can care for themselves, to help and
advise the family circle, to teach and
10 nurse and to compete with men In
business, will not take sufficient inter
est In laws governing herself her home
and her children's future TO vote a
second or third time.
Following upon the celebration OF
the suffrage victory, IL does not seem
out of place TO offer the comments OF
n prominent member of the National
American Woman Suffrage association.
Miss Mary Ogden White. member OF
the staff Of the Woman Citizen, SUI
frage weekly. denies the charge that
women win tire of the vote after short
s'The entire history of the suffrage
movement ought to answer that
charge without any words from us"
she said. =,
creaslngly demanded the vote. In 1859
there was but one commonwealth In
the world where women voted on fun
terms with mon, and that was Wyo-
ming in the United States. AT the
present time women are voting on
full equality with men In all the new
republics OF continental Europe, IN
Great Britain, now In the whole
Iynifed States and have been voting for
many years in New Zealand and Aus
traIia. IN.
: aActual statistics gathered with
care. prove that women continue 10
vote in about the same proportion as
man IN all the states OF the union; that
figures OF the last election in New Zea-
land. after women had voted ~ years,
show item for item, county by county,
that women voted equally with men.
,rha very first year the New York state
women voted, 40 per cent OF the vote
cast In New York state was cast by
women.
SIT always pays to have women
vote. The statistics OF financial sta,
nv referring to the World Almanac OF
1920. The highest per capita personal