The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-07-31

kansas who refused TO register
when the clerk told her she would
have TO state her exact age, az she
claimed that "Over 21' was suffi
cient.
We are in receipt of the follow
ing communication from one o
our subscribers, bearing on Thu
, article and incidents:
Mr. Editor
Dear Sir: | notice your article
concerning the women OF Topeka
Kansas; want you TO know tha'
Mrs MuCarter and Mrs. Monroe
won their point Attorney Gen.
Hopkins handed down decision
that neither male nor female voters
are required to state their exact
ages, lover II" being sufficient.
The women are both broad
minded, liberal women, leaders 10
municipal affairs, and made the
protest through no false pride on
their own accounts Their con-
tention is, that a woman's age IL
used as a discrimination against
her many times in the bnsin' 81
world, into which many women
re forced through economical
onditions, rather than by choice
The report from the Attorney
General was followed by a call to
all the women to register, and
they are doing 80 in large numbers.
The city clerk is also a woman
Miss Eta Uovlll and she has
served the city expedieully for
years. She was only doing her
duty as she had been instructed,
in refusing to register people with
out their exact ages.
Will you please print this IN
revised form, as | do not want the
people Of Louisiana to use the first
item you printed az wedge or
argument against National Suf
frage, for Louisiana certainly
needs Suffrage'
Respectfully,
Mrs C.. A. Richie
BarrOws Hotel.
Residence, Topeka Kans.
We are glad to have received
this communication, as it shows
that at least some of the gentler
sex are thinking and studying
about these things.
Women's suffrage ls coming.
Women will vote before long,
whether Loulslana's legislature
wanted 1t or not.
Already, IN many states the
women are forming societies for
studying political government.
Several Of the State Universities
have inaugurated departments
where hundreds Of women are
being trained to 60 out into the
States and teach civil and political
government TO the twenty five or
thirty million of women voters
who are soon to be given the
franchise.
But regardless of any ruling by
the Attorney General as to re-
uuirements for registration in
Nebraska, any woman who wants
to vote in Louisiana will have to
register, and IN SO doing she pust
give her exact age in years.
months and days. and "over Il"
will not suffice.
The only persons exempt from
filling out the registration blank
gtoing date and place Of birth
years, month and days old, etc,
are those who are b lad nr crippled
80 that they cannot hold a pen TO
write. But 10 such cases they
must give the details to the Clerk
of Court who fills in the BLANKS
himself.
Unedncated pe0pe who cannot
figure their age as required aud
write it legibly cannot register at
all unless they have AT least $500
of properly in their own namer
In such cases they have only to
give the year Of their birth
which, of course. il equivalent TO
telling their age-the thing some
women have objected to 10 regis.
tering
In other words, "over 81" will
not go In Louisiana, with either
man or woman.
Many reasoning men will be
more than willing to see equal
political rights given to womrr,
and will welcoms woman's refn
ing influence ia the muddy game
Of politics. That il will be good
for the men, and good for the
country az q whole, IL the view Of
many.
But to start trying tn overturn
existing regulations and remake
the very rulers Of the game before
they have even started to play
will result in aTOusiRg stubborn