The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-10-14
Woman Steps Into
p Official Bow Wow
MRS. SHARPE TELLS AUDIENCE
HER VIEWPOINT OF THINGS
POLITICAL. J..
Quotes the Scriptures and Stuck to
1t, Too; An Innovation in Politics.
Compares Nation to Home.

compares <1NdAkO41s 10 1AOMACs
Mrs. Mary Settle Sharpe, of
Greensboro, candidate on the Repub-
ican ticket for State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, exposed poll
tics from a new point Of view, name
ly, the viewpoint of a woman, before
a good audience Of both men and
women at the high school auditorium
Friday night.
Mrs. Sharpe expressed her conf,
dence that the newly enfranchised
women would cleanse politics. and,
unlike the men, they would accept it.
as a sacred trust" Sc stated that
now, since the women had gained
suffrage, they would not be less of a
woman for voting, and she made an
especial appeal to all Americans Of
the feminine sex to utilize the privi-
Iege that they now have. She said,
| ct doesn't matter whether we want
ed, fought for, or had suffrage thrust
upon us, we have it and we should
fuse it."
The speaker gave an excellent ex-
hibition Of her ability to understand
government and human nature, when
she compared our government to
home. She said that a family is not
Hcomplete without both the strength,
power, and protecting ability Of the
| man, and the tenderness, love, and
humanitarian care of the woman; and
so it is with the government.
Again, she displayed her powersa
! mind and pious devotion when she
| boldly asserted that there are two
things necessary in the lives of all
/ Americans today, that has been abb
tsent from the very beginning of man
hood suffrage, which are religion and
politics. She said, eve will have
nothing to do with religion that we
cannot carry with us to the polls.
Furthermore, we will have no poll
4 tics that we cannot carry to church :
i The candidate received clamorous
applause when she drove home the
fact that religion and women IN poll
tics means that there will be no more
voting of dead men, and no more Vot-
Ting of deeeased soldiers.
+ Mrs. Sharpe was the first partisan
political speaker to take text from
!, the Bible in speaking here this fall
The latter part of Mrs. Sharpe's
=, speech was taken up with an attack
: on the league of nations, which she
said was unjustly political issue
and discussion Of state education.
She condemned the League pr1ma
rily for two reasons, the first o.
which was the startling fact that dur
= ing the whole time that this grea
document was being considered II
the league chamber, not one praye
, was offered to God for divine guld
ance, She said that Christian ma
tion. as the United States, cannot at
fliate itself with documents AM
7 countries that do not have the i'm
: print of God stamped upon them.
- She criticised numerically tn
o present regime of education in. Nortl
+ Carolina, or in other words tn
: "great and glorious educational sys
tenn" as the democrats speak OF II
She~said that the democrats measur
/ | themselves by themselves, and henc
: are forming incorrect conclusions. Sn
y further stated that when we compar
o ourselves with others we find that W
q are fourth from the bottom IN 1lilt
f eracy, and that we pay our schoe
r teachers less than any other state l
l. the union.y
s In conclusion, she set forth the re
" publican ideas concerning educations
IS management in North Carolln'
which are to equalize the pay OF bot
o male and female teachers, to increas
,e their salaries, and to furnish te1
It books for all school children.