The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-02

Magazine
 N VOW that women have gained the IN right to enter the vast arena S where politics is the game played, and take part in the general mix-up for political honors, which all politicians de- and women pause and consider before voting for a woman, whether she is quail flied to hold the office for which she is striving.
 The women have much to learn before they are fitted to assume the duties of congressman, and it will take years of preparation and experience before they are qualified to occupy such an important and responsible position as seat in our national legislative halls.
 Such preparation very few of this gen eration have received. For years women have conceded the right to men to make the laws, and to govern the nation; and they do not understand the big affairs that men control neither do they know how to solve the problems that confront them at every stage of the, game.
 To be a successful politician, women must be able to grasp a knowledge of the big issues that come up from day to day with understanding alertness, and without vacillation vote, and vote right.
 The only woman who has ever been honored with seat in our national hall of Congress could do neither; but when a vote was taken to declare war, broke down and wept, refusing to vote because she didn't want war.
 No one wanted war But if there had to be war and a married woman, mother had occupied that seat, woman who understood men, who had taught her own boys that it was not manly to cry she would have had such wonderful con treol of her emotions-knowing that men abhor and detest hysterical women-al- though perhaps her knees were trembling and cold shivers were running up and down her spine, with no hesitation she would have been able to vote for war without any evidence of nervousness.
 No woman, however we'll informed, IS fitted or qualified to assume the office of government until she has experienced the ruling and management Of her own kir gdom-the home.
 If the contingency arises, when wom- an must go to Congress-and it seems that some are headed that way-choose married woman who has reared family a woman who has known what it Is to rise early and retire late, a woman who has nursed her children through measles and whooping cough and other ills that they are heir to, mother who has been called out into the back yard to umpire game of baseball, and received an Ernexpected summons by an excited courier to appear on the scene of battle in the back alley. where her own sons. and the grandson of black nanny, the cook, are at war with brickbats for weapons, and an inexhaustible supply on hand. l A woman could not be expected to un- derstand and pass intelligently on the big problems of men, nor the big affairs of state when she has never received the necessary training of settling the little problems of the boy and managed suc- cessfully the affairs of her own house. hold.
 l A woman, before she aspires to seat in Congress, should have had the blessed privilege of cooking biscuits, frying chicken and making cream gravy for a bunch of hungry boys, woman who has la. hof eyes, given first aid to the injured when her big boy got his collarbone broken in game of football, and applied the healing balm to his bleeding heart when his first sweetheart tilted him. It takes all this and more to round out the train
 ing that is so necessary to fit women for helping to control the affair of the greatest government in the world.
 From an economic standpoint she should know how to stretch the money it would take to dress one boy we'll and be able to clothe two boys and send them to school every morning spick and span, and looking as neat as any boy there, woman who has been true helpmate to a good husband. a comrade along life's way to him, and chum to her boys, who lhas told them tales when they were I small, entered with spirit into thelr games, studied with them when they grew older and kept on reading and studying as they approached manhood that she might not only keep pace with them. but forge just little ahead. a mother whose sons were never afraid nor ashamed to approach her with their prob