The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-18
WOMAN PROPOSES
PLURAL MARRIAGE
Miss Alice Robertson Is
Urged to Back Bill
in Congress

Special 10 The World.
WASHINGTON -- All sorts OF
things come to congressman I'm
his daily mail.
All sorts of. things come 10 Miss
Alice Robertson, oklahoma, the lone
congresswomon also.
Most OF Miss Robertson's corre-
spondents are women. The very
latest request that she sponsor legis-
lation TO correct what her corre-
spondent believed manifest Unjust
ice came not from Greenwich VII
lage, that center OF strange ideas. II
came from the swirling, busy west
1t came from n woman who want
cd immediate action on a bill TO
permit man to have more than one
wife. Two, the correspondent
thought, was about right for the
average man.
II have Travelled quite n bit and
have talked 10 lots of women, both
married and single" says the woma n
who wants Miss Allce to mother the
plural marriage bill land find
there are n great number Of mar
riyti women wi,p are willing ;i,-i,
husbands should get other wives, I.
for one. am quite willing. as we have
q good farm that would support two
IN antilles. And there are many 9TH
ers the same"
Writing "as woman to woman A."
Miss Alice's correspondent saws,
Some time ago n man from Colo
RADIO wrote congress about plural
marriages, and congress ruled It
down.
Now as near ms 7 can figure II
there are three and one-fifth women
to every man in the United States,
and / would guess that this pro-
portion would he more than doubled
In the European countries.
"Is II Just and fair, Miss Robert
son. that these extra women should
he compelled 20 20 through life
alone: that they will have no chance
10 enjoy tho pleasures OF q home and
family, just because congress says.
MOI?
"Of course, don't think poor
man who cannot take caro- OF one
family should be allowed two. But
any man, who has sufficient income,
or large enough farm, lot him have
two or more wives. Thot would
give many a poor lonely woman a
home.
Il have talked 10 quite few
single (flappers) who are getting up
in years and they don't think II
right that they should have no
chance for a home and family. Some
OF them have cried az they told me
OF the loneliness Of their lives.
"You may laugh nj this letter, ="
SAYS congresswoman's correspondent
"hut just look II over and see II #
seems fair 10 you that these single
women should be forced 10 go on
with their lonely lives, when they
crave home and families"
The extra-wuman question has
heen a live one through all recorded
time. but with beginning. Of woman
control has become more acute, with
neither women nor men understand
ing n NIL.
Perhaps nothing shows the lack
~ understanding more than story
told hv Mrs, Harriet Taylor Upton'
vice chairman of the Republican Ma .
tion Com mittee, who is only second
"a ConRresswoman Robertson in the
public eye.
"a group Of men were discussing
nj their club recently the new noliti-
cal power OF women and how theY
have 10 come into distinction" said
Mrs. Upton. "Ali OF the men grew
| suddenly contrlte and admitted that
thew hadn't kiFsed their wives for
wears. one OF the number decided
he would 70 right home and salute
his wife as a husband should,
"He arrived home al 6 I'm tho ep'' =
ming and promptly kissed his wife.
And she ne promptly collapsed and
cried bitterly.
ooh. this IL the ha rdest dny of my
life,' she walled First thing this
morning Bobby fell out OF the tree
and broke his nose; thon the cook
and the Ice man had a quarrel, and