Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-02-09

against marriage 1t is a short-sghted view, for
you cannot mend things by looking on, any more
than you can stop dog fight by waving an um-
brela the pavement. But the great majority
of younger women realizing today that if
change is to be made, If we to get nearer
single moral standard 1t is for to bring this
about.
women have, on the whole, been, tried to
be, what men expected them to be. If women
pected more of men they, too would do the same"
Mrs Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of The
odore Roosevelt, believes the girls of today
superior to their sisters of yesterday. NOtwith-
standing their bobbed hair and their abbreviated
skirts and their cigarette smoking, they are
more capable, more interesting and think Oftener
and clearer than the types of their mothers gen.
Grafton.
"The girl of today is a splendid creature" she
asserts. "Her cigarette smoking and bObbed hair
are just outward signs of that fapper stage
through which she Is passing
"Girls today are developing remarkable execu-
tive ability and leadership. This naturally makes
them more Independent. They doing things
their mothers never would have dreamed of
dertaking. They are succeeding in every field Of
business and industry they enter. ~
"But more than that-they are becoming better
wives and mothers. The franchise has wfdened
their point of view. With their greater under
standing, men discovering them better COM
rades and children finding them able to un-
derStdnQ even lnelr pelteSl prODiefIS
"Womans place is still within the home. The
very highest type of woman today is that who
can add civic responsibilities to her domestic du-
ties without sighting the latter in any way. Wom-
en- by living systematic and orderly lives,
are doing what twenty years ago they would have
regarded as impossible"
Mrs Oliver H. P Belmont has been elected pres
ident of the National WOmans party, following her
gift of $146,00O with which to complete the pur-
of tha he "Old can
ito" at Washington. She announces that new
"Pettcoat party" will be in the field, with women
voters organized in every state to carry on"
against the old political parties. There is to be
a womans platform and a woman candidate for
president The first issue, however, is proposed
amendment to the Constitution to abolish all legal
determinations against women The slogan of
the "Petticoat party is practically this: Man
has got things into pretty mess. The women
must clean up the mess"
Mrs. Belmont has money and social position
The National Womans party is the militant wing
of the women 'suffragists Its members have the
courage of their convictions, as was shown by the
White House picketng, the Jail terms and the hun
ger strikes still fresh in the public memory.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, Miss Anne Morgan Prin
cess Catacuzene, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and
others are back of a plan to give to mankind 81
"New Worlds History" 1t will give the truth of
history" and set straight In the eyes of the
world like this: Woman was created before man :.
the rib story is man-made Cleopatra was not a
vamp, but political and military genius Joan
of Arc never heard voices; she was a military
maid who joyed in the clash of battle. Henry of
Navarro and Napoleon did not hold candle to
their mothers.
Mrs. Elizabeth Murray Shepherd will edit the
"New Worlds History" And she says:
1.-The greatest tragedy of the race was when
men wrested control from women Since the power
of selection was taken from woman mans era of
selfshness and upon the earth We
must admit that mans ambition has made the
world progress in many ways but if we weigh
the murders woes. vices and other oppression
against this benefit none of us can help being
agreed that wOman's era was the better This
bi-seXual state in which will soon
grow into Golden Age with all sex warning over
with. Neither will rule the other but both will
contribute to the development of humanity"