The Cordova daily times., 1922-12-04
By DANIEL o'coNNELL

| 6y OANIEL OISINNEEI | DUBLIN, Dec. A. - Women politi
 clans are a failure. That is Ire I lands firm conviction. In the last \ Dali there were six women, and oi
 these only two were returned at che
 last election. Of these Mrs. o'cal llsghan, widow of the murdered Lord
 Mayor of Limerick, was returned un
 opp6ssa, and the famous Mary Nc 1 swinsy jast barely retained her seat ! against indeuendent candidates ir Cork City. The most bttted oppo nents Of the women candidates Are the women voters. Women should De kept out of parliament, they say. They talk too much and do not
 represent the true views of the col | Teens of Ireland is the view I have heard them express over and over \ again. Countess Markievicz was
 one of those banished into the will I 6erness by the voters, but she still
 takes an active part with the de I Valeraites. She was recently seen in the South with the ex-president of the Dail be-spectac1ed and a rifle swung over her shoulder, wear ing a field green uniform.
 If the British House of Commons is dissolved the unique record 'of being members of three parliaments at one time is broken for MT. de Valera, the Irish Republican leader, and for Mir John MacNeill. Minister of Education in the Free State par liament. Both of these gentlemen are members of the Free State Par lament, British House of Commons and Ulster parliament. So also were Arthur Griffith, but, of course, none of them ever took the oath in either House of Commons or Bel fast parliament. But the four of them had been prior to the last cleo tion in Southern Ireland members of four parliamanis. These were Dali Eireann, the Southern Irish House of Commons, Belfast Parlia- mant and the Lopdon one. But they never took their seats in any or the three last named.
 General Tom Ennis, who is now back from Cork, having conducted very successful operations down there On behalf of the Free State, tells an interesting story Of the sang froid of Michael Collins. One night during the Black and Tan op- erations in Dublin he and Collins were upstairs in a saloon where the Irish Republican Army leaders used to hold their counsel meetings. Only Ennis and Collins were there at the time and the Black and Tans raided the street, Collins ordered Ennis to come to the counter with him and called for two pints ef potter. Ennis, who Is a strict tee,
 xAiar, could only be got with great vang t6 take any of the liquor re, was most distastefui. Soon } it - Black and Tans entered ter ' and saw the couple with le plac> rints in front of them vo large bsIigved would not have ollins they an drink and paid nc lch comm Ne pair. Thus botf tention to tL fhrsadth's escape Id another hail
 ,as seen 8 bif The last decade | rts from Ire :odus of the aristoci ears ago | nd, but up 10 a few Nlfn hote IS possible to meet in Di earonet' Ids, lords, knights and casfbl' the score. It was then N0oi
 go into any first-cfass S. " d as likely as not meet COZ. real live lords and have wldA y and soda with them. 10 drtuk tn q few of his Britannia HaateNy 8 no unusual thing for a con n gardner of Dublin, but now sn t t is changed. With the trouble
 the last few years the gentkiner
 h the handles to their name8 arfay