The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-14
ENGLISH WOMEN
WANT NEW LAWS
Favor an Act to Create
Economic Equality
for Empire
WANT RESPONSIBILITY


LONDON .- Complete economic
Independence is ur.mI'r1 for mo
wives NJ Great IutaIn within the
nrvt fcw months. \ royal commits
sion appointed hv fl. lofd chauccl-
Tor now ig ,ousld,tiuE the ways ana
mems of placing women, IN every
sense pf the word tho equal OF mon.
Tho lnw a. present in Great Brit
ain gives women uli tho privileges
of mon, but few of the rcgponsibili-
tics within the last fpW weeks Cases
I'm tho law courts have proved that
although inoy have the equal fran
chiso rights aud tho same qunlifi-
cntiuua as mon to be members of
public bodice. from n sat IN the
house OF commons down TO the hum
bic urban district council set on the
question of debt they are non
oniity. their husbands nrc held ie-
gally responsible.
Take u purely Hypothetical case.
Lady Astor, the wife OF Lord AstOr,
aud a memier of tho British house
Of commons, representing conriit-
ucnCy Of 10000 very responsible
mcu ana very Intelligent women. rs
entitled TO vote On their bchalf IN
the highest session In the land, but
should she In moment OF uhcrra-
tion hurl briCkbnt through tho
window OF Buckingham palace Az IA
roprisal for some imaginary griev-
anCc IT would be- her husband. Wnld.
orf. second Niscouut Astor. who
would be arrnlgncd before the
courts of law 10 make roparatlon.
The women of Great Britain do
not consider this fair II they are
going 5000 on privileges they want
to 40 $3.50 on responsibility. They
now are moving heaven and earth"
To get repealed the old lawr, many
OF which date from the time of
King Canute. Lady Astor is their
champion. Already SHE has n bill
put forward IN her name TO abolish
the legal inequalities of women.
That followed the famous Peel
case, In which husband and his
wife were Jointly charged with
fraud, and the case ngain@ the wife
failed because In law II was pre-
sumed that she must have been CO.
creed by her husband.
inndCQuncy Discovered.
After tho bill was presented
however, other famous cases came
before THE courts, and II was dis
covered that the present law made
the husband responsible for his
wife's debts Therefore Lady Astor's
bill was discovered to be inadequate; !;
nevertheless, II served as domon-
stration, and the commission now IL
seeking to remedy all these defects
and straighten out the old law 40
that 1t will apply equally and uu-
equivocally to man and woman
alike.
II have little hope OF the bill be-
Ing passed during the present scs.
sion" said Mrs. 1Iubback, parlia-
mcntary secretary to tho National
Union of Societies for Equal Citizen
ship to the International News cor
respondent. ALREADY they are over.
stocked, loglslatively speaking, be
yond their capacity. The measure
We are particularly anxious TO see
through is based on the suggestion
that the most vital grievance still
suffered by wife is that unless she
has private means or "A profession
She IS still economically dependent
on her husband,
The measure win provide tha
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