The herald., 1922-02-09

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you cannot mend things by looking on. any more
than you can stop dog fight by waving an UNI
brea on the pavement But the great majority
of younger women are realizing today that, II a
change is to be made If we are to get nearer a.
single moral standard it is for women to bring this
about.
women have on the whole, been. or tried to
be. what men expected them to be. If women ex
pected more of men they too. would do the same
Mrs Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of The
odore Roosevelt. believes the girls of today are
superior to their sisters of yesterday. Notwth
standing their bobbed hair and their abbreviated
skirts and even their cigarette smoking. they are
more capable. more interesting and think oftenef
and clearer than the types of their mothers gen
GRAFTON.
1.-THE girl Of today is a splendid creature" she
asserts "Her cigarette smoking and bobbed nar
are Just outward signs of that fapper stays
through which she is passing,
"Girls today are developing remarkable execu
tive ability and leadership. This naturally makes
them more independent. They are doing things
their mothers never would have dreamed Of IN
dertaking They are succeeding in every field Of
business and industry they enter.
"But more than that--they becoming better
wives and mothers. The franchise has widened
their point of view. With their greater under
standing, men are discovering them better com
radeS and children are nnung thein apie " un
derstand even their pettiest problems.
"Woman's place is still within the home. Inc
very highest type of woman today is that one who
can add civic responsibilities to her domestic du-
ties without sighting the latter in any way Won
on. nv living more systematic and orderly lives
are doing what twenty years ago they would have
regarded as impossible
Mrs. Oliver III. p Belmont has been elected pres
ident of the National Woman's party. following nef
gift of $4,000 with which to complete the pu''
chase of the entire block composing the "old cap
tolr mt Washington She announces that new
ePetticoat party" will be in the field with women
voters organized in every state to carry 90
against the old political parties. There Is to Dc
woman's platform and woman candidate i~
president The first issue, however. is PROPOSED
amendment to the Constitution to abolish all leen
determinations against women. The slogan
the "Petticoat party" is practically this: aaS
has got things into pretty mess. Inc won''
must clean up the mess.
Mrs. Belmont has money and social position
The National Woman's party is the militant wing
of the women suffragists. Its members have ms
courage of their convictions. was shown by inc
White House picketing the Jail terms and the nun
ger strikes still fresh in the public memory.
Miss Jeanette Rankin. Miss Anne Morgan, Pm
cess Catacuzene, Charlotte Perkins Gilman ana
OtnerS uTc DdCh VI u pau W give W n'"''-
"New Worlds History" 1t will give the truth
history" and set woman straight in the eyes OF w
world, like this: Woman was created before man.
the rib story is man-made Cleopatra was mo-
vamp but a political and military genius 'cs
Of Arc never heard voices; she was miluu
maid who joyed I'm the clash Of battle. Henry =
Navarro and Napoleon did not hold candle
their mothers.
Mrs. Elizabeth Murray Shepherd VIII edit =
New Worlds History" And she says:
'"The greatest tragedy Of the race was ~
men wrested control from women. Since the po~I
of selection was taken from woman mans es =
selfishness and war came upon the eartn. -
must admit that mans ambition has mace -
world progress in many ways, but II we 49,
the murders, woes, vices and other oppfes
against this benefit none of US can help -
agreed that woman's era was the better
bisexual state In which we now are wiz
grow into Golden Age with all sex warning ~
with. Neither will rule the other but Do'n g
contribute to the development Of humanity.