Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-04-20
LADY ASTOR ADVISES
WOMEN ON POLITICS
Says Ono OF Reasons For Fail
ure of Clvlllz alton Is One
Sex Rule.

Now York, April 20.-Viscountess
Astor. who arrived hero yesterday
rom England 10 attend conference of
pan-American women Mt Baltimore,
week. made an address last night
TO n largo audience at Town Hall.
There were notable ONE and men
all parts OF tho country present
and she was given n warm greeting.
Lady Astor began with extending
greetings TO tha women OF New York.
Her words received enthusiastic ac-
acknowledgement and she proceeded TO
tell her audience how she happened
to go into politics. II was entirely
her husbands fault, she declared. for
he urged her 80 strongly that she
could not resist. Shc said II was
strange. too, because viscount Aston
Is a very domcsticated man.
She told the members and friends
Of the League of Women Voters who
planned the meeting that one sex
cannot hope TO govern tho world.
IT believe" said Lady Aston. that
one OF tho reasons why civilization
s'No AoaitA HV ioitSiN0bi1 10 lil0t IL lliS
had one sided government. Let's not
make tho mistake OF allowing that
TO happen again. / feel men havo a
greater sense Of Justice and we OF
mercy. They must borrow our mercy
and We must use their Justice. wo
are new brooms. Let us see that We
sweep the right rooms"
Women, mercifully, have no politi-
cal pasts," she remarked In the course
of her explanation OF why her sex
has gone into politics. And with all
the mistakes OF sex legislation to
guide us we should know what to
avoid. Personally i feel that every
woman should take an active part
in local government.
In entering politics, LADY Aston
said. women are UP against gcnern-
She counscled them TO begin .thoir
political development by putting their
hands on the foundation. local poll
tics.
Mercifully. she declared. women
have no political past, but they have
all the mistakes OF sex Legislation
with its appalling failures 10 guide
them"
Ever since woman's consciousness
looked beyond the material" she said
mems consciousness has feared her
vaguely; he has gone TO her for IN.
spirstion. he has relied on her for al
that 10 best and most ideal I'm his
life. yet by sheer material force ht
has limited her. He has. without
knowing IL. westernized the hareu
mind of tho East. I don't believe h,
knows 81 yet. 80 We must break IL &,
him gently. We must go on beins
his guide. hi. mother and his betteI
half. But we must prove 70 him tina
We are "a necessary half. not only II
private but in political life. The hes
way that We can do that IN to show
him our ambitions are not personal.
Let tho men zee that we desire
better. safer. and cleaner world 70
our children and their children W
realize hat only by doing our biz b,
facing unclcan things with cleanli
ness, by facing wrongs with right, b.
going fearlessly into all things ;hA
may be disaErccahie, that we Wi
somehow make 81 a little bette
world"
Lady Astor said she faced the hop
that women OF all countries would d
their duty and raise a generation c
men and women who will look upo
war and all that leads 10 II with a
much horror as we now look upon
cold blooded murder"
III ws want this new world. we ca
only get 1t by striving for g." sh
/ said. The real struggle will he with
J in ourselves, 10 put out OF our cor
! sciousness. Of. our hearts and OF on
4 thoughts AL thai; makes for WAL
: Hate. envy. greed. pride, force AT
! material ambition"
D Lady Aston asserted she knew N
welcome she received today had moth
ing TO do with her. Ever since RI
|. first entered the mother Of Paris
ments. she had realized hat she ceai
, ed 10 DO a person and had become
, symbol. The only remarkable thir
about her was her children. she sal
When she entered Parliament, I'll
recalled some OF the members iooks
upon her more as a pirate than a pi
grim. A pioneer may be a picturesqI
8 figure. She added. but often AS a rath'
lonely one. Still. sh. said. the men
the house bore their shock wi
~dauntless decency, and no body Of m,
a could have been kinder and fsirer.
II The clothes nearly all women a
wearing nowadays are u~nfortuna'
o from her point OF view. Lady Asst
u said. Nothing lets the sex down III
running about half-naked. There
" no use Of talking about equality,
y We only use our liberty to show o.
" h-ideousness. Last night / wore
dress ] had used since 1918. II "
keep your eye on your body all 4
" time. you can't keep 10 on your sou
How about the happers and tn,
uniform" che repeated. 9Th,
clothes r unfortunate. but that
their mothers fault. The first thi
q woman ought 10 teach her child
D. obedience"
Or In running for reelection 10 !
10 place in Parliament next Rutun
Lady AstOr said she would not $
NJ one plank In her platform would
az exactly dry. but certainly II would 7
g. be wet. She had never seen a man
u woman who was made more unself
g or better by drink. but she had sc
hundreds ruined by e."