The Holly chieftain., 1922-02-02

than you can stop dog fight by waving um-
brella on the pavement. But the great majority
of younger women are realizing today that II
change is to be made, II We to get nearer
single moral standard 1t is for to bring this
about
Women have, 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. Notwith-
standing their bobbed hair and their abbreviated
skirts and even their cigarette smoking. they are
capable, more interesting and think oftener
and clearer than the types of their mothers gen.
Grafton.
.eThe girl of today is splendid creature" she
asserts. "Her cigarette smoking and bobbed hair
are Just outward signs of that fapper stage
through which she is passing.
.sGirls today developing remarkable execu-
tive ability and leadership This naturally makes
them more Independent. They are doing things
their mothers never would have dreamed of un-
dertaking. They succeeding In every field OF
business and industry they enter.
But more than that-they are 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 finding them able to un-
derstand even their pettiest problems
4Woman's place is still within the home. The
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. Wom-
en- by living more systematic and orderly lives,
are doing what twenty years ago they would have
regarded as impossible
Mrs. Oliver n. p. Belmont has been elected pres
tdent of the National Womans party, following her
gift of $4,000 with which to complete the pur-
chase of the entire block composing the "od cap
itol" ut Washington. She announces that new
bat ty, fhe Ra1d ts-fth
voters organized in every stnte to carry on"
against the old political parties. There is to be
a woman's 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 Woman's party Is the militant wing
Of the suffragists Its members have the
courage of their convictions, as shown by the
White House picketing 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 back Of plan to give to mankind q
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 q
vamp, but a 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 t.
their mothers.
Mrs. Elizabeth Murray Shepherd will edit the
New Worlds History" And she says
1.-THE greatest tragedy OF the race was wher
men wrested control from women. Since the power
of selection was taken from woman mans era Of
selfishness and war came upon the earth. We
admit hus nada fht
world progress in mnny ways, but If we weigi
the murders woes, vices and other oppression
against this benefit of us can help bein.
agreed that womau's era was the better Th
bi-sexual state in which we now are will soor
grow Into Golden Age with all sex warning owe
with. Neither will rule the other but both vii
contribute to the development of humanity"