Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-16
Put Up as Many Feminine as
Male Candidates, Says
Leader of Suffrage Party
in Nevada 4
BY FAY STEVENSON

| NEW YOtth.- Ine EuSllSu WOIu-
en- are way ahead of us politically.
We talk Of equal rights over here,
but they are putting equal rights
into effect over there"
| With a nod of her shapely, we'll
poised head and a keen snap to her
expressive blue eyes, that is the way
Miss Anne H. Martin, Of Nevada,
formerly chairman of the National
Woman's party and for many years
president of the Nevada Suffrage as
ISOLATION and first woman to run
for United States senator, expressed
kherself in regard to "us feminine
politicians"
Miss Hartin has just returned
| from abroad, where she has been
studying the European attitude to-
ward women holding office, and yes
| terday, when I talked to her at the
National Arts club, she informed me
| that while she wished to be COMO
structive rather than destructive in
speaking about our feminine break
America" have an awful big step to
take yet until we reach that de-
| lightful f1fty-fifty situation with
beauty parlor on one side of the SEN
ate ard a barber shop on the other.
American women are still in the
academic stage of working for equal
ity laws that do not equalize when
interpreted by men," said Miss Mar
tin. English women are showing a
genius for practical politics and 60
ing out and taking equality for
themselves by putting women into
government. For instance, they
have started an organization called
the Woman's Freedom league, head
ed by the famous Mrs. Despard.
This league is going to try to place
800 women in parliament.
'In cooperation with this organi-
zation there is a woman's election
committee which is trying to raise a
million shillings, or about $3.50 900,
candidates for parliament. You see
the women are working for equal
rights through the government, not
just by mere vote"
Then you think that when wom-
en- wish to put certain bills through
or wish to make new laws for the
betterment of their own sex they
ought to be able to go to women in
stead Of having to go to a man to
present her pleas" I suggested to
M Martin.
THAT is the way they are going
to do in England" she replied. "And
| that is the only way we can ever
get real equal rights in this coun-
| try. We need as many women SEN
| ators and representatives as we need
men in order to assert feminine
rights, and then it will not be neces-
sary to beg men to put certain bills
through for US.
Laws by themselves will never
equalize women. Women will have
to selec candidates for the legisla-
ture, congress and the senate. And
whe'' women are named for the SEN
ate from different states it is up to
| every woman in the country to help
her to be elected, regardless of
party"
Miss Martin says that the German
women also have made great prog
ress politically since the adontion
of their new constitution. There
are thirty-seven women in the
Reichstag and women from all
walks of life are taking their place
in the new government.
"Dr. Gertrude Banner is the lead.
ing feminine spirit" said Miss Mar
tin, "but there is not woman in
Germany who is not ready to sup
port her sisters and back them up
for any office which formerly be-
longed to the sterner sex.
when I attended a meeting of
the reichstag and noted the keen
attention the men paid whenever a
Woman member spoke, I was very
much impressed. There was not the
slightest telling of oh. it's only a
woman member speaking Her ar.
guments and statements were heed.
ed and passed upon without the
slightest reference or thought to
SEX"
In Italy, Miss Martin admitted
the Latin ideal prevails, although
there are several women leaders
who are working for an independent
goal. But it is England, with her
Lady Aston, and her Mrs. Despard
and the plan to place 800 women in
parliment, which most interested
Miss Martin.
"We think that we are ahead in
the political race because we are a
new Country" laughed Miss Martin
"but after all England beats us be-
cause she has so much experience
back of her. The women over there