Evening star., 1923-07-08
WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND POLITICS.
By Carrie Chapman Gait and Net
tie Rogers Shuler. New York
Charles Scribner'S Sons.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND POLITICS.
By Carrie Chapman Gait and Net
tie Rogers Shuler. New York:
Charles Scribner'S Sons.
Not a history of the suffrage move
ment. Instead the story of a single
inner phase of that movement. After
a brief sketch of the beginnings OF
suffrage and a passing tribute TO
certain outstanding women VINO IN
augurated and supported ii, these
writer's take up the real and imme-
diate business in hand-that OF study
ing American politics as the potent
and persistent enemy of the suffrage
idea. II is this point of contact-the
mutually hostile impact of the wom-
an movement and American politics
that sets the purpose and outlines
the course of this study. In effect. it
Is an arraignment Of American po-
iitlCal activities Set implacably
against the franchise for women. A
ment. 1t was not an antagonistic
public sentiment. nor yet an uned-
hcated or indifferent public senti-
ment. that so long delayed justice
10 women; 1t was the DETECTING and
the thwarting of public sentiment
through the trading and the trickery.
the buying and the selling of Amer
lean politics. We think that we can
prove this" This book. drawn from
records and documents Of authentic
ised by these authors The evidence
appears sound. However. the long
war Is over Woman suffrage is n
iact SO the involuntary question
rises. Why go over this ground? Men
a., ana women are now politically equal.
Ihey must work together. They
should work together. Why go back
10 recriminationS? The answer given
mere to this anticipated question is
that this body of evidence will be
Oh great value in any of the con-
stantly recurring struggles toward a
larger democracy. A most interest
ing book, in any event-spirited, en-
erSeic and exceedingly we'll pre-
sented However. once more, one
wonders. why not, in place of this
IN 1t: period of Simon-pure forget
ting by the women? They are sure to
nurify politics. anyway. Will they
NOT mot 40 this much more quickly and
o"Tnpletely without the irritant OF
a long remembering? Interesting
though. whether or not it he the part
or a larger wisdom.
MoSILf SALLY. BY L. c. Wode-
house. author of THE Little War
rIor. etc. New York: George II.
Doran Company.
The title fits the story like a duck's
loot 10 the mud. Sally steps right
out on the first page here and from
this point on she manages matters in
d way TO Justify fully, not only her
commence in her own powers but to
justify as well the readers growing
aHectlon for Sally. There is not a
great deal for Sally to do, to be sure
Ior rss Is summer job-light and
uhexactlng as summer job should
De Whatever does pertain to the
business in hand. however, Sally
turns off in an airy buoyancy of eff
feet that is delightful. Sally has
men on her hands, all of them in
need OF mothers care. Sally is the
mother. a brother of fat plans and
thin achievement must be constantly
held by the pinafore lest he leap off
or sorts. has to be engineered
through the uncertain business of
writing plays. Dear old Mr. Some
body has to be looked after And
when. with little windfall of money
coming her way, Sally goes to Eu-
rope. men in need of bucking up
just naturally drift over Sally's way
Among them is a red-headed youth
who is almost equal to Sally in the
begullements of his personality. You
VIII like him. Pretty as a picture
busy as bee. packed with good
sense and good fun. kind as an an
gel under a charming sharpness now
anu then, sally is helpmate in a
thousand for just the gift of
bright and clever invention that this
author so clearly possesses. of which
he has already made more than one
delightful demonstration.
IN THE LAND OF COTTON. BY Dor
othy Scarborough. author of From
Southern Porch" etc. New York !:
The Macmillan Company.
A story of Texas. the ''land of cot
ton" As a place to set out from and
go back to, the author makes use of a
plantation-the planter, his wife, his
children and the varied assortment of
outsiders that the hospitable southerner
so easily incorporates as a part of his
pleasant household. This plantation
makes the advantage point from which
the real purpose of the story becomes
poignantly visible. For beside the life of
the planter and his family is that of the
tenant farmer, the convict laborer, the
political trickster, the official conspira-
tor-all under the dominion of King
Cotton, monopolist of the soil of Texas
and arbiter of the fate of it's people.
Under this dominion character develops