The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
j. s. PETT|COAT
RULED, AYERS
NOTED POE
U. S. Women Term Sir Wat
sons Remarks on American
Femininity as Bunk.
By GEORGE e. DURNO.

BY GEORGE IL. DURNO,
International News Service.
Is the United States ruled by a
"petticoat government"
Is America nation of women
worshipers?"
Were American women primarily
responsible for the Eighteenth
Amendment and subsequent more.
or-less prohibition?
To these three questions Sir Will
liam Watson, noted poet, yesterday
uttered a resonant British "Ayei'
n e e same much -maligned
women, however, hold woefully diff
ferent views on the subject of wom-
ems power in dry America. Two
representative women of the group
Sir William touched upon--Lavinia
Egan, of Shreveport, La, national
field director of the National Wom-
ans Party and one of its organizers,
and Lucy Branham, chairman of the
party's industrial council, when in
terviewed by International News
Service today, summed up the Brit
ishers remarks as bunk"
The Misses Egan and Branham
are we'll versed with woman's politi-
cal status in the United States. They
have participated in and watched
the fight for the vote, equal repre-
sentation and equal rights--and they
are still fighting for the latter two!
Their views are:
Proud of Prohibition.
Miss Egan-"I never knew any
one who took Sir William Watson
seriously. American women would
have a much easier time il they
actually held the position attributed
them. Women do not deserve the
whole credit for prohibition, but
they should be proud to have that
excellent state of affairs attributed
to their activity or influence"
Miss Observation-Disclosures is male
ridden. Women haven't the least
share of the political or economic
energy which is their just due. All
parties, even the most radical, are
dominated by men. Prohibition
came as result of a combination
or influences, although chief credit
must go to the middle-class bust
ness man who could not afford or
dlQ not care to see his workers
drunk"
Miss Egan opined that 1.-The Eng
Ilsn seem to have constituted them
serves the critics of the whole
world" and that Sir William had
given "a rather idiotic demonstra.-
tons of lack of information. She
proudly admitted that women were
working for. equal rights, and de-
CARED that American women were
displaying no more elf-conscious-
ness IMAM any other. women.
English. Women Started 1t.
LAS a matter Of fact" she said,
the English woman won the origi.'
nal victory. in the fight for a
voice in government, although It
Is true that the American victory
nad slightly wider scope in that
the Young age is twenty-one, as
against thirty in England.
relative to his nib's charge that
america is a nation of women
Worsnlpers, might add that from
personal observation it is my opin-
ION mat American men have a
greater show of respect for women
than most other, nationalities, but
they certainly are not worshipers.
Ihank goodness, we women don't
nave TO contend with the insuffer.
able feeling Of superiority held by
all Englishmen."
similar views were expressed 10y
MISS Bfanham, except that she held
a. silghtly more novel view on the
subject Of prohibition.
Slr william might do WE'LL" she
said, Ito interview some of our mid
dle-class business men on that uues-
tlon-particularly those employers
VINO IN the past saw their workers
m mat delightfully."- plant stage for
"hlch our poet friend apparently is
so thankful. OF course, women re-
voted against the squandering of
me weekly pay envelope in the cor
'er saloon, but it is to the employer.
rather than to women. that Sir Bin
must take his troubles. :"
J., Nav RIIildin1 pnrnoi+e