The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29

are eight women teachers among the S4 members of the German Catholic party, and the social democrats have 15 women, one of whom is a trades union official and another was for merly servant.
 woman's Rights Advancing.
 In talking with women of various classes l find that all appreciate their situation In the new social re- gime. They are demanding equal rights and equal wages. For in- stance, Mrs. Von Velsen, the head of the Union of German Women's societies, tells me that about Il per cent of all the employees are women but that so far there is no law for Hike wages for like work" The women are now getting about three fGurths as much as the men, although in the civil service both sexes are paid the same salaries, if they hold the same title. Formerly a married woman could not be public school teacher, but by a new law she is admitted. She can even become Pres ident of the republic, In which she has the advantage of her sister of the United States. and it makes no diff ference whether she is married or single It would be fine to have bachelor maid in the White House. Indeed. they say that the young Ger man men are now more interested in the college bred girl than in one who is less educated, for they see in the former a possible future states woman or high government official
 The Union of German Women's So- cieties has 920,000 members. It has to do with all sorts of social prob lems. It has place on the film cen sorship and Is pushing the movement to prohibit the sale of opium cigar cites. It is also interested in prohi- Ebition and in all methods for the pre- vention of vice.
 The Women's Unions.
 As to the German women's socie- ties, they are legion, and all co-oper- ate with the Union of German Wom- ems Societies. There are, all to- gether, nearly 1000 such organiza- tions. There are Teachers unions Nurses unions. Social Workers, House Tea chers' societies, a Prohibit tion union and German League Against the Consumption of Alcohol There Is Union of Official Women, of Agricultural Teachers. of Music Teachers and of Dressmakers. The women of the Post and Telegraph dents theirs. and so have the Railway Workers and those interested in or l employed by the government. The women of the Red Cross also have a large organization. and there are many other associations of various kinds.
 The movement for woman's educa ! tion has grown since the war. There are one third more females in the universities now than in 1S13 At the latter date there were only four women studying theology, while there are now 27; there were B studying law and there are now 169; l ( 1, ct, " in rr cd n a n there are now S24, while the philoso- phy students the year before the war numbered 1,790, and now there are 22716.
 Before the war the women of the middle classes had no professions They kept house or engaged in social work, church work, and such things as nursing. Now and then a girl be- came typist or bookkeeper. but it was beneath her dignity to clerk in store. After the war began all sorts of women kent into the factories and into all kinds of businesses on patri- otic grounds, and at it's close about 200,000 women were doing war work in Bavaria alone. There were almost 300 000 so employed In Saxony, and in Prussia the number was about 1.250, 900. There are now more than 900 900 German women in commercial pursuits and of these more than one tnlru or million nave DuSlneSSeS Ol their own.
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 Inside the Reichstng.
 But come with me to the Reichstag and see the new German statesw om- an at work. We have walked through the Tiergarten, the great park in the l.leartt of Berlin, and have climbed the sandstone steps of the gorgeous Parliament building. It covers more than three acres, and cost about the same as our national library. We enter the bronze doors, go by a pom pous old soldier with 50 brass but tons on his blue coat and are di- rected by him to a messenger. also greatly be-buttoned. who leads us into great dome lighted by wheel of electric lights as biz around as haystack. The floor Is covered with a red velvet carpet and out of it's center rises a huge statue of the old Kaiser. Wilhelm l, while paint ] ings of German victories hang on the walls. It is here that we meet Frau Dr. Schreiber. the member of Con gress who is to show us the sights. As we go on through one beautiful hall after another I comment on the splendor of the building.
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