Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-24
WOMEN IN VIRGINIA
FAIL IN R|GHTSSTEP
Opposition Among Own Sex
Helps Block Measure in
State Legislature.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The star.
RICHMOND, Va. February 20
Equal rights for women Will not be
accorded them in Virginia by this
session of the legislature. The legls-
Iators have in the house turned their
backs on the proposition that would
best them by law with all the rights,
privileges and disabilities of mere
man. The fact that the members of
the lower branch of the Legislature
had seen fit to deny to them the claim
that the women made did not daunt
or deter them and their champions
from making the attempt in the SEN
ate. and Senator Parsons, the lone
republican in the upper branch. came
to the rescue and presented the same
bill that had been rejected in the
house. Then came the women to say
for and against the measure when
IL was taken up before the senate
committee for courts of justice.
Women Argue on Rights.
The Virginia League of Women
Voters came to the fore and at once
took position against the bill. the
speaking being done by Miss Adele
Clark. who said that there are many
things that initiate against women
that should, in her opinion, be cor
rected. but she was disposed to go
slow and to let these things come to
them gradually and not at one time:
that the women should be given full
chance to realize and appreciate all
that is being done for them by the
men, and she had no fault to find
with the way they had been treated
In Virginia.
Then came Mrs. Bunita Matthews
attorney at Washington, ID. c.. to
speak for the national woman's party,
and she wanted everything for the
women in Virginia that is being
asked or which has been granted in
any other Ter, state Right there the
The committee took up the matter in
executive session and passed it by.
The issue is a dead one for fair, for
the committee will not in the rush
be able to reach II again this session.
Twenty organizations are aligned
against the bill.
Free School Books.
There is pending before the gem
eral assembly a bill which will vest
all the counties in the state with the
right to buy and furnish school books
TO all pupils in the public schools.
The BOOKS would belong TO the
state. and the parents of the pupils
would he responsible to the schools
Tor the books which are loaned TO the
children. The bill has received favor
able action at the hands of the com
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consideration when il is reached or,
The calendars. There is opposition to
the proposition, however and befor.
II becomes a law it will have to run
the gamut of the senate committee.
TRA schools in all parts of the state
are being improved, but at the same
time there are several sections in
which the terms have been shortened,
FOR the reason that the increase in
pay of teachers has had the effect of
shortening the term
In one or two sections the schools
nave been closed because of lack of
attendance. the parents declining to
send their children. though the schools
nave been kept open for them for six
weeks. Where the schools have been
closed is just where they have been
and are most needed.
ChiropractorS at War.
There are two schools of this class
or healers operating in Etrsinia-one
class averrinE that the other school
Is dumping into this state all the
graduates in order to get a footing.
There are two bills to create boards
of examiners of this class of healers,
representing the two boards Each is
opposed to the other. One faction
has been operating here for several
years. having the stamp of examina-
ton for that class of service from
the state board of medical examiners.
The physicians do not object TO these
people coming in. merely recurring
that their training shall be so
changed that the graduates when
practicing shall be able to make a
diagnosis of cases that go to them.
minister medicine. and surgery to
them is foreign. Back bone manipu-
latton and the correction of ailments
tn that way is their profession.