The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-01-20
TO THE DISCRIMINATER IN OUR
MIDST

Our private correspondent has been running
around with his to the ground again. Last eve
ming he slipped in through the basement door to
inform us that women in this community are being
Disseminated" against Tracing the report further
correspondent found that of the foremost
reasons back OF this discrimination the statement
of a male member OF our body polite that as much
as he admired he could get himself
into the mood TO vote for one for public office. Thus
this bit of comment is directed toward that bold
conscientious objecter with the tmidity to
into broad field where angels might we'll fear to
tread well this reckless commentator.
Dear sir are you not conversant with the
markable record that some of our women have made
III public office? Take the mark made by Mrs Bib
Graves of Alabama You will recall that she was
appointed to brief term in the United States Senate
by her husband the Governor of Alabama, indcat-
ing in itself the power of women in private well
as public life. In the halls of Congress, Senator
Graves Immediately came forward with that ster
ling proposal to conscript women well men for
military service in time of The idea greeted
with unanimous approval by veterans the length
and breadth of the land who avowed in the next
war to have some good cooks as well as companions
in the field.
Then there is CongressWoman Jenckes of IN
diana. Standing up there on the political parapet
she demands that steps be taken at to pillow
under the Japanese cherry trees which decorate the
grounds of the national capital They are says she
a sinister influence
Perhaps you can recall Susan Pankhurst who for
some ears dominated the British Empire, and
own Carrie Natcc, vic made her mark in the world:
with an in the head of many barrel of beer in
her campaign against demon
These are but outstanding examples, sir. There
countless others where in public life have
made a for themselves. How about the equal
suffrage movement and, more modernly birth con-
troll? 1t is women, dear sir who sponsored those
ments and continue to sponsor them.
And going back in history bit to the days when
birth control private rather than public matter
) There Cleopatra Remember Cleo? There was
little gal for you. Without the aid of a bill for
equal CONSUMPTION she handled subtley and with
dispatch, What monkey she made of that gallant
old statesman Mark Anthony. When Mark got back
to his constituency he found his political fences had
gone with the wind
Oh, the record is long one, dear sir 1t goes
back that historic day the Garden of Eden when
Madame Eve, very influential woman of her day
decided that the old Garden apartment wasn't
What should be and that it was time to move into
a neghborhood. With political finesse she
simply said, Adam have a bite of apple" It was
as simple as that You will recall, of course, that
the couple moved shortly thereafter
You won't vote for woman? Absurd dear sir
absurd: The historical odds all against you Take
tip from our correspondent, who he slipped back
out the basement door in search of private tips
Whispered back over his shoulder write what you
will but this is discrimination year and there isn't
very much can do about except admit the girls
are being Disseminated against Therefore dear
sir and discriminater We concede, why don't you?