The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-12-29
.SuperWomen Rule World
In Girls Crystal Ball
BY AGNES ROGERS
and CYNTHIA LOWRY

tED1lOh . MILL Wtidt VIII
historians of the 21st Century
report about men and women
of the Goth? Agnes Rogers,
author of Women Are Here To
Stay" (HarperD, a gay picture
and prose report on feminine .
progress in the last half cent
fury, has undertaken to specu-
late, with a few assists from our
Miss Lowry, on what might
hrpreu if one merely projected
the line of the graph into the
future for the next so years. It's
all in fun, an exercise in imag-
nation, fantasy and whimsy, so
don't be frightened. 1t won't
happen here4
We will confine our history to
the last so years of the 10th CEN
fury. Earlier years of this re-
markable era have been studied
carefully, revealing conclusively
that two wars, prohibition, wo-
mems magazines radio and scien-
tific labor-saving devices-among
other factors-resulted, IN I'M
Stacking women
BY 1850 women had achieved
the vote. were working with
men in many fields of en-
deavor. There were few places
NOTABLY locker rooms in ath-
letic clubsl where women were
not found although il would be
incorrect to say they were well
come.
The spark that touched off the
revolution came much CARRIER,
probably when women replaced
men in industry during the Sec
ond war. But the roaring blaze
came in the late 1950's when
heliocopter manufactures Alex
ander v. Snellinghast announced
on television that he was dis
charging all male employees, in
Guiding his first vice president.
In a announcement from the
underground Snellinghast works
lat Upper Tidbit, Wyo., history
was made: Women are proven
to be u. quicker manually, neat
er and generally more economical
hirelings. We have no further
need of male brains anyway. Fol
| a number of years we have relied
entirely upon mechanical brain:
Ito solve major problems.
The Snellinghast System Of
Replacement spread rapidly.
NinetY.nine percent OF en-
playable males were replaced
by women. Honsehusbands soon
reorganized homework. SEIZED
uling il into Is minutes daily
and using entirely disposable
materials.
The American Institute Of
Bankeresses outlawed double
entry bookkeeping and Cross
induces. They were replaced
by the "Good-Spenf" system.
Women understood this well.
having practiced it und er
ground for years. but house
husbands found its simplicity
| elarnlind.
u. S. President Abigail For
sythe, taking office in the 1905
instituted remarkable changes il
foreign policy. International re
lationS had been strained b.
limited possession of lethal wa
weapon. Careerwonan Secretar.
of State, Mrs. Ariadne Ledbetter
comforting with her opposite
| Tovarich Olga Smirovska con
| feSsed that her new allwomal
commission on Nuclear Fissiol
had been completely unable t.
deeper or make sense out of an.
formulate left by their predeceS
sors. Tovarich Smirovska canfesS
ed her committee had been un
able to find the files. The TIVE
agreed that in the future all dis
agreements would be settled by
prolonged long distance telephone
calls.
The national drink became
the Alexander. a compound of
cream. sugar and creme de
cacao. All broadway plays were
tragedies and all actresses look
ed and suffered like Bette
Davis.
Women bowed gracefully
land gratefully to the inevi-
table. They retreated willingly
into their homes. One condition
to complete surrender W Is
made. summed up by Mrs.
President at the Inauguration