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Men Like Suffragettes
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Because They Admire Women That Can Think. The Clinging Vine
Is Ornamental, but Does Not Last.
Women inns! not !><• tliscoui'aur'd by the fact flint the woman
suffrage cause was defeated in Ohio. Some years must pass and the
mosi intelligent and most earn -,t woim-n v. >d continue to fight an
uphill light before the mental slavery of woman shall disappear.
Bit; THINGS ARE Al't (iMI’LISHED SLOWLY . ami the light
tor woman s rights is a very big thing.
While waiting for victory, it may be some comfort for the
earnest, thinking women, loyal to their cause, to realize that men
worth while respect mid admire the suflrageties.
Needless to say. certain im n do not care very much about the
women able io think—and such men are not interested in suffrage.
The savage wauls a wonmn to o'm;. orders, cook, dig and brush
the flies from him while he sh e) s.
Certain kinds <1 "< ivilized ' savages want a woman to lead the
idle life vl a lap-dog. w earing pretty colors and sa,-. mg to her owner.
"How can you be so great ami wonderful ?
Ignorant men. with the iagotiv and brutality of ages ground
into their dull brains, object to thinking and voting for their
women on the ground that voting and thinking are irreligious or
immoral.
I'evhle men like I? vide women, ami feeble women are not suf
fi aget tes.
The man worth while iealiz.es that the best thing about any hu
man being, man or woman, is the brain.
And men worth while admire women that stand up for their
lights, women with intellig'nee enough to demand the vote ami use
it when they get it. Imcause such women have brains. character and
the power to attract and keep the interest of tltiifking iimn.
Supei st ition. t rad it ion. ,Ingot ry. ignorance keep a certain class
of women ami of men hostile to woman suffrage. But time will eml
that, as tiim 1 has < mled the rack. Ihe 1 humb-sci i w ami other brutal i
-1 ies.
Silly, foolish, characterless < raving lor second rate admiration
makes certain women oppose the suffragette movement.
These women are usually between forty nine and sixty six years
of age. And they are usually trying Io look as though they were
between twenty nine and thirty-six. They are lackadaisical, sim
pering. thoughtless, would-be "(dinging vims. They lack all
power to control men through intellect and, therefore, try to control
them through flattery.
The ant i-sulfragelte woman usually has a sad, vvoe-begone look,
and folds her hands in ecstasv looking at some tenth-rate man as
she'moans. "I in sure 1 don t want tin vote while I have a noble,
god like creature suck as you to think for me and di fend me."
And the foolish man s<<’s to himself. "That is a very fine
vv <>man vv hicii she is not
The woman who wants to vote is the woman who thinks and
who wants to fisc her brains.
The woman who dots not want to vote is the woman -with a
few honorable, old-fashioned exceptions unable to think, and,
therefore, appalled hi the idea of flesh demands upon the iutelli
u iie.e v Imdi sh< has mu got.
The man who opposes woman sulf rage is some kind of a sav
age usualiv c.itln r a weak man MEN ARE ALWAYS WEAK
\\ HE.N THIA ARE AFRAID 'IO DIVIDE POWER.
’I he man worth while and file woman vvori h while want to live
i<i_ ii ■ Auk tooether. plan togclhei AS EQ I ALS.
Tin ballot will develop the minds ot women and the character
of no :i .<ml it will gradually eliminate the " (Tinging vine, dear me,
I non t waul lo volt w aii ! >; i d ' t.'pe <d women ami the egotisti
cal irnin.
\\ mm n w iII liav tin ballot everywhere. For 1 lie best women in
tin < ountrv an determined to havv it. Defeats will not discourage
them I HEY \\ lid. \\ IN
A1 akingSenseof the I ’anania
('oiltract
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It is an established rub lor the int rpretalion of contracts that
they should he so construed as to make not nonsense, but sense.
Thus it should be a sut'livn i I coiifulation of the British view of
the Hay-Paum-eiote treaty that it is a view that is inconsistent with
American sanity.
Ihe British foreign office holds that we art precluded bv this
contract from treating our own Panama commerce as well as for
eign countries may treat their Panama commerce. It holds that the
English. French or German government is tree, under the contract,
to remit to its own ships any tolls that they may pay at Panama •
while we. who built and own the canal, are not free to do so!
I lw British foreign oiuee, with all its foolishness, has at least
the sense to perceive a plain tact that most American lories have
overlooked, to wit the fact that taking lolls tiom our ships and
afterwards remitting them is precisely tin same thing as not taking
them at all.
Perceiving this point, th British have been driven, by the logic
of their absurdity, to claim that we have no right to offer subsidies
or concessions to our Panama comme,e. in the shape of remitted
lolls in spite o) the tact ihat all otic r nations will have an un
doubted right to do i hat v e • t liing
I hen will be a day ot awakening in which < vervbodv will sec
the British conleiitnm should ml In . ■ H . l | ty The Hague.
but to a cviuuiibbiu de Imiaticu
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Copyright, 1913, International News Service.
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The Matter of Age
i A MAN wh<> is forty years old,
and w ho is going to be mar
ried. asks this question;
't hat should be tin difference
between the ages of a husband and
wife, taking into consideration
their happiness and the good of
the childien that may be born to
them ?"
To answer the latter part of this ,
question first, it may be said that,
as a general tiling, the healthiest
and strongest children are usually
the offspring of women who are in
their twenties and early thirties.
That is the ideal time for mother
hood. because then a woman is at
! her prime physically, and she Is
I old enough to have intelligence
enough to take care of her children
properly , and yet young enough to
be in symjsithy with them.
The children of an over-young
and undeveloped mother are apt to
be weaklings, and they are almost
sure to suffer in the rearing from
her lack of knowledge and expe
rience of lite There are few sights
more pitiful than that of a sickly
little child-mother wrestling in
competently with a sickly little ba
by and the man who possesses
such a combination has smalt
chance of any thing but misery. On
the other hand, the too-old mother
is apt to have children who are
"queer." and to lie overly indulgent
and fussy about them, or else to
ialso theta inhumanly according to |
some system she has dug out of a I
pook
No Regular Law.
Os course. there are many excep
tions to this rule. but. speaking by
and-largi it will be found that the
most normal children are the chil
dren of youthful, but not too young,
mothers
Not can any hard and fast law
b< laid down as regards the dif
ference between the ages of hus
band and wife. It depends upon the
:• tnperam nt and peisonallty of the
m o':.1,1. .om rm-d .Nothing is
n itty nmu foolish than to measure
age Io > ears. because theic are
people who are sculle in the uadle,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1912.
By DOROTHY DIN.
and others who are children at
four score years.
The consensus ex
perience of the ages is that it is
best the husband should be older
than the wife, but this only mat
ters when there is any great dis
parity of years. Formerly it was
held that a woman at the .same age
as a man was really much older
than he, but this is no longer true.
In these strenuous times when men
work so hard, and live so high,
and when women take such good
care of themselves, and devote so
much thought and consideration
not only to preserving their youth
but to keeping themselves mentally
and fresh, it is a question if
they are not really younger at the
same age than men are.
There Can Be No Objection.
Certainly there can be no ob
jection to a man marrying a woman
of his own age. so far as her look
ing as young as he does, and being
able to keep step with him in his
pursuits and pleasures. Nor does
a year or two more of age on the
w oman's part make an insurmount
able barrier between them.
It is. however, a suicidal thing
for both of them when the woman
is fifteen or twenty years older
than her husband. Such marriages
are invariably unhappy, whereas
marriages in which the husband is
that much older than the wife are
generally most successful.
There are many reasons why,
I "what Is sauce for the goose is not
sauce for the gander" in the mar
riage proposition. One is that the
yman who marries a woman almost
old enough to be his mother is in
variably ashamed of her. no matter
how brilliant, and charming, and
handsome she may be. He knows
that people laugh at hint behind
his back.
And the elderly wife is even more
secretly ashamed of her boy hus
band, and mote sensitive tu the rid
icule she knows her chow* excites.
More than this, it is not in human
nature for a grilled, fat old wom
an not to be frantically jealous of
a young husband. He may be as
faithful as the house eat. but she
never sees him with a beautiful,
•
lissome, fresh girl without having
her heart torn with the bitter
knowledge that youth calls to
youth, and without suspecting that
he regrets his bargain.
On the other hand, the old hus
band's vanity stands him in good
stead when he marries ’a young,
wife. He thinks any girl ought to
be glad to have gotten him, no mat
ter v hat age he is. Even seventy
year-old millionaires never suspect
that girls of twenty do not marry'
them for themselves alone.
Naturally, fifty or sixty years, or
even thirty, between a ntan and
woman is a chasm that only gold
ever bridges over, but twenty years
is not ah insurmountable obstacle
at all. Indeed, those twenty years
in a man are sometimes just the
gliding that gilds gold, and that
gives him a little touch of paternal
tenderness toward his young wife
that makes him the best, the ten
derest and the most considerate
husband in the world.
Perhaps as good a rule as could
be formulated in the matter of ages
would be to say that the man
should be from eight to ten years
older than his wife. This would
fulfill the convention that the hus
band should be the elder and have
the wider experience or life, but it
would still keep them in the same
class, and give them a chance to
develop along together, to settle
into the same ruts of age. with
the point of view of the same gen
eration.
A Matter of Temperament.
The young woman whose feet
still ache for the dance, who wants
to laugh, and make merry, and to
go about, can have no happiness
if she is married to an old man w ho
only wants to sit in the chimney
corner and nurse his rheumatism.
Neither can the young man who
loves pleasure and society, and who
is keen about outdoor sport, find a
weary old woman a congenial com
panion
Rut these things are a matter of
temperament and not age, and the
years are not to ho considered when
one finds one’s affinity —the one of
whose society one novel tiros, and
who has the same tastes and ways
of looking at Hungs as one’s own.
THE HOME PAPER
MRS. W. L. I'Kf.L
Writes on
The Rule of the |»hJ
Expert
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Let Atlanta Take in the
W hole of Fulton County, ’ J
She Says; Plan For a ‘ I
Greater and Better City,
By MRS. W. L. PEEL
AN article entitled ‘‘City Sense"
by Frederic C. Howe in a late
numbeiyof The Outlook might
.. be read with great interest by At
lanta just at present. Mr. Howe
begins by saying:
"It was a rude shock for four
score business men from Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, Chicago,
Denver, Seattle, and a score of oth
er cities, to be entertained last
summer by councilmen who were
business men like themselves in the
city halls of Manchester and Liv
erpool. It was an even greater
shock to be received with the dig
nity and ceremony of ambassadors
by the most eminent bankers, man
ufacrtirers and professional men
serving as city officials in Paris,
Brussels, Dusseldorf. Frankfort,
Berlin. Munich, Vienna, Budapest.
Prague and a Half dozen other cities
on the continent of Europe. It was
a transition from the unabashed
democracy made up frpm all na
tions painfully finding its way to
self-government in the cities of
America: to the most efficient,
most finished, and most highly or
ganized municipal life in the mod
ern world."
He goes on then to speak of the
rule of the expert. While English
cities are governed on much the
same plan, the German municipal
ity is considered ideal. When they
want a mayor they advertise for
one. and experts from all over
Germany compete for it. It goes
without saying that the qualifica
tions for office read something like
this:
Qualifications for Office.
First. High character, position
and integrity which is naturally
expected of the head of any kind
of enterprise.
Second. Judgment and ability as
manifested by his personal success
in life.
Third. Expert knowledge of mu
nicipal affairs.
The burgomaster is elected for
twelve years, has a largo salary,
and at th» end of that time he, \f
satisfactory, is re-elected foi 25
years, and finally pensioned.
Back of tile burgomaster is the
city council, elected by districts,
as is our own. It is made up of
eminent business men. of lawyers,
doctors, and, in the university
towns, of professors as well. Mem
bers of the council are paid no sal
art. but they devote a large part
of their time to city business. It
is a distinguished honor to serve
on the council, and men aspire to it
as an honorable career. Service,
too. is obligatory, for a man who
is elected can be punished if he
refuses to serve.
But the directing spirit of the
city is the burgomaster, although
the council members, who enjoy
considerable permanency through
a six years term, have the same
kind of pride and enthusiasm in
their work that the» burgomaster
himself possesses. The burgomas
ter has a number of expert as
sistants. elected by the council,
who form the magistral. They,
too. are permanent trained men.
About one-half of them are sal
aried: the other half are not.
The council is a taxpayers’ and
not a people's council. That would
seem to leave the control of af
fairs in the hands of the rich. But
behold what is the result? Filth,
disease and poverty have been
wiped off the map. No crowded
tenements. They expand. In the
environs of the cities are plant
ed colonies of working people, with
up-to-date sanitary city houses,
with flowers and parked streets
and nothing unsightly or unwhole
some. The first care of these city
fathers is the welfare and pros
perity of the laboring class. Baek
of the German city, therefore, are
the business men. the bankers, the
merchant classes.
The German city has no charter
and is free and independent. In
the matter of corporate towns it is
the exact reverse ot the American
city.
But we h#ve a habit here in
America of getting what we want
by indirection. Rarely do we
frankly face a problem and cor
rect it by reforming the evil it
self. Our reforms have away of
coming in through the ba>k door.
Milwaukee has discovered a
means of securing the city expert
without regard to residence, poiit-
ical affiliations, or relation to i
city. Milwaukee has organiz- . a
Bureau of Economy and Efficiency
It sent to the state university ;',, r
Professor John R. Commons > !0
organized a municipal el,a ing
house of experts. When the jty
wants advice on a paving, health,
engineering or harbor problem. ■ ■»
bureau maizes a study of the sub
ject with the co-operation of the
best experts that can be found in
the country, and reports its find
ings to the city. Such studies have
been made on garbage disposal, the
incineration plant, on a harbo < n
health and hygiene, on pure miik.
as well as on a variety of other
subjects. Standards of cost have
been established and departmental
efficiency secured by letting in the
light.
Expert Ability Available.
We have the shme expert abilhy
that Germany and England n
mand. But it is excluded f:om ci;y
politics. And as long as questions
of policy or partisanship ar, de
termined at the polls we can not
hope to displace the political mayor
by the trained official. Tin Mil
waukee plan for a permanent bu
reau of experts offers a means of
securing that which our cities have
heretofore lacked.
But the reform that has done
most to simplify our municipal ma
chinery is tile commission plan of
city government. It is a short cut
to efficient, to responsible admin
istration. It sweeps away the com
plexity of the long ballot ami th‘
confused charter, and enables the
public to locate responsibility It
reduces the number of elective of
ficials to three or five. Through the
initiative, referendum and recall, it
destroys the power of the boss and
the privileged interests behind the
boss. The commission plan may
not be the final form that city gov
ernment will assume, but it will
enable our cities to establish them
selves in the confidence of the pco
pie. and that is what we most need
just now. it was impossible t<> de
velop a city sense so long ,s the
city was distrusted, so long as tlie
publig felt it should be shorn of
power and limited in its ac'ivi
tics. A healthy municipal life cotiH
not exist under this distrust.
This gives lu.it an idea "f Mr.
Howe’s delightful article.
Rule Applied to Atlanta.
Now. if we had any exov ts In
Atlanta, selected by taxpay c -
say what should go with their
money, docs apybody think they
would have discai'deci our gicbage
plant for which we had just paid
$39,000 for one that cost over S3O -
000? No. An expert told "• ; v’
would have recommended th.i 'ar
plant run day and night (it has
only run by day) and that w,-" l"-
do people lie required to consume
their own garbage. The up-to-da:
plan is very simple—a little gas
arrangement in the kitchen which
cats up anything from a dead dog
to its own ashes. When we get
our $300,(100 crematory,’it wii' take
SIOO,OOO for an outfit to haul th”
garbage, which must now |,p
brought from Brookwood and
Westview ami Kirkwood ami
end of Marietta street —my! T: :
about congestion. When this cari
van takes the streets people " I
all have to sell their automobiles!
Let’s turn over a new leaf right
now. Let’s get a clean, live. si. -
eessful. up-to-date business man
for our burgomaster. And then let s
away with our little old antiquated
charter, and our little old an, -
quated methods. Let the city take
in the whole of Fulton county and
compel every landlord to furnish
decent housing for his tenan'-,
black or white. No wonder we ton
third in the typhoid cities of
America when we think of trie
thousands of human beings in this
city herded like cattle. Win n "
know that the servant in dne
house comes to us from these ioat -
some dens, shall we not in Lie
name of humanity demand a
< hange?-
The city of Trenton. N. J *a
tried the commission , foun
government for one year Althou
hcavily handicapped by a f '’
nearly as large as Atlanta s '
be next year, left by the outgoin;
administration. they announ ■■
ihat they have already saved i
ward of $100.oa<) of the laxpa>( <
money.