Show WIFE'S RIGHT TO SHARE IN INCOME Should Mates Mate Be Real Fifty- Fifty Fifty Partners Women's rights It seems was not settled when political equal suffrage was adopted Equal rights for tor women women wom worn en Is still the most Important question question ques ques- tion In American home life Ute today accordIng according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to a questionnaire conducted conduct conduct- ed among women by the editorial editorial edi edl- tortal staff of ot the County Home one Fifty one per cent of ot all aU the Ole women wom worn women en who answered the questionnaire selected selected se se- se- se this as the gravest and most Important question of a long series submitted for their selection Most of ot ott t them em narrowed their Interest down downto to money matters the matters the right of ot a wife as a partner to share share- fifty-fifty fifty In the family Income The arguments brought to bear on the subject were many and varied A Kansas answer carried the following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing Indorsement When I IVas was Vas thirty I 1 would have stuck up p for forthe forthe forthe the old Idea that a man Is the natural natural nat nat- ural head of the family But now at nt two sixty-two I am convinced that an actual partnership with the w wife te would be the salvation of ot many homes that otherwise will be wretched wretch wretch- ed or or- wrecked Experience has demonstrated dem deco that under our present I Is s system stem of equality In education and and opportunity woman Is not hot only mans man's equal mentality but often oUen his sup superior r or In business acumen and she shela Is la entitled to full participation In ever everything everything ev ev- er pertaining to the welfare of ot the home I An Indiana woman woman wrote I have traveled the whole road This very I question almost broke my heart I Ilet Ilet let my husband get hold of ot all the money I got from my parents He He spent It all for his farm and his good I have no modern conveniences conveniences conveniences with an electric line right In front or of our farm home I have no water In the house I draw cistern water I had hud seven children for him and had to raise chickens to clothe myself and the children And what good was it all nU There are no noI pockets In a shroud I I |