Show S I TIMELY TOPICS I 0 MORE WOMEN IN CONGRESS Why should there be but one woman member of congress ss wh when n there are eight women in ri th the house of ot commons and thirty In the T That at i Is b the the question question asked by by- bythe the National Womans Woman s sparty party in general and Miss Alice lice Paul in particular It 1 is not an unreasonable question American women women women wo wo- men have ae been fairly active politically sine since the passing of ot n the e nineteenth amendment but somehow they have fallen short of ot the success success in obtaining public office expected of ot them The 20 women voters oters hav have but one representative in eon con gr ss to th their lr name American women would no doubt resent the Intimation Intimation intimation Inti Inti- mation th that t they have gone at It in a less practical way than their English sisters Still the facts speak for Or themselves Lady Astor was as not long long- left the only woman member of the house of ot commons Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps her prominence has been partly due to her skill In keeping herself n in n the public eye but t that tat at cannot be said of ot all the ot of others of Miss Bonfield a very able labor member member- o of the DUchess Dichess of Atholl an industrious member of ot committees or of Mrs on who has has' been elected and r reelected elected by thumping majorities No woman member of the house of representatives out of ot the few we have hav had had with the possible exception of ot Miss Robertson ever measured up to these th ose Yet there must be plenty of American women quite capable of useful service In congress Why do they not come forward 7 It has been said that their own sex prefers to vote for men Hut But this must be a cruel slander If It the hand that rocks the cradle is not ready to rule the tho world In another fashion hy was there so much bother about suffrage suffrage suf suf- frage In the first place place a Inquirer |