Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-03-16 | Page 6 | Women throughout Europe Turn Eyes from Hearths to Politics; Gain Strength in Britain, Germany

Women Throughout Europe Turn Eyes From Hearths to Politics I Gain Strength in Britain Germany Even Recently Liberated Members of Turkish Harems Harems Harems Har Har- ems Get Right to Vote By By W. W W. W CHAPLIN PLIN LONDON March 16 Through P-Through- out Europe women worrieR are arc turning their eyes from their hearths to the cal arena some sonic with hope some with det determination and a not Inconsiderable able number with actual distaste Even Asia has begun to open its political po gates to wives and mothers The house of representatives in Tokio has passed a bill granting women equal franchise rights with men In elections for city town and village mage autonomous assemblies The women of England and Ger Ocr many nany have hare secured a It far firmer position poj tion in politics than most of their sisters in neighboring lands MAKE DEBUT Turkish women though only liberated liber liber- atc i from their harems during the past decade are already on their way to o parliament They made their po po- debut this year when the government granted them the hc municipal vote and those who know enow Kemal believe it well within the realm of possibility that during next Novembers November's general elections he will wUl give them the full franchise and the right to sit in parliament In IIi England where the women fought ought militantly for the franchise fourteen other women have followed the he American born Lady Nancy Astor into nto the house of commons and one Sybil Rhondda who is a peer in her own 11 right is battering though hough so far without success at the thedoor thedoor thedoor door of the house of lords Women constantly are taking a amore amore amore more extensive part in German pubic pub pub- lie He ic life Ute There are now tl thirty nine feminine deputies in the reichstag twenty eight of them being either Socialists Socialists So So- or communists In Austria women were barred from politics and even the tile professions un un- 11 Ui the collapse of ot the Hun Austro-Hun- garian monarchy monarch but from that date their heir crusade into the forbidden realms bc began an Parliament and the tile city council were opened to Austrian women when the Social Democrats came Into power in 1919 BARRED IN BELGIUM I The women of France and Belgium have lave In large part looked at political life ife with apathy and often otten open dis dis- tate In neither country can they vote for parliament though in Bel glum gium they can cast their ballots in communal elections Illiteracy is womans woman's great slum slum- bUng aling block on tile the road to politics In Greece Women neither can vote in parliamentary elections nor sit in parliament but in 1929 a limited suffrage suffrage suf suf- suffrage frage was given women in municipal elections This vote was as given women women wo wo- men more than 30 years ears old who can read and write In Spain women can neither vote ote nor hold elective office and the tile movement move move- ment for women's suffrage is 13 so 50 far practically negligible Italian women omen like Uke their husbands are finding that the only road to political political po influence winds through the the fascist party