Show PHILIPPINE WOMEN 10 TO RUN FOR OFFICE Suffrage Hailed as Forward Step for Islands MANILA F P. P I. I Nov 10 R IP Jubilant lant over their enfranchisement women women wom worn en leaders of of the Philippines nes today laid plans to seek public offices They were inclined to give much of ot the Credit for their being the first women of the far cast east entitled to vote to Governor General Frank Murphy Murph The suffrage law changed women from mere residents to real citizens said Mrs Vincente Lim president of the Insular Federation of Women's Clubs I am am highly pleased the women of the Philippines are the first to be enfranchised in the Orient said the governor general I have always believed believed believed be be- equal suffrage was a matter of right Participation of women in government with their sympathetic Insight and their instinctive understanding understanding under under- standing of or human beings will be a great help to me in launching and carrying on a broad social program in these islands |