| Show I THE WOMAN OF IT By Marguerite Mooers Moors Marshall Marsha C Copyright 1923 New York Evening World Press Publishing Company Let the enforce women prohibition It I Is the cry from the te heart hear of Mrs Gifford Pinchot wife wie of the governor of ot Pennsylvania Are we mistaken or do we hear subdued yet sardonic cheers from the other side of ot the sex fence Amid that rumble of ot applause we make believe beleve we are a politician and therefore entitled even expected to o press our ear to the ground And we think there comes a deep bass chorus Yep let the women enforce prohibition They got us into the mess lets let's see what they'll do with wih it H. Let them tackle the smugglers the bootleggers the judges and public officials and pillars of society who are the bootleggers bootleggers' best customers Let them solve the problem of finding proof bribe proof proof graft proof graf proof booze Meddlesome Matties Mattes i who will wi really realy enforce the most unpopular legislation ever put over in this country Let them take prohibition out of politics L Let t them make New York bone dry Go to It dear ladies who's ladles who's stopping you We Ve wish you Joy of ot your Job All Al of which is fine rhetorical sarcasm but fo sidestepping sidestepping side side- stepping logic There never has been boen a hard mean lowdown chore from cleaning out the lumber room to washing the dog which men haven't tried to wish on women women usually usually with success That is why Wy in their secret hearts man many men would be delighted to resign to the sex the te enforcement of prohibition and the responsibility Then they they instead instead of ot us might us-might might snicker in peace at the spectacle of ot senators their nerves worn and torn with ih the necessity of ot talking taking to death the ship subsidy bill bl consulting the coal cloakroom oom for cheer and staggering forth cheered not to say Inebriated We speak b by the book of ot The Telegrams Telegram's Washington correspondent Then men as well wel as women might be amused at congress congress' passionate anxiety to third degree the embassies in order to discover the quantity quality and source of ot their alcoholic content Why in the world doesn't congress demand an investigation of the senates senate's cloakroom Any evidence there would be so much more accessible under diplomatic diploma tc seal seal 5 A Of course men would like women to assume the odium of dry cleaning the tho country But why pic pick on on us We didn't add the eighteenth amendment the to constitution We didn't even vote for the act Always blame the women Is a trusty masculine maxim But the wettest Americans might remember that the prohibition amendment was proclaimed law ne nearly eight months ahead of the suffrage amendment amend amend- ment merit and also that if i there ever was a a i right little tight little man manmade manmade manmade made machine the league is IT T If I the authorities real really decide to use women as prohibition enforcement enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment a agents we ve suggest that that the first squad be recruited from the Molly Moly Pitchers As several persons have pointed out the only way to make New York bone dry Is to put a revenue officer In every kitchen Perhaps Mrs Pinchot has found the answer to that problem Perhaps the were right and womans woman's place is in in the home keeping home keeping the homo home brew out of It It Shell She'll have her job cut out for her What Is there about Washington's birthday which impels all the 1 I public men who celebrate it in 1 speech to act as if they were charter members of ot the National Security league the American Defense society or some other per cent American klan I There was waa Hell Hel arid and rc Maria Marla Dawes whom most of us consider an honest and shrewd person et yet who extolled last month the progress which has been made b by our great strong and determined president president- that progress from the Adamson law to the Daugherty injunctions which in my judgment future generations will wi regard as the preSident preSident-I beginning of a new era of law and order In this country And even our own intelligent an and humane Al Smith considered it i necessary to repeat the I line lne about the fellows who dont don't like this country going back bade where they cam came from What should those of us do who have haYe always been In America and I who yet do not like Jt it unreservedly Is there J therE no such alternative as ts s working to change what at we dont don't like in place of leaving it flat There was a man whom Washington himself considered lea a va valuable I I propagandist for the Americanism sm of ot his times Yet this fighting liberals liberal's understanding of It i and nd of constructive freedom Js is in such i ill 1 accord with the wih more militant moods of current patriotism that he deserves to be quoted quoted quoted-as as a an antidote Where Where liberty libery is ie said Franklin there i ia my country Where liberty is not said Tom Paine there is mine Il uL I D. 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