Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-02-28 | Page 8 | Women Limited in Politics

W Women om ell Limited In III Politics By RUTH MILLETT Women are handicapped in politics by their lack of real hard egotism Most of them even in 1938 would rather follow than lead arent aren't enthusiastic enthusiastic enthusiastic en en- about taking We the Women ity and have no especial desire to tobe tobe tobe be at the head of anything but their own homes That is the verdict of a visiting Englishwoman who ought to have some ideas on the subject She is Mrs Mary Agnes Hamilton a past member of the British parliament and now on the board of governors of the British Broadcasting sting association tion One Advantage To offset their lack of egotism once they get into politics women are superior to men in at least east one respect if you will take Mrs Hamiltons Hamilton's Hamiltons Hamilton's Hamilton's Hamiltons Ham Ham- ilton's word for it They arent aren't likely to get lost in a tangle of cold figures For women as a sex have havethe havethe havethe the trick of mind that lets them see problems as personal not as statistics statistics statistics sta sta- on a lengthy report They seldom as men do so often lose Jose sight of the human beings that large words cover Physically they are no longer the weaker sex Today women can stand the strain of politics about as well as men So they arent aren't claiming any special indulgences because because because be be- cause of or their sex Once they get into politics they discard their feminine feminine feminine femi femi- nine wiles wiles wiles-or or else they dont don't last long More Truthful And perhaps as politicians women women women wom wom- en are a little more truthful than men Mrs Hamilton was man enough not to hint at such a thing But she herself was elected to parliament parliament parliament par par- over the men candidates for forthe forthe forthe the seat because she answered frankly I I dont don't know anything about it it to a question that the themen men who men who have always known everything pretended everything pretended to under under- stand All right men you may mabe be right Maybe that I dont don't know did just pop out as a result of womans woman's eternal eternal eternal eter eter- nal willingness to let men enlighten enlighten en them