Show KATHLEEN NORRIS and Jerome Ellison JUST FINISHED reading an IVE article in Saturday Evening It is by a man named Jerome and is titled The U.S. Really Run By Whether the article makes me most mad or most proud it is hard to To take the good side Ellison does full justice to the amazing record of the General Federation of Women's an organization to In several of its many I have long He lists the influence of women in in the establishment of libraries and gymnasia and special schools and He praises but why go It would take every page of this paper to enumerate Food for clothes for the millions of hours of reading to the millions of visits to hospital millions of unselfish women contriving to make this world a better place in which all of us may Women spend 85 per cent of the national own half our industrial pay 80 per cent of inheritance and could numerically outvote men by one million If they chose to round up the In other women play fair with their But does their nation play fair with I think Ellison misses one of the most Important points in this whole and I think it ought to be Women have done all that they have without government grants of That is the stupefying Women Aren't Boss Women have no one In government to ask that an appropriation of some or millions be made for the all-important work they And that's why I think the answer encourage Scouts to question is the United States Is not run by Women do the best they can with the means at they fight cancer and Scouts and Campfire make gather watch the town fathers as they s sanitation and saloon put up their thousands of dollars monthly to send food and have no share in the billions that are so airily demanded for projects at home and projects with which they have no If women ever had a stay on war there would be no Women don't pay what they have to pay for seven pounds of helpless to pick the cream of it and send It away to kill the cream of other the Innocent boys who never had an ugly or revengeful thought In their Slips of the Tongue Women know they don't have to be told that killing never stopped hate never engendered destruction Is not the surest way to mercy and fellowship and And so one woman at least finds a good deal of the attitude in Ellison's He tells one or two mild little stories of slips of the tongue on the part of various Men can do Washington solons can do He dwells on one of the of one President as being a problem as to where new members for the senior clubs are coming because members like to stay among their familiar It isn't flattering to any In the hideous crisis of today's affairs in our nation and in all the to quote this laughable little ladylike difficulty as of its main Or to pay a charming compliment to the figures of two middle-aged who as they walked across the clubhouse two coeds on their way to This Is gallant In but It certainly doesn't belong in an article of this it savors of that 1 patronage that men turn aside to pay to women as they walk to those sacred chambers where matters of national and international import are those meetings that men alone As I write this my bag is packed for a flight to to attend the annual convention of the General Federation of The national Hiram Cole a experienced would be an excellent person to disperse a sum as presently unimportant as a billion is in our national spending If women can do what they have done with only such financial help as their own generosity and powers of personal solicitation can win what mightn't they do if men took this work |