Show KATHLEEN KA NORRIS MORRIS and Jerome Ellison IVE I'VE JUST FINISHED reading an L article in The Saturday Evening Evening Evening Eve Eve- ning Post It is by a man named Jerome Ellison and is titled Is HIs The US U.S. Really Run By Women Whether the article makes me most mad or most proud it is hard to say To take the good side first Mr Ellison does full justice to the amazing record of the General Federation Federation Federation Fed Fed- of Women's Clubs an organization organization organization or or- to which in several of ofIs its Is many branches I have long be be- longed He lists the influence of women in lawmaking in the establishment establishment establishment of libraries and scholarships scholarships scholarships scholar scholar- ships gymnasia and special schools and clinics He praises praises but but why go on It would take every page of this paper to enumerate them Food for Europe clothes for the destitute millions of hours of reading reading reading read read- ing to the blind millions of visits to hospital wards millions of earnest earnest earnest earn earn- est unselfish women meeting consulting consulting con con- suIting contriving to make this world a better place in which all of us may live Women spend 85 per cent of the national income own half our industrial stocks pay PlY 80 per cent of inheritance taxes and could numerically outvote men mei mep by one million if it they chose to round up the vote In other words women play fair with their nation But does their nation play fair with them I think Mr Ellison misses one of the most important points in this whole question question question ques ques- tion and I think it ought to be italicized Women have done all that they have done without government grants of money That is the stupefying stupefying stupefying fact Women Arent Aren't Boss Women have no one in government government government govern govern- ment to ask that an appropriation of some or millions be made for the important all-important work they do And that's why vh I think the answer It if encourage Scouts to Mr Ellison's question is no the United States is not run by women Women do the best they can with the means at hand they fight cancer and hookworm encourage encourage en en- courage Scouts and Campfire Girls make cakes gather rummage watch the town to fathers as they discuss discuss discuss dis dis- dis- dis cuss sanitation and s saloon loon 1 licenses censes put up their thousands of dollars doUas monthly to send food overs overseas as a's and have no share in the billions that are arc so airily rily demanded for projects at home and abroad projects with which they have no sympathy No Mr Ellison if women ever had a n stay on war boards there would be no wars Women dont don't pay what they have to pay for tor seven pounds of weeping helpless babyhood baby hood to pick the cream of it and send It away to kill the cream of other nations the Innocent boys who never had an nn ugly or revengeful revenge revenge- ful thought in their lives Slips of the Tongue Women know they know they dont don't have to tobe tobe tobe be told told that that killing never stopped killing That hate never engendered love That destruction is not the surest way to mercy and fellowship fellow ship and rebuilding And so one woman at least finds a good deal of the the dear foolish creatures attitude in Mr Ellison's article He tells one 01 ox two mild little stories of slips of the tongue on the part of various chair chairwomen women Men can do that too Washington Wash ington solons can do that tha t too He dwells on one of the main concerns concerns concerns con cerns of one President as being a problem as lS to where new members member for the senior clubs are coming from because members like to stay among their familiar groups II isn't flattering to any club in the hideous crisis of today's affairs in our nation and in all the world tc quote this laughable little ladylike difficulty as one Hone of its main con cerns Or to pay a charming compliment com corn to the figures of two mid die aged who looked a athey athey as they walked across the clubhouse square like two coeds on their wa way to class This I is gallant in Mr Ellison but it certainly doesn't belong be long in an article of this nature No it savors of that patronage patron age that men turn aside to pay tc women as they walk to those sacred chambers where matters o ol 01 national and international import are settled those meetings that thaI men alone attend As I write this my bag is packed for a flight to Houston to attend the annual convention of the General Federation of Worn ens Clubs The national president Mrs Hiram Cole Houghton a wise humane experienced woman would woul be an excellent person to disperse a sum as presently unimportant a aa aj as aja asa a billion is In our national spending today If It women can do what they have done with only such financial help as their own generosity anc and powers of personal solicitation tion can win them what mightn't they do d iJ men took this work serio seriously sly |