Show far from equality Equall ty yet THERE is a broad difference between betwee ri equal but suf frago and equal rights many have made the mistake of assuming thai that when the nineteenth amendment I 1 became a part of jhb constitution woman was placed on an equality with 41 ith man in the united states and had nothing further to do than to tb rise to the opportunities given her by her new and equal tatus status bho blie has been doing it in many ways some of chemin them in fact most of the requiring u n legal or con changes cigarettes cigarette was but a start the modem woman has progressed far beyond cigarette equality and ct et shu she is a mighty mod woman individually dividu aily and in the mass man there are still oiw legal handicaps under which sho she lo 10 labors bors n her ber movements towards complete equality she still occupies an interior inferior legal status yo raubs arc tire striving to lune hane all euch such obstacles removed onri ond of these is the ancient fiction that she takes on the citizenship of the hus band when she marries wo we still hold to that legal fiction in spite of the fact that woman now has independent and individual citizenship of her own she still mill loses it under circumstances that do not cause its loss to aman a man A case baa has just been 6 d 1 led q in honolulu illustrative of 0 the point an american married a foreign bom born japanese by this thi act she loat her citizenship had ah hii american man married a Japanese woman he lit would not have lost his citizenship she obtained a borce but the courts held that she wai wa still a Za japanese she applied for naturalization and denied on the ground of being a japanese though she he had haj once been an american citizen thus when an american woman marries she automatically takes on oil the civil status of her bus husband band but the automatic mAchi machinery only works one u ay if american women are citizens in their own oun right marriage ought not to change their status mattis any more thai than it bould the status of a aan man some day it will not |