Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-28 | Page 10 | 'leave Government to Men.' Says Duchess of Westminster

I til GOVERNMENT TO MEN.' SAYS DUCHESS OF WESTMINSTER 1 Declares She Is "Old-fashioned" Enough to Hold the Opinion That Men Should Run Government of England or Any Other Country; Is Decidedly Opposed to Woman's Party I Idea; Feeh That Women of Today Have "Lost Their I Senses of Proportion." ByEAKLEC REEVES. I (By international News Service.) LONDON. Oct 23. "I nni olJ-fash-iWd enough i" ho! 1 ih opinion that tfir govirnmem ol thin or any other counirv .-houhl It Idi to the men. so speaks the Duchess ot Westminister, Westmin-ister, with an tmphuils that may come as a shock both in America -ml Bnff-Dtnd, Bnff-Dtnd, wher- the right ot women ,o help covet n hus been so widely recognized She Is iv. n more emphatic in op-DOfllion op-DOfllion to the woman' Pft Idea ad-.lanred ad-.lanred by Mr. - - M 1 r.Hmont - J do not belle, e there should be too manv women In Parliament," she said "One or two, v. but an opposition oppo-sition of women. No" nd I shudder to think ot the chapB that would result re-sult from a inajoruv Personal!- J feel that the oroi n of today hav rather lost their c'nsc of proportion Thej feel that because thev did men's work durins the war and- drew absurdly high wages .thej ought to eontinm- 10 uo so ' Although no one is a greater ad-mlii-r of the work done by women during dur-ing the great rinei gency th in I ana. I think that they should to USC a slang, term get back to earth. '." The DuchCR prefers that her Brrv-crnmcnt Brrv-crnmcnt be composed of Bound com-mon-sense bualness men and public men. whose travels anJ training gci-I gci-I I e rail's- fit them to cowrn . " "Though 1 am not In facr of worn-Mi worn-Mi in Parliament i realize that there I are many considerations and argu-ments argu-ments both 'for and against It. But 1 feel thai, although our first woman M. P. Iady Astor. is the mother moth-er of children, if women ever enter Parliament in any rh-i numbers tb. y will for the mosi part be the lype of woman who will not be married. "After all. how can an unmarried i woman really understand the lot of the 1 all too many poor mothers who ex- I ist In England today ' I venture to I , that, In spite of the high wages which are t.oda.y In vogue to meet the cost of I King, there arc many married women who do not receive any more housekeeping money than they eer did. A parliament of women could never nev-er govern this country, and the best that can be said is that a leavening of women is a mostly male parliament will help the male element In legislating legislat-ing forMhe women of the country "A nuther in Parliament can help I pooi women by using her influence in legislation to relieve their lot 1 W" might, of course, have- a separate sepa-rate bouse onslsltlng entirely nf 1 women to legislate, under control of I the present Parliament, on all domes-I domes-I tic subjects. But women can do more with the vote than by entering Parlla-i Parlla-i meht. "Let them combine to purge the political po-litical atmosphere of its present lm-I lm-I purities and, above all, not take the elections as Jokes, but seriously.