Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-13 | Page 11 | 'If I Were King I'd Make Every Girl Fit to Become Mayor at 18'

'IF I WERE KING I'D MAKE EVERY 1 GIRL FIT TO BECOME MAYOR AT 18' .A. 1 BY MARIAN HALE XEW YORK. Mrs. Percy V Penny-backer, Penny-backer, chairman of the General Federation Fed-eration of Women's flub?, has a slogan Every club a i raining camp lor citizenship." Mrs. Pennybarkcr has been putting in her time studying citizenship and Americanization She says that she findE fault, not with women alone. I but with America she says tho same thing is the matter with both; no ritual in tho national life. Voting, says Mrs. Pennybacker, should become a part of a woman's Instinctive knowledge toward the I Right and any woman who does not vote, or who does not take a first hand interest In voting. Is a traitor l to her countrr. IN EVERY CLUB Mrs Pennybacker has mapped out a course of study which she hopes to Install in every woman's club throughout the Union. The course embraces economies, history, government, and not least of these, duty to the foreign-born. In fact, this last is Mrs. Penny backers greatest interest "Our aliens bring rich gifts,' said Mrs. Pennybacker. "We turn them 1 .v ar with a hostile look and a cheap nickname for each nationality We make them citizens with as little ceremony as If w were selling potatoes. We take away their pride of race, and when the pride of race dies, the man dies " KEEP TRADITIONS Mrs. Pennybacker would have a club woman at every naturalization ceremony. She aas that the alien who becomefl a citizen should feel the dignity no le6a than the knights of old, who prepared for the ni'e of knighthood by day6 of fasting and prayer. She says that all tradition should be clung to by women In particular, as it Is through the women of the land that beaut) of the home become? beauty of the state "If you are an American or 1f you are of some other country, keep whateer you have, throw no memories me-mories away -- accumulate ' Mrs. Pennybacker said "If 1 "were king. I'd make oven girl fit to become mayor at IS " . T