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Show i AN EDITORIAL BY ' FLORENCE DAVIES 4- MORE TIME NEEDED :e women have been ranting . good deal lately, and we've had to hear a lot of other ranting by ardent souls w ho seek to make the world over ruor ? nearly to tho feminist's desire. Small wonder, then, if we have, some of u?. , come to think thu. the women's mil-lemium mil-lemium is at hMn); that we can do nil things, including running this rath-, tr compii k government of ours So s 's j relief to hear from a woman who doe.n't rant, but who doe? know wbaf bhe is talking aboui. Tho woman i" Mis MedMl MtCor-liilck. MtCor-liilck. and certainly she ought to be capable ol advi Ing us about the subject sub-ject on which she nptLs She is a suffragist, a ..-nator'.s uav.liter a senator's sen-ator's wife, and for a score of ears a student of American politics, and Jusl now chairman of tho Conk county Illinois, Illi-nois, Republican woman's committee. It will be seen, therefore, that few ir any women in America have had more experience iu the ptactical workings of national politics and ;;ovei nmenc. And this is what she has just said: I "Women are not fitted for positions ,in the. higher bodies of Rovcrcmeni 'aud it will tak a couple of generations genera-tions to fit them for these offices. I "The one big thing that we must ! combat Ls the stress that Is laid on sex. 1 "The constitution of the 1'nltod States says that thi country shall be governed by parties, aud. therefore, it Is all tommyrot to say that women ln-tend ln-tend to vote for the best man, for the jman most suited to a particular of-. If ice, regardlesa of hla party, becauao i through a parts alone can national ! Issues bo dealt with. That is the only ' way, to cope with the situation, pre-' sented. Women of today do nor under-I under-I stand wha' a party is aud what the various parties stand for. They cau l bIbIbI hh ErWvnffiMrT tunas' not tllcuRs politics because they are no. versed m tlie fv.ndameu'.al3 of pol- "Wert I clec'fcd to a public ofllcc-, if my baby took 111 Of COUrSS I wou'd not assume the duties oT un office. I would 6tay w ith my baby Such !s ths case with all women, and it Is rldlcu-lous rldlcu-lous for them to yay they are free." That Is so different from the usual talk of feminist leaders and women polilit ians as to be really r-lreshlnp. In fad, H ought to be more than refreshing; re-freshing; H'b actually Instructive. It gives us pause ln our rather borubM tic, know-It all attltudo toward every-thing every-thing that happens to be under discussion dis-cussion It actually may encouraic the rank end file of women to take with a grain of salt and calm reason- lug much of the oratorical outburF'.s levelled at us every day. It Isn't that Women aren't free: It's merely that I there arc limits both to the kind of freedom and its latitude. We're free to mako of ourselves what we will but we are bound by our duties. Jus', fl as men are bound b their responsibilities. responsi-bilities. Freedom io a relative tonn. too. No true Aermlcan woman will either question the Statement that she ll freer today thau ever before, freer than her sister In any other countir under the sun. or dory the admission of Mrp. MeCormlck that If her baby was pick kIio would stay with It, let the government t,'o where it would for H guidance, Mrd. MeCormlck ij perhaps only h llttly bit too hasty when che libela our claim to rrcedom ridiculous, but perhaps 9he l ao In mind tho far-reaching far-reaching claims of those feminists who do most of tho shouting and bu'. llltle of the real confltructh e thinking. irJKirjKf kSCY : i . in 'SlwrJWWi wBlBB |