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Show AN EDITORIAL BY FLORENCE DAVIES f RUTH, OUT OF DATE Ruth, patiently following th gleaners glean-ers and gathering what stray sheaves sho could, has beon definitely voted down and out In tho United Statea She la out of date, a back number, a "has been," The married woman's ojtlseil-shlp ojtlseil-shlp bill which was signed recently by x i roiuvu u iiu i u Lit 1 f ! ble for that Ruth didn't need any such bill She ; : didn't worry at all about her citizenship citizen-ship or her husband's. She settled it all by simply saying " Thy people shall bo rnv jf:ople, wither thou got n, 1 'go" That was a stale, of onene.ns of i purpose and Ideal which satisfied ' Ruth and which has satisfied thous- But theoretically It has gone out of fashion. Practically It sflll exists In 'millions of cases and will contluuo to I exist for hundreds of years to come. Men and women will accept each I others' Ideas and Ideals, will become ' citizens of the same country, pedgo al-j al-j legt&nce to tho same flag, for love of each other. , ... But that Is Just tho point. Thoy will do It for love and not for necessity. And the minute they are forced to dolt do-lt of necessity, it becomes an evil and ! works a hardship. - have not out-grown the old Idea . of oneness and loyalty In marriage I ( I We have merely I. .-conn- m-r- fl.'lbU-and fl.'lbU-and more Intelligent about human ! frailties and human limitations. For ! many women who marry alien husbands hus-bands such a law was not a necessity S'- nearly were their Ideals and Ideas unified, that the ithr pledged al-1- H'lunce to their husband's country or their husbands adopted their country. But in either case, the adoption of a j . ountry not one's own should bo a i matter of choice, not of law. The law j dare not presuppose the Ideal state of affairs It must take Into aexount the differences and Individualities of hu- man beings. The woman who marrlea an alien should not be asked to sacrifice sacri-fice her citizenship In tho country of ' her birth. She has a perfect right to bo content with a loss than perfect 'blending of allegiances ami ideals. And tho law very rightfully gives to American women the right to bo Americans Am-ericans for ever, even though then hearts wander far afield and stray across the water or over the national ' boundary line. The law should have been passed ' long ago. Had It been passed it would have robbed tho feminists of one of their most valid complaints of lnjus-I lnjus-I tlce. As It Is tho disabilities and Inequalities In-equalities of women. Anno Martin lo the contrary, aro rapidly vanishing Another little thunder clap was stolen from tho woman's parly when the president appointed the first lady diplomat dip-lomat the other day. Doubtlens If wo1 just have a little patience, all ouch inequalities in-equalities and Injustices will disappear. disap-pear. fWl |