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Show THROUGH A Romans Eyes By JEAN NEWTON SHALL WE FIGHT FOR OUR "RIGHTS"? c T EAR JEAN NEWTON: What do you think of fighting for a constitutional amendment to insure in-sure women equal rights? Right now in Washington the National Women's Trade Union league is opposing op-posing It. Here are some of the arguments ar-guments of the women who think they need to amend the Constitution to get their rights in this country I think they ought to live for a while in China ; then they'd realize how lucky they are without fighting for any more rights." This is what our reader has clipped from a newspaper in support sup-port of compelling the legislators to write into the Constitution our equality with men : "Today the civil rights of woman can be extended or restricted at the caprice of any state legislative authority, au-thority, so that a woman's right to earn her living in the trades or professions pro-fessions or in the uses of the powers pow-ers of her mind or body, can be defined, de-fined, permitted or denied by state legislative authority." We don't have to go to China to realize how well off the American women are. There is no place on the face of the earth where women enjoy more legal protection and more actual consideration from-men from-men and very few where their position po-sition can be compared with ours. In my opinion, women in this country coun-try enjoy not only equal rights with men, but they also enjoy special privileges. Sit In any court room of the country for just one day if you need to be convinced of that No, unless there exist In some states legal discrimination against or abuse of women which I know nothing about, I can see no point in fighting to have women's rights written Into the Constitution. . 1933,'Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. |