Show some ome speculation as to woman email s changing status mr by gretta cretta palmer womans comans page editor or of the now new york world telegram nowadays there are two subjects which certainly command the human intelligence they are women and economics looking over any civilized bookshelf one is astonished to find to what an extent the role of modern jomaa is involved one Is also astonished to discover that our future in terms of wheat and oil Is being wisely discussed on all ail sides looking over a shelf of our library and without cb cheating eating we find seven titles in which the word woman is involved out of a possible twelve that mesdames dames Is high marksmanship it means that we as a subject for controversial writing are pretty fancy stuff and ns is a matter of fact we are arc for we have made more tremendous strides towards achievement than any other group within the memory of the current generation women if you remember were conspicuous some fifty years ago as the little ladies who gilded fly swatters scatters swat as a decoration for the home in a worl word they were the complete intellectual washout today things have somewhat changed today a woman like your humble servant can without shame admit to running a womans comans page today a woman can confess that she lives in a womans comans hotel without fear of being accused of being a perfectly splendid force in the IV C T U movement today in a word a woman can express an interest in the progress of her sex without any intimation ti of her being a shedder of sweetness and light or a prude there was a time not so long ago when nobody talked economics except solemn young men with ph D s and radicals those days have passed now anyone with a vestige vestige of interest in current affairs must evince some appreciation of the experiments peri ments under tinder consideration in our nations capitol and by the same token everybody today who is alive to contemporary happenings happening 3 must awaken to the tact fact that wo woman man is a brand new element in national affairs perhaps she will be a permanent institution perhaps she will not nobody can tell there have been too many ages in which woman was thoroughly negligible for the most san sanguine alne feminist to predict what wili will happen now 0 but we are quite obviously in a state of flux and change so far as womans comans status is concerned and it behooves nobody to be too cocksure on what the outcome is bound to be perhaps women as sherwood anderson said in his last book meaning that the idealism of the race might find its final hope in womanhood rin hood perhaps we must accept a less glorious future dut but one thing is certain that it is an exciting and unpredictable thing to be a woman in 1031 1 |