Secretary Daniels declares that “bachelors are encumberers of the earth” and offers the use of the United States navy to scatter their ranks. As the most of them are land animals the services of the War Department would be more effective. Meanwhile it is safe to say that few bachelors pass the age of fifty without the inner consciousness that they ought to be blown up or sent to the bottom of the sea.
At the next election after California women were enfranchised, the vote of the State increased 313,883. As has often been remarked, women wouldn’t use the suffrage if they had it.
“The men are to put on their clothes with a shoe horn,” is the latest fashion edict. We shall not believe it till we see it, and even then we shall look the other way.
Some “bootleggers” who are to be tried before a jury of women in Colorado are said to be feeling very anxious. Why so? The objection to women as judges and jurors has always been that they are too sentimental and emotional to mete out justice.
The illogical minds of women cannot comprehend why it is, when a congressman’s constituents indicate that they don’t want him to represent them in the government any longer, that same government immediately puts him on the pay roll in another place.