Now 12,000 bakers are going on a strike. It didn’t used to be that way when the nation’s wives and mothers baked the bread.
A National Desertion Bureau has been incorporated to try to settle all the domestic quarrels in the country. There won’t be enough of that bureau left to kindle a fire on a marriage altar.
“Women must not have the suffrage,” says an authorized document of the antis, “because Max Eastman’s wife goes by her maiden name.” Where does she “go?” That is much more to the point, if she is to decide the question.
“On one side,” says a Pennsylvania official in the Anti-Suffrage Association, “are the mother and the home; on the other the woman seeking the place man occupies as the framer of constitutions and the administrator of civil-government.” Seems as if we know of several men who don’t frame constitutions or administer any kind of government, and a good many women who can’t stay on the side of the home because they have to go out and earn the money to have a home. Men and women can’t be divided like goats and sheep, and if they could, there is no valid reason why the voting booths should all be on one side of the line.
There is a great cry in Washington about retiring the superannuated clerks for the good of the service. What is impairing the service is the large number of inefficient chiefs of departments who are drawing big salaries while their poorly paid women assistants do the work.