South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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if Q .IW at 'W ffffaviig - 2 A ' X Q J? . .c. p The T1 er J .ei 4. Q -sxx A PESS1MIST'S VIEW You can't argue with a woman. Result: the nineteenth amendment passed. Other results are too numerous to mention here. . Now that the women have the right to vote, they are going to pass many wonder- ful laws. Of course, the wonderful men's vote will not count at all. Woman suffrage has done little or nothing toward the bettering of laws and conditions of the present or past. The more the women get the more they want, and they get, too, because you can't argue with a woman. , What will become of us poor, ignorant men? ULEN SCHMIDTZ. SUFFRAGE AND JAPAN Mr. Harrison Collins, an alumnus of South High, now residing in Japan, was asked to write for the Tiger on suffrage in Japan and on any other question hound up with it. His comments in the following letter, written from the standpoint of an American living in a foreign country, are of immense interest: Hiroshima, Japan, January 15, 1921. Dear Southsiders: My nine years in Japan have seen marked changes in the attitude of these people toward almost everything in life. The awakening of women is one of these changes. But hers is but one phase of a very much larger problem. Only comparatively few of the men have the vote. The government, despotic in nature, is often the plaything of the all-powerful military class. So reform in this country, including the emanci- pation of women, can have none of the good fortune that it has had in democratic America. Political freedom for these people is a slow up-hill tight, and it is doubtful whether they can ever win thru without help from the outside. The only help from outside that will avail is a league or association of world peoples that can unhorse the military despotism in Japan. With the fall of Japanese militarism would rise freedom for Japanese men and also women. So you see, the possibility of Japan's sharing in the blessings of the glorious Suffrage Amendment depends, like most other good things in the world to-day, on you and your attitude toward these things. Women here as at home constitute by far the 'Lbetter half, the half that conserves the good and presses on toward the better. But these women are sadly handicapped both by history and the state of the world in which they End themselves. Will you not help them to stand erect? Es- pecially to you girls who are now enfranchised do your poorer sisters send their piteous call. Will you not answer that Macedonian cry? HARRISON COLLINS, January, '08. Page 12

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-, 1 Q v, K- ' 1J V'h,if -x I' P J .. 1 'N ' i e! Qs The T1 QP 'ig N this was considered inelegant, indelicate, and showed great lack of refinement. No colleges were open for woman, and if she did read and broaden her mind, she was called a Blue stockingf, Certain popular letters of a clergyman to young women and girls advised in this tone: Do not appear strong either in mind or body, delicacy and dependence upon man's strength is requisite in woman -and much more of the same nature that to-day seems absolutely silly, but was then written in good faith for the upbuilding of womanhood. No woman dared speak from the platform or pulpit. The great suffrage leader, Susan B. Anthony, being a teacher, dared to rise at a teachers' meeting to make a remarkg it was shocking, and she became in consequence almost an outcast among teachers. STUDENT VIEWS ON SUFFRAGE THEIR JUST DESERT HE women have made such an advance that they will not backslide. In many instances, women have given more thought to better community life than some of our most noted men. Women are more interested in children, also. Now that these mothers have equal rights, I think they will help check the crime which is participated in chiefly by men and boys from the ages of fourteen to twenty-five years. When suffrage is considered in a broad sense, women have justly earned what they received. JOSEPH MUNSEN. SUFFRAGE AS SALVATION No one can long endure routine. This is what home making becomes if no foreign interest is introduced. Suffrage will lift women out of the mire of disinterest, selfishness, and laziness. Men have long complained that woman has made her recreation card playing, tea drinking, and keeping up with Mrs. Jones , yet when women attempt to change this condition by creating another and higher diversion, they object. Nothing will so sharpen woman's intellect. She will become a better companion of her husband, for both will have something in common outside of home and friends. Women will come to understand their husbands. Voting takes little time and is an infrequent occurrence. CHARLOTTE WINGET. SUFFRAGE AND DIVORCE No, women do not neglect their homes to vote, or to attempt political meetings any more than does the man who attends his clubs and political meetings. It is certainly more educational for the women to take part in politics than to go to bridge parties and matinees. The statement that the number of divorces would increase is unsound. ln Colo- rado, before equal suffrage was granted, the average number of divorces per year was 937. For three years following the bestowal of equal suffrage, the average number of divorces was 517. ALMA SMITH. Page I I

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4? J .. 'ff N 5,1 'swf A ' fte7 i5w 'W '- fini' A' '. '- X 1 Th T' fe J v fzgf EX. e' 1 ep ' 'J D f ' O i-. CUPID IN POLITICS CAST Ma. ANDREW GRINNELL .... . . A Merchant Mus. CRINNELL . . . . . His Wife ROSANNE CRINNELL . . . Their Daughter MR. HENRY WARD . . . Engaged to Rosanne MICHAEL 0,RYAN . . . . . A Policeman KATRINE JOHNSON . .... . The Cook TIME An evening in October, 1920. PLACE The living room of Mr. Crinnell's house. lt is a large room with a large divan on the right centre. There is a library table in the centre of the fioor and a large chair at the extreme right, with a floor lamp by it. There are several other pieces of furniture. There are two doors, one at upper right stage, R, and L at centre left stage. fLoud voices are heard. Katrine enters at door R, followed by Policeman 0'Ryan.l Katrine: I tall you l'll not marry a Democrat. They're all bought by- - Michael: I tell ye they're not. lt's the Republicans that are bought by the rich. Katrine: What! You! A gude for nothin' Irishman tell me to my own face, lim bought! Michael: Come, now, me darlin'- - Katrine: I tall you Ilm not your darlin' after this. Michael: I was jist sayin' that I didnlt mean that ye was bought, but that the Republicans was bought. Katrine: An' I say it ar, Democrats that ar' bought. Michael: Oh-now, me darlin' let's not fight over it. Ye can vote your way an' I mine. Katrine: Yah! that's what we'll do, an' if you don't git out I'll have you thrown out. I'm cook here- - Ulosanne enters from door LJ Rosanne: What's the trouble here? I heard a racket from way up stairs. What's the matter? fPause.J Don't stand so dumb, speak! Michael: She wants- - Katrine fat oncelz He says- - Michael fat oncejz An' that I- - Katrine: He won't- - Michael: I don't want her- - Katrine: He's a- - Michael: She won't- - Rosanne flflalling into a chair and holding up her handsj: Oh! for goodness sake, don't shout at me that way. I just wanted to know what was the trouble. Katrine: He ban a Democrat fpointing a finger accusingly at himl. He say Republicans ban bought by rich to vote for them. ' Michael: An' now she says she won't marry me. Yez see, I didn't wan her to turn Democrat. Page I3