WOMEN: Evening the Sexes

” Women are living under worse conditions in this country than in any other country in the world. It is time that men woke up to this fact.

” Discrimination exists everywhere. The worst and a common one is that a man can give away his child and take it away from his wife. In some cases he can will away his unborn child.

” Man has the whip-hand over woman. Her instincts are maternal, and if he can threaten to take away her child he can dominate all situations.”—So said Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont, President of the National Woman’s Party, in announcing the Fall plans of the Party. The present aim of the National Woman’s Party is a Constitutional Amendment giving women absolute equality with men in the sight of the law.

To this end Mrs. Belmont summoned 200 leaders of the Party to meet in Washington and call on the President on Nov. 17. The object of the visit is to inform President Coolidge that their drive has begun.

When Congress opens, the proposed Amendment to the Constitution will be introduced in both Houses. Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas will make the introduction in the Senate. In the House the Amendment will be introduced by Senator Curtis’ protege, Daniel Read Anthony, Jr., who secured the seat which Mr. Curtis vacated when he transferred from the House to the Senate. Congressman Anthony is a nephew of Susan B. Anthony who blazed the trail of equal rights for women.

Mrs. Belmont expects great things of the proposed Amendment. When asked if she thought there would ever be a woman President, she replied: ” I expect to live to see her elected and to attend her inauguration.” Mrs. Belmont does not give her age in Who’s Who. She was first married in 1874.

Notification sprang from Marion, 0., that Mrs. Florence Kling Harding may be named delegate-at-large from Ohio to the next Republican National Convention. If so, she will be required to file a declaration with the Secretary of State of Ohio, naming the candidate she will support.