SALVAGING A NATION

More things are wrought by women than this world dreams of. From abolition down to prohibition many of the great American reforms have been effected in very large part by Eve's daughters, often using non-political instruments. The pen of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the hatchet of Carried Nation, the tongue of Mr. Carrie Chapman Catt--who can estimate the efficacy of these weapons of reform?

Their latest application of indirect methods has been directed against the evils of being born elsewhere than in these United State. The New York Federation of Women's Clubs has resolved that "no person except a natural-born citizen of the United States be eligible to be a Justice of the Supreme Court, a member of the Cabinet or Speaker of the House of Representatives." Alexander Hamilton, Carl Schurz and many other names illustrious in American history were cited by opponents of the resolution as proof that foreign birth does not disqualify a man for great service to the United States; but all to no avail.

That grown women, to all out ward appearances sane and conscious of their actions, have carried such a resolution is important as a sign of the times. Historians say it is only natural that an era of international skepticism should follow one when the universal brotherhood of man was so loudly proclaimed. Even so, liberal minded people cannot console themselves with the philosophy of Doctor Pangloss that everything must happen as it does and that all is for the best.