Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1917 — Women and Public Welfare. [ARTICLE]

Women and Public Welfare.

• The pubile once was afraid that “gentle woman” would become . besmirched by Contact with the business and political world. But woman is showing the sluff she is made of by taking the politics, and in a measure out of business. This is shown in the growth of prohibition wherever women vote. It -s shown in woman’s effort to regulate prices by ooycotting foods that are held at abnormal rates, and in her propaganda for peace. The press reports for the Thomas H. Ince Movie productions give the phenomenal success of “Civilization” to worn®® - -is the anguish of ‘.Civilization’ that touched women’s hearts and so the picture secured their approval and became the success it is now known to be.” Motion picture producers, the report continues, would do well if they profited by the example of Mr. dncemid always kept in view the inch sputable fact that the favor of women spells success, their disfavor failure. And it is the humane and decent things, happily, which women favor, m movies as in other publie=iafr fairs. ?