On This Day, 14 February 1918

Birmingham Daily Gazette

Thursday 14 February 1918

WOMEN, THE VOTE AND THE WAR

(To the Editor of the Birmingham Gazette)

Sir,-

Personally, though not an anti-Suffragist, I see no cause for jubilation on the enfranchisement of women. When one considers the bulk of the women’s attitude to nearly every barbaric and retrogressive institution under the sun, one sees more cause for depression. Mrs. and Miss Christabel Pankhurst’s characteristic “Vicar of Bray” attitude only disgust thinking people. I have just read a report of the Town Hall meeting on Sunday, and venture to suggest that Miss Pankhurst and the Amazons who supported her, should be sent to the front in place of the engineers they insulted.

And what about the 50,000 clergy-in this country alone-who are exempt from military service? Why did Miss Pankhurst reserve all her adjectives for the engineers?

Yours, etc.,

Rose Berkeley

Lozells- road