THE “FLAPPER” VOTE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 85, 9 January 1928, Page 8

THE “FLAPPER” VOTE

CHAMPIONED BY THE HOME SECRETARY

KEEPING PACE WITH > YOUTH Dominion Special Service. London, November 10, 1927. , The Home Secretary is quite impatient in his championship of the “flapper’' vote. Ho announces that the Government Bill to give votes to women at twenty-one is to.be introduced next year, in the early part of the session, and there is a glow of pride and expectation in his words. Sir William JoynsonHicks claims that

the young women are as capable .of forming an opinion on political, questions as their seniors, and that Conservatives must no longer regard themselves as a political party of the days of Queen Victoria, or as a party of reaction or privilege. “Look at me,” says the Home Secretary exultantly. “I am sixtytwo, but I keep

step with youth, i oeuevo

in their intelligence, their right-hearted-ness, their point of view, their objects, their aspirations. lam not an old man, and I am not goiiui-to be an old man. It is good to have a member of the Cabinet with this buoyancy. .-And Sir William looks the part he assigns himself. His slender, supple, alert figure, his energy, physical and mental, his remarkable resilience, all bespeak a wellpreserved . constitution. -As for independence of mind, he has shown it again and again. Ho is proud to find himself in entire unity with Itho Brime Minister on the question of the flapper” vote, and ho lightly scorns „alt criticism. "Sometimes.’’ he says, we may ent across the view of soina ot the older members of our party, but we cannot live merely on the support it old men.’’ Speakers at the annual mpetin<* of the Ladies’ Grand Council of the Primrose League in T.ondon protested apainst the term "flappers.” The Dowager Countess of Jersey.. who . presjdM. said Bunners were mentioned in Ou I liver's Travels/* They were persons armed with bladders filled with peas, attached to sticks, and their function was to «tir up lethargic and unobservant mon. The women on the Grand l.ouncii of the Primrose Teague should follow the example of those flanners. .; don’t like the term Planners’ Bill, said the Martinis of Titehfidd. who addressed the meeting as Chancellor of the Primrose League. "Girls of twenty-on n arc not flappers. The Bill to e.sfahhs> nniveral suffrage ought to lie called the Scanners’ Bill—it is the scanner that turns the head of the ’nut.’