Monday, Mar. 31, 1924
Where Men Are Men
Article X of the new Turkish Constitution may provoke as.lively a discussion in the homes of the Angora delegates as was provoked-- by Article X of the League of Nation's Covenant in the U. S. Senate in 1919. Article X, as originally proposed, specified that every Turk, upon completing his 18th year, was entitled to vote in Parliamentary elections.
The Grand National Assembly, in a session that passed the first articles of the Constitution, last week amended Article X by the insertion of the obnoxious word "male" before Turk.
The debate over Article X was lively. Isahn Bey, deputy for Jebel Bereyet and President of the First Tribunal of Independence, declared that resistance to the admission of women to equal rights was foolish, as in ten years women would certainly be members of the Assembly.
A bearded, turbaned Moslem ecclesiastic arose with dignity and intense conviction. "When that moment comes," he cried, "the men will become women!"