Mexico and Women Voters NOW that the Mexican government has extended the right of suffrage to women it remains to be seen what influence this new element will have on the antireligious crusade which the revolutionary party has been carrying on for the past 15 years. Practically all Mexican women are churchgoers and militant defenders of their faith. Ten per cent of the men have been weaned away from their early clerical influences, others have been clothed in uniforms and subjugated by military discipline, and still others have followed the lure of ambition into a fog of disbelief. But the women have remained firm in their loyalty to the dominant church. During the Diaz regime, and practically ever since, the result of an election in Mexico did not depend on the voting so much as on the counting of ballots. Soldiers stand guard over the polling places and the faction in power invariably takes possession of the boxes and. announces the returns without fear of a serious contest by people who have no tangible evidence of a miscount or erroneous addition. This extension of suffrage to women in Mexico is one of the most important and promising steps in the direction of peace and progress taken by that government for a half century. Whether it be noticeable or not in the immediate future its ultimate tendency will be to restore confidence and establish tranquillity where revolutions and administrations have succeeded each other with alarming and disgraceful frequency. Among the nations now permitting women to vote and participate in affairs of government are the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the Scandinavian and Baltic countries, Germany, Austria, Poland,Czecho Slovakia, Rumania and Spain in Europe and a number of countries in South America. Eighteen states had adopted and demonstrated the virtue of equal suffrage before the United States legalized it for all. Mexico has taken a step in the right direction, keeping time to the drums of advancement in the march of civilization. Another Florida Disaster SYMPATHY is expressed throughout the world for the storm buffeted people of Florida who have bravely withstood so many disastrous assaults from seas and storms. Tidal waved have swept coast towns out of existence in the past. Hurricanes have scattered palaces and bungalows across the everglades. Recent rains have added to the distress which threaten again to discourage tourists and investors and check the return of prosperity to a section that might otherwise be considered the most alluring playground of the hemisphere. Tragic End of a Turbulent Career HUEY LONG is dead! The voice of criticism is hushed and sorrow is expressed, even by those who resented his political methods and usurpation of power which the constitution confers on the people. One of the most remarkable and picturesque characters in public life, he challenged fate, provoked hostility and defied death. His tragic end may be regarded as the logical climax of a turbulent career. In this way a memory may be embalmed which might have lost its glamor in the course of a few short years. Regardless of manners or morals, of obvious intentions or objectionable achievements, the American people admire a fighter. And Huey Long was one of the most persistent and consistent fighters on record. He fought everybody and everything that stood in his way or threw a shadow across his path. With bulldog tenacity of purpose he acquired an education, gained admission to the bar, won hopeless law suits, trampled on traditions, marshaled poor and ignorant voters to overthrow party machines in his commonwealth, rose from one exalted position to another, frustrated national lawmakers and absolutely dominated those of his home state, flew from one battlefield to another, relegated mayors, judges and other officials to private life and laughed in their faces. He was doomed to encounter a desperate victim of his merciless treatment at some turn of the road. As a counter irritant on the body politic he possessed a value which should not be overlooked. Huey Long said things which annoyed, but had to be uttered; he could not be muzzled; he was a self appointed champion of the forgotten man; he demonstrated, probably more clearly than any other man of his time, the potentiality of persistence, combined with courage and resourcefulness, in this land of equal opportunities, in spite of the doleful lamentations of men and women who complain of never having any chance. Loss of property as a result of these climatic visitations always runs into millions because millionaires establish winter homes and magnificent estates in Florida. It is easily accessible to the greatest centers of wealth by ship, rail, highway and airways. With the fresh breezes of the Atlantic ocean tempered by tropic zephyrs from the Gulf of Mexico the weather is ideal and inviting, except when waves dash ships against the keys, or gales level the groves and orchards, or rains fill the gardens and parks. More deplorable than financial losses, of course, are the lists of dead and missing. Hundreds of people are suddenly swept out of existence without warning and with all avenues of escape cut off by floods. The people of Utah extend their sympathy and proffer such aid as they may be called upon to render.