Puget Sound—Tonight, and Saturday probably rain; moderate northeasterly winds.

LOCAL INSTRUCTOR
AIRS MODERN VIEW
MRS. M. L. SARGENT IN SPOKANE
TALK URGES WOMEN TO TAKE
RESPONSIBILITIES
In a speech given yesterday morning by Mrs. Margarete L. Sargent, professor of romance languages at the University of Idaho, at the breakfast of the Executive Woman's League of the Inland Empire Teachers' association in the Davenport Hotel, Spokane, men were declared to be incompetent to handle the world's affairs, and the placing of more women in national executive positions was advocated by the speaker.
About seventy members of the league were present at the breakfast, chatting about convention affairs and getting acquainted. In enlargening on her theme, Mrs. Sargent said:
"Men particularly showed their inefficiency in handling affairs of the world during the late war.
time for women to come farther to the front. Sometimes we are a little jealous. We are not always big enough to take over the affairs that need us, but we must keep on striving. Women alone have the power to stop wars. The women of Europe today are united in an effort to stop war, even refusing to bear children to be fodder for the cannons."
Must Avoid Publicity
She told of her trip through Europe, saying that in Germany and other nations women have scattered placards declaring that there must never be another.  "We must be able to carry high responsibilities without being singled out," she concluded. "It must be common for a woman to have responsibility. Publicity if she has a high position." 