WATCH SUFFRAGE RULINGS

Interpretation of Women's Rights
in Elections to be Guarded.

Announcement was made yesterday
that the National American Women Suf-
frage Association was watching all legal
proceedings in States affected by the
Nineteenth Amendment so that all
doubts regarding the participation of
women in the November elections would
be removed.
Attorney General Arbuckle of Arkan-
sas telegraphed Mrs. Carnic Chapman
Catt, President of the association, yes-
terday that in his opinion women were
not eligible to hold office in Arkansas,
and that the Arkansas Secretary of
State had declined to accept the certifi-
cation of Dr. Ida Joe Brooks as the Re-
publican candidate for the State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction.
In Massachusetts the Ballot Law Com-
mission had decided that American wo-
men married to aliens prior to March,
1907, when Congress passed the law re-
quiring married women to take the citi-
zenship of their husbands, may retain
their citizenship.  Attorney General J.
Weston Allen of Massachusetts has de-
cided that women are eligible for ser-
vice as election officials and have the
right to sign nominating petitions.
Attorney General Frank M. McAllister
of Missouri has given the decision that
women will not be obliged to cast their
votes separately from men an declaring
the law, passed by the Missouri Legis-
lature to require them to vote on pink
ballots, to violate the principle of se-
crecy.  Attorney General McAllister de-
cided, however, that women are not
eligible as candidates for the Legislature
and that the four women nominated are
not eligible to serve.  The Missouri law
requires that a member of the Legisla-
ture must be a male voter and a voter
for two years before the election.

The New York Times
Published: October 24, 1920