The Woman's Journal, vol. 43, no. 5, February 3, 1912, p. 35

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WISCONSIN DEBATERS WIN FOR SUFFRAGE “As far as Wisconsin and Illinois are concerned, would it be preferable or is it best to allow women the ballot?"

This was the subject of two debates last night. A team from Racine High School debated the negative side of the question in Kenosha, with the result that they lost to the affirmative by a unanimous vote. At the same time a Kenosha High School team with sixty rooters came to Racine to debate on the negative side, and lost to the Racine High School, which won with two votes for the affirmative and one for the negative.

1f two debates between these High Schools can settle the question, Wisconsin, at least, is entitled to equal suffrage, when the men of the State cast their votes next fall.—Racine Times.

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support moral issues. It will have its influence on other countries, also, and probably will hasten the sranting to their women the same privileges as the women of Sweden. Swedish Pastors All Pleased Swedish pastors of Worcester were all of the same opinion, that Sweden will benefit morally by the enfranchisement of women. All were pleased that a victory seems inevitable for the women who have worked for years to gain suffrage.

“Rev. John Gullans said that such a course, if adopted in Sweden, will operate as an experiment to show how woman suffrage will work. Al mations will have their eyes turned to Sweden to watch for results.

Had Seen It in Washington "“Women today are intellectual and pretty well posted on political matters. My wife had the privilege of voting in the State of Washington, and I found she chose the same candidates as I did, which I thought very sensible, and it raised my esteem for woman suffrage, he said. 'The women of Sweden will work to make the country better, morally and politically. It will in a measure offset the rabid onslaught of extreme parties that are gaining headway. It will aid in settling the liquor question.

Puts Sweden in the Lead “Rev. Olaf P. Peterson said: It means added force for the temperance cause if the recommendations of the king are carried through. It will mean a balancing element for the moral welfare of the country. Women are generally on the right side of all sreat questions, whether of home, church or nation. It is quite a jump ahead of the women in other lands if the women of Sweden succeed in setting suffrage. will Benefit the Country

“Rev. Frans A. Ensstrand said: The time is apparently ripe for women to gain equul rights with men in national affairs. No doubt it will benefit the country morally, and the class of voters gained by enfranchising women means a great deal to temperance.

Means Fall of Conservative Party “Editor Axel Tode gave his opinion that the King of Sweden is following advice from the liberal government, and that the primary move is made by his councillor, Carl Staaff. He said that the bill introduced by the king means the complete victory of the liberal government, and assures the overthrow of the conservative party.

I hope the action of the Riksdas will be favorable to the enfranchisement of women in Sweden, said Rev. lonas P. Zettervall. It will benefit the country and give cleaner government. The king has made a wise move and his attitude on this important question should be the cause of great satisfaction among the suffragists the world over."

On petition of Dr. Evangeline W. Young, a bill to raise the age of protection for girls from 16 years to 18 has been introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature. “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" will be given at the Garrick Theatre in Philadelphia, Feb. 19, under the auspices of the Women's Suffrage Association of Pennsylvania.

THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 3, 1912

A WOMAN DOCTOR Appointed to House of Refuge in Cincinnati When Miss Edith Campbell was elected to the Cincinnati Board of Education—the first woman to be chosen in that city—the suffragists were happy. Now the new mayor, Henry T. Hunt, has appointed Dr. Frances Collingshead as Assistant Superintendent of the House of Refusge.

This institution belongs to the city, and is not only a home for youthful offenders, but also a refuge for neslected children whose parents have deserted them or who are themselves confined in other places as law-breakers; also for children whose natural protectors are unable to care for them. The positions in this institution have always been given as rewards for the workers of the political party in power. But Mayor Hunt is a different sort of man. He is lifting all municipal offices out of political control, and is looking for the best man for the place. In regard to the House of Refuge, he looked not only for the best man, but for the best woman, and in the appointment of Dr. Hollings-

DR. FRANCES HOLLINGSHEAD

head everyone concedes that he has made a conspicuous success. Dr. Hollingshead is a granddaughter of the famous actor, James E. Murdock, who was associated with Booth and E. L. Davenport in their sreatest successes. In his later years the great actor taught others his incomparable art; and Dr. Hollingshead's mother was, like her father, a teacher of elocution. One of her daughters is a great Shakespeare reader and interpreter in lectures, although she will go but a short way from her roof-tree, where she is the devoted teacher of her children.

Dr. Hollingshead can write a goodly part of the alphabet in giving the degrees she has received in universities, and her last specialty is sex hygiene. Already she has announced many practical plans for the betterment of the children under her charge. She will be a potent influence in having the House of Refuge moved further into the country, where outdoor work will not only aid in the reformation of those needing reform, but will be for the great improvement of all. She has decided that the pond in front of the Refuge, heretofore used only as a landscape ornament, shall be used to teach all the inmates to swim. Such are the practical ideas women carry into public service.

Before this administration, the position of stenographer to the Mayor has always been another coveted political plum. This time Mayor Hunt has selected the person who was stenosrapher in the office of the County Prosecutor, Miss Jennings, thus showing his belief that a woman can keep a secret. “The world do move." S. R. McL. Glendale, O.

NOTES & NEWS A ten-hour bill for women has been introduced in the Maryland Legisla ture by the Consumers' League. Judge Charles B. Seymour and Miss Virginia Robinson debated woman suffrage recently in Louisville, Ky. The Woman Suffrage Party of Minnmesota is reperted to have disbanded. The Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association will carry on the work.

Pennsylvania is alive with suffrage activity, and the coming Fair in Philadelphia promises to be a sreat success. Mrs. Blankenburs, wife of the Mayor, will make an address. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature to enable the sheriff of New York City to appoint women as deputies. The intention is to have them lock after women and sgirls.

Hon. Howard Davies, author of the direct primary law of Maine, took an advance stand in advocating woman's suffrage and the recall in a recent address before the Men's Club of the Universalist Church of Woodfords, Me. The key to the report of the Chicago Vice Commission Report will be kept secret. The grand jury, after reading a cepy loaned by Judge William Mc- Surely, decided not to compel the officers of the commissicn to produce it, as asked by the Christian Society.

The Rev. R. B. Hassell, the newlyelected Mayor of Everett, Wash., has appointed a woman as his executive secretary. He has also appointed a woman physician as head of the Health Department, a woman to the Park Board and one to the Library Board. The president of the Society for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities published a letter against votes for women. But the exclusion of women from the franchise is an antiquity that cannot be preserved forever, in Virginia or any other State.

Prof. Patten of the University of Pennsylvania contributes to The Pennsylvanian a spirited article in behalf of equal rights for women. He says that the roct cause of domestic unhappiness and divorce is the personal, financial and political dependence of women.

Debates on woman suffrage between Beatrice Forbes-Robertson and Mrs. John Martin are taking place in various cities, and arousing much interest. It is said that Mrs. Martin's anti speeches make even morg converts to votes for women than the words of Beatrice Forbes-Robertson in its favor.

The Omaha W. S. A. has started a series of suffrage teas. The first was held at the home of the president, Mrs. W. E. Shaffer in Dundee. Mrs. M. Sherman Felt, formerly of Chicago, told of the movement in that city, of the growth of the Chicago Political Equality League, and of her experiences selling The Woman's Journal on the streets and during the campaign trip through Cook county.

At a meeting of the State committee of the New Jersey Woman's Suffrage Party held the other day in Montclair, plans were adopted to spread the propaganda through the State. One of the features will be a house-to-house canvass in Newark. One hundred members of the party in Newark, it is said, have volunteered for the work, and 30 of the Montclair Equal Suffrage League, which has a membership of 170, will aid in the canvass.

The Equal Suffrage Association of Birmingham, Ala. has memorialized Congress in behalf of the change asked for by the Kentucky suffragists in the bill for the direct election of U. S. Senators. They wish to make it possible for women as well as men to take part in electing the Senators. The Birmingham ladies have received courteous but non-committal answers from the U. S. Senators from Alabama.

Clyde Fitch's play, “Her Great Match," given for the benefit of tne Massachusetts W. S. A. last week under the management of Mrs. B. F. Pitman and Miss Alice Carpenter, was a great success. The acting was extra ordinarily good, especially in view of the fact that all the performers were amateurs, except Miss Mary Youns,

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who sgenerously save her services. John Craig contributed the stage settings. The audience was large and appreciative, and the entertainment cleared a handsome sum. The advertising on the program alone brought in $950. The Winnipes Tribune is taking a straw vote of its readers as to woman suffrage. At latest accounts the replies were in favor more than four to one.

The women of Sweden are probably better prepared to undertake civic responsibilities than those of any country other than Great Britain and the United States. The educational system of Sweden has given its women opportunity for high mental cultivation and the literary prominence which many of them have won shows that they have made good use of it.— St. Joseph News-Press.

A statement has been widely circulated by the anti-suffragists that 13 States forbid night work for women and define the hours within which they may be employed. Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary of the National Consumers' League, in a letter to the New York Sun points out that, instead of there being 13 such States, there are only three. The Antis constantly make wild and sweeping assertions about the number of States having such and such laws, and cne after another of these assertions has been proved to be untrue, but it is impossible to sift them all, except by an exhaustive examination of the statutes in 48 States, for which it is hard to find time.

Dr. Robert Ellis Thompson, head of the Boys' Central High School in Philadelphia, was one of the speakers at the recent anti-suffrage meeting in that city. He asserted in his address that Judge Lindsey was opposed to woman suffrage. The philadelphia women telegraphed to Denver, and received a prompt and indignant denial. The incident shows how grossly ignorant of well-known facts anti-suffrage speakers semetimes are, and how little pains they take to inform themselves on the subject before undertaking to instruct others. Jane Addams said that one of her reasons for accepting the vice-presidency of the National Suffrage Association was to put a quietus on the persistent efforts of opponents of equal rights to represent her as an Anti.

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things through political glasses, but from the viewpoint of practical common sense and business. “Women vcters, and especially women taxpayers, are the same shrewd, far-seeing individuals who have educated themselves to believe that every purchaser should receive a hundred cents of value for every dollar expended, and that, if a bargain counter be in sight, they ought to get more for their dollar.

“This practical education is naturally being applied to political life, and when women go to the polls they will be inspired by practical principles far more than by practical politics. It will be hard to convince a woman that a man should be elected to an office supported by the local taxpayers because cf his political belief more than for his general fitness. These ideas are being manifested today in the field of local government, and it is noteworthy that at last night's meeting an accredited representative was present from some of the women's clubs.

“There are many complications surrounding the assessment question, but under the searchlight of a vigorous popular campaign such as has been

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