The Woman's Journal, vol. 43, no. 7, February 17, 1912, p. 51

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VOTES FOR WOMEN BALL Two Thousand Young People Themselves and Champion Equal Suffrage

Murray Hill Lyceum in New York was the scene of a brilliant affair on the evening of Feb. 8, when the Women's Political Union gave a ball in which nearly 2,000 persons participated. The hall was appropriately decorated with the Union's colors, banners, mottoes, and in tri-colored electric lights the magnetic words “Votes for Women" were displayed over the stage. Before the dancing began there was a short program, consisting of old English folk songs by the Misses Fuller, arrayed in quaint costume; Russian dancing by the Misses Lewishon in costume; a duet sung by Miss Kitty Cheatem and Mr. Rector, the verses of which were parodied from “Reuben, Reuben, I've Been Thinking," and an eloquent speech by Miss Elizabeth Ellsworth Cook, who urged the audience to march in the woman suffrage parade to be held on Saturday afternoon, May 7, in New York City. During the evening the workers of the W. P. U. canvassed audience with parade pledges and hundreds of pledge slips were signed.

A grand march directed by Miss Josephine Beiderhase, assistant director of athletics for girls in the public schools, was the feature of the evening. This was led by Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch and Miss Elizabeth E. Cook, president and vice president of the W. P. U. A prize was awarded to the handsomest couple by the judges, Miss Elizabeth Burcheval, Miss Margaret Calhoun and Mrs. Stanton Lawrence. Youth predominated in the audience, and the spirit of the affair was all youns.

KANSAS NOTES

An Active Campaign Being Made by the Women—Hopes Bright for the Amendment—College Girls for Suffrage

Mrs. W. A. Johnston, State Presi dent, and Miss Helen N. Eacker State Secretary, are in charge of the Equal Suffrage Headquarters at 617 Mills Building, Topeka.

The organization of the State is now more than half done. The first district has added four counties in the last month, and the eighth five. Every district shows activity. The second and eighth are now virtually complete and have held their district con ventions. Practically all the work, excepting in the seventh district, has been done by local women, chiefly by the district presidents. Mrs. W. A. Johnston, State president, and Mrs. W. R. Stubbs, first vice-president, have been present at many of the organization meetings.

The county officers are instructed to carry out the detail work in the counties. No Kansas county is considered fully organized until every precinct woman has been appointed and provided with numerous assistants. The canvass of the State has been undertaken by the department of membership extension. The department of education is endeavoring by means of prize essay contests to carry the work, side by side with the canvass, into every school district and into every Kansas home. The State Board Meeting

The State Board of the Kansas E. S. A. met in Topeka January 30-31, immediately after Kansas Day. Bvery member except two was present. Two came from the extreme western boundary of the State. The members of the Board fully expect the amendment to carry, but not without work, and hard work. The sentiment in favor of enfranchising women has grown noticeably since the last campaign, in 1893. Men are open to conviction. The work of the suffragists has told. The greatest problem that confronts the Board is to secure funds for expenses. They are sending out pledge blanks, hoping that all friends to the cause will make some donation, be it ever so little.

Dr. Helen Brewster Owens Will Help One of the most important pieces of business done by the executive board was the securing the assistance of Dr. Helen Brewster Owens, of Itbaca, New York. Dr. Owens is a native Kansan, and

THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL. FEBRUARY 17, 1912 o the tt U w e baop pi, wome o e She came to Kansas in the late fal, their speakers were allowed ten-min- the strons, sensible, p out of love for the suffrage cause and ute intervals for addresses. one of them, which is a a desire to secure its victory for her “In accounting for suffrase activity trations, ousht to be s native State. While here last fall she in the cause of pure food, Mrs. Blank- the “suffrage slides.” helped to organize the most difficult enburg said that in a city no one in stamps to The Twe part of Kansas. Those who knew of lives for himself. Magazine, Boston, Mass her work spoke of it in the hightest Politics Women's Business uary issue. terms, and the Board were unanimouswe are all, she said, 'dependent Miss Rhoda G. Palme in their delight in securing her help upon the community for our food, for ed the Seneca Falls again. Dr. Owens will come at once, our water, even for our air. We can- 1848, and is now well to help complete the organization of not get air that is not adulterated by nineties, sends us the the State. smoke and germs; we cannot get ling which appears in

Suffrage the Keynote at Kansas Day Club

Suffrage the Keynote at Kansas Day Club The Woman's Kansas Day Club is made up of women of the State, and is non-partisan. There were present in Topeka probably 400 Kansas women representing every congressional district and county. The keynote of the speeches was “Enfranchise Kansas Women." Among the prominent women who spoke were Mrs. Eustace Brown of Olathe, Mrs. W. D. Atkinson, president of the Federated Clubs, of Parsons, Mrs. W. I. Lewis of Colby, and Mrs. Cora G. Lewis of Kinsley.

Women Do Want the Ballot At Washburn College, Topeka, when a straw vote was taken recently on the pending Suffrage Amendment, all the young women voted. Fiftymine voted “no," and 101 voted “yes.' No suffrage agitation had been carried on in the college community previous to the vote. The young men gave a majority against the amendment. The young women are now organizing a College Suffrage Amendment League.

If we can carry out our plans in the press, educational, and membership extension work, our cause is won. It is down in the voting precinct that the real work must be done. The personal touch is what counts. Helen N. Eacker.

NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS COLLEGE LEAGUE

The College Equal Suffrage League of New Hampshire was lately organized in Concord, with the following officers:

President, Mrs. Benjamin Orr, Concord; Vice-President, Mrs. L. C. Curtis, Manchester; Secretary, Mrs. R. A. Boutwell, and Treasurer, Miss Frances Abbott, both of Concord. Miss Martha S. Kimball is the director for Portsmouth, and Directors from Nashua, Manchester, Keene and Littleton will be chosen later. The League is auxiliary to the National Equal Suffrage League. It has adopted a constitution making eligible to membership not only college graduates but normal school graduates and women who have studied in college for one year.

The League is planning to give the play, “How the Vote Was Won," in several cities.

DR. COIT COMING

Dr. Stanton Coit is to be in and about Boston between March 19 and March 28 and is ready to sive addresses on woman suffrage. He is a very able lecturer. His fee is $50. PURE FOOD AND SUFFRAGE

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can't 1? The answer, because she didn't use the particular relish, was nmo reflection on the cause.

Music by Suffrage Band “Even the music was provided by a suffrage band, at least that is what Madam Raboul called her orchestra. “The suffrage beoth was the main attraction at the show. Presided over by a group of pretty girls and dignified matrons, it was a Mecca for all in search of information about the true inwardness of the movement. Miss Beatrice Brown was busy selling washrags with the names of the Suffrage States printed on them and the cld legend, Taxation without representation is tyranny. Mrs. Harry Lowenbersg, chairman of the committee, gave out leaflets, green, red and yellow, telling the why and wherefore of the suffrage movement, and others distributed announcements of a suffrage benefit.

“The voices of the advocate of the ballot blended with the demonstrator's rigmarcles about the best silver polish and the most successful coffee pot; but the suffragists got the most attention, for they had the entire floor

when the band stopped playims, and their speakers were allowed ten-minute intervals for addresses. “In accounting for suffrage activity in the cause of pure food, Mrs. Blankenburg said that in a city no one lives for himself.

Politics Women's Business ““We are all, she said, 'dependent upon the community for our food, for our water, even for our air. We cannot get air that is not adulterated by smoke and germs; we cannot set water that is not tampered with by politics; we cannct get food that is not, in some way, affected by politics. If this is true, then politics, the politics that come into the home by way of the water pipes, by way of the food supply and through the school and other agencies that affect women and children, is the business of the mother and the homemaker. We women simply ask, in asking for the ballot, that we be given the right to say what kind of politics shall enter our homes. “Mrs. Edwin C. Grice said that the removal of the industries from the home has made it essential to the health and welfare of the community that woman's interest should follow them into public life and keep an eye on the source of supply."

NOTES AND NEWS

A big registration of women is reported from Sacramento, Cal. Miss Anne Martin edits a department in the Reno Gazette for the Nevada Equal Franchise Society. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman has in The Forerunner for February an article on "Woman and Democracy," which ought to be reprinted as a suffrage leaflet. The assurances of La Follette's opponents that he is hopelessly disabled are as emphatic as the assertions of the anti-suffragists that the suffrage movement is dead.

The Virginia House of Delegates has voted against weman suffrage, 85 to 12. The Virginia suffragists are cheerful, and say they will keep on working for the ballot till they set it. Rev. R. B. Hassell, the newly-chosen Mayor of Everett, Wash., who is said to have been elected largely by the women's vote, is from Iowa, and both he and his wife are graduates of Grinnell College.

The Suffrage Club of Wellsboro, Pa., has been given the use of the Judges' Chambers for its meetings. It lately had a lecture from Mrs. Ida Porter-Boyer on “A Modern Weapon," which won many friends for equal suffrage. Two women in Indiana have been nominated for State offices on the Socialist ticket, Miss Florence Wattles of Elwcod for State Superintendent of Public Instruction and Mrs. Carl Ott of Indianapolis for State Statistician.

The aeroplane could be put to excellent use by our Solons. Such a method of transportation would land them safely at the windows of the Capitol and not force them to run the gauntlet of the besieging suffragists.— Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch lately contributed to the Chicago Legal News a very valuable article on “Guardianship of Children," giving an account of the guardianship laws of the different States. Send 10 cents in stamps to the Legal News for its issuie of Jan. 13.

By a regrettable oversight, for which The Woman's Journal was not responsible, the Maryland Woman Suffrage Association and the Baltimore City Club were omitted from the list sent us last week of Maryland organizations endorsing and working for the State-wide suffrage bill.

Prof. Charles Zueblin is now the editor of the Twentieth Century Masazine, and it has something in favor of equal suffrage in every issue, with much other good matter as well. The January issue contained “The Awakening of Iceland," by Prof. Jerome Hall Raymond, the first of a series on “The Obscure Democracies of Europe." Prof. Raymond says, “There seems to be no opposition in Iceland to women voting and taking part in public affairs. He tells how the women of Reykjavik have-secured the introduction of gas as fuel, to the great increase of domestic comfort, as the island had long sulered from a chronic fuel famine. Tuere are three

women on the municipal council, and the strons, sensible, pleasant face of one of them, which is amons the illustrations, ousnt to be seized upon for the “suffrage slides." Send 25 cents in stamps to The Twentieth Century Magazine, Boston, Mass., for the January issue.

Miss Rhoda G. Palmer, who attended the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, and is now well along in the mineties, sends us the poem on Kipling which appears in The Woman's Journal this week. She says she considers it the best thing she has yet seen on that subject.

The Political Equality Club of Corydon, Ia., started the new year with great interest and an enrolment of 86 members. The club calendar covers a year, and provides a program every three weeks. The first two subjects were Civic Improvement and Economics. The club has joined the Iowa State Federation. The Men's League, organized about a year aso, has 74 members.

The week of Susan B. Anthony's birthday was signalized in Rochester, N. Y., by sreat activity on the part of the anti-suffragists, who held a series of meetings and took part in several debates. It was an odd way for Rochester to celebrate the birthday of its most distinguished citizen; but if Miss Anthony knew it, she probably smiled. Anti speeches generally make more converts to votes for women than the most eloquent suffrage addresses.

Mr. Roosevelt quotes with much approval from Dr. Saleeby's “Woman and Womanhood": “Those who suppose that the granting of the vote is going to effect radical and fundamental changes in the facts of biology, the development of instinct and its significance in human action are fools of the very blindest kind."' They certainly are, and nobody does suppose this except those who argue against giving votes to women. —Mrs. Ida H. Harper, in N. Y. Sun.

The Equal Franchise Society of New York sgave the first of a series of suffrage receptions to the various settlements of the city last Saturday evening at the new library and Headquarters, No. 8 East 37th street. The workers and clubs of Christadora House were the guests. Mrs. Pearce Bailey presided and Mrs. Frederick Nathan spoke. The object is to bring the library to the attention of women wage earners. On Wednesday aftermoons a series of receptions for the various suffrage societies will be held. On Feb. 14 the Woman Suffrage Party was the guest of honor.

WOMEN'S DISILLUSIONED EYES “A Dream of Fair Women" and a National Policy, Simple But Effective, In Which Each Woman Contributes at Least One Hundred Dollars Per Week No Matter How Poor in Worldly Goods Last Saturday night I went to bed |o'clock that two special policemen tired and unhappy. All the afternoon were kept on guard while it was beplans had been discussed for organiz- ing counted. ing a large newsy army, and while The women's eyes. are hard to dethere was much of promise, there was scribe. They were disillusioned eyes also much of uncertainty. I went to with a far-away, sad look. It was as sleep and dreamed a dream of a vast if the women nad said to themselves, army. “We are never going to get this yote

I thought there was in every city and town an army of Woman's Journal newsies—one weman for every street corner in the nation. In each city and town there was a sprinkling of girls, but the army was chiefly composed of women of middle age and olo women. They were the mothers and matrons of the nation, and many indeed were the gray heads! There were two notable things about the army: its splendid but simple organization, and the look in the eyes of the women.

Every Saturday afterncon they were in their places at 12.30, wearing yellow bags marked “Votes for Women Paper, The Woman's Journal, 5c." They stayed at their posts till four, when the oldest woman of the army blew seven blasts from a yellow bugle and all the army came trooping along wearing their bags and comparing their afternoon sales. They marched by twos to a central office, in each town, hung up their bass, returned the unsold papers and turned in their money. Each woman's work was credited as worth one hundred dollars. Even if she had not sold a paper, her afternoon's work had been worth one hundred dollars to the Cause and The Journal, merely for advertising. But everybody sold many papers and so much silver was in hand by five

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Judge John P. Kavanaugh of Portland, vice-president of the Oregon Men's League for Woman Suffrage, lately made a trip through Washingten and California, and talked with many people about the effects of woman suffrage. He also observed the women and the homes, and he anmounces his conviction that the talk about the ballot injuring womanliness and destroying the home is nonsense.

Mayor Blankenburg won the plaudits of more than a thousand youns women belonging to the Strawbridge &Clothier Relief Association last night by declaring that he believes in weman suffrage and would give them the right to vote tomorrow had he the power to do so. The Mayor was the guest of honer at the association's anmual meetingsg. —Philadelphia Bulletin.

o'clock that two special policemen were kept on guard while it was being counted.

The women's eyes. are hard to describe. They were disillusioned eyes with a far-away, sad look. It was as if the women had said to themselves, “We are never going to get this vote and be free unless we organize to educate the public in our behalf. We will make them notice us, read about us and know that we are in dead earnest." To the men they had said: "No, it is not dignified. But you do mot want us to strike or be mimant you heed not our pleadings, our prayers, our petitions., You have driven us to desperation! So now we will stand on the street corners and sell papers. We have asreed upon this as our national policy. You may revile us for this, but we will not desist. We shall come out to shame you till you give us the vote."

The eyes of the women told this so powerfully that, as the army marched along, the onlooker was conscious of nothing but a mighty army of women's disillusioned eyes looking faraway and sad, but with an earnestness and beauty beyond words to describe. This was merely a dream, but the leaven is already working in Maryland, Illinois, Ohio, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and perhaps the dream is not too gocd to come true! What if each State should take to selling The Journal weekly as a bit of national policy simple but effective?

Agnes E. Ryan.