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Maryland State Archives Maryland Suffrage News Collection MSA SC 3286 msa_sc3286_scm7805-0025 Enlarge and print image (1M) |
| 210 MARYLAND SUFFRAGE NEWS [October 3, 1914.] Rush of Work Makes Extra Meetings Necessary. Owing to the III! Hilling activities of the bazaar committee it was decided that extra meetings of the executive committee of the bazaar would lie held in between the regular o|>cn meetings each week. It is hoped that there will be a large attendance at both the luncheon ami meeting next Tuesday, and that all those who wish to be present at the luncheon will send in their names at once to Mrs. C. K. Ellicott, 7 Mast Mulherrv street. WOMEN HELP THE COTTON MARKET Cotton Goods to Be the Fabric of the Hour With Patriotic Women—Maryland One of Sixteen Southern States to Purchase Bale. The order to buy a bale of cotton has gone forth to the suffragists. the National American Woman Suffrage Association has sent a check for fJO through the treasurer. Mrs. Stanley McCormick. to the president of every Slate Suffrage Association in the South. The name of the fund for tlie purchase of cotton is "The 1'resident .Anna I loward Shaw Cotton Bale Fund." and each suffrage president who makes the purchase is directed to store the hali' of cotton in the warehouse or to have it sent to suffrage headquarters, « here it may occupy a place of honor on the platform. "She 1- to buy the cotton at in cents a pound." said Mrs. McConuick, "and reganl it as an investment until financial affairs ease up in the South Mul the price of cotton returns to its normal figure." ''We wish to show, as good suffragists," concluded Mrs. McCormick, "that in the severe economic predicament which confronts the entire South thiit our sympathies are with them, and that we have a desire to help." Just Government League to Buy a Bale. Mrs. I >. Ft 1 looker, president of the J. G. I., of Maryland, has received .1 check for 8fQ from Mrs. Stanley McCormick, treasurer of the N. A. W. S. A. Mrs. Aliuira (i. Sweeten has been appointed chairman of a com- mittee to buy a bide and to make arrangements for holding it until she teecives a request to sell again from national headquarters. Speaker Clark'e Daughter Starts "Cotton" Innovation. Another movement on foot among the suffragists has originated with Miss Genevieve Clark, daughter of Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri, who came out so frankly for suffrage not long ago, and whose whole family are devoted adherents of the woman's cause. Miss Clark's idea is that there shall be a cotton bargain day, when 10,000,000 women shall spend $1 on cotton goods and thus relieve the money stringency which is paralyzing the cotton-growing manufacturers of the country, MOVING PICTURES TO AID FEDERAL AMENDMENT Women Voters of the Weet Promlas Support and Co-operation, The mot ing-picture shows promise to be one of the most powerful factors in defeating the 1 )emocratic candidates for Congress in the nine States where women \ote. Mrs. Jessie Hardy Sttibbs, in charge of the 1 iregon campaign headquarters of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which is appealing to all women voters to defeat the Democratic candidates for Congress because of the opposition to the suffrage measure by the National Democratic party, originated this idea. A slide was prepared by the Oregon headquarters bearing the figure of a woman trumpeter calling to the women voters to stand by their dis- franchised sisters in the East. The legend on the slide reads: "The .National Democratic party blocks the Federal suffrage amendment; de- feat the I )emocratic candidates for Congress." This idea has been adopted by campaign managers in the other suffrage States, and will soon be dis- played in the moving-picture houses from Seattle to Phoenix, Arizona. Promises of co-operation from the women voters in the campaign continue to reach the National Headquarters of the Congressional Union at Washington. Word has been received from Mrs. William Kent, Kent- field, Marin county, California, in which she says: "The plan of action seems to me a highminded one, and it is bound to have a wonderful influ- ence. What can I do to help?" Mrs. Kent, who is the wife of Repre- sentative Kent of the first district of California, is a member of the Executive Committee of the Congressional Union. She has arranged to speak against the National Democratic candidates for Congress as a part of the Union's campaign, before the Civic League of San Rafael and before a meeting at the Women's Progressive headquarters in San Francisco. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: For Clerical Work. Will VOU give an hour each week to SUFFRAOE? Send your name to HEADQUARTERS, 817 N. Charles Street. EVENTS OF THE WEEK. Monday, October 5. Regular meeting of Anne Arundel County J. G. L. at Annapolis at 3 P. M. Tuesday, October 6. J. G. L. Executive Committee meeting at Headquarters at 11A.M. Suffrage Bazaar Luncheon at 17 W. Saratoga St at 1 o'clock. (Subscription 25 cents.) General Bazaar Committee meeting at same address at 2 P. M. Suffrage "At Home" at J. G. L. Headquarters at I P. M. Speaker—Miss Mildred Rankin, on "The Minimum Wage." Hostess—Mrs. Charles J. Keller. Friday, October 9. Open meeting at J. G. L. Headquarters at 8 P. M. Chairman of Committee on Arrangements—Mrs. Wm. Pinkney Holmes. WAR AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE Rabbi Wise Talke of Unreet and the Great Caueea Back of It. Rabbi Wise, who preaches in Carnegie I lall in New York every Sun- day, is one of the most ardent suffragists who lifts up a telling voice for the cause of woman's enfranchisement. The following arc extracts from recent sermons: "1 hold that the absence of women from the councils of State is par- tially, if not largely, responsible for the continuance of the plague of war upon earth. Is it less than incredible that six or seven nations are engaged in the greatest war that the world has ever know 11 and not a woman in all these hinds has been consulted as to whether war or peace should be. though tens of thousands of men of women born have died and the last great terrible cost of war ill life-long sorrow anil suffering will be women- borne ?" * * • * "Whether or not it be true, as George Meredith says, that the awaken- ing of women is the most indigestible fact of the last 60 years, it is one of the most significant things that has ever come to pass in the history of the w orld. The awakening of women might be called the great unrest only in the sense that it represents a largely conscious, or a half-conscious, devel- opment of certain life forces. The woman's movement is not a feminist movement at all, but a human movement." i * • a "Fine it is that women have come at last to be active on their own be- half and are no longer satisfied to leave the solution of their problems in the hands of others. Thus, although there are a number of men seriously active in the ranks of the equal suffrage cause in our land, the leadership of the movement is in the hands of women who are among the ablest per- sons in America. The cause is being led with a sound and wise statesman- ship, which is not the least of the proofs of the fitness of women for citizenship." * * * * "Unrest there is in womanhood today, but there is more than unrest, for the unrest which obtains in the world of womanhood is symbolic of the warring of mighty forces. Cure for unrest—there can be none, for unrest is not a disease, but the never-ceasing pains of growth. The awakening is the token of the life which calls." JUST GOVERNMENT LEAGUE. Semi-Annual Meeting, Annapolis, Md.. Monday, October 19,1914. Business session, 10 JO A. M., at The Lucky Bag Inn, near main gate of U. S. Naval Academy. Business meeting, 2*30 P. M„ at The Lucky Bag Inn. Luncheon, 1 P. M„ at The Lucky Bag Inn. Massmeeting, 8 P.M. Speaker, Mr. A. K. McKelway of the National Child Labor Bureau. (Place will be announced later.). The names of any delegates who may wish HOSPITALITY for the night should be sent immediately to the Chairman of the Hospitality Committee, Miss Harriet E. Luhn, 22 West street, Annapolis. Chairman of Committee on Local Arrangements, Mrs. Robert Moss, Annapolis, Md. (All county leagues are requested to send in the list of their delegates at once to Mrs. D. R. Hooker, 817 North Charles street, in order that credentials may be issued.) MetLP THl CAUSt—Mention the Maryland Suffrage News When Patronising Our Advertlssre. |