Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1920 — Page 13

FREEDOM FETE 43CELEBRATED BY PORTUGAL Anniversary of Liberation From Spain Passes Without Disorders. CLOSE AS NEIGHBOR ■LISBON, Portugal, Jan. 16.—This country, republican, and at present as much Hispanophlle as discretion'•and dignity will permit, found itself in a situation of some little doubt at the beginning of December. It happens, as the world In general may not be aware—since the Portuguese conduct these national domestic affairs with some sort, of* reserve —that the first of the month Is nominally the great Liberation day pf the nation. It is the day devoted to honoring the "restorers,” and on that day all Lisbon and as much of the rest'of Portugal as SM manage It, gives itself a holiday and in every way, or is supposed to do so, to live up to the idea of honoring the realization of a great emancipation. There have been days not far distant when,this festival, considered as the chief day of its kind in the year, would have been signaled with much rejoicing, even though many of the rejoicers, as in inevitably jthe case on such occasions, were unaware of the significance of the commemoration. CONFLICT OF EMOTIONS BECOMES MANIFEST. , But on this last time there was a conflict of emotions among those who really thought upon the affairs of history and their bearing upon the present, and there was hesitation In giving any plain and direct stimulus to the proceedings. The president of the republic himself, indeed, probably did a, wise thing in choosing this moment for practically the first great visit in his presidential capacity to another chief city of the republic, namely, Coimbra, where there were rejoicings which, in the circumstances, were not associated with the festival day. The simple truth is that the day was that devoted officially and otherwise to the celebration of the deliverance of Portugal from the yoke of Spain in 1640. For some sixty years Portugal, in the language of the historians and patriots, l had suffered ‘‘slavery’’ under Spain; at the time indicated she set herself free again, and has been free ever since. The precise date of the consummation of the deliverance is that represented by ! this festival. Six years ago the national feeling, artificial and otherwise, according to the intelligence and education of the subject, was tolerably strong. Years of practice in the celebration makes ex- : perts in fervency; besides which it was the fact that Portugal, was certainly not envying Spain in any way. The I'ortulltoese financial position was as good as was to be expected i nthe case of a country that had not long before been bankrupt, and was still In the throes of transition from monarchy to republicanism. But she was at least as good as Spain, and in many respects, size for size, might have, been held In much high’er esteem. Politically, she considered that she had made an advance over the sister nation, whilst miLreis and escudos were as good as pesetas.

MIHT HAVE BEEN BETTER THAN SPAIN. Tbe case now, however, is not Quite the same. In the first place, it is remembered by those who have considered the historical points, that this celebration is indirectly a matter of honoring the Braganzs line of monarchs, and with a dethroned Braganza stiii a candidate for the kingship of a country that is cow republican, but has not yet established its republicanism on the firmest foundations, there is something of an anomaly there. [ Perhaps the monarchical aspect of the tuiestion does not matter at this stage of ■MDfcroceedings. The new Braganza jlffP held Ills country free from the Banish touch, but Portugal never rose gain to tbe heights she had previously phieved. As to the question of delivernce from this yoke, the ruling consider* tlon at the present moment is that, as ‘very one in Portugal knows and apprelates, Spain is now comparatively enoriottsly prosperous, and'she suffers from ew of those x*ost-wa.r disabilities wits ihich Portugal Is heavily burdened. IX ACCOUNTING FOR SHYNESS OF NATION. It generally happens that when one lation, at something of a worldly disadrantage, thus makes overtures—quite un'fficially be it insisted again—to another :hat is by no means at any_such disadvantage—the latter is a little shy, as is the manner of the world, Spain might have been expected to be a little shy n,w in her prosperity, but as It happens this is not at all the case. She, unofficially, responds with alacrity. The freedom of the response, indeed, has a tendency to awaken a Iltttle suspicion among a people that no means indisposed to be suspicious. The Spaniards show their willingness for closer, relations in many ways ana some of the manifestations have been striking. Thus, on the very eve of the December celebrations, the Figaro, *the enterprising weekly illustrated periodic cal of Madrid, produced a large and really handsome and well-edited illustrated supplement “Dedicated to Portugal," with a “Saludo al Pueblo Lusltano.’ Full of good articles, Interviews, statistics, and all the rest, this was by fat the best thing of its kind ever done in Portugal or Spain. It was not only cir fulated extensively through the shops end other places in Portugal, but the vupplemenfc, without the rest of the number, was distributed in considerable quantities in the leading hotels anti some other public places. A people even less suspicious than the Portuguese might have wondered if some other than he Figaro alone had been concerned in ‘bis prodigal distribution of Ilispano-I’ort-uguese conjunction propaganda, for that is what It amounted to.

LPLAN WORLD TRADECONFAB ■ Conference to Discuss Means of Stabilizing Exchange. W WASHINGTON. Jan. 16.—Four big ■ problems of industrial finance are awaitling discussion by a "world conference of ■ bankers and business men proposed by la committee of noted Americans, headed ■by J. P. Morgan. ■ Government officials, who displayed ■keen interest today in the proposed "con■ferenee, outlined the four problems thus: I Re-establishment of the currency of the ■former belligerent countries on a strictly ■gold basis. I Setting up an international clearing ■ house. I Stabilizing the relations between gold land silver exchange. ■ Establishing a commodity standard for ■money. J All of the questions are intimately conprvected with the world problem of high ■cost of living, officials said, and with the ■question of taxation, international' com■merce, unemployment, trade balances and ■international credits. ■837 Ballots Fail r o ' to End Deadlock ■ PATERSON. N. ,T.. Jan. 16.—Despite ■he fact that S.‘:7 ballots have been taken ■o elect a president of the board of fire lrt<l police commissioners here, the office si 111 vacant. Every set of votes since M- drst of the year have been equally ■tided.

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SENATE VOTES FOR SUFFRAGE (Continued From Page One.) sion Is fixed by the constitution. Right at this point, executive authority ceases and legislative authority begins. “Article 4, Section 10, of the constitution says: ‘Each house, when assembled, shall determine its ’own mode of proceeding and shall sit upon its’ own adjournment.’ No external power on earth -has any right to determine the nature of the proceedings of i the legislature, except the members themselves, and they can do so only when assembled. The legislative branch of our government is a sovereign body, created by a free people, for the purpose of making laws; it is a law unto itself, sub’-ervient to no one except the people and amenable to them by, and under the constitution only. The constitution of our state is not a scrap of paper. Its makers never intended that a session of the general assembly should be a ratification meeting. On the contrary, they intended that the legislature should be the supreme and only lawmaking branch of our government. Had they intended to repose the lawmaking power in the executive branch they would not have given the governor the power to veto laws made by himself, or to pre-arrange the making of laws. - UNFINISHED BUSINESS TO BE PRESENTED. “Article 5, section 14, of the constitution clearly states that bills filed with the secretary of state with the governor's objections shall be presented to the legislature by the secretary of state. I for one could not see, when 1 was asked to sign this pre-session agreement, how I could refuse to permit the secretary of state to do his sworn, constitutional duty. I am pleased to learn that this official will be bound only by his oath of office and will lay certain unfinished business before us at this time. “There are some other very- important matters which should be attended to at this time by us if sso are to represent the people in the fullest and most complete sense of the word. I regret that there are those who will feel that their hands are tied and that they can not render this service to the people. “The present tax law was x>assed by this assembly in the closing hours of the last session. There 1s a crying ’ demand from the people of this state for the reconstruction of certain features of the law. In my opinion it is imperative that we amend this law by striking out those . portions which confer autocratic power* on the state board of tax commissioners; encroach upon the legislative branch of our government and deprive the people of the different localities in our state of the fight to determine their own local affairs and to exercise in the fullest measure the great American privilege of local self-government

RAPS CENTRALIZATION OF POWER IN STATE. “The disposition to centralize and consolidate all the powers of government today, in the hands of the executive, to be exercised by appointive boards and commissions, is a dangerous symptom in government. It destroys the right ,gnd the ability of people to -govern' themselves. We should retain both if we cherish our freedom. We can not afford to surrender our rights as individuals or as law makers. At this particular seething period of unrest, when a profound regard for law and law obedience is the crucial test; when institutions are trembling and American souls are pleading for a real Americanism, Indiana’s lawmakers should give, and give now, auspicious hearing to America’s one real organization—the American Legion—whose members have defended and are now protecting, so heroically, our ideals against encroachment by the autocrats and anarchists of the world. This patriotic body of men are knocking at our door and asking for a home. We owe it to America to give it to them, and we should do it now. “Gentlemen of this senate you sit there in your seats as tkp sovereign representatives of the people. You can sign away your individual rights, but your sovereign rights—never. They belong to the people whose sworn servants you are. If yon are to sit here and make laws for the people you must not disregard the organic law—the constitution of this state. Say what you may, do as you choose, but I say to you that you are violating the constitution and breaking faitb with the people when you substitute a pre-arranged, so-called agreement for the solemn mandates of the constitution of our state. I admonish >'ou, think seriously before you do it."

$50,000 Men Exceed Number of Jobs LONDON, Jan. 18.—Sir Albert Stanley, who once ran the street railways of De* trolt. wishes he hadn’t spoke. He pulled the well-known in America complaint, that there dre more 550,000 a year positions than $50,000 a year men in England. Then came the deluge. Serious and frivolous, they pour lqjters In upon Sir Albert. He seems to have been nil wrong. There must, be 1,000,000 $50,000 a year men in Englahd. \ Some of them are holding out for $55,000; i - ' ,r ' c.;

PREMIER NITTI SEES GREATER ITALY ON WAY —. *1 Describes Rebuilding Work That Already Has Been Done in Country. SITUATION ON SHIFT LONDON, England, Jan. 16.—Aftpr the conclnsion of his conversation with the British statesmen today, the Italian premier, Francis Nitti, received a repre* sentatlvo of the Christian Science Monitor, who, however, gleaned little more, so far Us the conferences of the last days arc concerned, than a lesson in the diplomatic art of saying nothing, albeit a lesson delivered with that abounding good humor which is s5 marked a characteristic of the Italian premier. His visit to London, lie smilingly declared, was merely one of courtesy to a confrere, and his conversations with Mr. Lloyd George were but in the nature of friendly exchanges. The peace conference.' as every one knows, does uot open until next week, and thei} in Paris. Mr. Nitti’s smile, ulthongk bxpanslve, was final, and so, after ono more attempt which merely elicited a declaration that Italy was and had always been friendly to the .Tugo-Slavs and would remain so, tbe interviewer turned to the question of internal affairs. i GREATER ECONOMIC FUTURE IS FORESEEN. At once Mr. Nitti became communicative. Italy, he assured the interviewer, was the country par excellence where the workers bud shown the greatest readiness and zest in returning to work after the upheaval of the war, and the result was that Italy's economic future was promising in the extreme. -In the devastated provinces, he declared, marvels of rebuilding have been accomplished and are only limited to the limitations of national wealth, one of the chief projects of the reconstruction era being that of utilizing the country's abundant water power for the driving of her railways and the lighting of her towns, and thus relieving situation ♦n which she now finds herself in the matter of coal. Such schemes, however, he said, are schemes of the future, and for tbe present the shortage of coal and raw material is a serious check upon Italy's economic progress, wnfle, in common with ajl the belligerents, the country has to bear its full share of financial and Bocial difficulties.

FINANCIAL STATUS GOOD AS ANYWHERE. In the latter connection, however. Mr. Nitti insisted that the situation Is not more serious than elsewhere. We have all become socialists in some degree, he maintained, and the increase in the parliamentary strength of the socialist deputies Is not more marked in Italy than in Belgium, being merely an expression of the people’s intensified consciousness of their economic needs an* of their awakened sense of their civic rights. The Italian people, he declared, is inherently democratic, and also practical, and there is no, foundation whatever for the reports circulated nowadays as to its revolutionary tendencies. And as proof of Ids confidence in the stability of the domestic situation, Mr. Nitti pointed to the arrangements made for his own prolonged sojourn abroad, a sojourn which, he argued, would have been iinpracticable were matters really aa they are painted. GREATLY NEEDS U.'S. RAW MATERIALS. When questioned regarding Italy's need of assistance from the United, States, the Italian premier remarked that Italy, like the other European countries, greatly needed the raw materials and financial assistance which the United States'alone can supply, although he recognized that this meant a piling up of debt which could only be liquidated eventually by dint of strenuous work on thd of tho whole nation. • When asked whether he was satisfied with the work of the Italian financial mission recently dispatched to the United States, Mr. Nitti explained that its visit had merely been one of friendship and study, and that actual negotiations have yet to be broached.

Jazz Satan’s Music, Minister Declares FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan. 16. “Satanic and diabolical music,” was what Rev. James H. Quinn of St. Mary’s church called the jazz playing of a Providence . orchestra hired to play in a local dance hall. He said complaints bad been to the orchestra as playing immoral, unfit and devilish music, and added: “These immoral wretches, after the division of the spoils, would leave the city, having made an evening of debauch for the. young people of Fall River.” Father Quinn said that he had been successful'in having barred this dance, .which was to have been held in a hall in Ihis own parish, near the church Itself. He took the matter up with the police and the orchestra was indefinitely barred from the. city. . * „

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1920.

WORLD LEAGUE BECOMES FACT (Continued From Page One.) lar force which should be associated with our work. “With eyes fixed on the distant future but with our feet on solid ground of political and social relations, we will create a world in which this league can develop a spirit of justice and a desire for peace." UURZON RAPS OLD SECRET DIPLOMACY. Earl Curzon, who spoke following President Bourgeois, emphasized the necessity of doing away with the old secret diplomacy. “The success of the international labor conference is a good angury for the future of the Curzon said. “It especially demonstrated tbe power of debate in one field of internation action. “The people of ail countries now have leirned foreign affairs are their vital concern and are demanding, with ever increasing insistence, that International obligations be not contracted behind their hack- " Their eyes have been opened to tbe necessity <>f n’o-operatioii between all nations, but they lnsjst this co-operation be in the open. ( “Another and more important resftlt we may hope for is that the habit -of mutual confidence will automatically cause armaments to disappear." LONDON SELECTED FOR NEXT MEETING. Col. .r White of England, Commander Lambert of Belgium and COanndnder Ktiobayashl of Japan were appointed to the Saar commission. Members are yet to be appointed by JS'r&nce and Germany. Following the meeting it was announced that the Dantzig couimissjouers were not appointed. The next meeting of the council will be held in London. It was decided, however, that the date will not be fixed until America signifies her intentions regarding the ratification of the peace treaty and the covenant of the league of nations. Premier Lloyd George and Visconnt Grey, British ambassador to the United Stntes, attended, but Premier Clemenceau was absent.

WOMAN WORSTS MASKED VISITOR (Continued From Pago One.), of a series of holdups. Detectives Rugenstein and Hynes were told of Coleman's statement and then he was taken to the detectives' office where an alleged confession was made. Robberies mentioned were: i Glenn Borders, 2454 „ Park avenue, on Dec. 26, at Fifteenth street and College avenue; C. M. Campbell, 224 East Walnut street at Alabama and Walnut streets, same night The men are said to have invited Dr. E. S. Gilchrist. 417 East Sixteenth street, who was waiting for a street car at Sixteenth street and Central avenue, to ride. They had gone but a short distance when Dr. Gilchrist, was covered with a revolver and robbed and forced to get out of the auto. Ernest G. Maddox, 428 North Blackford street, was robbed in a similar manner, being Invited to get into an automobile at. North and Illinois streets, Jan. 2, and forced to get nut at Vepnont street and the canal. Sneak Thief Plies His Trade in Court BOSTON, Jan. 16.—Into the very sanctum of the court itself the latter-day sneak thief makes his entrance. One of these robbers stepped into Charlestown court and while 'Clarence S£ Harlow, prominent business man and member of the firm of Stanley, Harlow & Hamlin, was testifying, got away with Mr. Harlow’s fur hat. Believing himself secure before the court, Mr. Harlow, before going to the witness stand divested himself of hat and coat, Mr. Harlow was compelled to borrow a derby from Clerk Thomas F. Fitzpatrick until he bought himself anew headgear. >

Special Session Cost Put at $6,000 According to estimates prepared in advance by Charles Kettleborough. head of the legislative and statistical bureau, the special session of the Indiana, state legislature, called for today, will cost the state SB,OOO, provided it lasts only one day, and provided none of the members accept their pay. Gov. Goodrich has asked that they serve without pay. Mr. Kettleborongh estimates that of this amount f1,7?5 will be paid in mileage to senators and $3,645 will fie •paid in mileage to represenatives. The remainder will be used to pay employes.

RADICALS KEEP ROME DEPUTIES IN AN UPROAR Yelps of Socialists Make It Impossible to Hear Speakers in Chamber. By PERCIVAL PHILLIPS. ROME, Jan. 16.—Howls of rage drown the tinkle of the speaker’s bell. Angry men shake - their fists at each other across steep tiers of desks. The words "assassin,” “liar,” “Impostor” are flong back and foAh amid the cries of excited spectators in the galleries. The mob—for it seems no less —is swayed by uneontrolabte emption. Yet Sentries patrolling the corridors outside with fixed bayonets merely smile cynically. The guardian of the gallery doors, murmurs, “the socialists again!” It is an ordinary session of the chamber of deputies, with the followers of the red flag in full cry after the government. You look down from the press boxes on a wide, lofty hall lit by a flat glass roof. Great frescoes cover the walls'* above‘'the dark wood panelling. "Little desks split by aisles into blocks of fifty sweep 4n a semi-circle before the platform where broods Signor Orlando, late of the peace conference, now president of this anythlng-but-peaceable conference, brandishing his little sliver bell. Slightly lower, and in front of him, are ranged the clerks and secretaries, and lower still, almost on the floor level, on a long, Straight bench facing the turmoil, sit a row of impassive elderly men, cabinet ministers, with Nltti, the pre-‘ tnler, in the center. On the extreme right of the semicircle, a? you face the Rpeaker, aru grouped the stormy socialists. Signor Grassl Is speaking. Rather he his been trying to speak. For the moment he is buried under an avalanche of epithets. It is a question of government intervention at Ferara. The red flag was hoisted on tfle Gastello there during last weex’s outbreak A socialist stronghold was stormed by police and troops and arrests made Signor Grassl has been defending the police. The Gathollcs applauded him, and so the storm breaks.

Bentini, the socialist orator, is alternately pounding his desk and folding his arms, his face pale w'.tU passion. He is a little broad-shouldered man, a forceful figure, and keen debater, and Ms voice carries far. Near him a tall, slender youth with wax-like face framed in a mass of whiskers, and with long, untidy hair, appears to be in hysterics. Another has his arms high above bis head, a figure of despair. Still another Is snipping bis fingers steadily at the silenced speaker. “The government conld not permit the red flag to remain,” continues Grassl in a momentary lull. ‘’The Italian flag was substituted—” “That flag of disorder,” screams a socialist. “it is the socialist party that makes these noisy demonstrations (that is, as at Ferrara), and necessitates the intervention of—” "It’s a lie,” comes a dozen socialists. Marrangoni, one of them, springs td his feet as Grassl sits down wearily. “1 insist that the police abused their powers, as always.” He continues. A Catholic deputy makes an observation. "Shut up, you face of a priest,” thunders a fat socialist of Milan. The storm rises again. Insults and threats fill the air. Signor Orlando waves his beU vainly. Ladles In furs lean forward from their chairs In the side galleries and watch the tumult with pretty smiles. The smart officers with the* point out conspicuous performers in the drama as they might at a circus. A member of the king's household in the royal tribune above the speaker strokes his mustache thoughtfully. Nltti, the premier, looks np from hia notes with a gesture of helplessness. ‘‘What mtAerable dogs you are,” cries a gaunt, hollow-chested disciple of bolshevism, shaking his bony fist at the government in general. “We shall deal with you yet,” adds a companion from the top tier.' Agkln they . pause for brehth. Anew socialist member absent-mindedly lights a ctgaret. With a gasp of horror two attendants dart at him and take it away. The others laugh. Nittl writes wearily on.

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GOODRICH ASKS SOLONS TO ACT (Continued From Page One.) lng delayed, and second, that Indiana be not last in its contribution to the political freedom of women. ‘‘Other mattery of vital importance to the Interests of the state will probably necessitate a call for a special session of the genesral assembly at an early date. I desire at this time simply to recommend that you ratify the suffrage amendment as quickly as you can in order that the expense of this extraordinary session be kept at the lowest possible figure. “In behalf of the state and the women of Indiana, I thank you for the readiness with which you have responded to the call and the generous sentiment that moves you in coming here for this important purpose/’ HISTORY OF INDIANA ' SUFFRAGE FIGHT Thq'long fight In Indiana for suffrage, which was placed before the state legislature today, is related in a statement issued today from the headquarters or the Indianapolis Woman's Franchise league. It is as follows: “Suffrage history in Indiana divides itself naturally into four periods. The first period, the period of the first pioneers has one outstanding figure. Mrs. Zerelda Wallace, mother of the author of ‘Ben-Hur.’ She became a figure of national prominence, and gathered around her in a small group of believers In the cause she represented, even in that eariA, day. “Early In the history of suffrage in the state, too, was George Julian, who, as representative from Indiana, introduced the first suffrage resolution in congress. - “Indiana was first again in suffrage when in the early 50's the first state suffrage organization of the United States was organized In this state. “The Indianapolis Suffrage society In 1K72 was the first local organization. Capt. and Mrs. Horace, McKay and Miss Laura Donnan were the organizers of this society. Other members Included

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Mrs. John T. Dye, Miss Charity Dye, Mrs. Charles E. Kregelo, Mrs. Henry D. Pierce, Mrs. John M. Judah, Mrs. John C. New, Miss Elizabeth Nicholson, Miss Mary Nicholson, Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Col. and Mrs. Eli Ritter, Dr. Rachel Swain, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Erie Lock, A. P. Stanton, HeDry C. Guffin and Mrs. H. G. Carey. These were the people who had the privilege of hearing Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Livermore, Julia Ward Howe, Belva Lockwood, Harriet Beeffcer Stowe and the other famous pioneers who cam' to Indiana In the interest of suffrage propaganda. FRANCHISE LEAGUE NI FOURTH PERIOD. “The fourth period of suffrage history is concerned wittuthe history of what is now the Woma’s Franchise League of Indiana. .The first organization, now a branch of the league, was organized at Terre Haute, with Mrs. Lewis J. Gox as president. It affiliated w’itb the Equal Suffrage association, then in its infantcy, and worked with that body for a year or two before becoming u part of the Franchise league. “The state organization, in Indianapolis, grew out of what was known as the Woman’s School league, organized in 1910, for the purpose of electi’g a woman,. Miss Mary Nicholson, to tie Indianapolis School board. The board -o£*directors for the School league included Dr. Amelia It. Keller, Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke, Mrs. W. T. Barnes, Mrs. ,1. F. Barnhill, Mrs. Felix T. MoWhirter, Mrs. Winfield Scott Johnson, Miss Harriet Noble, Miss Belle O’Hair, Dr. Rebecca George' and Miss Charity Dye. “When the Franchise league was organized a year later, Dr. Amelia. R. Keller was elected as the first president, a position which she held for six years. During this time the league began the organization of branch leagues over the state. It also affiliated with the National Woman Suffrage association ia 1911. Fortnightly meetings were held: headquarters were opened iti the Odd Fellow building, with Mrs. Julia C. Henderson as secretary; a number of lecturers of national prominence were brought to Indianapolis to speak on suffrage, and printed propaganda was circulated

throughout the state by means of what were known as the ‘rainbow fliers.’ “In 1917, Mrs. Jtiehard E. Edwards of Peru Vas elected president and the headquarters were moved to Pern. The presidential suffrage bill of 1917 had just been passed, and the immediate wmrk of the the registration of women for the expected vote. This Avas accomplished with surprising success. As fl result not only the ardent suffragist*, but all of the women who had registered, were indignant when, later, the* bill was declared unconstitutional. The women went into the organization work with undaunted courage, however, and started again to build for the success which followed two years later when the 1919 legislature passed every suffrage measure submitted to it, with a large majority vote, before the session was half finished. - hundred league were organized in the state, 200 of them In less than two years. District chairmen were appointed for every district, and every county was organized. Indiana came to the front in the national organization afe one of the important suffrage states and one of the best, organized. The amount of work that ha'a been done even since suffrage has become a popular cause has been enormous. although the moral courage needed has not been so great as in the days of t-he pioneers. But the culminating effort of the campaign, under Mrs. Edwards's presidency, and this year, under the leadership of Miss Helen Benbridge, has been a tremendous work. “It is fitting (hat Miss Benbridge should be president of the organization at the moment of victory, as she has been the most consistent and ardent suffrage worker in the state throughout the present period of the history of suffrage. As organization chairman of the league she made her way into disy tricts that had never heard of suffrage, and, by her winning smile, good humor and ready wit. she made friends for the cause and friends for herself. As president of the league her sane judgment, ! political sagacity and absolute fairness have been telling factors in the final

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