South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 130, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 10 May 1919 — Page 4

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the br.llot or not. Many of the at(s have alrrady ova riti;r full or partial franchise to thf fair :jci: ar.l it ia (loubtIe?3 only a quti-jn of tirm rhen an amendment to th' nnttonal constitution will b adopted, ivaii; them the same privileges nov.- enjoyed by th masculine variety of !1m race. Probably the moat generally known euflrage leader of the country is Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary president of the National American "Woman SuffraRo AsKorlatifm. Dr. haw tras for years ectlve prirlnt rtf th? aßsoclatlon. and her work for Ftiffrane has crowned hr among th" womr. of the cation with Tindvirit: clory. Dr. Shaw served as prepldenf of tho National American Worn n Snffraso AsBociation from 1904 to INI.". An ordaincd MothorJir-t ir.inh t' r, h r titl of "doctor" carrier, a double rifc;ii. cance In that she is also a qualified physician, having received a'dgreo in niedlcino from Boston University. ithe lajt two years her time has be-:, spent In service of the government. As chairman of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, she organized the woman power of the country in the war. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the Suffrage Association and provident of the International Woman Suffrage Allian-c, Is a Western woman, born in Ripon. Wis., and graduated from Iowa Stato College. An educator, she has served as principal of a high school In her native Iowa; as a journalist, both Iowa and California have attested to her capability and her attainments: a lecturer, campaigner and organizer, phe has talked arid worked effectively and successfully for

suffrage in campaigns Jn Colorado. New Hampshire, Idaho. South Dakota, agent in Switzerland of George CreelV, Kansan, Iowa, California, Montana and American Committee on Public InforMichigan; stlttstics of her life's work mation. Mrs. Whitehouse was in the assert that Bhe has traveled over 100,- first unsuccessful Ngw York suffrage 000 miles for suffrage, written some campaign as chairman of the Tubliclty 10.000 letters yearly since 1900, in iu Council of the Empire State Campaign behalf, traveled over practically the Committee, and as chairman of the known world spreading its rogmas. York State Union Suffrage party, and spoken upon its desirability and lod the v.omcn hosts to victory in the advantages to audiences in Sweden. saiE0 state In 1917. Denmark. Holland, Saxony, Bohemia, Mrs- Catherine Waugh McCulloch. Prussia. Hungary and Africa. Mrs. one of thp best-known woman lawyers Catt. after a successful term as pres- of lhe country and is a member of the idem of the association from 1900 to r''cal Equality League of Evanston. 1904. was re-elected to the office in in Sli0 is a ful1 tow partner of her 19i:! and is the present incumbent. husband. Frank If. McCulloch and Successfully Ooides wrolG the presidential suffrage bill Xew York Suffrage Campaign. lmder vhich dornen of Illinois enjoy Miss Mary Garrett Hay was the thp r,hts of suffrage that it was genius that guided the successful cam- Possible for the state legislature to paign for woman suffrage in New prant thrm- Mrs. McCulloch was a York City. A Republican by convic- racmbor of the Illinois Division of the tion and a present member of the Re- Woman,s Committee, Council of Napublican Woman's Committee . of tIünal rofensc. which Mrs. Stanley McCormick Is Mrs- C,race Wilbur Trout v.-as the chairman, she subordinated her polit- leader of the "Big Four," who lobbied ical beliefs to the exigencies of the th" Illinois partial suffrage bill moment In the New York suffrage through the legislature of that state, campaign, which she succeeded in con- ono f the most brilliant pieces of poductir.g along strictly on-partisan Htical work in the history of the nallnes. Miss Hay is ecoml vice pres- tion- She is president of the Illinois ident of the national association. Equal Suffrage Association. Katherine Dexter McCormack. is Mrs. Florence Cotnam, of Eittl one of the most rami si advocates of Rock. Ark., was born in Virginia, marwoman suffrage in the United States, ried in Texas, and has been a leading Mrs. McCormack is first vice president member of the community of th, Arin the association, and for the past kansas metropolis, where she is active ear and more has been chairman of in club, church and philanthropic the Department of Home Economics in work, for a number vt years. She led the Woman's Committee of the Council the light that ave primary suffrage of National Defense. Michigan born, to the women of Arkansas and bears she attended school in Boston, where the distinction of being the first wornshe now resides. A b!olotrit whose an who ever addressed the Arkansas degree was earned in the Massachu- Central Assembly on the subject of aett3 Institute of Technology, where suffrage. She is a director of the Nawoman students have always been in a ticnai American Woman Suffrage Assilent minority, she was a delegate to tociation. the International Woman Suffrage AI- Mi's Alice Stone Blackwell of DCSliance Congress in Budapest in 1913. irn is a daughter of Lucy Stone, one vhere she was elected tlrst corr. .s- f the four presidents of the national pouding secretary of the international, association. In addition to being th

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Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, contributing editor to the

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womau uftragists. her father. Har- ra, hv

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m Am. r.ca to devote his life to pr0 rrfsIdent of the natlonal aS0clatlon. motm; equal rights for wnrjen. while 4, t a , v

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ful personality and an interesting ry n. Iiickil. was a pioneer suffragpeaker who is imbued with the justice Sist. who is said to be the first man

of the cause to which she m dovoud f o much of hi r time an.', atniilv.

W. O. Bradley if that state, a member of the Executive lioard of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense. Kentucky Division, and chairman of the Franklin County Council of Defense. Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham, president of the Texas Equal Suffrage Association, is familiarly known as "The woman who put Texas on the suffrage map." Backed by her suffrage association, Mrs. Cunningham organired the Texas Women's Anti-Vice Commission, formed in the interest of rlean living conditions for the thousands of army boys in the training camps of that state, and the body from which eventually evolved th impartant "Camp Mothers" of th training camps districts. "YVjonilns Lend the Way Fifty Years Agei. Fifty-one years ago there was not a woman in the United States who could vote on a question of political importance. Individual women had, on occasions, attempted to do so, but each case had been lost in one court or an-

uiEer, ana womankind went unrepreuous Iowa suffrage campaign t-s state tnU'd a the eyes of suffrage supportpresident ci the state association. wa3 ers in a11 matters dependent upon the executive secretary of Bryn Ma r Col- Judgment of the voting population of

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had its first tremendous campaign for of the fire women members of the ueu me way ior us sister states by rotes In the second and victorious Iowa State Council of National De- granting suffrage to its women.

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to vote on each and every matter In entire equality with their husbands and brothers. In the fifty years of its existence, the National Suffrage Association has had but four presidents. Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stanton, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and the present Incumbent, Mre. Carrie Chapman Catt. At th very outset, therefore, man has thruit befote him an example of consistency and appreciation for faithful aervic that it is afe to pay his own organization will shoot vainly at for centuries to come. Now that some of the womfn hin the vote, are thy going to keep up these pleasant relations? Will thy form a solid political party of their own, a Woman's party, that will go erenely on its way. Its policlos. like its president", changed as seldom as may be, It3 leaders cherished cd maintained in their high place till they are struck down by the hand cf time, rather than by the shifting pleaiure and displeasure of their coaafiturnts? That is a questloa tUt will probably be solved at the convention. 0 HU Dreams. "Secrr.3 to me," eald Mammy Chic, "dat sometimes you'd rather sleep than eat." "Speck I would," answered Picka-

l.er. vMU,rland. Bck.U. was the first ordained wnm- fair. i rA -v.

.,c - 4,4 ProSar.ai an minister. She ls president of the tor general of the Women's Oversea-

New York campaign she was director of propaganda literature in the state.

Miss Anna B. Lawther is a promi-

Mlddle West suffrage leader.

Miss Lawther went through the stren-

fense during the war.

Now, in 1919. women have the right ninny Jli- "Cause when I's asleep I's

Mrs. John Glover South, president to vote for president in twenty-four liable to dream about fried chicken

cf the Kentucky Equal Suffrage Rights states, and 12,300,000 women may take an' sparerips an' sweet potatoes an' Association, is the daughter of ex- advantage of that right. In fifteen of watermelon an' I ain seen no atel Governor and United States Senator these states women are also privileged dinner as dat in alone tim."

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