NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Andrews, Gertrude N Rush Answered, July 26 1913 Lily Dale, N.Y. July 19, 1913. My dear Miss Blackwell: Am sending you a notice of my meeting at Chatauqua, Tuesday, July 15th. I spoke under the auspicies of the Chatauqua Women's Club. The following morning Mrs. Frank L. Goodwin of Washington made an anti speech. In her speech she very much disparaged women. She made the statement that women were "leaders She is a teacher and charming speaker; told me that she had had an offer to speak for anti-suffrage, but had learned that her salary was to be paid by the liquor interests. She is a woman thoroughly reliable. Said she had been on the fence, but had finally jumped to the side of Suffrage. They have a club at Chatauqua with our dear Mrs. Roxana Burrows as its president. And they are planning some very active work for this summer. We are arranging for a big Women's Day here at Lily Dale the 13th of August. Mrs. Gilman and myself are to be the speakers. Will write you more about it later. We are planning for quite a parade. Yours loyally, Gertrude Nelson Andrews in all moral breakdowns." Miss Chittenden was with her. After the meeting - the anti meeting - I held a class for Suffrage educational work, and so many came that we had to move to larger quarters to accommodate them. The women are so eager to learn. I found a great deal of Suffrage sentiment there. Particularly is the sentiment strong in the Southern women. One woman whose name I can give to you but not for publication, 7655 Sunset Blvd Hollywood, Calif. Dear Miss Blackwell: I'm sending you our little publication with love and much of appreciation. For years you were a big inspiration in my life. Some day send us a few lines for You and We. It is the only publication devoted to the interests of older folks. And it is meeting with a wonderful response from all over the country. Seems to have struck a need. May all the good things which you have earned come to you. Affectionately, Gertrude Nelson Andrew Can you tell me where Mrs. Catt is? THE YOUTHLAND PRESS No. 1632 PONTSETTIA PLACE HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA FRED. G. ANDREWS MANAGER DEAR FRIEND: This infant publication, which we have christened "YOU AND WE," will be a regular monthly visitor to your home for the coming year. It is presented with the compliments of Gertrude Nelson Andrews who has paid the subscription for the first year. We hope you will become so attached to it that you will keep it coming. The above little cut is a good picture of our reformed Hen Coop Print Shop, where YOU AND WE was born, We fully expect it will outgrow its natal shack. Drop in and see us when you come to Hollywood. Your Friends, FRED and GERTRUDE ANDREWS, THE YOUTHLAND PRESS, 1632 1-2 Pointsettia Place, Hollywood, California [*Gertrude Nelson Andrews Hollywood Cal Pleasant work[?]*] (over) EDITORIAL FROM FIRST ISSUE OF YOU AND WE A PERIODICAL OF FRIENDLY HANDCLASPS BY GERTRUDE NELSON ANDREWS HELLO, YOU! This is an infant publication. But infants grow. In it we are putting out our hands to clasp yours in a friendship of mutual boost. We have no organized creed to offer, Nor are we trying to put over any polyanna stunt. You may be a Methodist, Catholic, Jew, Buddist Metaphysicial Humanist, Materialist, or any other brand of religionist you please. We don't care. We recognize your right to find your courage inspiration in any line of faith which seems to do the work for you. We are not concerned with theories about life, but with Life itself, and how to get the most out of it. You may be a Democrat or a Republican, wet or dry. That's up to you. You may have been in jail or the legislature, or both. That was your blunder. You may be black, white or yellow. You may be a Red or a Ku Kluxer. But if you are willing to be friends with us we want to be friends with you. And if you feel inclined to subscribe to our baby publication, we shall be darned glad to have you. We may 'differ in our inheritances, our opinions and in our superficial acquirements, but if we are to be real co-operative friends, we must have some contact of mutual aspiration to keep the youth spirit, no matter what may be our years. We want to always keep springtime in the year. When we drop spring out of the year the rest of the seasons wither and fail to function. In this job we call living we must either keep on growing or we shall stagnate and die. And a lot of folks reach stagnation when they are 30 or 40, or even younger, and don't get buried unit around about 80. That is our big social waste. It is our most depressing social tragedy. At 80 a man should be a masterpiece, not something to throw on the dump-heap. He should be of some use to himself and to society. We believe that he can be. And the object of this little friendship publication is to help boost such belief. We know we are Here. And we are Here together. We are individuals in a great social relationship. The individual who has not learned to say "we" can be most awfully lonesome. The world is full of them. Even the most self-sufficient high-brow gets lonesome on his far-off exclusive peak, though he may not know what really ails him. But the most pathetic stagnant ones are those who, in years, must hold their hands after having limited "we" interests to an immediate family-mothers who have worked and cooked for a husband and children-and fathers who have been principally meal-tickets. Growth means a widening of the "we" consciousness. Its beginning should be early in life, but it can be developed in this time of later stagnation and loneliness. The one who stagnates is inclined to live in the past. His thinking is all memories, Some one said that God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. Fine! But if we live eternally in these memories our roses are apt to fade and become unsanitary. We must, of course, respect the past. It is the home of our roots. But we are not all roots. If one cuts himself down to his roots he frustrates his life purpose, which is to grow to a blossoming and fruition. We must respect the past, but we must also believe in the present and feel no fear for the future. The ones who live in the past are apt to be the most critical of the present. Nothing is right, for it is not like it used to be. Progress is always change. And we stimulate growth with new contacts and new experiences. We must keep our sense of adventure. And above all, we must nurture a sense of humor. "Believe in the laughing god within you," Eugene O'Niell makes his Lazarus say, after those four days spent in the Mystery. You can never grow old. You may stop growing and stagnate, but as long as you are growing you may keep the youth spirit. You may give expression to that Something within you which has always made demands. So we give our hands in this Youth Spirit Friendship. If you believe in Growth and the Great Partnership, let us hear from you. The best of all human good is shared experience. It brings understanding and companionship. So let us work and laugh together. Yours for the ever creative Springtime of the spirit. WE. [*R 1 BHJ ? Refors & B? on OK*] 200 16th St., Waterolich, N.Y., Nov. 23, 1913 Miss Alice S. Blackwell, Boston, Mass. [*2 M 11/26/3 Send Nov 7-15-22*] Dear Madam: November 7 I sent a check for $1.50 for the Woman's Journal and the Woman's labor paper. I have heard nothing from it. If the check and letter have never reached you would you kindly advise me? If they did, will you kindly send the papers beginning with Nov. 7? I am hampered in some suffrage work I was contemplating by the non-arrival of the journals. Very truly, Martha Allen [*Wrote Life & Labor Rush 11/17/13 ? M. WSA sent address Nov 1914 1 AMC Return 86 152*] 200 16th St., Waterolich, N.Y. Nov. 5, 1913 Miss Alice S. Blackwell 585 Baylston St., Boston, Mass. Dear Madam: Kindly send me the Woman's Journal and Life and Labor for one year. You will find a check for one dollar and fifty two cents (1 52/100) written. Also I should like Josephine Peabody's address containing "High Opinion really enlisted, it is possible for them to do much to train the minds of the girls and the boys. Mina If the Average Man " &c. Very truly yours, Martha M. Allen I think most of the women teachers in my school- Troy High School- have become suffragists this year. I think it would mean much if you could in some way reach a large number of English teachers. Their sympathy Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.