NAWSA
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
HAUSER, Elizabeth J.


Maison Mussier,
Chemin St Antoine.
St Tropez, (Var)
France.
June, 20. 1926.
Dear Alice Stone Blackwell,
Your letter of May 19th, reached me
only to day. It was forwarded from London and as I am in the
country now it takes three days for mail from England to reach me.
I am awfully glad to get your letter and to know that you
continue in your interest in adnvaced ideas. I am very happy
to know that you are surrounded by friends. There is nothing
more terrible to meet old age in isolation and away from loved
ones as well as the soil wherein one has had ones roots. I
know something about dear Miss Blackwell, so I am delighted
that you need not experience the agony of heart and mind
to be an alien in an alien land. It is good to learn that you
have improved in health, one's physical condition is so important
when one is always in id-stream of the struggle for
human betterment. I myself have been very fortunate in that
respect. I always had perfect health. I guess it is that
which helped me to survive the events of the last 9 years,
prison, deportation the debacle of the Russian Revolution,
the painful struggle of adjustment in strange lands. One can
not go through it all without physical health to sustain one.
So you have accepted Socialism as your political
creed, that is certainly an advance on pure Liberalism.
It shows at the same time your capacity of growth. I now feel
that your next step will have to be Anarchism. In fact I am
rather surprised that you would embrace Socialism after the
complete bancrutpcy of the Socialist State, that it have
proven a failure wherever it was tried no one who knows
the sitatation in Europe can possibly deny, Russia with
the complete collaps of Marxian theories, Germany and Austria
where the Socialists sent their troops to slaughter the Spartacists,
England where the Labour Government made such a mess.
In short everywhere the Socialist State has proven as much
a failure as any other State. As an Anarchist I am neither
surprised nor sorry. The events have merely proven the logic
of Anarchsist ideal and what all the leading Anarchists
have pointed out for years in their criticism of Marxian
Socialism. And now again we Anarchists have reasons to rejoice.
I mean in regard to the General Strike.
Twenty years ago when I lectured on the General
Strike in England some of the men who are now at the head of
the Trade Unions and who were then ignorent youngsters critisiced
me severely for my far fetched ideas on the General
Strike. I had the same experience in America over and over
again. Always I was told that I am impracticle, that the
General Strike will never be applied. Well, it was applied
in a magnificient manner. That it failed in the end is due
entirely to the cowardly attitude of some of the leaders.
The fear of seeing the Trade Union treasury confiscated by
the British Government, and even the greater fear of arrest
of the General Council made the leaders call off the strike
and surrender in a most disgraceful manner Worse you, leave
the miners to their doom and make all sorts of pledges to
the raiway and transport companies But then politicians
run true to tyep every where.
However, the General Strike which as a matter of
fact was not altogether general since light, power and food

supplies were permitted to function, was indeed the most
encouraging event in years. It could have been much more
had the strike been complete. But there is no use lamenting
the inevitable. That the strike did take place and showd
such splendid solidarity is prove to me that some day the
workes will see [that] in the General Strike the only real
weapon of defense in the great economic struggle and the final
overthrow of the present regime. And I am iqually certain
that more and more the workers will learn to see in the State
whether Socialist, Bolshevist or any other form the greatest
mencae to their welfare. It is then that the seed we Anarchsits
have planted will bear fruit. There is still much to be done
and our path is thorny and lonely, but one must have faith,
one must have patience. I hope I will retain both.
You say you are in the middle road as far
as Russia is concerend. Do you not think that is rather an
unsafe position to hold? Of course you are to big to go with
the Conservatist idea of Russia. And I am sure you love
liberty to well to go with the Communists who are the most
ruthless distroyers of all form of liberty. But is there not
a Left position which can see the evils of Russia, or rather
the regime and stand out against these evils?
Take for instance the conditions of the
politicals, it is the worst in the world to day because
of the complete Bolshevist monoploly of verything which makes it
impossible for the outside world to do something for these
unfortunates. I am inclosing a list of some of the women politicals
traced to the various prisons, concentration camps and
exile. Can you name me any country that has such a alrge number
of women politicals? I do not believe that even England during
the Suffragette campaign had so many in prison at one time.
Yet here are sixthy one women, and there are hundreds more,
doomed to slow death and not one voice is raised against such
despotism. I tried desperately hard for twenty months while
in England to interest Socialist and Labour women. There was
no responce, Never at any time was there such utter indifference
to human suffering as there is now in regard to the unfortunate
victims of the Dictaroship. What possible excuse can there be
for the conspir[t]acy of silence except [except] the delusion
that Russia is Socialistic, hence must not be touched? I consider
this attitude nothing short of a crime and the most
impordonable betrayal of faith on the part of Socialists and
other advanced elements, the "Nation", for instance.
Shortly before I left London I succeeded in interesting
Lady Astor and Mrs Snowden. Both had arranged a luncheon
for three dozen women who would have been asked to orgnaize
a purely woman's organization to help their sisters in Russia
The idea was to make a demand upon the Soviet Government to
allow an impartial committee of women to visit Russia and the
political prisons and to veryfy the actual conditions of affairs,
Perhaps also to prevail upon the Government to issue and amnesty.
This was done in America, The Communists were then
the loudest in their protestations why could it not be done
in behalf of the Russian politicals? Unfortunately, The General
Strike stopped all efforts for the Russian women. Lady Astor
writes she is now working hard to raise relief for the children
of the Welsh miners and can do nothing. I understand that of
course, but I feel unspeakably sad that nothing is beeing done
for the hapless victims in Russia.
Is there anything you can do dear Miss Blackwell. Could
you not start such a committee as was intended in London. Could

you not approach the various woman's societies to take the
matter up. The most important thing is financial aid. The
women in Russian prisons are in great need and distress. If
at least we could send them money, and we have a way of doing
it, sub rosa, of course as in the "good" old Tsarist times.
That alone should prove that all is not well in Russia now.
Let me know what you can do. I myself feel utterly miserable
that I can not accomplish something for the [he???c] women who
have been dragged through hell under the Tsar and now again
are being dragged [?] through hell.
Now to another matter. You will have read
about the killing of Petlura the arch Jew baiter and executioner
of Jews on the Ukraina. The man who killed him, a young Jew, Sholem
Schwartzbard, is a friend of mine. I have known him well, He
is one of the finest types of Jewish idealists I have known,
kind and generous to utter self negation. His tiny watch-mamers
shop in the porletarian district of Paris was the gathering
place of every unfortunate. Never did any one come to this man
for help without receiving affection, adivse and assistance.
In fact he is the last man on earth I would have expected to
commit[t] an act of violence. Evidently the terrible pogroms
for which Petlura was responcible and I saw the vicitms
when I was on the Ukraina, girls of 12 outraged many times,
weightet too heavily on his heart and mind, so he killed
Pwtlura.
The case has already attracted tremendious[l] attention
so much so that a lot of Jewish journalists on French papers
have organized a defense committee. The attourney who has taken
the case, Henri Toress is very famous. He has already received
numerous letters from all p[s]rts[o] of societies and individuals,
from bankers to the janitor of the house where Schwartzbard
lived. We too have already written to our friends in America
for funds and especially for pogrom material, the latter is
sure to play a large role in the trial. In fact the case of
our friend will bring up the whole question of Jewish percecution
which is everywhere, including the U, S. on the
increase.
Can you help, dear Miss Blackwell? You must know
a lot of prominant Jews, or Gentiles who would be interested
in this extraordianry case, it is the fitst time in Jewish
history that a Jew evenged Jewish massacres. Please write me
soon what you can do.
In my work on Russian literature I deal exclussively
with the drama, it would take me too far afield to take up
the whole gamut of Russian literature, it is too vast. I
delivered six lectures on the drama from its earliest begining
until the revoltuion. This is to be published next autumn,
if I can get the Mss in shape this summer. Just now I am getting
settled in a wonderful little place friends of mine got me
in this part of the Provence. It is a rare spot, has every variety
of natures beauty, the sea, the mountains, way to the ice peaks of
the Italien Alpes, pine woods and acres upon acres of vineyards.
The house itself is very small and I share it with Mr Berkman
It is really our first summer that we are out in the country.
So we ought to be able to work. I hope so though I feel very
restless. I have the Russian poilitcals terribly on my mind.
I can not adjust myself to the callous indifference of so many
Radicals and Socialists to the cruel fate of those I have left
in Russia. People seem to have grown terrible cold and callous
do you not think so?

It is terrible about the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Can
nothing else be done? Is it possible that these two human
beings will be murdered? It makes me shudder when I think
of the brutal reaction in the world everywhere. Though here
again it is as we forsaw when we made our stand against the
war. We pointed out that every war has reaction in its wake.
But that is no consolation is it?
Please keep in touch with me and write soon about
the women politicals and also about Sholem Shwartzbard if you
can do anything to help and arouse interest.
Cordially.
Emma Goldman
P.S.
I am deeply sorry to learn about the condition of your eyes.
I wish you could go to Germany. I discovered a very great
occulist in Bad Leibenstein Thuringen who took care of my
niece, Mrs Stella Ballantine. I was there with her and during
my stay made a study of this extraordinary man, the resuslt he
has with cases given up by all other physicians is simply
amazing. I am sure Dr Wiser could help you. He has entirely
a new method of treatment, never takes to operations if there is
one chance in a hundred to get results without. He has people come
to him from all parts of the world because he is not only a very
great physician but a very wonderful man. He comes of an old
aristocratic family but unlike his class he took up medicine
and then devoted himself to eye troubles and has since given
his whole life to the care of people who suffer from various
afflictions of the eye. If you should decide to go to Wiser
I will be so glad to write him about you, we are great friends
and he will be especially interested if he knows you are a
friend of mine.
In writing me here, please use double envelope,
the inside to have my name, the outside Mme E. Colton,



Elizabeth J. Hauser
Girard, Sunday.
July 24 1910

Wellington dear:
Well, here I am with my foot on me native heath once more.
I have just written a long letter to Frances part of which I have asked
her to communicate to [her] you.  You may not believe it when I say
that I would dearly love to see you and talk things over with you, but
I would, even if I could not see my way clear to going around by Geneva
to visit you.
While I was at 'Sconset I felt as if I had dropped out of the
world, but with my return to civilization I am picking up the threads
and as I look over the suffrage field I am horrified at the outlook/
Here we are with four campaigns on hand and the National President in
Europe, and not another National officer on the ground in any one of
the campaign states.  So far as I am able to judge we shall be defeated
in all.  When the Headquarters were in Warren the work never
"let up" much in summer.  We were always expecting that it would,
but it never did.  Mrs/ Upton and I never felt that we could both be
away at the same time, and when I had to take a long vacation Kate
Gordon, who was then Corresponding Secretary, came to the Headquarters
and stayed for two or three months, as I remember it.  At another time
she came for several weeks, and Miss Clay spent [motnsh] months with us
at another time.  Now Miss Shaw goes off to Europe, Mrs/ Dennett apparently
goes to Boston whenever she feels like it besides taking her
regular vacation too and the Headquarters is virtually in the hands of
a clerk.  I have no idea that Mrs/ Harper is doing any real press work
for the National.  Her private writing and her lectures undoubtedly
keep her busy.  Isn't it enough to make your flesh creep?  I wonder
if any Convention Resolutions work is being done, and just think of
the Washington M

Minutes not yet being out.  Then taking the official organ to Boston
is a perfect absurdity, to my mind, and dear Alice Blackwell with all
her ability as a writer, is about as well [fitede] fitted to be the 
editor of the official organ at the present stage of the game as [my]
O, well- what's the use talking?  Its a bum situation and it seems to 
me it is little short of criminal to take peoples' dollars and expend
them on such administration.  It may be that the movement has to pass
through this stage of mal administration, but it is a thing to make one 
weep to contemplate.
   Mrs. Catt has engaged me to help her for two months in the [fa]
fall, beginning about Sept/  15th.  It is a personal matter and she 
holds out no hope that there will be any job for me after that time,
but she says I will learn all there is to learn about the woman suffrage 
party organization in that time.  I shall live in the house
with her and  I am very happy at the prospect.  I am not very hopeful
of steering her mind into the new avenues, suggested by you in one of
your recent letters, but I will try to enlarge my own vision and not 
allow it to become cramped.  I spent twenty-four hours at Mrs/ Catt's
and found her looking pathetically pale and sweet.  She is making a 
remarkable recovery but unless she is extremely careful she is going 
to be pretty nervous for a long time.  Miss Hay is all worn out and no
wonder, for she had a [callosal] colossal load on her hands during
Mrs/ Catt's illness and she is on the ragged edge of nervous exhaustion
While I wouldn't dare suggest it, I know that she ought to get away
from Mrs/ Catt for several weeks now.  It would be better for them
both.  Mollie needs a rest and freedom from constant anxiety about
C. C. C., and the latter cannot but be influenced by the over zelousness 
of Mollie. has done for Mrs/  Catt and I really
believe Mrs/ C would have died if Mollie had not been on the job.  But--



    I got home last Thursday and found my family O. K.   I feel
as if nothing could induce me to budge from home until it is time to
report in N. Y., but I am so apt Elizabeth J. Hauser to go scooting off that I daren't
quite promise myself that I am anchored for six weeks.
   Write me one of your good letters and tell me all about yourself.  
I'd dearly love to have your come to see me.  Couldn't you
do it?  We are only five hours from Buffalo.   You and my sister Minnie
would get on famously, and I'd just lay myself out to take good care o
of you.  We would have to take to the woods to smoke, but even that [cou]
could be managed somehow.
   With a heart full of love, dear Wellington, I am 
always,
                    Your very devoted,
                                                   Bliicher

Grand [?]. May 17
Dear Willington: -   1910
The enclosures are all to be 
returned to me. The copy of my
letter to Mrs. Belmont gives you an
idea of my "act to" with Ida.
It doesn't begin to show what I 
said to her, however.
O it is good to be from
it all.
Progress her at last. When you get 
yours you will be interested, as
I was, to read Ida's  [may] various
references to Ms. Belmont. $173.33 
per month is a low figure for Ida's editorial comments isn't it?
Doesn't she hat the world for telling
the things she might to keep to
herself?
I suppose Frances will go to St 
Louis to the Women's Marches Union
League. My Marie Hivr [?] is going
too. I'm going to Cleveland to see
her as soon as she gets home.
Mollie Hay wrote H.J.U. that Mrs.
Catt has been desperately ill. Had
to cancel her Cincinnati engagement.
Dont mention it, unless they do,
for Mollie said we shouldn't tell.  O
Mary Gray, what if the beloved
General should die? She is needed
so much.
Your letters great, but I cant

write you a decent one.  I will some
day, though.
    I am reading Fred Howe's new
book Privilege & Democracy in America.
It is immense.
   Mrs. Upton & Zell are coming to
supper tomorrow night. I wish you
were to be here too.
    That life membership stunt
was pulled off in great style.  Your
Cerebus did it impressively & the
rest of us applauded to beat
the band.
    I hope you and Frances can arrange
to be together soon.
   This isn't a letter.  Just a note.  
I love you,Willington - so I do. 
Bluche

Elizabeth J. Hauser
Girard, July 31, 1910
My dear Frances:
    I have thought of you many, many times and wondered
how your brother was and what word you got from the sweet sister who
went to England to see her sick daughter.  Now Zell has sent me your
letter to her in which you say your sister and brother-in-law are home
so I take that to mean that the daughter recovered.
    I thought I would wait to write until I had something definite
to tell you about my plans.  I have been spending my summer with Marie
Howe on Nantucket Island, as I think you know from Wellington, and the
there really was nothing to write about.  I felt as if I had dropped
out of the world, and I liked the feeling.  I have never had one
minute of regret at my action in resigning, and never even for a fluttering
second have I wished myself back at 505.  O, no, I am sure I did
not belong there and it couldn't have been right for me to stay.
I have been home a few days and catching up with my mail on this
nice Underwood machine which my sister has rented for the summer.
En route I stopped at Mrs/ Catt's upon her invitation.  She asked me
to come to her for two months, beginning Sept/ 15 during which
time I am to live with her.  I am to be her personal assistant.  Wont
it be glorious to be so closely [attached to] associated with one for whom I have such
love and respect?  I know I shall do some good work.  She is not
sure there will be any work for me to do after those two months, but
I am not worrying about that.  This job is her own personal affair,
and while she thinks the Woman Suffrage Party might like me she is not
sure they will have funds for my salary.  I would have felt a little
better perhaps to have been engaged for the winter, but it is all right


this way, and Mrs. Catt says I will learn all their is to learn about
the Woman Suffrage party organization in that time.  We were agreed,
I believe, that if Mrs/ Catt offered me anything I was to take it, especially
as the training under her would be valuable.  Now, dear friend,
you are under no obligation whatever to bear me in mind with reference [t]
to a possible future job, but all the same I am cherishing the dream
of a home in Chicago with yo[ur] and Mary and myself in it, and [with]
an office where we three shall make things hum.  So just keep Elizabeth
on your waiting list.
    Helen Todd, whom you may not remember - she was an Illinois
delegate at Washington - is a State Factory Inspector, and she
has gotten enthused about suffrage to such an extent that she wants
to go into it.  She thinks she could raise her own salary and is
eager to try.  However, she says she would have to have some very
definite and concrete plan to lay before the persons to whom she would
appeal for the money.  She could speak and speak well, especially on
the child labor, trades union line.  She finds it a little difficult
to work with the present powers in Illinois because she has outgrown
all the old-fashioned orthodox superstitions, and is perhaps not too
tactful about obtruding her own views.  But she is a beautiful girl
and it makes me sick to think that she should not find her place in
the woman movement somewhere when she seems so alive to its importance.
I am confident that she would fit into your plan of work
somewhere and I have asked her to see you when you are in Chicago/
Now all of this is confidential, but what follows is very confidential
Helen is not practical - she would have to be directed.  her engagements
made for her and a tight rein held over her.  I have heard that
she is persona non grata to Mrs/ Robins, but that may be without
foundation.  I am telling you this to enlist your interest in her in case
she hunts you up, and also to warn you to proceed cautiously in making
any arrangements with her.  I should not hesitate to undertake

  [*Elizabeth Hauser*]
to work with her myself.  She admires Mrs. Catt immensely, thinks
Mrs/ Avery is superb, and while she couldn't understand the action of
the insurgents at Washington, she knew they must be right.  I would like
you to tell Mary all of this, but no one else.  If she comes to you
you can make inquiries among your own acquaintances in Chicago before
taking any action.  Helen thinks if you and Mary, Mrs/ Avery, herself,
and I were associated together in Chicago that we could turn the town
inside out, and of course that sort of enthusiasm is not to be lightly
discouraged.
    I am delighted to learn through Zell that Mary is to be
part of the time with you in Chicago this winter.  How much I have
thought of that dear, brave girl this summer!
    I took The Ballingtons to the sea shore with me, and Marie
Howe was so deeply impressed with it that she asked me to allow her
to send it to her mother to read.  I want you and Marie to know each
other better.  You would find her a rare soul and your own kind.  Her
plans for the winter are not settled but she will probably be in New
York.
    With ever so much love, dear Frances, I am,
    Your devoted and admiring,
    Elizabeth

1910
JM

Elizabeth J. Hauser, who made the motion to accept the
resignations of Mrs. Avery and Mrs. Upton, makes this statement:
"The first I knew of the testimonial of appreciation
to the retiring Corresponding Secretary and Headquarters Secretary
was when Mrs. Avery handed me a copy for the press table shortly
before Mrs. Kelley read it to the Convention.  I was not in the
meeting the next day when the motion to amend the Minutes by
striking out this statement was made.  I came in just as the
motion to postpone it until all other business had been transacted
was made and carried.  Mrs. Avery told me that she and
Mrs. Upton had decided to resign.  They believed they ought to
resign to the Convention so that that body rather than the Board
of Officers could choose their successors.  As the discussion
developed I became convinced that the events of the afternoon
alone demonstrated that a coherent, constructive policy, nor a
harmonious working out of the same could be expected of the
Board of Officers which the Convention had elected the previous
day.  I made my motion in good faith, not merely to facilitate
parliamentary procedure.  These two women are perhaps my closest
friends, but I believe they can better serve the cause of woman
suffrage at the present time outside the National Board than as
members of it."

Elizabeth F. Hauser  [Siasconset?], Nantucket

Dear Wellington:  So you want to eat me
alive do you?  Well I feel complimented.

   First of all, Mollie Hay wrote me a postal
the third day after Mrs. Catt's operation
saying that she was doing all right. I 
fell pretty sure, having heard nothing since,
that things continue to go well.
   O have a letter from Mrs. Dennett
today in which she says she gets no
replies from Mrs. Hartshorn, chairman of the 
Literature Committee & is much distressed
on this account. I have never had a
single communication as member of the 
Committee - not even official notification
of my appointment  As a mere lay
member how can I move to deeds of
daring?
   Wonder why the minutes of the Washington
Convention haven't been issued?  I thought
the N.Y. office was to move with so
much alacrity compared to Warren O.

that we would never have to wait for
anything any more.
Did you ever know anything like Mrs.
Harper or Progress? I  was in the office
on my way down her but didn't see 
"I.H.H. with us".  Miss Reilly said everything
was moving along splendidly. She
said that Mrs. H. stayed at home a
great deal & left her to run the 
press bureau, that she (Miss R) was 
writing syndicate articles re. I asked
her to let me see them, but she 
wouldn't. I didn't like to press the
subject for fear of appearing skeptical.
But if I cared a d__ I would have 
just liked to peep into the doors when
I left the files of syndicate correspondence 
and see what Ida has done since I
left. Miss. R said Mrs. Dennett was splendid,
 that they all like her ok. I 
thought things must be marvelously 
changed for the better since we all


Elizabeth B. Hauser

hit the trail.
   Mrs.  Upton forwards me a letter from
A. S. B. which says that
Kate Gordon is elected 2nd V.P.  Mrs.
McCulloch moved up to 1st Vice & Jessie
Ashley elected Treasurer.  Also, Alice says
that in her opinion Curry [*Avery*] & Upton had a 
right to vote for their successors up
to May 19 when their resignations became
effective, but that A.S. S. [*haw] delayed putting
out the vote on officers until after that
date.  I don't know what in the world to
think of Kate Gordon.
   Miss Shaw is to sail for Europe Saturday
to be gone until Aug 1.
   Now that is as much news from official
circles as your humble servant
is in possession of.
   Now, perhaps you will explain why in
thunder you should jump all over me for
[?hiking] me off to a quiet nook with
Marie Howe.  The third week I was home
I went to Cleveland to visit Marie who
was packing up for the summer.

She asked me to come here with her and help her get settled for the summer. Having decided to go to N.Y. anyway for the dinner given by the single taxers to Mr. Johnson, I decided to accept. The family (b?) thoughtfully as my family always does in such emergencies, and told me to go and God bless me. Being jobless I couldn't save any money anyway so I threw prudence to the winds and here I am. Temporarily we are located in a cottage on a high bluff overlooking the sea which is almost in our front yard. By tomorrow perhaps we shall move into the cottage Marie has taken for the summer. It is on a side street, a few yards from this one. Marie and her dog and I are having a peaceful time. We take our meals at the hotel nearby. This is a very quiet place, but gets somewhat lively later in the season when men folks get here. There are a good many actor folk who come here every year. It is 6 miles from Nantucket, which with its 3000 inhabitants serves as big by comparison as New York does to Minneapolis. A little later Mr. H(?) will come and from time to time other friends who have been invited. Before that, however, I shall probably have pulled up stakes and returned tot the parental roof in Girard. Marie is deeply engrossed in the Ballingtons just at present. In her sl(?) over Harloch Ellis's man and woman which I read years ago, and has read Harry's "Inherent Right" in the April North American. Mary Johnston's "A Woman's War" in the April Atlantic (which I had also read before) and shall women work by Elizabeth Robins in an English publication Sex and Character is waiting for me. Somehow I am longing for

poetry and we haven't any here. The weather has been rather too cold for real comfort, but since I hate that weather- shall get enough of it in my ? village in July and August I am not registering any (?) with the weather man. Now then, if I had a typewriter I would write you much and often but it is about as hard for me to write by pen as it is for you to read it after it's written, so don't (j?) me. Instead tell me what your own plans are, whether you and Frances are going to be together this summer. I wrote P. that I suppose we are all agreed that I ought to wait and see if Mrs. Catt offers me a job with the party before deciding definitely about anything. Does that seem sensible to you? Dear old Wellington, write soon again, (?) coals of fire on the head of your Blucher.


Elizabeth J. Hauser
2 West 86 St, Sunday Sept 11 1910
Dear Wellington:
Well, how wags the world with you? I am liking my present job better and better. Mrs. Catt gets tired rather easily and I fear is doing too much, but she is a marvel of strength in every way/
I wish I had been born with a little more the kind of constitution that the next step up in age of our circle seem to possess.
We are getting out a fine line of Appeals. I am sending you the one that was printed yesterday. Tomorrow we shall print one for the Democratic State Convention, and the next day one for the city Senatorial and Assembly District Conventions. I mean the Conventions that nominate Assemblymen. On the whole the party work goes on well. Of course a great many more workers are needed than we have, but the general structure is strengthening gradually, I am sure, and the filling in will necessarily take a long time.
Miss De Zouche got back from her summer vacation yesterday. She came up to see me and we fell on each other's necks with cried of joy/ I like that old Scout, so I do.
Step is going up to Saratoga in the morning to see that the herein enclosed petition gets into the hands of every Republican delegate. Mrs. Crossett will go tomorrow night and your old friend Harpy, the letter to speak in behalf of the State Association provided a hearing is granted before the Platform Committee.
Marie Howe is coming tomorrow to take up her residence in New York for the Winter. Maybe I am not glad!
Nothing new about my "literary" labors. Hampton's has paid Mr. Johnson $200 on account, but we do not know yet what they may ask us to do to our first article.


I wish you were here working in the Party. It is great fun. Very few of our friends seem to see the trail of the serpent, though, and I am learning that keeping quiet about it is the wise course for me.
Well, I think I will rest awhile this being the Sabbath day. Please give my love to frances and believe me, you old scrapper,
Yours always devoted, 
Blucher
(EJ Hauser)

Cleveland, Ohio, Whitehall, 1955 East 107th St
November 14, 1910

Dearest Wellington:-
And now let me see if I can make up for past neglect by answering all the questions in your letter of last Sunday which was forwarded to me here from Girard.
First, I did hear from your round robin letter. Mrs. Catt read it to me and we both enjoyed it very much. The whole story of that Chicago organization, as you have told it, has been simply corking. When it comes to descriptive writing, with a truly humorous touch, you, dear Wellington, have us all skinned.
Second, I did not mean to seem taciturn about my work in New York. It was most satisfactory. I wasn't driven to death, quite, but I did work like the devil. I wasn't ill, but twice- once my old friend, the hives, visited me and another time I was dizzy. There were days at a time when the back of my neck ached every minute and one day about noon my voice played out- not from using it, but just from general tiredness. But I loafed the last week I was there and recuperated readily. I loved it all to distraction. I was supremely happy with Mrs. Catt. I have always loved and admired her. Now I adore her. She never let a day pass without telling me how wonderful I am and I came away with such a bunch of conceit that you would hardly recognize me for Harpy's erstwhile slave. Seriously, I did develop a new kind of consciousness, a sort of respect for myself and a feeling that I can do any old end of the suffrage job that it falls my way to do hereafter. How long that feeling will last, remains to be seen. Third, I do not think the Party is an impractible dream. I think it is very practical reality with tremendous possibilities which are going to be realized. I could not work for a long stretch as I did for that short spurt, but I was more than glad to do it, for I know I relieved Mrs. Catt a good deal and she overpaid me in every way- in care and affection, in praise and in money. I simply hated coming away, and I know she hated having me leave.
The reason I did not write to you was the same reason I didn't write to anybody else. I had to write so much in the course of the day's labor that there was no initiative left for correspondence. I never went up to bob at all, you bet. I did not see Miss Reilly though we exchanged two or three friendly notes and talked a little on the telephone.
I had expected to be in New York until this week, and if Mr. Johnson had not gotten this writing bug Mrs. Catt would have offered me another month's work which I should have accepted. Marie Howe is living in N.Y. this winter and has taken the leadership of the 25th Assembly District. She is wrking like  aTrojan and has a a lot of amusing experiences. She has been an angel about writing me since I left, and I simply can't resist enclosing one of her recent communications, even though some of the matter in it is personal to your Blucher.
Two days before I left N.Y I paid a visit to Mrs.Belmont's temporary Headquarters in the Normandie and there saw busy for the first time since the revolution. She said she was so glad to see me, asked when I was leaving etc. I did not give her any extra information.
I really heard little news of the National crowd, but My Dear we have got to see each other in order to talk. I can't begin to write the things I want to say to you.
Ohio (I am referring to your letter again and this is an answer to another question) will get her Constitutional Convention- nobody knows just when. The Legislature will decide how the members of it shall be elected and when, and when the Convention shall be held and where. The Convention itself may not occur for two years. The

Toledo clubs will establish and maintain a Headquarters for the State Association in that city. Our President and Recording Secretary will look after it as both live there. We had an Executive Committee meeting here last Thursday and voted to recommend the Woman Suffrage Party plan of organization to all the existing suffrage clubs in Ohio at once and to put it into operation everywhere as fast as we can. Toledo can do this- did it to, in fact, the year Mrs. Steinem was elected to the Board of Education and Mrs. S. will be a great help to other communities who wish to try it. Cleveland workers met with our E. Com. after our meeting and voted to organize on the Party plan. The twelve or thirteen women present enrolled and elected temporary officers. Now a permanent organization is the next thing. I have promised to act as kind of a consulting engineer. Cleveland presents its difficulties in the way of factions, just as every other city does, but the greatest drawback here is the lack of real interest in the question among the women themselves. However, I shall not let myself think the thing won't succeed. The Ohio W.S.A. voted to employ me as soon as they can get me.
     I really have no way of knowing how long my engagement with Mr. Johnson will last. We are writing the story of his life- especially the public fighting part of it - for Hampton's Magazine. This is a bigger thing than we had in mind when we commenced this work early in September. He is really a very sick man, and everything is going to depend on his ability to do his share of this. I am trying to think that he is a little better, but I don't know. He is going down to N.Y. about Thursday for a few days. I am so glad because I don't think Cleveland is a very good place for him - too many sympathetic and inquiring friends. He is the dearest thing in the world and this job would be the best fun I have ever had if he were only well enough to get some enjoyment out of it too.

     Mrs. Avery decided not to stand for the Pennsylvania presidency as they elect for two years, and she is leaving the state for the west in June. She has had the whooping cough and looked kind of pale and tired, but she is a dear and has had many hard things to bear because of the insurgency. I have heard nothing from her in so long that it was fine to see her at the time of the W.S.P Convention.
     I write not less than four nor more than eight hours every day and it is hard to do letters after that, so if you don't hear from me as often as you'd like to, don't think it is because I do not want to write. It will just be because I can't.  And do you be a good girl and write to me whenever the spirit moves you. I fancy I shall be here a good while, though my staying or leaving is subject to Mr. Johnson's whim, of course. I am confortably located and would rather stay now that I am all fixed. Of course if you come this way you will be sure to stop off to see 
Your loving and admiring,

WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
HEADQUARTERS
ROOM 212, METROPOLITAN LIFE BUILDING
TELEPHONE 66 GRAMERCY

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Chairman
Mrs. Martha Wentworth Suffren, Secretary
Mrs. Margaret Chanler Aldrich, Treasurer
Manhattan Borough
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Chairman
Bronx Borough
Mrs. Jean Nelson Penfield, Chairman
Brooklyn Borough
Miss Ida Craft, Chairman
Queens Borough
Mrs. Helen Gilbert Ecob, Chairman

New York, Oct 13 1910

Dear Wellington: -
I do not know at all when I
shall be at home again. I shall be
released here about Nov. 1; then I
go to Mr. Johnson and or start in
on a big job. I shall of course
spend Christmas with my mother.
Be sure to let H. T. U. know if you
can stop over. I'm sure she would
want you to. You don't say when you
will probably be coming east. 
   Mrs. Catt does not expect to
go to Niagara Falls. M. G. H. [*Hary*] is
a delegate. I do not know whether
she is going. Will bear in mind

that I am to notify you 24 hours in advance if I find that she is.
Enrollment in the W.S.P. did not commence until January 1910 and they consider that the "really" beginning of the party.
Clele is having a cold but otherwise she is doing well. I think I am saving her a good deal, but glory be, Wellington, its taking it out of me. which fact keep under your hat.
Yes, I saw the Woman's Home Companion and wrote 'em a "sassy" letter. Just this hasty line this time but more by and by. Fire always EJH

Sunday night
[*Nov 10, 1910*]
Dearest Wellington:
   While I write I am smoking 
the first of the cigarettes you sent. 
They are great. Thanks so much. 
   Now I want you to plan to 
make an over Sunday visit, [won't you] 
without fail. My landlord says we can 
put you up here. Isn't that lovely? 
Don't fail me. Plan to spend two 
nights with me- Saturday and Sunday
 preferred. And let me know when 
to expect you. I will meet you if I
 can.  But if I can't- here are 
your directions. You will arrive at 
the Union station in all probability. 
You follow the crowd up a little
 short hill to a street railway 
comfort station- just a shed. 
Wait for a car marked Euclid Ave 

on the side at the top and in front 
East Cleveland- Wade Park- 
or Lindemen. Any Euclid Ave. car 
marked in front with any one of
 these three names is right. Pay a 
3 cent fare and stay on till you get
 to 107th st. It is a half hour's 
ride. Get off at 107th. My house 
is the first one on 107th- 
a great circular building occupies
 the corner and our house is next.
 Walk right in and back to room 11.
 It is on the ground floor about half 
way from the front door to the back. 
Here you will find me if I do 
not get to the station. Whitehall
My, I can hardly wait.
Yours ever, Bluche
[*Elizabeth J. Hauser*]

Whitehall, Cleveland, December 6, 1910

Dearest Mary Gray:
The enclosed letter was sent me by Mrs. Upton with the request that I return it"towunst", but I am taking the liberty of sending it to you, and will you please return it directly to H. T. U. and I will tell her that you will do so.
Mr. Johnson and I are both still enjoying your visit. He brought the B. Fr[l]anklin book up this morning and we made a beginning and are enjoying it hugely. He has also gotten Plutarch's lives and is having a friend come to his home to read it to him. He was sweeter today than ever, and looks a little less yellow than he did Sunday. 
O, my dear girl, you will never know how much your visit meant to me. Do come again. I woke up about the time your train was scheduled to leave. I asked the elevator boy if you got off all right and he said you did.

I am not feeling any too briskl[y]y well yet, but think by tomorrow
I shall be all right.
    Our bromidic table mate, Mrs. B[b]arrett, has just called me to take
a walk with her, so here's lookin' at ye, Mary darlin'!
    Yours faithfully
    E. J. H.



TOM L. JOHNSON
8314 EUCLID AVENUE
CLEVELAND, O.
Dec. 28, 1910
You beautiful giver, Mary Gray Peck!  There is nothing in
the world that is so sweet a gift as a book that one has
read and loved and marked.  I can't tell you how happy I
am to have your book.  We shall certainly read it and love
it and I think I will have Mr. Johnson write his name in
it under yours and then I'll write mine under his and it
will be "our book" and when you want it to stay at your
house awhile you just ask for it.  I found it wiating for
me when I got back from Girard last night.
    I was going to write you today in any case to tell
you not to expect me at New Years' time.  We must plug along
with our work and get it finished.  I spent four days at
home so I feel that I must not take any more vacation just
now.  I am in the throes of a bad cold which keeps me
coughing a good deal and makes me very tired.  I [shall] hope
to throw it off within a few days.  Otherwise I am O. K.
I had a nice Christmas and hope you did.  The first one
without your mother was bound to be trying in many ways,
but I know what a brave girl you are.
    I [seotn] spent part of Monday with Mrs. Upton and her father
and we had a good visit.  She is looking forward to having
you stop on your way back to Chica[l]go.  I hope you can plan
it so as to come to me too.
    Hampton's are suggesting supplying Mr. Johnson with
a Boswell.  He has written back that if he [*had*] wanted a Boswell
he would [*have*] chosen his own, [*&*] not allow[*ed*] them to select [*one*] for him.
Bearing in mind your ad[i]vice he will not allow them to

make[s] any radical changes, and says if they don't want it
we will publish it ouselves.
    When I got just so far an old time acquaintance
came and got me and took me off in her electric car for
a drive in the parks and then to her beautiful apartment to
tea.  It was all very pleasant and she is an awfully nice
girl but the kind who wears crape for her mother.  They
have a lot of money and it is something of a strain to be
with rich folks.
    Also the continuity of thought is all "busted up" and
I shall have to let this letter go poor as it is.
    Dear old girl, I hope you and your father are
having a good time together.
    I love you an awful lot, do you know that?
    Yours always,
     E. J. H.
Elizabeth J. Hauser

Warren, Dec. 17, 1915
Dear Mary:
That was a splendid letter that you wrote to the Boss
and me. You certainly have a way of telling things which is
unique.
I hope you are feeling more like yourself again. Too bad
you had to be ill at the last.
I do not know whether the Boss (HT Upton) has written you or not.
We both know that $150 is little enough for you to ask for
work in Ohio. Everybody would be glad to pay you that much.
The thing is going to hinge, however, upon whether we open[e] the
Columbus office this winter and have money enough to do some press
work. Mrs. Upton is strongly of the opinion that we shouldn't go
to Columbus this winter, though the Ex. Com. has voted to do so.
We will not be in campaign in 1916 so we couldn't do any such intensive
press work as the active campaign time demands. That is,
we wouldn't be able to find the money for it. The idea was that
if you came, you , Miss duPont and I would form a trio to do what
there was to do in and from the Columbus office, you being the
stationary member of the firm. Now since the cohorts have gone
off to Washington I see that our estimable friends THE DRYS
have decided not to go to campaign in 1916, but to do it in
1917. We had 1917 picked out, so I don't know what will happen.
My own opinion is that we ought to put every possible dollar into
field work until we are  in possiession of our 22 District
chairmen and a president for each of the 88 counties. I would spend 
just as little on administration as possible pending that time.
We have another Ex. Com. meeting Jan 20 ( in Dayton) and I suppose
things will be worked out further at that time.

When I got a telegram from the Boss yesterday saying that
after two days struggle C. C. C. has [decided] consented to be a candidate
for National president, it was a great temptation to get on the
train and go to Washington and see the show pulled off. Our
Ohio delegates are Upton, duPont, Vorce, Allen, Brooks, Mary
Graham Rice, and Mrs. Florence Swisher of Millersport. If
the Real Thing is elected you bet we will pay[n]a lot of dues and
have a lot of delegates next year. Won't it be fine to be 
able to enjoin Loyalty to the[N]National and really mean it?
Gee whiz, I wish I could see you.
Mother is very well . Minnie working away as usual.
Well, take care of yourself and do  rest , please.
Heaps of Love,
Elizabeth

[right corner] Hauser
[centered] IF YOU WERE A WOMAN.
By Elizabeth J. Hauser in the Public, Aug. 30, 1919.
[indent] If you were a woman and about to become a voter, and if you believed:
[indent] 1. In Free Trade, not only between the States of the United States
of America, but between the countries of the world;
[indent] 2. In a method of taxation which would take for the benefit of the
community community-created values;
[indent] 3. In no discrimination in courts of law against citizens because of r
race or color or creed;
[indent] 4. That it is a violation of constitutional rights and of our most
cherished traditions as a nation to send man and women to prison for 
opinion's sake, either in time of war oriin time of peace;
[indent] 5. That is is wicked to permit speculation on stock exchanges in 
the necessities of life;
[indent] 6. That coercive trades-unions are a direct result of oppressive
organization of capital, and that both are wrong in principle;
[indent] 7. That the class-war dorctine preached by Socialists is morally
wrong, and that State Socialism may be as subversive of liberty as is 
autocracy;
[indent] 8. That "self-determination" should apply equally to Ireland and
Russia as to Japan or France, to Great Britain or the United States;
[indent] 9. If you believed that the claim of the National Administration
that the league of Nations is a step toward permanent world peace is
absolutely incompatible with the proposed program of the Democratic
Secretary of War for the Institution of the system of universal
military training and conscription in this country;
[indent] If you were a woman and about to become a voter, and believed all 
these things, which political party would you join?


OHIO WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
OFFICE OF THE TREASURER
WARREN, OHIO

September 21, 1912.
Mrs. Frances Squire Potter,
4581 Oakenwald Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Frances:
        Mrs. Upton has gone away for a little while and I am running the shop in her absence. Your letter of the 15th ist. falls to me to acknowledge. 
        As the days go by, we are more and more impressed with the strong showing we made at the election. Our question received more votes than any other, also more men voted for woman suffrage in Ohio than have ever voted on the question pro and con in any other state where it has been up.
        We are going to have a conference in Cleveland on the 50th at which time we will decide what kind of organization to recommend to the counties, how long the next campaign shall be and of course we shall also discuss the advisability of hitching up with other organizations. Personally, I do not think the drys would help us very much and I am for"going it alone", just as we have [always] done all these years. I believe that is the only safe plan. However, I am open to conviction and I would give a good deal to be able to talk over this phase of the situation with Mrs. Catt. 
        We do regard the adoption of the Initiative and Referendum as a great victory and it opened the way for woman suffrage.
        I am sorry that I didn't see you while you were here but campaign time is no time to visit.
Lovingly yours,
[*EJH/C.*] Elizabeth(Hauser)
P.S. Mary writes that she is feeling rested and well, which I devoutly hope is true. She certainly worked like a slave and must have been frightfully tired.


September 24, 1912.
Professor Mary Cray Peck,
Geneva N.Y. 
Dear Mary:
        Mr. Bernet of the American Press Association has written to ask me why his bill has not been paid. I asked Miss Rice today and she said that Mrs. Upton said to hold it until I got back to the office. I know nothing about the bill and I see that you have not O.K.'d it.
        Is there anything wrong in it? I am enclosing  it so that if it is all right, you may O.K. it and return it to me.
        I am enclosing a copy of a letter which I received from Alice Blackwell. This makes me feel as if I did not want to go to the Convention in Philadelphia. Not that I was crazy to go before, but now it seems to me that I just can't.
        I don't know what to say about your letter in the Woman's Journal in which you have flayed Mr.Bigelow. I guess I wish you hadn't done it. Because, what good can it do?
        But no matter what you do, you are all right and I am for you.
Yours with love,
[*EJH/C.*] Elizabeth(Hauser)

Warren, Ohio.
Monday. Sept 16. 
1912.

Dear Mary:
Yesterday I returned from my trip to Minneapolis. I saw many of your your friends there - Mrs. Bright, Helen Camp Thompson and others. Everybody sent love to you. I enjoyed the trip very much. I thought it rested me. But after a few hours in the office today I find myself exasperatingly tired.
Mrs. Upton has gone away for a little trip with "George".

I shall hold the fort while she is away. 
Report of vote by counties not yet in. But I find that we got a splendid note by comparison to other measures. We carried every township in Trumbull county.
Well, here's to you! bless you!
With love
E. J. H.

September 25, 1912

Miss Mary Gray Peck,
Geneva, N. Y.
Dear Mary:
I have been thinking a good deal about the press work. [I have been thinking a good deal about the press work.] I feel as you do, that it should not be permitted to stop and yet I don't see the way clear to go on with it. There is first, the question of money, and second, the greater difficulty of finding the right person. If Mrs. Brooks could take the work and do it from Cleveland, I think it would be admirable for it seems to me that in this present campaign, we ought to utilize the workers who have been trained in the particular lines in which they have developed.

I don't know whether Mrs. Brooks would consider this at all, but Miss Dupont spent the day with me last Saturday and I suggested it to her and told her to talk it over with Myrta Jones and Mrs. Brooks. I have not had an opportunity to suggest it to Mrs. Upton.

This week, we got out an item to a large number of papers and we are also trying to acknowledge all favorable editorials as the clippings come in to us.

I have just sent to Miss Reilly, asking her to send us 100 copies of her next page of press material and the girls will address a set of envelopes from your card directory and we will mail out the National stuff. I do not find any key to your directory. I thought the different colored cards meant different things but Miss Cromley and Miss Rice seem to think that this is not the case. They say you used just such cards as were available. Would it be possible for you to tell me from memory what the various divisions mean? I don't want you to take too much trouble about this, but if you can do it and [*2 Peck*]

if there are any definite suggestions you have for us, please pass them along. 

I have been reading the Initiative and Referendum law today and I tell you it is going to be a very big job to get petitions. How I wish we had some person to advise us, upon whose advice we could really rely, but the trouble with all of this work is that one person's opinion is just about as good as another's. 

Yours with love,
Elizabeth Hauser 

October 5, 1912
Prof. Mary Gray Peck,
Geneva, N.Y.

Dear Mary:
A little while ago I had a letter from Harriet Mills asking me to speak at the N. Y. Convention in Utica the evening of October 16. She said N.Y. would pay expenses and that they wanted to devote an hour to the Ohio campaign. I replied that I would go and would speak on Ohio and asked her whether she wanted me to take the whole hour of time. Now I hear from her again and to save a little time (there is no stenographer now- only Miss Rice so I have to write my own letters) I am enclosing her letter and will ask you to return it to me after you have read it. I shall go to Utica and will plan to talk 30 minutes. As I could talk a week on the Ohio campaign, you let me know what phase of the performance you want for your spiel and I will keep off your grass. I have written Marie Howe that if they really want another person for Ohio night to get Florence Allen. Mrs. Raymond Brown was in Dayton only and would not have much idea of the general features of the campaign. 
The Cleveland conference was a great success. I have written a report of it which has gone to the printer. Will send you one so cannot take time to gossip about it as I should like to do. 
With love,
E. J. H.

November 2, 1912.

Prof. Mary Gray Peck,
R.F.D. 2, Geneva, N.Y.
Dear Wellington:
The [g]General and I have every consideration for you in your extreme preoccupation in the matter of your history for a Chicago firm but we have a request to make, nevertheless. Please find time between this and November 10th to write a brief report of the campaign press work. We simply must have such a report at the Columbus Convention. It will be read by Mrs. Brooks and she will supplement it with her little report of what she has done since and perhaps with an outline of what she hopes to do.
Now, you didn't reply to my letter or to Mrs. Brooks's about the cards in the press box and we will let you off on that until after our state convention or until you have finished your history but this report for Columbus we must have. We [w]simply cannot take "No" for an answer.
I [shall be]was very much disappointed not to find you at Utica.
Yours with love,
E. J. H. alias [Bluch?]
[*EJH/CS.*]

Dearest,
No time to write 
am getting off press report to Elizabeth,
Do you want me to meet you at [Sda?] Crafts Nov 18? If so, I will make us arrangements at once. I have nothing but a suit to wear! Am stript of even [?}!
Mary


Monday, Sept 12 1910
My dear Wellington:-
Well you did it, didn't you, old girl? Bully for you! I hope there won't be a minute delay in your progress towards health. 
How thankful you must be that the ordeal is really over!
Frances was so good to telegraph and write I
[*The Hampton's job is news for you and Frances only,
as yet. 
E- *]

hope it isn't going to be too terribly long before I see both of you. 
I went to Mrs. Batts' last night. She is looking so much better. She is in good spirits and I really think she is going to be better now than she has ever been since I have known her. 
I came on a week ago and spent last week helping.
[Jon?] Johnson [write] an article for Hampton's. They are nagging him for a 


series and are willing to pay big. So if we have struck the proper gait on this first one, my fortune is made. 
Not quite that, of course.
But when I get thru with G. G. G.'s job, I can help Mr. J. on some other writing. We work together perfectly. I shall get more cash from his job than I [?] did from any other, and certainly as much joy. He is really beginning to get [itl] at last.

I have no news from 505 Fith Ave. My, don't I thank my luck stars every day that I'm out of that! Whew!
My friends, the [?] get back from Europe today and Mr. J and I are going down to meet them.
Bless you, dear heart, brave, old, darling Wellington. I am always yours my devoted and loving [Blucher?]

Warren, Feb. 24, 1917

Dear Wellington:
Now that you have been heard from the satisfaction in the Ohio victory is complete. I was just waiting for your letter. We did get a telegram from you in Columbus from some place in[j] Indiana and wondered what in thunder you were doing in the Hoosier State. It was ear of you to send it.

The B[i]oss(Upton) is as you surmise, in Washington for the Council meeting. & duPont we[n]n[e]t with her. Z. thinks the Big Chief has lost her head on the war situation and went down to help put things straight. The B. C. asked the Boss to ask for the collection at the Sunday meeting. She said she would if it was for a straight suffrage, she wouldn't if it was for war purposes of any kind, nor would she be a party to adding anything to the war talk or thought. How is that? All right, say I.

Of course Mary dear you have just got to hear the Boss tell the story of the Columbus fight to make you apprec[i]i[c]ate what a scrap it really was. She was corking through it all. We came through the whole thing with no friction among ourselves or between us and any of the men- friends or foes. 
You ought to know J[m]immie Reynolds. He was one of Tom Johnson's "boys" and he caught the spirit and he had held it all these years. And when the Cleveland politicians who were against us cursed him for introducing the bill what do you think he said, "I know Tom would be pleased, and I don't care what anybody else thinks." We couldn't have pulled this thing off without Cleveland, and Newton Baker stood by us splendidly. We got back last Sunday and the Boss had to hike to Canton Monday where she had 307 people at dinner and talked to them for an hour.

Then Thursday night she had to leave for washington. She will be back Monday. Mr. Upton has been fine about the whole thing. We went to Columbus Jan 8 and Mrs. Upton was only home twice; I once. My mother was a brick too, as she always is.
I am so glad you have hooked up with Minerva and Charles Brooks. They do not make human beings any finer than those two. We are constantly grateful to them for just being.
Darn our Censor Board. Why don't you get yourself sent to Ohio to talk the whole thing over with Governor Cox. The Boss is so strong with him now that she could get you an appointment all right. He is an open-minded person, and when convinced that he ought to do a thing, he is vigorous. Can't you manage it? Then we can see you too .
I hope you are opposed to the plan for universal military training. Of course I am. I hope too you think our National Association out to keep its head shut on war stuff.
I think the Anti referendum will not be called. I think we could lick 'em in the cour[s]ts. Florence Allen (who is some lawyer, believe me), is sure they cannot legally call a referendum and she has plenty of dope to back up her opinions. But, Mrs. Upton and I have been so actively identified with the I. and R. movement in this state that we do not want to put our association in the position of opposing a referendum. It would be impossible of explanation to the uninitiated and would seem inconsistent. The newspapers are discouraging the referendum, but are saying that if it is brought we shall carry it.

Do write again, or better still, come to see us.
Yours forever,
Elizabeth(Hauser)

[*December 30, 1922*]
[*Judge Allen?*]
international affairs, who flock to Geneva. You wouldn't think of going to the capital of a government to study its affairs, but people from all over the world are coming to Geneva to study the affairs of the world. 

"The League has succeeded in creating in Geneva an atmosphere that is absolutely international. Its effect is tremendous. Political leaders come there, with their national interests foremost in their minds, and it is fascinating to see them shift their whole viewpoint from national to international. Often a similar change takes place in American visitors who come with a prejudice against the League. The very air is filled with world affairs, and a spirit of cooperation, and nobody can withstand it."

She stopped, and the room was full of the vision of world friendliness centering in Geneva, and being carried to the farthest corners of the globe by that shifting mass of students who come, absorb it, and carry it forth.
Miss Wilson's mission here is to try to make sure that the library grows in usefulness in the future as it has grown in the past. In spite of the fact that they have been using it for nearly three years, they still do not see why it needs more money to be increasingly useful. As the work of the League grows, so the library must grow. And it is not only the political world, but all the people of all the countries that are benefited by the fact that the League has and must continue to have the best research material in the world. It is to the interest of everyone that the men who are running the affairs of the world shall have at hand all the facts concerning it. It should be possible for everyone who wants such information to find it there.

"They tell me"-Miss Wilson smiled as though it were a pleasant thing to hear, and perhaps true- "that I would work with a library as a big center and a small League surrounding it. Certainly a big League would be terribly handicapped if it had only a small library. The League supports us, but it can't do any more. And that is where America can help. American library methods, taught to an America, installed by an American, are furnishing the information which is helping to solve the worries of the world.

"But we must be more useful. We need an adequate building, and we need a permanent maintenance fund large enough to insure our growth along our present lines. I have come home to tell Americans who believe in the League of Nations what an opportunity for serving it is here."

The Great Achievement
First Prize Election Story
By Elizabeth J. Hauser
[*Before the fall election the Woman Citizen offered three prizes for the three best stories of the most interesting and helpful thing done by women during the campaign. There was a splendid response and we wish we had room to publish at least a dozen stories. The first prize was won, by unanimous vote, by Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser, secretary of the National League of Women Voters, with the account of Judge Allen's campaign published here. The second prize goes to Mrs. Francis Todd H' Doubler for the story of the campaign that made Mrs. E. W. Bemis first woman commissioner of Cook County, and the third to Miss Sarah M. Gallaher, recently elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives , for her story of "a political season in Cambria County."
We offer our congratulations to all the contestants, winners and others, and our(and your) heartfelt thanks to the three busy women who so kindly served as judges: Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard and Miss Mary Garrett Hay.*]

The greatest and most important victory of the November 7th, 1922, election occurred in Ohio. It was not the election of Simeon Fess(Republican) over Atlee Pomerene(Democrat) to the United States Senate, nor the election of A. V. Donahy(Democrat) over Carmi Thompson(Republican) as Governor, nor yet the smashing blow delivered by the voters to John Barleycorn. It was the election of a woman judge to the Supreme Court of the state. That this incredible thing would happen was foretold last April by Miss Rose Moriarty in a speech to the National League of Women Voters Convention in Baltimore. "The women voters of Ohio, Republicans and Democrats, are going to unite to put Florence Allen on the Supreme Bench," said Miss Moriarty at the time. There is no record that anybody else not even Miss Allen herself, had ever dreamed of such a thing. But Rose Moriarty was the original "Florence Allen for judge" person. It was she who first proposed her for Common Pleas Judge in Cleveland in the spring of 1920, several months before the nineteenth amendment became a fact. 

And in the election that fall Florence Allen was elected to the Common Pleas Court, the first woman in the world ever elected judge of a court of general jurisdiction and by the largest majority ever given to a judicial candidate in Cuyahoga County. Two years later she is elected one of two from a field of five candidates to the Supreme Court of the State, again the first woman ever to be elected to a Supreme Court anywhere in the world, this time running 50,000 votes ahead of her nearest competitor who is a sitting member of the court and who was a candidate of the dominant political party. That this could happen in Ohio two years after the vote was given to women is almost unbelievable. Those who know their woman suffrage history can't quite believe it yet. 

Ohio has a non-partisan judiciary law which provides that the names of the candidates for various courts shall be printed on one ballot and without party designation. But nominations are made in the party primaries unless a candidate chooses to be nominated by petition, which until Judge Allen's advent no candidate had chosen to do. Believing with all her heart that to be truly representative of the best interests of all the people the judiciary must be non-partisan and that it will not really be so until nominations as well as elections are non-partisan, she decided to become an independent candidate nominated by petition.

It required about 21,000 signatures of qualified voters to nominate and the petition must be filed with the secretary of State sixty days before election. Early in September Judge Allen's sponsors filed twice that number, 60 of the 88 counties being represented. Bread cast upon the waters had returned after many days, for no one in Ohio had done more, few as much, to secure signatures to the initiative  petitions for woman suffrage in 1914 as had Miss Allen. The petitions were circulated by all sorts of women's organizations. Business and Professional Women's Clubs, the W. C. T. U. and Y. W. C. A., Federation of Women's Clubs, the D. A. R., the Council of Jewish Women, Leagues of Women Voters, fraternal organizations, farm women's groups, all were active. When the petition work was finished some of these took active charge of the campaign in different communities. In others Florence Allen Clubs were organized. It was really the petition workers who formed the nucleus of the self-directing organizations that did the work in the campaign which followed.

What did they do? In some places they made a house-to-house canvass to get out the vote as they had done to secure signatures. Very largely they made an intensive campaign to "cover"

12       THE WOMAN CITIZEN
every women's organization with Miss Allen's literature. Men helped, of course. Three very eminent men sponsored her candidacy at its inception, men were on her campaign fund committee, some men circulated petitions, thousands signed them, but essentially it was a campaign of women, by women, for a woman.

About the middle of September the Secretary of State, finding Judge Allen's petitions sufficient, declared her a nominee. A small room in a Cleveland hotel was then rented as headquarters and a woman manager was put in charge and a woman director went into the field. From this office the campaign literature was sent out, of which there were exactly two pieces: 1, the usual small card, 2, a letter size sheet, one side of which was contained a brief history of Judge Allen's career; no posters, practically no newspaper advertising. At the last an average of twenty-five letters were received daily asking for literature and inquiring how the writers(mostly women) could be of service. A trifle over $5,000 was raised, the contributions being principally from women, and nearly all in comparatively small amounts.

Judge Allen's personal campaigning was confined to her vacation month, July, and to such speeches as she was able to make evenings and Sundays, for her work as Common Pleas Judge is very exacting and she did not neglect it for a single hour. Her Sunday meetings were usually held in churches, sometimes being the regular service, when she substituted for the minister, sometimes a union service in the afternoon or evening. She did not make a single speech which might not well have been a lecture in a high-grade course in citizenship. The purpose of government, the purpose of the courts, the responsibility of women to their country, with Olive Schreiner's Second Dream in the Desert as a climax, constituted the speech as a rule.

About a month before election, definite, concentrated opposition from partisan sources began. There were of course two Republicans and two Democrats, nominated at the August primaries, all eminent gentlemen, contending with Judge Allen. Republican opposition was more pronounced because the Republicans had the better organization everywhere. How many votes this opposition held for party nominees it is impossible to know. But that it had the effect of making some women party workers and scores of independent women redouble their efforts in Judge Allen's behalf is beyond question. A group of Republican women representing largely the organization in various counties and the wives of candidates had a luncheon at a Columbus hotel and decided to go into the field against Judge Allen on the sole ground that she is an enrolled member of the Democratic party. Immediately protests began going to Republican headquarters from women members of county committees, and the independent women's Republican Club of Cleveland promptly endorsed Judge Allen. So that if the Republican opposition was greater, the favorable reaction among Republican women was correspondingly greater. The small strictly partisan group did not understand what the attitude and activities of the larger group made true, namely that while ordinary political methods may prevail against other ordinary political methods they cannot combat a crusade and this campaign was a crusade.

The three outstanding factors in the result are what make it a matter of nation-wide importance, the most significant event connected with November  7th, from the standpoint of that new day politics of which some of us dare dream. These factors are: The splendid vindication of the principle of the non-partisan judiciary by the more than half million votes cast 
[*(Continued on page 27)*]


Building Homes for Business Women
By Marjorie Shuler

When you grew up choosing to play with tools and nails, rather than with dolls, why shouldn't you be a builder instead of a stenographer or a teacher or something else equally ladylike? Perhaps Florence Kober never would have gotten farther in applying her building and architectural knowledge than to continue as a teacher of art in Pittsburgh schools-if it hadn't been for the war. We hear a lot about what the war did for men, It did just as much for girls, in Miss Kober's opinion. Not all of the younger generation figure out how it all happened, but those who were workers know that they are not going to be compressed into rutty jobs are they were a few years ago; while girls who have not worked before know that they are no longer satisfied just to put on clothes and adorn a ball room.

Florence Kober was one of the lucky ones who got to France. She jumped right out of the schoolroom when we went into the war and got a job as a mechanic of the first overseas unit sent across by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She got the job partly on the strength of having taken the evening course in building construction and electricity at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the only woman among nearly five thousand men students. Warned against entering the course because she would meet "rough-necks," she had not one unpleasant experience. That may have been due partly to her own impersonal attitude toward the men, as proof of which she offers the fact that today she cannot remember a single individual out of her classes. Perhaps those who were getting up the Overseas Unit thought that impersonality would be a valuable asset in a girl who was to work with thousands of soldiers. Anyways, she got the job and for months wore overalls and shouldered planks and bossed a gang of German prisoners and their French guards, who put up the hospital barracks.

Then it was all over. The girl who had done that work couldn't go back to teaching in a schoolroom. First she tried to be an automobile saleswoman. Always believing in striking high, she went to one of the biggest and best manufacturers, but he said there were no women in the business in the East, and he "couldn't afford to pioneer." She tried several building firms and was laughed at and told that "if we take the trouble to train you, you'll be married in a year." An architect told her that - "a woman in my office would completely destroy its spirit." Then she was almost accepted by one of the biggest electrical firms. She was to draw plans and color them and make them look pretty like the little pictures the foreign men send over to compete with our dull-looking blacks and whites. The chief executive had to confirm her appointment and he flatly declined. "A man would be so much more definite," he said. 

When Miss Kober felt herself well on the way to the poorhouse, the Young Women's Christian Association offered her work and she soon became assistant building manager at the central branch
[*(Continued on page 29)*]

December 30, 1922         27
Mrs. Harding has been confines to state 
affairs, or an intimate dinner or luncheon 
with Harry Daugherty. The Attorney 
General figures in one of the 
most picturesque investigations Congress 
has witnessed. Representative 
Keller, dissatisfied with the manner of 
the conduct of the investigation of his
 impeachment charges, lost his temper 
and stalked out of the room. The committee
 subpoened him as a witness, and
 he failed to appear. More or less distracted, 
the committee to consider what it would 
do to Mr. Keller for failing to appear. 
However, the whole thing is unsavory, 
as unsavory as the charges against A.
 Mitchell Palmer. 
   And when the observer gets beyond 
the heat of the temper and intolerance
 of the hearings before the House Judiciary 
Committee, he can only say that 
the tenor of the proceeding, and the 
charges, even if they are based upon
 only a thread of truth, are unworthy of 
the dignity, the prestige and respect 
that ought to attach to the office of the
 Attorney General.  And that much was 
known when Mr. Daugherty was appointed.  
There was a question then as
 to his fitness for the place.  

Your Investments
By Eleanor Kerr
Miss Kerr had the inspiration to
 preach you a small New Year's sermon.
Among THE CITIZENS good things for
1923 is a continuation of her sound
help and advice.
   Most people subscribe, in theory at
least, to the value of thrift and
the necessity for saving part of one's
income.  The only trouble is that so
few of us put it into actual practice,
and when we do, it is in a haphazard
way, which may only half accomplish
the purpose.
   There is considerable occasional saving
by almost everyone, but, as we
well know, the total amount thus
Is a massed is likely to be smaller than is
hopefully expected, and the effort to
accumulate it is often felt to be decidedly
burdensome.
   Yet thrifty persons--and many others
--feel that they should make some provision
against a rainy day; for the future
of their children or other dependents;
for old age; or to provide desired
luxuries unobtainable with their
current income.  They believe, nevertheless,
that these provisions should not 
be made at too great an expense of
present comfort and opportunity.
   Systematic saving is the answer to
these often vaguely felt and somewhat
conflicting ideas.  To do a thing regularly,
every day, every week or every
month, usually makes the effort easy,
through the power of habit.  We all
know how hard it is to set aside a large
sum of money, or even a fair-sized one,
at any special time;  but when it is set
aside in small amounts at short intervals,
it is not difficult to accumulate the
desired sum.
   Now it is not difficult for the average
person to survey his income and
decide what amount he can probably
save each week or month.  The next
step is to do it and do it when the income
is received, whether it is in the
form of salary, interest on securities,
rents, or from other sources.  If this
varies in amount with each month, then
decide what proportion of each month's
income should be set aside.
   The savings bank is always available
as a place of investment for small sums,
and interest begins each quarter of the
year on deposits.
   When $500 or more has been accumulated,
it may be used for the purchase
of some high-grade investment.  
But remember whatever investment is
made, that it is most advantageous to
the thrifty investor to turn the interest
received from the investment of savings,
back into the savings account.  In this
way the account increases a great deal
faster than if this interest is regarded
as income and spent.
   Few people realize how rapidly
money accumulates, when safely invested,
and earning more capital for
itself all the time.  The proportionate
increase is the same whether the sum
is large or small.  Ten dollars invested
every month at 5 per cent interest, and
with the interest reinvested every half
year, becomes $1550 at the end of ten
years.  If, however, the interest is not
reinvested, it amounts to only $1200
at the end of this time.  In other words,
the reinvestment of income from these
savings has added $355 in this period
to the capital set aside by the investor.
Should $100 be invested every month,
the result will be just ten times the 
above figures.
   The real essentials in systematic savings
are:  first, the decision upon a plan
of saving, and the amount to be saved
each period; and second, perseverance
to stick to it.  Real thrift is not burdensome,
and its compensations are very
great.
The Great Achievement
   (Continued from page 12)

in its support the first time it has been
tested to the limit.
   The proof that women will vote for
a qualified candidate of their own sex.
   The demonstration that by presenting
a worth-while issue and a really first-
rate candidate, wholly on their merits,
directly to the people, success is possible
without recourse to any of the
traditional political campaign practices.
   There were no backstairs conferences,
no deals with bosses, no secret
understandings, no trading of votes, 
no promises of rewards.  On no other
terms could Judge Allen afford to win.
On no other terms would her supporters
have been willing to let her win.
   To quote her own words, she will go
into office "Under no obligations except
to my oath, my conscience and my 
duty to the people."

The special subscription offer recently
made to the League of
Women Voters will continue throughout
the winter months.  Ohio, Missouri,
New Hampshire, California and Idaho,
in the order named, stand at present
at the head of the list of state leagues
which have taken advantage of the offer.
   Checks for commissions and bonuses
are sent out each month to the leagues
for subscriptions received from them.
   For particulars, write the Woman
Citizen, 171 Madison Avenue, New
York City.

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MISS V. D. H. FURMAN,
Manager of our women's
department, acts as treasurer
for more than 30 
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28     THE WOMAN CITIZEN
Know Your Own Township 
By Mrs. Frederick S. Greene
Some months ago the CITIZEN published 
a study questionnaire entitled "Know Your 
Own County," by Mrs. Frederick S. 
Greene. This was used by many women's 
organizations, and Mrs. Greene received 
many inquiries and requests for information 
about Township and Village Government 
as well. So we have asked her for permission 
to publish her study of the township, 
and this will be followed in a later issue by
"Know Your Own Village."
Town Board
   What is the difference between a 
Town and Township? What officers 
form the Town Board? How often does 
it meet? Are the meetings public? 
Are proposed expenditures given public 
hearing? 
Supervisor or Commissioner (Chief
   Township Official)
   Term of office? Salary? Fees? Is
he given an auto? Are his expenses
paid? What appointments does he 
make? What control has he over the 
other members of the Town Board?
Over their expenditures?
Town Clerk
   Duties? Salary? Fees? Is there a 
Yearly Budget? Are the Township expenses
made public? How is the money raised? What was the total cost
of running the Township last year?
What was the cost per person? Is this
the tax-rate? What proportion of town
money goes for roads? For schools?
For poor relief? For public health?
How do your expenses compare with 
the similar Townships in your County?
Auditors
   Who audits the Town Books? Salary?
Fees? To whom do they report?
Tax Assessors
   Who is responsible for your tax assessments?
Salaries or fees? Is there
 a separate Board of Assessors and a 
separate Tax Collector for the County
taxes? How do the Assessors decide
the value of a man's property? Is it 
based on what the present owner paid
or on what he would sell it for? Is 
an owner given a chance to object 
to his assessment? How can he find
out what it is before his tax-bill is 
due? Is similar property in different 
Townships assessed at the same rate?
How is the Township share of the 
County expenses decided?
Collector
   Who collects your taxes? Salary?
Fees? Are his expenses paid? Has
he a voice in deciding the tax rate? Is
he provided with printed tax-bills and 
receipts? Are such forms used in the 
other Townships? Does he collect the 
school tax? If not, who collects it?
Roads
   What is the mileage of Town Roads?
Who is responsible for them?  Salary?
Fees?  Are his expenses paid?  Has
he an auto?  How many miles have
other Townships near by?  Are there
County Roads in the Township?  Who
is responsible for them?  Has the
State Highway Department supervision
over Town Roads?  How much was
spent last year on Town Roads?  The
year before?  How much is needed to
make them good?  What is the
average cost per mile for keeping dirt
roads in good condition?  What provision
is made for snow removal?  Does the
State or County keep its roads clear
in winter?
Justices of the Peace
   How many in the Township?  Salary
or Fees?  Have they had any legal
training?  How often do they hold
Court?  Number of cases per year?
Do they commit children to institutions?
Who has charge of licensing
poolrooms?
Constables
   How many?  Salary or Fees?  How
much territory does each cover?  Has 
each a telephone?  How does one find
a constable when necessary?  Are 
autos provided?  Are their expenses
paid?  Have the constables charge of
enforcing the Prohibition Law?  How
many calls does the local constable
average a year?
School Directors
   How many in the Township?  Elected
or appointed?  Duties?  Salaries?
Have they supervision over public
school work?  Over the school building?
Over the appointment of teachers?
Who is the District School
Superintendent?
Overseers of the Poor
   How many in the Township?  What
territory do they cover?  Salaries or
Fees?  Does the County Superintendent 
of Poor have supervision over
them?  To whom do they report?
How often?  To whom do they look
for advice or assistance?  Have they
had any special training for this work?
Is there a County Superintendent of
Poor?  What is the difference between
Town and County poor?  What
is the annual expense of our Town Poor
Relief?  Have the Overseers a budget
for each year over which they cannot
go?  How is this determined?  Are
their expenses included?  How many
cases of destitution are cared for annually?
To what extent must the Town
Poor Relief be supplemented by private
means?  Is there a Board of Child Welfare?
Who are they?  How and when
appointed?  Are they paid?  What
provision is there for the feebleminded?
How Much Prohibition?
(Continued from page 13)
authority, will take over the trade in
the area concerned.  It will be the duty
of this board as soon as possible to
close all redundant public-houses, to
abolish grocers' licenses, to raise the
age at which spirits may be served to
young persons from sixteen to eighteen,
and to make such structural alterations
as may be desired for the supply of
food and non-intoxicants.  This would
provide the cafe-restaurant type of public-
house, which is the feature of the
Carlisle scheme, substituting a respectable
place of refreshment for the
present sordid surroundings where
there is no counter attraction to the
mere sale of intoxicants.
   "The Women Voters' League for
Licensing Reform is supporting Lady
Astor's Bill because it sees in this third

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Warren Tribune Chronicle
Wednesday, March 16, 1955

[image]
Miss Hauser Honored By League
For Leadership In Suffrage Fight
Suffragist Honored -- Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser, suffragist leader who helped
found the League of Women Voters, receives from Mrs. John U. Richards, (right)
second vice president of the Warren League of Women Voters, an inscribed trophy
in recognition of her contributions to the suffrage movement in America and her services
to the League.  Mrs. H. C. Kordes, center, was chairman of the League's trophy
committee which arranged the honor for Miss Hauser.
(Tribune Photo By Dick Ellers.)

Elizabeth J. Hauser, a leader in
the suffrage movement which
brought women the right to vote
in the United States and one of the
founders of the National League
of Women Voters, was presented
an engraved trophy yesterday by
the Warren League of Women
Voters.
The honor came to Miss Hauser
as she quietly observed her 82nd
birthday at her home at 54 E.
Main St., Girard.
Miss Hauser has been associated
with The Tribune for many years
as a special writer.
The League's gift was presented
to the suffrage and League leader
by Mrs. John U. Richards, second
vice president of the Warren 
League, acting for Mrs. W. Howard
Fram, president, who is in 
Florida.  Accompanying Mrs. Richards
was Mrs. H. C. Kordes,
chairman of the trophy committee.
Other members  of the committee
were Mrs. S. S. Smith and Mrs.

New Citizens' Group
Names 20 To Board
A 20-member board of directors
was chosen last night at a meeting
of the new city-wide non-partisan
citizens' group at Packard 
Park shelter house as it also
adopted the name  of "The Community
Interest Council."
Mayor William C. Burbank proposed
the formation of such a
group last month to stimulate
progressive development of the
city.
A set of by-laws to govern operations
of the CIC until next May
when the first annual meeting will
be held was also adopted.
The by-laws designate the objective
of the organization as:
"Sound government responsive to
[?]
board of directors are to be
named at the annual meeting after 
which the 30 board members  are
to determine by lot who will serve
one, two and three year terms.
The 20 members are to meet
(Please Turn To Page 4, Column 4)

Market Only
Catching Up,
Expert Says
By Ed Creagh

Backs View
Of Dulles
On Targets
Would Be Directed Only
At Military Points
In Case Of Conflict
By Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington (AP)--President
Eisenhower said today
he sees no reason why atomic
weapons should not be used
in any conflict where they 
can be directed against strictly
military targets.
With this news conference statement,
Eisenhower backed up Secretary
of State Dulles who said
yesterday he thought tactical
atomic weapons would be employed
in any major military action
involving the United States.
By law, only President Eisenhower
can make a decision on use
of atomic weapons.
The significance of Dulles' statement
and of the President's comment 
appeared to be that any future
war, big or little, in which
the United States engages will be
an atomic war to some extent.
Eisenhower, natty in a chocolate
brown double-breasted suit, also
dealt with these other topics.
Stock Market--the President
said he is just as concerned
about a decline in stock market
prices as he is about a  price decline
affecting any segment of the 
economy.
He has no opinion whatsoever, he
said, as to whether the Senate
Banking Committee's current study
of the market may have contributed 
to a price decline.
But, Eisenhower added, we are
trying for an expanding economy
and an important factor in achieving
it necessarily is confidence.
As Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey did yesterday in testifying
before the committee, Eisenhower
said any group dealing with
market operations  should proceed
with great caution lest a great
deal of damage result.
The President said, however, he
knows of no particular phase of 
the committee study which has not
been conducted with caution.
Eisenhower went on to say he
also is concerned about any drop in
farm prices or in prices affecting
any part of the economy.
Politics--The President said
he agrees with Vice President
Nixon that the Republican Party
needs strengthening.  But Eisenhower
ducked a fresh attempt to 
find out whether he will run again
next year.
He did say he believes the Republican
Party can win the Presidency 
next year with any candidate
worthy of the nomination if
the party develops programs for
the benefit of all the people.
The discussion was touched off
when a reporter quoted Nixon as 
saying in a California speech earlier
this week that the Republican  
Party is not strong enough to win

NOTE:  the only article related to Elizabeth Hauser is the 5th from the left at the top of the page, and it has no headline:

   Elizabeth J. Hauser, a leader in
the suffrage movement which
brought women the right to vote
in the United States and one of the 
founders of the National League
of Women Voters, was presented
and engraved trophy yesterday by
the Warren League of Women
Voters.
   The honor came to Miss Hauser 
as she quietly observed her 82nd
birthday at her home at 54 E.
Main St., Girard.
   Miss Hauser has been associated 
with The Tribune for many years
as a special writer.
   The League's gift was presented
to the suffrage and League leader
by Mrs. John U. Richards, second
vice president of the Warren 
League, acting for Mrs. W. Howard
Fram, president, who is in
Florida.  Accompanying Mrs. Richards
was Mrs. H.C. Kordes, 
chairman of the trophy committee.
Other members of the committee
were Mrs. S.S. Smith and Mrs.
James D. Miller.
   In  presenting the trophy, Mrs.
Richards told Miss Hauser it was
in appreciation for all the co-operation
and assistance she has always
given the Warren League of 
Women Voters.

Engraved Inscription
   The inscription engraved on the 
gold trophy cup and ivory base
reads:  "For our own Elizabeth J.
Hauser, charter member, Warren
League of Women Voters.  In recognition
of her distinguished work
for woman's suffrage and her important
part in the founding of
the National League of Women 
Voters."
   Activities of the League of Women
Voters, nationally, in Ohio and 
in Warren, have always been dear
to Miss Hauser's heart since the
days when she helped Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt, suffrage chief,
form the national organization.
She considers the League "the finist
women's organization which
has for its object the education
of women in government."
   A charter member of the Warren 
League, Miss Hauser has, 
through the years, given freely of
her knowledge and untiring effort 
to its undertakings.
   Miss Hauser, who was in at the
start and the finish of the battle 
for woman suffrage has always
been a hearty sponsor of any
move to get out the feminine vote.


Warren, O., Tribune Chronicle, Wed. March 16, 1955
Miss Hauser is Honored
(Continued From Page One)
She has long felt that more women
should vote, but feels that
those who do are "thoughtful
voters."
A modest person, Elizabeth
Hauser, who declines comment on
her own extension contribution to
the suffrage movement's victory,
places the credit for the victory
to efforts of other suffrage figures
such as Mrs. Catt and Mrs. Harriett
Taylor Upton of Warren.

Name Listed on Plaque
However, Harper's "History of
Woman Suffrage" reveals how important
a contribution Miss Hauser
made to the suffrage campaign,
stating:  "to (Miss Hauser) more
than any other woman do Ohio
women owe a debt of gratitude.
From her childhood days, she gave
her life to woman's enfranchisement.
Painstaking fearless, unselfish
and able, she labored cheerfully
not caring for praise or
credit for the good things she accomplished.
A good executive, organizer,
legislative worker, speaker
and writer, she was a power 
in the councils of the suffragists."
Miss Hauser's name is inscribed
along with Mrs. Upton's on a
plaque honoring Ohio's top suffrage
leaders, in Ohio's hall of 
fame in Columbus.
Miss Hauser's suffrage efforts
were never radical or militant.
She relied on peaceful and
legal means to achieve her goal.
She was just 16 years old when
she attended a state suffrage meeting
at Salem with Mrs. Upton and
had her first contact with the 
movement.  This also was the beginning
of her close association
with Mrs. Upton, already a nationally
known suffrage figure.
When Miss Hauser joined the National
American Woman's Suffrage
Assn. in the 1890s it was under
the leadership of Susan B. Anthony,
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and Mrs.
Catt, as well as several other
famous women.

Managed Office Here
In 1903, at the national convention
in New Orleans, Mrs Catt decided
to relinquish her headquarters
duties and it was voted to
move the association's offices to
Warren with Mrs. Upton in charge.
The Warren suffrage leader accepted
the responsibility only on
the condition that Miss Hauser
manage the office.
Miss Hauser accepted and in
May, 1903, national headquarters
were established in the Packard
house, now the Elks Home, under
her direction.  Headquarters were
later moved to the county courthouse
and remained in Warren for
six years.
For years Miss Hauser served
as headquarters secretary and had
the responsibility of distributing
thousands of pieces of suffrage
literature.
   When suffrage headquarters
were once again returned to New
York in 1909, Miss Hauser was
made vice chairman of the of the national
press committee.
   Despite her devout allegiance to
the suffrage movement, Miss
Hauser's real love was the newpaper
craft.

Authority On County
Since 1927 she has been a special
writer for The Tribune, conducting
a daily column "The Seeing Eye"
and writing special features as
"The Tribune Trailer."
Miss Hauser is an authority on
Trumbull County history and her
counsel and knowledge are frequently 
sought by authors writing
about county history as well as
her fellow associates of The
Tribune.
   At 19 Elizabeth Hauser became
editor of the "Girard Grit" a
weekly, after writing for Warren
papers even before she was graduated
from high school.
   It was this "printer's ink" in her

Getting Hot Foot
By Staff Correspondent
   NILES- Two Uninvited guests 
at the James Price home, 429 Seneca
 St. are getting the "hot foot." 
   The "guests," two skunks, drew
 attention Tuesday from city police. 
A cry for help was sent to William
 Min Young, county game warden, 
when the visitors took refuge under 
the kitchen floor at the Price home.
   Min Young came "on the run"
 yesterday to sid the Price family, 
but his plans for "shooting it out" 
with the furry visitors only met 
with protests.
   As an alternative, Min Young
 advised the Prices to spread lime 
under the dwelling, which will give 
the skunks the old "hot foot" and
 hasten their departure.
   Price was spreading the lime 
"on thick" today.
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SPRING IS HERE --- In line with the balmy weather,
 Mrs. George White shows off her "spring" hat
 which copped a prize at a
 mad hatter party held by 
the Army Ordnance Ladies 
Association at Washington, 
D.C. Customed after an old 
chair spring, some small
tension springs and flowers,
 the hat wound up with 
the funniest toppiece 
award at the gathering. Mrs. White's 
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ability to do the work, and a corps
curriculum, the lumping together
of many subjects into one.
   "The hallmark of collectivism is 
seen by the lack of individual success
in modern education and the 
watering down of courses which
is a threat of mediocre collectivism,
instead of individual excellence--
all flowers of the plant of
progressive education which is as
outmoded as the 1930's themselves,"
the speaker declared.
   "We see today the American
way of life and the free enterprise
system not only recuperated
from its dire illness during the depression
days, but stronger today
than ever before and the single
hope for the future for American 
democracy," Whitman asserted.
   The speaker cited specific examples
of modern education.  He 
said that the National Education
Assn., of which each state has a
component organization, does excellent
work as the teachers' trade
association, but it follows the modern
education methods.
   "The NEA needs a two-party
system similar to our government
in order to give each group a
chance to decide on its future
and program adoption," Whitman
stated.
   In the question and answer period,
Whitman said that he prefers
the placing of the best students
in each of the classes for
grouping rather than having the
students categorized by ability in
the same class level.  He prefers
that report cards be based on individual
excellence instead of only
two grades, satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
   "We must re-inspect our teaching
of reading methods and I feel
certain that students can learn the
tool studies if they are taught, and
I refuse to believe that youngsters
are incapable of learning," he
declared.
   Harry R. Pfile, a member of the
Forum board, and a past president
of the Warren PTA, and currently
chairman of the Warren PTA
scholarship committee, introduced
the speaker.
   A reception for Mr. Whitman
was held in the Harding High
School Library following the program.
The speaker's aunt, Mrs.
Sara Whitman, and two cousins,
Harry and Bert Whitman of Warren,
were special guests.
   Mrs. Abe Knofsky and Mrs.
George W. Secrest poured at the
reception which was attended by
100 guests.
   The Harding High School Orchestra
directed by Dr. Carl F.
Scheig presented a concert before
the Forum program.
Authority on County
   Since 1927 she has been a special
writer for the Tribune, conducting
a daily column, "The Seeing Eye,"
and writing special features as
"The Tribune Trailer."
   Miss Hauser is an authority on
Trumbull County history and her
counsel and knowledge are frequently
sought by authors writing
about county history as well as
her fellow associates of The
Tribune.
   At 19 Elizabeth Hauser became
editor of the "Girard Grit" a
weekly, after writing for Warren
papers even before she was graduated
from high school.
   It was this "printer's ink" in her
blood which made Elizabeth
Hauser such an invaluable aide to
the woman's suffrage movement.
It was she who had the main job
of publicizing the campaign.  She
handled press work at all suffrage
campaign conventions and helped
spread "the word" far and wide.
   Her efforts in behalf of suffrage,
took her to many states in this
country and across the seas.  She
went to the Ohio constitutional convention
in 1912 to fight for a suffrage
amendment and attended an
international suffrage meeting in
Denmark.  She was at the Atlantic
City convention in 1916 when President
Woodrow Wilson came out in
favor of suffrage.
   In August, 1920, when the 19th
Amendment became law, many of
the suffrage leaders rested on their
laurels, but Mrs. Catt, Miss Hauser
and others felt the job was only
half over.  The next move was to
educate the women voters.
One of First Officers
   Mrs. Catt, with Miss Hauser's
help, organized the League of Women
Voters with Elizabeth becoming
one of its first officers in 
charge of the Fourth District.
   She later headed the league's efficiency
in government division
and attended national meetings as
a representative of the organization.
She continues to serve on
the advisory committee of the
Ohio League of Women Voters.
   Miss Hauser has always been interested
in politics from the view
point of what is desirable for the
welfare of her home town, her
county and her country.
   Miss Hauser edited the book
"My Story," written by Tom L.
Johnson, a former congressman
and four-time mayor of Cleveland.

Bad Dream Comes True
  CLEVELAND (AP) -- William McArdle
dreamed last Sunday that
his 5-year-old daughter, Gail, was
killed by a car.  Yesterday the bad
dream came true.

New Floor Care Ends Waxing
   One of the most difficult jobs of
housekeeping is to keep linoleum
and asphalt floors waxed and
gleaming.  Now, thanks to Glaxo, it
is no longer necessary to wax and
scrub.  All you do is apply Glaxo
with a brush about twice a year.
It maintains a high lustre, non slip
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dries in one hour and is water
clear.  It's cheaper than wax in 
the long run, besides saving a
terrific amount of work, plus truly
a beautiful floor.  Glaxo is available
at Griswold's.

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Disney Studios Cover 51 Acres, Loaded With Ideas
By Bob Thomas
   HOLLYWOOD (AP)-- The 51 acres of the Walt Disney Studios probably contain more ideas than any similar space in the world. 
   The place bristles with new plas and ambitious projects. Leading the thinkers is a 53-year-old dreamer named Walter Elias Disney.  One of the major reasons for his fabulous success: he has never outgrown the boyish notion that even the wildest dream can come true.
   Vast millions of TV viewers know Walt as the proprietor of Disneyland, an hour show that has brought new dimensions of entertainment and enlightenment to home screens. The public's response has been immense. The ABC network show sprang into the list of the 10 most seen programs. Some 15,000 letters reach the Disney Studios weekly.
  The producer has even bigger plans for next season. The first year's product of 20 shows ended last week. Starting tomorrow night with the Emmy-winning "Operation Undersea," 15 programs will be repeated Ten of these will be played again during the summer.

New Season
  On Sept. 7, Disneyland will start a new season of 26 shows. Because of the amazing success of the Davey Crockett trilogy, Walt will have two frontierland subjects. One is "Johnny Tremaine," the story of a boy who lived during the American revolution and witnessed Paul Revere's Ride, the Boston Tea Party ad the Battle of Lexington.
  The other is now called "Children of the Covered Wagon." Based on fact, it will show a pioneer caravan over the Oregon Trail.
  "I want to get Fess Parker (who played Crockett) out of buckskin," Walt said. "He'll play a doctor who goes along with the wagon train. Buddy Ebsen (Crockett's sidekick) will be in it too.
  Among the other Disneyland subjects: rocket around the world; the Goofy success story; "Robin Hood" (two parts); "Legend of Sleepy Hollow, " plus the life of Washington Irving; history of the animated cartoon; American folklore; a day in the life of Donald Duck.
  Disnery's latest enthusiasm is an hour-long, five-a-week children's show for ABC, the Mickey Mouse Club. Starting the fall, it may well revolutionize the kiddie market. If Howdy Doody looks worried these days, you'll know why.
  "The show will be emceed by Mickey himself," Disney said. "Our people-and-places photographers all over the world will send film showing what children in other lands are doing. As soon as we get accredited, I expect to see the Mickey Mouse newsreel right with the others filming the President at the White House.
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  Disney lans to show kids how to draw, how to keep clean, how to drive safely. "It seems to me that most shows play down to children," he observed. "I plan to play to the 12-year olds; the younger ones will wan to reach up to that age. I don't think the teen-agers will have their intelligence insulted, and I believe we'll have a lot of adults watching."
  The pre-TV functions of the Disney lot are going to high gear too. In the mill are cartoon features like "Lady and the Tramp," "Sleeping Beauty" and a wide-screen release of "Fantasia." His nature photographers are filming elsewhere; the next feature will be "The African Lion." Disney is also planning such live-action films as "King Arthur," "The Great Locomotive Chase" and "Colorado Expedition."




54 East Warner
I hope your eyes will soon be better so that you may again be able to read.
I have the best of letters from Mrs. Lepton. She is in good health and spirits. Yours sincerely,
Elizabeth J. Hauser

Jan 2-1938
Girard Ohio
Dear Miss Alice:-
It is wonderful of you to keep up a list of friends to whom you send greetings thru all these years. I myself gave up such an attention years ago.

The Warren Tribune Chronicle
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President
Thomas H. Deming, Editor
C.E. Gilliam, Business Manager

Warren, Ohio
Dec. 21, 1938

Dear Miss Blackwell:
   It is wonderful that you should have kept my name on your Christmas 
list all these years. I do not deserve it and I think it is time you 
struck me off. I am but an intermittent sender of cards and it 
really makes me uncomfortable to have my old friends send cards to
 me with such constant regularity as is your practice.
   I hope your health is good and that you have the comfort of 
having friends near you.
Yours sincerely,
Elizabeth J. Hauser

[*file
Mar 15 1912*]
Dear Miss Ryan: -
   Enclosed is a splendid
story which we hope the Journal
can use soon.  I suppose the
Parade will crowd out
everything else for a while, but
trust this may go in while
it is still news.
   Mrs. Upton is in Washington.
Yours cordially
Elizabeth J. Hauser

March 4 - 1913

Girard Ohio August 19-1953
[*From Eliz. Hauser*]
Dear Mary Gray,
   How are you? Well, I hope. 
A thousand times I have thought of you & 
as many times wished I could hear from
you. Yesterday I spent some time reading 
in your wonderful biography of C.C.C.- of 
course I read it all at the time of publication- 
But more and more I realize what 
a stupendous undertaking it was for 
you to save every scrap of correspondence 
between the incomparable CCC, & yourself,
 to keep a diary account of your meetings 
to.  What a debt we all do owe you! 
And pretty soon all of us [we] who know 
that will have passed to the never 
never land;  & will some future 
generation come alive to that realization? 
I wonder. Recently my cousin, Bill


Allison was here, "boy" in his very early 
40's, and he said no woman under 40
 knows anything about the fight for 
woman suffrage. Said he "they all think 
women have always had the vote."
   I'm so glad the LWV is attempting
a memorial to K. Ludington in defense 
of the UN idea. I hope it will succeed. 
It seems she bequeathed $2000 to the 
League and they are trying to make it 
$10,000 to be expended on international 
co-operation- or whatever- now 
because there seems to be a [new]
campaign or at least a wave of 
discrediting to U.N.   I had a letter 
from Mrs Lee about it. I have managed 
a $50 contribution. In view of my
own and family circumstances I do not

know whether I should have done so. Anyway I am glad I did. Twice 
I sent $100 to the CCC fund. I felt like a dog at her 
birthday time because $10 seemed to be all I dared give then. 
I voted happily for Stevenson, and then the Monday after 
election day early on the morning I had a crack up. 
Combination of heart anad cerebral disturbance. It kept me in 
bed a goodly time. I really do not know how long. Anway I am still 
in the house; have been to the Tribune office a few hours at a time only 
several days, and the management and staff have been extra wonderful 
to me. I have much to be thankful for. I spare you details.
I have a fairly constant correspondence with Belle 
Sherwin.  She is a physical invalid, nothing in the least wrong
with her mentally or spiritually, and she is as didactic as ever 
as to opinion.  I hear from Ethel Vorce who also voted to Adlai 
that she is very well.  Of course she is quite a lot younger than 
we are.  Lucia McBride is at West Chop, Mass for the summer. 
She is as fine a person as I have ever known and has been through 
hell because of the aftermath of the damn war to her beloved only 
son, Malcolm. At last he is getting better of a broken back and is
[*OVER*]

planning a new life and totally different career. He will not be able ever, I hear, to go back to his business in Root McBride wholesale dry goods firm. But I think he is beginning a new life which will mean more to him, perhaps. He is a grand person, unmarried, and he and his mother are great pals. 
Golly if we could see each other for a long talk.
Take care of yourself and send me a line please,
Always with love and everlasting admiration,
Yours
Elizabeth H

Dear Mrs. Stantial- 
   Thank you so much for letting 
me know about Mrs Park's 
birthday. I'm so happy to hear 
that she is well- Since dear 
Miss duPont's death my news 
from Boston is practically nil- 
   Of course I remember about the 
Radcliffe College collection. That &
the microfilming of the Woman's 
Journal, & the CCC memorial 
fund, I have supported modestly. 
Also I have contributed here in 
Ohio to a Committee for the 
Preservation of Suffrage Records 
which  Florence Allen insisted 
on organizing. I wonder if anyone 
else sent Mrs. Park a copy of

Mrs. Upton's Random Recollections 
which we caused to be multi-graphed.
     I gave my own & only copy to 
a relative of H.T.U-
     So much crowds into one's 
mind to want to say at such 
an occasion as Mrs. Park's 
approaching birthday, that I 
simply have to stop - in self 
defense & out of consideration for you.
Yours faithfully,
Elizabeth J Hauser
Girard Ohio


August 4, 1925
Mrs. Richard Edwards,
Culver, Indiana,
Dear Marie:
     Your telegram just here. I came to Washington on Saturday and 
presume the letter you sent to Girard will be forwarded. I certainly hope 
so as I am hungry for news of you.
     The occasion for the telegram was that it seems to be up to me 
to write you about the successor to Mrs. Gardener on the Civil Service Commission.  Before Mrs. Gardener passed away she talked this matter over with Mrs. Park and it seems they agreed that Mrs. Cunningham would be the very best person for the place in case her appointment could be secured. I understand authoritatively that Mrs. Catt concurs in this.
     I am enclosing herewith a copy of a letter which Mrs. Park wrote 
to Mrs. Gardener's secretary. This, of course, is very confidential. You 
will note that Mrs. Park suggests under No. 5 that Miss Smith write to you. 
Miss Crane, who is in our office, is Mrs. Gardner's great-niece and one of 
the executors of her personal estate.  You will know what, if anything, you 
wish to do in this matter in accord with the desire of Mrs. Gardener herself 
and the earnest concurence of Mrs. Catt and Mrs. Park.  A short time ago Mrs. Upton sent me a letter from Mrs. Catt in which Mrs. Catt said that she 
thought the time had come for Mrs. Gardener to resign, etc. In the letter 
which Mrs. Upton sent me accompanying that letter, she said that she, Mrs. Upton, 
was definitely for Mrs. Cunningham for the place.
     I could very well talk to Mr. Deming since I know him personally 
very well but I hesitate to do so unless the suggestion that I do it comes 
to me from Mrs. Park or someone in like position.

[stamped "COPY" across page]
[centered] 2.
[indent] Helen Crane tells me that shortly before Mrs. Gardner passed away a
letter coming from Mrs. Cunningham said that if the appointment were offered to 
her she would take it. I myself am very sorry that Miss Sherwin is not here be-
cause I would like so much to talk the whole thing over with her. She will be
back late in the month however and I suppose the appointment my not be made im-
immediately in Mrs. Gardener's place but that the President had decided to ignore
both Democrats and Republicans and appoint a woman who was independent and had
not trained with any political organization. Of course whether there is anything
at all in the story I do not know.
[indent]
I am just reminded that I did hear through Mrs. Upton that Lida Haf-
ford would like very much to be appointed and that presumably she would have the
support of Mrs. Winter and Mrs. Hert. I understand that she claims to be inde-
pendent politically and I am wondering whether the morning story might possibly
be an inspired one in her interest. Of course, that is just all hear-say.
[indent] I realize that this is a scattery kind of letter but you will understand 
it and know what you ought to do.
[indent] I shall be so glad to have a letter from you. I think of you so often.
[indent]Yours with love,
[indent] Elizabeth J. Hauser
[indent] Secretary.
EJH:HC



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