NANSA Subject File. Ohio Suffrage Assores 1 Rose Schinerdermann 2 Kate Gordon 3 Mrs. Boyer 4 Rose Monaley 5 Elizabeth Hauser 6 Margaret Foley Woman Suffrage Parade Columbus, Ohio August 1912 OHIO WOMAN SUFFRAGE ORGANIZATIONS. ATHENS: Woman Suffrage Association, Mrs. Annie M.Hobson. Old club. doing campaign work. AKRON: Woman Suffrage Party, Mrs. A. Ross Read, 134 E.Market St. very active. ASHTABULA: Woman Suffrage Party, Mrs. Theodore, Hall, jr. Park Place CLEVELAND: Woman Suffrage Party, Miss Myrta Jones, acting president, 1260 Euclid Ave. [Two local clubs, but they are absorbed by the Party, and would not or could not give any help on parade.] CINCINNATI: Woman Suffrage Party, Mrs. Elliott Pendleton, 411 Race St. There are four regular clubs. CINCINNATI: Susan B. Anthony, Dr. Sarah M. Siewers, 770 E. McMillan St. About 100 members, active in little ways. CINCINNATI: Harriet Taylor Upton Club, Martha McClellan Brown. 2216 Jefferson Ave. 116 E. 9th Ave was the old number Mrs. Louise Eastmen president Campaign Committee. Possibly they are now at 411 Race St. CINCINNATI: Equal Franchise Club. Mary Carliss Dietz, 2004 Hudson Ave. CINCINNATI: Hyde Park Twentieth Century Club, not influential or effective. COLUMBUS: Equal Suffrage Association, Mrs. Wm.Niel King, 170 Chamber Commerce. [DEER CREEK: Woman Suffrage Association.] LIMAVILLE: Mrs. Emma P.Mendenhall. ELYRIA: Political Equality Club, Emma S. Olds, LORAIN Woman Suffrage Party, Mrs. W.E.Brooks, 341 W. 3rd St. [Elyria] FARMDALE The Political Equality Club: Harriet A. Roberts, rural club. GIRARD: Political Equality Club, Mrs. Margaret Frack. LONDON: Elective Franchise Association: Mrs. Emmeline Richmond, one of our oldest and bet clubs. CANTON: Woman Suffrage Party of Stark Co. Miss Blanche Vignos, W. Tuscawrawas St. One of the most vigorous organizations in the State. SPRINGFIELD: Civic League, Rev. Henrietta G. Moore, Large club. TOLEDO: Woman Suffrage Association, Mrs. Elizabeth Schauss, 849 Wright Ave. Oldest woman suffrage association in the world. TOLEDO: Lucas Co. Campaign Committee, Brand Whitlock, president; Mrs. Pauline Steinem 2228 Scott Ave, acting president. TOLEDO: Bay Shore Political Equality Club, Mrs. I.N.Kellie, R.F.D.# 5. WARREN: Political Equality Club, Mrs. A.F. [*Harris*] largest of the old clubs. It forms the campaign committee for Trumbull Co Single Col. Leaded LEGAL STATUS OF WOMEN IN OHIO by Mrs. Dora Sandon Bachman - Attorney at Law Columbus O 1. The wife, after marriage, owns her clothes and other personal property owned by her before marriage. 2. A wife owns her wages earned outside the home. She cannot, by law, enforce payment for her services performed in the home for husband and children. 3. The husband has no authority over his wife's real estate or the rentals therefrom. 4. A wife may convey her separate property without her husband's consent, but he holds a dower interest in the same unless he releases it. 5. A wife's separate property can be levied upon for family necessaries ordered by her if not paid for by the husband, and she cannot secure repayment. 6. The law does not secure to the wife any portion of the family income free husbandly dictation. 7. The wife has no share in the property, real or personal, accumulated by their joint efforts after marriage, unless voluntarily put in her name. 8. The husband has no control over the wife's personal property or liberty except that which comes from his general control over the family pocket-book. OHIO WOMAN SUFFRAGE ORGANIZATION: No. 3. WADSWORTH: Mrs. Cora Durling, chairman. PIQUA: Mrs. Frank Priller, 436 Wood St. DAYTON: Woman Suffrage Party of Montgomery Co. Mrs. Oscar J. Davisson. ZANESVILLE: Dr. MArtin Alice McBride, Balls Flats, Fifth Ave. LEIPSIC: Carrie Donaldson Edwards, chairman. OTTAWA: Mrs. G.O Kidder, chairman. ALLIANCE: Miss Anna Barnaby, 420 S. Union Ave. HAMILTON: Mrs. Rose Giddings Haines, 219 Eaton Road. OXFORD: Mrs. Margaret Brandenburg. SANDUSKY: Mrs. W.I. Jackson, chairman. HURON: Mrs. Henry Hull, secretary. NEWARK: Mrs. E.S. Randolph, 26 W. Church St. New Philadelphia, Mr. George Marsh 9. The spouses' interest in each others' real estate is equal, and they inherit equally from each others; but in case of deceased children the father is preferred. The mother becomes an heir only if the father is dead. 10. The wife is not entitled to a voice in the choice of a family home. 11. Wife-desertion is not a crime in this state. 12. The causes for divorce are the same for both parties, being: (a) That either party had a husband or wife living at the time of the marriage from which the divorce is sued. (b) Wilful absence of either party from the other for three years. (c) Adultery. (d) Impotency. (e) Extreme cruelty. (f) Fraudulent contract. (g) Any gross neglect of duty. (h) Habitual drunkenness for three years. (i) Imprisonment of either party in a penitentiary if petition for divorce be filed during the imprisonment of the adverse party. -2- (j) The procurment of a divorce without this state by the husband or wife, by virtue of which the party was procured it is released from the obligations of the marriage, while they remain binding upon the other party. 13. A wife is legally responsible for the support of a child and husband if he is unable to render the support. 14. The wife has no right to a share of the children's earnings, if the husband is living. 15. The father is liable for necessary family expenses for wife and child, even if he disapproves of such expense, and the courts will look into the station of life of the parties to determine what is necessary. 16. The wife is not a co-guardian of the children, and the husband controls the choices of church, school, clothing, medicine and work. 17. The father cannot will away the custody of an unborn child, but he may suggest a guardian in his will. The court is now bound by such nomination. 18. A husband and wife are legally competent to testify for or against each other in an action at law, except as to confidential matters growing out of the marriage relation. That exception does not hold where there is a claim for misconduct of one against the other as in an action for divorce. And in criminal cases one cannot be compelled to testify against the other. 19. A wife may make contracts and enter into partnership without her husband's consent. -3- 20. The public schools are open to boys and girls on the same terms, also high schools and universities. Women are members of the Board of Education of the common schools, and not trustees of the State University. 21. Women are employed in the higher positions in schools. 22. Men command higher salaries than women in the teaching profession. 23. There are no county superintendents of schools in the Stats. The State Commissioner cannot be a women. 24. Women may vote for members of the Board of Education. 25. Professional schools are open to women. 26. Women are admitted to the bar. 27. The only elective office a woman can hold is member of the Board of Education. It carries no salary. 28. The Civil Service Commission certifies three names for an appointment, the authorities may select any one of the three, and after a name has been certified for three times and not selected, it is dropped from the list. 29. A woman cannot be on a Board of Control of any State Charitable Institution. In response to popular demand, a law has been recently enacted giving permission to appoint a woman superintendent of the Girl's Industrial School, but that law is in conflict with the constitution and former decisions of the Supreme Court. -4- 30. There must be a woman metron at the Police Station in the large cities, and a woman physician in state hospitals for the insane. 31. There is no such law requiring the reference of a woman physician on the jury in the trial of a woman in insanity cases, but a woman physician's testimony in such cases would be received. 32. We have a law limiting woman's work to 54 hours per week except in canning factories, or establishments engaged in preparing for use perishable goods. This is no improving made for department stores, laundries and some other industries. 33. The sanitary conditions of factories and shops are regulated by law. 34. The age of consent is sixteen years. 35. The minimum punishment for rape is one year, the maximum, life. 36. Bastardy is a matter for civil action only. 37. Seduction may be a crime or misdemeanor within the discretion of the court. 38. The only action for taking indecent liberties with a girl is under the head of disorderly conduct, which is a misdemeanor. 39. The penalty for pandering is from two to twelve years. 40. Those disfranchised are woman, children, imbeciles, insane, convicts and aliens. 41. Women are taxpayers, but that does not affect their enfranchisement. 42. Women have school suffrage only. -5- file Circular letter sent to the following list: Mrs. Charles S. Brooks, 2036 E. 100th St., Cleveland Mrs. Pauline Steinem, 2228 Scottwood Ave., Toledo Miss Louise Hall, Woman Suffrage Party, 411 Race St., Cincinnati Aug. 8, 1912 Mrs. Neill King 170 Chamber of Commerce Columbus, Ohio Club President In Ohio. Mrs. Virginia Hill. Peebles. Miss. S. M. Woods. West Union. Mrs. C. M. Hollett. Winchester. Mrs. W. E. Crayton. Lima. Mrs. Theodore Hall. Jr. Park Place. Ashtabula. Mrs. B. F. Perry. Jefferson. Mrs. Annie M. Hobson. Athens. Mrs. Conda Ice. Wapakoneta. Mrs. Jessie Wiriok. Georgetown. Mrs. Rose Giddings Haines Hamilton. Mrs. S. J. Brandenburg Oxford. Mrs. Carl Shauk. St. Paris. Mrs. H.T. Houston. Urbana. Rev. Henrietta G. Moore. South Fountain Avenue Springfield. Miss. Adelaide Reed. Bataria. Mrs. C. B. Smith. Coshocton. Miss. Dorcas G. Beer. Bucyrus. Mrs. J. M. Martin. Crestline. Miss. Madge L. Kent. Chagrin Falls Miss. Joyce Sheffield. Chagrin .. Mrs. Marguerite Buhrer. 4606 Franklin Avenue Cleveland. Mrs. Lydia Herold. I326 Spring Road Cleveland. Mr. Curt B. Mueller. I323 Williamson Bldg. Cleveland. Prof Emma M. Perkins. Adelbert Road. Cleveland. Miss. Harriet Keeler. I953 E. 59 Street. Cleveland. Miss. Louise Goodwin. Delaware. Mrs. John Hertlein. I3I4 Columbus Avenue Sandusky. Mrs. James T. Pickering. 219 E. Mulberry Street Lancaster. Miss. Caroline Breyfogle. Ohio State University Columbus. Mrs. Belle C. Kelton. 5I N. Monroe St. Columbus. Miss. Janet Mc.Donald. II75 E. Broad Columbus. Mrs. Juluis F. Stone. Station A. Arlington Columbus. Miss. Anna Quinby. Union Nat. Bank Bldg. Columbus. Mrs. Cora Mercer. Wauseon. 2. Club Presidents In Ohio. Mrs. Mary Touville. Wauseon. Mrs. Geo. F. Bovie. Gallipolis. Mrs. Martha Mc. Clellan Brown. 8I8 Hutchins Avenue. Cincinnati. Mrs. D. Kiefer. 5II Howell Avenue, Clifton. CinCinnati. Mrs. Mary Corliss Dietz. 2o04 Hudson Avenue, Hyde Park Cincinnati. Dr. Louise Eastman. 4329 Beachhill Ave. Station 9 Cincinnati. Hon. William E. Littleford. Ist. Natl. Bank Bldg. Cincinnati. Mrs. James Molony. Abbotsford 5, Clifton Heights. Cincinnati. Mrs. Elliott Pendleton. I736 Madison Road, E. Walnut Hills. ,, Mrs. Edna Ohnstein. 809 Central Avenue ,, Mrs. R. U. Wilson. Jackson. Rev. J. G. Beard. Haviland. Mrs. Emma Hildred. Napoleon. Mrs. Elizabeth Eddy Richards. Hillsboro. Mrs. Charlotte Boalt. 26 Courtland Street. Norwalk. Miss. Sarah Sylvester. Wellston. Miss. Martha Irvin. Gambier Street. Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Ray C. Deforest. 23 West Jackson Street, Painesville Mr. A. J. Neiswender. Ney. Mr. Chas B. Taylor. Mc. Arthur. Mrs. J. W. Slater Ironton. Mrs. E. S. Randolph. 261 W. Church Street. Newark. Miss. Florine Folsom. 208 N. Main Street Bellefontaine Mrs. Harry Redington 324 Wooster Street, Elyria. Miss. Edna Barrows. 223 9th Street, Lorain. Miss. Edith Dickson I72 Elm Street, Oberlin. Miss. Mabel Penf[??]ld. Oberlin College ,, Mrs. I.M. Keller. R. F. D 5. Toledo. Mrs. Elizabeth Schauss 849 Wright Avenue. ,, Mrs. Pauline Steinem. 228 Scottwood Avenue. ,, Mrs. Emmeline Richmond. London. Miss. Mary F. Clark. I63 N. Oak Street ,, [*omit*]Mrs. Sarah J. Peterson.[*)*] C/O Rayen School, Youngstown. Miss Josephson. C/o The B. McManus Store, ,, Club Presidents In Ohio. Club Presidents In Ohio. Mrs. J. W. Freeland. Marion. Mrs. A. F. Harris. Warren. Miss. Pauline Shepard. Medina. Mrs. C. V. Cable. [30 Broadway?] New Philadelphia. Mrs. S. F. Smith. Pomeroy. Mrs. Claude Williams. Marysville. Mrs. Edwin M. Cosley. 101 W. Water Street. Troy. Mrs. Clyde Cushman. Richwood. Miss. Sylvia Carroll. Brookville. Mrs. Emma R. Backus. Van Wert. Miss Ida Keever. Centerville Mrs. Mary Proctor Wilson Lebanon. Mrs. O. F. Davisson. 307 Central Avenue. Dayton. Mrs. J. T. Morgan. 424 Fifth Street, Mariette. Mrs. W. E. Rankin. Vandalia. Miss. Ruth Martin. Bealle Avenue, Wooster. Mrs. Mary Dye. McConnells- Dr. Harriet D. Covert. Bowling Green. ville. Mrs. Irwin. , , Mrs. R. D. Sheppard. West Wyandot Av. Upper Sandusky. Dr. Martha A. McBride. Zanesville. Mrs. [Char?] McCracken Port Clinton Mrs. E. E. Stouffer. Caldwell. , , [Windsor Rankin?] Vandalia Mrs. W. V. Hastings. Lathy. Mr. A.A. Rathburn. Melrose. Mrs. D. A. Grummon. Payne. Mrs. Alice Whittlesey. Atuater. Mrs. Henry Young. Eaton. Mrs. R. A. Walls. Continental Mrs. E. R. Eastman. Ottawa. Miss. Marjory Hurxthal. 2 Stewart Avenue. Mansfield. Mrs. Mary Rininger. Shelby. 8 Mrs. C. W. Rowe. 1526̶-7th. Street. Portsmouth. Miss. Gertrude H. Davidson. 1417 Fourth Street. , , M̶r̶s̶.̶ ̶R̶u̶d̶o̶l̶p̶h̶ ̶K̶e̶l̶l̶e̶r̶.̶ ̶ ̶ A̶t̶t̶i̶c̶e̶.̶ M̶r̶s̶.̶ ̶D̶.̶ ̶A̶.̶ ̶D̶e̶l̶l̶i̶n̶g̶e̶r̶.̶ ̶ ̶ B̶l̶o̶o̶m̶v̶i̶l̶l̶e̶.̶ M̶r̶s̶.̶ ̶G̶e̶o̶r̶g̶e̶ ̶W̶e̶a̶v̶e̶r̶.̶ ̶ F̶o̶s̶t̶o̶r̶i̶a̶.̶ Mrs. Daniel Coffman. Tiffin. Mrs. P. M. Hendershott. , , Mrs. Stella Crowell. Alliance. Miss. Blanche Vignos. W. Tuscawaras Street. Canton. Mrs. Melville Everhard. Massilion. Mrs. A. Ross Read. 134 E. Market Street. Akron. Miss Harriet Roberts. Farmdale. Mrs. Margaret Frack. Girard. letter [????] 2 - Presidents Club Treasurers In Ohio. Miss. Sue Platter Peebles. Mrs. Ellen Flannigan. West Union. Mrs. Z. A. Crosson. II2 E. Market Street. Lima. [*????? letters*] Miss. E. L. Ulrey. Georgetown. Mrs. Rosa E. Loudenback. St. Paris. Mrs. W. W. Wilson. Urbana. mrs. Margaret W. Lampbell % Masmic Home, Springfield mrs. H. U. Jameson. Chargrin Falls. Miss Georgiene Hutchinson. " Clay Herrick. C/O The Cleveland Trust Co: Cleveland. Mrs. P. P. Merrill. I807 E. 87 Street, " Marie Drennen. Delauare. Miss. Jessie Horning. Sandusky. Miss. Louise McCune. 395 E. Broad Columbus. Mrs. Sarah Brown. 82 E. IIth Avenue, " Miss. Orpha Eastom Continental. Mrs. Herbert Brooks. 99 N. Monroe Avenue. Columbus. Mrs. S.P. Bishop Delta Miss. Virginia Smith. Gallipolis. Miss Louise Potthoff. Whitfield, Evanswood, Clifton. Cincinnati. Carl S. Rankin. Attorney, 1st Nat'l Bank Bldg. " Mrs. Frank Leslie. Hillsboro. Mrs. I.N. Keller RJ. D 5 Toledo Mrs. J. L. Bowser. C/O Mrs. Elizabeth Schauss, Toledo. 849 Wright Avenue. Mrs. J.W. Shaffer. Lincoln Avenue. Youngstown. Miss Helen McDowell. Medina. Miss Katherine Allen. Troy. Mrs. Valentine Winters. C/O Mrs. O.F. Davisson, Dayton. 307 Central Avenue, Mrs. Gertrude Frye. Vandalia. Mrs. T. W. Collins. Payne. Anna M. Shrop. Atuater. Mrs. S. F. Deford. Ottawa. Mrs. Harry March. Canton. Miss. Susie Alberson. New Philadelphia Mrs. Olga B. Nigh. Upper Sandusky. The annual meeting of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, held at Delaware last week, was highly successful. Among the speakers were Mrs. Carrie Lane Chapman, Miss Susan B. Anthony and Rev. Anna H. Shaw. Upon motion of Dr. Swift, of Cincinnati, a telegram was ordered sent to the annual convention of the Republican League of the United States and to the Republican National Committee, in session at Louisville, asking for a woman suffrage plank in the national platform of the party. Ohio Referendum Headquarters New Bulletin Published the First and Fifteenth of each month by The Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, Warren, O.) Vol 3. OCTOBER 1, 1918 No. 19 Vote NO on Ohio Home Rule Proposal Nov. 5 A PERNICIOUS MEASURE The Ohio Home Rule Association, the organization which conducts all the state fights against woman suffrage and prohibition, is advocating a particularly pernicious measure this year. This is the proposal which our National Association attempted to have barred from the ballot by court decree, the story of which appeared in the last Bulletin. Here is the proposal, read it carefully: The people also reserve to themselves the legislative power of the referendum on the action of the General Assembly ratifying any proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States. No such ratification shall go into effect until 90 days after it shall have been adopted by the General Assembly. When a petition signed by 6 per centum of the electors of the state, as is provided for a referendum petition on laws passed by the General Assembly, shall have been filed with the Secretary of state within 90 days after said ratification by the General Assembly, the Secretary of State shall submit to the electors of the State for their approval or rejection said ratification in the manner provided for the submission by a referendum of a law passed by the General Assembly, and said action of the General Assembly ratifying the said amendment of the Constitution of the United States, shall not go into effect until and unless approved by a majority of those voting upon the same. All the provisions of this article on the subject of the referendum upon the laws passed by the General Assembly shall apply hereto, so far as the same are applicable, except that the General Assembly may not declare its ratification of a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States an emergency act not subject to the referendum. If this proposal should be adopted and stand, the voters of the state would be powerless to express themselves on a proposed amendment to the federal constitution, if the General Assembly failed to ratify it, or if it failed to take action upon it. In other words it is a one-sided measure. It provides for a referendum on federal amendments only when the Legislature ratifies the same. As the referendum, in such case, would be invoked only by those opposed to the amendment in question, the effect of it would be always to make the amendment of the federal constitution more difficult. Dr. Norton S. Townshend See page 4 A defect which President Wilson points out in his History of the United States and on which authorities generally agree is the present difficulty of amending the United States Constitution. The proposal was initiated, of course, to prevent the ratification of the federal prohibition amendment by the Ohio Legislature, but it would apply to the woman suffrage amendment and to all other amendments submitted to the States for ratification. IF A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, BENEFICIAL TO LABOR, WERE SUBMITTED AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FAILED TO RATIFY IT, NO REFERENDUM COULD BE HAD ON IT. IN VIEW OF THIS IT SEEMS VERY REMARKABLE THAT THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE OHIO FEDERATION OF LABOR SHOULD HAVE ENDORSED THE PROPOSAL. DID THEY FAIL TO COMPREHEND THE MEANING OF THE PROPOSAL, OR WOULD THEY DELIBERATELY JEOPARDIZE THEIR OWN INTERESTS FOR THE SAKE OF PREVENTING THE RATIFICATION IN OHIO OF THE FEDERAL PROHIBITION AMENDMENT? Judge Okey, of Columbus, legal advisor of the Ohio Mine Workers, says this proposal gives the people but half a loaf. The Cleveland Plain Dealer says: If the people of a state are to have authority to reverse the action of their Legislature, in case the Legislature votes to approve an amendment to the federal constitution, they should, in fairness, have authority to ratify such an amendment against the wishes of their Legislature. The Trade Union Dry League of Ohio is actively opposing this measure and gives a little history which it is well for all voters, not only working men to heed, as follows: "Ohio working men will do well to remember that the same interests which are back of this Ohio Home Rule proposal, initiated the Stability League amendment in 1915. That amendment had for its object the crippling of the Initiative and Referendum, by providing that any proposal or any part of a proposal rejected more than once by the electors could not again be submitted for a period of six years. "At that time a committee consisting of Newton D. Baker, now Secretary of War, L. J. Taber, head of the Ohio State Grange, and Percy Tetlow, organizer for the International Mine Workers Union, prepared the official argument against the proposal, and condemned it as preventing the proper use of the Initiative and Referendum, and took the position that its adoption would aid special interests and injure the cause of labor. Ohio labor rallied against the proposal and it was defeated by 65,000 majority. Now the same interests have initiated the wet proposal this year and we warn labor that the adoption of the amendment would weaken the Initiative and Referendum, the very thing which labor worked years to secure." The friends of the Initiative and Referendum, which means the believers in democracy, should unite to defeat this proposal November 5th. Women cannot vote on it, but they can talk about it and be of great service in helping to put the matter in its true light before the voters. Up to this time the newspapers have been strangely silent on the question. Many of them, to be sure, have been carrying the paid advertisements of the Ohio Home Rule Association, but that should not prevent them from opposing it editorially since they certainly must understand the measure. Newspapers that stand for the I. and R. cannot stand for this. HEADQUARTERS NEWS BULLETIN Headquarters News Bulletin Published semi-Monthly by the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association Headquarters Masonic Building Warren, Ohio Entered as second class matter Feb. 17, 1916 under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Price . . 50 Centers per Year ENROLLMENT WORK Ninety-six towns are now listed "over the top." This means that 96 have secured the signatures of a majority of the adult women to the enrollment. These towns are as follows: Adams County WEST UNION Allen County Elida, Gomer, LIMA. Ashtabula County East Orwell, JEFFERSON. Athens County Amesville, Hollister. Auglaize County Cridersville. Brown County Ripley Carroll County Hibbetts Clermont County BATAVIA Columbiana County Hanoverton, Mountrie Cuyahoga County Radnor Fairfield County Amanda, Basil Geauga County East Claridon, Thompson, East Cleveland. Guernsey County Cumberland Hamilton County Sharonville Huron County Collins, Olena, Wakeman, NORWALK Jackson County JACKSON Knox County Centerburg Lake County PAINESVILLE, Perry, Willoughby Lucas County Monclova Madison County LONDON Mahoning County North Bentron Medina County Sharon Center, LeRoy, Granger, Brunswick. Meigs County Rutland Monroe County Beallsville, Lewistown, Coats, WOODSFILED. Morgan County McCONNELSVILLE, Brokaw, Stockport. Muskingum County Duncan Falls, East Fultonham, New New Concord, Philo. Noble County Dexter City, Summerfield Pickaway County Ashville. New Holland Portage County Garrettsville, Hiram, Atwater Preble County Morning Sun. Putnam County Rushmore Seneca County Old Forte, Watson Shelby County Jackson Center Stark County Limaville. Canal Fulton, East Greenville. East Sparta, Hartville. Justus, McDonaldsville. Navarre, North Canton, North Industry, Osnaburg, Beach City, Brewster, Freeburg, Greentown, Lake, Magnolia, Maximo, Marlboro, Middlebranch, Minerva, New franklin, Paris, Waynesburg, Wilmot, CANTON, North Lawrence, West Brooksfield, Copley Everett. Trumbull County Farmdale Union County Irwin Washington County Beverly, Waterford The words in capitals indicate a county seat town. The above was crowded out of the last issue of the Bulletin. A dozen new towns have been added to the list since. Cincinnati is opening enrollment headquarters. At the request of Mrs. Paul Woolley, chairman of the Cincinnati Emergency Committee for Woman Suffrage, the State Enrollment Committee is sending Miss Grace Treat to Cincinnati to direct the work for a few weeks. The little city of Conneaut , imitating Lima's inspiring example, planned to get its entire quota by one day's intensive canvass. The morning of the day it rained, not a gentle drizzle, but a soaking, pounding, fall rain. Nevertheless, a few valiant workers,. under the direction of Mrs. Charlotte Laughlin "put it over." Mrs. Charlotte Meeker, former president in Ashtabula, now a resident of Conneaut, made a new record for the work in the state, securing over 100 names in one hour. Massillon and Alliance alone, of all the towns in Stark county, now lack their quota. The county seat, Canton, and all the other towns in the county have enrolled a full 60 percent each of their adult women. Akron workers have been obliged to let the enrollment work wait a brief time while they devoted themselves to raising the remainder of Summit county's quota of funds for the State treasury. At the Executive Committee meeting in Warren, sept. 19, Mrs. Simonds Chairman of Enrollment, reported an additional fifty thousand names since the previous Executive Committee meeting in Canton, July 10. Taking summer vacations and the intense heat of July and August into consideration all agreed that this was a very satisfactory figure. About half of these came from Cleveland and were secured by paid canvassers; the other half from the State at large are all due to volunteer work. Mrs. Edward L. Harris, 6801 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, State Regent of the D.A.R., and Mrs. Esther Bartlett, 508 Lincoln Ave., Canton, Grand Chief of the Pythian Sisters, have been added tot he Special Enrollment Committee, representing their respective organizations. PAY NOW All local organizations should pay their auxiliary dues to the State Association AT ONCE. Just because the Convention is to be held later than usual is no reason for deferring payment of dues. Any suffrage association of mot more than fifty members, having paid the annual fee of two dollars into the state treasury, shall be entitled to send its president or her alternate and one delegate to the convention. Any association of more than 50 members, upon payment of a fee of three dollars, shall be entitled to sent its president or her alternate and two delegates. For each additional two hundred members over and above the first one hundred and up to 5,000 members, such organization may send an additional delegate upon the payment of an additional fee of five dollars. PAY NOW. NEW COUNTY PRESIDENTS. Mrs. A.J. Julien, 732 N. Main st., Kent, is the newly appointed president for Portage county. Mrs. Julien is a graduate of the State Normal School at Kent and a substitute teacher for the Kent schools. Mrs. M.V. Ream, one of our life members resident at New Philadelphia, is now county president for Tuscarawas county. Mrs. W.J. Carmichael, of Willoughby, has accepted the presidency of Lake county. Mrs. Carmichael is the wife of the Mayor of Willoughby, who is also a trustee of Andrews Institute. Lake is one of the best suffrage counties in the state, and we are pleased to have it represented by Mrs. Carmichael. HURRAH FOR CLEVELAND Cleveland, Sixth City of the United States and first in Ohio, has enrolled more than the required majority of women. They will not stop with this, however, but will add a few additional thousands for good measure. Do You Know That Women Vote in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho Washington and California? Why Not In Ohio? On March 7, 1912, the Constitutional Convention, by a vote of 76 to 34, decided to submit the question of woman suffrage to the voters of the state. Do you know that the United States is behind other English speaking nations in giving political rights to women? VOTE FOR THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT SEPTEMBER 3 Do you know that women vote in Norway, Finland, Australia and New Zealand, and have partial suffrage in other countries? Do you know that women can vote in China? JUSTICE EQUALITY Why Women Want to Vote WOMEN ARE CITIZENS And wish to do their Civic Duty WORKING WOMEN need the ballot to regulate conditions under which they work. Do WORKING MEN think they can protect themselves without the right to vote? HOUSEKEEPERS need the ballot to regulate the sanitary conditions under which they and their families must live. Do MEN think they can get what they need for their district unless they can vote for the men that will get it for them? MOTHERS need the ballot to regulate the moral conditions under which their children must be brought up. Do MEN think they can fight against vicious conditions that are threatening their children unless they can vote for the men that run the district? BUSINESS WOMEN need the ballot to secure for themselves a fair opportunity in their business. Do business MEN think they could protect themselves against adverse legislation without the right to vote? TAX-PAYING WOMEN need the ballot to protect their property. Do not MEN know that "Taxation without representation is tyranny? ALL WOMEN need the ballot, because they are concerned equally with men in good and bad government; and equally responsible for civic righteousness. ALL MEN need women's help to build a better and juster government, and WOMEN need MEN to help them secure their right to fulfill their civic duty. Ohio Woman Suffrage Association Masonic Bldg. Warren Ohio What We Are Doing With the Vote, In Kansas, Mrs. W. Y. Morgan, President. In Illinois, Mrs. Ella S. Stewart. Question Box - 15 Minutes. 5:00 p. m. Report of Committee on Resolutions and Nominations, Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Chairman. Mrs. John Fyle, South Dakota. Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, President West Virginia W. S. A. 7:45 p. m., Assembly Room, Hotel Deshler. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, President Ohio W. S. A., presiding. Two Musical Numbers will be provided. "Doors and Windows," Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Illinois. Is National Woman Suffrage Possible Now? Mrs. Maud Wood Park, Chairman National Congressional Committee. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. Official Headquarters for Conference, Hotel Deshler, Broad and High streets. Reservations for the Saturday evening dinner must be made through Mrs. Wm. McPherson, 198 East 16th Ave., Columbus, who requests that all orders be accompanied by cash, check or postoffice order and that same be in her hands not later than Wednesday, May 9. Persons having reserved tickets but not having received them, may get them between 2 and 5 p. m., Saturday, May 12, when Mrs. McPherson or someone representing her will be in a corner of the Reception Room at the Deshler where the Saturday afternoon meeting is to be held. A limited number of visiting delegates will be entertained for lodging and breakfast in private homes. All persons during such entertainment should apply to Mrs. C. B. Flagg, 519 Grand Theater Building, Columbus, by May 7. All having bespoken entertainment are requested to call for their assignments at 519 Grand Theatre Building (local suffrage headquarters). For the luncheon at Hotel Hartman, Monday, May 14, (price 60 cents) it is not necessary to procure tickets in advance. The Mississippi Valley Conference is the most important suffrage meeting in this country this spring. All interested persons are invited to attend. All sessions are open to the public and free, but collections will be taken to defray expenses. Mississippi Valley Suffrage Conference COLUMBUS, OHIO May 12, 13, and 14, 1917 GENERAL TOPIC: VICTORY - How, Why, Where and When Saturday, May 12 2:00 p. m., Reception Room, Hotel Deshler MRS. ANDREAS UELAND, President Minnesota W. S. A. presiding GREETINGS - on behalf of Ohio W. S. A. MRS. DORA SANDOE BACHMAN Second Vice President, Columbus On behalf Columbus Conventions and Publicity Associations COL. JOHN Y. BASSELL, Columbus. The First Requisite Wanted? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. E. S. Jordan, Ohio How to Get It? By Plays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Mary O. Cowper, Kansas By A White Elephant Sale . . . . . . . Mrs. Summer T. McKnight, Minnesota By A Carnival Bali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Charles Savage, Ohio By The Wisconsin Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miss Harriet F Bain, Wisconsin Other Ways, . . . . . . . . Miss S. Isabella Saunders, Illinois Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke, Indiana Miss Laura Clay, Kentucky Mrs. Julian Parke, President Alabama W. S. A. Mrs. Malcolm McBride, Ohio. Mrs. Guilford Dudley, Tennessee Question Box - 10 minutes 3:30 p. m. Literature and Press - He Who Runs May Read, But Will He? Speakers - Mrs. Arthur Livermore, Chairman National Literature Committee, New York. Miss Esther G. Ogden, Manager National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, New York. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Editor Woman's Journal, Massachusetts. Mr. Henry P. Boynton, Ohio. Question Box - 20 minutes. 6:30 p. m. Dinner at Hotel Deshler. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, Ohio, Toastmaster. Eight five minute speeches. (Separate program to be provided.) 9 to 10 p. m. Informal reception, Deshler Reception Room, to meet Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Maud Wood Park, Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Miss Laura Clay and the presidents of participating States. Committee, Mrs. O. F. Davisson, Dayton; Mrs. Kent W. Hughes, Lima; Mrs. Zell Hart Deming, Warren; Miss Anna B. Johnson, Springfield. SUNDAY, MAY 13. 3 p. m. - Mothers' Day Session at Memorial Hall. Hon. Wm. Littleford, Cincinnati, President Ohio Men's League for Equal Suffrage, Presiding. Speakers - Hon. James M. Cox, Governor of Ohio, and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President International Woman Suffrage Alliance and National American Woman Suffrage Association. (Separate program to be provided.) MONDAY, MAY 14. 10 a. m., Assembly Rood, Hotel Deshler. Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser, Ohio, Acting Chairman Conference Committee, Presiding. ESSENTIALS TO VICTORY, ORGANIZATION AND POLITICAL ACTION: Organization, Mrs. Christine Bradley South, President Kentucky E. R. A. How to Get 500 Members, Mrs. M. W. Baker, Illinois. Action in Political Expediency, Mrs. Florence Bennett Peterson, Illinois, Chairman Mississippi Valley Conference. LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGNS OF 1917: OKLAHOMA - Mrs. Adelia G. Stephens, President. MINNESOTA - Mrs. Andreas Ueland, President. SOUTH DAKOTA - Mrs. John Pyle, President. IOWA - Miss Anna D. Lawther, President. MISSISSIPPI - Mrs. Edw. F. McGehee, President. LOUISIANA - Miss Jean Gordon, President, La., Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. Lydia Wickliffe Holmes, President, La., Women Suffrage Party; Mrs. A. B. Singletary, Pres., Equal Suffrage League. TEXAS - Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham, President. TENNESSEE - Mrs. Guilford Dudley, President E. S. A. Inc. MISSOURI - Mrs. John R. Leighty, President. WISCONSIN - Mrs. Henry W. Youmans, President. ILLINOIS - Miss Katherine M. Porter, Chairman Organization Committee Illinois E. S. A.; Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Chairman Suffrage Amendment Alliance. 12 M. Eastern Victories - Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. Question Box on Legislative Work - 15 Minutes. 12:30 P. M. Luncheon at Hotel Hartman. 2. p. m. Assembly Room, Hotel Deshler. 1917 Victories. ARKANSAS - The Primary Law, Mrs. O. F. Ellington, President. NORTH DAKOTA - Half a Loaf, Mrs. Robert Clendening, President. MICHIGAN - A Speckled State, Mrs. Orton H. Clark, President. INDIANA - The Nine-Tenths Law, Dr. Amelia Keller, President Women's Franchise League, Mrs. Anna Dunn Noland, President E. S. A.; Mrs. Felix McWhirter, President Legislative Council of Indiana Women. NEBRASKA - We Too, Mrs. W. E. Barkley, President. TENNESSEE - Suffrage On Lookout Mountain - Miss Margaret Hamilton Ervin, President E. S. A. OHIO - Presidential Suffrage, Miss Zara duPont, First Vice President; Miss Grace Drake; Mrs. Margaret J. Brandenburg, Recording Secretary. The Supreme Court Decision, Mrs. Roger G. Perkins, Chairman Woman Suffrage Party of Greater Cleveland. First Fruits, Toledo, Mrs. Scott Nearing, President Lucas County. Columbus, Mrs. Wm. McPherson, Chairman 12th Congressional District. Campaign Conference Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio LET OHIO WOMEN VOTE March 11 and 12. 1913 Meetings Public Everybody Welcome General Campaign Literature led by MRS. WILLIAM NEIL KING, Columbus Defects of the Last Campaign: a Lack of Organization ELIZABETH J. HAUSER, Girard b Disinclination of the Man Suffragist to Work MRS. HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren c Unconscious Alliance of the Virtuous with the Vicious MRS. MALCOLM McBRIDE, Cleveland Discussion Endorsements by Political Parties MISS ROSE MORIARTY, Elyria Discussion 1913- 1914 Which? Discussion 7:00 P. M., MARCH 12 " DOLLAR DINNER" : : : : : : Hotel Statler Music by Hungarian Gypsy Band in costume. Ushers in costume, representing countries in which women have enfranchised. MRS. CHAPMAN CATT will speak on " The World Movement for Suffrage." " The Unity and Flexibility of City Government" MR. ROBERT BINCKARD, See You New York City Club Dinner tickets must be engaged before Monday, March 10. Orders for same, accompanied by checks or cash, should be sent to MRS. F. C. MERRICK, 300 Bangor Blvd. 942 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. For other information apply to Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, Masonic Building, Warren, Ohio. MEETINGS IN LATTICE ROOM, HOTEL STATLER TUESDAY, MARCH 11 2:30 P. M. What It Means to Be an Officer of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association MRS. PAULINE STEINEN, Toledo MRS. MYRON B. VORCE, Cleveland MRS. A. B. WOLFE, Oberlin MRS. DORA SANDOE BACHMAN, Columbus MRS. F. C. KELTON, Columbus Discussion Galvanizing Rural Communities MRS. W. E. CRAYTON, Lima MRS. VIRGINIA CURTIS SMITH, Chagrin Falls Discussion Crystallizing the City Conscience MISS ZARA DU PONT, Cleveland MRS. ELIZABETH SCHAUSS, Toledo MRS. HOWARD THAYER, Canton MISS JEANNETTE EATON, Columbus MRS. ALICE KILE NEIBEL, Dayton Discussion Address HON. NEWTON D. BAKER, Mayor of Cleveland 4:00 P. M. The Heathen East and the Christian West MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, President International Woman Suffrage Alliance 8:00 P. M. Meeting of Executive Committee WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12 10:00 A. M. Methods of Conducting the Next Campaign: The Counties which Carried MRS. A. ROSS READ, Akron Discussion The Professional Speaker Versus the Home Woman MRS. ANNETTE FITCH BREWER, Jefferson Discussion How to Organize Your Own County MRS. P. M. HENDERSHOTT, Tiffin MISS EDITH M. DICKSON, Oberlin MRS. CORA MERCER, Wauseon MRS. JAMES T. PICKERING, Lancaster MRS. JOHN HERTLEIN, Sandusky Discussion The Effect of Spectacular Methods MRS. ELLIOTT PENDLETON, Cincinnati MRS. T. J. BRAY, Youngstown MRS. MARGARET F. SADLER, Akron MISS ELSIE BENNETT, Medina MRS. ANNA K. WELLIVER, Dayton Discussion How to Reach the Man on the Street: a Factory Meetings and Labor Unions MRS. WM. FEATHER, Cleveland b Street Meetings MISS BLANCHE VIGNOS, Canton c Distribution of Literature MISS KATHERINE NORRIS, Youngstown Discussion 2:30 P. M. Report of Washington Parade MISS EDITH WELD PECK, Cincinnati Conferences: Press Work led by MRS. CHAS. S. BROOKS, Cleveland Finance led by MISS MARY GRAHAM RICE, Norwalk DR. LOA E. SCOTT, Chagrin Falls [*Ohio*] NO Yes X No ARTICLE V. SECTION 1 To Extend the Suffrage to Women. MR. VOTER Are you going to the polls next week and vote to take away the unhampered, non-partisan, non-political citizenship that woman has today and destroy her non-political influence upon the forming of public opinion? Are you going to insist that she must do the SAME work for the state that you are doing as a political factor? Will you Make her expend her activity, her energy, her interest, simply to double the electorate? Representing the majority of the women of Ohio, we ask you not to do this. We ask you To vote "No" on the equal suffrage amendment (it's third on the ballot), not only because we DO represent the majority--which alone would be sufficient reason in itself--but because we believe you will agree that it would be a disastrous amendment to adopt when you realize what it would mean. We ask you To keep one-half of the race out of the warfare of politics, for the good of the race. We ask you To realize that the mothers of the race have enough to do in the world today without this added burden which is yours by rights. We ask you To realize that "identity under the law" asked by the suffragists, would be a tragic thing for us all if followed out to prevent the special protective legislation which Ohio believes necessary for its women. And to realize that "political equality" is already leading to that "identity." We ask you To allow the womankind of the state to remain a solid, undivided body working together for whatever is good, not divided into political parties and factions. We ask you To keep the family the unit of society with husband and wife working as real partners, which means that they must each do a different part of the work. And finally we ask you to remember that not one equal suffrage state in the Union has as good laws as has Ohio, for women, for children, for labor generally, nor for the good of society in any way. Vote "NO" on the equal suffrage amendment at the November 3d election. OHIO WOMEN'S ANTI-SUFFRAGE LEAGUE. Mrs. Frank Billings, President, Mrs. Guy Gray. Mrs. Hermon Hubbard. Mrs. B. H. Swift. Mrs. Henry Durr, Vice Presidents, Lucy J. Price, Secretary. Cleveland, October 26, 1914. The Allies of Woman Suffrage. Know Us by Our Friends. These Ohio Organizations have Endorsed Woman Suffrage: Republican Party Democratic Party Progressive, Prohibition and Socialist Parties Ohio Federation of Labor, Ohio Christian Endeavor Union, 250,000 members. 150,000 members. Ohio State Grange, Women's Relief Corps, 800 local Granges, 71,000 members 12,503 members. Grand Army of the Republic, Dept. of Ohio, Daughters of America, 1,000 members 18,000 members. Women's Christian Temperance Union Toledo Council of Women, 43,000 members. 2,000 members. Cleveland Council of Women, Ohio Congress of Mothers, 2,000 members. 15,000 members. Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Grand Court of Calanthe of Ohio, 3,000 members. 2,000 members. Ohio Rural Letter Carriers' Association, State Letter Carriers' Association. 1,181 members. Ohio Newspaper Women's Association, The Personal Workers' League. Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs, State Federation of Gleaners, 60,000 members. 4,500 members. United Mine Workers of Ohio 45,000 members. Ohio Convention of Methodist Men Northeast Methodist Conference Ohio Evangelical Association Ohio Spiritualist Association Ohio Conference Methodist Episcopal Church State Association of Congregational Churches The Federated Organized Adult Bible Classes of Ohio Educational Club of Toledo, Ohio College Women, 800 members. 200 delegates. Northeastern Ohio Teachers' Association Southern Ohio Teachers' Association 7,895 members. ____________ Who are the Allies of the Anti-Suffragists? ____________ Women Have Full Suffrage in Alaska Arizona California Colorado Idaho Montana Kansas Oregon Washington Wyoming Utah Nevada Women Have Presidential Suffrage in Ohio Illinois Indiana Michigan Arkansas Nebraska North Dakota Rhode Island Women of 19 States will Vote for the next President _____________ Are you on the side of the Allies of Woman Suffrage? JOIN US. WE NEED YOU. _____________ OHIO WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Masonic Temple, Warren, Ohio Copy Warren Ohio. August 2, 1917. Dear Member of the Executive Committee Mrs. Upton went to Columbus Sunday and will I hope stay as long as she is needed. I write to report that we have just received word from Miss Bannon through a clipping from the Portsmouth Daily Times that the Common Pleas Judge Thomas in Scioto county has held invalid the referendum petitions in that county. The Judge rejected the petitions on the ground that the circulators were not able to prove that every signature had been obtained in their presence. The story contains a long statement by H. A. McKenzie, secretary of the Ohio Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in which he gets off a lot of rot including a quotation from Cardinal Gibbons, the charge that the Suffrage Association is connected directly with the present White House pickets because of the recent arrest, conviction and sentence to the Workhouse of Miss Doris Stevens "Secretary of the Dayton Suffrage Association". Mr. McKenzie says that 66886 signatures have been certified to from 68 counties and of this number only 457 signatures have been returned as insufficient, and "these were stricken out on purely trivial technicalities". The original report filed with the Secretary of State showed a total of 91,991 signatures. McKenzie says that other petitions will immediately be put into circulation in Scioto county. It occurs to me that there may be a question whether these petitions can be legally put into circulation now. The Constitution says that: "The petition and signatures upon such petitions, so verified, shall be presumed to be in all respects sufficient, unless not later than forty days before the election it [*Keep all Ohio stuff together*] [*File in Special*] #2. shall be otherwise proved and in such event ten additional days shall be allowed for the filing of additional signatures to such petition". Must not the Secretary of State declare the petitions insufficient before the petitioners have the extra ten days in which to gather new signatures? A report just received from Paulding county says that the Board of Elections there returned the petition having rejected 135 names. Paulding was one of the counties in which the full 6% was not secured so this deduction of 135 names does not take on of the 6% counties off the list but we do profit of course by the deduction. No word has be received from Cleveland except a hasty note from Miss Treat in which she says that case seems to be progressing well and that the hearing is set for Tuesday August 7. I am under the impression that Judge Thomas' action will have weight in Trumbull county where the conditions are similar. I am reporting these things because I know Mrs. Upton has been reporting frequently on the petitions With the best of good wishes, Yours sincerely, EJH/B Elizabeth J Hauser P.S. Since writing this I have talked on the telephone with F. Allen. She says my point on the 10 day business is well taken, that there is no reason why we should put the enemy wise to it, however. She says let them go ahead & get the additional names now, & we can throw them out later. E.J.H. N.A.W.S.A [pibli???] Ohio will be the scene of general suffrage activity for the next few months, or until the time of the special election which is expected to take place in midsummer. Advocates of equal suffrage throughout the United States are rallying to the support of the women of Ohio in their campaign for the vote, under the leadership of Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, president of the State suffrage association. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois have already arranged to put workers in the field, and many women from States farther west and south stand ready to respond to the first call for further assistance. "When women have the right of universal suffrage", says the Grand Rapids, Mich., Herald, "there will be a new community of interest in the home and it will be a good thing for all the members of the home. It will be a good thing for the home itself. The responsibility of voting is not going to divert feminine attention from home duties. It is going to accentuate woman's place in the home by giving her a place in its protection, Michigan's splendid women are entitled to the ballot. The woman suffrage constitutional amendment should carry. It is none too soon to begin campaign effort to this worthy end." Wisconsin suffragists are sending out literature translated into Polish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Yiddish, in an to compel the attention of all classes of voters. The Editors' Association of Kansas, in convention at Lawrence last week, enthusiastically endorsed the woman suffrage amendment, The Kansas Federation of Labor, the State Grange, the Teachers' Association, the M.E. Conferences, the Interstate Literary Association of Colored People, the W.C.T.U., and the Federation of Women's Clubs, have also gone on record as favoring woman suffrage. The Portland Oregonian says: "There is an interest in the woman suffrage movement which has never before been evinced in Oregon at such an early stage of the campaign. So widespread is the interest, in fact, that the different suffrage societies are experiencing considerable difficulty in filling calls for organizers and speakers throughout the State." The New York State Legislature last month defeated the woman suffrage bill. The same Legislature a few days later unanimously passed the Wheeler bill, facilitating the sale of impure milk and endangering the lives of thousands of babies. Governor Dix vetoed the bill. The Reform Club of Hungary, formed for the purpose of Promoting the universal manhood suffrage measure, has begun to discuss the advisability of including woman suffrage in its plans. The society recently invited one of the leading advocates of equal suffrage, Dr. Dirner, professor of the University at Budapest, to deliver an address on the subject at its annual convention. In Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 11, a meeting was presided over by Rev. R. J. Drummond and a Scottish Church League for Woman Suffrage was formed, to be open to all denominations, and to work on religious, educational and non-party lines. From France comes the report that the names of eighty new members of Parliament have been added to those who are pledged to support the woman suffrage bill. Sweden has a newspaper devoted to the cause of woman suffrage, which is published by the National Woman Suffrage Association of Sweden. Governor Bass of New Hampshire is among the many leading men of his State who are in favor of the woman suffrage amendment. Governor Osborn of Michigan and Governor Hunt of Arizona recommended votes for women in their inaugural addresses. Governor Stubbs of Kansas and Governor West of Oregon are members of equal suffrage clubs in their respective States. A Men's State League for Woman Suffrage is in process of organization in Kansas, its object being to assist in carrying the woman suffrage amendment at the November election. The State of Alabama, in which there is no form of woman suffrage, has a total of 66,072 children between the ages of ten and fourteen years who are absolutely illiterate. Clara Barton, whose death at the age of ninety occurred a few days ago, was a life-long believer in woman suffrage and a close friend of the late Susan B. Anthony. Addressing the Grand Army Encampment some years ago, Miss Barton said: "When you were weak and I was strong, I toiled for you, Now you are strong and I am weak. Because of my work for you, I ask your aid. I ask the ballot for myself and my sex. As I stood by you, I pray you stand by me and mine." Dr. Clotilda Luisa has been sent by the Government of Uruguay to be attached to its legation in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, the first woman ever to receive such an appointment. Dr. Luisi gained her doctor's degree, "summa cum laude", at the University of Montevideo, and obtained her post in spite of strenuous male competition. She is described as tall and slender, possessing charming manners, and "with the true diplomatic smile." The woman suffrage parade, which will take place in New York on May 4, will furnish the novelty of a Chinese delegation carrying banners labelled "We are from a country where wo- men vote." Mme. Kaissavow, of St. Petersburg, died a few days ago leaving a library containing 18,000 volumes, all written by women. This is said to be the most extensive individual collection of the kind ever formed. Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, who has just completed her annual prison inspection tour of the South, says: "I believe emphatically that a woman's place is home; but where is her home? Mine is all the way from Boston to San Francisco and from Canada to the Gulf. The question is not what a woman should be allowed to do, but can she do it properly? In this reform--woman suffrage-- home is the very watchword, for all the interests of the home, and all the evils that affect the home, are largely dependent upon politics. Women not only should have the power to deal with these, but they could wield it effectively." One of the ardent workers for equal suffrage in the national capital is Mrs. Atlee Pomerene, wife of the new Senator from Ohio. During her husband's campaign in Ohio she took a great interest in the political changes and is said to be one of the best informed women in Washington. Dr. Helen Stoecker is founder of the Union for Mother- hood Protection, the one woman's organization in Germany which is said to have the Kaiser's hearty approval. At the Dresden Hygiene Exposition of 1911, Dr. Stoecker organized a special exhibit of the Union and later brought about the first international congress. Chancellor Bethman-Hollweg is keenly interested in the organization and keeps informed on the action of each meeting. In Oregon, last week, an Octogenarian suffrage meeting was held, the presiding officer, Dr. Mary Thompson, being 84 years of age, and all the speakers over 80. Among the speakers was X.Y. Mattieu, famous old pioneer, 97 years old, whose vote decided the historic issue that made Oregon and the Northwest territory of the United States more than half a century ago. A recent letter from a woman traveling in China says that Chinese girls are crowding into the schools in such numbers that there isn't room enough for them. The franchise law of the new Republic demands an educational qualification, and Chinese women are determined to prepare themselves to meet its requirements. Hon. Newton D. Baker, Mayor of Cleveland, is among the leading advocates of woman suffrage in Ohio. Mr. Baker declares that is the women of the United States were permitted to take a direct interest in public affairs, this would be a better nation and the cities of the land would be better governed. Eliza Calvert Hall, the distinguished Kentucky author, writing on the subject of Votes for Women, says: "The franchise is not given to a man in order that he may express the political views of his wife, his sister, or his maiden aunt. It is conferred on him that he may express his own views; and, as this is a republic, 'a government of the people, the wife, the sister and the maiden aunt should have the same right to express their views as to pay their taxes." [*Ohio*] [*1920 Ralp*] [*Ohio Written by Mrs. Catt for "Woman Citizen".*] THE INEVITABLE LEGAL TESTS When a measure is enacted into law in the United States, its opponents seem to consider that fact a mere indication that it is time to change tactics and forthwith transfer their activities from legislative halls to court rooms. Antisuffragists following the lead of their colleagues, the wets are just now frantically threatening all sorts of dire disaster to the suffrage amendment both before and after ratification. No one need be alarmed. The Federal Amendment is, has been, and will be quite safe. Only one of the numerous dagger thrusts at the eighteenth amendment affects the suffrage amendment. Can a Federal Amendment be feferred to the voters of a state after ratification by the legislature under the initiative and referendum laws? The wets have filed petitions calling for a referendum on the prohibition amendment under these laws in some twelve or more states. The same wets have filed a petition on the suffrage amendment in the state of Ohio. The suffragists of Ohio, Mrs. Upton president, were quite well aware that petitions were circulated and filed by the wets and were preparing to act, when to their amazement a prohibitionist named George S. Hawke, as a tax-payer, filed a protest against these petitions upon the ground that a referendum was a needless expense and therefore a heavy burden upon him. Mr. Hawke, upon interview, explained that he wanted to get the case to the Federal Supreme Court in order to help out the Prohibition Amendment, and when chided for having encroached u[p]on suffrage prerogatives, he expressed a perfect willingness to take the National Suffrage Association into partnership on his undertaking. At once advice was sought from very eminent and distinguished lawyers, upon the advisability of intervening in the Ohio case. Our advisors agreed that the case,as stated, would probably be thrown out of the court, or if not, the The Inevitable Legal Tests 2 (cont.) chances were exceedingly small that it would elicit from the court a clear-cut decision on the only point of interest. We therefore reported to Mr. Hawke that we would not support his appeal in the Ohio Supreme Court. The Ohio initiative and Referendum Law has been amended so as to include a referendum on Federal Amendments, and in this particular it differs from the referendum laws of all other states. However all legal advice indicates that if the Supreme Court of the Nation decides that referenda on Federal Amendments under the ordinary laws are not legal, that decision applies equally to Ohio. the Ohio case therefore no longer need interest any suffragist unless something unforeseen arises in connection with it. Meanwhile several other appeals from state Supreme Courts and Federal District Courts, involving the point of interest have reached the Supreme Court, have been heard and are now awaiting decision. The Supreme Court must realize that sooner or later it will be compelled to give a straight, clear-cut opinion on the point of the legality of referenda on Federal Amendments. It is to be hoped that when it hands down its decision of the "wet and dry" cases already argued, that it will make a clean sweep of all the controversial questions, and with unequivocal decisions set all discussion at rest. It is further hoped and even expected that this decision will come in April,if not before. The National American Woman Suffrage Association has it plans well made to secure as early a decision as possible on the contested point, in the event the cases already argued do not bring it , as is expected. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.