NAWSA SUBJECT FILE Pennsylvania Suffrage Associations 4 NEWS BULLETIN ENLISTED MEN'S PARTIES Acting Chairman, Mrs. A.E. Burns, 2530 South Colorado Street. The Enlisted Men's Parties have become more and more popular regardless of the most unpleasant weather conditions. The committee is very happy to announce the dances will continue at the Roosevelt all winter During September they will be on Saturday nights only on account of house repairs, but after October 1st they will be held twice every week. There were many expressions of delight from our guests when the winter arrangements were announced. A British woman working in a hut of the Y.M.C.A. on the Strand was heart to remark: "There's nothing I enjoy more than watching your American sailor boys dance. They dance so well; and it's so amusing - as well as admirable - to find them teaching others who have never learned." No doubt many of these very boys who so interested her were initiated into the gentle (?) art by our faithful workers at the Enlisted Men's Parties. HOW IT WORKS IN TEXAS Mrs. Martha P. Falconer, who has been recently touring the Southern States in the interest of protective measures for army cantonments, has expressed herself as follows: "I was thrilled by the evidence of the prestige that the power of voting has given the women of Texas. Candidates for office kept coming before the women to explain their fitness for office and to solicit support. I felt very envious of the women of Texas." CALENDAR OF EVENTS Parties for Enlisted Men - Every Saturday evening, at 7 o'clock,, at the Roosevelt, 2027 Chestnut street. Red Cross Auxiliary, No. 226 - Every Tuesday and Friday, from 10 to 4, at 1731 Chestnut street (second floor back). "At Homes" to the women of the Emergency Fleet Corporation - Every Sunday afternoon, at 1721 Chestnut street. Thursday evenings at the Art Alliance Building, Walnut street below Nineteenth street. COMMITTEES Philadelphia County - Second and fourth Mondays of the month at [?] P.M., 1723 Chestnut street, Chairman, Mrs. George A. Dunning. Red Cross Auxiliary, No. 226 - First Tuesday of the month, 2 P.M., 1731 Chestnut street, Chairman, Mrs. Raymond J. Harris. Enlisted Men's Parties - Second and fourth Tuesdays, at 2 P.M., 1721 Chestnut street. Acting chairman, Mrs. A. E. Burns. PERSONAL Miss Marie C. Engarde, a former W.S.P. member of the Seventeenth Legislative District, will cast her first ballot at the next election to be held in Casper, Wyoming, where she now resides. Miss Engarde, though separated from us by many miles, still keeps in touch with our work in Philadelphia through the "News Bulletin." Her letter appears elsewhere in this issue of the "News Bulletin." Can any one search the record with an unclouded mind and doubt whether women have not earned the right to full political and social partnership with men? Wherein have they failed in this exacting test of civic ability and virtue? Have they shown any greater reluctance than men to pay the necessary cost of the war in labor and suffering? Have they betrayed any less courage and fortitude in accepting sacrifice and danger? Have they not been as flexible and alert as men in adapting themselves to novel and trying circumstances? Have they not discovered a heretofore neglected ability to occupy exacting technical, executive and constructive positions? Have they not risen at least as well as men to every political and social responsibility imposed upon them and to every practical opportunity placed in their way? Their net gain from the war, as William Allen White has finely said, has been a gain in fellowship. For the first time in modern history they have played a subtle and indispensable part in a great political enterprise, and in asking Congress to do what it can to incorporate them in the body politic they are only asking for a belated, grudging acknowledgment of a manifest and implacable fact. - From "The New Republic." News Bulletin The Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA COUNTY Published at Headquarters 1723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia For the Purpose of Promoting a More Effectual Co-operation Among the Members of the Party. The News Bulletin is for All Suffragists. The Woman Suffrage Party Works for Both State and Federal Amendments by Non-Partisan and Non-Militant Methods. Vol., 2 No. 6 PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER 1918 PRICE 3 cts. per copy 25 cts a year NOTES FROM STATE HEADQUARTERS 1606 Finance Building, South Penn Square, Philadelphia. Federal Amendment Conference. At Mrs. Catt's special request Mrs. Lewis L. Smith, acting president, has called a conference of county chairmen and borough leaders in Philadelphia, Thursday, September 19th, to consider Federal Amendment ratification plans which Mrs. Catt will present in person. This conference will be open to all suffragists, but representatives of the press will not be admitted. Mrs. Catt believes the amendment will be passed by the Senate when the vote is taken, and friendly Senators have promised a vote in this session, which means before December 4th. The vote may come during the present month or in September, but if it is delayed beyond September and then passed or if the worst comes and it is not passed until the short session of Congress, which begins on December 4th, there will not be sufficient time between the date of its passage and the convening of our State Legislature next January to do the work necessary to secure ratification in this State. Forty-two legislatures meet in 1919 and ratification must be secured in thirty-six of them, although the six legislatures meeting in 1920 must be given opportunity to act before an official proclamation can be made that the amendment has become a law. Mrs. Catt tells us emphatically that Pennsylvania must be one of the thirty-six States to ratify next year. Ours is one of the most important States of the Union. We made a splendid record in our 1915 campaign and with the shining example of our neighbor, New York, if we are willing to work we can unquestionably be one of the first States to ratify the Federal Amendment. To this end each county chairman is asked to complete the interviewing of legislative candidates - only 50 per cent. of these candidates were reported on before the primaries; borough leaders and county chairman are urged to bring large delegations to the conference - no credentials will be required; and each and every worker is requested to come to the conference prepared to pledge such support to Mrs. Catt's plans and policies that we all may be inspired to finish this work in 1919. "Woman suffrage for the nation before the next presidential election" is the slogan we are asked to adopt by the National. The conference will be held at the Acorn Club, 1618 Walnut street, Philadelphia. The program is not completed as yet, but a speaker on the Woman's Oversea Hospitals has been secured. Women's Oversea Hospitals. Various activities are being reported by the counties in their endeavors to raise their quota of the assessment for this work. Two payments have been made since the last report as follows: Altoona W.S. Party $138.00 Pittsburgh Equal Franchise Federation 11,397.37 As previously reported the Pittsburgh organization raised this splendid sum by an indoor fete and dance, of which Mrs. Leonard G. Wood was general chairman. Treasurer's Report - RECEIPTS Mrs. Edward P. Davis $25.00 (Continued on third page) 2 NEWS BULLETIN Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County Chairman Mrs. George A. Dunning, 15 South Twenty-first Street Honorary Vice-Chairmen Mrs. Lucretia Blankenburg Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson Dr. E. M. Hiestand Moore Mrs. Ferree Brinton Secretary Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellis Treasurer Mrs. Harry E. Kohn Auditors Miss Sara D. Chambers Miss Anna H. Snyder Executive Secretary Miss Marguerite Mitchell Headquarters: 1721-1723 Chestnut Street Bell Telephone: Spruce 2402 Office Hours, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. September 1918 81 25 cents a year A WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS A blue pencil mark at this paragraph indicates that your subscription expires with this, the September number. In renewing, kindly send 2 cents in cash or stamps to the "News Bulletin Committee," 1721 Chestnut street. Do not fail to attend the Woman Suffrage Party Conference to be held at the Acorn Club on September 19th. A buffet luncheon at $1.00 a piece will be served between the sessions. For further details see under "Notes from State Headquarters" on the front page of this issue. BE NOT WEARY OF WELL-DOING Have you signed the war service petition to Senator Penrose, notice of which was given in the last issue of the "News Bulletin"? Have you secured other signers? If not, why not? It is the constant dripping that wears away the stone. Your effort at this time may mean the passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment. Send today to headquarters, 1721 Chestnut street, and secure a petition blank. There is no time to lose! W. S. P. RED CROSS AUXILIARY NO. 226 Chairman, Mrs. Raymond J. Harris, 1843 South Broad Street. The heat of the summer is over and all are urged to give all the time they can spare to work in our Auxiliary. The need for supplies abroad was never greater than at the present moment. If we have been working hard in the past we must work even harder now, so come with your scissors and thimbles to our work-room and help us to keep up to the requisitions imposed by our chapter. Suffragists have never yet been found wanting where there was work to be done. WHERE WOMEN ARE HUMAN BEINGS To the Editor of "Public Ledger." Sir: While in Denver, Col., for a very short while, I had the pleasure of meeting quite a few of the "lady politicians" whom the antis have talked into fame. The old suffrage organization of Denver just held together when it was enfranchised and formed one of the many wideawake women's clubs of that city. I was guest at their weekly luncheon, and while I was sitting there listening to the speakers I thought of a similar club that will soon be the outcome of the Philadelphia Suffrage party, when they no longer need to work for suffrage. Needless to say, we did not find the state of chaos in Colorado which has so often been mentioned by Mrs. Brock and her small following. In Denver at every street corner I saw more and more broad avenues bordered by many beautiful homes. In fact, I have noticed that throughout the West a home is the first thing thought of. Yet the antis talk as if woman suffrage would break up the home completely! I shall cast my first vote here in Wyoming, the first State of the Union to enfranchise its women. It does seem strange that in Pennsylvania I was politically thought to be equal only to an imbecile or a convict. and here I am a real human being. With joy I realize that, although I cannot go to France and help the boys "over there," I can vote here and help to weaken the power of the Kaiser in America, both by voting for prohibition and canceling the vote of one of these enemy aliens who can vote on their first papers. How soon may Pennsylvania women do the same? MARIE C. ENGARDE. Casper, Wyo., August 10, 1918. NEWS BULLETIN 3 NOTES FROM STATE HEADQUARTERS (Continued from first page) Mrs. Laird H. Barber ............... 5.00 Centre County W. S. Party ... 25.00 Mrs. W. O. Schoonover ...... 5.00 Mrs. Mary Buckner .............. 5.00 Harriett Clark ........................... 5.00 Mrs. James W. Buttermore ... 5.00 May F. Reilly ............................ 5.00 Sarah P Farquhar ................... 15.00 Annette H. Kaercher .............. 10.00 Mary E. Weissinger ............... 5.00 Frances Kaercher ................... 25.00 Anna H. Luther ....................... 50.00 Schuylkill Co. W. S. P. .............. 51.00 Anna A. MacDonald .............. 1.50 Luzerne County W. S. P. ....... 50.00 SUFFRAGE URGED AS WAR MEASURE Being Three Letters Written by President Wilson to Senator Shields, of Tennessee, and Senator Baird, of New Jersey. In his first letter the President wrote to Senator Shields as follows: "My Dear Senator: I feel so deeply the possibilities latent in the vote which is presently to be taken by the Senate that I am taking a step which in ordinary circumstances I would not feel justified in taking and ask you very frankly if it will not be possible for you to vote for the amendment. I feel that much of the world will repose in our sincere adherence to democratic principles, will depend upon the action which the Senate takes in this now critically important matter." In reply to this letter Senator Shields wrote at some length setting forth his objections, etc. To which the President replied as follows: "I realize the weight of argument that has controlled your attitude in the matter, and I would not have written as I did if I had not thought that the passage of the amendment at this time was an essential psychological element in the conduct of the war for democracy. I am led by the single sentence in your letter, therefore, to write to say that I do earnestly believe that our action upon this amendment will have an important and immediate influence upon the whole atmosphere and morale of the nations engaged in the war and every day I am coming to see how supremely important that side of the whole thing is. We can win if we have the will to win." The third and last letter was to Senator Baird of New Jersey, and ran as follows: "My dear Senator Baird: The whole subject of woman suffrage has been very much in my mind of late, and has come to seem to me part of the international situation as well as a question of capital importance to the United States. I believe that our present position as champions of democracy throughout the worldd would be greatly strengthened if the Senate would follow the example of the House of Representatives in passing the pending amendment. "I, therefore, take the liberty of writing to call the matter to your serious attention in this light, and to express the hope that you will deem it wise to throw your vote and influence on the side of this great and now critical reform." Comment seems to be unnecessary. What more can we ask! LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT NOTES Fifth District. Chairman--Mrs. A. E. Burns, 2530 South Colorado street. The Fifth District has turned over to the Women's Oversea Hospitals Fund the collective contribution of its members amounting to $30.00. The district will hold its next meeting the first Tuesday in October. Fifteenth District. Chairman--Mrs. F. J. Giering, 346 Church lane, Germantown. The regular monthly meeting will be held on September 11th at 2.30 o'clock. The place of meeting has not been chosen as Mrs. John McCauslan, who has this in charge, is absent from the city. All members are urged to come as the time and places for meeting for the coming year will be discussed. W. S. P. COMMITTEE FOR ENTERTAINMENT OF WOMEN WAR WORKERS Chairman, Miss Dorothy N. McCauslan, The Wood-Norton Apartments, Germantown. Through Miss Violet Oakley we have secured the use of the Art Alliance, on Walnut street below Nine-teenth street, for every Thursday evening. On August 15th Mr. Henry Gordon Thunder arranged a musical program. The room was crowded and it was a great success. CONVENTION NUMBER News Bulletin The Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA COUNTY Published Monthly at Headquarters 1723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia For the Purpose of Promoting a More Effectual Co-operation Among the Members of the Party. The News Bulletin is for All Suffragists. The Woman Suffrage Party Works for Both State and Federal Amendments by Non-Partisan and Non-Militant Methods. Vol. 1 No. 11 Philadelphia, February 1918 PRICE 3 cts. per copy 25 cts. a year STATE HEADQUARTERS NOTES Federal Amendment. We are now marching on to the Senate. Mrs. Catt feels just as certain of victory there as in the House if each State will continue its campaign of letters and telegrams. We won by a single vote in the House; we may be beaten by a single vote in the Senate. Suffragists have worked for the Federal Amendment for forty-nine years. Let no act of neglect on your part delay the victory longer. Ratification Campaign. Directly the Amendment is passed by the Senate the question will be up to the States. The New York Association expects to secure ratification before March 1, 1918. As the political situation in Pennsylvania is unique, our plans for ratification must be most carefully laid and executed. The strategic work agreed upon will be carried out through the congressional district group chairmen in the various districts. Treasurer's Report. Adams and Lycoming counties have made payments on their 1918 assessments. We could not have secured 23 votes from Pennsylvania Congressmen without our present organization and funds are necessary and vital if we are to grow and carry through successfully the important work of the coming year. It should be remembered also that much of our work will be along patriotic lines and under these circumstances it should be comparatively easy to secure contributions. (Ed. Note.--Since this report was made out Philadeplhia county also has made a payment on its 1918 assessment.) CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT GROUP NO. 1 Chairman, Mrs. George A. Piersol, 4724 Chestnut Avenue. A victory, through the passage of the Amendment in the House of Representatives by a vote of 274 to 136, on January 10th, has come to the Suffrage Cause since the last issue of the "News Bulletin." It is expected that the Senate will vote on the Amendment in February. Write to the two Pennsylvania Senators, Hon. Boies Penrose, Hon. Philander C. Knox, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C., asking them to vote "yes" when the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment comes to a vote in the Senate. Also get as many men and women as possible to write letters and send telegrams. ANNUAL CONVENTION The Fourth Annual Convention of Philadelphia County W. S. P. will be held at the Bellevue-Stratford on Saturday, the 23d of February. (See Calendar of Events for hours, etc.) We hope all who can will attend and help to make this a banner convention. The afternoon session will be for the transaction of business, election of officers, etc., followed by a banquet in the Rose Garden at 7 P. M. (Tickets, $2.50.) At 8.30 P. M. there will be a public meeting, to which all are invited. The result of the election will be announced and prominent speakers will then address the meeting. Come yourself and bring your friends. In helping to make the Convention a success you will also be helping to make it possible for the Woman Suffrage Party of Philadelphia to continue its good work for the enlisted men, for the Red Cross and for other forms of patriotic service. 2 NEWS BULLETIN Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County Chairman Mrs. George A. Dunning, 15 South Twenty-first Street Vice-Chairmen Mrs William B. Derr Dr. E. M. Hiestand-Moore Mrs. Joseph M Gazzam Mrs. William D. Grange Mrs. Wolstan Dixey Mrs. Joseph Wasserman Secretary Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellis Treasurer Mrs. Harry E. Kohn Auditors Miss Sara D. Chambers Miss Anna H. Snyder Executive Secretary Mrs. Frederick E. Drinker Headquarters: 1721-1723 Chestnut Street Bell Telephone Office, Spruce 2402 Office Hours, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Saturday 9 A. M. to 12 P. M. Jan. 1918 81 25 cents a year We had so many activities on hand for this month and so many items of interest to share with our subscribers that we were obliged to increase the size of the paper. Our Enlisted Men's Parties are becoming known far and near. The other day inquiries came from Buffalo, N. Y., as to how they were conducted. At a meeting of the Philadelphia County Committee it was decided to form a Thrift Card Group of the Woman Suffrage Party. It was resolved that Mrs. George A. Dunning be appointed chairman of this Group and Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellis, secretary. Thrift Stamps and War Savings Stamps are on sale at the shop. We have a fine lot of new subscribers this month. Let us keep up the good work. If each subscriber would secure us only one new name during the coming month our subscription list would be doubled. Think of that! Who will make the effort? Let us see what we can do when we try. RED CROSS AUXILIARY, NO. 226 Chairman, Mrs. Raymond Harris, 1843 South Broad street. A meeting of the Auxiliary was held Tuesday, January 15th, Mrs. R. J. Harris, the new chairman, presiding. Members, many of whom had not met Mrs. Harris previous to that time, have expressed their willingness to co-operate with her in every way and have great faith in the future of the Auxiliary under her guidance. Mrs. Harris is ably seconded by Mrs. F. Atkins, vice-chairman. Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Atkins, in order to learn each step of the work, the making, inspecting, folding and packing of the garments, are working one day of each week at the Red Cross work rooms, 1417 Walnut street, directly under the supervision of Mrs. Potter. Though the work room at 1725 Chestnut street has been thoroughly cleaned, rugs loaned by Mrs. Dunning, and is fairly comfortable, it has been considered advisable, owing to weather, traffic and fuel conditions, to form Units in each district. Too much credit cannot be given to Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam as chairman of the Red Cross drive for membership, as she has been able to send in over 800 names, the majority of which she secured herself. A renewal of your membership would add another name, but mark your application "renewal." Donations have been received of four pounds of tea, for afternoon tea for the workers; two oil heaters, from Mr. Davitt, 1111 South Second street; oil for fuel for these heaters, from Mr. Rogers, Atlantic Refining Company; ten yards of muslin, from Miss P. R. Klauder, and 28 pillow slips, from Miss Compton, for the comfort pillows. Mrs. Arnold will have charge of the knitting. She will also give instruction. A good grade of trench wool is for sale at 80 cents per hank, and there is free wool on hand to give out to knitters. Every Wednesday a donation of fruit has been sent, in the name of the Auxiliary, to the isolation wards of the Naval Hospital. NEWS BULLETIN 3 Magazines and books were sent to the Spinal Meningitis Quarantine Barracks, 315. A small Victrola for this ward is asked for, also records. Age and condition will not matter, the boys say. Cookies, jellies, smokes and jokes mean a lot to the boys, homesick, ill and depressed. A little book made of clippings by a small school girl in Germantown, cheered up a whole ward. NEW SUBSCRIBERS Mrs. William H. Arnold. Miss Neva B. Deardorff. Miss Gertrude Hammond. Mrs. Charles F. Hollander. Mrs. J. M. Houch. Miss Elizabeth M. Hunter. Mrs. J. M. Jaycox. Mrs. George H. Lorimer. Mrs. Florence B. Maurice. Mrs. S. Murray Mitchell. Mrs. Edward R. Stone Mrs. Edward Troth. Miss Virginia T. Stoddard. Miss Alice Brock. Mrs. E. Y. Hartshorne. Margaret C. Lee. Mrs. Victor L. Lavell. Miss Rhea Duryea. Mrs. J. Dallas Seiberling. Miss Dorothy Rubisohn. Miss Virginia J. Hill. Mrs. Frederick B. Hurlburt. Mrs. K. Warne. Mrs. W. M. Dager. Miss Stephanie D'Oreste. Mrs. E. B. Leaf. Mrs. William R. Vansant. Mrs. E. F. Lavell. Mrs. N. H. Bossert. Miss Rachel G. Anderson. Mrs. W. St. Clair. Mrs. Charles Bond. Miss Hortter. Miss Sophie Hongler. It was at Pittsburgh recently at the Pennsylvania State Suffrage Convention that Dr. Anna Howard Shaw moved an audience to tears when, in concluding a stirring speech on the work in New York, she said: "Think of winning New York and Susan B. Anthony not there. Think of my being able to vote and Elizabeth Cady Stanton gone." Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania Delaware County Chairman Mrs. William Ward, Jr., Chester Vice Chairman Mrs. J. S. C. Harvey, Radnor Mrs. Joseph Hill Brinton, Media Mrs. Margaret Young, Ridley Park Miss Ruth Verlenden, Darby Mrs. G. S. Breden, Thornton Mrs. G. P. Worrell, Ogden First Legislative District. Mrs. Wm, Ward, Jr., Chester Leader Mrs. F. J. Evans, Chester, Vice Leader Second Legislative District. Mrs. Robert C. Brooks, Swarthmore, Leader Mrs. A. B. Geary, Wallingford, Vice Leader Secretary Mrs. Carl Lewis Altmaier Treasurer Dr. Ellen MacMurray, Chester Headquarters Weaver Building, Chester DELAWARE COUNTY DOINGS The annual convention of the Delaware County W. S. P. will be held in the Y. W. C. A., at Chester, on Friday, March 1st. The morning session will convene at 10.30 A. M. During the luncheon recess the polls will be open (12 to 2 P. M.) for the election of officers. At 2 P. M. there will be a patriotic meeting to be addressed by two speakers whose names will be announced later. The Executive Committee met at the State headquarters on February 1st. Mrs. J. Osgood Hopwood, chair-man of Registration for the Delaware County W. S. P., reported the registration finished and very satisfactory. The chairman of Publicity reported that all but one of the county papers had given favorable editorials on the passage of the Federal amendment in the House. It is a great source of gratification to all suffragists of Delaware County that the Hon. Thomas Butler, Congressional Representative of Delaware County Committee of the Council of National Defense met in the Court House at Media on Thursday, the 31st of January. More than half the members of the board are suffragists. 4 NEWS BULLETIN DON'T FORGET Don't Forget— That names for chairman, vice chairmen, secretary, treasurer, and auditors may be placed in nomination by a petition signed by ten members. Such nominees to be voted on at the Primaries. The two persons receiving the highest number of votes for each office shall be declared the candidates for these offices and their names will be placed upon the formal ballot to be voted upon by the delegates at the Convention. Don't Forget— The time is short, so send in your petitions at once to Miss Sara D. Chambers, chairman of the Elections Committee, 5300 Media Street. Don't Forget— That all members of the Woman Suffrage Part of Philadelphia County are entitled to vote at the Primaries on February 16th. Members do not need credential papers on that day. Don't Forget— That only regularly authorized delegates are entitled to vote at the Convention on February 23d. An authorized delegate is one holding a credential paper signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the district in which she resides. Don't Forget— To come to the Convention in time to register for voting and to secure your badge before the Convention opens at 2 P. M. The Credentials Committee, Miss Gertrude Atkinson, chairman, will be in session from 1.00 to 2 30 P. M. The delegate's badge will entitle you to vote on the floor of the Convention as well as at the polls later. PHILADELPHIA SLOW? Out of a total of 23 favorable votes by Pennsylvania Congressmen on the Federal Amendment in the House on January 10th, five of them were Philadelphians. They were as follows: Hon. John R. K. Scott, Congressman-at-Large; Hon. William S. Vare. First District; Hon. George W. Edmonds, Fourth District; Hon. Peter E. Costello, Fifth District, and Hon. George P. Darrow, Sixth District. And yet it is reported that Philadelphia is "slow.' The same good results can be secured in the Senate if we put our shoulder to the wheel and do our part. Now forward, altogether! Write those letters today to Senators Knox and Penrose, and let them know that women of Philadelphia are awake and expect them to acquit themselves as men worthy of their high office. ENLISTED MEN'S PARTIES Chairman, Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam, 265 S. Nineteenth Street. Our Woman Suffrage Parties for Enlisted Men have grown to such proportions we were glad to accept. Mrs. Drexel's kind offer of the use of the Ship and Tent Club—Cooper Battalion Hall—Twenty-third and Christian streets, for Saturday nights during January. We are indebted likewise to Admiral Tappan for a navy brass band and to the boys of the Episcopal Academy, who have furnished us with music for dancing. On Saturday night, the 26th of January, Brigadier-General and Mrs. Waller were our guests of honor. From 400 to 600 boys and girls are entertained on Saturday nights. The dancing is preceded by lessons in French, knitting and dancing, taught by some of the best instructors in Philadelphia. The boys are most enthusiastic over these various lessons. We use the trench books for French and we need and call for more volunteer teachers. The Tuesday night parties are held at headquarters, 1721 and 1725 Chestnut street. We have the endorsement and cooperation of the Committee of Public Safety. MANY A MICKLE MAKES A MUCKLE There is as yet no noteless nor checkless day. Will you not gladden our hearts, and further the cause, by sending us one or the other to help swell the State pledge fund? Make checks payable to the Woman Suffrage Party of Philadelphia, and send to Miss Anna Harris Snyder, Chairman of Finance. Many a mickle makes a muckle, as witness the report on another page of this issue. LONG TABLE LUNCHEON At the Long Table Luncheon on January 28th the speakers were J. Curtis Patterson, a member of the War Saving Stamp Committee, and Miss Kate Forrester Robertson, of the British War Relief Committee of the Emergency Aid. Mr. Patterson spoke on the work of the War Savings Stamps Committe and commented on the successful results attained so far. Miss Robertson told of the war work being done by the women of England and of this country as well. NEWS BULLETIN 5 LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT NOTES Fourth District. Chairman, Mrs. C. Bowman Leaf, 2027 Walnut Street The Fourth Legislative District of The Woman Suffrage party at a meeting in the home of Mrs. George A. Dunning, 15 South Twenty-first street, raised $60 and pledged $200 for county work. Officers for the year were elected and delegates appointed for the county convention February 23d, at the Bellevue-Stratford. Mrs. Dunning spoke on the bright prospects for the Federal amendment for equal suffrage passing the Senate and of the work the Woman Suffrage Party is doing in the sale of the war savings stamps and the thrift certificates. Congressional work was discussed by Miss Pauline Mitchell, while Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam told of the well-attended enlisted men's parties which are given each week at headquarters 1721 Chestnut street. The following officers were elected: Mrs. E. Bowman Lead, chairman. Vice chairmen: Mrs. C. H. Weisgerber, Six Ward; Mrs. Ferree Brinton, Eighth Ward; Mrs. George A. Dunning, Ninth Ward; Mrs. Francis D. Patterson, secretary, and Miss Emma Klahr, treasurer. The delegates to the county convention are Mrs. E. Bowman Lead, Mrs. William Vansant, Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam, Mrs. W. D. Grange, Mrs. Frank Battles, Mrs. E. F. Lavell, Mrs. C. H. Weisgerber, Mrs. Ralph Davenport, Miss Rachel Anderson, Mrs. Richard Peters, Dr. Kate W. Baldwin, Mrs. A. B. Hirsh and Mrs. Mark Collet. Fifteenth District. Chairman, Mrs. F. J. Giering, 346 Church Lane, Germantown The Fifteenth Legislative District held its annual convention January 31st, at the Little Yellow House, Greene and Duval streets, Germantown. The morning session was devoted to business and the election of officers. The result of the ballot was as follows: Chairman, Mrs. F. J. Giering; vice-chairmen: Mrs. Joseph Gaing, Mrs. N. H. Bossert, Mrs. Wolstan Dixey and Mrs. S. Russell; secretary, Mrs. Ralph Raiguel; treasurer, Mrs. Richard H. Day; auditors, Mrs. Mary F. Kenderdine and Miss Garrett; registrar, Miss Hortter. Luncheon was at one o'clock, after which Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam spoke of the enlisted men's parties and their growth since last summer. Mrs. George A. Pierson told of her experiences at Washington at the time of the passage of the Federal Amendment. Mrs. James Starr spoke on war work, after which there was an enjoyable social hour, when tea was served. The next regular meeting of the District will be held on Wednesday, the 13th, at 2.30 P. M., at the house of Mrs. Ralph Raiguel, 5319 Wakefield street. Mrs. Raiguel's Red Cross Unit of the Auxiliary, 226, W. S. P., will meet on Thursday of each week, at 10 A. M., at the District headquarters, Greene and Duval streets, Germantown. Seventeeenth District Chairman, Mrs. Iredell Eachus, 1248 North Fifty-seventh Street The Seventeenth Legislative District, at its annual convention, held January 23d, elected the following officers: Mrs. Iredell Eachus, chairman; Mrs. James Lingle, chairman Twenty-fourth Ward; Mrs. Phil E. Hughes, chairman Thirty-fourth Ward; Mrs. William Kline, chairman Forty-fourth Ward; Mrs. W. E. Brenner, recording secretary; Miss Miriam Johnson, corresponding secretary; Miss Katharine Collison, treasurer; Mrs. Edward Peabody will continue as registrar. The treasurer's report showed that we raised during the year $465.31. Pledges were made for the coming year. Mrs. Piersol was the speaker of the day, and we had with us Mrs. Van Dent, of Chicago. Eighteen of the seventy-one delegates were elected for the county convention, the remainder to be appointed. Mrs. L. Hamilton turned in five dollars to apply on last year's deficit, being the proceeds of a card party she had given for this purpose. Twenty-fourth Ward: The Red Cross Unit of the Seventeenth District is held at the apartments of Mrs. A. R. Taylor, "The Edgeton," Parkside avenue and Forty-second street, every Thursday, from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. All are welcome. Bring scissors and thimble. Miss Marie C. Engarde was very active in securing subscribers to the second Liberty Loan, having sold through her own efforts of $1000 worth. She spoke at the noon hour and in the evening at the booths, encouraging the passers by "to do their bit." 6 NEWS BULLETIN Twenty-first District. Chairman, MRS. H. E. Fahnestock 915 Farragut Terrace A meeting of the Twenty-first Legislative District was held on February 1st, at the home of Mrs. George Stranahan. Miss Pauline Mitchell spoke most entertainingly about her canvassing experiences. It was decided to form a District Unit of the Red Cross to work for Auxiliary 226. Meetings will be held every Wednesday, from 10 to 4 o'clock, at Mrs. Piersol's 4724 Chester Avenue. A cordial invitation is extended to all suffragists in the District. The regular monthly meeting of the District is held the first Friday of the month, at 8 o'clock P.M. The place of meeting is subject to change. Twenty-third District Chairman, Mrs. George H. Wobensmith 1813 W. Ontario Street At the annual meeting of the Twenty-third Legislative District of the Woman Suffrage Party on January 14th, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Chairman, Mrs. George H. Wobensmith; first vice-chairman, Dr. A.T. Focht; second vice-chairman, Mrs. Frank H. Jones; fourth vice-chairman, Mrs. Hattie S. Faas; recording secretary. Miss Helena Lukens; corresponding secretary, Miss Rhew E. Duryea; treasurer, Miss Nettie L. Hahn; financial secretary, Mrs. Josephine Paul. Mrs. George A. Pierson gave a most interesting talk on the pasage of the Federal Amendment in the House and of her personal experiences in Washington as a lobbyist. The monthly meetings of the District are held on the first Tuesday of the month, at 8 P.M. The place of meeting is subject to change. Mr. Cheney C. Jones, of the Training Camp Commission of the Army and Navy, was the speaker at the Long Table Luncheon on Monday, February 11th. CALENDAR OF EVENTS Long Table Luncheons - Second and fourth Mondays of the month at 12.45 P.M., 1721 Chestnut street. (Price 50 cents.) Parties for Enlisted Men - Every Tuesday and Saturday evening at 7.30 P.M. Tuesday, 1725 Chestnut street. Saturday, Cooper Battalion Hall, Twenty-third and Christian streets. Primary Election - Saturday, February 16th, 2 to 5.30 P.M., 1721 Chestnut street. Annual Convention - Saturday, February 23d, at the Bellevue-Stratford. Credentials Committee, 1.00-2.30 P.M. Business Session, 2-5 P.M. Polls open, 5-6 P.M. Banquet (tickets $2.50), 7 P.M. Evening session, 8.30 P.M. Prominent speakers. COMMITTEES Philadelphia County - Second and fourth Mondays of the month at 2.3 P.M., 1721 Chestnut street. Chairman, Mrs. George A. Dunning. Enlisted Men's Parties - Every Friday at 3 P.M., 1721 Chestnut street. Chairman, Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam. Congressional District Group No. 1 Third Wednesday of the month at 3 P.M., 1721 Chestnut street. Chairman, Mrs. George A. Pierson. PERSONAL Miss Lida Stokes Adam's will remain at Atlantic City indefinitely, or at least through the month of February. Mrs. Adam's continues to improve over which good news her many friends rejoice. Miss Emma Klahr has been appointed treasurer of the Shop Committee. The Shop Committee is to be congratulated. "THE RIGHT IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN PEACE, AND WE SHALL FIGHT FOR THE THINGS WHICH WE HAVE ALWAYS CARRIED NEAREST OUR HEARTS - FOR DEMOCRACY, FOR THE VOICE IN THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS. . . TO SUCH A TASK WE CAN DEDICATE OUR LIVES AND OUR FORTUNES, EVERYTHING THAT WE ARE AND EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE." - Woodrow Wilson. NEWS BULLETIN 7 FINANCE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT List of Contributions to the Woman Suffrage Party of Philadelphia Toward the State Pledge of $5000. Mrs. George A. Piersol $10.00 Mrs. W.R. Vansant 1.00 Mrs. Edw. Garret McCollin 1.00 Mrs. George A. Dunning 100.00 Mrs. Wm. J. Elliott 1.00 Mrs. Boyd 1.00 Miss Anna H. Snyder 100.00 Thomas McCulloch 1.00 Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam 100.00 Miss Nina F. Lewis 50.00 Mrs. Hollander 1.00 Mrs. W. Frederick Snyder 100.00 Mrs. John P. Green 25.00 Mrs. Warwick J. Price 25.00 Mr. Sydney Fawkes 1.00 Mrs. Sydney Fawkes 1.00 Miss Mary Gibson 100.00 Miss Lida Stokes Adams 1.00 Maybe Brice Turney 1.00 Mrs. Isaac Lowry 25.00 Mrs. Franklin Cheney 1.00 M.L. Constable 1.00 Mrs. S.M. Mitchell 1.00 Miss M. Carey Thomas 100.00 Mrs. Frank Miles Day 1.00 Dr. Eleanor C. Jones 10.00 Mrs. C. Shillard Smith 2.00 Mrs. Edward Robins 1.00 Clara Woodward 1.00 Mrs. Thornton Oakley 10.00 Marion A. Bradley 1.00 Miss Helen Moore Fogg 1.00 Marie Ayres Depue 1.00 Mrs. Isaac Lowry 3.00 Mrs. Geo. Horace Lorimer 1.00 Mrs. Edward Troth 1.00 Mrs. Ferrer Brinton 1.00 Mrs. Alice R. Chamberlin 50.00 J.R. Cummings 1.00 Dr. Kate W. Baldwin 1.00 Catherine MacFarland 1.00 Dr. Sophie Ostrow 1.00 Mrs. Horatio Gates Lloyd 5.00 Dr. Mary Buchanan 1.00 Brought forward 894.00 Edith Riley 1.00 Mrs. H.H. Donaldson 1.00 Dr. Elizabeth McK. Beecroft. 1.00 Mrs. J.E. Woodbridge 10.00 Dr. Martha E. Osmond 1.00 Mrs. Joseph May 1.00 Mrs. Edward W. Biddle 1.00 Miss Vida Hunt 1.00 Miss Josephine F. Ancona 1.00 Mrs. Hitchcock 1.00 Mrs. W.D. Grange 1.00 Mrs. Mary J. Chapman 10.00 Mrs. John Fritsche 1.00 Mrs. E.W. Gaskill 1.00 Mrs. Mary W. Page Grammar 1.00 Mrs. H. Kent Day 1.00 Mrs. Clement A. Griscom 1.00 Anna G. Elkinton 1.00 Miss Anna Linn Bright 1.00 Mrs. Paul L. McConomy 1.00 Mrs. W.W. Curtin 1.00 Miss Judith Logan 5.00 Mrs. H.D. Kellogg 1.00 Mrs. John Coats Browne 1.00 Haverford Township Delaware County 1.00 Mrs. A.K. Taylor 1.00 S.R. Black 1.00 Dr. Della B. Custer 1.00 Mrs. Joseph Head 5.00 Dr. M. Luise Dieze 1.00 Mr. Harry D. Marsh 10.00 Ella Williams Grim 1.00 Mr. E.Y. Hartshorne 1.00 Mrs. E.Y. Hartshorne 1.00 Miss Keeser 1.00 Anonymous 250.00 Mrs. Thomas J. Curtis 1.00 N. Churchman 1.00 Mrs. Ralph Davenport 1.00 Emily Bishop Harvey 5.00 Mrs. H.F. Hall 1.00 Miss Amy Hartshorne 1.00 Miss Margaret B. Power 1.00 Mrs. E. A. Cassavant 1.00 Mrs. Matthew Grier 1.00 Mrs. N.S. Pearson 1.00 Miss Sara D. Chambers 10.00 Mrs. C.H. Weisgerber 1.00 Mrs. Sydney Allen Smith 5.00 Total $1243.00 ANNA HARRIS SNYDER, Carpenter Lane, Germantown. IN MEMORIAM We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Florence Stewart Oldershaw, one of our valued volunteer workers. She was always ready to help in any emergency, and she will be greatly missed by all who knew her. Miss C. V. Cadwallader 1.00 Dr. Martha G. K. Schetky 1.00 E. G. Kimball 1.00 Dr. Florence H. Richard's 2.00 Miss Ellen Homer 1.00 Miss Edith H. Baily 1.00 Adelaide Russell Lane 1.00 Mrs. Ce. E. Ehinger 1.00 Mrs. S. F. Sharpless 25.00 Miss Rachel Barker 1.00 Miss Grace Sylvia Barker 1.00 S.M. Wilson 1.00 Miss Emma Blakiston 1.00 Elsie H. Presser 2.00 Dr. K. A. Williamson 1.00 Carried forward 894.00 8 NEWS BULLETIN The Woman Suffrage Party of Philadelphia WILL HOLD ITS Fourth Annual Convention At the Bellevue-Stratford Saturday, February Twenty-third, 1918 Afternoon Session, 2 P. M. (Junior Room, Main Floor) Speakers Mrs. Maude Wood Park Congressional Chairman of National American Woman Suffrage Association Subject: Frederal Amendment MRS. WILLIAM WEST Philadelphia War-Savings Committee Subject: War Saving and Thrift AND OTHERS Credentials Committee in Session from 1 to 2.30 P. M. Polls open from 5 to 6 P. M. PUBLIC INVITED War-Time Dinner and Patriotic Rally Rose Garden, Bellevue-Sratford, 7 P. M. Principal Speaker Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt President National American Woman Suffrage Association Vice-Chairman of Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense Tickets, $2.50 On Sale at 1721 Chesnut Street The Public admitted free at 8.30 P. M. Come and bring your friends News Bulletin The Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA COUNTY Published at Headquarters 1721 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia For the Purpose of Promoting at More Effectual Co-operation Among the Members of the Party. The News Bulletin is for All Suffragists. The Woman Suffrage Party Works for Both STate and Federal Amendments by Non-Partisan and Non-Militant Methods. VOL. 2 NO. 12 PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 1919 PRICE 3 cts. per copy 25 cts. a year NOTES FROM STATE HEADQUARTERS 1606 Finance Building, South Penn Square, Philadelphia. National Convention: The National American Woman Suffrage Association has issued its call for its Jubilee Convention to be held in St. Louis, Mo., at the Hotel Statler, March 24- 29, inclusive. In order to avoid interference with the drive for the Victory Loan, the date of the convention (given as April 21-26 in our "January Bulletin") has been put forward. Combined with the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of the granting of Woman Suffrage by Wyoming and the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the National the American Woman Suffrage Associations (amalgamated twenty years later into the National American Woman Suffrage Association), will be the celebration of the unprecedented victories won by suffrage in the years 1918 and 1919. In this country in 1918, Michigan, Oklahoma and South Dakota won full suffrage. In 1919 Indiana, Vermont and Wisconsin have won Presidential suffrage. Abroad, women in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland were granted suffrage in 1918, while in 1919 Sweden and Holland are both committed to the reform by their governments. Today nineteen foreign countries in all are on the suffrage roster. Fifteen of the United States have full suffrage. Four (Illinois, North Dakota, Nebraska, Vermont) have given women Presidential and municipal suffrage; two (Texas and Arkansas) have given primary suffrage; two (Indiana and Rhode Island) have given Presidential suffrage only; two (Ohio and Florida) have given municipal suffrage in charter cities, and twelve others have given minor forms of suffrage (school or tax or both). The National American Woman Suffrage Association points out, therefore, that in spite of the defeat of the Federal Suffrage Amendment in the 65th Congress, "the onrush of suffrage is proved by the record too mighty for Congresses to withstand and the convention will be the occasion for sounding a vast paean of victory as well as the occasion for rigid inquiry into the reasons why the women of the democratic United States are denied a voice in their own government while those on monarchies and erstwhile monarchies are honored with political equality." The Pennsylvania Women Suffrage Association having paid dues for 5000 members, is entitled to 50 delegates. According to the Constitution the members of the Executive Board automatically become delegates and the Board appoints the alternates. In addition each Congressional District Group is entitled to as many delegates and alternates as there are Congressional Districts in the group. The delegates elected by these districts and the members of the State Board will total 48. The Constitution also provides that the Executive Board shall appoint the remaining two with their alternates and fill all vacancies. TREASURER'S REPORT For State Work. Feb. 6. Butler County W. S. Party ................$25.00 Feb. 14. Dauphin County W. S. Party ............. 65.19 Feb. 20. Bucks County W. S. Party ............... 50.00 2 NEWS BULLETIN Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County Chairman, Mrs. George A. Pierson, 4724 Chester Avenue. Honorary Vice Chairmen, Mrs. Lucretia Blankenburg Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson Dr. Lucy L. W. Wilson Vice Chairmen Mrs. George A. Dunning Mrs. Harry E. Kohn Miss M. Elizabeth Clark Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill Mrs. Ralph P. Raiguel Secretary Mrs. E.Q.A. Ellis Treasurer Miss Belle Donehower Auditors Miss Sara D. Chambers Mrs. D.H. Atkins Executive Secretary Miss Marguerite Mitchell Headquarters: 1721-1723 Chestnut St. Bell Telephone, Spruce 2402 Office Hours: 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. March 1919 81 25 cents a year A WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS A blue pencil make at the paragraph indicates that your subscription expires with this, the March number. In renewing, kindly send 25 cents in cash or stamps to the "News Bulletin Committee," 1721 Chestnut street. With the present number we complete our second year. Will you not help us to make the third year the "best ever"? Financially and in every other way? If you have anything to say of interest to suffragists, say it through the "News Bulletin." It exists for you and for them. And whatever you do, remember to send us your renewal on the expiration of your subscription. An "Informal Talk" by Mrs. Walter C. Fox on the subject of her "Wartime Experiences Abroad" will be the occasion for a general social time for suffragists at the Shop, on March 22d, at 3.30, in the afternoon. Tickets may be had of Miss Mitchell for 50 cents and are on sale now at the Shop. Tea is included and a most enjoyable afternoon is anticipated. Come yourself and bring your friends. FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION The Fifth Annual Convention passed into history on Saturday, March 1st, at The Roosevelt, 2027 Chestnut street. It was well attended by the usual earnest women who frequent suffrage gatherings and augers well for the advancement of our cause during the coming year. After the hectic period of securing the all-necessary "delegate's badge" the members took their seats in the Convention Hall according to the sections designated by the district placards. The meeting was called to order (only a few minutes late) followed by the singing of the "Star-Spangled Banner" with Miss Anne McDonough and Miss Anna Harris Snyder leading, and Mrs. Pierson at the piano. Dr. Groves W. Drew followed with the invocation, when the usual order of business was taken up. The reading of the minutes of last year, the treasurer's report and the annual report of the chairman followed in turn. Then came the reports of the districts and of the various committees, all showing much excellent work accomplished during the past year notwithstanding the war conditions which made all effort doubly difficult. We should like to give these reports more fully, but the limited space here at our disposal makes it impossible to do this. Voting took place between 3 and 4 P.M., the delegates (271 all told) going and returning to the polls across the hall, in groups. At 4 P.M. Miss Marjorie Shuler of New York and Washington, addressed the Convention, easily holding her audience with her fine enthusiasm and appealing manner. She spoke briefly of the Federal Amendment and at some greater length of the Oklahoma campaign. Pledges amounting to $1270.00 were made towards next year's budget of $10,000.00 and the collection amounted to $35.06. Other reports then followed, among them that of the Resolutions Committee. The first resolution expressed appreciation of the efforts of President Wilson in behalf of our cause. The second of the loss we sustained at the death of the late Theodore Roosevelt. The third, of our continued non-partisan and non-militant policy, and the fourth and last resolution expressed the appreciation of the Convention to Mr. Reilly, proprietor of The Roosevelt, for the free use of the rooms. These resolutions were all carried unanimously. NEWS BULLETIN 3 The Chairman of Elections, Miss Chambers, then announced the successful candidates to be as follows: Chairman, Mrs. George A. Pierson; vice chairmen, Mrs. George A. Dunning, Mrs. Harry E. Koh, Miss M. Elizabeth Clark, Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill, Mrs. E.Q.A. Ellis; treasurer, Miss B. Donehower; auditors, Miss Sara D. Chambers and Mrs. D. H. Atkins. Mrs. Pierson as the new chairman gave a brief and cheery word of greeting and the fifth annual convention was brought to a close. LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT NOTES Fifteenth District. Chairman - Miss Anna Harris Snyder, 157 Carpenter Lane, Mt. Airy. A regular meeting of the district was held on Wednesday, March 12th, at 134 West Chelten Avenue. Mrs. William Albert Wood spoke on the "City Charter." Out of the total number of forty-two delegates entitled to vote at the Convention from this district forty were present. Only one district, the Fourth, showing a higher percentage. Seventeenth District. Chairman - Mrs. Iredell Eachus, 1248 North Fifty-seventh Street. The date of the next district meeting falling on the same date and hour as the suffrage meeting in Philomusian Club, it has been decided to attend that meeting in a body, and, if necessary hold a brief business session of the district afterwards, in one of the rooms of the club. Therefore, members will please make a note of this and come to the Philomusian Club, 3944 Walnut street, on Tuesday, March 18th, at 3 P.M. For further details of the meeting see notices elsewhere in this issue. At the last district meeting, held on February 25th at the home of Mrs. Taylor, the members greatly enjoyed an informal talk on the "Personal Life of President Wilson." by Mrs. Edward Parker Davis, finance chairman of the Central Committee, W.S.P. At this meeting a pledge of $300.00 was made for the county treasury for the coming year. Many new members have joined the working force of our district and we feel that our star is indeed in the ascendant. A rummage sale will be held in the district the latter part of March or the early part of April. Members having articles of clothing, etc., to contribute to this sale may send them any time to the home of Mrs. James M. Lingle, 4114 Parrish street. The place of the sale has not yet been determined upon. Twenty-fourth Ward: Mrs. James M. Lingle has again accepted the chairmanship for the Victory Loan in this ward and hopes to make it again a banner ward in the amount of money subscribed. Twenty-first District. Chairman - Miss Helen M. Fogg, 1015 South Forty-seventh Street. The next meeting of the district will be held on Friday, March 14th, at 8 P.M., at the home of Miss Margaret B. Power, 303 South Thirty-ninth street. Dr. Clara Marshall will address the meeting on "Women Physicians in the Making." All are welcome. NEW SUBSCRIBERS Mrs. D.S. Hoffman Mrs. S. Stout Mrs. F. G. Solon Mrs. Robb Mrs. M. Mellon Mrs. J.B. Macpherson Mrs. John Mustin Mrs. M. Harrington Miss F. E. Biswanger Mrs. M.W. Collet Mrs. Anna Weinstein Mrs. A. D. Fleck Mrs. Sara C. Stranahan Miss C.H. Wissmann Miss H.G. Rank Mrs. M.D. Edmonds Mrs. Anna M. Fischer Mrs. C. N. Kessler Miss Lily E. Ordish The Misses Carter Mrs. H.C. Chain Mrs. E. T. Lewis Mrs. Alma Hunel Mrs. S.D. Large Mrs. V. Norman Mrs. J.A. Hand Miss A and B Paxson Mrs. W. Battin Miss M.B. Reinhardt Dr. Eveline A. Douredoure Mrs. Alfred Cutinhirst Mrs. G. W. Jefferson Mrs. Frank Robinson Mrs. I.J. Schwartz Miss Dorothy Vogelsohn Miss A.L. Bret Spirella Corset Shop Miss Caroline F. Langstadter Miss Edith Davidson Dr. Marian Francis-Self 4 NEWS BULLETIN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST Do not forget our advertisers. They are all good suffragists. An invitation is extended to all suffragists to attend a suffrage meeting at the Philomusian Club, 3944 Walnut street, on Tuesday, March 18th, at 3 P.M. The speakers with their subjects will be as follows: Dr. Caroline M. Purnell, "Woman's Medical Work in France"; Mrs. George A. Piersol, "Suffrage Work in Philadelphia UP to Date," and Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, "Legislative Aspect of Suffrage During 1918-1919." Remember the date - March 18th, at 3 P.M. It having been found impossible to secure either new headquarters for the W.S.P. Red Cross Auxiliary, No. 226, or a successor to Mrs. Harris, who would be willing to assume the direction of the work, it was decided at a recent meeting of the Central Committee to disband. The Federal Amendment being still in abeyance, it has been decided to suspend the petition work in the Forty-sixth Ward until favorable action shall have been taken. The Fourth District was the banner district as regards delegates at the Convention. The district was entitled to sixteen and all were present. Hats off to the Fourth District! A QUICK LUNCH AND AN APPETIZING ONE is served DAILY [12-2.30] P.M. At our CAFETERIA 1721 Chestnut Street SUFFRAGISTS KNOW HOW Bell Phone Spruce 4151 PICTURES Mats Made to Order R. WILLIAMS Successor to H.L. Ross 14 South Eighteenth Street Philadelphia Manufacturer of PICTURE FRAMES PERSONAL Dr. and Mrs. George A. Piersol have announced the marriage in Paris of their daughter, Margaret Wessell, and Captain Robinson Murray, 38th Infantry, U.S.A. Captain and Mrs. Murray are expected home shortly. The sympathy of all, though somewhat late, will be extended to Miss Pauline Mitchell, sister of our secretary, who recently suffered a fractured arm. At last reports it was doing nicely. Miss Lida Stokes Adams and Mrs. Adams have taken up permanent residence in West Philadelphia. What is the Tenth District's loss is a very great gain for the Twenty-1st. Mrs. Edward Parker Davis and Miss Anna Harris Snyder were both present in the Senate on February 10th, when the last tragic vote was taken on the Federal Amendment. We announce with deep regret the recent and sudden death of Mr. Avelyn Foster. He was a faithful friend to suffrage and his services at the semi-weekly dances for enlisted men will not be soon forgotten. The sincere sympathy of all our members is hereby extended to Mrs. Foster, to whom our appreciation of her valuable services is likewise due. Phone: Spruce 3134 SPIRELLA CORSET SHOP 1720 Chestnut Street Philadelphia Made to Measure Corsets HOT OIL TREATMENT FOR THE HAIR Influenza robbed the scalp of its natural oil, causing injury to the hair roots. My combined method of electricity, hot oil and massage stimulates the hair follicles and promotes new growth. BESSIE P. GRIST, 119 S. 17th. It is the right of woman to have the ballot. It is the duty of man to give it, and we all need woman's help as we try to solve the many and terrible problems set before us. - Theodore Roosevelt. News Bulletin The Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA COUNTY Published Monthly at Headquarters 1723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia For the Purpose of Promoting a More Effectual Co-operation Among the Members of the Party. The News Bulletin is for All Suffragists. The Woman Suffrage Party Works for Both State and Federal Amendments by Non-Partisan and Non-Militant Methods. VOL. 1 No. 12 PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 1918 PRICE 3 cts per copy 25 cts a year STATE HEADQUARTERS 1606 Finance Building South Penn Square, Philadelphia. Woman's Oversea Hospitals of the U.S.A. This is the name selected by the National Association for the hospital unit which the National Convention last December adopted as a "war baby." In other words, as one of its lines of patriotic service, the National Association and its affiliated State Associations will finance this hospital unit. The Red Cross has given the equipment costing about $35,000. The maintenance for one year is estimated at $125,000. This unit has been accepted by the French Government for work among the women and children of France who have had no medical attention for the past two years as well as for military service. As stated in our December Bulletin Pennsylvania's assessment for this work is $50,00, [corrected $5,000] and this sum has been apportioned the various counties on the same basis as our yearly budget. Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, State Secretary, has consented to serve as general chairman of this work for Pennsylvania and it is requested that every county chairman appoint a Women's Oversea Hospital Committee without further delay. The chairman of Montgomery County is Dr. Elizabeth Spencer McCall and considerable success has been reported in collecting that county's quota. They say in politics, "every man has his price." The women of New York are saying: "Every woman has her principle." CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, GROUP NO. 1 Chairman, Mrs. George A. Piersol, 4724 Chester Avenue. As we go to press no date has been fixed for the consideration of the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment in the Senate. Therefore it is not too late to send letters to our two Senators urging them to vote favorably when the question is brought up for action. Address the Senators as follows: Hon. Boies Penrose, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. Your letter may be the last straw to break the camel's back of their resistance. Don't leave it for "George" to do. THE NEXT STEP It is most important for all suffragists to look to it that every voter enroll on Registration Day in April, advance notice of which is always given in the papers. Voters cannot vote at the Primaries on May 21st,, at which candidates are nominated for the Legislature of 1919, unless they have been previously enrolled. It is the next work to be done. Nothing else is as important (excepting to write to Senators Knox and Penrose.) Do not stop at the men folks of your family, but speak to every man you know and impress him with the golden opportunity that is his to help secure a decent, forward-looking, prohibition, Woman Suffrage Legislature. It can be done and it must be done. 5 NEWS BULLETIN FINANCE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT List of Contributions to the Woman Suffrage Party of Philadelphia Toward the State Pledge of $5000. 15th Legislative District $500.00 17th Legislative District 300.00 4th Legislative District 200.00 21st Legislative District 100.00 23d Legislative District 60.00 5th Legislative District 50.00 6th Legislative District 25.00 Mr. H.F. Dittman 5.00 Mrs. E.B. Leaf 60.00 Miss Gertrude Atkinson 5.00 Mrs. Clinton R. Woodruff 5.00 Mrs. Bessie R. McClure 5.00 Mrs. Horatio W. Nelson 5.00 Mrs. Morton Snellenburg 25.00 Mrs. Mary W. Lippincott 25.00 A Friend 50.00 Mrs. Ralph Davenport 5.00 Judge James Gay Gordon 20.00 Mrs. Francis I. DuPont 100.00 Mr. William Jay Turner 300.00 Anonymous 5.00 Mrs. Charles James Rhoads 2.00 Mrs. E. DuPont Perot 100.00 Miss Emma Klahr 100.00 Anonymous 200.00 Miss Margaret Outerbridge1.00 Mrs. S. Burns Weston 5.00 Mrs. Helen V. Granlles 5.00 Miss Helen Moore Fogg 5.00 Anonymous 5.00 Mrs. Isaac H. Clothier 100.00 Mr. Wolstan Dixey 25.00 Mrs. Van Gasken 10.00 Mrs. Joseph A. Snellenburg 25.00 Miss L.N. Platt 25.00 Mrs. Wolstan Dixey 25.00 Mrs. J. Dallas Seiberling 10.00 Mrs. H.E. Fahnestock 10.00 Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson 10.00 Mrs. Charles Hollander 3.00 Mrs. Edmund Stirling 10.00 Mrs. Samuel B. Scott 2.00 Miss Ada Eisen 1.00 Miss Tillie Silk 1.00 Mrs. Mary S. Gibbons 5.00 Mrs. J. Edmund Lutz 10.00 Mrs. Albert M. Brandeis 5.00 Mrs. Jean Kane Foulke 10.00 Dr. E.M. Hiestand-Moore 10.00 Dr. L.L. W. Wilson 10.00 Mrs. Frederick E. Drinker 5.00 Dr. Alice M. Norton 5.00 Mrs. Anna M. Orme 10.00 Miss Anna J. McFarlan 5.00 Dr. Marian Francis-Self 50.00 A Friend 5.00 Mrs. N. Allen Stockton 1.00 Carried forward $2676.00 Brought forward $2676.00 Miss Edith A. Turner 1.00 Mrs. Bernard Berens 2.00 Miss L.N. Platt 1.00 Mrs. D. Anne Frost 1.00 The Misses Illman 2.00 Dr. Evelyn A. Douredoure 1.00 Mrs. E.Q.A. Ellis 10.00 Mrs. James B. Mingus 1.00 Miss Ella Williams Grim 1.00 Mrs. Thomas A. Logue 1.00 Dr. Ella Ridgway Ziegler 1.00 Mrs. E. Loutrel 1.00 Total $2699.00 Previously acknowledged 1243.00 Grand total $3942.00 ANNA HARRIS SNYDER Carpenter Lane, Germantown LIFE INSURANCE AS A WAR MEASURE Never in the history of the world have women been called upon to assume so many responsibilities. All avenues of economic endeavor are open to them, and more women are engaged in business than ever before. Women need to protect their earnings and a life insurance policy as a war measure is of priceless value to their families. Insurance in its essence is helpful to all mankind. Emerson says, "He is great who confers the most benefits," and a policy with the Equitable Life Assurance Society, the strongest company in the world, will give women the protection they so greatly need. MRS. WILLIAM B. DERR, Special Agent, Equitable Life Assurance Society, Commercial Trust Company, Philadelphia, Pa. FIREMEN'S BAZAAR Mrs. Harris, chairman of the W. S. P. Red Cross Auxiliary No. 226, and Mrs. Gazzam, at the request of Chief Murphy, of the Fire Department, attended the Woman's Auxiliary of the Pension Fund Committee in the interest of the Fireman's Bazaar, April 3 to 13th, to consult as to the best ways and means by which suffragists could lend help. At our Central Committee meeting it was resolved that, as the firemen had proved such staunch friends of suffrage, we would take a booth. All suffragists are called on to support enthusiastically this good cause. See Calendar of Events for further details. 6 NEWS BULLETIN Sixth District. Chairman,Dr.Alice M.Norton, 1610 Pine Street. The sixth Legislative District has been busily engaged in writing letters to our Senators urging them to vote favorably on the Federal Amendment. Many prominent men of the dis-trict have promised to send telegrams when the psychological moment shal have arrived. Fifteenth District. Chairman, Mrs. F. J. Giering, 346 Church Lane, Germantown. The March meeting will be held Wednesday, the 13th, at 2:30 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. Gierimg, 346 Church Lane, Germantown. The April meeting will be held at Mrs. Gabriel's home in Oak Lane, Mrs. J.S, Willoughby, 203 West Upsal street, is taking new subscip-tions for "The Woman Citizens." Any one desiring to make contibu-tions to the Rummage Sale may com-municate with Mrs. Ralph Raiguel, 5317 Wakefeild street. Congratulations are extended to Dr. Edith M. Clime Weber and Mr. Weber, of Fern Rock on the arrival of a much-desired addition to their family, Carl Frederick Weber. The district has sustained a loss in the untimely death of Dr. Connor had for a long time been an ardent suf-fragist and was always a liberal con-tributor and cheerful advisor. Seventeenth District. Chairman, Mrs. Iredell Eachus, 1248 North Fifty-seventh Street, The seventeenth Legislative District will hold its next regular meeting at the home of Mrs. William Kline, 5154 Parkside avenue, Tuesday, March 19, at 3 P.M. The Seventeenth Districthad its full quota of delegates at the Convention. seventy-one in number, and pledged $300 for the county for the year. The Red Criss Unit of the Seven-teenth District is held at the apart-ments of Mrs. A.R. Taylor, "The Edgerton." Parksideavenue and Forty-second street, every Thursday, from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. All are welcome. Please bring scissors and thimble. Twenty-first District. Chairman, Mrs. H.E. Fahnestock, 915 Farragut Terrace. Although the chairman has held the office but a short time she has been most successful in securing in securing the co-op-eration of the women of the district for the various activities in which the district is engaged. Many letters have been sent to Senators Knox and Pen-rose. Representative George P. Dar-row was interviewed prior to the vote in the House and was one of those who voted favorably. Red Cross work comes on apace at Mrs. Piersol's home every Wednesday from 10 to 4. How-ever more workers could be kept bust. All are welcome. The district pledged at the Country Convention $100.00 toward the country budget. The regular monthly meeting of the district is held the first Friday of the month at 8 o'clock P.M. The place of meeting is subject to change. Twenty-third District. Chairman, Mrs. Geo H. Wobensmith, 1813- West Ontario Street. The Twenty-third Legislative Dis-trict held its regular meeting in the chapel of odd Fellows' Home, Seven-teenth and Tioga streets, on Tuesday evening, March 5th. The speaker of the evening was Miss Anna Pratt, di-rectress of Protective Work Among Girls. Miss Pratt is connected with the Fosdick Commision. The month-ly meetings of the district are held on the first Tuesday of the month at 8 P.M. The place of meeting is sub-ject to change. Write to Senators Knox and Pen-rose. Personal The Philadelphia County Commitee accepted with regret the resignation of Mrs. Frederick E. Drinker as execu-tive secretary. That office is now be-ing filled by Miss Pauline Mitchell, a former organizer for the Woman Suffrage Party. The Woman Suffrage Party hereby extends its sympathy to the Misses Lewis, of 1535 Pine street, for the loss they have sustained in the death of their mother, Mrs. Anna K. Lewis. "Democracy is ineffici-ent unless it is complete, and where one-half ofthe citizenry are depriv-ed of their politicalrights there can be but a half democracy." - Dr. Frank Crane. News Bulletin The Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania Philadelphia County Published Monthly at Headquarters 1723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia For the Purpose of Promoting a More Effectual Co-operation Among the Members of the Party. The News Bulletin is for All Suffragists. The Woman Suffrage Party Works for Both State and Federal Amendments by Non-Partisan and Non-Militant Methods. Vol. 1 No. 12 Philadelphia, March 1918 Price 3 cts. per copy 25 cts. a year State Headquarters 1606 Finance Building, South Penn Square, Philadelphia. Women's Oversea Hospitals of the U.S.A. This is the name selected by the Na-tional Association for the hospital unit which the National Convention last December adopted as a "war baby." In other words, as one its lines of patriotic service, the National Asso-ciation and its affiliated State Associa-tions will finance this hospital unit. The Red Cross has given the equip-ment costing about $35,000. The main-tenance for one year is estimated at $125,000. This unit has been accept-ed by the French Government for work among the women and children of France who have had no medical attention for the past two years as well as for military service. As stated in our December Bulletin Pennsyl-vania's assessment for this work is $5,000, and this sum has been appor-tioned the various counties on the same basis as our yearly budget. Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, State Secretary, has consented to serve as general chair-man of this work for Pennsylvania and it is requested that every county chairman appoint a Women's Oversea Hospital Committee without further delay. The chairman for Montgomery County is Dr. Elizabeth Spencer Mc-Call and considerable success has been reported in collecting that county's quota. They say in politics, "every man has his price." The women of New York are saying: "Every woman has her principle." Congressional District, Group No. 1 Chairman, Mrs. George A. Peirsol, 4724 Chester Avenue. As we go to press no date has been fixed for the consideration of the Fed-eral Woman Suffrage Amendment in the Senate. Therefore it is not too late to send letters to our two Senators urging them to vote favorably when the question is brought up for action. Address the Senators as follows: Hon. Boies Penrose, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. Hon. Philander C. Knox, Senate Of-fice Building, Washington, D.C. Your letter may be the last straw to break the camel's back of their resis-tance. Don't leave it for "George" to do. The next step It is most important for all suffra-gists to look to it that every voter en-roll on Registration Day in April, ad-vance notice of which is always given in the papers. Voters cannot vote at the Primaries on May 21st, at which candidates are nominated for the Legislature of 1919, unless they have been previously enrolled. It is the next work to be done. Nothing else is as important (excepting to write to Sen-ators Knox and Penrose.) Do not stop at the men folks of your family, but speak to every man you know and impress him with the golden oppor-tunity that is his to help secure a de-cent, forward-looking, prohibition, Woman Suffrage Legislature. It can be done and it must be done. 2 NEWS BULLETIN Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County Chairman Mrs. George A. Dunning, 15th South Twenty-first Street Honorary Vice-Chairmen Mrs. Lucretia Blankenburg Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson Dr. Lucy L. W. Wilson Vice-Chairmen Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill Mrs. William B. Deer Mrs. Richard H. Day Dr. E.M. Hiestand-Moore Mrs. Ferrer Brinton Secretary Mrs. E.Q.A. Ellis Treasurer Mrs. Harry E. Kahn Auditors Miss Sara D. Chambers Miss Anna H. Snyder Executive Secretary Miss Pauline Mitchell Headquarters: 1721-1723 Chestnut Street Bell Telephone: Spruce 2402 Office Hours, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. March 1918 25 cents a year A WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS A blue pencil mark at this paragraph indicated that your subscription expires with the March number and that your renewal for another year "is a consummation devoutly to be wished." We desire to retain not only all of our old subscribers but to acquire many new ones as well. Enclosed you will find a renewal subscription blank. Please send 25 cents in cash or stamps, whichever is more convenient. Either will be gladly welcomed. The Twenty-first District has to its credit this month thirteen new subscribers to the "News Bulletin," while there were eight from the Seventeenth District and five each from the Fifteenth and Twenty-third. Montgomery County also sent us five new names. The rest were scattering. Which district will win the blue ribbon next month? IN THE SPRING "In the spring a woman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of" new subscribers for the "News Bulletin." Only 25 cents a year. W.S.P RED CROSS AUXILIARY NO. 226 Chairman, Mrs. Raymond J. Harris, 1843 South Broad Street. The past two months have been active ones for the members of the W. S.P. Red Cross, Auxiliary No. 226. Seventy shirts and fifty pairs of pajama suits were turned in on March 1st. In addition to this the following donations were made: One knit Afghan of squares, on which fifty pairs of hands worked, was presented by Dr. F.A. deFord; four pairs of knitted socks made and donated by Mrs. M.B. Watt; three helmets; twenty-five pillows; fifty pillow cases; twenty-six wash-cloths and seventy-seven handkerchiefs. In addition to the donations to the Red Cross the following articles were donated by our members to the Emergency Aid: One hundred discarded kid gloves, one muff, nineteen comfort pillows and one knitted cap. To the base hospital of the Methodist Hospital a quantity of old towels was donated. Mrs. George A. Piersol has purchased a knitting machine for making socks. Hereafter this will be used by the Twenty-first District Unit for making all of the socks of that unit. They hope to turn out many pairs. Twenty-five pounds of knitting yarn have been distributed among our members and it is being made up as rapidly as possible into sweaters, helmets, wristlets and scarfs. Mrs. Harry E. Kahn donated a Victrola and some records to the Detention Hospital at the Navy Yard. In addition to this the usual donations of fruit and candy have been made. ENLISTED MEN'S PARTIES Chairman, Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam, 265 South Nineteenth Street. Our enlisted men's parties have been so successful and the demand is so great that the Woman Suffrage Party proposes to keep its headquarters, 1721 Chestnut street, open every evening in the week, including Sundays, as a reading and writing room for the boys. According to the report at the Convention over $1500.00 have passed thought the chairman's hands since the "parties" began. We must not forget that we were the first group to give "parties" for soldiers and sailors. NEWS BULLETIN 3 FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION The Fourth Annual Convention of the Philadelphia County W.S.P. will go down in the suffrage annals of Philadelphia as the banner convention. It was a great success and it has set the standard for all future conventions. Many things combined to make it the success that it proved to be. The weather, the accommodations, the contest over the office of chairmanship, the various distinguished speakers of the day, the assistance of those who so kindly lent their talent to us in the evening, the publicity afforded through the "News Bulletin" and the general press and last, but not least, the hard work of the committee - for it did work hard for days beforehand. There are many details of arrangement that go into the making of a successful convention and in this case none was over-looked. It may seem a little as if we were "blowing our own trumpet," but we think we may be forgiven just this once if we stop for a minute to congratulate ourselves before again plunging into the maelstrom of our respective official duties. It would take two or three "New Bulletins" to tell of all the day's happenings, so we will not attempt it in the small space herein allotted. Mrs. Dunning was re-elected as chairman for the coming year. The other officers were practically the same as last year with the exception of some changes among the vice-chairmen. A complete list of the officers may be seen on page 2 of this issue. The Convention of 1918 is over. Here's to the Convention of 1919! Let it look to its laurels! SUFFRAGE AND PROHIBITION Mrs. George A. Dunning was one of the speakers at a patriotic meeting held at the New Century Club on Wednesday, the 13th of February. Woman Suffrage and prohibition were the two war measures under discussion. Dr. C.S. Swift, secretary of the Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon League, spoke in favor of prohibition and Fletcher W. States, member of the 1917 Legislature, told "Why He Will Vote for Woman Suffrage." All speakers emphasized the necessity of electing a Legislature for 1919 which will ratify both amendments, for although ours has not yet passed the Senate we have no other thought than that it will pass. We know it will, because "failure is impossible." NEW SUBSCRIBERS Mrs. Howard E. Fahnestock Miss Alice Jastrow Mrs. Charles W. Young Mrs. Leo E. Weiss Mrs. John O. Gakeler Miss Helen Robert's Mrs. John Milton Coin Mrs. A.E. Mims Mrs. J.E. Rawlings Mrs. Dudley T. Corning Mrs. A.M. Engarde Mrs. H.F. Hall Mrs. Richard Peters Mrs. Albert Brandeis Mrs. W.E. Brenner Mrs. C. Reinhardt Mrs. Walter E. Andrews Miss Irene Reese Miss Fannie B. Lytle Mrs. Florence A. Janney Mrs. Edmund Stirling Mrs. J.J. Dull Mrs. Frank Shuman Mrs. R.A. Shoneman Mrs. John Mustard Mrs. J. Dallas Mrs. C. Miller Miss C.T. Moffett Miss Ruth Immell Mrs. Ella Lex Mrs. S.A. Ashbrook Mrs. L.A. Marsh Miss Louise F. Wilke Mrs. S.M. Wilson Mrs. H.W. Nelson Mrs. A.O. Leighton Mrs. F. Hurst Mrs. L.W. Godfrey Mrs. Jerome Martin Mrs. H.C. Beitzel Miss Margaret Williams Mrs. H.R. Edwards Mrs. W.B. Goodall Miss Natalie Lundell Mrs. Henry Gibbons Mrs. William Annear Mrs. William Daily Mrs. Frank H. Jones Mrs. A.C. Rommel Mrs. D.A. Frost Write to Senators Knows and Penrose. Spring Conference. At the annual Spring Conference plans for primary and pre-election work will be submitted for ratification. Representatives of the Woman's Committee, Pennsylvania Division, Council of National Defense will be invited to speak. Additional lines of patriotic service will be suggested and a prominent speaker will address the evening meeting. NEWS BULLETIN 4 WAR-TIME PROHIBITION The new order of General Biddle permitting our Army and Navy to partake of intoxicants in "homes" of their own family and others met with sharp disapproval from the suffragists. The War-Time Prohibition Association of the State of Pennsylvania, of which executive committee Mrs. Gazzam is chairman, passed resolutions protesting against such an order; further action will be taken on the subject by this committee and others working for the efficiency of our fighting forces. Miss Sara D. Chambers, one of our auditors and a member of the Seventeenth District, addressed the Suffrage Committee of the Philomusian Club at Fortieth and Walnut streets, on Thursday afternoon, the 14th of February. Mrs. Edward S. Zieber, was the chairman of the meeting as it was through her efforts this committee originated. It is a step in the right direction and much good should come to the Suffrage cause by means of it. We would call the attention of our subscribers and others to the Life Insurance notice in this issue. Mrs. Derr, one of our vice-chairman, is a special agent for the society mentioned and will be glad to have those desiring to take out a policy to consult her before doing so. We know that she will give the matter her best attention. A card party for the benefit, on a fifty-fifty basis, of the W.S.P. Red Cross Auxiliary No. 226 and the Woman Suffrage Party Shop, will be held on Tuesday, March 12th, at 3 P.M., 1721 Chestnut street. Tickets, 50 cents. Come and bring your friends. The Seventeenth District made a fine showing at the Convention with its full delegation of seventy-one members. Our hats are off to the leader to whom much credit is due. The flowers which decorated the tables at the banquet the night of the Convention were donated by the London Flower Shop, 1800 Chestnut street. Write to Senators Knox and Penrose. COMMITTEES Philadelphia County - Second and fourth Mondays of the month at 2 P.M., 1723 Chestnut street. Chairman, Mrs. George A. Dunning. Enlisted Men's Parties - Every Tuesday, at 3 P.M., 1721 Chestnut street. Chairman, Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam. Congressional District Group No. 1 Third Wednesday of the month at 3 P.M. State headquarters, 1606 Finance Building, South Penn Square. Chairman, Mrs. George A. Piersol. CALENDAR OF EVENTS Long Table Luncheons - Second and fourth Mondays of the month at 12.45 P.M., 1721 Chestnut street. Price, 50 cents. Parties for Enlisted Men - Every Tuesday and Saturday evening at 7.00 P.M. Tuesday, 1721 and 1725 Chestnut street. Saturday, Cooper Battalion Hall, Twenty-third and Christian streets. "At Home" to the enlisted men on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, from 5 to 10 P.M., 1721 Chestnut st. Tuesday, March 12th - Card Party at 1721 Chestnut street, 3 P.M. Tickets, 50 cents. April 3d to 13th, inclusive - Suffrage Booth at Firemen's Pension Fund Bazaar, Moose Banquet Hall, 1314 North Broad street, 7 P.M. to 12 P.M. Admission, 10 cents. Season tickets, $1. Harry M. Miller, Common Councilman from the First Ward, who was one of several who opposed a resolution in favor of Woman Suffrage in Councils a short time ago has since announced himself in favor of suffrage. He signed his name to a request that the Pennsylvania Senators vote to approve the Susan B. Anthony Amendment when it comes up for action in the Senate. IN MEMORIAM The cause of Woman Suffrage has lost a devoted friend and advocate in the death of Henry Justice, late Secretary of the Pennsylvania Men's League which occurred on March 1st. The sympathy of all suffragists will be extended to his bereaved family and he will be remembered for his long service in the Cause. Locations of United Auto Stores: PHILADELPHIA, 33rd & Chestnut Sts. WILLIAMSPORT, 254-258 N. 3rd St. CHESTER, 310 Edgmont Ave. WILMINGTON, S. W. Cor. 10th & Orange Sts. ATLANTIC CITY, 2604 Atlantic Ave. SCRANTON, 222 Adams Ave. READING, 12 N. 5th St. HARRISBURG, Front & Market Sts., (Hershey building.) ALLENTOWN, 146 N. 7th St. WAYNESBORO, 105 West Main St. POTTSVILLE, 200 W. Center St. CHAMBERSBURG, 67 Lincoln Way, W. UNITED STORES [*AUTO INC.*] --and now comes the chain tire and accessory store Just about a year ago we opened an automobile tire and accessory store at 33rd and Chestnut Streets for the purpose of testing certain merhandising ideas and service features with a view of establishing a system of like stores throughout the country, should the project prove satisfactory. The success of this store has exceeded out most generous estimates, as the result of which the second link in the chain of United Auto Stores, Inc., opened in Chester at 310 Edgmont Avenue on Monday, Oct. 13, the third store on Monday, Oct. 20, at 2604 Atlantic Avenue, Atlantic City. Our fourth store opened in Reading Monday, Nov. 10, and we have already chosen locations for a total of 12 stores to date. It will interest you to follow our progress. Sooner or later you will find it to your advantage to form an associate or active connection with this rapidly growing enterprise. This is one of a series of advertisements for the purpose of acquainting the public, manufacturers, automobile owners, investors, salesmen and store managers with the purpose and progress of the United Auto Stores, Inc. NEWS BULLETIN 6 National Woman Suffrage Association BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, President NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 171 MADISON AVENUE Telephone, 4818 Murray Hill NEW YORK FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION CHICAGO, at the CONGRESS HOTEL FEBRUARY 12-18 MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW TO ATTEND THIS, THE LAST AND GREATEST SUFFRAGE CONVENTION AND THE JOINT CONVENTION OF THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS A LETTER FROM LADY NANCY ASTOR In reply to a letter sent from our Headquarters, congratulating Lady Astor on her election to Parliament the following letter was received: 4, ST. JAMES' SQUARE S. W. 1. 24th December, 1919 Dear Mrs. Ellis: Will you please convey to the members of your Club my very sincere thanks for their kind congratulations on my election, which I greatly appreciate. I feel that it is a great honour, and even greater responsibility, that has been conferred upon me, and I hope to do all in my power to prove worthy of it. Alas, there is much to be done, and I shall hope for the co-operation and support of all my friends, and even my enemies when it comes to that. Yours sincerely, NANCY ASTOR. NEW SUBSCRIBERS Mrs. Andrew F. Lippi Mrs. Edward W. Biddle Mrs. Archibald R. Harmon Mrs. I. N. Broomell Miss Laura H. Carnell Mrs. Robert C. Smith Miss Beulah A. Fenimore Dr. Ella D. Kilgus Miss Sarah L. Howell Mrs. Henry A. Roberts Mrs. William G. Knowles Mrs. S. W. Sargent Mrs. Parke Sutton Bell Phone PICTURES Spruce 4151 Mats Made to Order R. WILLIAMS Successor to H. L. Ross 14 South Eighteenth Street Philadelphia Manufacturer of PICTURE FRAMES The News Bulletin of The Philadelphia League of Women Citizens "Forth and Forever Forward" Vol. 3 No. 9 Philadelphia, February 1920 Price 3 cts. per copy 25 cts. a year STANDING RULES of the PHILADELPHIA LEAGUE OF WOMEN CITIZENS I--Dues The annual dues of members of the Philadelphia League of Women Citizens shall extend from date of enrollment to twelve months thereafter. II--Enrollment (a) Any person enrolling a new member shall send the name and dues of such member to the treasurer of the ward in which the new member resides. (b) The ward treasurer shall send to the county treasurer on the first day of each month 75 per cent of all dues, together with the names of the members and the amount of dues, retaining 25 per cent, according to the state and county by-laws. (c) It shall be the duty of the ward treasurer to attend to the renewal of all memberships. III--Eligibility of Delegates Dues of new members must be paid at least six weeks prior to the County Convention in order that such member shall be eligible as delegates. (Keep this for future reference.--Ed.) THE CITIZENSHIP SCHOOL A GREAT SUCCESS The Citizenship School, held in Witherspoon Hall, January 9th to 15th inclusive, was a great success. The sessions were all well attended by earnest, thoughtful women who came with the definite purpose of seeking information on the question of government--national, state and city. The various subjects were presented from many points of view, and those attending left the meetings inspired with a greater zeal and a firmer resolve to do all in their power to make our government a real democracy in reality as well as in name and to keep ever before us the vision of a better day. Many new members were secured for the Philadelphia League of Women Citizens. THE PANKHURST LECTURE As we go to press we are encouraged to believe Mrs. Pankhurst's lecture will be well attended. Many tickets have been disposed of and it is expected many more will be sold on the evening of the lecture. We wish all our members were to share in this treat of hearing again this great English leader. HONOR CONFERRED ON DR. LUCY L. W. WILSON Dr. Lucy L. W. Wilson, one of the honorary vice-chairmen of the Philadelphia League of Women Citizens and principal of the South Philadelphia High School for Girls, was recently elected vice-president of the State Education Association. FOUR MORE STARS IN OUR FIRMAMENT Since our last issue Rhode Island, Kentucky, Oregon and Indiana have "gone and done likewise," making twenty-six states in all which have ratified the Federal Amendment. This leaves but ten to ratify before we shall have "come into our own" as "really truly" citizens of these United States! 2 NEWS BULLETIN Philadelphia League of Women Citizens. Chairman, Mrs. George A. Piersol, 4724 Chester Avenue. Honorary Vice Chairmen, Mrs. Lucretia Blankenburg Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson Dr. Lucy L. W. Wilson Vice Chairmen Mrs. George A. Dunning Mrs. Harry E. Kohn Miss Hellen M. Fogg Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill Secretary Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellis Treasurer Miss Belle Donehower Executive Secretary Dr. Clara L. C. Douglass Headquarters Room 211 Franklin Building 133 S. 12 Street Bell Telephone: Walnut 1159 Office Hours: 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Published by the News Bulletin Committee, at Headquarters, ten months in the year. February 20 25 cents a year. A WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS A blue pencil mark at this paragraph indicates that your subscription expires with this number. In renewing kindly send 25¢ in cash or stamps to the "News Bulletin Committee." PLEDGES, CONTRIBUTIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES RECEIVED SINCE LAST REPORT Mrs. Lillie M. Curtis, County pledge $25.00 Mrs. L.K. Pierce, County pledge 5.00 Mrs. James M. Lingle, Count pledge 25.00 Mrs. Honor Walsh, County pledge 25.00 Mrs. Jacob Fritz, State pledge (24th Ward) 5.00 New memberships 165.00 $230.00 Previously acknowledged, 623.21 Total $853.21 BELLE DONEHOWER Treasurer WARD NEWS NINTH WARD Chairman: Miss Emma Klahr 1907 Chestnut Street The first Ward meeting was held on January 6th, at which the following officers were elected: Chairman, Miss Emma Klahr; vice-chairman, Mrs. George A. Dunning; treasurer, Mrs. Thomas J. Curtis; secretary, Mrs. Mark W. Collett. Two division leaders were secured. On February 22nd, at 8 P.M., at a Forum on Citizenship, to be held at the Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut Street, Mrs. Jean Kane Foulke will speak to the question: "Shall Women Form a Separate Party?" All those interested are invited to attend. TWENTY-FOURTH WARD Chairman: Mrs. James M. Lingle 4114 Parrish Street Although the 24th Ward is not yet re-organized under the Philadelphia League of Women Citizens, much preliminary work is being accomplished along the lines of the securing of division leaders, etc., etc. We hope soon to become a full-fledged working ward unit. Every member of the Philadelphia League of Women Citizens should possess a copy of the Manual of Citizenship. It was compiled for the Pennsylvania League of Women Citizens and is very necessary for a better understanding of the workings of our government. Copies may be had for 50 cents at our Headquarters, 211 Franklin Building. TWENTY-SEVENTH WARD Chairman: Mrs. C. Bowyer Vaux. 4328 Sansom Street. On Monday evening, January 19th, a meeting of the Philadelphia League of Woman Citizens, 27th Ward, was held in the Lecture Room of the West Philadelphia Free Public Library at eight o'clock. After a brief business meeting, Mrs. Edward W. Biddle, President of the Civic Club, addressed the audience on the subject of the New Philadelphia Charter. Mrs. Biddle's talk was most interesting and instructive. The forty persons who were present felt well repaid for braving the wintry weather and the slippery walking. NEWS BULLETIN 3 A monthly meeting of the League in the 27th Ward will be held on the third Monday evening of each month. The organization now numbers sixty members in this Ward. TWENTY-NINTH WARD Chairman: Miss Anna J. McFarland 2525 Jefferson Street The Twenty-ninth Ward League held a meeting on January 7th at the home of the chairman. The following officers were elected: Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Elizabeth Caddell Parker; Secretary, Mrs. Marie Plummer and Miss Rose Reddick, treasurer. THIRTY-FIFTH WARD Mrs. Franklin T. Cheney Bustleton, Philadelphia Mrs. Clinton Smith has accepted the leadership of Somerton and Miss Eleanor A. Evans that of Bustleton. Mrs. George A. Piersol was the speaker at educational meetings held in the Watson Comly School and in the William C. Jacobs School on the afternoon of January 22nd, speaking at 1 P.M. and 3:10 P.M., respectively. She will also Speak in Fox Chase on February the second on the purposes and aims of the Philadelphia League of Women Citizens. THIRTY-EIGHTH WARD Chairman: Mrs. Blitz 3817 North Seventeenth Street A meeting to organize the 38th Ward League of Women Citizens was held Tuesday evening, January 20th, at Odd Fellows Hall. Mrs. Piersol gave a splendid talk and helped us in our organization. Mrs. Blitz, 3817 N. 17th Street, was elected Chairman, Miss Florence Bernheimer, Secretary, and Miss Nettie L. Hahn, Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary. Miss Clara Halpen, Miss Sabina Loeb and Miss Greenewald were appointed on a committee to send out notices of meetings, etc. It was arranged to hold meetings the third Tuesday of every month at Odd Fellows Home, 17th and Tioga Streets, until further notice. FORTY-FIRST WARD Chairman: Mrs. Frank Shuman 3400 Disston Street, Tacony The Women of the 41st Ward met at Mrs. Shuman's home, 3400 Disston Street, Tacony, Thursday evening, January 22nd. We discussed the Citizenship School and hope with the help of our teachers to be able to arrange for several classes to be held in the homes of our members in different parts of the ward. We are planning to raise money for the ward and to secure as many new members as possible. The officers of the former Sixteenth District, all being residents of the 41st Ward, have consented to serve as the officers of the new ward organization. DANCE AT THE RITTENHOUSE GIVEN BY THE PHILADELPHIA LEAGUE OF WOMEN CITIZENS This is a league of liberty and light, Of freedom linked with knowledge of the right, Of truth with vision--clear-eyed, brave and strong-- A justice League to help the world along. And every soul shall nobly do its part When mind and reason guide the kindly heart. Then victory, through trial and darkness won, Shall stand unshadowed in the noonday sun. --Wolstan Dixey The dance Friday evening, January 16th, proved a great success socially and financially. Altho it was a stormy, cold night a big crown turned out and the ball-room was packed, twelve o'clock coming all too soon. Everyone was delighted with the music furnished by George W. Johnson's orchestra, the best to be had. One simply could not help dancing and several requests have been made to repeat it. This is a dancing age and age makes no difference. Now that prohibition is actually in effect people will look for diversion and amusement, and parents will endorse an affair conducted as this was, where the young people can spend a pleasant evening in the right atmosphere. The success of the affair is due to a few women who actually worked and worked hard. It shows, however, what can be accomplished if we will give of our labor and time unstintingly for a few days and put our hearts into the work. Many women of our organization, who would undoubtedly have gladly helped us, were just as busy on other good work--the classes in citizenship, the drive for the Woman's Medical College and the Pankhurst lecture. Great credit is due Mrs. Ralph Raiguel, who not only sold tickets and had a delightful party of sweet young girls and fine young men in attendance, but took charge of three punch bowls, having pretty girls to assist, and contributed the punch as well. Miss Elizabeth McClelland also rendered valuable service at the flowing bowls. Miss Adelaide Borah, who always proves a winner in anything she undertakes, appeared with a party of twenty guests. Mrs. Katherine Halligan, who never fails to help our work along, bought thirty-five tickets and added a splendid group to our party. Mr. E. B. P. Carrier bought twenty-five tickets and has a party of twenty-five unattached young men who helped to keep things moving. Mrs. M. D. Edmonds handled the publicity in a most efficient manner, also disposing of many tickets. Mrs. Albert E. Burns was one of our door-"men", and had a group of lovely young people in attendance. Mrs. Phil E. Hughes put her best efforts into the work, selling a large number of tickets and adding her party of friends. Mrs. William D. Chambers assisted us in a most substantial manner, bringing per party of friends and being a door-"man" also. Dr. Clara L. C. Douglass, one of our efficient stand-bys, had a party of young people, and is declared a most lovable chaperone. Mrs. N. J. Dilworth of Logan, was on hand with a party from that hustling section. We owe a special vote of appreciation to Mrs. Benjamin H. Ulman and Mrs. George F. Goldsmith for their most efficient work in handling the wardrobe, which brought us in $50.00. Many women of our organization, personal friends and acquaintances gave liberally to help make the affair a success. The printing of the tickers and the dance programs were donated by Mr. Edward B. P. Carrier. Several young men made requests for programs after the dance, being interested in the suffrage facts therein. Anyone wishing programs can get a few remaining ones at Headquarters. At this writing I am unable to give the total receipts, as some belated contributors and holders of tickets are yet to be heard from. I think I am safe in estimating a net figure of $450.00, but I am earnestly hoping we will go over the top, reaching our aim of $500.00. Among the contributing patronesses were: Mrs. Lewis L. Smith, Mrs. George A. Dunning, Mrs. Ralph Raiguel, Mrs. Allen N. Hill, Mrs. Phil E. Hughes, Mrs. William D. Chambers, Miss Sara D. Chambers, Mrs. E. B. Leaf, Miss Margaret McK. Wilcox, Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill, Miss M. E. Russell, Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellis, Mrs. William D. Derr, Mrs. Joseph Gabriel, Mrs. John G. Fleckballa, Mrs. James F. Gledhill, Miss Adelaide Borah, Mrs. M. D. Edmonds, Mrs. Harry C. Dunn, Mrs. George A. Sigel, Mrs. Wilmer Krusen, Mrs. Charles Day, Miss Emma Klahr, Mrs. M. J. McMenamin, Mrs. George W. Johnson, Mrs. Albert Oehrle, Mrs. William Tetlow, Miss Ann Harned, Mrs. Holms Walker, Mrs. John Greenwald, Mrs. Charles M. Reeves, Mrs. Iredell Eachus, Mrs. Ralph Keenan, miss Belle Donehower, miss Gertrude Atkinson, Mrs. Samuel Russell, Mrs. Charles Peary, Mrs. Fredrick G. Ruppman, Mrs. J. L. Willoughby, Mrs. Katherine Halligan, Dr. Alice M. Norton, Mr. M. M. Sabine, Mrs. Charles Leavett, Mrs. George A. Pierson, Mrs. Edward Parker Davis, Mrs. Harry E. Kohn, Mrs. Albert E. Burns, Dr. Katherine Starkey, Mrs. N. J. Dilworth, Miss M. Elizabeth Clark, Mrs. Frank Shuman, Dr. Clara L. C. Douglass, Mrs. Francis X. Dercum, Miss Helena Guest, Mrs. James H. Pickett, Miss F. Arline Tryon, Mrs. William H. Clowney and Mrs. Ralph Mellor. Among the personal friends and friends of the cause of whom we also gratefully acknowledge contributions were: Mr. Frank Toomey, Mrs. William Bateman, Mrs. Albert Chance, Dr. Charles A. Van Dervoort, Mr. John Buch, Mr. Bloch, Mr. J. Lawrence, Mr. Walter Dalsimer, Miss Carrie Rosenthal, Miss LillianJones, Mrs. Taylor, Mr. Walter Kip, Mr. L. Rosenburg, Mrs. Victor Goetz, Mrs. S. M. D. Clapper, Mr. John Theobald, Dr. Holms Walker, Mr. R. Keenan, Mr. William P. Murray, Dr. Charles A. Stout, Miss Emily Kane, Mr. Charles Duffy, Jr., M. A. G. Cook, Bailey Banks & Biddle, Mr. Wolstan Dixey, Mrs. H. C. Boyer, Mr. George Graham, Mr. L. M. Harris, Mr. J. L. Heimainan and Mrs. J. A. Barr. We cordially thank every person who in any way assisted in the success of the occasion. KATHERINE ALICE DIXEY, Chairman of Dance Committee. The Pennsylvania Limited Equal Suffrage League Birthday Party at Merion Club, Haverford June 2nd, 3.30 P.M. PART 1 (Serious) DEBATE - "Should Women Vote?" Affirmative - Mr. George E. O'Dell } Of London Negative - Mr. Alexander W. Samuel } England. Collection taken Sale of fine quality Baking Powder, with special Woman Suffrage label PART II (Frivolous) Bernard Shaw's "PRESS CUTTINGS" Presented by THE PLAYS AND PLAYERS CLUB General Mitchener - Mr. Henry C. Sheppard Balsquith - Dr. Daniel M. Hoyt The Orderly - Mr. William H. Whitney Mrs. Banger - Mrs. Paul P. Pearson Lady Corintha Fanshawe - Mrs. Sophia Farr Geddes Mrs. Farrell - Mrs. H. C. Sheppard Mr. Henry C. Sheppard, Stage Director Tickets for the Birthday Party, 50 cents each, may be ordered NOW from: The Woman Suffrage Shop - 1721 Chestnut Street Mrs. Edward Y. Hartshorne - Haverford Mrs Rodman E. Griscom - Haverford Mrs. Henry S. Spackman - Ardmore Miss Anna Linn Bright - Bryn Mawr Mrs. E. Waring Wilson - Rosemont Mrs. Parke Schoch - Wayne Mrs. E. Lewis Burnham - Berwyn Mrs. Walter Pierce - Llanerch Terrace, Llanerch Miss Anna Snyder - Hamilton Court, Philadelphia and at the MERION CLUB on day of performance *1911* BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, that the following amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be and the same is hereby proposed in accordance with the eighteenth Article thereof: That Section one of Article eight, which reads as follows: "SECTION 1. - Every male citizen twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. "First. - He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. "Second. - He shall have resided in the State one year (or, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months) immediately preceding the election. "Third. - He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "Fourth. - If twenty-two years of age and upward, he shall have paid within two years a State or County tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months, and paid at least one month, before the election." be amended so that the same shall read as follows: SECTION 1. - Every male citizen twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. First. - He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least five years and be able to read and write the English language, and be able to comply with any further educational test which the legislature may impose: provided, that this clause shall not disfranchise anyone who is otherwise qualified to vote at the time of the adoption of this amendment. Second. - He shall have resided in this State one year (or if, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he or she shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months) immediately preceding the election. Third. - He shall have resided in the election district he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election, and shall not at the time of offering to vote be a duly committed inmate of any prison of almshouse, or having been such an inmate of a prison after conviction, or of an almshouse, during the immediately preceding six months: provided, that the legislature may fix longer periods of disfranchisement for certain crimes which it shall designate. Fourth. - If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a State of County tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election. 4 NEWS BULLETIN. SUBSCRIPTIONS Miss Virginia Widmer Mrs. David C. Lyman Miss Lida Stokes Adams Miss Sara D. Chambers Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellis Miss Gertrude Atkinson Miss Lucy Lewis Mrs. George H. Wobensmith Miss Margaret McKay Wilcox Mrs. William B. Derr Mrs. Iredell Eachus Miss Pauline Mitchell Miss Margaret Reynolds Mrs. A. R. Taylor Mrs. C. E. Martin Miss Margaret Power Mrs. M. B. Teurney Mrs. M. R. Kitchen Mrs. G. A. Mitchell Miss N. S. Hahn Mrs. Parry Miss Harriett Billingsfeld Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill Miss Mary B. Parmalee Miss Emma Wilson Gaskill Mrs. Barclay Johnson Miss Katherine Collison Mrs. Phillip Hughes Miss Elizabeth Bickford Mrs. N. S. Pierson Mrs. James Linhle Mrs. Ed Peabody Mrs. W. Kline Mrs. H. E. Robin Miss Lois Roberts Mrs. E. T. Toogood LITERATURE ON SALE The Federal Amendment Book. Miss Carrie Chapman Catt. $1.50. BOOKLETS Federal Action and State Rights. By Henry Wade Rogers. State Constitutional Obstructions By Maru Sumner Boyd. How to Raise Money for Suffrage. By Henrietta W. Livermore. How to Reach the Rural Voter. By Amelia MacDonald Cutler. Suffrage Argument-Outline for Speech or debate. Justina Leavitt Wilson. Why the Federal Amendment. Carrie Chapman Catt. LEAFLETS Woman Suffrage Gains at the Polls. Which Cardinal Knows Best? Woman Suffrage an Economy. Who Pays the Poll Tax? On the Firing Line. "Seein' Is Believin'." What Is the Federal Suffrage Amendment? Woman, Home and Government. By Professor Pollard, of the Crozier Theological Seminary. Our Real Enemy. By Carrie Chapman Catt. SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT IN THE UNITED STATES LEGISLATURE The suffrage bill will come up in the House on Tuesday, April 17. A strong delegation from Philadelphia is urged. Delegates attending the hearing in the House will be able to remain for the spring conference. Tentative Program Spring Conference PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Harrisburg, April 18th and 19th WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH Y. W. C. A., 10 A. M. Opening of Conference State Amendment, Mrs. Funk AFTERNOON SESSION Y. W. C. A.,1.30 P. M. Constructive National Service - Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, Treas., National American Woman Suffrage Association. Summer Campaign WEDNESDAY EVENING Technical High School, 8 P. M. "After the War-What?" Hon. Frederick C. Howe, U. S. Commissioner of Immigration. TUESDAY, APRIL 19TH Y. W. C. A., 10 A. M. Federal Amendment- Mrs. Maud Wood Park, Chairman, National Congressional Committee Organizers' Hour Removal State Headquarters to Philadelphia New Business Trains Leave Broad St. Station 8.30 and 8.40 A. M. At the committee meeting on April 9 a resolution was passed, "That a request be sent to each organized district that it pay the expenses of a representative to the Spring Conference at Harrisburg, 18th to 19th, inclusive." The Success of the News Bulletin Depends on YOU Please Become a Subscriber Yourself and Persuade Others to Join You. News Bulletin The Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA COUNTY Published Monthly at Headquarters 1723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia For the Purpose of Promoting a more Effectual Co-Operation among the Members of the Party The News Bulletin is for All Suffragists. The Woman Suffrage Party Works for Both State and Federal Amendments by Non-Partisan and Non-Militant Methods. VOL. I NO. I PHILADELPHIA, APRIL, 1917 PRICE 3 CTS. SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE Joint Resolution No. 2, embodying the provision that the right to vote shall not be abridged on the account of sex was introduced immediately following the adoption of the War Resolution on April 4th, and will be pressed by the National American Woman Suffrage Association at this time, as a definite war measure, second only in importance to the War Resolution itself. Following the call issued a few days ago by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, resident of the National Association, "to make the most stupendous appeal to Congress yet made for the submission of the federal amendments," Mrs. Maud Wood Park, chairman of the Congressional Committee in Washington, is calling upon all of the Association's forces, consisting of two million women constituting state and congressional district organizations all over the country to bring concentrated pressure to bear upon Congress at once to secure the passage of the amendment. Mrs. Park said yesterday: "Never before in the history of woman suffrage in American have the chances for the passage of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment been so good as they are at this time. I believe that Congress is thoroughly impressed with the duty of enfranchising the woman of America, in order to enable them more fully to shoulder the enormous responsibilities laid on them by the war." WHAT YOU ARE TO DO We are preparing a thousand printed post-cards as follows: "In justice to the women of our country and as an immediate war measure, I earnestly desire that you vote favorably on the Woman Suffrage amendment and thereby enable the woman of the United States more fully to shoulder their responsibility in our national crisis. When Canada, Russia and England have found it expedient to enfranchise their women can we afford to lag behind?" Get as many voters as you can to sign and mail these cards to their Senators and Congressmen. District leaders are particularly urged to call for these cards at Headquarters and distribute to the best possible advantage at once. This is the next immediate work, and is in response to an urgent letter from our National President, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, in which she says, "Set the women in each county to circulating a quick petition signed by men and women to Senators and members of Congress." 2 NEWS BULLETIN. Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County Chairman Mrs. George A. Dunning, 15 South Twenty-first Street. Vice Chairmen Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam Mrs. William D. Grange Mrs. William B. Derr Dr. E. M. Hiestand-Moore Mrs. Wolstan Dixey Mrs. Joseph Wasserman Secretary, Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellis. Treasurer, Mrs. Harry E. Kohn. Registrar, Miss Gertrude Atkinson. Executive Secretary, Mrs. Frederick F. Drinker Headquarters, 1721-1723 Chestnut St. Bell Telephone Office, Spruce 765. Shop, Locust 3328, April, 1917 84 25 cents a year News has come through from Washington that the hearing on the Woman Suffrage bill is set for April 20. Let us mobilize all our forces and gain the right to serve our country in its present crisis as Free Citizens. Volunteer workers at Headquarters are addressing the Shafroth pamphlets to 2000 clergymen of the city, this method of distribution having been considered the most efficient. The committee recommends that the expense which is small, shall be divided equally among the organized districts. Do not forget the Lunch Room, 1721 Chestnut St. It is for men and women. The best lunch in town for 30 cents. Phone Locust 33-28 for day's menu. Two good words for Suffragists - Concentration and Co-operation. TWO IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS The following resolution was adopted at the committee meeting on April 9 and forwarded in a letter to Mayor Smith by our President, Mrs. Geo. A. Dunning: "We, the members of the Philadelphia committee of the Woman's Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania, meeting together for the first time since Congress declared that a state of war exists with Germany, and in so far as we are authorized, our organization is twenty-six legislative districts and forty-eight wards of the city, hereby affirm our loyal support of the government, in which we are asking to be included through the granting of the franchise to women, and we offer to the mayor and council the help and co-operation of our organization in any way in which we can be of service." The following resolution was offered by Dr. Lida Steward Cogill and adopted; and it was recommended that it be sent to the Director of Public Health, as a suggestion for war legislation: Resolved, That in accordance with the greater necessity now than ever before of conserving the health of our babies, in order to insure a strong and vigorous nation, do hereby. Recommend, That the laws governing the time limit of registering births in Philadelphia by physicians be amended to read that births must be reported to the proper authorities within at least twenty-four hours from the date of birth, rather than ten days, as the law now reads, in order that social workers, doctors and nurses may be able to start care of infant and instructions to mother at an earlier date than heretofore, and be it further Recommended, That the pamphlet on the care of the baby issued by the Children's Bureau at Washington, D.C., be sent to every mother upon record of her child's birth. It was further Recommended, That a post-card be sent to the Bureau of Vital Statistics to each mother, giving exact date and place of registration, to be retained by her as a birth certificate. NEWS BULLETIN. 3 Reports From the District Leaders 10th District. - At the regular monthly meeting, held April 5, the following resolution was passed, and has been forwarded to Congressman Graham: WHEREAS, The right of women to political freedom is being acknowledged by the governments of all countries in rapid succession, even by governments in the midst of war - the Russian revolution having brought suffrage to the women of that country, municipal franchise having been promised to the French women at the close of the war, parliamentary franchise having been promised to the English women at an early date, and full suffrage having been won by the women of all the Canadian provinces, except Quebec, within the past year; Therefore, we earnestly hope that our government will speedily recognize the right of all the women of our land to political freedom; that the Great Republic may continue to lead - and not follow - in the development and realization of democratic ideals; and we especially urge our representatives in Congress to vote for the Federal Amendment, giving women the right to vote, which will be introduced by Miss Rankin, member from Montana. The District Leader, Miss Lida Stokes Adam's, and the Vice Chairman, Mrs. William B. Deer, called on the Senator Penrose and Congressman Graham on March 24, urging them to support the Federal Amendment. Two new division leaders have been secured in this district. 15th District. - At an executive meeting in this district, it was decided to arrange a meeting, with a speech by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, followed by a dance. The Oak Lane Branch gave a very successful Social Tea recently. More than 100 guests were present, and a collection of $15.43 was taken. 17th District. - The regular meeting was held March 20 at the home of Mrs. Lingle, when a most interesting address was given by Mrs. Toogood on "The Futility of Woman's Work Without the Ballot." 19th District. - This district is being rapidly organized by Miss Pauline Mitchell, the leader, who is also the city organizer. Parlor meetings are being held and a musicale is planned. 21st District. - At a meeting held an interesting address on "Who Put the 'S' in Suffrage?" was given by Miss Bessie Burchett. Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill spoke on "Current Suffrage Events." A resolution relating to public health, offered by Dr. Cogill, was adopted and referred to the County Committee. 23d District. - An important meeting was held in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Eighteenth and Tioga streets. Speakers were Warden McKenty, of the Eastern Penitentiary, and Miss May Mackey. Miss Adelina Noar rendered solos. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FUTURE EVENTS The Organization Committee of the 21st Legislative District will give a Neighborhood Suffrage Tea at Mrs. George A. Piersol's, 4724 Chester avenue, April 20. Mrs. George A. Dunning will speak. On Friday, May 18, a play and dance will be given by the 21st Legislative District at Association Hall, 5037 Baltimore avenue. The regular meeting of the 19th Legislative District will be held on Tuesday, April 17, at 3 P.M., at the residence of Miss Chambers. Miss Anne Heygate Hall will speak on Juvenile Court work. In the 10th Legislative District a parlor meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 2, at the home of Mrs. D.W. Simkin, 1528 Poplar street. Speaker, Mrs. George A. Dunning A meeting to discuss the Federal Amendment will be held in the 3d Legislative District on April 21, at the College Settlement, 433 Christian street. The Committee of the 23d Legislative District will give a dance at the Nicetown Boys' Club, Eighteenth and Hunting Park Avenue, Saturday evening April 28. Suffrage souvenirs distributed. Tickets, $1, to admit two. A rummage sale is being planned, of which further particulars will be published later. Mrs. Josephine Paul is chairman of this sale. The regular monthly meeting of the 23d Legislative District will be held Tuesday evening, May 1, in the Chapel of the Old Fellows' Home, Seventeenth and Tioga streets. Under the auspices of the 17th District, a dance will be given at the Gordon-Roney School, 4112 Spruce street, on Friday evening, April 20. Tickets, 50 cents. One of the Four Square Entertainments being given in the 15th District is arranged for Saturday evening, April 21, at 8.30, at the home of Miss Ann Harned, Fairfax Apartments. A talk on Walt Whitman will be heard. Tickets, $1, to admit two persons. A meeting in the 19th Legislative District will be held April 18 at the home of Mrs. G. McNerney, 3331 Ridge avenue. Speaker, Mrs. William B. Deer. A meeting in the 31st Ward will be held at the Frankford Avenue Baptist Church, Frankford Avenue and Letterly street, on Friday, April 20, at 8 o'clock. Speaker, Miss May Macken. 4 NEWS BULLETIN NEW SUBSCRIBERS Miss Katharine W. Field. Miss Helen M. Rankin. Mrs. S. Scheetz Miss Marguerite Sibley. Mrs. Thomas N. Walker Miss Marguerite Strehle. Miss Elizabeth W. Garrett. Miss B. E. Messer. Mrs. E.F. Pooley. Donald Manley-Power. CALENDAR OF EVENTS Long Table Luncheons - Second and fourth Mondays of the month, at 12:30 P.M., 1721 Chestnut street. price, 50 cents. Parties for Enlisted Men - Every Tuesday and Saturday evening, at 7.00 o'clock. The place for the dances to be announced later. COMMITTEES Philadelphia County - Second and fourth Mondays of the month, at 2 P.M., 1723 Chestnut street. Chairman, Mrs. George A. Dunning. Enlisted Men's Parties - Every second and fourth Tuesday, at 2 P.M., 1721 Chestnut street. Chairman, Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam. Red Cross Auxiliary, No. 226 - First Tuesday of the month, 2 P.M., 1731 Chestnut street. Chairman, Mrs. Raymond J. Harris. Note. - All officers of the organized districts are hereby notified that they are free and welcome to attend any and all meetings of the Philadelphia County Committee. The meetings are held on the second and fourth Mondays of the month, at 2 P.M., at 1721 Chestnut street. The privilege does not include a vote. Only the leader or her representative has a voice at these meetings. FINANCE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT List of contributions to the Woman Suffrage Party of Philadelphia toward the State pledge of $5000.00: Mr. Franklin W. Brewer $25.00 Mrs. Ferrer Brinton 5.00 Donald Manly-Power .50 Miss Helena Guest 25.00 Judge Dimner Beeber 20.00 Mrs. Otis Skinner 5.00 Mrs. Anna J. Monaghan 1.00 Miss Emma Klahr 25.00 Mrs. Nathanson 10.00 Miss Susan W. Janney 1.00 Miss Elvira G. Plumer 2.00 Mrs. Bertha C. Roger's 5.00 Mr. H.F. Pittman 5.00 Mrs. Ralph Goodman 1.00 21st Legislative District 25.00 6th Legislative District 2.00 20th Legislative District 35.00 $192.50 Previously acknowledged 3942.00 Total $4134.50 ANNA HARRIS SNYDER Carpenter lane, Germantown FEDERAL AMENDMENT information that the National Congressional Committee has agreed to try for a vote in the Senate on the Federal Amendment early in June, coupled with a request from Mrs. Catt to wage a publicity campaign in the interest of the measure, was followed by the sending of a letter to all county chairmen, urging co-operation in this direction. Suggestions regarding the holding of meetings and the securing of resolutions from public-spirited bodies, together with material that might be utilized for publicity, were transmitted. At the same time a letter was sent to the editors of newspapers in the State who have shown their favorable attitude, requesting them to write editorials urging action on the amendment. "IT WOULD BE A GREAT MISFORTUNE TO HAVE THIS ISSUE INJECTED INTO OUR NEXT POLITICAL CAMPAIGN, AS WOULD BE THE RESULT OF THE DEFEAT OF THE FEDERAL SUFFRAGE BILL IN CONGRESS. WINNING THE WAR IS NOW THE SUPREME DUTY OF ALL AMERICANS AND THE INSPIRING COOPERATION OF OUR EAGER AND PATRIOTIC WOMEN WOULD BE OF INCALCULABLE SERVICE IN PROMOTING ESSENTIAL LEGISLATION BY THEIR INFLUENCE AT THE POLLS. THE QUESTION IS ABOVE STATE, ABOVE PARTY - IT IS NATIONAL." JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, President of the National League of Republican Clubs Mrs. Ross 500 Woodland Ave News Bulletin The Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA COUNTY Published Monthly at Headquarters 1723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia For The Purpose of Promoting a More Effectual Co-operation Among the Members of the Party. The News Bulletin is for All Suffragists. The Woman Suffrage Party Works for Both State and Federal Amendments by Non-Partisan and Non-Militant Methods. VOL. 2 NO. 3 PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 1918 PRICE 3 cts per copy 25 cts a year STATE HEADQUARTERS 1606 Finance Building, South Penn Square, Philadelphia. TREASURER'S REPORT Receipts. April 23 - Emma Schneider $25.00 April 26 - Washington County W.S. Party 170.00 May 4 - Lycoming County W.S. Party 25.00 Pittsburgh Equal Franchise Fed. 1000.00 May 20 - Dr. Anna P. Sharpless 2.00 Anna A. MacDonald. 1.50 Twenty counties have made payments on their assessments this year as follows, Adams, Armstrong, Allegheny, Delaware, Fayette, Huntingdon, Indiana, Lawrence, Lycoming, Mercer, Mifflin, Montgomery, Philadelphia, Washington, Westmoreland, York. Washington County has paid its assessment in full and is the first county to complete its pledge. Allegheny and Lycoming Counties have paid more than two-thirds of the their assessments. Armstrong, Philadelphia, Center, Delaware, Lawrence, Mifflin and Montgomery have completed their first quarter. INTERVIEWS WITH CANDIDATES: There were 816 candidates for the State Legislature who filed nominating petitions before the primaries, and reports were received on only 415 of these, although the county chairmen were written to four times regarding this important work, and toward the end of several of the chairmen who had failed to send reports were telegraphed. The counties which interviewed all their candidates are: Beaver, Blair, Centre, Chester, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin, Huntingdon, Lycoming, McKean, Potter, Somerset, Warren, York. Those from which we have received no reports whatever are: Elk, Erie, Lackawanna, Pike, Snyder, Sullivan, Union. Every candidate who qualified in the primaries must be interviewed at the earliest date possible and report forwarded to headquarters. STATE PRESIDENT TAKES NEEDED REST: The strenuous work incident to the conduct of the Association's affairs has been temporarily put aside by Mrs. John O. Miller, our president, who has decided to take a much needed rest for a period of four months. At the last meeting of the Board on April 25th, Mrs. Lewis Lawrence Smith, vice president, was appointing acting president, and immediately assumed command of the organization. The work of the primaries and planning for the Oversea Hospitals' Fete has made a very busy month. ARE WE DOWN-HEARTED? NO! A thousand times, no! Although Dr. James J. Heffernan, legislative nominee for re-election from the Seventeenth Legislative District, was successful at the primaries, notwithstanding our efforts to defeat him, we have not time to repine over that fact. Rather are we rejoicing over this other fact, namely, that Mr. Sigmund J. Gans, of the Twenty-third District, and former political whip of the anti-suffrage forces at Harrisburg, has come out fairly and squarely for us. With Mr. Gans supporting us, how can we be afraid? 2 NEW BULLETIN Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County Chairman Mrs. George A. Dunning, 15 South Twenty-first Street Honorary Vice-Chairman Mrs. Lucretia Blankenburg Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson Dr. Lucy L.W. Wilson Vice-Chairmen Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill Mrs. William B. Deer Mrs. Richard H. Day Dr. E. M. Hiestand-Moore Mrs. Ferree Brinton Secretary Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellis Treasurer Mrs. Harry E. Kahn Auditors Miss Sara D. Chambers Miss Anna H. Snyder Executive Secretary Miss Marguerite Mitchell Headquarters: 1721-1723 Chestnut Street Bell Telephone: Spruce 2402 Office Hours, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. June 1918 81 25 cents a year A WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS Query: "What is so rare as a day in June?" Answer: The suffragist who would refuse our request to renew her (or his) subscription to the "News Bulletin." A blue pencil mark at this paragraph indicates a whole year has rolled around since you sent us your subscription, and that we would like very much indeed to have your renewal this month. Your subscription expires with the present issue. A blue pencil make at this paragraph indicates that we are reluctant to "give you up," and so are sending one more call for your subscription, which expired last month. Subscribers desiring to have the "News Bulletin" follow them in their absence from the city during the summer will kindly notify us of their change of address. Besides our many subscribers in the city and in adjoining counties, we have in New Jersey and one each in Massachusetts, South Carolina and Colorado. W.S.P. RED CROSS AUXILIARY NO. 226 Chairman - Mrs. Raymond J. Harris, 1843 South Broad street. The Red Cross headquarters have been removed to 1731 Chestnut street, second floor back. They are open every Tuesday and Friday, from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. As quite a few of the outside units have closed for the summer, Mrs. Harris urges every suffragist and patriot to give at least one or two hours per week of her time. Every day the casualty list "over there" is increasing, so the work over here must keep pace or undue suffering will be the consequence. Auxiliary 226 has made such a good showing that one and all must do her "bit" to keep up the high standard of this branch of Suffrage patriotic work. Don't be a slacker. ENLISTED MEN'S PARTIES Chairman - Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam, 265 South Nineteenth street. Our "Enlisted Men's Dances" continue to be a great success. We have let the Ship and Tent Club after a very successful season and we shal soon be located in our permanent summer home. Through the courtesy of Colonel Duffy, of the Rittenhouse Hotel, we were able to have a great dance in the Rittenhouse ball room, Tuesday, May 7th. This kindness of Colonel Duffy's was repeated on Tuesday, the 28th. On Tuesday, the 21st, we held our dance at the Aldine Hotel. The crowd was large and the home-made cakes of Mrs. Kahn again scored. The dance on Saturday, June 1st, was held at the Roosevelt, 2027 Chestnut street. The chairman wishes to thank the faithful teachers of French and dancing, Miss Robert's, Miss Schetky, Miss Hunt, Signor Perecca and others. Also the hostesses whose devoted work adds so much to the success of the "parties." Dr. Self has kindly assumed the responsibility of making the announcement cards for the windows. Mrs. Burns, with characteristic unselfishness, has done double duty as registrar since Mrs. Eachus' enforced absence on account of illness. Much sympathy is expressed for Mrs. Eachus. Don't fail to invite every sailor boy or soldier boy you meet on the street to come to our dances. NEWS BULLETIN It will be a year on June 9th since we first entertained the enlisted men at the Shop. Only about thirty rather bashful boys came to that "party," but they had a "good time," and we have not lacked guests, in increasing numbers, from that night onward. We have never missed a Saturday during the entire year and, for several months past, the dances have been held on Tuesday nights as well. A record of which we are not ashamed, for it has meant many hours of labor and unselfish devotion on the part of many of our members. Let those who have not yet assisted at these parties come forward now, for it is not too late, and share in the labor and pleasure of helping the boys, who are to fight for us, to have a good time while they may. Their appreciation and enjoyment alone will make it worth while. LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT NOTES Fifteenth District. Chairman - Mrs. F. J. Giering, 346 Church Lane, Germantown. The June meeting will be held at the home of Miss Anna Harris Snyder, 157 Carpenter street, Mt. Airy, on Wednesday afternoon, June 12th, at 2.30 o'clock. There will be no meetings during July and August. The Red Cross Unit has been discontinued. The much-postponed rummage sale was held on April 17th and 18th. The results were entirely satisfactory. It is encouraging to know that all candidates for State Representative voted on in the Fifteenth District are in favor of Woman Suffrage. Seventeenth District. Chairman - Mrs. Iredell Eachus, 1248 North Fifty-seventh street. At last a meeting of the district it was decided to hold no more meetings until October unless some matter of vital importance should arise. Mrs. A.R. Taylor will continue in charge of the Red Cross Unit during the summer, at The Edgeton. Mrs. James Lingle did good work in the Twenty-fourth ward during the War Chest campaign. Twenty-first District. Chairman - Mrs. H.E. Fahnestock, 915 Farragut terrace. The Red Cross Unit of the W.S.P. Auxiliary, No. 226, which has been meeting for several months at the home of Mrs. Pierson, has adjourned for the summer. The Unit completed sixty graments. TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT Chairman - Mrs. George H. Wobensmith, 1813 West Ontario street. Every one of our candidates was for us at the primary election. Mr. Sigmund J. Gans has come out for us and will support us will all his influence next year. We made a tour of the polling places and were most popular. Everybody took a suffrage button and put it on - even Mr. Gans, who was most cordial and friendly. We had a very delightful "tea" on Saturday, May 11th. The chairman gave a real, old-time, straight, suffrage talk, although in the midst of a mild attack of whooping-cough. Delightful vocal music was furnished by Mrs. Edith M. Bodine, Mrs. Edith Frames and Mrs. Edwin Moyer. Mrs. Dunning gave a short tailk on all the various activities of the party. Mrs. Gazzam on "War-Time Prohibition," and Miss Snyder on the "Land Army Movement." Our last meeting was held Tuesday, June 4th, in Odd Fellows' Home. It was most informal. One of our members, Mrs. Charles Hollander, who was born and educated in Germany - now married to an American - has been a voter in Illinois, and told of woman's position in Germany - her subservience to the man's interest at all times. Everybody was asked to bring loose change in order that they might adjourn to an ice cream parlor as a happy closing. A BELGIAN SODIER WANTS CANCELLED STAMPS In the "Woman Citizen" of May 11th there is printed an appeal from an interned Belgian soldier in Holland who wants cancelled postage stamps to help "pass the longness of his captivity." Persons willing to respond to this appeal may leave stamps at the Woman Suffrage Party Shop, 1721 Chestnut street, in care of Dr. E. M. Hiestand-Moore, or send them direct to J. Corthals, Soldat Belge, Bugerbuurt, Amersfoort, Holland. Among our subscribers this month is Master Donald Manly-Power. Though only ten years old, he appreciated and enjoyed the "News Bulletin," and expressed the wish to become a subscriber and paid for his subscription out of his own pocket. We wonder if there is any significance in the name, for surely he is a manly fellow, and we are please to have his name upon our books. Call to the Forty-fourth Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association to be held in Philadelphia, November 21-26, 1912 A Summons to Progressive Men and Women We hereby send out across this great continent, east and west, north and south, a call to YOU, who have so long been our comrades in the crusade for human progress and for women's freedom. We send a call to YOU, also, YOU thousands who are just coming forward to join us, YOU who are to be our comrades in the great future before us. Come and realize the inspiration that sustains the common advocacy of a great Cause; the exhilaration of soul that rises in everyone who is part of a great united effort. No suffragist can remain unmoved by the tide of enthusiasm which will carry this convention along when we come in November with hearts beating high with victory. "Failure is impossible," and even temporary defeats become less and less frequent. This will be a triumphant convention. If from any campaign State you cannot come in triumph, you will come with unconquerable determination and undiminished zeal to tell of a new campaign. The corrupt interests and politicians must learn that we cannot be defeated, that their temporary advantage over equal suffrage is petty, uneconomic and futile. This convention has big problems confronting it, interesting, stimulating problems coincident with the tremendous expansion of our movement, problems worthy the indomitable mettle of suffrage workers. But in spite of hard work, this week will be a gala week, a compensation to you for all the hard, dull, gray work during the past year and a stimulus for still harder work during the year to come. Come and hear how your great National Suffrage Organization, sensitive to the laws of demand and supply in the suffrage world, has evolved an important suffrage publication centre; how with its ear ever bent to catch the first footfall of Liberty around the whole earth, the National Press Bureau has received and disseminated wonderful volumes of news relative to the freedom and advancement of womenkind. Come and listen to your fellow-workers, and listening and sympathizing with the unselfish labor being carried on everywhere, pledge yourself to a flaming loyalty to suffrage and suffragists that will burn away the dross of dissension, all barriers to united effort. Let us come with high resolve that we shall never waver in our effort to obtain the right to stand side by side with the men of this country in the mortal struggle that shall bid perish from this land political corruption, privilege, prostitution, the industrial slavery of men, women and children, and all exploitation of humanity. Let us come together, then, in this autumn of 1912, this unprecedented year of suffrage in the United States, consecrating ourselves anew on this, the greatest of all battle grounds for democracy, the United States of America. ANNA HOWARD SHAW JANE ADDAMS SOPHONISBA BRECKINRIDGE MARY WARE DENNETT SUSAN W. FITZGERALD JESSIE ASHLEY KATHERINE DEXTER McCORMICK HARRIET BURTON LAIDLAW ALICE STONE BLACKWELL 119 General Officers of the N.A.W.S.A. (OVER) Local arrangements and reduced railroad rates for the Forty-fourth Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, to be held in Philadelphia, November 21-26, 1912 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS. The local arrangements for the Convention are being pushed with the fervor which the people of Philadelphia exhibit when they undertake to entertain a convention. The Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association has appointed a Committee on Hospitality, which plans to find entertainment in private homes for all delegates who wish such entertainment, i.e., lodging and breakfast. For those who prefer not to be entertained in private homes the following hotel rates are given: Hotel Walton Per day Single room, without bath, $2.00 and up " " with " 3.00 " " Double room without bath, 3.00 " " " " with " 4.00 " " The Bellevue-Stratford Per day Single room, without bath, $2.50 and up " " with " 3.50 " " Double room with ", 4.50 " " For information on entertainment, and also about other hotels and boarding-houses, write to Chairman of Hospitality Committee, Suffrage Headquarters, Hale Bldg, cor. Chestnut and Juniper Sts., Philadelphia. The generosity of the Pennsylvania Suffrage Association, besides the entertainment for delegates, includes providing Witherspoon Hall for the convention sessions, the Metropolitan Opera House for the Sunday afternoon meeting, and badges which are being made from a beautiful original design. It is confidently expected that the Thanksgiving mass meeting to be held in Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday will be the largest suffrage meeting in the history of the United States. The delegate and visitor to the City of Brotherly Love will find the city unique in that it holds within its environs the birthplace of the United States, Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was framed and ratified, and where "Old Glory," the Stars and Stripes, was first made by Betsey Ross. We now have six stars on our suffrage flag, and hope to have the rare delight of adding five more at the time of the convention, for then the returns will be in and we will know for how many more suffrage States we may give thanks. Philadelphia claims many "first things," among them being the first medical school, the first hospital, the first lightening rod set up, first waterworks, first law school, first Supreme Court, first piano made, first United States flag, etc., and it is the first time that Philadelphia will have entertained the National Suffrage Convention. RAILROAD RATES. A reduction of a fare and three-fifths, on the certificate plan, has been secured, covering the following territory: (1) Trunk Line R.R. Association From Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Suspension Bridge, Dunkirk and Salamanca, N.Y.; Erie and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Bellaire, Ohio; Wheeling, Parkersburg and Kenora, W. Va.; and points east thereof. (2) Southeastern Passenger Association. Cairo, Ill., and all stations in the territory south of the Ohio and Potomac and east of the Mississippi Rivers. (3) New England R.R. Association. All points in New England States. As neither the Western nor Southwestern Passenger Associations have at this time joined in this concession of rates, it is better for persons from those territories to purchase round trip tickets, and meantime try to bring such pressure to bear upon these associations that they will also confer the reduced rates for their patrons. Purchase your ticket on the certificate plan whether by doing so you save little or much, and you will help those who wish the reduction in rate; and IT IS BETTER TO SAVE MONEY FOR THE CAUSE than to give it to the railroads. Be sure and get a certificate when purchasing your ticket whether you intend to use it or not, because the reduction for the return journey is contingent on an attendance at the meeting of not less than 100 persons holding regularly issued certificates. Tickets and certificates at the regular full one-way first-class fare for the GOING journey may be secured within three days (exclusive of Sunday) prior to, and during the first three days of the meeting. The convention opens November 21 and closes November 26, consequently you can obtain your GOING ticket no earlier than November 18 nor later than November 23. Your certificate must be validated at the convention on November 25 by the railroad secretary (for which the railroads collect a fee of 25 cents), after which you will be entitled to buy (up to and including November 29) a continuous passage RETURN ticket by the same route over which you made the going journey, at three-fifths of the regular one-way first- class fare. Any desired information may be obtained from Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, 1820 Pine street, who is State Chairman of Local arrangements. LUCY E. ANTHONY, Chairman Local Arrangements and Railroads for N.A.W.S.A. PENNSYLVANIA CATHOLIC CLERGY OPINIONS ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE REC. T.F. COAKELY, Sec. to Rt. Rev. J.F. Canevin, D.D., Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pa.:- In reply to yours of the twentieth ultimo to Bishop Canevin, I beg to say that there is nothing in the doctrines, teachings, or practices of the Catholic Church either for or against Woman Suffrage, and Catholics may adopt either side of the question without prejudice to their faith. RIGHT REVEREND M.J. HOBAN, D.D., Bishop of Scranton, Pa.:- In reply to your request for a favorable opinion on Woman Suffrage, I would say that for forty years I have held the opinion that it was an outrage to deprive property holding women of the right to vote on taxation and bonding. Logically, there is no reason why women should not have the right to vote as well as men, if they really desire to do so. REV. THOMAS C. MIDDLETON, O.S.A., D.D., of the Augustinian Monastery of Thomas of Villa Nova, Pa.:- As to the general principles which relate to suffrage and the exercise thereof either by man or woman, I premise that no man, no individual has any inherent or natural right in any way whatever to be a citizen or to be a voter in no matter what kind of political or civil Society he may be a member. It belongs to the same Society to determine the qualifications for membership therein, and with this the right of vote included. The main aim of every Society, civil or political is to safeguard the natural rights of its members to peace, comfort, safety and liberty, and to provide for the temporal and material welfare of the same. The right to vote depends wholly upon the positive or statute law of the State, the State being judge of the qualifications required, and it may withdraw the privilege for a time, or even for good. So much for the fundamental dicta on suffrage in general. Now as to woman suffrage, my opinion is, that in many fields of social life women have a very natural and vital interest in every way as great as men. Beside women are apt to make a deeper study of the requirements of the several departments thereof, to exercise keener and nicer discrimination as to ways and means and to display even better and safer judgment as to the outcome. These fields, broadly viewed concern such domains as economics, industries, commerce or trade and the administration of local officers, not excluding even those of science, art and politics. Moreover the exercise of their right of suffrage by women will doubtless influence and promote the efficiency of the ballot in many ways, among them, as a spur to men at times remission fulfilling their political and civic duty, as an example of wise and righteous voting, as a corrective of selfish and corrupt action on the part of men, which will thus be thwarted by the judicious and conscientious exercise of the ballot by women. Nowhere in the Constitution of the United States do I find the prohibition of woman suffrage. The departments of social or civil life wherein, in my opinion, a great deal of good may be affected by woman suffrage are those various domains of civilized society, wherein chiefly are centered the interests of women very closely, the home, and with it of course, the many varied and highly important relationships of family life, with the similarly varied and equally important industries outside the domestic circle, all public however, as well as needed; and these interests and these relationships concern the necessaries of life, the welfare, safety and comfort of the family, especially the children in their social and moral environment, the peacefulness of the neighborhood and the care and relief of the needy. RIGHT REV. MGR. PHILIP R. McDEVITT, Superintendent of Parish Schools, Philadelphia, Pa.:- I cannot see how the opponents of Woman Suffrage can state justly that the Catholic Church sanctions their position. The Catholic Church, as far as I know, has not expressed an opinion upon the subject. Some individuals in the church, both lay and clerical are opposed to the Woman Suffrage movement; some are in favor of it. In both cases these persons believe and act in their individual capacity. REV. MORGAN L. SHEEDY, LL.D., Rector of St. John's Cathedral, Altoona, Pa.:- It may take time, since the progress of the world is always slow and halting, but Woman Suffrage is surely coming in this State. Of that I am as firmly convinced as I am of the rising of to-morrow's sun. The wonder is that it has been delayed so long. I could never understand why so many good people are opposed to Woman Suffrage and raise all kinds of silly objections to it. But that is the history of all great reforms. The Catholic Church has made no pronouncement on the subject. Some of its leading churchmen are found on both sides. One thing is quite certain, the Church is not opposed to the enfranchisement of women. How could she be? I have been in favor of Woman Suffrage. The only question with me is, not woman's right to vote - that to my mind is quite certain, but whether the majority of women wanted to exercise their right. Once clearly establish that fact and Woman Suffrage will come in Pennsylvania and wherever that fact is shown. Like all other great reforms, this too may take time, but of the final issue I have not the least doubt. It is indeed gratifying that our American women, in striking contrast to the conduct of the militant suffragists in England, are conducting their campaign in an enlightened and orderly manner. REV. ARTHUR W. BRANDT, Pastor of St. Mary's Church, Fairfield, Pa.:- To the enfranchisement of women no moral teaching of the Catholic Church is opposed. That she who has wrought the spiritual ennoblement of womankind, can be averse to their material betterment it is impossible to conceive. Heartily do I favor granting the Ballot to our American women. As to our Catholics, what with the example of domestic virtue, edifying fidelity to religious duty, responding sense of right principle, woman suffrage would prove no temporary expedient but a gradual and effectual curb on the unbridled tendency to upset the past with all its good for the sake of curing passing present political ills. Honesty and honor should stimulate at least the experiment of Woman Suffrage. Single-handed, men beyond denial, have made a fiasco of the voting right. REV C. A. McDERMOTT, P. R. V. F., Rector St. Peter's Church, McKeesport, Pa.:- On the franchise I hold the view that is attributed to Cleveland. "Broadly speaking all persons of sound mind are entitled to vote on the men and the laws which are to govern them. Aside from this, every ounce of brain, or experience you can add to the ballot makes it more certain. * * * If we can add ten million voters to an election, we have added just so much knowledge to it, and made it so much harder to mislead or buy enough votes to change results." The ballot for women is certain, whether it comes sooner or later depends on the methods used by women to hasten it. REV. P. J. MURPHY, Pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Olyphant, Pa.:- The women of this world owe an everlasting debt of gratitude to the Christian religion which proclaims woman the equal of man in origin, destiny and redemption, for all are one in Christ. The Mother of the Redeemer is held up by the Catholic Church as the ideal woman of whom Wordsworth writes "She united in her person a mother's love with a maiden's purity." If therefore the Christian religion has made woman the peer of man why do Christian nations disenfranchise her? The same objections that are raised to-day against Woman Suffrage were proclaimed in the public press and forums by the nobility of England half a century ago against manhood suffrage. The lords and property holders of England declared that they would never permit the plebeians and vulgarians the privilege of equal political rights but the manhood vote was victorious in England and in the other European nations, so the womanhood vote will be in this country in the course of a few years. The professional politicians, the liquor and gambling interests and the corporations are all opposed to woman suffrage. Men have no moral or legal right to deprive women of their citizenship and treat them like children, lunatics and idiots, as unfit to take part in a government by which they are governed, or to have representatives among the officials of the nation. The nation has placed the women of the country in the minor class although they educate both sexes and treat them with the same equality in the schools and colleges. At the age of twenty-one the State says to the men, "Henceforth you are political sovereigns," and to the women, "Henceforth you are political subjects." Is this rational, just or equitable? I am convinced that there can be no great moral reformation for the betterment of the nation, while one-half of the greatest moral force of the nation is deprived of the just right to vote for the elimination or regulation of the saloon, the gambling dens, the dance halls, the brothels and other evils that are a menace to the moral and physical well-being of the community. REV. DANIEL J. O'SHEA, Rector of the Church of the Holy Innocents, Pittsburgh, Pa.:- How the unfounded and erroneous opinion that the Catholic Church is opposed to the enfranchisement of women ever got abroad I cannot understand. It is true Cardinal Gibbons has, in a modified way, expressed opposition to the woman in practical politics. But in this he was giving his personal opinion just as the other Cardinals and high Ecclesiastics have expressed strongly different views. In this, every Catholic is absolutely free to follow his own judgement; the Church does not meddle in politics. Personally I believe that a woman has the same right to vote that a man has, and that the average woman would make a better use of this right than the average man. That public opinion in favor of equal suffrage is growing most rapidly in those sections of our country where its practical workings have been observed for years, is, to my mind, the best argument in its favor. In this, as in some other things the West is far and away ahead of us in the "corrupt and contented" East. I hope to see the day when every woman in my congregation will have the right to vote, and exercise it. REV. HUGH T. HENRY, LL. D., Litt, D., Rector of the Roman Catholic High School for Boys, Philadelphia, Pa.:- As to my views on Woman Suffrage, while I must admit not having studied the question with any care, I may still express an opinion founded less on study than on a sentiment I have long entertained in favor of the movement for female suffrage. If the sentiment were coldly analyzed doubtless it would be found resolving itself into the fundamental concepts of a democracy - the right, for instance, which those in any true democracy have of helping to shape laws under which they must live; of contributing, as well by ballot as by the silent influence of good example and pure civic spirit, to the general well-being of the community; and of endeavoring to enforce a demand by use of the franchise as well as by the use of argument. And I do not find any solid reason for suspicion that such a sentiment is opposed either to the spirit of Catholicism or to the high dignity of woman's nature. REV. HENRY C. SCHUYLER, Assistant Rector Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, Pa.:- As to the natural fitness of woman to exercise the right of suffrage there can hardly be any doubt. If there are some questions that men seem better endowed by nature to discuss and decide, there are on the other hand, equally important questions that come rather within the province of woman, than man; questions to the settling of which she would bring a judgment riper by reason of her superior intuition and safer by reason of her deeper religious nature. To my mind the question resolves itself into one of practical expediency. Man's best objection to woman suffrage is based upon his natural tendency to hold his helpmate in an ideal position above his own. He hesitates to expose her to the debasing dangers that almost invariably accompany the political campaign and surround the polling place. But is not this hesitancy - so chivalrously put forward as a reason for refusing to woman the right of suffrage - really an evidence of man's lack of faith in her moral strength to oppose successfully the temptations that often nullify the best efforts for the betterment of the nation? Has he no reason to hope that the dangers he dreads would be safely avoided through the exercise of the good judgment and will power of those who, as a rule, have ever been more religious and morally stronger than man? Besides, the present highly complex questions of political, social and economic life demand for their right solution the best efforts and the best talents of human nature. It is folly to suppose that man has a monopoly of these. Woman, as the complement to man, fills out and balances the ability and work of the latter. With the two, side by side, there will be more hope of an adequate resistance being offered to those evils that certainly are not being corrected by man's unaided efforts. REV. JOSEPH L. J. KIRLIN, Rector of the Church of the Most Precious Blood of our Lord, Philadelphia, Pa.:- I am firmly convinced that the solution of many of our vexing social questions lies in giving to women the right to express their opinion by suffrage. This is especially true of the Drink Question. The needless multiplication of drinking places in our cities would end under suffrage from the many women who suffer from this condition. Women's legislation would secure the sanitation and safe-guarding of working places and restrict and regulate the Child Labor problem. To say that suffrage would be used by vicious women and not by good women is (apart from taking a great deal for granted) no argument, as the same could be said of riding in trolleys or going to the Park. To say women would submit their judgement in voting to husbands is granting more humility than practical matrimony admits to the average woman, and what of those who have no husbands. It is very touching to picture a wife humbly asking guidance in matters political from the husband, when she rules in everything else. The husband would swoon from surprise in such cases. These things might be in the early Victorian days, when women worshipped men and were mere halves. Nowadays there are too many papers and magazines to enlighten women as to the real status of the masculine and feminine minds. The "weaker sex" rot has no place in the Twentieth Century. The unmarried woman of the Victorian era was the lonesome survival of the unasked. The unmarried woman of to-day is the product of intelligence that will not permit her to be wheel-horse in the unequal task of matrimony. Our century gives so many substitutes for the woman to choose, that matrimony is not a necessity, but an object of choice. "Woman's place is the Home," and women's votes will make laws that will secure women their homes, will protect the home, will make men work and allow women their place, at home. I know scores and scores of women who work day after day to support the family, because no law will make the husband and father do his duty. It will be a bright day when women by their suffrage will secure to our country the needed legislation or their own protection, when the "helpmate" that God made women to be will be able to help her fellow men, and when her hands will no longer be held from her work in the world by silly tradition or false convention. REV. JAMES P. SAAS, Pastor of St. John's Church, Windber, Somerset Co., Pa.:- The Catholic Church is not in politics, and no law of the Church condemns or favors Woman Suffrage. To say that the Catholic Church opposes Woman Suffrage is one of the calumnies which are now-a-days hurled at the Church by her enemies. The fact is, that every sensible man, the priests of the Catholic Church included, want the women to be happy and contented, and if the voting question will add some extra happiness to the women, they will certainly not deprive them of that pleasure. Besides the Catholic Church teaches people to do good and avoid evil. To cast a vote for something that is, or at least looks good, is the equivalent of doing what the Church teaches and hence the Church will be with the advocates of Woman Suffrage and not against them. REV. THOMAS DEVLIN, Pastor Holy Cross Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.: - I am heartily in favor of Woman Suffrage. I do not think the exercise of the right to vote by women need necessarily take them out of the sphere of their home duties or cause them to lose their womanly virtues. REV. J. J. CURRAN, Pastor of Holy Savior Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.:- As the the burning question of Woman Suffrage I will give my honest and well-thought out opinion. The first and most plausible objection to woman's right to the ballot, is, I believe the fact that it is a new issue; unprecedented at least as a universal right in the history of the world. Of course, such a thing could not be dreamt of in pagan times when woman was thought to have no soul and was used as a mere tool to satisfy the animal nature of man. When Christ came and placed woman on the same plane with man, both as to her temporal and eternal responsibilities, human society took on a new and hopeful mien, while down the course of the Christian Era there have been queens, made so, not by the voice of the people, but by the laws of heredity, or by force of arms. The world has changed very much in the years gone by, and will continue to do so until the end; I trust all for the better. Progress by the masses and for the masses is made slowly but surely, and perhaps it is well that it is so made as there are few people, or even nations that can stand "prosperity" when it is thrust upon them suddenly, and without a prolonged struggle. Now, no one is hardly so dense as to deny the fundamental right, the underlying principle of woman suffrage. It is merely a question of expediency just now, but as agitation and education go on along proper lines, expediency shall grow urgent, and woman suffrage shall come as a natural development, and then we will all wonder why it took so long to arrive. Hence I am with you (Woman Suffrage Association) and all good people who aim by honest means to improve human conditions, and to cause happiness to reign in the hearts of all the peoples, and in the homes of all nations under the sun, and wish you all possible success in furthering the cause of Woman Suffrage and all the social, religious and moral movements for the betterment of all mankind. WOMEN IN WYOMING, COLORADO, IDAHO, UTAH, WASHINGTON, CALIFORNIA, OREGON, ARIZONA, KANSAS AND ALASKA. WHY NOT PENNSYLVANIA? THE PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE HAS PASSED A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO GIVE WOMEN VOTES. WHEN APPROVED BY THE NEXT LEGISLATURE, THIS AMENDMENT WILL GO TO THE VOTERS IN 1915. For further information, apply to Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association STATE HEADQUARTERS 201 ARCADE BUILDING, HARRISBURG, PA. The Pennsylvania Limited Equal Suffrage League Birthday Party at Merion Club, Haverford June 2nd, 3.30 P.M. PART I (Serious) DEBATE - "Should Women Vote?" Affirmative - Mr. George E. O'Dell Negative - Mr. Alexander W. Samuel of London England Chairman - Mrs. James D. Winsor Collection taken Sale of fine quality Baking Powder, with special Woman Suffrage label PART II (Frivolous) Bernard Shaw's "PRESS CUTTINGS" Presented by THE PLAYS AND PLAYERS CLUB General Mitchener - - - Mr. Henry C. Sheppard Balsquith - - - Dr. Daniel M. Hoyt The Orderly - - - Mr. William H. Whitney Mrs. Banger - - - Mrs. Paul P. Pearson Lady Corintha Fanshawe - - - Mrs. Sophia Farr Geddes Mrs. Farrell - - - Mrs. H. C. Sheppard Mr. Henry C. Sheppard, Stage Director Tickets for the Birthday Party, 50 cents each, may be ordered NOW from: The Woman Suffrage Shop - - - 1721 Chestnut Street Mrs. Edward Y. Hartshorne - - - Haverford Mrs Rodman E. Griscom - - - Haverford Mrs. Henry S. Spackman - - - Ardmore Miss Anna Linn Bright - - - Bryn Mawr Mrs. E. Waring Wilson - - - Rosemont Mrs. Parke Schoch - - - Wayne Mrs. E. Lewis Burnham - - - Berwyn Mrs. Walter Pierce - - - Llanerch Terrace, Llanerch Miss Anna Snyder - - - Hamilton Court, Philadelphia and at the MERION CLUB on day of performance [*1913*] A Series of SUFFRAGE TEAS The Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League AT HOME TO THE PUBLIC 3.30 EVERY AFTERNOON DURING THE WINTER at the Plastic Club, 247 So. Camac Street (near Locust and Spruce 12th and 13th Streets.) January 16th. Miss Rosalie Gardiner Jones who led the "Suffragist Army" to Albany will relate the history of the march and will discuss the question "Shall the Suffragists parade in Washington on March 3rd?" January 23rd. "A Plain Talk on the Vice Situation in Philadelphia", Mr. C. M. Smock, Secretary of the Christian League. "Woman Suffrage and the Social Evil", Dr. Kate Baldwin. January 30th. "The Minimum Wage for Women", Mrs. Glendower Evans, member of the Massachusetts Investigation Committee. ADMISSION FREE. Collections taken. Come and bring your friends. February Attractions will be Announced Later. 1911 At Home Every Thursday! You Are Welcome! At the Headquarters of the Penna. Limited Suffrage League in the Plastic Club, 247 South Camac Street, (between Locust and Spruce, 12th and 13th Sts.), every Thursday at 3.30 P.M. COME AND BRING A FRIEND TEA WILL BE SERVED AT EVERY MEETING Thursday, January 19th. DISCUSSION: "Have the English Militant Suffragettes Helped or Hurt the Suffrage Cause in England and America?" Mrs. Horatio Gates Lloyd, Vice-President Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League. Miss Mary H. Ingham of the Equal Franchise Society. Mrs. Margaret Clingelsmith [corrected Klingelsmith], Assistant Law Librarian of the U. of P. OPEN DISCUSSION - Mrs. Charles Wister Ruschenberger in the Chair. Thursday, January 26th Dr. Robert N. Wilson, "Woman Suffrage and Social Hygiene." Mrs. Joseph P. Mumford in the Chair. (Questions encouraged.) Thursday, February 2nd Business Meeting. Open to the Public. Thursday, February 9th Miss Alice Carpenter of Boston: "Shall We Hold Open Air Meetings in Pennsylvania?" (Miss Carpenter has successfully conducted hundreds of open air meetings in Boston.) Mrs. Oswald Chew in the Chair. Thursday, February 16th The Broad St. Theater, 2.30 Three Suffrage Plays on Sale at the Plastic Club EVERY MORNING from TEN to ONE o'clock and Every Thursday Afternoon. Those wishing to join the Penna. Limited Suffrage League may send their names and addresses to the Secretary, Mrs. Edward Y. Hartshorne, Merion P.O., Pa. 1910 The Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League announces a series of five lectures on different aspects of the Suffrage Question to be given at The New Century Club 123 South Twelfth Street, Philadelphia Single Tickets, $1.00 Course Tickets, $2.50 Tickets on sale at the New Century Club in the Superintendent's office for ten days before each Lecture They may also be purchased from members of the Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League. All tickets are transferable. Monday, January 24th, 3 p.m. MISS ETHEL ARNOLD. "Women's Progress in Europe" A Reception will be given Miss Arnold after the Lecture Monday, January 31st, 3 p.m. DR. BARTON O. AYLESWORTH Ex-President of the State Agriculture College of Colorado and of Drake University, Iowa "Woman Suffrage in Colorado - a Success or a Failure?" Monday, February 14th, 3 p.m. Debate: "Does the Wage Earner Need the Ballot?" Affirmative: MRS. FLORENCE KELLEY, Secretary of the National Consumers' League Negative: MRS. GILBERT E. JONES, President of the National Federation for the Civic Education of Women Tuesday, March 8th, 4 p.m. MR. D. CLARENCE GIBBONEY "Would Woman's Vote Improve Conditions in this City?" Monday , March 14th, 4 p.m. "Limited or Universal Suffrage?" Speakers to be announced later As the New Century Club is small, and the seats are already being sold off rapidly, those wishing to hear the lectures had better make haste to purchase tickets. LIMITED SUFFRAGE In "Our State Constitutions" (1907), by James Quayle Dealey, Ph. D., ,Professor of Social and Political Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in Chapter IV on Suffrage and Elections, we find the following interesting statements: "Suffrage. Our States have the right to declare in their constitutions who shall exercise suffrage within their several jurisdictions. The restrictions on this power in the national constitution are simple and few in number. Our democratic tendency is shown by the fact that whereas in the revolutionary period the privilege of suffrage was held by less than 6 per cent. of the population, it is now held by about 20 per cent. The per cent. was even larger in 1870, but restrictions have since crept in. It was once common in thickly settled States to allow aliens who had take out their first naturalization papers to vote even in national elections. Nine States only still retain this provision (Arkansas, South Dakota, Indiana, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Wisconsin.) Six have changed within the last ten years. * * * An educational qualification is rapidly passing into our constitutions through a belief that voters should be more intelligent, and that this on the whole is best indicated by the ability to read and write. Such a restriction would be undemocratic if not coupled with provisions for a free and general education. Fourteen (14) States now have educational restrictions." (They are given here with the dates when such restrictions were adopted): "Connecticut, 1855 and again in 1897; Massachusetts, 1857; Wyoming, 1889; Maine, 1893; California, 1894; Washington, 1896; Delaware, 1897; New Hampshire, 1903; Mississippi, 1890; South Carolina, 1895; Louisiana, 1898; Alabama, 1901; Virginia, 1902; North Carolina, 1902." (Arizona, which is just coming into the Union, has also an education qualification in its constitution.) "As women are citizens, and all citizens by theory are entitled to the same privileges, women are entitled to the suffrage equally with men unless the constitution is worded or can be interpreted otherwise. * Definite agitation for woman's suffrage has been carried on since 1848. Four (4) States at the present time allow women full suffrage - Wyoming, 1889; Colorado, 1893; Utah, 1895; Idaho, 1896. (The State of Washington has just conferred suffrage upon women, November 8, 1910, now making five States where women vote.) It is much more common (twenty-four States) to allow women suffrage in school and occasionally in library matters. Kansas in 1886 granted women municipal suffrage, and Montana, Iowa and Louisiana by constitution allow women taxpayers to vote on certain referenda involving expenditures. It is on the whole expedient for conventions, in considering suffrage, to consider what privileges, if any (!), women are to have, and then to state them in express terms. Besides these restrictions there are in practically all constitutions prohibitions of suffrage to minors under twenty-one years of age, to idiots, insane persons, and persons convicted crime." Ladies, if you will glance through the following list of the disenfranchised, you will see in what unpleasant company you will find yourselves. The facts will speak for themselves; and remember that even the male lunatic can vote during his lucid intervals. In the following States every citizen 21 years of age has a voice in the Government through individual choice or representation, by having a vote, with the following expectations: *Alabama - Persons convicted of treason, idiots, lunatics, - and women. Arkansas - Persons convicted of heinous crimes, the insane - and women. *See Constitution of the United States, Article XIV, Section 1: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." Also, Article XV, Section 1: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude." *California - Persons convicted of embezzlement, infamous criminals, lunatics - and women. *Connecticut - Persons convicted of heinous crimes - and women. *Delaware - Persons convicted of infamous crimes, felons, idiots, lunatics and - and women. Florida - Persons guilty of heinous crimes, lunatics - and women. Georgia - Persons convicted of perjury, bribery, murder, the insane- and women. Illinois - Persons guilty of bribery in elections, inmates of insane and criminal institutions - and women. Indiana - Persons guilty of infamous crimes, lunatics imbeciles - and women. Iowa - Persons convicted of heinous offences, the insane - and women. Kansas - Persons guilty of public embezzlement, treason, felony, the insane - and women. Kentucky - Citizens who are imprisoned for crimes or lunacy - and women. *Louisiana - Persons under indictment, the insane - and women. *Maine - Public paupers, idiots, the insane - and women. Maryland - Perpetrators of heinous crimes, the insane - and women. *Massachusetts - Paupers, criminals, persons under guardianship - and women. Michigan - Incarcerated criminals, lunatics, duelists - and women. Minnesota - Persons convicted of treason, arson, those who are non compos mentis - and women. *Mississippi - Persons convicted of bigamy, perjurers, the inmates of prisons and institutions for the feeble-minded - and women. Missouri - Criminals, the insane and feeble-minded - and women. Montana - Perpetrators of unpardonable offences, the insane - and women. Nebraska - Persons convicted of treason, arson, felony, the insane - and women. Nevada - Unpardoned convicts, the feeble-minded - and women. *New Hampshire - Public paupers, inmates of penitentiaries and lunatic asylums - and women. New Jersey - Convicts, lunatics - and women. New York - Persons imprisoned for crime and lunacy - and women. North Dakota - Convicts, lunatics, - and women. Ohio - Perpetrators of infamous crimes, idiots - and women. Oregon - Convicts, persons non compos mentis - and women. Pennsylvania - Perjurers, election bribery, the insane - and women. Rhode Island - Lunatics, inmates of poor houses, - and women. (Required to pay taxes on property assessed at $134. Old 40 shilling franchise.) *North Carolina - Felons, duelists, murderers - and women. *South Carolina - Felons, duelists, murderers - and women. Tennessee - Persons convicted of bribery, arson, murder, or other infamous offences, idiots - and women. Vermont - Perjurers, the feeble-minded - and women. *Virginia - Persons convicted of crimes of treason, embezzlement, bribery, felony, larceny and murder, - and women. Wisconsin - Persons in the penitentiary, the feeble-minded - and women. *Has an educational qualification for voting. Published by the Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League President, Miss Mary Winsor, Haverford P.O., Pa. Vice-Presidents Mrs. Richard Peter's Mrs. Russell Duane Mrs. Joseph P. Mumford Mrs. Horatio Gates Lloyd Mrs. John Read Pettit Recording Secretary, Mrs. Imogen B. Oakley Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Edward Yarnall Hartshorne, Merion P.O., Pa. Treasurer Mrs. Francis G. Okie, Berwyn P.O., Pa. The Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League President, MISS MARY WINDSOR, Haverford P.O., Penna. Vice-Presidents MRS. RICHARD PETERS MRS. JOSEPH P. MUMFORD MRS. RUSSELL DUANE MRS. HORATION GATES LLOYD MRS. JOHN READ PETTIT Recording Secretary, MRS. IMOGEN B. OAKLEY Corresponding Secretary, MRS. EDWARD YARNALL HARTSHORNE Merion, P.O., Penna. Treasurer, MRS. FRANCIS G. OKIE, Berwyn P.O., Penna. ANNUAL DUES $1.00 OUR PLATFORM WE, THE PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED SUFFRAGE LEAGUE, realizing that woman's interests are the care of children, the improvement of the public schools and the Juvenile Court, the establishment of playgrounds, the enactment and enforcement of adequate child-labor laws and of laws to protect women in industry and to safeguard morality, and seeing that women are responsible for the health and well-being of their households and are therefore vitally interested in securing pure water, wholesome food and good sanitary conditions: Resolve, that we ask for the ballot in order to elect representatives who will give more attention to these important subjects than has been given hitherto in this State. We do not propose to bring to the polls the criminal and illiterate of our sex, but ask for a qualified franchise and hope that the men of the State will soon see the necessity of excluding from the franchise the criminal and illiterate male. We wish for the suffrage not in order to compete with men, but to co-operate with them in furthering the welfare of this Commonwealth. We consider the exercise of the franchise a duty that every intelligent woman owes to her country and her home, and our motto is: "The ballot for the better protection of our households" March 1st, 1910 PENNSYLVANIA LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS Round Table Luncheon To meet candidates for United States Senator, Governor, Lieutenant-Governor and Secretary of Internal Affairs. GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER United States Senator WILLIAM J. BURKE Congressman-at-Large EDWARD E. BEIDLEMAN Lieutenant-Governor JOHN S. FISHER Commissioner of Banking HARRY A. MACKEY Chairman Workmen's Compensation Board LOUIS T. MCFADDEN Congressman, 15th District JOHN A. MCSPARRAN GIFFROD PINCHOT Commissioner of Forestry SAMUEL E. SHULL President Judge, 43rd Judicial District CHARLES A. SNYDER State Treasurer DAVID J. DAVIS JAMES F. WOODWARD Secretary of Internal Affairs BALLROOM, THE BELLEVUE-STRATFORD PHILADELPHIA FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1922 12.30 Noon HOSTESSES Miss Lida Stokes Adam's Mrs. Joseph J. Alexander Mrs. B. Dobson Altemus Mrs. H.C. Berry Mrs. Edwin Bicking Miss Lillie E. Bunting Mrs. Albert E. Burns Mrs. Franklin T. Cheney Mrs. John B. Clement Mrs. Walter H. Corcoran Mrs. A.A. Crooks Miss Margaret F. Dale Mrs. Y.P. Dawkins Mrs. Miner T. Dean Miss Mae Valentinus-Dee Mrs. George A. Dunning Mrs. George H. Earle, Jr. Mrs. H.B. Eastburn Mrs. William S. Ellis Miss Mary Erskine Mrs. H.E. Fahnestock Mrs. T.S. Fillmore Mrs. C.P. Fowler Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam Mrs. M.K. Gilbert Mrs. Frank S. Gottschalk Mrs. Archibald Harmon Mrs. Edward Y. Hartshorne Mrs. T. Duncan Just Mrs. Milo S. Ketchum Mrs. Harry E. Kahn Mrs. Harry J. Krug Mrs. O.S. Kriebel Mrs. E. Bowman Leaf Miss Lucy Lewis Mrs. O.G.L. Lewis Miss Mary W. Lippincott Miss Helen C. Livezey Miss Anne Livingston Mrs. George Horace Lorimer Mrs. Christian Lynch Dr. Clara Marshall Mrs. Warren Marshall Miss Maude Burt McCall Mrs. M.W. Montgomery Miss Mary Morris Mrs. R.W. Mowry Mrs. C.B. Moyer Mrs. J. Wood Mussina Mrs. Walter M. Newkirk Miss Edith B. Orlady Mrs. William C. Perkins Dr. Ellen C. Potter Mrs. Horace A. Pyle Miss Marion Reilly Mrs. Charles J. Rhoads Mrs. Thomas Ross Mrs. C.B. Sayre Mrs. Herman L. Schwartz Mrs. Sylvia V. Sharp Mrs. Frank Shuman Mrs. Lewis Lawrence Smith Mrs. James Starr, Jr. Mrs. Aaron Swartz Mrs. Paul Tappan Mrs. Horace Thayer Miss Martha G. Thomas Mrs. Earnest Toogood Mrs. Edward Twaddell Mrs. C. Bowyer Vaux Miss Margaret McK. Wilcox Mrs. H. Wobensmith Mrs. George Woodward Mrs. Charles Stewart Wurts Members State Executive Committee Mrs. JOHN O. MILLER Chairman Mrs. LEWIS L. SMITH Vice-chairman Mrs. CHARLES STEWART WURTS Secretary Miss MARTHA G. THOMAS Treasurer Directors Miss Henrietta Baldy Lyon Williamsport Mrs. E.S.H. McCauley Beaver Mrs. Ernest Waltz Washington Mrs. R. Pier Wright Erie Eastern Advisory Committee Mrs. John D. Davenport Wilkes-Barre Mrs. T.S. Fillmore, Easton Mrs. Edward Y. Hartshorne Haverford Mrs. Charles M. Lea, Devon Dr. Ellen C. Potter Harrisburg Mrs. Thomas Ross Doylestown Mrs. Herman L. Schwartz Wynnewood Chairman First and Second Class Cities Miss Marion Reilly Philadelphia Mrs. Clifton A. Varner Pittsburgh Mrs. William McH. Boyer Reading Chairman of Finance Mrs. Paul Tappan Ardmore Hidden Rocks To the Friends of Woman Suffrage: When I sent out my circular letter of May 6th, it was with the assurance that something ought to be done, and with the hope that something helpful might be done, to correct the misunderstandings that had arisen between the National Association and the Congressional Union. Many friends of the Woman Suffrage cause on both sides have freely answered my inquiries stating their grievances, presenting their views, deploring conditions and encouraging the movement for better things. Thus I have been favored in being enabled to see the situation from many viewpoints and at many angles and to observe things somewhat as they really are. In my circular letter I called for an expression of views: 1. As to the paramount importance of eliminating the discord that had arisen. 2. As to the advantage of having clearly defined orbits or spheres of work, with separate headquarters. 3. As to single membership to eliminate misdirected effort, cross-purposes and hard feelings. 4. As to an early conference of representatives from each organization to consider these matters. To the first inquiry, the answers were urgent and uniform - that discord should be eliminated. To the second and third the Nationals generally answered affirmatively, the Congressionals, negatively. To the fourth answers were uniformly in the affirmative. It was my original purpose to furnish friends of the cause the answers received (with permission of the writers), but to do so, as I see it now, might only add to the confusion and contention, so there are accordingly withheld. "Dissensions like small streams are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run; So lines that from their parallel declining, More they proceed the more they still disjoin." I have learned that attempts have been made by leaders of both organizations to adjust differences, many hours having been spent, sometimes late into the night and early morning, in the vain endeavor. Those who have engaged in these conferences can best judge whether it is worth while to renew them. Sallust truly said: "All who deliberate on important matters, ought to be uninfluenced by hatred, friendship, anger or compassion." They ought also to be broad-minded, considerate and imbued with a fine sense of justice. There has developed a radical difference in policies, the Nationals insisting upon maintaining unimpaired its old pacific and non-partisan attitude, while the Congressionals think best to proceed on different lines; hence the cleavage we now witness. As it appears to me, unless the two bodies can come to an agreement upon methods and policies they had better confine their labors for the cause each within its own orbit, and they had better have separate headquarters as they have separate colors. To throw the forces at work in this great reform into turmoil throughout all the states, as they have been here, will inevitably result in paralysis of effort, turn the public against the cause, and render many hostile or indifferent who are now sympathetic and friendly, and bring joy to every influence that is now arrayed against us. Any one who is familiar with the distressing and heartbreaking events that have been transpiring in this city, turning friend against friend even in the local societies, for several months past, resulting in complete disruption at headquarters, can but see that there must be separate spheres of action, for such dissension here is but a foretaste of that which is sure to fall upon the cause everywhere under similar conditions, for human nature is alike wherever found. As it does not seem possible to work together amicably where it has been tried, it would be calamitous to extend the disorganizing influence. There had better be a flocking to the standard of that organization whose policies are most acceptable to the memberships. Dual membership has been tried and has failed. It would be interesting and instructive to have those leaders who held conferences in order to adjust differences to report proceedings to the rank and file, so that the great body of suffragists would have a better basis for judgment than they now have. The public is now greatly in the dark. If it be true that the Congressionals are militant, as is asserted, we all want to know to what extent they intend to carry their militancy into the future; and we want to know, also, whether dissensions such as have arisen here have been projected into other states and to what extent. I do not believe that one per cent of the membership of the Congressional Union are now militant after the English pattern, or ever intend to be, and they would be shocked at any intimation of that kind, nor do I believe they can be led; and yet one may read with astonishment from an editorial in the Suffragist, published at Washington, under the auspices of the Union, in the issue of May 9th, the following: "To the Congress: We have organized the people of the United States in one great, last, peaceable demonstration, in behalf of this reform to the electorate. Gentlemen of the Congress, it must be plain to you that we shall not be satisfied with anything except an immediate response from you. If you do not give that response, you cannot expect us to cease our effort. What shall we have to do next?" Now there never was much of a chance that the Sixty-third Congress would pass any Woman Suffrage Amendment after the rumpus began. What future Congresses will do no one knows, but no Congress will ever be driven by whip and spur and threats to do anything that is not supported by the electorate at home. A man is a creature that can be coaxed, than can be led, that can be persuaded, but that cannot be driven, and a deliberate and persistent attempt to drive him against his wishes and judgment will simply create a sex antagonism that will be deplorable in its result to the cause of woman enfranchisement and to civilization itself. A sex war can be contemplated only with horror. The Democratic party, being in power now, is held responsible by the Union, and is asked to act favorably on the Anthony amendment or incur hostility in all the States. Its candidates everywhere must be defeated whether friends of suffrage or not, and the party be put down and out. And then the Republican party, the Democrats being defeated, will come into power and go through the same ordeal unless it responds to similar demands and threats. By that time the mass of male voters of both the great parties throughout the Union will be prejudiced against the cause. The policy upon which this program is modeled is thus stated by Mrs. Pankhurst: "The foundation of our policy is opposition to a government which refuses votes to women. We oppose the Liberal party because it is in power. We would oppose a Unionist government if it were in power and were opposed to woman suffrage. We call upon all sincere suffragists to leave the Liberal party until women are given votes on equal terms with men. We call upon all voters to vote against Liberal candidates until the Liberal government does justice to women." "In the year 1906 there was an immense large public opinion in favor of woman suffrage. But what good did that do the cause? We called upon the public for a great deal more than sympathy. We called upon it to demand of the government to yield to public opinion and give women votes. And we declared that we would wage war, not only on all anti-suffrage forces, but on all neutral and non-active forces. Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend." This was the policy adopted in England eight years ago when "there was an immensely large public opinion in favor of woman suffrage." It seems to be precisely the policy adopted in the United States by the Congressional Union when "there was an immensely large public opinion in favor of woman suffrage," at a time when victory to the cause was hopefully in view. Does this mean that British militancy has actually taken root in this country? Does it mean that the plant will grow, blossom and bear the same bitter fruit as in England? Does it mean that our noble cause is heading toward hidden rocks that will cause shipwreck of our hopes? It will be denied - with indignation by many not yet wise - that the Union is militant - it is, though, and will carry its war into the next Nationals' convention for mastery. This is why it favors dual membership and the same headquarters, so as to hold its grip and build its edifice on the foundation long established by the national organization. This is why it is time now for a complete and absolute separation of both membership and headquarters down to the very core of things. Mark this prediction well and remember it. The color is now yellow, or purple, white and gold - choose ye between them. In conclusion I wish to bear my testimony to the marked ability that is being shown by the young women who are conducting the propaganda of the Union at Washington, and to their unselfish devotion to the cause they have so earnestly espoused; the sincerity of their purpose and that of their followers need not be questioned. They think they are right. If they are wrong they ought to fail, but their purposes should be made clear, their program for the future be disclosed, so that no one will be deceived or disappointed at the end of who is inclined to follow them at this stage. My picture of the suffrage landscape is from a time exposure, not a snapshot, and I will ask my friends to form their judgment not too hastily, but ponder the situation well before coming to a final conclusion. I am alone responsible for what is here written, having consulted no one. I am personally in favor of a non-militant, non-partisan program; I would have peace, not contention, nor war between the sexes. I have not indulged in personalities nor have I impugned motives. My earnest desire is to help the cause that is very dear to me by giving timely warning of impending disaster should American suffragists abandon their old time pacific policy for a belligerent one, that in the end may result in a sex war. Washington Square, Philadelphia Wilmer Atkinsons I shall be glad to have a statement of your views, in reply to this "He who does not speak truth freely, is a betrayer of the truth." At Home Every Thursday! You Are Welcome! At the Headquarters of the Penna. Limited Suffrage League in the Plastic Club, 247 South Camac Street, (between Locust and Spruce, 12th and 13th Sts.), every Thursday at 3.30 P.M. Thursday, April 6th Business Meeting - Miss Winsor will lecture on "The Club Women of Idaho and their Opinion of Woman Suffrage." Last summer the Penna. Limited Suffrage League made an extensive investigation of the Practical Workings of Equal Suffrage. Miss Winsor will report the result of their inquiry and will read valuable letters from the leading club women of Idaho. Thursday, April 13th "The Status of Women in Pennsylvania." Mr. George L. Reed of Harrisburg, a brilliant speaker and lawyer, has made a special study of this interesting topic. Questions answered. Collection taken. Thursday, April 20th Mrs. Minnie J. Reynolds will lecture on "The Practical Workings of Women Suffrage in Colorado." Mrs. Reynolds voted for ten years in Colorado. She spoke brilliantly before the Judiciary General Committee of the Penna. Legislature at the recent hearing. Questions answered. Collection taken. Thursday, April 27th Election of Officers. Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead of Boston will lecture on "Woman Suffrage and Universal Peace." Questions answered. Collection taken. Those wishing to join THE PENNA. LIMITED SUFFRAGE LEAGUE may do so by sending their names and addresses to the Secretary, Mrs. Edward Yarnall Hartshorne, Merion, Pa. - There are no dues. THE FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASS'N CITY HALL Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA MANETO NOVEMBER 23 to 27, 1911 ALLIED PRINTING UNION LABEL TRADES COUNCIL PHILADELPHIA 1 OFFICERS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, 1910-11. Headquarters, 208 Hale Building, Corner Juniper and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. President ... Mrs. Ellen H.E. Price, Philadelphia Vice-President ... Mrs. Anna M. Orme, Wayne Corresponding Secretary ... Miss Caroline Katzenstein, Philadelphia Recording Secretary ... Mrs. Mary C. Morgan, Philadelphia Treasurer ... Miss Matilda Orr Hays, Pittsburgh Auditors ... Mrs. Robert D. Coard, Pittsburgh ... Miss Ellen L. Thomas, Norristown State Member of the Executive Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association ... Miss Jane Campbell, Philadelphia STANDING COMMITTEES. Church Work, Mrs. Willam Brewster Wood. Industrial Conditions for Women and Children, Mrs. Anna M. Orme. Finance, Mrs. Anna Lowenburg. Press, Mrs. Mabel Crousse Jones. The Woman Suffrage Party, Mrs. Anna M. Orme. House, Miss Emma Klahr. Open-Air Meetings, Miss Alice Paul. Legislative, Mrs. Anna M. Orme PROGRAM COMMITTEES. Anna M. Orme, Mary C. Morgan, Mrs. Willam Brewster Wood, Mrs. Katherine Tullidge, Miss Lida Stokes Adams. LOCAL SUB-COMMITTEES. Arrangements, Mrs. Katherine Tullidge. Platform, Miss Lida Stokes Adams. Hospitality, Miss Loise Roberts. Publicity, Miss Beatrice Brown. Decorations, Mrs. William Albert Wood. Ushers, Miss Olga Gross. Badges, Averett. PROGRAM Thursday, November 23rd Morning 10 o'clock Executive Committee Meeting in the State Headquarters, 208 Hale Building, corner Juniper and Chestnut streets. Afternoon, 2.30 o'clock Mayor's Reception Room, City Hall Prayer - Rev. Carl E. Grammer, D. D. Convention called to order by the President, Mrs. Ellen H. E. Price Welcome to Philadelphia, Hon. John E. Reyburn, Mayor of Philadelphia Response for Pennsylvania, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, President of Nation American Woman Suffrage Association. Responses for Philadelphia, The Woman Suffrage Society of the County of Philadelphia, Miss Jane Campbell The Equal Franchise Society ... Mrs. Wilfred Lewis The College Equal Suffrage League ... Miss Mary Ingham Greetings from Fraternal Delegates. 1. Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage Association ... Miss Mary Winsor 2. The Constitutional Amendment League ... Miss Anna M. Martin 3. The State Federation of Pennsylvania Women, Mrs. George Arthur Pearsal 4. The Pennsylvania Women's Christian Temperance Union, Mrs. Olive Pond Amies 5. The Pennsylvania Grange ... Miss Frances M. Bromall 6. The Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, William E. Griffis, of Typographical Union No. 2 7. The Pennsylvania Branch of the College Equal Suffrage League, Mrs. Scott Nearing 8. Congress of Mothers ... Mrs. Howard W. Lippincott 9. The Friends Equal Rights Association ... Miss Susan W. Janney Appointment of Committees. The President's Annual Address ... Ellen H. E. Price THE PAST AND THE PRESENT "The First Woman Suffrage Convention, Seneca Falls, N. Y., 1848." Mrs. Charlotte Pearce The Recent Victory in California... Mrs. Elizabeth Gerberding Forty-Third Annual Convention PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASS'N PUBLIC MEETING Philadelphia Quartette Hall Germantown and Lehigh Avenues Saturday Even'g, 25 Nov. 1911 ..PROGRAMME.. OPENING ADDRESS - - Dr. H. A. KELLY, Chairman ADDRESSES By Hon. JAMES T. NULTY, State Senator Hon. HUGH B. PIPER, State Representative Mr. C. O. PRATT, of the Carmen's Union Miss LEONORA O'REILLY, Women's Trade Union League, N. Y. Mrs. HARRIET STATION BLATCH, President Woman's Political Union, N. Y. Audience is requested to unite in singing the National anthem at the close of meeting. Music by the Lighthouse Military Union Band Committee in Charge MRS. R. R. P. BRADFORD, Chairman Hon Hugh B. Piper Hon. James T. Nulty Rev. A. J. Atkin C. O. Pratt Rev. Geo. John Walenta Miss Richardson Miss Helen K. Yerkes Miss McKenney Miss Louise Eissler Miss Isabel Kaskey Frank McCusker Rev. B. D. Weigle John D. Kinnon William Griffin William C. Alexander Samuel A. McClay John Hill Geo. W. Crawford William McVey R. R. P Bradford Francis Tait Mrs. Jennie Kinnon Mrs. Mary Crombie Mrs. Margaret Godward Mrs. Agnes Barclay Mrs. Janet Murray Mrs. Ellen Gutrie Mrs. Kate McClay Mrs Margaret Gillespie Mrs. Elizabeth Weber Mrs. Sarah Adams Mrs. Annie Ewing Mrs. Kate McLean Reba Erb Christine Doyle Louise Burkhardt Christine Archibald Anna McCue Katie McKay Katherine Knuffman Anna Magee Katherine McWilliams 15 Local Print, 2535 Kensington Ave. Thursday Evening, November 23d Evening, 8 o'clock. Clover Room--Bellevue-Stratford. President M. Carey Thomas, of Bryn Mawr College, presiding. Music. Violin. a. African Dance.................................Coleridge Taylor b. Serenade á Colombine ...................................Pierné c. La Ronde des Lutins .........................................Bazzini Mr. Hery Such. (Through the courtesy of Mr. Maurits Leefson.) Songs. a. Bitte .........................................................A. von Tielitz b. "I Send my Heart up to Thee" ............Mrs. Beach Mrs. Edward Brylawski. (Mr. Anthony Schwarz at the piano.) Address .........................................Miss Mary Johnston Address ..................................Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Address ........................................Dr. Harvey W. Wiley Informal reception to meet the National President, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, and distinguished guests. ———————— Friday, November 24th Morning, 10 o'clock. Mayor's Reception Room, City Hall. Report of the Credentials Committee. Minutes. Report of the Corresponding Secretary. Report of the Treasurer. Report of the Auditors. Three-minute reports from Auxiliary Societies. Report of Standing Committees. Afternoon, 2.30 o'clock Mayor's Reception Room, City Hall. Report of International Convention held in Stockholm, Sweden, June, 1911.............................................................................................Miss Lucy Anthony Report of National Convention, held at Louisville, Kentucky October, 1911.............................................................................................Mrs. Scott Nearing The Value of the School Debate.......................................Walker M. Ellis Princeton, 1915. Report of Standing Committees (continued). Friday Evening, November 24th Horticultural Hall. Colonel Sheldon Potter, presiding. Music. Songs. a. "Wander Traunce," from Elilana...........................von Fielitz b. "The Birthday" ...................................................................Cowen Miss Helen H. Fraim. "The Conservation of Womanhood" .........................Mrs. Mary Austin Address .....................................................................ex-Judge Dimner Beeber Member of the Board of Education "Men and the Ballot for Women" ..................Dr. George Edward Reed ex-President of Dickinson College "The Woman Suffrage Party" ........................Mrs. William Warner Penfield Chairman of the Woman Suffrage Party of New York City —————— Saturday, November 25th Morning, 10 o'clock. Mayor's Reception Room, City Hall. Minutes. Unfinished business. New Business. Amendments to the State Constitution. Plan of work for next year. Evening, 8 o'clock Philadelphia Quartette Hall. Germantown Avenue, above Lehigh Avenue. Dr. H.A. Kelly, of Baltimore, presiding. Music by the Lighthouse Union Band. Minutes. Addresses. Hon. James P. Nulty, State Senator. Hon. Hugh B. Piper, State Representative. Mr. C.O. Pratt, Organizer of the Carmen's Union. Miss Leonora Reilly, Woman's Trade Union League of New York. Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, President of the Women's Political Union of New York City. Report of the Resolutions Committee. The National Air. Adjournment. Sunday, November 26th Afternoon, 3.30 o'clock GARRICK THEATRE Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, presiding. President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Address. "The Triumph of Woman Suffrage in England," Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the great English Leader --- Monday, November 27th Morning, 10 o'clock Executive Committee meeting in the State Headquarters, 208 Hale Building, corner Juniper and Chestnut streets. General Information State Headquarters, 208 Hale Building, corner Juniper and Chestnut streets. The Mayor's Reception Room, 202, Second Floor, Northeast Corner. Members of the Hospitality Committee will be at Headquarters to receive Delegates and quests during the Convention. Mail can be sent to Headquarters. Literature, Suffrage pins and flags will be on sale at all public meetings. The"Woman's Journal" will be on sale at all meetings, at all news-stands at railway stations, and at the news-stands on Chestnut Street and on the street. Subscription will also be taken for the "Woman's Journal." Woman Suffrage Party blanks will be at all meetings Visitors are urged to take some and distribute. Visitors are urged to join one of the following Suffrage Societies: The Woman Suffrage Society of the County of Philadelphia, Miss Jane Campbell. The Equal Franchise Society, Mrs. Lawrence Lewis. The College Equal Suffrage League, Miss Mary Ingham. Application blanks for membership will be on the literature tables at all meetings. A collection will be taken at all public meetings, and pledge blanks will be in the hands of ushers. The Credentials Committee will meet at Headquarters, Thursday, November 23rd, at 1:30 o'clock. The flowers and plants used in decoration at the Bellevue-Stratford were provided by J. J. Habermehl's Sons, Bellevue-Stratford. Those at the Pankhurst meeting in the Garrick Theater by J. Wolff, Jr., 1617 North Nineteenth Street. The Flowers and Plants for Horticultural Hall Meeting provided by Mr. B. Stahl, 27 S. Eleventh St. Social Notes Wednesday evening, November 22d, 8 o'clock. New Century Club, 124 South Twelfth Street. Reception to the Officers of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association, the Officers of the local Suffrage societies, and Delegates to the Convention, given by the New Century Club. Friday afternoon, November 24th, 4.30 o'clock to 6. At the home of Miss Mary Ingham, 333 South Sixteenth Street. "Tea" by the College Equal Suffrage League to the Officers of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association and Delegates to the Convention. Saturday afternoon, November 25th, 3 to 5 o'clock. Reception given by Mrs. William Brewster Wood to the Officers of the State Association home in Meadowbrook, Montgomery County, Pa. Trains leave Reading Terminal 2.17, 3.17. Return 4.06, 5.47. Why Not In Pennsylvania? Give the Women of Pennsylvania a Square Deal. They Want the Ballot. WHY? BECAUSE- Those who obey laws should have something to say as to their making. BECAUSE- Those who pay taxes to support the government should be represented in government. BECAUSE- Those who have charge of the home and children must be able to protect them. BECAUSE- 6,000,000 working women need it for their protection. Women have municipal suffrage in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Natal (South Africa), British Honduras, Denmark, Sweden and Kansas (U.S.A). Women have full suffrage in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Washington and California. Why Not in Pennsylvania? (*Salts Bottle donated by The Baily, Bauler + Biddle Co.) The Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League invites you to attend its Third Birthday Party June Eleventh (*1912) at four o'clock, in the Casino of the Merion Cricket Club, Haverfod. Programme Part I.- SERIOUS Mrs. Imogen B. Oakley will give the address she prepared for the Election Commission: ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF AN EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION. Mr. Edwin O. Lewis: LIMITED SUFFRAGE- WOULD IT IMPROVE POLITICS? Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr: WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN COLORADO Part II.- FRIVOLOUS A SUFFRAGE RUMMAGE SALE To be sold at public auction: A choice lot of prejudices, superstitions, fallen idols, curios, second-hand costumes, worn ideals, cast-off toys, antique furniture and antiquated notions. The Auction will be followed by an original burlesque. DRAMATIS PERSONAE The Auctioneer, - - - - Miss Mary Winsor Mrs. Grundy, Miss Maude Burt McCall } of the Plays Mrs. Partington, Mrs. Robert B. Geddes, Jr. } and Players Club The Mad Hatter, Mr. Joseph A. Deering, Jr. } ARTICLES TO BE AUCTIONED: Noah's Ark, and Image of Buddha, a Turkish flag, a pair of Chinese Shoes, a Hand-Painted Screen A Spinning Wheel (donated by Mr. Harry M. Cook, Berwyn Antique Shop, Berwyn, Pa.) Six varieties of Delicious Home-made Preserves (donated by Thomas C. Fluke Company, 1309 Walnut Street, Philadelphia). A dainty set of French China (donated by Wright, Tyndale & Van Roden, 1212 Chestnut Street Admission Free Collection Taken The Woman Suffrage Party of Philadelphia AND The Penna. Limited Equal Suffrage League ANNOUNCE A LECTURE BY MRS. PETHICK LAWRENCE OF LONDON, ENGLAND WITHERSPOON HALL Thursday, Dec. 10 AT 3 P. M. Subject: "Woman and War" Tickets will be on sale on and after November 25th at Gimbel Brothers, 9th street entrance; Women Suffrage Party Headquarters, 1723 Chestnut street, also at Witherspoon Hall, on the day of the meeting PRICE Ground floor and first three rows of balcony, 50 cents Remainder of balcony, 25 cents (All seats will be reserved) MARY WINSOR, Chairman [?] 18 EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY NOTICE Under the provisions of By-Law No. 11 which states that "These By-Laws may be amended at a meeting of the society, due notice of the amendment having been given" the Board of Directors hereby give notice that they have approved and will present the following amendments to the By-Laws at the 1917 Annual Meeting of the Equal Franchise Society. Susan L. Pemberton, January 31, 1917 President. Amend By-Law No. 4, to read: Honorary Vice Presidents may be appointed by the Board of Directors Insert as By-Law No. 5, the following: The Board of Directors shall appoint annually an Advisory Board, selected from members of the Society who will give the affairs of the Society advice and help which may be of value. The members of this Advisory Board shall receive notice of all business meetings of the Board of Directors, at which they shall have voice but no vote Change number of present By-Law No. 5 o No.6 " " " " " No. 6 " No.7 " " " " " No. 7 " No.8 " " " " " No. 8 " No. 9 " " " " " No. 9 " No. 10 " " " " " No. 10 " No. 11 Amend By-Law No. 11 (present No. 10), to read: The Annual Dues of the Society shall be One Dollar. Insert By-Law No. 12, to read: No Committee or member of the Society shall use the name of the Society officially either in correspondence, publicity, or in the person without the authority of the Board of Directors; provided that the President shall be authorized to represent the Directors in any or all of these ways on occasions of urgency. Change Number of present By-Law No. 11 to No. 13. Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia TREASURER'S REPORT January 1, 1916 to December 31, 1916 DR. Balance January 1, 1916....................................$938.70 Membership dues................................................ 637.00 Contributions........................................................1,649.36 Interest..........................................................................25.63 Sale of literature and novelties.........................481.21 Sale of tickets for 1916 Luncheon...................303.00 Sale of tickets for Pankhurst meeting...............417.00 Press work done for Congressional Union...135.00 Speakers class dues.................................................45.00 Refund from branch Societies.............................50.89 Miscellaneous refunds............................................45.73 Telephone calls by visitors.......................................5.35 Rent of ushers gowns................................................3.00 Sundries........................................................................11.42 ------ $4,747.29 CR. Rent of office.......................................................$1,400.00 Rent of halls...............................................................112.00 Salaries and Wages................................................1,295.18 Office maintenance...................................................38.50 Telephone......................................................................89.91 Electric Light.................................................................20.58 Postage.........................................................................151.39 Printing.........................................................................120.25 Literature and novelties.........................................187.71 Auxiliary dues to Penna. State Association....158.00 Pledge to Penna. State Association...................100.00 Dues to State Federation of Penna. Women....12.00 Dues to Monday Conference.................................19.00 Bellevue-Stratford for 1916 luncheon...............303.00 Speakers..........................................................................75.00 Traveling expenses of speakers, etc. .................119.55 Booth at Civic Exhibition.........................................150.00 Advertising...................................................................115.07 Collections sent to Iowa campaign......................37.56 Moving Office...............................................................17.50 Sundries..........................................................................14.25 ------ $4,536.45 Balance in Girard Trust Co., Dec. 31, 1916......$210.84 --------- $4,747.29 Audited and found correct MARY HELEN WINGATE LLOYD ELLEN MCMURTRIE MARTHA DAVIS, Treasurer. The Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] HEADQUARTERS: 208 Hale Building Corner Chestnut and Juniper Streets At the third Annual Meeting of the Equal Franchise Society of Pennsylvania the following Amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws will be voted on: CONSTITUTION Article I - Name, which reads as follows: "The name of this Society shall be the Equal Franchise Society of Pennsylvania." To read as follows: "The name of this Society shall be the Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia." Article IV - Board of Directors, which reads as follows: "The management of the Equal Franchise Society of Pennsylvania shall be vested in a Board consisting of twenty-one directors, to be elected annually by the members of the Society, as provided in the By-Laws." To read as follows: "The management of the Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia shall be vested in a Board consisting of twenty-one directors, to be elected at annual meetings of the Society, as provided in the By-Laws." BY-LAWS III - To read as follows: "The officers shall be a President, six Vice-Presidents, Corresponding Secretary, Recording Secretary, and Treasurer, to be elected annually by the Directors from their number." [10] VIII - To read as follows" "The President shall in December of each year appoint a Nominating Committee of five, a majority of which shall consist of members who are not Directors. At the Annual meeting of the Society in January, the Nominating Committee shall present the names of seven Directors, to be elected for a term of three years. Nominations from the floor may also be made. The election shall be by a majority of those present, and shall take place in such manner as the meeting shall order." SOPHIA H. DULLES, Corresponding Secretary Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia BALLOT Directors to be elected at the Annual Meeting, February 15th, 1917 to serve until 1920. DIRECTORS MISS MARY A. BURNHAM MISS SOPHIA H. DULLES MRS. FRANK MILES DAY MISS MARY H. INGHAM MRS. LAWRENCE LEWIS, JR. MRS. CHARLES H. LUDINGTON MRS. FRANCIS U. LLOYD MISS SARAH G. TOMKINS NOMINATING COMMITTEE MISS SARAH D. LOWRIE MRS. CHARLES J. RHOADS MISS M.M.N. STEWART Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia TREASURER'S REPORT January 1, 1916 to December 31, 1916 DR. Balance January 1, 1916 $938.70 Membership dues 637.00 Contributions 1,649.36 Interest 25.63 Sale of Literature and novelties 481.21 Sale of tickets for 1916 Luncheon 303.00 Sale of tickets for Pankhurst meeting 417.00 Press work done for Congressional Union 135.00 Speakers class dues 44.00 Refund from branch Societies 50.89 Miscellaneous refunds 45.73 Telephone calls by visitors 5.35 Rent of users gowns 3.00 Sundries 11.42 $4,747.29 CR. Rent of office $1,400.00 Rent of halls 112.00 Salaries and Wages 1,295.18 Office maintenance 38.50 Telephone 89.91 Electric Light 20.58 Postage 151.39 Printing 120.25 Literature and novelties 187.71 Auxiliary dues to Penna. State Association 158.00 Pledge to Penna. State Association 100.00 Dues to State Federation Penna. Women 12.00 Dues to Monday Conference 19.00 Bellevue-Stratford for 1916 Luncheon 303.00 Speakers 75.00 Traveling expenses of speakers, etc. 119.55 Booth at Civic Exhibition 150.00 Advertising 115.07 Collections sent to Iowa campaign 37.56 Moving Office 17.50 Sundries 14.25 $4,536.45 Balance in Girard Trust Co., Dec. 31, 1916 210.84 $4,747.29 MARTHA DAVIS, Treasurer. Audited and found correct MARY HELEN WINGATE LLOYD ELLEN MCMURTRIE Finding List for Members of the Pennsylvania Legislature (Outside of Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties) Session of 1913 Prepared by the CONSUMERS' LEAGUE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA 329 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia Senate Adams Co. JOHN W. HOKE Armstrong Co. J. FRANK GRAFF Beaver Co. JOSEPH H. THOMPSON Berks Co. EDWIN M. HERBST Bedford Co. JAMES W. ENDSLEY Blair co. ENOS M. JONES Bradford Co. CHARLES E. MILLS Bucks Co. CLARENCE J. BUCKMAN Butler Co. J. FRANK GRAFF Cabria Co. JACOB C. STINEMAN Cameron Co. JAS. K. P. HALL Carbon Co. HARVEY HUFFMAN Center Co. JOSEPH ALEXANDER Chester Co. JOHN GYGER Clarion Co. JAS. K. P. HALL Clearfield Co. JOSEPH ALEXANDER Clinton Co. JAS. K. P. HALL Columbia Co. CHARLES W. SONES Crawford Co. BENJAMIN JARRETT Cumberland Co. FRANKLIN MARTIN Dauphin Co. EDWARD E. BEIDLEMAN Delaware Co. WM. C. SPROUL Elk Co. JAS. K. P. HALL Erie Co. HENRY A. CLARK Fayette Co. WM. E. CROW Forest Co. JAS K. P. HALL Franklin Co. JOHN W. HOKE Fulton Co. JAMES W. ENDSLEY Greene Co. J. CARTER JUDSON Huntington Co. ENOS M. JONES Indiana Co. THEO. M. KURTZ Jefferson Co. THEO. M. KURTZ Juniata Co. FRANKLIN MARTIN Lackawanna Co. WALTER MCNICHOLS Lancaster Co. JOHN G. HOMSHER DANIEL P. GERBERICH Lawrence Co. JOSEPH H. THOMPSON Lebanon Co. DANIEL P. GERBERICH Leigh Co. JAMES A. MILLER Luzerne Co. ASA K. DEWITT STERLING R. CATLIN Lycoming Co. CHARLES W. SONES McKean Co. ROBERT W. HILTON Mercer Co. BENJAMIN JARRETT Mifflin Co. FRANKLIN MARTIN Monroe Co. HARVEY HUFFMAN Montgomery Co. JOSEPH HEACOCK Montour Co. CHARLES W. SONES Northampton Co. J. HARRY MORGAN Northumberland Co. JOHN T. FISHER Perry Co. FRANKLIN MARTIN Pike Co. HARVEY HUFFMAN Potter Co. ROBERT W. HILTON Schuylkill Co. CHAS. A. SNYDER Snyder Co. JOHN T. FISHER Somerset Co. JAMES W ENDSLEY Sullivan Co. CHARLES W. SONES Susquehanna Co. CHARLES E. MILLS Tioga Co. ROBERT W. HILTON Union Co. JOHN T. FISHER Venango Co. FRANK M. KNAPP Warren Co. FRANK M. KNAPP Washington Co. J. CARTER JUDSON Wayne Co. HARVEY HUFFMAN Westmoreland Co. CHESTER D. SENSENICH Wyoming Co. CHARLES E. MILLS [*Everybody's magazine - October 1916*] SUFFRAGE, A WORLD WAVE HOW IT STAND IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD By Population No Suffrage 32,824,476. "Minor" 47,052,000. Municipal 64,736,490. Full 19,748,034. IN THE English-speaking world the whole pure-white no-suffrage area is contributed by the United States. So, also, is the whole light-shaded "minor"-suffrage area. The dark-shaded municipal suffrage area is in the British Empire. The black full-suffrage area is partly in the British Empire and partly in the United States. In the lower diagram, which includes all the important countries of the whole world, the white no-suffrage area is almost entirely in Asian and African and Central and South America. The other areas are entirely in Europe and in the colonies of the British Empire and in the United States. HOW IT STAND IN ALL THE COUNTRIES OF LAL THE WORLD PUT TOGETHER. By Population No Suffrage 1,000,000,000. "Minor" 456,000,000. Municipal 111,000,000. Full 25,000,000. 15 The Epidemic by ETHEL M. KELLEY ILLUSTRATIONS BY C.H. TAFFS It was all over the house. I was not altogether fortunate in my choice of a shelter from the storm. As I rounded the corner of Seventy-second Street it had begun to rain - not conventionally and quietly, with a dignity befitting the neighborhood, but with the kind of exaggerated violence one might expect on Third Avenue. I was wearing a suit just home from the tailor's, and my object in coming out had been to shake the blue devils that had been in pursuit of me ever since the announcement of Eleanor Peterson's engagement. To be sure, I had not been actually in love with Eleanor; but I had thought she cared about me - too much, at any rate, to rush into matrimony with a man I was forced to acknowledge so much my superior. Eleanor and I might have been very happy together, if she hadn't been quite so precipitate. So I was feeling very lonely, with one more potentiality nipped in the bud, and one more good friend about to join the disconcerting ranks of the newly married. With these considerations weighing heavily on my mind, I had forgotten to take an umbrella. There was not a taxi in sight, and I dived into the Evertons' doorway. I stood there for at least ten minutes before I recognized it, such was the perturbation of my spirit; but as soon as I realized where I was, of course, I went in. The young ladies were at home, it appeared, and Mr. Tom. Mr. and Mrs. Everton had gone to a concert. I gave Peter my hat, and went up-stairs unannounced. I was immediately sorry I had done so. In the drawing-room at the head of the stairs sat Tom Everton with a girl. The stairway turns at the top, and my eyes reached the level of the second story just in time to see him seize her and kiss her. I managed to slip out of sight again before they saw me. After a suitable interval I went on up, but the interval had been badly calculated. I had waited too long. I should have timed myself to appear between kisses. Tom greeted me with that effusive cordiality which deceives no unwelcome guest. The girl merely smiled at me absently in recognition of the presentation, and looked interrupted. She was a Miss Appleby, I was informed, who was visiting Lina Everton. I took sprightly advantage of the mention of Lina, and inquired for her as if it were she I had come looking for especially. "She's up-stairs, Richard - in the library, probably. Go on up. She'll be delighted to see you." The Evertons have one of these four-story New York houses with at least one room on a floor where guests are allowed unchallenged. Down-stairs are the dining-room and reception-room. On the second floor the drawing-room and the back drawing-room. (I don't know what else you call it in these days when there are no more parlors.) On the third floor the library and Mrs. Everton's rooms, and so on. It was a charming house, as such houses go, and when you once accept the premise that a house can be like that, you're quite happy in it. Thank God, I was brought up in the country - all on two floors and an attic. I went up to the library. When I reached it I thought that I must have gone suddenly mad - that some bad lighting effect or subconscious impression had tricked me 16 News Bulletin The Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA COUNTY Published at Headquarters 1723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia For the Purpose of Promoting a More Effectual Co-operation Among the Members of the Party. The News Bulletin is for All Suffragists. The Woman Suffrage Party Works for Both State and Federal Amendments by Non-Partisan and Non-Militant Methods. VOL 2. NO. 4 PHILADELPHIA, JULY 1918 PRICE 3 cts per copy 25 cts a year NOTES FROM STATE HEADQUARTERS 1606 Finance Building, South Penn Square, Philadelphia. Republican and Democratic State Committee Meetings: Our acting president, Mrs. Lewis L. Smith, and the chairman of Philadelphia, Mrs. George A. Dunning, attended the Republican State Committee meeting, which was held at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, in Philadelphia, Friday, June 14th, to present a letter requesting the Republican party of Pennsylvania to officially recommend the adoption of Woman Suffrage as a war-time measure. The letter was referred to the Resolutions Committee. On Wednesday, June 19th, Mrs. Smith attended the Democratic State Committee meeting at Harrisburg, accompanied by Miss Helen. C. Clark, chairman of Congressional District 18, to ask that the Democratic party of Pennsylvania endorse Woman Suffrage and urge the passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment by the Senate of the United States. Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer assured our representatives that he would use his influence to secure the granting of their request. Women's Oversea Hospitals: The total payments from Pennsylvania for this work are as follows: Columbia County $132.23 Fayette County 156.00 Luzerne County 986.26 Montgomery County 307.00 Philadelphia 1157.00 Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Washington 100.00 Miss Mary Austin, New York 100.00 $2938.49 On the evening of May 10th the Pittsburgh organization held a fete and dance to raise their assessment for these hospitals, and on May 16th Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties held an outdoor fete to secure funds for this work, while Montour County had a Tag Day June 12th. Final reports of the receipts from these enterprises have not been received at headquarters. They all were most successful, however. Montgomery County: Miss Elizabeth Snyder, daughter of Mrs. A. M. Snyder, chairman of Montgomery County, has been chosen to represent Bryn Mawr College on the Intercollegiate Service Corps, under the control of the Y.M.C.A., and will soon leave for France. Miss Snyder has been her mother's "right hand man" in the efficient suffrage work in Montgomery County. Philadelphia County: The Woman Suffrage Party of Philadelphia has invited the out-of-town women workers of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, recently moved from Washington to Philadelphia, to use their headquarters as a club on Sunday afternoons. Miss Dorothy McCausland, chairman of this committee, reports that the young women are accepting the offer in large numbers. Treasurer's Report RECEIPT June: 4 - Anna A. MacDonald $1.50 6 - Lancaster County W.S. Party 50.00 Lycoming County W. S. Party 25.00 Mrs. R. E. Umbel 12.50 Maggie E. Madre 5.00 15 - Philadelphia County W.S. Party 500.00 Altoona W.S. Party 50.00 Clinton County W. S. Party 100.00 Chester County W.S. Party 78.00 2 NEWS BULLETIN Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County Chairman Mrs. George A. Dunning, 15 South Twenty- first Street Honorary Vice- Chairmen Mrs. Lucretia Blankenburg Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson Dr. Lucy L. W. Wilson Vice- Chairmen Mrs. Joseph M Gazzam Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill Mrs. William B. Derr Mrs. Richard H. Day Dr. E. M. Hiestand- Moore Mrs. Ferree Brinton Secretary Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellis Treasurer Mrs. Harry E. Kohn Auditors Miss Sara D. Chambers Miss Anna H. Snyder Executive Secretary Miss Marguerite Mitchell Headquarters: 1721- 1723 Chestnut Street Bell Telephone: Spruce 2402 Office Hours, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. July 1918 81 25 cents a year A WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS A blue pencil mark at this paragraph indicates that your subscription expires with this, the July number. In renewing, kindly send 25 cents cash or stamps to the "News Bulletin Committee," 1721 Chestnut street. If our out- of- town members wish to please our Luncheon Committee very much indeed, they may do so by sending flowers to decorate the tables. We think it adds very much to the attractiveness of the lunch room to have a few sprays on each table, and we cannot afford to buy them, hence this request. They may be brought in person, or if sent by train we could, if notified, call for them. The Long Table Luncheons have been discontinued for the summer. RECENT ACTIVITIES IN THE TWENTY- FOURTH WARD Through Mrs. James M. Lingle and her corps of able assistants, the Twenty- fourth Ward was successful in raising $47, 100 (forty- seven thousand one hundred dollars) during the house- to- house canvass for the Liberty Loan in May. Its members also participated in the War Chest campaign later and were equally successful there. The two following letters were received by Mrs. Lingle, and indicate how very much the work was appreciated: Treasury Department, Office of Federal Reserve District Chairman May 7, 1918. My Dear Mrs. Lingle: I want to thank you most heartily for the splendid work you did in the Sixteenth Precinct (Twenty- fourth Ward). The amount you collected was wonderful, considering all difficulties, and everything went far ahead of my expectations. Very sincerely yours, BERTHA S. GRAHAM, Chairman for Precincts for Liberty Loan. 3312 Hamilton street. June 6, 1918. Mrs. J. M. Lingle, 4114 Parish street, Philadelphia Dear Mrs. Lingle: I wish to thank you for the valuable assistance you rendered, not only yourself, but the energetic women whom you enlisted in the War Chest campaign. I think so far as our ward is concerned, every one connected should be congratulated, as we received pledges for over $82, 000 (eighty- two thousand dollars) and a few are still coming in. As compared with the other wards, this showing is very gratifying, particularly as we were put down for $45, 000 (forty- five thousand dollars). Thanking you again for your interest, I am, Yours very truly, GEORGE B. DAVIS, Chairman, Twenty- fourth Ward War Chest Campaign, May 20- 27. Among those who assisted Mrs. Lingle were the following: Mrs. Katharine Halligan, Miss Anne Heygate- Hall Mrs. James Monaghan, Mrs. Jacob Fritz, Mrs. John G. Fuller, Miss Helen Jones, Miss Jessie Masters, Dr. Florence Richards, Dr. Margaret Large, Miss Constance Hepworth, Miss Schlenkler, Miss Elizabeth Black, Mrs. A. Foster, Miss L. C. Brown, Mrs. Ellwood Ahn, Miss Mary Reinhardt, Miss Miriam Johnson, Miss Florence Walters, Miss Lily Ordish, Miss Elizabeth Salmon, Miss Marian Croskey, Miss Ida Katzenstein. NEWS BULLETIN 3 LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT NOTES Fifteenth District. Chairman- Mrs. F. J. Giering, 346 Church lane, Germantown. The regular monthly meeting was held at the home of MIss Anna Harris Snyder, 157 Carpenter lane, Mt. Airy, on Wednesday, June 12th. The following resolution was passed: Whereas, The Woman Suffrage Party has never discussed nor taken action upon the endorsement of the Hon. John R. K. Scott; and, Whereas, Article I of the Constitution of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association states that it endorses the non- partisan policy of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; therefore, be it Resolved, That we reaffirm our non- partisan policy and do not endorse any political candidate. Our next meeting will be held on the second Wednesday in September. The place of meeting will be announced later. Dr. Frances Marian- Self, leader of the Forty- first Division of the Twenty- second Ward, gave a dance at the Delmar- Morris on Saturday, June 29th. The proceeds will be given to the Woman Suffrage Party in fulfillment of Dr. Self's pledge, made at the County Convention. READERS, PLEASE TAKE NOTE Since our June number was issued the following letter appeared in the "Woman Citizen": Used Stamps Contraband. To the Editor of the "Woman Citizen": I saw in your last issue an advertisement from "an interned Belgian soldier" asking for canceled postage stamps. The same advertisement has appeared in a great many papers; so it is well for readers of the "Woman Citizen" to know that, since spies have used an arrangement of stamps to indicate the sailings of troop ships, the censor holds all letters containing used stamps, or returns them to the senders. The "Journal of Philately" is my authority for the above statement. KATE SAMPSON HALL. Pinewood, Tenn. NEW SUBSCRIBERS Mrs. Frederick E. Drinker Miss Ladson Hall Niss Olga H. Gross W. S. P. RED CROSS AUXILIARY, NO. 226. Chairman- Mrs. Raymond J. Harris, 1843 South Broad street. The Red Cross Auxiliary, No. 226, continues to meet at its headquarters, 1731 Chestnut street. The Auxiliary has just purchased six new sewing machines, so that there will be plenty of work for all who may come. The Auxiliary has received the following gifts and loans: from Miss Gertrude Atkinson, five dollars; from Miss Klahr, five dollars and the use of her machine for the summer; from Miss Harned, the use of her machine and scales; and from Mrs. Wobensmith's district, ten dollars. Mrs. Taylor's unit has agreed to continue its work throughout the summer. ENLISTED MEN'S PARTIES Acting Chairman, Mrs. A. E. Burns, 2530 South Colorado Street. The Enlisted Men's Parties now being held at the Roosevelt are constantly growing in popularity. Those of June 18th and 22d more than taxed the capacity of the hotel, which has arranged a second room for dancing and thrown open the dining- room for a sitting and refreshment room. June 15th was a veritable rose festival. Roses were everywhere, and at the end of the evening they were given to the young folks as they went home. The flowers were the gift of our dear suffrage friend, Miss Annie Heacock. JUST LET HIM MENTION While Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of state must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention The Rights of Women merit some attention. -Robert Burns, November, 1792. THE FEDERAL AMENDMENT It is hard to believe there were not a sufficient number of real men in the Senate to have passed the Federal Suffrage Amendment when it was brought up for a vote on June 27th. We lacked just "one and a third votes" to have carried it. Close, to be 4 NEWS BULLETIN sure, but "a miss is as good (or as bad) as a mile." At the present writing we do not know what the next step will be, but we know that whatever Mrs. Catt decides to do in the matter will be for the best. PERSONAL Mrs. George A. Dunning has been appointed by the Mayor to serve on a special committee of women of the Council of National Defense. This committee consists of twenty- three members, of which Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury is chairman. Miss Lida Stokes Adams and Mrs. Adams, after spending several weeks in the city, have returned to the shore for the summer. They are stopping at a cottage in Ventnor. Mrs. Adams is greatly improved in health. A number of our members have left town for the summer, those among them being Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam, Miss Klahr, Mrs. Ellis and Miss Atkinson. CALENDAR OF EVENTS Parties for Enlisted Men- Every Tuesday and Saturday evening, at 7 P. M., at the Roosevelt, 2027 Chestnut street. Red Cross Auxiliary, No. 226- Every Tuesday and Friday, from 10 to 4, at 1731 Chestnut street (second floor back). "At Homes" to the women of the Emergency Fleet Corporation- Every Sunday afternoon, at 1721 Chestnut street. COMMITTEES Philadelphia County- Second and fourth Mondays of the month, at 2 P. M., 1723 Chestnut street. Chairman, Mrs. George A. Dunning. Enlisted Men's Parties- Second and fourth Tuesdays, at 2 P. M., 1721 Chestnut street. Acting chairman, Mrs. A. E. Burns. Red Cross Auxiliary, No. 226- First Tuesday of the month, 2 P. M., 1721 Chestnut street. Chairman, Mrs. Raymond J. Harris. WHY I AM FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE Because I never heard a good reason why I should not be for it. Because a woman is a soul, an individual, and a citizen as much a man is. Because responsibility ought to go with citizenship. Because a woman is as intelligent as a man, and naturally more decent. Because the wider a woman's outlook and the more varied her interests the better wife and mother she is. Because democracy is inefficient unless it is complete, and where one- half of the citizenry are deprived of their political rights there can be but a half democracy. Because women, having immediate charge of the children, are more sensitive to moral issues and social influences. Because those women who do not want the ballot need it the most. Because all affairs, whether of business, religion, sports or politics, are rendered more wholesome when women participate in them. Because I don't like any organization or institution that is for one sex alone, such as men's clubs, colleges and lodges or women's clubs, colleges and lodges. Because the notion of woman's inferiority is a hangover from medievalism. Because my wife is my partner, and not my possession. Because women are more practical than men, and not so adventurous. Because women are more conservative than men. Because the instincts of order, economy and peace are stronger in women than in men. Because women couldn't possibly make bigger fools of themselves in politics than men. Because children need training in the art of politics and women should be prepared to give it to them. Because any class idea, even a sex class, is baleful in the social order. Because politics tend to become dirty, and the first thing a woman does when she enters any place is to clean it up. Because the coming of women into politics will open a great fountain of fresh, wholesome, moral sentiment. Because I live in America, and not in Europe or Asia. And because I live in the twentieth century and not the tenth. DR. FRANK CRANE. For Information as to Terms and Dates Apply to WILLIAM B. FEAKINS 23 West 44th Street, New York ETHEL M. ARNOLD LECTURER SEASON 1911-12 Direction of WILLIAM B. FEAKINS Successor to Civic Forum Lecture Bureau 23 WEST 44th STREET, NEW YORK Miss Ethel M. Arnold, who made her first lecture tour of America during the season of 1908-09 and was in such demand that she again spent four months here the following season, is available for lectures during the season 1911-12 in the New England and Middle States during the fall and early winter and in the Middle West during the late winter and early spring. In addition to the lectures offered on her previous visit, Miss Arnold is prepared to offer a course of twelve lectures on Nineteenth Century English Poetry and a course of four on The English Lake Poets, any one of which will be quite complete if given as a single lecture. She offers other subjects, as will be seen from the accompanying list. Miss Arnold has been invited to give her course of twelve lectures on Nineteenth Century English Poetry at a Woman's College and at two Girls' Schools where she lectured during her last visit. LECTURE SUBJECTS Twelve Lectures on 19th Century English Poetry 1. An introductory lecture on the History and Development of English poetry. 2 to 11. Lectures on 19th century poets and poetry, illustrated by readings. 12. Concluding lecture on the place of poetry in human life and its relation to human development and conduct. (Lectures 1 to 12 can be given as separate and complete lectures apart from the course. The whole course is designed for use in Colleges.) Four Lectures on the English Lake Poets 1. An introductory lecture similar to the one in the former course but somewhat simpler in character. 2 to 3. On the Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, with readings from their works. 4. Concluding lecture similar to the concluding lecture in the former course, but also somewhat simpler. (This course is designed for use in schools.) The English Public Schools. With special reference to Eton, Harrow, Winchester, and Rugby. This can be had with or without lantern illustrations. The Sorrows of this Present Time. The prevailing weariness or tedium vitae and how to combat it. The Modern Development of Girls' Education in England. Illustrated or not as preferred. Arnold of Rugby. The Religious Novel. Revised and brought up to date. Matthew Arnold. Two Child Humorists: Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. The Economic Position of Women and its Relations to the Vote. PROGRAM FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION PHILADELPHIA NOVEMBER TENTH AND ELEVENTH NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION State Headquarters: 1606 Finance Building, Philadelphia STATE OFFICERS President, MRS. JOHN O. MILLER, Pittsburgh Vice-President, MRS. LEWIS L. SMITH, Strafford Secretary, MRS. GIFFORD PINCHOT, Milford Treasurer, MRS. ROBERT MILLS BEACH, Bellefonte Group Chairmen MRS. GEORGE A. PIERSOL, Philadelphia MRS. WILLIAM WARD, JR., Chester MRS. F. H. HAGERMAN, Towanda MISS ANNA M. DENNISTON, Luzerne MRS. RICHARD S. QUIGLEY, Lock haven MISS MARY L. STEWART, Chambersburg MRS. EDWARD E. KIERNAN, Somerset MRS. JAMES P. ROGERS, Warren MRS. H. TALBOT PETERSON, Pittsburgh Chairmen Committees Finance, MISS HENRIETTA BALDY LYON, Williamsport Americanization, MRS. GEORGE A. DUNNING, Philadelphia Reconstruction, MRS. EDWARD PARKER DAVIS, Philadelphia Chairmen of State Convention Committees Constitution, MISS HENRIETTA BALDY LYON Credentials, MRS. ROBERT MILLS BEACH, Ex-officio MRS FRANCIS B. JACOBS, Associate Chairman Dinner, MRS. GEORGE A. DUNNING Election, MRS. RICHARD S. QUIGLEY Program, MRS. JOHN O. MILLER, Ex-officio MRS HARRIET L. HUBBS, Acting Chairman Resolutions, MRS. NEWTON C. CHATHAM Chairmen of Local Committees - Philadelphia General Chairman, MRS. GEORGE A. PIERSOL Automobile, MISS MARGARET McK. KILCOX Hospitality, MRS. WOLSTAN DIXEY Information, MRS. ALBERT E. BURNS Literature, MISS M. ELIZABETH CLARK Ushers, MRS. RALPH P. RAIGUEL PROGRAM SOUTH GARDEN, THE BELLEVUE-STRATFORD HOTEL Monday, November Tenth 9:30 A. M. Convention called to order. Invocation . . . Rev. Frederick R. Griffin Greetings from Woman Suffrage Party of Philadelphia . . . Mrs. George A. Piersol Minutes, Fiftieth Annual Convention . . . Mrs. Gifford Pinchot President's Address . . . Mrs. John O. Miller Vice-President's Address . . . Mrs. Lewis L. Smith Report of Treasurer and Audit . . . Mrs. Robert Mills Beach Report of Chairman of Finance . . . Miss Henrietta Baldy Lyon Report of Credentials Committee . . . Mrs. Francis B. Jacobs Consideration Permanent Memorial for Doctor Shaw. 1 to 2 P. M. Luncheon. 2 P. M. Address . . . Hon. William I. Schaffer Report of Constitution Committee . . . Miss Henrietta Baldy Lyon Chairman. CONVENTION DINNER Monday Evening, November Tenth BALLROOM, THE BELLEVUE- STRATFORD Seven o'clock Speakers MRS. VERNON KELLOGG MR. CLEVELAND MOFFETT HON. WILLIAM C. SPROUL HON. WILLIAM G. MCADOO PATRONESSES Miss Lida Stokes Adams Miss Lucy Lewis Miss Gertrude Atkinson Mrs. Edwin Linton Mrs. George P. Bassett Mrs. Horatio Gates Lloyd Mrs Robert Mills Beach Mrs. Alfred Lowrie Mrs. J. Claude Bedford Miss Sarah Lowrie Mrs. Edward W. Biddle Mrs. E. C. Luther Mrs. E. H. Binns Miss Henrietta Baldy Lyon Mrs. Rudolph Blankenburg Mrs. E. S. McCauley Mrs. William N. Bradley Mrs. Norman McLeod Mrs. Mary H. Brown Mrs. Donald P. McPherson Mrs. Albert E. Burns Mrs. Edward Sherwood Mead Mrs. Frank Carter Mrs. W. W. Miller Mrs. Newton C. Chatham Miss Margaret Moser Mrs. Herbert Lincoln Clark Mrs. John A. Nauman Miss M. Elizabeth Clark Mrs. A. Edward Newton Mrs. Henry J. Dallmeyer Dr. Alice Norton Mrs. Edward Parker Davis Mrs. George B. Orlady Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill Mrs. Henry Pemberton, Jr. Miss Anna M. Denniston Mrs. H. Talbot Peterson Mrs. N. J. Dilworth Mrs. George A. Piersol Mrs. Wolstan Dixey Mrs. Gifford Pinchot Dr. Eveleen Douredoure Mrs. H. S. Prentiss- Nichols Mrs. Iredell Eachus Mrs. Richard S. Quigley Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellis Mrs. Ralph P. Raiguel Miss Beulah Fennimore Mrs. W. W. Ramsey Miss Helen Fleisher Mrs. Charles Reinhardt Miss Helen M. Fogg Mrs. Clarence Renshaw Mrs. Daniel Garber Mrs. William Rees Mrs. Clarence Gardner Mrs. J. J. Rhoades Mrs. Edgar S. Gardner Mrs. Thomas Righter Mrs. Joseph Gazzam Mrs. Thomas Robins Mrs. Eleanor Goepp Mrs. James P. Rogers Mrs. William B. Goodall Mrs. Thomas Ross Mrs. Frank S. Gottshalk Mrs. Frank Shuman Mrs. Lucius W. Godfrey Mrs. Lewis L. Smith Miss Helena Guest Mrs. Joseph N. Snellenberg Mrs. Francis H. Hagerman Mrs. Nathaniel Spier Mrs. Walter C. Hancock Mrs. Charles P. Staples Mrs. J. S. C. Harvey Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson Mrs. A. H. Hayward Miss Mary L. Stewart Mrs. Charles P. Henry Mrs. N. W. Storer Mrs. Charles T. Hollender Miss Frances L. Sullivan Mrs. Francis B. Jacobs Mrs. William Thaw, Jr. Mrs. Irvin N. James Miss Martha G. Thomas Dr. Eleanor C. Jones Mrs. Edwin C. Town Mrs. T. Duncan Just Dr. Martha Tracy Mrs. John Kent Kane Mrs. C. Bowyer Vaux Mrs. Murdoch Kendrick Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton Mrs. Edward E. Kiernan Mrs. William Ward, Jr. Miss Emma Klahr Mrs. Edgar Weimar Mrs. Oscar L. Kleber Mrs. William White Mrs. Emma Klotz Miss Margaret McK. Wilcox Mrs. Harry E. Kohn Dr. Mary R. Wilcox Mrs. John W. Lawrence Dr. Lucy L. W. Wilson Mrs. Charles M. Lea Mrs. Charles Stewart Wurts Mrs. Elsie Singmaster Lewars Mrs. Charles W. Young PROGRAM SOUTH GARDEN, THE BELLEVUE- STRATFORD Tuesday, November Eleventh 9. 30 A. M. Election of Officers. Address- The League of Women Voters...... Mrs. Charles H. Brooks National Chairman. Address- Citizenship................. Mrs. Nancy M. Schoonmaker Presentation of Program of Work. Discussion. 1 to 2 P. M. Luncheon. 2 P. M. Address................................ Dr. Thomas E. Finegan Address- Women's Democratic Committee..... Mrs. Antoinette Funk Address- Women's Republican Committee..... Mrs. Fletcher Dobyns Report of Resolutions Committee......... Mrs. Newton C. Chatham New Business. The President, Mrs. John O. Miller, invites the delegates to remain for tea at the close of the session. STATE CONVENTION COMMITTEES Constitution MISS HENRIETTA BALDY LYON, Chairman.............. Williamsport MRS. J. CLAUDE BEDFORD............................ Media MRS. HARRIET L. HUBBS............................. Philadelphia MRS. GEORGE A. PIERSOL............................ Philadelphia MRS. LEWIS L. SMITH............................... Strafford MISS MARTHA G. THOMAS............................ Whitford Credentials MRS. ROBERT MILLS BEACH, Ex- officio................. Bellefonte MRS. FRANCIS B. JACOBS, Associate Chairman........... West Chester MISS LILLIAN BUNTING.............................. Lansdowne MISS LENA GALLEY................................. Uniontown MISS MARY LEE.................................... Sharon MISS LUCY B. SCULL................................ Somerset MRS. NATHANIEL SPEAR............................. Pittsburgh MRS. CHARLES VERNA............................... Narberth Election MRS. RICHARD S. QUIGLEY, Chairman.................. Lock Haven MISS LYDIA HORTON BROWN.......................... Milford MRS. CHARLES W. CLEMENT.......................... Sunbury MRS. LUCIUS W. GODFREY............................ Rushland MISS FRANCES KAERCHER............................ Pottsville MRS. CLARENCE RENSHAW............................ Pittsburgh MRS. WILLIAM WHITE............................... Conshohocken Resolutions MRS. NEWTON C. CHATHAM, Chairman................. Williamsport MRS. W. IRWIN CHEYNEY............................ Media MRS. A. C. HAGEN.................................. Uniontown MRS. IRVIN M. JAMES................................ Doylestown MISS ELEANOR LANG................................ Pittsburgh MRS. DONALD P. McPHERSON......................... Gettysburg MRS. J. P. McWILLIAMS............................. Altoona MRS. W. W. Miller................................. Wellsboro MRS. THOMAS RIGHTER.............................. Mount Carmel LOCAL CONVENTION COMMITTEES Automobile MISS MARGARET McK. WILCOX, Chairman MRS. J. S. C. HARVEY MRS. CHARLES W. YOUNG MRS. WILLIAM H. PUGH, JR. Hospitality MRS. WOLSTAN DIXEY, Chairman MRS. N. J. DILWORTH MRS. IREDELL EACHUS MRS. HAROLD SHALLCROSS Information MRS. ALBERT E. BURNS. Chairman MRS WILLIAM N. BRADLEY MISS HELEN FOGG MISS SARA D. CHAMBERS MRS. HARRY E. KOHN MISS LUCY LEWIS MISS JEAN B. LITHGOW Literature MISS M. ELIZABETH CLARK, Chairman MISS LIDA STOKES ADAMS MISS ELENOR GOEPP DR. EVELEEN DOUREDOURE MISS VIDA HUNT MRS. WILLIAM LEVERITT MRS. C. BOWYER VAUX Ushers MRS. RALPH P. RAIGUEL, Chairman MISS JEAN WILLOUGHBY, Page Mrs. M. G. EDMONDS MISS MARION PATTON MISS LUCY LANGLY MRS. R. V. PIERCE MISS MARGUERITE STREKLE THINGS ACCOMPLISHED FOR SUFFRAGE IN 1916 Being a resume of work performed by the executive board, county leaders, suffragists generally and state headquarters of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association. Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association 201 Arcade Building Harrisburg Pa. SPEAKERS AND ORGANIZERS. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw has addressed sixteen meetings and has promised us a month in the spring. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt addressed the mass meeting at the Spring Conference in Harrisburg. Mrs. Nellie McClung, who was instrumental in securing the notable suffrage victories in Canada, addressed the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women under our auspices. At our State Convention in Williamsport we were addressed by Hon. Louis F. Post, Hon. Gifford Pinchot, Miss Kate Barnard of Oklahoma, Dr. Shaw and Prof. Charles Zueblin. Many other speakers have been furnished by us throughout the year for club and parlor meetings. State officers and organizers have spoken at 232 meetings during the year. Seven organizers are in our employ. They have worked intensively in 16 counties and for short periods in 29, making 45 counties visited. This force will be increased steadily as funds and opportunity permit. FINANCE. A new and equitable method of raising our annual budget was devised by our Chairman of Finance. Each county was assessed a sum based upon its percentage of population, per capita wealth and suffrage strength. A majority of the counties assumed their assessments. Money was also raised by individual gifts, pledges, mite boxes, coin cards and banks. From Headquarters 2,750 letters were sent out in a special financial appeal for contributions of $5.00 or more. LITERATURE New flyers prepared, 800,000 copies printed. Several hundred copies of a Correspondence Study Course were sent out. DONATED BY THE STATE ASSOCIATION To the National Association- $3,000. To the Inter- national Emergency Fund- $100. To the West Virginia campaign- 45,000 flyers. From Allegheny County to pay for an organizer for the West Virginia campaign- $1,000. A bookkeeping set for each county treasurer. Free literature and speakers to any organization belonging to the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women. Many requests coming in. Suffrage debate outfits upon request. Free literature and novelties to the amount of $1,076.40. Free literature for use at the polls on election day. Two hundred and fifty- seven copies of Dr. Shaw's "Story of a Pioneer" to legislators. The State Association plans to assist the New York state campaign in 1917. 5 HOW SOME COUNTIES RAISED MONEY. A suffrage ball, Pittsburgh. A shirtwaist ball, Pittsburgh. A shoe rummage, Philadelphia. Cake sales. Suffrage lawn party, Germantown. Suffrage bridge, Philadelphia. Plays and a musical comedy, Philadelphia. Donation of all eggs laid in the third week in May, by country members. Proceeds of strawberry crop and cottage cheese sales, Somerset. Tri- county Fete by Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties in October. Very successful and to be repeated in May. Three performances of "Very Good Eddie" in Philadelphia. The "Four- Square Club," Philadelphia, launches an "endless chain" of small teas or card parties at which each suffragist attending contributes $1.00 and becomes in turn a hostess. HOW THE STATE SPENDS THE MONEY. For the expenses of the annual Spring Conference and the annual State Convention. Rental of Headquarters, Harrisburg, and salaries of office force. Salaries of organizers and Press Representative. Expenses of organizers. Salary and expenses of Financial Organizer. For newspaper publicity, cartoons and plate matter. Literature, novelties and county fair propaganda material. Speakers' fees and expenses. Contributions to National Association. Printing of stationery, yellow slips, dues paying membership blanks, pledge cards, petitions, programs, maps, credentials, convention matter, the new constitution and party rules, bookkeeping instructions and materials, etc. Postage, telephone, telegrams, expressage, office sundries and other incidentals. County fair expenses including rental of space, appurtenances- tent, display curtains and decorations, labor to erect tent, build counter, etc. Expenses legislative committee. Harrisburg, Penna., January 1st, 1917. 6 THINGS ACCOMPLISHED FOR SUFFRAGE IN 1916 Being a resume of work performed by the executive board, county leaders, suffragists generally and state headquarters of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association. Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association 201 Arcade Building Harrisburg, Pa. FOREWORD. Your Executive Board desires to inform you in detail of the work accomplished by its own members, county organizations, the state headquarters force and other units of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association. Intermittently, there have been reports sent to you, but that herewith submitted it more comprehensive than those previously issued because we believe every county chairman should have all information possible concerning our activities. This, therefore, is an exhaustive resume of our work, and includes practically all features of 1916. We believe that the matter contained herein shows our organization has worked as conscientiously and successfully as the means at its wommand permitted. We will appreciate any comment or suggestion any recipient may desire to make. Members of Executive Board, Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association. Activities of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association during 1916 include: LEGISLATIVE. The first step in our legislative work, preparatory to the passage of a Woman Suffrage Amendment through the 1917 Legislature, was to send a letter of inquiry from Headquarters to each of the 1,050 candidates in the spring primaries, to ascertain their suffrage sentiments. The majority also were interviewed personally by local workers. Many organizations had workers at the polls at both primary and fall elections. Since election Headquarters has circularized twice every member elected to the Legislature. The most efficient interviewing ever done in Pennsylvania has been carried out this year. Of the 257 members of our Legislature only 23 have not been interviewed. These 23 men have been followed up as faithfully as he others, but they either refuse to be interviewed or the workers have been unable to see them after frequent attempts. Thirty-one Congressmen out of 36 from Pennsylvania have been interviewed and many hundred etters have been sent them by both Headquarters and local workers, requesting a favorable vote on the Federal Amendment. Fourteen have agreed to vote favorably, five have not been interviewed and the remainder are either non-committal or opposed. Two organizers have secured over 100 resolutions by mabor organizations in Philadelphia, asking the Legislature to pass the Woman Suffrage Amendment. We have secured many thousand signatures on suffrage petitions to the Legislature. We have presented to each legislator a copy of Dr. Shaw's "Story of a Pioneer," with New Year's greeting. SPECIAL FEATURES. Delegations of 73 women sent to the Chicago suffrage demonstration - the largest number from any Eastern state. Secured endorsement of Woman Suffrage from the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women, by a vote of 500 to 9. Designed a Pennsylvania state suffrage flag, showing a yellow field with blue keystone in centre, surrounded by eleven blue stars, signifying the states which have suffrage. A new star will be added for each state gained. Presented a silk suffrage flag to the National Association, also a flag to the new NAtional Headquarters at Washington. These flags bear the national emblem of a spread eagle in centre. Assisted in the campaign to check infantile paralysis. 3 Assisted in displaying the Exhibit in behalf of the Feeble-Minded. Originated a picturesque May Day celebration in which spring flowers, bouquets and baskets were distributed by suffragists. Sent tocabbo to the Pennsylvania National Guard serving on the Mexican border. Celebrated Federal Alendment Days, October 7th and 21st. Investigated sanitary conditions in Pittsburgh in connection with the infantile paralysis campaign. Put into circulation two new suffrage slogans originated by members of the Association: "Suffrage First, Safety Will Follow," and "Ballots for Both." Booth in civic exposition "Philadelphia, To-day and To-morrow." Booth in Pure Food Show, Philadelphia. Public Forum instituted in the Philadelphia Suffrage Shop. Boot at Exposition, Pittsburgh. Inaugurated Bread and Butter Club, Pittsburgh, to have luncheons, monthly or semi-monthly, with prominent speakers. "Get Together Luncheon" in Chester County. Twenty-four women's organizations other than suffrage invited, 250 luncheon tickets sold and 100 women turned away. Addresses by notable speakers. These luncheons to be repeated at intervals. Fifty-one county fairs covered during the season. CONFERENCES, CONVENTIONS, RALLIES. Annual Spring Conference at Harrisburg, March 1916, delegates from 47 counties. Somerset Inter-county Rally, July 7th, attendance 700, fifteen counties represented. Suffrage specials conveying visitors in decorated automobiles to Somerset, with demonstrations en route. Lakemont Inter-county Conference, attendance 200, eight counties represented. Address by representative from State Department of Health upon infantile paralysis epidemic. Twenty-nine county conferences were attended by state officers. Annual Convention at Williamsport, November 21-24. New Constitution adopted. PUBLICITY BUREAU. A well organized publicity bureau in charge of an experienced newspaper man. Regular service of new matter, cartoons and bulletins furnished to 570 newspapers throughout the state. In addition we canvassed 812 newspaper publishers and editors, the result showing a great majority favoring a resubmission of the suffrage amendment to the voters. 4 Fair Play - That's All In asking for the ballot, the women of Pennsylvania are merely asking for the same fair treatment at the hands of the Government as their forefathers asked when they signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. If YOU believe in fair play - and we believe that you do - you will see the justice in their appeal and VOTE "YES" ON THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT ON NOVEMBER 2ND. A Final Word: Can you recall any occasion on which the women of this State ever banded together to ask the Legislature for any BAD laws? Ahev they ever made any appeal to the County, City or Borough that was not for the public good? Upon your own answers to these questions, the women of Pennsylvania are content to rest their case. THEY HAVE FAITH IN YOUR FAIR-MINDEDNESS. Women Do Want the Vote These Women Have Said So International Council of Women, representing over 7,000,000 women. National Federation of Women's Clubs representing 1,600,000 women. State Federation of Penna. Women, representing 37,000 women. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, representing over 300,000 women. Penna. Woma's Christian Temperance Union, rpresenting 37,000 women. National Women's Trade Union League, representing 22 leagues. National Order Ladies of the Maccabees. Great Hive for Penna., representing over 180,000 Women. Woman's Peace Party. International Council of Nurses, representing 9 countries. Women Should Have the Vote These Men and Women Have Said So National Education Association (men and women teachers). National Grange (men and women farmers). Pennsylvania State Grange. American Federation of Labor (men and women in industry). Penssylvania Federation of Labor. United Mine Worker of America. National Purity Conference. National Association of Letter Carriers. International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen. Grand Council of United Commercial Travellers. International Men's League for Woman Suffrage. National Men's League for Woman Suffrage. Pennsylvania Men's League for Woman Suffrage. Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. Eastern and Central Penna. Conferences of Methodist Episcopal Church. Penna. Conference of the Congregational Church. THESE REPRESENT MILLIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN. Fair Play - That's All In asking for the ballot, the women of Pennsylvania are merely asking for the same fair treatment at the hands of the Government as their forefathers asked when they signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. If YOU believe in fair play - and we believe that you do - you will see the justice in their appeal and VOTE "YES" ON THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT ON NOVEMBER 2ND. A Final Word: Can you recall any occasion on which the women of this State ever banded together to ask the Legislature for any BAD laws? HAVE they ever made any appeal to the County, City or Borough that was not for the public good? Upon your own answers to these questions, the women of Pennsylvania are content to rest their case. THEY HAVE FAITH IN YOUR FAIR-MINDEDNESS. Women Do Want the Vote These Women Have Said So International Council of Women, representing over 7,000,000 women. National Federation of Women's Clubs representing 1,600,000 women. State Federation of Penna. Women, representing 37,000 women. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, representing over 300,000 women. Penna. Woman's Christian Temperance Union, representing 37,000 women. National Women's Trade Union League, representing 22 leagues. National Order Ladies of the Maccabees. Great Hive for Penna., representing over 180,000 Women. Woman's Peace Party. International Council of Nurses, representing 9 countries. Women Should Have the Vote These Men and Women Have Said So National Education Association (men and women teachers). National Grange (men and women farmers). Pennsylvania State Grange. American Federation of Labor (men and women in industry). Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. United Mine Worker of America. National Purity Conference. National Association of Letter Carriers. International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen. Grand Council of United Commercial Travellers. International Men's League for Woman Suffrage. National Men's League for Woman Suffrage. Pennsylvania Men's League for Woman Suffrage. Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. Eastern and Central Penna. Conferences of Methodist Episcopal Church. Penna. Conference of the Congregational Church. THESE REPRESENT MILLIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN. Second Keystone State Bazar In Aid of the Woman Suffrage Campaign Horticultural Hall Broad and Spruce Sts. February 23rd and 24th, 1917 Admission, 10 cents Articles Useful and Ornamental Articles for the health and the Toilet Plants, Bulbs and Flowers Farm, Dairy and Kitchen Products of all kinds Books and Prints and Suffrage Novelties White Elephants Friday Afternoon - The Dansant Friday Evening - Restaurant Supper and Cabaret Saturday Afternoon - Musicale Saturday Evening - "Dream Women" and Two Plays by Plays and Players Everybody can do something. Let us know what YOU will DO. Do not wait to be asked. Come and offer your services to the Chairman MRS. GEORGE A. DUNNING Donations may be sent to the Headquarters 1723 Chestnut Street or to Horticultural Hall on the Bazar dates Third Annual Convention Philadelphia County Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania February 17, 1917 Roof Garden Hotel Adelphia Afternoon Session 2 P. M. Convention Called to Order by the Chairman - Mrs. George A. Dunning. Invocation - Rev. George J. Walenta. Minutes of the last Annual Meeting by the Secretary - Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellis. Annual Report of the Treasurer - Mrs. Harry E. Kohn. Annual Report of the Auditor - Miss Sara D. Chambers. Annual Report of the Chairman - Mrs. George A. Dunning. Three Minute Reports from District Leaders. Greetings from Guests - Mrs. E. S. Mead, Bucks County, Mrs. Wm. Ward, Jr., Delaware County, Mrs. Lewis Lawrence Smith, Chester County, Mrs. A. M. Snyder, Montgomery County. Brief Addresses - National Work, Mrs. Walter McNab Miller, State Work and Congressional Work, Mrs. John O. Miller, 1st Vice-President P. W. S. A. Organization Miss Lida Stokes Adams, Publicity, Dr. Eleanor M. Hiestand-Moore. Credentials Committee sits from 12.30 to 2 P. M. Report of State Convention - Mrs. George A. Piersol. New Business - Budget, Suggestions for Future Work. Report of Credentials Committee - Miss Gertrude Atkinson, Chairman. Report of Resolutions Committee - Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill, Chairman, Dr. Eleanor C. Jones, Mrs. George H. Wobensmith. POLLS OPEN FROM 5 TO 6.30 Table d'Hote Supper, 60 cents, at the Suffrage Shop, 1723 Chestnut Street, 5.30 to 7.30 P. M. Evening Session 8.15 P. M. Report of Elections - Miss Sara D. Chambers, Chairman. Announcements. Addresses - Mrs. Walter McNab Miller, 1st Vice-Pres. N. A. W. S. A., Mrs. John O. Miller, 1st Vice-President P. W. S. A., Mrs. Antoinette Funk, Chicago. Woman Suffrage Party, Philadelphia County TREASURER'S REPORT February 21, 1916, to January 31, 1917 DR. Balance, February 5, 1916 ..............................................................$ 76.75 Individual Pledges ........................................................................... 1841.00 Rents and Contributions from other Suffrage Societies ................ 233.00 Dues and Pledges from Districts .................................................... 647.00 Individual Contributions .................................................................. 714.50 Collections from Meetings, Etc ....................................................... 112.91 Loan for State Pledge ...................................................................... 535 00 Rent for Shop and Rooms ................................................................ 85.00 Contributions to Organization Fund ................................................ 220.00 Receipts and Collections for Civic Exhibitions Philadelphia Today and Tomorrow ...................... 152.18 Sale of Literature and Novelties ...................................................... 138.74 Bank Interest .................................................................................... 6.65 Refund from Shop ............................................................................ 100.00 Receipts from "Very Good Eddie" (Theatre Benefit) ....................... 482.00 Receipts from "Yellow Jacket" ......................................................... 150.00 Receipts from Schaff Carnival Week ............................................... 59.13 Receipts from Sale of Bazar Tickets ................................................ 34.50 Sundries ............................................................................................ 34.11 $5,622.47 CR. Salaries and Wages .......................................................................... 1413.19 Rent .................................................................................................. 275.00 Telephone ......................................................................................... 73.19 Printing and Stationery ..................................................................... 146.89 Postage ............................................................................................. 71.50 Paid through County Treasurer toward State Pledge ...................... 1376.00 Special Wire Election Night .............................................................. 25 00 Literature and Novelties ................................................................... 286.37 Refunds and Loans ........................................................................... 690.00 Gas .................................................................................................... 26 53 County Convention, February 1916 .................................................. 118.15 Organizers' Carfare and Telephone Calls ......................................... 20.29 Silk Flag and State Bunting Banner ................................................... 33.75 Coal .................................................................................................... 26.85 Special Meeting Receptions .............................................................. 64.52 Civic Exposition Philadelphia Today and Tomorrow .......................... 146.15 Theatre Benefit "Very Good Eddie" ................................................... 327.35 Byberry Fair ........................................................................................ 54.16 Schaff Carnival Week ......................................................................... 24.77 Office Petty Cash ............................................................................... 57.98 Sundries ............................................................................................. 24.25 5,281.89 340.58 Balance, January 31, 1917 ................................................................... $5,622.47 MARY F. KOHN, Treasurer Audited and found correct: ANNA HARRIS SNYDER SARA D. CHAMBERS Pledged by Philadelphia County to the State ................................................ $3,000.00 Paid through Philadelphia County Treasurer ................................................. 1,376.00 Paid direct to State through State Finance Chairman for Phila. County ........ 1,270.00 District Pledges paid direct to State Treasurer. ............................................. 364.00 Entire Amount paid to State for Pledge ......................................................... 3,010.00 Balance........................................... $340.58 Organization Fund for 1917............. 311.15 Actual Balance General Fund......... $29.43 Proposed Budget for 1917 EXPLANATION Pennsylvania's share of "million dollar fund" $125,000 10 per cent to go to National work 12,500 To be spent for State work 50,000 To be spent by Counties on their own work 62,500 $125,000 Philadelphia being almost 1/4 of the State, her share, computed on a computing machine, on basis of population, per capita wealth and suffrage strength is $35,948 50 per cent to go to State work 17,974 50 per cent to be spent in County 17,974 Proposed division: Organization committee, salary of 6 organizers for 1 year and incidental expenses 7,200 Administration 2,400 Salary of executive secretary and assistant $1450 Rent $300, janitor 180, coal 60, gas 40 580 Telephone and messages 120 Office cash, stamps, supplies, stationery, extra stenographer's check 250 $2,400 Publicity 500 House 200 Speaker's bureau 200 Literature and novelties 300 15 districts spend about $400 each 6,000 Sinking fund 874 $17,974 [*Bill introduced in 1911 by Pa. founded Equal Suffrage League as alternative measure to other suffrage bill.*] Legislature of Pennsylvania. FILE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. No. Session of 1911. MR. FITZGERALD, IN PLACE, MARCH 6, 1911. REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY GENERAL, MARCH 6, 1911. A JOINT RESOLUTION. Proposing amendments to sections one article eight of the Constitution of Pennsylvania. 1 Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met That 3 the following amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be 4 and the same is hereby proposed in accordance with the eighteenth 5 article thereof 6 That section one of article eight which reads as follows 7 "Section 1 Every male citizen of twenty-one years of age 8 possessing the following qualifications shall be entitled to vote 9 at all elections subject however to such laws requiring 10 and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly 11 may enact 12 First He shall have been a citizen of the United States 13 at least one month 14 Second He shall have resided in the State one year (or 15 having previously been qualified elector or native-born citizen of 2 16 the State he shall have removed therefrom and returned then 17 six months) immediately preceding the election 18 Third He shall have resided in the election district where 19 he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding 20 the election 21 Fourth If twenty-two years of age and upwards he shall 22 have paid within two years a State or county tax which shall 23 have assessed at least two months and paid at least one 24 month before the election" 25 be amended so that the same shall read as follows 26 Section 1 Every Citizen male or female of twenty-one years 27 of age possessing the following qualifications shall be entitled 28 to vote at all elections subject however to such laws requiring 29 and regulating the registration of electors as the General Assembly 30 may enact 31 First He or she shall have been a citizen of the United 32 States at least five years and be of good moral character and able to 33 read and write the English language and the legislature shall 34 define what class or classes citizens shall be deemed not 35 to be of good moral character within the meaning of this section and 36 shall also define what constitutes ability to read and write the 37 English language within the meaning of this section 38 Second He or she shall have resided in this State on year 39 (or having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen 40 of the state he or she shall have removed therefrom and returned 41 then six months) immediately preceding the election 42 Third He or she shall have resided in the election district 43 where he or she shall offer to vote at least two months immediately 44 preceding the election and shall not at the time of offering to 3 45 vote be a duty committed inmate of any prison or almhouse or 46 have been such an imate at any time during the immediately preceding 47 two months 48 Fourth If twenty-two years of age and upwards he or she 49 shall have paid within two years a state or county tax which shall 50 have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month 51 before the election 52 Fifth Whenever the words "he" "his" "him" and "himself" occur 53 in any section of article eight of this constitution the same 54 shall be construed as if written respectively "he or she" "his or her" and "himself or herself" News Bulletin The Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA COUNTY Published at Headquarters 1723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia For the Purpose of Promoting a More Effectual Co-operation Among the Members of the Party. The News Bulletin is for All Suffragists. The Woman Suffrage Party Works for Both State and Federal Amendments by Non-Partisan and Non-Militant Methods. VOL. 2 NO. 5 PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 1918 PRICE 3 cts. per copy, 25 cts a year NOTES FROM STATE HEADQUARTERS 1606 Finance Building, South Penn Square, Philadelphia Federal Amendment. The vote scheduled for June 27th in the Senate was prevented by a filibuster by the opposition. This action by our enemies is very significant of their feeling regarding the outcome if the vote were taken. We are assured the amendment will undoubtedly be passed after the recess planned by the Senate. On motion of Mrs. George A. Piersol, Congressional District Chairman of Group No. 1, the Central Committee of the Woman Suffrage Party of Philadelphia unanimously voted to circulate a petition to be sent to our Senior Senator. The text and signature are as follows: "We, the undersigned women of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, having gladly released all claim upon our sons, daughters, brothers, nephews and other near relatives in order that they may be free to serve their country in its hour of need, do hereby earnestly appeal to you for your aid in securing the passage of the Federal Amendment for Woman Suffrage, to the end that we may be fully equipped to defend the interests of that democracy at home for which they are fighting abroad. (Signed) "MRS. GEO. A PIERSOL, "Four sons, one daughter in the United States service." Every suffragist in Philadelphia with relatives in the service will be asked to sign this position and state the number serving. Women's Oversea Hospitals. Mrs. Raymond Brown, fourth vice president of the National Association, who returned from France recently, reports that the French Government has turned over to our unit a 300 - bed hospital for gas cases. This will require increased personnel, and at Mrs. Brown's request we sent out an appeal for five physicians, one ophthalmologist, one nose and throat specialist, ten nurses, twenty aides and four chauffeurs. Many applications are being received daily including several from male physicians and chauffeurs, who, unfortunately, are not eligible as the hospitals are staffed entirely by women. Additional contributions are: Philadelphia W.S.P. $157.00 Lancaster County W.S.P. 127.00 Centre County W.S.P. 16.60 Montour County W.S.P. 198.00 Treasurer's Report. RECEIPTS June 25th - Northumberland County W.S. P. $8.00 Mrs. C.K. Brown 5.00 Miss Jessie Smiley 5.00 June 26th Mrs. George B. Orlady 20.00 Delaware County W.S.P. 100.00 Montour County W.S.P. 27.00 Lawrence County W.S.P. 129.00 Miss Bertha Ellen Tuttle 10.00 July 1st - Philadelphia County W.S.P. 25.00 Armstrong County W.S.P. 33.72 July 8th - Lycoming County W.S.P. 25.00 York County W.S.P. 10.00 Miss Anna A. MacDonald 1.50 Lawrence and Lycoming Counties have completed their assessments, occupying third and fourth places respectively on the honor roll. 2 NEWS BULLETIN Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County Chairman Mrs. George A. Dunning, 15 South Twenty-first Street Honorary Vice-Chairmen Mrs. Lucretia Blankenburg Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson Dr. Lucy L. W. Wilson Vice-Chairmen Mrs. Joseph M Gazzam Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill Mrs William R. Derr Mrs. Richard H. Day Dr. E. M. Hiestand-Moore Mrs. Ferree Brinton Secretary Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellia Treasurer Mrs. Harry E. Kohn Auditors Miss Sara D. Chambers Miss Anna H. Snyder Executive Secretary Miss Marguerite Mitchell Headquarters: 1721-1723 Chestnut Street Bell Telephone: Spruce 2402 Office Hours, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. August 1918 25 cents a year A Word To Subscribers A blue pencil mark at this paragraph indicates that your subscription expires with this, the August number. In renewing, kindly send 25 cents in cash or stamps to the "News Bulletin Committee," 1721 Chestnut street. There is a special effort being made this month for new subscribers. Can not you secure at least one new for us? Tell your friends it is a war measure, which in truth, it is, for most of our activities at the present time are directly concerned with war work, as a glance at our little street will readily prove. The Headquarters, including the Lunch Room, will be closed on the Saturday preceding Labor Day and will remain closed until the following Tuesday. Further Activities In The Twenty-Fourth Ward Mrs. James M. Lingle has been reappointed chairman in the Twenty-Fourth Ward for the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive in October. She is already securing new captains to cover additional divisions and is calling for volunteers to aid her in this work. Mrs. Katharine Halligan will again serve as vice chairman, as will probably Miss Anne Heygate-Hall. "Why," Indeed! The following editorial, entitled "Why This Delay?" appeared in the "Public Ledger" of July 12th, and is so well worth reading that, though many have seen it at the time, others may not, and we published it here- with for the benefit of the latter class. In fact, it will well bear re-reading by those to whom it may be not new. "Now that the hope of a recess for perspiring Senators has gone glimmering down the echoing halls of the Capitol, what earthly excuse can be offered for further delay in passing the suffrage amendment? Every day that this act of simple justice to the women of this land is withheld deepens the reproach upon our sense of justice and exposes our inconsistency. We are waging a war for "democracy" and yet deny its application to our own affairs while we disenfranchise half of our citizenship. We are fighting side by side with Englishmen and Canadians who have already enfranchised their women, while we still refuse to grant them more than a grudging share in the control of national destinies which affect them just as vitally as they do the men who are in larger part of the country monopolize the franchise. Both the national parties have formally recognized the justice of "votes for women" and have pledged themselves to the cause. Why, then, should the continued burden of labor and expense be imposed upon the women who have for years carried on the fight for representation? It is not as if the question were any longer debatable or as if the ultimate issue were in doubt. Millions of women voters already make the final success of the cause as certain as is the rising of tomorrow's sun. Yet a handful of Democrats in the Senate and-it must be regretfully admitted-a few Republicans Senators as well, insist upon standing in the way, deaf to the urging of President Wilson, blind to the inexorable logic of events which point to their own discomfiture and the triumph of the cause of suffrage. Suffrage is for us quite as seriously a war measure as it was for England. American women have given of their nearest and best that civilization shall be saved from the Huns. They are asked to make and are making countless daily sacrifices to liberate the NEWS BULLETIN 3 man-power of the nation for service at the front, and the work they are doing is a supremely vital contribution to the national effort. It is shabby ingratitude to withhold from them the recognition which many of the States have already given and to deny them longer a voice in the conduct of affairs which is theirs by right. The suffrage amendment is only the opening of a path to ultimate enfranchisement. To keep it closed under the circumstances is a disgraceful act of which no party and no statesman worthy of his country out to be guilty." W.S.P. Red Cross Auxiliary No. 226 Chairman, Mrs. Raymond J. Harris, 1843 South Broad Street. The help of other workers is very much needed in order that the output of the Auxiliary may be increased. The work turned out, consisting of hospital garments and knitted articles, has been very creditable in amount in proportion to the number of workers, the Auxiliary having established an enviable reputation for excellent work, no article ever having been returned for poor workmanship. Let us maintain this fine record if we can. We are still serving daily at lunch over one hundred and twenty persons, Saturday excepted, when we serve about seventy-five. W.S.P. Committee For Entertainment Of Women War Workers Chairman: Miss Dorothy N. McCauslan The Wood-Norton Apartments, Germantown. The following letter speaks for itself and gives evidence of the work that is being accomplished in the new field of our endeavor: "United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation" "Philadelphia, Pa. July 15 1918. "My Dear Miss McCauslan: "The girls of the Emergency Fleet Corporation wish to express their appreciation of the enjoyable entertainment afforded them on Saturday and would ask you to convey their thanks to the women of Oak Lan (and their husbands) and others who so kindly extended their hospitality to the girls. Sincerely yours, Sheba Woskoff" In addition to the writer's name the letter was signed by a score or more of other participants in the day's pleasure. The following is a facisimile of an invitation which was extended to the war workers by our committee for a picnic of Sunday, July 21st: Picnic For the Girls of the Emergency Fleet Corporation The Woman Suffrage Party of Philadelphia cordially invites the young ladies of the Emergency Fleet Corporation to attend a picnic to be given on Sunday, July 21st. The party will assemble as 3 o'clock at the end of the car line No. 53 in Germantown (north on Thirteenth street) and will picnic along the upper Wissahickon. The party will be led by Miss Dorothy N. McCauslan and suitable chaparones will be provided. It is suggested that each girl bring a box lunch as the picnic will extend into the early evening. Will those who wish to attend kindly give their names to one of the following committee: Miss Sheba Woskoff, 253 North Broad Street Miss M. M. Boyer, second floor. Miss Edna Allison, third floor. Miss Charlotte Smith, fourth floor. Miss Gladys Johnson, fifth floor. Miss June Van Winkly, sixth floor. Miss Margaret Adams, sixth floor. Miss Margaret Wilbur, seventh floor. Miss Mollie Cohen, eighth floor. Miss Reine Watson, ninth floor. Miss Mildred Draney, tenth floor. Miss Laura Stone, "Bulletin" Bldg., Room 516 Or communicate with Miss Dorothy N. McCauslan, The Wood-Norton, Germantown. P. S.- Kindly pass this notice to your neighbor. In addition to the foregoing activities we have obtained permission for the girls to use the courts and piazza of the Belfield Country Club on Sundays during the summer. Trips to Willow Grove have also been provided for these young women. Enlisted Men's Parties Acting Chairman, Mrs. A. E. Burns, 2530 South Colorado Street. The Enlisted Men's Parties will be held every Tuesday and Saturday 4 NEWS BULLETIN nights during August and in spite of weather conditions are being very well attended. The Dancing Class before the Saturday Party is proving a very attractive feature. Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam, chairman of the Committee on Enlisted Men's Parties, was in town on a brief visit and attended the last meeting held July 23d. During the month of August the committee meetings will be discontinued, to be resumed the second Tuesday in September. The secretary, Dr. Marian Francis-Self has retired from office, the registration going into effect August 1st. The Story Of The Two Men, The Bull And The Bear Once upon a time two Men were walking across a field where they perceived a Bull bounding toward them. One Man climbed a tree, the other Man jumped into a pit. The Man in the pit kept bobbing up until finally the Man in the tree shouted to his companion in the pit: "You foolish Man, keep your head down there where it belongs!" To which the Man in the pit rejoined: "My friend, it is all very well for you to talk, but there is a bear in this pit!" Moral: "It is better to be an enfranchised Man up in the tree than a disfranchised Woman in the pit, when there is a Bull in the political field." Wanted. Electric fans to be used at the dances for enlisted men. Calendar Of Events Parties for Enlisted Men-Every Tuesday and Saturday evening, at 7 o'clock at the Roosevelt, 2027 Chestnut street. Red Cross Auxiliary, No. 226- Every Tuesday and Friday, from 10 to 4, at 1731 Chestnut street (second floor back). "At Homes" to the woman of the Emergency Fleet Corporation-Every Sunday afternoon, at 1721 Chestnut street. Committees Philadelphia County-Second and fourth Mondays of the month, at 2 P.M., 1723 Chestnut street. Chairman, Mrs. George A. Dunning. Red Cross Auxiliary, No. 226- First Tuesday of the month, 2 P.M., 1731 Chestnut street. Chairman, Mrs. Raymand J. Harris Personal Mrs. J.C. Gabriel, of Oak Lane, is passing the summer at Stone Harbor, N.J. Mrs. John O. Miller has been appointed State Chairman of the Woman's Committee for the Fourth Liberty Loan, which will probably come in October. Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellis and Miss Gertrude Atkinson, who are passing the summer at Buck Hill Falls, have joined a class there in "First Aid to the Injured." [Ed. Note-Unfortunately, the instruction does not cover the injured feelings endured by all suffragists when the Senate failed to pass the Federal Amendment in June.] [*I welcome the opportunity to say that I agree, without reservation, that the full and sincere democratic reconstruction of the world for which we are striving and which we are determined to bring about at any cost, will not have been completely or adequately attained until women are admitted to the suffrage and that only by that action can the nations of the world realize for the benefit of future generations the full ideal force of opinion, or the full human forces of action. The services of women during this supreme crisis of the world's history have been of the most signal usefullness and distinction. The war could not have been fought without them, or its sacrifices endured. It is high time that some part of our debt of gratitude to them should be acknowledged and paid, and the only acknowledgement they ask is their admission to the suffrage. Can we justly refuse it? As for America, it is my earnest hope that the Senate of the United States will give an unmistakable answer to this question by passing the suffrage amendment to our Federal Constitution before the end of this session. -June 13, 1918, Woodrow Wilson.] News Bulletin The Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania Philadelphia County Published Monthly at Headquarters 1723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia For the Purpose of Promoting a more Effectual Co-Operation among the Members of the Party The News Bulletin is for All Suffragists. The Woman Suffrage Party Works for Both State and Federal Amendments by Non-Partisan and Non-Militant Methods. Vol. 1 No. 1 Philadelphia, April, 1917 Price 3 cts. Suffrage Amendment In The United States Senate Joint Resolution No. 2 embodying the provision that the right to vote shall not be abridged on account of sex was introduced immediately following the adoption of the War Resolution on April 4th, and will be pressed by the National American Woman Suffrage Association at this time, as a definite war measure, second only in importance to the War Resolution itself. Following the call issued a few days ago by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, resident of the National Association, "to make the most stupendous appeal to Congress yet made for the submission of the federal amendment," Mrs. Maud Wood Park, chairman of the Congressional Committee in Washington is calling upon all of the Association's forces, consisting of two million women constituting state and congressional district organizations all over the country to bring concentrated pressure to bear upon Congress at once to secure the passage of the amendment. Mrs. Park said yesterday: "Never before in the history of woman suffrage in America have the chances for the passage of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment been so good as they are at this time. I believe that Congress is thoroughly impressed with the duty of enfranchising the women of America, in order to enable them more fully to shoulder the enormous responsibilities laid on them by the war." What You Are To Do We are preparing a thousand printed post-cards as follows: "In justice to the women of our country and as an immediate war measure, I earnestly desire that you vote favorably on the Woman Suffrage Amendment and thereby enable the women of the United States more fully to shoulder their responsibility in our national crisis. When Canada, Russia and England have found it expedient to enfranchise their women, can we afford to lag behind?" Get as many voters as you can to sign and mail these cards to their Senators and Congressmen. District leaders are particularly urged to call for these cards at Headquarters and distribute to the best possible advantage at once. This is the next immediate work, and is in response to an urgent letter from our National President, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, in which she says, "Set the women in each county to circulating a quick petition signed by men and women to Senators and members of Congress." 2 NEWS BULLETIN Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County Chairman Mrs. George A. Dunning, 15 South Twenty-first Street. Vice Chairmen Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzman Mrs. William D. Grange Mrs. William B. Derr Dr. E. M. Hiestand-Moore Mrs. Wolstan Dixey Secretary Mrs. E. Q. Q. Ellis. Treasurer Mrs. Harry E. Kohn Registrar Miss Gertrude Atkinson Executive Secretary Mrs. Frederick F. Drinker Headquarters, 1721-1723 Chestnut St. Bell Telephone Office, Spruce 765. Shop, Locust 3328. April, 1917 84 25 cents a year News has come through from Washington that the hearing on the Woman Suffrage bill is set for April 20. Let us mobilize all our forces and gain the right to serve our country in its present crisis as Free Citizens. Volunteer workers at Headquarters are addressing the Shafroth pamphlets to 2000 clergymen of the city, this method of distribution having been considered the most efficient. The committee recommends that the expense which is small, shall be divided equally among the organized districts. Do not forget the Lunch Room, 1721 Chestnut St. It is for men and women. The best lunch in town for 30 cents. Phone Locust 33-28 for day's menu. Two good words for Suffragists Concentration and Co-Operation Two Important Resolutions The following resolution was adopted at the committee meeting on April 9 and forwarded in a letter to Mayor Smith by our President, Mrs. Geo. A. Dunning: "We, the members of the Philadelphia committee of the Woman's Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania, meeting together for the first time since Congress declared that a state of war exists with Germany, and in so far as we are authorized, our organization in twenty-six legislative districts and fourty-eight wards of the city, hereby affirm our loyal support of the government, in which we are asking to be included through granting of the franchise to women, and we offer to the mayor and council the help and co-operation of our organization in any way in which we can be of service." The following resolution was offered by Dr. Lida Steward Cogill and adopted; and it was recommended that it be sent to the Director of Public Health, as a suggestion for war legislation: Resolved, That in accordance with the greater necessity now than ever before of conserving the health of our babies, in order to ensure a strong and vigorous nation, do hereby Recommend, That the laws governing the time limit of registering births in Philadelphia by physicians be amended to read that births must be reported to the proper authorities within at least twenty-four hours from the date of birth, rather than ten days, as the law now reads, in order that social workers, doctors and nurses may be able to start care of infant and instructions to mother at an earlier date than heretofore, and it be further Recommended, That the pamphlet on the care of the baby issued by the Children's Bureau at Washington, D.C., be sent to every mother upon record of her child's birth. It was further Recommended, That a post-card be sent by the Bureau of Vital Statistics to each mother, giving the exact date and place of registration, to be retained by her as a birth certificate NEWS BULLETIN 3 Reports From the District Leaders 10th District,-At the regular monthly meeting, held April 5th, the following resolution was passed, and has been forwarded to Congressman Graham: Whereas, The right of women to political freedom is being acknowledged by the governments of all countries in rapid succession, even by governments in the midst of war-the Russian revolution having brought suffrage to the women of that country, municipal franchise having been promised to the French women at the close of the war, parliamentary franchise having been promised to the English women at an early date, and full suffrage having been won by the women of all the Canadian provinces, except Quebec, within the past year: Therefore, we earnestly hope that our government will speedily recognize the right of all the women of our land to political freedom; that the Great Republic may continue to lead-and not follow-in the development and realization of democratic ideals; and we especially urge our representatives in Congress to vote for the Federal Amendment, giving women the right to vote, which will be introduced by Miss Rankin, member from Montana. The District Leader, Miss Lida Stokes Adams, and Vice Chairman, Mrs. William B. Derr, called on Senator Penrose and Congressman Graham on March 24, urging them to support the Federal Amendment. Two new division leaders have been secured in this district. 15th District,-At an executive meeting in this district, it was decided to arrange a meeting, with a speech by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, followed by a dance. The Oak Lane Branch gave a very successful Social Tea recently, More than 100 guests were present, and a collection of $15.43 was taken. 15th District,-The regular meeting was held March 20 at the home of Mrs. Lingle, when a most interesting address was given by Mrs. Toogood on "The Futility of Woman's Work Without the Ballot." 19th District,-This district is being rapidly organized by Miss Pauline Mitchell, the leader, who is also the city organizer. Parlor meetings are being hold and a musicale is planned. 21st District,-At a meeting held an interesting address on "Who Put the 'S' in Suffrage?" was given by Miss Bessie Burchett. Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill spoke on "Current Suffrage Events." A resolution relating to public health, offered by Dr. Cogill, was adopted and referred to the County Committee. 23rd District,-An important meeting was held in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Eighteenth and Tioga streets. Speakers were Warden McKenty, of the Eastern Penitentiary, and Miss May Macken. Miss Adelina Noar rendered solos. Announcements Of Future Events The Organization Committee of the 21st Legislative District will give a Neighborhood Suffrage Tea at Mrs. George A. Piersol's, 4724 Chester avenue, April 20. Mrs. George A. Dunning will speak. On Friday, May 18, a play and dance will be given by the 21st Legislative District at Association Hall, 5037 Baltimore avenue. The regular meeting of the 19th Legislative District will be held on Tuesday, April 17, at 3 P. M., at the residence of Miss Chambers. Miss Anne Heygate Hall will speak on Juvenile Court work. In the 10th Legislative District a parlor meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 2, at the home of Mrs. D. W. Simkin, 1528 Poplar street. Speaker, Mrs. George A. Dunning. A meeting to discuss the Federal Amendment will be held in the 3d Legislative District on April 21, at the College Settlement, 433 Christian street. The Committee of the 23rd Legislative District will give a dance at the Nicetown Boys' Club, Eighteenth and Hunting Park avenue, Saturday evening, April 28. Suffrage souvenirs distributed. Tickets, $1, to admit two. A rummage sale is being planned, of which further particulars will be published later. Mrs. Josephine Paul is chairman of this sale. The regular monthly meeting of the 23d Legislative District will be held Tuesday evening, May 1, in the Chapel of the Odd Fellows' Home, Seventeenth and Tioga streets. Under the auspices of the 17th District, a dance will be given at the Gordon-Roney School, 4112 Spruce street, on Friday evening, April 20. Tickets, 50 cents. One of the Four Square Entertainments being given in the 15th District is arranged for Saturday evening, April 21, at 8.30, at the home of Miss Ann Harned, Fairfax Apartments. A talk on Walt Whitman will be heard. Tickets, $1, to admit two persons. A meeting in the 19th Legislative District will be held April 18 at the home of Mrs. G. McNerney, 3331 Ridge avenue. Speaker, Mrs. William B. Derr. A meeting in the 31st Ward will be held at the Frankford Avenue Baptist Church. Frankford avenue and Letterly street, on Friday, April 20, at 8 o'clock. Speaker, Miss May Macken. 4 NEWS BULLETIN. SUBSCRIPTIONS Miss Virginia Widmer Mrs. David C. Lyman Miss Lida Stokes Adams Miss Sara D. Chambers Mrs. E. Q. A. Ellis Miss Gertrude Atkinson Miss Lucy Lewis Mrs. George H. Wobensmith Miss Margaret McKay Wilcox Mrs. A. E. Burns Mrs. William B. Derr Mrs. Iredell Eachus Miss Pauline Mitchell Miss Margaret Reynolds Mrs. A. R. Taylor Mrs. C. E. Martin Miss Margaret Power Mrs. M. B. Teurney Mrs. M. R. Kitchen Mrs. G. A. Mitchell Miss N. S. Hahn Mrs. Parry Miss Harriett Billingsfeld Dr. Lida Stewart Cogill Miss Mary B. Parmalee Miss Emma Wilson Gaskill Mrs. Barclay Johnson Miss Katherine Collison Mrs. Phillip Hughes Miss Elizabeth Bickford Mrs. N. S. Pierson Mrs. James Lingle Mrs. Ed Peabody Mrs. W. Kline Mrs. H. E. Robin Miss Lois Roberts Mrs. E. T. Toogood LITERATURE ON SALE The Federal Amendment Book. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. $1.50 BOOKLETS Federal Action and State Rights. By Henry Wade Rogers State Constitutional Obstructions. By Mary Sumner Boyd. How to Raise Money for Suffrage. By Henrietta W. Livermore How to Reach the Rural Voter. By Amelia MacDonald Cutler. Suffrage Argument -- Outline for Speech or Debate. Justina Leavitt Wilson. Why the Federal Amendment. Carrie Chapman Catt. LEAFLETS Woman Suffrage Gains at the Polls. Which Cardinal Knows Best? Woman Suffrage an Economy. Who Pays the Poll Tax? On the Firing Line. "Seein' Is Believin'." What Is the Federal Suffrage Amendment? Woman, Home and Government. By Professor Pollard, of the Crozier Theological Seminary. Our Real Enemy. By Carrie Chapman Catt. SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT IN THE UNITED STATES LEGISLATURE The suffrage bill will come up in the House on Tuesday, April 17. A strong delegation from Philadelphia is urged. Delegates attending the hearing in the House will be able to remain for the spring conference. Tentative Program Spring Conference PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Harrisburg, April 18th and 19th WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH Y.W.C.A., 10 A.M. Opening of Conference State Amendment, Mrs. Funk AFTERNOON SESSION Y.W.C.A., 1.30 P.M. Constructive National Service-- Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, Treas., National American Woman Suffrage Association. Summer Campaign WEDNESDAY EVENING Technical High School, 8 P.M. "After the War -- What?" Hon. Frederick C. Howe, U.S. Commissioner of Immigration. TUESDAY, APRIL 19TH Y.W.C.A., 10 A.M. Federal Amendment-- Mrs. Maud Wood Park, Chairman, National Congressional Committee Organizers' Hour Removal State Headquarters to Philadelphia New Business Trains Leave Broad St. Station 8.30 and 8.40 A.M. At the committee meeting on April 9 a resolution was passed, "That a request be sent to each organized district that it pay the expenses of a representative to the Spring Conference at Harrisburg, 18th to 19th, inclusive." The Success of the News Bulletin Depends on YOU Please Become a Subscriber Yourself and Persuade Others to Join You. News Bulletin The Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA COUNTY Published Monthly at Headquarters 1723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia For the Purpose of Promoting a More Effectual Co-operation Among the Members of the Party. The News Bulletin is for All Suffragists The Woman Suffrage Party Works for Both State and Federal Amendments by Non-Partisan and Non Militant Methods. VOL. 1 No. 7 PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER 1917 PRICE 3 cts. per copy 25 cts. a year A CALL To the Forty-ninth Annual Convention of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association to Be Held at Pittsburgh, November 20, 21, 22, 1917. Fellow Suffragists: Again your Executive Board sounds a call to the suffragists of Pennsylvania to assemble in annual convention for the election of officers for the ensuing two years and the consideration of other matters of importance. Since our last convention an eventful year has passed--the State Legislature refused to permit the voters to pass upon the suffrage question, or to permit Pennsylvania women to vote for the President of the United States. Suffragists both as individuals and through their organizations have served their country, many of them giving their sons for the Army and Navy. The United States Senate Woman Suffrage Committee has made a favorable report on the Federal Amendment and a Woman Suffrage Committee has been created in the House. We must consider plans for work with future State legislators. Our defeat in the Legislature last year proved that unless a different type of legislator is sent to Harrisburg from many of the counties this coming year there is very little hope of ever passing a suffrage amendment or any other progressive legislation. Therefore, it is most necessary that at this coming convention we consider what action we shall take in the spring primaries to secure the election of upright, intelligent legislators. Your Government has appointed woman's committees for the defense of the State and of the nation, and at this convention their official heads will speak to us, and we must consider plans to develop for our country the full woman power of the nation. We must also plan how the suffrage organization can give the best service. We must be prepared to assist the National Association to the fullest in what they believe will be a successful effort for the passage of the Federal Amendment in the regular session of Congress which opens in December. Therefore, we call upon all suffragists to attend the convention at Pittsburgh, November 20, 21, 22, 1917. Great sacrifice is warranted. Come and do your part. Lucy Kennedy Miller, M. Carey Thomas, Gertrude Gouveneur Smith, Alice F. Kiernan, Elizabeth King Rogers, Margaret B. Linton, Helen Culbertson Clark, Elizabeth B. Beach, Lily H. DuPuy, Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, Martha Binney Dunning, Alice Huey Bedford. STATE HEADQUARTERS Although State Headquarters were moved from Harrisburg to Philadelphia June 1st, owing to patriotic work and the vacation season, the formal opening was delayed until Friday afternoon, September 21st, when the State Board members were at home to all suffragists of Philadelphia and nearby counties. Owing to Mrs. Geo. A. Dunning's activity, the tea proved a great success. 2 NEWS BULLETIN Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County IN THE SUFFRAGE SHOP The shop has reacted splendidly from the usual summer slump. Notwithstanding the high cost of living our profit for the month has been as great as in any preceding year at the same date. The regular table d'hote luncheon is served daily and in addition the patrons are given a choice a la carte, which has been decidedly popular. A special feature-that of giving luncheons for clubs and societies-has been initiated and promises a sound increase of revenue. Homemade pies and cakes are also an institution. In addition to those served in the shop Miss Harned will bake cakes on order for housekeepers who do not find it convenient to do the "regular Saturday cake-baking" in the course of natural housekeeping events. NEWS BULLETIN The News Bulletin Committee offers its apology to the subscribers of the "News Bulletin" for the delay in getting out the present issue. The delay was owing to the illness of the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Drinker, and was unavoidable. We will try to do better next time. RED CROSS ACTIVITIES Work in the Red Cross Auxiliary is going forward at a rapid pace. Dr. Moore reports our good fortune in having secured an experienced and most efficient chairman of supplies, Mrs. Grace C. Corliss, and a well-qualiled Inspector of Work, Mrs. E. M. Cooper. Mrs. Elanor Casavant, of "The Philadelphia Record ," has rendered able service in the line of publicity and first aid organization. The Auxiliary is occupied in making pajamas, hospital shirts, bath-robes and shoulder-wraps. This work is much needed as it is not so easily secured as the lighter task of preparing surgical dressings. A Department of Surgical Supplies will be opened later on under the direction of experts. The Free Library for Enlisted Men offers books to be mailed to soldiers, sailors and marines at a cost of fifteen cents each to cover the expenses of wrapping and mailing to any address at home or abroad. Remnants of wool are wanted for making afghans to be used in the hospitals for convalescents. A Soldiers' Letter Box has been established to receive interesting communications from the front which will be read at a regular monthly Conference of the Auxiliary. Dr. Moore is recruiting volunteers to act as officers of the day to serve one day each month, their duties being to assist in keeping the workroom open every day from ten until five. Each officer will have five aids to serve with her. The window displays are attracting much attention and have brought us many visitors. membership in the Auxiliary is of three classes: Workers, contributors (who pay 25 cents each month to the Maintenance Fund) and contributors de luxe (who pay sums in excess of the regular contributors' dues). Every suffragist should be in some way identified with the Auxiliary, which offers a great opportunity for patriotic service. On Thursday evening from 7.30 until 10, a corps of workers from the Seventeenth District will be on duty under the leadership of Mrs. Iredell Eachus. Contributions of money are now needed to defray the expenses of lighting and heating the work-room. Visitors are invited on all occasions Come and help us do our bit. We want it to be a big bit, of which the Woman Suffrage Party will be proud. NEWS BULLETIN 3 Woman Suffrage Party of Pennsylvania Delaware County QUARTERLY COUNTY CONVENTION The Quarterly County Convention of the W. S. P. of Delaware county was held at Media, Thursday afternoon, September 27th. Mrs. William Ward Jr., county chairman, presided. Her health having improved so much, she was urged to withdraw her resignation. It was announced that Delaware county had paid its full assessment of $1000 to the State. Only one other county (Clearfield) in the State, had paid its assessment in full. A letter from the Chairman of Finance of the State Board was read telling how the State and National Boards needed funds. The convention voted to give $250.00 to the State to be given to the National Board to use for work on the Federal Amendment. IN MEMORIAM In the death of John M. Shrigley of Lansdown, Delaware Co., the suffragists have lost a friend and ardent supporter of their cause. he not only organized the Men's Equal Suffrage League of Lansdown, but was also and officer on the Pennsylvania Men's League for Equal Suffrage. Suffragists everywhere owe him a debt of deep gratitude and moreover wish to take this opportunity to extend to his devoted family their heartfelt sympathy. COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE CONVENTION OF CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT GROUP NO. 1 A Convention of Congressional District Group No.1, comprising the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Congressional Districts of which Mrs. George A. Piersol is chairman, will be held in the Green Room, Hotel Adelphia, Wednesday, October 24th, at 3 P. M. The speakers will Mrs. J. O. Miller and Mrs. Maud Wood Park. Come and help to make the convention a success. The passage of the Federal Amendment at the coming session of Congress depends upon the hard work we do at this time. RUMMAGE SALE preparations are under way for the Rummage and White Elephant sale which will be held at an early date. The shop will receive all goods at any time. Empty out your attics and storerooms and let us have the benefit of your discarded treasures and apparel. We can turn them into money that will help us in our drive on Congress next December and at the same time enable us to lend a hand to the Red Cross. the sailors' parties and other patriotic work. No further notice will be given so please "deliver the goods" at 1721 Chestnut street at your very earliest convenience. We thank you in advance. 4 NEWS BULLETIN NEW SUBSCRIBERS Mrs. A. G. Thatcher. Mrs. Bartley S. Warner. Mrs. R. C. Brooks Mrs. George P. Worrell. Miss Mary L. Yarnall. Mrs. S. Pancoast Levis. Mrs. David Wilbur Horn. Mrs. Thomas M. Devers. Mrs. Florence B. Fitzpatrick. Mrs. Susan B. Freeman. Mrs. Edward S. Zieber. Miss A. R. Purdy. DISTRICT NOTES Third District: Announcement has been made by Mrs. Louis C. Brandies, chairman of the Third Legislative District that her organization will inaugurate the Americanization work which they are undertaking by a large public meeting on October 25th with the following speakers: Dr. Lucy L. Wilson, principal, South Philadelphia HIgh School for Girls; Mr. Byron Deacon, general secretary, Philadelphia Associated Charities Association and Mrs. Grace H. Bagley, chairman of the Americanization Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. Andrew L. Leppi will serve as chairman of the Italian Naturalization Committee; Mrs. Jane R. Dornblum as chairman of Jewish Committee, and Mrs. Helgar Borgen as chairman of the Scndinavian Committee. Seventh District: The Twenty-fourth Ward has selected Tuesday for its day at the Red Cross Auxiliary, 1725 Chestnut street. This ward has also been active in collecting old gloves, books, magazines and periodicals for the sailors. One thousand magazines, etc., have already been distributed through the Y. M. C. A. and one hundred and forty books have been donated by friends for distribution among the sailors. Those not suitable for the boys are sold to purchase sewing material for the Red Cross. A dance will be held at the Gordon-Roney School, 4112 Spruce street, Saturday evening, october 27th. Miss West's Orchestra will furnish the music. Tickets, 50 cents. Apply to Mrs. Iredell Eachus, 1248 North Fifty-seventh street. SAILORS' PARTIES At a recent meeting of the Philadelphia County Committee it was resolved that the management of the sailors' parties be in the hands of a committee of seven or more, to be known as the Committee on Sailors' Parties, said the committee to be composed of the chairmen of sub-committees and additional members appointed by the chairman of the W. S. P. The sub-committees are as follows: 1. Finances. 2. Hospitality (to include chaperonage, music, invitations and social management). 3. Refreshments. 4. House Committee. PITTSBURGH HOTELS The William Penn Hotel and the Fort Pitt Hotel are the two which have been recommended as being the most desirable for the delegates and others attending the State Convention. The rates are as follows: William Penn Hotel (European plan, every room with bath). Single room, $3.00 and up. Two persons in room, one bed, $4.00 and up per room. Two persons in room, twin beds, $5.00, $6.00 and up per room. Fort Pitt Hotel (European plan). Single Room, $1.50 and up. Double room, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00; $1.00 for each additional person. It is not too soon to make arrangements for accommodations, writing directly to the manager of the hotel. LIBERTY LOAN The following resolution, presented by Dr. E. M. H. Moore, was favorably acted upon at the last meeting of the Philadelphia County Committee: "Resolved, that in view of existing misconception in regard to the attitude of women suffragists toward the second Liberty Loan, we members of the Philadelphia County Committee, W. S. P., desire to affirm our staunch purpose to support the second Liberty Loan and to do nothing that will in any way obstruct its progress." PERSONALS Owing to the illness of her mother, Miss Lida Stokes Adams has resigned from the chairmanship of the Organization Committee. She is greatly missed both for her work and as an inspiration to others. "THE RIGHT OF FRANCHISE WOULD BRING TO WOMEN, CONSCIOUSLY OR UNCONSCIOUSLY, FIRST AN INTEREST IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS, THEN A GROWING SENSE OF PUBLIC DUTY." WILLIAM DRAPER LEWIS The Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League wants the full franchise for women (excluding the criminal and illiterate of both sexes.) These limitations are already required in a majority of the states. If you join us, you are also at liberty to join as many other suffrage leagues as you please. We are ardent suffragists, bu non-militant. You may become a member of the pennsylvania Limited by writing your name and address below. There are no dues and you are not obliged to work, but we want a large membership. [323] Name Mrs. James [??ister] Address 1819 [?] street [Philadelphia] April 5 1911 (Give this card to an usher or stamp it and mail it) Post Card PHILADELPHIA, PA. APR 6 3 – PM 1911 THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS ONLY U.S.POSTAGE ONE CENT PENN.SQUARESTA C MRS. EDWARD YARNALL HARTSHORNE Secretary Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League MERION P.O. MONTGOMERY CO., PA "THIRD. He or she shall have resided in the election district where he or she shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "FOURTH. If twenty-two years of age and upward, he or shall have paid within two years a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election. "FIFTH. Wherever the words 'he' 'his' 'him' and 'himself' occur in any section of Article VIII of this Constitution, the same shall be construed as if written respectively 'he' or 'she,' 'his or her' 'him or her,' and 'himself or herself.'" 4 THIS AMENDMENT was prepared by the Legislative Committee of the EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, and has been introduced into the Legislature through the efforts of the Legislative Committee of the PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY 208 Hale Building Philadelphia A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AMENDMENT TO SECTION ONE, ARTICLE EIGHT, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be, and the same is hereby proposed, in accordance with the eighteenth article thereof:- That section one of article eight, which reads as follows:- "SECTION I. Every male citizen of twenty- one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. "FIRST. He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. 2 "SECOND. He shall have resided in the State one year (or, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months), immediately preceding the election. "THIRD. He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "FOURTH. If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election." be amended so that the same shall read as following:- "SECOND I. Every citizen, male or female, of twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. "FIRST, He or she shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. "SECOND. He or she shall have resided in the State one year (or, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he or she shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months), immediately preceding the election. 3 Nevada - Unpardoned convicts, the feeble-minded - and women. *New Hampshire - Public paupers, inmates of penitentiaries and lunatic asylums - and women. New Jersey - Convicts, lunatics - and women. New York - Persons imprisoned for crime and lunacy - and women. North Dakota - Convicts, lunatics - and women. Ohio - Perpetrators of infamous crimes, idiots - and women. Oregon - Convicts, persons non compos mentis - and women. Pennsylvania - Perjurers, election bribers, the insane - and women. Rhode Island - Lunatics, inmates of poor houses - and women. (Required to pay taxes on property assessed at $134. Old 40 shilling franchise.) *North Carolina - Felons, duelists, murderers - and women. *South Carolina = Felons, duelists, murderers - and women. Tennessee - Persons convicted of bribery, arson, murder, or other infamous offences, idiots - and women. Vermont - Perjurers, the feeble-minded - and women. *Virginia - Persons convicted of crimes of treason, embezzlement, bribery, felony, larceny and murder, - and women. Wisconsin - Persons in the penitentiary, the feeble-minded - and women. *Has an educational qualification for voting. Published by the Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League President, Miss Mary Winsor, Haverford P.O., Pa. Vice-Presidents Mrs. Richard Peters Mrs. Russell Duane Mrs. Joseph P. Mumford Mrs. Horatio Gates Lloyd Mrs. John Read Pettit Recording Secretary, Mrs. Imogen B. Oakley Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Edward Yarnall Hartshorne, Merion P.O., Pa. Treasurer Mrs. Francis G. Okie, Berwyn, P.O. Pa. LIMITED SUFFRAGE In "Our State Constitutions" (1907), by James Quayle Dealey, Ph.D., Professor of Social and Political Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in Chapter IV on Suffrage and Elections, we find the following interesting statements: "Suffrage. Our States have the right to declare in their constitutions who shall exercise suffrage within their several jurisdictions. The restrictions on this power in the national constitution are simple and few in number. Our democratic tendency is shown by the fact that whereas in the revolutionary period the privilege of suffrage was held by less than 6 per cent of the population, it is now held by about 20 per cent. The per cent. was even larger in 1870, but restrictions have since crept in. It was once common in thickly settled States to allow aliens who had taken out their first naturalization papers to vote even in national elections. Nine States only still retain this provision (Arkansas, South Dakota, Indiana, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Wisconsin.) Six have changed within the last ten years. *** An educational qualification is rapidly passing into our constitutions through a belief that voters should be more intelligent, and that this on the whole is best indicated by the ability to read and write. Such a restriction would be undemocratic if not coupled with provisions for a free and general education. Fourteen (14) States now have educational restrictions." (They are given here with the dates when such restrictions were adopted): "Connecticut, 1855 and again in 1897; Massachusetts, 1857; Wyoming, 1889; Maine, 1893; California, 1894; Washington, 1896; Delaware, 1897; New Hampshire, 1903; Mississippi, 1890; South Carolina, 1895; Louisiana, 1898; Alabama, 1901; Virginia, 1902; North Carolina, 1902." (Arizona, which is just coming into the Union, has also an education qualification in its constitution.) "As women are citizens, and all citizens by theory are entitled to the same privileges, women are entitled to the suffrage equally with men unless the constitution is worded or can be interpreted otherwise. * Definite agitation for woman's suffrage has been carried on since 1848. Four (4) States at the present time allow women full suffrage - Wyoming, 1889; Colorado, 1893; Utah, 1895; Idaho, 1896. (The State of Washington has just conferred suffrage upon women, November 8, 1910, now making five States where women vote.) It is much more common (twenty-four States) to allow women suffrage in school and occasionally in library matters. Kansas in 1886 granted women municipal suffrage, and Montana, Iowa and Louisiana by constitution allow women taxpayers to vote on certain referenda involving expenditures. It is on the whole expedient for conventions, in considering suffrage, to consider what privileges, if any (!), women are to have, and then to state them in express terms. Besides these restrictions there are in practically all constitutions prohibitions of suffrage to minors under twenty-one years of age, to idiots, insane persons, and persons convicted crime." Ladies, if you will glance through the following list of the disenfranchised, you will see in what unpleasant company you will find yourselves. The facts will speak for themselves; and remember that even the male lunatic can vote during his lucid intervals. In the following States every citizen 21 years of age has a voice in the Government through individual choice or representation, by having a vote, with the following exceptions: *Alabama - Persons convicted of treason, idiots, lunatics- and women. Arkansas - Persons convicted of heinous crimes, the insane - and women. * See Constitution of the United States, Article XIV, Section 1: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." Also, Article XV, Section 1: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." *California - Persons convicted of embezzlement, infamous criminals, lunatics - and women. *Connecticut - Persons convicted of heinous crimes - and women. *Delaware - Persons convicted of infamous crimes, felons, idiots, lunatics - and women. Florida - Persons guilty of heinous crimes, lunatics - and women. Georgia - Persons convicted of perjury, bribery, murder, the insane - and women. Illinois - Persons guilty of bribery in elections, inmates of insane and criminal institutions - and women. Indiana - Persons guilty of infamous crimes, lunatices, imbeciles, - and women. Iowa - Persons convicted of heinous offences, the insane - and women. Kansas - Persons guilty of public embezzlement, treason, felony, the insane - and women. Kentucky - Citizens who are imprisoned for crimes or lunacy - and women. *Louisiana - Persons under indictment, the insane - and women. *Maine - Public paupers, idiots, the insane - and women. Maryland - Perpetrators of heinous crimes, the insane - and women. *Massachusetts - Paupers, criminals, persons under guardianship - and women. Michigan - Incarcerated criminals, lunatics, duelists - and women. Minnesota - Persons convicted of treason, arson, those who are non compos mentis - and women. *Mississippi - Persons convicted of bigamy, perjurers, the inmates of prisons and institutions for the feeble-minded - and women. Missouri - Criminals, the insane and feeble-minded - - and women. Montana - Perpetrators of unpardonable offences, the insane - and women. Nebraska - Persons convicted of treason, arson, felony, the insane - and women. *1911* BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, that the following amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be and the same is hereby proposed in accordance with the eighteenth Article thereof: That Section one of Article eight, which reads as follows: "SECTION 1. - Every male citizen twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. "First. - He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. "Second. - He shall have resided in the State one year (or, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months) immediately preceding the election. "Third. - He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "Fourth. - If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a State or County tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months, and paid at least one month, before the election." be amended so that the same shall read as follows: SECTION I. - Every male citizen twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. First. - He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least five years and be able to read and write the English language, and be able to comply with any further educational test which the legislation may impose: provided, that this clause shall not disfranchise anyone who is otherwise qualified to vote at the time of the adoption of this amendment. Second. - He shall have resided in this State one year (or if, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he or she shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months) immediately preceding the election. Third. - He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election, and shall not at the time of offering to vote be a duly committed inmate of any prison or almshouse, or having been such an inmate of a prison after conviction, or of an almshouse, during the immediately preceding six months: provided, that the legislature may fix longer periods of disfranchisement for certain crimes which it shall designate. Fourth. - If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a State or County tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election. with his fore paw on the electoral urn, which answers to our ballot-box, as if to guard it from all unholy uses. As I turned away I thought of the American Republic and our ballot-box, with no guardian or scared reverence for its contents. Ignorance, poverty and vice have full access; thousands from every incoming steamer go practically from the steerage to the polls, while educated women, representing the virtue and intelligence of the nation, are driven away. I would like to see a monument to "Educated Suffrage" in front of our National Capitol, guarded by the goddess Minerva, her right hand resting on the ballot-box, her left hand on the spelling book, the Declaration of Rights and the Federal Constitution. MRS. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, "Significance and History of the Ballot," a paper read before the United States Senate Committee, 1898. If each voter governed only himself, his intelligence would concern himself alone, but his vote helps to govern everybody else. Society, in conceding his right, has itself a right to require from him a suitable preparation. Ability to read and write is absolutely necessary as a means of obtaining accurate political information. Without 5 it the voter is almost sure to become the tool of political demagogues. With free schools provided by the States, every citizen can qualify himself without money and without price. Under such circumstances there is no infringement of rights in requiring an educational qualification as a prerequisite of voting. HENRY B. BLACKWELL, Twenty-seventh Annual Suffrage Convention, Atlanta, Ga., 1895. The Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League wants the full franchise for women (excluding the criminal and illiterate of both sexes.) These limitations are already required in a majority of the states. If you join us, you are at liberty to join as many other suffrage leagues as you please. We are ardent suffragists, but not militant. There are no dues and you are not obliged to work, but we want a large membership. Men are eligible for membership. You may become a member of the Pennsylvania Limited by sending your name and address to Mrs. Edward Y. Hartshorne, Merion P.O., Penna. AN EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION PREFACE The current objections to an educational qualification are as follows: 1. America is the land of Universal Suffrage, and Limited Suffrage is impossible to obtain. 2. Whenever found in our State Constitutions, it is merely a survival of a less democratic era. 3. It exists only in the Southern States. 4. Suffragists don't recommend it. In this leaflet, these ignorant objections are refuted by information showing that not only Southern but also a number of Northern and Western States, beginning with Connecticut in 1855, have seen fit to adopt an educational qualification and that eminent Suffragists have warmly advocated it. In "Our State Constitution" (1907), by James Quayle Dealey, Ph. D., Profession of Social and Political Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in Chapter IV on Suffrage and Election, we find the following interesting statements: SUFFRAGE Our States have the right to declare in their constitutions who shall exercise suffrage within their several jurisdictions. The restrictions on this power in the national constitution are simple and few in number. Our democratic tendency is shown by the fact that whereas in the revolutionary period the privilege of suffrage was held by less than 6 per cent. of the population, it is now held by about 20 per cent. The per cent. was even larger in 1870, but restrictions have since crept in. It was once common in thickly settled States to allow aliens who had taken out their first naturalization papers to vote even in national elections. Nine States even only still retain this provision (Arkansas, South Dakota, Indiana, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Wisconsin). Six have changed within the last ten years. * * * An educational qualification is rapidly passing into our constitutions through a belief that voters should be more intelligent, 2 and that this on the whole is best indicated by the ability to read and write. Such a restriction would be undemocratic if not coupled with provisions for a free and general educational restriction. (They are given here with the dates when such restrictions were adopted): "Connecticut, 1855 and again in 1897: Massachusetts, 1857; Wyoming, 1889; Maine 1893; California, 1894; Washington, 1896; Delaware, 1897; New Hampshire, 1903; Mississippi, 1890; South Carolina, 1895; Louisiana, 1898; Alabama, 1901; Virginia, 1902; North Carolina, 1902." (Arizona, which is just coming into the Union, has also an educational qualification in its constitution). --Editor's Note. Those who have studied the "History of Woman Suffrage" know how many eminent suffragists advocate a restricted franchise. For instance, the national Woman Suffrage Association, at its annual convention is 1877, passed the following resolution: "WHEREAS, a monarchial government lives only through the ignorance of the masses, and a republican government can live only through the intelligence of the people; therefore, 3 "Resolved, That it is the duty of Congress to submit the State legislatures propositions to so amend the Constitution of the United States as to make education compulsory, and to make intelligence a qualification for citizenship and suffrage in the United States; said amendments to take effect January 1, 1880, when all citizens of legal age, without distinction of sex, who can read and write the English language, may be admitted to citizenship." On the Resolutions Committee were Edward M. Davis, of Philadelphia, and Susan B. Anthony. The popular objection to woman suffrage is that it would "double the ignorant vote." The patent answer to this is, "Abolish the ignorant vote." Our legislators have this power in their own hands. There have been serious restrictions in the past for men, We are willing to abide by the same for women, provided the insurmountable qualification of sex be forever removed. Walking in Paris one day, I was greatly impressed with an emblematic statue in the square Chateau d'Eau, placed there in 1883 in honor of the republic. On one side is a magnificent bronze lion, 4 ONE ACT PLAY AND MEETING CASINO, MERION CRICKET CLUB MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1915 Programme PIANO SOLO.............................................. Mr. Arthur Howell Wilson INTERPRETIVE DANCE--"AUTUMN"..Miss Sylvia Homan Miller PLAY "ELECTION DAY" A Comedy in one act by Emily Sargent Lewis Time--The Present. Place--An American City MR. RICHARD GARDNER, a Golf Enthusiast .................... Mr. John Bradway MRS. RICHARD GARDNER, an Anti-Fuffragist................. Mrs. Oliver W. Paxson DOROTHY, aged twenty-one, Their Daughter................. Miss Anita C. Nisbett DICK, aged ten, Their Son........................................................ Master Norris Tuttle MRS. CARTER, a Suffragist, Sister of Mrs. Gardner......... Mrs. Leon Rittenhouse MR. THOMAS RANDOLPH, a Suitor for Dorothy............ Mr. John Bradway KATIE CONNER, a woman who goes out to work by the day, ..Mrs. E.N. Mitchell AUGUSTUS WHITE, a negro who takes charge of the Gardners' furnace, Dr. E.L. Nesbit MARY, a Waitress.........................................................................Miss Janet M. Nisbett ADDRESS--"Woman Suffrage" by Mrs. Isaac H. Rhoads Patronesses MRS. JAMES D. WINSOR MRS. HENRY C. REGISTER MRS. WINTHROP SARGENT MRS. WALTER B. STEPHENSON MRS. HORATIO GATES LLOYD MRS. EDMUND C. LEWIS Please write at once to MR. HENRY D. CLAYTON, Chairman Committee on Judiciary, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., and to MR GEORGE S. GRAHAM (of the same Committee), requesting them to do their utmost so that the Committee will report favorably House Joint Resolution No. 1 (the bill providing for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States enfranchising women.) Mr. Graham is the only Pennsylvania member of the Committee. His district--the 2n Congressional District-- includes the 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 20th and 37th Wards of Philadelphia. Write yourself and ask both men and women to write, especially residents in the Graham district. When writing to these Congressmen, do not enclose this slip, but circulate it in Mr. Graham's district. Please send the answers you receive from these Congressmen (or copies thereof) to MISS MARY WINSOR Haverford P.O., Pa. Chairman Pennsylvania Congressional Committee National American Woman Suffrage Association March 20, 1914 [1914] The Pennsylvania Limited Equal Suffrage League Birthday Party at Merion Club, Haverford June 2nd, 3.30 P. M. [1914] PART I (Serious) DEBATE - "Should Women Vote?" Affirmative - Mr. George E. O'Dell {of London England. Negative - Mr. Alexander W. Samuel {of London England. Chairman - Mrs. James D. Winsor Collection taken Sale of fine quality Baking Powder, with special Woman Suffrage label PART II (Frivolous) Bernard Shaw's "PRESS CUTTINGS" Presented by THE PLAYS AND PLAYERS CLUB General Mitchener - Mr. Henry C. Sheppard Balsquith - Dr. Daniel M. Hoyt The Orderly - Mr. William H. Whitney Mrs. Banger - Mrs. Paul P. Pearson Lady Corintha Fanshawe - Mrs. Sophia Farr Geddes Mrs. Farrell - Mrs. H. C. Sheppard Mr. Henry C. Sheppard, Stage Director Tickets for the Birthday Party, 50 cents each, may be ordered NOW from: The Woman Suffrage Shop - 1721 Chestnut Street Mrs. Edward Y. Hartshorne - Haverford Mrs. Rodman E. Griscom - Haverford Mrs. Henry S. Spackman - Ardmore Miss Anna Linn Bright - Bryn Mawr Miss E. Waring Wilson - Rosemont Mrs. Parke Schoch - Wayne Mrs. E. Lewis Burnham - Berwyn Mrs. Walter Pierce - Llanerch Terrace, Llanerch Miss Anna Snyder - Hamilton Court, Philadelphia and at the MERION CLUB on day of performance [*1913*] A Series of SUFFRAGE TEAS The Pennsylvania Limited Equal Suffrage League (formerly Penna. Limited Suffrage League) AT HOME TO THE PUBLIC 3.30 EVERY THURSDAY AFTERNOON at the Plastic Club, 247 So. Camac Street (near Locust and Spruce 12th and 13th Streets.) Our Thursdays are so successful that we will continue them throughout April. March 27th. Miss Mary Winsor. "A New Birth of Freedom." April 3rd. "The Juvenile Court in Philadelphia and Elsewhere." Mrs. J. L. Pickering (Probation Officer) and other experts. "Rural Progress in Pennsylvania." Mrs. Edith Ellicott Smith. April 10th. Mr. Scott Mearing. "The Economic Position of Women." Program for April 17th and 23rd to be Announced Later. A Series of SUFFRAGE TEAS [*1913*] The Pennsylvania Limited Equal Suffrage League (Formerly Penna, Limited Suffrage League) AT HOME TO THE PUBLIC 3.30 EVERY THURSDAY AFTERNOON at the Plastic Club, 247 So. Camac Street (near Locust and Spruce 12th and 13th Streets.) Thursday, February 27th. Miss Constable of the Women's Political Union of New York will give "The Voiceless Speech." Thursday, March 6th. Mr. Robert Bridges of England. The Political Situation in England and the Militant Suffragettes." Thursday, March 13th. Mr. Scott Nearing on "Woman's Place To-Day." Thursday, March 20th. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Economic Independence of Women." ADMISSION FREE. COLLECTIONS taken. Come and bring your friends. A Series of SUFFRAGE TEAS [*1913*] The Pennsylvania Limited Equal Suffrage League (formerly Penna. Limited Suffrage League) AT HOME TO THE PUBLIC 3.30 EVERY THURSDAY AFTERNOON at the Plastic Club, 247 So. Camac Street (near Locust and Spruce 12th and 13th Streets.) Thursday, February 6th. "The Need of Police-Women in Philadelphia", Dr. M. A. Boyer. 1. Business Session to arrange a reception committee who will go out by train or trolley about five miles out of Philadelphia to meet Miss Rosalie Gardiner Jones and escort her into Philadelphia. 2. To arrange for the Washington Parade on March 3d. All those who are willing to help in any way will please attend this meeting and give suggestions and advise. If you cannot attend and are willing to meet Miss Jones, please send your name to Miss Mary Winsor, Haverford. Thursday, February 13th. "Would Woman Suffrage Help the Working woman?" Mrs. Florence Kelley. Thursday, February 20th. DEBATE : "Is an Educational Qualification Advisable?" AFFIRMATIVE. Mr. Edward H. Chandler, Secretary Twentieth Century Club of Boston. NEGATIVE. Mr. Edwin O. Lewis. Discussion of Limited Suffrage Bill. ADMISSION FREE. COLLECTIONS taken. Come and bring your friends February Attractions will be announced Later. A Series of Suffrage Teas The Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League AT HOME TO THE PUBLIC 3.30 EVERY AFTERNOON DURING THE WINTER [*of 1913*] at the Plastic Club, 247 So. Camac Street (near Locust and Spruce 12th and 13th Streets.) January 16th. Miss Rosalie Gardiner Jones who led the "Suffragist Army" to Albany will relate the history of the march and will discuss the question "Shall the Suffragists parade in Washington on March 3rd?" January 23rd. "A Plain Talk on the Vice Situation in Philadelphia", Mr. C. M. Smock, Secretary of the Christian League. "Woman Suffrage and the Social Evil", Dr. Kate Baldwin. January 30th. "The Minimum Wage for Women", Mrs. Glendower Evans, member of the Massachusetts Investigation Committee. [*Election Commission*] (Remarks by Mr. Edward H. Chandler, Secretary of the Boston Twentieth Century Club, at the Hearing in Philadelphia, on Friday, March 22, 1912.) Edited and published by THE PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED SUFFRAGE LEAGUE PREFACE BY THE EDITORS AN educational qualification is rapidly passing into our constitutions through a belief that voters should be more intelligent, and that this, on the whole, is best indicated by the ability to read and write. Such a restriction would be undemocratic if not coupled with provisions for a free and general education. Fourteen (14) States now have educational restrictions. (They are given here with the dates when such restrictions were adopted): Connecticut, 1855 and again in 1897 ; Massachusetts, 1857 ; Wyoming, 1889; Maine, 1893 ; California, 1894 ; Washington, 1896 ; Delaware, 1897 ; New Hampshire, 1903 ; Mississippi, 1890 ; South Carolina, 1895 ; Louisiana, 1898 ; Alabama, 1901 ; Virginia, 1902 ; North Carolina, 1902. (Arizona, which is just coming into the Union, has also an educational qualification in its Constitution.) We are told that an educational qualification is impossible to obtain, but if it has been obtained in so many States, why not in Pennsylvania? The Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League has drawn into its ranks many eminent persons opposed to universal suffrage, but willing to endorse a limited suffrage, both for men and women. ADMISSION FREE. COLLECTIONS taken. Come and bring your friends. February Attractions will be announced Later. SOME fifteen years ago the United States Senate was engaged in a discussion of certain proposed educational qualifications to be demanded of incoming immigrants. One of the Senators from Illinois bitterly opposed such restrictions and, as the climax of his irony, held up what he pleased to call "the fatal example of Massachusetts" as a "crime against humanity." The following article among the Amendments to the Constitution of Massachusetts constituted the crime: ARTICLE XX. - No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the Constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name; provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any persons who shall be sixty years of age or upwards at the time this amendment shall take effect. During the same debate it was erroneously stated - and curiously the mistake was made by a New England Senator - that Massachusetts was the only New England State that insisted on this requirement for its voters. As a matter of fact, such a requirement was placed in the Connecticut constitution in 1854, first of all the states. Massachusetts adopted in in 1857, and Maine followed in 1891. To-day, eleven* other states have followed the "fatal example" in the effort to secure an intelligent electorate. *In all, fifteen states (Editor's note). 2 The motive which actuated the people of Connecticut in 1854 to set this example was undoubtedly a fear of the ignorant foreigner. Over 400,000 immigrants came to the United States in that year, of whom few had any true conception of American ideals and methods of government. The discussions of the slavery question already claimed serious attention, and the New Englander was fearful lest the immigrant would ignorantly cast his influence with the sentiment of the South. There was also an unreasoning development of the spirit of "nativism" which over-magnified the possible dangers from foreign invasion. The attitude of mind is best expressed by the Governor of Massachusetts, Henry J. Gardner, in his second inaugural address delivered on January 9, 1857, when for the second time he urged the adoption of the educational qualification for voters as an amendment to the State Constitution. He said: "This purpose cannot properly be deemed intolerant or oppressive, for it is not proposed to interfere in any way with any rights whatsoever already acquired and at present existing. Every one now entitled to exercise the elective franchise, or to hold office, is to be, and should be, protected in those rights. It is merely desired to establish a legislative compact with the incoming race, that if they choose hereafter to make their home within our borders, they may do so, freely participating in our gratuitous educational privileges, protected by our laws, defended by our government, elevated by our republican institutions, but subject to the sole condition that they shall take no part in the selection of our rulers or the administration of 3 our government, until they are fitted by experience to understand its workings and appreciate its blessings. Not only our own interests, but theirs also necessitate this policy; the perpetuity of our political system demands it; the progress of humanity requires it; the teachings of our early statesmen inculcate it; the experience of our own lives teaches it; and our judgment, duty and patriotism all point to it as a primal, inevitable and absolute obligation." The amendment was ratified by the people of Massachusetts in 1857 by a vote of two to one. Notwithstanding the fear of the immigrant which has been referred to the underlying purpose in the amendment was never to limit the number of voters. Its purpose was avowedly to secure voters with at least a fair degree of intelligence. Along with the educational qualification Massachusetts strengthened its free school system. It said to the newcomer: We will do everything in our power to help you to become an intelligent voter. Do your part by putting yourself in the ranks of those who can intelligently receive and impart ideas and we will gladly receive you as one who has earned the right to participate in the government of our commonwealth. There has been no backward step in this policy. Year by year the educational opportunities for those of foreign birth have been extended. At the present time it is the law of the state that no illiterate minor, that is, no boy or girl who cannot read and write, between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, can be employed. All such must attend some day school until they have ceased to be numbered among the illiterates. The voting qualification has undoubtedly 4 proved a spur, urging every young man to conquer his disability. Evening schools have been provided throughout the state. Private philanthropy and the church have supplemented any lack in the state provisions. No question is ever raised in the state of any hardship produced by the state law. It is accepted as a fundamental principle that the simple qualifications of being able to read English and to write one's name are absolutely essential for one who is in these days to participate intelligently in the election of public officials or in passing judgment upon public questions. Some study of the figures of illiteracy in the United States and in Massachusetts will throw light on the value of educational qualification. According to the census of 1900, 10.7% of the whole population over ten years of age could not write their own language. Of these, a very large number belonged to alien races, the negroes, Chinese, Indian and others. 12.9% of the whole number of illiterates of the class mentioned were foreign-born whites; 5.7% were whites, of native parentage. In Massachusetts, in 1900, 6.2% of the whole population over ten years of age were illiterates, as compared with 10.7% in the United States. Of this 6.2% of illiterates, over 5.5% were foreign-born. More suggestive than these are figures showing how the illiterate male of voting age in Massachusetts is slowly being eliminated. The following tables were prepared by Mr. H. G. Wadlin, who was at the time the Chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics. The first of these tables shows the situation with reference to illiteracy in the first generation of male immi- 5 grants of voting age whose parents were foreigners. The second table shows how illiteracy decreases in the second generation. TABLE I Percentages of native-born male illiterates of voting age, of the total male native-born population of voting age : North Atlantic States . . . . . 2.4 South Atlantic States . . . . . 25.1 North Central States . . . . . 3.6 South Central States . . . . . 23.5 Western States . . . . . . . 4.7 Massachusetts . . . . . . . . 1. TABLE II Percentages of native-born illiterate male whites (of native parentage) of voting age, of the total illiterate native-born male white population (of native parentage) of voting age : North Atlantic States . . . . . 2.1 South Atlantic States . . . . . 12.2 North Central States . . . . . 3.5 South Central States . . . . . 11.5 Western States . . . . . . 2.8 Massachusetts . . . . . . . . .6 Without doubt the education requirement for voters has been a large factor in bringing about this low percentage of illiteracy in the Bay State. Whether it is wise to incorporate this requirement into the constitution of other states depends chiefly on what a voter is expected to do. If his ballot is intended to serve no other purpose than as a counter to be played by some superior intelligence as a means of electing to office men who will do all the thinking that is necessary for the people, then it will make little difference whether the voter is illiterate or not. But if a 6 voter himself expected to pass judgment on questions of public policy, to answer yes or no to legislative measure, to select public officials because they represent ideas, then the capacity to read the printed word and to sign one's name might be assumed in the vast majority of cases to be absolutely essential to a proper use of the ballot. Every state has the right to place conditions about the privilege of voting. These conditions are the minimum safeguards for the greatest good of the greatest number. There is need not of more but of better qualified voters. Voting will never be considered as a duty and a public trust if it is treated by the state as a function requiring the exercise of no intelligence and indicating nothing of personal quality in the voter. Massachusetts already refers many questions back to the voter's judgment. She expects her voters to discriminate between the corrupt and the incorrupt in the choice of her legislators. She wants her government conducted for all the people, but she knows that whoever has not earned the right to vote with intelligence will not cast a ballot which fulfills the people's needs and will not prevent, rather than establish, the people's rule. Let the "fatal example" of Massachusetts spread. 7 The Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League wants the full franchise for women (excluding the criminal and illiterate of both sexes.) These limitations are already required in a majority of the states. If you join us, you are at liberty to join as many other suffrage leagues as you please. We are ardent suffragists, but not militant. There are no dues and you are not obliged to work, but we want a large membership. Men are eligible for membership. You may become a member of the Pennsylvania Limited by sending your name and address to Mrs. Edward Y. Hartshorne Merion P. O., Penna. Price of Pamphlet, 5 Cents 8 BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, that the following amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be and the same is hereby proposed in accordance with the eighteenth Article thereof: That Section one of Article eight, which reads as follows: "SECTION 1. - Every male citizen twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. "First. - He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. "Second. - He shall have resided in the State one year (or, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months) immediately preceding the election. "Third. - He shall have raised in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "Fourth. - If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a State or County tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months, and paid at least one month, before the election." be amended so that the same shall read as follows: SECTION 1. - Every male citizen twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. First. - He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least five years and be able to read and write the English language, and be able to comply with any further educational test which the legislature may impose: provided, that this clause shall not disfranchise anyone who is otherwise qualified to vote at the time of the adoption of this amendment. Second. - He shall have resided in this State one year (or if, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he or she shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months) immediately preceding the election. Third. - He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election, and shall not at the time of offering to vote be a duly committed inmate of any prison or almshouse, or having been such an inmate of a prison after conviction, or of an almshouse, during the immediately preceding six months: provided, that the legislature may fix longer periods of disfranchisement for certain crimes which it shall designate. Fourth. - If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a State or County tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election. THE PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE Annual Election of Officers at the Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa. JUNE 2, 3.30 P. M., 1914 President MISS MARY WINSOR Haverford, Pa. Corresponding Secretary MRS. EDWARD YARNALL HARTSHORNE Haverford, Pa. Recording Secretary MISS ANNA SNYDER Hamilton Court, Philadelphia Treasurer MRS. FERREE BRINTON St. Davids, Pa. Vice-Presidents MRS. THORNTON OAKLEY MRS. RUSSELL DUANE MRS. HENRY K. DILLARD, JR. MRS. IMOGEN B. OAKLEY Advisory Board MRS. JOSEPH P. MUMFORD MRS. RICHARD PETERS MISS ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON MRS. JAMES D. WINSOR MRS. S. BURNS WESTON MRS. OTIS SKINNER MRS. EDWARD W. BIDDLE MRS. C. WHARTON CHURCHMAN MRS. ALDRICH J. PENNOCK Executive Committee (The Executive Committee has power to add to its own numbers after consultation with the Officers and Advisory Board). MRS. EDWARD P. TROTH MISS ANNA LINN BRIGHT MRS. EDWARD ROBINS MRS. WALTER L. PIERCE MRS. ROBERT KENNEDY MATLACK MRS. J. E. WOODBRIDGE MRS. H. H. ELLISON MRS. WILKINS CARR MISS JUDITH LOGAN MRS. D. B. C. CATHERWOOD A Bazaar will be held in Philadelphia early in December, if the members of the League are willing to make during the summer articles suitable for Christmas gifts. Please fill in the blank space with the number of articles you are willing to donate. I will give articles for Bazaar. [Please sign your name and mail ticket not later than May 25th.] Name Address [Please address envelope to Miss Anna Linn Bright, Chairman of Nominating Committee, Bryn Mawr P. O., Penna.] A CALL To the Fiftieth Annual Convention of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association TO BE HELD AT Philadelphia, April 9 and 10, 1919 1869-1919 Fellow Suffragists of the State of Pennsylvania: In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution your Executive Board sounds a Call to the suffragists of Pennsylvania to assemble in annual convention at Philadelphia, Wednesday and Thursday, April 9 and 10, for the purpose of determining such matters of importance as may come before the assemblage. The period since your last convention has been one of unparalleled progress for woman. She has come into her own economically and won a measure of recognition only too long denied her. She has taken the place of the man, called to the colors, in the office, factory, shop and on our thoroughfares, rendering service to humanity in fields of endeavor formerly considered beyond her, and she has justified her contentions that she is and should be an economic and therefore a political factor. During the recent hostilities, largely through your organization and efforts, Pennsylvania has taken a place second to none in the scope and overwhelming success of the patriotic work of its women. Perhaps, no more important state convention has ever been held that that to which you are now summoned. The question of Woman Suffrage is no longer one for mere academic discussion. It is a worldwide, vital, human question having significant political aspects. Fifteen states are registered in the full suffrage column, and the recent close though adverse vote on the Federal Amendment in the United States Senate shows strength of movement which gives promise for success in the near future. Whether the Federal Amendment shall be favorably acted upon by Congress or not, it is our duty to press forward in Pennsylvania and prepare to meet the situation as it exists. We know that in the large, men are growing more favorable to the cause of suffrage in Pennsylvania and the complexion of the House and Senate are such that properly directed effort might easily have secured ratification of the Federal Amendment, and the passage of a state measure granting suffrage to women will undoubtedly be secured. The plans to be adopted for the purpose of meeting this situation must be determined at this convention. Therefore, we urge Pennsylvania suffragists to attend the convention at Philadelphia, Wednesday and Thursday, April 9 and 10, 1919. We know that you will do your part. LUCY KENNEDY MILLER GERTRUDE GOUVERNEUR SMITH CORNELIA BRYCE PINCHOT ELIZABETH B. BEACH FLORENCE L. PIERSOL ROSA M. WARD ROSE E. HAGERMAN ANNA M. DENNISTON DOROTHY A. QUIGLEY MARY L. STEWART ALICE F. KIERNAN ELIZABETH KING ROGERS ANNE TALBOT PETERSON HENRIETTA BALDY LYON MARTHA BINNEY DUNNING ELLEN DUANE DAVIS Executive Board. Mrs. Wm. Freeman 1509 So. 212 P ST W. Phila, 1608 Master ST. Phili Jane Campbell Teacher's Salaries PROGRAM AND FINCANCE COMMITTEE. MRS. ANDREW M. EASTWICK, New Century Club, Philadelphia MRS. CHALRES FIELD HUNTER, Woman's Club, Phoenixville. MRS. S. BLAIR LUCKIE, New Century Club, Chester. HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE MRS. D. EDWIN IRVING, MISS SARAH H. FAIRLAMB, MRS. WILLIAM A. IRVING, MRS. WILLIAM B. HARVEY MRS. ELWOOD TYSON, MISS ANNA COCHRAN, MISS ANNA S. ECKFELDT, MISS ANNA E. BLACK, MISS CARRIE M. FAIRLAMB. CONFERENCE OF CLUBS OF EASTERN DISTRICT STATE FEDERATION OF PENNSYLVANIA WOMEN, FRIDAY, APRIL 6TH, 1906, NEW CENTURY CLUB, CHESTER. All club members were invited - about 20 member of [?] Stuff SO (Phila) atttached PROGRAM FRIDAY, 10.30 A. M. PIANO DUET, {........ Mrs. John L. Black Miss Madge Ward ADDRESS OF WELCOME ............... Mrs. S. Blair Luckie President of New Century Club, Chester RESPONSE...................... Mrs. Issac H. Rhoads Vice President of State Federation of Pa. Women. VOCAL SOLO..................Mrs. J. Parry Compton READING OF MINUTES. REPORT OF TREASURER. REPORT OF PROGRAM AND FINANCE COMMITTEE. REPORTS OF NEW CLUBS. CLUB PROGRAMS......................Mrs. Ellis Lewis Campbell Ex-President State Federation. DISCUSSION. ROLL CALL OF CLUBS. VOCAL SOLO.......................... Mrs. J. Parry Compton AFTERNOON SESSION, 2 O'CLOCK PIANO SOLO...................... Mrs. John J. Greere New Century Club, West Chester. FOOD ADULTERATION..........................Prof. C. B. Cochran State Chemist. WAGE-EARNING WOMEN: { FACTORY WORKERS. Miss Laura N. Platt, President Pa. Association of Women Workers DISCUSSION. CLERKS, Mrs. Frances M. Ford. New Century Guild, Phila. DISCUSSION. TEACHERS, Miss Ella Van Dyke, Teachers' Five o'clock Tea Club, South Bethlehem Miss Jane Campbell, Teachers' Salaries New Century Club, Phila. DISCUSSION EVENING SESSION, 8 O'CLOCK. "SNOW"................. Elgar "CHORAL"-Woman's Club, Media. SOPRANO SOLO...................... Miss Ella T. Kenney Woman's Club, Ridley Park. PIANO SOLO. SOARING....................... Scheumann Miss Nellie Wilkinson. VOCAL SOLO.......................... Mrs. Edward Burleigh ADDRESS........................... { The Relation of Women of Leisure to Women Wage Earners Mrs. Frederick Nathan. Vice-President National Consumer's League. REPORT OF RESOLUTION COMMITTEE. a. STARS OF THE SUMMER NIGHT................. John E. West b. A SOUTHERN LULLY........................................ Phillip Greeley "CHORAL"-Woman's Club, Media. DISCUSSION. PIANO SOLO............................Mrs. John J. Greere New Century Club, West Chester. [*Pa*] CALL To the Second Annual Convention of the Philadelphia League of Women Voters to be held at The New Century Club 124 S. 12th Street Saturday, November 26th, 1921, at 2 P.M. PHILADELPHIA LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS 211 FRANKLIN BUILDING, 133 SOUTH TWELFTH STREET CHAIRMAN MISS MARION REILLY VICE CHAIRMAN MISS LUCY LEWIS MRS. CHARLES J. RHOADS MRS. MAX L. MARGOLIS PROGRAM Convention called to order MISS MARION REILLY Invocation DR. ALEXANDER MACCOLL Report of Credentials Committee MISS GERTRUDE ATKINSON Report of Chairman MISS MARION REILLY Report of Treasurer MRS. CHARLES J. RHOADS Reports News Bulletin DR. CLARA MARSHALL Report of Auditors MISS HELEN D. HARBINSON MR. W. R. COOPER Address-"The Future of the League" MRS. JOHN O. MILLER Chairman Pennsylvania League of Women Voters. Policewomen in Philadelphia MISS HENRIETTA S. ADDITION Address-Limitation of Armaments PROF. CHARLES G. FENWICK Ward Organization MISS MAUDE BURT MCCALL Discussion of the Work of the League for Coming Year. Election of Delegates to State Convention. Report of Resolutions Committee MISS LIDA STOKES ADAMS Credentials Committee will sit from 1 to 2 P. M. Philadelphia League of Women Voters Headquarters, 211 Franklin Building, 133 South Twelfth Street I hereby pledge the sum of $.................... for the use of the PHILADELPHIA LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS To be paid on or before................. Name..................................................... Address................................................. Please make checks payable to Treasurer of Philadelphia League of Women Voters WOMAN SUFFRAGE HEADQUARTERS 208 Hale Building, JUNIPER & CHESTNUT STREETS PHILADELPHIA, PA. STATE CONVENTION PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA CALL TO THE FORTY-THIRD CONVENTION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION AT PHILADELPHIA, PA., NOVEMBER 23-25, 1911. To Whom It May Concern, Greetings: Be it known that on November 23, 1911, suffragists will assemble in Convention at Philadelphia, Pa., to report the progress of their efforts to secure the right of suffrage for women, and to confer s to the best methods by which this right may be secured. Within the last year the States of Washington and California have granted full citizenship to their women ; and the Legislatures of Kansas, Wisconsin, Oregon, Nevada and New Hampshire have noted to submit the question to their electors. Also, since the last annual Convention, held at Harrisburg, an amendment to the State Constitution providing for the enfranchisement of women was introduced into both Houses of the Legislature, and a joint hearing was given on March 14, 1911, after which the bill was referred to the Elections Commission, in whose hands it still rests. We call upon every pubic-spirited Pennsylvanian to come to this Convention, and to help devise methods of carrying on the campaign to educate the public opinion of our State, in order that this measure of justice may be carried when submitted at the polls. We call upon the women of our State to show a united front significant of the growing solidarity of women. No one can tell what her presence at this Convention may to do to encourage and stimulate those who are giving all their time and ability to bring about the enfranchisement of women. Do your part to inspire our workers with courage, determination, fervor and consecration, to arouse them to put forth their full strength, even to the upmost sacrifice, to obtain universal recognition of the truth that every adult citizen should have a voice in the government of a free country. ELLEN H. E. PRICE, President. ANNA M. ORME, Vice-President. CAROLINE KATZENSTEIN, Corresponding Secretary. MARY C. MORGAN, Recording Secretary. MATILDA ORR HAYS, Treasurer. FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 23, 24 AND 25, 1911. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23d. Morning, 10 o'Clock. Executive Committee meeting at the State Headquarters, 208 Hale Building, corner Juniper and Chestnut Street. Afternoon, 2.30 o'Clock Opening Session, Mayor's Reception Room, City Hall, Speaker to be announced later. Evening, 8 o'Clock. Clover Room, Bellevue-Stratford. Anna Howard Shaw, President of National Woman Suffrage Association; Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, United States Chemist. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24th. Morning, 10 o'Clock. Mayor's Reception Room. Afternoon, 2.30 o'Clock. Horticultural Hall, Broad Street below Locust. Mrs. William Warner Penfield, Acting Chairman of Woman Suffrage Party, New York City; Dr. George Edward Reed, ex-President of Dickenson College; Miss Mary Johnston, of Richmond, Va., the Authoress. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25TH. Morning 10 o'Clock. Mayor's Reception Room. Evening, 8 o'Clock. Philadelphia Quartette Hall, east side Germantown Avenue, North of Lehigh Avenue. Miss Leonora O'Reilly and other speakers. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH Afternoon, 3.30 o'Clock. Garrick Theater. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the great Suffrage leader of England. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH. Morning 10 o'Clock. Executive Committee meeting at the State Headquarters, 208 Hale Building, corner Juniper and Chestnut Streets. All meetings, except morning sessions, are open to the public. 1 SOCIAL NOTES. Wednesday evening-November 22d, at 8 o'clock, 124 South Twelfth Street. Reception by the New Century Club of Philadelphia to the officers of the State Association, [Philadelphia County Society] and delegates to the State Convention. Friday afternoon-4.30 to 6 o'clock. Tea, by the College Equal Suffrage League, at the home of Miss Mary Ingham, 333 South Sixteenth Street, to the officers of the State Association, Philadelphia County Society and delegates to the State Convention. Saturday afternoon-November 25th. Mrs. William Brewster Wood will give a reception, from 3 to 5 o'clock, at her home in Meadow Brook, Montgomery County, to the officers of the State and County Association, and the delegates to the State Convention. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONVENTION. The headquarters for the delegates during the convention will be in the reception room of the State Headquarters, 208 Hale Building, corner of Juniper and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. Delegates, on arriving, can go directly to the headquarters, where they will be met by the Hospitality Committee, of which Miss Loise Roberts is the chairman, and directed to their destination. Trains will be met by the committee on notification of the chairman. Mail can be sent to the headquarters, and any information can be obtained there. Delegates will be entertained during the convention, if desired, by sending their names to the chairman of the committee. To those wishing to go to a hotel or boarding house the following are suggested. HOTELS Hotel Bellevue-European plan. Room for one, per day, $2.50 and up; room for two, per day, $4.50 and up. Hotel Walton-European plan. Room for one, per day, $2.50 and up; room for two, per day, $4.50 and up. Hotel Stenton-European plan. Room for two, per day, $2.50 and up. Lincoln Hotel-Locust Street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. Room, without board, $1.50 to $2; room, with board, $3 to $4. Lunch for 20 or more persons, on one day's notice, at 50 cents each. Hotel Windmere-228 South Broad Street, American plan. Room and board for one, per week, $8; room and board for two, per week, $10.59. BOARDING HOUSES Mrs. S. E. Connelly-1820 Arch Street. Rooms, per day, $1.00, $1.50; meals, 25 cents, 35 cents, 50 cents Mrs. Mary D. Mitchell-1818 Arch Street. Rooms, per day, $1, $1.50; meals, 25 cents, 35 cents, 50 cents. Mrs. M. H. Gregg-108 North Nineteenth Street. Rooms, per day, $1, $1.50; meals, 25 cents, 35 cents, 50 cents. Mrs. H. A. Schellman- 102 North Nineteenth Street. Rooms, per day, $1, $1.50; meals, 25 cents, 35 cents, 50 cents. Mrs. Mary Emerson-110 North Nineteenth Street. Rooms, per day, $1, $1.50; meals, 25 cents, 35 cents, 50 cents. Mrs. Rowan- 1230 Spruce Street. Rooms, with board, per day, $2, $3; rooms, without board, $1. Mrs. Adrian- 1409 Spruce Street. Rooms, with board, per day, $2.10; rooms without board, per day, $1. Young Womans' Christian Association. Room for one, per day, 50 cents, 75 cents, $1; meals, 20 cents, 35 cents. Young Womans' Christian Association will furnish lunch for any number, without previous notice, at 35 cents each. Young Friends' Association. Room for two, per day, $1, $1.75; all meals, 30 cents each. Young Friends' Association will furnish lunch for any number, without previous notice, for 30 cents each. Gimbels will furnish regular 90-cent lunch for 20 or more persons, on one day's notice, at 50 cents each. Will reserve one end of dining room, if desired. It will be necessary to engage all rooms at least four days in advance. LOISE J. ROBERTS Chairman of Hospitality Committee. The Procedure for Obtaining the Enactment of a Law Granting Suffrage to Women in Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 19, 1910. TO MRS. CORNELIUS STEVENSON, President of the Equal Franchise Society of Pennsylvania. Your Committee on Legislation make the following preliminary report defining the form of procedure necessary for securing the enactment of a law giving the right of suffrage to women in Pennsylvania, and submit a draft of a resolution to be introduced at the next session of the legislature. It is necessary in order to obtain the right of women to vote in this state to amend the constitution of Pennsylvania. Any amendment to the constitution may be proposed in the senate or house of representatives. If the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each house, such proposed amendment shall be entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall then cause the same to be published three months before the following general election, in at least two newspapers in every county in which such newspapers shall be published. If in the general assembly next afterwards chosen such proposed amendment shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each house, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall cause the same again to be published in the manner aforesaid; and such proposed amendment shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the state in such manner and at such time, at least three months after being so agreed to by the two houses, as the general assembly shall prescribe; and if such amendment shall be approved by a majority of those voting thereon, such amendment shall become a part of the constitution. No amendment can be submitted oftener than once in five years. This resolution can be introduced in one house and then in due course pass through the other, or it can be introduced contemporaneously into the two houses. In the brief time that we have had to consider the subject we would suggest that the form of resolution be as follows:- PROPOSING AMENDMENT TO SECTION ONE, ARTICLE EIGHT, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be and the same is hereby proposed, in accordance with the eighteenth article thereof:- That section one of article eight, which reads as follows:- "Section I. Every male citizen of twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. "First. He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. "Second. He shall have resided in the State one year (or, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months), immediately preceding the election. "Third. He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "Fourth. If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election," be amended so that the same shall read as follows:- "Section I. Every citizen, male or female, of twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. "First. He or she shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. "Second. He or she shall have resided in the State one year (or, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he or she shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months), immediately preceding the election. "Third. He or she shall have resided in the election district where he or she shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "Fourth. If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he or she shall have paid within two years a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election." "Fifth. Wherever the words "he", "his", "him" and "himself" occur in any section of Article VIII of this Constitution, the same shall be construed as if written respectively "he" or "she", "his or her", "him or her", and "himself or herself". It is possible upon careful consideration that the fifth section which we have added to the proposed amendment, which is an interpretative clause, and which you will observe to be as follows:- "Fifth. Wherever the words "he", "his", "him" and "himself" occur in any section of Article VIII of this Constitution, the same shall be construed as if written respectively "he or she" "his or her", "him or her", and "himself or herself", might be advantageously modified, but for the moment it is submitted in this form as expressing all that is requested. Incidentally the word "citizen" as mentioned in section I, as manner and at such time, at least three months after being so agreed to buy the two houses, as the general assembly shall prescribe; and if such amendment shall be approved by a majority of those voting thereon, such amendment shall become a part of the constitution. No amendment can be submitted oftener than once in five years. This resolution can be introduced in one house and then in due course pass through the other, or it can be introduced contemporaneously into the two houses. In the brief time that we have had to consider the subject we would suggest that the form of resolution be as follows:- PROPOSING AMENDMENT TO SECTION ONE, ARTICLE EIGHT, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be and the same is hereby proposed, in accordance with the eighteenth article thereof:- That section one of article eight, which reads as follows:- "Section I. Every male citizen of twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. "First. He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. "Second. He shall have resided in the State one year (or, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months), immediately preceding the election. "Third. He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "Fourth. If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election," be amended so that the same shall read as follows:- "Section I. Every citizen, male or female, of twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. "First. He or she shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. "Second. He or she shall have resided in the State one year (or, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he or she shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months), immediately preceding the election. "Third. He or she shall have resided in the election district where he or she shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "Fourth. If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he or she shall have paid within two years a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election." "Fifth. Wherever the words "he", "his", "him" and "himself" occur in any section of Article VIII of this Constitution, the same shall be construed as if written respectively "he or she", "his or her", "him or her", and "himself or herself." It is possible upon careful consideration that the fifth section which we have added to the proposed amendment, which is an interpretative clause, and which you will observe to be as follows:- "Fifth. Wherever the words "he", "him" and "himself" occur in any section of Article VIII of this Constitution, the same shall be construed as if written respectively "he or she" "his or her", "him or her", and "himself or herself", might be advantageously modified, but for the moment it is submitted in this form as expressing all that is requested. Incidentally the word "citizen" as mentioned in section I, as "Every citizen, male or female, of twenty-one years of age" etc., would be construed to include (1) women born in this country (2) women obtaining the right specifically by naturalization, which they have power to do, (3) or where they - even foreigners - marry American citizens; that is, women become citizens in three ways (1) by birth in this country, (2) by naturalization, and (3) by marriage. If she married a foreigner, she would lose that citizenship, because the citizenship naturally follows the domicile of the husband. It may be remarked that the only provision in reference to women's holding office provided for by the constitution is as follows:- "Article X. Section III. Women twenty-one years of age and upwards, shall be eligible to any office of control or management under the school laws of this state." This does not confer any rights of voting at general elections. She may therefore hold certain offices in this state under constitutional provision, but is not qualified as an elector. It will be observed that under this proposed amendment no authority is given to her to hold public office except as limited by the constitution above indicated. This subject, incidentally, may be well considered by the Society. The Committee make no recommendation upon the point. Respectfully submitted, by the Committee on Legislation. At Home Every Thursday! You are Welcome! At the Headquarters of the Penna. Limited Suffrage League in the Plastic Club, 247 South Camac Street, (between Locust and Spruce, 12th and 13th Sta.), every Thursday at 3.30 P. M. Thursday, April 6th Business Meeting.- Miss Winsor will lecture on "The Club Women of Idaho and their Opinion of Woman Suffrage." Last summer the Penna. Limited Suffrage League made an extensive investigation of the Practical Workings of Equal Suffrage. Miss Winsor will report the result of their inquiry and will read valuable letters from the leading club women of Idaho. Thursday, April 13th "The Status of Women in Pennsylvania." Mr. George L. Reed of Harrisburg, a brilliant speaker and lawyer, has made a special study of this interesting topic. Questions answered. Collection take. Thursday, April, 20th Mrs. Millie J. Reynolds will lecture on "The Practical Workings of women Suffrage in Colorado." Mrs. Reynolds voted for ten years in Colorado. She spoke brilliantly before the Judiciary General Committee of the Penna. Legislature at the recent hearing. Questions answered. Collection taken. Thursday, April 27th Election of Officers. Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead of Boston will lecture on "Woman Suffrage and Universal Peace." Questions answered. Collection taken. Those wishing to join THE PENNA. LIMITED SUFFRAGE LEAGUE may do so by sending their names and addresses to the Secretary, Mrs. Edward Yarnall Hartshorne, Merion, Pa.-There are no dues. [*This is our program for the next few weeks!*] Thursday, February 16th, Broad St. Theatre, 2.30 P.M. The Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League, The Equal Franchise Society and the College Equal Suffrage League (Pennsylvania Branch), will present, under their combined auspices Three Clever Suffrage Plays "Before the Dawn" "A Woman's Influence" "How the Vote was Won" These Plays are under the direction of Mrs. Otis Skinner and Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Tickets for these plays for Sale at BROAD ST. THEATRE on MONDAY, the 13th, TUESDAY, the 14th; WEDNESDAY, the 15th; on the day of the performance; and at the PLASTIC CLUB, 247 South Camac Street, EVERY MORNING from TEN to ONE o'clock. Our Days at Home have been so successful that we will continue them until May. At Home Every Thursday! You Are Welcome! At the Headquarters of the Penna. Limited Suffrage League in the Plastic Club, 247 South Camac Street (between Locust and Spruce, 12th and 13th Sts.), every Thursday at 3.30 P. M. COME AND BRING A FRIEND TEA WILL BE SERVED AT EVERY MEETING Thursday, February 23rd DEBATE-"Universal or Limited Suffrage?" Universal Suffrage, Miss Martha Gruening.- Limited Suffrage, Miss Mary Windsor. Miss Gruening stumped the State of Washington in the most recent successful campaign. She was arrested in the cause of shirtwaist strikers in Philadelphia last winter. Mrs. R. Francis Wood in the chair. COLLECTION TAKEN Thursday, March 2nd-Business Meeting "How Shall We Push our Suffrage Bills?" Mrs. Edward Y. Hartshorne in the Chair Thursday, March 9th "Woman Suffrage and the White Slave Traffic," by Miss Frances Perkins, of New York. Miss Perkins has recently made an investigation of the intelligence office system in New York, and will tell us of her experiences. Dr. Mary W. Griscom in the Chair. COLLECTION TAKEN. Those wishing to join the Penna. Limited Suffrage League may send their names and addresses to the Secretary, Mrs. Edward Y. Hartshorne, Merion Station, Pa. VOTES FOR WOMEN. At Home Every Thursday You are Welcome At the Headquarters of the Penna. Limited Suffrage League at the Plastic Club, 247 South Camac Street, (between Locust and Spruce, 12th and 13th Sts.), every Thursday at 3:30 P. M. Our Opening Day Thursday, December 8th, at 3:30 P. M. Mr. Fred S. Hall, Secretary of the Penna. Child Labor Association, will tell us about: "Accomplishments and Needs in Child Labor Legislation." Come and ask questions. Thursday, December 15, at 3:30 P.M. Miss Alice Paul will discuss: "The Legal Disabilities of Women in Pennsylvania" "If your husband died without making a will, how much of his property would you inherit?" Miss Paul will answer this question and many others. She has been making a study of the unjust laws relating to women. Come and ask questions. A collection will be taken at this meeting. Thursday, December 22nd, at 3:30 P. M. Miss Mary Winsor will give a Lecturette on "The Practical Workings of Women Suffrage in Colorado." Discussion of Magazine Articles. Miss Molly Elliot Seawell in September Atlantic Monthly; Mr. Richard Barry in the Ladies' Home Journal, November 1st. Thursday, December 29th, at 3:30 P. M. Miss Beatrice Forbes-Robertson, the well-known actress, will give a talk on "Some Sentiments Connected with Women Suffrage." Miss Robertson has given up her work on the stage for the present and is devoting her time and talents to the Suffrage Cause. This will be a great opportunity to meet Miss Robertson. She will be glad to answer all questions. January Attractions to be announced later. Something Doing Every Thursday! Come and Bring a Friend! Tea will be Served at Every Meeting The Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League President, MISS MARY WINSOR, HAVERFORD P. O., Penna. Vice Presidents: MRS. RICHARD PETERS MRS. JOSEPH P. MUMFORD MRS. RUSSELL DUANE MRS. HORATIO GATES LLOYD MRS. JOHN READ PETTIT Recording Secretary, MRS. IMOGEN B. OAKLEY Corresponding Secretary, MRS. EDWARD YARNALL HARTSHORNE Merion P. O., Penna. Treasurer, MRS. FRANCIS G. OKIE, Berwyn P. O., Penna. OUR PLATFORM WE, THE PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED SUFFRAGE LEAGUE, realizing that woman's interests are the care of children, the improvement of the public schools and the Juvenile Court, the establishment of playgrounds, the enactment and enforcement of adequate child-labor laws and of laws to protect women in industry and to safeguard morality, and seeing that women are responsible for the health and well-being of their households and are therefore vitally interested in securing pure water, wholesome food and good sanitary conditions: Resolve, that we ask for the ballot in order to elect representatives who will give more attention to these important subjects than has been given hitherto in this State. We do not propose to bring to the polls the criminal and illiterate of our sex, but ask for a qualified franchise and hope that the men of the State will soon see the necessity of excluding from the franchise the criminal and illiterate male. We wish for the suffrage not in order to compete with men, but to co-operate with them in furthering the welfare of this Commonwealth. We consider the exercise of the franchise a duty that every intelligent woman owes to her country and her home, and our motto is: "The ballot for the better protection of our households" March 1st, 1910 The Procedure for Obtaining the Enactment of a Law Granting Suffrage to Women in Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 19, 1910. TO MRS. CORNELIUS STEVENSON, President of the Equal Franchise Society of Pennsylvania Your Committee on Legislation make the following preliminary report defining the form of procedure necessary for securing the enactment of a law giving the right of suffrage to women in Pennsylvania, and submit a draft of a resolution to be introduced at the next session of the legislature. It is necessary in order to obtain the right of women to vote in this state to amend the constitution of Pennsylvania. Any amendment to the constitution may be proposed in the senate or house of representatives. If the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each house, such proposed amendment shall be entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall then cause the same to be published three months before the following general election, in at least two newspapers in every county in which such newspapers shall be published. If in the general assembly next afterwards chosen such proposed amendment shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each house, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall cause the same again to be published in the manner aforesaid; and such proposed amendment shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the state in such manner and at such time, at least three months after being so agreed to by the two houses, as the general assembly shall prescribe; and if such amendment shall be approved by a majority of those voting thereon, such amendment shall become a part of the constitution. No amendment can be submitted oftener than once in five years. This resolution can be introduced in one house and then in due course pass through the other, or it can be introduced contemporaneously into the two houses. In the brief time that we have had to consider the subject we would suggest that the firm of resolution be as follows: - PROPOSING AMENDMENT TO SECTION ONE, ARTICLE EIGHT, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be and the same is hereby proposed, in accordance with the eighteenth article thereof: - That section one of article eight, which reads as follows: - "Section I. Every male citizen of twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. "First. He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. "Second. He shall have resided in the State one year (or, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months), immediately preceding the election. "Third. He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "Fourth. If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election," be amended so that the same shall read as follows: - "Section I. Every citizen, male or female, of twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. "First. He or she shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. "Second. He or she shall have resided in the State on year (or; having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he or she shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months), immediately preceding the election. "Third. He or she shall have resided in the election district where he or she shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "Fourth. If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he or she shall have paid within two years a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election." "Fifth. Wherever the words "he", "his" and "himself" occur in any section of Article VIII of this Constitution, the same shall be construed as if written respectively "he or she", "his or her", "him or her," and "himself or herself". It is possible upon careful consideration that the fifth section which we have added to the proposed amendment, which is an interpretative clause, and which you will observe to be as follows: - "Fifth. Wherever the words "he", "his", "him" and "himself" occur in any section of Article VIII of this Constitution, the same shall be construed as if written respectively "he or she" "his or her", "him or her", and "himself or herself", might be advantageously modified, but for the moment it is submitted in this form as expressing all that is requested. Incidentally the word "citizen" as mentioned in section I, as "Every citizen, male or female, of twenty-one years of age" etc., agreed to by the two houses, as the general assembly shall prescribe; and if such amendment shall be approved by a majority of those voting thereon, such amendment shall become a part of the constitution. No amendment can be submitted oftener than once in five years. This resolution can be introduced in one house and then in due course pass through the other, or it can be introduced contemporaneously into the two houses. In the brief time that we have had to consider the subject we would suggest that the form of resolution be as follows :-- PROPOSING AMENDMENT TO SECTION ONE, ARTICLE EIGHT, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be and the same is hereby proposed, in accordance with the eighteenth article thereof :-- That section one of article eight, which reads as follows :-- "Section I. Every male citizen of twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. "First. He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. "Second. He shall have resided in the State one year (or, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months), immediately preceding the election. "Third. He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "Fourth. If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election," be amended so that the same shall read as follows:-- "Section I. Every citizen, male or female, of twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the general assembly may enact. "First. He or she shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. "Second. He or she shall have resided in the State on year (or, having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he or she shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months), immediately preceding the election. "Third. He or she shall have resided in the election district where he or she shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "Fourth. If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he or she shall have paid within two years a state or country tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election." "Fifth. Wherever the words "he", "his", "him" and "himself" occur in any section of Article VIII of this Constitution, the same shall be construed as if written respectively "he or she", "his or her", "him or her", and "himself or herself". It is possible upon careful consideration that the fifth section which we have added to the proposed amendment, which is an interpretative clause, and which you will observe to be as follows:-- "Fifth. Wherever the words "he", "his", "him" and "himself" occur in any section of Article VIII of this Constitution, the same shall be construed as if written respectively "he or she" "his or her", "him or her", and "himself or herself", might be advantageously modified, but for the moment it is submitted in this form as expressing all that is requested. Incidentally the word "citizen" as mentioned in section I, as "Every citizen, male or female, of twenty-one years of age" etc., would be construed to include (I) women born in this country (2) women obtaining the right to specifically by naturalization, which they have the power to do, (3) or where they--even foreigners--marry American citizens; that is, women become citizens in three ways (I) by birth in this country, (2) by naturalization, and (3) by marriage. If she married a foreigner, she would lose that citizenship, because the citizenship naturally follows the domicile of the husband. It may be remarked that the only provision in reference to women's holding office provided for by the constitution is as follows:-- "Article X. Section III. Women twenty-one years of age and upwards, shall be eligible to any office of control or management under the school laws of this state." This does not confer any right of voting at general elections. She may therefore hold certain offices in this state under constitutional provision, but is not qualified as an elector. It will be observed that under this proposed amendment no authority is given to her to hold public office except as limited by the constitution above indicated. This subject, incidentally, may be well considered by the Society. The Committee make no recommendation upon the point. Respectfully submitted, by the Committee on Legislation The Penna. Limited Equal Suffrage League has been invited by the National Parade Committee to take part in the WOMAN SUFFRAGE PROCESSION in Washington, D.C., Monday Afternoon, March 3, 1913. Starting at 3 P. M., rain or shine. Procession will form at 2 P. M., on plaza facing the Peace Monument at base of Capitol and will march down Pennsylvania Avenue, past the White House, to the Continental Hotel, where a mass meeting will be held. A special train, if one hundred names are secured, will leave Philadelphia the morning of March 3rd and return the evening of the same day. The run will be made in 3 1-2 hours in each direction Those desiring accommodation must make application and payment for round trip ticket ($4.10) not later than February 26th. An identification card will then be given. Please address Mrs. Anna Lowenburg, Committee on Transportation, 205 Hale Building, Philadelphia. It is however, better to arrive in Washington on Sunday, March 2nd, if possible. The Washington women are endeavoring to provide hospitality for as many of the women marches as possible. Anyone wishing hospitality or desiring information with regard to boarding houses should apply at once to Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, Chairman of Hospitality Committee, 1420 F Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. The Pennsylvania Limited Equal Suffrage League will march with the Pennsylvania delegation under a beautiful banner especially designed. Ten members of the League, including five officers, are already pledged to march. Those unable to march are requested to send a contribution towards the expenses of a substitute or for the banner. Please send the names of those willing to march or to contribute to Mrs. Edward Y. Hartshorne, Secretary- Treasurer, Haverford P. O., Pa. Checks should be made payable to C. R. Hartshorne, Treasurer. [*1914 *] The Penna. Limited Equal Suffrage League Invites you to the Thursday Lectures at the Plastic Club, 247 S. Camac St. (Locust below 13th), at 3 P. M. These Lectures are given for the public and will be continued until the end of April. Admission free. Collection taken. Thursday, April 9. "The Legal History of Woman." Miss Amy Wren, of the New York Bar. "Some Legal Disabilities of Women in Pennsylvania." Mr. Paschal Coggins. Thursday, April 16. "The Amendment to the U. S. Constitution Enfranchising Women." Miss Mary Winsor. Thursday, April 23. "Women Suffrage from the Standpoint of a Clergyman." Dr. James H. Lamb, Old St. David's; Rev. K. E. Evans, Girard Avenue Unitarian Church; Dr. Carl E. Grammer, St. Stephen's. Thursday, April 30. "Woman Suffrage." (For those on the fence and Suffragists who need more arguments). Miss Mary Winsor. Special Announcement! The Penna. Limited Equal Suffrage League invites you to its Birth-Day Party, at 3.30, on Tuesday, June 2nd, in the Casino of the Merion Cricket Club, Haverford. Speakers to be announced later. The National American Woman Suffrage Association has selected May 2nd as the date on which demonstrations are to be made all over the country to promote the Woman Suffrage Amendment to the Federal Constitution which is now before Congress. The Penna. Limited Equal Suffrage League has been invited by the local Suffrage Societies to assist in arranging the Philadelphia demonstrations. We need LARGE CONTRIBUTIONS for this work and for the expenses of our weekly meetings at the Plastic Club. WILL YOU NOT HELP? Send your contributions to Mrs. Ferree Brinton, St. David's P. O., Penna. Checks should be drawn to the order of Lina Ives Brinton, Treasurer. The Penna. Limited Equal Suffrage League Invites you to the Thursday Lectures at the Plastic Club, 247 S. Camac St., (Locust below 13th) at 3 P. M. These Lectures are given for the public and will be continued until the end of April. Admission free, collection taken. Thursday, February 26th. "Arguments Against Woman Suffrage Really Arguments for it." Mr. George E. O'Dell, of England, assistant leader of the West London Ethical Society. Chairman: Mrs. James D. Winsor. Thursday, March 5th. "Practical Workings of Woman Suffrage in California." Mrs. William Kent (wife of Congressional Representative from California). Chairman: Mrs. Edward W. Biddle. Thursday, March 12th. "Greek Feminism and Modern Feminism." Mr. Cecil Delisle Burns, of England. Chairman: Mrs. Ferree Brinton. THREE TALKS ON CONDITIONS AFFECTING WOMEN AND GIRLS with Special Reference to Philadelphia Thursday, March 19th. THE DELINQUENT. "The Night Court." Miss Mary Gillette (Probation Officer.) "Conditions Affecting Delinquent Girls." Mrs. Martha Falconer. "How the Woman's Vote Safeguards Morality in the Suffrage States." Miss Mary Winsor. Chairman: Mrs. Imogen B. Oakley. Thursday, March 26th. THE SCHOOL GIRL. "Comparison of Opportunities Offered to Boys and Girls in Philadelphia." Mrs. Edwin C. Grice. "What the Woman's Vote Has Done for Education in the Suffrage States." Dr. L. L. W. Wilson (of the Philadelphia Normal School for Girls). Mrs. Grice and Dr. Wilson have been conducting and investigation by letter among educators in the Suffrage States. Chairman: Mrs. Joseph P. Mumford Thursday, April 2d. BABY-SAVING IN PHILADELPHIA. Mr. Edward W. Bok, Miss Clements. Chairman: Mrs. Edward Y. Hartshorne. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT The National American Woman Suffrage Association has selected May 2nd as the date on which demonstrations are to be made all over the country to promote the Woman Suffrage Amendment to the Federal Constitution which is now before Congress. The Penna. Limited Equal Suffrage League has been invited by the local Suffrage Societies to assist in arranging the Philadelphia demonstrations. We need LARGE CONTRIBUTIONS for this work and for the expenses of our weekly meetings at the Plastic Club. WILL YOU NOT HELP? As there are no dues and the work of the League is supported by voluntary contributions, you are requested to send a contribution to Mrs. Ferree Brinton, St. Davids P. O., Penna. Checks should be drawn to the order of Lina Ives Brinton, Treasurer. THE PENNA. LIMITED EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE Invites you to the Thursday Lectures at the Plastic Club, 247 So. Camac St., (Locust below 13th.) These Lectures are given for the public and will be continued until the end of April. Admission free, collection taken. Thursday, January 1st, 3.30. "The Suffrage Situation in England as I saw It." Miss Mary Winsor Thursday, January 8th, 3 p. m. "W. L. George's Feminist Intentions." Miss Mary Winsor Thursday, January 15th, 3 p. m. "Women's Work in the Recent Campaign : Would Women's Suffrage Help?" Mrs Frank Miles Day, Mrs. Samuel B. Scott "Edward Alsworth Ross's the Immigrant Question." Mrs. Imogene B. Oakley "Olive Schreiner's Woman and Labor." Horace J. Bridges "Ellen Key's Doctrine of Motherhood." Horace J. Bridges Thursday, February 12th, 3 p. m. "The New Peace Movement and Woman Suffrage." Dr. William I. Hull Thursday, February 19th, 3 p. m. "New York Methods of Suffrage Work." Mrs. John Rogers, Jr., of the Women's Political Union Thursday, January 22nd, 3 p. m. Thursday, January 29th, 3 p. m. Thursday, February 5th, 3 p. m. As there are no dues and the work of the League is supported by voluntary contributions, you are requested to send a contribution to Mrs. Ferree Brinton. St. Davids P. 0., Penna. Checks should be drawn to the order of Lina Ives Brinton, Treasurer. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Tuesday, February 24th. 3 p. m., New Century Drawing Room, 124 So. 12th St. "Woman Suffrage and the Immigrant." Mary Antin TICKETS FOR THE ANTIN LECTURE, 50 CENTS, for sale at the New Century every day and at the Plastic Club every Thursday afternoon. THE PENNA. LIMITED EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE Invites you to the Thursday Lectures at the Plastic Club, 247 So. Camac St., (Locust below 13th.) These Lectures are given for the public and will be continued until the end of April. Admission free, collection taken. Thursday, January 1st, 3.30. "The Suffrage Situation in England as I saw It." Miss Mary Winsor Thursday, January 8th, 3 p. m. "W. L. George's Feminist Intentions." Miss Mary Winsor Thursday, January 15th, 3 p. m. "Women's Work in the Recent Campaign : Would Women's Suffrage Help?" Mrs Frank Miles Day, Mrs. Samuel B. Scott "Edward Alsworth Ross's the Immigrant Question." Mrs. Imogene B. Oakley "Olive Schreiner's Woman and Labor." Horace J. Bridges "Ellen Key's Doctrine of Motherhood." Horace J. Bridges Thursday, February 12th, 3 p. m. "The New Peace Movement and Woman Suffrage." Dr. William I. Hull Thursday, February 19th, 3 p. m. "New York Methods of Suffrage Work." Mrs. John Rogers, Jr., of the Women's Political Union Thursday, January 22nd, 3 p. m. Thursday, January 29th, 3 p. m. Thursday, February 5th, 3 p. m. As there are no dues and the work of the League is supported by voluntary contributions, you are requested to send a contribution to Mrs. Ferree Brinton. St. Davids P. 0., Penna. Checks should be drawn to the order of Lina Ives Brinton, Treasurer. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Tuesday, February 24th. 3 p. m., New Century Drawing Room, 124 So. 12th St. "Woman Suffrage and the Immigrant." Mary Antin TICKETS FOR THE ANTIN LECTURE, 50 CENTS, for sale at the New Century every day and at the Plastic Club every Thursday afternoon. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.