New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-20
GREEK TO MEET GREEK
r4ntis' and SuFrdgists VII Mar
shall Forces on Same Dag.

II the person who first wrote when Greeks Joined
Creeks. then the tug of war" had had any
p-emonition Of what would happen on December l.
1908 IN che good city Of New York he would have
known that his words gave only faint suggestion
CT what a tug Of war actually is On the evening
Of December l. In Carnegie Hall, will occur an
event absolutely unique in American history. On
that occasion tbs veterans Of the woman suffrage
eause-who have not hitherto been considered fash
sons hle-vlI Join with women Of high social posi-
tlon-the most conspicuous Of whom are Mrs Clar-
enoe Msckay snd Mrs Philip Lydig-to welcome
Mrs Philip Snowden, the British sufragette repre-
sentative OF one Of the most remarkable uprisngs
Of women that the world has seer. And on the
afternoon OF the same day, at the Berkeley The
stre viii occur a demonstration Of an opposite
kind equally determined and equally without prec
edeut in American annals. AT this time the women
opposed TO the granting Of the suffrage to their
sex viii emerge from the dignihed retirement IN
which they have hitherto carried on teiF "otA
snd uuhIicIy unfurl the banner Of opposition
To he more explicit. the National League for the
Civic Education Of Women, the object OF which is
90 study civic problems from an anti-suhrage
standpoint VIII give its first lecture The sub
sect according 10 the programme the first three
lectures which came out yesterday. VIII be Uni
-rsrsaI Suffrage for Wonen,' and the speaker the
Rev. Dr.. Lyman Abbott. President Nicholas Muir
-sy Butter Of Columbia. whose relations to this
particular organization have been the subject Of
some newspaper discussion. is down for a short
address" and the chairman Of the executive com
arittee. Mrs Gilbert Jones. says he has not in
formed her that he viii not make f. The lecture
viii begin at O'Clock, and Richard Watson Glider,
husband OF the leagues president, will preside
The other two lectures viii be given Deem
Ter = snd December Is the first in the Metro
x,oIitsn Opera House building. and the second at
the Berkeley Theatre both al the same hour. The
speaker On December II Will be Miss Katherine E.
Conway and her subject Women and the Ballot
On December IS Mrs. A J. George viii discuss
The CcIleFe Woman, Higher Education and the
Ballot"
Other lectures and informal talss will be given
On dates to be announced later by William D.
Guthrie the Rev. DIT. SilverTnan, Mrs Ida Nose
Tvoodbury, Miss Margaret Deland. Mrs. Anna Ma
than Meyer. Mrs c r Corbin. Mrs Mabel Kalb-
<eisch Mrs Wfnslov Crannel Mrs Robert Erskine
Ely. DR.. NIX 6 Schiapp. F p Freeze. George
Jones and the Rev Dr. Howard Duffield. The sub
sects VII be The Constitution" Woman and the
Vote" The Change Of the Feminine Ideal"
'Women's Legal Rights in New York State
'-Nonen's Opportunities and Vacations Without
the Ballet. Women and the Child Labor Investi-
CATION Woman Suffrage in Utah" Woman Suf-
frEge in Colorado Wyoming and Idaho" Social
Inrest-IIow Women May Adjust That Force for
Gcod." A Review Of the Legal Attitude Toward
Women IN the Past" The Citizenship Of Women
81 the United States To-day"
These lectures free members Non-nen-
be-s may obtain tickets for the first three lectures
st the Berkeley Theatre or the Office Of the
league Nc. 222 Madison avenue