Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-11
Club News

A BROAD survey of equal suffrage
u work was offered by the speakers
"A at the Woman's Press club yes
terday afternoon. The situation in
Europe was we'll discussed by Miss
Maritime Dietrichson of Pasadena.
Miss Dietrichson was enthusiastic
about the progress which the women of
her own country, Norway, have made
in claiming the ballot. They have not
equal privileges with men, as only the
women taxpayers are entitled to vote
but they may sit with the lawmakers
and represent their own constituents,
and they do so with the same high
sense of honor and thrift and loyalty
they have always shown in the man
agement of their household affairs.
Brave little Finland, always liable
to the grasp of Russia, was eXtolled for
the grit and hopefulness which had led
it's women to get one million signers
to a petition, and then send one hun
dred thousand copies of it to the czar
of Russia, that he might give their
country a constitution, and themselves
and their countrymCn the right of
suffrage.
Mrs. Isabella Churchill of Denver
gave a more close range view of women
conditions as they exist now in Colo
rado, where women have been voting
for seventeen years. Mrs. Churchill
said that while governors, legislators.
statesmen, professional men of all
branches, and men from the mines and
the workshops of the state had openly
approved woman Suffrage, she had
never seen or known of any saloon
keepers, gamblers or prize fighters
waving the yellow flag of votes for
women. She related several instances
which showed the respect which the
men Of the state offered to women
voters-even to those women politicians
who made public addresses-and spoke
of the earnest effort which the women
of her state would make to enforce the
ordinance against child labor.
The training school to which prison
ers at the Juvenile court are sentenced
was for a long time the only trade
school in Colorado whore boys could
learn wage earning trades. and the
speaker told a story of a boy whose
mother sent him out to steal some
small article, assuring him that if he
could only go before Judge Lindsay
he would be sent to Mr. Paddleford's
school. A remarkable fact about this
school is that boys sentenced to its
care hurry to reach there and go with
out a guard. SO wide is the teachers
of teaching that boys are eager to
place themselves in his care.
Mrs. Bertha Hirsch Baruch added a
few words to the program, giving some
suggestions about the proposed work
of the College Womens Political
Equality league and telling Of the many
plans for study which had been out
lined for the members. Tho women's
movement. historically, sociologically
legally and biolOgically is all to be
considered, and women of this club
mean to ascertain some facts about
what women are and their standing
from all these points.
Among the guests from out of town
present at the meeting were Miss Susie
Miller, Sawtelle: Miss Alice May Cha
pin, Pasadena, and Miss Loucla Con
ley, South Pasadena. Miss Marjorie
Rambeau was also a guest at the
meeting and has been invited to be-
come professional associate member
of the club.
Ladies Auxiliary to the Sons of Vet
Grams will give a May party and dance
this evening at Burbank hall, Sixth
and Main streets. Elaborate arrange
ments have been made, special music
has been engaged, and the committee
in charge of the affair expects a large
attendance and a successful evening.
Members of the Highland Park Ebell
club listened to a delightful talk by
l.. r. Benymer yesterday afternoon
when he gave "reminiscences of men
and women of musical and dramatic
celebrity. The talk TOUCHED not only
upon the lines of amusing incidents
which had attended the speakers as
sociation with these artists, but offered
glimpses of tenderness and earnest
ness of purpose which is not always
apparent in such circumstances. In
his talk Mr. Behymer constantly re-
vealed his knowledge of the conditions
under which artists must work. his
sympathy for them under the many
trying situations which develop in their |
wandering life. and his strong friend |
ship for many OF the most noted of
them.
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