The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-23
\ eeded to Aid in Solu-
ton OF Big Amer
lean Problems.
GIVES REQUISITES
I f GREA NATION
By Tests He Names, Declares
That United States Leads the
World-Miss Mary John
ston Makes Suggestions
for Improving the
Gate OF He'll"

Louisville. KY. October Eff a
country treats its women right. and
eats more sugar per head. and con-
sumes more soap per head than any
other country. then 1t is the greatest
nation declared DR.. Harvey ". Wiley,
chief of the governments Chemistry
Bureau. in his address to-day to the
National American Woman Suffrage
Convention. He mad been introduced
. by DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, president
of the association, as the man VINO
is trying TO give us fair chance to
live lie began by enumeratine' the
things that make for u country S
the three requisites named. BY these
tokens. he concluded. America ia first.
DR.. Wiley. Miss Mary Johnston of
Richmond, Miss Sophronis Breckin-
ridge. of the University Of Chicago,
and Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane. of
Kalamazoo. Mich. We're speakers ut
the open meeting held at local
theatre and attended by more than
1000 men. as we'll as women.
In the light of his opinion of wo-
mans preparedness for suffrage. Dr.
Wiley declared he never had known of
| an organized band of women being on
the wrong side.
Tower of Strength.
Women" he said, ARE tower OF
strength to every public man who is
trying TO do his duty. | don't know
why she has been kept from the polls.
Surely not because of lack 81 intellect.
What We need in politics is more
ethics. rather than more intellect"
He referred to big American prob
lens. saying they needed both the men
m IL. Il ~
! he has favored woman suffrage for
nearly twenty-five years.
Miss Breckenridge devoted her at
tention to the suffrage question from
the yiewpointof the working woma n.
She expressed her conviction ."that,thc
ballot is at present domestic neces
sity. and that housekeeping is a pub
lie. function"
She, in measure. blamed woman
for failure to assert herself and de-
mand what is her right
Enlightened cities must be govern
ed as enlightened homes are. Jointly
by enlightened men and women. for
the benefit and trust of the rising gem
eration." declared -.rs Crane, whose
address dealt with immediate and
practical municipal problems of direct
and important interest to women.
Miss Johnston's Address.
suggestions for improving .ne Gate
of He'll were outlined this afternoon
by Miss Mary Johnston. the author Of
Richmond. Miss Johnston prefaced
her suggestions by quo.stions from
Tertullian. likening her sex to the en-
trance to the Internal regions. In
part she said:
Woman exclaims ST Thomas
Aquinas, woman is a rapidly grow
ing weed. an imperfect being! Her
body attains maturity more rapidly
than mans. only because II is of less
value,.and nature is engaged less in
her making. Women are born to be
eternally maintained .unoer the Yoke
OF their lords and masters. who are
endowed by nature VIII. superiority
in every respect, and therefore des-
tined to rule!'
Woman, exclaims Tertullian. .wo-
man! you ought to go about clad in
mourning and in rags. your eyes filed
with tears of remorse to make us for
get that you have been mankind's de-
struction! Woman. you are the gate
OF hell
What wish to do for few minutes
Is grayely to consider how we can
Improve the gate of hell Architectu-
rally speaking. 1t is matter of carry
ing aloft the wicket which has dono
duty for SO many ages of enlarsing
and adorning IT. of giving it height.
nobility and splendor. OF achieving in
| short. a lofty and beautiful portal.
Tertullian. of course. was content with
somewhat low and narrow gate, care
fully planted in the shade. But times
change. and 1 submit that even so fixed
an institution as hell gate shows a
tendency to change. too.
I'VE all have our ideas as to how the
new gate should be built its general
appearance. beauty and utility. PROP
ably every woman in this audieSce is
busy nowadays making a mental blue
print of new hell gate. I have the
| floor. however. and l am going to give.
very roughly and djscursiveiy. nv own
blue print"
Differs from cold Gnten
Miss Johnston described how she
thought the new gate might differ
from the old. physically" in sweep
and power, fine and strong grain. clean.
noble lines; mentally. in education. the
adornment of mind. the larger brain.
the greater intellect; spiritually. with
the nobler and wider heart, the true
mother and lover OF humanity"
Keeping the old name for moment
we may say that the production of a
newer and greater hell gate differs
from other architectural propositions
Gates of stone mad marble are made
from without He'll gate will be built
without hands. and the architect lodges
within. She Can do what she will.
and now the thing OF all others to be
desired Is that she will IT. 1Ae time
has passed when Indifference win be
| tolerated. Women must arouse them
selves TO action. The crying needs
of the time demand II. and with the
ballot in our hands and with the viii
to produce better conditions o,r
achievements will be unsurpassed.''
New Constitution on Program.
The new constitution is first on the