Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1912-09-10
WOMEN To AID
MPA|CN WORK
League is Formed in New
York of National Scope
and Will Support VIII
son and Marshall
INFLUENCE is WIDE


NEW YORK, Sept. 9.-(Speoial)-
For the first time in the history OF
the country professional women are
to be real factors in the political sit
uation this fall The latest addition
to the ranks of woman's political ac-
tivities is the recently organized
professional Women's Wilson and
Marshall League" an Organization ma
tional in its scope, with headquarters
in the Fifth Avenue Building. New
York
The organization was founded by
Miss Willette Kershaw: the actress
who did so much for the Womal's
suffrage cause while touring the
country two years ago as the leading
woman in The Country Boy last
year George Rronson-Howard wrote
for her the suffrage play "Snobs'
in which she essayed the leading role.
Miss KeTshaw is also Chairman of
the Organization committee which is
composed of ten women drafted from
the following professions, two law,
two stage, two medical, two news
paper, one representative from the
! Child's Welfare association, and one
| woman thoroughly familiar with fac
tory and shop conditions throughout
| the country where women and chill
/ dren are employed.
| This committee is in turn assisted
! by an advisory board composed of
national committeeman from each
state. Upon Miss Illyne z. Sheerer
of Chicago, the national secretary,
| has fallen the task of organization.
| The New York Headquarters under
her leadership has developed into a
political beehive in the past week.
| Miss Kershaw Is the first woman
| of the league to take the stand. she
and Mrs. Borden Hartman, the New
\ York society leader are in fact the
only two women who have thus far
addressed outdoor mass meetings on
behalf of the Wilson campaign. Mrs.
| Hartman has spoken at several
! large meetings in New York. and on
labor day Miss Kershaw addressed
three thousand factory employees N
Philadelphia, where she opened her
new suffrage play, Whom Does
Helen Belong To?"
During her two weeks engagement
at Philadelphia she was distributing
literature aud buttons al her various
meetings and devoting her specific
arguments to the industrial legislation
as IL effects women and children, al
the tariff as it effects the home.
| In an interview given out after
her meeting at Philadelphia yester.
day Miss Kershaw said, irrespective
of party affiliations. ] believe women
should turn heaven ami earth IN an
efTort 70 influence the vote of the
man who has the interests Of the
working-woman and child at heart
and when a mar already n Office has
done SO much TO further legislation
to this end, I believe he deserves the
support OF women everywhere II is
crime and disgrace to this nation
TO allow great corporations 70 fatten
On the labor of poor, halkstaryed
children. The stage 10 my mind Is
the most fragrant example OF this
corporate greed, and | speak from
experience. ] played my FIRST juve
nile part when ] was seven years old,
: and was carted back and forth all
! over the map In the next seven years
! had no childhood. When grew .us
. I { viewed fhat If seohld ever help 3
caase that would abolish child laboi
would consider that my great
achievement in life.
have watched Governor wilson
record very closely. He has made
good and al we ask is that intelli
gent women OF the country read this
! record and the hand that rocks the
cradle will bring to bear more in