The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-01
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Prof. William T. Sedwick of the
Boston Institute of Technology is OPP
posed TO woman suffrage and say:
would he at once harmful to women
and harmful to the state.
1T would be harmful to the wom-
en- because it would impose upon
them new and heavy and needless
burdens. compelling them to devote
their time and thought and labor to
work for which they are physically
poorly fitted and for which they are
in no respect mentally any better
physically incapacitated at times and
hence untitled for long continued and
exciting political or public service,
and you gentlemen of the committee
know that practical politics is not
an afternoon tea party.
TT would be harmful to the state
because 1t would double the number
of voters without increasing the intel
ligence of the vote. And by with
Of homes and workshops and thrust,
ing them into the limelight - upon
the stump. and into the caucus. the
town hall and the jury box-it would
in my opinion. do irreparahle harm to
the community, in which women now
form an invaluable conservative. be-
cause disinterested. -.
THE new woman dahbling in this
way in things like these makes some
of us men-and especially some Of US
scientific men-skeptical about the al
legged advantages coming to the state
from an extension of woman suffrage.
1 believe that men are men and won-
en- ara and that since they are
physically and mentally very different
any attempt to make them do exactly
the same work is doomed to failure
from the start. Hence, also. I regard
the whole woman suffrage movement
as a re~actionarv, rather than a pro-
gressive. movement"
A League for Social Order has been
organized in New York. the object of
which is to oppose easy divorce, So
cialism and woman suffrage. In its
constitution the league makes the
declaration that while it favors every
legitimate DEVELOPMENT of woman's
personality. 1t is opposed to the euf-
frage movement. which proposes a
fundamental change in the relation
ship of the X to each other. and
to the government and displays a
marked tendency to identify itself
with the forces of social disorder.
The president of the new society is
Miss Mary L. stebbins. the secre-
tary, Mrs. Julian Heath. and the
treasurer. Rossiter Johnson. The vice
presidents are Mrs. Emil Kuichling,
DR.. Arthur Randolph Green. the Rev.
DR.. Charles H. Parkhurst. the Rev.
DR.. Rudolph Grossman. and William
j. ODonnell. The honorary officers
include Cardinal FARLEY. Bishop
poane. Henry Clews, John D. Grim
minis, Miss Molly Eliot seawell, Their
on G. Strong, and Mrs. Rayard Tay-
Tor.
The thirtieth annual convention Of
the Wonan's Relief Corps will be
held in Los Angeles. Cal. the week
of September 9. Minnesota will send
a representative delegation, the names
of the women who will go to be an
nounced later.
The comn1ander-in-chief has sent
Information to headquarters at Union,
oregon. that the Southern memorial
fund needs replenishing and has ask
ed the assistance Of the national wo-
mans relief corps in raising the
amount needed. Minnesota corps will
aid in this work. More than 900, 900
graves are decorated every wear by
the small and scattered posts of the
south. whose renaoteness from the ma
tlonal cemeteries renders this service
a financial burden. Several thous-
OF the graves in n cemetery
are 2 miles from the nearest post.
An official report is now required
OF Minnesota corps as to the number
of woman's relief corps participating
With posts in memorial Sabbath serv-
ices, also the number of members Of
the corps attending such services.
Mrs. Mary L. Creigh of Mime,
apolis is one of the national aides Of
the organization.
One frequently hears reiterated the
saying: This is the age of the Young
man." Blu when considering the cleo
ton OF two women past sixty years
OF age as school superintendent in
large cities, one feels like asking: "Is
1t also the age Of the elderly wom-
an?" ~
Women throughout the country
were electrified when Mrs. Ella Flaeg
Young at the age Of SO was chosen
superintendent of schools in CHICAGO
1t was the first time that any oma
in the United States had been honor
ed by being chosen to that office in a
large city. Women had served on
boards of education and as supervi.-
ors In Boston n in San Francisco.
but none a ever been able to sit in
the superintendent's chair.
aIHe tHe appointment Of
Mrs. Harriet L. Keller, aged IS. az
superintendent Of the school system
of Cleveland.
The east must look with admiration
at the generous spirit of the middle
west. which has taken the Initiative
In according such honors to women
IT may be pointed out tina this .ec-
ton Of the country has been generous
to women in other vocations as we'll
as in that Of teaching. 1t is the rule
rather than the exception that wom-
en- are at the heads Of both municipal
and state libraries. and that women
are high school principals all through
the middle west while in the eastern
states these positions-and their sal
aries-are usually secured by men,
women being permitted to serve "a
assistants.
Perhaps this generous conduct of
the western men toward women 10