The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-16
What Women Are Doing


The woman's board OF the RichIand
County Fair association a elected
new officers for the year and is busy
making preparations for the annua
fair to be held at Wahpeton this month.
This board AXE over entire charge of
all women's departments at the fair
and 1t meets with much greater re-
Spouse than under the old system
when men were in charge. Mrs. Ella
Beatty of Wahpeton was chosen pres
ident, Mrs. F. Douglas OF Wahpeton,
secretary, n Mrs. George Mergens of
Paramount, treasurer. Committees to
and an Indian exhibit will be one of
the new features in the women's de-
partment.
Because some non believers In grant
ing the full franchise to women took
the fact that there vas a light wom-
ems vote in the recent school election
in Valley City as a blow against the
suffrage movement in this state Miss
Candis Nelson of that city has taken up
the defense of the suffragists through
the press. Miss Nelson is a member Of
the state normal school faculty at VAL
at the convention recently held in
Fargo, when the North Dakota Votes
for Women league was organized.
Miss Nelson presents the fact that
elections and that here there was no
issue so that the statement that the
lightness of the feminine vote was a
point against granting the full fran
chise to women has no significance
whatever. AS these statements came
from men, Miss Nelson further stated
that under similar conditions the male
vote was also always very light and
that in presidential years the vote was
always much larger because the ma
tional election is regarded of more
interest the the state, n the state
election so much more than school
L GlAHti0nE that when the 1affnr nTa ha1d
separately very few men take the
trouble to go to the polls.
Norway's women voters have obtain
ed higher salaries for women workers,
and opened to women positions former
ly closed to them. There are now
women police, doing q great deal for
the betterment and protection of WON
en-; n there are now women princi-
pals in some Of the public schools
where formerly the principals were
required to be men.
For the first time in he history Of
Pennsylvania, the republicans of the
state, in convention at Harrisburg, re-
served a box for women. An appeal
was made for an expression regarding
woman suffrage, and the convention
responded by adopting a resolution
declaring that while the convention
deemed 1T ~inexpedient to commit the
party to suffrage, the growing senti-
ment in it's favor must be recognized
and requesting the next legislature to
give this great question careful con-
s~ideration with a view of submitting
the proposition to a referendum vote
when a reasonable public sentiment de-
mands it."
st Paul Pioneer Press: The commit
tee of 100, having in charge h fund
being raised by the women of the
United States for a memorial TO the
men who went down on the Titanic,
has issued circulars and in
structing contributors as to the method
of forwarding money, and the correct
address Of the central office, which is
Woman's Titanic Memorial, Union
Building. Washington, d. @. Practical
ly all of the $4,000 women's clubs
throughout he country have Endorsed
the movement which was inaugurated