Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-15
WOMEN HEAR
NOTED LECTURER
AT CENTRAL UNION

College Club Evening wss celebrat-
I'd at Central Union Church yesterday
evening where Mrs. Hannah jenkins
director OF design and arr al Pomo-
ma College, California addressed the
College cub and the church congrega-
ton
IL was a meeting OF. -. and for,
women esscrt ally. The we're many
men present but the adi- SIS which
was on Women TO the Front concern
cd itself with the relatioa : women
to world problems and the part which
women must play in their solution.
White slavery marriage. divorce, in
temperance and other prof ems cor
fronting women were handled by the
speaker in plain lang age md her adj
dress throughout was characterized
by its huencv and directn--.s In co.,
olson, the speaker pa1 :.1Dnte 10
5uLi. women as Miss J ~ Ada and
Mss Blascoer who are string and
t.svoting their lives FOR - l"f.er
ment of humanity and de ritins u,fr
time to striving to make others hap
by with no thought for themselves.
These are women 10 ~ P"e'd Of,
said Mrs. Jenkins. They arc The
women to get in to !; with, 10 know |
snd to emulate TIE cncs who &c I!
coming TO the front and doing great
things for humanitg !"
Mrs. Jenkins said in part: |
Women to the 'FRONT.'" That sounds
like a bugle call. when the reveille
is sounded il means get up and get
busy" ct was your pastor who sound
ed the bugle-I am just going to give
a little foot" /
This call comes to the army OF
church and college women throughout
our land. Do not think am here as a
suffragette. No there is not woman
in our land who knows less of politics
than l do. There are many like my
self who care nothing for the fran.
chise who would rather not be brought
TO the front in that way.
PERSONALLY I might say | have no
complaint against the gentlemen in
their management of political affairs;
have Jared well in the past and do
not expect to live as long in the fu-
ture 40 / could well afford to leave
he ballot to the men-but how startl
ng selfish that sounds, in the great
'ush of political. professional and COM
nercial life. Conditions have changed.
Women are forging ahead in every
branch of professional and industrial
ife-then there IS the great mass of
working women in factory. shop. bust
fess and service. This problem of vot-
ng came to me forcibly one day when
went into one of our orange pack
ng houses There l listened without
heir knowing to a heated discussion
IN the campaign. The conclusion j
lrrived at was college Women and
rhurch Women to the Front" 1t is
h'B illiterate working class that Is
soing to make trouble and while !
late politics and would rather do al
most ANYTHING rather than go to the
oils. Yet If my vote will Offset that
# womtn who will be led by her
or be the tool of boss. then
I is my duty to vote.
Human Nature Unchanged.
The part that women have played |
D politics in the past is that any cri. |
erion for us women of today? We !
night say conditions have changed
ut human nature is not widely diff t
erent from the days Of the Renais.
ance. One difference there is and to
ur advantage in that we move and
ave our being among a vast army Of
ollege men-men who have annihilat-
instinct and are ruled by reason and
nders tanding-so that we women are d
pared the necessity of being great, /
iplomats. Ia
Think of the harrassing life of Isa- a
ella d'Este that queen of the Renais- c