Evening star., 1913-12-07

Suffrage in Washington. which will well
come all corners during the two weeks
following the close of the national suf
frage convention on the 10th of this
month. The convention will begin De-
cember 5 and conclude December ~.
Then this new school will be open for
business-all ready and prepared to turn
YOU out a full-fiedged, well equipped
worker for the cause. It's standing and
curriculum may be youched for by the
fact that il will be conducted under the
auspices of the Congressional Union for
Womans Suffrage.
There are many schools in the world
schools for arts, sciences. professions,
trades and domestic virtues. schools for
the deficient and afflicted. schools of
training for matrimony and even school
for scandal Bat now We have a school
for voters-woman voters.
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This new Institution OF learning di-
vides its curriculum into two main parts,
methods and information 1t will teach
We'll il will teach the three RS of Suf-
1ra-e ard also the higher branches. Then,
toe. there is 10 be postgraduate course,
which will require the scholars TO get up
on the platform and demonstrate how
well they have learned their lessons and
how closely they have paid attention TO
the quizZes and lectures.
Ii will not teach or encourage militancy,
mail destroying. bomb throwing or dew
astation of property. Neither will it seek
10 promote antipathy, home deSertiOn,
neglect of children UNIV womanliness, hatred
OF mankind nor attacks upon the con-
ventions and the shocking of poor Mrs.
Grundy. Not by any means.
Instead, the school is designed primarily
to teach the earnest, willing woman how
- become an active worker for suffrage
And 10 this end some of the brainest
women and men-yeS. men-in the world
are 10 give the students the benefit of
their experience and knowledge in lee
lures and speeches.
Assuming that the woman who wants
this training is willing to pay for her
instruction, the powers that be have
decreed that no definite charge is to be
demanded: but it is hoped that those
who wish TO become students Will pay
at least Slo Tor the whole course of
eiShty-four lectures. or 20 cents for
each single lecture
This novel school is TO set up its
lares and penates in the most pre-
tentious building of the National Cap
itol. for il is to hang up its charts and
set UP its blackboards and assemble its
benches and tables under the gilded
dome of the Congressional Library
where its sessions will be held morn
ing, afternoon and night under the
tutelage of experts of worldwide re-
nown upon the various topics selected.
Mrs Rheta Childe Dorr, the editor
of the sufragist paper just started in
Washington, Will tell the pupils of the
results of suffrage in some of the for
eign countries which she has visited.
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The suffrage school is TO train women
IN every phase of the movement said
Mrs Dorr. "and to teach them to work
for the vote intelligently and without
undue waste of energ!.s The suffrage
school Is a college for voters-something,
i viii be allowed. that no class of men
ever thought necessary for themselves
The subjects dealt with will range from
The History OF the Suffrage Movement
70 The Art OF Lobbying, and will in
clI!de such ones as How to Get Up
Suffrage PaSeants.' Methods Of Raising
Money and Results of Suffrage in the
United States and Elsewhere.
The first practical thing a suffrage
worker needs TO learn is the art Of speak
ing for suffrage No one has mastered that