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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
GRADUATE RECITAL
AT THE SEMINARY

The graduates recital in piano and eX-
preston given at the Loulie Compton
seminary Friday night WAS most enjoy
able and gave evidence of strong. earn
est work on the, part of the young wom-
en-. The programme was varied and in
teresting. it was opened by Miss Car
rie Lee Pugh with a very brilliant and
difficult number, LIFTS Hungarian Rhap-
sodie No. 81 Miss Pugh, as a graduate
also in the expression department, gave
several readings of which THE Govern
cr's Levee" deserves especial mention as
the most dramatic. Miss Hortence Simp-
son is a talented young musician and her
playing and interpretations are always
artistic. She was at her best in the peer
Gynt Suite" which she rendered wien
grace and sympathetic feeling. The
readings which Miss Sadie Pettyjohn gave
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utcst details, is controlled by a govern
ment in whose management they have
no voice, for the ballot is the voice.
This is un-American, undemocratic,
barbarous. Today. at best, we have q
rcN ernment of all the people by half
the people. This is neither justice nor
democracy.
The state. then, must have woman
suffrage as we'll as man suffrage If it
is tc attain to our high ideal of demo
cracy and abolish the aristocracy OF
sex. / have shown that the state needs
the voice of women. because they are
human beings. ] shall now deprive my
oppc pcnents of one of their deatest ar
guments-that women should not vote
because they are women Women should
vote because they are women. The
state needs them for just that reason.
The state needs the valuable viewpoint
of woman as a mother, which is her
sexual capacity. Women, from the very
fact that they sare naturally maternal
creatures, are accustomed to giving
freely service for others. They are the
more altruistic sex. though they deserve
no glory for it. Nature and education
have made it impossible for them to be
otherwise. However, everyone will
conc ede that our government would be
greatly benefited by an increase of al
vote because of her maternal view
poirt, just as it needs mans vote be-
cause of paternal viewpoint. The ma
cAinery of government needs the direct
influence of woman. Politics is now
corrupt. We all know it. The mer
seem TO be having trouble running the
s,ate alone. The state. without the al /.
rect influence of women is like bache-
ior's establishment-the buttons Off,
cigarette stpmps lying around and
things generally out of place. Won.
sn's enfranchisement will have thu
same effect upon politics that she has
upon society. She will elevate it. puri-
fy it. harmonize it, Women are by ali
admitted to be the more moral sex
Nature has arranged that women form
only five and one-half per cent of our
adult criminals The percentage o:
ma le llteracy is much larger than tha t
OF female. The foreign born women in
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shall prove my next point-that equal
suffrage will benefit the men of the
state: first. by helping them bear the
burden of state and making them more
comfortable; second. by helping TO
establish a single standard of moral
ity for the two sexes.
Men do not always realize that they
now have to do more than fair share
of the work of the world. They are
so accustomed to looking on the state
as their own particular possession ana
business. and on the home as woman 9
own particular possession and business
ti;at it is hard FOR them to understand
that since the home has broadened into
the State they need women to help
them manage both. We women should
all be eager to take up our share OF
the burden of state and tote fair with
the men. Please get away from the
idea of sex antagonism. Anti-suffra-
gists seem To visualize all men as for
ever pitted against all women. We
know that this is a nightmare which
Geesn't exist. What we want is team
work, not rivalry. We want a forward
march of all humanity, men and women
shoulder to shoulder and striving for
the steady moral. honest, scientific up
building of the human race, and we
think that woman suffrage is the next
step toward this end.
Equal suffrage will benefit men by
helping to establish the single stan
dard of morality. Women and children
Will also be benefited by this. but we
owe it to the woman movements OF
| which equal suffrage is a part that the
living mask of false modesty has been
stripped from that horrible monster, the
social evil and we are now able to hght
it in open day with the weapons OF
knowledge, science and education. only
III. ,I,r.l ltsis
tins evil entirely, alas but equal suf-
frage can help greatly by giving WON
en- chance to aid directly in its con-
trol-by law. Our opponents may con
tend that men make better laws for
working women and married women
than the women themselves can make
but they cannot possibly deny that the
ma,imade laws governing the social evil
are unjust to women. Woman suifraS
is 10 new thing. Some form of it has
| been in use for over so years since
! 1898. when widows with children of
school age were given school suffra ee
| IN Kentucky. Since then suffrage FOR
| " 1mcn has gradually spread until now
| TIE sun never sets on women's voting.
| We do not claim that equal suffrage
VIII bring the millennium, and cure
| ali the ills that flesh is heir to. But we
do claim and have proven, that it will
make the world better and a fairet
place for all human beings, regardless
| Of SEX to live in.
After all, aren't the only three oh
| stacles to equal suffra age-ignorance
tradition and prejudice-all close akin
| Let us not fear to try this new thing
because it is new. Let(us realize that
modern conditions have arisen and we
Unjust nreet them in a modern way. We
leannot go back. Remember that in
Ivoting women will still be doing her
| eternal, age-long work of housekeeping g
and child keeping, only she will be do
ling it in modern way. Woman suf-
| freg ge means a change, not of woman's s
| work but of her tools, her implements.
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TODAY'S PHOTOGRAPHS

Miss Jane Peterson is one of the most
interesting of the spring time visitors
She is sharing the courtesies being
showered upon two guests-Miss Anne
Christian and herself-which are an in
oidental courtesy also to their house
hostess, Mrs w. Winans Freeman. The
prominence and social popularity of the
H'reemans assured a large number OF
gala incidents during the stay of these
two young women, both of whom are
brilliant and one celebrity.
They were introduced this week nv
their hosts at large afternoon recep.
ticn followed by dance, and Mr. and
Mrs Freeman's friends are finding
them delightful. Miss Peterson is an
artist of note, and her paintings ons
of the cleverest of which is a portrait
OF Mrs. Freeman, are represented in a
number of beautiful studies hanging
on her walls. An attractive feature OF
the evening affair following the rece.-
tioI was the solo dance presented hx
Miss Anne Christian. She gave an ex-
quisite Interpretation of a Spanish
dance, the effect of which was the more
artistic. as 1t was done in costume
With Miss Peterson painter of high
rank and Miss Christian an extraordin-
ary dancer. Mrs. Freeman has intro
luced a fascinating element into a So
cial season which is notably quiet.
Miss Mathilde Bilbro of Gadsden is
cue of Alabama's clever women her
work showing versatility quite en-
viahle in this day of sometimes mono
ronous specialization She has dono
quite bit of newspaper and marazins,
work, the former characterized by ar
orisinality and grace which her Bir-
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MISS HARDIE
COMPLIMENTS AT PARTIES

n special from Admission states:
Miss Sue Hardie, whose marriage to
Mr.. Tom Bell: son of Capt a. w. Bell of
this city, Will be an event of social in
terest here next Wednesday, Will be the
guest OF honor at dance and reception
to be given at the Admission Country
club Monday evening Miss Hardie and
Mrs. Lude Belser, a bride of the past
week. We're honor guests at a recep
tion by Mrs. Walter Brewer Thursday
evening. Miss Hardie will also. be the.
guest of honor at a reception to be
given by Miss Chester Bell, sister of the
elect, card party by Mrs Au-
gustine II. Shepperd and other cour
tesles.
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mngham friends know is native to her
Her sketches in the Sunday pages of
the Age Herald are enjoyed by large
numbers of readers to whom she Is per-
senally unknown, but it is in music that
she has covered broader field. Within
the last / 8 months she has written four
books of piano pieces. four books OF
etades, kindergarten method of teach
ing music and about 30 piano selec-
lions in sheet form. All of this music
has been sold to publishers excepting
ono or two which are not vet com
pleted. This summer Miss Bilbro plans
to spend in work on a musical comedy.
besides compiling number of her lit
erary sketches which will later be pub
iished in book form
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
MOTHERS DAY


'1'is Mothers day-O, precious name
-iow my poor heart grows aname,
thinking backward DER the years,
And melting all my soul to tears.
! proudly wear the rose today;
Ills fit for it's Mothers Day,
Emblem of the happier years
When mother kissed away my tears.
The gentle hand has vanished long,
The loving smile is also gone.
Eut thou art with me, mother dear
Thy hand still leads, thy smiles still
cheer.
I've sought thee, darling, everywhere,
J'ut found thee not to soothe my care.
AT thy grave I've listened long.
No voice comes back no smile, no song.
] long to hold the hand of thine.
And feel its loving touch in mine,
Oh, long lost mother soon we'll meet,
In sweet embrace at Jesus feet.
Young man to mother kindly speak,
Courteous be to her. and meek
Her days are short and hard her lot,
NYfen she is gone, forget her not.
The above lines were written by Dr
n T. Lockwood of Crystal Springs,
7Tiss.. who has composed a number of
of arming things. DR.. Lockwood is the
Father of Mrs. Louis Dent of this city
and is we'll known in Alabama.
Since the parlor meeting this week
al the home of Mrs Wood of Ensley.
vi en- light from many angles We're pre-
scented upon the question of equal suf
frage, there have been several requests
FOR repetition through these columns,
Of the excellent paper presented by
Miss Amelia Worthington. Many who
heard her give it, wish to study it and
TO give others an opportunity to hear
her argument. 1t is impossible to print
1t this morning in its entirety. but
many good points have been culled from
1t for the information of Age-Herald
,enoers who realize the vast Importance
of he topic. Miss Worthington's paper
was her argument in debate-"Re-
solved, That the suffrage should be ir
RI spectiye of seX"-presented before the
N.neteenth Century club recently As
she brings out. she was asked to pre-
scne only certain phases of the sub
Ject. For want of space, many of her
most salient points have been omitted
bl'. in brief her argument follows
Scientists. historians, philosophers
and sociologists are agreed that the
lso-called woman movement is the most
important movement of our age There
is no time to trace it's origin and de
velopment for its roots are struck far
into the past-and we have here to deal
with the present and the futufe No
world change or world movement has
ever been that was not based on soma
economic necessity and the woman
novement is no exception to this rule
The two fundamental causes for the
rise and spread of the woman move
ment were, first, the invention of ma
schlnery which removed practically all
Iindustry from the home into the fac
tory, and, second. the granting of edu-
Ication to women as a whole. AS l heard
IJuIian Kennedy say, The moment &
book was put into the hands of wom-
an, at that time the opponents of suf-
irage for women were vanquished and
j1t became inevitable" The woman
movement is as broad and as deep as
humanity. The movement for her po-
Iitical emancipa tion is but part of the
great woman movement it is, however
. necessary part, stepping stone in
the forward march of humanity. There
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the United States are only one-twelfth
OF the native born women. 1T Is quite
evident then that woman suffrage Will
benefit the machinery of government by
adding to the moral, the educational,
and the native born vote, of the cleo
torate, with the small increase in the
number of criminals.
Having proved to you that equal suf-
frage will benefit the state by establish
ing democracy instead of a sex aris-
tocracy; by introducing into the state
the mothers point of view as well as
the fathers; by elevating the electoral IL
and thus helping to purify the machin-
cry of government and having shown
that women are qualified both by their
humanity and their training to vote, ]
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A Birn1ingl1am Girls Views Of Equal Suffrag

SOCIAL AFFAIRS OF NOTE.
DINNER AND LUNCHEON
! -ARTIES-SEEN AT THE TIRE
BILE CLEF AND ARION CON-
CERT TUESDAY EVENING AT
THE JEFFERSON = ENGAGE
MENTS ANNOUNCED-GOSSIP
OF INTERESTING PEOPLE
HERE AND THERE-EVENTS IN
F, PROSPECT-PERSONALIA
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illustrated the scope of good reader,
repertoire: 1.-The Lesson in Cookery
was an amusing little sketch, but Brown
ings MY Last Duchess naturally re
quired more skill. Miss Gertrude Bullock
who will receive certificate in c,S
preston, gave several splendid numbers
She has the clear voice. good enuncia
ton and dramatic intensity that maH,
successful reader.
This is the first of the graduating rs
citals. Next Friday night the othoi
graduates in piano and those in voice
viii give a recital, which promises to I'D
an equally enjoyable performance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
MISS THACH OF AUBURN TO
WED MIR. CURTIS OF TULANE

DR.. and Mrs. Charles Coleman Thach
announce the engagement and ap-
preaching marriage of their daughter.
Elizabeth Lockhart, 10 Mr.. Nathaniel
Cortlandt Curtis of Tulane university,
New Orleans. The wedding will take
place on June IL at Auburn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
GUILD OF MERCY
MAKES A REQUEST

The same anxious voice that several
months ago made plea over my tele-
phone for assistance in providing n nec-
cssary bit of furniture for the children
hospital. was heard again yesterday IN
Il request for help. The other article
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-15
KILLED IN CRASH
WITH AUTOMOBILE
MotorcycIist and Friend Are
Hurled to Street When
Struck by Machine.
IFrom a STAN Correspondents

TRENTON. N. j.. May 15.-One
man was killed and another seriously
injured by head-on collision of q
motorcycle and automobile early to-
day.
The dead man is Oliver Weiss, 30
years old, of Monmouth street, and
the injured, John A. Grimes, of Wal
nut avenue
Weiss was driving the motorcycle
and Grimes was on the back when
it collided with Harvey g. Reeds
automobile.
The collision instantly killed Weiss
and rendered Grimes unconscious.
Grimes. after being revived, said that
Weiss. who was driving the motor
cycle, was on the right side of the
road when the collision occurred. He
said he called Weiss's attention to
the approaching automobile which
was rapidly speeding toward them.
As the machine came closer Grimes
says the automobile switched to the
left side and collided with the motor
cycle. ~
1t was thrown to one side of the
road
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
Eipincott referred the case to In
spector Shinn, who will make an in
vestigation. An inquest into Weiss $
death will be held next Tuesday.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-15
MUNSON TO-
FALL INTO LINE.
Democratic Senators Look for
His Aid in Passing Jury
Bill.

TRENTON. n. J., May 15.-No in-
formation as to how Senator Mun-
son viii vote on the jury reform
measures before the Senate has been
received by Acting Governor Fielder.
The opinion, however, is that the abb
sent senator. when he arrives here,
will fall in line with his Democratic
colleagues, and support the chan
cel1or-sheriff referendum bill. With
the vote of Senator Munson in the af-
firmative, the Democrats can pass the
bill through the Senate and end the
long. drawn-out jury reform fight.
Governor Fielder expressed himself
today as of the opinion that no other
bill will be substituted in the Senate
for the chancellor sheriff measure
If Senator Johnson's bill gives the
court the same supervision over
grand jurors as II has over petit
jurors, Governor Fielder said he
would vote for the measure. He
would much prefer. however. to have
some other bill than the Johnson
measure.
Speaking of his gubernatorial plans
after the special legislative session
adjourns. Governor Fielder today
said: Il will be as busy as a whole
hive of bees trying to convince the
Democrats of the State that am the
only man to nominate for governor. :
The governors itinerary has not
yet been mapped out.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-15
1ODEAD, 40 HURT IN
NEBRASKA TORNADO
Cyclone Sweeps Through State,
Causing $25o,ooo Damage to
Crops and Property.

OMAHA, Neb., May 15.-Further
search today showed that ten
lives have been lost in the tornado
which swept through Seward county.
Forty persons were so injured as to
need hospital care and the property
damage amounts to more than
$250,OG0
Omaha and South Omaha were hit
by a strong wind-storm. A few houses
were wrecked, but there were no
deaths. Telephone and telegraph wires
are down in every direction, and re-
ports are slowly coming in of cy-
clones In other portions of the State
Lushton. Neb., a small town near
Seward, is one of the places reported
completely destroyed.
SEWARD. Neb.. May 15.-Eight
persons were killed and fourteen in
iured in the tornado which swept a
district one block wide and sixteen
blocks long in the northern part OF
this city last night at o'clock. The
wind followed a violent hail and rain
storm.
No one has yet been found who
saw the funnel-shaped cloud or who
knew what danger the unusual dark
ness of the late afternoon contained.
Three persons were killed who had
every opportunity to seek refuge IN
their cellars and half a dozen were
injured who said that they could see
no tornado approaching.
The dead: Mrs William Hassinger,
Mrs. G. w. Edmonds, Mrs. David
Hoover. Samuel Grim, August
Schultz, Emma Schultz Qittle daugh-
ter of August), Mrs. David Inlay,
Mrs. G. w. Westerman.
LINCOLN, Neb., May 15.-The tail
end of the tornado cloud which
wrecked part of Seward for time
enveloped a Union Pacific motorcar
en- route from Waho to Lincoln. The
car rushed on through the whirlwind,
the passengers expecting to be hurled
from the rails at any moment.
Glass was blown from one side of
the car, and one of the passengers
was severely cut across the forehead.
other passengers received minor in
iuries. Instead of stopping the car,
the motorman drove steadily on at
speed of twenty-five miles an hour.
AS soon as they emerged from the
tornado they found themselves in a
terrific rail-storm.
Advices this morning from Tamora,
Staplehurst, Waco, Bee and Utica,
west of Seward, which were last night
reported damaged by the tornado,
say that all those towns were out of
the track of the storm. Wires to
McCool Junction are still down, and
no direct reports have been received
from there.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-15
MAKES CAREFUL
PROVISION IN WILL
Mrs. Mary E. Gray Chief Bene-
ficiary in Estate of Late
Husband.

Henry Grey. a mechanical engineer.
who died at his home, 110 South Mum
avenue, East Orange, May last,
made careful provision for the dispo-
sition of his estate. according to his
will fled in the county surrogate's
office today. The value of the estate,
which is said to be a large one, is
not stated.
To Mrs. Mary e. Grey. the widow.
is left outright, the homestead and
all its furnishings at 10 South Mum
avenue, South Orange, as well. The
income from residue of all the es-
tate, b3th real and personal is de-
vised to her during her lifetime. The
residue of the estate is to include all
the stock held by the dead man in
the Charles NJ. Grey Manufacturing
Company, 35S Central avenue, East
Orange.
On the death of the wife the will
provides that $4,000 in bonds of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation shall be
SET aside and held in trust for Har-
come to be paid her during her life
time. The will provides that the in
come be paid semi-annually to her
''if her condition Is such she can
properly and safely care for the
same; If not, the income is to be paid
to Eer daughter, Alice Nelson, to be
usef for the support of the family"
On the death of Mrs. Nelson the
bonds are to be sold and the proceeds
divided EQUALLY between Alice, Grace.
Edna and John Nelson, her children.
the distribution not to be made until
the yeangest of the children reaches
the age of 81 years.
To Charles McRae Grey, son, is
given, after the death of the widow.
$4,000 in bonds of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation, and also the net
income of the estate during his life
time. 1t is provided however, that
If the son shall attain the age of 90
years and shall have issue then liv-
ing, the principal of the estate shall
go to him at that time.
If this condition does not arise the
will makes further disposition for the
estate on the death of the son by
naming members of the testator s
family and of his wife's as bene-
fciaries in the final distribution of
the estate.
The will is dated March 13, 1918,
and directs that no bond be required
of the Fidelity Trust Company, as
executor and trustee.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-15
PRINTING FIRM MEMBER
DROPS DEAD IN SHOP

Henry Loges, of $50 South Four
teenth street, member of the firm of
John C. Loges & Co, printers. of 20
Springfield avenue, dropped dead
shortly after noon today while at
work in his shop
County Physician Mckenzie was
notified, and pronounced death due
to heart failure, caused by dropsy.
Mr.. Loges had just finished reading
over a proof with Emil Veix. of s42
West Kinney street. an employee,
when he reeled and fell to the floor.
veix summoned DIR. William R. Sill
verstein, of West Kinney street, but
before the physician arrived the man
was beyond medical aid. He had
been suffering from dropsy for some
time. and on that account never
worked to any extent.
Two daughters and two sons sur
vive him. They are Mrs. Herbert
Lockwood, of Bloomfield. and Mrs.
Catherine Baker, of Lakewood, and
John C. Loges and Henry, jr. Mr..
Logess wife died last october.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-15
Australia Sends
Frozen Meat to
Hit Living Cost

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. May 10.
-Four hundred thousand pounds
of frozen Australian beef and
mutton. the first shipment of it's
kind to the Pacific coast, were
landed here today from the
steamer Tahiti.
The meat was sold in Australia
with the understanding that only
a nominal profit should be made
here. If the agreement is violated
Australia will ship direct, elimi-
mating the middleman's profit and
assuming all the risk.
An immediate fall in prices Is
expected.
The Union Steamship Company
is SO certain that the trade will be
permanent that it has placed
orders for four refrigerator ships,
to be used exclusively on the Aus
traIian-San Francisco run.