South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-10-13
MRS. PANKHURST
TO VISIT INDIANA
indianapolis Women Are Ovid
ed as to Their Opinion on
Militant Movement, Says
Mrs. Felix T. MCWhirter.

Indianapolis women are divided as
To their opinion of the militant suf-
trage movement in England but are
looking forward eagerly to the visit
OF It's veteran leader Mrs Emmeline
Pdn6nurst, said Mrs Felix Il. Nc
W hlrter in an interview Sunday
Mrs. Pankhurst sailed from England
saturday for a tour Of the United
states. She has been invited TO speak
indianapolis, while here. under the
auspices OF the Woman's Franchise
league
Mrs. McWhirter is president of the
state Federation of Woman's clubs.
a member Of the WOman's Christian
temperance union, and of the Wo-
mans Franchise league. She is ar
IDENTIFY devoted TO the cause of suf-
frage and with a group of prominent
indianapolis women, is bending all
her energies to give the movement
ire and strength in Indiana
me approaching visit Of Mrs. Pank-
hurst has provided a powerful slim
ulant, she says. Il don't believe in
her method but I'm going to hear her
anyway, some of the women say. ac-
cOrdinS to Mrs. McWhirter Others
say they wouldn't attend her meet
ing for anything.
Is Widely Discussed.
But all the while they are talking
about it. The militant movement in
england has been the most discussed
SUBJECT IN Indianapolis during the
last summer Mrs MCWhirter saws.
Wherever women come together in
groups they are talking suffrage and
militancy
While most women feel sure that
mllltancy will never be a part of the
SIIIIrage movement in America" said
mrs. McWhirter, they are broad
enough TO see that there must be
some condition existing in England
Wnlch we do not understand that has
Ied such large faction Of English
women TO endorse it. They feel that
mere must be some powerful motive
mat is driving the best born and the
most intellectual women Of England
% DO deeds Of desperation. The
Ihat young English college women
are turning more and more 10 the mill
ltant branch of the suffrage move
ment is an indication that they feel
the desperate need Of it,"
Ihat is the attitude that Mrs Nc
Nhlrter herself takes toward the mil
liant movement. She does not endorse
IL but she does not condemn il. The
women who are engaged in il have
ner sympathy for she feels that they
must be coping with a situation more
difficult than the American women
can realize
hAAAte4Cg VIII never De necessary
IN America, Mrs McWhirter said
and the reason is that American men
are the best in the world"
The suffrage question is to be solv-
ed by American fathers in the end.
she believes. and the American father
makes no distinction between his sons
and his daughters. He wants his
girls TO share equally with his sons in
the rights and advantages of the
world. whether social. educational. or
political
Is GrCSying Each Day.
The suffrage movement in Indiana
she says. grows larger and more i'm
portant each day. IL is strongest in
Indianapolis. the center of the agi-
tatiOn. There the Woman's Franchise
league is largest and there live the
women who are the leaders of the
movement throughout the state
The most prominent and influen-
tial women in public and in social