The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-11-17
CUT SUSPEWERS
IS New METHOD
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British sufragettes Have
Another Way Of Fighting
Police with Success.

London, Nov. S.--The opening gun
of the busy autumn campaign of the
National Union of Women's Suffrage
societies, the constitutional organiza-
ton of the -%suffragists. will be fired in
November in the form 0f a concerted
attack on the constituencies of the
cabinet members who oppose woman 9
acknowledgement. !
X This preliminary attack will. take
the form of political support Of .?csr-
lain labor candidates, who expect to
pppose the a~rlti-suffrage cabinet mem
bcrs at the next general election. The
government is being attacked because.
although 1t has a majority in favor OF
w1men's suffrage. 1t refuses to make
their enfranchisemcnt "a @.government
measure. The Labor party will be as
party which has placed women's, SUI
fragc in, it's official. platform. TIE
Union itself is bipartisan. embrace
Ing members from. all-the parties. but
NJ, is the considered opinion of the Of
fctals that the hand OF the govern
slment should be forced by opposing its
a~nti-suffrage ~adherents.; ~. =
7 Educational. Side. =.
me. educational side, of. the cam.
patgn is to. be concentrated on an. eff
fort to- show the public; quite clearly
OHAAo iSooIt III LIC IOdSOUS WlfS'ttHC
Union desires observation-disclosures OF
women. This reason will he expressed
IN terms of. the welfare of children.
"A program has been arranged under
the general title of THE Child and
the State" The campaign will be car
riei on undsr the various heads OF
infant mortality. children in the
schools. defective children, delinquent
children, state children, employment
Of children, and the legal position Of
children.
The police have been subjected to
considerable criticism for the small
number Of arrests they made at the
recent Bow Baths riot in the East
End, when Sylvia Pankhurst was res:
cued by her followers. but modesty
has prevented the London policeman
from coming forward with a perfectly
adequate excuse for his small suf-
fragette bag.
The story of the newest form of
militant strategy might never have
oeeh made public had not some of the
victorious suffragettes boosted about
It TO their friends. According to these
nsnters' every time a policeman
grasped ii suffragette one of her COM
rades, told off for that would
rip open the officers coat and cut his
s~uspenders. Torn Between conflicting
senses of duty and modesty the con
stable had to sacrifice his capture or
MS dignity. and everyone who knows
the. london bobby will guess that
the prisoner escaped.
More Unhappiness.
The troubles of the much-abused
ponce did not end with the escape of
tneir. prisoners, for when they were
Ilneo up before the inspector to re-
port. on duty, they. got a. rating for
their failure to stand at attention with
hands at their sides. The chatting OF
their comrades in the station house,
when they discovered the. u for
this slackness, did not add to their
happiness.
1t is said that when Miss Pankhurst
was arrested the neX night at Poplar
Town Hall, her captors had provided
Tor q repetition of the attack by an
ehoring their trousers SO securely that
a mere snipping of the suspenders. did
not cause them any concern.
[. Never was "a greater. contrast be-
tween two Queens afforded than the
presence together of Queens Mary and
Alexandra at the marriage OF Prince
Arthur of Connaught and the duchess
Of Fife.
Although common report says the
two women are not on. the mos
friendly. terms. custom demands that
at many functions they appear to-
gether. and at the marriage at st.
James Palace they both entered and
left the chapel hand in hand. OF the
two, in face at least Queen Alex
andra, who will be sixty-nine on De-
cember l next. and Is therefore TWEEN
ty-three years older than her laugh
ter-in-law, appears the younger, but
when h walks her age Is more an
parent. Her face, too. is always
frightened by a. smile, which no doubt
accounts for her never-waning, popu
'arity with the general public, who al
ways cheer her mor heartily than any
members of the royal family, with the
rpossible exception of the Duke of Con-
Tnaught. with whom she divides honors
in this respect.
. More Are Sighted.
Leaving the chapel the other day
1t was noticed that the Queen Mother.
with that tact: for which both she and
King Edward were famous. fingered
to. bow to all present, so that none
might feel slightcd. In. fact she was
so persistent in this that Queen Mary
had more than once to gently urge her
forward.
Yachtsmen who followed the races
around British Isles and in continental
waters during the past season tell an
incident which emphasizes the thor
oughness- with which Charles Nichol-
son, the designed of new. America cup
challenger, carries out everything he
undertakes.
1t occurred aboard the "1stria,"