Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-20
RAP5 DARING
GOWNS AND
SUFFRAGE
Mrs. G, B. Lindsey, Civic League
Secretary, StartIes Christian
Citizenship Congress,

Mrs. G. B. Lindsey, Of Atlanta. cor
responding secretary Of the Civic
League Of America, startled her audi
ence at the womans meeting of the
Southern Citizenship Congress Sat
urday by the declarat ton that there IS
an alarming increase in the number
of young society women Of Atlanta
and the South who nightly are de-
bauching their souls with drink at the
clubs and cafes.
She also uttered scathing arraig1-
ment of modern dress and declared
that if woman had dared dress "A
generation ago as many dress now
she would have been Ostracized from
decent society and two generations
ago she would have been an outcast
Her emphatic stand against votes
for women, which was taken at the
same time and before a body of WON
en-, practically all of whom were ar
dent suffragists, proved almost as
much of a bombshell as her sensa-
tonal deClara tions in respect to pres
ent-day tendencies among the young
women of Atlanta.
Charges Drinking in Clubs.
GO to the cafes and clubs of tho
city" she told her hearers. "anl
here you will find the greater PROP
lem You viii see beautiful young
women benumbing their intellect and
debauching their souls in liquor
even to the drinking of straight whis-
ky
DO you know how many women
and girls, stupehed with drink. are
helped out of these places. Just get
on the good side of one Of the walters
and YOU can get your information.
Give us the ballot and we will
stop it, | can imagine one Of my SUI
fragist sisters saying. No, you
wouldn't; for this very thing already
is in open violation Of the law IN
every city in Georgia. You already
have your Legislation.
For twenty years | have watched
he efforts of women to right the evils
that prevail all over the land. What
do find? discover, it is true, in lie
states where there is woman SUE
frage that women in many instances
are holding office with as much honor
and distinction a . the men. of that
am proud
Suffrage States Backward.
But | also find that j.. the Morn
and West. where suffrage prevails
that the most needed reforms have
not been reached. In fact, social and
industrial conditions for the most
part are worse than in the districts
where the vote for women has not
been obtained.
Yes we are getting our equal
rights-but at what a cost. The
Younger women in some Instances
gamble, smoke and drink with even
greater reckIessness than their broth
RS If we do a little investigating,
We will find that all l have said is
rue.
This new woman with her own
1d0Q mas knDthtG from btutdlU HtT
hat pedestal of reverence on which
she so long has been established.
What the girls wear to-day would
nave ostracized them from decent So
,ietv in their mothers time, and II
heir grandmothers' it would have
made them outcasts. This tendency
growing to an alarming extent in
he South
start Reform in Home"
How are the tendencies of the
times to be checked in their unde-
slrable aspects? How are we to make
better citizens and get better laws?
Not by the ballot. Look into the
home lives and get some Of the great
EST men Of this time and other eras;
then look into some Of the modern
hove lives and YOU will see the an
sver The answer is in the home
Nothing ever was more true than that
The hand that rocks the cradle rules
the world
We must teach our boys and our
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