Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-20
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 woman's meeting Of the
Southern Citizenship Congress Sat
urday by the declaration 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 a scathing arraign-
ment of modern dress and declared
that II woman had dared dress Il
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 takF- at the
same time and before a body Of wom-
en- practically all OF whom were ar
dent suffragists, proved almost as
much of bombshell as her sensa-
tional declarations in respect to pres
ent-day tendencies among the young
women of Atlanta.
Charges Drinking in Clubs.
Go to the cafes and clubs of no
city" she told her hearers, IAN !
there you will find the greater PROB
lem. You will see beautiful young
women benumbing their intellect and
debauching their souls a. liquor 80
even to the drinking of straight whis-
ky.
DO you know how many women
and girls, stupefed 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, l can imagine one Of my suf-
fragist sisters saying. No, you
wouldn't. for this very thing already
is in open violation of the law m
every city in Georgia. You already
have your Legislation.
For twenty years l have watched
the efforts Of women to right the evils
that prevail all over the land. What
do l find? | discover, it is true, in he
States where there is woman SUI
frage that women in many instances
are holding office with as much honor
and distinction as the men. OF that
am proud.
Suffrage States Backward.
"Rut l also find that the Norc1
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 recklessness than their broth
ers. If we do a little investigating,
we will find that all | have said is
true.
This new woman with her own
hand has knocked from beneath her
that pedestal Of reverence on which
she so long has been established.
What the girls wear to-day would
have ostracized them from decent So
ciety in their mothers time, and IL
their grandmothers' it would have
made them outcasts. This tendency
is growing 10 an alarming extent ia
the 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
home lives and you viii see the an
swer 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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