Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-30


fortunate colons in the house and
senate become more FESTIVE, for wifi
each week the heat not only increases
but the prospect for adjournment is
apparently more remote. Congress
has now been in session for more
than year and the majority of the
new corners who were carried in by
the Wilson tidal wave are among the
most impatient of the lawmakers, for
fences need mending down home"
and every honest person must concede
the fact that Washington is too warm
for comfort after the first of June.
But there is little hope for early adj
jOurnment In sight, the calendars are
crowded and the appropriation bills
alone will mean many weeks of ardu-
GUS labor, The president is setting
congress good example by remaining
at the white house and attending to
business. Every fair day glimpse
can be had of the chief executive in
his little summer tent on the lawn,
working away as diligently as any of
the government clerks who throng the
treasury, and the state, war and navy
departments, the great buildings on
either side of the white house.
Miss Wilson Again in the Limelight.
This week Miss Margaret Wilson
visited the General Federation of Wo-
mems clubs in Chicago. and we hear
that her scheduled three minute
talk" on the community center idea.
was so popular that crowds blocked
the streets so that it took platoon
of police to get the young lady in and
out Of the building. 1t is we'll
known fact that the eldest of the pres
ident's daughters is her fathers par
ticular pride. Miss Wilson herself
frankly admitted recently: my faith
er likes to have me interest myself in
civics, and all kinds of betterment
work. He is greatly interested in
improving the condition of the poor"
After the meeting in Chicago Miss
Wilson will visit Madison, Wisconsin,
to attend the conference to be held
there on social settlement work. At
the same time she will take up her
editorial duties on the new magazine
shortly to be published in that city.
A Message from DR.. Anna Howard
Shaw.
In the weekly Bulletin issued by
the National American Woman SUI
frage association, of which DR.. Shaw
is the able president, she calls atten
ton to the four great events which
have token place during the past
month which should cause all suffrag-
lists to rejoice, and be exceedingly
Ia y, mi,
vote of the great international Coun-
Gil of Women" meeting in Rome,
representing twenty-eight nations and
seven millions of women, that wo-
men should be granted full parlia-
mentary and local suffrage with eligi
bility to hold Office; the second was
the large vote cast by the lower house
OF Denmark favorable to the cause OF
women: the next. the great victory
when the Federation of Women's
clubs in Chicago endorsed the long
debarred question of suffrage for wo-
men. after the subject had been ia
fury. nd lastly on the same day the
decision Of the supreme court of the
state of Illinois by which the law
passed by the legislature giving %o"
men, the right to vote was upheld and
declared constitutional.
Notwithstanding all the doleful prog
nostications of those opposing the en-
largement of the feminine field of ac-
tivity, the results in Illinois already
refute most emphatically their alb
surd forebodings. Miss Josie West
fall, Of Macomb, ILL.,, not only defeated
MIR. Dean Franklin in the recent cleo
ton for Judge of the city court, but
she carried every precinct in the city.
by their fruits We shall know them"
Algiers, and @Votes for Women"
DR.. Shaw is not only an able lectur-
er but charming conversationalist.
She tells most amusingly how on ar
irving at Algiers. Africa. she was ac-
costed by a bright-eyed little Arab
who smiled knowingly and explained,
"We know you--Mees Shaw-Parade
New York-Votes for Women Ban
ners. Buy Postcard" And she
confesses she did. Before we got
TO our hotel" DR.. Shaw laughingly
explained, every little street gamin
In the city OF Algiers, apparently,
u60 OCCu AIS Au tAo e>SW T. = Van RsH
rade."
The Washington Woman Suffrage
Council has arranged most attract
i've entertainment for the evening OF
June 9th, when Miss Jane Adams,
the founder Of Hull house, and Mr..
George Fitch, the popular humorist,
will lecture in the ballroom of the
Raleigh hotel. Miss Adams will
speak on Women and Public Poll
cies," but Mr.. Fitch has not disclosed
the title Of his address. To his many
admirers it is matter OF small mo-
ment what subject Mr.. Fitch decides
to handle for the author Of the fam
our Siwash stories and the popular
Vest Pocket Essays assure to be en-
tertaipins.
TIE secretary ii war deserves vote
Of thanks from not only the residents
81 washington but from the citizens
~ the country for his Arm stand to
preserve beautiful Potomac park for
the people. A movement was on foot,
endorsed by Prof. Walcott OF the
Langley Aersdynamical laboratory OF