The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-28
CONNECTICUT
 SUFFRAGE NEWS
fBv A G. Porritt.l

f13Y a. eE. ROEE1Es.l
 Preparations for making the End C5 May memorable in the history of the suffrage movement in the United States are in progress not only fiji Connecticut but in all the Eastern States and in many States of the Mid gressionaI Committee of the National and the Congr ressionaF UniOn--the tNG suffrage bodies that are promoting Lnl passage of the constitutionaI annend- ment in Congress at Washin gton--ar9 making strenuous endeavors to get an the States in line in regard to paradess pageants and open air demonstratiorr to mark this day. Tn regard to sOulU matters of policy these two orBauizs- tfons differ, but there fs no dinereuco between them in regard to the demon stration Of May End
 In Connecticut the demonstraticu will be both a pageant and a parade. The arrangement of floats will have connected and symbolic meaning. and there will be close co-operafacN between the leagues in the preparatior Of the various sections Of the parade All the floats and exhibits will b1 passed upon in Hartford by an Art Committee Of the C. w G. A.. cf which Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton i9 the Chairman. Mrs. Seton ts both an artist and a writer, beside beiu< remarkable for her oreanizins ability --as seen in her work with tMe Camp Fire Girls. Just now nEra. Et- ton is in Florida for a brief reais but she will be back in New York, ana will be frequently in Hartford afte- the beginning of March and untu tls parade has taken place.
 Last Tuesday, at Parson's Thealrr. Hartford, Miss Julia Dean apDearel in her new play <sEIer own lIore1r-- the Hartford Equal FranchfSe LsmHi1r. The theatre was decorated with eul- rage co1ors and banners, and the 1uL- ragists had taken care that the boxel and many of the other seats were Glis1 with their friends and Gympat1llNerr- There was a distribution or suGIsrs literature before and after the perfor-
 nance, and everyone felt that fns play itself was of a kind to enforce the teaching of the SurEraE1sts.
 Another theatrical perfcrru@mce tdr Hartford Sunragists will take place on St. Patrick's Day-Afarch 16Lh- The suffrage play eHoW the Vote
 Was Won is then to be given by tho Hartford Suffrage League of Self~&up- porting Wbmen at Unity Hall. The performers are members Of the Lea
 sue, and are all working women IEsV
 are being coached by Mr. Bruce cz
 Hartford who has had conaidefa1Is experience In the managing of ssrs- teur performances Beside che play there will be music and dauclnD, and the League-which is sti1 very you1e |-expects 70 i'll the hall with frisndl and comrades of the member Many of the Leagues all over Che State, including the Hartford Equal
 Franchise League and the New kEaVss
 Equal Franchise League, have follow ed the example of the Exscu1lwa Board of the c. W. S. A- and paced resolutions in favor of the establish-
 ment of a reformatory for women are girls in this State The resoluticn passed by the State was aa foIlowss Whereas there ts in the State 3l Connecticut no reformatory under
 public management for girls over 1ss and
 Whereas there tB no reforfnatorv as all for women over 2z; and Whereas other States have found that in the interests of morality and humanity such reformatories are ab- so1uteIy necessary; and
 Whereas from the point of view Df expense it should be remen1bsres that women are tax-payers as wen as
 men:
 Resolved, That the Executive Board of the e. w. s. A. urges upon tf1e com mittee having this matter under c1n sideration to report upon ff favor ably.
 The. Committee which fs invsstfrst- ing the need of a refornatoev for women was appointed by Gover1lcr
 Baldwin. Its chairman is pr. Wullau. | seems to be no doubt at an of tIls need of such an Institution The only
 obstacle in the way of ltB establisN- ment is the lack of funds, and u-har the comparative expsndItures urcr delinquents and criminals of the r1a1e sex and of the female sex are exarnfr- ed. it seems the meresE justice to ar,- propriate money for fhis much nasl- ed reformatory
 Next week Miss Emily Pierson cad
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 Bridgeport where they have been bma- fly engaged in arranging with the I- cal workers for complete canvarr r.r the voters, to New Haven where theg will undertake a similar taak- Erart- ford' water bury and Brtdsepcrt arc
 how orgapized and canvasYep are fr progress in these three cities Eve erywhere the suffrage worker 20 fnsT are meeting with cordiality and s5rn- patay.