The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-10
MISS JANE ADDAMS TELLS WHY THE
 WOMEN OF THIS COUNTRY SHOULD VOTE
By DOLLY DALRYMPIE
Jane Addams Epigrams

"'fhe exclusion from all political
 rights of millions of working wom-
 en is not only source of in-
 dustriai weakness and poverty, but
 n danger to national industry" "EngIand is developing an entire
 class Of homeless women too poor
 fo pay for continuous sheIter.''
 "Norsing women cannot hope to
 hold their own In industrial mat
 ters where their interests clash
 with those of their cnfranchised
 fellow workers or employers"
 sWomcn nrc bound to feel more
 and more the disadvantage of be-
 ing shut out from the sphere where questions connected with
 their wages and hours of labor are
 being fought out" l "Neyer since the days of PericIes
 has politics included so wide s pOr-
 ton of human interests.'
 '.Tbe fate of the unfortunate's suffering and the criminal Is daily
 forced upon woman's attention in | painful and intimate ways" 1 One might say that Miss Jano Ad- dams Is distinguished by the mistakes she DOES NOT MAKE 1 It may be mistake to be a suffrage | leader.
 That can't be proved. It is sure that there are wrong ways of being leaders of anything, especial ly-suffrage.
 (Witness Mrs. PankhursD, But
 Not so with Miss Addams. She knows all the UNWRITTEN DON'TS of the cause of which she IS an honored leader. Perhaps
 She might not even acknowledge that there are any DONTS, when it comes to being a suffra gist q didn't ask her) Just be one-thats all,p is per haps her slogan.
 Nevertheless
 Miss Addams has her own particular way of being a suffragist and it is be- cause of this noble, high, splendid way that she happens to be one of the women highest up.' in affairs suf. fragetical today.
 'Tis a pity we cant see all public personages in their private capacity.
 That's the only real way we can balance them up, but as it is we some. times have to wait until they die and then read their memoirs
 Happily, Miss Addams can be met off the platform, and the Miss Jane 'Addams of the drawing room pretty well balances the Miss Jane Addams of the platform.
 For
 It's the same woman, the same man. her, and the same idea, only you can observe her little more closely-a little more intimately-and realize the me qualities little more minutely- a little more scrutinously
 Miss Addams is the exponent of the highest ideal of womanhood, character. mind, and heart-a trilogy rare in it's eXistence-profound in it's comprehen- sion-and today she is the ideal of the millions of right, honest thinking, mo- ble-acting women of these great United States.
 Without yielding one feminine charm or womanly quality, but retaining a gentle sympathy and adding an inimita- ble humor Miss Addams has put her woman's brain through its paces, and she stands today on the suffrage uues- tion, the exact equivalent, sex feminine of the equally sincere and erudite hu- man being, sex masculine.
 Miss Addams, in other words, in vests suffrage with dignity and con- mon sense and she eliminates-pose.
 Receiving me shortly after her ar rival yesterday in her apartments at the Hotel Hillman, Miss Addams con- versed very graciously with me con corning the cause which she is in Bir- mingham to espouse.
 Some valid reasons, the best" l asked, please give me as to why women should have the vote"
 Miss Addams said thoughtfully:
 Much of the new demand for political erfranchisement arises from a desire to reform the unsatisfactory and degrading social conditions, which are responsible for so much wrongdoing and wretched- ness. The fate of the unfortunate, the suffering and the criminal is daily forced upon woman's attention, in painful and