Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-10-21
WOMAN SUFFRAGE NOTES
Edited BY Miss Helen CranstOn.

will not be short. II the actual
fighting we're 10 end tomorrow, IL
would yet take generations for the
countries involved to recover from
the effects. These consequences fall
with crushing weight on the women
and they have not been consulted.
Whenever l think of Europe at
war" writes Allan l.. Benson, in
Parsons Magazine, Il do not think
Of Il as a place Of roaring cannon
and flaming passions. feel the
anguish of the man who Is about to
die, yet the cry that I hear is not
his cry, but the cry Of his wife and
children. ! see the sad-eyed women
working patiently in the harvest
fields. | hear the children asking
for their fathers. ] see the misery.
not only of this day. but CT the fifty
years that must follow this day-the
children sent out into the world with
out sufficient education, the women
robbed of bread that the bullets that
killed the breadwinners may be paid
for. the boys who will be men tomOr-
row condemned to life at hard labor
with no adequate compensation"
An orgy of a few hours may wreck
a mans health for years and not
only his health, but that Of his wife
and children. Women have lately
awakened to this fact, and it has led
them to look at a whole class of
social questions more seriously and
in a new light. In like manner, a
few months of warfare leave traces
which a country does NOT get over
dor deaades; and the women and
children have to bear them. This
war is opening women's eyes to that
fact as never before.
What are all these black spots
SAM" asked a mother as she was
giving her young son his bath. The
little boy looked himself over, and
answered. Those that won't wash
off are fights" The black marks
that war leaves upon the body OF
nation are slow indeed in passing
away and they cannot be washed on
by women's tears. With every day
that passes. American mothers
watching the war in Europe, are
making up their minds deeply and
silently that they will have a voice II
future in deciding the issues tha
/ lead to peace or war.
The Womans Home Companion
for August contains the result Of
questionable on woman suffrage
Should the magazine stand 70
Votes for Women" There were 75
subscribers who were in favor o
It; and $40 we're opposed Thos
who wished suffrage articles pub
lished were 1856; those opposed L
reading anything about it we're 81.
The Rules Committee OF the Hous
of Representative refused to ALLOW
a vote at present on the NATIONWIDE
suffrage amendment In Congress-
When Representative Campbell aske'
that the committee consider resolu
ton 514, providing for considerable
of the amendment in the Lowe
House. a substitute motion was i'm
mediately made that the committe
adjourn. A tie vote was cast on tn
: substitute motion, Mr. Pou. Mr.. Gar
rett and Mr.. Cantrill voting for tn
motion. and Mr.. Kelly, Mr. Goldfogl
| and MIR. Campbell voting against 1
Mr. Henry. as chairman, cast tn
- deciding vote in favor Of adjourn
p ment.
! Although the committee took thl
. SLduQ against women DtlpFc duJOuIl
> ing they brought up Il bill increasin
|, the rights of self-goverrment in Ii
:. Philippine Islands and voted to hay
Il acted upon in the House.
: The Hysteria Of War.
The one bright aspect of this mai
I, made war is that out Of It, no matte
e who wins. Is bound to come an II
; crease. to all the countries concern6
d and affected, of practical democrac
: including the public participation
g women in social and political pr
n gress. In spite of the huge propo
h tions of this war, men are less SUI
l. iect than they used to be to VIII
II Mrs Chapman Gait aptly calls the
t. form of hysteria- But in the MATE
ID of bullying and bow-wowing men a
still fools, and it is up 10 the wom'
of the world TO defeat bullets wi
ballots When women turn fro
!. their gentle hysteria Of helplessne
= to a grave, brave assertion of the
human responsibility. men will
le glad to turn from their more hideo
y hysteria and become cane. It is t
y mightiest and most magnificent o
Nc portunity in the history OF the wor
y and have faith that the women a
~ ready.