Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-13
WOMEN AT LAST
 ASSERT RIGHTS Club Women at Chicago Open Fight on Double
 Standard of Morals.
SUF TRACE TIES WIN
Indications are That Big Convention Will Endorse Suffrage at TOday'S Session No Objection to the
 Teaching of Social Hygiene.

Chicago. June l2-The suffragctte club women played their trip carp Mrs. Carrie Chapman tatt of New York in plotting their fight to win recognition from the General Federa- tion of Women's clubs tonight. AS the issue comes to d vote at tOmor- row mornings session of the blen- nial convention the suffragettes flll ed the auditorium from the back 10 the statge, on the fire escapes and on the roof. The enthusiasm of the meeting indicated that suffrage will be endorsed.
 The theatre was filled long before the hour when Mrs. l.. L. l'lanken
 burg. first vice president, called the meeting to order. Late arrivals found themselves barred from the session Mrs. Catt said 'Women are rising in rebellion by the hundreds oi thousands the world over. Not in re
 bellion to men but in rebellion to the
 traditions, superstitions and trade customs of bygone ages, against
 which they must protest because these laws are said to apply to the l present day conditiOns-co conditions
 which will only be bettered when l women are allowed an opportunity | for bigger activities aad usefulness. "The meeting was closed by an ad. | dress on Peace" by the Rev. Jacob 1 Lloyd aCnes.
 That the present biennial conven- l ton is for reform--reform with 2 | large R-was demonstrated today l Most Important of the revolutionary 1 measures endorsed at this evenings l session was the single standard of
 morality. The club women left no doubt in the minds of spectators as to their attitude on this question | great roars of applause swept the auditorium when speakers went on record for one standard of morals The women also endorsed the plans to focus efforts to help "bewildered young people who have not yet learn ed the truths of lfe." and to give
 some Of their work to the schools No objection to the teaching of social hygiene-a question so unpopular at the last conventiol--has raised. Other questions pressing for re- | form towards the settlement of which 1 the women pledged their co-opera ! ton were:
 The D. oblem of organized vice, rec | reations, penal institutions. unem- ployment immigration, alcoholism
 vocal training, minimum wage disease and the food supply. Mrs. Penneybacker Surprises. That the question of wOmans suf- 1 frage would receive full considera- ton at the convention was the an. l nouncement of Mrs. Penneybacker at this mornings session.
 "The chair wishes to answer some l seventeen questions which have beer l received with regard to the subject
 of woman's suffrage announced Mrs
 Pennybacker. 'The purport of these
 questions is. are we going to smother the suffrage question:"
 ] The house became silent and tht l speaker paused dramatically. Thel l she resumed with an explosive "No.' l which she amplified: "It is not the 4 intention to smother this great ques
 tion."
 Mrs. Pennybacker stated that thr
 subject probably would come up thi' | afternon at the education conference
 and that resolutions which might b
 presented at that time may be pre-
 sented to the resolutions committee
 and that a report to he convention o,
 them would be made tomorrow morn
 ing.
 Special privilege to none; equa
 right for all' is the slogan of thi
 convention" declared Mrs. Penny
 packer. amid further applause. The
 she added
 "Now let's do something less ex.
 citing. We will have the report o
 civil service fermorm" This repoI
 was read by Mrs. lmonge B. Oakle:
 of Pennsylvania.