Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-05-24
Suffrage Sentiment Growing Stronger
 Every 'Day.

''Straws show which way the wind blows" as the old saying goes. and surely all signs now point to the suffrage question not being settled until it is settled right" The women voters in the en suffrage seas have not only a splendid account of themselves, but have heroically banded together to aid their less for tunate sisters who seek due recognl tion as law-abiding, tax-paying citi- zens. That the women of the entire country will. ultimately secure the ballot is already conceded by almost every man in Congress, for the en- ormous leverage of .ha woman voters in the suffrage states is already realized. Representative James w. Bryan from Washington, paid a glow ing tribute to the women in Colorado recently on the floor oe the house, they possessed a fa" greater power iii the strike emergency as sonver!gn voters than any they could have gen. erated by any beautiful sentiment of brotherhood of chivalry." MT. Bryan went on to quote from Denve: paper an account of how five hundred en- franchised women citizens forced the Governor to end his dilatory tactics by asking that troops be sent to Colo rado to end the awful conditions in the strike district
 Strenuous Days for the National Con- gressional Committee.
 Last week Mrs. Medill Mccormick, chairman of the National Congress sional suffrage committee, left for Pennsylvania, the scene of her labors. On one day alone Mrs. McCormicK made five addresses. Mrs. Sherman Dooth goes to campaign ill Deleware and Mrs. Antoinette Funk will go south on an extended trip. She is 10 attend the Georgia Jubilee and three days carnival to be held at Macon on I the 2Oth inst, and will make an ad- | dress at the Chamber of Commerce meeting which is to be followed by a l big suffrage parade. Wherever the committee go, the result is always 1 the same-a new interest, and a bet ter understanding of the great ques- tion now facing the nation.
 ] The Parcel Post Cutting Out the
 Middleman.
 The post-office authorities are making themselves very popular of- | ficials with the ladies. Housewives | all over the country are learning to appreciate the great boon that parcel- rost shopping has become. day or so ago, following a bill in Congress. circulars were sent out by thousands here in Washington giving the name, l address and commodities sold by farmers in this vicinity Already housewives are providing themselves with a stout, roomy basket in which eggs, chickens, lard. fruit, butter, meats, peanuts berries and other farm products are being sent daily by parcel post directly from the farms of Maryland and Virginia to the home tables of the city. The list of names is already a lengthy one and it is being added to daily, while the number of wise housekeepers throughout the country who are be- ginning to avail themselves of the new and economical way of market ing, is increasing rapidly as it's many advantages become more fully realiz- l ed.
 America Spending Mad.
 MT. J. Hampton Moore of Pennsyl- vania with many other members Tn | the House, are ardent advocates ol the new American Society for Thrift, which proposese to hold an lnterna- tional Congress for Thrift at San rancisco next year. MT. Moore states i that the, money spent for jewelry for the mothers, wives. daughters and sweethearts of the country in the 1 last five years would foot up total more than twice what the. Panama Canal cost. Senator Moses E. Clapp' 1 in t!-e upper house. has fathered' the bill to raise s50,O0o to ydefray eX- penses of the International Congress believing that the expenditure will ultimately result in saving of many millions to the country. It is plann- ed to teach children the value or thrift, to foster in them the habit of saving their pennies, and to incul- cate in every way proper idea of | the value of economical training in youth.