The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-24
CONNECTICUT
 SUFFRAGE NEWS
(By A. e. Porritt.l ]

Miss Ann Martin Of Nevada who
 has recently been in the East trying to arouse interest and to raise money for 1 the Nevada campaign which will cui-
 H1inate in the popular vote in Novern- ber, has taken away warm and grateful feeling towards Connecticut. State she puts Connecticut and New. Jersey first among the States that, have extended help and encourage ment to the workers in Nevada. While she was here the various leagues in Connecticut presented her with over $260 to take back to Nevada, and since then several other Leagues among them the Westpore Equal Franchise League, have voted to de- vote the proceeds of certain coIIec- tdons or sales to the campaign in Ne vada.
 l The parade and pageant which the Suffragists are planning to hold in Hartford next May formed one of the most discussed subjects at the Ex- ecutive Board meeting of the Connec- ticut Woman Suffrage Association
 which was held in Waterbury last
 Wednesday. As a result of the dis
 cussion the committees in charge of
 the parade are now actively planning
 out the details Of the parade. The
 whole plan is being laid out by Com.
 nittees of the c. w. S. A. in such a
 manner as to form harmonious and
 intellfgfbIe whole. This method of planning makes 1t impossible to give
 the individual leagues entire liberty
 in the choosing of the subjects of their
 floats. Each league must make a se-
 lection Of one Of the floats Included
 in the plan, and then use all the ar Etistic power and all the Ingenuity of
 the members in the League in er1-s
 bodying the idea selected ,n a float
 This scheme is being welcomed by all
 1<1 fsaf u1ar than scheme in which each
 league might send any kind of a, float
 that appealed to the members, and
 1t is expected that Hartford will have street spectacle that the Capitol City
 has yet experienced.
 The campaigns of canvassfng that are being undertake ken by the c. ". s. and by the leagues in the different of interesting reports at the Board meeting. and of considerable discus sion. Waterbury had been chosen for the place of meeting because the or ganizers-1diss Emily Pierson and
 Miss Alice Gregory are stationed there and are engaged in Organizing the work so that it can be carried out by local suffragists. The Waterbury Equal Franchise League is under the presidency of Mrs. Julius Maltby, and even before the organizers reached the city Miss Pferson had had several volunteers who had offered to heIp in the canvassfng.
 The canvassing campaigns of this winter are not so spectacular nor do they offer the same amount of pub licity as the ampaigns of last year the nineteen weeks campaign which began in January and went on until May. But the work that is being done this year is much more thor ough, and is calculated to reach the voters much more effectually than a campaign of street meetings and of Headquarters addresses. The c. w. s. T A designs that every voter in the State shall be reached by the suffrage propaganda before the elections are held in November, and the suffrag- 1 cure the defeat of candidates who ex- | press themselves as antagonistfc to l woman suffrage.
 The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association is actively backing up | Representative Kenyon,s Red Light | Bill for the District of Columbia. | When the Connecticut delegation was | In Washington for the National Con Ventfon the suffragists undertook an | investigation of the Red Light district of the Capitol They found that itd extended from the White House to the Capitol. and it seemed to them a aationaI disgrace that such district should be tolerated there. The action of the Suffragists in regard to this matter is greatly strengthened by the recent report that Dr. Flexner has brought back from his investigations n Europe. It will be recalled that Dr. FIexner reported that even in | places where theg overnment still Ii- ,ensed houses of ill., fame, the policy of segregation was an entire failure | md that g red light region was most dangerous to the very section of the population which is most in peril rom such a region-the very poor who live in tenements in crowded parts of the city. The tolerated region s never among the homes of the ve1l-to-d do-the protected homes where the children might easily be shielded from its evi1l influences It s always in those parts of the city hat swarm with children playing on he streets.
 Babe-What Is an optimist?
 Steve-An optiTnist is a cross-eyed 1