The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-08-12
SACRIFICE DAY TO BE
CELEBRATED ON SATURDAY.

| Suffrage Self-Sacriflce Day on Aug
| IS, tine anniversary of the birth or
| the pioneer suffragist, Lucy Stone
| has been proclaimed by the officers of
| the National Womn Suffrge Associa-
| ton and the National Congressional
! Committee. Lucy Stone was the foun-
der of the Woman's Journal.
On elf-Sacrifice Day suffra gists
| are asked either to give a sum of
| money to the work. to make some
special effort to earn it. or to get it
from some one as a contribution for
the campaign states.
we must raise $4,000 DIR. Shaw
said. And if each of our half million
members would give the small amount
of 10 cents we could do 1t.
Most of us could get much more
than 10 cents by giving up something
we could get along without.
! DR.. Shaw said, as reported, that Jane
Adams would be asked to serve as
suffragists would be sked to forward
to her. at Hull House, Chicago, what
ever sums they can raise or save.
In Pensacola the Sacrifice Day will
be observed by having a Melting
Pot at San Carlos, the entertainment
to be held on Southern loggia. There
will be a musical program, several
speeches will be made and not only
! members of the association but any
! whose sympataies are with the cause,
are invited take part.
large Melting Pot will be centrally
placed and all sacrifices will be placed
/ in this receptacle and sent later to
headquarters.
The text of the proclamation issued
by the suffrage campaign committee
, is as follows:
Women Of America, generations ago
country stood in need. Her treasure
+ chests were empty. 1t was a time of
stress and peril. In her hour of eX-
tremity the women of the land were
called upon to give their ornaments of
gold. And as women have always re-
sponded to appeal for help. SO they
responded then and the tokens that
were given in exchange by a grateful
government are today patents of hon
or and patriotism to the women of the
race.
We call upon you today in an hour
of need
We call upon you to give from your
treasure store of precious metal, from
your keepSakes of gold and silver that
in the suffrage campaign states where
woman are making a stand for po-
litical equality, they shall not fail be-
cause the treasury is empty.
Among your personal possessions
there is something YOU can give. some
thing you can consecrate, perhaps d
little silver cup kept for love of some
chrild. Every three minutes a baby
dies in this Ind of ours from some
preventable disease or from improper
food. Give the little cup, that the
mother wisdom of the country may
express itself directly through wise
sane laws for the good of children.
If the thimble of your girlhood is
among your keepsakes. send 1t with
thought for the thousands of young
girls exploited by greed. unprotected
by law, in the hot sweatshops of the
city Slums.
Don't be lulled into a false sense OF
security by the prevailing notion that
suffrage is sure to come" Suffrage
is sure to come but it can not come
this year, in the face of the forces
rayed against it. unless the women of
the country show by their response
that they are determined to have it.
A little of what you treasure, an
ornament of beauty. tribute of
friendship. something priced because
of it's place in household life or as
melting pot. Send 1t to the suffrage
campaign committee in the City Hall
Square building at Chicago, for in the
two DakotaS, in Montana and Nevada,
in Nebraska and Missouri and Ohio.
women from the homes, the schools,
the factories and places of commerce
are fighting for their civic rights
against organized greed. organized vice
and those forces which stand in the
path of progress.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw. President
of National American Woman Stuff
rage Association.
Mrs Medil Mccormick. Chicago.
Chairman of the Campaign Commit
tee
Mrs. Antoinette Funk, Chica go.
Mrs. Helen Gardener, Washington.
Mrs. Mary c. Bradford, Denver
Mrs Sherman NJ. Booth, Glencoe,
Ill.
Mrs. nesha Breckenridge, Lexing-
ton. Ky.
Mrs. John Tucker. San Francisco.
Mrs. Edward Drier. Brooklyn, n. Y.