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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

country are annually born out Of we'd;
lock. In all the capitals Of Europe
foremost among them Vienna, the
number of illegitimate children is one
third of the total number of births.
The ideal Of the German League for
Motherhood Protection in raising the
social and legal status of every woman
married or unmarried, that gives birth
to q child by making society recognize
in her a valuable factor for the renewal
of the race, is gaining ground, even in
France. For it was French feminist,
the famous woman lawyer, Mile. Marie
Yerone, who at the congress in Buda-
pest most bitterly denounced the Gin
famous Code Napoleon" which made
one human being responsible for the
consequences of an act in which two
were concerned, and resented the use
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
If THEY MEANT ALL THEY SAID.

Charm is woman's strongest arm;
NV charwoman is full OF charm.
chose her, not for strength of ARM
But for her strange, elusive charm.
And how tears heighten woman's powers
Nv typist weeps for hours and hours:
| took her for her weeping powers
They so delight my business hours
\ woman lives by intuition.
though my accountant shuns addition
She has the rarest intuition
,And myself can do addition
Timidity in girls is nice;
Ny cook is so afraid OF mice
Now, you'll admit it's very nice
To feel your cooks afraid OF mice!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

BY CLEANUP bOOIh olMmONo'
6STHE Congressional Union has
not budged and will not
bulge one inch from its pol
icy of holding the Democratic party re-
sponsible for the northumberland
of women. They are the party in power;
they could give US the federal amend
ment we ask for if they would. If they
don't do it we are going into the cam
paign. Just how we shall do it and
when we shall do it and where We shall
do it won't be revealed until September
10, when Miss Alice Paul, chairman Of
our executive committee, will give out
the plan adopted at the conference OF
our advisory committee in Newport last
Saturday and Sunday. But that plan is
bigger, broader, more comprehensive
than the tentative plan given out last
spring"
So said Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benc-
diet, member Of the unions executive
committee. last week, in reply TO the
assertion Of Mrs. Mary Ware bennett,
socrctary of the National Woman Suf-
grage Association, that Miss Pauls or
canization had backed water"-had
dropned its scheme of defeating enough
Democratic candidates for the Senate
in the fall election to wipe out the
party's majority in that branch Of Con-
gross.
Weakened to Refrain from Attack
II would be weak -kneed and foolish,
Mrs. Benedict declared, to let up on the
Democrats OIL the ground that PresI'
dent Wilson needs the backing OF an
undivided Congress in his efforts to
preserve the neutrality Of this country
and to keep it out of the turmoil in
which Europe is involved.
Tf we let the politicians call our
bluff once they'd do it again." she OBJ
served. "There would always be some
reason why it wasn't just the time to
press our campaign for the vote"
, All signs point to very active press
ing Of the campaign this fall. A huge
meeting at Atlantic City to-day follows
last weeks conference at Newport, and
is expected to bring the Congressional
Union $4,000, which, added to the $1o,-
900 gathered at Newport, will complete
the $4,000 required for the contem-
plated confusion of the Democratic
forces. Pretty Miss Doris Stevens, the
Omaha girl who has been in charge Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

From Senator Roots anti-suffrage
speech in 1894:
"If there is one thing settled in the
long discussion of this subject it is
that suffrage Is not a natural right,
but is simply means of government;
and the sole question to be discussed
is whether government by the suf-
frage of men and women will be bet
ter government than By the suffrage
Of men alone"
awe are asked to do it. Why? To
do it from good nature, to do it be-
cause my friend Mr.. Lauterbach is a
good fellow, because it will please this
lady and that lady, to do 1t;
heaven knows, for how many good
reasons, but all reasons Of good nature;
of kindness, of complaisance, opposed
10 the simple performance Of the duty
which we came here to discharge under
our oaths."
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EIGHTEEN YEARS DEVELOPMENT IN ANTLsUFFRAGE.

From Hon. Harold J. Humans
anti-suffrage speech in 1912:
"If there is one thing settled In the
long discussion of this subject it is
that suffrage is not a natural right,
but is simply a means Of government.
The question means this:
Whether, in the most economical divl-
sion of functions, the work
Of choosing representatives can be
best performed :: by both sexes
or only by the men,"
"Why, Mr.. Speaker, should we be
asked to do it? From good nature, be-
cause my friend from New York, Mr..
Murray, is a good fellow; because it
will be pleasing to this or that lady
to do it for reasons of kindness, OF
complaisance, all of them reasons op-.
posed to the simple performance Of
the duty which we came here to dis
charge under the constitution which
we have sworn to support and defend"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
By ALICE DUER MILLER
PLAYTHINGS.

FLAE IhlNOD'
Last year the shops were crowded
With soldier suits and guns
The presents that at Christmastide
We give our little sons;
And many a glittering trumpet,
And many a sword and drum;
But as they're made in Germany
This year they will not come.
Perhaps another season
We shall not give our boys
Such very waTlike playthlngs,
Such military toys;
Perhaps another season
We shall not find il sweet
To watch this game of soldier men
Who dream not of defeat.
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mothers? Let US drop this ignoble
term there arc no girl mothers. There
arc only mother9D
But recent events have revealed TO
the women of Europe another side of
the problem Can these women, whether
married or not, be expected TO continue
their gcnerative functions if the child
drcn they bring into the world are
doomed to be delivered into the jaws
of the Moloch War? Will they be
willing to replace the thousands of
lives that they created and that the
monster wantonly sacrificed in the most
ruthless and barbarous Of all military
orgies, by new lives, conceived and
born when their souls were still filled
with the horror of wholesale slaughter
and when the bodies of their sons have
barely returned unto earth? Does it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
R, EMILIA voS ENDE.

ffVN 7 OMAN is TIC one na'urai
w champion in the propaGsn-
ia against war. In war
..,s o. human material assumes
,.a,ie proportions, and it is wOmS"
- has 10 make up the loss "Mui-
,,,,, multiply" is the eternal appeal
= .o,iety 10 woman as long as it will
!, learn 10 be economical with human
.,.,isl Even the rivalry of anna
m.p,s in peace is, as Crete Meisel-Hess
.s.,ly emphasizes, necessarily fol-
.u.J by rivalry in ehildbirths at
,,A mace that womsn's part in the
.,,.sral upward movement is rendered
,.ssntially difficult and q solid renewal
q the genus cannot be expected"
The quotation is taken from that
,,luable cOntributiOnstO the literature
A. Inc woman mOyemant. "The Woman
Problem and Human ECONOMY" by Dr.
ru5olf Goldscheid, an Austrian scholar
xho has distinguished himself by his
rr,,iugs on what he. calls social biol
90, The author was. one of the speak.
-, At the international Woman Suf-
frsgc Congress in Budapest last year
and the address delivered on that oc-
ession. as also the arcstise published
INC same year, was warmly hailed by
that wing Of the Advanced women" of
Germany which fayOrs motherhood
protection" or "muttersehutz," propa,
rsnda for which was started in that
country about ten years age,
!. has since extended TO other Euro
psan countries, and IAN appeal to men
and women Of all civilized countries"
rent out by the International Fedora
ton for Motherhood Protection is
signed by an executive committee,
among I'll? membert OF which arc dis
iiuguished physicians and lawyers Of
Germany and Austria, Frau Helene
St0cker, Pm. H., Of Berlin, the founder
Of the movement; FRAU Mathilde Co.
hen.Tersert, of Tie Hague, a daugh-
ter Of the painter. lsrsels; Professor
PaolinS Schiff, of Milan, and others. II
is followed by the Endorsement of many
other nen and women of international
fame, like Dr.. A. Forel, DR.. Sigmund
Freud, Haveloek Ellis, DR.. Ernest
Hseckel, DR.. Jur. S. van HOuten, mem
Der Of the Dutch Cabinet; Eugene
Humbert, editor Of Generation Con-
seiente'; Victor Marguerite, Profess
sOr Wilhelm oswald, Ellen Key, Her
mann Sudermann, Carl HAuptmann,
Hermann Bshr, Bernard Shaw, H. G.
Wells and others.
Demands Social Equality of All.
Among the demands of the fedora
ten are state insurance Of motherhood
and legal and social equality of legiti-
mate and illegitimate children. The
social problem which the latter pre-
sent is probably responsible for the
whole movement. Numbers do not al
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
Now That the Cataclysm Confronts Them,
Europe's Feminists Who Fought for
Motherhood Protection Ask
Race Renewal--What For?

ways prove a case, but they are re-
markably effective in rousing thought,
The statistics of the German Empire
show that 10000 children in that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

there should be no attacks on sendi-
dates in the suffrage campaign states,
and particularly in New York. Her
chief errand was to save the New York
Congressman, If he was threatened
She has returned to NeS York sTnil-
ingly content with the plan that was
preached. One is inclined to conclude
from this that the Congressional Union
Is going to let UP on the Democrats,
and yet there is Mrs. Benedict de-
ciaring that they haven't. It is very
puzzling.
BLACK List" Settles Her Dilemma.
One thing that decided Mrs. Blstch
to cast in her lot with the Congress
sional Union was the "black list"-the
list o. candidates to be defeated-lstcly
issued by the National Woman Suffrage
Association. "She was almost ready TO
come over" one member of the execu-
tive committee said; shat pushed her
in" In her speech at the conference
she declared that the list showed "a
great lack of political vision" She
uointed out that il contained Fitz'
gerald, Of New York, vino is good
friend Of suffrage; Senator Root who
has announced that he does not intend
to run again, and Underwood, OF
Alabama, who is bound to have
"wslkover" on Election Day. 1t would
be crime, she says, to oppose the first
named, and a waste of time to bother
with the others.
at is a list" she said, (which has not
been passed upon by the association in
convention. Who got it up | don't
know, but it is very badly thought out"
, OF the Nationals" "black list" Mrs.
Benedict said:
Wasting Time to Fight individuals.
at seems TO US waste Of time to
fight individuals when we can fight 80
no, don't like the word fight so I'll
say deal with'-when VIC can deal with
party. The National has Republi-
cans as we'll as Democrats on its list.
It is a scattering fire, a plan as poorly
thought out as was the Shafroth
amendment, which the 'NstionsP is
backing in Congress, and which Mrs.
Florence Kelly has we'll named the
confusion amendment Why not con-
centrate where we can make breach :
"We intend to make breach. How?
All, that's our secret till September 10.
There are several things VIC can do.
We can aim to bring down the party
leaders. We can sim to defeat Scna-
torial candidates, or we can 60 cunning
after Representatives. We can work in
the suffrage states, using the voting
strength Of the women, or we can 90 in
the states where women haven't the
vote. Oh, there are plenty Of ways TO
cripple the Democrats, but we think we
have chosen the best.
I'VE are giving the party fair warn
ing. There is plenty of time for them
to give US the vote between now and
election. But they show no signs as
yet. The Rules Committee, which is
really holding up the Bristow- Mondell
amendment, because it is for them to
move for the allotment of time in which
to consider the measure, hasn't met FOL
two months because it is SO afraid OF
the suffragists coming to see them.
"The Democrats Know U.s."
"oh, the Democrats know Us. VI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
EXPORTS CONFERENCE POLITICALLY MOMENTOU
1t Marked the Initial
Entrance of Women
Into the Field of
Practical Politics.

the Newport headquarters at 1913 Belle
vuo av., aided by Mrs Jessie Hardy
Stubs, press chairman Of the Congress
sional Union, have prepared for and
will manage this meeting. They then
60 West to begin lining up forces Tor
the coming campaign.
Newport Conference Remarkable
The Newport conference was rmark'
able in many ways, but in three espe-
cially. 1t was remarkable because, at
time everybody is in a panic about
money and nobody is giving anything
to anybody, $4,000 was raised with lit
tie effort in brief time.
1t was epoch making, in that l.
established beyond cavil the fact that
woman can keep a secret. Not one
women but one hundred women held
the secret of the bolt to be launched at
the Democratic party this fall.
Marks Eutrance Into Practical Politics.
The third and most striking feature
of the conference was that it marked
the entrance Of women into the arena
Of practical politics. 1t is true that
women in various states arc in politics
in the sense that they vote and hold
Office. But at Newport, for the hrst
time. YVES launched 4 national move
ment Of women armed to fight with po-
litical weapons for their rights as men
fight in the political arena, by striking
at the ambitions Of those who want
Office.
at has been done before in scat
tered way" Mrs. Benedict said. The
WOmen's Political Union, in New YORK.
has several times worked to defeat leg
islatiye candidates who were against
woman suffrage. I believe they tried
TO defeat Artemus Ward In the 25th
Assembly District, and Louis Cuvll-
licr. in the 18th Assembly District.
Mrs. o. II. P. Bclmont's organization
the Political Equality Association, de-
feated Senator Agnew in the 9th Sena-
torial. But never before has it beea
done nationally-never on such big
scale"
Conference Women Best in Country.
Whatever the mysterious PLAN the
group of women whose sanction it re-
ceived in Newport was brilliant and
representative one. From twenty
states thew came, and scarcely q
woman among them but was OF I'M
portance in her own home, the leader
in some organization; some, like Mrs
Florence Kelley, were of national note
Mrs. BIatch and Mrs. Kelly Won OycrI
Mrs. Blatch and Mrs. Kelly are now
members Of the advisory council OF
the Congressional Union, and are, 1t
is said, Completely won over" to the
policy of what is sometimes described
as the militant suffrage organization
of America. "Wou over" is used ad
visedly in Mrs. Kelly's case, for she
was once decidedly opposed to Miss
Paul and her co-vorkers.
A slight inkling of what the plan !;
not may be gathered from the fac'
that Mrs. Blatch. who ever since the
war broke out has felt keenly that nc
step should be taken that could EN-
barrass President Wilson in his tssL
of keeping the United States in the
paths of peace, went to Newport
bent on convincing the conference thai
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

Of the term girl mothers by exclaim-
ing;
"Filles mcrcs? Lachons done &C mot
ignoble. II ny a que des meres!" Girl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
OUR OWN WAR NEWS.

1t has been reported (unoAicialy):
have been shot VIM" tehdhs the woudu
That several women spies have been hung
That women killed by the Zeppelin bombs dropp
on Antwerp
The Y Times" has editorisly that it is women who uher
from wars evils and to do regarding entrance
mwar"
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not seem a dismal mockery to write Of
motherhood and child-protectlon when
the very nation which inaugurated that
movement is part of n devastating
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
army dealing death and destruction to
its own and other people?
Race Renewal-What For:


Somewhere in her book "Die Sexuelle
Krisc" Crete Meisel-Hess euploys the
term "Gebarstreik"; it is brutslly
frank, but forcibly suggestive, and,
since medieval brutality is reigning in
the cultured Old World, it is pardon
able to employ that term Of medieval
outspokenness in a newspaper Of the
New World.
The Peace Movement owed its inccp-
ton 10 the call Of noble woman:
Ground Arms" fortunate for her
that Bertha Won Suttner did not live
to sec how ineffective all measures Of
justice and peace have proved TO avert
this catsclysm and prevent this whole
sale destruction of human lives) What
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
NOT A PERSON.

Ne statue Of ~omaH b may haze one ooscr an
exchange about that big one in the hdrOoPhadphia
inquirer.
But that not OF but OF an ideal in which women
OF yet been their full share
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
MEN OK PEOPLEF

nv the emancipation freeing and hedrte"n9 o. INC oa' en-
ges Of all the peopc .oll redeem as.'Woodrow wilson
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
NiILTTANTs.

So no one has the destruction OF the
Louysn by German men proves that man is ut tor the ballot
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
rae MENTALLY INFERIOR.

Of us candidates for university scholarships from Manhattan ID
The Bronx the highest standing taken by GIRL Ilee" ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
Much Already Accomplished.

Much Already Accomplished.
1t is interesting to look into the
work so far accomplished by the fed
Grafton OIL the Continent Philan-
thropic and charitable institutions of
the traditional type have proved in
adequate. Children's protection in
crcches, founding homes and other es-
Establishments of that kind is bound to
remain imperfect without motherhood
protection, since the mother is the vital
and indispensable factor for the child's
wellbeing. Hence the German league
tries to insure the economic indie
pendence of the mothers in order TO
make it possible for them to give their
children the care which only they can
give.
The initiative in this farreachiug
movement was taken by Helene Stock
or, Phi. D., a writer and lecturer,
who founded the German League for
Motherhood Protection. The lnterna-
tional Federation was organized only
two wears later. The practical propa-
ganda insuguratsd by the German
league resulted in the establishment Of
mothers' homes in Berlin, Bremen
Breslau, Frankfort, Hamburg, Leipsic,
Mannheim, Stuttgart and other cities.
Working hand in hand with the mater
nifty hospitals to which are sent women
N poor health, these institutions save
the country thousands Of lives other
wise lost to the population. They give
unmarried women about to become
mothers q home, they teach them thso-
rstically and practically how best to
insure their own health and that Of
the unborn child.
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Laguean and GptMi

If the women Of the warning nations
were 10 adopt the word of Crete Mel
selIcss aud so on a strike against
reproduction which is meant only to re-
cruit the army?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
Multiply Multiply"


Quixotic as the suggestion may APP
pear, it is no moro quixotic than to
read of motherhood and child-protec-
ton and of the favor it finds with
those in power at time like the pres
ent. For every mother is a mater
dolorosa, and every mother presenting
her country with sons is Danaid.
Rodin has visualized the tragedy Of
motherhood in his group. Mothers
have, since time immemorial, filled
what is bottomless, fed what is insa-
table. Now more than ever in the
hearts of millions of mothers who had
fulfilled their duty (?) toward their
country-though it denied them citi-
enship-and who had Needed the call,
Multiply multiply and were willing
to give more of their flesh and blood
to the Fatherland, is gnawing the ques-
ton: "Notherhood-ra renewal
what for?"
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women have the ballot.)
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-13
CIRCUS PEOPLE IN BOOKS.
They Have Never Appealed -
writer's IN This Coustr,.

The home ~ circus clown |. an odd
environment to choose FOR play, ~
Harold Chapn has done in hi. comedy
The Marriage Of columbine." a. the
Punch and Judy Theatre. Chap!n ls no.
alone IN mah!ns a s,uiy ~ the ,olRlor.
"f the Sswdust ring. Comparatively
Httl-. however. las even been written
Oh he sociology or circus People or ths,r
individual careers. Books on tn. SUBJ
J"'; are hard 10 fni. In America. where
the rir"Hs 8 an Institution uutclassirE
IN SIC that II any other country. is
literature - strangely scam. T. Eng
ana. France and Germany. where the
circus has not developed or cxpaud ed
beyond the original one ring variety and
"h"re people take far less !nteres. II. Z.
thar OF us eide ~ the Atlantic. there
- & special E,"ri. ure -, tNe circus tina;
"H. 'rae"@ every form 90 treatment.
HISTORICAL romantic, technics. ard bio
r-hpn.ea.. There are ores - Free. Il
works. ai' "r -i"n paying revercrt
u nut" 20 -" traditional and corven.
ii"i". character II the circus.
TIL" glor.os ~ As.lNy's have te,np,nl
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-13
THE PLAYS THAT LAST.

Tho plays q" he seen at the New York
theatres are: at Pays To ADVERTISE" at
the Conan, erwin iicds" at the Fulton.
Life" at the Manhattan Opera
House. "bn Trial "a The can
der. 81 ndc' Cover" at tho Cort.
"Thr Hawk" at the Maxine Elliott.
Damaged Gunds" at the flidson The
atrc. "l<irk IN" ~ the Ecpub,lc. "Dlplo-
macy" at the Empire. "Outcast" at tn"
LNc"um Theatre. Pol, gamy" at the
Playhouse. "Tho Phantom Rival" Al
thu I'c,ds"o. Daddy i.orc-I."gs" AT tho
Gai"'y. Law -, he '.aAd" at the
Forty-righ,h Street Theatre. az Pair
@. Si'h S.orklng~" at u, Lat,lc TIC
arc. ra}'arsals az 'h" Punch and Judy
Ti'p're. tire, short plays A. tho prn-
cess Th'd'rc. SO Much for So Much"
a. ,hc l.orIacrc Theatre dud "ExpeY.-
cn""' al nc Booth Theatre.
The musical PLAYS ara Chin
th,H' ~ TN. Globe. dancing
Around a. tho Winter Garden
Hazel Dawn "a The Dcbutantc"
at The knickcrbockcr Theatre. watch
Your step at tho New Amsterdam
Thea'r.. Tho only Girl" a; tho Lyric
Thcojr" and Tile Lilac Domino" at the
FortN-f"urth street Theatre.
I'll" beautiful spectacle THE Wars Of
in" World" continues to attract 90 tn"
Iiippodrume larger aud encrs than 4
has over held hrfurc.
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JANE SRET M"kiCe IN"

sec thai a husband and wif" who are
very deeply In love with eacn ether
come g. look very much Tx" each ether
as they advanc. in years"
80 YOU ar" something or psy-
chologist,' tn" interviewer suggested.
"Oh, everybody is to "a degree nova
days" said tho dobutau.c. "aud heard
srca, deal " talk about ina. su.r If
thing abrpad especially IN Germany.
Ny violin master had about him a group
of very Intellectual friends who talked
constantly "f ilacckcl and the other
German philosophers Naturally / a,-
surh"d a i;,,l" tiny bit Of 'h,ir wise, ~,
but IL j. only a tiny pit. I'm really ia.
busy with my playing and vocal lessons
and violin lessons o." 20 at al deeply
into such Studies. I, seems. Geo ~, tina;
tho h,S. thing uu. ctn dn is 90 lind tg,
wiz on" van d. best aud then - devote
oneself 10 doins thar ON, hing ,hc b"-,
one can"
In the matter Z playing pa, violin
Huu are ahead az Your ideal. Miss El.--
81 H. THE SIS reporter said.
Does rot Miss Russell play the yil-
linz" asked Miss Dawn.
No. to my knowledge" replied tu,
scribe.
WI, sho coud If >h" wanted to."
rctor,cd lcr ddmir,r. and IL She really