Evening journal., 1914-07-27
What IS A watch:
MELT EN- ladies
That Goes For Anything,
For Women Need Cash TO
Get Suffrage
GET MONEY IN
PLACE OF TRINKETS

WASHINGTON, July 27.-To the
women Of tho country tho Campaign
Committee of tho National Woman
Suffrage Association has Issued a
call to cast their gold and silver
trinlxets into hugo melting pot to
finance suffrage campaigns which
will be wagod In sovon States this
fall, Tho cause of suffrage Is IN
need Of money and tho melting pot Is
yawning wide.
Hero Is the appeal to women to
listen TO it's call:
Women of America, genera
tions ago a country stood IN need.
Her treasure chests were empty.
II was a time OF stress and poril.
In her hour Of extremity, the
women of that land were called to
givo their ornaments Of gold.
And as women have always re-
sponded to an appeal for help, so
they responded then, and the to-
kens that were given In exchange
by grateful Government are to-
day patents of honor and patriot
ism to the women of the race.
Among the signers Of the appeal are
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, Mrs. Medill
Mccormick, Mrs. Antoinette Funk
Mrs. Mary c. Bradford, Mrs. Sherman
NJ. Booth, Mrs Desha Breckenridge,
Mrs. John Tucker and Mrs. Edward
Drier.
VIII Turn Them Into Cash.
Gold and silver trinkets collected
will be converted into bullion and ex-
changed across the counters of the
Treasury for money The committee
hopes to send $4,000 to Ohio, $4,000
to Missouri and $4,000 or more each
to Nebraska. Nevada and Montana and
North and South Kakota.
The wording of the proclamation
contains human, personal touch,
which suggests a sacrifice rather than
a contribution. The text continues:
I'VE call upon you today in an
hour OF need We call upon you to
give from your treasure store Of
precious metal. from you keepsakes
OF gold and silver that in the suf
frage campaign States where women
are making a stand for political equal
ity, they shall not fail because the
treasury is empty.
among your personal possessions
there is something you can give,
something you can consecrate, per-
haps a little silver cup kept for love
of some child. Every three minutes
a baby dies in this land of ours from
some preventable disease or from i'm
proper food. Give the little cup, that
/ the mOther-wisdom of the country
may express itself directly through
wise, sane laws for the good of chill
/ dren.
Thlmhle WIN Do.
"If the thimble of your girlhOod ia
among your keepsakes, send It with
thought for the thousands Of younf
girls exploited by greed, unprotected
by law. In the hot sweat shops of the
city slums.
Don't be lulled into a false sense
of security by the prevailing notion
that suffrage is sure to come Suf-
frage is sure TO come. but it can not
come this year. in the face of the
forces arrayed against Il. unless the
women of the country show by their
response that they are determined to
have Il.
"a little of what you treasure, an
ornament of beauty, a tribute of
friendship, something priced because
of its place in household life or as
evidence of your thrift--put it in the
melting pot.
Send it to the Suffrage Campaign
! Committee in the City Hall Square
| Building at Chicago. for in the two
Dakotas. in Montana and in 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"