Evening journal., 1915-05-07
rHE MARcHlNc MOMEN.

THE MARCHING WOMEN.
h "North American" Philadelphia.
nsidercd merely as spectacle,
equal suffrage parade, held last
plrday, was a triumph OF organized
lay. In the number Of marchers,
be skill and diversity OF the ap-
TO public interest and sympathy
in colorful attfactiycncss 1t pore
rarison with the most elaborate
Arf demonstrations that this city
itsegcr witnessed. The precision With
nrkh the whole complicated affair
ccnductcd. testified TO executive
Nncy. while the harmony and ar
merit OF the costumes and decor
ma revealed tho Incompatible fem
tioc touch OF charm.
o'Gat 1000 women should march in
Pared ranks through the principal
o'cnfs Of the city was in itself an un-
mredonted event. But the striking
morc OF Il was that these women
soccsentcd no organizations which
4 hI public parades as part OF their
Chine The great demonstration
tiooh WOULD have been considered a
nfkablc achievement for societies
wiHn members had hocn trained for
the displays was a spontaneous eX-
OF .sion from women devoted 90 do
n ticity. whose lrst concern is for
secaffalra OF the family and the home.
thrpart from this important phase.
Fa.ever. the parade had special
intiihcancc which must have impress
meali thoughtful observers of the
ranked marchors in their bril-
fori hut serious pageantry. The vital
ber which was emphasized by every
fheine picture was the universally
lechc appeal which the equal suffrage
lse carries. the frank and cordial
terpathy which IL awakens among
rtri and women whose interesta 9th
corife are divergent.
Brthere is IN the movement no politi-
len parfisanslIlp-th adherents Of all
II Itical faiths find in it common
CaMnd for intellectual and active CO.
braration. Religious differences in no
conroo affect It Catholic end Protes.
ed /. Quaker and jew. are comrades In
pri cause.
10 racial lines are drawn and nc
celdal feeling evoked, representative
fhsile older America working shoul.
will to shoulder with those whose
who'd kinship links them 10 Other
theds.
sin,n age limit is unknown: and will
sim Regiments of trinity clad girls ant
bv ing women who arc just old enough
Of grasp the oppor tunities and respon
Teflities of citizenship rode white
cred veterans of tie cause Ann
"a ward Shaw. for forty years a tire
whi champion Of her sox: Charlotte
Johrce. the last living delegate TO th'
Haious convention Of iS4s, nearly sew
may years ago: Annie Heacock. frs
assretary Of the oldest suffrage organ
Thtion in the State. and scores o
Al ers.
q t{he spectators along the route saw
hers rank after rank of women work
ihe in industry who face DAY by da,
endblemf OF existence which try thei
mo,y souls. yet 10 whom is denied an,
herd in ordering the conditions unde
itch they live; and they saw group
woiaen whose life work Is IN intel
nal fields lawyers. doctors, scien
nx,se. educators. wearing the gowns G
olurship conferred by Byrn Mawi
81 aTthUore, Vassar, Smith, Radclifi
Wellesley
81 'ensplcuous by reason OF the yer
Is afenese Of their garh amid all th
n tlth OF color. 2 company OF womo
N ends recalled that the members &
n society were among the first I
n port the equal suffrage cause as
III asElm Of Justice: whsle nearb
IA irepresentatives OF advance
n sane whose theories on most priv
H fpi OF life the followers OF Fo
n to' utterly reject
In while unanimity for equal sni
n I'll not be found in any OF IN
n mlxWo have mentioned. there wa
# and SIS which may confidently j
III without division. Social worl
# SO unitedly adherents OF equ'
n nQEe that IN all our expericnf
W we've known only one who was ol
n a to II, and she. we have reaso
nj ,lievo, has been converted
81 find in this fact very strikir
~ cance. The one class unan
n in sentiment upon this issue
Il up of the women who best kno
n real conditions OF life; who
III uence has revealed 10 them II
secrets OF existence among Il
3 rs Of the world; who have be-
ght face TO face with the actus
Of human suffering and soci
Il djusiment, and thus have be-
zskazlR TO realize the urgent need (
dial work that can be made pc
only through the political aid
4~sz<zlon.
mong the opponents OF suffra
fe are. no doubt. generous contri
(rs to philanthropic causes.
1 lre arc no social workers i'm I
l-if sense, for no woman can ri
fFelf to that cause without adol
the suffrage view.
Ebe Philadelphia spectacle was I
4 notable. but 1t was only one