The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-29


telligent interest in all that pertains
to the welfare of the baby. For this
reason the Better Babies Bureau of
the Woman's Home Companion has
been established, and all who are in
terested, and wish to further pursue
the work that has been so splendidly
carried on in Pensacola for the past
three years by Mrs. billiard and those
who have been associated with her,
may, by writing to the Woman's Home
Companion, New York city, receive
further information. Two other lead
ing articles relating to this work by
the Better Babies Bureau, may also
be found in this edition.
The Better Babies Parade.
The Better Babies parade is under
the management of Mrs. Walker In
graham, who is president of the Pen
sacola Equal Suffrage League, and
under the auspices of which the Bet
ter Babies Contest is held.
The Better Babies edition, which is
edited under the auspices of the PEN
sacola Equal Suffrage League, has as
its reason for being, two things. One
is to give better insight into the
splendid movement for Better Babies
that has taken such firm hold. on the
sylnpathies and interest of the public.
Another is to show the work that stuff
ragists are endeavoring to do for the
children of this country, through the
ballot.
One of the false accusations of anti
suffragists is that suffrage viii dis
rupt the home. On the contrary, the
splendid fight the women of this coun-
try are making, is for the home and
the children-it is because they hold
the home sacred and the conservation
of the race above all else, that the
women of the world are fighting their
magnificent bloodless battle-the
most marvellous fight for humanity
that has ever been waged, the most
stupendous movement for the ulti-
mate good, to which the women and
the men of many nations have con-
secrated their service.
For this is not sex war, in the
sense that the sexes are fighting each
other. On the contrary, thousands of
the best men of the age, the leaders
of thought, those who stand int he
very front rank Of letters, of journal
ism, of education, of social service
men of all faiths, Catholics, Jews
Protestants of all denominations, are
working side by side in this move
men for the ballot for women, that
they may take their rightful place ir
the ranks of the worlds workers.
i When the pioneers. Of America
fought step by step to found new
world in a wilderness, they did mo-
leave their women defenceless. Wher
they went out to fight the Red Men
the prowling wolves or the howlinf
Jackals, they left a weapon behind
for the defense of her home.
When the southern men went ou
to defend their hearth-stones from tn,
invaders of their country, they die
not leave their women defenceless
and never did women rise to create
heights than in that great civil strife
The women of the early days o
American life and the women of tn,
sixties stood staunchly for the pro
lection of the American home. To
day the women of America are stand
ing staunchly for the protection of tn
home from the evils that are invadin;
it from the commercial world ant
other vitiated sources.
The pioneer women had weapon
when the men went out into the vii
derness to build a new world
weapon to save them from the lurking
red man or the proving jackal.
Today the women of this countr
are asking for a weapon-the ballo
Ito use in defense of home and chill
dren. It is the only effective weapon
today. Through it only is the hom
secure. It is more powerful than an
other weapon for the protection 0
the home, that has ever been devised
Through it better legislation may b
secured, better homes may be bull
up, better babies may be brought int