The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1915-10-14
The W0mans Club

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Last FRIDAY afternoon a most helpfu'
and interesting program was carried
out in every detail, by Mrs. Theo Curry
ably assisted by Miss Annie Margaret
Elkin, Mesdames Marksbury, Price,
Kinnaird and Miss Alberta Anderson.
Tomorrow friday promptly at 3
O'Clock Mrs George Robinson will con-
duct the meeting. her subject being
American Landscape Painters.
There seems to be prevailing idea
that these times. and particularly this
country, form an uncongenial environ
ment for the development Of the arts.
As matter of fact, there has never
been a country or a time when art did
not have to struggle and force its way
to recognition and appreciation. The
Athenians. who are credited with the
most art appreciation, allowed their
greatest artist to die in prison.
President Wilson has announced that
he would vote for the woman suffrage
amendment in New Jersey. He issued
this statement;
II intend to vote for woman suffrage
in New Jersey because | believe that
the time has come to extend that priv
iege and responsibility to the women
of the State. but | shall vote. not as
the leader Of my party in the nation,
but only upon my private conviction as
a citizen of New Jersey. called upon by
the Legislature of the State to express
his conviction at the polls. | think
that New Jersey will be greatly bene-
fitted by the change.
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Chairman
of the Manhattan Borough Branch of
the Suffrage Party, tells him, in a
message of engaging faith and fervor;
Thousands of women who are work.
ing with conservation and high purpose
home women, working women, pro-
fessional women-all through New
York State are filled with new zeal to
follow the leadership of our President
in this great reform and TO actualize
your ideal of justice and democracy for
the womanhood of our land. l."
In the same spirit. Miss Mary Gar
rett Hay, Chairman of the Suffrage
Party. makes the wires tingle with a
hymn of great joy;
1--WE, the Woman Suffrage Party of
New York City, numbering over 200,
900 men and women. rejoice that VIC
have President of the United States
who thoroughly believes in and stands
for a true democracy.
RILEY Day" will give Indiana a lot
of enviable advertising as State where
art and literature have due apprecia-
ton. Whether or not it behooves other
States to initiate her example and insti-
tute like days" of their own can be
left for later decision-til the other
States have poets whose appeal to the
heart is as direct and effectual as Mr..
Riley's.
1t will trouble some of Mr.. Riley's
sincere admirers to hear of his saying
that in these days he does not read the
newspapers because they contain so
much about war, and he always avoids
the shocking and the painful. A great
er bard than he declared wider SYM
patty and proclaimed nobler courage
in few words claiming kin to all that's
human. Perhaps Mr.. Riley was mis-
quoted or did not mean exactly what
he said. Certainly not a few of his
poems justify the hope. The Raggedy
Man" would go to the front in case of
need, one feels sure. and Mr.. Riley's
Muse would follow him there, gentle as
she is. and "orphant Annie" wouldn't
be further behind than the most ad-
vanced field hospital if she grew into
the sort of woman one would expect.
4
Mr.. Secretary McAdoo Is a man of
gallant and honeyed speech, and if
logic be not too strongly present in the
feminine mind, as some doubtless cal
luminous theories hold, it is natural for
him to side with teminism. He has a
fellow-feeling for that deficiency, if it
exists. Proelaiming his fealty to the
Cause, he says;
THE American women have made a
game fight and fair fight for suffrage
and are entitled to win"
Mr., McAdoo might just as we'll say
that the American men have made
game fight for his preposterous Ship
Purchase Bill and are entitled to win.
And be the fight game or lame, what
has that to do with the merits? Mr..
Bryan made game fight for free sill
yer. The Farmers Alliance made a
game fight for agricultural b-Treas-
uries. The Rev. John Jasper made
game fight for his astronomical plat
form that ''the sun do move. Are the
majority Of women now qualified to
vote? Is it for the advantage Of home
and State that they should vote? These
are the questions, the game fight"
has nothing to do with the case.
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