The Ocala evening star., 1915-02-06
WOMAN'S CLUB WORK
MRS. FORD II. ROGERS
Editor for February
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING

Suppressing the liquor traffic.
Subiugating the militant spirit.
Here in Ocala, we are sending across
the ocean funds collected in Sunday
school, in class room and from individ-
uals; hospital necessities; knitted gar
ments for the soldiers, and children's |
clothes made at home or in the church |
societies.
Before the winter is over there will
be crying need for every person in
this town to be doing something for
those poor innocent sufferers from
this unholy war.
Neither may we neglect our own
needy ones whose number is so augu-
mented by the distress abroad, but
working harder than ever before, care
for all of Gods poor with the same
generosity with which we have been
cared for. Putting ourselves into
every gift for, "The gilft without
the giver is bare"
Suffrage for Women
There are now twelve states and
one territory in which women have
the full franchise, and twenty-five
states in which women are allowed to
vote in school affairs. AS these
states are in the west, that, section of
the United States will dominate the
country politically until eastern wo
men vote. Eleven of the northern
states are agitating the question of
suffrage, and every state except New
Mexico has its suffragists organized
and working to secure the ballot. We
/ can not wonder that the women OF
Indiana desire to secure the right to
vote when we learn that the legis-
lature of that state recently passed
a five thousand dollar appropriation
feated an appropriation of five thou
sand dollars for the better care of
children.
Il Legislation that Interests Women
In those states that have adopted
woman's suffrage the laws to regu-
late hours of labor, treatment of mi
nors and others who are helpless, pure
food, sanitary measures, education,
the liquor traffic and the social evil
have received special attention.
Who is better fitted than the eff
cient mother to make the laws that
determine her child's school age, who
shall be his teachers, how he shall
be instructed, the purity of his food,
how his illness shall be treated, how
he shall be protected from the ills
of his mates, how he shall be punish
| ed, when he may leave school, how
many hours a day he may work, how
he must be protected from evil asso-
ciates, and from insidious poisons OF
mind and body?
| Who knows better than the wise
housewife what franchise regulation
there should be to control the prices
| of water, gas, electricity, steamheat
| street car fare and the telephone
Perhaps one says, "A1l women are no1
| wise. not efficient" Are all men
May it not be that men who deny
freedom and equal privileges to wo
men are not wholly sure of then
ability to compete with them?
Effect of WOman's Suffrage on tf2t
In the last twenty-five years tn
women of Colorado have to their credi
fifteen laws regarding the welfare @
the child, five regarding people whC
are i'll or mentally unsound, and man!
others regarding the protection of th'
inefficient and the helpless agains
cruelty and deceit. Judge Lindsa!
says, "the women are as willing t.
trudae and drudge as to sit in council
: and they do not show great interest il
! Office seeking and office holding"
In California the women's laws 70
: reform in the first two years of thei
power exceeded in number the reform
. laws that had been passed in the pre-
] ceeding twenty-five years.
, Effect of Woman's Suffrage on Ma
@ chine Politics
! Women will not vote for men VIII
: are immoral and corrupt, but candi
E dates must bear a reputation for hon
n esty and decency to secure their bal
lot. Neither will they refuse to vot
I for an upright worthy citizen. Tn
powers of evil realize that they hav
S a great moral force to deal with, an
Ii they fear women knowing that tn
y ballot is a powerful weapon agains
y them in the hands of a good woman
In cities where women vote, their de
mands for better care of the youn
hollis Y1aol rooroc and CO Icons