The Washington herald., 1915-12-23

that gets at root of trouble.
suffrage work has trained women to
political activity. All this suffrage
agitation has been the best possible
training school for the new era of
womans political equality.
On Fir.t Basketball.
And there will be new reforms and
new progress in the future. Not long
ago. you know. the woman who want
ed to go to college was looked upon
as lunatic. Then the first suffragists
were regarded as little short Of mad.
1t was because they were ahead of
their time. And after women had gone
to college quite as a matter of course
and no one thought Of the woman with
a college degree a. being in any way
out of the ordinary there was q great
stir made over the Introduction of
athletics in the colleges. I remember
L was on the first basketball team at
Vassar College. That was in 1896. Why
people thought We were doing some
thing dreadful. and now college girls
and high school girls play basket
ball as a matter Of course.
DO you think that after women
have won the vote they will devote
more time to charity?" I asked.
They will devote more time to rem
edial work. that is the truest kind of
charity. Mrs Hill answered. for
with the ballot they will be armed
with the greatest of all possible aids
to true charity. 1t is because women
discovered that the Old methods Of
them took up suffrage work. Just
glance over the names of tho women
who have led in philanthropic and So
cial betterment work within the last
decade. They are all now working
hand and glove for suffrage. Take
Jane Adams. Mrs. Ballington Booth.
Maud Nathan, Julia Lathrop." Mrs.
Weed named a half dozen others that
were right on the tip Of her tongue.
Can you think of one woman inter-
ested in social or philanthropic work
remedial kind Of philanthropy that
seeks to get to the root Of the mat
ter"
I hated to refuse the challenge al
though I quite agreed to Mrs. Weeds
proposition
How about Ida Tarbel" said.
weakly.
''She only thinks she is an anti"
Mrs. Weed laughed, and then, but she
sincerely writes on social problems.
Oh. yes. I know she was interested in
thde "oAhs oul GIG hCNci
tried to get down to the foundation of
the matter"
Il don't mean by that that the antis
aren't charitable. But their charity is
OF the palliative rather than Of the
remedial kind. Mrs. Dodge. the anti, I
believe, is very active in q day nur-
serY. That is good so far as II goes.
But the kind Of work that gets to the
root of the matter is the mothers PEN
sion and to work for that women need
the ballot"
Belong. to Both Camps.
Mrs. Helena Hill Weed is a daugh-
ter of Representative Ebeneser ]. Hill,
of Connecticut. She is national research
chairman of the Congressional Union.
and during the Congressional Union
convention she was chairman Of the
credentials committee. She was also
active i'm the National American wom-
an Suffrage Association convention,
being a delegate from Connecticut
She was one time vice president Of
the Daughters Of the American Revo-
luton. being the youngest woman ever
elected to the national board.
Mrs. Weed has three children,
Eleanor. Walter Harvey Weed. jr.. and
Mary. The son, whom one might take
for a brother of his very youthful
mother. enters Annapolis next spring
Eleanor is attending school at Rose
mary Hall. Miss Ruutz-Rees' school,
at Greenwich, Conn. where she has
won a faculty competitive scholarship
and Mary attends Miss Forse's school
In this city.
Mrs Weed is a member of the Navy
League. being chairman OF the speak
ers' bureau Of the woman's section.