Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-28

graduation essays in Maine.
Particularly attractive and appropri-
ate are the new buttons which Maine
suffragists are wearing. In the center
is a miniature pine tree on background
of white circIed with gold and the
words, "Dirigo' and Votes for Won
en-
Moral Reform will be the subject
Of the address which Mrs. Deborah
Knox Livingston. chairman of the
State suffrage campaign committee
will give before the Kennebec Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs at Oakland, May
4.
Officers of the recently organized suf-
frage league at East Dover are: Chair
man. Mrs. Helen Edgerly; vice-chair-
man, Mrs. Lila Eddy; secretary, Mrs
Hattie Doore; treasurer, Mrs. Susie
Town.
Miss Florence Weed is chairman of
the new suffrage campaign committee
at Veazie and Mrs. Frank Turner is
secretary and treasurer.
Mothers Sunday will be May 13 and
as a part of the National suffrage pro-
gram, clergymer in every state will be
asked to plead in their sermons on that
day, for greater political responsible
ity for women. 1t is hoped that Maine
cIergymen will be especially glad, just
at this important time, to cooperate in
this plan.
This years meeting Of the New Eng
land Conference Of suffrage associa-
lions will! be held at the rooms of the
Twentieth Century Club. Boston, May
10. The first suffrage victories of the
Atlantic seaboard will be celebrated
and ways and means discussed Tor
bringing further glory to New England
by a, victory in Maine. Mrs. Livingston
of Bangor, chairman Of the Maine CAM
paign committee, will give the latest
news from the Maine campaign and its
needs.
"when a young mother" says Mrs.
M. K. House Of North Turner. super
intendent Of the department of fran
chise in the Maine w c. T. u, II lis
tened to a paper on equal suffrage pre-
scented by Mrs H. M. Wilder before the
w G. T. IT,. and 1t gave me an arrest of
thought upon the subject Since then
the conviction has steadily grown upon
me that women should. through the
ballot. assist in the steady Worldwide
movements for the betterment of hu-
manity.
while a belief in suffrage is not a
test Of membership in the w. c. T. u,
I1n 20
cards which I had the pleasure of cir
culating over the State represented
about the state membership. indicates
that this advanced position is generally
taken by white ribboners."
The desk Of Mrs. House. Is at TINS
time unusually crowded with important
office work. Mrs. House is chief assist
ant to Mrs. Althea G Quimby, state
President, in the active, aggressive SUI
frage campaign being carried on by the
Maine w. C. T. U.
In 1910 under the leadership or the
late Mrs. Lillian NJ. n, Stevens. MRS.
House was selected to conduct the de-
partment Of suffrage. She brought 10
the department efficient, business-hke
methods and has served the State with
much credit to herself and the work.
Besides directing the general work OF
her department over the State, TOUR
wears ago she circulated five thousand
cards among the nearly two hundred
unions located in the sixteen counties,
collected and indexed the same ana
thew were presented to the judiciary
committee of the Maine legislature.
Each card expressed the desire OF the
siener for the right to vote on equal
terms with men and gave the address
and occupation Of the signer.
mot only is Mrs. House loyalty car
rying forward the strenuous plans of
the w. G. T. T., says Mrs. Quimby, but
she IS cooperating with and giving val
liable assistance to Mrs. Livingston in
her campaign plans, circulating petit
lions and lending helping hand wher-
ever possible"
In addressing the Federation Of La
dies Aids Of tho East Maine Conference
Of Methodist Episcopal Churches,
Thursday afternoon, in Grace Church,
Bangor. Mrs. Katherine H. Willard of
North Adams, Mass. spoke in part as
follows on the subject of 1.-THE Ballot
for Church Women":--
I'm the stirring times in which we are
living, when the world is being shaken
to its foundations by the greatest war
in history. when the rule of the few and
the rule Of the many have clashed and
are in their final struggle. is 1t not
wonder that one Of the greatest reforms
in history which has been progressing
steadily for the past fifty years. should
now be going on with great increasing
rapidity? I refer to the participation
Of women in the governments of the
world.
Perhaps, there is reason for this
which we have not realized. Some of
our deep thinkers have been saying
that If woman's voice had been heard