Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-01
Fry to Steal Meeting.


which. had for chairman a lady Of title
who had q scheme Of some kind. and
the speakers were mostly women who
had other schemes. and they all talked
and talked about their schemes: until
feared that Mrs. Pankhurst would never
be given a chance to talk at all.
One woman spoke for over an hour
aboat the food situation. Her remedy
was to send a commission to America
and beg that a shipload of food be sent
via Archangel to Petrograd 1t was
pointed out to her at some length by
Mr. GacAllister Smith, an American
busaness man living In Petrograd, that
thsrs was plenty Of food nearer home
than America, and that IT didn't need to
be begged for.
Through it all Mrs. Pankhurst sat
quietly. but I who knew her well saw
q suspicious little color creep into her
cheeks and light of battle flash into
her gray eyes. ! don't know what
might have happened, but what did
happen was dramatic.
A. tall hne-looking woman in the
back OF the room sprang to her feet
and burst into a passionate speech of
protest While the women in that rooT,
were wasting time in inconseuuentiaI
taik TIE Germans were steadily adyanc-
ing: the Russian troops were retreating
and ruin and desoiation were at thai-
very. doors. She begged them for the
sake OF bleeding Russia to drop ali con-
troversy and let Mrs. Panhhurst II she
could. tell them what to do.
IS sne sat down, or rather dropped
exhausted Into her seat Mrs PanL
hurst stood up. She is a small vom.,
out when she is in certain moods Oh :
manages somehow to look tan. she
looked tail on this occasion. she snoLe
IN tLLencn ana her talk lasted not long
tnan niteen minutes, but when eli q
nnlsnea half the women into the ROOM
wouid nave gone into the trenches after
her. The Others looked frightened.
Mrs. Pankhurst Urges Action
Mrs; Pankhurst told the women tho,
.So russian women had gone ONT ~
,ns me- homes, oonned soldiers uniforms
ana were prepared to give their Iiya,
Tor their country asca the democrac1 -
the world hrs Pankhurst was ~
IRA ssaiiy an admireE OF Botchkareva and
ner batsaIion OF Death. and had a few
regiment. Gu 'h'
she told these women that where.
ever bolsheyiki street orato,
preached separate peace or cessa
lion OF hshting, a woman OF educstio,
and ability ought to stand up and tel
that same street crowd the truth III.
women ought to storm the soyjets al
over Russia and force the men to sun
pSN xKerensky and the provisinra
bysfAsnent in their effort to rsIiw ,n,
army and Sefeae-th Germans.
The movement she told them mus
be russian won1en's movement orIv
No foreigners should appear in IN a
eii- They must do the work. bur sb,
was there TO give them the fun hene
Mt of her experience as an orranizay
She would Show them how 10 do ,h,
work. how 10 train speakers how Z,
manage politicians. how to arrane,
demonstrations
One OF the first things she sav;sA,
them to do wa sto esta blish head
quarters in . conspicuous place. ana r
get up 4 great demonstration of wor,
en- TO march in a body to the Winta
Palace or the Tauride Palace. where
ever the provisional government wa
holding its meetings at the time The
would offer their services to the oo,,
eminent, and let the country see ths
women were In the field to support tn
war.
That speech and that program SVEN
the women off their feet. Immediat
steps were taken to organize, and a fex
women, without waiting for oreaniza
ffon actually did go out into the street
and talk against the bolsheviki
Kerensky Refuses Aid.
Then came the days of the july reyo
luton, when all street speaking ceased
and that interfered with the women,
plan. What discouraged il most of al
was Kerensky's cynical attitude toward
1t. A woman of rank and of erea
ability, knowing Kerensky well, wen
to him and told him what they pro
Dosed to 10. and asked for his co
operation.5 -E-- =