St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-04-18
MISS MACALARNEY
ADDRESSES LARGE
CROWD SATURDAY

Miss Emma MaoAlarney, field coun-
sci of the National American Woman
Suffrage association, gave highly in
tcresting lecture at the assembly room
of the Methodist church before an en-
thusiastic audience Saturday evening,
under the auspices of the Equal Suf-
FRANCE League. Miss MacAlarney came
to Vermont from Maryland where she
formed new state organization and
worked in the national lobby at Wash
ington during the last session of Con-
greSS.
Miss Mac Alarney was associate edi-
tor of a text book, Readings from
American Literature" published by
CHM &, Co., for use in classics in
American literature, and has written
for the Saturday edition of the New
York Evening Post.
Miss MacAlarney began her talk by
congratulating the women of Nerm ont
on the privilege of municipal franchise
recently granted to them, and com
plimented the men of the state who
had led the way. Just as Arkansas
has broken the opposition of the solid
South to woman suffrage, SO Vermont
has set the pace for New England to
Of liberty said the speaker. She said
1917 has been a memorable year in
the woman suffrage movement, as the
growth of that world democracy for
which our struggle is part. Think OF
the long years of ploWing and sowing
and cultivating, with only the scantiest
of harVests as q result Of untiring la
bor But this year the harvest is be-
I.D. To h. ~; +oJ
States, North Dakota, Ohio, Indiana.
Arkansas, Vermont, all extending
some measure of franchise TO women:
across the seas the changed attitude
of English statesmen and Russian
revolutionary leaders; to the north a
Canada almost completely enfranchis-
ed--these are signs that the love OF
liberty. underlying the cause of wo-
man suffrage, is international.
Plan of War Service.
''As has already been announced the
national association, following the his
toric example of Susan B. Anthony
and her co-workers, has decided upon
its plan of war service"
At some length the speaker out
lined the departments of work chosen
ny the organization as its specia
charge
individually, suffragists may work
as they will, collectively they mean tc
encourage gardening and agriculture
in order to increase the food supply
to foster home economics for the pur-
pose of decreasing waste; to open en-
ployment bureaus in their variou:
headquarters for women who viii
have to take the places of men a!
bread winners; and, last, to American
iZe the aliens as a means of creating
an undivided America.
competent committees are il
charge of the details Nof this work
but. meanwhile, suffragists are press
ing their claim for Acknowledgement
War inevitably demands woman's sac
rifices," said Miss MacAlarney, "sacri
fees falling impartially upon men an(
women. If the nation demands sacri
flee from women, then in turn j
should bestoW the highest privilege o
citiZenship-the vote, as, the RICH
protective of all rights. Let us no
wait here, as in England. as tn
heroism of women through three year
OF CHASTITY suffering shall have wruni
from our statesmen a tardy acknowl
edgement of our long deferred re
ward.
Avoided Old Arguments.
Miss MacAlarney's talk was marke,
= by an absence of the more hackneye,