New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
Sufffagists Neglect Cause
To Help Country in Crisis
Record of Achievements Since War Declaration Puts
Rout Ants Charge They Are Not Patriotc-Quie Cam
paign Waged Instead of Demonstrations as in 1915

A woman took her out-of-town guest
20 the city suffrage headquarters the
other day to meet some OF the suffrage
workers.
"Is Mrs. Weeks I'M" she asked.
mo, ma'am," replied the telephone
girl; "shs's out on Long Island, lectur-
ing on food conservation"
and Mrs. TIFFANY"
Mrs. Tiffany has her knitting until
this afternoon" came the answer
as Mrs. Hand in?
Mrs. Hand is chairman Of the LIB
erty Loan campaign" explained the
girl. "and she's busy on that. You
might find her at the Liberty Loan
headquarters
Then, after the callers had been told
that Mrs. This was busy on the new
suffrage Y. II. c. A. tent for the colored
soldiers at Yaphank and that Miss
That was getting her corps Of workers
ready for the Hoover food campaign,
the woman turned to her guest with
slightly apologize manner.
well, my dear" she said, "this used
to be a suffrage headquarters and the
women used 20 be working for suffrage.
But, bless my SOUL you see what's hap
pened to us. Come on. let's go a-hunt-
ing for a suffragist who really is doing
suffrage work"
All Doing War Work
OF course, that quest was not as dil-
ficult as the lady inferred. for when
the suffragists find themselves with q
campaign on their hands you don't
catch them neglecting it. But the
truth remains that they have done war
work with their right hand and SUI
frage with their left, and if one hand
didn't know what the other was DONG
II was bad only for suffrage, and the
suffragists let it go at that.
II was twenty-four hours after war
was declared that Mrs. Norman de H.
Whitehouse, chairman Of the New fCis
State Woman Suffrage party, ofered
the support and services OF her orga NJ
zation to President Wilson. Governor
Whitman and Mayor Mitchell. Shs was
offering the machinery of an organlza-
tion nearly a million strong, an or
ganization trained to work together by
the political district method. and state
officials were very quick 10 take l.
vantage Of the offer.
The first request for help in New
York City came from the Mayor COM
mittee.
you might help distribute recruit
ing posters" said the committee, with
q shade Of doubt in its voice.
Distributed $4,000 Posters
The sufragists hustled out and dis
tributed $4,000 of the posters In few
hours and reported to the committee
for further orders.
The committee gasped and then
deluged the newly formed War Service
Bureau OF the New York City Woman
Suffrage party with further a'sigh-
ments.
The ants take great pleasure IT say
ing that sufrragists are not pa'r'o.lc
but one notices that the suffragis's sold
$1,000. 900 worth of Liberty bonds IN
the last loan and the ants only SsOJ'
And those figures are indlcatlVe u tne
whole suffrage patriotic record. In
New York City alone, for example, me
sufFragists raised sl7l,45l for the Rcd
Cross, furnished loo women census
takers in 400 election districts. gave
$4,000 for Young Mems Christisi. As
ISOLATION camps at Yaphank and P!attt1-
burg, distributed 100000 food cards,
and then. between times, raised wEr
gardens. marched in the Liberty Loan
and Wake-Up-America parades, while
their fingers kept on with the new
table knitting.
Active Upstate, Too
Upstate the suffragists have been no
less active in their war duties. Greene
County suffragists had entire charge
Of all the canning clubs in the county
and have hired a food expert TO give,
demonstrations Of dehydrating ana