The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-27
Things Have Changed for the Better Since the War for Now We All Knit and Crochet Together and Forgive Each Other For Being Methodists and Baptist
By DOLLY DALRYMpLE
SOME M'CLUNG EPIGRAMS- SUFFRAGE AND OTHERWISE

SOF hAUE AND OI HEN w lOC
 Love and justice are at the bot tom of the suffrage movement.
 Resignation Is R cheap, indolent,
 human virtue.
 I've never cared for the pedestal Idea of woman-It's so hard to come down and cut wood.
 Mans most brilliant witticism is "the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rocks the worid.v < My watch word is GA fair deal for aII"--incIuding the men. don't think fl is fair to men that they should bear the whole bur- den of politics alone.
 We have been wondering what can be done when this war is over to form a IenEue of women to en- force peacet why there is enough sentiment in the world flu favor of
 human life now, if we could bind it UP some way.
 Men have done their best--I am not feeling hard toward them--but know, and thoughtful men know, that men alone can never free the world from the blight of war; md if we, the women, go on too sweet and gentle. knitting and nursing and bringing children into the world. 1t will surely come to pass when we arc old perhaps and not able to do anythinE--but suffer that war will come again.
 After all, the biggest thing in life is the mental attitude.
 The gates of heaven arc swing ing open so often these days as the brave ones pass in, that 1t would he wonder if some gIeams of celestial brightness did not come down to us.
 Money has lost it's purchasing quality when 1t comes to immunity
 from responsibility: the wealthy stacker is no more admired than 4 the poor one.
 We have come to the place now when our full force must be called out. The women are our last re- serves. If they cannot heal the
 world. we arc lost. The sign of the Red Cross is n fitting emblem for our order. worn not only on the sleeve but in the heart.
 VN r HEN I went to meet Mrs WW Nellie McClung yesterday, V hadn't an idea what sort 0 person I was going to encounter; knew she was a noted leader in sui frage work in Canada; I knew that sh was an author of international fame her latest book, ''The Next of Kin, Q Those Who Watch and Wait" bein one of the most widely read books o the hour; I knew she was woma1 who had said and done big things, bu [ never dreamed of her as the gentle sweet, feminine creature that she is pretty to look at, charming to talk with and with a heart as big as her mino which is paying her the greatest com pliment I have in my well stored shor Although I knew that she was goin to talk about the war in her lectur in Birmingham, at the same time, l ha expected to talk to her on tha subject, for I had elected that suffrag and what the vote had done for wome in her great Canadian country would b our topic, because to Mrs. McClung zoe much of the credit for the enfranchise ment of Manitoba, Alberta and Sas Mrs. McClung it was wh the Political league of Mani toba which became the Political and Edu league as soon as the vote wa won, and is now deep in a campaig! for better laws for women and childre in west Canada, at the same time giv ing special attention in the midst Q war to an improvement of present un satisfactory laws concerning inheritanc dover and guardianship" so to thi end I worked, asking Mrs. McClun what women were going to do with tn vote in her territory, now that the have it.
 Her answer was prompt and vital.
 'I will summarize few things tha they have already done with it." sh replied, although we haven't the vot i'll Canada as entirely as we expected the war election act has given wome who have soldiers in the war the rigl to vote; to the others it is yet denie in certain provinces, but we have nc registered a protest. only mildly, be cause we do not regard this as g. fiji ting time to agitate such a question there is too much at stake otherwise But what those of us in Canada wh have the vote have done with it is this We have formed a provisional law committee to ask for bill for muni cipal hospitals, mothers pensions an equal property rights for marie women; another bill we are preparin provides for rural nurses to go ou into our thinly settled farm commun ties and help women by making life an motherhood safer and easier for tn