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vice and crime, schools, public utilities and,
most pertinent of all, the cost Of living. In
this last lecture the tariff, cost Of distribu-
ton, government trade markets and terminal
facilities and taxation and government ex-
penditures will be explained to the housewife
voter, who grapples every day with these very
problems.
But, after all, those three stories full of
students who meet on Thursday to listen and
learn, to take notes and ask questions, repre-
sent only small sector Of the woman body
polite. The educational plans for the women
of the state are already made to touch every
kind and condition of woman eligible to exer-
else the franchise.
Every borough is to have its school, for
ample, and, after that, group schools will be
opened, composed Of the women of two or three
Assembly districts. These latter will be free
to the district women, and will be financed by
the New York City Woman Suffrage party.
Besides the teaching of civics, cordial in
vitation will be extended to local politicians,
ward heelers," bosses and leaders to come in
and expound the doctrine of their political
faiths Mrs Catherine Cunningham, suffrage
leader of the Sd Assembly District has al
ready had series Of talks at her West Four
teenth Street headquarters given by local
politicians.
A short course for teachers has been
nounced by the state suffrage party for Janu
airy to 10. An intensive series Of ten lectures
will be led by experts in the various fields of
political science and government, and exami-
nations will be held for those who wish to be-
come teachers. Successful applicants who pass
these tests will be given diplomas, after which
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they may 20 out and do missionary work
throughout the state.
Among the lecturers for this course are
Professor Benjamin B. Kendrick, of Columbia
University, for Unconstitutional History;
Frederick c. Tanner, on Republican Organ-
cation and History; Morris Hillquit, for "The
Doctrine of Socialism" Calvin Derrick,
the Prisons Board; Mrs. Alice Barrows Fer
nandez, on Elementary Schools; Mrs. Char
lotte Perkins Gilman, Raymond Fosdick, DR..
B. E. Schultz and Mrs. Raymond Brown.
THE FARMERS WIFE WILL NOT BE
LEFT BEHIND
But anybody who thinks that the farmers
wife up there in Gcnesee County is waiting
idly for city woman to come up and teach
her the gospel Of citizenship is mistaken. For
the farmers wife, that same Mirandy who led
her John to the polls by the ear with such good
effect the we'll known 9Th of November
has already set herself down to the studysof
this voting business by means Of the country
woman eternal boon, correspondence course.
The Institute for Public Service, New York
City organization, thought Of the farm woman
and straightway issued the course which al
ready is being sent upstate in large numbers.
Think of her, saving her butter money to pay
for it; sitting down to study her lesson the last
thing at night when every possible duty has
been done; thinking it out over the churning,
the washing, the cooking, all week long. She's
gallant sister, and the city women going
to be proud of the way she conducts herself
now and forever at the polls.
There's another gallant little citizen, at
whom the suffragists look with pride-the COL
lege girl She, too, is going to have her prepa-
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contains a big cheerful living room, where
she girls can entertain their friends Of either
sex; a dining room, also big and cheerful, and
what is known as fudge Kitchen supplied
with stoves and cooking utensils, whore the
girls can "mess about just if they were in
their own home kitchens.
Each girl has comfortable little room Of
her own, and there are plenty Of bathrooms
and good, big closets. One Of the largest Of
these barracks was erected at Charleston,
S. c., for the accommodation Of the thousand
more young women and girls who work III
the factories where naval uniforms made.
The request for these barracks came from Sec
rotary Daniels, who asked that the Y w. c. A.
should do this as its contribution to the work
of the navy.
At Camp Sherman little town, known
"Camp Sherman Annex" has been built for
the factory workers, and the women of Ohio
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raised the money for Hostess House for the
settlement.
At Junction City, Kan, there is barracks
for the laundresses who work for the men at
the camp near by, and SO it goes.
Perhaps the work of the Y. W. c. A. which
has attracted the most attention has been the
erection of Hostess houses in the various
camps. Fifty of these have been built al
ready and others are in the process of con-
structon. Any one who has visited relatives
or friends in training camp appreciates what
a boon and blessing the Hostess House is.
Each one has Skilled cafeteria director in
charge of the kitchen. Also there is the
hostess and her assistant, who is an inter-
prefer for the non English speaking visitor.
HELP FOR BEWILDERED FOREIGNERS
And, by the way, the branch Of the Y. W.
C. A. work which deals with the non English
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Does he know who what body makes
traffic regulations?
Well, neither did all the suffragists know all
those things and that is why they are going to
school. They're studying about them right now,
and when they have graduated from their
classes they are going home to tell their hus-
bands things about city government those good
men never dreamed of before.
NO TIME LOST IN GETTING TO WORK
The first course in citizenship for women in
New York City was offered by the New York
City Woman Suffrage party. 1t didn't take
big Boss" Mary Garrett Hay more than about
five minutes after the suffrage victory was as
sured to decide that, now that they had the
vote, the suffragists at least were going to be
worthy of the confidence that New York men
had shown in them.
Professor Howard McBain, Of Columbia
University, was secured to give the lectures,
and on Thursday, December 90 the pupils went
to the first class.
1t was memorable meeting The suffrage
headquarters at East Thirty eighth Street
were filled to overlooking, and Teacher McBain
found himself confronted with three stories of
audience, all of them crowding and squeezing
to hear the first golden words on his first sub
ject, "The Ballot as Weapon"
Professor McBain admitted that he didn't
feel competent to instruct women who had
shown such political sagacty as had the suf-
frage party, but he did give them clear out
line of the theory of the suffrage in a de-
mocracy.
The rest of Professor McBain's course in
"The Business of Citizenship" will cover the
voters relation to health and labor problems
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In theW0rld
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What are the women doing to prepare for
that great event, their first exercise of the
ballot?
Well, they can't do much until the State
Legislature passes dill permitting their spe-
cial registration. For registration has had its
day until October, 1918, and unless special
bill is put through up at Albany the women
will not be able to vote until next November,
for no woman, any more than a man, may vote
unless she is duly registered and accredited.
The following formula, which sounds like
multiplication table, is being dished out to
those women who seek facts about their can
didacy as voters: Thirty days in an election
district, six months in the county, one year in
the state, American citizen, twenty-one years
registered, equals one voter.
Those are the qualifications for q voter in
the Empire State If you moved to Brooklyn
from Manhattan on October l. for example.
you're ineligible, for Brooklyn is Kings County
and Manhattan is New York County, and six
months in the county, says the law; so there
you are.
As to the personality Of the men you will
vote for-if you vote-nothing can be said
now, for nobody knows who they will be- The
party organizations will name the candidates,
the political sages say, later
Strange what casual thing politics can be,
after all, isn't it? But women will get casual
about them, too, perhaps. And in the mean
time let them flock to school, eager, though
green, as freshmen. Let them pore over their
textbooks and wear out the library reference
books.
And let him who thinks that women dont
take their voting job seriously try to get in
at the Thirty eighth Street meeting time.
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where to Learn How
to Vote

u..dou.rters of the New York City
,,Inr.n'. Suffrage Party. East 38th
won where Professor Howard McBain.
srrn,umbia University, is lecturing to
On the duties of citizen and a
voter. Il, NJ VII CA.
u,.r,,n's Suffrage Party. 303 Fifth Ave-
wSA series Of ten lectures, from Janu-
nss to 10. given by experts in tho
~ Nan. fields Of political science and gov
eminent
u..dou.rters of the Woman's City
r,.,h where a course of lectures on po-
S.;e.l problems are being given by promi-
rent men.
III. National American Woman's Suf-
s>.se Association will issue a new official
Inner in February, telling women just
rh.t they ought to know in order to make
..ch vote count.
The Institute for Public Service has is
med a correspondence course for the
h.ne6t Of women in country districts.
At Barnard College, courses in practi-
al politics will supplement the regular
Economics course.
Neiehborhood associations and settle
u,ents will give citizenship talks for moth
en- and girls clubs.
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,antly to the tune Of eve Strive to Please"
that lady herself, unromantc debutante in
the world of politics, puts on her specs and
soloshes. fishes out the old suffrage notebook
and goes to school! No time for Establishments
On this ladys calendar, for the school bell has
ring. and the woman citizen is deep in the
business of educating herself before election
time comes around.
"Oh thought the sufragettes knew every
thing about politics" says the sarcastic one
who was an anti before November 6. No man
Of Judgment is an anti any more, of course.
In the first place. he didn't think that. And,
secondly, even he doesn't know "everything
about politics.
Does he know how much salary an alderman
receives?
Does he know how long voter has to live
in an election district before he may vote
there?
Does he know who issues saloon licenses in
New York City?
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are doing; high time, in other words, that they
took their proper place among the other war
workers!
And let me tell you that their place among
these workers is pretty high one, for it
deals with problems which are quite vital
to the future of this country as they are to
the present. They are the same problems,
after all, which they faced at the time of
their organization, fifty years ago; the self
same problems, but the methods of dealing
with them have undergone radical change
they are met more on the ground of humanity
and less on that of religion, but the purpose
of the Y. w. C. A. is still, and ever will be,
the and protection Of our young women
and girls, physical care, moral care and spr-
tual care. You can judge for yourself how
war conditions must have increased this work.
Think of the girls in this country who are
employed in the various branches of war work,
in government positions, in munition factories,
as workers in various lines Of work in the
training camps. "a million girls in this
try" according to good authority, "have al
ready gone into new positions created by the
war, and great many Of these have moved
to new towns and strange environments. Al
ready the need Of adjustment to new cond-
tons is critical
THE HOUSING OF WOMEN WORKERS.
The government was hard put, in the first
place, to house these employees There
was, for instance, the case Of fifteen hundred
girls employed in cartridge factory in the
Middle West. There were not living accom-
modations enough for them in the town itself
or in the neghboring town, four miles away.
The report that the girls slept three in
a bed, and that the beds were empty,
night or day. AS last resort the govern
ment called on the Y. W. c. A. for help, and
to the amazement of every one concerned, it
was found that the association had scores of
trained workers. all ready and waiting to go
to work.
For, be it known, the Y. w. c. A. for years
has maintained q training school where stu
dents have been instructed in the handling
of all problems relating to working women,
and from this school hundreds of social work.
ers have gone forth, properly equipped to deal
with these problems
Can't YOU see what godsend this was to
the country? Here were women with just the
training and experience needed in this emer-
gency. So the Y. w. C. A. has taken upon it.
self the responsibility of caring for the women
and girls engaged in war work in this coun-
try. More than this, workers have already
been sent to the Allied countries to perform
the same sort of service there.
BARRACKS BUILT BY THE Y. W. c. A.
Their task began with the housing prob
lem. Barracks were put up in all parts OF
the country for the accommodation OF the
women workers. Each of these buildings
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ration for the sacred duty Of the franchise.
At Barnard, for example, Dean Gildersleeve
has promised courses in practical politics to
supplement the regular Barnard economics
course Professor Maude A. HUFFMAN, as
sistant in the department Of history, is busy
now outlining the work, and the first courses
will be opened next term. Hunter College began
course on December 10.
In addition to all these, the Women's City
Club has started course Of lectures on po-
litical problems, given by such men Travis
Whitney, Henry Bruere, John Collier, Frederic
C. Howe, Lawson Purdy and Samuel Inter
myer. The neighborhood associations and set
Elements are planning citizenship talks for
their mothers and girls clubs, and everybody
else in New York is writing a primer for the
political first grader.
The National American Woman Suffrage
Association will issue new official primer in
February; Mrs. Halcey w. Wilson is compiling
a woman Voters Handbook" part of which
will deal particularly with New York condi-
tons; Mrs. Raymond Brown is filling pub
lisher's order for a book on civics. The publish
ers are as excited over the women as the poll
ticians are, and every company is demanding
a book Immediately.
In the meantime, though, there are some
epecial elections pending for Representatives
to the Congress Of the United States. Along in
January or February some time-the date to
be set by proclamation Of the Governor-in
three Congressional districts-the 18th and 9th
in Brooklyn and the 22d in The Bronx-the
voters will go to the polls to fill the places Of
congressman Fitzgerald Griffin and Bruckner,
who are off the books for various reasons.
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SECOND IINE OF DEFENCE-TII5 HOOD AMERICA

and Petrograd, and others are to be estab-
lished very soon.
France called for help and twelve women
were sent, some Of whom have been asked to
assist committee Of French women in equip
ping and directing foyer canteens" for indus
trial women whose hours of labor are long
and on whom the stress Of war bears heavily.
Help in providing rest rooms, recreation and
proper food for these women is what suffer
ing France is asking Of the American Young
Women's Christian Association.
Other workers in France are in charge Of
the huts for the use of our American nurses.
These huts are now being constructed at the
hospital base units and will be to the nurses
off duty what our own American nurses clubs
are to the nurses at home.
There are workers, too, planning for the
comfort Of women munition makers. A letter
from one of these tells Of the need of bringing
a little cheer into the lives Of these women.
Last night" she says, II made a trip
through the muniton centres near Lyons 1t
was about 2 a. M, and one Of the shifts was
leaving work. 1t was dark and very muddy
in the new roads which lead to the barracks
where the workers live. There was babel
Of strange languages as Arabs, Greeks, Chi
nese, Moroccans, Portuguese and French
passed in long, long procession.
HELP FOR MUN1TIoN WORKERS IN
FRANCE
"They were going, most OF them to their
barracks, where they live in huge, open dor
mitories. And while they are all engaged in
long, weary labor to make instruments to de-
stroy other human beings, the conditions
under which they lived and worked made
them but little above animals.
"The Foyer at Feysin opened this
week 1t is beautiful with it's fresh blue and
paint. We served tea to some visitors
yesterday, and were so pleased to have a lieu
tenant colonel, major and two captains with
US. Two officers came from another large gov
eminent 'usne,' and they are going to build
foyer for US, to be ready in January. In the
meantime shall visit the women at noon
and get acquainted with them"
Have l told you enough about the work Of
the Y. w. c. A. to dispel forever from your
mind the idea that its members are "a parcel
Of prayer-meeting females?
l hope so, and I also hope that I have
opened your eyes to the really important SER
vice which this association is rendering, not
only to the Of our country but to the
women and girls Of our allies This is all that
can do, but you, yourself, go further.
When you are visited during the house-to-
house canvass which is to be carried on for the
raising of the Sl,750,OO0 which is needed 70
carry this work, be generous as you can
possibly afford to be, remembering that in do
ing you strengthening our second line
of defence-the Girls of America!
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the wartime sports. We have had the Liberty
Loan Drive, the Food Drive, the Red Cross
Drive the Jewish War Relief Drive and good
ness knows how many lesser drives, and now
today comes the beginning Of another-the
Young Womens Christian Association Drive.
News of this latest drive has come to us like
bolt from the blue. Preparations for it have
gone on almost secretly-there has been no
Dare Of trumpets, no alluring posters have
adorned our walls and ashcans-and yet the
members of the Y W. c. A. are grasping the
fens in hands that are just as strong and just
as wel-trained as those of the workers who
have guided the preceding drives to a success
full finish
The Y. W. c. A. is driving to win. It's object
Is to wrest S1,750,000 from the pockets of the
citizens of New York City for the purpose Of
strengthening our Second line Of defence"
Ihls is really a supplementary campaign to
@e one just brought to a close which raised
aVoO,0OO from the country at large. New
'ork City was left out of this canvass so that
al efforts might be concentrated on a special
smpagn, and now the bell is about to sound
sno the Drive is on! A big mass meeting at
ne hippodrome marks the start--let US hope
mat the finish will be just as inspiring!
What do you know Of the work that the
L. ". c. A. is doing? Not much, I'll wager,
0f the organization has grown SO quietly and
~ steadily that it has attracted very little
public attention. 1t was founded some fifty
years ago for the purpose of caring for both
Vie souls and bodies of the young working
"omen who were away from home and friends
aHu therefore liable to fall into temptation.
buildings were erected for the housing of these
''ung women, and their physical and moral
'e1are was carefully looked after. Religious
Instruction played very important part in the
s0fk IN those days, and from this the impress
,"n went abroad that the members Of the
NV. T. A. were lot of "goody-goodes," who
s.ew and cared for nothing beyond the saving
y aer own souls and those of the benighted
"sa1nen across the seas.
CONSIDERABLY MORE THAN PRAYER
MEETINGS
~ was only the other day that heard an
e'igent man, who should have known bet
w. refer to them as "a parcel of prayer-meet-
se females" which merely goes to show that
a. IS nigh time that they had Drive, high
q s~e mat they came out of their she'll and let
:" world know little of the work that they
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speaking population is very important There
are many homes where English is not spoken
from which the husband or son has gone into
service. The Y. w. c. A. sends visitor to
such home, and she explains to the family
in it's own language the various questions
which have been found pulling.
This same service looks after the immigrant
girls who have come to this country by the
thousands since the beginning Of the war,
some to earn money to send to those at home,
some to prepare home to which to bring
their friends or family when the war is over,
and some merely for safety and protection
Another important feature is the recreation
and club work conducted by the association for
the purpose Of "guiding the patriotic i'm
pulses of girls near the camps" score Of
women physicians are lecturing to the mothers
and daughters throughout the country on $50
cial Standards in War Time" Recreation clubs
have been formed in factories where girls are
employed, led by women trained to teach all
sorts of games and sports.
The Girls Patriotic League, which is un-
der the auspices of the Y. w. C. A., has en-
rolled two hundred thousand MEMBERS each
one Of whom has signed the pledge card, which
reads as follows:
~ pledge to express my patriotism by
doing better than ever before whatever have
to do by rendering whatever special service
can to my community and country, by liv-
ing up to the highest standards Of character
and honor and helping others to do the same"
At the Y. w. c. A. headquarters they tell a
story of a girl who wore the button Of the
Patriotic League She was very pretty girl
and she was accosted by soldier on Staten
Island ferryboat.
"Whats the button, sister," he asked by
way of opening the conversation.
"That button" replied the girl, "is going
to make New York safe for men like you"
The soldier was silent for minute and
then he touched his hat "Goodby," said he,
'if you don't mind my saying so, you're
little bit Of all right"
With all these activities, the work Of the
Y. w. c. A. is not confined to this country
two workers overseas, and more to follow.
Why, bless your heart, there is q Hostess
House in the very heart of Paris
HELP SENT ACROSS THE SEA
Strange as it may seem, the first call for
help came from Russia, long before this coun-
try went into the war. A group of Russian
women, unable to cope with the new economic
religious and industrial conditions for women
throughout the Russian Empire, asked for the
help of experienced Y. W. c. A. secretaries.
Two women set sail Immediately, and since
then seven other workers have joined them,
these including a physical director and two
cafeteria experts. Tearooms presided over by
the latter are in fine running order in Moscow
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By SARAH ADDINCTON REID
HIIE the Repub1icans tn,

IILE the Republicans turn hand
springs before the woman
voter of New York and the
Democrats dance jigs to win
her favor, while both parties
toss political plum blossoms in
her lap and WOO her extrava-
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By EL.ENE FOSTER

g WHO are about to drive, sa-
Lutte you!" There is no use in
beating about the bush - one
may as we'll come straight out
with it-to-day marks the be-
ginningof still another DRIVE!
Driving seems to have devel-