Evening journal., 1918-05-30
WOMEN OF State
WANT THE BALLOT
Petition Senators Salisbury
and Wolcott to Vote for
Suffrage Amendment
DELEGATES HEAR
STORIES FROM FRONT

D AT the close Of the luncheon given
! yesterday in the Hotel dupont under
the auspices OF the Delaware Equal
Suffrage Association, the guests sign
ed petition requesting Senator Sauls-
4 bury and Senator Wolcoti, OF Delaware,
10 vote for the Constitutional Amend
ment enfranchsing the women Of the
nation. The petition will be circu-
lated and large number OF signatures
secured, after which 70 viii be sent
to the Delaware Senator'S, as a proof
, 10 them that the women OF the State
really desire the ballot.
Yesterdays luncheon was attended by
many prominent women Of The city and
down state, and was an enthusiastic
demonstration for equal suffrage. Mrs
J, Frank Ball, state chairman. presided
at the luncheon. and introduced the
speakers
Mrs. Frank Nanderlip. speaking on
The subject of the help OF the fran
chise in war relief, told OF conditions
In New York following the giving Of
/ the vote TO women. A number OF bills
have been passed under the new con-
ditions, she said. protecting the home,
women industrial workers and child
welfare bills. Among these bills are
/ compulsory study Of civics in the High
School, minimum wage Dllis, protection
/ OF messenger girls, and the defeating
Of bills removing safeguards TO women
and children in industry, introduced as
war measure. She said one great
need for the vote OF intelligent women
in this country now was that masses
Of efficient voters were abroad, leay-
ing a large Stacker and foreigner vote.
Mrs. Borden Hartman, who has just
returned from France and England,
said she would Ike to give innumer-
able examples Of the unbelievable hero
ism she had seen she spoke parlicu
larly OF the wonderful spirit OF cheer
ful courage everywhere in France and
England, although she said those in
this country have no idea OF the hard
ships in France and England In Eng
land, she remarked, there is not enough
TO eat. The superintendent OF muni-
ton factory In England employing
twenty-five thousand women. told her
ihst for the past three years, every
hour or two a woman worker would
come quietly and ask for two days
leave because a dear one had been
killed al the front. She said these
women never overstayed the leave, and
never made bid for sympathy. Mrs.
Hartman said she would never again
see a humorous side TO an air raid,
after all the dying women and children
/ she had visited One man told her his
/ family had great good luck, because
| out Of five children. only one had been
manned by the raid
Mrs. Hartman said that London
seemed nearer the front than any place |
except the actual front. with its thOus- /
ands OF wounded men brought into the /
city every night from the battle line.
She said it had been found that music /
was invaluable in keeping workers
from nervousness in aid raids. At the
alarm. the girls in the factories, filed
into bOmb-proof trenches built beside
The buildings Since they had been
singing war songs and hymns there
was nothing like as much fainting from
heat and fright
She was in Ham and Noyon, where
the March great offensive centered and
praised the work OF the American
women nurses. She said that France
Is studded with American women
workers. often on their feet &c hours
a day, but never a complaint, nothing
but Joy that they can be doing any
thing TO help.
Mrs. Maud Wood Park. chairman or
the Congressional committee, spoke di-
rectly OF the attitude Of the u. :. Sen
ate towards the suffrage amendment,
which has been before them for four
months. 70 has been passed by the
House Of Representatives. has received
the endorsement OF President Wilson, Of
all the great political parties, Of the
national committees OF these parties, OF
Hughes and OF Roosevelt.
She laid the delay to a traditionary
way Of the senate OF putting Off for
long time. things they finally intended
TO do: to local prejudices, individual
senator's hesitating over the problems
of the vote Of foreign or colored
women: TO selfish business interests
blocking the way; to conservation
and to the ghost of States rights
dragged out more often for the sun
rage amendment than for any other
known movement. Mrs. Park said that
winning the vote. State by State. was
an enormous waste OF time and money,
needed now for the war work 10 was
like the camper who boiled his coffee {
by touching a match TO successive
growing sage bushes; It was excellent
coffee, but he was two miles from ,
camp when il was boiled
Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait. president
of the National Equal Suffrage Associa-
tion, said that this was no true dem
ocracy II half OF its people were denied
the vote That was why the equal
suflrsgists are urging the passage OF the
amendment before the close of the war,
that America may he sincere In fight !
ing to make the world safe for dem
oorscy, which she defined as self gov
ernment Just because this war is
being fought for an ideal, she said that
America ought to be honest in carry
ing out that ideal
She compared the speech OF the Sena-
tor, not from Delaware, who said, Men
know good deal better what is good
for.women. than the women themselves
do" with the speech OF the prussian
Treitschke, who wrote, Germany
knows far better what is good for Al
SAGE and Lorraine than that miserable
country Itself knows
Mrs. Gait said that both Of the Della ,
ware Senator's had declared that the I
white women Of Delaware would not {
vote. but the uneducated Negro women