The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-19
T Am In Your Country For Only One Thing And That the Things Know And Have Seen And Experienced
By DOLLY DALRYMpLE
G6A AIRS PANKHuRsT will give y
 NWll fifteen minutes of her ttl

INN1A AIRS PANKHURST will give you NWl fifteen minutes of her time Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock
 be sure that you are prompt; Mrs. Plank
 hurst is very busy woman"
 The voice was that of Mrs. Pankhurst's s
 secretary, young Englishwoman of
 gentle manner and quiet demeanor. It
 came over the wire from the McAlpin
 hotel, where Mrs. Pankhurst is comfort
 ably ensconced in one of the attractive
 experiments. Of course it is unnecessary
 to say that I was there on time-in fact,
 bit ahead of time, which was as bad
 as being late, for when was announced
 three minutes before 10 I was asked to
 come to Mrs. Pankhurst's apartment at
 10 promptly; that was my hour
 Mrs. Pankhurst opened the door herself
 in answer to my knock, and held out her
 hand In cordial greeting. I must have shown my apparent disappointment, for instead of the militant suffragist had read about so often, the leader of the | most warlike band of women of all the l ages, not excepting the Amazons, who had served her term in prison for break ing windows, destroying property and in- citing riot, and bearing the reputation of being probably the most unpopular wom- an in England, I found a gentle, sweet
 faced, white-haired, fragile ceature-as dainty as bit of Sevres-as delicate as a fIower-bidding me welcome
 When Mrs Pankhurst came to this country some years ago she was regarded as an undesirable alien"-an arch-enerny of the English government, espousing a cause which seemed doomed to years of wrangling before it could triumph. and general menace to condi- tions in America. Mrs. Pankhurst comes
 to this country today with the situation completely reversed; it would seem as if war, in sardonic mood, had taken her fame and turned it wrong side out, up- side down, fantastically remoulded it, just to satisfy a fancy for contrasts, for no longer an agitator, with brickbats and burning brands and vitrol in her hands does she come, brt as a dignfied reg istered voter of thu city of London, the avowed enemy of Asquith, the premier who was her bete noir and whose name now heads "rhe Black List" in Britain nia,' the official organ of the womans party in England, edited by Mrs. Pank- hurst's wonderful daughter, Chrstabel Pankhurst, to whom she ascribes much of the success of women's independence in her native country. The triumphant women of England take this method, known as "The Black List" to expose those politicians who oppose what they regard as right and just and not for 'anri-suffrage" views-but primarily for "anti-Lloyd George" views.
 Mrs. Pankhurst's voice is low and gem tie, a passing sweet enchantment in woman, and when somebody asked me after I'd met her what my first impress d. I1,r1 erning fact about Mrs. Pankhurst to me is that she is absolutely feminine; she looks and conducts herself just as one would like their mother to-" Could pay her a higher compliment?
 The militant movement, I must say loses some of it's impersonal aspect and even to the conservatives must seem less unlovely when this pale-faced, soft voiced woman replaces the impersonal newspaper accounts of their perform ances with the simple statement:
 q saw my daughter go to prison and I knew she would be badly used there, but she was willing to go because it was not alone for Englands women, but for the women of the whole world But Mrs Pankhurst is not in America today to talk suffrage; she comes with her heart laden and sore over war con- litions brought about by this dreadful scourge, c.ld she comes not to dictate or with any sort of arbitrary attitude, but merely to give her own experiences, the mistakes the English women have made, so that Americans may profit by them as we'll as by their successful achievements.
 'I am here for only one thing" Mrs. Pankhurst said, "and that is to help win
 the war by telling the American women the things I know.
 America is much more in the war now than when was te, to.-ne " she con- tinued .T like to see the flags flying, l the parades going by and the general l air of real patriotism; you Americans have always been great stage managers and don't stop it; all that helps. It