New Britain herald., 1919-03-14
l m|LlON NOl|
 ELIGIBLE ID VOTE
23 States Already Give Franchise
 to Fair Sex

New York. March 14-More than 100000 women in the United States over q years of age are eligi- ble to vote for the next president in 23 states where women may vote. ac- cordlng to an estimation by Mrs. Car rle Chapman Catt, president of the National Woman Suffrage association and president of the International Suffrage alliance.
 This estimate was given in a call to the women voters of the United States to join forces with the National American Woman Suffrage associa- ton at it's Golden Jubilee convention to be held in St. Louis, March 24-29. Fifty delegates from each voting state are invited to join the delegations at St. Louis from the 2,000,000 members Suffrage association
 "The National American Woman Suffrage association has invited wom- en voters to a national convention in order that they may organize nation ally and unite their forces with those of other lands,'' said Mrs Catt.
 There is an obviously important national program for women voters.
 
 cern women and children in our sev- eral states is a continual menace to the safety and welfare of the unfor- tunate and uniformed
 Tho laws of the states could be unified and improvem ents added, even in the states more liberal in their laws, if women voters would agreo upon a proper constructive program. It is 8 fact so obvious that it needs no demonstration that If one section of the country is much behind the times in education and legal protcc- tion to women and children, it's civil ization is bound to prove a deterren: influence over the whole nation Therefore, it becomes the duty of all ard-looking people to see that the laws of the whole nation are unified and that the standard by which to measure the proper program for each state is the code of laws of the most advanced states.
 Women voters should contribute more to their nation and to the world than they do when acting from a To- calized viewpoint Those who live in the valley do not know what is to be seen from the mountain top The opportunity to climb the noun tain and to view all humanity in it's strug- gle upward toward permanent demo- cratic institutions and consequent permanent peace is here. The oppor- tunity to extend 8 helping hand to those who are likely to find the path rough and thorny is here. The wom- an voter with the vision of coming freedom for the race in her soul will not hesitate to offer her service," con- tinued Mrs. Catt
 The biggest Bureau of Suffrage Propaganda in the world has been or ganized by Mrs Catt with funds she was bequeathed by Mrs. Frank Les- lie, widow of a widely known editor and publisher. When Mrs. Leslie died a few years ago she left the bulk of her fortune to Mrs. Catt to be used for the advancement of the suffrage cause. The actual figures are in the neigh borhood of $750.000.
 Mrs. Catt, who has an abiding faith that the only reason anybody opposes l woman suffrage is because of lack of 1 knowledge of it's fundamental signifi- i canoe, decided that the most effective way to advance the suffrage cause was through the further education of | the entire public on the subject of suffrage
 1 She formed the Leslie Woman ( Suffrage commission, the members of