Milford chronicle., 1919-10-31
SMYRNA AND CAMDEN CLUBS
FAVOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE

t A. d. Warner, President of the Della
g ware state Federation of Women
g Clubs, the request comes for Delawar
Q women to follow the leadership o
d thirty other State Federations and en-
D dorse woman suffrage.
The subject of votes for women ha.
been taboo subject heretofore anC
= Delaware clubs have held it theil
> policy to maintain a strict silence
which certainly was the easiest way OF
keeping peace and doubtless a sensi-
) bic viewpoint in the past. But TODAY
to obstruct freedom of discussion up-
on principle which is so fundament-
al that it has caused the Constitution
of the Federal Government to be
amended gives the lie to the real pur-
pose of an organization whose aim
has always been to work for the good
OF the nation, state and community.
Whatever ones personal opinion may
be toward the wisdom of the enfran-
chlsement of women is strictly ones
own affair, but to feel it necessary to
safeguard that opinion by surrounding
oneself with a wall of silence argues
rather badly for that kind of opinion.
The rank and file of club women
throughout the country are made up
OF the women of the country who
stand for right living, right thinking
and the accomplishment of anything
that tends toward the betterment of
the State or the individuals that make
up the State, and Delaware club wo-
men are no exception to the rule See /
ing that the government has deemed
II a measure OF justice to the women
OF the country to give the ballot to
Jlem, II seems poor spirited way in
which to face an issue by refusing to
examine into the merits of the case.
and one which is entirely inconsistent
with the attitude in which women
nave faced issues in the past history
Of the country.
Ihen one hears of what Smyrna
ana Camden have done and one is re-
minded Of the lines:
Men are as like as the leaves on the
trees,
As like as the bees in swarming of q
bees, e
All equally little and equally great, A
ma we thlnk OF the millions that make .
up the State &c
md the pride of our courage is
cowed
hen fate calls for man who is great
heres a surge in the crowd. a move
ment, and then
a man who is greater than
md the man comes up from the D
crowd" le
Some one in Smyrna and some one h
Camden have fearlessly arisen from et
he crowd and broken through the wall r.
silence and asked that this thing" Il
e brought to their club for them to sa
ear. Be it said to the everlasting as
redit of Smyrna Women who have tl
eretofore been prejudiced against 10
oman suffrage that they attended the E
ub meeting on Suffrage Day with w
BOD grace and came away glad that tn
ley had done so. m
Mrs. Albert Mcmahon, field secre- ia
ry for the National Suffrage Asso- M
alton and one Of their finest speak w
s. addressed the Smyrna Club at re
cir last regular meeting and said, in no
rt: 10
The program committee has given or
an inspiring subject 1t is a pleas -
e TO talk about the Woman Citizen
day Deep down in her heart she
S come TO realize that only through he
7 own highest development can her tn
me be at its best. 1t is this deem wi
oted love of home and children that wi
behind every advance that women an
We ever made. The home is her con- by
button to civilization. 1t is the thing Lii
e loves best and making it is what Sc;
does best. For it she has fought. Ell
endless cost to herself, ignorance. Po
e1udice and vice. Today she finds of
nome existing under new condi- Co
ms demanding a new method of del
rk and new tool with which to do Toi
Wofk-clVllizatiOn's most approy- or
TOOL, the ballot. And whether she Ra'
sads the new responsibilities con- of
'ted with 1t or not, the conscientious for
man who loves her home-by which tho
meant not the four walls alone but To-
'rything which touches its happi- T
IS and makes for its SUCCESSES n
ng out to meet these responsible in
that she may the better safeguard -
at she loves. She is preferring to an5 -
ulre the political education needed -. -.
fulfill her duty intelligently so that ter M
1oran+ vo+ar, '' Oe cidssed as the
while this has envolved from per- thn- ttoL
al interests, she has been acquiring ,. INA
roader vision that has enabled her any
mink in world terms and country salg sIS
MS. She has come to realize what sIII
means to be an American because Ct
erica's ideals transcend the ideals Ior
any other country on earth and one one
ot willing that the land she loves tne
u fall to measure up to her own con'
,dards. She is not willing that the spoi
ID OF men shall be shed abroad for dale
1nciple that we repudiate at home. proJ
want to keep faith with those men the
nave died for democracy and we oVaI
committed absolutely and irrevo- distl
to It's attainment. Thank Heav- dale
nen and women have at last realiz- tage
he fact that there must be coon our
on and equality between men and begli
en-. No home is at its best with II
the combined interests of each. for
the country is but home in ereci
der sense Of the word. Men have the I
q that they need the help of wo- clari
for the enlarged house-keeping- 'Dou
h is the government-just as wo- US "
need the help Of men in the had
Yer unit, the home proper. Sir
d yet there are still some wo- our
"a few-who are so limited in have
viewpoint and have so small an distri
eciation OF the dignity of woman On
tnat they try to make a Joke of ing,
thing which so intimately touches spoke
IN spite OF the fact that it has Mess
led the attention Of the parlia- Miss
s Of the world. Durir
now the generation-old struggle argur
out to end. We are today going and q
the top for the taking of the last in tn
h and in few short months the D.
n OF America will be officially peara